The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-06

/. was sorry he could not do more for US.
Hope he does well in Lawrence. He
was cheerful over his poor results from
dry farming
Brighter Prospects and jug of Water.
Laden with brighter prospects and
a heavy jug of cold water the wayfarer
went back to the stranded car and
gave the water and information of
coming aid, all of which was joyfully
received.
If the troubIe-car, first aid to the in
jured, arrived on time it would be
about one o'clock when relief should
be at hand.
One o'clock came and no car visi-
Bile or within hearing distance. OF
course five or ten minutes should be
allowed for difference in watches,
but at half past one it was realized
that some additional allowance must
be made.
Two O'Clock and No Charley.
Two o'clock and no car.
We concluded Charley" must be
lost, as well as ourselves.
One of the ladies decided she would
be comfortable on bed of suit cases
on the ground with a kimona for a
pillow. The other ladies adjusted
themselves to the curves of the seat,
covering themselves with side cur
ta!ns and storm aprons.
The men wrapped themselves in
deep thought and looked to the west
for the lights of the relief car which
it was hoped would soon approach.
The wise men were to come from the
west. 1t was a great night for aStron-
omerS as well as for those in power
less motors. Three star belted Orion
was coming into view. Arcturus,
bosom pin, was disappearing. The
Big Dipper was low in the horizon,
slowly swinging upward; the pointers
to the North Star were perpendicular.
The unwilling star gazers found
strange heaven, for . o'clock in the
morning gives sky of another cline.
The girl on the suit cases began to
fear she would not be in Topeka in
time to open the library at 10 O'Clock.
The grass was more than brown. 1t
was so dry it was nearly white. Like
excelsior it made a good mattress for
the InarOoned.
Cooler Than a Sleeping Porch.
Talk about your sleeping porches.
Try a still and silent automobile on
the high prairie some night; open on
all four sides, no screens nor canopy
to check the breeze. It's creator
one night only.
an eominous reflection in the sky in
the direction of Stull, which seemed
to foreshadow help. After long wait
the lights of an automobile were I'M
nistakable in the distance. After the
lights came Charley" and one, limp
ing along. in low gear and similar
spirits. But he gave hope and help
even if he did say he might have to
he towed in by us as all kinds of trou-
BILE with his car met him after leaving
Topeka He fixed up our machine so
that it would travel under protest and
make Roadway just the same, but this
Roadway would have been greater ex-
cept for the towing of the other car,
by means of a hazardous piece of
cable. This cable broke repeatedly,
was spliced as frequently, and finally
held. The crooked and hilly road was
made less satisfactory by Pickering
lights which almost went out at mop
perfume moments near curves and I'M
seen bridges. The automobile ran bet
ter and faster as it neared Topeka.
The car in trail whisked along like
the cracker of whip.
Topeka and Daylight.
Daylight soon made the meager ar
tif1cial light unnecessary but long be-
of industrious farmers who were get
ting up in the night to haul water for
themselves and their stock.
The belated party reached Topeka
at $40 in the morning.
The color of the black chauffeurS
who rode in the trail of the lonesome
car behind was white, not from fear.
but from the swirling dust which ,
swept behind us and made them look !;
like workers in a grist mill
AS for the white folk it took two |
baths to get the dust out their sys- /
TENS.
Going to bed at o'clock in the |
with blackbirds and milk ,
wagons stirring is not easy for an |
evening newspaper man. He got up at |
9. No one but a morning newspaper !
worker should try to sleep in the sun
light and a morning paper reporter is |
not entitled to mpathy, because he !
goes to his work with his eyes opened |
to the dark and uncertain deeds of his |
calling.
In His Speech There Is NO Guile.
The writer. the guileless victim of !
an unruly machine, did not intend !
to. exploit this adventure. No man /
likes to be the hero of his own mis- |
fortunes, but so many other reporters |
have threatened to write it up that he !
feared a revised version and believed !
it best to openly and frankly admit the i
truth and tell the tale as it should be |
told.
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