Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-12

THE ONLY COW WITHIN FIVE MILES
i am not kicking about Dan. lie was
n good looking, and good natured fellow
and he had money enough not 10 care
whether he got ten columns or Ave lines
Into the paper during week. He WAS re-
porting for the sake Of experience.
| Dams best girl was in Vassar. He
showed me her photograph one day, with
a burst Of confidence, and told me that he
was In peck OF trouble about her.
| "Its all my own fault" said he. "You
see she's one OF those girls that think
about things aud have all sorts Of con.
founded IDEAS She likes me well enough
but she won't marry me because
she believes that woman should be in.
dustrially independent OF man. Iow's
That for an answer to fellow after hes
been down on his knees over fifteen min
utes talking eternal devotion with Ter
vency that bordercd on profaBityi | ex-
pected her TO say she'd ha u sister TO me,
and that wonld have been had enough, but
when she said she'd be .industrinlly indie
| pendent OF me it broke my back"
II don't see how It's NDur fault" said /,
consollngly. ..-- ~
80 far 1t wasn't" said he, "but didn't
have sense enough to simply let her try II
and fail had TO work up IA little indus
trial independence OF my own. since I've
been here I've been writing her some OF
the confoundedest lies about my doings In
this paper that ever YOU heard OF. She
thinks am the greatest living Journalist
because I've been sending her papers with
all the best stories marked, whether l
wrote 'em or not; now, hsshs knows In that
part OF Intellect which has not been con
fused by an advanced education. TINT l'm
about the worst chump tliatever WAS born,
she's gradually come TO the conclusion
that IL must be easy 10 become a great
journalist; aud, by iiugo, nothing will do
her now, but that she must come down TO
New York and he one herself. She says, by
way OF consolation, that when we've both
made ourselves immortal, and won the
control OF the destinies OF two or three
leading dailies, she will be mine. She's
coming down to begin the immortalizlng
act in about three weeks. What do YOU
think OF that for n brilliant matrirsoniai
prospectW NfGf
Young man." said I, do not despair
In my capacity as city editor OF this paper
Twill think up job that no woman can do
aud keep out of the hospital. Then In my
capacity as your friend will assign this
young woman TO doit. You make love to
her some more when she gets convslescent
and marry her before she's we'll enough to
yearn for any more industrial iIidepen.
dence."
We made an unholy bargain on the spot
with the above scheme for its basis: and
three weeks later, when Miss W. Daisy
Howells approached the field OF jourual-
ism we were ready TO let down the bars.
Miss Howells," | said, on the second
day after she became connected with the
Argus, ~ have n story here which hi,s been
waiting u long time for somebody 10 do IL
Justice. 1t needs the broad and noble sym
pathy Of woman, and the high intellectual
attachments Of college graduate.
have had considerable OF the latter at ten
dollars week but the former has hitherto
eluded me. 1t Is an important task and |
do not conceal from you that there is dead
loads Of work in II" G{t