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JOE AND S-.USIE
There were rumors to the effect'that
Joe Beardsley was in love with Susie
.Moore, but they passed as rumors un-
til :1 spelling-school was held. in the
little school-house at the cross-roads.
Then it so happened that Joe and Susie
were appointed to “choose", sides,” and
it so happened again that they were
the last two on their feet. Everybody
else had gone down On the hard words,
and of the two Joe was accounted the
better speller. The chances were
seven to three that he would spell
Susie down andtake the prize, but-he
Sadly disappointed his friends. When
the teacher gave out the word “tre-
men—dous,” Joe hesitated, colored up
ents saw resolve in his face. No
young man would lose the prize at a
spelling-school to a young woman un-
less he loved her. His resolve was to
ldse it. All knew it before he spelled
the word “tre—men-dious” and then sat
down and left her victorious. That
settled it with everybody. Susie was
Joe’s best girl, and it was certain to be
a match.
Joe Beardsley was a young farmer
twenty-two years old, and Susie Moore
was two years younger and the daugh-
ter of a farmer. Their families lived
a mile apart, and both were only
children. When there is a case of
love in the country it is a case for
gossip. The Beardsleys had no objec-
tions to a' marriage, - and the Moores
came to the conclusion that Susie
couldn’t have done better. For four or
five months the course of true love
ran 'smooth. On’ each Sunday and
'Wednesday evening the parlor at
Moore’s was given up to Joe and
Susie, .and the three or four other
young farmers who had been spook-
ing about for a year or more gradually
hauled off and left the field to Joe.
There was an engagement, and Joe‘s
father had begun to talk about divid-
ing the farm and giving the boy a
start, and-Susie’s mother had. decided
on the feather bed and the quantity
of dishes and carpet rags she could
spare, when-the patent-churn man put
in an appearance; From time imme-
morial the Beardsleys and the Moores
had used a crock with a wooden
dasher in it, and the women folks had
handled the dash'er. The very idea of
change had been looked upon as sacri-
lege. Thispatent-churn man would
have been as coldly greeted as the
score before him had he not been a
student of human nature. Before he
could be rebuffed he said,—
“I ain’t trying to sell patent churns
this week; I’m just riding around on
a vacation. Seems to me them Moores
are putting on a heap of style for these
hard times. I heard they’d bought a
twenty-five dollar music-box.”
' “You don't say!” gasped Mrs.
Beardsley. “Why, they ain’t no rich-
er’n we be, and we can’t afford no sich
jimcracks.”
“Some’folks are bound to fling on
style whether they can pay for it or
not," said the agent, and it wasn’t
half an hour before he had sold one
of his paten-t churns. '
“If they kin buy a music-box we, kin
buy a churn,” said Mrs. Beardsley,
with a toss of her head. “I ain’t a
person as cares for style, but nobody
in this nayburhood is goin’ to crow
over me!” ‘
That was the beginning. As a mat-
ter-of~t’act, the music-box had only
been left on trial, but as soon as Mrs.
Moore heard what Mrs. Beardsley had
said she set her Jaw and replied,—
f‘We don’t need a music-box any
more’n a dog needs two tails, but if
some folks kin buy patent churns and
hold their heads in the air, other folks
can buy music-boxes and hold their
heads still higher!”
It wasn’t a week before the Moores
and Beardsleys were passing each
other’s farms with their eyes looking
straight ahead and their faces set, and
for five miles were taking sides. The
news of the lupture spread 1apidly,
and it wasn’t long before the wind-
mill man, the sewing-machine agent,
and various agents for various other
things were taking advantage of it.
The Beardsleys bought -a Windmill,
and the Moores bought a sewing-ma-
chine as an offset. The Beardsleys
bought a mile of wire fencing, and the
Memes painted their horse- barn a,
bright red. Mrs. Beards] y got a new
ingiain carpet for her parlor, and Mrs.
Moore bought four cane-seat chairs
and two china "vases for hers. The
Beardsleys had a lightning-rod put on
their barn, and the Moores bought a
sky-blue pump for the family well.
Both Joe and Susie protested
against the rivalry when it started,
and both solemnly vowed they would
not be drawn into it, and it should
make no difierence with their feel-
ings; but it wasn’t a month before the
break came. They felt they had to
quarrel, and yet both regretted it.
When Joe’s mother heard of the break
she said,—
“I’m jest glad of it! I’ve knowed
Susie Moore ever since she could
squall, and she ain’t no catch fur any-
body. She’s that shiftless that she.
leaves grease on the dishes when she
washes ’em, and she couldn’t dye a lot
of carpet rags if it was to save her
neck!”
Joe didn't rejoice at the words. but
he felt he must be loyal to his fam-
ily. Susie’s mother also h'hd some-
- thing to say. When Joe ceased his
visits and Susit went about looking
troubled the mother exclaimed,-'
to know! Why, there’s more’n forty
dififerent young men around here
who’d crawl on their hands and liliees
to git~~yo¢l Don’t you go an' be silly,
Susan Moore! Jest hold your head
up, some as pa and I do, and let them
Be’ardsleys- know that we ain’t goin'
to ”take any of their sass. They
started this ~ hull thing. and I - hope
i they’ll'git ’m'Jf 11‘ i. bsftre it's ended.”
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and glanced at Susie. Then his adher--
the farmers up and down the road‘
“And who is Joe Beardsley, I'd like-
T11. quarrel had lasted the summer
through and onto an had come. If
.the theme and the Beardsleys ~had
been willing to make up, the friends of
each family would have prevented.
It was the only event that had hap-
'pened for years to create talk, and
every one was anxious to make the
most of'it. The farmers’ wives of
one. faction called on Mrs. Moore'and
advised her to keep her chin in the
air and “show them Beardsleys what
was who. ” and the wives of the other
faction called on Mrs. Beardsley and
advised her to “stick it out and let
them Moores see they didn‘t own the
ear-£11.”. _
The quarrel would have continued,
and the enmity might have entered
into church and politics, as well as
social life, but for a spotted hog. It
was a spotted hog belonging to the
Beards-leys. He had been penned up
with other hogs to be. fattened for the
pork market, but «me October day, as
Joe was digging potatoes in the field,
with his father away to town, he
heard his mother blowing the dinner-
horn. It was‘mid-afternoon, and was
a signal of distress. When he reached
the house it was to- find that the spot-
tedlhog had leaped out of the pen and
gone trotting down the road. It was
Joe’s duty to fol-lo.»r on and turn him
back. There was the hog forty rods
ahead of him, and as soon as the ani-
mal knew he was pursued the started
oh? to make a race of it.
It wasn’t at all. probable that that
spotted hog knew of the quarrel be-
tween the Beardsl- vs and the Moores,
or had any plans as to an armistice
and reconciliation; but when he left
the pen he headed for the Moore home-
steadf Joe pursued him without a
thought of where the race might end.
The hog covered the mile between the
two farms without losing much
ground, but the open gate of the
Moores was a. temptation he could not
resist. He swerved and‘entered. and
then dodged about the house and was
lost: to view among the cabbages. The
pursues halted at the gate, and hung
there undecided. It wasn’t likely
that the Moores would come out and
forbid him from reclaiming his runa-
way bog, but if he went nearer the
house he might come face to face with
Susie.
He hadn’t settled the point when he
heard the sound of singing. It was a
rough, coarse voice, and a rough,
coarse song, and Joe was puzzled.
When threerother ”oices joined in the
chorus he advanced up the path and
walked arOund the side of the house
’tlll he came to the kitchen door. Then
all was made plain. A gang of tramps
had taken possession and were hav~
tug at. good time.
' Mr. and'Mrs. Moore had gone- to-
town that day, 11 wing Susie alone.
An hour after the ir departure four
trampslhad come along and boldly en-
tered the house. When the girl or-
dered them out they refused to go;
when she would have fled they~ men-
aced and detained her nd ordered
her to prepare a meal if the best in
the house. They guarded the doors
so that escape was impossible, and as
she. cooked at the stove the fellows
sang songs, drank from the jug of
Currant wine one of them had brought
from the cellar, and boasted of what
fortune had in store for them.
Joe stood on the door-step for five
minutes before be fully realized the
situation inside. It was not until one
of the rascals vowed that he was go-
ing to bestow a kiss on the cheek of
the frightened girl that his presence
among them was known. Then the
music-box, the patent churn, the wind-
mill, the wire-fencing, the spotted hog
—all were forgotten in an instant, and
Joe lifted the latch and ,walrked in.
There was business to be transacted.~
The odds-Werefour to one, but Susie
had just time to cry out, “Oh, Joe,
I’m so glad!" when the tramps began
to tumble. .It is due the profession in
general to say that none of the four
ran away, but they fought,a losing
fight. Those words from Susie gave
the young farmer the strength‘of a
lion, and inside of ten minutes three
of the tramps were lying on the
ground outside with their hands and
feet lashed, and the fourth was limp-
ing across the fields and wondering at
the sudden change of program.
When Joe’s work had been finished,
and Susie had wiped his bleeding nose
with a. wet towel and bandaged his
skinned. knuckles with a soft cloth he
lobked up at her and said,—'
“I—I came after our spotted hog.”
“Well, you can have him,” she re-
plied as her nose went up. .
False pride makes fools of men and
women. Joe might have moved away
had not one of the tramps, who seemed
to divine the situation intuitively,
called out,—
.“Say you! ’Tain’t none of my biz-
ness, but you two had better kiss and
make up!”
“I'guess we had,” said Joe to Susie
as he looked into her laughing eyes.
“Way, of. course,” she replied.
That evening, as Joe and Susie had
the parlor again for the first time for
months, ‘Farmer Moore came in from
locking up the barn and said to his
wife,—
“Ma, I’ll be gosh- darned if I ain’t
glad on it!” -0
“So’m I, but you musn’t swear," she
replied. -
“Say," he continued, “ain’t there
sunthin’ in the Bible which reads that
a lit‘tle child shall lead ’em?”
"I guess there is, but that hain’t
nuthin’ to do with this case.”
“Why hainft it?”
“Because nobody but Joe Beardsley
was led, and it was a spotted hog in-
stead of a little child which led him.”
”That’s so, ma—that’s so, and
- though I expect the plaguey critter has
rooted up everything in. the garden
by "this time I won’t even yell ‘sho’ at
him. And the lion shall lie down with
the lamb and. a spotted hog shall lead
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GOLO MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF YUKON.
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Mr. Joseph Ladue, the pioneer of the Klondike, and founder of
Dawson'City, aidedby some of theLmost conservative and successful finan-
ciers of New York, is operating the strongest company yet formed for
mining and trading in the Yukon gold fields.
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- 'Gold Bottom Creeks, the “Marguerite” Quartz Mine, his Saw Mill,
his Timber Lease, that virtually monopolizes the saw timber on the
Klondike, and large holdings of Choice Town Lots in Dawson City.
The Company also owns the S. S. “ Morgan City ” now earning $20,000 per
menth, and has shipped up the Yukon several hundred tons of merchandise,
for trade, upon which a very large profit 15 aSSured. The U. S. Government
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Total Capital, par value, $10 per share, saucepan
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shared pro rata by the preferred and common stock.
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the common stock.
The undersigned has obtained a short option on a block of this preferred
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August axst, 1898, after which the price of t'1-1 . preferred stock will be
advanced by the Company to $12. so per .- ”are
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. order subscriptions are received.
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