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BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF A IMan for the Ages NOW HE BELONGS TO "A Mnn for the Arcs" It Abrnlinm Lincoln. The book it fiction denting with fnct hhtory in tlio guiic of fiction. It it an intimate ttutly of Abrahnm Lincoln during hit formative period at New Salem, III. It tells a chapter in hit life that no mnn can read without tmilet nnd ten, find wonder. Abraham Lincoln arrived at New Salem in 1831, "a stranger, n friendlest, uncducntcd, pennilcst boy, working on a flat boat for $10 n month," at he hlmtelf put it. In 1837 he left to take up hit law practice in Springfield. In thote six ycart he trantformed hlmtelf to a itvin of acknowledged ability, of promise, of more than local repu tation. It wat at New Salem that ho carhrd the nickname of "Honett Abe)" that he wat defeated for the legislature and elected; that he won and lost by death Ann Rutlcdge. Irving Bacheller it one of the very few men who could write tuch a book. Hit work it well known. This will add to hit fame. O: CHAPTER I. Which Describe! the Journey of Sam. son Henry Traylor and His Wife and Their Two Children and Their Dog Gambo Through the Adirondack Wil derness In 1831 on Their Way to the Land of Plenty Furthermore It De ccrlbes the Soaping of the Brlm steada, In the onrly summer of 18IJ1 Sam on Trnylor and his wife, Sarah, and two children left their old home near the village of Vergennes, Vermont, and begun their travels toward the setting sun with four chairs, a bread board and rolling-pin, n feather bed end blankctH, a small looking-glass, a skillet, an ax, a pack basket with a pad of sole leather on thu same, a water pall, a box of dishes, a tub of salt pork, a rllle, a teapot, a sack of meal, sundry .small provisions and a violin, In a double wagon drawn by oxen. It is a pleasure to note that they had a violin and were not dis posed to part with It. The reader must not overlook Its full historic signifi cance. The Htem, uncompromising spirit of the Puritan had left the house of the Yankee before a violin could enter It. Humor and the love 'of play had preceded and cleared n way for It. Where there was a fiddle there were cheerful hearts. A young black shepherd dog with tawny points and the name of Sambo followed the wagon. If we had been at the Congrega tional church on Sunday we might huve heard the minister Raying to Samson, after the service, that It was hard to understand why the happiest family In the parish nnd the most be loved should be leaving Its ancestral home to go to u far, new country of which little was known. We might also have heard Samson answer: "It's awful easy to bo happy here. We slide along In the same old groove, that our fathers traveled, from Ver genncB to Paradise. We work and play and go to meetln' and put n shin plaster In the box and grow old and narrow and stingy and mean and go up to glory ami are turned Into saints nnd angels. Maybe that's the best thing that could happen to us, but Sarah and I kind o' thought we'd try a new starting place and another route to heaven." Sarah and Sampson had been raised on adjoining farms Just out of the village. lie had had llttlo schooling, but his mind was active and well In clined. Sarah had prosperous rela tives In Boston and had had the ad vantage of a year's schooling In that city. She was a comely girl of a taste and refinement unusual In the place and time of bet blrtli. Many well-favored youths had sought her hand, but, better tlinn others; she liked the big, masterful, good-natured, humorous Samson, crude as he was. Naturally In her hands his timber had undergone! some planing nnd smooth ing and his thoughts had been gently led Into new and pleasant ways. Let us take a look at them as they slowly leave the vlllago of their blrtli. The wagon Is covered with tent cloth drawn over hickory nrches. They are sitting on a seat overlooking the oxen In the wagon front. Tears are stream ing down the face of the woman. The man's head U bent. His elbows arc resting on his knees; the hickory handle of his ox whip lies across his lap, the lash nt his feet. He 6oems to be looking down nt his boots, Into the tops of which his trousers have been folded. Ho Is a rugged, blond, bearded man with kindly blue eyes and a rather prominent nose. There Is a striking expression of power In the head nnd shoulders of Samson Trnylor. The breadth of his back, the size of his wrists and hand.'), the color of his face betoken n mnn of groat strength. This thoughtful, sorrowful, attitude Is tho only evidence of emo tion which he betraya. In a few minutes he begins to whistle a lively tune. The boy Joslah famlllnrly called Joe sits beside his mother. He Is a slender, sweet-faced lad. Ho Is looking up wistfully at his mother. The little girl Betsey sits between him nnd her father. That evening they stopped at the house of an old friend some miles up the nibty road to the north. "Here we are goln' west," Sam son shouted to the man at the doorstep O. THE AGES STANTON Ho alighted and helped hl family out of the wagon. "Ymi go right In I'll take caro o' the oxen," said the man. Samson stnrted for the houso with the girl under ono arm and tho boy undor the other. A plensant-faced woman grceled them with a hearty welcome nt tho door. "You poor man I Come right In," she said. "Boor I I'm the richest "inn In the world," snld he. "Look at tho gold on thnt girl's hend curly, fine gold, too the'best there Is. She's Betsey my little toy womnn hnlf past seven years old blue eyes helps her moth er get tired every day. Here's my toy mnn Joslnh yes, brown hair nnd brown eyes like Sarah heart o' gold helps his mother, too six Umca one yenr old." "Whnt pretty faces 1" said the wo mnn as she stooped nnd kissed them. "Yes, ma'am. Got 'cm from the fairies," Samson went on. "They have nil kinds o' heads for llttlo folks, an' I guess they color 'em up with the blood o' roses nn tho gold o' butter cups an' the bluo o' violets. Here's this wife o' mine. She's richcr'n I nm. She owns nil of us. Wo'ro her slaves." , "Looks as young as she did the day she wns mnrrlcd ulno years ago," said the woman. "Exactly!" Samson exclaimed. "Straight as an arrow and proud I I don't blame her. She's got enough to mnke her proud, I sny. I fall in love ngaln every time I look Into her big, brown eyes." They hnd a Joyous evening nnd a restful night with these old friends and resumed their Journey soon after daylight. They ferried across tlnj lnke at Burlington and fared awny over the mountains and through the deep forest on the Chntcaugay trail. Since the Pilgrims lnnded between tho measureless waters nnd tho path less wilderness they and their des cendants hnd been surrounded by the lure of mystery. Tho love of adven ture, the desire" to explore tho dnrk, Infested nnd hcnutlful forest, the drentn of fruitful sunny lands cut with water courses, shored with sil ver and strewn with gold beyond It these were the only heritage of their sons nnd daughters snve tho strength and courage of the pioneer. How truo wns this dream of theirs gathering detail nnd allurement ns It passed from sire to son. On dlstnnt plains to tho west wero lnnds moro lovely and fruitful thnn any of their vision; In mountains far beyond was gold enough to gild the dome of the heav ens, ns the sun wns wont to do at eventide, and silver enough to put a fairly respectable moon In It Yet for generntlons their eyes were not to see, their hands wero not to touch, these things. They were only to push their frontier n llttlo farther to tho west and hold the dream nnd pass It on to their children. Those enrly years of tho Nineteenth century held tho first days of full flllment. Snmson nnd Sarah Traylor had the old dream In their hearts when they first turned their faces to the west. For years Sarah hnd re sisted It, thinking of tho hnrdshlps nnd perils In the wny of tho mover. Samson, n mnn of twenty-nino when he set out from his old home, wns said to bo "always chasing the bird In the hush." He wns never content with the thing In hnnd. Thero wero cer tnln of their frjends who promised to como nnd Join them when, nt Inst, they should have found tho land of plenty. But most of the group that bado them good-by thought It n fool ish enterprise nnd spoko lightly of Samson when they wero gone. Amer ica has undervalued tho bravo souls who went west In wngons, without whose sublime cournge and endurance tho plains would still he nn unplowed wilderness. Often wo henr them set down ns seedy, shiftless drenmcrs who could not mnke n living nt home. They were mostly tho best blood of the world nnd the noblest of God's missionaries. Who does not honor them nhovo the thrifty, comfort-loving men nnd women who preferred to stay nt home, where risks wero few, the supply of food sure nnd suffi cient nnd tho consolations of friend ship nnd religion nlwnys at hand? Snmson and Sarah preferred to enlist and take tholr places In the front battle line of Civilization. They had rend a little book called A Story of the Builders of Democracy IRVING The Country of the Sangamon. The latter was a word of the Pottnwn tomles meaning land of plenty. It was the name of a river In Illinois drain ing "boundless, flowery meadowH of unexampled beauty and fertility, bolt ed with timber, blessed with shady groves, covered with game and mostly level, without n stick or n stone to vex tho plowman." Thither they wero bound, to tuke up a section of government lnu'd. They stopped for a visit with Ellshn Howard nnd his wife, old friends of theirs, who lived In the village of Mnlone, which was In Franklin county, New York. There they traded their oxen for a team of horses. They wero Inrge grny horses nnmed Bete nnd Colonel. The Intter wns fnt nnd good nntured. His chief Interest In life wns food. Bete was alwnya looking for food nnd perils. Colonel wns the near horse. Now nnd then Samson threw a sheepskin over his buck and put the boy on It and tramped along within ami's rcncli of Joe's left leg. This was a great delight to tho little lad. They proceeded at a better pnee to the Blnck Blver country, toward which, In the village of Canton, they tnrrlcd ugnln for a visit with Captain Moody and Silas Wright, both of whom had tnught school In tlio town of Vergennes. They proceeded through DoKnlb, Bienville nnd Gouverneur and Ant werp and on to tlio Sand plnlns. They had gono far out of their wny for n look at theso old friends of theirs. Samson's dlnry tells how, at the top of the long, steep bills ho used to cut a 8mnll tree by the roadside nnd tlo Its butt to tho rear axle and hang on to Its branches while his wife drove the team. This held their lond, making an effective brake. Traveling through tho forest, ns they had been doing for weeks, while the dny wnncd, they looked for n brooksldo on which they could pnss the night with water handy. Samson Tramped Along Within Arm's Reach. tethered, fed and watered their horses and while Sarah and tho children built a fire and made tea and biscuits, ho wns getting bait and catching fish In tho stream. "In a few minutes from tlio time I wet my hook a mess of trout would bo dressed and sizzling, with a piece of salt pork, In tho pan, or it wus a bad dny for fishing," lie writes. After supper the wagon wns partly unloaded, tho feather bed laid upon tho plnnks under tho wagon roof and spread with blankets. Then Samson snng songs nnd told stories or played upon tho violin to nmuso the family. Often If tho others were wenry nnd depressed ho would dance merrily around the fire, playing a lively tune, with Sambo glnd to lend a helping foot and much noise to the program. By nnd by the violin was put nwny nnd nil knelt by the fire while Snrah prayed aloud for protection through the night. So It will bo seen that they carried with them their own little theater, church and hotel. Soon after dnrkness fell, Snrnh and the children lay down for the night, while Samson stretched out with his blanket by tho fire In good weather, tho loaded musket nnd tho dog Sambo lying bcsldo him. Often the howling of wolves In the dlstnnt forest kept them awake, and tho dog muttering and barking for hours. Snmson woko the enmp at dnyllght and a merry song was his rcvelllo while ho led the horses to their drink. When thoy set out In tho morning 'Samson was wont to sny to the llttlo lad, 'who generally sat besldo him: "Well, my boy, what's the good word this morning?" Whereupon Joe would sny, pnrrot like: "God help us all and make His face to shine upon us." "Well said I" bit father would an- By BACHELLER Copyright, Irrlnir IHeheller swer, and so the dny's Journey began. Often, near Its end, they came to some lonely farmhouse. Always Sam son would stop and go to the door to ask about tho roads, followed by llttlo Joe and Betsey with secret hopes. One of these hopes was related to cookies and ninple sugar and buttered bread and had been cherished since an hour of good fortune early In the trip and encouraged by sundry good hearted women' along the road. An other was the hope of seeing a baby mnlnly, It should he said, tho hope of Betsey. Joe's Interest wns merely an echo of hers. He rognrded babies with an open mind, as It were, for the opinions of his sister still had some weight with him, she being n yenr nnd n half older than he, but babies Invariably dlsnppolnted him, their cnpnbllltles being so restricted. Still, not knowing what might happen, he nlwnys took n look nt every baby. Tho children were lifted out of the wngon to stretch their legs nt sloughs and houses. They were sure to be close behind the legs of their father when he stood nt a stranger's door. Then, the night being near, they were nlwnys Invited to put their horses In tho bnrn and tnrry until next morn ing. This wns due In pnrt to the wist ful fnces of the little children n fuct unsuspected by their pnrents. What motherly heart coiild resist the silent nppenl of children's fnces or fall to understand It? Those were memorable nights for Snrah nnd Joe and Betsey. In a letter to her brother the womnn said : "You don't know how good it seems to see n woman nnd talk to her, and we talked and tnlked until midnight, after nil the rest were nsleep. She let mo hold the baby In my lnp until It wns put to bed. How good It felt to hnve n little warm body In my arms again nnd feel It breathing 1 In all my life I never saw a prettier bnby. It felt good to bo In n real house nnd sleep In a soft, warm bed and to cat Jelly and cookies and fresh meat and potatoes nnd bread and but ter. Snmson played for them and kept them laughing with his stories until bedtfmc. They wouldn't take a cent nnd gave us a dozen eggs In a bnsket and a piece of venison when we went, away." On a warm, bright dny in the snnd country they came to a crude, half finished, frame house nt tho edge of n wide clenrlng. Tho snnd lay In drifts on one side of the rond. It had evidently moved In the Inst wind. A sickly vegetation covered the field. A ragged, bmefootcd mnn and three scrawny, Ill-clad children stood In the doorynrd. It was noontime. A mon grel dog, with n bit of tho hound In him, came bounding nnd bnrklng to ward the wagon and pitched upon Snmbo and quickly got the worst of It. Snmbo, after much experience In self-defense, hnd learned thnt the best way out of such trouble wns to seize n leg nnd hang on. This ho did. The mongrel began to yelp. Sam son lifted both dogs by the bncks of their necks, broke the hold of Snmbo nnd tossed nslde tho mongrel, who rnn nwny whining. "Thnt reminded roe of a bull tbut tackled a man over In Vermont," he said. "Tlio man had a club In his hand. He dodged and grabbed the bull's tnll nnd bent him nil over the lot. As tho bull roared, the man hoi lered: Td like to know who began this fuss anyway."' The stranger laughed. "Is that your house?" Samson nld. The man stepped nearer and an swered In a low, confidential tone: "Say, mister, this Is a combination poorhouse and Idiot asylum. I am the Idiot. These are the poor." He pointed to the children. "You don't talk like an Idiot," said Snmson. Acrott New York Stat. (TO DE CONTINUED.) Right View tf Life. It Is time to get over tho Idea thnt we have to be comfortable because we were brought up that way, while others were predestined to misery and are so hardened to their condi tion that we needn't bother. One ef fect of travel if the traveler Is lm presslonnbW, and some travelers are not Is to show us that no country has ' n monopoly of certain homely virtues that tnke root nnd flourish In the bleakest, as In the richest soil. Nor Is nny other country pnrtlculnr ly Interested In our Introspective studies of how good we are and out Ingrowing Imagination of our great ness. Boastfulness Is a posture as un lovely for the millions as It Is for one. Let us give credit to others for pos sessing some of the qualities we ad mire so much In oursclveir. Ex change x But It's the Fashion. Wlfey Aren't you positively nshnmed that your wife nnd daughter are all out at tho elbows? Hub Nope. But I'm ashamed that they are nil out at th knees. Amtr- 1 lean Legion Weekly. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNA! IONAL Sunda) School T Lesson T (By UKV. I'. H. PH'ZWATKU, I). 1)., Teacher of Kngllsh Ulble In tlio Moody liiblo Institute of OIiIluko.) (, 1W1, W'OHtern Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JUNE 26 REVIEW: THE SOCIAL TASK OF THE CHURCH. GOLDHX TEXT-He shall dwelt with thuin, ami they shall bo his people. Hev 21:3. DKVOTIOXAl, BUADINU-Kev. 21.1-14, J'HI.MAllY TOPIC The ,Vuy Jcsub WnnlH I'h to Live. JL'NIUIl TOPIC Soma Things Jesus wunts t's to Do. INTKUMEMATK AND SENIOK TOPIC Thu Chullcngu ti) Hoys and Clliis. YOUNU PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC The '.iiullungo to thu Church. Revelation 21:1-14 Is the passage of Scripture helected for devotional reading. Instead of attemjitlng to re view the lessons of the quarter It would be of great Interest nnd profit to enter Into a detailed .study of this Scripture. The following outline may be helpful. I. The New Heaven and the New Kurth (vv. 1, 12) ; II. Tho New People (vv. H-8) ; III. The New Jeru salem (vv. I)-1 1). Another way would be to assign the Golden Texts to different members of tho class asking them to give the part of the particular lesson which illus trates the teachings of the text. Still unother way would be to sum marize the different Scripture pass ages, giving the leading lessons of each. The following Is given by way of suggestion : I. The believer's supreme obliga tion Is to present himself as n living sacrifice to God. The grand reason for so doing Is that he has received the mercies of God. The one so yield ed will love his fellow believer sin cerely. II. The believer's body Is God's property the temple of the Holy Ghost ; therefore wo are under solemn obligation to use It for Ills glory. III. Since God the Father and Jesus Christ work, It Is Incumbent upon till to work, and the man who will not work should not eat. IV. God hates the greed that moves men to dishonest methods In order to get rich. His Judgment shall fall upon such. V. True education will lend one to Christ. The one only book which tells about him Is the Bible. No one can call himself educated who Is Ignorant of the Bible. VI. God rested when Ills work of creation wns done. On this hauls He has established the law of labor and rest. The obligation to cease from lu bor Is that one may remember God. VII. The church Is an organism ns the human body. In order that there may be real helpful co-operation there must be membership In thnt body. VIM. Jesus should 4)0 welcomed ns a guest Into every home. He Is an ex ample of an obedient son In the home. IX. The most Important question is not "Who Is my neighbor?" but "To whom can I be n neighbor?" Being n neighbor Is seeing those about who need help and rendering such help In loving sympathy. X. Tho Christian Is n citizen ns well as n church member. Intelligent Chris tians will show proper loyalty to the state. XI. When Christ shnll reign ns King there shall be peace nil over the world between anlmnls and men. The supreme business of the believer In this dispensation Is to preach the gos pel to all the world ns n witness. XII. Jesus came and preached the gospel to the poor, but shall come aguln to Judge the world and reign us King. Since the whole of mnn's duty Is summed up by Christ In duty to God nnd duty to mnn (Mntt. 22:.50-40), It would bo profitable to go through the qunrter's lesson nnd set down the teachings under I. Duties to God; II. Duties to Mun. House Divided Against Itself. He Who sits above the waterlloods Is still working out Ills ways, and man's extremity Is, ns ever, God's op portunity. But if we nre to be real shnrers In this tnsk of divine recon struction, and fulfilling of God's pur poses for tho humnn family, It be hooves us to do our utmost by prayer and effort to repnlr the breaches which human waywardness has wrought In thnt Instrument which Ho has de signed, nnd through which He has cho seu especially to work out Immunity's snlvatlon the church of the living God, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apos tolic Body of Christ. For until theso wounds uro healed the church must present herself ns a houso divided ngnlnst Itself; and, because the Sav ior's prayer for a unity In the "one fold" remains unfulfilled, His enemies contlnuo to triumph, and the forces which make for righteousness are thwarted. Bishop Howden. Blessed Mysteries of Life. Both death and sleep uro blessed mysteries of life. It Is of little conse quence what time tho angel of life opens tho door of denth for us; tho supreme concern for us Is whether our hearts shall be pure, and our souls strong In grace to rejolco In the vision of tho Kverlustlng Duy. Newman Smyth. Jesus' First Preaching. Jesus began to preach, and to say, Ropcnt: for tho kingdom of heaven It at baud. Matthew 4:17. SUFFERED ALL A WOMAN COULD Mra. Meyer Finally Found Relief and Health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ornnrrn Cn.."1 nlwhvn feel verV I fratefui to you, as somo twenty years ago inree uuuiuro said 1 had to nave a i nous operation. I had a tumor, and ul cers which would gather nnd break. 1 had displacement so badly thnt I could hardly sit down at times, nnd it seemed that a woman could 8ufTer. Then some ono advised mo to tnko Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetablo Compound, nnd I 'took it until I waa cured and saved from tho operation, i have told women of your wonderful medicine times without number, and I nm willing that you should use theso facts and my name if you like. I also used your Compound during tho Change, and I can do all my own work but tho heavy part, and can walk miles every day as 1 help my husband in tho office. ' Mrs. J. II. Meyer, 412 South Orango St., Orange, California. It is quite true that such troubles as Mrs. Meyer had may reach a stage whero nn operation is the only resource. On the other hand, a great many women have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Times Have Changed. Thirty years ago It took .'1,000 worms to spin silk enough to make n lady's evening dress. Nowadays, of course, one small worm, working short time, can easily manage the Job. London Passing Show. 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Betty was quiet for a moment, nnd then snld, "We Just sleeps Is all I know." Have you tried the new 10c package? Dealers now carry both; 10 for 10c, 20 for 20c It's toasted. $LsJlhuiXi$IM'? Rotation of Numbers. Numbers run ns follows: Units, tens, hundred, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, qulntll llons, Kcxtllllons, septllllons, octillions, nonllllons, decllllons. The chnrm of n bnthroom Is Its spot lessness. By the uso of Red Cross Bnll Blue, nil cloths and towels retnln their whiteness until worn out. Cc. Good Point of Motion Pictures. Jud Tunklns says motion pictures appeal to him because the nudtencu Is not expected to npplnud nnd cnll the actors out to spoil the effect of a good scene. Sure Relief VBUV-KW1 iNDiGEsnoirj -"---- 'v: 6 Bell-ans tegto-mL "OT waTer WTWA Sure Relief B LL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION mmrnsmsnimu ttim&&Ev.iiit lUCKY IIstrikeJ IGARETTE, W. N. U., LINCOLN, NO. 25-1921. ( . C v x
