*s**a«gsss^ J, jriaTw,«eq^ aargrwf sa^ INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO The latter read it over and looked lence in the prairie capital. One night mons. Soon after the arrival of Mr. thought, of manner, of dress, of expression. very grave. Abe Lincoln and certain of his friends Lincoln's letter his- doctor gave the He knew- that he ^needed "What do you think of it?" Lincoln captured a shoemaker who hadbeaten young man what he called "an honorable Mary, but had the feeling that she asked. his wife and held him at the village discharge." The magic-of youth .vas not for him. "I would never send a letter like pump while the aggrieved woman gave and its courage and of good air had A woman who lived near the Edwards' that to a lady," Speed answered. "If him a sound thrashing. So this phase wrought a change of which the able house had a small, hairy you feel as you sajr, go and tell her of imperialism was cured In Springfield doctor had had little hope In the beginning. ooo ile. dog. One day, as Abe and Mary so, but don't put It In a letter." by "hair off the same dog," as were walking along the street, they Lincoln went to see her that evening Lincoln put It. In his travels through the great forest met. this woman, who asked If they and returned to his friend in a Harry had met David Parish and One evening, while E. D. Baker was had seen her dog. more cheerful mood. Stephen Van Renssalaer, at whose speaking in the crowded village courtroom "Did you tell her?" Speed asked. "I wouldn't wonder if some one down homes on the shore of the St. Law^ above Lincoln's office and was "Yes, I told her." the street had got him tied to the em! rence he had spent many a happy rudely Interrupted and In danger of "What happened?" summer day. Three years had passed of a pole and is Using him to swab off assault, the long legs of Honest Abe AGES 5M£N "She burst out crying and I threw since that fateful morning on the prairie. his windows," said Abe Lincoln with suddenly appeared through a scuttle my arms around her and kissed her a good-natured laugh. "I'll try to Through the winters he had lived hole in the ceiling above the platform. and that settled it. We are going to find him for you." in a comfortable hunter's camp on the He leaped upon it and seizing a stone be married." Mary enjoyed fun and this and ifke sho~re of Lake Placid. Summers he water pitcher defied any one to interfere What an illustration of the humanity sallies of the young legislator added had wandered with a guide and canoe with the right of free speech in and chivalry of Honest Abe was A DEHQCBKr through the lakes and rivers of the a certain- zest to their friendship. a worthy cause. SSOSCf WmmLBEBS# in the proceeding Women are like children in their love wilderness hunting and fishing and So it will be seen that there were "I'm sure you'll get along all right SIEVING Hi&CHELLER of humor. reading the law books which he had zestful moments In these sundry vindications together," said Speed. "Your spirit The diminutive Douglas saw in Miss borrowed from Judge Fine of Ogdensburg. of thg principles of Democracy Is jealous of any one likely to get In Bach summer he worked down Todd an asset of much value and his in the prairie capital. dropyisfG-^ r£\r/MS MACHELLEJS^ its way. But she won't. She'll fallIn the Oswegatchle to~ that point for a attentions began to be assiduous. Mary About this time Miss Mary Todd, the line and do what she can to help visit with his new friends. The history chief alms of his new method, the latter was indifferent to his lofty manner daughter of a Kentucky banker, arrived SYNOPSIS. you." of which Is aptly Illustrated by and sonorous vocallsm. Abe Lincoln of every week had been written in Springfield to visit her sister, Now, a little before this time, Henry CHAPTER I.—Samson and Sarah Traylff. this passage from hi* speech In reply to Bim and her letters had reached liked her better for that. Mrs. Ninlan W. Edwards. She was a Brlmstead and other creditors of Davis -with their two children, Joaiah and to Douglas in the debate mentioned: him at the points where he was wont She encouraged the visits of the latter B*uey, travel by wagfon from their home fashionably dressed, good-looking girl had gone to Chicago in the matter of Vergennes, Yt., to the West, the land to rest in his- travels. The lovers had "If I ever feel the soul within me and invited his confidence. The of blue-gray eyes and dark hair. the satisfaction of their judgment ff plenty. Their destination is the Country not lost their ardor. Theirs was the elevate and expand to those dimensions fact filled him with a great joy. They of the Sangamon, in Illinois. "Well, Mary, haven't you found the against him. Henry had driven a love "that hopes and endures an not wholly unworthy of Its Almighty went about together. In the Edwards fortunate young man yet?" Mr. Edwards CHAPTER XIV.—Ann agrees to marry wagon across the prairies and, returning, patient." Architect, It Is when I contemplate parlor he modestly told her of his Abe, but her health is wrecked. Three playfully asked the day of her had brought Bim and her mother runaway slavea seek Traylor's help in On a day in June, 1841, he boarded the cause of my country deserted work and his life plan. She differed coming. escaping. They belong to Biggs and he to his home and then to Springfield. by all the world besides, and with him on certain subjects which a steamboat at Ogdensburg on his way "You know, my husband is going comes in pursuit of them.- Threatened It was while they were there that with arrest for inciting the raid on Traylor, I standing up boldly and alone and were unfortunately fundamental. He to Chicago. He arrived in the evening to be President of the United States he flees. One of the fugitives is Bim Harry had come down to Chicago out and found Samson at the home hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. did not love her as he had loved in disguise. She has fled from -her husband's and I hoped that I would find him in Ann. of the woods In a condition of health cruelty. of Bim and her mother—a capacious Here without contemplating But her personality pleased and fas-, Springfield," Mary answered in a like which had alarmed his physician. The and well-furnished house on Dearborn consequences before high heaven and cinated the young legislator. One CHAPTER XV.—Dying, Ann Rulledge vein. latter had put hijjj on a steamboat and calls for Abe, and he bids her farewell A in the face of the world I swear eternal evening under the spell of it he asked street. Blrn^ was ftien llfole over "There's great fishing here," said at her bedside. Following her demise a sent him East. He was bound for the fidelity to the Just cause, as I twenty-five "years old. A letter from' settled sadness descends on him. He is her to be his wife. She consented. Mr. Edwards. "I know the very man mountain country In northern New no longer "Abe," but "Abraham Lincoln." deem It, of the land of my life, my Then he began to think it over. John Wentworth says that she was you are looking for. He has come up York. "an exquisite bit of womanhood liberty and my love." It was like Lincoln in his relations CHAPTER XVI.—Overcoming his despondency, from the ranks and is now the most Bim and her mother returned to Lincoln returns to his work. learned In the fine arts of speech and In these perfervld utterances one with women to get the cart before the popular member of the legislature. He Abolition sentiment is crystalizing and Chicago on the stage, the former to dress and manner." horse, so to speak. The points upon he throws himself Into the movement. may find little to admire save a great can make a stirring speech and they take a place In the store as the representative The store had doubled in size under which they disagreed came up for consideration. spirit seeking to express itself and say he is going to be the President of CHAPTER XVII.—Traylor sells his of Samson's Interest. her management and with the help of She could not think as he farm and moves to Springfield. Lincoln lacking as yet the refinement of taste the United States. He's wise and Harry was three years in the wilderness plans to secure a divorce for Bim in the capital of Samson and Sarah Traylor. equal to his undertaking. He was did on the subject of slavery and the witty and straight as a string, but a trying to regain his health. order that she may marry Harry Needles, The epidemic had seized her whom she has always really loved. McNamar no heaven-born genius "sprung in full kindred one of state rights. His jpanners rough diamond—big, ^'awkward and Success came to him in the last year returns to New Salem, too late. toward the last of her nursing and left panoply from the head of Jove." He were not like hers. They grew homely. You're Just the girl to take of his banishment. the marks of its scourge upon her. It naturally out of one's history and ?haracter. CHAPTER XVIII.—Traylor and Harry was Just one of the slow, common him In hand and give him a little polish Toward the end of it he received a Needles visit the "boom" city of Chicago, had marred her beauty, but Samson He could be kind and gentle folk, with a passion for Justice and and push him along.v His name is Is where Bim, now the mother of a son, letter from Mr. Lincoln. It was written writes, "the girl was still very handsome. in his way. But, mainly, his manners living with her parents. She has her human rights, slowly feeling his way Abraham Lincoln." soon after that curious climax in divorce. Harry leaves for the Seminole She was kind of scared to meet would have to be like the rugged limbs upward. His spirit was growing. Speed knew the Todds. When he war. An unscrupulous, rich speculator, the courting of Mary Todd. In this Harry for fear of what he'd think of of the oak. The grace and elegance Strong In Its love and knowledge of Lionel Davis, desires to marry Bim, but called upon Mary she asked about Mr. letter he said: she repulses him. those little marks on her face, but I of the water-willow and the white common men and of the things necessary Lincoln and said she would like to "I am serving my last term in the told her not to worry." to their welfare, It was beginning birch were not for him. It saddened CHAPTER XIX.—Ruined by the panic meet hinh legislature. I learn that you are in of '37, Kelso dies and Bim and her "You are the smartest and loveliest to seek and know "the divine power him to conclude that he would have "She's just the girl for you, Abe," mother are left penniless. Davis presses better health and I hope that you will looking creature that I ever saw in to be for a long time just what'he was his suit, and, made desperate by the of words." Every moment of leisure Speed said to him that evening. "She have the strength and inclination to my life," said Harry after he had held news of Harry's death, Bim almost makes —crude, awkward, unlearned in the he gave to the study of Webster and is bright and well educated and her up her mind to marry him. return soon and be a candidate for her in his arms a moment graces and amenities of cultivated Burke and Byron and Shakespeare and family has influence. She could be a my seat in the house. Samson will CHAPTER XX.—Lincoln is admitted to "But see what happened *to mo—• people. He rightly judged that his Burns. He had begun to study the great help to you." th« bar. Traylor ascertains that the report not do it, being so busy with large look at my face," she answered. crudeness would be a constant source art of Irving and Walter Scott and of This interested the member from of Harry's death is false. He hurries affairs. You are young. You have to Chicago. Davis has swindled Brimstead, "It Is more beautiful than ever," he of irritation to the proud Mary. As a new writer of the name of Dickens. Sangamon county, who was indeed a friend of Traylor's, in real estate won distinction in the service of your said. "Those marks have doubled my eager to get along. The companionship their acquaintance progressed the deals, and Traylor seeks to collect There were four men who slept with country. You have studied the problems the money. SmaJlpox breakb out at love for you. They are medals of truth of his conviction grew more apparent. of a refined young lady was the very him in the room above Speed's store, a Honey Creek, and Bim goes there as of the county and the state. honor better than this we that I This, however, did not so nurse. thing he needed. and one of them has told how he used Samson and Baker and Logan and wear. I want to marry you as soon much concern him as her lack of sympathy "Let's go over and pay our respects to lie sprawled on the floor, with his CHAPTER XXI.—Lincoln at Springfield Browning agree with me that you are as possible. I've been looking forward with some of his deepest motives. to her," Speed suggested. They went, enters into his life work. Harry Needles pillow and candle, reading long after the man for the place. to that since I was sixteen. comes home and at once seeks Bim. He decided that, after all, he the others had gone to sleep. Samson Lincoln being carefully dressed In hife "As for myself, I am" going to be "Then I think I'll take you and did not love her and that to marry her writes that he never knew a man who first suit of black clothes. Miss Todd CHAPTER XXII.—Lincoln wins Brimstead's married In a year or so. I shall have marry you before you have a chance suit against Davis, thoroughly would be committing a great wrong. was a bright, vivacious girl of middle understood the art of using minutes as discrediting the speculator. As an outcome, to give* all my time to the practice of to fight another duel." Some of the unhappiest days of his stature, twenty-two years old. She Harry, resenting an insult to Traylor, he did. A detached minute was to the law. I am now in partnership "I don't hear anything but love and fights a duel with Davis, In which life followed. His conscience gave was fashionably dressed and carried him a thing to be filled with value. tooth are wounded. with Stephen T. Logan and am slowly" marriage," said Samson. "We've been him no rest. He knew not what to do. Yet there were few men so deeply In her head proudly—a smart-looking, clearing my conscience of debt. I rassling down at our house to keep He wrote a letter to Miss Todd in witty, well spoken girl, but not especially love with fun. He loved to laugh at CHAPTER XXIII. have done what I could for the state Joslah from running off and getting which he reviewed the history of his a Story-telling and to match his humor handsome. Honest Abe was and for Sangamon county. It hasn't married. He's engaged already." thinking on the subject of their marriage with Thompson Campbell—a famous been much. I want you to take up "Engaged! To whom?" Harry asked. Wpufji Presents the Pleasant Comedy and frankly but tenderly stated raconteur—and to play with the burden, if you can, until I get free "To Annabel Brimstead. She's a cf Individualism in the New Capital, his conviction that it would imperil children. Fun was as necessary to of my debts, at least. By and by I little older than he is. She laughed and the Courtship of Lincoln and her happiness to marry him. Before him as sleep. He searched for It in may jump into the ring again." at him and promised to marry him Mary Todd. sending it he submitted the letter to people and in books. Harry was glad to obey the sum­ his friend Speed. Sumson, with "Mr. Nimble" on a He came often to Samson's house (Continued on page 6) pad stuffed with straw in front of to play with "Mr. Nimble" and to talk with Joe. Some of his best thoughts him, jogged across the prairies and came when he was talking with Joe waded the creeks and sloughs .on his and some of his merriest moments way to Springfield. The little lad was •vhen he was playing with "Mr. Nimble." In his fourth year that summer. He He confessed that it was the slept and talked much on the way and latter that reminded him that he had kept Samson busy with queries about the sky and the creeft? and the great better be looking for a wife. But Lincoln was only one of many flowery meadows. remarkable personalities In Springfield They camped the first night In a who had discovered themselves and belt of timber and Samson writes that were seeking to be discovered. Sundry the boy "slept snug against me with individuals were lifting their heads his head on my arm. He went to sleep above the crowd, but not with the crying for his mother." He adds: modesty and self-distrust of Honest "It reminded me of the old days of Abe. "Steve" Douglas, whom Samson my young fatherhood. 'Mr. Nimble* had referred to as that little rooster wanted to pick all the flowers and of a man," put on the stilts of a brave splash his bare feet in every stream. and ponderous vigor. His five-foot In the evening he would talk to the stature and his hundred pounds of stars as if he were playing with them. weight did not fit the part, of Achilles. He is like some of the grown folks In But he would have no other. He blustered Chicago. He would sit hanging on to much with a spear too heavy for the reins,vand talk to the horse and his hands. Lincoln used to call him to God by the hour. He used to tell Come on along! a kind of popgun. me that God was a friend of his and This free-for-all Joust of Individualism—one I right. It was good think he was of the first fruits of-freedom to get back to Sarah and the luck in the West—gave to the lll'e of the little children. They took the' little stranger Deeply Impressed by Her Talk and village a rich flavor of comedy. into their hearts. 'Heart room, Fill up your makin's Fine Manners. The great talents of Douglas had not is the motto of this part house room' been developed. His character was as of country." deeply Impressed by her talk and flhe the yet shifty and shapeless. Some of papers with P. A. manners and general comeliness. He It was a town to which Samson new the leading citizens openly distrusted felt her grace and charm and sfroke returned. The governor and the state hir& Lincoln never liked thfe little of it with enthusiasm. But to hint officers had moved to Springfield. The man, in opposing whom he was to and to her there seemed to be an itapassable capitol was nearing completion. new come to the fulness of his power on gulf between them. She Greatest sport you know easily because it's crimp cut The hard times which had followed the platform. It Is evident that Lincoln changed her mind about that, however^ '37 had unjustly diminished the downfall of to pull out your makin's and it stays put regarded him as an able advocate' when she heard him speak and Mr. Lincoln's confidence in his papers and some Prince of small sincerity looking chiefly for felt the power of his personality and legislator. He enjoyed It's the best bet you ever ability as a personal advancement. saw his face lighted by the candle of the practice the law, which had begun Albert and roll up a cigarette of laid that you'll like Prince There is a passage- in the diary his spirit. It was a handsome face to turn his interest from the affairs Prinem Albert im That's because P. A. which illustrates the character of Douglas in those moments of high elation. told in toppy rmd state. But the pot of political Albert better than any cigarette of bogs, tidy red tint, and Lincoln's knowledge of it. Hardship and malarial poison had science boiled before the fireplace In is so delightfully good and handsome pound you ever rolled! The passage relates to a day in the lined and sallowed his skin. The and Halt pound tin the rear of Joshua Speed's store every humidors andin th* refreshing in a cigarettejust famous debates.of 1858. Lincoln had shadows of loneliness and sorrow were pound crystal glass evening that Lincoln and his assoclates And listen! If you have not- reached Havana in time to hear in its sculpturing. But when his eyes humidor with like "it is in a jimmy were in Springfield. The wit and mponga moistens* the speech of his-opponent. A great glowed with passion one saw not the *0*.. a jimmy pipe hankering— wisdom which bubbled Into Its vapors pipe! You never seem to crowd had come by train and in rough mask which the life of the and the heat that surrounded It were by all means know what wagons. Taking advantage of his absence, pioneer had given him. His form lost get your fill P. A.'s so the ralk of the town. Many came Douglas had-called Lincoln "a its awkwardness his face took on a Prince Albert can do for to witness the process and presently joy'usly friendly and noble and Impressive beauty. liar, a coward and a sneak," and declared It was moved, for a time, to more you! It's arevelation in a quote his own words to the boy, Joslah appetizing. that he was going to fight, him. accommodating quarters. Before a pipe as well as in a cigarette) -Lincoln heard of this and said in Traylor, his character was shaking crowd of people In the Presbyterian as well as his lips. Mary had the insight his speech: Prince Albert will be a *P. A. can't bite or church, Lincoln, Logan, Baker and HI shall, not fight with Judge, Douglas. to recognize his power. She felt Browning for the Whigs, and Douglas, revelation to your taste! No parch. Both are cut out A fight could prove nothing at the strength of his spirit She .agreed Calhoun, Lamborn and Thomas for issue In this campaign. It might prove with her friends that here was a man other tobacco at any price is by our exclusive patented the Democrats, having asslduouslj of great promise. She- felt the 'need that he is a more muscular man than In its class! And, it rolls up process* prepared for the trial, debated the of him. I, or that I am a more muscular man burning issues of the time. The effort than he, but this subject Is hot mentioned To one who loved beauty and respected «f each filled an evening and Lincoln's in either platform. Again, he women as he did, the grace speech gave him new hope ef himself. and refinement of this young lady had and I are really very good friends and Wise men began to have great confidence when we are together he would no a singular appeal, coupled, as- It was, in his future. He had taken more think of fighting me than of with the urge of his strong, masculine Copyright 1921 the style of Webster for his model. fighting his wife. Therefore, when the nature. It was a revelation. He was #7 R. J. Reynold* He no longer used the broad humor judge talked about fighting, he Was like a young poet going out into the Tobacco Co. Wlnaton-SalwB, •which had characterized his efforts on not giving vent to any ill feeling, but open and seeing for the first time the N. C. the natiotud Joy tmokm the: stump. A study of the best was trying to excite—well, let us say, mysterious beauty of the mountains speeches of the great New Englander enthusiasm against me on the part of or "the exquisite, delicate, thin curve had made him question Its value in his audience."- of the new. moon in spring." He began rw a public address. Dignity, clear reasoning JuBtlce accomplished her ends now to seek and study refinement of and jmpressivenegg weie the and then with comic displays 'of vlo-