The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-10
Lincoln No. 2 ]
BY GRANT Lester
Copyright, 1901. by Mary McKeon. /.
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By GRANT LISTER.


For a good many years people had
said that Farmer Johnson's wife was
head Of his house and that he was a
great incumbrance to her, They had i
farm inst outside thriving town, and
had II been left to the wife there were
many promising speculations she would
have entered into. She was allowed to
boss things around the farm. hut when,
II came to outside matters the hns.
band would take ne risks When his
death finally took place, people looked
to see Aunt Betty, as she was called.
though only forty years old, carry out
some of her ideas and make things
hum. They were not disappointed.
She went into strawberries and made
money; she went into the dairy bust
ness and made money: she went into
poultry and made money. 1t was said
that there were not half. d2zen men
In the county who had her business
sense.
Aunt Betty had daughter nineteen
years old. by name Prue. Prue did not
| run to business. She was simply a
sweet tempered and lovable girl, who
attended school in town 10 the winter
and helped about The homework in
summer. Tn Is tha time Of the IA.
theirs (eath the mother had not asuf.
| fere,i aspirations" regarding Prue's fu.
ture. It was tqcltly understood that
she would marry some young farmer
| and settle down to the humdrum life.
But after the mother had become n
business woman there were other plan,
for the girl She was to be educarea
] in rnslc All 0thor arts and made a
lady Of.
I.st how r..e Johnson and Darius
Livingstone drst met is OF no great
consequence lie was twenty-five and
had graduated rs q lawyer and settled
In the toMl. lie Nas Q slab side!
young man. tall and angular aid iii.
calmly. There ~"re Il few people who
said that he might know more than b..
showed. hut TIE majority were Of the
opinion that he didn't know whether
potatoes grew in the ground or on
trees. If pruc held with the majority,
| II was rather sInEular that the young
/ lawyer Should have come driving out
10 the farm one June day to inquire
t6f her She was upstairs at the
time, RhA it was her mother who re,
/ reived hiiii, n! the first glance she
Thought him the liSnellest young man
she had ever seen. JSteT the second
she took him for some DsIafgr Of rnu-
sic and went upstairs and Saa to
Prue:
There's bean pole down Stairs ask
ing fof You never saw snch d gawk.
he says his name Is Livingstone. He's
enough to scare a Getting hen of the
nest. Did ycu ever hear or any sucn
feller?'
Why. ma, he's a lawyer In town;
and we have met three or four times
replied Prne ~ her face flushed scar.
! let,
"A lawyer- humrA If you was to
put club in his hand he wouldn't
know enough to pound sand. What's
he here for:'
WHY why. he said he might call
some day. l don't see why you call
him homely I've heard lots oc folks
say that he reminded them Of Abraham
Lincoln
Ihe maf'tsf shifted her contempt and
turnea n%af Prue went down aud re.
GeWed her caller. and. though Mrs,
Johnson was rather busy around The
mouse and ARA, she saw and heard
enough 70 satisfy her that the yorns
man was Interested" lie remained
tof an honr or 50 and then la.;. -