Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — How He Got In. [ARTICLE]

How He Got In.

In 1777, while Harrodsburg, Ky., was so beset with Indians that the inhabitants were in straits for daily bread, a young man only 16 years old made himself extremely useful by venturing out of the fort before daybreak, and returning with a load of game after nightfall. This intrepid youth was James Ray, afterward Gen. Ray. One day in the year just mentioned Ray and another young man were shooting at a mark near the fort when the second man was suddenly shot down by the Indians. Ray looked in the direction whence the shot had come, and seeing the enemy, was on the point of raising his rifle, when he was set upon by another gang who had crept near him unseen . He tool? to his heels, and being a quick runner, reached the fbrtatnid a shower of bullets. But the gates were shut, and the men inside were so frightened that they dared not open them. Finding himself shut out, Ray threw himself flat on the ground in the rear of a stump, and here, perhaps seven steps from the fort and within sight of bls mother, he lay for four hours, while the bullets of the Indians tore up the ground on either side of him. At last be grew impatient and called out to the garrison: “For heaven’s sake, dig a hole under the cabin wall, and take me in. ” The men inside set to work immediately, and the brave young hunter was speedily safe inside the fort. = “Why is it the English stand for office instead of running for it?” “England is a very small country. I suppose there is standing-room only.” —Harper’s Bazar. Most men look Out forhumber one* most women claim to look out for number two—at the shoe store.— Texas Siftings.