The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-08

assistance and proceeded to calmly bu
firmly explain the reasons why he didn'
care to win the first neat.
SECOND AND LAST HEAT.
This heat was very hot. Mr.. Newman
came up with look Of desperate calm
| ness. and informed the judges that dry
goods would be half price at his store
just as sure as he won the heat, and tbs
judges informed him that he stood q
splendid chance OF winning. mir. Wib-
Iey's eyes glared wildly, but he held up
his head and looked fate in the face with
true Kansas grit. Every body shook
hands with both contestants, and many
felt that it might be for the last time.
All being ready, they took good start
and came along even, and " Coz roared
the judges. &C.," shouted all the men,
$50" echoed the musical voices of the
ladies, Go, Go, Co." filled the air, and
go it was again. faster than ever,
Speed, Newman, speed,
On, whitley, on"
we the last words of Captain Sommers,
who was the next moment seized with a
fatal attack Of palpitation of the heart,
and had TO be carried OF to Miss --'s
carriage. 1t was all over in few more
minutes. Newman got ahead, and kept
ahead. and kept on getting ahead, and the
more Whitley got behind the more excited
he became, and by the time that they
reached the half mile pole whitley had
pulled on the lines so hard that the wag-
on was half way up the mares back and
In this style he came rushing down the
home stretch after Newman, both Of
them yelling and halloing like calIiopes,
and raising such dust that no body could
tell which was going to win. The ex.
citement was awful .1Rah for WibJey,"
"'Rah for Newman" $50 in, Tom''
slump him, George" she, he, ""Ho, no."
''See 'em co." were the cries that rent the
air as the surging multitude rushed back
and forth and yellei and shr1eked and
shouted, when the horses came past, both
drivers painting for breath and every
nerve and muscle Of their bodies as rigid
as an iron fence. Two ladies tainted from
over excitement, and the judges implOred
the spectators to calm their freIzy. 1t
was scene never to be forgotten
Newman, by q tremendous effort, shot
under the wire, about IS rods ahead Of
whitley, who came along like a thunder
cloud, but alas, too late, Newman was
conscious enough to recognize his friends,
and wagged his ear family in response to
their joyous congratulations. bat whitley
with last desperate effort gasped out,
"Dry goods given away-revenge is
sweet"-and fell back insensible to all
earthly sensations. Victory and defeat,
happiness and despair. how near and yet
how far thou art. The judges announced
the time as IN. 721< s. for Newman
whitley distanced-and that the gray
horse now stood ready to trot for mil
lion dollars against the world.
Every body returned to their luxurious
homes in the city, the organ playing shall
to the Chief,' and the judges singing, and
every body Joining in the chorus:
"And now three cheers for the winning
steed,
Give him plenty OF drink and plenty of
feed;
Put him to bed and tuck up his toes,
Curl his hair and wipe his nose;
He is the horse that won the race,
A mile at an awful break eek pace;
And let dry goods come down If they will,
Wen be free and happy still,
Free and happy, happy and tree,
AMI 'rrah for George and his friend T. g."