A Newspaper Man's Mishap

M. T. Woodruff, editor of the Ypsilanti Sentinel, has the synipathy of the newspaper oraft in a . bad accident whioh ocourred to him at Ypsilanti last Satnrday afternoon. Mr. Woodruff, like so many obliging newspaper men, hates to bother the motorman to stop at his corner. He's one of us who likes to yell cheerily, "let her go" and then back graoefully off, swing back on the handle bar, take a couple of steps and stop much to the admiration of the rest of the car. But on this particular occasion the author of many posies of thought in the garden of country newspaperdoin f ailed to find his f ooting sure. He yelled all right, the swing ofi was accomplished with the usual oonsummate amount of grace, but the oouple of steps were not taken in the usual formal way. Instead Mr. Woodruff feil and when he tried to rise he found that his politioal enemies could truthfully say that his feet do not track. He will not track with them for several days and maybe weeks, for both ankles were dislocated and the ligaments torn. He was painfnlly hurt about the head and right side, but these injuries were not thought serious. Everybody will hope for Mr. Woodruff 's speedy reoovery and that he will show his pluok by sliding off street cars in his old time graoeful manner, just to show that a newspaper man is not tq be "downed" in any such sort of a way.