Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08

structures of the new city.
 "There it is," said Samson. -Four thousand, one hundred and eighty people live there. It looks like stur- dy two-year-old."
 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 a crowd, looking oyer one another's shoulders and pushing in a disordered mass toward the center of interest. as if they had given up trying to see or hear. So to one nearing it the town had 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. It 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 well laid out and crowded and busy and 'very soft" to quote phrase from the diary. Teams were strug- gling In the mud, drivers shouting and flashing. 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 a horse in scarlet housings. He carried a scarlet banner and was advertising in 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 a big steam saw and the whir of the heavy stones In the new grist mill. It 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. It was three dollars a day and no politeness in the offer.
 "It's purity steep" said Samson. "But I'm too hungry for argument or delay and guess we can stand 1t to be nabobs for a day or sc."
 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 ts 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 Salle street they found the home of Jack Kelso. It was a rough boarded small house, a story and a half high. It had a little porch and dooryard enclosed by an unpainted picket fence. Bim, in 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. .-..
 ''Td 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 being careless for once," said Harry.
 Women can be extrayagant with everything but carelessness," she in- sisted. DO you like this gownr'
 Tt Is lovely-like yourself"
 ''Then perhaps you will be willing to take me to the party tonight. My mother will chaperon us."
 with these clothes that have just been hauled out of saddle bag2" said Harry with a look of alarm.
 "Even rags could not hide the beau ty of him." said Kelso as he came down from the porch to greet them. And look at her." he went on. "Was there ever fairer maid in spite of all her troubles? See the red in her cheeks and the diamond glow. of youth and health in her eyes. You should see the young men signing and guitar ing around her"
 You'll hear me tuning up," Harry declared.
 '"That is fathers way of comforting my widowhood," said Bim. "He has made a wonderful beauty mask and often he claps it on me and whistles up band of signing lovers. As work of the imagination l am a great success.
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