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CHAPTER XXII.
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Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals Hla
Method of Conductlno a Lawsuit In
the Case of Henry Drlmstead et al.,
vs. Lionel Davis.
They found tunny of Dnvls' notes
In Tazewell county. Alio Lincoln's
complaint represented seven clients
mill a sum exceeding twenty thousand
dollars.
With the pnpers In his pocket Harry
went on to the Honey Creek settle
ment. There he found that the
plague had spent Itself and that Illm
had gone to a detention eatap outside
the city of Chicago. He whb not per
mitted to Bee her, the regulations hav
Ing hecotne very strict. In the city he
went to the store of KM Fredenberg.
The merchant received htm with en
thusiasm. Chicago had begun to re
cover from (lie panic. Trade was
lively.
Harry spent the afternoon with Mrs.
Kelso ami Hint's halty hoy. Hu wrote
a very tender letter to Illm thnt day.
He told her that he had come to Chi
cago to live so that he might he near
her and ready to help her If she need
ed help. "The same (Oil love Is In my
heart that made me want you for my
wife long ago. that has lllled my let
ters and sustained me In many an
hour of peril" he wrote. "If you
really think that you must marry Da
vis, I ask you at least to wait for the
developments of a suit which Abe Lin
coln Is hrlnglng In behalf of many
citizens of Tazewell county. It Is
likely that we shall know more than
we do now hefore that ease ends. I
miw your heautlful HttJe hoy. lie looks
no much like you that I long to steal
hltn and keep him with me."
In n few days he received this brief
reply :
"Dear Hnrry: Your letter pleased
and pained me. I have been bo tossed
ahout that I don't know quite where I
stand. For a long time my life has
been nothing hut a series of emotions.
What Honest Abe may he able to
prove I know not, but I am sure that
ho cannot disprove the fact that Mr.
DavlB has been kind and generous to
me. For that I cannot ever cease to
bo grateful. I should have married
him before now but for one Blngular
circumstance. My little boy cannot he
made to like him. lie will have noth
ing to do with Mr. Davis. He will not
be bribed or coerced. I saw In this a
prophecy of trouble. 1 left homo and
went down Into the very shadow of
death. It may he that we have been
Baved for each other by the wisdom
of childhood. I must not see you now.
Nor shall I see him until I have found
my way. Kven your call cannot make
me forget that I am under u solemn
proinl.se.
"I'm glad you like the boy. He Is a
wonderful child. I nnnied him Ne
hernial! for his grandfather. We call
lilm Nlm and sometimes 'Mr. Nimble'
because he Is so lively. I'm homesick
to see him and you. I am going to
Dixon to teach and earn money for
mother and the baby. Don't tell any
ono when; I nm and above all don't
come to see me until In good heart 1
can ask you to come.
"God bless you I
"MM."
In a few weeks the suit came on.
Davis' defense, as given In the an
swer, alleged that the notes were to
be paid out of the proceeds of the
biiJo of lots and that In consequence
of the collapse of the boom there had
been no such proceeds. Aa t the un
derstanding upon which the notes
were drawn, there was a direct Issue
of veracity for which Abo Lincoln
wan exceedingly well prepared. Ills
cross-vxanilnutlnn was as merciless
ns Hiinllght "falling round n helpless
thing." It wns kindly and polite In
tone but relentless In Its searching.
When It ended, the weight of Davis'
character bad been necnrately estab
lished. In his masterly annulling up
Mr. Lincoln presented every circum
stance In favor of the defendant's po
sition. With .remarkable Insight he
anticipated the arguments of his at
torney. He presented them fairly and
generounly to the court and Jury. Ac
cording to Samson the opposing law
yers admitted In a private tall: that
Lincoln hid thought of presumptions
In favor of Davis which had not oc
curred to them. Therein Iny the char
octcrlfltlc of Mr. Lincoln's method In n
lawsuit.
"It was a safe thing for him to do,
for be never took a cabo in which Jus
tice was not clearly on his side," Sam
son writes. "If he had been deceived
ns to the merits of a case lie would
drop It. With the sword of Justice In
his hand he was Invincible."
A Judgment was rendered In favor
of the plaintiffs for the full amount of
tkslr claim "xUh costs. Tho character
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of Lionel Davis had been sulllclentJy
revealed. Kven the credulous Mrs.
Kelso turned against him. Mr. Lin
coln's skill as n lawyer was recognized
In the north as well as In the middle
counties. From that day forth no
man enjoyed u like popularity In Taze
well county.
When Samson and Harry Needles
left the courthouse, there seemed to
he no obstacle between the young man
and tin: consummation of his wishes.
Unfortunately, as they were going
down the steps Davis, who blamed
Samson for his troubles. Hung an In
sult at the sturdy Vermouter. Sam
son, who had then arrived at years of
llrin discretion, was little disturbed by
the auger of a iniiii so discredited,
Hut Harry, on the sound of the hate
ful words, had leaped forward and
ilealt the speculator a savage blow In
thi face which for a few seconds had
deprived him of the power of speech
That evening n friend of Dnvls called
at the City hall with u challenge. The
hot-bloodeil young soldier accepted It
against the urgent counsel of Samson
Traylor, Mr. Lincoln huvlug left the
city.
As to the dctolln of the tragic scene
that followed next day, the writer
has little knowledge. Samson wns
not the type of man for such a chron
icle. The diary speaks of his part In
It with shame and sorrow mid re
morse. We know thnt It was at day
break when he and Harry rode to a
point on the prairie "something more
than n tulle from the city limits."
There he tells us they met Duvls and
one friend of the latter and two sur
geons. It Is evident, too, that great
secrecy had been observed In the plan
and Its execution and that, until some
time after the last act, Lincoln knew
nothing of the later developments In
the drama of Dnvls' downfall. For
the rest of the dcploralde scene the
historian must content himself with
the linked details lu the dlury of a
puritan pioneer.
"I went because there was no escape
from It and with the shadow of God's
wrath In my sold," Snmson writes.
"The sun rose ns we halted our horses.
We paced the Held. The two men took
their places twenty yards apart. The
pistols rang out at the command to
lire and both men fell. Davis had
been hit at the left shoulder. My
handsome boy lay on bis face. The
huJIet had bored through his right
lung. ISefore I could reach him he
had risen to his feet to go on with
the battle. Davis lay like one paral
yzed by the shock of the bullet. Ills
seconds declared they were satlstled.
1 saw them take the bullet out of
The Two Men'Took Their Places.
Harry's hack, where It had lodged un
der his skin. I helped them put the
wounded men Into the wngon nnd rode
to the home of one of the doctors near
the city wherein were rooms for the ac
commodation of critical cases, leading
Harry's horse and praying for God's
help and forgiveness I took care of
the boy until Steve Nuckles came to
help me. Hltn arrived when Harry
wiih out of his head and didn't kuow
her. She was determined to stay and
do the nursing, hut I wouldn't let her.
She did not look Btrong. I loaned her,
the money to pay the debt to Davis
and persuaded her to go hack to her
work In Dixon. She went and was
rather heartbroken about It.
"The surgeon said that Harry would
llvo If lung fever didn't set In. It
set In, hut he pulled through. He
mended slowly. I had some fear of
arrest, but the conspiracy of sllunco
keut tho facts under cover. It
partly doe, T rucas, to the friendship
of Julm Wentworth for me nnd Hon
est Ab He kept It out of the papers.
Thnro ww no complaints nnd the ru
mors soon fell Into silence.
"The hoy, 'Mr. Nimble Is n cun
ning little man. When he began to get
better, Harry loved to play with him
and llftcn to his talks ahout fairies.
The young man was able to leave his
bed, by and by, but he didn't get over
his weakness and pallor. He had no
appetite. 1 sent him with Nuckles Into
the Wisconsin woods to live In the
open. R'hcn I took the small hoy to
Dixon with me In the saddle. Illm had
Just go! back to her work. She told
me Unit Ellpliatet Biggs had been
there, lie had heard of the boy unil
wished to see lilm and demanded to
know wl'ero he was. For fear that
Illggs wmild try to get possession of
'Mr. Nlu)lc' I took him with me to
Sprlngller4 In the- saddle.
"I leam that Davis has recovered
his hoiiJtt hiki left the city. A man
can not ?o business without friends
nnd after the trial Chicago wub no
pluce for Mm."
CHAPTER XXIII.
Which PrMenU the Pleasant Comedy
of Individualism In the New Capital,
and the Courtship sf Lincoln and
Mary TcJd.
Samson, wltb "Mr. Nimble" on a
pad Bluff is? with straw In front of
him, Joggcfl ncross the prairies and
waded the -reeks and sloughs on his
way to Sprll-guVd. The little lad was
In his fourth yittr that summer. He
slept end talked much on the way and
kept Samson busy with queries about
the sky and the wrecks and the great
llowery meadows
They camped he first night In n
belt of timber nn'r Samson writes that
tho boy "slept srug against me with
his bend on tiy nrti. He went to sleep
crying for hlr mother." He adds:
"It remlndvtl m; of the old days of
my young frthertiood. 'Mr. Nimble'
wanted to f-ct all the flowers and
splash his bate fPet In every stream.
In the evening he would talk to the
Btars as If he were playing with them.
He Is like some of the grown folks In
Chicago. He would sit hanging on to
the relns.jmd talk to the horse and
to Goil by the hour. He used to tell
me that God wns a friend of his and
I thirik he wns right. It was good
luck to get hack to Sarah and the
children. They took the little stran
ger into their hearts. 'Heart room,
house room' Is the motto of this part
of the country." .
It wns a new town to which Snmson
returned. The governor and the state
olllcers hntl moved to Springfield. The
new cnpltol was nearing completion.
The hnrd times which had followed
the downfall of "M ban unjustly dim
inished Mr. Lincoln's confidence In his
nblllty ns a legislator. He enjoyed
the practice of the law, which had be
gun to turn his Interest from the af
fairs of state. Hut the pot of political
science boiled before the fireplace In
the rear of Joshua Speed's store every
evening thnt Lincoln and his associ
ates were lu Sprlnglleld. The wit and
wisdom which bubbled Into Its vapors
and the bent that surrounded It were
the talk of the town. Many came
to witness the process nnd presently
It wns moved, for a time, to more
accommodating quarters. Hefore a
crowd of people lu the Presbyterian
church, Lincoln, Logan, linker and
Ilrownlng for the Whigs, and Douglas.
Calhoun, Lamborn and Thomas for
the Democrats, having assiduously
prepared for the trial, debated the
burning Issues of the time. The effort
of ench filled an evening nnd Lincoln's
speech gnve him new hope of himself.
Wise men begun to have grent confi
dence In his future. He had taken
the style of Webster for his model.
He no longer used the broad humor
which had characterized his efforts on
the stump. A study of the best
speeches of the great New Knglnndcr
had made him question Its value In
n public address. Dignity, clear rea
soning and Impresslveness were the
chief alms of his new method, the lat
ter of which is aptly Illustrated by
this passage from his speech In reply
to Douglas In the debate mentioned :
"If I ever feel the soul within me
elevate nnd expnnd to those dimen
sions not wholly unworthy of Its Al
mighty Architect, It Is when I con
template the cause of my country de
serted by nil the world besides, and
I standing up boldly nnd alone and
hurling defiance at her victorious op
pressors. Here without contemplating
consequences before high heaven and
In the face of the world I swear eter
nal fidelity to the Just cause, as I
deem It, of the land of my life, my
liberty anil my love."
In these perfervld utterances one
may find little to admire save a great
spirit seeking to express itself and
lacking as yet the refinement of taste
equal to his undertaking. He was
no heaven-born genius "sprung In full
panoply from the head of Jove." lie
was Just one of the slow, common
folk, with a passion for Justice and
human rights, slowly feeling his way
upward. Ills spirit was growing.
Strong In Its love and knowledge of
common men and of the things neces
sary to their welfare, It was beginning
to seek and know "the divine power
of words." F.very moment of leisure
he gave to the study of Webster and
Hurke und Ilyron nnd Shakespeare and
Hums. He had begun to study the
art of Irving and Walter Scott anil of
a new writer of the name of Dickens.
There were four men who slept with
him In the room above Speed's store,
nnd one of them hns told how he used
to lie sprawlod on the Moor, with' his
pillow and candle, reading long after
the others had gone to sleep, Samson
wrltos that ho never knew a man who
understood tho art of using minutes as
he did. A detached minute was U
him a thing to be filled with valaa
Yet there were few men so deeply It
love with fun. He loved to laugh m
u story-telling nnd to mutch his hu
mor with Thompson Campbell a fa
mous raconteur und to piny with
children., Fun was as necessary to
him as sloop. He searched for It In
people and In hooks.
He came often to Samson's house
to play with "Mr. Nimbi" ml to talk
with Joe. Some of his best thoughts
(nine when he was talking with Joe
and some of his merriest moments
when he was playing with "Mr. Nim
ble." He confessed that It was the
latter that reminded lilm that he had
better be looking for a wife.
Hut Lincoln was only one of nany
remarkable personalities lu Springfield
who had discovered themselves and
were seeking to lie discovered. Sun
dry individuals were lifting their heads
above the crowd, but not with the
modesty and self-distrust of Honest
Abe. "Steve" Douglas, whom Samson
had referred to as " that little rooster
of a man," put on the stilts of n brave
and ponderous vigor. Ills five-foot
stature and his hundred pounds of
weight did not lit the part of Achilles.
Hut he would have no other. He blus
tered much with a spear too heavy for
his hands. Lincoln used to call him
a kind of popgun.
This free-for-all JoiiRt of Individual
ism one of the first fruits of freedom
In the West gnve to the life of the lit
tle village n rich flavor of comedy.
The grent talents of Douglas had not
been developed. Ills character was as
yet shifty and shapeless. Snm of
the leading citizens openly dlstrusten
him. Lincoln never liked this little
man, lu opposing whom he wns to
come to the fulness of his power on
the platform. It Is evhfent thnt Lin
coln regarded lilm ns an able advocate
of small sincerity looking chiefly for
personal advancement.
There Is a passage In the diary
which Illustrates the character of Dou
glas and Lincoln's knowledge of It.
The passage relates to a day In the
famous debates of lS.'S. Lincoln hnd
not reached Havana In time to hear
the speech of his opponent. A great
crowd had come by train and lu
wagons. Taking advantnge of his ab
sence. Douglas had called Lincoln "a
liar, a coward and a sneak," and de
clared that he was going to fight lilm.
Lincoln heard of this and said lu
his speech:
"I Bhnll not light with Judge Doug
Ins. A fight could prove nothing at
issue In this campaign. It might prove
that he Is n more musculnr man than
I, or that I am a more muscular man
tbnn he, but this subject Is not men
tioned lu either pJntform. Again, he
nnd I nre really very good friends and
when we are together be would no
more think of fighting me than of
fighting his wife. Therefore, when the
Judge talked about fighting, he was
not giving vent to any ill feeling, hut
wns trying to excite well, let us say,
enthusiasm ngnlnst me on the part of
his audience."
Justice accomplished her ends now
nnd then with comic displays of vio
lence In the prairie capital. One night
Abe Lincoln and certain of his friends
captured a shoemaker who had beaten
his wife' and held hltn at the village
pump while the aggrieved woman gave
lilm a sound thrashing. So this phase
of Imperial Ism was cured In Soring
Held by "hair off the same dog," as
Lincoln put It.
One evening, while K. D. linker was
speaking In the crowded village court
room nbove Lincoln's olllce and was
rudely Interrupted and lu danger of
assault, the long legs of Honest Abe
suddenly appeared through a scuttle
hole In the celling above the platform.
He leaped upon It and seizing a stone
water pitcher defied any one to Inter
fere with the right of free speech In
a worthy cause.
So It will he seen that there were
zestful moments In these sundry vindi
cations of the principles of Democracy
lu the prairie capital.
(TO UK CONTINUED.)
CULTIVATE HABIT OF THRIFT
Practice Means That One Will Be
Ready to Seize Opportunity
When It Comes.
Practice thrift habitually. Make It
as much a part of your routine as
eating and sloepl-.g. Get yourself sys
tematlzed. Work on a definite sched
ule. Save, regular amounts. Plan your
work and your actions so that you
will have no Idle time, no lost motion,
no wasted energy.
The are among the secrets of suc
cess, happiness and progress.
The time to begin the cultivation of
thrift habits Is now.
Tim most Important message thnt
can b convoyed to the people of this
initio-) today I: "(Jet the thrift habit."
Practice thrift not for u brief Inter
val o' Intermittently, but habitually.
Dlsniell said, "The greatest secret
of success In life Is to be ready when
jour opportunity comes."
Thin brief nenteuce furnishes one of
the best reasons for practicing thrift
that ever has been given. It presents
a phase of the ipicstluu to which not
enough attention Is paid. Ordinarily
turlft is looked upon as a means of
safeguarding one against possible
emergencies or of building up an ac
cumulation of money for some definite
purpose. Hut there nre many unex
pected turns In the pathway of life.
Thrift Magazine
To Be Exact.
"So yau called on the famojis novel
ist?" "Yes," Bald Mrs, Gawker.
"Did J'"" Hiitl "I"1 m & brown
study?"
"Why, no. I think the room wns Mu
lshed lu blue." Birmingham Age-Herald.
AfUBirl Eir
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The s
Flavor
Lasts 3
When a man fulls Into un error
ho la likely to be more or less Injured
x his descent
The charm of a bnthroom Is Its spot
lessness. By the use of Red Cross Ball
Blue, all cloths nnd towels retain their
whiteness until worn out. Advertise
ment. Life As I See It
Mnn Is Just n hnndful of mini, but
a good woman can mold lilm Into
something worth while. Louisville
Courler-Journul.
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rections for babies and children of all
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must say "Callfornln" or you may get
aft Imitation llg syrup. Advertisement.
The Right Instinct.
"Come; Dorothy," twltl her father
Impatiently, "throw your doll on the
bed and hurry or we "hall be late."
"Daddy, how can you?" reproved tho
child. "I Isn't that kind of a muvver."
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Unpoetic.
"Why did the Arab fold up his tent
nnd silently steal uwuy?"
"I suppose," snld the cnmjwr, "It
wns the same old story. The mosqui
toes got to he too much for him."
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You naturally feel secure when yon
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If you need a medicine, you should
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However, if you wish first to try thkf
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Kilmer & Co., Hinfthnmton, N. Y., for a
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The Long and Short of It.
"Frank," observed the wife, "yon
were talking lu your sleep last night,
and you frequently spoke In terms of
endearment of n certain Kuphemla.
Who Is Kuphenila?"
"Why, my deur, that was my Bis
ter's name."
"Frank! Your sister's nnme wa
Mnryl"
"Yes, dear, but we called her Eo
phemln for short." '
Judge not your neighbor; he may
be on the Jury wheu It Is your turn
to face the Judge.
Health and Wealth
and has brought contentment and happiness to thou
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settled on her FREE homesteads or bought Und at
attractive prices. They have established their own
homes and secured prosperity and independence.
In the great grain-Rrowtnil sections of the prairie
provinces there is still to be had on easy terms)
Fertile Und at $15 to $30 an Acra
land similar to that which through many years
faaa yielded from 20 to 43 bushels of wheat
to the acre oats, barley and flax also in Brest
abundance, while raising horses, cattle, sheep
and bnria is equally profitable. Hundreds of farm
ers in Western Canada have raised crops in a single
season worth more than the whole cost of their
Isnd. Healthful climate, good neighbors, churches,
schools, rural telephone, excellent markets and
shipping facilities. The climate and aotl offer
Inducements for almost every branch, of
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Dairying, Mixed Farming
and Stock Raisins
make n tremendous appeal to In duttrlous set
tiers wishing to improve their circumstances.
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