The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-10
lYIlG F0R IT'S MASTER.

IN uptown museum the other day and
found mutual interest ia discussing .
dsnCfaakes. If you would care tohear
1T = sid the old man, who was old only
ii year, his sturdy form indicating that
not more than three-quarters of his life
was behind him. If you would car to
hear it I will tell You 9 story about a
snake, not one Of these foreign reptiles,
hut home-bred rattlesnake, too com
mon, suppose, to find q place here"
'aTen it, said the young
Snake stories are always interesting"
And 20 it came about that fifteen min
utes later the two sat at 4 table in the
quiet corner Of aquset restaurant with
y bottle 81 Tokay, for which the place
II famous, between them. The old man
lifted the wine glass between his
thumb and finger, watched the exquis-
Ito light playing in the red depths Of
the glass, and thus began:
my name il Thomas Wilman, and I
~
live in Philadelphia, where my son
Harry, il 4 prominent business man.
Thirty-one years ago yesterday / mar
~ uiess DA.ilhs.ol Mass.' as
pretty girl ~ that village, famous
for its pretty girls)) eyer sheltered. She
hsd bapn well hrnnoht; mn INT + had NO
sm..ss s. rnn HI 49,
- 70
made ~ running asawsmsA. We were
Young and had the world before us,
ana "a concluded to 40 west. Going
-.a4 I. 49, 49, a.a.4 80
.i0s0 u",s uua A, -
seems going beyond tne mis-
sissipp Going into York state was
going west then. / had a cousin in
OAttarAugus, . little village on the Erie
railway, thirty miles east Of Dunkirk,
and We concluded to 60 there.
II was late in August when we
reached Cattaraugus. My cousin gave
M i hearty welcome, andI set about,
looking l0ra spot to build. The VIII
lageMsarrounded by hills and the
wonder I'd me ii that. it doesn't slide
down into the Waahbowl-1ik6 valley on.
the aide Of which it is built. Al little
creekruns through the village, and q
mile "a the west find itself in a deep
narr0W valley with almost perpendicn-
LArsidee, 100 feet high. This valley is
called Skinner Hollow, aud il one of
tho most picturesque spots on the Erie
road. I went down into the hollow
prospecting. The sides, whore they
vera not steep, were covered with q
heavy growth Of frst class pine, and
for miles around the hills thick
with the same timber. saw there was
money In O saw-mill right down in that
hollow, and e built one on the stream
which 4 could see was q good sized creek
most Of tho year. It is one Of tho
branches Of Catt.traugns Greek, which
emp66s into Lake Erie, thirty miles
west OF Buffalo.
built mygmM there, and close tc
il 3 little house, SC close, in fact, that
the two joined. / took Katie, that is my
wife, down there, and we began house.
keeping. That was we'll in the winter,
and 4 began logging at b / hired o
gang of men to help me, raised money
BY contracting my lumber ahead and
started in. We cut logs on the hills
close to the mill, rugged up slides, and
AZ them down to the log-way. I tell
you il was music to me when. the saw
ripped into the first log and q clean cut
slab dropped away fran the teeth. We
had q little jolIification. That was the
first log ever cut in Skinner Hollow,
and people drove ten miles to see it.
Business was good. There was lots of
snow, which made it easy work getting
logs to the mill and drawinglumber out
to the village, besides giving me all the
water j wanted. In fact water was
running oyer the tail Of my fume every
hour from the time I turned it into the
race until the middle of July. Then a
dry spell came on, and / had to shut
down for two OF three hours every day
to let my race fill up.
But + didn't mind that. I had had
. tip top season andhad made money.
I had logs enough at my door to keep
me busy for asyear and I knew where
there were plenty more when they ran
out. And besides I had two to look
after instead of one You wouldn't
think il you'd see Harry, with all his
refned ways and education, that the
first music heseyer heard was a Jaw
through d pine knot. But it's no. he
was : piioncer's son and Knocked around
. saw-mu till he was IN his teens.
well, when business was slow j
worked around the house, fixing I'm
things here and there for Katie, SO as
10 make her more comfortable. She
couldn't have been more centented.
She used to think that saw-mill was
j~nstsabout the p~leasantest place in tie
country. Hoursafter hour she'd stay
out there with me, and we'd keep up
the conversation while the log was run
ming back and stop when it went up to
the saw. Dear mel Dear mel WHY.