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Show I'VndVentare.j f A FIREMAN'S FEAT. ,i ipj w 1 N ' ' ,Mo remarkable L' "kill of Michael Mnrilli. I 1 the driver f Engine Cnm-pnny Cnm-pnny I.Yn tender. Sarah : 31 IP,! Adelnimi. tin. years old. of 21)1 Clinton street, vm tared from dentil recently. It wna owing onljr to llio most sklirul Judgment Judg-ment nnil uiiillnchlug courage Hint the little one wns nut ciusitcd under the hoofp of I he galloping hntson or t lip llenvjr wheels or the lender. And lien the crowds who had witnessed tile till IIMtiK spectacle minr I lie tot enonpe with,, m sclloii Injury they rent the iilr with cheer for Hie brave driver. Shortly iH-foro eleven oYloek n fnlsc nlnrm wns turned In from box IKI. nt thp corner of Ludlow mid Division streets. Endue t'oinpnny 15. which U stationed In Henry ptni't, tore away rnpldly. There wnn prowd of children chil-dren playing on the pldcwnlk lu Clinton Clin-ton street when t lie pukIiip turned In from Henry pirect. When the engine passed the little Adclmau it 111 started to croM thp afreet, evidently unnware of the tendpr whleli wiu following- the engine. And n ntiponeprtipd aa If nil wpr ntlll playing on thp pldewalk the tot stood In the mlddlp of the street, unconscious nf thp galloping -horses that wpre nearlng hpr. Hut hearing the prlr of women and rhllilren he einddenly turned around and seeing the swaying tender approaching lier became iinrnlyied with fear. Martin, who waa driving the home Brewing the tender. nw the Imminent danger of the child, but the animals wpre going at aueh a rate Hint It waa Impossible to alow them itn. Had he aweried either to thp right or left the heavy wheel, would certainly have truck her and thrown her under the tenner. Martin took desperate chance. Tie made straight for the child, ao thnt the horsee would paaa hpr between thpm. Khe atnod (1111, and when the tender reached her waa thrown to the ground by the polp, which truck her. The tender passed over her without ny one of thp wheels touching hpr. The child waa picked up by several men and carried to a nearby drug tore, where ail ambulance wan summoned sum-moned from Oniiverncnr Hospital. TT. Emily Dunning responded and found Hint the child hnd escaped with a lacerntPd acnlp wound. While dressing the little one's hend It waa necessary to cut off aome of her hnlr. To thin the pntlent strenuously objected, and appenred more affected over the loss of her locka than her wound. Dr. Dunning advised thnt the tot be removed to flip hoiipltnl, but the mother of the child refined to let her I (ro, and cnrrled her home. New York Commercial Advertiser. IHTLL'8 TAIL RAVED nDSTEot. This Is the tnle of llimler llnndell, four yenra old. pirn of t'hnrlca M. Run-dell, Run-dell, of Hound llrook, N. J.. and the toll of a bull. age and ancestry unknown. un-known. At thp pnrly age of onp yenr Hunter manifested the prccncloiiBnesa and presence of mind which a few dnya ago not only paved bin life, but tumped li I in as one who In years to . route will not full to ullllie even the mnnt lowly appomhihgca of unture to raise himself to higher spheres. Strength, too, beyond thnt usually fMMHPHrtcd lty bnben marked the grip of hlii prelieiiHlle nngcis. it ml nt three years of nge he wnn well iible to hold bin own, though not In Hie sense bin father was. Thus It tiny bp Keen be waa well prepared for the adventure which befell him recently. Hunter went Hulling with hip brother, nluo yearn old, the scene of their piscatorial pis-catorial erforln being a brook running through their father's fnriii. As Is the ciiritoiu In such capes, the older brother held Hie line while Hunter had the delight anil niatheninllcnl Iut ruction ruc-tion of seeing Into bow iiiiiny sections be could divide a worm, lu chiming an elusive worm. Ilttnler. like ninny a vaulting ambition, o'erlmped hluipclf and fell Into the brook lit a point wli-re the depth of the water win In like measure tn hln yenm. With tin wl nnd yell nnd fupt flowing teiirs Hip older brother ran for the hoitpe. Hut Hunter! Did bp ope bin mouth nd swallow much water? Did he rry and shriek bis loudest and battle with his tiny bnuds 'gnlnst the en-Bulling en-Bulling current? Not he! Near by Hip bull to whom reference bin nlremly been niudu was drinking. On the nurfni'p of thp wnler floated thp tufted end of his tall. This Hunter espied. He grubbed, nnd lie grabbed true. Hn held, and he held true. Willi snort and tiellnw the bull leaped up the bank. Hunter wns literally at the raudul appendage of the prncosMoii. Once on Hie bank hp relaxed his hold of the caving bull, though he moved some, rods further. When the older brother and the father cuinu runulng up Blister wai Hulling. CHARED BY A WHALE. A IOs Angeles (f'nl.) correspondent writes thnt I.. ). Murphy, a wealthy tourist of Carmen, Intl.. hnd a thrilling exiierlence four miles off tho coast of Rants ("nlullim Inlands. He cntne near meeting the fate of Jonah In an attack by monster whale. .Murphy was dulling with E. E. Chnp-mnn, Chnp-mnn, of Los Angeles, nwii"r of the launch Itlvsl, ami Skipper T. D. Clnr!t. 1'hey found no iiiun, but starting home-' home-' word enme upon a horde of litfcc. rem-reiuis rem-reiuis ehiiriilng the sea Into fonm. One was so near thnt ihey inucludcd to have fun with It. The launch wnn steered Intn it broadside. broad-side. She wusie went down, but liu- : medial, ly ierpparvl, t.iltig srrntcht for the t ..;( . I'.iiiiteiu.'irlori drove (lie men iiImhii.i to ... tlie life presirvern ihmI mi , i,Ih,,. The levlnthtin diced wlihiu n r- i feet of the rrnft nnd the lixlii-niM-n chiuimd their course phnrp ly. Thin priiv eil their salvation. Tor the next hiMiiut tho whale wns on the purfnee ngnlu Tie whnle i hnricd ngnln nnd agnln and the liiunih wna turned quickly to epcniie the ruh. a, w hich Innted for two mllea. Hiiinstlmes Hip whnle wan i near thnt Cbnpiiinn could eanlly hnve Jnbl.ed hl gnff. which has a five, foot Inindle. Inln the whnlc's nope. During the two lilllen' chase the wlinlp never weut completely out of sight, hut plowed along on Hip aur-fnce aur-fnce or only a few feet bcneiith and never ppoutcd. The fl-herinen eptlmnte thp whnlc's length nt sixty feet. It wua of variety va-riety known n the "tin back." Da head n between four and live feet ncro" mid eight feet long. TDK UltAVKltY OF A WOMAN. How brnve In a woman? Thnt depends on circumstances. It In n wnuiiin'a niiture to be nrrold of llltle things. Khe screams when mouse runs over her feet. Kear clutchen her heart when she la alone at nleht. Almot every woman will say. -I'm terrllile cowurd." That Is only true to very limited extent. When the time for bravery conies the griiudiipps of woman's unselfish coiirtice Is apparent. And when love nerves heart and hand, you have a fori to move the world. Dr. and Mrs. William II. Logan left their good home In Hethany, III., at the rail of duly and went to China as mlnplnnarlrs. Dr. Ixignn became Yrry 111 with appendicitis. It waa tK miles to the nearest doctor. He told Mrs. Logan that hie only chance for life lay In an operation, and asked her to carefully listen to bis Instructions and perform It Can you Imagine position more tragic? And her unskilled hand might slay the man she loved I She listened to Dr. Logan. Bhe prayed, too; then gnvo him an anaesthetic anaes-thetic and successfully removed bis appendix. After that came loving rare and tender treatment, until he hnd rallied sufficiently to lie moved, when Mm. I.ogaii took him Sim miles by wagon and rail to a physician, who completed the treatment. Are women brave? Mrs. William II. Logan baa answered the question. Florence Nlghtlnglae never did more heroic act than waa performed by the missionary woman, hundreds of miles from civilisation. Cincinnati Tost. rilKMKXTMEXT SAVED HIS LIFE. According to Captain Dlggdon, of the Nova Rcotlnn acliooner Uold Becker, which waa lost on the Mosquito coast on the night of July 1, presentment of Impending danger saved him from drowulug, with the larger part of the crew. The Captain arrived recently at New York on the steamer Yucatan from Colon. The vessel wna bound from Cartagena Carta-gena In bnlhint for the Isle of Tines to take on a load of coconnula for this port. On the night of the wreck the schooner was wlihln ten miles of the Isle of Pines, ami Captain Dlggdon had retired to bin cnl.lu In the expectation ex-pectation of reaching bis deptlnntluu the following morning. Hut he could not slii' p. A presentment as of trouble made hi in rrstless and he returned to the deck. Five minutes after he emerged from his culilu a sudden squall struck the schooner. Its force wns so grent thut the vessel ves-sel wnn capsized, lu rolling over It Imprisoned all oil board except the Captain and three sailors, who were on deck at the time. Among those who werp slot plug at the timo and were tost were a Colombian custom house ottlccr, Hip ship's mate, cook and hoiilHwiiln. Kvrn If these mpn were awakened by the lnrushlng watera they could have done nothing to help themselves anil must have perished mlMTiilily In their prisons In the overturned over-turned hulk. Captain Dlggdon supported himself by clinging to Homing wreckage. The three sailors saved themselves In the same manner, and v hen the sqnnll had passed Hi four succeeded In clearing clear-ing the vessel's boat and making the Isle of Pines. The tlold Keeker waa built In Liverpool. Liver-pool. N. K., In litot), and waa of 1U0 tons register. RISKED LIFE TO BAVE DOO. At Wells, Vt., Charles Humphries and Smith Hortou risked their lives to aavo that of a common everydny dog. The dog had lu some maiinir got part way down the almost perpendicular per-pendicular side of a mountain and ntrnyed out upon a narrow ledge projecting pro-jecting out over a height of more than a hundred feet. The animal stood on thla narrow apace for nearly live days without food or water and howled con-tluuiilly. con-tluuiilly. Finally Humphries and Hortou Hor-tou decided to rescue the dog, which they did nftcr a perilous climb down thn perpendicular rock. A single misstep mis-step would have meant Instant death. The dog Is now doing well. TUB BRAVERY OK A RAVAOE. What was tL bravest deed that brave Ilnilen-Puwell ever snw? He describes It In the new Journal, "V. C." It was Hint of savage, Hunerwal warrior, who. In 18U7, In the Tungl runs, advanced alone, under a hall of hulleis. sgntnst the ISrlllsli army. Th HlggMt Cemetery. The biggest cemetery lu the world is the Ciiini'ombs in Itiuue. They contain con-tain six million bodies. 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