The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-12-05

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The householder had never killed q
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 boz
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 the 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 been for the bullet that
she thought had closed his career. So
he wears the battered leaden thing, and
every time he secs it ne thinks how
fortunate he was to get shot for a burg
lar and get saved for = friend in one and
the same moment
One of the tugboat captains, whoearns
his employers pretty penny every year,
wears q rake-a regular farmers rake
on his watch-guard. 1t seems 4 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 a longer
SbOAN bAsiL NulS. Du6 inc IaCAS are ABOUT
the same. When he was a 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 4 large
steamer that was lying in the lake and
that had been disabled. There was
high wind on, and for some reason or
another the tug refused TO obey herrud-
der, thing that tugs very seldom do
Whom they came near enough the
steamer they tried to turn and get a
line, but the little vessel refused to do
any thing of the kind and went lamb up
against tho bow of tho 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 Ire saw
the tug and the tow coming together,
with him between them. He saw no
earthly chance to escape and had about
made up what little mind he had left
that the end was come, when he saw a
rake reached down to him from the
lower deck of the steamer. He graSped it
without asking any questions, and just
as the two vessels crashed against each
ether he was landed safe on the bigger
boat. He scrambled TO his feet and
saw that his rescuer was young wom-
an, not often seen on the lower deck
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 the man in the
water, and reached for him with the
first thing that came in her hand.
Then she saw the necessity of lifting
him out of the water, and was fright
ened by the very gravity of the case
into lifting him clear TO herself and
giving him chance to Chamber on the
boat Did he marry her? Well, no.
You see, she was already the wife OF
one of the passengers; hut he thanked
her with all an honest mans heart, and
got a rake made OF gold and hung it to
his watch charm. Then he went to
work again harder than ever, and has
finally risen to place where he says
he can offer her home If it should ever
happen that she wants one.
A member of the city council wears
nugget of gold in his chain. 1t was
diggings'' in the days OF gold mining up
at Mount Shasta, Cal
''The old man knocked it out the very
first thing he done when he went to
work in the morning. says the legisla-
tor, ''and it was the only dime he made
at the business all the time he was
there. And it is the only thing any of
his family ever made outside of a saloon
in tho world. That's why wear it, and
it's why / won't part with it See?'
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