The daily Alaskan., 1914-03-17
TheMan Who WasLaughedAt
By SADIE OLCOTT

Marlborough was ranchman. He WIS q typical westerner; but, having made money at raising sheep, he held hiS head pretty high. He had a daugh- ter, Rosa, who was rustic beauty. Marlborough didn't propose that Rosa should take up with COwpuncher or anything like that. He intended her for q ranchman. like himself, who rode over his broad acres and bOssed others.
 A ranchman came cOurting his daughter, true enough, but not the kind of ranchman Marlborough was looking for. His name was Jabez StubbS. He came out from Missouri to start ranching on fifty acres of land and with q dozen sheep. He was the hOmelieSt man in the west, and so ig- norant was he of western ways that he didn't even carry revolver. He caught sight of Rosa MuldrOugh one day skimming along on horseback, for all the world like a swallow, only a hundred times as pretty, and he want ed her right off.
 He was very honorable fellow, Stubbs was, almost as honorable as he was homely. One morning Mul- trough was standing on his porch, boot ed and Spurred for ride over his do- main, when he saw Stubbs coming up to the house mounted on a horse as measly looking as the rider was home ly. When he reached the porch, with out dismounting he said in cracked voice:
 "Mr. MuldrOugh, I've come to ask you for your daughter-that is, If she'll marry me. I've got fifty acres of land and a dozen sheep, but that isn't all the property I've got There's $675 in the Dime Savings bank of Independ- ence, Mo, and $972 in"-
 He got no further. Muldrough put his hand to his hip, drew his revolver and, pointing it at him, said:
 "Git!'
 Stubbs looked up apparently more surprised than hurt, and, digging bis heels into his horse, rode away, saying;
 every well, MT. Marlborough, I've talk en the right course In asking your per mission to win your daughter before speaking to her. Now, since your treat ment of me 1 give you notice that I'll win her if I can without your permis. sion"
 A burst of laughter, in which was mingled a lot of scOrn, was the only reply to this threat. Then Muldrough went into the house and told Rosa all about it. She didn't laugh as he did, for, down in the bottom of her heart, she sympathized with StubbS on ac- count of the treatment he had received from her father. But MuldrOugh did not notice this and never dreamed that he had anything to fear from Stubbs through Rosa.
 Some time after this, when the girl was out on her horse, she met Stubbs. He rode right on, looking at her wist- fully out of his eyes till he saw her draw rein; then he came to stop.
 MT. Stubbs," she said, ''I wish tC say to you that a man who pays wo- man the highest compliment he can pay her-proyided he wants her foI herself-is entitled to civil reply. My father was not warranted in his treat ment of you the other day, especially since your cause was perfectly honor able. Nor was he authorized to speak for me: Though I highly appreciate the compliment you have paid me, l decline your proposition because do not love you"
 q thank you for saying 1t to me in- stead of never giving me an answer at all. I'm sorry you don't love me. l love you and shall always love you I'll never love any one else"
 "Why do you especially want me MT. Stubbs?"
 Because I do."
 "There are plenty of girls in the world far more attractive than IT.
 'GNot to me"
 q wish you didn't feel as you do.