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Show SHORTAGE IN PANTS SUPPLY Evidently Plonssrs' Wardrobes Were, at Least to a Certain Extent, Unpleasantly Limited. In the early days of central Illinois, period when the settlers drove their hog . to market at Chicago, breaking a path in winter by means of a yoke of oxen and a heavy log,- a certain young man was In the habit of wallt-' lng eight miles to see his best girl. On the occasion of one visit a heavy snowstorm swept the prairie, and the young man found It necessary to remain re-main until morning. He slept In an "outside" room, the space between the I logs being unfilled. The old-fashioned feather bed with wool blankets pro- tected him from the zero weather. It so happened that the young man wore the style at that date, buckskjkl pants. Thoughtlessly on retiring he laid his pants on top of the bedclothes. bed-clothes. A coyote or wolf crawled through the cracks between the logs in the night and carried his pants away. The theft was revealed when the young man was called for breakfast, break-fast, and to cap the climax, not an extra pair of pants was to be had. The young man was forced to stay In bed and send a boy eight miles to his home for pants. There was only otle pair in his family, those worn by his father. Thus the father had to go to bed and send the hoy these pants In order that the latter could get back home. Indianapolis News. j |