The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-10-08
ONE WOMAN.
A Lite Story Showing How IRE
sistible a Frontier Lady Is When
She Sets About Ii.

1AN oNto <.hO1N ~
Denver Tribune Wyoming Correspondent.
Cummins City is still a crude
metropolis. Society has not yet ar
rived at the white vest aud lawn
sociable period there. There is
nothing to hamper any one or throw
a tiresome restraint around him.
You walk up aud down the street
without feeling that tue vigilant
eye OF the policeman is upon you,
aud when you register at the lead
ing hotel the proprietor don't ask
how much baggage you have or in
sist upon it that your valise ought
TO be blown up with quill to give
il a robust appearance.
Speaking of this hotel, however,
brings to my mind little incident
which really belongs in here. There
are two ladies at this place, the
only ones in the city limits, if my
memory serves me. One of these
ladies owns a lot of poles or house.
logs, which were at tue time of
which / speak Oh the dump, as it
were, ready to he used III the con.
struetion OF new cabin. Ii seems
that some of the male citizens OF
the corporation, without the fear OF
God or the common council of Cum
minis City, had been approprlating
these logs IRON time TO time until
ont of a good tair assortment there
remained only detected little pile
OF culls. The owner had watched
with great annoyance the gradual
Disappearance OF the property from
day to day, aud it made her lose
faith in the hna! redemption of all
mankind. She became cynical and
misanthropical, lost her interest in
the future, aud became low spirited
and unhappy. One day, however,
after this thing had proceeded
about tar enough, she went to her
trunk, aud, taking out large size
navy revolver, the kind that
sends so many Western men to
their long home, she went out to
where q group of men had scatter.
ed themselves out around camp to
smoke. Sue wasn't large woman
ut all, but these men respected her.
Though they were only rough miners
there in the wilderness, they rec0g.
nized that she was a woman, and
they recognized it almost at "A
glance, too. There she was alone
among a wild group OF men iu the
mountains, far from the protecting
arm of the law aud soltening in1u'
ences of metropolitan life, aud yet
the common feeling of gallantry
implanted in the masculine breast
was there. She indicated with q
motion of her revolver that she de
sired to call the meeting to order
There seemed to be general de
sire on the part of every man pres
ent to come to order just as sool
AS circumstances would permit
Then she made a short speech rela
tive to the matter of house-logs
and suggested that unless a number
OF those articles, now invisible t.
the naked eye, were placed at Gel
tain point, or a certain amount o
koppcks placed on file with th'
chairman OF the meeting within
specified time, perdltlon would b
popping on Maine street IN abou
two and one.hali ticks of the chrc
nometer.
There didn't seem to he any dc
sire on the part OF the meeting t
, amend the motion or lay it on tn
! table. Although it was arbltrar
and imperative, and although a
opportunity was given tor u fire
, expression of opinion, there didn
seem to be any desire to take Il,
vantage of it. A committee
> three were appointed to carry ou
! the suggestions of the chair, an
!, in about halt an hour the hous'
:, logs aud kopecks having bee
= placed on deposit at the places de
= ignated, the meeting broke up, sui
= = iect to the call of the chairman.
II was not a very long session, but
= was very harmonious-very ba
), = monious and very orderly. Thei
!, was no calling for the previol
y question or rising to a point Of 0
y dei. The paleiaced men who cot
: posed the convention did not lot
:, to the cs sual observers as thoua
they had come there to raise poln
g. |, for debate over parliamentary pra
- tice. They kept theis eye on Il
y y Speakers desk and didn't interru
~ " each other or struggle to get Il
!, y floor. Ii il wonderful this inhere
- strength of weakness, as l mig
ar l" say, which enables a woman am
9 a tbrong of reckless men to Co
!, mand their respect aud obedien
~ sometimes where main strength a.
:" awkwar dness would not avail.
A drag, driven by an elegant
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