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Show A MOTHER'S AFFECTION TESTED. In the rear of Newman's grocery store on Main street is a yard where boxes and bales are stowed, and in which a cistern of some size holds water for the neighborhood. The mouth of this cistern has no protection over ir, save a dry goods box, and this can be easily pushed of. Y esterday afternoon about 4 o'clock, some children were playing in the yard and around the cistern. cis-tern. Among them was a little two-year two-year old boy of Mrs. Margaret liritt, who lives in the flat, jut south of Seventh s:reet In their play some of the children pushed the box that was over the cistern entirely away, and the little child mentioned, stepped in. The water is of considerable depth, and the cistern a wide one. The little innocent went down into the cold water and rose aeain to the surface. His horrified playmates ran to inform his mother who was washing at the time, and like lightning she sped to the well, and before be-fore any one knew what she intended she had plunged down into the water after her darling. She of course sank, but she looked and felt around all the ime for her boy, but without success. She struggled to keep above water, and did not, however, until she had sunk several times. Stout men above cheered her, stunned at not finding her darling, and the rope was let down, which she grasped. Slowly and heavily heav-ily she was pulled up, and at length she was lifted out, and one of the men present went down by the rope and fortunately got the boy. He was unconscious un-conscious and means were taken to restore re-store him. The mother and child were taken home, and when we saw them, immediately after the terrible afiatr, Mrs. Britt was holding the child in her arms, she having recovered from her sudden plunge into the deep water. No fears are entertained that the child will not get over his dreadful fall into cistern. Knnxat City Journal of Commerce, Com-merce, April 15. |