The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
Copyright, 1908. BY Daily Story Pub. Co.,

nERHAPS the young men of Ab-
beyville, relying on the fact that
Eaey had known the girls of that
pretty little village since childhood,
had grown somewhat careless and in
attentive. Possibly the girls of Alb
SeFVille were too particular and de-
xnanded more than was their due
enough an unprecedented observer
VSoOld have said this would have been
almost impossible in the case of such
attractive girls. Whatever may have
been the right of the case originally,
the girls of Abbeyville, under the
leadership of Laura Hopkins, decided
that they had not been treated in. a
satisfactory manner. Something must
be done to cause the young men OF
Abbeyyile to repent and to remorse
FULLY regard and regret their lost OPP
EOrtuHities. Clearly an offensive and
defensive league of the prettiest girls
IN Abbeyville would quickly bring
about this much-to- be-desired result.
And this was the reason for the forma-
tion of the Abbeyville Bachelor Girls
trust
Laura Hopkins, as the leading spirit
In the movement, was chosen president
at the new trust. Laura had just quar-
relied with the man who thought her
us near perfection as a girl can be-
which in his opinion was very, very
g1ear-and in whom she had taken
ruCrs than a sisterly interest. Per-
laps this was the reason why she
plunged into the work of forming the
Bachelor Girls trust in such an eager,
not to say vindictive manner, needless
of the fact that all the evils claimed
Dy the opponents of man-made trusts
would be small compared with those
which would be wrought by this new
one if it should become firmly estab-
1Jshed throughout the country.
We can have a club as well as the
men" declared Laura, in sterner tones
than one would have expected from so
pretty a girl. I'VE can have our own
dances, little parties all by ourselves
zsd all kinds of fun. We will show
the men of Abbeyville that they are
not one little bit necessary to our
scheme of life, liberty and the pur-
zssait of happiness"
They did From the first the Bach
elOr Girls trust had career of tri-
umph compared with which the ca
recrs of man-made oil, coal, steel,
rubber and other trusts were check
cred. The trust had scarcely been
started ere it's victims were anxious
to capitulate. They pleaded that
manufacturers and producers who
were crushed by other trusts were at
least allowed to take stock in them.
Eat the Abbeyville Bachelor Girls
trust was differently managed. 1t
yEssnId hear of no compromise. It's
victims must be crushed and thor
ossghIy punished for their previous
syssgisct of the fair members of the
trust Soon the poor victims were
ready TO listen to any terms. And
then just when the trust seemed to
have everything in its own hands,
when a complete and unconditional
victory seemed assured, the trust was
ruined, and ruined by the treachery
OF Nettie Williams, one of it's prettiest
and most prominent members.
Nettie had originally regarded the
trust project with much favor But
with the advent of Jack Wilson in the
Village of Abbeyville things had grad
ualiy changed. Jack was a distant
cssalsin of hers. She had met him at
IL college commencement two years
before. She had watched him plunge
through the Yale line in the big foot
hx1f
50 pursue his profession in Abbeyville
1t Uust be confessed that he had oc-
cupled a larger place in Nettie's
thoughts and day dreams than was
safe for such an ardent member of
a Bachelor Girls trust
While Jack was deciding on the sit
VIation for his office and apartments
he stayed at the Williams residence.
One must be civil to a cousin, even
II he is a distant one and you are
a prominent member of a Bachelor
Girls trust So Nette accepted many
invitations to walk and ride with her
Big, athletic-looking cousin. Jack
Wilson was not a believer in pro-
>cEastination. When he wanted any
thing he wanted it very badly and
very quickly. And one evening, as
they were returning from drive, he
asked Nettie a question, a question
she had been longing, yet half afraid
Id have him ask. And then Nettie
suddenly remembered her half-forgot-
ten duty. her solemn, but unheeded
vow rs a member of the Abbeyville
Bachelor Girls trust.
Fortunately Jack Wilson was law
.yss, and still more fortunately, as ne
assured Nettie, he had made a spe-
cial study of the antitrust laws.
-AAs pointed out the danger Nettie had