The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-30
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Mliss SusA1l a
GAl&on Brown.
How She Hunted. rru tho Kiad
Of oa,no She Dagsed.
BY W. r. ROSE.

SOilllOlltSu MISS susan OalJOn
Brown. The scattering white homes
among the trees in the valley, the
blue hills beyond with their fringes
Of pine trees, the clear sky that was
such novelty to the girl from the
great manufacturing town--it was
all bright and fresh and so delight
fully clean. Miss Susan Galton
Brown looked back on the peaceful
prospect for lingering moment or
two and then pressed ahead up the
mountain road.
She certainly was an unusual fig
ure for that quiet neighborhood.
Attired in a close fitting suit of
gray, with a short walking skirt and
wide brimmed gray felt hat that
concealed her beautiful hair, she
might at a distance, save for the
skirt, have been taken for an ex-
tremely handsome boy. Her gait
would have carried out the impress
sion = there was such an uncon-
strained swing to it--but her high
boots were not boys boots, and her
hands were neatly gloved. Miss Su-
san Galton Brown carried some-
thing under her arm. 1t was light
magazine rifle, the gift of an ador-
ing father; for she could shoot and
fish and swim and run and do it all
in way that met that adoring fa-
theirs critical approval, and there
wasn't better authority on these
manly attributes in all the country
round.
In short, Miss Susan Galton
Brown, so her father declared,
should have been born a boy, but as
that couldn't be she certainly was,
as far as the shooting and fishing
went, an admirable substitute. Nat
urally Susan was an only child. She
never would have benefited by all
these advantages if she had not
been. She had minor talents, of
course-an education rounded off
in a finishing school, pleasing
smattering of music, a taste for art
that was only second to her taste
for nature. But all these were quite
dwarfed, in her daddy's opinion, by
those manlier attributes that he so
assiduously cultivated. She was his
companion on long hunting and
fishing trips and an ideal companion
at that. "By Jove," he would say,
"Sue couldn't be improved upon
She never grumbles at her luck and
never growls at me for dragging her
to places where game never runs and
fish never bite. She is one girl in
ten thousand"
1t is needless to say that quiet
Elmwood looked upon this accom-
plished young woman with a very
doubtful expression. She was lit
tie too advanced-that was the term
they used-for Elmwood's old fash
ioned ideas of maidenly modesty,
The mothers of Elmwood held her
up as an example of the baneful
coming woman, and the girls OF
Elmwood thought her dreadfully
bold and secretly envied her. AS
for the men-well, there were but
few of them in Elmwood whose
opinion was worth recording, and OF
these a mere handful dared to ex-
press an honest opinion in the face
of the universal feminine condem-
nation. Of these independent souls
it must be admitted that Mr.. John
Cartwright stood first and foremost
If Miss Susan Galton Brown knew
of the unfavorable light in which
her short skirt and her Teddy hal
had placed her, and there is nc
doubt she did, the matter failed tc
worry her in the least. She ha6
come down to Elmwood to stay {
month with her maiden aunt---hel
dead mother's only sister-who liv
ed in the big white mansion OF
Main street, just beyond the Bap
tist meeting house. 1t was this font
aunt who had invited Jack Cort
wright to call, and, although thil
was particular youth, with higl
ideals of womanhood, he called
again and again and again. Wha
was strange about it, too, was tha
Jack hailed from the east and from
Puritan surroundings at that. Ye
with all this discreet bringing up h,
certainly was fascinated with tn,
wild western holden.
They all said that Jack Cort
wright was a rising young man
Boston capitalists had sent him
fresh from college, to the western
town to lcok after their interest,
in certain undeyeloped coal mining
property that lay a few miles nortl
Of Elmwood, and Jack had taken of
his coat metaphorically and gone tC
work to develop it. There was plen
ty Of capital behind him, and h'
had built railway branch to th'
mine and started a bank in Elm
wood, of which he was temporary
cashier, and stirred the little tow
into making certain improvement,
that had long been discussed. Il
short, Jack Cortwright was recog
nized even by those who didn't ap
nrove on his revolntionarv tactics I,