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Show j YOVNG GIRL RESCUED FROM LIFE OF I BONDAGE ON A SOVTII DAKOTA FARM A 17 year-old white liar girl arrived ar-rived In Chicago latt week. A twentieth century underground ratV way helped tha child tave to eirap from a life of bowleg In South Dakota. Da-kota. y ( Ixiulie Hahy, the git1 who at laat haa found freedom, wat rlad In tha rough garmonta ot a faro laborer and allowed tha aim pllrlty 4 a Georgia "cracker" when the artved In Chicago. Chi-cago. A alngle garn utnf one piece covered ber entire bod) On her head waa a broad brimmed nv hat and on her feet wure tho heaV brogan of a laborer. John Mayor, an unrk of tha girl, living In Chicago, la tin one Who an-rompllahcd an-rompllahcd her dellveraee. Hla wife la a alater to the girl thrr. Two month ago the girl herd ot tha ex-latenre ex-latenre of the two relilvea In Chicago. Chi-cago. Hiirrnptltloualy vbevrote a letter and contrived to illp II tlo the hand of a neighboring ranchian going toward to-ward the poatofllce. She had been bourn to a family whlrh owned a ranch aar Hlghinnre, 8. V., for fifteen yeat She had known no other par-i4Qi other life eirept what ahe cVaHl from atray paper, a her fat her lad aold her and dlaaieared wheilhe waa two year ohf He la no tl lleved to ha In Bourn America, hut titter he received re-ceived 1-5. the price fr whlrh hla twoyjar-old daughter a aold, ba paid no further attontli to hi child. Tha Chicago relatlai of the girl were aatounded to heir of bur ex-latence. ex-latence. Th money iV her deliverance deliver-ance waa quickly aeired and forwarded for-warded to a nelghbofof tbe rancher. ranch-er. For a dlalanr ofjen mile from the ranch where thlrl lived men came to anlit la berawape. Conaldrrlng her pttitlona, tha girl la unuaually Intelllgesj ' "All except tao yigra of my life have been year of gruel treatment and hard work." iak tha girl. "Krom tha tlm I waa lar enough 1 waa mad to do the work t a man. Every morning at t o'clock t waa called to Jv irs LOUJJJE- iWBr ma J CHURN Irffi Jr,- 1 work. My Arat duty waa to bring In tha cattle, which every night. atrayed three or four mile acroa tha prairie from tha ranch. Morning and evening for year I bar milked eight ot tha cow. Every day there waa tha churning churn-ing and the preparing of tha butter for market. "It waa my duty to waah up tha can after tha milking before starting to east ea-st at with the regular work on tha ranch. 1 worked with tha men In tha Aelda and rode with tha boy acroa tBe prairie. 1 can pitch bay with tha beat ot them or break a bono for riding rid-ing or driving. "Thla summer I dug a twenty-foot well and no one alsa touched pick or hovel to IL Every evening In tha winter I pumped enough water for lx-ty lx-ty cow during the following day. At that time I wore felt boots and a man 'a reefer and cap to protect ma from th biting wind which awept ovar the prairie. "In all theae yeara my only rest waa during a few hour on Bunday afternoon. after-noon. Then I waa able to read or amuse myself aa I pleased If I waa successful In eludi" the other member mem-ber of tha famli. It waa In thla way that I picked up what little knowledge knowl-edge I have ot tba world. It haa always al-ways been my fondest dream to escape from tba ranch, but until two months ago, when I learned of my relative, I never Imagined that It would be fulfilled." |