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Show HAD EXPERIENCE AS A TOW POST Berkeley, Calif. Feb 14. Edward T. Doolcy, a photographer of this city, has decided that he will never again use himself as a tow post Ho is under un-der a physician's care In consequence of his last service in this capacity, and has been ordered to take a month In the mountains to recuperate. Dooley was returning home from a motoring trip In southern California last Friday when his machine ran out of power. He was then only a few miles from Berkeley. When another motorist came up and offered him a tow he accepted with alacrity. Dooley objected to tho tylug of tho tow rope to the axle of his machine, fearing that It might bend tho metal out of the true. Ho hit on tho better plan of passing the rope around his own waist as he sat at the wheel. The plan worked excellontly so long ns the "live" machine- went at a mod-crate mod-crate pace. But as It gained momentum, momen-tum, Dooley began to suffer. Every hump demonstrated to him that a low-post low-post is a noble toiler. At length his machine hit a rut and stopped. But Dooley wont on. He oleared his radiator ra-diator with a clean parabolic motion and landed among the road pebbles. He was dragged along the road unmercifully unmer-cifully until the driver of the loading machine learned of his plight. He was nicked up ba'My bruised, but sound of limb. nn |