Arizona republican., 1905-04-30

Kate brought me the luck and I felt the winnings were more hers than mine. There wasn't anything too good for her. When a Scandinavian mis- sionary came up to the place We went and got married white fashion, for I wanted my wife to be respected, and after that I insisted that everybody should call her Mrs. Saul Timney, which made her feel about six foot high every time she heard 1t.
 Well, sir. Kate was a study in those times. She couldn't quite get it through her head for a good while why we could put it over the rest of 'em the way we did. The more I got for her, the more puzzled she was. I recall the first time she ever saw money passed. It was when I bought the dogs. was paying S20 gold pieces out of a sack, and she asked me what they were. She thought they were stones, because they looked more than any thing else like the flat, round pebbles she had seen on the beach, the kind you throw to skip on the water.
 They're just like allgacheek." I said; then partly for the joke on her, l said, Good medicine Cmeaning magic); you can get anything you want with 'em."
 Give me some" said Kate, not quite believing me, for it was a pretty big story to swallow, according to her ideas, so handed her over a stack of twenties.
 She took them and went out to try the magic. Going up to first man she met, she held out the whole lot to him, asking him for his slicker. When l came up and said it was all right. he peeled 1t right off and handed it over to her, grabbing the money quick That was new one on her, and she couldn't quite believe it then We'll It was funny to see the way she act ed. She pretty near bought up every thing in camp she took a fancy to. just for the fun of seeing the magic work. and she was as excited as a kid with a brand new watch.
 We came out of the country finally. and took a steamer for San Francisco for l wanted to see the old town again and show Kate what big cities were like, beside giving her the chance to spend all the money she wanted on togs and jewelry. We drove up from the wharf in the best turnout I could find, and put up at the Palace Hotel in the bridal suite. The best was none too good for Kate and me while I was flush
 l rather guess we broke the record for spending, the two weeks we stayed there. l had three or four cases of champagne open in my room all the time, and the bell boys knew they didn't have to be asked, but would just pop the cork and let her fizz. I got a great big music box that cost more than a piano. with drums and i bells inside, and we kept it going while We were eating. which was most of the time we weren't out doing the town. I blowed myself for an outfit of sparklers, of which this stone in my shirt front is the last sole survivor. l bought more clothes than I could wear in ten years.
 Kate went me one better. Geei She did have a time! or course. woman | like. though she was a squaw, the first thing she thought about after she saw
 white women on the wharves at Skag- way was clothes. Mrs. Saul Timney | had to dress the part, and she was i bound to do it if it half killed her. which 1t did. She bought a whole civ ! ilZad outfit of duds at the White | House in Frisco, and got the chamber maid to help her into them: that's , where she got the first jolt. It wasn t so easy as it looked. She couldn't walk In the high heeled shoes they wear here. and so she kept on moccasins. l Corsets she gave up early in the game. | They didn's show anyway, being in side. Finally she got a dressmaker to rig her up a sort of a loose red dress that they call a Mother Hubbard Her l favOrite cover was an ermine cape. She bought it because it cost more than anything else in the fur store. She just splurged on hats and bonnets. l reckon she had new one every day. The thing that tickled her most was l gloves, for her hands were good and litt,e. She wore white ones all the | time. I s'pose it was because she felt she loked more like an American wo- | man that way.
 The swell tOgs she couldn't wear she bought just the same. We skated through town like a forest fire. me do- ing the talking and her the picking out. She got darned near everything that I ever knew women wore, and a big lot of others I never had heard of
 Every time she picked a thing and pulled out the yellow boys to pay for it her eyes stuck out. Of course, not being used to doing business that way, | it looked to her like every clerk be- | hind the counter was her slave. all ready to give her anything she said l She never got over her wonder at the | medicine stones."
 She had to stop in front of ever 1 jewelry store she saw, too, but ]
 couldn't get her to buy anything worth wearing. She just turned up her nose
 at diamonds and rubies, but at tine
 sight of a cheap string of beads she
 went out of her head. She generally wore five or six necklaces of 'eIn oveI
 her cape. Lord. I didn't care. and
 what she wanted she got.
 Well, after she'd let the money run
 away from her for a couple of weeks
 she got tired of the game and Krnd ol homesick- She begun to pine fo~ cCl6
 weather and ice and all, while I was
 just beginning to enjoy the place
 tried to brace her up, and thinking il
 might please her to hear the seals barr
 at the Cliff House, we drove out there
 in a hack.
 We were down to the White House
 store one day, wh@n I run slap inJ'
 Flora Donovan, that U9ed to live nex | door tO l1S in Vii ginia City SEc WI: