A curiosity to time a Jack rabbit with a tested speedometer resulted in the wrecking of an automobile near Topeka, Kan., one night recently. W. F. Haafe, an automobile agent at Nutoma, was on his way to Kansas City, and as the road was good, was keeping up about all the law permits in the way of speed, when a Jack rabbit chose the same route. Haafe thought it would be a joke to make the rabbit take a siding, and ran his speedometer up to within 80 percent of its advertised ability. But having chosen east as his general direction and that particular road as his route, the rabbit continued to plod along at a little better than 50 miles an hour.
The rabbit did not turn out, but a portion of the pursuing car did. After he had crawled out of a ditch and twisted himself into shape, Haafe caught a car into Topeka, where he waited until daylight to hunt a wheel, which had left the general wreckage and taken refuge in a corn field.
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POET HAILED AS HEM OF ITALIA
Without the history of this man's remarkable career fresh in mind, the reader of this news is hardly likely to realize the fact that in D'Annunzio is embodied probably the highest type of contrasting versatility now living. D'Annunzio is Decorated by Two Kings for Deeds of Bravery.
GREATEST WARRIOR OF AIR
In Addition to Triumphs as an Author and Aviator, D'Annunzio Has Shown.  Marked Ability as Statesman and Politician.
Rome.—Two rulers, the kings respectively of Great Britain and Montenegro, have conferred medals on Gabrielle D'Annunzio. 