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Show Murray Eagle, Murray, Utah i hi ST If fn 1 ttl in Ml Spain Could Not Be Allies' Friend i i1 11 B i BWB t ,w. tf':M r Q - i- ., U B Sr M iff to i II a - -T.- x --tu fr I ass- ST'ifi A H S .rs J . fffH R No one could be surprised that Spala preserved a strict neutrality In the great struggle of Armageddon. The Idstorlcal barriers between Spain and the allied and associated powers were not to be surmounted; The deepest bitter memory of the Spaniard Is the Napoleonic Invasion and the agony of the Peninsular war. Even after a hundred years there could bo no unity of sentiment between France and Spain. Gibraltar, though a faded cause of Irritation, still plays a part In Spanish thought. But the real hatred was for the United States, and the final loss of the last remnants of the Spanish colonial empire left an aching void In the breasts of a proud race. The aristocracy were As The middle classes the king said, "Only I and the mob are for the Allies." The best that could be hoped for was that Spain should be neutral In the struggle; and certainly she prospered by her abstention from It. Winston Church-Il- l In Collier's. B anti-Frenc- Tractor Statistics In number of tractors per The kutledge I Cold Insurance He carries it xvith him, ready for just such times. That little box of Bayer Aspirin. If he catches cold, what of it? Bayer Aspirin xvill stop it. If his throat feels sore, he will end the soreness with one good gargle made from these tablets. Dangerous complications can follow the neglect of "a common cold!" Every case of tonsilitis began with "just a sore throat 1" It's a wise plan to take aspirin after any undue exposure to bad weather, or whenever there is any chance that you've caught cold. If it's genuine aspirin it can't possibly hurt you; and how it docs banish the aches and pains caused by colds, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago, and even rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin will insure your comfort through the worst cold season. The more susceptible you are to colds, tne more you need it. Docs not depress the heart. 100,000 acres of crop land, California lends all states with 52.1. New York is second, with 402. Illinois has the most tractors on farms, Kansas comes second, and California Is sev- enth on the list. In value of all farm machinery equipment, Iowa Is at the head of the list, Texas Is second nnd California Is tenth. These figures are drawn from the government census report of 10.K). Foreign Market Baiket Europe Is now eating American groceries nt the rnte of ?20,0W,000 a year. V 1 ?vg.-- d I B III W, lrer: i. American Magazine. It's poci seed that Isn't stronger than the toil. It Is the old Intellectuals who have found out that what the young intel I lectuals are raising a worn out. . fus-- j abo . " Z ' (if Jl-S-- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON U are riding in your automobile on a road from Peoria to Springas 1 off to the west runs a field, 111. '.ranch road, also a modern hl.h- If you follow It, In a little way. while you con.o to the town of Petersburg just another little Mid dle Western city. P.ut keep on going south. Now you are following a winding road which leads up I'v.l I 4J ', v V'-- IW)'1 on the blulTs overlooking the Sangamon river. Suddenly you forget that you are riding In an automobile and that you have been speeding over a modern concrete road. You forget that this Is ID.'Si For a hundred years roll back and It Is the year The magic which has brought about this transformation Is the sight of a little cluster of log cabins scattered over a grassy tract of some 00 acres which unfolds before you. The caliins are empty. It Is true, hut If you have any Imagination nt all. It's easy enough to people theai. Come over here to this cabin. The sign In front of It says that it Is the offut Store. Walk Inside. There behind the rough plank counter a tall, gangling, awkward looking young man Is unrolling a bolt of calico nnd hold Ing It out to the appraising fingers of a woman In a homespun dress. Do vou recognize LI in? No J Well. then, come over here to this big double log cabin. The sign on the front says It Is the Kutledge tavern. It Is evening and In front of the fire which blar.es In the big fireplace at one tnd of the room Is a group of men. It's prettv likely they'll be listening to a story which this same tall, gangling, awkward looking young man Is telling. Pack In the shadows vou mnv ho able to see the form of a young girl an un usually attractive girl even though she Is dressed In calico. She Is the daughter of the tavern-keepe- r and her name Is Ann. P.ut If by chance the tall man Un't In the Hutledge tavern let's take a look In another cnoln nearby. It's the cooper shop of a certain Henry Onstott. There's a fireplace here, too, and stretched out on the floor In front of It Is this young man we've been seeking. Of course, you've guessed who It Is by mnv. p.ut Just In case you haven't, k Mm to let you take Ms book for a moment. Look on the flyleaf In front and there you'll see the name "A. Lincoln." Of all the memorials that have been erected to lb memory of Abraham Lincoln this one on tha tanks of the Sangamon river In Menard It Is im Imposing county, Illinois. Is uiiii'' cdilire of marble or granite. It contains no Work from tho chinl and mallet of a treat sculptor, portraying once more the familiar face ni.d form of the Croat Lmanclpator. Put when work Is complete,), the pro'cciiiil recoiiMrui-t'.oi- i the village of New Sulcw, where Lincoln from raw untutored youth to strong Intellectual Manhood," will b a place where h!s rati go nnd In the ntmoherc of thai place they can more nearly feel a spiritual kinship to him than In any other place dedicated to Ms memory. Of old Salem pari;, the state park which has been established there, n recent bulletin of the Illinois department of public works nn l build pa-ed fellow-American- s tags say: learning. , During bis residence 'TT il - rJttij The Otfut Store formed; his education was completed, bis name Honest Abe' acquired; he caught the urge to serve humanity In a big broad, unselfish way. Here sweet chapters were written into his great life which grip the hearts of men throughout the world. . . . "With LIneoIu's departure In K) for wider fields. Old Salem having served Its purpose, went Into a decline and became a deserted lllage. Its cabins were removed to Petersburg where fortunately one was preserved. This was the onstott Cooper shop where by the light of the coopers shingles, Lincoln studied Shakespeare, Hums nnd Plackstone. It has been returned to Its original foundation nt Old Salem. "Salem Is the old P.iblical word meaning peace' and here If you have any sentiment coursing In your blood, you will find peace. Perfect peace hovers over this serene, stately eminence of green Jutting out Into the quiet sea of prairie and woodland. Old Salem never ceased to mean much to Lincoln. He expected to make It his rural homo after bis second Presidency. Losearch work has brought to view the original foundations of every log cabin along these forgotten Streets, the almost obliterated road lending out of the village to Springfield and the path from tilTufs store where Lincoln clerked, down to the grist mill where ho was wont to otV.date. Soon nil log cabins will be restored on their original foundations nn l nil cabins, shops and mill will be furnished as ihey were In W.l "When this work Is tactfully done, the i f a vanished era will be perfect. 1 be !lsoe!at ..!,:, the taverns, the homes, the old well which Is tiow In i;o, ti e paths of a great I f" will be t Imparted to us. The si .. at.d tnst fruitful ea- - Abrah o had spent up to this t;n In his I'fe will lie before ns niore Uvidly than torgae or pen cool describe them." So far ttie bail lings which have been restore, are the Kutledge tavern, the offut store, near which took place the famous Armstrong Lincoln wrestling match; the store where Lincoln nnd William I'.erry were business partners; he Henry linMott cooper shop nnd the Iliil and stone store. There Is a !. a haml-om. Mru'luro whbh Is used as a Lincoln contain'!'? many tntereMing Lincoln relics, Al though ih" orig'nal town was named New Salem, the state park nnd the restored village is ra'le, Old Salem. This was fieceary became there is a New Salem in Pike county, Illinois, and a town of Salem In Marion comity. So to pre vent rot fusion. It Wis thought best to call the rosMirrocted town nil Snb-n- . It was during Lincoln's life In New SaVni that there became associate.! wi'h lis name feme of the Innumerable storie so famTar o nil of them are sui'ietiMv nnthenf. of us. cated to lie nc cjiieil n fact lult o.'hers are pure Not the njst of the oT ires of the legend. late S t.ntor Albert J. !wr'dge in !.' n.ot,u mental biography of Lincoln, j '.i .' , ,v t;(, Houghton Mifflin cotrpany some f..r years ngo was the confirming of some ,,f tb-je t, .,f) the dispelling of ethers so that nn nnf).,.! Lincoln portrait of emerged from the great m,is of cvlJetire of hb :h he examined. ' of "... hap-p!e-- e mu'-cum- ' brt Da character woi 1 ft.; HIS r--.- R2 :lBltmVM lHS T? f,.J JfJK- - ' r "It was n snail town but It gave birth to n Great Soul. When Lincoln at the nge of twenty two, drifted down the river In 1,1 mid stranded bl boat upon the famous mill dam at Old Salem, the town was only two years old, but In those Uto years It bad pained a population of one hundred Inhabitants and scattered along Its one bug ftreet on either side there were In the te'igbborhnoil of D. cabins of varying sire Including the large two story (haiblo f.totn tavern. "Here he rame a friendless rrgrovn hoy, uncouth, uneducated, with a kriowli d.:o of only the barest rudiments of reading, writing nml arithmetic. Here be chopped wood, tended store, became a merchant for hineelf, narrowly avoiding bankruptcy and Utterly failed In commercial lines, lie was appointed post master. Using Ms bat for his office. lie acted ss surveyor nnd Ms monuments are yet taken as authorHere he studied grammar, philosophy . ity. and law ami learned to debate against men of iX w -- , ". The ar 1 Store The high spot In Lincoln's career at New Salem In the mind of most people, no doubt, was his romance with Ann Kutledge, daughter of the tavernkeeper, over which so many writers have rhapsodized, albeit usually Inaccurately. There was a very substantial basis of fact for the legend which has sprung up about this love affair, but It was not the "grand passion" which has been so often depleted. Of her Peverldge says : "Ann appears to have been the most attractive girl In New Salem and was courted by the two most prominent and prosperous young men of the village, Samuel Hill and John McNamar. McNamnr was her favorite and she became engaged to the thrifty young financier with whom, it would appear, she was very much In love. Lincoln, too, "had great partialities' for her. but McNamar stood In his way. . . . McNamar and Lincoln were friends and the young merchant did not know that Lincoln wns 'paying any particular attention to any of the Young Ladles of my acquaintance' as. Indeed, he wns not at that time. On her part. Ann wns not then 'favorably Impressed' with Lincoln, who was 'young, poor and awkward and without prospects, while both Hill and McNamar were 'up In the world'." McNamar went by the nnme of McNIel In New Salem, a name which he had assumed when he left his home In New York to seek his fortune In the West nnd pay off the debts which his father laid accumulated. Ills only reason for the change of name was In order "to avoid pur-snby his parents" and there was no disgrace attached to that change. P.ut It led to tragedy lust the same, for McN'aumr went back Last, fell 111 and with other troubles piling up on him, his letters to Ann, to whom he had confessed his real name, became Infrequent and finally cease, coming to New Sab-m- , "Troubled thnt letters from her betrothed no longer came, Ann told her parents of MeNamnr's hat ge of name. Suspicion Instantly sprang up nm posse-so- d the Kutledge family. Kutimr of the circumstances soon ran from cabin to cabin in the little hamlet; gossip made the worst of nn hid been abandoned. the situation "S.i f.!oo. matters when Lincoln, through whosii hands (as postreaste, nt the time) her correspondence with MeNamnr had passed, bethe nature and course of gan his court-h'p- , which are iii's; y. No engagement although It seems that there was a tentative agreement n marry, 'conditional.' however, Ann's brother, 'to nn honorable release. fr.m the contract with McNamar,' Indeed, when urged by her younger brother, I'avld, to marry Lincoln. Ann refused until she could see McNamar again and "Inform him of the change." P.ut site was destined never to see him again for she died on Augu-- i sr,.i. "When Lincoln came fnon the heiNlile of the dying girl, observer noted that he was despondent and, when 'he died, be r.ppeared gloomy and dejected. Again. Ill the tillage, 'old people' wagge.J their . heads and said that lo- - was mentally tills time hecnuse of sorrow. 'Km various opinions obtained fis to the cause of his i hat e, some thought It was nn Increased application to h s Jaw it: iie, others that It was deep angul-l- i of Soul (us he was ail S"i;l) over tha I.- -s of M'-- s U. lie then ijuoleii anotl.rr hiivnii'hcr of l.'n.o!!, im v;ii;,; 'i;,.s,;;i and hao rprc u'. d th's rarly ronian. o as casting u ' id.. our hts whole aft-life, and as having d "o:.l..i)iiliJ .NmIi). hordclll'g ,io) Insiiiit.v. hci n inii'Ujhat too hihiy col- H e j icicc oh-and ill" Mory mad" raila r loo traKic." It sul'ici.-i.tlIridic tho frst t of tiu numihn later MrNumnr llutlcd;: t'-- poTiic ' New Salem to find his h.!r,,iha.i " ''-it po-it- he . I t- - ' ad. ti m ( ILES withoufateK.. Conoco Germ Processed Oil Saves Motor . . . Conoco Germ Processed Oil withstooJ this ordeal I Inspection of the motor revealed no damage done. 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