Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-04-14


/ have done what 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
/ may jump into the ring again"
Harry was glad to obey the sum-
mons. Soon after the arrival or Mr..
Lincoln'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 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 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
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
san exquisite bit of womanhood
learned in the fine arts of speech and
dress and manner"
The store had doubled in size under
her mana cement 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 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 I
told her not to worry"
'You are the smartest and loveliest
looking creature that I 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.
st is more beautiful than ever" he
said. Chose marks have doubled my
love for you. They are medals Of
honor better than this one that
wear. / want to marry you as soon
as possible. I've been looking for
ward to that since 1 was sixteen"
'Then l think I'll take you and
marry you before you have a chance
to fight another duel"
/ II don't hear nything but love and
marriage" said Samson.~ssWe've been
rassling down at our house to keep
Josiah from running off and getting
| married. He's engaged already" @.@
Engaged! To whoms'' Harry asked.
"To Annabel Brimstead. She's
no sc hn 1ar nod
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 doing?' Harry
asked.
Making those newfangled things
they call lucifers. You can build
fire in 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 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 thou
sand splinters an hour. | 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 it's flame which quickly consumed
the slender thread Of pine in his fin
gers.
81 have always thought that Joe
would make a whale Of man." said
Harry.
"We all seem to be threatened with
immediate and overwhelming happi-
ness,' BIN exclaimed.
'sThe only thing in the way of mine
is the national debt that | have accu-
mulated," Harry remarked.
0T know he'd think of something"