Show y Legacy eacy of Inspiration S a 1 0 n to Americans e BY SY FREDERICK TREVOR HILL t I I j i Part Put t d the e Wes 7 ash aai tie the Clerk Clef 1 r f s Ilu is not DOt pet tare tarei i I y described I aa as it k serf the af of a ap aJ s a asu J cwt t J su WIth p t verty I aM m IIa hh tech leO ad adof adva va of d his drat tW 1 m hn We aM hae eat cr Mea a y man of et used IbM par I peR p e ord wal sp a g av as a i hero lied hat M fx h tins has I m b with Bata h after aI r t attempts H to end the discover i thorn M ill a the sM fate As a a matter r af t net fact tart i however hom t the whole of d Linens t s early i manhood tf If M ia a record af ism from a tsal point petrol of 01 view Ties anus aad tee few pro m a have bare taw leas to Ie fur for their Oret fInt y rears an of d effort than be he had at the She ae ale of t 31 K i Aa Ax a onI II he h was spa far tar from tro froma troa a WU BT for fw be M te took no interest t at m r I f ng and aad never card to work wary 1 at ai it i 2 a day 47 laager er than was carp as all to tb pat s himself eif in ID faaa r Moreover bin bis m ea r i I Iti ti players 4 decidedly a t the I I ar I hired man dean trim wile who r read tn ac ss he lie tears the plow pies even ern if It Ills his Id farrows did U ran wa j jAs true trae As Ac a derk desk in ill wee tore be aU tattle better and aeI beyond the die feet fact hat t he b served th the era rs IJ web fed weights i and u he did dM lo to prove his heart nor ow bi bin mind waa wu m R UK the work wet and aDd h Y Jt watched the tile Haul wink oaf t with wt aIl no Il h regret Then TM he lie a sought g t I Sory at the Uw cannons month UI ia in the Ute far farI deal Black Sek Hawk Fast Fa I war where he lie not aft I er saw raw an aa and aad where the Ule J I Moody 7 th the tho mo ial I tow teem and the tM Here f chars charges on ea tip the tips wild Wil wisps s 1 w ere sae the root moot ep I od of or the campaign p Then MIlle i what as a as forlorn hope he lie turned termed to political p ell ute life e presenting aa u a I candidate for the tau ads oaly to oW t mc meet t with defeat and aDd to 10 y I at tile the end CI of M f d utterly tt rry destitute cf of H HI I I j Th TIt c wa was not Bet a very nIT promising Dg roc reo i ord orIS for far a man of oft t Be He bod bd tt k inan to Is true I an thin tl tine time a more JD or tees lm vague vagn ides atea f of becoming ol t a lawyer hat bat h b had bap bapp tent not p r d It k systematically pad and he h OM i h y drifted td bock back rte into the ue grocery tart Den Dei this thU time u a p put proprietor of a aton ae ton e on OIl credit warM mach pr eat aCt of K III mal ng the tile pay Indeed the manner te hi which he be anti and I Ids his Berry BenT conducted the tile en ft r J i Jau raped it its au failure her far the lite sentor of the them Idled aUed away awa his hie days da ta IB and the tile br member stoned law and aad be e tween them ue their tender lender stock amk of el mer r raad i Berry aad and Lincoln eating it k op opHis a f His HI Attitude Toward Business BUlin These ne The b a a story MorT which w he has at Meat t the tile of d berg being te to character i that afford an an aD excellent oa of a f Ta attitude toward Cowart Isis Accordia to IG this tit tale taht a Cicer ee j disturbed at his lata reading by Ity enter entering them the onre and lid rs tg g 5 i eta cents worth w of crackers n T laid aside aide Us Ids boot book pad lid eon em plying with tile the demand awaited pay per I meat mast to but the ORI changed ilia mind remarking that he he be beta hes s nt take abe ta a glass glas of d eider doer bartend if f it as the some came price pace Lincoln swept the w crack nad r rs hack back inlO nto their barrel berr 1 anti and predated the i rider ft d which the tM man promptly drank lL and aad started stand for the tM door Thin the hI student of fl UT Law 1 with Ills his tk It id u reaching r for f hie J Blackstone roused ed sn to remind and t the customer that he had not mot paid Why I T gave yon yen i S cents efI worth of crackers IT I Is demanded the par r Ye Yes admitted Lincoln toot but you ou ou pay pal for them Well Welt 1 I get them did J 1 was I the Ute retort mad aad tie the wan man who was d s one oae i i oar day y to become a master of logic re Ills hk book toek with a vague Tape j i i that there was something ng not net t suite onite te right tile tie transaction but bat that feral t it I was teas hardly worth worm while to puzzle INzle it out oat S arch eh was Lincoln the tile merchant and aDd Ids his career In that capacity soon tame cacao to 10 aa II Inglorious end By Dr this teas time thus t be he was seas four lour and ashi tren I ty and pad be lie had bad tat not only naly not succeeded j j tNt hat bed bad given gt no ao evidence of l stability and std no sa Indication whatever of sf aptitude for pay any Ire ae Ha of ol work week ork I Those who wise Irate have f fretted retted over the tile waste ute of oC Ume time spent upon apon 1 tasks task can realize the tile dhea Cig t which confronted Un Lin I cote coin at tills tide crisis alas of et his Ids affair a for be de had Iliad 1 cot GOt only failed to fit lk himself for fer i I I the tile bar Jar but had bad completely Cl bankrupt j j ed himself b lf It may IDal te e thought that for the penniless penal man ma bankruptcy bas hae no 1 i terrors terror Bat Bet It if tree wae not so m with Lin coln ht It provided him wits with as sore pore a temptation an at ever e confront ed eel a man inns on the threshold of life Hf Eulogy Ira baa robbed reI honer of nearly mean all eN H Ns human lIaman quality He lie ha i 1 ben wanted ted so ee often m it the tile role of Uw the perfect man catch nb even a tOUt of ut d dit dh a M that an real analogy ana bt W n hi hl hbo experience f x and aDd those theme t of 0 I I the UH modern world ha has liar WaC vanished And Aad y yet it vas vae u a man mac t i of Q gay clay cia w lIth th every for toe j wishing to make oak hie int way map In lq th tM the world w tid i I who saw ens sa the ruin rain of aH all his hie hens la is i t ute tic c failure of c Berrr Berry s store stOie In th t the earl art early days of Illinois credit wa wac fearlessly asked a and arad freely ext odd od and aDd Lincoln n and aad his hJ partner had given civet notes for the tile purchase 1 price of or the tt bu In m which they had ln S and the t setter had bad disposed of the fht i I notes for a if o I their iT fa fae e value alU I at the earliest earlier moment mom nt i The Tte men Hum who 0 bought bouM pa r or of thi i II load a said MIll eel t t agate at at i Use the firs Stu 0 ai tI or er traced traded tt k far a ada Kc g gelse else std thus thu it et t passed paced trues hand b tv b t i j jt head bead until t ram novae speculator are wh bo had hadell ar o ell it M for tor or rn i r rt r u to noth da daUte me appeared and aad Ute the utter I y most moot tl iris hI dobb d ablo r the tIM evasion crash r rf ref refI f i I I II sach HC detta okIu laid and coup COOB II d under teller tits tae r t rear RUl staccee rees That has when kH M put pan er died i ij j shortly Iu after the tl co iap 4 I and all nd the holier hotton lIoI hn of d the firm firra s paper j Mein I to Ie LM ola 1 for tor payment t there then j I jj Ij j j nave are been few to t r t Un tin j had be lie send acted to the tM x tune as ai f lid and there were e not net many who tw j saw mw math merit tr t what bat Iw be h did c Fran Frana Pr l I a worldly world point of 01 stew Io was waa i ii i s the oaf oaly W I e to 10 aAle L for toe otherwise i ip i hs hi eara p would weld be M JT n moe ot oti i i Peed and his dip handicapped j jIt if It rot LOt w f defeat defea defeaU 1 I It was as a easy oaty to w l ar a 4 Tw that the had never beep been 1 o c i to n i and that t if i the fete original hoi boY hoiS i ere S tA d f tike the notes given m in payment Bt h hi hG I 1 Ib parted nee with them m for i a mug aaa it i was en u f not mt unmoral th thal I there cab had bud paid or z re rethem J i i ir it ik ties them by T a tian which if not DOt was net n t n m me n ii mare mee re There was trap every evey 1 i 1 c for Lincoln U c to zept t thi Un But Bat to hits ban a promise was wac a prem pm p T Tand I Ia and as u a warier tt r of fill t en jl ROt pet at aO an aa u a heroic act art of q vir rt e te to with ith b h baad s pad and d d to deceive iH lIim with t tew honesty estT It was wac no ro rat sa T j who met bet the Ute demands af el hrs ant creditor i tt k took dim aim fourteen t Ieee year c 11 I what t he lie caned Ida hat Dan DanG tra r deac G bet bat a man who rho o knew keen that ut yo oj t cheat at tw and tia k I ton re won wag the game j jinto 1 did not cps tag fully a I Iia rte into ia the tIte contest e tr which he lie made n b V I fay tary For FW many a you year before wn h he t j worked his bis way war 7 Into the un tf f tile the law be had dad a part pan with tho t thou c Tr h iy despair of et user ever lading then their pi pia e ethe if r the worth world His Hil r to his hi eager Mg r sir str vm TiD mem of et the lira present t wen 11 j emina eq oa tr IF t that at it te le bettor better t m a J alfe hit Ne a Irving Imn I FREDERICK ERICK iK HILL F riot I |