'$ RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CmEP t f.V. U ) esyissr i FOR.m3A A STORY OFTlEBDILDEBSy DEHOCRBCT HZVHW M.CHELLER COr&fwffr J&.VW& BACHISTLLlifjt Q ABE LINCOLN Synopsis, Snmson nnd flnrnh Traylor, with tlwlr two children, JdmIiiIi ami Fiotney, travel by wngon In the BuminiT of l"sJI fiom their homo In VeiKOiinrn, Vt , to the Wost, the himl of plenty. Thulr doMtlnntlon In the Country of thu K.iniiinon, In Illinois, At Niagara I'hIIs they meet a p.irty of Itnml cmntH, unions them u youth nuinoil John McNeil, who uho decides to ro to thu a.ini;iiinon country. In the HWuinp lliitH of Ohio unci Indiana they licKln to bo troubled with fovcr and ngue. CHAPTER II. Continued. 3 "I slmll never forgot Hint tiny spout In a lonely pnrt of tlic woods" the Kuod wonmn wrote to her brother. "It nideureil the children to ine more than nny tiny I enn reiiieinher. They lirotiKlit wnter from the creek, a grout (iminllly, iiuil told me stories mid heered me In every way they could. My fnllh In f! oil's protection was per fect and In bpltu of my misery the children were a f,reut comfort. In the middle of the aOcrnoon .Samson returned with a doctor and koiiio tools mid a stick of seasoned timber. How good he looked when he came mid knelt by my bed and kissed me I This Is a bard Journey, but a woman can bear anything with such a man. The doctor said I would he all rllit In three days, and 1 was. "Late that afternoon It began to rain. Samson was sliiin;; as he worked on his wheel. A traveler came along on horseback and saw our plight. He was a young mission ary going west. Samson began to Joke with him. "Tou're a happy man for one In so much trouble,' 'said the strunger. "Thou I heard Samson say: 'Well, sir, I'm In a tlx where happiness Is absolutely necessary. It's like grease on the wagon wheels we couldn't go on without It. When we need any thing we make It If we can. My wife Is sick and the wagon Is broke ami It's raining and night Is near In a lone some country, and It ain't n real good time for me to be down In the mouth Is It, now? We haven't broke any bones or had an earthquake or been scalped by Indians, so there's some room for happiness.' " 'Look here, stranger I like you,' said tin; man. 'If there's anything I can do to help ye, I'll stop a while.' " He spent the night with them and helped mend the felly and set the tire. The fever and ague passed from 'one to another and all were sick before the Journey ended, although Samson kept the reins In hand through his misery. Then; were many breaks to mend, but Samson's Inge nuity was always eijtiul to the task. One day, near nightfall, they were overtaken by a tall, handsome Yankee lad riding a pony. His pony stopped beside the wagon uiirt looked toward the travelers as If appealing for help. The boy was pointing toward thu hori zon and muttering. Sarah saw at once that his mind was wandering In the delirium of fever, She got out or the wagon and took his hand. Tim moment she did so he begun crying like a child. "This boy Is sick," she said to Sam soif, who came mid helped 'him off his horse. They camped for the night and put the boy to bed and gave him medicine and tender care. He was too sick to travel next day. The Tray lors stayed with him and nursed the lad until lie was aide to go on. He was from Niagara county, New York, and his name was Harry Needles. His mother bad died when ho was ten and his father bad married again. He had not been happy In his home after that and his father had given him a pony nntl a hundred dollars and sent him away to seek his own fortune. Homesick and lonely and III, and Just going west with a sublime faith that the West would somehow provide for him, ho might even have perished on the way If he had not fall en In with friendly people. His story had touched the heart of Sarah and Samson. He wns a big, green, gentle hearted country boy who had set out filled with hope and the love of ad enture. Sarah found pleasure In mothering the poor lad, and so It happened that he became one of their little party. He was helpful and good nntuted and had sundry arts that pleased the children. Tito man and the woman liked the big, honest lad. Ope day he said to Samson: "1 hope you won't mind If I go along with you, sir." "Glad to have you with us," snld Samson, "Wo've talked It over. If you want to, you can come along with us and our home shall he yours and I'll do what's right by you." They fared alung through Indlann and over the wide savannns of 1111 uols, uud mi tb ninety-seventh day ?r TS . of their Journey they drove through rolling, grassy, flowering prnlrles and up a long, hard hill to the small log cabin settlement of N'ew Salem, Illi nois, on the shore of the Sangamon. They hulled about noon In the middle of this little prairie village, opposite a small clapboard house. A sign hung over Its door which bore the rudely lettered words: "Itutledge's Tavern," A long, slim, stoop-shouldered young man sat In the shade of an oak tree that stood near a corner of the tavern, with a number of children playing around hlni. He sat leaning against the tree trunk reading n book. He had risen as they came near and stood looking at them, with the book under his arm. Samson says In his diary that ho looked like "an untrlmmed yearling colt nbout sixteen hands high. Ho got up slow and kept rialng till his bush of black tousled hair was six feet four above the ground. Then lie put on an old straw hat without any hand on It. He reminded me of Philemon linker's fish rod, he was that mirror. For hunillness I'd match lilin against the world. His hide was kind o' yaller and leathery. I could see he was still In the gristle n little oxer twenty but his face was marked up by worry and weather like n man's. I never saw anybody so long between Joints. Don't hardly see how he could tell when his feet got cold." He wore a hickory shirt without a collar or coat or Jacket. One suspen der held up his coarse, llnsey trousers, the legs of which fitted closely and came only to a blue yarn zone above his heavy cowhide shoes. Samson writes that he "fetched a sneeze and wiped his big nose with a red hand kerchief" as he stood surveying them In silence, while Dr. John Allen, who had sat on the door-step reading n paper a kindly faced man of tulddlo age with a short white beard under his chin greeted them cheerfully. "Where do you hall from?" the Doctor asked. , "Vermont," snld Samson. "All the way In that wagon?" "Yes, sir." "I guess you're nindo o' the right sluff," said the Doctor. "Where ye hound?" "Don't know exactly. Going to take a claim somewhere." "There's no better country than right here. This Is the Canaan of America. We need people like you. "Come All the Way From Vermont?" Abe Asked. Unhitch your team and have some dinner and we'll talk things over after you're rested. I'm the doctor here and I ride nil over this part o' the country. I reckon I know it pretty well." A woman In a neat calico dress eamu out of the door a strong-built ami rather well-flavored womnu with blonde hair and dark eyes. "Mrs. Hutledge, these nre travelers from the Kast," said the Doctor. "Give 'em some dinner, nnd If they can't pay for It. I can. They've came all the way from Vermont," "Good land I Come right In an rest yerselves, Abe, you show tho gentle man where to put his horses an' lend him n hand." Abe extended his long arm toward Samson nnd said "Howdy" as they shook bauds. "When his big hand got hold of mine, I kind of felt his timber," Sam son writes. "I says to myself, 'Thero'o n mun It would be hard to tip over In a rnssle. " "What's yer name? How long yo been travelln'? My conscience I Ain't Syv' ye wore out?" the hospltnblo Mr. Hutledge was asking as sho went Into the house with Bnrnh and the chil dren. "You go and mix up with the little ones and let yer mother rest while I git dinner," she snld to Joe and Betsey, ami added as sho took Sarah's shawl and bonnet: "You lop down an' rest yersclf while I'm Myln' around the fire." "Come nil tho wny from Vermont?" Abe asked as he and .Samson were unhitching. "Yes, sir." "By Jlngl" the slim giant exclnlmed. "I reckon you feel like throwln' ff yer harness an' tnkln' a roll in the grass." CHAPTER III. Wherein the Reader la Introduced tc Offal's Store and His Clerk Abe, and the Scholar Jack Kelso and His Cabin and His Daughter Blm, and Gets a First Look at Lincoln. They had a dinner of prnlrle chick ens and roast venison, flavored with wild grape Jelly, and creamed potatoes and cookies and doughnuts nnd raisin pie. It wns a well-cooked dinner, served on white linen, In a clean room, nnd while they were eating, the sym pathetic landlady stood by the table, eager to learn of their travels nnd to make them feel at home. The good food and thvlr kindly welcome nntl the beauty of the rolling, wooded prnlrles softened the regret which had been growing In their henrts, and which only the children had dared to express. "Perhaps we haven't mndc n mis take, after all," Sarah whispered When the dinner was over, t'l like these people and tho prairies are beautiful." "It Is the land of plenty nt last," said Samson, as they came out of doors. "It Is even better than I thought." "Ah Douglns .Terrold snld of Austra lia: Tickle It with n hoe and It laughs with a harvest,' " said Dr. Allen, who still sat In the shnded dooryard, smoking his pipe. "I have an extra horse and saddle. Suppose you leave the family with Mrs. Uut ledgo nnd ride around with me n little this nftemoon. I can show you how the land lies off to tho west of us, nnd tomorrow we'll look at tho other side." "Thank you I wnnt to look nround hero a little," snld Samson. "What's the- name of this plnce?" "New Snlem. We call It a village. It has a mill, a carding machine, n tavern, n schoolhouse, five stores, fourteen houses, two or three men of genius, nnd a noisy dnm. It's a crude but growing place and soon It will have all the embellishments of civi lized life." That evening mnny of the Inhabit ants of the little village came to the tavern to see the travelers and were Introduced by Dr. Allen. Most of them had come from Kentucky, al though there were two Yankee fam ilies who had moved on from Ohio. "These nre good folks," said the Doctor. "There are others who nro not so good. I could show you some pretty rough customers at Clnry's Grove, not far from here. We have to take things as they are uud do our best to make 'em better." "Any Indians?" Sarah asked. "You see one now and then, but they're peaceable. Most of 'em have gone with the buffaloes farther west. Now and then a circuit rider gets here nnd prenches to us. You'll hear the Reverend Stephen Nuckles If you settle In these parts. He can holler louder than any man In the state." The tavern wns tho only house In New Salem with stairs In It stairs so steep, as Samson writes, that "they were first cousins to the ladder." There were four small rooms above them. Two of these were separated by a partition of cloth hanging from the rafters. In ench was a bed and bedstead nnd nmnller beds on the floor. In case there were a number of adult guests the bedstead was screened with sheets hung upon strings. In one of these rooms tho travelers had a night of refreshing sleep. After riding two dnys with the Doctor, Samson bought the claim of one Isnae Gollaher to a half section of land a little more than a mile from the western end of the village. He chose a site for his house on thu edge of an open prairie. "Now we'll go over and see Abe," raid Dr. Allen, after the deal was made. "He's tho best man with nn ax and a saw In this part of thu country. He clerks for Mr. Offut. Abe Lincoln Is one of the best fellows that ever lived a rough diamond Just out of tho grent mine of the Wast, that only needs to be cut and polished." Denton Offut's store wus a small log structure nbout twenty by twenty which stood near tho brow of the hill east of ltutledge's tavern. When they entered It Abo lay at full length on the counter, his head resting on a bolt of blue denim as ho studied a book In his hand. Ho wore the same shirt and one jsuspender and llnsey trousers which he had worn In the dooryard of the tavern, but his feet were covered only by his bluo yurn socks. It was a general store full of exotic flavors, chiefly thoso of tea, coffee, tobacco, muscovado sugar and molas ses. There wns a counter on ench side. Bolts of cloth, mostly calico, were piled on the far end of the right counter as one entered and tho near end held a showcase containing a display of cutlery, pewter spoons, Jewolry and fishing tackle. There were double windows on either side of tho rough hoard door with Its wood en latch. Tho left counter held a case filled with threads, buttons, combs, colored ribbons, and belts and f JervVharpB. A balance stowl in the middle of thin counter. A chest of tea, a big brown Jug, a box of can dles, a keg and a large wooden pull occupied Its farther end. The shelv ing on Its side wnlls wns filled by straw hats, plug tobacco, holts of cloth, pills nnd pntent medicines and paste-board boxes containing shirts, handkerchiefs and underwear. At the rear end of the store was n large fire place. There were two chairs near the fireplace, both of which were oc cupied by n mrm who sat In one while his feet lay on the other. He wore a calico shirt with a fanciful design of morning-glories on It print ed In appropriate colors, a collar of , the same material and n red necktie. i Abe laid aside his book and rose to a sitting posture. "Pardon me you see the firm li busy," said Abe. "You know Eb Znne used to say that ho was never so busy In his life as when he lay on his back with a broken leg. He said he had to work twenty-four hours a day doln' nothln' an' could never git nn hour off. But a broken leg Is not so bad as a lame Intellect. That lays you out with the fever an' ague of Ignorance. Jnck Kelso recommended KIrkbntn's pills nnd poultices of po etry. I'm trying both and slowly get ting the better of it. I've learned three conjugations, between customers, this nftemoon." The sleeper, whose name was Wil liam Berry, rose nnd stretched him self nnd wns Introduced to the new comer. He wus n short, genial man, of some thirty years, with blonde, curly hnlr and mustache. Ills fat cheeks had a color as definite as that of the blossoms on his shirt, now Jkjfc "Pardon Me You See the Firm Is Busy." rather soiled. His prominent nose Bhared their glow of ruddy opulence. His gray eyes wore n look of apology. "Mr. Traylor, this Is Mr. William Berry," said Dr. Allen. "Mr. Traylor has Just acquired an Interest In all our institutions. He has bought the Goll aher tract and Is going to build a house and some fences. Abe, couldn't you help get the timber out In a hurry so we can have a raising within a week? You know the art of the ax better than any of us." Abe looked at Samson. "I reckon he and I would make a good team with the ax." he said. "He looks as If he could push a house, down with one hand and build it lip with the other. You can bet I'll be glnd to help in any way I can." "Weil till turn In and help. I should think Bill or Jack Kelso could look after tho store for a few dnys," said the Doctor. "I promised to take Mr. Traylor over to Jack Kelso's tonight Couldn't you come along?" "Good! We'll have a story-tellln' and get Jnck to unllmber his guns," said Abe. Jack Kelso's cabin, one of two which stood close together at the western end of the village, was lighted by the cheery blaze of dry lnt;s In Its fire place. There were guns on a rack over the fireplace under a buck's head, a powder horn hanging near them on Its string looped over a nail. There were wolf and deer and bear pelts on the floor. The skins of foxes, rac coons mid wildcats adorned the log walls. Jack Kelso was a blond, smooth-faced, good-looking, merry hearted Scot, about forty years old, of a rather slight build, some five feet, eight Inches tall. That Is nil that any one knew of him' save that he spent most of his tlmo hunting nnd Ashing nnd seemed to have all tho best things, which great men had said or written, on the tip of hit tongue. (TO UK CONTINUED.) Derivation of April. Auth -Itlea on derivation of words stnte that tho word April, the name of our fourth mouth, wns derived from the Latin verb, "aperio," I open, and that tho month was so named bocausa It Is the time when the buds of trees and flowers open. "If this were tha case, it would mnke April singular nmong tho months, for the names of none of the rest, as dcslguuted In Latin, hnvo any reference to natural conditions or circumstances." (i c The now homo. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool T Lesson 7 tl'y Hb '. u Hidiiaittii, U. D leather of Knullsh Hlble In tho Moody Ulblo Institute of Clllcutfo.) t). l'J.'i, Wi'Btum Neivapaper Union, l LESSON FOR JULY 10 SAUL THE PHARISEE. M2SSON TEXT-Acts 7;M-S:3; 22;3. 4: MM, G, 11, 10. UOLDUN TKXT-Ohrlst Jesus cumo Into tho world to stive slnnciu, of whom I urn chlof.-l Tim. 1:15. UKKEUENCE MATHIUAIt-I Cor. 16:9, Qnl. 1:13; Phil. 3:4-6; 1 Tim. 1:13. PI11MAHY TOPIC-doltm to School In Jerusalem. Acts '.'2:3, 4; 11:31. .1 U N I O II TOPIC - Saul Persecuting Christians. INTHHMEDIATH'AND SENlOIl TOPIC A Young I'harlscu. YOUNO PEOPLE "AND ADULT TOPIC Buul I'ersecutliiB tho Church. 1.. Saul's Training as a Pharisee (Acts :a,-l; J0:4,fo. 1. Taught to love his own nation. "1 mil a Jew." Tho Pharisees were tho nationalists of their day. Tho.se who nre intelligently loyal to their own nation can more effectively help others. i. Taught to love God's law. "Taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the father.." Love for the Holy Scriptures is a valuable as.el in life. One may misinterpret It and dangerously misapply It; but If he has love In his heart for It there Is hope of getting him to come Into tight relationship to It. y. Wns "zealous toward God." The root of the word "zealous" signifies "to boil." It melius u passion for God and His work. It was zeal for God that made Saul think of and plan for his work. This zeal for God ex pressed Itself In persecution of the Christians whom he regarded us tid ing that which was contrary to God's law uud purpose. He spared neither age nor sex even to Imprisonment and death (Acts '1'1'A). II. Saul Thoroughly Conscientious (120 :, 10). In his conscientiousness he opposed Jesus, for he regarded Him as tin impostor. Saul Is to be commended In that lie responded to Ids conscience, but be Is to be condemned for his nttltudo toward Jesus; for there was overwhelming evidence thnt Jesus was God's Son mid came In fulfillment of the Scriptures. The resurrection of Christ was such an outstanding mira cle n proof of the Deity of Christ, that there was no room left for doubt, III. Stephen's Martyrdom (Acts 7: 04; 8:3). In order to understand the signifi cance of his martyrdom we must ob tain a synthetic view of bis life. 1. Who Stephen was (0:1-7). Ho was one of the seven who were ap pointed to look uftcr the temporali ties of the church. 2. Why Stephen wns opposed (fl:S 10). In his work he testified of Christ and by tho Holy Spirit wrought mira cles. These mighty works nroused the people. The following features characterized him: (1) Wisdom, which means common sense; (if) grace, which means beauty of charac ter; (3) power. He had the ability to do wonders und great signs and speak thu truth effectively. The men of tho opposing synagogues were not able to "withstand the wisdom mid the Spirit by which he spake." They arrested and brought him before the grout council. Kven here they could not silence him by argument, so they decided to do It by violence. 3. Stephen stoned (7:51-00). Before the council he mado a magnificent de fense. This lie did by tracing the history of Israel from the call of Abra ham to the c.'iicltlxion of Christ. His aim in this imvIow was to show that God never laid been localized and that the temple was hut a small part of God's plan. In his address he did not &peak against the temple, but showed that God did not In tho full est sense dwell In It at tiny time. He proved this from Scripture (Isa. 01: 1, 2; I Kings 8-27). In Ills conclu sion he declared that the Jews had always been a stiff-necked people, re sisting the Holy Spirit, und now their stubbornness had reached Its culmina tion In the betrayal, rejection uud murder of the Son of God. This charge cut to tiie heart. His argu ments were unanswerable. Being un willing to nimver him nnd at the same time to accept the truth presented, their anger wns stirred to Its highest pitch ; so their only answer was stones. They gnashed upon him as a mad dog. in this hour of trinl God gave him a wonderful vision. He was permitted to sec into heaven Itself, nnd there be got sight of the glorified Son of Man standing at the right hand of Bod. 4. Shephcu's burial (8:1-3). Ills death Is described us n fulling asleep. This Is really nil that death Is to the "hristlnn. 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