Show SYNOPSIS OF OF The Totem of Black Hawk Tom Clay his wife wire Martha Il and three children reached the end of a long journey from Ohio to tho the Illinois prairie prairie pral- pral rie to tomake make mako their home The They came In ere co covered wagons drawn by oxen The lau land was the best in ht Rock River valley with plenty plent of wood water and good food soil Boll The rile first few nights were spent In a ahouse ahouse ahouse house made of or the tho cover of the camp wagons wag until thc they could coul cut enough h trees tree to build a lo log house Gideon the ho hoy 10 tried to shoot a buck huck that was feeing feeding ne ne-jr ne r their homo home and came upon a a. large black bear about six feet teet In front of or him him which he killed with one shot Tom Toni took the thc scythe and cut cul some grass for lor them to sleep on It was Toms Tom's fortieth birthday and he ho was wa presented with a a. coonskin cap from his wife While the they w were ro re eating Silas an ol old friend of Toms Tom's came to visit them After Arter their dinner they started to build the house As soon as 35 the house hoube was nas put up chips chlIS were ere hammered hammered ham ham- between the logs and er co covered d with skins to keep out tho the wind an and andrain rain In do the morning morning- SI called Tom and told him It would ho bo better bettH not to build his ills home homo there as ns trouble had been started between the red men and whites that the thc they might begin to fight at any time Lime As they x cro cutting down trees to tomake tomake mal make c their furniture a largo bobcat sprang ng at Gideon but hut he ew swung ng hi his axe meeting the brutes brute's head In mid midair air and anti splitting splitting- it from nose noso to neck Tho table chairs and beds were mado made that day a from trees split Into planks and smoothed off otC with an nn axe Th The I beds beda were roped with d deerskins for lor springs s. s One night as aa It was a pouring down r rain rail ln they heard hen the c cry of a t bab baby and Just outside of ol the house lay Bright Bright- eyes tho the daughter daug of Black Hawk chief of tho the Sacs and Fox In Indians with h hr her three months old babe r Sho She was waR soaking wet and awl had h a badly sprained foot root The following da day Great Thunder and Storm Cloud two Indians came carne to the tho camp looking for Thunders wife wICe After they had a n. bl big dinner I she bho ho ro rode rodo o home on the tho hack back of or their horse Just before going the squaw placed a a. silver sliver chain aroun around Ruth Ruth's a neck from which hung a n pendant It was a a. black stone carved in the tho shape shapo of hawk She bhe he told her a to always J wear near it and no Indian would harm her The Tho next morning they yoked ok II up a team earn of or oxen and started to the late plo plow U up ground on which tile the were to plant their first crops crop Gideon snit and Suns wont went hii H White II I c- c 11 o'Clock Monday Sale of Suits Coats and Dresses factory samples samples sam sam- ples 2 1 price price Boston Store I 1 Li nose a hear bear with Old Man Ian Kellogg The rhe bear had stolen man many pl pigs s of ot Kellogg Kel Kel- Kellogg logg and had been heen shot nie nine nille times In head and never killed Gid shot him Just JustIn In time to i save avo Silas SlIns from being belnE struck and proba probably hi killed Bon Ban Block tells them that the Indians are again on tho the warpath Tho The family all started to plant their wheat and corn and thought very cry little of the Indians The They had a house raising In which all their nel neighbors came camo After tho house houM was wag finished they all sat Rat down to a big dinner Then came came camo the sports In which Tom Toni threw Ike Conrad the champion wrestler of Illinois One morning they woke wolo up to find It had snowed so BO that It nearly covered tho the house As Gideon lay lar asleep In lcd bed ho he heard tho the paper on tho the window tear and looking up ho Ito saw a largo large wolf He lie reached for his rifle which was already loaded and killed It The next nl night ht many of or them gathered aroun around the house some gome got of into nto the second floor and one ne got of through through h tho the roof of or the barn ham but tins was l killed b by tho the cows and horses Again the tho Indian trouble started Old and Tom had to take turns watch- watch In Inc during the night Two thousand militia soldiers arrived to force forca them across the Mississippi U river When Black mack Hawk Hawl saw law all nIl these thee men he signed a treat treaty to do so without fighting fight fight- ing aa as he could get et only Indians to totI tI fight ht for lor him Now see Boys Dos and Girls' Girls Section |