Show GASOLINE ENGINE AGENCY OF DEVIL J holman buck editor of the western miner at mina nevada evidently has a grudge against manufacturers of gasoline engines hear him rave when the devil began to realize that the reformers were making all of the people good by enacting statutes and constitutional amendments that his population would soon begin to show a falling off he sent one of his imps into the world to whisper into the ear of some in genius cuss about inventing a gasoline engine that no statute on earth would ever save the soul of the man who tried to run one they are an angel and a fiend incarnate and more fickle than a movie actress when you want them the most then is the time they are not there with the kick and when you have more time than anything else they are as lovely as a cooing dove they are as perverse as a missouri mule for we know from personal experience we have followed the mule behind a bull tongue plow in a field of sassafras sprouts but the torture of trying to start a balky I 1 gasoline engine has this gentle pastime backed off the boards and then some no man who ever attempts to run one of these aids to the devil need ever have hopes of reaching the pearly gates and slipping the glad hand to A peter for the past three weeks this plant has been practically out of commission and the editor out of temper on account of the ahe mulishness of the gasoline contraption that furnishes the motive power or at least should furnish the motive power according to the specifications of the critter but it dont six men two boys and a brindle pup have taken turns trying to coax it to go but narry a go hell has no terrors for he who has ever twisted the tail of a gasoline engine unless it be the fear that he might be put to running one down there to hoist sulphur for the furnaces of old nick did you every try running one if not dont say that you are a christian til you have tried it and then if you pass the test it means a specially prepared and cushioned seat among the heavenly choir all we know about a gasoline engine and we wish we knew a dam site less |