Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-02-07
POOR JiMMiE'S MINE.
jennie Might Have Had IT. hut Spoiled
Her Chances

mo, it isn't much OF story, but
III tell 1t II you don't use my name"
SO spoke miner just from the East.
though better known in the San Juan.
He il bronzed and about forty. There
are wrinkles in his face and spots on
the palms OF his hands as hard as the
sole OF boot
"You unders tand,n he continued, II
have acquired the reputation of
stretching tho truth a little because |
blow about the riches of the mines In
our section, but | don't want to be
taken for no liur. out and out. SeeP"
The reporter saw, and the miner
squared himself for the delivery OF
his yarn, which was as follows:
"Abont year ago was out pros
pecting over In che southwestern part
OF the State. One day when walking
just ahead of my partner fell down
an old shaft, about twenty feet guesss.
II wasn't much OF fall, aud got off
lucky But didn't like the place and
wanted to get out, SO yelled to Bob to
let down rope and he done it. BY this
time could see Ii little, and by gosh,
there was skeleton in one corner 1t
had been there good while. | saw
that 1t had a broken leg, and had rolled
up its pants as IL to doctor itself and
never rolled them down again. Its
clothes wasn't much good, but | went
through them and took out some let
tiers. The direction ON the letters
couldn't be read, but the contents were
intact Some were to Dear Jimmie
and signed Jennie l got interested
In Jimmie and Jennie. and sized it up
this way: Here's Jimmie come West
to make IA raise; here's Jennie staid to
home to wait till he makes it. Here s
Jimmie dead in n hole just as he had
made the raise; and here's Jennie won
dering why Jimmie didn't drop her Il
line. by gosh. That's the way | sized
1t up, and | says to Bob after he had
pulled me out and we had looked over
the letters. Bob, says |. that's
darned hard luck for jennie, and put
the letters in my pocket
When | got time | went through
tho whole batch. There was picture
OF Jennie Say. boyl Well. | lost my
head. made up my mind that instid
of writin' I'd go back and just break
the news myself and tell her Jimmie
had left her mine, She was hand
some as any flower that ever bloomed.
And-well went back. | expected
that jennie would cry and there'd be 4
scene and she'd flop into my arms
faintlike, and all that. She looked st
gentle, too, with lip all a-quiverin
In the picture and big eyes with tear.
like little lakes,
Did she lop? Not much. | wen
back to that pesky little town in III
nois and hunted her up. Jennie
says tender. .immie's gone over tn,
range.
What's thatp says she.
Z" 'Jimmie's gone over the range
played out, dead; he's skeleton, by
gosh.
d" Dead, eh?" says she. We'll
that's too bad. | liked Jim, but h,
quit writin'. and SO | married about
year and II half ago. Dead! I'll z,
tell NAV. She'll be awful put out
We'll. | left I'm here. and wher
the Gillette East catches me again it's ,
dandy
And what do you expect to doP"
dot III go jump Jimmies mine
by gosh. "-Denvor Republican.
American women, II they are not AWAY
beautiful, at least know how to make them
selves appear so Nowhere have ! seen 5,
many beautiful women as in America in
Guiding even Old women with white hair
The native American girl, especially if O
English or Scotch descent, is large and slen
der, generally blonde, with regular feature
and remarkably small hands and feet Tn,
complexion is often pale; rarely do they hav,
the fresh color of Viennese girl The mos
beautiful girl have ever come across in M,
| life saw in New York store. She WIS al
| American of Spanish descent, of literall,
dazzling beauty, such as had never befor
encountered in life or on canvas the hap
piest marriages are those Of American ma
to German ~onaa--