Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — Page 3

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Announcing an Engagement

By BEATRICE STURGES

Daisy Leonard and Jack Rawlinsou had been engaged for two years and nobody knew It. It was Daisy’s own idea to keep the affair a secret. There seemed to her a deep romance in having what the novels termed a “hidden love,” and besides a girl could have so much more fun when she was not ticketed as irelouging to some one particular man, and so checked off the list of possible girls to be invited to picnics and escorted to dances by all the other nice young men. She was sure of Jack, who adored her, and way down beneath the frivolous surface of her heart she loved him very much, but at the same time a girl who has always had her own way and been the center of a crowd of admirers does not want to give it all up. At least Daisy didn’t. She was a spoiled child and was quite accustomed to having her own way. All her life she had done what she wished rather than

what her mother hail told her. Finally Mrs. Leonard wearied of struggling along without a husband and with a headstrong daughter for so many years. In June .she had married again and gone abroad for the summer, and Daisy had been sent to the mountains with her auht nml a family of cousins. Jack, who worked in the city, came up now and then for a day or two, when Daisy treated him just about us she did some half dozen young men who were all her devoted admirers.

One day she and Jack had strolled off to a big rock which overhung the lake and was well surrounded with trees, and here Jack had protested. “I say, Daisy, you ought to give me a show.” “Goodness, Jack, how unreasonable you are! Didn’t I give you a trip to

TUB LAUNCH MEANTIME WAS SPEEDING IN THEIR DIRECTION.

the glen tills afternoon on purpose to stay with you? They didn’t like it a bit, either.” “They? What are they to you and me, Daisy? Aren’t we everything to each other? I’m sure you’re the whole world to me, sweetheart,” he added, taking her hand. She let him hold it while she pulled idly with tjie other at a fern growing out of a cleft in the rock. It was very nice to have such a splendid big fellow as Jack so devoted to you and all your own, but It was fascinating to go rowing one day with Tom, and riding next day with Jim, golfing with Will and playing tennis with Dick. It made life exciting, and she Intimated as much to Jack. •

“These fellows here are too fresh, anyway, and I don’t like the way you go around with so many of them,” he objected. “Would you rather have me go with one all the time?” asked Daisy, mischievously tickling his cheek with a piece of feathery grass. “Yes, and I should be the one. Dear, It’s time we settled this thing—either you are engaged to nie or you are not. If you are, then matters are goiug to change, and I intend to look out for you and to have It understood by your aunt and everybody at this place. If not”—

He broke off and sat looking across the lake with a firm line around his lips that the girl had never seen before. She drew her hund away. Indeed, he had dropped It when ho had first begun to speak. She stiffened, although her lips trembled, and if he had looked at her probably everything would have been different, but he sat and gazed moodily at a white sail across the blue lake.

“If the engageemnt Is Irksome to you,” she began stiffly— He turned to her now Impatiently. ‘'For heaven's sake, Daisy, don’t talk nonsense. I want what is due me, that's all. I came up this time chiefly to tell you that I have been transferred to the western branch of our business and have to be there In six weeks. Will you come with me, sweetheart? You know how I love you, and I want you now for my very own. You will, won’t you?”

She might have said yes, bat as lack would have it voices and steps broke on the stillness of the wood, and in an instant two girls and two "*» -*• - - T - - w , ««»

young men were climbing on to the rock beside them. After a few moments of the usual nonsense Jack rose. “Will you conae?” he asked, showing too plainly that he was bored. “Not just yet,” she answered. She could not bear to have the others see Jack “order her around,” and, besides, she observed a launch approaching, and she knew' that in it was Dick Carter looking for her, and she wanted the pleasant ride home. So Jack w'ent alone in anything but a cheerful frame of mind. That night at the hotel hop it seemed to Jack that she was unusually gay. He danced with several other girls before going to her, and then she stood with the young launch owner Just as the fifth wnltz wns about to start. He put out his hand with a commanding gesture.

“Will you give this to me, Daisy?” he asked. The other man looked rather ruffled and then said jestingly: “Too late. Miss Leonard belongs to me”— Jack broke in: “I beg your pardon. Miss Leonard is my”— But before he could say it Daisy put her hand on the other’s shoulder. “Mr. Bawlinson Is mistaken. I have promised this to Mr. Carter.” She danced late that night, but saw no more of Jack. He spent two hours in the bowling alley and then took the two mile walk around Star lake. The next morning he paid bis bill and arranged to leave on the 3 o’clock train. To fill in the time he took a canoe and wns soon pulling out by himself toward the center of the lake. It was a day of brilliant sunshine and crisp breezes. It seemed strange that one could be unhappy with so much beauty in the world. Presently across the water he saw Dick Carter’s launch with Daisy and several others alioard, and his wrathburned anew'. They were coming In his direction, and he slowly rowed off toward the camp, w-hich was opposite the hotel. A young boy was out in a frail canoe, and Jack wondered If hq was able to manage it in the stiff wind that sw'ept around the point. The next minute the little boat spun round, turned over and the boy went down. Jack pulled several long hard strokes before lie reached the spot and Jumped in after the little fellow', who had gone down twice. He managed to grab him the next time, however, but meantime the canoes had both drifted away, and the only thing to do was to swim witli the boy to the camp. It was a fair distance, and the water was almost icy cold; after the manner of mountain lakes.

The launch meantime was speeding In their direction, and Jack knew that he could hold the boy up until they came, but he was beginning to feel numb himself. His breath came with labored gasps and ho was whispering to the boy to float when he saw that six more strokes would get them to shallow water where the nurses’ camp had a dock. He took five and then lost consciousness.

It was fully ten minutes before he came to himself again. He was Inside a log house, rolled In blankets, and a white capped woman was holding some brandy to his lips. “Is the boy all right?” he whispered.

She nodded. Then there was a noise on the dock and presently on the steps of the little house. The nurse went out. There was a sound of men’s voices and also of women's, but Jack heard Just one rising above all the rest in excited tones. "But I’m different.” she said, “and I must see him. I—l’m engaged to be married to him.” It was the sweetest thing he hod ever heard. In a moment she was bending over him. “Sweetheart," she murmured. He tried to speak. “Hush, you mustn’t say a word. Walt till you’re rested.” she cautioned. Then with true feminine inconsistency she bent over and asked him a question. For answer he threw his arms around her neck and kissed her.

Agricultural Politics.

A, young fanner who had been elected to a state legislature and instructed to follow the lead of the state central committee of his party was taken to task by some of his constituents for voting against a party measure. “My friends,” he replied, “when I was a boy one of our neighbors got a new hired man—a chap from the city. One day he took him out to a pasture lot and set him to turning the sod under. “ ‘You start In here,’ he said, ‘und plow right to that old red cow.’ "Then he went off about his work. Toward noon he came back to see how the fellow was getting along and found he had plowed a rambling furrow all over the field and was still at 1L “ ‘Here!’ hd shouted. ‘What do you mean by that sort of work?’ “ ’Why,’ said the man, ‘you told me to plow to the red cow, and I’ve been plowing toward her all morning, but she keeps walking all over the field.’ “Now, I’ll admit, gentlemen, that you told me to plow to a red cow, but I should like to have you as farmer* compare my furrows with that cow’s trail.”

A Foolometer.

Some visitors who were being shown over a pauper lunatic asylum inquired of their guide what method was employed to discover when the Inmates were sufficiently recovered to leuve. “Well,” replied he, “you see, it’s this way. We have a big trough of water and we turn on the tap. We leave It running and tell ’em to bail out the water with pails until they’ve emptied the trough.” “How does that prove It?” asked one of the visitors. “Well,” said the guide, "them as ain’t idiots turns off the tap.”—Boston Transcript.

The SPORTING WORLD

Ofler For a Gina-Hernun Fight. Matchmaker McGarry of the Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles has offered a purse of SIO,OOO fpr the Joe Gans-Kld Herman battle. McGarry wired his offer to both principals and has received an acceptance from Herman. Herman wires that he thinks SIO,OOO a large enough purse, and he will fight for It at any dnte McGarry may set. Though Gans has not yet sent an answer, McGarry thinks It very probable that the negro champion will accept. “It’s all very well to talk about thesq $25,000 and $20,000 purses, but they

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are not hung up for every fight, even if a champion is one of the principals. If any of the fight crowd, the men who pay for tickets, figured that Herman lias a chance on earth to down the dingq you could offer almost any kind of a purse and make money. But with this show it’s different. “I am sure that Gans will look at it this way and am confident that Los Angeles will get the fight.” Fight men believe, however, that Gans will not strain himself In his efforts to get a wire of acceptance on the ground. They figure that the negro is making money on the road, and he will probably stall around for awhile in the hope that somebody will raise McGarry’s bid. New Zealander Want* to Wreatle. Charles 11. Gridley of New Zealand, who has just arrived In San Francisco, is anxious to meet any wrestler In America. In a letter Gridley outlines a plan of campaign with the American championship as his aim. He says in part: “If financial backing is required to get on matches in this country none of the so called champions will find me lacking. I have plenty of backing to meet any of them, but of course I understand that a man who Is unknown In this land will have to start out and make a reputation for himself. I will go to Chicago within a short time and then will post a forfeit for a meeting with any of them. Frank Goteli preferred. since he is called the real champion of this country. But in the meantime I would like to get on a meeting with some one else to show that I can hold my own and am entitled to a meeting with the l>est. I would like to meet Tom Jenkins of Cleveland and will bet him $2,500 on the side I can beat him. I will wrestle’ either catch-as-catch-can or Greco-Roman.”

Olcott and Howard Coach Navy. Herman Olcott, the ex-Yale guard, and Douglass Howard, captain of the navy team last season. Joined the Naval academy coaching squad. Olcott was chief assistant to Dnshiell last season and helped prepare the eleven which tied with West Point, noward did the punting for the navy for four seasons and developed into one of the longest punters among the college men. The navy is a little weak in kicking this season and will be helped by Howard’s coaching. « EnglUh Rosrby In Favor. Along the Pacific coast the football situation is more chaotic than in the east or the middle west, and the University of California, Stanford, the smaller colleges and the high schools are giving serious consideration to the proposition that they have nothing to do with the “reformed” American game, but swing back to the old English Rugby form of the sport. Another Clnh For Herrmann. Garry Herrmann is reported to have opened negotiations for the purchase of the Indianapolis club. The offer Is said to have been made to President Watkins of tho club, and Hermann Is prepared to take hold and dispose of his Toledo club, which is the object of a deal In which Jktauager Armour ot the Detroits figures. New Umpire For American I.cnsrue. Ban Johnson has hooked a new umpire. His name Is .Tack Stafford, and ho was with the New England league last season. It Is said of Stafford that he never knows which Is the home team when he Is umpiring. Matty Baldwin. Matty Baldwin, the New England boxer. Is now under the tannngement of Johnny Mooney, who looks after the Interests of Honey Mellody.

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