Frostburg mining journal., 1908-09-12

grew stale after awhile AS usual
thing there are drawbacks to the he
roic business. You so up like Il rocket
and come down like Il barrel of sand.
lone day six or seven years ago as
was taking i'll the scenery along an In
diana highway | saw horse and buggy
approaching on the gallop. There were
Il man and woman in the buggy, and
the woman was screaming and the
man laying the whip on the horse. 1t
was Don QuiXote to the rescue. / saw
that the female was being abducted,
and when the outfit came along |
Sprang for the horse, caught the bride,
and after being dragged twenty rods
| brought him to a halt. The man at
once leaped out and disappeared in the
woods, and the woman tainted away.
"Don QuiXote brought water and re
vived her and bade her look upon her
self as rescued and then drove her to
her home, three miles away. She didn't
say much en- route. She didn't praise
my hcroiSm or declare my Gallantry
on the contrary, she was no sooner
home than she turned on me and gave
me fits and threatened me with all
manner of calamitieS. | was driven
away in disgrace, and 1t was only
when | reached the next farmhouse
that the mystery was solved. The fe
male was Il widOW-a romantic widow
She had vowed that she wouldn't mar
ry the man with her unless abducted.
lie came and abducted her. She want
ed him to. Her yelling was simply
prctense. In making hero of myself
, | had interrupted Il marriage, and she
was as mad as a wet hen about it.
The man who had escaped from the
buggy sent Il constable after me, charg-
/ ing mo with an attempted holdup, and
was arrested and given three months
in Jail as a suspicious character
again in Connecticut about 1 o'clock
one afternoon ! came along to Il farm
to hear Il woman'S screams and to see
girl flying across Il field with bull
in chase. over the highway fence
went Don QuiXote, with Il rock iii his
/ hand. and as cut in between the girl
and the bovine | threw the rock and
knocked a horn off and checked the
pursuit. Then several things result
ed. The bull turned out to be an am
bling OK. Tho girl screamed for help.
| Her father and II hired man came run
ming, and | was set upon and given an
old fashioned lambasting. Just as it
was finished Il young man came run
ming up, and then the girl fell upon
his shoulder with an oh, Dick"
How He Figured 1t Out.
II figured it out that night as / lay
under a haystack three miles away.
The girl put up job for the old OK
to chase her. She wanted her lover TO
rescue her. He was slow in catching
! on. and | cut in ahead of him. | not
only spoiled her plot, but knocked a
horn off the pursuer, and the father
naturally looked upon me as villain
instead of hero. | carried two black
eyes for a month. but felt that | de-
served them.
Il got into Il Maryland village one
day TO find the people all agog over the
mysterious disappearance of young
lady from her nome. She had gone out
for walk the day before and had
failed TO return. | had no sooner ap-
peared than suspicion was fastened
, upon me as matter of course. For
tunatcly | had been at work for n
farmer for the last three days. and
upon his being communicated with by
telephone he cleared me of any charge,
| | WAS then ordered TO move on. and |
won't Two miles away | turned into
the woods to take nap, but had not
fallen asleep when a man came along
and dug grave not five rods away.
He had big bundle with him and
buried 1t. II was the body of the miss
Ing girl. of course.
When the man had smoothed the
grave over and departed l made bolt
back to the village and told the news.