Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-03-02

q ride In one OF the devil wagons,
though he had got good deal OF ex-
ercise the last year or two lodging
them on the streets. but he said he
was tickled to death to hear that !
was an expert performer. and no
would 90 out with me. and II he liked
the sensation, he would buy one. The
machine hired was one OF those
doublets for two persons. one seat, you
know, a runabout. II was runabout
oil right. II run about IS miles In
is minutes. I got dad tucked In. and
touched her on q raw spot, and we
we're of. run her around town for
awhile on the streets that had no
teams on. and dad was pleased.
I'VE had to 90 through the business
part of town, and dad looked around
at the people on the streets that he
knew, and he swelled up and tried to
look as though he owned a brewery.
and told me to let her out, and l
thought II dad could stand 1t to let
her out I could. so pulled her open
Just as one OF these station fruit ven
ders with hand cart was crossing the
street. The cow-catcher In front
caught the hand cart right In the mid
die and threw 1t into the air, and It
rained bananas and oranges, and the
dago came down on his head and
swore in Italian, and dad said: Good
shot, Hennery,' and then the machine
swung across the street and knocked
the fender OF street car. and then
I got her in the road straight and. by
gosh, I couldn't stop her. Something
had got balled up, and the more ]
touched things the faster she went.
We frightened four teams and had
three runaways, and the air seemed
full Of horses rearing up and drivers
yelling for US to stop.
I'VE kept going faster, and dad be.
gan to get frightened and asked me
to slow up, but I couldn't We must
have got in the country about eight
miles, and dad was getting scared, and
his face was just the color OF salt pork.
and he said:
"'Hennery, this excursion Is going
to wind up in a tragedy, and II
die want you to have post-mortem
examination made, just to see If | am
right about those doctors leaving that
monkey wrench in me. For heavens
sake make the machine jump that
fence. for here comes a drove OF cat
tie in the road
Gee, but when / saw those cattle
ahead and the machine running away,
| tried to pray, and then / steered her
towards an old rail fence that looked
as though 1t was rotten, and then
there was a crash, the air was full
of rails, and dad said: This Is no
hurdle race and we landed in a field
where there was an old hard snow
bank. She went up on the side. hit
the frozen snow, turned summer
sault, the gasoline tank exploded and
| didn't remember anything till some
farmers that were spreading manure
in the field turned me over with a
pitchfork, and asked me who the old
dead man was standing on his head
in the snow bank with his plug hat
around his neck. AS soon as / came
to went to dad, and he was just COM
ing out of a trance, and asked him II
he didn't think little excitement sort
of made the sluggish blood circulate,
and he looked at the blood on the
snow, and said he thought there was
no douot about the circulation Of his
blood.
HE got up, got his hat untangled,
told the farmers he was obliged to
them for their courtesy and then he
called me one side and said:
"'Hennery, this attempt on your
part to murder me was not the sue
casa that Won expected. but you keep