The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-03
Awful Fall
Jake Pstsrs Met Wlth One Thst Mos' Broke He Neck & Is's Wonder
 Is Didn't

Jake Peters nearly broke his neck las the circumstances. The circumstances surrounding the case are quite singular
 and we relate them as follows as we go l them from Jake hisself who is now able
 to be propped up in bed and receive call.
 CTS altl sugh he is quite stiff in the jlnts
 and will not be able to get around on
 crutches for some time yet.
 l As everybody knows Jake owns a old
 gray mare which he calls Cesar. He
 swopped for her with Amzi Goolins
 about three years ago and has regretted I 1t ever since. Cesar is e able bodied 1 mare but Jake calkilates she is the slow est traveller under certain circumstances that ever walked in the road She's aw- full sly. Cesar Is. Yo6 just hitch her up to the waggin and start out some- where with her. and as long as you don't
 meet anybody and don't pass through no town she'll jog along jest as spry as any
 mare you ever saw, but just let
 her see anybody coming in a team or
 afoot from the other direckshion and
 sheTi begin to slow down to a crawl and
 if you happen to say "Howdy door to
 the other party as you pass she'll stop
 stock still and then the other party will
 laugh and snicker at you. Same way
 when she goes through a village any
 where. When she's goin through town
 she don't seem to be hardly ablc to lift
 one foot and set it down before tother
 one. Jake said he driv her through
 Hardscrabble about a month ago and she
 went so slow there was times he couldn't for the life of himNtell whether he was movfn or not. He says his fingers fest
 itched to lam her with the whip, but he didn't like to do 1t right in town being as the folks would think he was trying to show or and like as not rest him for cruelty to animals. so all he could do was jest to set there on the wagon seat and swet and stew until she got out of town and then he stopped and got out and cut a birch sapling and tried to kill her. Jake says that when he was going through Hardscrabble' that time that people would holier and ask him. Whats your hurry, Jake?" and "Fast mare you got there Jakel' ana things like that until he was so ashamed of | hisself that he didn't knowNwhat to do. | It nacherly makes a feller feel foolish | to ride behint horse like that. Cesar | knows jest as well as anybody that Jake won't lam her going through town but when nobody ain't in sight | then she trots right along as brisk as can be.
 Ws1l, finally Jake got tired of having lef stop stock still in the road whenever nc passed anybody and said 'Howdy | iog' so he made up his mind he'd cure Ter If it. so last Monday he hitched her ID to the light spring wagon, but before le started out he cut long pole outen lornbeam wood and laid 1t acrost his ,nees, then he druv out mo the country a ways where there wasn't nobody in sight. |, Then he took the pole in one hand unbe- to Cesar and said out real loud, Howdy dol" Cesar started to stop. but efore she could succeed in doing so Jake aid that pole onto her from her trump Q her ears. and it scairt her so bad that he liken to jumped outen the harness nd tried to run off. f'oon as Jake got her uieted down he said, "Iowdy dol" again hen he'd hit her. and before he brought CT back home all lathered up he had her D that when he'd say "Howdy dor' esar would jump and run as if she was not. Jake figured that he had her cured ! ,r good. Well. on Tuesday Jake hitOned uD Cesar }