hv tSffsw»jE 4 y,7«s sm'^ jfe' PAGE TWO INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS get in toucn witn tne enemy, tie nad They puuiired along in sifcjnce for a his hands full maintaining a decent regard on tins subject of home. I think see Abe Lincoln had not been trained to time. for discipline.. among the raw the point of the whole thing. It isn't weigh the consequences of a business "It was my fault," said Harry presently. frontiersmen of his company. the place or the furniture that makes enterprise. The store would give him "I never could say t! half 1 if home, but the love and peace that's leisure for study and New Salem could When the dissatisfied volunteers wanted to when she was with me. My In it. By and by our home isn't here were mustered out late in May, Kelso offer him nothing else save consuming tongue is too slow. She gave me a any more. It has moved. Our minds and McNeil, being sick with a stubborn toil with the ax or the saw. He could chance and I wasn't man enough to begin to beat about in the undiscovered not think of leaving the little cabin fever, were declared unfit for service take it. That's all I've got to sa.v on countries looking for it. Somehow and sent back to New Salem as soon :hat subject." village. There were Ann Rutledge and we got it located—each man for as they were able to ride. Abe and .Tack Kelso and Samson Traylor and Some time afterward in a letter to himself." Harry joined Captain lies' company Harry Needles. Every ladder climber his father the boy wrote: For another space they hurried along of Independent Rangers and a month in the village and on the plain "I often think of that ride down the without speaking. or so later Abe re-enllsted to serve around it was his friend. river and the way he talked to me. Tt "I tell you, Harry, whatever a large with Captain Early, Harry being under Upon these people who knew and was so gentle. He was a big. powerful number of intelligent folks have AGES a surgeon's care. The latter's wound respected him Abe Lincoln based his giant of a man who weighed over agreed upon for some generations is FORZBE^ was not serious and on July third he hopes. Among them he had found his two hundred pounds, all of it bone and 'MAN so—if they have been allowed to do too Joined Early's command. vision and failure had not diminished muscle. IJut under his great strength their own thinking," said Abe. "It's or dimmed it. He would try again This company was chiefly occupied was a woman's gentleness under the about the only wisdom there is." for a place in which he could serve in the moving of supplies and the burying dirty, ragged clotl es and the rough, He had sounded the keynote of the them and if he could learn to serve of a few men who had been killed 'irown skin grimy with dust and new Democracy. Sangamon county he could learn to A STOUT OFTnENlLDEBSyKHOCSacr in small engagements with the enemy. perspiration, was one of the cleanest So, under the lights of heaven, serve the state and, possibly, even the SIEVING BACHEUER It was a band of rough-looking fellows souls that ever came to this world. I speaking ins the silence of the night of republic. With this thought and a in the costume of the frontier farm Icn't mean that he was like a minister. impenetrable mysteries, they journeyed rather poor regard for his own interest and workshop—ragged, dirty and unshorn. He could tell a story Wi.n pretry on toward the land of plenty. his name fell into bad company rough taik in it, but always for a purpose. CTDPYW7 7&VTJV& SACHELLER^ The company was disbanded "It's as still as a graveyard," Harrv on the signboard of Berry and Lincoln. July tenth at Whitewater, Wisconsin, He hated dirt on hands or SYNOPSIS. whispered when they had climbed the dlelight. "That must have cost a pretty Before he took his place In the where, that night, the horses of Harry on the tongue. He .oved flowers like bluff by the mill long after midnight penny." store he walked to Springfield and and Abe were stolen. From that point a-woman. He loved to look at lue CHAPTEB I.—Sainton and 6'arab Traylor, and were near the little village. "I don't care what it cost—it ain't borrowed a law book from his friend with their two children, Josiah and they started on their long homeward stars at night and the colors of tne Betsey, travel by wagon from their home half good enough—not half," said Major Stuart. "They're all burled in sleep," said tramp with a wounded sense of decency sunset and the morning dew on the la Verg-ennes, Vt., to the West, the land Samson. Abe. "We'll get Rutledge out of bed. The career of the firm began on a and Justice. They felt that the :::eadows. I never saw a man so much ef plenty. Their destination is the Country of the Sangamon, in Illinois. As he sat down to his supper he He'll give us a shakedown somewhere." hot day late in August with Bill Be: Indians had been wronged, that the in love with fun and beauty." CHAPTER II.—At Niagara Falls they said: smoking his pipe in a chair on the little greed of land grabbers had brutally They reached Havana that evening meet a party of immigrants, among them "I saw that slaver, Biggs, get off His loud rap on the door of the tavern veranda of the store and Abe Lincoln violated their rights. This feeling had and hoid their canoe to a man who a youth named John McNeil, who also 4«cides to go to the Sangamon country. the boat with his big bay mare. There signalized more than a desire for sprawled in the shade of a tree been deepened by the massacre of the i.ept boats to rent on the river shore. Ail of the party suffer from fever and was a darky following him with another that partly overhung its roof, reading red women and children at Bad Ax. rest in the weary travelers, for just ague. Sarah's ministrations save the life T..ey ate a hot supper at the tavern a of youth, Harry Needles, in the last horse." then a cycle of their lives had ended. a law book. The face of Mr. Berry and got a ride with farmer who \\a A number of mounted men went Stages of fever, and he accompanies the "Good land!" said Sarah. "I hope suddenly assumed a look of animation. ^,'olng ten miles in their direction, Traylora. They reach New Salem, Illinois, with them and gave them a ride now and are welcomed by young "Abe" Lincoln. he isn't coming here. Mrs. Onstot told A small, yellow dog which had' i-'rom his cabin some two hours later and then. Some of the travelers had BOOK TWO. me today that Bim Kelso has been getting been lying in repose beside him roseand rhey set out afoot in the darkness. little to eat on the journey. Both Abe CHAPTER III.—Among the Traylora' letters from him." growled, his hair rising, and with: "(Jomg home is the end of all journeys,'* first acquaintances are Lincoln's friends, and Harry suffered from hunger and Jack Kelso and his pretty daughter Bim, CHAPTER X. "She's such an odd little critter and said Abe as they tramped along. a little cry of alarm and astonishment sore feet before they reached Peoria, 14 years of age. she's got a mind of her own—anybody "'Did it ever occur to you tnat every fled under the store. where they bought a canoe and in the !r» Which Abe and Sameon Wrestle CHAPTER IV.—Samson decides to locate could see that," Samson reflected. live creature has its home? The tisli of "Here comes Steve Nuckles on his morning of a bright day started down at New Salem, and begins building "She ought to be looked after and Some Raiders Come to Burn and the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts old mare with a lion following him," the Illinois river. Us house. Iaed by Jack Armstrong, purty careful. Her parents are so Stay to Repent. rowdies attempt to break up the proceeding*. of the field and forest, the creepers in They had a long day of comfort in Lincoln thrashes Armstrong. Young taken up with shooting and fishing the grass, all go home. Most of them Harry Needles strikes Bap McNoll, of its current with a good store of bread Within a week after their return the and books they kind o' forget the girl. the Armstrong crowd, and McNoil threatens turn toward it when the day wanes. election came off and Abe was defeated, vengeance. I wish you'd go down there tomorrow The call of home is the one voice heard although in his precinct two hundred CHAPTER V.—A few days later Harry, and see what's up. Jack Is away, you and respected ail the way down the alone, is attacked by McNoll and his and twenty-seven out of a total of nng, know." and would have been roughly used line of life. And, ye know, the most three hundred votes had been cast for had not Bim driven off his assailants with "I will," said Sarah. wonderful and mysterious thing in nature a shotgun. John McNeil, the Traylors' him. He began to consider which way It was nearly two o'clock when Niagara Palls acquaintance, is markedly is the power that fool animals to turn. Maj. John T. Stuart, a lawyer attentive to Ann Rutledge. Lincoln is in Samson, having fed and watered his have to go home through great distances, loVe with Ann, but has never had enough of Springfield—who had been his horses, got into bed. Yet he was up courage to tell her so. like the turtle that swam from comrade in the "war"—had encouraged before daylight, next morning, and the Bay of Biscay to his home off Van CHAPTER VI. Traylor helps two him to study law and, further, singing a hymn of praise as he kindled Blaves, who had run away from St. Louis, Dieman's Land. Somehow, coming over had offered to lend him books. So he to escape. Eliphalet Biggs, owner of the the fire and filled the tea kettle and in a ship, he had blazed a trail through slaves, following them, attempts to beat looked for an occupation which would lighted his candle lantern and went up Traylor and in a fight has his arm the pathless deep more than ten thousand broken. give him leisure for study. Offut, his out to do his chores whUe Sarah, miles long. It's the one miraculous former employer, had failed and cleared partly reconciled to her new disappointment, gift—the one call, that's irresistible. CHAPTER VII.—Waiting for his arm out. The young giant regarded to heal. Biggs meets Bim Kelso, with dressed and began the Don't you hear it now? 1 never whom Harry Needles has fallen in love. thoughtfully the scanty opportunities work of another day. So they and lie down in the darkness without Biggs asks for Bim's hand, but her of the village. He could hurl his great father refusal his consent. Biggs returns Abe and Harry and others like them, thinking of home when I am away." to ®t. Louis. strength into the axhead and make a each under the urge of his own ambition, "And it's hard to change your home good living, but he had learned that spent their great strength in the CHAiPTMR VIII.—Bim confesses to when you're wonted to it," said Harry. such a use of it gave him abetter appetite Harry that she loves Biggs, and the building and defense of the republic "Yes, Its a little like dying when you youth is disconsolate. Lincoln decides to for sleep than study. seek a seat in the legislature. He and and grew prematurely old. Their puil up the roots aud move. It's been Harry volunteer for the Black Hawk war, John McNeil, who for a short time work began and ended in darkness hard on your folks." and leave New Salem. had shared his military adventures, and often their days were doubled by This remark brought them up to the had become a partner of Samuel Hill the burdens of the night. So in the greatest of mysteries. They tramped in a store larger and better stocked CHAPTER IX. reckoning of their time each year was in silence for a moment. Abe broke than any the village had known. But more than one. in upon it with these words: Hill and McNeil had no need of a clerk. In Which Bim Kelso Makes History, Sarah went down to the village in "I reckon there must be another Roman Herndon and William Berry While Abe and Harry and Other home somewhere to go to after we the afternoon of the next day. When Good of Salem Are had opened a general store. Mr. Citizens New have broke the last camp here, and a Samson came in from the fields to his Herndon offered to sell his interest to Making an Effort to That End In the supper she said: kind of a bird's compass to help us Abe and take notes for his pay. It Indian War. find it. I reckon we'll hear the call of "Mr. Biggs is stopping at the tavern. was not a proposition that promised it as we grow older." He brought a new silk dress and some In the midst of springtime there anything but loss. The community was He stopped and took off his hat and beautiful linen for Mrs. Kelso. He eame cheering news from the old home small and there were three other looked up at the stars and added: tells her that Bim has made a new In Vermont—a letter to Sarah from stores, and there was no other "Bill" 'Here Comes Steve Nuckles on Hl» They Had a Long Day of Comfort in "If it isn't so I don't see why the man of him. Claims he has quit j}ff brother, which contained the welcome Berry, who was given to drink and Old Mare." Its Current Ions rrocession of life keeps harping drinking and gone to work. Bim and promise that he was coming to dreams, as Abe knew. (Continued on page 6) and butter and cold meat and pie. The "Srisit them and expected to be In prospect of being fifty miles nearer Beardstown about the fourth of May. live on his big plantation in a house gaipson drove across coyntrg to meet next to his-^refit free." B»wr' Hie steamer. He \vtTsT at the landing Samson knew that Biggs was the Here's why CAMELS are Abe told of his adventures in the campaign. when the Star of the North arrived. type of man who wedB Virtue for her *o him it was all a^wild comedy He saw every passenger tliat came cfowH^ with tragic scenes cfriagged iftto Tt ashore, and Eliphalet Biggs, leading "A man's judgment Is needed there," and woefully out of fcl&ee. Indeed he Ids big bay mare, was one of them, but said he. "It's a pity Jack is gone. the quality cigarette thought it no more like war than a pig the expected visitor did not arrive. Biggs will take that girl away with sticking and that was the kind of thing JS£££ would be no $ther steamer him sure as shooting if we don't look he hated. bringing passengers from the East for out,"_ Harry had not heard from home number of days, a "Oh» I don't believe he'd do that," since he left it. Abe had had a letter P«am»i* irent tTa store land bought said Sarah. "I hope he has turned from Butledge which gave him the BECAUSE 11 new dresB and sundry bits of finery over a new leaf and become a gentleman." news of Bim's elopement. The letter we put tfce utmost quality into this for Sarah, He returned to New Salem said: with a heavy heart. Sarah stood In the "We'll see," said Samson-. one brand. Camels are as good as it's possible "I was over to Beardstown the day open door as he drove up. They saw and without much delay Kelso and McNeil got off the steamer. for skill, money and lifelong knowledge of "Didn't come," he said mournfully. the background of his pretensions, for I brought them home with me. Kelso Without a word, Sarah followed him one day within the week he and Bim fine tobaccos to make a cigarette. was bigger than his trouble. Said that to the barn, with the tin lantern in her rode away and did not return. Soon the ways of youth were a part of the liand. He gave her a hug as he got a letter came from Bim to her mother, great plan. 'Thorns! Thorns!' he said. Nothing is too good for Camels. And bear this dowa Irosi the wagon. Be wm little mailed at Beardstown. It told of 'They are the teachers of wisdom and given to like displays of emotion. their marriage in that place and said in mind! Everything is done to make Camels the who am I that I should think myself "Don't feel bad," he said. that they would be starting for St. or my daughter too good for the like, best cigarette it's possible to buy. Nothing is done "I've given them up—I don't believe Louis in a few hours on the Star of since it is written that Jesus Christ we shall ever see them again," said the North. She begged the forgiveness simply for show. did not complain of them?'" Sarah, as they were walking toward of her parents and declared that "Have you heard from home?'* Abe the door. "I think I know how the she was very happy. Take the Camel package for instance. It's the asked as they paddled on. dead feel who are so soon forgotten." "Too bad! Isn't it?" said Sarah "Not a word," said Harry. "Ye can't blame 'em," said Samson. most perfect packing science can devise to protect when Mrs. Waddell, who had come out "Youlre not expecting to meet Bim 'They've probably heard about the with her husband one evening to bring Kelso?" cigarettes and keep them fresh. Heavy paper Injun scare and would expect to be this news, had finished the story. "That's the best part of getting massacreed if they came." —secure foil wrapping—revenue stamp to seal "Yes, it kind o' spyles the place," home for me," said Harry, turning Indeed the scare, now abating, had said Samson. "I'm afraid for Jack with a smile. spread through the border settlements the fold and make the package air-tight. But Kelso—'fraid it'll bust his fiddle if it "Let her drift for a minute," said and kept the people awake o' nights. don't break his heart. His wife is there's nothing flashy about it. You'll find no Abe. "I've got a letter from James Samson and other men, left in New alone now. We must ask her to come Rutledge that I want to read to you. Salem, had met te consider plans for extra wrappers. No frills or furbelows. and stay with us." There's a big lesson in it for both of a stockade. "The Aliens have taken her in," us—something to remember as long "And then there's the fever an* said Mrs. Waddell. as we live." Such things do not improve the smoke any more ague," Samson added. "That's good," said Sarah. "I'll go Abe read the letter. Hairry sat motionless. "Sometimes I feel sorry I told 'em down there tomorrow and offer to do than premiums or coupons. And remember—you about It, because they'll think it worse Slowly his head bent forward anything we can." t&an it is. But we've got to tell the until his chin touched his breast. must pay their extra cost or get lowered quality. When Mr. and Mrs. Waddell had truth if it kills us." Abe said with a tender note in his gone Sarah said: "I can't help thinking voice as he folded the letter: "Yes* we've got to tell the truth," If you want the smoothest, mellowest, mildest of poor Harry. He was terribly in "This man Is well along in life. He Samson rejoined. "There'll be a railroad iove with her." cigarette you can imagine—and one entirely free hasn't youth to help him as you -have. coming through here one of these "Weil, he'll have to get over it— See how he takes it and she's the only days and then we can all get back from cigaretty aftertaste, that's ail," said Samson. "He's young and forth easy. If it comes it's going child he has. There are millions of and the wound will heal." pretty girls in the world for you to to make us rich. Abe says he expects It was well for Harry that he was choose from." It's Camels for you. It within three or four years." out of the way of all this, and entered Sarah had a hot supper ready for "I know it, but there's only one Bim upon adventures which absorbed his him. As he stood warmiag himself Kelso in the world," Harry answered thought. As to what was passing with by the fire she put her arms around mournfully. "She was the one I him we have conclusive evidence in loved." him and gave him a little hug. two letters, one from Col* Zachary "You poor tired man!" she said. "Yes, but you'll find another. It Taylor, in which he says: "How patient and how good you are!" looks serious, but it isn't—you're so "Harry Needles is also recommended There was a kind of apology for young. Hold up your head and keep for the most intrepid conduct as a this moment of weakness in her look going. You'll be happy again soon." sir scout and for securing information of and manner. Her face seemed to say: "Maybe, but I don't see how," said great value. Compelled to abandon the boy. "It's silly but I can't help it." his wounded horse he swam a river "I've been happy all the time, for I "There are lots of things you can't under fire and under the observation knew you was waiting for me," Samson see from where you are at this present of three of our officers, through whose remarked. "I feel rich every time moment. There area good many miles help he got back to his command, I think of you ind the children. Say, ahead o' you, I reckon, and one thing bringing a bullet in his thigh." look here." you'll see plainly, by and by—that it's With no knowledge of military service He untied the bundle and put the all for the best. I've suffered a lot myselt R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C. dress and finery In her lap. and a company of untrained men, but I can see now it has been a "Well, I want to know!" she exclaimed, Abe had no chance to win laurels in help to me. There isn't an hour of it I'd as she held it up to the can­ the campaign. His command did not be_willing to give up." fe vCs-