The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-05-20

| nave tHe stTebktn ADU IncllIulIob u
return soon and be q candidate for
my seat in the house. Samson will
not do 1t. being so busy with large
affairs. You are young. You have
won distinction In the service Of your
country. You have studied the prob
| lens Of the county and the state.
Samson md Baker and Logan and
| the man for the place.
"As for myself. am going to he
married in n year or so. | shall have
to give all my time to the practice Of
the law. am now in partnership
with Stephen +. Logan and am slowly
clearing my conscience of debt. !
have done what | could for the state
and for Sangamon county. 1t hasn't
been much. want you to take up
the burden. II you can. until ! get free
Of my debts. Mt least. BY and by l
may jump into the ring again"
Harry was glad to obey the sum
mons. Soon after the arrival of Mr..
LincnJn's letter his doctor give the
young man what he called can honor
able discharge" The magic OF youth
and its courage and of good mir 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 hnd met David Parish and
Stephen Vnn Rensselaer,. at whose
homes on the shore OF the st. Law
renee he had spent many huppy
summer day. Three years had passed
since that fateful morning on the prnl-
ric. Through the winters he had lived
in comfortable hunters camp on the
shore Of Lake Placid. Summers he
had wandered with guide and canoe
through the lakes and rivers OF the
wilderness hunting and fishing and
reading the law books which lie had
borrowed from Judge Fine of Ogdens-
burg. Each summer he worked down
the Oswegntchie TO that point for
visit with his new friends. The his.
tory Of every week had been written
to BIN md her letters Ind reached
him ut the points where he was wont
10 rest In his travels. The lovers had
not lost their nrdor. Theirs WINS the
love shat hopes and endures and Is
patient"
On day In June. 1871. he boarded
n steamboat ut Ogdensburg on his way
to Chicago. He arrived In the eve
ming and found Samson at the home
OF Bin and her m0thcr-a capaciOus
and well-furnlshed house on Dearborn
street. Bin was then q little over
twenty-five years old. A letter from
John Wentworth says that she was
IAN exquisite bit OF wOmnhhood
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 Ind 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
seine. 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 smnrtcst and lOveliest
looking creature that | ever saw In
my life" said Harry after he Ind held
her In his arms moment.
"Eut see what happened to me
look Mt 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 th.s one that !
wear. want TO mnrry you us soon
ms possible. I've been looking for.
ward to that since was sixteen"
"rhen | think I'll take you and
marry you before you have II chance
to fight another duel"
II don't hear anything but love and
marriage" said Samson. We've been
| rasslinE down at our house TO keep
| Josiah from running Off and getting
married. He's engaged already"
"I!nsuged! To whom?" Hurry asked.
"To Annnbel Brimstcad. She's a
little older than he is. She laughed
Mt him ind promised to marry him
as soon as he was nominated for Pres
| ident by all his friends. She would
now vote for him herself lie has
become good athlete and the best
scholar In school. lie has every
boy and girl in the village working
| for him evenings and Saturdays
what are they doinsW Harry
! asked.
| "Muking those ncwfanglcd things
they call lucifers. You can build II
fire in II second with EN-. They cut
splinters out OF soft wood. dip their
ends In brimstone-which Joe learned
how to makc-nnd put them In II hot
oven until the birthstone Is baked.
Then scratch will bring II flame.
Joe puts them up In bundles and sells
them to the merchants md calls them
lucifer matches. lie has Invented II
machine TINT will cut and dip a thou
sand sllinters an hour. tell you,
Annnbel Is In danger