hen th

ed the soul wa

s remained tha

upon the s

ages and prev

die and canno

hers, felt its baneful shadow. During this time I made Chicago my headquarter

l that I was revisiting a familiar spot and receiving the greetings of old-time friends; and, in spite of the heavy war pressure, it was financially the most successful visit I ever made, having sold five hund

s principal hotel, trusting to the hospitality of its citizens. Nor did I "count without a host," for Mr. Lindsey, the proprietor, received me with courtly cordiality, installing us in an elegant suite of rooms upon the parlor floor, assigning us a servant in constant attendance, and urging us to feel at home. At breakfast the succeeding morning he greeted us with the

, laughingly: "Well, you see, I am a Democrat and a Free Mason. I talked politics to one, gave t

te goodness was the Midas like touch, and that he bore in his

lth in the warm, true, loving, chivalric souls. Nor did the kindness cease at the fountain-head, for the little ones of Mr. Lindsey's family, lade

board, receiving letters of introduction to the Capital House, of Frankfort, whose propriet

I never think of Kentucky and its noble sons an

ng the painful tidings that, by security debts, he had been bereft of all his earthly possessions, but was hopeful of regaining