The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-04-09


To Chicago! It's the craziest notion
ever knew you to take into your
head"
Crazy" calculated granddad. In
dignantly. That's not the way to
talk to me, SON"
well, do be reasonable and let Dan
go as usual
Nov, boy, I'm just dying to have
little fling. I'm going to Chicago, and
I'm going to take In all the sights;
and don't want no garden, neither.
Its my last chance-at my time OF
life. Now or never, sonny" and
granddad chuckled joyously as his
six-foot grandson turned away with an
tr,paticnt gesture betokening anxiety
rather than anger.
Granddad was fine specimen Of
wholesome and vigorous age. Why.
then, should he not go to Chicago
without a guardian?
he q good little boy and take care
o: the RANCH was his parting salute
from the car window, accompanied by
"A radiant grin.
Take care of yourself" Jack shout
cd, adding to himself as the train
moved out, you old infant!"
Granddad enjoyed every moment of
his Journey from western Iowa to the
great midwestern metropolis. So,
when his carload of cattle was duly
disposed OF, and thick wad of bank
bills in his possession, he started out
To take in the sights. AS he was leav-
tng the stockyards he met two men.
whom from their appearance he
Judged to be farmers.
BLESS me- Amt It lucky we met?
You from Indiana and me from Iowa
the two finest states In the union. l
might have got lonesome, but now we
can have roarin' good time" he
cried. ..
So the three started out to see Chi
cago Their car had. gone about a
block when It stopped to take on a
lady passenger, ,-f n.
Sibelia Grahamsociety reporter for
one of the city's great dailies-had
awakened that morning In her room at
the Transit house, where she was the
guest for the night OF former class
nate-in the same disheartened frame
Of mind with which she had retired the
evening previous. The curt, incisive
words of the city editor were still
ringing in her ears:
Unless there Is marked improve
ment in your work. Miss Graham, the
T will be obliged to~dispensc with
your services"
The blow was none the less dis
'beartening because she expected it.
The trouble was that she simply could
not browbeat her brain any longer
into taking enough interest In the de
tails connected with her department
10 satisfy the patrons OF the paper
who delighted in seeing their impor
lance magnified in print. When she
first started in to report for her paper
she had felt keen delight In hel
work, and was indefatigable in her eff
forts to give satisfaction Five years
of the grind. however, had dissipatet
the halo which rested upon the brow
of the newspaper woman The
chronicling of trivial details had be
come loathsome and wearisome task
Jack was right when he said tina
all Chicago had to offer could no
compare with the freedom of western
ranch life" she soliloquized. "To thinl
of my having had the nerve to try t
compel him to give 1t all up for an un
familiar and uncongenial existenc,
here, because. forsooth. preferred
Chicago as a place Of residence! How
well remember his sensible ant
manly answer:
al cannot leave Oaklapds, Sibelia,
owe all | am, or ever will be, to m!
grandfather, who is the dearest ole
boy in the world. 1t would break hii
heart to have me leave him. 1 mus
stick to the ranch. 1t does seem I,
me, dearest, that you might be happ,
there. It really is something of {
place. IL do say It,
well, have had my way-I am ,
newspaper woman, and have M
Chicago (bless it!), and some othel
girl better worth having will marry
W LAS WIZ OILY
Innn ever could care for. | ought t
DE satisfied, but am not. long fol
a Whit of air from that self-same de
spised ranch, and chance to rest my
poor, over-worked, idealess brain. I
feels as empty Of gray matter as my
hat. I declare. 4 would prefer t.
chnrn, make butter, or even milk the
cows this morning, to doing my usua
stnnt"
When Miss Graham boarded the cal
abe found every seat occupied. She
WAS a slender creature-almost toe
slight for her lofty ambitions, as Jack
had often told her in their university
days. Strange that, Notwithstanding
fheir intimacy, she had learned so lit.
Hie about him or his circumstances
sClutching a strap, she stood swaying
CHS way and that with every motion
.of the car, her dark eyes somber with
the fear of what the day might bring
forth. Suddenly she became conscious
1f some one Juggling at her skirt.
turning, she looked into the eyes Of
m old man with a bright and jovial
.~,rxu,nfenauce who Indicated nv n mo