The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-05
Our Daily Sport Story

member of a Bachelor Girls trust So Nettfe accepted many invitations tD walk and ride with her big, athletic-looking cousin Jack Wilson was not a believer m procfastination. When he wanted any thing he wanted 1t very badly and very quickiy. And one evening, as they were returning from a drive, he asked Nettie question. question she had been long, ing. yet half afraid to have him ask. And then Nettie suddenly remembered her naif-forsotten duty. her solemn, but un- needed VOW as a member of the Abbey Vile Bachelor Girls trust.
 Fortunately Jack Wilson was lawyer, and still more fortunately. as he assured Mettie. ne had made a special study or the anti-trust laws. He pointed out the danger Kettle had run in joining a com- Dlnafion which was so plainly illegal ane sherman law, the laws to prevent Inc restraint of trafflc. innumerable State and Federal laws explicitly pronounced such trust as that of the Bachelor Girls to be illegal as striking at the dearest rights and privileges of free-born Ameri- can citizens which had been guaranteed them by the constitution. Nettie in ter TOT crept closer to Jack and slipped heR hand in his. Would she be arrested, cast into jail. perhaps sent to prison for life for her fagranf disobedience of the Sher- man, the interstate commerce and other notwithstanding laws But Jack as- sured her that he would look after her legal rights. Only-otherwise all his ef- forts Tn her behalf would be null and yoid-he must first collect his fees. But as bad luck would have it, and Jack was collecting the aforesaid fees in spite of Nettie slight resistance, the buggy swept out of the shadows into the glare of dn Nt-A ( h. He under the light, were three devoted and loyal members of the Bachelor Girls trust
 The next meeting of the trust was the most stormy in the course of its exist ence. Kettle was denounced as a traitor to the cause and the trust. She was cParged with rank disioyalty. In vain did she plead that she had simply been seek ing legal advice for the benefit of the trust. The denunciations continued. At last Nettie lost her temper. Worms if trampled upon. will turn; and if worms why not pretty girls? Nettie rose in her wrath and threw bombshell into tho meeting by announcing that Laura Hop kiHs, the president and founder of the trust, had set an example of disloyalty that she had made up her quarrel with the man who had thought her as near perfect as girl might be, that. so far rom dfscouraging him, she had by her conduct helped confirm him in this be- Her. The faltering members of the trust turned to Laura in impatient expectance Of an indignant denial from her lips. But alas. the blushes and embarrassment of Laura proved that the president and Iounder Of the Abbeyville Bachelor Girls trust mad set the example of disloyalty.
 With treachery within and temptation without the trust was plainly doomed to Iallure.. Nothing was left except to for maiy dlsband. No resolution of censure was upon Kettle. Instead she left the meeting in triumph, arm in arm with the late president The young men of Abbey- Vhie, however, warned by the danger which they had so narrowly escaped by the downfall of the trust, were discreet in their triumph and individually and col iectively tried to prove that the need for such an offensive and defensive alliance had passed. The result was that none of the fair founders of the trust seemed to regret its untimeIy enid And Nettie was least of all regretful.
 When you put up your office sign. '' she said. shyly. to Jack, ''it ought to read: Jack Wilson, Attorney and Trust Breaker "
 But Jack modest1y demurred taking all the credit
 ; "I was only a humble instrument" he said, softly, trying to look into Nettie' s eyes. "The really responsible party was an old and determined enemy of bache- Tor girls trust-a little fellow by the name of Cupid.'