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Show All OPEN LETTER to worn CUT WILL BE MADE ON PRACTICALLY EVERY LARGE ROAD IN THE U.SUIULY 1st WAGE Mrs. Little Telia How She Suffered and How Final, Cured V - I wa3 not ahu Philadelphia, Pa. do my housework and had to lieZZ Ml most of the felt bad inmyS! . Per Cent Reduction of Pay is Orders of Rail Heads Which It Claim is Necessary to Meet Preeent aide. 12 NOW HE BELONGS TO THE AGES -- STANTON Aw ie Alr LincoU. TKt Wok Is fiction bistory In tko guiso of fiction. It is an intimato study of Abrabam Lincoln during bis formative period at Now Salem, 111.It tolls n chapter In bis Ufa that no me a can road without smiloa and tears and wonder. Abrabass Lincoln arrived at Now Salem in 131, a stranger, a for $10 friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, worbing on a a month, as bo himself pot it. In 1S37 bo loft to take up bis law practice in Springfield. In those six years bo transformed himself to a man of acknowledged ability, of promise, of more than local rupn tation. It was at Now Salem that bo earned tko nickname of MHonost Abo' that bo was defeated for the legislature and electedi that be wen and lest by doatb Ana Rutledge. Irving Bacbollor is one of the very few men who could write such a book. His work is well known. This will add to bis fame. MA Mm for tko Pooling with fact - flat-bo- CHAPTER ne alighted and helped his family out of the wagon. You go right" In HI take care o' the oxen," said the man. Samson started for the house with the girl under one arm and the boy I. Which Describee the Journey of Henry Traylor and Hla Wife and Their Two Children and Their Dog Sambo Through the Adirondack Wilderness In 1831 on Their Way to the Land of Plenty Furthermore It Describee the 8oaplng of the Sam-so- n Brim-stead- s. In the early summer of 1831 Samson Traylor and hie 'wife, Sarah, and two children left their old home near the village of Vergennes, Vermont, ( and began their travels toward the ' setting sun with four chairs, a bread board and rolling-pin- , a feather bed a and blankets, a small looking-glass- , a sn with basket s ax, skillet, pack pad of sole leather on tbe tame, a water pall, a box of dishes, a tub of alt pork, a rifle, a teapot, a aack of meal, sundry email provisions and a violin, in a double wagon drawn by oxen, j It la a pleasure to note that they had a violin and were not disposed, to part with It. The reader must not overlook Its full historic slgnlfl-raneThe stern, uncompromising spirit of ths Puritan had left the house of the Yankee before a violin could enter It Humor and the love W play had preceded and cleared a way for It Where there was s 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 Congregational church on Sunday me might have heard the minister saying to Samson, after the service, that It was hard to understand why the happleat family In the parish and the most beloved should be leaving Its ancestral home to go to a far, new country of which little was known. We might also have beard Samson answer; Its awful easy to be happy here. We altde along in the same old groove, that our fathers traveled, from VerWe work and gennes to Paradise, play and go to meetin and put a shin plaster la the box and grow old and narrow and stingy and mean and go up to glory and are turned lntosalnta and angels. Maybe thata the best thing that could happen to us, but Sarah and I kind o thought wed try new starting place and another route ft heaven. V Karsh and Sampson had been raised on adjointng farms Just out of the village. He had had little schooling, but hla mind was active and well Inclined. Sarah had prosperous relative In Boston and had had the advantage of a years schooling In that city. She was a comely gtrl of a taste and refinement unusual In the place and time of het birth. Many youths had sought her hand, but, better thatf others, she liked the big, masterful, humorous Samson, crude as he wan Haturally In her hands his timber had undergone some planing and smoothing and hla thoughts had been gently led Into new nnd pleasant ways. Let us take a look at them as they lowly leave the village of thetr btrth. The wagon Is covered with tent cloth drawn over hickory arches. They are sitting mi a seat overlooking the oxen la the wagon front. Tears are lag down the face of the woman. The man's bead la bent. HI elbows are resting on bis knoes; tho hickory handle of hla ox whip lies across his lap, th lash at hla feet He seems to bo looking down at hla boots. Into the tops of which his trousers have been fstood. He la a rugged, blond, bearded man with kindly blue eyes and a rather prominent nose. There la a striking expression of power In the head and shoulders of Samson Traylor. The breadth of his back, the size of bis wrists and hands, the color of his face betoken a man of great strength. This thoughtful, sorrowful, attitude la the. only evidence of emoIn a few tion which he betrays. minutes he begins to whistle a lively 1 e. 1 - well-favore- d good-nature- ? t 1 1 ' 4 d, tune. The boy Josiah familiarly called He. Is !joe sits beslffe his mother. lad. He U slender, sweet-facelooking up wistfully at hi mother. The little girl Betsey sits between him and her That evening stopped at the house of an oIdfriend some miles erp the rusty road to the north. "lie rv' we are goln nest, shouted to the man at the d , fthe, tf-e- y Sam-wo- n at under the other. A pleasant-face- d woman greeted them with a hearty welcome at the door. You poor man! Come right In," she said. "Poor! I'm the richest man In the Look at the gold world," .said he. on that glrl'a liead curly, fine gold, too the heat there la. She's Betsey my little toy woman half past seven years old blue eyes help her mother get tired every day. Heres my toy man Joslafi yes, brown hair and brown eyes like 8arah heart o gold helps hla mother, too six times on year old." faces P mid the woman as she stooped and kissed them. Yea, maam. Got em from the falrtee," Samson .went mi. They have all kinds o heads for little folks, an I gness they color 'em up with the blood o rosea an the gold o buttercups an the blue o violets. Heres this wife o mine. , Shes richern I am. She owns all of us. Were her slaves." Looks as young as she did the day she was married nine years ago, said the woman.. Samson Exactly exclaimed. an arrow and proud! I as Straight dont blame her. Shea got enough to make her proud, I say. I fall In love again every time I look Into her big, brown eyes." They had $ Joyous evening and a restful night with these old friend and resumed their Journey soon after daylight. They ferried acrosa the lake at Burlington and fared away over the mountains and through the deep forest on the Chateaugay trail. Since the Pilgrims landed between the measureless waters and the pathless wilderness they and their descendants had been surrounded ty the lure of mystery. The loveof adventure, the desire to explore the dark. Infested and beautiful forest, the dream of fruitful sunny lands cut with water courses, shored with silver and strewn with gold beyond' It these were the only heritage of thetr sons and daughters save the strength and courage of the ptoneer. How true was this dream of theirs gathering detail and allurement as It passed from sire to son. On distant plains to the west were lands more lovely and fruitful than any of thetr vision; tn mountains far beyond was old enough to gild the dome of thr heavens, as the sun was wont to do at eventide, and stiver enough to put a fairly respectable moon In It Yet for generations thetr eyes were not to see, their hands were not to touch, these things. They were only to push their frontier a little farther to the west and hold the dream and past It oo to thetr children. Those early years of the Nineteenth century held the first days of Samson and Sarah .Traylor had the old dream In thetr hearts when tjiey first turned thetr faces to the west. For years Sarah had resisted It, thinking of the hardships and perils In the way of the mover. when Samson, a man of twenty-nin- e he set out from his old home, was said to be always chasing the bird In the He' was never content with bush. the thing In hand. There were certain f their friends who promised to come and Join them when, at last, they shonld have found the land of plenty. But most of the group that bade them good-b- y thought tt a foolish enterprise and spoke lightly of Ramson when they were gone. America has undervalued the brave souls who went west In wagons, without whose sublime courage and endurance the plains would still be sn unplowed wilderness. Often we hear them set down ss seedy, shiftless dreamers who could not make a living at home. They were mostly the best blood of tbe world and the noblest of Gods missionaries. Who does not honor them shove the thrifty, comfort-lovinmen and women who preferred to stay at home, where risks were. few, the supply of food sure and sufficient and the consols tt ore of friendship and religion always at hand? Samson and Rarah preferred to en!! and take their places In the front battle line of Civilization. They had read a little book called 1 What-prett- y swer, and so the days Journey began. Often, near Its end, they came te some lonely farmhouse. Always Ham-so- n would stop and go te the door to ask about the roads, followed by little Joe and Betsey with secret hopes. One of these hopes was related te cookies and maple sugar and buttered bread and bad been cherished since an hour of good fortune early ha th trip and encouraged by sundry women along the road. Another was the hope of seeing a baby mainly. It should be said, therhope ef Betsey. Joes Interest was merely sn echo of hers. He regarded babies with sn open mind, as , It were, for the opinions of his .sister still had some weight with him, she being year and a half older than he, but babies Invariably disappointed him, their, capabilities being so restricted. Still, not knowing what might happen, he always took a look at every baby.' The children were lifted out of the wagon to stretch their legs at sloughs and houses. They were' sure to be close behind the legs of their father when he stood at a strangers door. Then, the night being near, they were always invited to put their horses to the barn and tarry until next morning. This was due In part to the wistfact ful faces of the little children unsuspected by their parents. What motherly heart could resist the silent appeal of childrens faces or fall to understand tt? Those were memorable nights for Sarah and Joe and Bettey. In a letter to her brother the woman raid: You dont know how good It seems to see a woman and talk to her, and we talked and talked until midnight, after all th rest were asleep. She let me hold the baby in my lap until It was put to bed.- How good It felt to have a little warm body In my arms again anfl feel It breathing la all my life I never saw a prettier baby. It felt good to be In a real house and sleep In a soft, warm bed and to eat Jelly and cookies and fresh meat and potatoes and bread and bub ter. Samson played for them and kept them laughing with hi stories until bedtime. They wouldnt take a cent and gave us a dozen eggs in a basket and a piece of venison when we went away." On a warm, bright day In the sand country they came to a crude, half finished, frame house at the edge of a wide clearing. The rand lay tn drifts on one side of the road. It had evidently moved in the last wind. A sickly vegetation covered the field. A ragged, barefooted man and three children stood (n th scrawny. noontime. A monwas It dooryard. grel dog, with a bit of the hound In him, came bounding and barking toward th wagon and pitched upon Sambo and quickly got tbe worst of It. Sambo, after much experience had learned that the In beat way out of such trouble was to else a leg and hang on. This he did. The mongrel began to yelp. Samson lifted both dogs by the backs of thetr necks, broke the hold of Sambo and tossed aside the mongrel, who ran sway whining. That reminded me of a bull that tackled a man over In Vermont," he The man had a club tn hla said. hand. He dodged and grabbed the bulls tall and beat him all over the lot As the bull roared, the man hollered: Td like to know who began this fuss anyway." The stranger laughed. Is that your house?" Samson raid. The man stepped nearer and answered In a low, conftdentlal tone: Say, mister, this Is a combination 1 am poorhous and Idiot asylum. the idiot These are th poor." He pointed to the children. You dont talk like an Idiot," said Samson. - The Country of the Sangamon. Tbe latter was a word of th Pottawatomie meaning land of plenty. It was the name of a river In Illinois draining boundless, flowery meadows of unexampled beauty and fertility, belted with timber, blessed with shady ;roves, covered with gam and mostly J without a stick or a stone to evel,- - vex th Thither they plowman, were bound, to take up a section of government land. They stopped for a visit with Elisha Howard and his wife, old friends of theirs, who lived In the village of Malone, which was In Franklin county, New York. There they traded their oxen for a team of horses. They were large gray horses named Pete and Colonel. The latter was fat and Ills chief Interest- in life was food. Pete was always looking for food and perils. Colonel was the near horse. Now and then Samson threw a sheepskin over his hack and put the boy on It and tramped along within arms reach of Joea left leg. This was s great delight to the little lad. They proceeded at a better pace to the- - .Black River - country, toward which, In th village of Canton, they tarried again for a visit with Captain both of Moody and Silas Wright, whom had taught school In the town of Vergennes. They proceeded through DeKalb, Rlchvllle and Gouverneur and Antwerp and on to the Sand plains. They had gone far out of their way for a look at these old friends of theirs. Samson's diary tella how, at the top of the long, steep hills b used to cut a small tree by th roadside and tie Its butt to the rear axle and hang on to Its branches while his wife drove the team. This held their load, making an effective brake. Traveling through the forest, as they had beeji doing for weeks, while the day waned, they looked for a brookskle on which they could pass the night with water handy. Samson good-nature- good-heart- d. - - - 1 1 ull-Ailment. -- g -- ed Ill-cl- Day Conditions Chicago. Employees on virtually every railroad In the country will feel the 12 per cent wage reduction ordered by the United States railroad labor board to take effect, following a supplemental deebjon Monday extending rtie order to nearly 100 additional roads. The wage slash authorized, by the board on June 1 to take effect next Friday originally contemplated fourteen railroads, although not all employees were effected on all roads. Monday's addendum to that decision in eluded 210 road, may of which were parties to the original decision, but which returned to ask reductions for classes of their employees not covered In the first order. The reductions authorized Monday were identical with those of the original order, the only change being the addition ofrates for marine workers in certain harbors and of a section covering restaurant ami dining car whose wages were ordered reduced by CO per cent of all Increases received since February 29, 1920. With the exception of a few subsidiary lines, whose parent owners filed petitions for reductions, every railroad In the country affected, by decision No. 2, the labor boards $000,000,000 wage award of July, 1920, lias now been authorized to mince wages an average of 12 per cent. Most of them have received such permission for all classes of employees. In addition, nearly two score other roads which voluntarily applied the Increased srale fixed by the board in 1920, also have received authorization to make a similar cut. Basing Its ftgures on the normal number of employees onall roads affected by decision No. 2, the labor board recently estimated that lt.s 12 per cent reduction would lop approximately $400,000,000 from the nations railroad wage bill, If appplied to all employees. Comparatively few roads now have a full quota of employees, but restoration of normal conditions and application of the boards cut to all employees of the larger railroads will probably make the $400,000,000 reduction a real' . ity. San Francisco Chosen Minneapolis, Minn. Delegates to the civil service commission annual assembly announce San Francisco has been decided on as the convention city for 1922. tethered, fed and watered their horses and while Sarah and the children built a Are and made tea and biscuits, he was getting halt and catching flsh In the stream. In a few minutes from the time I wet my hook a mess of trout would be dressed and stealing, with a piece of salt pork, In the pan, or It was a bad day for Ashing," ha writes. After supper the wagon was partly unloaded, the feather bed laid .upon th plankfuader the wagon roof and spread wit.. blankets. Then Samson sang songs and told stories or played upon the violin to amuse the family. Often If the other wet weary and depressed he would dsstce merrily around the Are, playing a lively tune, with Sara bo glad to lend a helping to the program. foot and much no! By and by tie Tloilii put away and all knelt by the Are wide Sarah prayed aloud for protection through the night So It will be een that they, carried with them r otr own little theater, church and 1. .el. Soon after darkness fell, Sarah and the children lay do for the night while Ramson at tv hed out with his blanket by theTWtn good and the weather, the loaded wn-v- t dog Sambo lying beside k m. Often the howling of wolve.t' h distant forest kept them swaV- 'ml the dog hours. muttering ytnd barking Samson wok the c v, at daylight and a merry song v . his revet!! while he led th hors- their drink. When they set mr th morning Ramson was wont to the little wlad, who generally beside, him: Well, my boy, wha good word this morning?" Joe would say, parrot like: "God help us a,: nd make His face to shine upon Wei! said. hi would an Acres WESLEY C.BR0CKER f 40 ? . r t - ': Wher;o But Its th Fashion. Wlfey arent you positively ashsmea that your wtte and daughter are all out at the elbows? Huh Nope. But I'm ashamed that bey are all out at th knees. Ameclean Legion Weekly - i apart and when the did appear wouhcS for two weeks im were very painful, I was sick for about, year and a half m BJ Cf U K cl U doctored but without any improvement A neighbor recommended Lydia L Pinkhama Vegetable Compound to nw and the second day after I started ta Ing it 1 began to feel better and I keot on taking it for seven months. Now 1 keep house and perform all nihou. bold duties. You can use thee..-- fact, H you please and I will recommend Veto, table Compound to everyone who suffers Mrs. J. S. Little, Sts as I did.'1 Livingston St., Philadelphia, Pa. How much harder the daily tasks cf a woman become when she suffers fron such distressing symptomsand weaknea as did Mrs. Little. No woman shook allow herself to get into such a condition because such troubles may be speed overcome by Lydia EL Pinkhams Veg. table Compound, which for more th forty years has been restoring America women to health. I T 1 IV I ft i st i I 1 I tr i i 1 S( fc TV ft I ft dl 1 I i Te Encourage Salvage. Following the policy of rigid wo may laid down by the secretarj of vu, and with his approval, the quart master corps hereafter will teach t listed men salvage work, a schorf for training the personnel In the repair of clothing and shoes has just bo established at Camp Jackson, g, q, and another school for the repair i typewriters at Fort McPherson, Ga. 1 r T K h ft T r !i b t) This training of the men will fc part of the routine work of the salnp shops, and additional schools will k established as soon as possible at tte Tenlent points tn other corps areu. h this way much material bought for ftt war can be repalrecr and 'utilized tit the peace-tim- e needs of the army, lng thousands of dollars to the tu E t! 1! v payers. Old Acquaintances. Every ship carries the sort of pt senger who seems to have devoted Ik whole life to making a record In th matter of Atlantic crossings. A gtrl was once making a lithe fn of a passenger of this type. He Eli to her: Do you know, this Is my forty ninth crossing I" It Isr she said Indifferently. Th ray one hundred and eighth." "Really f the man exclaimed. Oh, yes. Indeed," she answer Its an old story to m yawning, crossing the Atlantic. Why, actnaHj, I always recognize more than half at the waves we meet I" Observant Child. A little girl was asked to go fori loaf of bread and was given th money. Is that enough, mamma?" ih asked. Yes, dear; that Is exactly the ri$ Well, youd better give me a HtS more, cause the bread may go Tore I get there." New Haven Eel r r tster. BETTER DEAD v- N- N-'- f fY ,7. Life is a burden when the bo it is racked with pain. Everytbfcl worries and the victim becom despondent and downhearted. T bring haHr the sunshine take C0LDI.5EDAL Th National Remedy cf Holland fore 200 years; it la an enemy cf all salting from kidney, liver and uric trooMea. AH druggists, three Leek er tU mmmm CeU Medal ca It took Wesley Right View ef Lite. It la time to get over th ties that w have to be comfortable because w were brought up that way, while others were predestined to misery and are so hardened to thetr condition that we needn't bother. One effect of travel If the traveler Is Impressionable, and some travelers arj not Is to show us that no country has a monopoly of certain homely virtues that take root and flourish it the bleakest, ss In the richest soil. Nor Is any other country particularIn our introspective ly Interested studies of bow good we are and oxr Ingrowing Imagination of our greatness. Boastfulness Is a poster as unlovely for the millions as It Is t.-- one. posLet us give credit to other sessing some of the qualities w admire eo much tn ourselvec. Exchange. t . amount." f C. B rocker, $oa n original, ly of Llndstrom, Mina, Just ond to quit Mechanic Arts school St He Paul, whn war was declared. went to Plattsburg, became a lieutenant, fought at Cantlgny, Solssona, second Argonn and ether big battles, won' a captaincy, returned, entered Harvard and started studying. He trade th freehmen nine and eleven and wen his H at football. He was among the Junior Eight for Phi Beta Kappa and was rushed" into the Kappa Gamma Chi frat. Now he has been awarded the Francis Burr scholarship at Harvard for highest scholar, ship, character, leadership and athletic ability. SO sec- - r.er te State. (TO BE CONTINUED.) -- t- New York ttontijj. - self-defens- e, Tramped Along Within Arm's Reach. My periods were inJ ular, sometimes ft or seven month, Trotzky Says Well Fight Londou A war between the United fc Uo .loro Llisorji r Affor Eating Just Tukas li at R An Eatoolo st The first dose of Eatonic did j wonders. 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