The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-03-27


Of the men that got killed was fghtin'
for her. But she wouldn't have none
Of EN- She's mighty particular, seem
she's had twenty men to pick from.
She's got snappin' black eyes, kind OF
reddish hair and is purity and plump
as a robin.
Now, II you want to work out a
scheme for furnishin' wives you don't
want nary of the women to be a Jim
dandy. One purity woman with the
old Nick In her will spoil any practical
plan that was ever got up. This gal,
Becky Riggs, bein' the only unmarried
woman left In the camp Miss Bowers
had gone back for another load-and
every man left wantin' her, set up q
confagration. Every day there was a
fight about her, and some one was sure
to be killed. The wives begged her to
choose some one and stop the flghtin',
But she wouldn't. She'd make b'lieve
she was goin' to take one Of 'em and
then start In to encourage another.
If anything was needed to keep up the
list of casualties this filed the bill.
well, it got so bad at last, so many
good men bein' killed, that Mr.. Park
hurst sent Miss Riggs word that he'd
be pleased to furnish her a ticket back
where she came from. She sent word
to him that she'd ruther be an old
maid In Colorado than bloomin' mar.
ried woman In the east. Then Mr.
Parkhurst went to see her to reason
with her. She jist set there listenin'
to him with her head on one side and
her nose IN the air and didn't answer
never word.
Things KEEP goin' from bad to worse
Some OF the men Miss Riggs had re
fused TUX to drink, and most Of 'em
wouldn't work. 1t was impossible to
git other hands, and the dirt taken out
was gittin' less and less every day. II
begun to seem that If Miss Riggs wasn'i
married or didn't go away the mine
would have to shet down. The presi-
dent wrote to know what was up,
Mr.. Parkhurst wrote to send on a car
load Of women. The president wrote
that Miss Bowers had come back and
wouldn't advise no more gals to &c
to SIGH benighted place. This looked
purity black. Mr.. Parkhurst called fol
old Ben Higgins and axed him what
was best to be done.
when ! was livin' with my ole
woman, Mr.. Parkhurst,, Higgins said
knowingly, I found out that women
must have their way
What do you mean by thatr
well, sir. there's nothin' fur pur.
ty gal here but to git married. Every
man here has axed Miss Riggs but
one.'
I thought they had all asked her.
No, sir; there's one left, and the
KNOWN ones among the wives say
that's the one she wants.
"sWho Is her
7 think it's you. sir
"TY
Yes, sir-you.'
You must be mistaken
IF am the women amt
'He didn't say no more about it
but ! noticed that he was sprucin' up
He'd been wearin' flannel shirt, and
fust thing | knowed he had put on 9
boiled one Then he went to the bar
Der and got a shave. After supper
seen him lookin' at himself In a glass
that hung beside the roller towel al
the tavern. Next he headed for the
cabin where Miss Riggs was stayin'.
''The young woman was perfectly
aware that the manager understood
the situation. Furthermore, she hat
brought with her some becomin' cos
tunes and had put one Of them on To-
his reception. When Mr.. Parkhurs
saw her to have her for companion
didn't seem to him such a hardship
after all. 1t had been more than 1
year since he had seen refined won
an. He passed the evenin' with her ii
general conversation and found her in
telhgent. He might spend years In I
minin' country, and 1t occurred to hin
that Miss Riggs would take away from
his loneliness. He thought the matter
over that night and the next evenin
made another visit, durin' which b,
surrendered
'The visit OF the girls to the mimi
camp was lottery with one prize
Miss Riggs got It. But In her case Their,
was more management than luck"