Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-27

the law. / am now in partnership
with Stephen T. Logan and am slowly
clearing my conscience of debt. 1
have done what I could for the state
and for Sangamon county. 1t hasn't
been much. / want you to take up
the burden, If you can, until / get free
Of my debts, at least. BY and by I
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 "an honor
able discharge" The magic of youth
and it's courage and of good air had
wrought a 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 pral-
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 n
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 O~swegatchie 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 shat hopes and endures and is
patient
On a day in June, 1841, 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 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 it's scourge upon her. 1t
had married 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 loyeliest
looking creature that l ever saw in
my life" said Harry after he had held
her in his arms a moment.
But see what happened to me
look at my face" she answered.
at is more beautiful than ever" he
said. "Those marks have doubled my
love for you. They are medals Of
honor better than this n that 1
wesr. 1 want to marry you as soon
as possible. I've been looking for
ward to that since I was sixteen"
"Then l think I'll take you and
marry you before you have a chance
to fight another duel"
81 don't heal anything but love and
marriage" said Samson. We've been
rassling down at our house to keep
Josiah from running off and getting
married. He's engaged already"
Engaged! To whom?' Harry asked.
"To Annabel Brimstead. She's a
little older than he is. She laughed
at him and promised to marry him
as soon as he was nominated for Pres
ident by all his friends. She would
now vote for him herself. He has
become a good athlete and the best
scholar in school. He has every
boy and girl in the village working
for him evenings and Saturdays"
"What are they doingT Harry
asked.
Making those newfangled things
they call lucifers. You can build a
fire in 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 a hot
oven until the birthstone Is baked.
Then a scratch will bring a flame.
Joe puts them up in bundles and sells
them to the merchants and calls them
lucifer matches. He has invented a
machine that will cut and dip a thou
sand splinters an hour. 1 tell you,
Annabel is in danger"
He took a lucifer out of his pocket
and scratched it on the bottom of his
boot. The party looked with wonder
at its flame which quickly consumed
the slender thread Of pine in his fin
gers.
It" have always thought that Joe
would make a whale of a man." said
Harry.
"We all seem to be threatened with