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Show Snrrd m Mal7 from l)enth. I During a small tenement house fire on j the east sido there was a thrilling inci-J inci-J dent that was not chronicled at the time. It occurred at a rear window in the second sec-ond story. The flames had been extinguished extin-guished with trifling damage, but tho house wns full of smoke. Suddenly a woman tottered to the open window. In her anus she held a bundle, tightly clasped to her bosom. It was in white wrappings. Quickly the crowd of people in the yard below saw tho woman. Great clouds of smoke whirled about her head in suffocating volumes, and the crowd called upon her to jump. She hesitated, but extended the bundle at arm's length, from which at that moment mo-ment there came a faint cry. It was t baby's voice. "Save my child!" implored the woman. Instantly a blanket w;is procured and strong men held its corners. "Drop it!" they shouted. With hor face averted the agonized and imperilled mothor let the baby fall. Down the little one flattered like a white winged, wounded bird, with tho despair ing cry of "Mamma" upon its lips. Lightly it struck the blanket, and a moment mo-ment later it was taken up safe and sound, but Bobbing, by a motherly looking look-ing woman in the throng. It required but a few minutes to raise a ladder and rescue the self sacrificing mother from her perilous position and restore her dimpled darling to her arms. This touching rescue was loudly cheered by the sympathetic spectators. New York Herald. |