Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 273, 9 August 1909 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MOXPAY, AUGUST 9, 1909.
News of Surrounding Towns
CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND.
Cambridge City, Ind., Aug. 9. J. I. Case of Rush vl lie, ': was a Cambridge
City visitor Friday. '
Sam Weffler, of Greenville, O., visit
ed this place the latter part of the
week.
Miss Alma McQuarter and Mrs.Oert-
rude James of Connersville, spent Sat-1 nine
u.u w.tu irB. jonn tierosc. The Doddridge chapel choir is havMrs. Frank Ohmit visited friends in ing choir practice for the special music Milton Friday. at the home coming and Gospel meet-
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Forrester and I ,ng at Doddridge chapel Saturday and
daughter, Mary Irene, have eone toIbunday August 14 and 15.
Cincinnati to visit Mr. Forrester's nar- Mi8S Rella Hartwell has rented the
faimyl, south of town, returned to Columbus, Ohio, Saturday.
M. E. Hubbell and daughter, Miss
Stella Hubbell, visited friends at Con
nersville Saturday.
Mrs. Mi D. Beeson is . quite indis
posed.
The C. W. B. M. will have an open
meeting In honor of their husbands
at Mrs. J. I Manlove's Thursday eve-
Vhe Meaoirs of
BY
COFYRI ffJtT, J 90S BY TTfW MACMILLAtt COMPANY
ents.
Frank Hindman of Indianapolis and
Bis sister, Mrs. Laura Riche, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nugent of Mil
ton. Friday.
Miss Pearl Custer has returned to her home in Knightstown after a visit
with Miss Carlyle Diffenderfer
Lee Ault was a Richmond visitor
Saturday.
Mrs. Joseph Cole of Connersville, is
visiting ner daughter, Mrs. Ellis Fil-
Mr. and Mm. wm shi., IqS . Nortn 8treet Saturady.
mri Mr. xv n . 'I In the foot race at
route from Hamilton, O., to Indiana
pons
Miss Hazel Glbbs who has been here
the guest of Miss Lena Luddington, has returned to her home In Muncie.
Mrs. J. T. Reese has returned frnm
property recently vacated by Mrs. Will
Bennlnger on North street.
Willis Owens was at New Castle on
Saturday. While there he secured
employment at good wages and began
work there today.
Mr. Denny of the Prudential insur
ance company at New Castle, was in town Friday evening to adjust some
claims on the company.
Keep In mind the Christian Endeav
or social on the lawn at Morton War
rens' corner of Central avenue and
HI 1
the Sunday
school picnic Friday the Rev. F. A
Scott came off the victor. The run
was about 100 yards. The Rv. Mr.
Scott won two out of three.
ine fennvuie school reunion was
held at aJckson park.
Connersville. where she at tended t f? "tT M? a i I Martha Stovr of this nlano ha nnin: tr
funeral of J, I. Little
r m V I i nn ...
V01UUHU6B win ne eiven a
chance to see Milton's historical abil-
Martha Stover of this place belongs to
the association,
Mrs. Will Johnson was a Cambridge
itv at the Hri - n.. I City visitor Saturday, ity at the Hurst opera house, the ev- ,fJoa
enmg of the tenth, when "Don't Tell
My Wife" will be presented.
Miss Mary Dillon pnd Miss Mayme
iuetts returned from a visit with
mends in Milwaukee and Chicago. Miss Blanche Boyd, Miss Helen Gar ' vin were Dublin visitors Saturdav.
Miss Llicilfl Potrn rodii'iinj c, ..
day evening from, a visit wUh
tlves In Greenfield.
Clifford Mathews of Splceland was
a Cambridge City visitor Saturday ev ening. " '
Mrs. Mac Beeson of Baltimore, and
Mrs. i,imer Beeson of. IndianaDolis. re
turned to Indianapolis, Sunday even
ing, after a visit with relatives in this Dlace.
Miss Rlanch m-., sons, spent yesterday with Mr.
son tnrtav tni :-" "I",, Mrs. Will Dorgan east of town
. c "ECUS V1S11 WHO friends. Mrs. Lola Converse and daughter, Muriel, are spending a few days with friends in Hartford City. Will Mathews and C. M. GInther of Hagerstown were in this place. Sun
day morning. I Hagerstown, Ind., August 9. Miss
Miss Florence Newman extends her
thanks for a beautiful hand embroider
ed white waist pattern. The gift was
from Mrs. C. H. Pinnick and Miss
Newman greatly appreciates the fa
vor. The work is done in a shadow
embroidery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brumfleld pic-
riendi
mantown and Richmond at Jackson
park yesterday. A fine dinner was
served and a pleasant time spent by
all.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Leverton and
family visited relatives at Richmond yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. eJrry Dorgan and
family and Phillip Benninger, Jr.,, and
and
Mr.
Benningef went from there to Center-
ville to visit relatives. He Is enroute
to Springfield, 0.
HAGERSTOWN, IND.
CHAPTER IT. THE PIEKSOS. A familiar face A hopitabl roof The Pienon family and other The Enterprit market and $10 a week Mig Hillary Cox Crape From the aidewalk The company of tuccessfuX adventurer The great Stratus.
ELLO! Here yon be! Ain't I glad I found yer this soon." and Ed's brown eyes were looking Into mine. His seem
ed to me just then about the best face
in the world. "Seems though I was bound to be chasln' some one In this
city!" be shouted, grabbing me by the arm. "But I've found all of 'em now."
He had missed me at the police sta
tion by a few minutes, and I bad left no address. After looking up and down
a few streets near by. Ed bad thought
of lying In wait for me on the lake front, feeling that unless some extraor
dinary good luck had happened to me
I should bring up at that popular re
sort He had not seen the little inci
dent when the detective grabbed me In the great store, for Just at that moment his attention bad been attracted to a girl at one of the counters, wbo had called him by name. The girl.
who was selling perfumes and tooth washes, turned out to be his cousin Lou, his Aunt Plerson's youngest
daughter. After the surprise of their
meeting Ed had looked for me. and the
floorwalker told them of my misfor
tune. Then the cousin had made Ed
go home with her. Mrs. Plerson, it seems, took in boarders in her three story and basement house on West Van Buren street She and the two girls had given Ed a warm welcome, and for the first time in many days he had
had the luxury of a bed. which had
caused him to oversleep and miss me
at the station.
All this I learned as we walked west
ward toward Ed's new home. At first I was a little shy about putting an
other burden on the boy's relations, but my friend would not hear of let
ting me go. When Ed tucked his arm under mine and hauled me along with country heartiness, saying I could share his bed and he had a Job in view for us both, I felt as though the sun had begun to shine all over again that day. Through all the accidents of many years I have never forgotten
as he dropped me corn into Dls pocket
Alter I bad paid the Judge I strolled down to the south side, into the new residence district with some idea of seeing where the young lady lived who had first had me arrested and then wanted to reform me. When I came to the number she had written in the memorandum book there was a piece of crape on the door. It gave me a shock. I hung around for awhile, not caring to disturb the people inside and yet hoping to find out that it was not the young lady who had died. Finally I came away, having made up my mind somehow that it was the young lady and feeling sorry that she was
-- iviir. mui uikui i owneu ine mem.?K!e.?, lu given me and
J
-Aru uuspiiaoiy saovea over plate of stew. Then Lou smiled at
me and opened fire
"We read all about you In the papers
mis morning. Mr. Harrington." "Heh, hehP Pa Piersou cackled.
&ay. ixu. I don't call that polite.
urace protested in an affected tona
uon t mind me. I called out "1
guess I'm a public character anyway."
"What did the lady say when she
found she was wrong?" Lou went on
began a sort of diary in a cramped.
abbreviated hand. The first items read as follows:
Sept. 30. 3lv. this book by young la.
who tho't I stole her purse. She hopes I may take the right road.
Oct 1. Got Job in Ent mark.. 117 W.
VanB St. J10. Is this the right road?
Oct. 23. Went to address young lad.
gav. me. Found crape on the door. Hope
It's the old man.
From time to time since then I have
taken out the little black memoran
1 should think she'd want to die. doing I dum book and made other entries of
a mean thing like that" I those happenings in my life that seem-
Dld she give you any little souvenir I ed to me especially important, some-
of the occasion?" Dick inquired. I times a mere list of figures or names.
If they are real nice folks. I should writing them in very small. It lies
think. they'd try to make It up some I here before me now, and out of these way," Grace added. I bare notes keywords, as It were
But what we want to know first" there rise before me many facts, the
Slocum drawled gravely, , "Is, did you I deeds of twenty-five years. take the purse and. if so. where did I When I got back to the Plersons' for
you put it?" I dinner. Miss Cox was curious to know
Why, Mr. Slocum!" Miss Cox spot- wna 1 had doQe w'th my first day off.
tered. not catching the Joke. "What a 4,1 ne'8 been t0 see that girl who
bad bim arrested." Lou suggested mis
chievously. "And from the way he looks I guess sbe told bim she hadn't much use for a butcher boy."
Pa Plerson laughed. He was a great
admirer of his daughter's wit
"I don't think he's that much of a
fool to waste his time trapesing about
after her." Hillary Cox snapped back.
"Well, I did look up the house," I
admitted and added. "But the folks
weren't at home.'
After supper we sat out on the steps.
and Hillary asked me what kind of a
place the young woman lived in. I told her about the crape on the door.
and she looked at me disgustedly.
"why didn't you ask?" she demand
ed.
"I didn't care to know if It was so
perhaps.
"I don't see as you have any particu
lar reason to care one way or the
other," she retorted. Ani sbe went off
for that evening somewhere with Ed.
For the want of anything better to do
I borrowed a book from the law stu
dent, who was studying in his room, and thus by way of nn accident began a habit of reading and talking over
dooks with Slocum.
Miss Irene Russell left Sundav I Edna Addington was the guest of
morning for Topeka, Kan. Misses Grace and Kate Kirby, Friday that kindness, and my heart warms
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morris return at their home, south of town. . afresh when I stop to think how Ed
Saturday evening from an extended Mrs. Samuel Clugglsh and son of grabbed my arm and pulled me along
western trip. New Castle came Friday evening to wl" him off those city streets.
visit her parents. bo " happened at dinner time that
Mil TniM IfVin Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver and son louna myseir m tne basement "IIUIU' liHU. I-. ... . I dinlnCT room and mnrla mrr Ani Hn si
jjerriu were guests over aunaay or ner w
Milton, ind.. Aug. 9,-Miss Louies LarentS' Mr; and ace. Mrs. r fZ:"
r - vs. inv vi
had made ais name as well "Known as
that of the Father of Our Country. He
It was who knew each morning whether the rains had fallen on the plains beneath the Andes, bow many cattle on the hoof had entered the gates of Omaha and Kansas City, how tight the pinch of starvation set upon Russian bellies and whether the sultan's subjects had bought their bread of Liverpool. Flesh and grain, meat and bread Strauss held them in his hand, and he dealt them forth in tno markets of the world! Is it any wonder that I looked hard at the portly, red raced man standing there on the steps of his temple, where, with his women and children, he had been worshiping his God? "My," said Grace, "Mrs. Strauss is plain enough and Just common looking!" 4.1 have noticed that women find it hard to reconcile themselves to a rich man's early taste in their sex.) j
"She don't dress very stylish, that
true." Hillary observed thoughtfully
"But it weren't so very long ago, I
guess, that sbe was saving bis money.
Strauss, surrounded by his women folk, marched up the avenue in solemn order. We followed along slowly on
tne other side of the street.
"He didn't make his pile at the En
terprise market" Grace remarked. She spoke the idea that was In all our minds. How did he and the others
make their money?
"I guess they began like other folks."
Hillary contended, "savrug their earn
ings and not putting all their money
in their stomachs and on their backs."
This last was aimed at Grace, who
was pretty smartly dressed.
"Well." said Slocum dryly, "probably
by this time Strauss has .something
more than bis savings in the bank."
Thus we followed them down the
street speculating on the great pack
er's success, on the success of all the fortunate ones in the great game of
the market wondering what magic
power these men possessed to lift
themselves out of the mass of neoDle
iiKe ourselves. Pretty simple of us. per
haps you think, hanging around on the
street a good winter morning and cos
siping about our rich neighbors. But
natural enough, too. we had no place to
ioar in except Ma Plerson's smelly dining room and nothing to do with our Sunday holiday but to walk around the streets and stare up at the handsome new bouses and our well dressed and prosperous neighbors. Every keen
rxy wno looks out on life from the city sidewalk has a pretty vigorous "idea that if he Isn't as good as the next man at least he will make as much
money if he can only learn the secret We read about the rich and their do
ings In the newspapers. We see them
in the streets. Their horses and car
riages flash by ns. Do you wonder that
mm.HER LIFE TO
three weeks' visit
Mrs. Daniel Rudy of Indianapolis, has been visiting Mrs. Delia Rudy for
a few days.
Mrs. Ebert Wycoff returned Friday
evening from a visit at Spiceland;
John Sells joined his family over
Sunday on a visit to Emory Stewart's
at Logansport.
position at Seattle.
Miss Katharine Gohring of Rushville
came Saturday for a short I visit with her grandfather's, Volley Gohring and j
Ambrose Dickson.
Among those of the members of the
Pocahontas order of this place that at
tended Maumee Pocahontas Council at
Richmond Saturday night were: Mr.
and Mrs. James Brown, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Leavell, Mr. and Mrs. Robt.
Mueller of Indianapolis, enroute home ' Weaver 6,1(1 son wil1 remain for
ium a trip io .Niagara spent over yesterday with her father and sister Charles and Kate Mueller. Miss Catherine Snyder visited friends at Connersville, Saturday. Mrs Elizabeth Atkinson and son, Earl Atkinson, spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atkinson at Rischmond. Miss Minnie Werking who is suffering from an abscess on the back of her neck is thought to be some better. Mrs. George E. Tucker of Eurek., Kansas, who is visiting Messrs. and Mesdames El wood Beeson and R. P. Lindsay, is now at Beechwood farm with Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bragg were host and hostess yesterday for Mr. and Mrs. Secord, Miss Elizabeth Secord and Miss Edna Brown of Indianapolis. The Misses B. M. Kern, Mary and Sarah Roberts spent yesterday very pleasantly with Mr. and Mrs. John Hiser and Mrs. Lou Kimmel at Muncie.
Miss Lela Gracey of CovinEton. Kv.
la visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy
ana omer . mends south of town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cartwright and ; family will leave Milton tomorrow to
make their home at Muncie. Mr.
Cartwright is timber contractor for Armstrong, Perrine & Co., at Fort Wayne and they have ordered him to
move to Muncie.
Miss Nora Murphy left Saturday for
lerre Haute to visit friends about a
week or ten days.
Mrs. reter Sbumaker was a Cam
bridge City visitor yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wallace and son of
abash at supper Friday evening. Mr
and Mrs. Ed Wallace and son, and
also Mrs. R. W. Warren were enter
tained with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thorn-
burg of near Bentonville. Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Crismond and mother, Mrs. Hi me burg of Logans-
port are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A Bragg and family. r j .
iHxs. iunsuan eivmer and guests
Mrs. Snyder and daughter from Iowa
spent yesterday with Mrs. Reers and
daughters at Richmond.
Mrs. Joe Decker and daughter. Miss Louise were Richmond visitors and
shoppers Saturday.
l ne iaaies' Aid society of the
Friends" church will put a quilt in for Mrs. Mack. Beeson before her re
turn home to Baltimore.
'ine Misses Nora. Rae and Alma
Wagner were at Mrs. Charles Hale's, east of town, Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Landwer of New Castle, were, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolfgang yesterday. Mr, and Mrs. Fred Jones of Muncie were guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Jones yesterday Mrs. Henry Schlegel : south of town, has been visiting relatives at ShelbyYille. Mr. Schlegel joined her there yesterday. Marven Wallace, who has been making credits at the state university, returned to his father's. Will Wallace, Friday evening. He expects to return to school duties In the west soon. Miss Mary Vandemark, who has been the guest of Mrs. W. ML Wallace and
them for life. I can remember Just how they all looked sitting about the table, which was covered with a mussed red tablecloth and lit by a big, smelly oil lamp. Pa Plerson sat at the head of the table, an untidy, gray haired old man, who gave away his story in every line of his body. He had made some money in his country store back in Michigan, but the ambition to
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartley and- try his luck in the city had ruined him
sons itaipn ana uiair or usnKosn, tie nad gone broke on crockery. He
Wis., came Friday evening for a short was supposed to be looking for work
visit with his parents, J. M. Hartley but he spent most of bis time In this
and wife. basement dining room, warming him
Mrs. Clifford Foutz and Mrs. uhas. 8elf at the stove and reading the board-
Newcomb spent the day Friday with ers papers.
Mrs. Hollace Hoover, south-west of The Kir,s and the boy, Dick, paid him
town. even less respect than they did their
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kidwell have r- mother. They were aU the kind of chil
turned from a five weeks' stay at dren that don t toIerate much incompe-
Portland, Oregon, and also at the ex- ience in Inei Parents. Dick was a put
She u'os rather short and etout
thing to insinuate! I am sure Mr. Harrington doesn't look like that any one
could see he wouldn't steal."
In this way they passed me back
and forth, up and down the table, until the last scrap of meat was gnawed
from the bone. Then they sniffed at
Jasonville. Where was it?. What did I do there? Why did I come to the city? Miss Cox was the sharpest one
at questions. She wanted to know all
about my father's store. She had al
so I was soon fitted into my hole to L' c,e'k on Sniia e city. In that neighborhood there !??.?tfSI!" and tne Tom the
many hundreds of
the
must have been
piaces like Ma Plerson's boardine
house. The checkerboard of prairie
streets cut up the bouses like marble
cake all the same, three story and
sidewalk?
What was the golden road? These
men had found it hundreds, thoussnds
or them farming tools, railroads, groOAIAO wA - v. -
" urj gows. it made no
mansard roof roiiA hriM.- tL t matter what Fortunes were building
lines of dirty, soft stone steps stretch- lJ7 S,df- Th? flWCrS f 8acceM 1 warn w I AAm mw.
ing from the wooden sidewalks to the
second stories. And the group of us
mere m the little basement dinlnc
room, noisy with the rattle of the street i cars and dirty with the smoke of fac
tory chimneys in the rear, was a good
J '" aiwie. su ubu ai- . 5 - ' ready got Ed a place as delivery clerk e tne others in the other bouses in the Enterprise market and there 8trngglers on the outside of pros!k. i i . ... neritv. trrini? hnrri tr llmh nn
iuiui ue au opening in tne same Store , J , 1 m U4, DUUic- - hanDV ones in th wnrM " for me. I could see that there would where ln tne bread and butter order of .Z TPf W.or .,L
be a place all richt if I met the an- Ufe and to hoId on tight to what we
were Dioommg before our eves. To
take my place with these mighty ones
i thought a good deal about that these days. And I remember Grace
saying sentimentally to Slocum that
Sunday: "You fellers keep think In of nothin
but money and how you're goln to
make it Perhaps rich folks ain't the
Yes," Hillary chimed In. "there's
such a thing as being too greedy to
cat
ty faced, black haired cub, who scrub
bed blackboards and chewed sum in a
board of trade man's office. Neither he nor his two sisters, who were also working downtown, contributed much
to the house, and, except that now and then Grace, the older one. would help clean up the dishes in a shamefaced
way or bring the food on the table when the meal was extra late or she
wanted to go out for the evening, not
one of the three ever raised a finger to
proval of the smart little cashier. It nau ot- XNO one 1 suppose, ever came
has never been one of my faults to be -uicago at least in those daysbackward with women all T.nt M without a hope in his pocket of land-
and. as Miss Hillarv rnr . InS at the head of the game some time.
from unprepossessing. I fixed my at- lury smnea on me again the
tention on her for the rest of the ven- n xt day and We were as good friends . I as e Vpr &a T hn naM fh Annnt.
The Pierson girls tired of me aulekly ca.shlGr ot th Enterprise market had l":Zm"" " "ga'
enoueh. as thev had alradv tfwwi V iaK me In hand and was formlne me 1 . ' .. 1 U1UU.1. " ine
What else are we here for except
to maae money?" Slocum demanded more bitterly than usual.
He raised his long arm in explana
tion and swept it to and fro over the
Newcomb, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bagford, help with the work. The whole place Mr. and Mrs. John Hara, Mrs. John from kitchen to garret fell on poor old
Miller, Mrs. John Replogle, Mrs. Frank
Lay, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fagan, Mrs, Maggie Replogle, Mrs. Lew Woods,
Mrs. Yed Morrison, Mrs. Grafton
Stewart, Mrs. Solomon Castor, Mrs Sara Bingley, Mrs. Fannie Flood, Mrs
Cora French, Mr. and Mrs. John Kiser
and Misses Cora Castor and Katherine
Gohring.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Conniff enter
tained at dinner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cramer of near Millville, and "Mr.
and Mrs. Jeff Pressell
- I'CU.-lvu. A good poultice thai gives relief lu many kinds of sudden pain is one weU known to our grandmothers, but now little used because few know how t? make It. It Is made from dried bops. Put a cupful of the bops In a cup of hot water and let it boil until th water is reduced to half a cup. thet stir In enoush corn meal to thicken. Apply very hot between thin muslin cloths. Poultices when needed :i night can be made on an alcohol lamr with a tin cup on top. A new poultice enn be heated in this while tinold one is cooling on the patient It saves many trips to the kitchen.
A Laundry Hint. Did yon ever try leaving eiderdown baby blankets or wrappers out of
doors on the grass in a driving rain?
Turn from time to time until it getf
clean without getting lumpy.
A Permanent Thing. "You have stated." said the badger
ing lawyer to a witness, "that von
were born In 18S6. Now you sav you
were born Un 1887. That's an Incrimi
nating discrepancy, though perhaps
you may be able to explain It".
"Certainly I can explain it" retorted
the witness. "There's no Inconerruitv
there. I was born in 18S6 and Just stayed born. Why, I'm born yet" Youth's Companion.
Ma Pierson, and the boarders were
kinder to her than her own children.
Lank and stooping, shortsighted, with a faded, tired smile, she came and went
between the kitchen and dining room, cooking the food and serving It washing the dishes, scrubbing the floors and making the beds. I never saw her sit down to the table with ns except one Christmas day, when she was too sick to cook. She took her fate like an Indian and died on the steps of her treadmill. There were two other regular boarders besides myself and Ed a man and a woman. The latter, Miss Hillary Cox, was cashier in the New Enterprise market not far from the bouse. She was rather short and stout with thick ropes of brown hair that she piled on her head in a solid mass to make her look tall. She bad bright little eyes, and her rosy face showed that she had not been long in the city. The man was a long, lean, thin fa:ed
chap somewhat older than I was. His name was Jaffrey Slocum. He was studying law aad doing stenographic work ln a law office in the city. When X first looked at him I thought that he would push his way over most of the
rocks In the road, and he did. Slocum
was a mighty silent man. bnt Htti
passed before bis eyes without his knowing what It meant .1 learned later that he came from a good Maine family and had been to college in the ast . And he had it much on his mind to do several things with bis life, the first of which was to buy baclc the ok home In Portland and put bis folks there where they belonged. Old Sloco we called him. For all bis slow, draggy ways he bad pounds of pressure on the gauge. He and I have fought through some big fights since then, and there's no man I had as soon have beside me in a scrap as that thin faced, scrawny necked old chip of Maine granite. .When Ed, Introduced me at the table.
Ed. Lou soon ceased ta smfl at m " uusmess man. sne was a
and open her eyes in her silly stare j 8tnar little woman and had lots of
when I made a remark. After dinner K"ou Priapies nesiaes. sne believed
he went out on the steps to wait for m "Sion on Sundays, as sbe believ
a beau, wbo was to take her to a A ne ed ln business on week days. So on
Grace sat awhile to chaff with the tne Sabbath morning we would leave
lawyer's clerk. He seemed to make fun I Ed and Lou and D,ck Plerson yawning
of her, but I could see that he liked her over tne breakfast table, while Slocum
nrati-tr taI1 T i. , . . - I ana I (Srnrtri flraoa nn1 tTlll.m
woman indeed who can't get hold of a downtown to hear some celebrated 1877 to llve for but 8UcceBS?
man when he has nothing to do after Prcner in one or the prominent his work except walk the streets or charches. Hillary Cox had no relish read a book! There was nothing bad for tne Insignificant and humble ln re
in either of the girls. They were lust "e100. 8Ucn as we might have found
soft Durrlne thinn. shut tin nil around the corner. She wanted th tuff
long, one in a big shop and the other there was to be had, sbe said, and
in a dentist's office. Of course when Bne wntea to see the people who were
was in the city to object to. It was
Just a place like any other to work.
eat and sleep In. Later, however, when I saw the little towns back east
the pleasant hills, the old homes ln the valleys and the red brick bouse on the elm shaded street in Portland, then
I knew what Slocum meant
Whatever was there in Chicago la
(Continued.)
Viaonn:'
r.old Medal Flour makes dellctou Yiaked
RBOD4.
they got home they were frantic for amusement dress, the theater anything bright and happy; anything that
wouia make a change. They bad
knack of stylish dressing and on the
street looked for all the world like a rich man's daughters. Nothing bad in either one then only that kind gets Its
eyes .opened too late!
The next morning I stepped around to the Enterprise market and Miss
Cox Introduced me to the proprietors
They were two brothers, sharp looking
young men, up to date ln their ideas.
the cashier had told me, and bound to
make the Enterprise the largest market on the west side. Miss Cox had
evidently said a good word for me.
ana tnat afternoon I found myself tr
ing up parcels and taking orders at $10
a wees.
Not a very brilliant start on fortune's road, but I was glad enough to
get it. a ne capable cashier kept a
rnenaiy eye on me and saved me from
getting into trouble. Before long I had my pay raised and then raised
again. Ed had taken hold well, too. and was given more pay. He was more
content with his Job than I was. The
work suited him the driving about tbf city streets, the rush at the market mornings, the big crates of eonatrv
stuff that came smelling fresh from the
neias. t& city was all that he had
noped to find it Not so to me. I looked beyond. But I worked hard and took my cues from the pretty cashier, who grew more friendly every day. We used to go to piaces in the evenings, lectures and concerts mostly, tor Miss Cox thought the theater was wicked. She was a regular church attendant and made me go with her Sundays. She was thrifty, too, and taught me to be stingy with my quarters and halves. The first day I could take off I went to the police station and paid my loan from the judge. When I finally got his attention he turned one eye on me: "Well, Edward, so yon haven't gone home yetf And. that jvas J1 ha said
so much talked about ln the papers.
Perhaps the rich and prominent citi
zens made more of a point of going to
cnurcb in those days than they do now.
It was a pretty inferior church so
ciety that couldn't show up two or three of the city's solid merchants who
came every Sunday with their women, all dressed In their smartest and best
Hillary and Grace seemed to know most of these people by sight Women are naturally curious about one
another, and I suppose the girls saw their pictures and learned their names In the newspapers. And in this way I, too, learned to know by sight some of
the men whom later it was my fortune
to meet elsewhere.
There was Steele, the great dry goods merchant and Purlngton, whose works
for manufacturing farming tools were
Just behind Ma Plerson's bouse; Lard-
ner, a great hardware merchant; May
b wnoiesaje grocer; lorx. a rich lumberman most of them thin
faced, 6brewd Yankees, who bad seized
that tide of fate which the poet tells as sweeps men to fortune. And there
were others, perhaps less honorably
Known as citizens, but equally impor
tant financially Vltzer. who became known later as the famous Duke of
Gas. and Maxim, who already had begun to stretch out bis fingers over the
street car lines. This man had made his
money buying up tax titles, that one
building cars and another laying out railroads and wrecking them too. They
were the people of the land!
One fine winter morning, as the four
of us idled on the sidewalk opposite a
prominent south side church that was
discharging its prosperous congrega
tion into the street Slocum nndged me
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His Specialty. A distinguished college president, well known for his ability to get donations for his institution, while on a visit to New York recently dined at the home of a former student After dinner visitors dropped in, and general conversation was in progress, when the small daughter of the host, a spoiled and precocious young alas, walked in and calmly made herself st home in tbe president's Up. She began to relate to htm how her baby brother a few dsys before had swallowed a quarter. "And the doctor was a norfnl tong time coming. continued the maiden. "It's a pity you weren't here." Whyr queried the distinguished) man In amusement "Because," said the young miss, while everybody listened. -I heard papa say you could get money out of
anybody."
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thwarted willfulness. Coleridge.
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