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Show point The necdio had beca forced back clear through a thick button on his woolen undershirt nnd thence had gone a little dis-tuneo Into tho skin. The resistance of tho button had forced the soft lead of tho bullet clear round the needle so that the bullet was fairly impaled on the slender wire. Thus was the life of. the soldier saved, and through tho carelessness of his beloved in leaving the needlo in the protector. Ili9 Quojrost Chance in tha World. Every once in a while somo war veteran, under proper circumstances and conditions, will tell you how ho escaped death at such a place and j such a lime by tho "queerest chance in the world" says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Ono of these "queerest chances in the world" fell to tho lot of an old-timer who lives in German-town, German-town, and, in truth, it is ono of tho very queerest. He was about to leave for the seat of war in 180:1, nnd tho girl to whom he was engaged, among numerous other things, gavo him a chest-protector, lntwlo by her own fuir hands and wet by her-tears. It va3 meant to be practical, and was of immense im-mense thickness, that is, it was padded to the depth of an inch or two. During Dur-ing a long aui tedious campaign in chilly weather the soldier found it it valuable ns a safe-guard against colds, and wore it almost constantly. He had it on one morning when plunged into tho heat of a hand-to-hand skirmish. skirm-ish. The affair developod into quite a little battle and soon tho straggling fire on both sides had become rattling volleys. When it was over the soldier retired to his tent and removed, his coat and shirt in order to stanch the flow of blood from a small flesh wound in his back. In removing tho protector pro-tector ha felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest, and then he noticed that the protector was cut all up by the passage of a bullet. An investigation investi-gation developed an awfuily "queer chance." His sweetheart had accidentally acci-dentally left a needle sticking in the pad which he had never noticed before. This ran right through the cloth and a bullet had struck it on tho |