The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-07-12

stood for many years great frame
building, used principally as a hotel.
and known to all the towns-people by
the name of 1.-THE Old Swan"
In years gone by this place was
quite famous resort, but it gradually
ran down until it became at length a
cheap boarding-house.
Among the many inmates of the
building were Julie Brohmer. little
eight-year-old girl, her mother and
three younger children. The smallest.
little girl baby of two, was little
jules especial charge, and her mother
leave the little baby with Julie, sure
that no harm would come to her so long
as her faithful little sister was near.
Julie attended the public school as
regularly as her duties ut home would
allow, and, unlike most little girls of
her age, when she came home she did
not care to run out in the street and
play at "tag" or 'hide-and-seek," but
instead staid at home and relieved her
mother of the care of her younger
brothers and sisters, and acted the part
of a small housewife.
The other evening, about half past
nine, little Julie sat in room on one of
the lower floors patiently waiting for
her mother to come in that she might
go to bed. She had Just put her little
baby sister to sleep in the back room,
and as Julie sat waiting so quietly, her
half-closed eyes and frequent yawns
told only too well that the "dustman"
was on his rounds.
Suddenly, as she sat there, some
bright sparks fell from the ceiling and
smouldered on the floor. Almost at the
same instant a number of the tenants
who lived upstairs ran wildly through
the hall and past the door, screaming:
Fire! fret at the top of their voices.
In another moment the flames appeared
in the very room in which little Julia
sat. She heard the cries of fire
and the people rushing madly
into the street. But there was
no one to to tell her what to do, or even
to think of her, in that moment of ex-
element.
Perhaps good many of the little
girl readers of Young People, if they
had been in Julia's place, would have
screamed and run out of the house as
quickly as they could. But that was
not what brave little Julia thought of
as she saw the sparks falling about her,
and the red glare of the fast approach.
ing flames.
No, indeed; for she knew that in the
back room her baby sister slept uncon-
scious of any danger, and the brave lit.
tie girl thought first of her duty to that
! helpless infant. So, without thinking
twice. she dashed forward, and CROPPED
through the smoke and falling sparks
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snatching out the little two-year-old,
sleeping peacefully as it was in its lit
tie night dress-a pretty heavy burden,
too, for so small a girl--and clasping it
tightly in her arms, she ran out of the
room, struggling through the smoke of
the hall, until at last she reached the
open air.
She did not stop even then, but ran
on until she had reached the opposite
side of the street. There she sat down
on convenient rock and watched the
fire, still holding her little sister tightly
to her breast to protect her from the
cold. And in this position, after hunt
ing all over, and almost concluding
that Julie had persisted in the flames,
her mamma and the neighbors found
her.
Brave little girl! Though only eight
years old, when danger threatened she
did not have to be told what was right
for her to do, nor did she for a moment
lose her presence of mind, but bravely
rescued her baby sister.
So, little' girl readers, think what a
brave little girl Julie Brohmer was, and
try to learn from her brave act lesson
of courage and self-control. -Hdrpe9''s
Young People.