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Show Jtzai For' r 9 A Story of the Builders f o Democracy time 'Ages v CHAPTER XX hla faith In the Continue future of Chicago had cot abated. He wrote a long letter to Elm recounting the history of hla visit and to frankly slating the aospirion which he had been led. He set out on the west road at day tight toward the Blvlere do Blaine, having wisedecided to avoid passing the plague demanded. ly yeong pecu!ator Tlie daughter of my old friend. settlement. Jack Kclw, wea you shm nmney and CHAPTER XXI. 1 want to pay It, an Id Saraaon. f i Oh, that la a matter between Mlaa PoSchool Pf a )ok Remarkable Wherein Davla poKelso and me," IJr. litical Selene Begins Ita Session litely and with smile. in tha Rear of Joshua Spaed'a Store. Not exactly since I knew shout Also at Samsone Fires. d Honest it, SautmiR answered. Abe Talk of th Authority of th refuse to discus her affairs with haw and th Right of Revolution. you," Davla declared. "I anppcte youtnl9trust me,' tald The boy Joe had bad a gulden week parnsen. "Welt, Dt offered to Jay the home of the Brlaisteads. The at you and Im going to make It plain to fair Annabel, knowing not the power to have them that they don't worry In hep beauty, had captured, that any more about the money you loaned hla lay heart scarcely fifteen years young Hem." He of had no Interest In her age. mom Very well, f bid you ixd younger slater, Mary. But Annabel, ng" . form and Don't b io a lurry," Ramson an with her long aklrta and full had and ryes dignity, glowing gentle five thou of a note ered "I bare When be him stirred the to depth. Sand dollars against you. It la In rewith he carried soul a left heavy and dorsed to me by Henry Ilrlmstead gret and great resolutions. Not that I want to collect It." I refuse to pay It," Darla promptly he hod mentioned the matter to hep or to any one. It was a thing too sacred gnaweied, Then I shall hare to put It In the for speech. To God, In bis prayefa, he epoke of It, but to no other, hand of a lawyer, an Id Ramson. Ilk don't but It where He naked to be made and to be you "lut consume any more of my time," thought worthy. He would have had nut you'll have to hear me aay that the whole world stopped and put to I don't think you're honest." sleep for a term until be was delivered "1 have heard you," Davla answered from the bondage of hla temler youth. aa for calmly. That being Impossible, It Ramson withdrew and wont to the Min a and, but not a hopeless world. home of Mr. Kelso, lie found her Indeed, he rejoiced In hla sadness. Anwith Blmt hoy In her Inp a hand nabel was four year older than he. ome Utile lad, then a hit over two If he could make her to know he - yours old at, the house on ta Ralle depth of Ids passion, periapt she street. Samson told of the failure of would wait for him. He sought for Biiua letter to reach him and of his self in The Household Book offer to return the money which Du- of expressionsorrowful and g Poetry pious volels had paid for their relief, no find ladder could of ume, lie I T don't like the tnnn and I dont an reach. with lie rhyme adequate want you to he under obligation to Th story of endeovored to build one. He wrote him," said Ramson, verses and letters, confessllarryi death was false and I think melancholy to Annabel, which Ids ing passion, that he la r9jonalM for It. He did not she but which she encourage, him to wanted hef right away marry and valued for their In kept after that of course. And she went always Some of noble and ardor. genuoua to the plague settlement to avoid mar are these Anacreontics the among than do. I her better kaow you rtsge, her descendRhe has read him right, ller soul has treasures inherited by looked intf hla soul and it keeps her ants. They were a matter of slight Importance, one would aay, but they away from Hut Mrt. Kelso .could believe no mark the beginning of a great career. Ms return to the evt) of her benefactor, nor would she Immediately after new home In Springfield, the i boy, on te cease his depending promise Josiah, set out to make himself hon' bounty. la the effort he ! Ramson was a little disheartened by ored of bis Idetl. of many. Ills honored himself made ace He went John Went to the visit. soon brain had taken the footing worth, the editor of the Democrat, of eager manhood. of whose extreme length Mr, Lincoln had A remarkable school of political humoi ously spoken In hie presence. The" young 'NewJ'Siglahder wai seven' science fca begun It tension In the feef tnll. He welcomed the broad little Western village of Springfield. world had never seen the like of ghoeldered man from Sangamon conn The It. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. to once him at and question begin ty D. H. E. O, Baker, Browning, about Iloncst Abe and "Steve" Doug- Douglas, las and 0. H. Drowning and E. D. Ba- Jesse B. Thomas, and Jo&lah Lainhora most unusual array of talent as ker and nil the able men of the middle .counties. At the first opportunity subsequent history has proved were Samson came to the business of bis wont to gather around the fireplace In call the mischievous lie regarding the rear of Joshua Speed's at ore, evenings, to discuss th Issues of the .Harry dea'h which bad appeared in time. Ramson and his son Joe came the Demoerft. Mr. Wentworth went to hear the talk. Douglas looked often manuand found the 4o the proofrVufl like a dwarf among those of the article, script t"ld of the evil It had men. He was alight and short, being t Ramson only about five feet tall, but ha had a (Wrought and conveyed hla suspicion round bend covered with thick, big, editor the ,fu Do vis la n'ther unscrupulous," said straight, dark hair, a bulldog look and We know a lot about a vole like thunder. Douglas and Wentworth. Lincoln were In a hetf ed argument him In this ofilce. Samson looked at the article and over the admission of slavery to the Here Is a note that territories the first night that Samson presently said; . be gave to a friend of mine. It looks and Joe sat down with them. We. rooster little of didnt like that to ae as If the note and the article a titf n, be had such a high and mighty were written by the same hand." Mr. "Wentworth compared the two way with him and so frankly opposed and sabl. "Ton are right. The same the principle we believe In. lie was lie person wrote them.- - But, it was not would have every etate free to reguDavla." When Ramson left the office of the late Us domestic Institutions, In Its Democrat he had accomplished little own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United State. Lincoln the confirmation of his There was nothing he could held that It amounted to saying that If one man chose to enslave another mo about it. He went to EH Fmlenherg. "What no third party shall be allowed to " ,has Davis done to , youT" Ramson Ell he In had met the course of the argument Dougasked, recalling where las alleged that the Whigs were the that morning. 111 explained that he had borrowed aristocrats of I he country. a over him to tide the That reminds tuo of night when money frtun Davis hard times and was paying 12 per I was speaking at Havana, s..id Honcent for It. est Abe. "A man with a ruffled shirt "Dis morning I get dot letter from nml a mns-lv- e gold watch chain got his secretary," he said as he passed up ami charged that the WUgv were a letter to Samson. aristocrats. Doug os In his breath It wav a demand for payment In cloth and fine inn reminds me of the handwriting of the Brimstead note xtist man. - I'm tmt going to sower and had some fleet on this little his- ivoiiglas as I answered Mai. Mes ,of dd'uite knowledge the Whigs I know are my kind of tory. It eonve-e- d of the authors) ip of a malicious false- folks. I was a poor boy working on hood, It arou'ed the anger and sj no a fiat host at eight dollars a month and had only one (alr of breeches and vthy of Samson Traylor. lu the qo-liens then prevailing Ell was un- they were bmkhkin. If you know the able to gvt the money. He was In nature ,of buckskin, you know that danger of losing hi business. Ram- when It ts wet and dried by the sun It son spent (he day Investigating the will shrink and my Iwrechea kept affairs of the meirhnnt. Ills hanker shrlnklrg end the sock area and others a;o..e well of him. He was of toy; legs until several Indies of said to be a man of character and them were bar above my shoes. credit cndHirmtsiHj by the unexpected hlKt I longer they scarcity of good money. So It came were growing shorter and so much about that, before be left the news tighter that they left a bln streak rlv. Ramson bought a fourth luerest s round tay legs which canjh en to la the of Ell Fredecbefg. The thl day. If you call that aristocracy h ts te owned were then worth lees I know ef en Whig that la an hr-- ; when le had bought them, but crab" . TO - The young man disappeared through rtht door of th private ofilc and aoon returned and conducted Sam non into tli presence of Mr, Darla. The two tea recognized each other. hat la It about T the Well, air, - -- 4 ( long-geare- d aua-btrion- s. oh-Jec- t. 11 Jt de-ertl- ug - waa-growi- -- ng By IRVING BACHELLER But took at the New England type of Whig exemplified by the and majestic BNSbatvr," said Douglas. "Webster was another poor led." Lincoln answered. "Ill father' borne waa a log cabin In a lonely land until about the time Daniel was bom, when the family moved to a small frame house. Ills Is the majesty of a great Intellect." There was much talk of this sort until Mr. Mncoli) excused himself to walk home with his two friends who had just returned from the North, being eager to learn of Samsons visit. The latter gave hltn ft full account of It and asked him to undertake the collection of Brlmstcada note. "I'll ge after that fellow right away," said Lincoln. "Bui glad to get chance at we of those men who have been skinning the farmer." They oat down by th fireside In Samson house; Jo has decided that N wonts to be lawyer," said Samson. Well, Joe, well 11 do what we can to keep you from being ft shotgun lawyer," Abe Lincoln began. Tv got I found It ft good first lesson for you. In 'a letter which Rufus Choate had written to Jndge Davis. In It he says that we rightly have great respect for he decisions of the majority, but that the law Is something vastly greater and more sacred than the verdict of any majority. The law, he says, "come down to us one mighty and continuous stream of wisdom and exaccumulated, ancestral. perience Widening and deepening and washing Itself clearer as It runs on, the agent of civilisation, the builder of ft thousand cities. To have lived through nges of unceasing trial with the passions, Interests and affair of men, to have lived through the drums and trampling of conquest, through revolution and reform and all the changing cycles of opinion, to have attended the progress of the race and gathered unto Itself the approbation of civilized humanity is to have proved that It carries in It sou spark of Immortal life.", The face of Lincoln changed as he recited the line of the learned and distinguished lawyer of Massachu-chusettimj-erio- even if you have tittle burning and none of the grace which attract th character eye. But you roust have even when youf ever speaking, that Is show in jour must It silent. are lips life and fill the spaces between your words. It Hi help you to choose and charge them with the love of great things that carry conviction. I remember, when I was a boy over d In Gcnlryvllle, a shaggy, one day. H man rode up to the door charfaceIBs a had cheerful, kindly acter began to speak to us before be opened Ms mouth to ask for ft drink of water. I dont know who you are, my Bat I'd like it awful father said. well If you'd light and talk to us. n did and we dldot know till he had gon that he was the governor of the state. A good character shines tike candle on a dark night. You can't t. - f '' face glowed like ft lighted lantern when ho began to say those eloquent words, Samson write In his diary. "He wrote them down o that Josiah' could commit them to memory." That Is ft Wonderful statement," ' Samson remarked, Abe answered; It suggests to me that the vole of th peoide in any one generation may or uayuot he but that the voice of the best men of alt ages, expressing their sense of Justice and of right, hr the law, Is end must be the voice of God. The spirit and body of Its decrees are as Indestructible as the throne of Heaven. You can overthrow them but until as surely their power I It will be, you will Hv In savagery." "You do not deny the right of revolution." No, but I can see o excuse for it In America. It has remained for us to add to the body of the law the Idea that men are created free and equaL The lack of the saving principle In the codes of the world has been the great cause of Injustice and oppression." Honest Abe rose and walked up and down the room In alienee for a mo' ment, ' Then he added ; "Choate phrased It well when he We should beware of awaking said: the tremendous divinities of change from their long sleep. Let us think of that when we consider what we shall do with the evils that afflict us. - The boy Joe had been deeply In this talk. ,, "If youll lend me a book, Td like to tiegtn studying, he said. Theres time enough for that," said First, I want you to underLincoln, stand what the law Is and what the lawyer should he. You wouldn't want to he a pettifogger, Choate Is the right model. lie has a dignity suited to th greatness of Ms t hosen master. They say that before a Justice of the pence, in w-- room no bigger than shoemaker's " shop, his work Is bone with the same dignity and care that ho would show In the supreme court of M.is'rt, ins setts., A new sw lies say that In a dog case st Beverly he treated the dog as If he were a lion and the crabbed old squire with the coosderation due a chief Justice. Tie knows how to handle the i language," Run son observed. file got that by reading. - He Is the tto-ivnd man at the American bar and the te-- t Bible student. There's a lot of work ahead of you, Joe, before jmi are a lawyer, and when youre tidndt'el success comes only of tie ca parity for work. Brougham wrote In delhj peroration of Ids feme of Queen Caroline n'neteea times. I want to he a great orator, the hoy exclaimed with engag'ng franki ness. 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Everything I have In this f King George, sane, world I owe to my w ife, owns man to he certali up is, though almost Ilka too. Im you, Denpeck Everything I owe for la this world superstitions. lie cant endure that I wineglass should ring, if accident&llj my wife bought. touched, at his dinner table. Th ring Harry Told of Hla Adventures In th It la awfully bard for a little wom- lng wtM mean a death In his family, M Great Swamps. an to Impress people with her dig- he firmly believes. And If the slighted ring JUt heard, ivery member of hit mistake It A firefly cant hold bis nity. family and guest at his table rise cj light long enough to compete with It on the Instant and stands In silence far the man a By greatest thing Webster said In the Knapp trial: can do for his dty Is to be a good Its his wish. London Opinion. There la no evil that w cannot elthct face or fly from but the con- nan. Breaking th News. sciousness of duty disregarded. Mrs. Brown, I got t tell jruh, ttf Dont argue with a wasp; It always A great truth like that makes wo sheriff came today an' took your ha derrul rausT oh the lips of a sincere ttries It point bands clothes." man. An orator must be a lover and A silewt What I Outrageous I I wish you'! mans words are never rediscoverer of such unwritten laws." In find t cdurt my husband and tell him right peated ft'Wn neartnjf mrtdalght when they away." heard footsteps on the board wolk In He knowa It, M'm. He was weartf Marriage Is a gamLIa when there la front of the house. In a moment em at th rime." back of It Harry Needles entered In cavalry uni- noney fin form with top boots and allver Lot of discord Is often simply a Struggle to earn a fortune Is eneugl spurs, erect as a young Indian brave t make a man homely, aa the struggii of tatred monotony. and bronzed by tropic suns. to become learned la. ' Hello!" be said as he took off his Never swear at an coat belt and clanking saber. "I hang up Slve It to the tailor. Some men know more that thdl of I sword. have had my enough wives and wisely keep It strictly H war." to It is easier reform a man themselves. than II had ridden across country from the boat landing and, arriving a late lo keep him reformed. The Romans used to send to one i bad left hla horse at ft livery stable. Other troubles bore peoples other sprigs of holly as emblem 4 always I'm lucky to find you and Abe an more than our own. u good luck. Joe all up and waiting for me," he aa said he ahocq: their hands. How's mot her Ttu well," Sarah called from the top of the stairway. Til be dow n l a minute." For an hour or more they sat by the fireside while Harry told of his adventures In the great swamps of southern Florida. Bve done my share of the fight Im going Ing," hejsatd at length. north tomorrow to find Elm and hoi mother." I ahall want you to serve a com plaint on one Lionel Davis," said Mr. I.lncoln. 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