Show I A LITTLE HEHO It is a season of the year when drowning accidents are frequent and deeds of heroism in trying to save companions com-panions are told in papers in all parts of the country A very heroic and touching story comes from Somerville New Jersey and is told in the New York Tribune I Last Saturday two little boys named Michael Liebig and Michael Oliphant four and five years old respectively strayed from their homes in Raritan I and found their way to a dangerous place on the bank of the big watercourse water-course which feeds the mills on the Raritan The conduit has an outlet into the river through an underground pipe five feet in diameter and thence through a sluiceway with a bed of rocks The water rushes from the conduit con-duit to the river with terrific force and creates a whirlpool of large dimensions di-mensions near the outlet In the conduit con-duit The two boys climbed down the bank near the whirlpool and were amusing themselves by throwing chips In the water when OliDhant lost his balance and plunged head first into the whirlpool Liebig held out a long stick which he had in his hand at the time and shouted Now Mikey hold on and Ill pull you In sure The little fellow tugged away for dear life and had succeeded In drawing his playmate to the shore when Oli phant suddenly released his hold on the pole Liebig fell backward and fell down the embankment Into the whirlpool whirl-pool from which he had just rescued Oliphant He was twirled around like a straw and in the twinkling of an eye he shot through the underground pipe and was precipitated Into the jagged jag-ged rocks in the sluiceway below His little body was tossed like a cork on the leaping waters which bore him rapidly to the river one hundred yards away He was still struggling for life when caught up by the swift current of the river but the struggle was In vain The body of the brave little fellow was recovered some distance down the rivera river-a short time after Incidents like this are occurring indifferent in-different parts of the country almost every day They are very sad and to read of them depresses one but when one reads of them where is the man who will say the world is degenerating that the spirit of true heroism is gone forever |