The Inter Ocean from Chicago, Illinois • Page 33

0 THEY DO THEY HOWL, A STUDY OF DUMB ROOTERS AT THE RACE TRACK. TILE INTER OCEAX, SUNDAY MORXIXG, SEPTEMBER 27, 1903. WHOOP NOT NEITHER BUT 'AH the horse-race rooters are aot of I he pwrff, hoop-la, come-you-hoss kind, nor are all the rooters necessarily noise-makers, said an observant detective who has been doing duty around the. Chicago tracks, for many years. "The howling.

sinoke-up-BUl rooters who, after a day at lbs; track, have to put their vocal organs in slings' on jApply poultices to them are In the great majority, of course, but there rooters who root Just as hard sstthoKShrlekers without making ary a sound; "They are the Intense people who take the game so seriously that they are ren- "JCMPIXa, OX HI3 HAT WAS HIS WAT OF EXPRESSING! JOT." Jered more or less dumb, or whose emotion over the outcome of a race is so great that they are Incapable of giving expression to It by the mere making of a noise. I happened to be standing near a silent rooter of this tort on the day that a long shot smothered his field. "He was a well-dressed and well-set-up man of 44, with a pair of field glasses slung ever his shoulder. He watched the race with his arms resting on the rail near the Judges', stand. "When the long shot swept down the stretch a clear winner, his fine, frlc-tibnlesa stride, and the twenty thousand people on the grounds were yelling themselves hoarse and acting like crazy folks, this mam never let out a cheep nor so much as changed bis position by the breadth ot an inch.

But when the horse galloped under I am the oldest resident or Chicago, save one, and as I was whirled' alongths boule, vards yesterday in a red automobile it was hard to realize that the same-woman, aeventy years ago. saw village walks and prairies that how form the atreets on which are ao many palatial My beginning in life was very Only three and a half pounds did I weigh on coming face to face with the problem ot life. I was. born In New York, and when about a year old my parents left their home In the East and. with fourteen other passengers, embarked on a ship for the West, Chicago, a little village on Lake Michigan, being their destination.

My mother waa the only woman on board, and with her sick baby called forth much sympathy from the rough, though kind-hearted. Captain. The trip proved perilous, one disaster after another coming npon the crew. Starvation atared them In the face; and had it' not been.fpr a barrel of flour which, like a miracle, waa found by the Captain floating In Lake none would have been left to tell the tale ot that awful voyage. The tiny babe grew worse, and at my mother's earnest solicitation a landing was made that she might give her child a Christian burial instead of a watery grave.

But death was to wait many years before he claimed his own. The same tenacity of life which asserted Itself In after years revealed Itself fn the young babe, and LOOKING BACKWARD "TO FERRYING INDIANS; tVhen a treaty wss to be negotiated with the Pottawatomies. Ottawas. and Chippewa, in September, 1833. by which they were to make at grant of lands In Illinois and rtii Olill TBi.W ill Hi.ll: Michigan territory out of which Wisconsin was created a great horde ef Indians visited Chicago.

The less courageoua ot the inhabit sot remembering the massacre of 112. feared their coming, but, after all, this last visit of a great number of the redskins was peaceful one. the wire with the consummate easa of a horse that's only had a pipe opener, this tilent rooter slowly turned away from the rail. "His face was quite white, and wore a most serious expression. He slowly and deliberately removed, his fine, new derby hat, stooped over and placed It rim down oh the grass with both hands, stood up and straightened himself, gave a sudden lesp Into the then came down with both feet upon the hat, crushing it to pulp.

His Way otEipreulag Jojr. "I couldn't quite make out whether It was chagrin or happiness that made htm do that, but a few minutes later I caught sight of him. bareheaded, taking down a big wad of yellow bills from a bookmaker's cashier. Jumping on his hat was his way of expressing his Joy. He rode back to town In a sknll cap that be bought from a figs and peanuts butcher.

"But the most curious people to watch on a race track are the pessimistic rooters those who, by word or manner, seem to root against the horses they've picked and played. They're all from Missouri, this kind you've got to show 'em. If the pessimistic horse is ten length in the lead entering the stretch, the rooter who roots against himself remains disconsolate. 'Oh, they'll get him. the pessimistic rooter says gloomily to those around him.

'He'll stop, all right. yes, he's a block in I know, but he'll come back so fast that he'll look as If he's tied to in awning pole. Sure, I played him that's Just the reason that he can't "That's the way the gloomy rooter takes on, no matter how bright his chances look. He refuses to be comforted, and Is dismal to the last. "I studied one ot them the other afternoon, and It was queer to see how perfectly miserable he succeeded in making himself.

He had a good bet down oa a 10-to-l shot in the last race, and turning into the stretch his horse came bounding along, four lengths In front, at a never-etop-clip that would have told a child that he had no chanct whatever to lose. "Everybody In the stand' and on the lawn was bawling the horse's name, but this man with the money right In his mit Just couldn't and wouldn't see it. He Cooldat Believe It. watch the skate curl up and ex plode be croaked drearily. 'He's Just a bluffer and a morning glory, that's all he Is one these four-legged 6hines.

Uh-hub. ye-eh. he's keeping his lead all right, but he'll be looking for the hole In the fence in a tew seconds. See It he won't. 'He can't stay.

Stay nothing. He couldn't stay in the White House for twenty minutes If he had free booze. 'Cm ye-eh. It looks as if he ought to cop now, of course, with five lengths the best of it at the eighth pole, but I wouldn't be prised to see the mutt fall down. It ud be Just like him.

Can't tell me that I'm in for any such luck as lighting on a 10-to-l shot- not much. I'd be falling out bed if I enter tained any such pipe notion as "When the 10-to-l shot bounced past the Judges' stand, after making an exhibition of his field and winning, pulled up, by eight after six weeks ot danger and peril we were dropped, with-the ether -passengers, at the foot of Randolph street and seat ashore In small boats. 71 Our first home was a little cottage on Stats street, opposite where la now Kehoe's candy store. There was nothing between State street and the lake but, a prairie. Chicago was made of wind and Indians.

The wind has pot given out yet. One payment was made to the Indians after we came to Chicago. My father was carpenter, and at once established a tittle shop, where he carried on his trade, -also making coffins for the accommodation of bis customers. Mother rslsed ducks, and when a very young child (the lake breeses having Inflated me to the proper slse for a child of my age) I began picking ducka, aittlng on the work bench In father'a shop a tear for-every feather, tor It waa weary work, and I loved to romp and play, disliking the confinement and work, earing nothing for the beds and pillows which I helped to fill. Wkr All Werked, We all worked la those days, mother hardest of all.

andyet he and father found time frpm their multitude ot duties to enjoy the common pleasures of life, among which the dances given at a tavern ten miles out on Cottage Grove avenue were chief. -And what good times they did have The work of the day being finished, we children were put to bed. father and mother would dress up in their "best bibs and tuckers. and. getting Into a great aled sent around for the To get to Chicago Vhe Indians had to cross the St.

Joseph river, and a Chicago pioneer now owns the receipt, herewith produced, given by Antaine Antllla to the Pottawato- roles for ferrying 3,998 redskins across the stream from March 1. 132, to July 4. 1833. In speaking of the events ot 1833 this pioneer said: "In 1S33 there was an election precinct that embraced six counties. It was created by the Peoria county commission about 1825.

Du Page, Will, Cook. Lake. Mellenry, aad Kan- t' "fr s-- ti "SHE F.Vi.NTED As SOON AS SHE GOT OCT." lengths, the gloomy rooter against himself was still shaking bis head. "'Oh, he'll be disqualified all right, for some reason or other for fouling, or for being short of weight, or something y'! csn't tell, me thst they, won't take his number "No Jockey went Into the stand to make any complaint. The race was fairly run and there was no ground for any kick.

The boys all weighed out without any hitch, and the red -board of confirmation went up. Tm well, it's 'bout 6 to 1 that that bookie that I made the bet with has already Jumped the fence and welched said the dismal man. as. he started for the betting ring to collect. rode-Into town on the same car with that pessimist of the track.

'Hear that yon bumped 'em on the last race, I overheard one of his friends say to him. 'Cm I picked up a few 'dollars, was his reply, 'but what's the use? ril be giving It right back to 'em 'Oh. I don't know, said the other man, cheerfully. 'Y might land 'em again 'Who, said the dismal one In a balf-tnoumful. half-surprised tone.

'Guess not! You'd nevetsee me eashing two bets In two days If you waited a thousand years that'ud be 'too good. I probably won't get In line again for a couple o' weeks, no matter If I pla ye every "There are plenty of rooters who. although they have good seats on the stand with a first-rate view of the track, never watch the BY MRS. neighbors, would be driven out to the tavern to dance until morning; then back again to their homes and work, with no sleep until night again. An old fiddler named taltoa the music" Swaying his body and keeping time with bis feet, be held the fort.

He was at rigorous player, and his strength never gave out until the last dancer cried enough, when he would put his fiddle In a canvas bag, pocket bis money, which waa collected from the dancers, and go home, a walk of five miles through the country. As to the musical vslue of his playing, it la wise to say nothing; but seventy years ago a Thomas' orchestra waa aa remote aa the heavens, and anything with bow and strings wss welcome. Then. too. money was scarce, and it required the united efforts of the company to pay even old Dalton.

Wireless telegraphy would not have startled the good people 'of Chicago seventy yeara ago mere than the thought that the future generations would pay tbotuands of dollars a night to a stager or player to entertain guests in their homes. Dollars were earned those days by the hardest work; speculation and peculation were yet to be born. Father was a hunter, and often have I seen la winter-time as many as thirty deer froxen still standing In his shop. (This also seems impossible when one the bill for a venison dinner in a down-town hotel of today.) It waa a grand sight, and yet as I looked into the pathetic eyes ot those beautiful creatures the thought came to me that It was cruel to murder that man might 5) kakee counties formed this The names of persons then welt known in these counties can now be found on the lists, and the names of several Indian chiefs also ap- pear there as having been voters. "The election wss held In 1833 st the Indian sgenry house, which stood on the north side of the river, st the present approach to the State street bridge.

This old house was built about 1805 by Charles Jonet. the first Indian agent at Chicsgo. The vil lage of Chicago had ao legal exiateace until in at Is, fall or not and up I am ao a to racea in which they are Interested, at all. They turn their heads away from the scene as soon ss the bell rings on the Judges' stand that announces that the horses are off. "They're the kind that take it to heart so much that they're Just afraid to watch the running of the racea.

They'll annoy the man near them who has the field glassea by asking Jiiid a dozen limes where their horse Is. although they know the Jockeys colors perfectly well snd could keep an eye oa their horse's position from start to finish, only they haven't got the nerve. "Women are the leaders ot this sort ef thing. There are old-time women bettors who have been going to the races every day for years and who know all the colors ss well as the man in charge of repairing them, but who absolutely can't bring themselves io focus their vtslon on a race In which they are financially interested, out of fear that they'll see their pick plowing along-In the ruck or pocketed In the middle of the bunch. "Even when they hear the folks' around them shouting that their horse Is well In the lead they can't turn their heads in the direction of the race.

Only when thels horse has erossed the line in front do they besve a nervous sigh and say -something hoarse about having 'k no wed that that 'us 'ud win all the but if their horse loses they even decline to look at the finish right in front of them, but bend their gase upon their programs and begin to dope out the next race. "Plenty of men. fellows who good money, too. on their picks, not only refuse to watch the races in which they have bets down, but actually remain under the shelter of the betting shed while the races are on. While the horses are at the post these nervous individuals and eccentric rooters remain In the deserted betting shed, whence even the sheetwriters and cashier have fled to watch the outcome from their high stools, and bite their nails or tug at their mustaches, white the mob on the stand, and the swaying crowd on the lawn are roaring themselves hoarse- over the shifting position ot the horses.

"'Who wins? they-inquire weakly and with am effort, because their tongues are parched, of the scurrying sheetwriters and cashiers, the first of the crowd to hustle back to the- betting ring after the race; and when they are told they look pleased or solemn, according to the way the information suits them and fits their book. Llncertasr the 'Some of them linger at the bar while the races are being run. not especially becauae they want to drink, but ad as la give the rate Ives a sort of excuse for not watching the running of the races. "The horses were speeding Into the stretch during the sixth race' last Saturday afternoon when a fat-faced chap, who appeared to be under a heap ot nervous strain, in spite of his obvious efforts to keep hlmnelf in. strolled up to the bar.

tossed a nickel alongside one of the beer kegs, and said to the 'Give us a beer." "Just- then there was a. final deafening shoot from the sttnd.ibore, and the vanguard of the hurrying bookmakers employes skated Into the ring. SEVENTY JOSEPH KNIGHT eat their flesh. Wc are not halt civilized ypt. v' We chifdren all worked? "but were sent regularly to a little school over a shop on Madison street.

It was kept by a Mr. Bennett, assisted by his daughter. It was a rare privilege to attend but children then now) were 'mischievous, and we often tried the "patience and tortured the mind of the gentle schoolmaster. Later I went to the Dearborn street opposite where is now McVIcker's theater, taught by the first female teacher employed In Chicago a Miss Rossi ter. The scholars gave a benefit for ber at the Sherman house (the first hotel In Chicago, at which I shone forth aa a particular star In a song entitled "An Orphan Flower Girl." She Meets Her Fate.

I waa an awkward child of 1J, with a thin, weak voice, but I was loudly applauded by the people who filled the parlors, and a certain young reporter sitting oa top of back seat (every available space being filled) waa especially enthusiastic. I was led back my seat by fond parents and admiring friends. S. little does sstisfy sometimes, and aeventy years ago schools of musie were unknown, and music teachers were not aa the sands of the sea In number. Chicago was a country village, the young reporter was But thereby hangs a tale of love and romance which changed the current of my whole life.

Three years later Chicago waa swept by the dread disease, cholera. Father waa taken 111 1853. when the approaching Indian convention piuyiyicn me citizens to tase every precaution. A consultation of the citizens was held the druar' store of P. Prain a r- which It was resolved to incorporate the vll- Auerwara a puouc meeting was held the home of Mark Beaubien, Lake and ovum nater Here Chicago mustered thirteen rninltflert vnt.r.

wavMCT acted as chairman, and Dr. Edmond.S. The Art of Falling. "The story haf man fell 200 feet the other day and didn't hurt himself la amusing." said the director of a gymnasium, "but cutting all foolishness out, there was more than a grain of truth In it. What I mean that a man who knows how to fall can a considerable distance without getting anything more than a bruise or two.

"The trouble is that the average man doesn't know anything about falling easily. Now, one of the first things that a gymnast one who performs anywhere above the ground must learn Is Just how to avoid serious injury In "Nearly every gymnast tumbles sooner or but, if you will think it over, the number of professional and amateur performers hurt In a year is comparatively small. The reason for that, Is that they have learned only how to avoid falling, but how to protect themselves when the fall does Mnw "Just as an example, I had a fall from a height of about twenty feet' the other day, I got right up from the floor practically unhurt, although I confess that It shook me a good deal more than I liked. In falling, however. I.

relaxed my muscles and. as the athletes say, 'folded' my bead Into my chest. struck on the uppermost part of my back. Just below the neck. When anybody la falling that Is the part of the body on which to fall.

"I am not a particularly heavy man, hut I tairly well protected by my muscles. Those oa the back of my neck were a sufficient With that to help me the fall wasn't so terrifying. "Now. the reason why the ordinary man ia eaaily hurt in a fall la that he thinks he must 'steel' himself to the ordeal, aa it were. He comes down, sprawling out, with his arms and legs Nine times out of ten he either breaks a limb or severely sprains a mascle.

That is the wrong way to fall. "If you want to sea. the right way. take a few lessons from your rat. If she is a good, healthy cat, with a good training, she never lumps or (alls as if she waa trying to break leg.

"Let me sum all ot this up by saying that, be a really good athlete, one must know hew to relax hid muscles as well as distend l. rr 1 I .1 1. I of of "WHAT'S. THE- CRE? I'LL. RE OIVIXCT IT BACK TO 'EM TOMORROW." gets tt.

the fat-faced fellow called after one. of them. 'Irene, in a ghost dance. was the reply of the hustling bookmakers man, as he bounded toward his stooL "The fat-jowled chap gasped In a relieved sort of way, grinned chalkily. and moistened his lips.

Say, Bud. he remarked to the bar keep, who was about to draw hiia the. crock of plebeian suds, 'switch. Y'can make that a quart wine. -It wasn't hard to dope It out that that underneath-the-grand-stand race goer.

had landed on the winner. "Another bunch of eccentric rooters are the people that we call the riders. They dont say an Intelligible word from the beginning of the race to the end of it, but they Just sit in the grand Btsnd snd ride their picks for all they're worth, clucking and git-applng and hunching back and forth in- their seats Just ar if they were- on the tack of the horse they want to see win. "When-thelr horse hooks It np for a close finish with one of the contending leaders they almost nudge themselves out of their they're so busy trying to lift their horse home. Jockey-wise, and there's not a doubt" in- life that these people actually Imagine that their seat riding helps their horse' home.

They look pretty nearly as-exhausted as the Jocks themselves by the time the horses "flash past the" stand: and they never give up riding thetr picks until the Jump beyond the wire. YEARS IN CHICAGO FOREST. one morning and died before night, never speaking but once and his body turning black as midnight. Before) another sua be wss buried, and with crushed heart and saddened spirit mother took up the burden of lle with her four children to provtde for, having but one sixpence In her pocket. She decided te take boarders, The princely isn of $2 and $2.50 waa charged, and men working on the old Tremont house became her patrons.

She was a good and liberal cook; never were such meals set for such a price oa State street. Appetites were re markably good in those days, entirely dlsJ proportionate to the sum charged. Like all true mothers, she kept her family together, gtvtng them all necessities and many comforts. Our religious' Instruction was not forgotten. Our parents were Vntversalists; first we attended service in Mechanics' hall, afterward a church that was built on State and Lake streets.

"Church entertainments" were even then in existence tl sm sure the date of their birth will never be known), and often assisted. less awkward, with better voice, though less applause and fewer admirers, than formerly, but the- young reporter was always present, for by this time be had made himself known to my mother, and was my escort to and from these "social functions," to the, envy of all the girls, for he was different from the- ether young men whom we knew a young Englishman of noble birth and gentle breeding. Chicago was growing fast, it took more to satisfy the public, and never did I receive Just the same admiration as the GHICAGO'S FIRST RAILWAY. i i 1 Some Interesting reminiscences ot Chicago's- first railway axs given, by one of lta earliest stockholders. William Lake, who lived here fifty-five- years ago.

hut Is now a resident of Clinton, Iowa. Ot those who purchased stock la the Galena Sc Chicago Union railroad when Mr. Lake he Is the only one now living tb the knowledge of officials the Chicsgo 4k Northwestern railway, which absorbed the Galena aV Chicago Union. Albert Keep, for many years a director of The the Northwestern, and H. H.

Porter, both ot Chicago, are believed to be among the next oldest living stockholders et the Northwest ern. "With the building ot the Galena A Chicago Union railway Chicago started en its csreer prosperity and growth. said Mr. Lake. "The railroad company was chartered by the Legislature 6f 183.

but the panic of 1837 pre vented construction from being eommencea nntU 1848, Chicago then had but 18,000 in habitants, and as tka road had to be built by local capital It made slow progress. "By Oct. 1. 1848, however, a single track was laid from the west tide of the river to Harlem, eight miles, and en Oct. 24 the Pioneer, the first locomotive in Chicago, made -r 'V 5 'm "Hundreds of the rooters, even the shouting kind.

Involuntarily turn their heade away from the picture when two of the leading horses approach the wire neck and neck tor a nose finUtu They caa't stand the heartbreak of the track view when their horse is In euch a tight place and stands such a chance ot being licked by the other one. and they only re tlx their gaze upon the track when the number men are putting, up the numbers giving the winners. Tfcere Was a Difference. "A woman et this type gave an ecstatic shriek, after having been absolutely silent during the running of the raee. when she caw the board of the winner in the hands of the number man after an Important 2-year-old race recently.

'Sixteen! she almost walled, in her happiness. 'Then I win 'It ain't sixteen, lady said a man alongside of her. 'It's 'Oh! she sighed, and It was about as disappointed a sigh of collapse as I've heard on a race1 track lately. "Just at that instant the number man dropped the board with the figure. (.

and slapped Into place, at the top. the board with the figure- 16 that his assistant handed to him. The nervous womsn had already given it up and resumed consideration of her program. 'It's after all, ma'am." said the man beside 'They nude mistake rnns "She. let out another 'Ob.

but it was ths last word that she spoke en the stand that afternoon, for she fainted as soon as she got tt- out, snd the women got around her and helped- her to the The now-I've-got-lt-and-now-I-havent strain had been too much for her endurance In her overstrained condition. "Then, there's the bunch of quiet snd timid rooters who-, lacking the courage to watch the outcome ot the races themselves, gather around the bookmakers' stools on the lawn for the purpose of listening to the bookies' comments while the races are in progress. The layers stand on their stools with their field glasses glued to their eyes, and they are such experienced men at the game that most of them can tell which horse Is going to cop by the time, the field reaches the stretch. "There's one bookmaker. In- particular, whom I have never heard fall to call the winner by the time the horses reached the stretch, no matter how far behind the horse named by him might be at that stage of the Journey.

The bookie has a genius for telling by the way the leaders and the horses In the second division are going which' of them has got the most left for the final dash for the wire, and there Is always a mob-of the nerveless ones huddled around the legs of bis stool when the races are being run. "The timid ones count on thua knowing with something- almost approaching certainty the name of the winner long before the horses swirl past the field stand. When this particular bookmaker claps his field glasses into-thelr case, as he always does when the horses reach the bead of the stretch and turn Into it. he saya in. a short.

Jerky way. So-and-So wins, no matter If the horse he names Is 'way behind In the procession, with night of my debut.at the old Sherman house. My sister became a school; teacher, and "boarded as" wa-theeuste In olden- times; through rain and snow she tramped the roads with rubber boots as foot covering, though often the water soaked her to ber waist. And the stylish, well-paid school teachers of today In Chicago complain even of rapid transit! No "horse cars" even hr those days, and an elevated train ar electric car would have seemed like flying through space- seventy years ago. My aunt lived in a house on the spot where Hillmaa's dry goods store now stands.

Well I remember atanding at the window one day rooking down the street, when my aunt exclaimed: "Oh! look! There-comes "Long John!" And sure enough, coming down the street with strides, wss the celebrated "Long John." with a carpet bag la his hand and his hat on the back of his head. Such waa hla entrance into Chicago. It waa to hint, in after years, that my uncle. John Calhoun, sold the Chicago Democrat, the first newspaper published In My mother married the second and the young reporter took into his care and keeping the "little orphan flower girl, and life became to us a happy song. He Forget His Wife, We were married at the parsonage.

The minister was a very absent-minded old gentleman, whose wife wss an invalid and partly paralyzed. The evening being pleasant, he had rolled her In an invalid'a chair out on the back porch, Intending to take her back Its trial trip. It was an engine with a single pair ot drivers, cylinders ot ten Inches diameter and eighteen Inches stroke, and weighed ten tons. It Is now In the Field museum, exactly as It first appeared In Chicago. "In the charter of the company was a saving: clause that Instead ot a rill road ths company might construct a turnpike, and also that It might build eastward from Chicago, instead of westward.

For some time the i-" rectors were in doubt whether to invade the Western wastes or build a line east to New i it i PioneerChicago's First "Locomotive, Buffalo, where the Michigan Central then terminated. "Spring' floods in -1849- washed away tracks near the Chicago and Desplainea rivers and carried out Into the lake every bridge in Chicago. The road was promptly rebuilt and extended the same year to Elgin. The cost of the line from Chicago to Elgin, forty-two miles, waa $440. (K0.

Then the company was so hard up tor money. that John B. Turner, the president, mortgaged his farm to get money to pay the employes. "Few people nowadays realise the difficulties and discouragements that had te be overcome In building the pioneer railroad ot Chicago. The company issued $500.00 worth of 10 per cent bonds and had great difficulty la disposing of them at cents on the dol- the grand-stand crowd yelling like mad tor-the horses fighting tt out In front.

"And. as I say. I've never- yet aeen the time when the horse named by this keen eyed bookie, no matter bow far In the rearss might be nor how much ground he had make up. didn't leap out ef the bunch and make good the bookie's prophecy. So well haa thia ability become known to all of the regulars that when he takea his field glasses from his eyes and begins to elimb down from his stool the fellows around the stool wbs THEr IXJOK OCT FOR THAT want to see the horse with the five lengths lead win give it up and take It for granted that the second or third horse, named as the certain winner by the bookie, is bound to finish In "Thus, they're content to watch the races by proxy, aa It were, like the blind men vhs occasionally visit the tracks with their attendants.

I often wonder why people of this sort go to the bother and expense of vlslt-ing the race tracks, when they might Just as well bet their money in the poolrooms. What's the use of visiting a raee track If yon don't take a peek at the racea? "The wholesome rooters, the folks with the horse bug. that lire the longest, are those, that get up on thetr hind legs, so to speak, and bellow and bawl and keep right at It VP to the last Jump of the race. That lets It out of m. "Dumb rooting strikes In.

If you ever saw a stricken woman that wanted to cry and needed to cry. but wouldn't, you'll have some sort of an Idea of how this dumb-rooting habit hurts tne people wno engage in it. if, to her room after an hour's change. In tha meantime the wedding party arrived, and ao engrossed did be become that-after tna ceremony he went' to his study, and later retired in blissful unconsciousness ot having-left hla wife to a night's Vigil of anxiety and discomfort on the back porch, where tha servant -of the bouse found' her early next morning. The good man was quite overcome) with remorse, and It was said 'that, thought be "forgot" everything else, he never again forgot.

"Dear iMary." Ewtered Social and Polities! Lite. My life was now changed. Hand In hand the reporter and I summered and wintered1 It. We entered social and political life. "My husband waa on the Governor's stsff and our two families became intimate.

"Little Dick." as his parents called him. the present Governor of Illinois, was the apple of bis mother's eye. My son and he were play-mutes. For fifty -years my husband and I walked In love together, twenty years In this house oa Wilcox avenue. All manner ot changes have come to Chicago.

It is like another world to look back and then around me. Chicago people live so fast that courtesy and good manners at least In public are a thing of the past. We old people cannot keep np with the procession. The children can teach -the grandparents worlds of wisdom and are a law unto themselves. So I am walt-ina to go to.

that better land where age la unknown. He la watting for the orphan flower girl and a blessed eternity will be oars together. I canvassed Elgin for subscriptions stock. Some who subscribed said they novel expected to get their money back, ethers Jeered at me and-called me a fool and said th read would never maintain a peddler and his pack. But the first year the road ran Into Elgin it paid IS per cent on the stock.

This opened the eyes of Eastern capitalists and so the Illinois Central Railway company waa formed and the Chicago, Rock Island ds Pacific. "The phenomenal growth of Chicago realty f-' dalea back from 1853. Then the city alt laid between the south branch ot the river and the lake. with a fw shanties on the north aad west sides. I used to go to Fort Dearborn to see the soldiers on dress parade.

There were two companies of Infantry and half a battery ot artillery. The tort was built on the high" est point of ground in what wss then the city et Chicago. Tec" ground wa highest next to the lake and sloped toward the river. "The lake was thn cutting away ths land south of Fort Dearbora and people havinig houses en the east side of Michigan avenue had to move them to save them, as the lake-had swallowed their tola. Only for the butlj lng by the Illinois Central ot Us breakwater aad tracks the lake would have eaten away si) the lead to the river.".