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Show GLAD TO HAVE HIM GO. Toll-Gate Keeper Thought He Had Visit from His Satanic Majesty. f This is not tho only ago in which motor cars have created excitement nnd disturbance In 1802 such apparitions appari-tions wcro fow and far between; at present they aro too frequent to attract at-tract attention. Mr. Joseph Hntton, in "Old Lamps and Now," tolls of tho fright caused by ono of Trovlthlck's steam locomotives, mado to run on unrallcd roads in tho early part ot tho last century. Now and then ono of theso extraordinary extraor-dinary vehicles would bo encountered, snorting and puffing on tho highway. Tho countrymen regarded them as tho ovil ono in dlsgulso. Ono of tho enrs, coming to a toll-gato, toll-gato, stopped for tho gate to bo opened. Tho toll-man camo hurrying out. Ho flung tho gato open with trembling hnnds, and teeth which chattered audibly. Tho driver aBked him how much toll thoro was to pay. "O, nothing, dear Mr. Satan, nothing!" noth-ing!" hastily assured tho man. "Go on as fast as you llko; thcro's nothing to pay." Youth's Companion. |