The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-03

the young people of such townsY"
 "Not q glimmering."
 "Then I'll enlighten your egregions density. The boys-those who've got the stuff in them-strike out for the cities to make their everlasting for tunes. Generally they do it too"
 "The same as youY'
 'The same as me" assented Kellogg, unperturbed. But the yaps. the Jas pers. stay there and clerk In fathers store. After office hours they put on their very best mail order clothes and l parade up and down Main street, talk ing loud and flirting obviously with 1 the girls The girls haven't much else 10 do They don't find it so easy to | get away. A few of 'em escape to boarding schools and colleges, where they meet and marry young men from | the cities. but the majority of them 1 have to stay at home and help mother. 1 That's a tradition. If there are two children or more the boys get the chance every time The girls stay home to comfort tue old folks fin their old age. Why. by the time they're old enough to think of marrying-and they begin young. for that's about the only excitement they find available-you won't find a small country town be. tween here and the Mississippi where ihere aren't about four girls to every l loy"
 "It's a horrible thought"
 You'd think so If you knew what be boys were like There isn't one in ten that girl with any sense or self respect could force herself to marry if she ever saw anything better. Do you begin to see my driftY'
 "I do not. But go on drifting"
 No? Why. the demand for eligible males Is 300 per cent in excess of the supply. Don't you know-no. you don't; I got to that hrst-that there are twenty times as many old maids In small country towns as there are in the cities? It's a fact. and the reason 5 for it is because when they were young they couldn't lower themselves 10 accept the pick of the local matri monial market Now, do you seeT'
 You're as interesting as a magazine , serial. Please continue in your next ! pant with anticipation"
 You're an ass. Now take a young chap from city. with a good appear 3 ance, more or less gentleman. who doesn't talk like q yap or walk like . q yap or dress like yap or act like r yap, and throw him into such a towr long enough for the girls 10 get ac i? quainted with him. He simply can1 lose, can't fail to cop out the hest look - ing girl with the biggest bank roll fl l town I tell you, there's nothing tC {. lt!"
 i "Its wonderful to listen to you. liar 9 ry."
 I'm talking horse sense. my son Now consider youfself-down on youi 1 luck, don't know how 10 earn a decen living refusing to accept anything from your friends, ready you sayl tC do almost anything to get some mon ~, And think of the country heir esses with plenty of money fol two pining away in-in lnnocuous desuetude-hundreds of them. fine straight good girls. girls you could easily fall in love with. signing their ives away for the lack of the likes of you. Now. why not take one Nat--when you come to consider it. it's youl duty-marry her and her bank roll, make her happy. make yourself happy and live a contented life on the sunny side of Easy street for the rest of your natural born days? Can't you see il now?"
 Yes" Duncan admitted. half per suaded of the plausibility of the scheme q see and 1 admire i'm meusely the intellect that conceived rhe notion. Harry. but I can't help thinking there must be a catch in it somewhere.
 "Not if you follow my instructions"
 Duncan drew a deep breath. sat back and looked Kellogg over very critically.
 If I didn't know you SO well. liar ry," said Duncan slowly. "l'd be cer tain you were mad. I'm not at all sure that I'm sane It's ravinc ldiocy and it's pretty darned rank thing to do to start deliberately our to mar ry a woman for her money But I've been through a little hell of my own in my time. and it's not alluring 10 con template return to it. There's noth ing mad enough nor bad enough to stop me What'ye l got to doT'
 Kellogg beamed his triumph "Youm try 1t on. then?"
 "Tn try anything on It's con temptible. low lived piece of business but good may come of lt; you cant tell What've 1 got to do*''
 Slipping back. Kellogg knitted bis dngers and stared at the ceiling smih ing faintiy to himself as he enumer ated the conditions that drst appealed to hls understanding as essentials to- ward success.
 First pick out your town. one of 200O or 5000 inhabitants. no larger I'd suggest at hazard guess some place in the interior of pennsylvaaia Most of such towns have at least ont rich man with a marriageable daugh Ter but we'll make sure of that before We settle on one Of course any subur-