St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-03-25
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER I.-With his grandfather
small Ramsey Milholland is watching the
decoration Day Parade" In the home
t toWn ~ The old gentleman. veteran OF
the iClVll war, endeavors to impress the
youngster with the Significance Of the
great conflict and many years afterward
the boy was to remember his words with
startling vividness
CHAPTER HIN the schoolroom, q
few years afterward. Ramsey was no,
distinguished for remarkable ability
thoush his two pronounced dislikss were
contrast to Ramsey's backwardness Is
the precocity Of little Dora Yocum, q
young lady whom In his bitterness he de-
nominatss Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER Hin high school, where
ne and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the vindic-
tiveness he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating in the resolution that some
day he would show her.
CHAPTER Wat = class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention OF Miss
Ml!Ia Rust. young lady OF about his
own age and thu acknowledged belle Of
the class. Milla has the misfortune to
fall into creek while talking with Ram
sey, and that youth promptly plunges to
the rescue. The water Is only some three
{set deep. but Ailla's gratitude for his
heroic act IN embarras sing He Is in fact
taken captive by the fair one, to his great
CONSERVATION.
CHAPTER v.-The acquaintance ripens
Ramsey and Milla openly keeping COM
pany,' while the formers parents won
der. His mother indeed goes 10 far as
to express some dlsapproval OF his choice,
more suitable companion, a suggestion
which the youth receives with horror.
CHAPTER Wat this period our hero
being a very willing partner in the act
Her fippancy over the matter discon-
certs Ramsey immensely but shortly aft
erward the girl departs for a visit to
for Ramsey, which adds to his feeling Of
melancholy.
CHAPTER vII.-shortly after Milla's
departure. her friend, Sadie Clews, in
forms Ramsey that his inamorata has
been married to her cousin and Is not
coming back. so that little romance is
ended. Within a few months Ramsey
and his closest friend, Fred Mitchell
80 to the state university, Ramsey's chief
feeling being one of relief that he has got
away from the detested- Dora To his hor-
ror he finds she IL also a student at the
university Induced to Join a debating
society. Ramsey is chosen as Dora's OPP
ponent in a debate dealing with the mat
ter of Germany's right to invade Bel
GUM, Dora being assigned the negative
side Of the argument Partly on account
OF his feelings toward Dora, and his nat
ural nervousness he makes a miserable
showing and Dora carries off the honors.
A brash youngster named Lnski objects
to the showing made by Ramsey and be-
comes personal In his remarks. The mat
ter ends with Ramsey, In the university
vernacular, giving Linski peach of
punch on the snoot."
CHAPTER VIII.-Dora appears to have
made decided hit with her fellow stu
dents, to Ramsey's supreme wonderment
A. rumor Of his affair with the tickle
Milla spreads and he gets the reputation
of man of experience and a woman
hater."
CHAPTER Ix.-The story comes to the
spring OF 1915 and the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. The university is stirred to its
depths. Faculty and frat" societies alike
wire the government offering their serv-
ices in the war which they believe to be
inevitable. Dora, holding the belief that
spirit of the students, which Is an intense
desire to call Germany to account. She |
seeks Ramsey and endeavors to impress |
him with her pacifist views
CHAPTER x-Miss Yocum's appeal |
somewhat disconcerts Ramsey, especially |
as the girl seems to place some real value |
on his opinions, and his feelings toward |
her are somewhat vague.
CHAPTER .X1.-Aftsr the vacation. &C. |
r1od, Dora makes an impressive speech |
i,efore the debating society, denouncins |
y decidedly in the minority, but makes
brave fight to stem the tide OF feelirE |
which she perceives is sweeping the coun-
try toward war.