PAGE TWO INTERNATIONAL FALtS PRESS .-•lout- .. .... .jjjiMiyjielu although 1 cannot caTl "back the wonfc Mr. Lincoln asked. "The capitol will where he was waiting on a big horse and place them as he did. He is what "The seed was sown too early," Samson be there, and so will I. It is going to which he had borrowed for the trip I would call a great captain of words. rejoined. "You and I may live to he a big city Men who are to make from James Rutledge. Without delay, Seems as if I heard the band playing see all tlie dreams of Vandalia come history will live in Springfield. You true." the three men set out on the while they marched by me as well must come and help. I shall need your north road in perfect weather. From dressed and stepping as proud and "And all the nightmares, too," said friendship, your wisdom and your sympathy. regular as the Boston Guards. In the young statesman. the hill's edge they could look over a shall w«nt to sit often by some great battle between Right and wooded plain running far to the east. "Yes, we're going to wake up and your fireside. find a good school You'll Wrong you will hear from him. I As they rode on, the young statesman find a cold morning and not much to for the children. you'll think there If hope it may be the battle between repeated a long passage from *ne eat in the house and the wolf at the it seriously T'll try to get you into of Slavery and Freedom, although at of the sermons of Dr. William Ellery door, but we'll. live through it." public service." the present he thinks they must avoid Channing on the ''instability of Hu Then the youpg statesman proposed: coming to a clinch. In my opinion it "We need you plenty," Samson answered. "If you are going with Harry, I'll go man Affairs.'' cannot be done. I expect to live to "We kind o' think o' you as "I wish that I had your memory," along and see what they've done on see the fight and to take part in it." one o' the family. I'll talk it over with. the Illinois and Michigan canal. Some Samson remarked. Sarah and see. Never mind thf job Late in the session of 1836-1837 the contractors who worked on the Erie "My memory is like a piece of If I keep you beliavin' yourself, it'll be prophetic truth of these words, began canal will start from Chicago Monday metal," said the young .legislator. ioh enough. Anyway, I guess we can to reveal itself. A bill was being put to look the ground over and bid oh the nsanajre to get along." through the legislature denouncing the construction of the southern end of it. "Learning is not easy for me. It's growth'of abolition sentiment and its "I've hfid a talk with Stuart and I want to talk with them when they rather slow work—like engraving with activity in organized societies and upholding 'jsive some Food news for Harry and come along down the line." a tool. But when a thing is once the right of property in slaves. '^im said young Mr. Lincoln. "Stuart "I guess a few days in the saddle printed on my memory it seems to stay Suddenly Lincoln had come to a fork hinks she can get a divorce under the would do you good," said Samson. there. It doesn't rub out. When I in the road. Popularity, the urge of aw of 1827. suppose they are Still "I reckon it would. I've been run across a great idea,, well expressed, many friends, the counsel of wealth interested in each other?" .cloyed on house air and oratory and I like to put it on the wall of COJOY'JSJG'ffr TJ2.VTN& my mind ifKere I can live with it. In "He's like most of the Yankees. and power, and public opinion, the call Samson this brief account of what SYNOPSIS. this way every man can have his owp Once Le gets set, it's hard to change: of good politics pointed in one direction happened in and about the cabin: little art gallery and be in the Company him. The Kelsos have moved to Chicago. CHAPTER I.—Samson and fiSarah Traytor, and the crowd went that way. It "He wouldn't eat anything. He of great men." with their two children, Josiah and and I don't know how Bim was a stampede. Lincoln stood alone. wanted to go down to the river for Batuey, travel by wagon from their home a They forded a creek in deep watei^. stands. If Harry knows, he hasn't In Vergennes, Vt., to the West, the land at the corner. The crowd beckoned, dip, and I went with him. When we where a bridge had been washed away7*V •tf plenty. Their destination is the Counter said a word to us about it." but in vain. One man came back and of the Sangamon, in Illinois. got back, I induced him to take off his As they came out dripping on the "I'm interested in that little romance," joined him. It was Dan Stone, who clothes and get into bed. He was fast CHAPTER 11.—At Niagara Falls they farther shore, Lincoln remarked: said the legislator. "It's our a party of immigrants, among them was not a candidate for re-election. •Met asleep in ten minutes. When night "The thing to do in fording a deep a youth named John McNeil, who also duty to do what we can to secure the His political career was ended. There came I went up the ladder to bed. He decides to the Sangamon country. go to stream is to keep watch o' your happiness of these young lovers. Tell of the party suffer from fever and Ail were three words on the sign-board was still asleep when I came down in horse's ears. As long as you can see Mue. Sarah's ministrations save the life Harry to come over here. I want to pointing toward the perilous and lone-ly of a youth, Harry Needles, in the last the morning. I went out and did my 'em you're all right." talk with him." •tagea of fever, and he accompanies the road that Lincoln proposed to follow. chores. Then I cut two venison "Mr. Lincoln, I'm sorry—you got Traylors. They reach New Salem, Illinois, They were the words Justice and And are welcomed by young "Abe" Unooln. steaks, each about the size o' my hand, into a hole," said Samson. CHAPTER XVIII. Human Rights. Lincoln and Dan and a half moon of bacon. I pounded "I don't mind that, but while we're CHAPTER IV.—Samson decides to locate Stone took that road in a protest, declaring t'he venison to pulp with a little salt at New Salem, and begins traveling together, please don't call me building In Which Mr. Lincoln, Samson and tjiat they "believed the institution Ui house. Led by Jack Armstrong, and bacon mixed in. I put it on the 'Mr. Lincoln.' I don't think I've done rowdies attempt to break up the proceedings. of slavery was founded upon injustice Harry Take a Long Ride Together broiler and over a bed o' hickory coals. Lincoln thrashes Armstrong. Young anything to^deserve such lack of respect." and bad policy." Lincoln had and the Latter Visit the Flourishing Harry Needles Strikes Bap ol McNoll, I got the coffee into the pot and up the 9 Armstrong crowd, and McNoll threatana Little City of Chicago. followed his conscience, instead of the next to the fire and some potatoes in vengeance. Samson answered: "If you're nice & crowd. the ashes. I basted a bird with bacon Mr. Lincoln had brought the papers CHAPTER V.—A few days later Harry, to us, I don't know but we'll call ye At twenty-eight years of age he had alone, is attacked by McNoll and hi* strips and put it into the roaster and which Harry was to take to Bim, and 'Abe' again, just for a few days. You Sang, and would have been roughly used safely passed the great danger point set it back o' the broiling bed. Then made haste to deliver them. The boy ted not Bim driven off his assailants with can't expect us to go too far with a in his career. The declaration at Decatur, I made some biscuits and put 'em a: tfhotgun. John McNeil, the Traylors' was eager to be off on his mission. The man who associates with judges and IVlaeara Falls acquaintance, is markedly the speeches against Douglas, into the oven. I tell you, in a little fields were -sown. The new buyer was generals and governors and such trash. attentive to Ann Ru tledge. Lincoln is in the miracle of turning 4,000,000 beasts while the smell o' that fireplace would love with Ann, but has never had enough coming to take possession in two If you keep it up, you're bound to lose ooiirage to tell her so. Into 4,000,000 men, the sublime utterance have 'woke the dead—honest Abe weeks. Samson and Har^y had finished 'standing, in our community." at-Gettysburg,'the wise parables, CHAPTER VI. Traylor helpe two began to stir. In a minute I heard their work in New Salem. "I know I've changed," said Abe. jrtav.es, who had run away from St. Louis, the second inaugural, the innumerable him call: "Wait till tomorrow and maybe I'll' to eocape. Eliphalet Biggs, owner of the "I've grown older since 'Ann died— alavoa, acts of mercy, all of which lifted him following them, attempts to beat 'Say, Uncle Bowlin, I'm goin' to go with ye," said Samson. "I'm anxious years ago—t)iit dbti't want ybu fellows bla.araa J® Traylor and In a fight has into undying fame, were now possible. get up an' eat you out o' house and •token. to take a look at that little mushroom to throw me over. -I'm on the Henceforth he was to go forward with home. I'm hungry and I feel like a city of Chicago." same level that jotf are and I intend mjdkAPT^ER VH.—Waiting for his arm the growing approval of his own spirit new man. What time is it?' ,. "And buy a few corner lots?" Abe heal. Bim Kelso, with to stay there. It's a fool nation that Biggs meets and the favor of God] 'It'll be nine o'clock by the time whom Harry has fallen love. asked, with a smile. Needles In men go up some.heavenly stairway, to Bins asks Bim's hand, her for but you're washed and dressed,' 1 says. "No I'll wait till next year. They'll father refuse his consent, Biggs reUirns "I've Been Cloyed on Houie Air and another plane when they begin to do BOOK THREE to 'Well,'I declare,' says he, 'I've had St. Louis. be cheaper then. I believe in Chicago. things worth while. That's a kind of Oratory and Future Greatness." Ci about sixteen hours o' solid sleep. The It's placed right —oh the waterway to feudalistic twaddle. The wise man ..CHAPTER Vlll.^Blm contessea to world looks better to me this morning.' future greatness. The/ prairie wind the north and east, with good country Harry that she loves Biggs, and the CHAPTER XVII. keeps his feet on the grouhd and -lifts Is and your pessimism will straighten youth disconsolate. Lincoln decides to on three sides and transportation on his mind ais high ad 'possible. l*he «eek a seat In the legislature. He and "At the table I told him a story and me up." the other. It can go into partnership Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Betrays volunteer for the Black Hawk war, Mgher he lifts it, the more respect lie Harry got, a little laugh out of him. He Md leave New Salem. Harry rode to the village that afternoon "with Steam Power right away and begin Ignorance of Two Highly Important will have for the common folk. Have stayed with me three weeks,, choring to get "Colonel" and Mrs. Luklns to do business. Your grain and 8ubjects. 'either of you seen McNamar since, he CHAPTER IX.—Biggs comes back to around the place and taking it easy. to come out to the farm and stay with pork can go straight from there to Albany the village and he and Bim elope. Harry got back?" Items of it on his way home from the He read all the books I had, until you There were two subjects of which Sarah while he and Samson were and New. York and Boston and "I saw him the day he drove into _*!war." Lincoln's advice and philosophy and Doc Allen came with the law Mr. Lincoln had little understanding. away. SUM tain him in his .grief. Baltimore without being rehandled. th£ village," Harry answered. "He Vi' books. Then he pitched into them. I They were women and finance. Until When railroads come—if they ever do Josiah, now a sturdy boy of thirteen, was expecting to find Ann and make CHAPTER X.—Lincoln, defeated in his they had rightly appraised the value think he has changed a good deal since (candidacy for the legislature, forms a —Steam Power will be shoving grain stood in the dooryard, holding the two good his promise to marry her." of his friendship, women had been partnership with "Bill" Berry in the Ann died. He talks a lot about God and meat and passengers into Chicago saddle ponies from Nebraska which grocery business. Biggs sends a gang to "Poor fool! It's a sad story all and the hereafter." wont to regard him with a riant curiosity. from every point of the compass." burn Traylor's house, but the New Salem Samson had bought of a drover. Betsey, around," said Abe Lincoln. "He's not wen are warned and, the raiders worsted. In October young Mr. Lincoln returned He had been aware of this, and* Abe Lincoln turned to Sarah and a handsome young mi$s almost fifteen a bad fellow, I reckon, but he broke to his surveying, aritl in the for years had avoided women, save .^CHAPTER XI.—Lincoln, now post"anaster, said: "This is a growing country. You years old, stood beside hiin. Ann's heart. Didn't realize what a decides to run again for the last month of. the year to Vandalia for those of old acquaintance. When he ought to see the cities springing up Sarah, whose face had begun to show tender thing it was. I can't forgive ,legislature. Ann Ru tledge is openly in an extra session of the legislature, lived at the tavern in the village, often lOve with John McNeil. He leaves for there in the,legislature. I was looking the wear of years full of loneliness him." he had gone without a meal rather -We home in the East, promising to re•orn where he took a stand against the convention with great satisfaction at the crop and hard work, was packing the saddle-bags, In the middle of the afternoon they soon and marry Ann.. Lincoln ,..aceepts system of nominating candidates than expose himself to the eyes of when Samson came along one day and his defeat manfully. No word how nearly filled, with extra com- came in sight of the home of Henry for public office. Samson went strange women. The reason for this jlng from McNeil, Ann confesses to Abe fell on it. He was like a frost in midsummer." socks and shirts and doughnuts and Brimstead. that his real name is McNamar, and her was well understood by those who knew to Vandalia for a visit with him and fears that he will not return. Lincoln bread and butter. "Here's where we "stop and feed, to see the place before the session ended. him. The young man was an exceedingly In his deep love endeavors to reassure, They met Abe Lincoln at the tavern, '•tor, though he shares her misgivings. sensitive human being. No The next year, in a letter to his (To be continued) /JL^incoln wine his seat in the legislature. brother, he says: doubt he had suffered more than any CHAPTER XII.—Ann hears from Mcjttem&r, "Vandalia is a small, chide village. one knew from ill-concealed ridicule, but his letter is cold and she is It hjjis a strong flavor of whisky, profanity but he had been able to bear it with convinced he does not love her. She tells iMe of her doubt, and: he confesses' his and tobacco. The night after composure in his callow youth. Later love and asks her to marry him. Ann 9ft TfJ: riho- I got there I went to a banquet with nothing roused his anger like an attempt to 9" -declares she does not yet love him, but •Jfllj try to. With-that promise Lincoln Abe Lincoln. Heard a lot about the to ridicule him. •ots out for Vandalia and his legislative dam nigger-loving Yankees who' were Two women he, had regarded with duties. trying to ruin the state and country great tenderness—his foster mother, CHAPTER XIII.—Inspired by Elijah with abolition. There were: some the second wife of Thomas Lincoln, l«DveJoy, Traylor arranges on his farm a 4uding place for runaway slaves, a station stories like those we used to Jiear in and Ann Rutledge. Others had been 0291 8 on the "Underground Railroad." the lumber camp, and no end of powerful to him, mostly, delightful 'but insert-' talk, in which the names of God table beings. Thei company of women CHAPTER XIV.—Ann agrees to marry Abe, but her health is. wrecked.' Three and the Sayior were roughly handled. anci of dollars had been equally unfa-, runaway slaves seek Traylor's help in A few of the statesmen got drunk, and oocaplng. They belong to Biggs and he miliar to him. He had said more than BECAUSE comes in pursuit of them. Threatened CSV ilO after the dinner was over two of them once in his young manhood that he felt with arrest for inciting the raid on Traylor, we put the utmost quality into this jumped on the table and danced down embarrassed in the presence of either, he flees. One of the fugitives is Bim :tt disguise. She has fled from her husband's the whole length of it, shattering and knew not quite how to behave cruelty one brand. Camels are as good as it's possible plates and cups and saucers and himself—an exaggeration in which CHAPTER XV.—Dying, Ann Rutledge glasses. Nobody seemed to be able there was no small amount of truth. for skill, money and lifelong knowledge of calls for Abe, and he bids her farewell to stop them. I hear that they had to In 1836 the middle frontier had entered at her bedside. Following her demise a fine tobaccos to make a cigarette. settled sadness descends on him. He Is pay several hundred dollars for the upon a singular phase of its development. no longer "Abe," but "Abraham Lincoln." damage done You will be apt to think Emigrants from the East that there is tod much liberty here in Nothing is too good for Camels. And bear this Iwas everybody's iUncle Bowlin." He and South and from overseas had been the West, and perhaps that is so, but •bad a most unusual circumference and pouring into it. The summer before in mind! Everything is done to make Camels the ,the strength to carry it. His ruddy the fact is these men are not half so the lake and river steanWs had been bad as they seem to be. Lincoln tells .cheeks and curling locks and kindly crowded with them, and their wagons best cigarette it's possible to buy. Nothi&g is dene me that they are honest, a!lmost to a 4ark eyes and large head were details had come in long processions out of' simply for shoyr. man, and sincerely devoted to the public Tjpf Importance. Under all were a heart the East. Chicago had begun its phenomenal good as they see it. I asked Abe ^with the love of men, a mind of unusual growth. A frenzied speculation Lincoln, who ail his life has associated understanding and a hand in town lots had been under way Take the Camel package for instance. It's the with rough-tongued, drinking men, skilled in all the arts of the Kentucky in that community since the autumn most perfect packing science can devise to protect how he managed to hold his own -pioneer. He could grill a venison of '35. It was spreading, through the course and keep his talk and habits so asteak and roast a grouse and broil a state. Imaginary cities were laid out cigarettes and keep them fresh. Heavy paper clean. •... .chicken. in a way wh\ch had filled the on the lonely prairies and all the corner 'Why, the fact is,' Saidhe, 'I iiave countryside with fond recollections of lots sold to eager buyers and paid —secure foil wrapping—revenue stamp to seal associated with the people yrJio lived 'iiis hospitality he could kindle afire for with promises. Milllons of conversational, the fbld land make the package air-tight. But around me only part of the time, but I ^'ith A bow and string, a pine stick promissory dollars, biisted have never stopped associating with and some shavings he could make upon the gold at the foot of therainbow, iihere's nothing flashy about it.0 You'll find no 'myself and with Washington and Clay anything from a splint broom to were changing hands day by dfiy. and Webster and Shakespeare and rocking horse with his jack-knife. Abe The legislature, with an empty treasury extra wrappers. No frills or furbelows. Bt»rhsf and DeFoe an/1 Scott and Lincoln was one of the. many men who behind it, voted twely^ m.il!i§jpS{or Blackstone and ^arsons. On the knew and loved hiin. riyer improvements ,and-,^ imaginary Such things do not improve the smoke any more whole, I^'ve been in pretty good -company.'' On. a.:warm, bright afternoon early railroads and senate,-ifor 4$hi:b pettier •i -t- .. September, Bowlin Green wasgoing .surveys nor estimates hjid beegi, ipftde, than premiums or coupons. And rfemeteber—you "He has not. yet accomplished much around the pasture to, put his. fence in to serve 'tire dreami-.b'uilt citiejr lbf .the fi in the legislature.'. I don't thipk that must pay their extra cost or get lowered quality. repair, when he came upon young Mr. speculator. If Mr. Lin%ta had hiad he will until some big issue' comes Lincoln. The latter sat in the shade 'more expedience in the gettinjg 'and'use along. 'I'm not much of & hand at If you want the smoothest mellowest, mildest of dollars' and more &cqtiaifttfcncg iwith a tree on -the hillside. 'He looked itf hunting squirrels,' he said tb' me the the shrinking .timidity of .'large suijbs, 'terribly peaked," as Uncle Bowlin cigarette jrou can imagine—and one entirely free other day. 'Wait till 1'see a bear.' The he wbuld have tried ,t» dissipate these ^has said in a letter. .people of Vandalia and .Springfield illusions of grandeur,. But he went ..^.'•Whyj Abe, where'have you been?" from cigaretty, aftertaste, have never seen him, yet. They, don't with the crowd,, every,, member- of .be asked. "The« whole village is know him as. I. do. But they all respect which had a like inexperience, .scared. Samson Traylor was here last afiji It's Camels for you* him—just for his good-fellowship, In the. midst of the session SamsonTraylor night lookin' for ye." honesty and decency.. I guess "I'm like a deer that's been hurt," arrived in Vandalia on his that every fellow with a foul mouth visit to Mr. Lincoln. said the young man. "I. took to the hates himself for it and envies the "woods. Wanted to be alone. You see, "I have sold my farm," said Samson man who isn't like him. They begin I had a lot of thinking to do—the kind to his old friend the evening of his arrival. -to see his skill as a politician, which of thinking that every man must do has shown itself in the passage of a for himself. I've got the brush cleared "Did you get a good price?" Mr. Lincoln bilL removing the capital to Springfield. away, at last, so I can see through. I asked. Abe Lincoln was the man who had made up my mind to go down to "All- that my conscience would allow put it through. But he has not yet uncovered .your house for the night and was trying me to take," said Samson. "Th$ man his best talents. Mark my to decide whether I have energy offered me three, dollars an acre in word, some day Lincoln will be a big enough to do it." cash and ten dollars in notes We man. Vv "Come on it's only a short, sjtep," compromised on seven dollars, all "The death of his' sweetheart fas urged the big-hearted Bowlin. cash." aged and sobered him. When we are "What I feel the need of, just now, "What are you going to do now .that together he ofted sits looking down Is a week or two of sleep," said Mr, you have sold^ut?" "ft with a sad face. For. a while not a Lincoln, as he rose and"started*ttciwn J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. "I was thinking bf going up to Tazewell n. word out of him.l'.Suddenly he will j&i the. long hill with his frieu(l. county." begin saying things, the effect of Some time later Bowlin Grueu. ?avf which 'wiU go \vith note to my grav^, "Why don't you go to 'the growing.