Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1899-05-13
Lore at the Headgafe.

Not Sabbath days journey from the |
town Of Backfoot lives rancher with |
daughter whose rosy cheeks, dark
hair and brown eyes make her pretty
In the estimation OF all who see her.
He may have other daughters but this
one only is needed for our story.
Everybody for miles around knows
the old gentleman to be successful
rancher, and that his wife and children
are entitled TO full share OF his sue
cess. In fact, II he should fall by the
wayside the wife and children could
run the 'iold farm" as the neighbors
say, as profitably as he ever did in his
best days.
Not many days ago the old man want
ed to turn the water into new field
which he had cleared of sage brush.
He was very busy seeding wheat and
could not be in two places at one and
the same time, and SO, TO help her father,
the pretty daughter rendered her SER
vices to superintend the irrigation.
) With a becoming sun bonnet tied secure
: ly under her dimpled chin and with sun
gloves and shovel she walked across the
fields to the distant headgate.
A headgate after winters rest is moi
always in smooth working order: it i:
not like well oiled machinery, in its w
and down movements. This one belong
u ed TO the obstinate and contrary class
IL would not run up and down. 1t seemed
= to say TO the pretty girl: 81 am here u
c stay" and the pretty girl talked bacl
Z and said: "Aud am here to stay til
e | move you.n IL was woman's determin
$ alton aud power against winters mu,
y aud swollen timbers. The pretty gir
labored with more than her woman
:, strength. Her determination to sue
lie ceed aided her, but the timbers woul
oi not move.
re For an hour the pretty girl exerte
he her strength, skill and ingenuity TO d
De what had been done with the gate
ri hundred times and more, and the tricl
Ut ling waters running to waste below, Oh
ne ly laughed at her. Her rosy cheeks ha
grown TO carmine red and beads of pc
spiration sparkled on her forehead ILL
dewdrops on wildhowers. But she wor
ed on with will which said: 81
nc move you il 1t takes me all the afte
a. noon" "Please let me assist you, sa
&c the young man who had approached u
q observed and who startled her by b
i's words aud offer of assistance. II
Use union OF forces lifted the gate and Z
ne water went rushing down the lateral
NY the new field.
''h New made acquintances; love at fiji
AZ sight and few days after promises o
ice marriage at an early day-this is o
Ns' story of ar afternoon at headga
sne The marriage of these newly made I
iu- ouaintances will be an eligible Oh
The young man is new conner TO
West but he is the bearer OF ties
monials of character that will pass sc
~, tiny and test in any country, and
.'o pretty girl is too well-known in Bla
my foot to require anything more at
''-V hands than the calling of her name.
'en. sight of the handsome manly you
ooo man aud the name OF the pretty
will be sufficient to make all fort'
lilo, tellers in Blackfoot foretell that
trip marriage of this couple will be ha'
une one and the union of their forces
applied at the headgate and eontin
,rih through life, will bring lasting hal
MAY ness to their home. The moral of
story is plain to all. The girl who M
father and mother catches the &
young man.