Mike the Avenger

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Mike suddenly felt that he was the strongest man ever. Previous to this mental revelation, he had been a joke to all who knew him. Everybody kicked him around. He was mauled, misused and abused, made miserable every hour of the day. Accidentally he laid hands upon a power cable that was carrying millions of volts of electricity. Mike was a magnetic man. He recovered miraculously and it was then he discovered that he was 90,000,000 horsepower strong. Then the thought of revenge occurred. He tried himself out. He bent a crowbar across his mighty chest, and then gave it a contemptuous fling, which sent it flying over earth until it disappeared beyond the distant mountain. From that moment until the end of his shadowy career of strength, Mike's cognomen was "Devastation," in large black-faced letters. He went thumping among his ancient enemies, flinging them to the four winds. Some of them fled and hid in the section house. He pulled it down and scattered the frightened huskies. Proceeding on his tempestuous way, he rescued a child from an onrushing automobile, and then kicked the "chug chug" back up the hill, tying the chauffeur in a double bow-knot. Everything seemed to be giving way before him. But his Titanic power was his undoing. He was chased by a man with a shotgun, and seemed to think that would tickle; so he dashed through a brick wall. Passing through it, he went down a terrible incline and struck the earth below with such force that he went into the ground lower and lower until he tapped the internal waters and infernal fires. At the close of this screaming burlesque, Mike is observed still descending on his journey, unending.