The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-11-11

'e my seat In the house. Samson wi
- not do 1t, being so busy with lare
= affairs. You are young. You hay
= won distinction In the service of you
e country. You have studied the prot
lens Of the county and the stint.
Samson and Baker and Logan an
Browning agree with me that you ar
the man for the place.
"As for myself, am going to b,
married in a year or so. l shall hav
to give all my time to the practice O
: the law. l am now in partnership
with Stephen T. Logan and am slowl,
clearing my conscience OF debt.
have done what / could for the state
and for Sangamon county. 1t hasn't
been much. 1 want you to take uu
the burden, II you can. until get free
Of my debts, at least. BY and by j
may jump into the ring again."
Harry was glad to obey the sum-
mons. Soon after the arrival of Mr..
Lincoln's letter his doctor gave the
young man what he called IAN honor
able discharge" The magic Of youth
and Its courage and of good air had
wrought change of which the able
doctor had had little hope In the be-
ginning.
In his travels through the great for
est Harry had met David Parish and
Stephen Van Rensselaer,, at whose
homes on the shore of the st. Law
renee he had spent many a happy
summer day. Three years had passed
since that fateful morning on the prai-
rie. Through the winters he had lived
in comfortable hunters camp on the
shore of Lake Placid. Summers he
had wandered with a guide and canoe
through the lakes and rivers of the
wilderness hunting and fishing and
reading the law books which he had
borrowed from Judge Fine of Ogdens-
burg. Each summer he worked down
the Oswegatchie TO that point for a
visit with his new friends. The his
tory of every week had been written
to BIN and her letters had reached
him at the points where he was wont
to rest In his travels. The lovers had
not lost their ardor. Theirs was the |
love that hopes and endures and is |
patient"
On day In June. 1841, he boarded |
a steamboat at Ogdensburg On his way
to Chicago. He arrived In the eve
ming and found Samson al the home |
of BIN and her mother-a capacious
and well-furnished house on Dearborn
street. BIN was then a little over
twenty-five years old. A letter from
John Wentworth says that she was
IAN exquisite bit Of womanhood
learned In the fine arts of speech and
dress and manner"
The store had doubled in size under
her management and with the help Of
the capital of Samson and Sarah Tray
lor. The epidemic had seized her
toward the last Of her nursing and left
the marks of its scourge upon her. 1t
writes, ''the girl was still very hand
some. She was kind of scared to meet
Harry for fear Of what he'd think of
those little marks on her face, but /
told her not to worry"
You are the smartest and loveiiest
cooking creature that ever saw in I &
ny life" said Harry after he had held !
Ter In his arms a moment. a
But see what happened to me- '
ook at my face" she ANSWERED.
ut is more beautiful than ever" he Z
aid. .'Those marks have doubled my q
owe for you. They are medals of I
honor better than this one that / q
year. / want to marry you as soon v
IS possible. I've been looking for q
Yard to that since l was sixteen" o
Then l think III take you and o
larry you before you have chance o
0 fight another duel"
II don't hear anything but love and C.
larriage," said Samson. "We've been
asslng down at our house to keep | "
osiah from running Off and getting q
larried. He's engaged already" "
Engaged To whomY' Harry asked.
'To Annabel Brimstead. She's a m
tile older than he is. She laughed p,
/ him and promised to marry him OF
! soon as he was nominated for Pres cf
lent by all his friends. She would ! In
DIV vote for him herself. He has II
scome a good athlete and the best hi
.holar In school. He has every oy
,y and girl In the village working tr
II him evenings and Saturdays" 20
what are they doing7" Harry VI
ked. ne
Making those newfangled things
ey call lucifers. You can build a
e In a second with 'em. They cut
linters out of soft wood. dip their ,o
DIS In brimstone-which Joe learned m,
w TO make-and put them In a hot hr
en- until the birthstone is baked orr
len scratch will bring flame. Of
e puts them up in bundles and sells VIZ
EN- to the merchants and calls them ,vt
.ifer matches. He has Invented a Ar
lchine that will cut and dip thou
nd splinters an hour. l tell you, tn
mabel is In danger" tie
He took a lucifer out of his pocket in
] scratched 1t on the bottom of his of
ot. The party looked with wonder car
its flame which quickly consumed an,
slender thread of Pine In his fin acr