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Show OESERVEO TO SAVE HIS LIFE. j Unparalleled Fortitude Exhibited by - j f German Forester. I I Krlti Werner was a German fore.t. j er. One day a -lag gored blra frightfully fright-fully In Ihe abdomen. I A. the Infuriated animal pulled I nut his antlers, backed as ay and prepared pre-pared for a second charge, tho Injured Injur-ed man propped himself on an elhow j nnd fired juat as the stng was closing in on him. The animal fell dead and I the man fainted away. 1 When he recovered consciousness j he found tl at lie could not attract at- 1 tentlon by ahotitlng. He realized that ' bo was out of the beaten patha and that unless he dniKKcd himself to a frequented place he would surely die. So he began dinti'lnu himself through the forest In the direction of bia employer', em-ployer', house, three mile. away. Ha started on hi. Journey at noon; at S o'clock the next momlru tho occupant, oc-cupant, of the house were aroused by the explosion nf a gun nearby. In-Matlmiiliig In-Matlmiiliig they found tho forester In a dead faint, and nearly dead from '. loss of hlood. lying on tho lawn. Uy ; bis shin wss a smoking gun. When Ihe Injured nuin col so that be could .pen k and lell his alory, bl. i master asked him: ' "Hut why ill, I you drag that heavy gun all the way?' "I knew that I couldn't shout when ; I did reach an liihuhlmlilo place," waa , the reply, "so I brought It along to attract atleutlon. I didn't think ot It until I had crawled for half a mile, I ' then I crawled hack and got It-" 1 |