Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1908 — Saved by a Glove Button. [ARTICLE]

Saved by a Glove Button.

At one of the Monson slate quarries a derrick man stood on the brink of one of the great chasms from which the slate rock Is hoisted. His doty was to catch hold of the big hook depending from the end of the boom as It swung over the bank, and attach it to the crate to be sent back iuto the pit. Standing upon the very edge, he reached out to catch the hook which dangled near him. fit was winter, aud he wore thick buckskin gloves. The hook slipped from him as he leaned but, but caught Into the fastening of the glove. The swing of the great boom took hith off his feet In an instant and carried him out Into giddy space, with his .life' depending on the glove holding fast His whole weight was hung oif - button, and there was a clear lit feet of space between him and the floor of the rock below. The moments that passed before tae boom could be swung back over the

bank seemed like hours to him, but he got there at last safe and sound.—London Mall.