The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-28
JUVENILE IS LUCKY
SOME THINGS CHILDREN DO AND
 YET SURVIVE.
Take Lives in Hand, But Some spe- cial Watch is Kept Over Their
 Fooiishness-Here's a Long E.: ---. List of Miraculous Escapes.


 Iay. 1t is true that the fool who rocks .ne boat seldom is drowned, but when A comes to escaping the hand of fate by ene skin of the pilk teeth, the child tba oan,, tne nulge over any other style of To all appearances sone might think " paper to the infantile palate, would a;ppeai about as strongly as would sec non or Turkish rug. But fly paper IS rapidly taking the place so long held py the can of concentrated lye. At Man cnester, la, the other day, the 2-year-old son son or George Parkinson took a few pltes or sticky bit of fly paper and oniy stf run for the family physician ana hls prompt response with a stomach pump saved the youngster for another go sna Wdtn some more dangerous combination .ldt may taste better About the same ume that little Arthur in Iowa was nip ping into his especial sheet, 3-year-oid Annle Hiebenthai at Randolph, Neb., tl1ed for record run on the part of by a nose.
 limitations of William Tell.
 Since the time of William Tell 1t is presumed that million eyes have been sacrificed and wounds and death beyond oS o91ht tbs nave may con come It to 1 the small mitators only our own Fourth of July has a longer list to its discredit. So far this season, however, the 5-year-old son of pr. Greenameyer of Sloan, la, seems to be the only victim of the Tell habit. Ihe Greenameyer boy was "it' on this occasion, and after Papa Greenameyer had sewed up the scalp along which the Outlet from a neighbor boy gun had plowed for five inches little Harry felt good deal better, besides knowing whole lot more.
 Jennie Golf of Burlington, la, fell with I-year-old splash into the home cistern the other day, since which accident the rest of the family have been boiling the water. Jennie had been looking into the qnet depths of the water through a 2x4 opening when the unexpected happened. sister who had cut her own cistern teeth several years before, ran up, low cred the bucket, and the child, coming to the surface, grabbed it, and held on tlil the father came to the rescue.
 Henry Stevens thought it was tough enough luck to dig seventy feet for wa ter near Edgerton, Mnn., and then to nave to fill the hole up because he didn't strike water. But when Henry had filled to within twenty feet of the top, his daughter, Bernice, looking in to see how near the top -he dirt was, fell in, strik- Ing on her head and shoulders, but em- phasizing in marked manner how care- ful was Providence. She was scarcely scratched cy ;nc fall.
 Long Journey Through Basin.
 For, an absolutely novel experience and Tor the setting of new pace for the little Johhny McIlonahan of Los Angeles, Cal stands in the front rank of the summer escapaders. Little Johnny lives Tn a section where the irrgating pipe is necessity to the agrostologists, and as a Hume fourteen inches in diameter passes the door of the McIlonahan res lde1ce Johnny dropped into it the other day and was carried through 425 feet of It in just seven minutes. In that time the brother of the infantile Johhny had run to the end of the Hume where he picked the youngster out of the reservoir into which the Hume debouched Johnnie had hI1f hn drained and dried
 Frank Brewer of Yankton, S. D., Is a little beyond the age limit of this story, but Franks experience should not be lost because of little thing like that Yankton incidentally has been building a new theatre, and Franks 10-year-old cu- rlosity has been excited by the opera tlons. When wagon load of sand was driven to the spot the other day Frank forgot himself so far as to step back ward until horse knocked him under the wheels. Both wheels of the loaded wagon passed S1uarely over Frank neck. but scarcely had the hind wheel joted off when he brushed his collar with some indignation and went on home for the purpose of concealng the incident from both his father and his mother
 Marrow Escape From Thrashing.
 Fred Kreitner, living near Belleville, H., also is rather old for listing, but coming out from under a strawstack after being buried there for four hours d any kind. Fred, F years old, presumably was out late the night before, and in stead of riskng crawling through his bedroom window while graveyards yawn- ed, he concluded to crawl in under the strawa carrier of a thra s1ng machine that had been at work on the Kreitner farm the day before. Fred did not awaken with the birds, and when the thrasher started up the next morning minus half hand it went with such energy that Fred was soon buried out of sight and hearing. The great carrier buried him deeper and deeper, the hole in the straw which he had scooped out saving him from suffocation as the fresh run of straw matched the place over Search had been in prograss for the boy sev- eral hours, and finally the machine was stopped that the whole force might join in it. Then it was that two men on the stack heard muffled cries and traced them to the spot under which the boy Was buried. He was unconscious when dug out but was soon revived
 At OrrvIlle, Cal, d horse driven by Mrs. schofeld got scared and backed the buggy into an irrigation ditch, over turning it and throwing the driver and an infant child into the water Mrs. Schoti i'd was rescued without difficulty. but, true to the aphorism. Providence had 10 look out for the little one This it did by allowing 1t to fall head first into the water. and in this position to stick in the mud. Not till the buggy was righted was the child found under it, anu u was tVNLNNi WlttlOul ulHCultN only because. being upside down, water had not entered into its lungs in quantities to drown it.
 Ate Box of strychnine.
 Rufus Carris. Jr.. 2 years old. climbed on a pantry shelf al his home near Ke- ota Ia, and, not finding either fly pa per or concentrated I've at hand, had to content himself win a dozen two-gram tablets of strychnine, topping off with A bite out of the lid of the box The stomach pump saved nttle Rufus, and at the present writing there are many chances for his growing up to be a big, rawboned freckled country boy whom everybody Will call ltufe for short.
 Emile Wagner, years old, was shot in the head by his brother in Milwaukee some time ago. the bullet, of small cali her, entering the chid's brain. Death WIS expected at any moment, and no effort was made to extract the ball, as if was regarded as impossible. The child was sent to the hospital, and after sev- eral weeks there finally had been dis charged as cured. He suffers no incon- venience from the lead missile, and no impairment of his mentality is expected to result
 especially hard luck when he dived into. the river at St. Paul. just above a tin ca, which rested on tha bottom with the sbarn side up Patrick struck the can n glancing blow that left his nose tip as food for a Mississippi River catfish, and which has given the physicians pretty stiff job of carpentering and joining.
 Rut boys will he boys. There are sev- .raI ways of doing 1t. too. Richard Clay of Richmond Va, lid It at 2 years old