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Show A BRAVE YOUNGSTER. Tondarrul Oootnon. nnj Courage ,lri a, Foor-Vvar-OM Hoy. A plucky four-yoar-old child lives in Oskalooso. Ia., says a oorrospondont ot tbo Now York World. It la tho child ot Mrs. Wilson, and, wliUo playing about tho mouth of a woll covered by looso boards, toll Jn. Tbo woll is thirty foot doop, dhdtiontalned ton foot of wator at tho tlmo. Tbo mothor saw tho child fall, and, frantically seizing a clotlios-Hno, clotlios-Hno, loworod it, into, tho wolL, Tho child graapod tho lino, but of , course could not hold on tightly onoush to bo drawn out. The mother tloihorend aboTe. ,lWlll,petholdon tight until mamma' runs for. papa?" tremblingly cried tho-mother tho-mother to tho llttlo ono. "Eas.Vcamo a bravo llttlo sob from below, Tho mother hurried away, and soon returnod with tho father andsovoral other men, who, after much difficulty, rescued tho child from its ohllly bath- Tho llttlo ono was almost unconscious from cold .whop taken out, butbad bravo-ljr bravo-ljr clung to thoolothos-llnonnd so kept Us hood abovo water Tbo happy mother hugged it'and wopt for Joy, whllo tho assembled crowd throw up tholr hata and cheered In acknowledgement of tho baby's grit. An unusually short-sighted editor onco printed this notice: "I will take a good dog' ta payment for ono year's subscription." Tho noxt day forty-throe dogs wero sont to tho offlco, Tho day afterwards, whon tho. news had spread out into tho country, four hundred farmers sent two doga aploco by express, with olght has-kola has-kola of puppies, all marked C. 0. D. Tho offer found Its way into neighboring neighbor-ing States, and boforo tho end ot the woolc thoro" woro olght hundred dogs, tied with ropes, in tho editor's front and back yards. Ills papor was not published pub-lished for six days, andthoQoTornmont tax amountod to S800. As an illustration illustra-tion of tho valuo of advertising tbo abovo story is only equalod by tho fact that whllo a compositor on tbo Montreal Witness was sotting up an advortiso-roont advortiso-roont for a lost, canary, tho bird itsolt flow la at tho ofllco window! Charles F. Adams, In Dotroit Froo Press. |