The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-11-10

~ neat ii fhe house. sanSon M
not 40 II, being ~ busy with large
affairs. You are; Young. GU have
won distinction in the service of yours
country. You have studied the prob
lens 81 the county and the state.
samson and Baker ana Logan and
browning agree with mo that you are
the man for the place. 8Ss
a FOR myself, am going to be
iiarried III d year or SO. shall have
til give all my time To the practice OF
the law. / am now ID. partnership
with Stephen r. Logan and am slowly
clearing my conscience of debt. i
have done what I-could for the state
and FOR Sangamon county. It hasn't
een mHcIl | want you to take up
d burden Il You can until I get free.
nv dents. at laas by and BY !
Ill Jump INTO 81 again.
Harry was glad obey the SUM
mons. Soon after the arrival Of Mr..
incpln'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 d change Of which the able
doctor had had little hope In the be-
ginning. 81
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 q happy
summer day. Three years had passed
since that fateful morning on the prai-
RE. Through the winters he had lived
in "a 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 a day In June, 1871, he boarded
a steamboat at Ogdensburg ON his way
to Chicago. He arrived In the eve
ming and found Samson at the home
Of BIN and her motherN-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 4bit Of wpmanhood
learned In the fine arts of speech and
dress and manner"
The store had doubled in size under
l.er management and with the help of
the capital of Samson and Sarah Tray
Tor. The epidemic had seized llar
toward the last of her nursing and left
the marks Of it's scourge upon her. 1t
had marred her beauty, but Samson
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 l
told her not to worry"
"You are the smartest and loveliest
looking creature that I ever saw LII
my life,' said Harry after he had held
her in his arms q moment.
"But see what happened to me-
look at my face" she answered.
ut Is more beautiful than ever" he
said. 'Those marks have doubled my
love for you. They r medals Of
honor better than this one that I
YEA I want to marry you 10 oon
as possible. I've been looking for
ward to that since I was sixteen"
'.Then' I think I'll take you and
marry you before you have a chance
to fight another duel"
II don't hear anything but love and
marriage" said Samson. We've been
rassling down at III house to keep
Josiah from running of and getting
married. He's engaged already"
Engaged! TO whom2" Harry asked.
ITO Annabsl Brimstead. She's q
little older than he Ii. She laughed
at him and promised to marry him
as soon as he was nominated for Pres.
fdent BY all his friends. She would
now vote for him herself. He has
become a good athlete and the best
scholar Ia school. He has every
boy and girl In the village working
for him evenings and Saturdays"
"What are they d0ingf" Harry
asked.
Making those newfangled things
they call Iucffers: You can build q
fire il a second with 'em. They cut
splinters out Of soft wood, dip their
ends In brimstone--which Joe learned
how to make-and put them In q hot
oven until the birthstone IL baked.
Then 4 scratch Will bring q flame.
Joe puts them up In bundles and sells
them TO the merchants and calls them
lucifer matches. He has invented d.
machine that Will cut and dip q thou
sand splinters an hour. tell you,
Annabel Is III danger"
He took i lncifer out of his pocket
and scratched ii on thesbottom Of his
boot. The party looked with wonder
at its Aams which quickly consumed
the slender thread of pine Al his nm
gers. %g
r have always thought that Joe.
would make j whale q man, said
Harry. .s b
WI an seem4to be threatened With
immediate and Overwhelming hsppiL-s
ness BIN exclaimed.