Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-11-17

"N'NAH HIHNNtNN"
Midway. Ky. Nov Greater love
uaih no man lhls this. chat 3 man las
tuWn his iiio Tor his friends
This passage ST scripture has been
| heid i0 contain tho supreme sacrifice
ihai @ mun might make
Here a. Midway. Ky.. q quaint llltio
village iu che Blue Grass country.
there lives man who transcribed
even the teaching 81 st. John. the
evangelist
Be Is Rufus H. Combs. d wcll-to.do
retired blacksmith. TO laid down
hig llfo for his blttcroat enemy. That
Do was saved from tho Jaws OF
death after his enemy had been res.
gn0d in no whit doiracts from the aaC.
rincc Tie gave himsoif--hia life for
aii he kneS-Niihout efudsins. fnliy
freely and completely
To-day De "a the hero OF bis town.
and She recipient of q silver medal
und $500 from the Carnegie hero
fund.
Richard Oodaon, attorney. VINO was
saved from certain death. aud his
enemy. Rufus @. Combs. retired black.
smith. live two squares apart. ON
Brnnon street. iu Midway
Just az twilight on the second day
Of iuai April a scream of anguish.
hiuTtbrcaklnr lu its agony. brought
DE people pouring from the houses IN
Wild excitement.
Tho scroamp came from Mrs. Kate
r1yntor. The klnd-hcafied woman who
I had reared Richard Godaon from q
child. when be, too. was left an orphan
with np roof bat that provided by pub.
Ilic charity 90 shelter him.
Coming ont on the lawn Ga tell her
adopted non supper was ready, she
found him unconscious at the bottom
ui o Die containing q gna machine, his
iarc buried IN tbo mud.
ln Midway many 0i the homes are
/ furnished with these gas machines.
I in a plt about eight feet deep and
/ possibly three or four feet across, q
vessel filled with gasoline Is kept and
This piped into the cellar Of the house.
7 Godson had hllod the tank, but the
llehis did not buru Ho said after.
ward that ha llficd the cover OF the
I rit. which WIS fun OF gas.
Rufus Combs, two blocks away. was
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4 when be- heard Mrs. poynora cries
he dropped bis mallct and ran the
tu0 feet 90 bic onomys home. Down
iu the pa lay lodson. barely breath.
/ ing, with an excited crowd around.
ihere were friends OF tho unconscious
man in that throng. but all Bhrank
away from descending into tho pit
Good God Why don't you get
him cut2" BIZ enemy. Combs ex-
claimed, gazing around on Thorn
'hcs still breathing 10 might be- pos.
sihie Co save bis llie"
Men looked each other ln tho face
fearmlly This one plead physical
weakness. the one n wife and family
that needed h.m But no one cooked
TO Combs he was 1odson'a enemy
the whole town know g. Then Combs
he'd delicate. ncryoua wife and i've
growing children. four ol them boys
VINO ne dod Bis guidance
~ nobody else win ro. nm have to.
ho said. and jumped down beside the
man whose very existence bad been
on anrnnt no him iu the past
rnoro were cheers that quickly gave
was to cries of horror Combs hdc1
up Godsou's body, but che fumes were
Htroug and the roscuor stumbled and
lfell tie struggled up. face purple and
leyfs bullying from their sockets Ws.n
lhis great blacksmith strength he
raised the unconscious man above hia
Town tall head 10 within n foot or two
of the pits mouth. and then thC
watchers seized the burden VIII
ing hands also drew Combs up Just
ns he los consciousness.
Long into the night physicianl