The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06
GOALS OF FIRE
[Original- ]

IN his new home long when a vacancy
occurred on the school board, and he
was nominated fm the position. Wom-
en- voted in that section, and a woman
was put up against Adams.
Rosa Day was the. seemingly map
propriate name of the woman caldi
date-a name that smacks rather Of a
bright morning in flower garden
| than a 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 a blushing girl whom to
treat with the ordinary campaign argu-
ments would be d 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would have withdrawn had he not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 unftness 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.
/ ~
atD. 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 a stagecoach that throws
people together The candidate had
i 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 red apple and as
modest as a 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 when he looked
| upon the face of this girl He soon
| scraped an acquaintance and, chatting
| in unrestrained stagecoach fashion, aft
| er a time drew forth an intelligence, a
| 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
first part of the evening, but would be
/ happy to have him call at her aunt's,
where she would stop after 8 o'clock.
/ AS he walked to the hotel he saw no
| 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
4 meeting with a short address, then in
/ troduced the speaker Of the evening,
| the candidate for school commissioner,
| who arose from one Of the front seats
1 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
gument 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
1 had passed out in company with an
angular woman with a square jaw
and a glittering eye, who looked far
! more like a candidate than Miss Day.
/ ADAMS followed his opponent home,
and 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 adj
/ 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 re man who was try
inc to set the Office she coveted. He
told y ef that this man Adams was to
/ speak at d., few miles farther on,
the next nigllt, and she resolved to go
| and hear him.
The next evening before the speaker
4 entered one Of the campaign commit
/ tee announced that to avoid Interrupt
I tons no one would be allowed to en-
/ ter or Depart until the candidate had
finished his address. Only a few per
sons awaited themselves of this nctice
to get out before the speaker entered
and took the stand. He kept his eyes
fixed on two ladies occupying q back.
seat, and his whole address was a
modest statement of his own def
ciencies for school commissioner and
an oncOlnilIIn TDon thn merits IF his