The Red Cloud chief., 1912-05-30

stopping for a time like any bird OF
passage wherever chance placed him.
He peddled goods for livelihood.
worked on farms, cut timber in the
forests-did anything that came his
way that offered bread for his hungry
mouth. He never wrote to find out
child.
After brief time he found himself
the proprietor of crossroads store
near Mound City, Kan. Here, he says,
he cherished the hope of some day
achieving competency and of return
ing to Georgia with means to search
for his people. But at night cyclone
swept over the land while he covered
in a cellar and In the morning he
found his store distributed over mum.
Der OF counties and himself again
homeless and penniless. Nothing re-
mained of his possessions but an old
tub. which alone had withstood the
storm and remainded to mock him In
bis loss. He again became q wander
er. setting his back steadily upon wife
and home and child.
He moved into Kentucky and again
began to build up his shattered for.
tunes. He became the proprietor Of a
general store and again began to
dream dreams Of competence. But
a disastrous fire visited him. and he
watched all his earthly goods 60 up in
smoke. After the fire he peddled
fruit trees in the mountains, and
watched the distillation OF the yellow
corn that had waved its golden ban.
| nerets over Kentucky's sun.kissed
hills. He walked with the feudists in
the Kentucky hills for a number of
years. Drawing food and storm in the
pursuit Of his several peddling occu.
pations.
Worked His Way Home.
Recently he decided to carry out his
long cherished intention of returning
to Georgia. Old age was now coming
upon him fast. and with the coming
of age his mind turned upon the past
He worked his way across the inter
vening states and came at last again
to Pembroke. But all the friends oi
his youth had disappeared. Many o!
the old families were broken up. The
little slabs in the churchyard told him
where most OF the people he knew
had gone. The graves Of his father
and mother he found there. No trace
OF his wife and child could he find. A
chance acquaintance told him that hii
sister had married and was living II
Savannah.
He found his sister. Mrs. Jessie
Davis, after some search. and con
vinced her. with some trouble. of hi
identity. From her he learned tha
his wife. after giving him up for dead
had married again. and with theil
daughter. who was also now married
lived In Blitchton. He offered no rea
son for having abandoned his famil!
80 long. and his sister did not pres
him upon the point.
May Woo His wife Again.
Thompson went on to Blitchton 4
see the wife of his early manhood an,
his middle aged daughter. whom h
remembered as little child. He spen
day at the home Of l.. A. Schumar
the husband of his daughter. whom b
saw mothering sturdy men and won
en- whom she had brought into tn
world in the years that had trans
formed her father from veteran Q
twenty .one to bent and broken war
derer Of sixty-eight. With the al
sistance OF a picture taken before b
went away, and by recalling intimat
instances OF her baby days. he su,
ceeded in convincing his daughte
that he was her father.
Means to Stay In Savannah.
Thompson has announced that
will spend the rest Of his days
Savannah. Precisely what are his Il
: tentions regarding his wife are NJ
known. He has given no indicatio
OF what procedure he will adopt
4 this respect. It is generally believe
that he will not make any endeavG
j. to interfere with present arrang
0 ments. Jones will certainly fight Il
I his wife, although he has exhibite
v every indication OF being friendly
Thompson unless the latter puts Y
a fight Mrs. Thompson Jones will u
doubtedly prefer to remain with Il
d latter. She mourned Thompson 4
It dead many years ago, and she cam
s recognize the father OF her daught
]. In the aged visitor.
It But her position is delicate as We
4. as humiliating She has two iivil
% husbands. which is a little beyond q
=. pale OF the law. However innocs