The Snowflake herald., 1922-01-06

tate, Loans and Insurance, IA South
Water Street, Chicago, H.
There's one branch O. your busi-
ness that isn't mentioned on the card,
1 says.
whats thatY says he.
sHorse-thief,' says l. You sent
that feller here to steal a horse and
he got caught
"Well told him If he'd get me a
good horse I'd give him five hundred
dollars and that / didn't care how he
got him. The fact is I'm desperate
I'll give you thousand dollars for one
Of your horses
"'YOu couldn't buy one of 'em at any
price, said. There's two reasons.
wouldn't do business with a horsethief
and no money would tempt me to sell
an animal to be ridden TO DEATH
1.-The two thieves had had enough
of us and they got out"
That night our party camped on the
shore of the Kankakee and next day
they met the contractors. Lincoln
joined the latter party and Harry and
Samson went on alone. Late that af-
ternoon they crossed the nine-mile prai-
rie, beyond which they could see the
simmer of the lake and the sunlit
structures of the new city.
"There it is" said Samson. "Four
thousand, one hundred and eighty
people live there. 1t looks like a stur-
dy two-year-o.d."
The houses were small and cheaply
built and of many colors. Some were
unpainted. Near the prairie they
stood like people on the outer edge of
crowd, looking over one another's
shoulders and pushing in disordered
mass toward the center of interest.
Some seemed to have struggled away
as if they had given up trying to see
or hear. So to one nearing it the town
had a helter-skelter look.
Our travellers passed rough boarded
houses with grand-looking people in
their dooryards and on their small
porches-men in broadcloth and tall
hats and ladies in silk dresses. 1t
was six o'clock and the men had come
home to supper. AS the hOrSemen
proceeded larger buildings surrounded
them, mostly two stories high. There
were some stores and houses built of
red brick. Beyond the scatter of
cheap, wooden structures they came to
streets we'll laid out and crowded and
busy and Every soft" to quote phrase
from the diary. Teams were strug-
Cling in the mud, drivers shouting and
lashing. Agents for hotels and board
ing houses began to solicit the two
horsemen from the plank sidewalks.
The latter were deeply impressed by
a negro in scarlet clothes, riding
horse in scarlet housings. He carried
a scarlet banner and was advertising
in a loud voice the hour and place of
a great land sale that evening.
A sound of many hammers beating
upon boards could be heard above the
noises of the street and behind all was
the constant droning of big steam
saw and the whir Of the heavy stones
in the new. grist mill. 1t was the be-
ginning of that amazing diapason of
industry which accompanied the build
ing of the cities of the West
They put out in the livery stable of
the City hotel and at the desk Of the
latter asked about the price of board.
1t was three dollars a day and no
politeness in the offer.
"Its purity Steep" said Samson.
"But I'm too hungry for argument or
delay and I guess we can stand it to
be nabobs for day or so.'
The hotel clerk had Register Of
the Residents of the City of Chicago
wherein they found the name and ad-
dress of John KelSO. They went out
to find the house. Storekeepers tried
to stop them as they passed along the
street with offers of land at bargains
which would make them millionaires
in week. In proceeding along the
plank sidewalks they were often as
cending or descending steps to another
level.
On La Sale street they found the
home of Jack Kelso. 1t was a rough
boarded small house, a story and
half high. 1t had little porch and
dooryard enclosed by an unpainted
picket fence. BIN, in a handsome,
blue silk gown, came running out to
meet them.
eff you don't mind I'm going to kiss
YOU" she said to Harry.
"Pd mind If you didn't" said the
young man as he embraced her.
"We must be careful not to get the
habit" she laughed.
"Pd enjoy Deing careless for once"
said Harry.
"Women can be extravagant with
everything but carelessness," she in
sisted. do you like this gown?"
"It is lovely-like yourself
"Then perhaps you will be willing
to take me to the party tonight. My
mother will chaperon u.s.
"With these clothes that have just
been hauled out of saddle bag?'