Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-14
HOW SHE
 Il 4 GOT A START.

So You Fe rom l'tStubfod, stranger Well. want [ know. 1. was born and brought up there, but hain't seen the place in twenty year. Is ole Younker liyin' yit:"
 No, but his uartcr is. and q might hDe- Iaman to, Shes got the biggest and best stacked farm in the county and plenty e money in the bank
 Want [ know. Is she narriedt"
 "No: she hain'i no use fer a man except to make money out of iin Cant any of '"m git the better Of her in q trade
 ''Want ( know How did she git her start: When lived iu Fistonrod ole YounkcrS farm wasn't more'n seventy acres, fifty cleared, and tue shock was one spavined horse aud q cow
 That seventy acres he's Growcd to Il thousand now. all cleared, two big ! barns full Q grain and stock. Sairry 1 Younkers turned out 10 be a heap good 1 manager"
 'Dew tell? How'd she dc it?''
 "Waal, she got her start when she was bout twenty years old and purly as q bran new moWin' maehine 'Bou that time most O the young men in the ncighborhOod wanted to marry l her Ear back us I kin remember 1 hearn all the wmmin folks aud most O the men talkin' bout two young fcl- lers that was both bound to gil her. They said Sarey he'd agreed to take the best man O thr two. As he way , they was to find out whlch WnS tl!e best man S:irey set enn a job. Ihc ole man he'd just died. tsae ole woman wasn't pa- good, and there wasn't no one to A- anything except Sarey, aud she didn't hev n0thin' to do il with except her good looks. aud good io"},s ill T gal don't count except to gil a husband that's worth sn,i,iu But there wasn't no Sich In Boulder colu. ty, so it was a cold ,ine rnF Sairry
 "HoWSome,lcvcr. she said iha Sinee -lt.r ole pop had died and lril hri. and her mother in Il bad way she'd gol to hev Il man ;ts could build ui, he farm Elf she got q lazy gal""l lo.Sel rolln' sud whittlc il 'lid bc nellf hard e} her It happened lo he pi,,Win tiol,, She to!e Zeb Mower aud Jake Marks that whichever could I.jaM tea H'lrS lust she'd nalrN. .lisl a~ Ntal SHiG there Wa'a't but fifty aeres cleared. ad twenty e this needed FltWi!t Sl!c u videa 'eua into two equal parts cue fol Zeb and t'other fer Jake Beth oa 'can was awful bent oa &irtji her nlti their pride Was .cehcd l;eSidcs Hei thcr was Wilin to refuse on account O t'othcr. S;ircN had lo borrow tHoi horses fer em and one pI"W. Shp started 'em one tine April mornin. was there. with a lot O ncighborS lo see 'em start and all the time they was plowin' people was conii asd &on' Wotrhu enl. while Sairoy Was a-Smiln' un both of 'em ami brin@iH 'em out things to c;lI aud drink
 "Waal, when they come to the cad :" the match it was H tie. Both gel through at the same time, and both fell down exhausted. Saircy give 'em both ;i drink and tuie 'em they was thc finest fcllcrs she over seen, Sue sccni- ed awful sorry, though. that one UN .em hadn't come ont ahead. for she said it put her in q fix She couldn't marry neither of 'em uuhoW. So they asked her to let 'em try in. She said she'd give 'en aN easy job next time. She give each un 'cm twenty-five acres 10 plant. They was glad enough to git off so easy, but when they was gittin' to the end O the lob Sarey tull sick with neurology and wasn't there to sec thc tiuish. Roth of 'cm claimed that they got through fu>t, and there they was a@'in
 "Saircl wHs put out with hclu pes tered bX 'cm and wouldn't hev Uothiu mefe=l0 do with neither of ,em. Euj long bout harvest time she rclented and agreed to Si}e em another trial. She said ~hiehe5 ef get half the crop into the barn iHSt WAS the HaH she wanted. #ad she kinder huted that thcrt Waa pae e; pn she did want mighty bad bat il Moa:dn't he iai. for her to tell WhieA So they went 10 work on alh.rd )fia This time juSt as they was Gi6n to thc end . the job they both trs si.t, and Sahey had 10 finish il hrrsr'i Nobody kuuWcd how they come to $ ....a both at once. and some was mean VHoHEh To hint tle}t Saircy had given em some rum with pizen in it. Thty @a'ut sick bong. hut when they got W9i I.e ioh Has tiuish- cd without 'em So sue ddut ta14 neither of cm nolGW.
 That's the W Sairey got heg start She growed 4 crop as didn't cost her nothin' and put the money all into the farm They say she got the bal i, ance of her land cleared in some sich ! fashion but do Y ,,n0W n0fhfn' 'bDut that IcasiaWa. she not only put her farm in pay condition, but be i gun to buy iu hd. Shes forty year old noW a cd looljn' >it. All i the widerc's bachelors there- ! abouts W V hcr, aud hc lieve she | a piowjn' or q ! mowin' m, e..uAl 'em today if ! .-I. u, [. L.