The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-26
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ing. indeed. Some of the natives were
grinning. too. to complicate matters.
The judge had onw worked himself into
a perspiration. He released the levers,
removed his hat and thoushtfury mopped
his brow. Just then the automobile shot
backwards with such violence that the
occupants escaped being spilled over the
( dashboard only by lively scrambling.
never saw a machine take such sudden
fool notion. 1t ran over pedigreed pup
and put him on the hospital list, and lark
/ ed the shins Of a couple of bystanders
However, this was not to be regretted
they had been grinning. The judge excit-
edly grasped lever after lever, but he
seemed to have lost the combination. At
any rate the auto gllded along until it
( struck big oak tree al the side Of the
/ road and then it stopped. However, the
! steam continued to hiss in vicious man
! ner. and the machinery ground away furi-
/ ousy as if chatting at being thus rudely
/ checked
! At one moment he was in ditch, and
/ the next moment he was climbing an en-
bankmont. 1t must have been a very ex-
hilarat1g rice, sailing through the streets
at thirty miles an hour, over precipices.
and laying out an innocent bystander
about every hundred yards Still l do not
! think the judge really enjoyed it for there
was q cold perspiratiOn on his brow and
an anxious look on his face.
lie no longer attempted to control the
auto. He had concluded that under the
circumstances the best thing to do was to
quit monkeyins with the levers and put
his trust in Providence. He was gliding
along now at a thirty-five mile gait and
the speed was increasing every moment
Tinid people retired to their cyclone
cellars 1t was fine spring morning, as
before stated, and the orchards along the
way We're filed with blossoms and flow
ers and similar goods to delight the eye,
but the judge did ont seem to be par
ticularly interested in the scenery.
Somehow the judge had got that smile
Quoted down But Mrs. Candy was get
ting excited about something. and once
or twice so far forgot herself a. to scream
and propose that the triumphal tour be
Indefinitely postponed or laid on the table
The judge tried to calm her by telling her
she was fool. He was on the point of
telling her something else Of g soothing
nature, but suddenly the vehicle darted
forward and started down the street. That
machine seemed to be chock full of sud
den impulses. 1t took wheel off a
passing vehicle, threw the horse into
spasms. and caused it to run away. Then
it SHE'D across the street and ran over
the postmaster just as if he had been an
pTGia
village lawyer and laid him low Ooss es-
tmated to be smalD, whirIed across the
street just in time 20 put a horse doctor
out of commission Zone of the judges
best customers too. then it went in
search Of the place where the mud was
the deepest, found it. and deposited Mrs
Gundy there, regardless of the dazzling
new gown. One would naturally expect
the judge to call a halt here and apollo
gize, but he did nothing Of the kind His
time was pretty wei occupied just then.
He went down the street at the rate Of
thirty miles an hour. He didn't seem to
have any particular place of destination
IN view. and was first on one side of the /
street. and then on the other Occasion
ally he would take a short cut across a /
block. presumably because he was pressed /
for time, riding over the sidewalk and
knocking down few panels of fence TO I
do it, There was a strict ordinance /
against riding over sidewalks and gar |
dens. but he seemed TO have mometuariiy /
forgotten the fact. He paid no atten- /
ton to obstacles of any kind.
The squire was sitting under tree in /
rs yard reading when Mr Candy came
e-.asr I
latter did not appear to he Sgxious to .
attract attention now. In fact. I think .
he would have preferred to pass unno- /
tced, But great is the perversity of fate .
and some automobiles The moment that
machine arrived in front OF the sources /
house it swerved and made straight for
the stone fence. 1t struck the fence /
Squarely and stopped there. However. the
judge went on.
He had not been in the squire's yard
for twenty-five years. He was not invited
now. Nevertheless. he sailed through the
air serenely. as though sure of a welcome.
and alighted on the grass at the feet of
the enemy.
Why. good morning, jedge" said the
squire Wasn't partielar expecting yo.'
but glad to see YOU Shake
Down deep in the judges heart there
was such a profound sense Of satfsfac-
ton at finding himself still in the land r
If the living. sound Of wind and limb.
that before he kenw it he was pressing
the proTered hand in the absence of any
thing else to press.
Later the fragments Of the auto were
consigned to the scrap-piIe and by mutual
consent the old rivalry was buried.-S W.
Mccoy in Nebraska State Journal.
Congressman Shannard nf Texas IS Ii,