The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02

few seconds of glaring at each other time was everything. One was stopped, pulled out his stake, and turned to face his male opponent A moent more and the opponent yielded and the two turn ed and were off racing for other claims The woman sat down. We on the train who were yelling ourselves hoarse at the incident, could see her wipng away the tears. She was neither pretty nor stylish, but she was a woman
 Months of hard work, loneliness, and suffering follows the Woman's advent into border life. Then she finds that her efforts to raise a class of Sunday school scholars is bearing fruit min ister has consented to visit the neigh borhood once evry two weeks, and song book has found many readers The first Sunday service on the border brings a motley crowd, One may sit next to a killer of man, he who has done time for train robbery, or a fugi- tive from justice come thither to con ceal his identity and get fresh start.
 Conversions of the evangelist who makes his circuit include some of the toughest communities on the frontier, and are always lasting, man will come into new country who has never been inside church, but he will read fly turn his attention to the service in a tent He may be impressed with the words of the evangelist and turn his life into the narrow pathway some or our worst outlaws have been reformed aby those prairie sermons, which, though coarse of construction, are deep or meaning,
 The woman can be credited for 1t all. She first brings the minister to her community by assuring him that she will get enough to pay his expenses and that he will not be i'll treated For drunken cowpunchers are apt to make it hot for the preacher who they think is trying to tame their commuE- ity, If a woman of the settlement in troduces him to the congregation 1t sets things alright.
 Some towns are harder to civflize than others. A new town in the Chero- kee outlet grew to 800 souls without a woman-I mean the woman whose life is pure and upright, for there are oth- CTS who have forsaken all trat is good, and they may be found everywhere. HIS lUMIl IS llDW OIlt OL tiiC iiiVSt VI " ing and cultivated communities Of that territory. But year elapsed before woman dared venture in.
 One day. when the stage coach drew up, the wife of leading saloonkeeper alighted and Tom announced from be- hind the bar that night that she had come to stay. He set up the drinks to the crowd, but they did not congratu- late him. Instead they met in a gam bling hall and decided to boycott his place until he had sent his wife away When he learned of it. of course with his heart set on the dollar, he told her to go. She went Not until that sa- loonkeeper was shot in a midnight brawl would they allow his wife to re- turn to him. When they saw how ten derly she nursed him back to life and with what gentleness she SD Ike to them, their hearts melted and the toughest cowboy in the town addressed meet ing one night in this wise:
 "Boys we will have to surrender. I am going to pack my saddlebags and pull out for the Indian country and give this town over to the women and their kind. It is not for me to stay here"
 So the worst of them linked" and B. son became a thriving place aad fit one to inhabit.
 Many claims have been settled by wo- men and cultivated In manner beyond belief In Kay county, one of the rich est in the Cherokee outlet the women who farm constitute fully one-seventh of the farming population. Of that number half own their own farms.
 The new Kiowa and Comanche coun- try--the latest adjunct to the border is being settled with homesteaders and among that number are women from all parts of the United States. Some are barely of age, who seek to enjoy the free life of farming, who fear no work, and who believe that culture was not intended alone for those who lived indoors.--W. R. Draper in the New