Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1913 — HOW HE ACQUIRED BLACK EYE [ARTICLE]

HOW HE ACQUIRED BLACK EYE

Humiliating Mark of Personal Conflict Made Automobillst Something of a Hero. , "You, sir,’* he said to the man with the black eye who sat down beside him in the street car, “are an automobilist?” "I am," was the reply. “You were out on the road the other day speeding at the rate of 4Q miles an hour.” ."No, I was only going 10.” “You found yourself about to run over someone, and you steered the machine into a lamp post to prevent. That’s the way you got your black ey,e.” * “Oh, it came easier than that,” laughed the victim. '“I was passing a farmhouse at 10 miles an hour when I saw that I was about to run over a chicken. I kept on, and the

chicken was killed. I came back that way an hour later and the farmer and his two sons held me up and blacked my eye.” “But you didn’t pay for the chicken?” “No, sir. I took a $lO licking rather than pay 30 cents of a chicken.” “A difference of $9.70. Sir, your hand. You are a hero. A halo of romance summons, but why the devil don’t you put beefsteak on your eye and take the black out?"