Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1908 — A STRENUOUS EXPERIENCE. [ARTICLE]

A STRENUOUS EXPERIENCE.

Al Peters, the democratic candidate for County Treasurer, had a hair-raising experience last Thursday night during the hail storm. He was away from home on some business that kept him longer than he had anticipated, and when he got ready to go home a fierce storm was raging in the west. Lurid sheets of lightning shot athwart the heavens, closely followed by deafening peals of thunder. But as Al “ain’t afraid of nothin,” he started home just as though the sun was shining like sixty. It didn’t take thd storm long to get to where he and Old Bets, who was yoked to the family chariot, were coming down the home stretch at a 1:22% gait, Old Bets leading Al by a length. Then the hall descended, and being no respecter of persons, they attempted to distribute honors equally between Old Bets and Al. The former w r as too sharp for them, though, for as the first one—as big as a goose egg—hit her in the region of the crupper, she literally stood straight up, and placing her fore feet over her head, cutting as beautiful a pigeon wing as you would wish to see. Round and round she danced, dodging between the hail so neatly that when it was all over Al found that he had been pounded most unmercifully, while Old Bets had but one bruise on her person. But this was no doubt owing to the fact that he had stood in one place as nearly as he could, open-eyed, watching her dance. If experiences of this kind belong to the game of politics, Al will discontinue the business—after he has served his four years, or in 1912.