Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1870 — A Child Heroine. [ARTICLE]

A Child Heroine.

Ob last Thursday evening, says a Dakota paper, a man, whose name we did not learn, and two sons of Mr. Fargo, whet resides at the Lakes, in Clay county, went out on the lake in a canoe, to have a swim by the aid of the boat. The man could not swim, nor coaid the youngest Fargo boy, about nine years old; the oldest boy, about thirteen years old, could. Thus the three proceeded to put their swimming ideas into execution. Things went smoothly until, through a little excitement, the small boat was overturned. This event occasioned a cry for help. There was no one around the house, or near, only Mrs. Fargo and her little daughter, about eleven years old. This little girl, with a spirit of heroism equal to Ida Lewis, rushed to the bank of tho lake, jumped into another canoe and paddled out to where the three persons were struggling in the water. She could have brought all three safe to shore had they remained cool, but in their anxiety to grasp something with motive power on board, they capsized her little craft and threw her Into the water. Luckily for the little heroine, she could swim. At this stage of the game, she, with coolness snd courage seldom equalled or surpassed by men, called out' to her little brother to hold on to her, and for the other two*to bold on to their boat. She thus secured her little brother, and swam ashore with him, holding on to her boat. Her eldest brother saved the man In the same way. Thus the entire party were saved through the coolness and courage of a little girl only eleven years old. —The Congregationaltsts of Maine report 183 churches without ministers, 73 vacant, and 142 not self-supporting. Vermont has 40 churches without ministers, and 00 sot self supporting.