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But, happily for him, he seems to possess a
sort of superhuman impenetrability to that most
contagious Of all emotions, sympathetic fear
in common danger, and his energetic spirit
triumphs over all. His first successful effort
was the rescue Of himself from drowning, after
having tumbled over the sides of ship into
the bay. fine little cclored boy once fell
into well in dark night, with such appalling
suddenness that not sound was heard from
the sufferer by those who were two rods dis.
tant. He must have shrieked, but it was in
the dark depths bcneatlE The aperture in the
pavement. near the pump, made by his break


ing through the rotten sleepers under the bricks.
was so small that an umbrella, which the boy
carried, was left standing, or rather spread,
over it. Other feet had, a few minutes before,
passed over the same spot Two days were
spent by busy men sounding and raking for the
body. Atlength Hepburn came; he descended
into the well, disappeared beneath the muddy
waters laid his hands on the child imbedded in
the mud, reappeared above the water to take
breath, went down again and brought up the
dead body. 1t was some comfort to the poor
grief-stricken motherto receive again her dead
child. The faithful man could not, like the
Prophet, restore the child alive to his mother,
but he did what he could


When Hepburn is asked what it is that
prompts him to jump in after every body that
falls in the water, his answer is, 81 don't like
to see any body in Distress" 1t must be ad-
mtted that he gives the best possible proof Of
the reality Of his compassion and the sincerity
Of his sympathy. He has been eulogized in
the papers, and probably has received some
tokens Of gratitude, but ought not such a man
to wear gold medal? HasIeven silver one
been presented to him? have never SO heard
With or without medals, a true phlanthropst,
with dark skin, is Anderson Hepburn, and
those who know him can testify that the nodes
.ty Of his demeanor is not surpassed even by
the heroic daring Of bis benevolence.


ALEXANDRIA, Dc. A. B. G.