Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-10-06

| chief is that the owner is not likely
to keep forever Asking her husband tc
carry it in his pocIlet.-Chcago Times.
Herald.
HOW He GOT A WIFE.
Began by Washing Dishes For n
Meal and Ended by Becoming Rich.
Did | ever tell YOU" asked the rich
business man who likes to drop around
to the hotel and talk Of an evening
with the drummers, "how | won my
wife? Probably not two people in
Lewiston know. They do not even
know where | was born. WAS born
out I'm lower Maryland and carly get
the iLca that WAS w.uied 1T ,'rS'.
When v-t2l. ! star u ID, nr' GIT
up at l'ansade, Ney., o. Cl c~sn, nard
ND for clothes and not able to turn
my hand to anything: never was
taught trade and knew as little about
farm work as you may Imagine. |
couldn't tend sheep. and when the
ranchers out there looked at my hands
they told me they hadn't any work
for tenderfeet, and was starving II
came right down 70 begging with me
There was a man out there who had
struck It pretty well cattle farming.
lie employed - men about the ranch.
most of them caring for his mighty
herds of cattle. one morning | got up
from my bed beside the hay piles out
in the open and walked over to the
house. hoping to be able to steal some-
thing TO eat Out back Of the house
was a long lean 10 kitchen where they
washed the dishes and did other work
like that. | went around to this door,
and the old lady was lecturing n slat-
tern looking girl for breaking cups.
She had broken four that morning
while wlplng dishes. The woman. who
was the wife of the proprietor. lad her
dander up and. seeing NE at the 6iich-
en- door. exclaimed, That there half
baked tramp could wash dishes with
out breaking them as fast as You do
THAT could, marin. aud | wish
you would give me the chance to try.
| exclaimed.
"She looked at me and laughed. and
didn't blame her much either do
you want n jobY she asked, threaten.
ingly looking at the slattern at the
same time.
eyes; try me. Give me 4 breakfast,
and I'll wash dishes all the forenoon.
| exclaimed.
"'You wash dishes all the forenoon.
and I'll give you dinner she said
cautiously.
ITO make 1t short. washed them all
the forenoon and many forenoons. for
she saw that man. with strong hands
and carefulness such as | had. could
save dishes where girl would drop
them. There were so many people
there that It took all the time to wash
the dishes. | worked at il three years
and got SO a month AZ first and my
board and then s. a week and my
board. one day the proprietor was
trying to do 4 sum IN arithmetic in the
kitchen. and | offered TO help him out
saw he was not good at it and vas
looking desperate. When he found /
was good at figures. he came around
every Saturday to get me to help him
and in time made me paymaSior OF his
ranch. and still | was washing dishes.
They built a city at Battle Mountain,
and my boss put Up hotel for sum
mer folks and put me In to run it. We
made money so fast that he could af-
ford TO pay me salary.
Il dressed well and was good look
Ing. one day his l7-year-old daughter
came up from Denver. whore she had
been lucated. and took her around
the country that summer, and when
she heard how | had commenced to
work for her father as a dishwasher
and had sort Of worked my way up
she reclprocated and we were lovers.
One day the old chap not knowing
anything about my affair with his girl,
came down and told me that he had
given the hotel to her. As he was get
ting rich at the ranch. ard she would
be my proprietor now. He told me to
do everything she told me to do, as If II
was his order. About two months aft
er that sent him the following letter:
"Dear sir-My proprietor your daughter has
ordered me to become hcr husband next Monday
afternoon at s.. Paul's. Battle Mountain, and has
also ordered me 10 invite you and her mother
You told me TO obey her implicitly and ] shall
"It was n merry wedding. and the
old chap came down with a few extra
thousands. and altogether we had
enough when we cleaned up and sold
the hotel to come down to Augusta.
and then we came here and have been
here ever since. Now. don't you 90
and tell any one my love story, for its
sacred to me, though it's queer.
Lewiston (A1e) Journal