Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-29
PRICE ONE GENT
AN EARLY MORNING WRATH.
A STARTLING SIGHT ON A
PUBLIC STREET.
Strange Perigrinations of An Ath-
lete-Young Man After
Exercise.

from thut drawn bow, like the head
long dash of clean limbed greyhound
or the sweeping ray from q hugh
searchilgt hswept streak of white
ness up Prince George street at an
early hour this morning. Through
dust and wind and scurrylng eddies
it flew along and stopped not Co take
a cautious look at street corners.
Then, like a car on switchback
railway, taking sharp curve it
swung around and dashed back down
the street A dash of brown, a streak
OF pink and a topped off bunch of
fiuttering white, it sped along. Early
morning pedestrians on the street
stopped in silent amazement, windows
were cautiously raised in an effort
that but feebly held in check the won
derment of those who would see what
strange thing this was.
Backward and forward il raced now
this way and now that like huge
game of battle door and shuttlelook,
never at rest, always in motion and
gaining speed and velocity with each
and every change of direction. From
the conglomerate mass of rapidly re-
volvlng something which extended
downward from the bulk of the on
rushing monster extended what look
ed like a pair of gigantic piston rods.
They flew backward and forward,
touching the ground in quick. ener-
getic strides that propelled the white
object at marvellous speed Stop
watches were brought into play and
II was seen that the strange object was
moving at the rate of two miles per
minute. 1t whistled through the cir
cumcambient air, pitpatted along tha
brick pavement and turned, at the end
of its self made course with the jerk
and the throb, the spring and the jolt,
of huge punching bag.
From garrett to cellar window, from
the scullery to my lady's boudoir
there was bent out upon the strange
object eyes that endeavored to fathom
the secret it held close. Work was
neglected, ba bies cried unheeded and
the porridge on the kitchen range
scorched and grew dry, burned up
and was destroyed while the watchers
stood glued to the windows. Many
there were who thought that perpetual
motion had been discovered. that the
end of time had come and that some
poor spirit was seeking for that shelter
which could not be found. But, as
they looked, the strange object per-
ceptibly slowed it's speed and, like q
night bird, tired and weary from q
night on the wing, slackened much
and at last its identity was establish
ed.
1t was of the genus homo, strong
limbed manhood on the speed of the
wind. TRlland slender, with much
evidence of an attempt at mutton chop
whiskers he would have been an i'm
posing sight in any ball room when
dessed as fashion dictates. But fashion
had been rudely outraged in this,
metamorphosis of what is thought TO
be full dress. The pedal extremities
we're encased in pair of tan shoes,
sans stocking or other lower leg Gov
erings. The Iggorotes we're not more
warmly clad for a pair of thin white
trunks used on the race track were
all that held back the wind from its
searching energy except for a thin
gauze upper covering that would have
well served its duty as window pane.
The wind whistled about his un-
covered underpinning and took liber-
ties which could not be mentioned.
AS his pace grew less and faltering he
gasped for breath, reached out for
support and as quickly as his exhaust
ed condition would permit he dashed
into Carvel Hall and fell with his
breath coming in the same sort of
shortscoverings which hid his upper
limbs he dropped to the floor. The
breath. deserted young man resolved
himself into Mr. Hugo Koehler, the
scion of a welIknown st. Louis family
which ranks among the most aristo-
cratic of that western city. Mr..
Koehler was simply taking little
morning exercise anent an examina-
tion for the revenue cutter service.