The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-10
TOW SHE A 4 GOT A START,

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 "So you're from Pistourod, stranger Well, l want t know. l was born unC brought up there, but l hain't seen the place in twenty year. Is ole YounEeE Twin yitG"
 No, but his darter is, and a mighty fine woman to. Shes got the biggest and best stocked farm in the county and plenty O money in the bank"
 "Want C know. Is she marrcdF'
 "No; she hain't no use fer a man except to make money out of him. Can't any of 'em git the better of her in a trade"
 Want ( know. How did she git her start? When l lived iu Pistonrod ole Younker's farm wasn't morc'n seventy acres. fifty cleared, and the stock was one spavlned horse and a cow"
 That seventy acres hes growcd to a thousand now, all cleared, two biz barns full O grain and stock. Sairey Younkers turned out to be a heap good manager"
 "Dew tell? How'd she do it|'
 "Waal, she got her start when she was bout twenty yeaEs old and purity as bran new mowin macldnc. Bout that time most O the young men in the nelghborhood wanted to marry her. Far back as l kin remember ] hearn all the wlmmm folks and most O the men talkin' bout two young rel. lcrs that was both bound to git her. They said Salrey bed agreed to take the best man O the two AS the way they was to find out which was the best man Salrey set 'em a job. The ole man he'd just died, the ole woman wasn't no good, and there wasn't no one to do anything except Sarey, and she didn't hev nothiT to do It with except her good looks, and good looks In a gal don't count except to git a husband that's worth suthin'. But there wasn't no slch in Boulder coun' ty, so lt was a cold time for Salrey.
 "Howsomedever. she said that since her ole pop had died and left her and her mother in a bad way shed got tc hev a man as could build up the farm Ef she got a lazy galoot to set roun' and whlttle 1t 'ud be mighty hard on her. It happened to be plowin time She tole Feb Mower and Jake Marks that whichever couId pSow ten acres fust she'd marry. JlSt as you said there want but fifty acres cleared, and twenty O this needed plowin'. She di vided 'em into two equal parts, one fol Feb and tother fer Jake. Both on 'em was awful bent on gittin' her, and their pride was teched Besides, nel thcr was willin' to refuse on account O tother. Salrey had to borrow two horses fer 'em and one blow. She started 'em one fine April mOrnin'. was there. with a lot O neighbors, tc see 'em start, and all the time they was pIowln' people was comln' and goin' watchin' 'em, while Salrey was a-smnin' on both of 'em and brlngln 1 'em out things to eat and drink.
 "Waal, when they come to the end O the match 1t was a tie. Both got through at the same time, and both fell down exhausted Salrey give 'em both a drink and tole 'em they was the finest fellers she ever seen. She seem cd awful sorry, though, that one on 'em hadn't come out ahead, for she said 1t put her in a fix She couldn't marry neither of em nohow. So they asked her to let lem try ag'in. She said she'd give 'em an easy job next time. She give each on em twenty-five acres to plant They was glad enough to git of so easy, but when they was glttin' to the end O the job Salrey tux