Show horse saved two lives A maiden physician had an adaven ture some time ago which he does not care to repeat although it gave him a much higher appreciation of the of his pet driving horse than he had previously enter tamed he was returning home from visiting a patient late at night in company with a clergyman when the horse stopped short at one of the most dangerous grade crossings with in the city s limits absorbed in live ly conversation with his clerical friend and seeing no gate down be mechanically touched the horse with the whip and urged it by his voice to go forward but the spirited animal tor once would not respond and in stead of obeying stepped briskly aside and turned his head as tar as possible from the train which just then whizzed by at the rate of forty miles an hour it was a close call tor the occupants of the carriage who sat breathless through the moments ot terrible suspense but the horse main bained its attitude of a half circle until the danger was past it seems that the gatekeeper was asleep at his post and had neglected his duty but the delicate ears of the horse had de the sound of the coming train and had rightly interpreted it as the signal of a danger to be avoided both men were firmly convinced that they owed their lives under providence to the intelligent use the animal made of its former experiences with grade crossings and nothing but a farm down east with a radium mine on it would now tempt its owner to part with it boston transcript |