Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — A MODERN HEROINE. [ARTICLE]

A MODERN HEROINE.

Row She Stopped a Driver’s Hrutal Treatment of a Horse. Sleighs drawn by four horses are employed on the Wellington street route, says the Montreal Star. A heavily loaded sleigh was coming cityward. One of the horses next the vehicle fell. The driver lashed it with his whip. Then he kicked it. Finally he swore at it. But he did not get down to extricate the animal from the harness, which held it a prisoner. The men in the s eigh buried their chins in their overcoats and indulged the contemplation of fatalism as a philosophy which le moves every passion from the breast. Suddenly a lady clad in a sealskin sacque got out, and, going up to the driver, said to him in an imperative way: “Give me that whip.” The driver was dazed. In a stupefied wav he handed over the whip. “Now,” said the little lady, “if you touch that horse again I will Ipt you feel the weight of this whip across your shoulders. Get down this moment and cut the harness and help the horse to rise.” The driver stared at her. The women in the sleigh tittered, the men hung their heads. “Get down this moment," said the lady, shaking the whip over the driver. The latter mechanically obeyed. The harnesd' r was loosened, the horse was raised to its feet. The lady put her hand in her sachel, brought ferth some biscuits, and treated the four horses to one each. The effect was magical. The hopeless cynicism of their poor faces gave ulaoe to hope, and love, and gratitude. Then the lady, very white, but as resolute as Joan of Arc ever was, entered the sleigh. The men still hung their heads in silence.

Buying Babies with Postage Stamps. “Have you had many requests for the canceled postage stamps you receive?” asked a business man yesterday. “No? Well, that's strange, for I have been besieged by boys and girls asking for them. At first I thought it was a revival of the old stamp collecting craze, but all the little ones seemed so earnest in their work that I questioned several. I was informed that the stamps were wanted to redeem Chinese babies. You can imagine how such an assertion astonished me. Upon further inquiry I was told that it was a habit in China to kill babies, especially girls, and that these stamps were being gathered by a religious order to send to that country. It is said that with tho stamps the missionaries of that country are able to redeem the condemned babies from death. You would be surprised at the number of children and men that are engaged in collecting canceled stamps. I know of one little girl who turns over to the head of the order over 500 stamps a week. Now, whether this is a fake, like sem? other stamp collecting schemes that gained headway in the country, such as obtaining a cot in a hospital for so many stamps, etc., Ido not know. There is no questioning the fact, however, that a large number of peopA are engaged in an honest effort to redeem Chinese babies by collecting stamps.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.