V1'1 "w vr^,,? ,! r* 'I •^r^ 1 1 *:J ATIONAL FALLS £RESS PAGE SIX top of the stairway. -'Til bs down in swer, alleged that tlie notes were to any majority. The law,* he minute." be paid out of the proceeds of the 'comes down to us one mighty sale of lots and that In consequence For an hour or more they sat by continuous stream of wisdom and experience' of the collapse of the boom there had rhe fireside while Harry told of his accumulated, aiicestral, been no such proceeds. As to the understanding widening and deepening and washing upon which the notes itself clearer as it runs on, the agent were drawn, there was a direct Issue of civilization, the builder of a thousand of veracity for which Abe Lincoln cities. To have lived through was exceedingly well prepared. His ages of unceasing trial with the passions, cross-examination was as merciless interests and affairs of men, to as sunlight "falling round a helpless have lived through tile drums and thing." It was kindly and polite in tramplings of conquest,, through revolution i' tone but relentless in i*s searching. and reform and all the changing When it end^d, the weight of Davis' cycles of opinion, to have attended character had heen accurately established. the progress of the race and gathered In his Easterly summing up 50good cigarettes unto Itself the approbation of civilized Mr. Lincoln presented every circumstance humanity is to have proved that in favor of the defendant's position. for 10c from it carries in It some spark of immortal With remarkable insight he one sack of life.'" anticipated the arguments of his attorney. The face of Lincoln changed as he He presented them fairly and GENUINE recited the lines of the learned and generously to the court andi jury. Ac^ distinguished lawyer of Massachuchusetts. cording to Samson the opposing lawyers admitted in a private talk that "His face glowed like a lighted lantern Lincoln had thought of presumptions when he began to say those eloquent in favor of Davis which had not occurred words," Samson writes in his to them. Therein lay the characteristic DURHAM diary. "He wrote them down so that of Mr. Lincoln's method in a Josiah could commit them to memory." lawsuit. "That is a wonderful statement," TOBACCO II "It was a safe thing for him to do, Samson remarked. Livestock of every improved breed and for he never took a case In which justice Abe answered: "It1 suggests to me was not clearly -on his side," Samson type for farm use will be shown at the that the voice of the people In any one writes. "If he had been deceived generation may or may -not be inspired, as to the merits of a case he would but that the voice of the best NAN FOR THE AGES drop it. With the sword of justice in FAIR MINNESOTA STATE men of all ages, expressing their sense his hand he was invincible." of justice and of right, in the law, is judgment wa& rendered in favor A and must be the voice of God. The of the plaintiffs for tlie full amount of September 3 to 10 spirit and body of its decrees are as their claim with costs. The character the indestructible as the throne of Heaven. Harry Told of His Adventures in (Continued From Page Two.) of Lionel Davis had been sufficiently You can overthrow them but until Great Swamps. do the nursing, but wouldn't let her. revealed. Even the credulous Mrs. WESTERN SONGBIRD their power is re-established, as surely treasures inherited by her descendants. She did not look strong. I loaned her Kelso turned against him. Mr. Lincoln's adventures in the great swamps of It will be, you will live in savagery." a of slight They were matter the money to pay the debt to Davis skill as a lawyer was recognized southern Florida. MAILED AS JUNO but "You do not deny the right of revolution." importance,^ one would say, they and persuaded her to go back to her in the north as well as in the middle "I've done my share of the fighting," career. mark the beginning of a great work in Dixon. She went and was counties. From that day forth no he said at length. "I'm going to the "No, but I can see no excuse for it Immediately after his return rather heartbroken about it. man enjoyed alike popularity in Tazewell north tomorrow to find Bim and her in America. It has remained for us boy. new ,home in Springfield, the county. "The .surgeon said that Harry would mother." to add to the body of the law the Idea Josiah, set out to make himself honored live if lung fever didn't set in. It When Samson and Harry Needles "I shall want you to serve a complaint that men are created free and equal. of his ideal. In the effort he set in. but he pulled through. Eie left the courthouse, there seemed to on one- Lionel Davis," said Mr. The lack of the saving principle In the made himself honored of many. His be no obstacle between the young man mended sjowly. I had some fear of Lincoln' codes of the world has been the great eager brain had soon taken the footing and the consummation of his wishes. arrest,- but the conspiracy of silence "I have one of my own to serve on cause of injusti« and oppression." of manhood. Unfortunately, as they were going kept the facts under cover. It w£is him," Harry answered. "But I hope Honest Abe rose and walked up and A" remarkable school of political down the steps Davis, who blamed partly due, I guess, to the friendship that our case can be settled out of down the room in silence for a moment. science had begun its sessions in the of Joan Wentwortli for me and Honest Samson for his troubles, flung an insult court." Then he added: little Western village of Springfield. Abe. He kept it out of the papers. at the sturdy Vermonter. Samson, "Choate phrased it well when he "I think that I'll go with you as far The world had never seen the like of There were no complaints and the rumors who had then arrived at years of said: 'We should beware of awaking as Tazewell county and draw the papers it. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. soon fell into silence. firm discretion, was little disturbed by there," said Lincoln. the tremendous divinities of change Douglas, E. "D. Baker, O. H, Browning, a the anger. of' man so discredited. 'The boy, 'Mr. Nimble,' is a cunning from their long sleep. Let us think When the latter had left for his Jesse B. Thomas, and Josiah Lamborn But Harry, on the sound of the hateful little man. When he began to get of that when we consider what we lodgings and Joe and his mother had -^-a most unusual array of talent as words, had leaped forward and bettor, Harry loved to play with hiin shall do with the evils that afflict us.'" gone to bed, Samson told Harry the subsequent history has proved—were dealt the speculator a savage blow in aisd listen to his talks about fairies. The boy Joe had been deeply interested details of his visit to Chicago. wont to gather around the fireplace in a the face which for few seconds had The young man was able to leave his in this talk. ".She may have taken the disease the rear of Joshua Speed's store, evenings, deprived him of the power of speech bed, by and by, but lie didn't get over "If you'll lend me a book, I'd like and died with it before now," said the to discuss the issues of the That evening a friend of Davis called his weakness and pallor. He had io to begin studying," he said. young man. "I'll be on my way to time. Samson and his son Joe came at the City hall with a challenge. The appetite. I sent him with Nuckles into Honey Creek in the morning." "There's time enough for that," said often to hear the talk. Douglas looked hot-blooded young soldier accepted it the Wisconsin woods to live in the Lincoln. "First, I want you to understand like a dwarf among those long-geared against the urgent counsel of Samson open. Then I took the small boy to CHAPTER XXII. what the law is and what the men. He was slight and short, being Traylor,, Mr. Lincoln having left the Dixon with me in the saddle. Bim had iawyer should be. You wouldn't want only about five feet tall, but he had a city. just got back to her wortf. She told Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals His to be a pettifogger. Choate is the big, round head covered with thick, As to the details of the tragic scene me that Eliplialet Biggs had been Method of Conducting' a Lawsuit in right model^ He has a dignity suited straight, dark hair, a bulldog look and that followed next day the writer there. He had heard ol! the boy and al., the Case of Henry Brimstead et to the greatness of his chosen master. a voice like thunder. Douglas and has little knowledge. Samson was wished to see him and demanded to vs. Lionel Davis. They say that before a justice of the Lincoln were in a heated argument not the type of man for such a chronicle. know where he was. For fear that peace, In a room no bigger than a over the admission of slavery to the They found many of Davis' notes The diary speaks of his part in Biggs would try to get possession of shoemaker's shop, his work is done territories the first night that Samson took him with in Tazewell county. Abe Lincoln's it with shame and sorrow and remorse. 'Mr. Nimble' I me to with the same dignity and ca,re that and Joe sat down with them. complaint represented seven clients We know that it was at daybreak Springfield-in the saddle. he would show in the supreme court "We didn't like that little rooster of when he and Harry rode to a and a sum exceeding twenty thousand "I !ea»-u that Davis has recovered of Massachusetts. A newspaper says a man, he had such a high and mightiy point qn the prairie "something more dollars. h\s health and left the city. *A man that in a dog case, at Beverly he way with him and so frankly opposed than a mile from the city limits." With the papers in his pocket Harry c«.f» upt do business without friends treated the dog as if he were a lion the principles we believe in. He was •There he tells us they met Davis and ... a-after the trial- Chicago was no went on to the Honey Creek settle-: and the crabbed old squire with the an out-and-out pro-slavery man. He one friend of the latter and two surgeons. ment. There he found that the nlr.i'e for him." due a chief justice." consideration would have every state free to regulate It is evident, too. that great plague had spent itself and that Bim be conf'nned.• "He knows how to handle the English its domestic institutions, in its secrecy had been observed in the plan had gone to a de'tention camp outside language," Samson observed. own way, subject only to the Constitution and its execution and that, until some the city of Chicago. He was not permitted "He got that by reading. He is the of the United States. Lincoln time after the last act, Lincoln knew to' see her, the regulations having NEW U, S. TREASURER best read man at the'.American bar nothing of the later developments in held that it amounted to saying 'that become very strict. In the city he and the best Bible student. There's if one man chose to enslave another the drama of Davis' downfall. jFor FROM THE WEST went to the store of Eli Fredenberg. a lot of work ahead of you, Joe, before no third party shall be allowed to object.'" the. rest off the deplorable scene the The merchant received him with enthusiasm. you are a lawyer, and when you're historian must content himself with Chicago had begun to recover admitted success comes only of the In course of the argument Douglas the naked details in the diary of a the from the panic. Trade was Miu/v Louise Do^e capacity for work. Brougham wrote Whigs were the puritan pioneer. alleged that the lively. the peroration of his speech In defense "I went because there was no escape of country.1 aristocrats the Harry spent the afternoon with Mrs. Is the super race to ccme fr of Queen Caroline nineteen from it and with the shadow of God's of a night when "That reminds me western America' Twice has Hen Kelso and Blm's baby boy. He wrote times." wrath in my soul," Samson writes. I at Havana." said Honest was speaking Savage tlje .theatrical producer a very tender letter to Bim that day. "I want to be a great orator," the t"The sun rose as we halted our horses. with a ruffled shirt found it necessary to have a beautiful Abe. "A man He told her that he had come to Chicago boy exclaimed with engaging frankness. We paced the field. The two men took big girl in a stellar role of a production watch chain got and a massive gold to live so that he might be near and each time he has had their places twenty yards apart. The the Whigs were up and charged that her and ready to help her If she needed to turn his eyes to the west to find "Then you must remember that pistols rang out at the command to in his broadcloth aristocrats. Douglas help. "The same old love is In my them First attempt was answered character Is the biggest part of it," fire and both men fell. Davis had reminds .me ol' and fine linen heart that made me want you for my bv California, .but the more recent Honest Abe declared. "Great thoughts been hit at the left shoulder. My going to answer that man. I'm not call found a Missouri maiden the wife long-ago, that has filled my letters come out bf a great character and handsome' boy lay on his face. The I hi'm. Most of choice Miss Louise Dose, of Kansas Douglas as answered and sustained me In many an only out of that. They will come bullet had bored through his right City, a beautiful song bird who the Whigs 1 know are my kind of hour of peril," he wrote. "If you even if you hnve little learning and lung. Before I could reach him he is six feet tall When this western folks. I a poor boy working mi was really think that you must marry Davis, none of the graces which attract the pirl visited eastern art centers, had risen to his feet to go on with I ask you at least to wait for the where she studied, she was hailed a fiatboat at eight dollars a month the battle. Davis lay like one paralyzed developments of a suit which Abe Lincoln ~Jy artists and sculptors as a "Modern and had only one pair of breeches and by the shock of the bullet. His eye. But you must have a character Juno" It was there that Savage they were buckskin. If you know the is bringing in behalf of many seconds declared they were satisfied. was attracted to her talent and that is ever speaking, even when your nature of buckskin, you know that citizens of Tazewell county.^ It is persuaded her to give up Grai\d I saw them take the bullet out of lips are silent. It must SI19W in your when it is wet and dried by the sun it likely that we shall know more than Opera ambitions for a season or Harry's back, where it had lodged under life and fill the spaces between your will shrink and my breeches kept tw.o in Lady Biliy we do now before that case ends. ^^hke,-fcrmcr go*6aor his skin. I helped them put the of words. It will help you to choose and shrinking and deserting the sock area saw your beautiful little boy. He looks Dakota and acoJoorf*. with wounded men into the wagon and rode charge them with the love of great of my legs until several inches of ii-fag the war, so much like you that I long to steal is to the home of one of the doctors near things that carry conviction. itea Treasurer them were bare above my shoes. of him and keep him with me." the city wherein were rooms for the accommodation 'I remember, when I was a boy over Early fall hats on display at Rifkin's. lie cornea from Whilst I was growing longer they In a few days he received this brief of critical cases, leading in Gentryville, a shaggy, plain-dressed You are invited to inspect our fall were growing shorter and so much reply: Harry's horse and praying for God's man rode up to the door one day. He hats. tighter that they left a blue streak "Dear Harry: Your letter pleased help and forgiveness. I took care of had a cheerful, kindly face. His character around my legs which can be seen to and pained me. I have been so tossed the boy until Steve Nuckles came to began to speak to us before he this day. If you call that aristocracy about that I don't know quite where I opened his mouth to ask for a drink I know of one Whig that is an aristocrat. stand. For a long time my Jife has of water. been nothing but a series of emotions. "*I don't know who you are,' my ADVERTISING IN THE PRESS PAYS "But at the England type look New What Honest Abe may be able to father said. 'But I'd like it awful of by the imperious Whig exemplified prove 1 know not, but I am sure that well if you'd light and talk to us.' He said Douglas. and majestic Webster," he cannot disprove the fact that Mr. did and we didn't know till he had lad," "Webster was another poor Davis 'has been kind and generous to gone that he was the governor of the father's Lincoln answered. "His home me. For that I cannot ever cease to state. A good character shines like a was a log cabin in a lonely land until be grateful. I should have married candle on a dark night. You can't was about the time Daniel born, when him before "now but for one singular mistake it A firefly can't bold his moved a small frame the family to circumstance. My little boy cannot be light long enough to compete with it is of a great house. His t^e majesty made to like him. He will have nothing "Webster said in the Knapp trial: intellect." to do with Mr. Davis. He will not There is no evil that we cannot Thei'e .was much talk of this sort be bribed or coerced. I saw in this a either face or fly from but the consciousness until Mr. Lincoln excused himself to prophecy of trouble. I left horn# and of duty disregarded.' walk home with his two friends who went down into the very shadow of "A treat truth like that mak^s wonderful had just returned from the North, being Contractors and Farmers death. It may be that we have been music on the lips of a sincere eager to learn of Samson's visit. saved for each other by the wisdom man. An orator must be a lover and The latter gave him a full account of of childhood. I must not see you now. discoverer of such unwritten laws." it and asked him to undertake the collection WE HAVE SEVERAL CARS OF LIME WHICH WE Nor shall I him until I have found It waa nearlng midnight when they see of Brimstead's note. my way. Even your call cannot make heard footsteps on the board walk' In WISH TO MOVE QUICKLY AT THE FOLLOWING "I'll get .after that. fellow right me forget that under solemn front of. the house. In a moment am a PRICE: away," said Lincoln. 'Tm glad to get promise. Harry Needles entered In cavalry uniform a chance at one of those men who "I'm glad you like the boy., He is a with fine top boots and sliver LIME IN BULK AT PER BUSHEL have been skinning the farmers." wonderful child. I named him Nehemlah spurs, erect as a young Indian brave They sat down by the fireside In for his grandfather. We call and bronzed by tropic suns. A Samson's house, v.: 40c him Nlm and sometimes 'Mr. Nimble' "Hello 1" he said as he took off his "Joe has decided that he wantsto because he so lively. I'm homesick is belt and danklng saber. "I hang up te a lawyer," said Samson. LIME IN BARRELS AT PER BARREL to see him and you. I ain going to my sword. I have had enough of "Well, Joe, well all do what we can rr Dixon to teach and earn money lor to keep you from being shotgun a a naother and the baby. Don't tell anyone Hie had ridden acn»ss coufiti^ from $2.25 lawyer," Abe Lincoln .began. 'Tyf got where I am and above all dop't the boat landing and, arriving so lata, a good first lessop for you. I found It come to see me until good heart I had left his hone at a livery atable. in letter which Choate had a Rufva can ask you to come. sL "I'm lucky to find you and Abe and i6 Falls __ dumber & Coil Co. written to Judge DatMk $9 he *ays •••God bless you! ve^ Kv ,• Joe all up and for me," he 'waitttig The Two Man Took Their Plaeea. 1 -V* •A"' that we rightly have great respect for "BIM" said as he shook their hands. "How's PHONE81 the decisions of thejnajorlty, but that help me. Bim arrived whan Harry mother?" In a faw weeks the suit came on. the law something vastly greater is wasout of lila bead and didn't know: "I'm well," Sarah '.called from the Davis' defense, as given In the an- and more sacred than the verdict of rtyfl "VI .. her. She was determined to stay and -,.4! Ji*