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Show Hens Victims of Old Fogy Notions. "My son nnd myself," raid Dr. E. F. Hodges, "took an automobllo run to Martinsville. Ho was tho chauffeur; wo did nut return by tho samo road. I don't know how many hens wo ran over going nnd coming. Wo did not stop to count. "It Is a dry tlmo nnd tho roads aro dusty. So much tho worse for tho I hens. I suppoBo It Is different with lions In tho cities and towns, but along tho country roads they havo not : yet learned to mako proper calcula- i tlons for cscnpo from the nutomobllc. The hen Is of n mathematical turn of mind. Sho rolls In tho dust of tho highway and no horse-drawn vehicle was over known to run over ono. Sho figures closely, but always escapes. Now, It Is different when sho comes to tnko tha automobllo Into consideration. consid-eration. Sho expects to escape by tho length of a horse. Tho horso Is not there, and sho falls under tho wheels of tho juggernaut, a victim to old fogy notions not In accord with modern mod-ern speed devices." Indianapolis Ncwa. |