at, PWPPfW #*ri SEjjP *','-' ?7Pte'T£,£- v!f" *fiV INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ?AGE TWO a sling of his muBler and put It over FOURTH CLASS POSTMASTER now a cheerful face. Brimstead came the neck and arm of the injured Biggs and shook his fist and threatened us EXAMINATION down from the ladder and they shook and drove with care to avoid jolting. with the law. hands. For the first time Samson took a careful ''Mr. Nuckles rode close to the woodshed The United States Civil Service "Good land o' Goshen! How did ,you and sympathetic look at him. He and looked up at him. Commission has announced an examination get here?" Samson asked. Brimstead was a handsome youth, about six feet to be held at Margie, Minn., 'My brother, I fear you be not a answered: Christian,' he said. tall, with dark eyes and hair and a on July 2, 1921, as a result of which "Through the help of a feller that it is expected to make certification small black mustache and teeth very "He swore at the minister. That looks like you an' the grit of a pair o' white and even. to fill a contemplated vacancy in the settled him. 'I reckon he better stay horses. Come down this road early in position of .fourth class postmaster at In New SaJem Samson took him to thar till he gits a little o' God's grace September on my way to the land o' Margie, and other vacancies as they Doctor Allen's office and helped the in his soul,' says the minister. plenty. Found Peasley here. Couldn't may occur at that office, unless it doctor in setting the broken bone. "Then he says to the dog: 'Ponto, help it. Saw his name on the barn. shall be decided in the_interests of the Then he went to Offut's store and you keep 'im right thar.' Used to go to school with him in Orwell. service to fill the vacancy by reinstatement. found Abe reading his law book and "The dog appeared to understand fflkrm He offered to sell me some land The compensation of the gave him an account of his adventure. what was expected of him. with a house on it an' trust me for his postmaster at this office was $270 for A0E5 "I'm both glad and sorry," said Abe. "The minister got off his hoss and ^HflN pay. I liked the looks o' the country the last fiscal year. "I'm glad that you licked the slaver hitched him and took off his coat and Applicants must have reached their and so didn't go no further. I was |FORTUEs^ and got the negroes out of his reach. put it on the ground. twenty-first birthday on the date of goin' to write you a letter, but I hain't I reckon I'd have done the same if I "'What you goin' to do?' I says. the examination, with the exception got around to it yet. Ain't forgot what could. I'm sorry because it looks to 'Me?' says the minister. 'I be that in a state where women are declared you done for us, I can tell ye that." by statute to be of full age me like the beginning of many troubles. goin' to rassle with Satan for the soul A STORY" OF THE BDILDEBSy DEHOCMCY "Well, this looks better than the 'for all purposes at eighteen years, The whole subject of slavery is o' that 'ar man, an' if you keep watch sand plains—a lot better—and you women eighteen years of age on the full of danger. Naturally Southern ^ITOTlHft R»fHH IFP I reckon you'll see 'at the ground'll be look better than the flea farmer back date of the examination will be admitted. men will fight for their property, and scratched up some 'fore I git through.' in York state. How are the children there is a growing number in the "He loosened his collar an' knelt on Applicants must reside within the r07=yJ2JC7'HT I&S/TJV& J3A.CH£LL LER-? North who will fight for their principles. his coat and began to pray that the "Fat an' happy an' well dressed. territory supplied by the postoffice ton and get off at Tieardstown and If we all get to fighting, 1 man's soul would see its wickedness Mrs. Peasley has been a mother to for which the examination is announced. SYNOPSIS. drive across country. If we knew wonder what will become of the country. and repent. You could have heard him 'em an' her sister is goin' to be a wife when you were coming Samson or Abe It reminds me of the man who half a mile away. CHAPTER I.—Samson and Sarah Traylor, The examination is open to all citizens to me." He came close to Samson and would meet you. Give our love to all with their two children, Joslah and found a skunk in his house. His boy "Mr. Traylor drove off with the of the United States who can added in a confidential tone: "Say, if Betsey, travel by wagon from their home the folks and friends. was going after the critter with a damaged slaver settin' beside him and coir-lv with the requirements. ID Vergennes, Vt,, to the West, the land I was any happier I'd be scairt. I'm "Yours affectionately, fit plenty. Their destination is the Counngr club. Application blanks, Form 1753, and the saddle hoss hitched to the rear like I was when I got over the toothache—so of tile Sangamon, in Illinois. "Sarah and Samson." 'Look here, boy,' he said, 'when full information concerning the r§fc*T] axle. I see my chance an' before that scairt for fear it would come quirements of the examination can It had been a cold winter and not you've got a skunk in the house, it's a "CHAPTER II.—At Niagara Falls they prayer ended I had got the fugitives back I was kind o' miserable." inset a party of immigrants, among them be secured from the postmaster at the easy to keep comfortable in the little good time to be careful. You might under some hay in my wagon and started youth named John McNeil, who also Mr. Peasley came out of the door. place of vacancy or from the United house. In the worst weather Samson decides to go to the Sangamon country. spyle the skunk with that club, but off with them on my way to Livingston He was a big, full-bearded, jovial man. All of the party suffer from fever and States Civil Service Commission, at had used to get up at night to the skunk would be right certain to county. I could hear the prayin' •cue. Sarah's ministrations save the life "I've got a small load o' hay for Washington, D. C. of a youth, Harry Needles, in the last keep the fire going. Late in January spyle the house. While he's our guest, until I got over the hill into Canaan you," said Samson. Application should be properly executed •tagea of fever, and he accompanies the a wind from the southeast melted the barrens. At sundown I left them in I reckon we'll have to be polite, Tr&ylors. They reach New Salem, Illinois, and filed with the commission "I was expecting it, though I supposed snow and warmed the air of the midlands and are welcomed by young "Abe" Lincoln. good hands thirty miles up the road." whether we want to or not.'" at Washington D. C., at the earliest 'twould be walkin'—in the dark so that, for a week or so, it That evening Samson set down the In a frontier newspaper of that practicable date. o' night," Peasley answered. "Drive in seemed as if spring were come. One events of the day in his book and time it is recorded that the minister CHAPTER III.—Among the Traylors' on the barn floor." first acquaintances are Lincoln's friends, night of this week Sambo awoke the quoted the dialogue in Offut's store in and his dog kept the slaver on the roof N O E N I N N E S O A Jack Kelso and his pretty daughter Bim, When Samson had driven into the family with his barking. A strong which he had had a part. On the first all day, vainly trying with prayer and II years of a*•. O S I A barn its doors were closed and the negroes wind was rushing across the plains of February, 1840, he put these words exhortation to convert his soul. The Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and CHAPTER IV.—Samson decides to locate were called from their place of and roaring over the cabin and wailing under the entry: man stopped swearing before dinner at New Salem, and begins building Surgeon in Charge hiding. Samson writes his house. Lied by Jack Armstrong, in its chimney. Suddenly there "I wouldn't wonder if this "was the and on his promise not again to violate "I never realized what a blessing it Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 rowdies attempt to break up the proceedings. was a rap on its door. When Samson first trip on the Underground railroad." the commandment a good meal was Lincoln thrashes Armstrong. Young is to be free until I saw that scared Office Int'l State Bank Building Harry Needles strikes Bap McNoll, of opened it he saw in the moonlight a handed up to him. He was literated the Armstrong crowd, and McNoll threatens man and woman crawling out from under colored man and woman standing (To be continued) young International Falls, Minnesota at sundown and spent the night with vengeance. the dusty hay and shaking themselves near the doorstep. Brimstead. like a pair of dogs. The weather CHAPTER V.—A few days later Harry, "Is dis Mistah Traylor?" the young "Who is that big sucker who grabbed alone, is attacked by McNoll and his was not cold or I guess they would Sd man asked. ag, and would have been roughly used my friend?" the stranger asked Brimstead. have been frozen. They knelt together not Bim driven off his assailants with "It is," said Samson. "What can I FISK TIRES a shotgun.. John McNeil, the Traylors' on the barn floor and the woman Niagara Falls acquaintance, is markedly do for you?" "His name is Samson Traylor. prayed for God's protection through attentive to Ann Rutledge. Lincoln is in "Mas'r, de good Lord done fotched Comes from Vermont," was the answer. love with Ann, but has never had enough the day. Peasley brought food for courage to tell her so. to ask you fo' help," said the us here them and stowed them away on the negro. be nigh wone out with cold "If he don't look out 'Liph Biggs'll "We top of his haymow with a pair of buffalo an' hungah, suh, 'deed we be." kill him—certain." CHAPTER VI. skins. I suppose they got some AND Samson asked them in and put wood Samson spoke not more than a dozen sleep there. I went into the house to FIRESTONE TIRES words on his way back to New Salem. Which in 011 the fire, and Sarah got up and made Describes the Lonely Life breakfast and while I ate Brimstead some hot tea and brought food from Amazed and a tittle shocked by his a Prairie Cabin and a Stirring Adventure told me about his trip. His children the cupboard and gave it to the strangers, own conduct, he sat thinking. After on the Underground Railroad were there. The^ looked clean and who sat shivering in the firelight. all he had heard and seen, the threat 20 PER CENT REDUCTION About the Time It Began Operations. decent. He lived in a log cabin a little of the young upstart had provoked They were a good-looking pair, the further up the road. Mrs. Peasley's young woman being almost white. him beyond his power of endurance. sister waited on me. She is a fat and When Samson paid Mr. Gollaher, a The sensitive mind of the New Englander They were man and wife. The latter cheerful looking lady, very light complected. "detector" came with the latter to look stopped eating and moaned and shook had been hurt by the story of Her hair is red—like tomato at the money before it was accepted. with emotion as her husband told the fugitives. Upon this hurt the ketchup. Looks to me a likely, stoutarmed, There were many counterfeits and bills IN TIRES EFFECTIVE MAY 10 their story. Their master had died young man had poured the turpentine good-hearted woman who can good only at a certain discount of the year before and they had been of haughty, imperial manners. The do a lot of hard work. She can see a face value going about those- days and brought to St. Louis to be sold in the more he thought of it the less inclined VULCANIZING AND BATTERY SHOP joke and has an answer handy every the detector was in great request. Directly slave market. There they had escaped he was to reproach himself for his ALL WORK GUARANTEED! time." after moving in, Samson dug a by night and gone to the house violence. Slavery was a relic of ancient For details of the remainder of the well and lined it with a hollow log. of an old friend of their former owner imperialism. It had no right in COME IN AND GIVE US A TRIAL. historic visit of Samson Traylor to the He bought tools and another team and who lived north of the city on the free America. There could be no home of John Peasley we are indebted then he and Harry began their fall river shore. He had taken pity on peace with it save for a little time. to a letter from John to his brother plowing. Day after day for weeks The Missourians would tell their AGENTS FOR ESSEX CAR them and brought them across the they paced with their turning furrows friends of the lawless and violent men Mississippi and started them on the until a hundred acres, stretching half Charles, dated February 21, 1832. In north road with a letter to Elijah of the North, who cared not a fig for this he says: a mile to the west and well to the Lovejoy of Alton and a supply of food. the property rights of a Southerner. "We had gone out to the barn and GEDNEY & HOLLER north of the house, were black with Since then they hafi been hiding days The stories would travel like fire in Brimstead and I were helping Mr. them. Fever and ague descended upon in the swamps and thickets and had dry grass. the little home in the early winter. Traylor hitch up his horses. All of a traveled by night Mr. Lovejoy had So, swiftly, the thoughts of men In a letter to her brother, dated sudden two men came riding up the 430 THIRD STREET were being prepared for the great bat» sent them to Erastus Wright of road at a fast trot and turned in and January 4th, 1832, Sarah writes: Springfield, and Mr. Wright had given tie lines of the future. Samson saw come straight toward us and pulled up "We have been longing for news AUTO LIVERY PHONE 466 them the name of Samson Traylor and the peril of it. from home, but not a word has come by the wagon. One of them was a As they rode along young Mr. Biggs the location of his cabin. From there from you. It don't seem as if we could slim, red-cheeked young feller about they were bound for the house of John complained of pain and Samson made twenty-three years old. He wore top •land it unless we hear from you or Pea*ley, in Hopedale, Tazewell county. boots and spurs and a broad-brimmed some of the folks once in a while. Lovejoy had asked them to keep the We are not dead just because we are black hat and gloves and a fur waistcoat letter with which they had begun a thousand miles away. We want to and purty linen. He loked at the their travels. The letter stated that tires of .the wagon and said: 'That's hear from you. Please write and let their late master had often expressed the one we've followed.' us know how father and mother are his purpose of leaving them their freedom 'Which o' you is Samson Traylor? and all the news. We have all been when he should pass away. He he asked. sick with the fever and ague. It is a had left no will and since his death the beautiful country and the soil is very "'I am,' said Traylor. two had fallen into the hands of his rich, but there is some sickness. Samson "The young feller jumped off his nephew, a despotic, violent young and I were both sick at the same horse and tied him to the fence. Then drunkard of the name of Biggs. time. I never knew Samson to give he went up to Traylor and said: Samson was so moved by their story up before. He couldn't go on, his head 'What did you do with my niggers, that he hitched up his horses and put ached so. Little Joe helped me get you dirty sucker?' some hay in the wagon box and made the fire started and brought some water "Men from Missouri hated the Illinois off with the fugitives up the road to and waited on us. Harry Needles folks them days and called 'em the north in the night. When daylight had gone away to Springfield for Mr. Suckers. Offut with a drove of hogs. Two other 'Hain't you a little reckless, young boys are with him. He is going to feller?' Traylor said, as cool as a cuumber. buy a new suit. He is a very proud He stood up nigh the barn boy. Joe and Betsey got back with door, which Brimstead had closed the doctor at nine. That night Abe after we backed the wagon out. Me-o-my, Lincoln came and sat with and up us "The young feller stepped close to gave medicine and kept the us our the New Salem man and raised his fire goiiig. It comical to him was see whip for a blow. Quick as lightnin' lying beside Joe in his trundle bed, Traylor grabbed him and threw "him how you'll take to I with his over the long legs sticking ag'in the barn door, keewhack! He end of it and his feet standing on the hit so hard the boards bent., and the floor about a yard from the bed. He whole barn roared and trembled. The was spread all over the place. He a pipe—and P. A.! other feller tried to get his pistol out talked about religion and his views of its holster, but Brimstead, who would shock most of our friends in the stood beside him, grabbed it, and I East. He doesn't believe in the kind got his hoss by the bits and we both of that the ministers talk Heaven held on. The young feller lay on the Before you're a day older from bite and parch (cut about or any eternal hell. He says ground shakin' as if he had the ague. that nobody knows anything about the out by our exclusive patented Ye never see a man so spylt in a second. you want to let the idea slip hereafter, except that God is a kind Traylor picked him up. His right process) are a revelation under your hat that this and forgiving father and that all men arm was broke and his face and shoulder to the man who never are His children. He says that we bruised some. Ye'd a thought a is the open season to start can only serve God by serving each steam engyne had blowed up while he could get acquainted with a NlNGE ALBERT other. He seems to think that every something with a joy'us was puttin' wood in it. He was kind pipe! P. A. has made a man, good or bad, black or white, rich o' limp and the mad had leaked out o' jimmy pipe and some or poor, is his brother. He thinks him. pipe a thing of joy to four that Henry Clay, next to Daniel Webster, Prince Albert! 'I reckon I better find a doctor,' he men where one was smoked is the greatest man in the country. says. He is studying hard. Expects to Because, a pipe packed 'You get into my wagon and. HI before! go out and make speeches for Clay take ye to a good one,' says Traylor. with Prince Albert satisfies next summer. He is quite severe in "Just then Stephen Nuckles, the circuit Ever roll up a cigarette his talk against General Jackson. He CRIMP CUT minister, rode in with the big a man as he was never satislied 1 with Prince Albert? Man, and Samson agree in politics and religion. LONG BURNING PIPE AND bloodhound that follers him around. CIGARETTE TOBACCO before—and keeps him They are a good deal alike. man but you've got a "The other slaver had got off his He is very fond of Samson and Harry—calls hoss in the scrimmage. Traylor started satisfied! And, you can party coming your way! Prince Albert ie them his partners. We love for him. The slaver began to. back sold in toppy red Up the Road to the North in the Night. this big awkward giant. His feet are prove it! Why P. A.'s Talk about a cigarette bags, tidy red tine, away and suddenly broke into a run. handsome pound set in the straight way and we think came he covered them with hay. About The big dog took after him with a kind and half pound tin flavor and fragrance and smoke we tell you it's a that he is going to make his mark in eight o'clock he came to a frame house humidors and inthe of a lion roar. We all began yelling pound crystal glass peach! the world. coolness and its freedom and barn, the latter being of unusual at the dog. We made more noise than humidor with "You said you would come out next size for that time and country. Above sponge moistener you'd hear at the end of a hoss race. top. spring to look about. Please don't the door of the barn was a board It scairt the young feller.. He put on disappoint us. I think it would almost which bore the stenciled legend: more steam and went up the ladder to break my lieart. I am counting the "John Peasley, Orwell Farm." Fringe Albert the roof of the woodshed like a chased days. Don't be afraid of fever and As Samson drew near the* house he Copyright 1921 weasel. The dog stood barkin' as if he by R. J. Reynolds ague. Sapington's pills cure it in three observed a man working on the roof had treed a bear. Traylor grabbed the Tobacco Co. M/,. or four days. I would take the steamboat of a woodshed. Something familiar in Winston-Salem, ladder and pulled it down. N.C. at Pittsburg, the roads in Ohio his look held the eye of the New Salem 'You stay there till I get away an' fci and Indiana are so bad. You can get man. In half a moment he recognized you'll be safe,' said he. the national joy smoke a steamer up the Illinois river at Al­ the face of Henry Brimstead It was "The man looked down and swore -rsh 1 •P-M 'iM