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The Man Who
WasLaughedAt
By SADIE OLCOTT
Muldrough was a ranchman. He
.was a typical westerner; but. having
Bade money at raising sheep, he held
his head pretty high. He bad a daugh
ter,' Rosa, who was a rustic beauty.
Muldrough didn’t propose that Rosa
should take up with a cowpuncher or
anything like that. He intended her for
a ranchman, like himself, who rode
over his broad acres and bossed others.
A ranchman came courting his
daughter, true enough, but not the
kind of ranchman Muldrough was
looking for. His name was Jabez
Stubbs. He came out from Missouri
to start ranching on fifty acres of land
and with a dozen sheep. He was the
homeliest man in the west, and so ig
norant was he of western ways that
be didn’t even carry a revolver. He
caught sight of Rosa Muldrough ono
day skimming along on horseback, for
all the world like a swallow, only a
hundred times as pretty, and be want
ed her right off.
He was a very honorable fellow,
Stubbs was, almost as honorable as
be was homely. One morning Mul
drough was standing on his porch, boot
ed and spurred for a ride over his do
main, when he saw Stubbs coming up
to the house mounted on a horse as
measly looking as the rider was home
ly. When he reached the porch, with
out dismounting he said in a cracked
voice:
“Mr. Muldrough, I’ve come to ask
you for your daughter—that is, if she’ll
marry me. I’ve got fifty acres of land
and a dozen sheep, but that isn’t all
the property I’ve got There’s $675 in
the Dime Savings bank of Independ
ence, Mo., and $972 in”—
He got no further. Muldrough put
his hand to his hip, drew his revolver
and, pointing it at him, said:
“GitJ”
Stubbs looked up, apparently more
surprised than hurt, and, digging his
heels into his horse, rode away, saying:
“Very well, Mr. Muldrough, I’ve tak
en the right course in "asking your per
mission to win your daughter before
speaking to her. Now, since your treat
ment of me I give you notice that I’ll
win her if I oan without your permis
sion.”
A burst of laughter, in which was
mingled a lot of scorn, was the only
reply to this threat Then Muldrough
went into the house and told Rosa all
about it She didn’t laugh as he did,
for, down in the bottom of her heart,
she sympathized with Stubbs on ac
count of the treatment he had received
from her father. But Muldrough did
not notice this and never dreamed that
be bad anything to fear from Stubbs
through Rosa.
Some time after this, when the girl
was out on her horse, she met Stubbs.
He rode right on, looking at her wist
fully out of bls eyes till tee saw her
drew rein; then he came to a stop.
“Mr. Stubbs,” she said. “I wish to
say to you that a man who pays a wo
man the highest compliment he can
pay her—provided he wants her for
berseif—is entitled tiS a dvfl reply. My
father was not warranted tn his treat
ment of you the other day, especially
store your cause was perfectly honor
able. Nor was he authorized to apeak
for me. Though I tdghiy appreciate
the compliment you bare paid ma 1
decline yam proposition because I do
not tore you.” "’•*&
"1 thank you for saying ft to me in
steed of never gtvtog me an answer at
all I’m sorry you don’t tore .me. I
tore yon and shall always tore you.
I’ll never tore any one else."
"Why do you especially want mA
Mr. Stubbs?*
“Because I do.”
"There are plenty of girls in the
world far more attractive than I."
"Not to me.”
"I wish you didn’t feel as you do.
It troubles me to give any one pain,
and to be the cause of your spending
your fife alone distresses me very
much.”
“And I don’t like the idea of dis
tressing you. I’m not going to distress
you any more than I can help. If you
think my being about here will have
that effect on you I’ll go elsewhere.”
“Oh. 1 wouldn’t drive you away from
here. That would be selfishness. I
can’t love you, but I can sympathize
with you.”
After a few more words they both
rode ou. When Rosa had goes some
distance she drew rein, turned her
horse's head and looked back. Stubbs
was sitting on his horse, facing her,
not far from where she bad met him.
She waved a hand to him, then turn
ed again and rode on.
One day Muldrough went home aft
er being out all day to find his daugh
ter gone. She had left a note for him,
bedewed with tears, saying that sbe
had gone off to be married. She knew
her father would not consent to the
match, so she was obliged to go away
and he married somewhere else. Sbe
did not give her lover’s name.
Muldrough stormed until he learned
that the rnan his daughter had married
was the one he had laughed at when
he had made an application for her
hand. Then he was crushed.
Jabez Stubbs if he had been permit
ted to finish the list of his bank ac
counts might possibly have been ac
cepted. for be could have bought out
Muldrough two or three times over.
He is now the richest man in his state.
But Rosa knew nothing of this when
she married him. She certainly did
not marry him for money or for looks.
What she did marry him for has been
a question among her friends ever since.
Broken by
The Tango
w By MARJORIE CLOUGH
From the time when 1 came to be
old enough to think of marriage I look
ed upon it in a feminine way. I didn’t
say wben I was grown I’d be a teach
er or a lawyer or anything like that
I said I was going to be married and
live in a nice, cozy bouse and thought
of my dolls as real children.
When I was eighteen years o*d my
father died and left me little or noth
ing. It looked very much like my be
ing forced from the domestic life I had
laid out for myself when a child. Will
Isham and I were spoons, but Will
was such an easy going fellow that he
didn’t fill my ideas of a busband at
all. What I wanted was a strong
character, who would make up my
mind for me, relieving me of forming
decisions, which 1 always disliked.
Will was an amiable chap, and I was
very fond of him, but it seemed to me
that we were too much alike.
I was hesitating between Will and
stenography—Will was perfectly able
to take care of me—when Warren Rob
bins came along. It seemed to me
that Mr. Robbins was just the man I
wanted. It was not long before he
proposed to me, and I accepted him at
once.
I confess it seemed very nice to have
some one to obey. There are two di
visions of mankind and womankind in
these days. I may call them pleasure
ites and nonpleasureltes. Formerly
the pleasureites played cards and the
nonpleasureltes didn’t. Now the pleas
ureites dance the modern dances and
the nonpleasureltes are shocked there
at. I found very soon that I was a
pleasureite and Warren was a non
pleasureite. I became infatuated with
the tango. Warren declared that any
woman who danced the tango was not
the wife he should like to marry.
We hadn’t been long engaged before
Warren made this known to me, and
I felt called upon to defer to his
wishes. Somehow this particular def
erence was not pleasant I didn’t see
why I shouldn’t dance the tango sc
long as I danced it properly. - Warren
argued that I could not always rely
on finding a partner who would dance
it properly with me and that the tend
ency of such dances being bad, by
dancing it I was encouraging vice. I
told him that I didn’t agree with him
and should dance the tango.
Warren was somewhat surprised at
this and reminded me that I wished to
follow a leader. To this I replied that
in the tango the man guided the wo
man’s steps.
You should have seen the look he
gave me. “That’s the most brilliant
bit of logic I ever heard,” be said. “It’s
worthy of Archbishop Whately, who
wrote a book on categorical syllogisms
and other points pertaining to the sub
ject If be beard it be would turn over
in his grave.”
“I don’t see anything the matter with
It or the tango either." I replied with
some curtness.
“It's about like the clinging vine and
the sturdy oak. A flagpole set up near
the oak. the vine uncHngs from the
oak and clings to the flagpole."
“The vine wouldn’t do that uiriese
the ants had got tn under the oak’s
bark and rotted the trunk. “
“Perceiving that your togfc and yam
similes are altogether beyond my poor
intelligence, 1 bld you good evening.”
I didn’t feel very good over thta.
Somehow I felt that, inespeettre of
the morality or Immorality of the tan
go, in dancing it despite my fiance’s
wishes I was not following out that
for which I had agreed to marry him.
While I was thinking about it I was
calledtto the phone. Win Isham Was
at the other end. Win and I were
good friends. We had simply not mat
ed, that was all.
“Do you go to the ball tonight?”
be asked.
“No. Warren doesn’t approve of
these modern dances, and just now
the old ones are not danced. He won’t
take me.' 1
“Do you suppose be would let you
go with me?”
“Let me?”
“Y’es. Haven’t you said you were
going to marry for the purpose of hav
ing a master?”
“I’ll go with you.”
“Thanks awfully! I’ll call for you
at 9.”
When 9 o’clock came 1 was dressed
in a new ball costume just come in
and waiting in the drawing room
when who should call but W arren. He
had come to make up. but when he
saw my clinging skirt and my ctecollet
waist, with only a little lace orer one
shoulder, be forgot all what he
had come for and began to abuse my
costume.
“Looks like an elegantly folded
sheet." he said sarcastically, the
sheet must have been taken from a
crib.’’
I fired up at this and gave him such
a tongue lashing that while about it I
didn’t notice the entrance of Will
Isham. When I did notice mm he was
grinning like the cat that ate the
canary.
Warren left me. slamming the door
behind him. I went right out with
Will, got into the carriage, and we
were driven to the ball.
What a softening influence there is
in the tango! It made me forget ,the
disagreeable episode.
I have engaged myself to Will. He
says he always wished to cling to a
woman, and I’m just the woman be
prefers to cling to.
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