Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-07-25
GOALS OF FIRE



In his new home long when a vacancy
occurred on the school board, and he
WAS nominated for the position. Won
IN voted in that section, and a woman
was put up against Adams.
Rosa Day was the seemingly map
proprlate name of the woman candi-
date-a name that smacks rather of a
bright morning in a flower garden
than Il woman with assurance suffi-
Client 10 stand for election in heated
campaign. When Mr.. Adams heard
the name OF his opponent he pictured
In his mind a blushlng girl whom to
treat with the ordinary campaign argu-
ments would be a 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would have withdrawn had he not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 glrded up his lolns 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 1t is the
seats facing each other, the narrow
compass or the ruts. there is some
thing about a 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 a 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 q red apple and as
modest as pansy. \ 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 when 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,
fund Of information that surprised
him. He was not to speak at d. till
the next night, and when the young
lady got off 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 o'clock.
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tees posted of 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 OPP
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 a
back seat. An old farmer opened the
meeting with Il 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
gpment for this particular evening.
The address was well rounded, and
long before it was finished Adams
knew that it had been written and
committed TO memory. When the meet
ing was closed he sat till the speaker
had passed out in company with an
angular woman with a square jaw
and a glittcrng eye, who looked far
more like a candidate than Miss Day.
Adams followed his opponent home
and a few minutes after she had en-
tered he rang and was admitted. The
angular woman had gone on to another
house. and he found Miss Day alone
He told her that he had been to the
meeting and had heard her speak. but
did not mention that she had been ad-
dressing. among others, her opponent
He found her as charming as she had
been in the coach and not at all like
the woman who could speak harshly of
any one, even the man who was try
ing 10 get the Office she coveted. He
told her that "this man Adams" was TO
speak at D., few miles farther on.
the next night, and she resolved to go
and hear him.
The next evening before the speaker
entered one OF the campaign commit
tee announced that to avoid Interrupt
tons no one would be allowed to en-
ter or depart until the candidate had
finished his address. Only few per
sons availcd themselves Of this notice
10 get out before the speaker entered
md took the stand. He kept his eyes
fixed on two ladies occupying a back
seat. and his whole address was a
modest statement of his own def
rencies for school commissioner and
IN encomium upon the merits of his
opponent.
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