Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-12-19

joining home was thrown open, and a
man poked pistol straight out and
fired. The bread boy tumbled from the
top to the bottom OF the stairs, and
when he reached the foot no heard the
angry voice of the girl in the house he
served scoring roundly the man in the
newer domicilo, who had fired the shot
'What did you mean-shooting at
him?" demanded the girl. HE is the
bread man. and he has as good right
to come here as you have"
The householder had never killed a
man in his life, but he thought this
early morning visitor could mean no
| good, and he shot at him. He was as
| badly frightened as was the bread boy
| when he found out the true state of af-
fairs, and came down to apologize. The
girl rather too thinly clad for the
street, came down also and assured her.
self that her favorite bread man was In
no wise the worse for the shot, though
he had tho bullet in his pocket, where
1t had lodged after passing through his
coat He won the lady, and she won a
husband who might never have noticed
her had it not boon for the bullet that
she thought had closed his career. So
he wears the battered leaden thing, and
every time he sees 1t he thinks how
fortunate he was to get shot for burg
lar and get saved for friend in one and
| the same moment.
One of the tugboat captains, who earns
his employers pretty penny every year,
wears rako-a regular farmers rake
on his watch-guard. 1t seems a little
out of place on so nautical waistcoat,
but it is there, and if you want him to
he will tell you story about it. He
will tell you much better and longer
story than this, but the facts are about
the same. When he was younger man
than he is to-day, he was only an ordi-
nary hand on the tugboat-for he has
followed that business for the past fif-
teen years-he started with his craft
one stormy night to tow in largo
steamer that was lying in the lake and
that had been disabled. There was a
high wind on, and for some reason or
another tho tug refused to obey her rud-
der, thing that tugs very seldom do.
Whom they came near enough the
steamer they tried to turn and get a
line but tho little vessel refused to dc
any thing of the kind and went jamb ur
against the bow of the bigger craft. She
was slowed around so suddenly that
every man aboard the tug, excepting
the engineer was thrown into the lake
This particular fellow managed to fall
right between the vessels, and as he
rose from his involuntary bath he saw
the tug and the tow coming together
with him between them. He saw NJ
made up what little mind he had lef
that the end was come, when he saw /;
rake reached down to him from thu
: lower deck Of the steamer. He grasped /
lsmthout asking any questiona. and inc
as the two vessels crashed against eacf
ether ho was landed safe on the bigger
: boat. He scrambled to his feet an(
saw that his rescuer was young WON
an, not often seen on the lower decl
: OF vessels, but who explained that she
had been thrown down the stairway
when the tug first struck. She looked
over the side and saw tho man in thu
water and reached for him with tn,
! first thing that came in her hand
Then she saw the necessity of lifting
him out of tho water, and was fright
! ened by the very gravity of the cas-,
, into lifting him clear to herself AM
giving him chance to Chamber on tn
boat Did he marry her? Well, nc
You see, she was already the wife o
I one of the passengers; but he thanket
: her with all an honest mans heart, an,
= got rake made of gold and hung it t.
his watch charm. Then he went +
work again harder than ever, and ha
finally risen to place where he say
he can offer her home If it should eve
happen that she wants one.
A member of the city council wears
nugget of gold in his chain. 1t wa
, taken by his father from the 'chimne
= diggings" in the days of gold mining u
at Mount Shasta Cal
1.-THE old man knocked it out the YER
first thing he done when he went t
work in the morning." says the legisla
tor, 'and it was the only dime he mad
5 at the business all the time he wa
5 there. Andit is the only thing any o
his family ever made outside of a salool
5 in the world. That's why wear it, an
n it's why | won't part with It, Seep
S | -ChicapO Herald