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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. 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