Show A An n R Ride Me Merle Moile l a heroine j t least St she she-is she is very a-very a lii ave girl zirl f. f Last Sunday Archie Lewis b bi t to toned ed his tro trotters to a phaeton and he be and Miss Merle 1 started for for Richfield ld to spend a couple of da t s b with relatives and friends friends' Th They y had a n right good time and Archieh Ai- Ai Archil's hi I 6 frien friends s in tho the busy metropolis d de 7 Glared that ho looked just likoN Hk a I giddy dude dudo This was because he p he wore creased od pants and bad had per per- perk perr funned tallow on his bis luxuriant locks Dwight Meteer and Frank Latshaw failed to recognize hihi hl Tuesday mornin rooming morning the couple l loft left ft for home When within two I. I miles of Salt town west of the river river- Mr Lewis who is an an anen en enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- botanist botanist- espied spied a 1 rare raie specimen of ot gr gran- gran n- n diosa near the roadside He gave tho the reins to Merle Meile and jumped out of the tho buggy to it And then them cussed bussed l horses orse started down the tho pike for a two two mile mile lo stunt Geel Gee how bow they did run Before Miss Peterson realized zed where she bhe was at the tho vehicle was dl dashing over the river bridge ridge She did not loose 1 ose her presence of mind however She Sho wrapped tho the lines about b nt her wrist and kept the they i horses to t the road Behind bershe ber her hershe berI I sh she could hear the tho agonized voice I of Lewis Levus crying in raucous torts torres s I For 1 or Gods God's sake salte dont don't net get any dust on the horses horbes The runaways swept up up Main street like a Kansas cyclone cy lone At Atthe At Atthe Atthe I the head of ol the a street Miss Peterson Peter Peter- son diverted th the horses into a fence and the whole wole came cameto cameto to a standstill The Tho intrepid girl scrambled scram bled fr from ll the and Pond and and she didn't faint Beyond a n pair nail of almost di dislocated wrists an and a 1 nervous shock she bhe was un un- injured Mr Lewis pulled into Salina 1 ahead of schedule time with all nn I brak brakes s off rind and nd a battered cylinder Otherwise he was quite ration ration- al 01 The buggy bugey was vas more or le less s damaged and the horses were covered COy cov rod ered with loam fount and dust I tit It will 1 take hike weeks to properly proper IV clean Salina them Sun i t L |