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Show BATTERY RUNS DOWN AND CAR STALLED Umlng the past week, whllo making a Hying trip to Garfield, Sid Thoobold and Fred Horn were burning up the road when suddenly In front of them loomed up a couple of tired and weary-looking automoobillsts with the sign of distress. Thoobold and Horn slopped and saw a new automobile standing at the tdde of the road, tools scattered all over the ground, tho hood off and the car partially par-tially dismantled. The thing had stopped running, explained the dismayed nutomo-blllsts, nutomo-blllsts, and for two hours they had been trying to find out what was the matter. Thcobold looked at tho dash and saw the switch turned to tue battery. He asked them why they had not been running run-ning on the nuiKiioto and discovered they did not know what tho magneto was. The switch was thrown over 10 tho "mag." Horn nranked thr car and It started. Thn two surprised automoblllsts were Informed they had been running on tho battery and that It had run down. |