Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-12
ABashful Wooinc

Wincheil farm, was q widow ma w
 the matrimonial market. 1
 One day calamity came. Two,,
 of bees started to swarm at onco r'
 widow rushed out and Legan barn, 4'
 ing on pan and got the bees to o,,., '
 for the nonce, but that Was as f,r
 she could go. She stood yeilip, .s
 help when help came. A trovalo.
 the highway stopped and hitebed n''
 horse and walked up the bath ,
 saw what should Le done, and ba ,,,.'
 ahead and did it. In a Quarte, os
 hour he had the swarms in tba ro-
 hives, aud after look at ina otbo'' informed the widow that if womb ta several days yet before they ,porIs
 come out. She had time to look nj bi,a
 while he was at work, and she ra,ho.
 liked his lcoiis. So far as she coris
 make cut he hardly glanced at her ana
 he certainly had Lut a few words ,a
 say. When lie had finished hi, v,o,,'
 he looked over her head, said Le u.s glad to have been of use and tooL h,s
 departure. The N idow had caved ,As bees, but sine was piqued. Any Widow
 would have been.
 Three or four days later the otba,
 hives swarmed and were taken caro o,
 by the hired men. Then the stron,a,
 appeared again to ask how the jnsec,o
 were getting along. He seemed en-
 barrassed and in hurry and refuea the invitation to enter the house. Ua also appeared to look everywhere elsa
 but at the widow. Her hair was nicelv combed. her apron snow whi.e and he, cheeks like roses, but he paid mora attention to tine pear tree and the soan kettle and the summer squashes than
 to her. He just wanted to know. yon
 know, and was glad to find out and then was gone.
 Of course n widow that had turpeo down q dozen offers of matrlmony could not do otherwise than look after the retreating stranger and toss her head and say that he was man that did not appreciate good thing. Ney. ertheless she made some cautious in- quiries of the hired men and in that way found out that he was new res. ident of Ellenton, but no more.
 Then another week passed and the stranger called to say that he was looking around to purchase Q good farm, and he wished to inquire If the widows was for sale. On this Oeca. sion he entered the house, but evident. ly with reluctance. He was certainly O bashful man. In that he was nov city. When Deacon Graham, widow. CT, came to buy the farm q year be. fore he had stood In the kitchen door and boldly announced:
 "Widder Wlnchell, I'm a-lOoking 10 buy farm. If you go with this, III pay $i0 an acre"
 That meant $50 an acre for the farm and S10 an acre for her, and, though blunt way of putting 1t, she was not so very indignant. The stranger, who had nt last introduced himself as Mr. Bingham, threw out no hint of want ing anything but the farm. Most any widow would have felt the slight. And then, too, when she had replied that the farm was not for sale he al once rose up to depart without speaking Of how wheat and corn were looking up or casting a second glance at the bar rel of soft soap she had made the day before and left at the kitchen door to cool. It hurt and it aggravated. MT. Bingham might be bashful man. but there are times when even bashfui man should force himself to talk.
 Two weeks passed away, and then as the widow sat on the piazza one afternoon looking so nice that Farmer Johnson's mouth watered as he drove past Mir. Dinpnam called again ms time it was to see if the widow had a cow to sell. He was invited to sH down, and COWS were discussed lie was looking away into the garden ih' stead of at the woman, as he sOugn' to do his share of the discussing. Ine widow had no cows to sell, but sue didn't say so. She left the Impression on the callers mind that if he caue again he might possibly buy one. sne jumped from cows to calves and Iroln calves to sheep and lambs in hopes to iietain him, but he got away as seon us possible. Others had sat arouno until fairly driven out of the nousc with the broomstick. Others had poio' ly flattered. but he had sail nOtnins In praise. The widow tossel her heaO ma said she didn't care, but we knO" she did, just the same.
 At the end of another ten days 'n' bashful Mir. Bingham was Dach ask if the widow would sell mn hog or two with the COW. She ""' sitting on the veranda again, and' u' before, he was Invited to take se1l When he had done so she mo'eu ' as to hem him in and said:
 Now, sir. look me square III . face. Are you q widower? Do !Vs want to buy farm? Do you want ~ buy COW and some hOgsg Do !Vs want to buy hens or ducksf AIe w liter lambs or ganders!"
 Mir. Bingham blushed and cast uO"s lis eyes and fidgeted around, anu '''