Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-30
to New York TO see the Yale-prineeton

10 New 1Ork 10 see the 1ale-Pr1nCctOn
game, and you took me to call on her?"
Sure, that was just after the summer
first met her. And I remember, too,
that you were not so powerfully taken
with the original as you had been with
her photo on my desk"
mo, and I've always wished I'd never
made that call. Then I wouldn't have
known her, and all those heated dis
cussions we used to have about the girls
worth or worthlessness would have been
avoided"
Still, Jack, you'll have to admit that
she was terribly fetching and fasci,
mating girl"
eyes, yes, Phil, I've admitted that
thousand times, but that isn't the ques-
ton. My point has always been that
she wasn't girl who had enough in her
to warrant fellow of your good sense
going crazy over her. Fetching and
fascinating]ove, man, there are any
number Of your tickle, Tightly, skin
deep sort of girls who are fetching and
fascinating, and she'sone of them. But
fiddlesticks, what do they amount to?
Nothing-never get married-grow up
into detestable old maids with sour
faces and still sourer dispositions Come
now, Phil, I'll bet you ten to one that
Pearl Lancaster never gets even en-
gagged"
mo, no, Jack, won't do it. It's bad
principle betting on girl, anyhow.
Besides, you might lose the wager, for
she came mighty near getting man
last summer"
"Why, how do you know?"
II saw her at Bar Harber."
Were you down there again last sum-
mer?"
EYES,"
"And was she there?"
EYES,"
Hum, then I'll bet you repeated the
foolish performance of your sophomore
year."
II did, Jack, with compound interest.
We were together most of the time.
Never had such q jolly summer before in
all my life"
"And the other man you said she near
ly captured-where did he come IMP"
"Oh, he was particular friend Of
mine. so didn't begrudge him any
thing. Excuse me q moment, Jack, I
must get some more coal for that fire.
Better fill up pipe"
proceeded to do so and casually OBJ.
served at the time that Phil smoked
the same abominable tobacco. Expen-
sive stuff, but, CAD! how it burnt
mans tongue. Phil was the only fellow
who ever smoked it without swearing.
The other men Invariably declined It,
so we always claimed that he used that
particular brand to keep his friends
from pirating tobacco off him. But
then, that wasn't so, for Phil was the
most genereus-hearted fellow of the
gang.
Having filed the pipe went to the
mantelpiece for match; that was
where he used to keep them-when he
had any. I didn't find match, but
found photograph that had been laid
there. 1t was new one of Pearl Ian
caster-had undoubtedly just come
with the letter. was holding it in my
hand when Phil came back from the
coal closet.
"Well, what do you think of 1t, Jack?"
Grand, good-looking girl beyond a
doubt. And suppose if you were with
her again all last summer you must be
more cracked than ever over her"
Phil surprised me by uttering sigh
and sinking down into chair.
ALAS! Jack, am-fatally So" were
his Respondent words. and now what.
oh, what, do you suppose she writes me
in this letter."
"Jove! not that she's engaged, is she.
man? Luckily for me you didn't take
that bet''
Eyes. Jack, she says she's the hap
piest little girl in the world, for she's
engaged to the dearest fellow in the
world. Engaged at last. Poor girl. 1
suppose you'd say poor fellow. And
such fellow, too-oh my! Well, all
can say is that I've seen worse fellows
and-and better Oh, dear!"
"But who is she engaged to? What's
his name?"
"rhe man she was with down at Bar
Harbor last summer"
"Not the other man."
"Alas, no, the others other man."
"Not yourself, you fool?"
Poor Phil covered helplessly down in
the chair and feebly held out his hand
as if expecting whipping.
Eyes, Jack" he whimpered. "congrat-
ulate and forgive me, old fellow, but
I'n-I'm the man."
"Well-! But say, Phil, you don't
smoke any better tobacco than you used
to, do you ?"-Boston Budget.
No panic was ever caused in this or any
other country by ary expansion of the
currency.
1--WE HAVE NO ONE WITH US BUT
THE PEOPLE."-W. j. BRYAN.