New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
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Copyright, 1906, by Ruby Douglas
By DONALD ALLEN

circles IN traverse city that Henry |
Harrington Hawkins and R. Ogden |
WATERBURY were rivals for the hand OF |
Miss Kate Barstow. but it was only |
known to three or four people that the
aforesaid handsome young girl had al |
ready plighted her troth with Burt
Rayl. manager of the big department |
store. and that when the marriage
came off he was to have an interest in
the business
Mr.. Hawkins was a young man Of
aesthetic tastes He was law stu
dent and wrote sonnets to himself, and
his income was s. a week Mr. Win
terbury neither had aesthetic tastes
nor wrote poetry. He was employed
by firm publishing a state gazetteer,
and he therefore called himself liter
airy man and tried to make his salary
of S12 per week carry out his asSer-
tons.
II Burt Rayl had been Of a jealous
disposition there would have been no
rivalry between the other two, but he
was not, and as Miss Kate was being
kept in Caramels and roses by the
rivalry and as good looking girls are
as prone to mischief as palmer ones
she let matters go on.
She knew Of the rivalry, but took no
notice Of it. Both young men were
treated alike. They had been friends
up to the occasion of a certain lawn
party, when both fell In love- From
that time on it was enmity. They
raccoS al orh IN ho ctr 10 oy1or
and mutter. They sat together in the
Barstow parlor, with the young lady
making a good third, and smiled and
smiled and yet wished each other dead.
II one got away early In the evening
for a game of croquet with the object
OF his affections the other waylaid
him on his homeward way and hit him
IN the back with stones. If Miss Bar
stow attended a sacred concert with
Mr.. Hawkins it was Mr.. Winterburys
turn to throw missiles. Their love for
the girl was broad and deep and long
and desperate. Neither of them stop
ped to figure on the cost Of pork or po-
tatoeS or the price Of house rent. That
would have been abasing their love.
Things went on. Things go on even
if people are in love. Traverse City
decided to hold county fair. All the
big hogs. fat cattle, old ganders, fancy
bedquilts, gigantic pumpkins, over
grown cucumbers and three legged
calves in the county were to be ex-
hIbited. and one enterprising individual
bought the privilege Of setting up a
Ferris wheel on the grounds. 1t was
one that had seen its best days at a
seashore resort and was longing for a
rest
When the fair opened, of course every
body was there. That meant that Miss
Kate Barstow and Mr.. Hawkins and
Mr.. WATERBURY were there. It also
meant that when Miss Kate saw the
Ferris wheel she was much taken with
It and expressed her desire to make the
circuit and get view Of the country
for miles around.
The rivalry had become desperate by
this time. Each rival felt that a crisis
was at hand Each proposed to make
that circuit with Miss Kate and tt
have his fate settled before they haG
left the car.
Now the law student showed his fine
italian hand. He went to the owner OF
the wheel and had a very private con
versation Later on he borrowed so
and passed the bills over to the man.
The transaction had hardly been clos
ed when the literary editor of the gaZ
etteer appeared. He spent some tel
minutes watching the machinery oper
ating the wheel. and then he had
talk with the owner.
There We're many winks and smiles
and more money passed. 1t was afte
the last trotTing race that the rival
and the girl they loved approached tn
wheel. Each intended to make the Gil
cult with Miss Kate and leave tn
other on the ground. Each had ais
planned that in case he got left tn
fact should not give the other any &C
vantage. On the contrary. it should b
bad for him. 1t can't be said that tn
girl had an intuition, but this much
certain-that in the crowd and cruS
around the car she so managed tina
Mr.. Hawkins had as a partner yer
fat woman whose husband was a ner1
Gus little man who dared not make th
trip, while Mr.. WATERBURY found Ii
tie later that his companion was an oil
maid Of forty OR more who wanted
fall in love.
The rivals were thirty feet high whe
they discovered the miXup, and ther
was nothing to do but go onward an
upward. Miss Kate smiled and wave
hand at them, but that only il
creased the pain The owner of th
wheel had been closely watchin
things but after half minute /
shook his head and muttered:
Hanged if I know what to do.
have forgotten which I was to kee
up there. They have gone and mike
themselves up, and I guess the be-
thing I can do is to stop the old M
chine right now"
The "old machine had made only
half circuit Mr.. Hawkins and his t;
woman and Mr.. WATERBURY and b
old maid were right at the top whe