The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-03-27
MILLIONAIRE MINER
WANTED SIMPLICITY

w dSIlHgIOn, ID. C.-NOr long ago q
| grizzled Millionaire miner from the far
west dropped into town. He occupied
a superb suite in one of Washington
most luxurious hotels during his stay
here. Among his callers was young
man from his own state. This young
man married not long ago a young
woman out home" They got along
! right tidily on his 81 900 a year, earned
as a government clerk. The old miner
had not only known the young man
! from boyhood, but he had ridden the
young mans wife on his knee all the
way TO Banbury Cross when she was a
little girl in pigtails.
Son" said the grizzled miner to the
young man from his home state, when
the latter was making his call at the
fine hotel suite. you and Agg!e are
keeping house here, aren't you?"
Well we're living in a little fiat, if
that's keeping house" the young man
replied.
We'll" said the wealthy old miner
L sure do take it powerful hard you
and Aggie don't invite me up to you2
place and give me something TO eat
sure do"
The young man started to make some
I'm getting mighty tired of hotel
and restaurant grub" he went on. Il
can't get any taste or good out of it
it all tastes alike. If you and Aggie
only knew how I've been sort O. hank
ering for good, big film savory lay
out OF shoulder and greens. I'll bet a
box of matches that you'd take pity OH
me and asked me to your place 10 have
some. Ever have shoulder and greens?
Nothing on earth ike shoulder and
green's. after all, is there"
The young man looked bit embar-
raised
We'll" he said, "Aggie and l have
talked, time and again about asking
you to take dinner with US since you
came on here this time. But you know
what these dinky little three rooms and
a bath flats are-Or do you? And Ag-
gle and l had sort of an idea that
maybe-well. TO be frank, that, after
all the splendiferousness that you're
used to. why. it might make you feel
sort of uncomfort- oh. ours is just
plain little dump. you know, and we
thought maybe II would-er-"
Look a-here. boy" interrupted the
old miner, will you and Aggie give me
some shoulder and green's tomorrow
evening, say at 6 o'clock?"
You know very well that We'll be
delighted to have you replied the
young man.
"AlI right" said the old man Write
me down the address. I'll be there"
'And, joe he added as the young
man prepared to take his leave, you'd
better warn Aggie about the loW-down,
ornery, simmerng habits of green's. IT
takes lot of green's TO make proper
mess of em. A pretty whopping bas-
al J,-a h,rSi ,a1
O. green's almost, boil down to most
nothing" and then the two laughed
and the young man went away.
On the following evening the bluff.
ruddy, f1ne-looking old mining man ar
rived at the little fiat on the minute.
1t was a neat and tastefully furnished
fiat. but small, of course.
Sure you've got plenty Of greens?"
the old gentleman inquired, with mock
anxiety. when he was greeted by the
pretty young matron whom he had
known as a child. I've been worrying
a good deal over that today"
"Oh. stacks and stacks of greens.
she replied. adding, but if there
shouldn't be enough l could eke out by
boiling down the rubber plant. you
know and so the little dinner began
merrily enough.
The shoulder was sweet piece of
mast-fed meat from Virginia and after
the old miner had tucked his napkin
under his chin in the old-fashioned way
and gone at it he came pretty close to
looking like a thoroughly satisfied ell
derby man.
Dye children know" he said as he
passed his plate over for the third help
ing, that I've been in training for this
ever since yesterday? Fact. I've hardly
eaten q mollthful since YOU invited me
or, better. since invited myself And
it's worth the fasting
After the dinner the old boy fixed
himself in a big rattan chair in the
tiny coy corner near window, and
got a well-seas oned briar pipe belong
ing to his young host a-going.
"A cigar after shoulder and green's"
he exclaimed, reprovingly, when the
young man offered him a cigar.
mighty tidy place you've got here,
he said, after a pause, waving his pipe
around. Slick as a crick eel, I'd call
1t. Plumb luxurious, in fact" and a
sort of misty light of recollection ap-
peared in the gray old eyes of the man.
Il suppose Mary and / wouldn't have
looked upon this as a sort of heaven
away back yonder in the tangle Of
years when we were struggling along
the best way we knew how
The young matron had been picking
out soft little chords on the piano, but
she crossed over and sat down by her
husband.
Didn't have any such thipgs as coy
corners when Mary and | made our
first start at housekeeping" the old boy
went on, crossing his legs and leaning
back and putting away at his pipe.