The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-03
A SKYSCRAPER AFFAIR.
by Donald Allen.

known TO three OF Jour pcOplo thdt thS
aforesaid handsome young girl had al
ready plighted her troth with Burt
j Rayl, manager of the big department
store and that when the marriage came
OF he was to have an interest In the
business.
| Mr. Hawkins was a young man Of
| aesthetic tastes. He was a law stu
dent and wrote sonnets to himself. and
! his income was IS week. Mr. VIM
terbury neither had aesthetic tastes
nor wrote poetry. He was employed
by a firm publishing State Gazetteer,
and he therefore called himself lit
/ erary man and tried to make his sal
ary Of S12 per week carry out his as
aertions.
| II Burt Rayl had been Of Jealous
DISPOSITION there would have been no
| rivalry between the other two. Hut he
| was not, and as Miss Kate was being
kept in caramels and roses by the riv-
airy, and as good looking girls are as
prone to mischief as palmer ones. she
! let matters go on.
She knew OF the rivalry, but she
/ took no notice of 1t. Both young men
! were treated alike. They had been
. friends up to the occasion Of certain
lawn party when both fell in love.
! From that time on 1t was enmity
They passed each other on the street
to glare and mutter. They sat togeth
or In the Barstow parlor with the young
lady making 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
, nit him in the back with stones. 1t
Miss Barstow attended a sacred con-
cert with Mr.. Hawkins 1t was with Mr..
Winterbury's turn to throw missiles
Their love for the girl was broad and
HAsneFQfa Neither
! of them stopped to figure on the cost
of pork or potatoes or the price OF
house rent. That would have been
q sing their love.
Things went on. Things go on even
IL people are in love. Traverse City
big hogs. fat cattle. old ganders. fancy
bed quilts. gigantic pumpkins. over
grown cucumbers and three-legged
calves in the county were to be exhio-
tied, 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
soashore resort and was longing for
rest
| When the fair opened Of course ev-
erybody was there. That meant that
Miss Kate Barstow and Mr. Hawkins
40 meant that when Miss Kate saw the
Ferris wheel she was much taken with
| 1t 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 cris-
10 was at hand. Each proposed to take
that circuit with Miss Kate. and to
have his fate settled before they had
left the car.
| Now the law student showed his fine
Italian hand. He went to the owner
1aI ~ "a
conversation. Later on he borrowed
$50 aud passed tho bills over to tho
man.
The transaction had hardly been clos
ed when the literary editor OF the Ga
zeteer appeared. He spent some ten
minutes watching the machinery oper-
ating the wheel. and then he had talk
with the owner.
| There were many winks and smiles
and more money passed. 1t was after
the last trotting race that the rivals
and the girl they loved approached
the wheel. Each intended to make the
circuit with Miss Kate and leave the
other on the ground. Each had also
planned that In case he got left the
| fact should not give the other any adj
vantage. On tho contrary. 1t should be
bad for him. 1t can't be said that the
girl had an intuition, but this much
Is certain. that in the crowd and crush
around the car she so managed that
Mr. Hawkins had. as a partner very
fat woman whose husband was q ner-
vous little man who dared not take the
trip, while Mr.. WATERBURY found
little later that his companion was AN
old maid Of forty or more who wanted
to fall in love.
The rivals were thirty feet high
when they discovered the mix-up. and
there was nothing to do but go on
ward and upward. Miss Kate smiled
and waved a hand at them. but that
only Increased the pain. The owner OF
the wheel had been closely watching
things, but after half a minute ne
shook his head and muttered
Hanged II I know what to do.
have forgotten which was TO keep up
there They have gone and mixed
themselves up. and l guess the best
thing / can do is to stop the old ma
chine right now"
The "old machine" had made only
half circuit. Mr.. Hawkins and his fat
woman and Mr. WATERBURY and his old
maid were right at the top when some
thing went wrong with the machinery
and the motion ceased. After half
minute there were loud demands to
know what had happened. The wheel
man told them as well as he could.
Some cog. lever, cam or ratchet had
given out, and IT might De full hour
before the big wheel took up Its slow
and stately movements again.
Young man, this is purity how-de-
40" exclaimed the fat woman when
the news was shouted aloft. Here l
am up here, half scared to death. and
down there is my Samuel almost in
At.
well, I'm not to blame for it," re-
piled Mr.. Hawkins.
Il believe you are. I can see the vii
liam written in every line on your face.
Lay as much as the tip of your hnger
on me and I will make you rue II TO
last day of your life"
You shut up and keep quiet" shout
ed the young lawyer at her. can
you see that your htching around may
upset this carr
I'm a dead woman know I am
she walled, as she began TO sned tears.
Didn't l tell you to keep still?'
She sank down in the bottom of the
car crowding his legs until he had to
haul them up, and Mr. Hawkins swore
according to Coke and Blackstone.
In the next car below Mr. Winter
bury and the old maid were also hav-
ing some conversation. He was young
man and looked like a good thing, and
her heart went out to him AS her
heart went out she exclaimed:
What n romantic bower for pair
Of lovers: All around Va the meadows
overhead Gods sky; / hope you ap-
preciate the beautiful?
I'D appreciate chance to punch
that fellows head down there" was
the savage reply.
Say not so | could ride on forev-
err"