The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-11-29
A Miners y
: DIFFERENCE


There were three women IN the
coach, and whom night came on one Of
the passengers, a rough miner. Insisted
on every man getting outside that each
woman might have & seat to herself on
which 70 sleep. Whom we were seated
!, on the coach top, offered The polite
miner cigar and remarked.
.You treat women with great respect
out here.
'Thats cause there's 10 few on 'en
They'd oughtcr pass a law ag'In their
comm"
= suppose Il was your admiration
for the scx that leads you 10 treat them
70 unselnshly."
! mot bit Ira my advice. stranger,
for any man to lot 'em alone. inever
had but one experience with any on
EN-, and that was enough for me. II
was when we was workln' In Zigzag
guich. There wns lot of us there
washln' out consid'able ore and all do
IN, well, One day grizzly beaded ole
4fellsr come along totin' gal. She was
the fnst specimen we'd any on us laid
eyes on for months Stranger. d'y re-
member when y was boy and went
tnto store to buy a pocketknIfcf
Among hundreds on 'em the knife VI
bought didn't look especial fine. put
when y got Il homo away from the
Fest On 'em. great Scott, how II did
shinsl WELL that's tho way Il was
with the gai There wasn't no more on
'sm to compare her with, and we was
only used to each others hairy faces.
'sr'ha ole man said he'd como out to
aig for gold. aud his daughter was 20. |
in' to do bis euokln' for him. II wasn't |
long before | seen that the gal was Civ. |
in' me a preference TO all .he other
men In camp aud I felt Just as II | |
was beln' tilIed with laughln' gas. !
was as proud and happy as II IA struck |
q vein Of pure gold. Pauline that was
Asf name. Pauline Maryweathcr she
was as dead stuck on mc as was on
her. Only one thing troubled me- She
wouldn't take no notice on me except
when we was alone aud no one 70 see
us. She said her father never would
consent 10 her marryi1' no miner and
was hopin' to make a strike and marry
her to some biz gun In the east. How
ever. at last she consented TO let mo
w what I could do with him. and
asd
"Alr. Maryweathcr.' said. Z am 10
lore with yer daughter and want her
for my wife. rot $4,000 worth OF dust
in my shanty, and when | git double
the amount III 10 east, set up a store
somewhere aud live respectable
"'You jlst let my daughter alone. he
said. or IN put more lead Into yer
vitais than y got gold In yer cabin
"When tole Pauline about II. she
looked sad. but didn't say nothin'. and
I begun sryln' 10 persuade her 10 run
away with me. She was dead set aE'in
q at ftist, but al last she come round
ana laid out the hull business herself,
! was to 20 down 10 the fork OF tho
sreek and walt there for her. One
thing ,she insisted on. She said II she
oace made the move her father q new
er forgive her. She trusted me. but
shere might be some slip. 80 she would
npt stir unless I'd let her carry my
dsst. This locked reasonable. and the
lAghs before we was TO dig out met
lskF In lonely place up the creek and
turned the dust over. She seemed
Mighty diseonsarted and clung to me
= II somcpln awful was gotn' TO hap.
pen. At last she kissed me goodby.
maxim me promise once more that !
wouldn't fan her, and then we sepa.
I&ted.
'WaRl, We was 10 meet at 4 o'clock
no next afternoon. was nj the fork
w s. aud bout quarter TO my
seart begun to beat like drumstick.
,eatin' faster and faster TIL my watch
bod 4 p. N. Then II beat at the
'sme gait tili quarter past 4. and
eein' Pauline didn't show up, Il begun !.
b slow down. waited tlll 8. and then,
Qncludln' that the ole man had got !,
d to the deal. went back to the gulch.
ThLngr was . work y. aa usual ex