The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-12

; HOW SHE
IL GOT A START.

wright, 1905, by American Press Asso-

place in twenty year. is ole Younker /,
livin' yitf'
mo, but his darter Is. and a mighty !
fine woman 10. She's got the biggest
aud best stocked farm In the county
and plenty o money in the bank"
want { know. Is she marrledT"
"No; she hain't no use fer man
except 10 make money out Of him.
Can't any of Fem git the better OF her
ia trade q.
want & know, How did she git her
-stertf When lived In Plstonrod ole
Younkef's farm wasn't more'n seventy
acres, nifty cleared, and the stock was
one spawned horse and cow"
"rhnt seventy acres he's growed to-
a thousand now, all cleared, two big
barns full o. grain and stock. Sairey
Younkers turned out TO be a heap good
manager"
"Dew tell? How'd she do itT'
"Wanl she got her start when she
was bout twenty years old and purity
as q bran new mowin' machine. Bout
that time most O. the young men in
the neighborhood wanted 10 marry
her. Far back as ! kin remember
hearn all the wimmin folks aud most
o. the men talkln' bout two young fell
lers that was both bound TO git her.
They said Sairey he'd agreed to take
the best man O. the two. AS the way
they was to find out which was the
best man Saircy set 'em 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 Sarcy, and
she didn't hcv nothln to do i with
except her good looks. and good looks
in a gal don't count except. to sit n
husband that's worth suthin'. But
there wasn't no sich in Boulder coun-
ty, so II Was a cold time Tor Salrcy.
"HoWsomedcyer. she said that since
her ole pop had died and left her and
her mother In n bad way she'd got to
| hev man as could build up the farm.
IIf she got n lazy galoot to set roun'
and whttle 1t 'ud be mighty hard on
her. II happened 10 be plOwin' time.
She tole Icb Mower and Jake Marks
| that whichever could plOw ten acres
| fust she'd marry. Jist as you said,
there want but fifty acres cleared, and
twenty O. this needed plowin'. She di.
! "idcd 'cm into two equal parts. one fol
Zeb and t'other fer Jake. Both on 'eu
was awful bent on gittm' her, and
| their pride was tcched Besides, mel
Their was willin' to refuse on account
O. t'other. Salrey had to borrow tive
horses fer 'em and one pow. She
started 'em one fine April nornin.
was there with lot o nelghbors, tC
see 'em start. ard all the time they
was plowin' people was comm anC
goin' watchin EN-. while Salrey wa'
n.smllln' on both of 'em and bringin
'em out things TO cat and drink.
"Wnal. when they come TO the end G
he match II was lie. Both go
through at the same time. and botl
fell down exhausted. Sairey give 'en
both drink and toe 'em they was th,
finest rellers she ever seen. She seem
ed awful sorry. though. that one ol
'em hadn't come out ahead for sh
said II put her In Il llS. She couldn'
marry neither of 'cm nohow. SO the.
asked her to let 'em try ag'ln. Sh
said she'd give 'em an easy job mex
time. She give each ON em twenty-nv
acres to plant. They was glad enoug
to git OFF so easy, but when they wa
glttn' to the end O the job Sairey tn
sick with neurology and wasn't ther
to see the finish. Both OF EN- elaine
that they got through fust, and ther
they was ag'ln,
"Sarey was put out with bein' pes
tered by 'em and wouldn't hev nothil
more to do with neither OF 'em. Bu
long bout harvest time she relente
aud agreed To give 'em another trla
She said whichever got half the Gro
into the barn fust was the man sh
wanted. and she kinder hlnted tina
there was one on 'em she did war
; mighty bad, but II wouldn't be fair fo
her TO tell which. So they went
, work on third trial. This time ju:
, as they was glttln to the end o I'll
job they both TUX sick. and Salrey ha
: to finish it herself. Nobody knowed ho'
they come to sicken both ut once, an
some was mean enough TO hint thu
Snirey had given em some rum wit
. pizen in it. They want sick long. bl
when they got well the job was fnls
: ell without 'em. So she didn't tai
neither of 'em nohow.
That's the way salrey got her star
|, She gr0wed a fine crop as didn't coi
, her nothin' and put the money all in'
the farm. They say she got the bu
ance of her land cleared in some sic
fashion, but don't know nothin' bot
that. Leastaways she not only pl
her farm in payin condition, but b
gun TO buy iinln' land. She's fort
o year old now aud good looiln yit \
y the widerers and old bachelors ther
- abouts wants to marry her, and | b
9 lieve she could git mp plowln' or
Il mowln' match among 'em today
she wanted to; but laws, she haln
got no use for 'em.. aXed her on
= why she didn't take a husband. 81
> looked at me surprised-like aud a
swered what would | do With hin
He'd only be In my way"
'But. say. neighboT what makes ~
y look so s0rrowfulp ltarshs 1Ht 3
!, "You was tellln' bout Heb Now,
- anu lake Mnr,s wasn't Vouyn ..,.