v/ INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX which Abe won the praise of all for an "I shouldn't wonder. Is he going WHO GETS THE CHAMPAGNE? able presentation of the claim of Internal Only I wish you was older and knew to the spelling school?" Improvements. During that more." "No, he went off to Richland today We note the following sad complaint evening Alexander Ferguson declared There was half a moment of silence. from France, told in a cable Vith my father to join the company. that he would not cut his hair until She ended it by saying: dispatch from Paris: They're going to fight the Injuns, Henry Clay became President, the "Ann and I are going to the spelling "That French grape growers and too." news of which resolution led to a like school tonight." wine merchants are greatly disappointed The shell sounded for dinner. Bim insanity in others and an age of unexampled at the slow increase of wine "Can I go with you?" started for the road at a gallop, waving hairiness on that part of the shipments to the United States since "Coukl you stand It to be talked to her hand. He unhitched his team border. the war that only 8,009 more bottles and scolded by a couple of girls till and followed it slowly across the black For Samson and Sarah the most of champagne were shipped here during you didn't care what happened to furrows toward the barn. notable social event of the winter was the first five months of this year you He did not go to the spelling school. than during the corresponding five a chicken dinner at which they and "Yes I've got to be awful careless." Abe came at seven and said that he months last year. The dispatch said Mr. and Mrs. James Rutledge and Ann "We'll be all dressed up and ready that total shipments so far this yQ&r and Harry would have to Walk to and Abe Lincoln and Doctor Allen at quarter of eight. Come to the tavern. to the United States were only 55$00 Springfield that night and get their were the guests of the Kelsos. That I'm going to have supper with bottles, indicating that we would take equipment and take the stage in the night Harry stayed at home with the Ann. She is just terribly happy. John no more than 140.000 bottles of champagne children. morning. Abe said if they started McNeil has told her that he loves her. this year." right away they could get to the Globe Kelso was In his best mood. A STOHY OFTDEiSMLMBSyDEHOCBBCT It's a secret. Don't you tell." Ahem! So some people in this tavern by midnight. In the hurry and "Come," he said, when dinner was country have been able to get 55,000 "I won't. Does she love him?" excitement Harry forgot the spelling ready. "Life Is more than friendship. bottles of champagne in this strict "Devotedly but she wouldn't let ^IEVWS MfflWiro school. To Bim It was a tragic thing. It is partly meat." prohibition year of 1921. Necessarily him know It—not yet. I reckon he'll Before he went to bed that night he "And mostly Kelso," said Doctor those 55,000 bottles of highly expensive be plumb anxious before she owns up. wrote a letter to her. Allen. wine had to go through the But she truly loves him. She'd die for "Ah, Doctor I Long life has made customs service of the same government (To be continued) I him." 'cojoyjsfo'ffr nz\riu9 AACHELLE^ that is supposed to enforce prohibition. you as smooth as an old shilling and "Girls are awful curious—nobody apples and calling for the boat to "stop. SYNOPSIS. Who are the peope favored? nimbler than a sixpence," Kelso, declared. can tell what they mean," said Harry. Soon we find out that there are many We suppose some doctor will remark "And, speaking of life, Aristotle and Sarah Traylor, "Sometimes they don't know what CHAPTER I.—Samson LOOK ON WALKING JOKE apples in the world as good as that that the champagne was for AS said that the learned and the unlearned with their two children, Joslah and they mean themselves. Often I say sickness. But how about the millions one. You have all come to a stretch of B*taey, travel by wagon from their home were as the living and the Vt., to the West, the land something or do something and wonder Vergrennes, of bottles of wine that were in storage. bad water up at your house. The folks dead." People Seem to Regard Primitive •r plenty. destination Is the Country Their and wonder what it means. Did you when prohibition went into effect? have been sick.. They're a little lonesome of the in Illinois. Sangamon, "It is true," Abe Interposed. "I say Method of Locomotion as Altogether Is that all gone? And who ever ride a horse sitting backwards— and discouraged. Don't you make II.—At Niagara Falls they CHAPTER it, in spite of the fact that It slays Out of Date. consumed it? Moreover, if it is still meet a party immigrants, among them when you're going one way and looking or" It any harder by crying over a lost apple. me." a youth John McNeil, who also named in storage why add 55,000 to it in*4»re another and you don't know Ye know It's possible that the decides to go to the Sangamon country. "You? No! You are alive to your Charles Harfson Towne writes in the months? All of the party suffer from fever and what's coming?" she asked. apple will float along down Into the finger tips," Kelso answered. ague. Sarah's ministrations save the life Century: When I refer to the difficulties There has been a great deal said "What's behind you is before you still water where you can pick It up of a youth, Harry Needles, in the last "But I have mastered only eight that prohibition is for the poor man of walking, I do not refer to the stages of fever, he accompanies the and and the faster you go the more danger by and by. The important thing Is to books," said Abe. and not for the rich man. It behooves Traylors. They reach New Salem, Illinois, infirmities of age, to flat feet, or to you're in?" Harry laughed. keep going ahead." and are welcomed by young "Abe" Lincoln. our enforcing authorities to see to it "And one—the book of common avoirdupois. Not at all. I mean that "Isn't that the way we have to This bit of fatherly counsel was a that this law applies to everybody. sense, and that has wised you," Kelso it is hard indeed In these rushing CHAPTER m.—Among the Traylors' travel in this world, whether we're help to the boy. first acquaintances are Lincoln's friends, went on. "Since I came to this country times to go afoot, even on the most going to love or to mill?" the girl asked, Jaelc Kelso and his pretty daughter Bim, "I've got a book here that I want I have learned to beware of the distant by-roads, without being considered If years of age. with a sigh. "We cannot tell what DRESS CENSORSHIP you to read," Abe went on. "It is the one-book man. There are more living eccentric. People stare at is ahead. We see only what is behind AND THE JACKASS 'Life of Henry Clay.' Take It home CHAPTER JV.—Samson decides to locate men In America than In any land I you as though you were some kind of us. It is very sad." at New Salem, and begins building and read it carefully and then bring It have seen. The man who reads one freak or criminal. They cast suspicious his house. Led by Jack Armstrong, Harry looked at Bira. He saw the Isn't it about time that the women rowdies attempt to break up the back and tell me what you think of It. proceedings. good book thoughtfully Is alive and glances your way, never dreaming tragic truth of the words and suddenly folks of this country put a stop to the Lincoln thrashes Armstrong. Young You may be a Henry Clay yourself by often my master In wit or wisdom. that perhaps you prefer your own Harry Needles strikes Bap of McNoll, her face was like them. Unconsciously antics of the mountebank who plays and by. The world has something big the Armstrong crowd, and McNoll threatens Reading Is the gate and thought is the feet as a means of pleasant locomotion. the tin Czar at Zion City, 111.? vengeance. in the midst of her playful talk this in It^for every one if he can only find pathway of real life." We refer to this "Overseer" Voliva thing had fallen. He did not know CHAPTER V.—A few days later Harry, "I think that most of the men I know I asked a certain friend If he would person, grand mogul of the old Dowie alone, is attacked by McNoll and his what to make of it. Rd ng, and would have been roughly used have read the Bible," said Abe. not accompany me. My friend turned church of fanatics who are in the "I feel sad when I think of Abe," not Bim driven off his assailants with "A wonderful and a saving fact! It to me and instantly said: majority at Zion City. Voliva, having a shotgun. John McNeil, the Traylors' said Harry. "He don't know what is Niagara Falls acquaintance. Is markedly "My car is out of order." the votes behind him, has made is a sure foundation to build your life ahead of him, I guess. I heard Mrs. attentive to Ann Rutledge. Lincoln Is in a lot of tomfool rules for the conduct upon." "But I did not mean to go In a love with Ann, but has never had enough Traylor say that he was In love -with of women. One is that women must oourage to tell her so. Kelso paused to pour whisky from car," I as quickly answered. Ann." always wear their dress sleeves down a jug at his side for those who would "Why," he replied, looking at me CHAPTER VI. Traylor helps two "I reckon he is, but he don't know to the wrists. Another is that the slaves, who had run away from St. Louis, take It. as though I had gone quite mad, "how how to show It. He's never told her. dress must run clear up to the throat. to escape. Bliphalet Biggs, owner of the else would we go?" "Let us drink to our friend Abe and slaves, following them, attempts to beat I reckon he's mighty good, but lie don't The material in women's clothes must up Traylor and in a light has his arm his new ambition," he proposed. "On foot," I bravely made answer, not be in the slightest bit gauzy. know how to love a girl. Did you ever broken. yet realizing that this confirmed New "What Is It?" Samson asked. A Mrs. Sarah Johnson, who is a see an elephant talking with a cricket?" CHAPTER VII.—Waiting for hie arm Yorker would never think the same of perfectly respectable woman of Winthrop "I am going to try for a seat In the to heal. Biggs meets Bim Kelso, with me again. And it was so. I shall Harbor, 111., stepped off the legislature," said Abe. whom Harry Needles has fallen in love. "Not as I remember," said Harry. Biggs asks for Blm's hand, but her not forget, If I live a hundred years, train at Zion City the other day. The toast was drunk, and by some "I never did myself, but if I did, I'm father refuses his consent. Biggs returns his final disgusted glance. If anything Her sleeves didn't quite come down to St. Louis. In water, after which Abe said: sure they'd both look very tired. It to the wrists. Her waist didn't reach further was needed to crush me would be still harder for an elephant "If you have the patience to listen up to the middle of the throat and utterly, I do not know what it CHAPTER VIII. to It, I'd like to read my declaration to to be engaged to a cricket. I don't Voliva's chief of police thought that could be. the voters of Sangamon county." reckon the elephant's love would fit the the dress goods might have been Wherein Abe Announces His Purpose cricket or that they'd ever be able to thicker. So he clapped her into jail. Adult Illiteracy In Mexico. Be a Candidate for the Leoielature, agree on what they'd talk about. It's This is a plain outrage. Another ej ucr Instruction for illiterates in the territories at Kelso's Dinner Party. some that way with Abe and Ann. She case of man harking back 2,000 years of the republic of Mexico is is small and spry he Is slow and high. to the time when he had complet^^ Harry Needles met Bim Kelso on provided by a law promulgated recently. She'd need a ladder to get up to his censorship over the female of 0k the road next day, when he was going The law authorizes the employment species. In our opinion Mrs. Johnson face, and I Just tell you It ain't purty down to see if there was any mail. ought to plead not guilty to whatever of persons In every locality who when ye get there. She ain't got a She was on her pony. He was in his charge this jackass of a Voliva will undertake the instruction of one chance to love him." new suit of clothes—a butternut background makes against her and then appeal or more illiterates. Children under "I love him," said Harry. "I think from his decision to the highest court striped into large checks. fifteen years of age who live In districts he's a wonderful man. I'd fight for of the land. We think that there are "You look like a walking checkerboard," provided with schools are not him till I died. John McNeil Is nothing plenty of women in the United States said she. included In the application of the law. but a grasshopper compared to who will be glad to help her finance The American consul at Mexican, Mexico, "This—this is my new suit," Harry him." such an appeal. who reports the promulgation of answered, looking down at it. "That's about what my father says," Incidentally, we hear that Mrs. the law, states that It will not onl "It's a tiresome suit," said she impatiently. Bim answered. "I love Abe, too, and Johnson is the recipient of many letters tend to uplift the peon classes, but It "I've been playing checkers so does Ann, but It ain't the hope of encouragement from her angrysisters "Do You—Love—Some Other Man?" will also create a better feellng"on our on it since I caught sight o' you, and to die, marry in' love. It's like a man's in Illinois. If you think she He Asked. border. Under the American immigration I've got a man crowned in the king love for a man or a woman's love for has been martyred by the prison cell law illiterates are not allowed treatment, whv not write her? row." a woman. John McNeil is handsomehe's it. We're all searching—some for gold to enter the United States, although just plumb handsome, and smart, "I thought you'd like it," he answered, and some for fame. I pray God every their more fortunate fellow countrymen Just received a shipment of Boy too. He's bought a big farm and Is quite seriously, and with a day that He will help me to find my may cross and recross the border Scout suits, all sizes, prices reasonable. going Into the grocery business. Mr. look of disappointment. "Say, I've got work—the thing I can do better than at will. Come in and see for yourself. Rutledge says he^ll be a rich man." that razor and I've shaved three times anything else—and when it is found U. S. Army Store. already. help me to do it. I expect it will be "Don't tell anybody," he warned a hard and dangerous search and that her. "They'd laugh at me. They I shall make mistakes. I expect to wouldn't know how I feel." drop some apples on my way. They'll "I won't say anything," she answered. look like gold to me, but I'm not going "I reckon I ought to tell you to lose sight of the main purpose." that I don't love you—not so muclj tI When Harry got home he found did, anyway—not near .so Sarah sewing by the fireside, with Joe only love you just a wee bit and Betsey playing by the bed. Samson Harry's face fell. had gone to the woods to split rails. "Do you—love—some other man?" "Any mall?" Sarah asked. he asked. "I'd Like to Read My Declaration to "No mail," he answered. "Yes—a regular man—mustache, six the Voters." Sarah went to the window and stood feet tall and everything. I just tell you for some minutes looking out at the he's pui-ty!" Samson's diary briefly describes this plain. Its sere grasses, protruding out "Is it that rich feller from St. appeal as follows: of the snow, hissed and bent In the Louis?" he asked. "He said that he wanted to win the wind. In its cheerless winter colors She nodded and then whispered: confidence and esteem of his fellow it was a dreary thing to see. "Don't you tell." citizens. This he hoped to accomplish "How I long for home!" she exclaimed, The boy's lips trembled when he answered. by doing something which would make as she resumed her sewing by "I won't tell. But I don't him worthy of It. He had been thinking the fire. see how you can do It." of the county. A railroad would Little Joe came and stood by her "Why?" do more for It than anything else, but knee and gave his oft repeated blessing: "He drinks. He isn't respectable." a railroad would be too costly. The Prince Albert's a new "That's a lie," she answered quickly. improvement of the Sangamon river "God help us and make His face to "I don't care what you say." was the next best thing. He favored shine upon us." Bim touched her pony with the whip a usury law and said, In view of the She kissed him and said: "Dear comforter! and rode away. talk he had just heard, he was going It shines upon me every time note in the joys of rolling 'em! Harry staggered for a moment as he to favor the Improvement and building I hear you say those words." went on. His eyes filled with tears. It of schools, so that every one could "Would you mind if I called you learn how to read, at least, and learn seemed to him that the world had been mother?" Harry asked. for himself what is In the Bible and ruined. On his way to the village he "I shall be glad to have you do It 11 other great books. It was a modest tried and convicted It of being no fit It gives you any comfort, Harry," she statement and we all liked it." place for a boy to live in. Down by Talking about rolling And, for a fact, rolling answered. "Whatever happens to Sangamon, the tavern he met Abe, who stopped your own cigarettes, we'll up Prince Albert is mighty him. She observed that there were tears one statement In that platform "Howdy, Harry!" said Abe. "You tell you right here that easy! P. A. is crimp cut and In his eyes. couldn't be improved," said Kelso. look kind o' sick. Come into the store "We are all very fond of you," she "What Is that?" Abe asked. Prince Albert tobacco has stays put and you whisk it and sit down. I want to talk to you." Print* Albert is' said, as she bent to her task. "It's the one that says you wish to sold in toppy rod 'em all lashed to the mast! into shape before you can Harry followed thet. big man Into Then the boy told her the history of win the regard of your fellows by tffi, tidy r*d tint, Offut's store, flattered by his attention. handsome pound his morning—the talk with Bim, with serving them." count three! And, the next and half pound tin You've got a handful-ofhappiness There had been something very grateful the razor omitted from it. Early In April an Indian scare humidors and in thm instant you're puffing away in the sound of Abe's voice and the pound crystal glass "Well, Harry, If she's such a fool, coming your direction spread from the capital to the remotest id it feel of his hand. The store was empty. you're lucky to have found It out so to beat the band! corners of the state. Black Hawk, spongs moistsnsr when you pal it with "You and I mustn't let ourselves be top. soon," said Sarah. "She does little bi# with many warriors, had crossed the worried by little matters," said Abe, as P. A. and the makin's Prince Albert is so good ride the pony and play around with a Mississippi and was moving toward they sat down together by the Are. gun. I don't believe she ever spun a the Rock River country. Governor papers! For Prince Albert that it has led four men to "Things that seem to you to be as big hank o' yarn in her life. She'll get her Reynolds called for volunteers to as a mountain now will look like a is not only delightful to smoke jimmy pipes where teeth cut by and by." check the invasion. mole hill In six months. You and I Then fell a moment of silence. Soon Abe, whose address to the voters your taste and pleasing in one was smoked before! It's have got things to do, partner. We she said: had been printed in the Sangamon mustn't let ourselves be fooled. I was its refreshing aroma, but our the greatest old buddysmoke "There's a bitter wind blowing and Journal, joined a volunteer company onqe in a boat with old Cap'n Chase on there's no hurry about the rails, 1 and soon became Its captain. On the exclusive patented process that ever found its the Illinois river. We had got Into the FRINGE ALBERT guess. You sit here by the fire and tenth of April he and Harry Needles frees it from bite and parch! way into a pipe or cigarette! rapids. It was a narrow channel in read your book this forenoon. Maybe left for Richland to go into training. dangerous water. They had to keep it will help you to find your work." Samson was eager to go, but could not iier headed just so or we'd have gone ^o it happened that the events of leave his family. on the rocks. Suddenly a boy dropped Harry's morning found their place In Bim Kelso rode out Into the fields his apple overboard and began to holler. the diary which Sarah and Samson where Harry .was at work the day before He wanted to have the boat kept. Long afterward Harry added the he went away. stopped. For a minute that boy sentences about the razor. "I'm going away," the boy said. In thought his apple was -the biggest One evening Sarah and Samson, Copyrigh a rather mournful tone. by R. J. thing in the world. We're All a good with Harry, went to a debate In the Tobacc~ C.". "I hate to have you go. I Just love deal .like him. We keep dropping _pur Winston-Sal-• the national joy moke tavern on the Issues .of tihe day, In k. to know you're here. If I don't see you. J*-*"£'s -a sM% -ij. i, ^.