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Show TIIRirXlXG 1XCIDEST. I.v a lecture recently delivered by "Grace Greenwood,' at llostbn, on "He-rpiim,'' "He-rpiim,'' she referred to au incident that took placo at tho burning of a steamer on one f tlie Western lakes: ' Among tho few passengers; whose cotirnge and presence or rabid rose superior supe-rior to the perils and horrors of tho night was a mother Who sneceded In saving her two children by means of a floating settee, While they were In the watep, the mother saw n man swimming toward the settee, and as he was about tograsp jt 6haerfed,r--if DontakeJt away from my jioor little children!1 ''He niadeiio answer; yet thonppfcsl strnck homej for, bythe light of lhc flaming vessel, .the could' sec'th'ai hUface wntonvulsi'd Tjv the Btrngle bctwien the mighty primal instinct of nature and something-better and holier. It -was but for "a moment. He' tbrowup.iiis hands -With a groan' of reounrjiatloa', (tuug himself over backward,-and-wcni dbwn;v ' ' ' |