The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
POOR JiMMIE'S MINE.

O0uuI0 have daU But SpOll0Q
Her Chances.
mo, it isn't much of story. but
I'll tell it if you don't use my name. :"
So spoke a miner just from the East,
though better known in the San Juan.
He is bronzed and about forty. There
are wrinkles in his face and spots on
the palms of his hands as hard as the
sole of a boot.
"You understand he continued, 81
have acquired the reputation of
stretching the truth little because
blow about the riches of the mines in
our section, but don't want to be
taken for no liar, out and out. See?"
The reporter saw, and the miner
squared himself for the delivery Of
his yarn, which was as follows:
"About year ago was out pros
pecting over in che southwestern part
of the State. One day when walking
just ahead of my partner l fell down
an old shaft. about twenty feet, Iguesss.
1t wasn't much of fall, and I 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 little, and by gosh,
there was skeleton in one corner. It
had been there good while. 1 saw
that 1t had a broken leg. and had rolled
up its pants as if to doctor itself and
never rolled them down again. Its
clothes wasn't much good, but I went
through them and took out some let
ters. The direction on the letters
couldn't be read, but the contents were
intact. some were to Dear Jimmie
and signed Jennie / got interested
In Jimmie and Jennie. and sized it uu
this way: Here's Jimmie come West
to make raise; here's Jennie staid to
home to wait till he makes it. Here =
Jimmie dead in hole just as he had
made the raise; and here's Jennie won
dering why Jimmie didn't drop her q
line. by gosh. That's the way I sized
1t up, and l says to Bob after he had
pulled me out and we had looked over
the letters. Bob says I, that's
darned hard luck for Jennie and put
the letters in my pocket.
when l got time l went through
the whole batch. There was a picture
Of Jennie. Say, boy! Well. lost nv
head. l 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. 1 went back. I expected
that Jennie would cry and there'd be a
scene and she'd flop into my arms,
faintlike, and all that She looked SO
gentle. too. with a lip all a-quiverin'
in the picture, and big eyes with tears
like little lakes.
did she flopp Not much. T went
back to that pesky little town in Hi.
nois and hunted her up. Jennie ]
says tender, Jimmie's gone over the
range.
80 What's thatr says she.
4" 'Jimmie's gone over the range,
played out. dead; he's skeleton, by
gosh.
:" Dead, ehp" says she. "Well.
that's too bad. l liked Jim, but be
quit writin'. and so married about q
year and a half ago. Dead! I'll 90
tell NAV. She'll be awful put out
''Well, l left I'm here, and when
the effete East catches me again it's a
dandy"
"And what do you expect to dop"
DO! I'll go jump Jimmie's mine.
BY gosh. Denver Republican.
American women. if they are not ALWAYS
beautiful, at least know how to make them
selves appear So Nowhere have | seem On
many beautiful women as in America. in
Guiding even old women with white hair
The native American girl, especially If Of
English or Scotch descent, Is large and slan-
der, generally blonde, with regular features
and remarkably small hands and feet The
complexion Is often pale; rarely do they have
the fresh color Of viennese girl The most
beautiful girl have ever come across in m
lie saw In New York store She was an
American Of Spanish descent Of q literally
Dazzling beauty, such a. had never befors
encountered In life or on canvaa The han
pss3 marriages are those q American ~.