The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-22
"A BRVE LADY"
The Manner ia which she ManagedR
Farm-Ghr Products of Ihc Same
For a Year.

From the Terre Hante Gazette.
Miss Ehda Allen lives not far from
Darwin, on a farm of about twenty-five
acres, lett her by hcr father year or
two ago, at his death. Miss Allen was at
the time OF the deCease OF her only sur
viving parent eighteen years of age, but
determined upon dong tue best that
could be done to keep the old homestead
r. m passing into the hands OF strangers
There was considerable mortgage
which WAS due in q year, but upon which
she managed to get III extension. She
immediately set about the task of bring
ing the farm up 10 its old value-it had
been much run down OF late-snd dis
charged two or three carless hands, keep
ing only one, faithful Old servant, VINO
remslntcd for mall wages Together
they LAID ont the summer plans OF work,
and what the young lady lacked in eX-
pcrienCe she made up In ready wit. The
ground was broken, narrowed, seeded,
and in due time the crops came forward,
were property tended and gathered.
Then came the hardest part 0. the task.
Many women can work better than they
can transact business. Not so this modest
Young girl. She took her goods To the
nearest market town and sold them, driv-
my good, honest bargains, shrewd rs
could be done by any man. The buyers
ney er tried to cheat her. They often
laughed at the busiuess-like air she wore,
but they knew it meant business, and So
they respected and favored II They
often said to themselves that they would
rather deal with any man than this
woman One could hardly tell which to
admire most, the worker or the trader
Her modest quiet manner, Ms she drove
bargain for the sale OF potato IS or corr,
was u charm itself. But 10 see her, bare
armed, and bright aced, Ms she leaned
upon her rake or noe, in the evening after
days work in the hot sun! What il
sight was there, my countrymea! Well,
the first year was big success and the
| Young lady sailed away goOdiy sum,
which went down IN her pocket. Then
she went Into wintering quarters and
utilized the spare hours IN knitting max
ing good butter, and enjoying the hours
| by the stove. Money came in plentiful iy,
and she paid OFT halt the mortgage IN
advance. The energy OF the woman
asserted itset the first year.
The second year the aged servant got
on ire uenious drunk at the opening of
the season. and came home from the
nearest town one evening, mattering:
"GooSe, boys; goorye!'
NOraclous and intelligent witness say
that he meant by this good. bye, boys;
| goodbye all IN Imagination, concerning
some late convlvis!ity with some motor
ious "boolers,' whom he reduced to the
diminutive by calling them boys al
hough not one WAS under the age OF
forty. The young lady ordered him
never to repeat the ohenc-. but he was
sick tor week, and in the mean time the
crops did not move forward worth cent.
! He WAS up al the end OF tina. time, and
went to town on business. He came up
in the evening with return Of the old
complaint.
"Goorye, boys; goorye.'
The old servant was kicked out. neck
and crop, and the young lady set hersel,
/ to work out the year alone. But things
didn't work. TGe sweet potatoes came
up as climbing mornlng-g lories, the corn
turned out as ouckwhest, snd the wheat
threshed out oats. All these mishaps
came pouring in one upon another, and
the young lady lost her cheerfulness and
began 10 swear. She lost her temper,