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Show THE HERALD. HEBER t and one foot lay upon the track ar crushed and shapeless mass. It was almost of no importance in the great world. Dick. himself would have been the first to tell you there was nothing heroic in the deed no roll oft drum or waving of banners, nobody to see it done. A street gamin had risked his. life to save an old woman scarcely worth the saving. That was all. Even the World , that had printed his advertisement for a hero, dismissed the affair with two lirigs: A newsboy was run over by an incoming freight at the corner of Sixteenth and Walnut, and lost a foot. He was taken to the charity hospital, where his wounds were dressed." They took Jim to the hospital and cut away the mangled limb, and when it was all over he lay v still, staring at the white walls and trying to realize what life would be to aianpple. Oh. God! that long, awful hour when we first stand face to face with loss, and in all the wide world have no kinship save with sorrow! By and by there avjls a stir byt the bed side, and an at- tendant whispered, but he begs so pitifully to see the news boy who was " And the surbrought here geon, who had heard something of the boys heroism, and noted the dumb misery in his face and rightly guessed its meaning, said; Bring him in fora few minutes," and Tom was conducted to the bedside. They had not many words, these two 1 to-nig- ht. little street gamins, in which to exprels their joy or sorrow, and so Tom knelt in silence by the cot, his hard, keen I little face working, and Dick choked back a sob' and said, Tom, I'll never j walk agin." After a bit Tom drew a crumpled j paper out of the breast of his jacket and softly laid it beside Dick. It was j I 1 their advertisement. I thought it might comfort yer," 1 i he said simply; and Dick answered, wisDo you reckon he could find tfully. me here?" That night Dick slept with the paper clasped close in his hand, but he never dreamed he had answered his own advertisement. Frank Leslies Subscribe for (S (ard&tiua. A sketch of the latest pleasure ers. seek- - HL. The start for a pleasuretrip. The return. |