The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-09-27
GOALS OF FIRE
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Denton Adams went west fully equip
ped, so far as education goes, to take a
prominent stand. He had not been
in his new home long when vacancy
occurred on the school board, and he
was nominated for the position. Wom-
en- voted in that section, and woman
was put up against Adams.
Rosa Day was the seemingly map
propriate name of the woman candi-
date-a name that smacks rather of a
bright morning in flower garden
than woman with assurance sufi-
Gent to stand for election in heated
campaign. When Mr.. Adams heard
the name Of his opponent he pictured
in his mind blushing girl whom to
treat with the ordinary campaign argu-
ments would be PROCLAMATION. and he
would have withdrawn had he not
pledged himself to run If nominated.
But when he heard that Miss Day was
running her campaign with free at
tacks on the unfitness of the opposite
sex to decide upon matters pertaining
to children and his own unfitness in
particular he girded up his loins for
the fight.
Mr.. Adams was on his way to speak
at D. The town was off the line of any
railroad, and Adams was obliged to
travel by coach. Whether it is the
seats facing each other, the narrow
compass or the ruts, there is some
thing about stagecoach that throws
people together. The candidate had
by this time talked so much about the
election that he was tired of it, and
since he was not known to the few pas
sengers present he was enabled to keep
his identity q secret.
He was destined on this trip to meet
his fate. Opposite him sat a girl APP
parently eighteen - she was twenty
two-as pretty as red apple and as
modest as pansy. A man may meet
thousands Of women without being in
the slightest degree affected by any
of them. Then suddenly he may look
upon face and know that it belongs
to the woman he wishes to be his wife.
1t was so with Adams VIXEN he looked
upon the face of this girl. He soon
scraped an acquaintance and, chatting
in unrestrained stagecoach fashion, aft
er time drew forth an intelligence, q
fund of information that surprised
him. He was not to speak at d. till
the next night, and when the young
lady got of at NJ. he concluded to
alight at the same town. She told him
that she had an engagement for the
first part of the evening, but would be
happy to have him call at her aunt's,
where she would stop after 9 o'clock.
AS he walked to the hotel he saw no
tees posted of a meeting to take place
that evening for the discussion Of the
school question, and Miss Day would
speak.
Being curious to see and hear his op-
ponent, Adams after supper strolled
around to the schoolhouse where the
meeting was to take place, and, not
wishing to be known, he drew up his
coat collar, kept on his hat, which he
pulled down over his eyes, and took q
back seat. An old farmer opened the
meeting with short address, then in
troduced the speaker Of the evening,
the candidate for school commissioner,
who arose from one of the front seats
and took the stand.
Adams saw the young girl with whom
he had Travelled.
For half an hour he sat quietly, hear
ing himself denounced as one who,
coming from the effete east, with its
old fashioned educational customs
thought to introduce them among the
children of the young and vigorous
west. This was the burden of her ar
"nmant for this particular evening