Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-01

= wa asleep in an inner drawing
room, and we had a most interesting,
talk"
ibid you tell her how you've always,
been misunderstood by everyone before
you met herr" I asked. )
He flushed.
"She's been telling youi I didn't
think she was that kind Of o.
"She isn't" said /, II only spoke
from an extensive knowledge Of young
men. When are you to see her again?s
Tomorrow. She's to be at the
White Lodge Bridge Drive"
II thought you thought a Bridgt
Drive an insult to the gamer
1T is necessary" said Bill, with dig
nifty, 'that I should speak to Miss
Meadows at once about Alexander"
II see" said l, gently and "Wellf"
I asked when he came again two days
later.
cts all right. She tumbled to it at
once. She's al intelligent girl II you
like, She said she should be delighted
to do anything to help the club. She's
| dying to meet Alexander, and wants to
begin on him without losing any more
time. When I told her how obstinate
he was and how it was almost impossl-
BILE to make him change his mind, she
just smiled and said, 1t will be worth
a little trouble, won't itT"
"What did she neal by that?" I
asked, suspiciously.
1.-The town club, of course. Getting
him for our full-back. How slow yox
are"
81 see" said I meeklS And then he
went away. and 1 ~ little Of him for
a long time. I met him nee in the
town, and he told me hastily that Mu-
settle was getting at Alexander like
anything, and that he (Bill) was just
going to see her about it now, and In
an awful hurry, and that Alexander
was hopelessly amitten as everyone
could see from the moment he first set
eyes on her, and he for one didn't o
der at that, 1t was only a question Of
time now. He couldn't hold out much
longer. Wasn't she a little witch?
"Oh, Bill, don't trife with her young
Affections"
Don't be silly
you'll find yourself on the brink Of
one Of those engagements which you
find 80 difficult to elude-
II shouldn't much mind II I did,"
said he, fatuously, as he lifted his hat
and left me
I went home feeling cold and neglect
| ed and sadly out Of the game. And I
went away to stay a fortnight at the
| Chesters', and all the time I was away
I heard nothing of any of them. When
l got home mother told me that Miss
Meadows was playing fast and loose
with all the eligible young men avail
able. Mother thought it a thing no
nice girl should do:
"She must be having an uncommon
" good time" said I regretfully, and I
sat down and wrote a friendly little
note to Bill, asking him to come and
discuss Developments with me.
There was no answer. Then I met
him in the town. looking very confused
and rather happy, but he kept the 9TH
or side OF the street, and did not come
over to speak to me.
At last I could bear tho suspense no
longer, and I went to pay my long de-
layed visit { my old school fellow, Mu-
settle.
I met her coming down her garden
path, looking like q Christmas almanac
In her rose-colored cloth and brown
fur. She is the kind Of girl who looks
sweetest In a fur toQue. She has bright
thick hair and violet eyes, and has
always been celebrated for the irresist-
Utility Of her smile. She kissed me ana
said I was a dear to come, and turned
back with me-.
What have you been doing to my
BillY" ! asked with a laugh.
She laughed too. "Oh, Musette. he's
a dear boy" she said, "and o easily In
duenced for his good. He's the first
center three-quarter in the county, you,
know, and he was wasting all his pow
srs on this wretched town team, but
I've changed all that"
what" cried 1.
"Oh, yes said she, demurely. "HeIs
promised to play regularly for Medling-
ham now. He'd do anything to please
me, the dear"
I stopped and faced her, thunder
struck.
'Afusstte," I said slowly, "are you
going to marry that boyf'
"oh, dear, no." she said, lightly.
'I've Just got engaged to Mr.. Alexan-
der."-Black and White.
Baseball in Kansas.
The person who looks upon athletir
with contempt and inquiries what use