PAG E « SEPT. 1. 1921 HALSEY E N T E R PR ISE A Man for the Ages A Story o f the Builder» o f Democracy By Irving Bacheller Coe»n«M. I r r i d i B * e b n n (Continued) The hoy returned to hie task point Ing up the Inside walls but hie mind and heart were out In the sunlight talking with Rim. Once he looked out of the door and «aw her leaning against the neck of the pony, her face hidden In h it mane. When the sun was low she came to the door and said : “You had better atop now and go home.” Khe looked down at the ground and added: “Please, please, don’t tell on me." "O f course not." he answered. “But I hope you won’t he afraid of me any more " •h e looked up at him with a little smile “Do you think I ’m afraid of you?" she asked as If It were too ab­ surd to he thought of 8he unhitched and mounted her pony but did not go " I do wish you could raise a raua tache." aha said, looking w istfully Into hla face. “I can't hear to see you look so terribly young; you get worse and worse every time I see you. I want you to he a regular man right quick." fie wondered what he ought to aay and presently stammered; “I — I — In ­ tend to. I guess I'm more of a man than anybody would think to look at I j j ! selves felt. The house end hem were ffnlehed, whereupon Samson and H a rry drove to Springfield— a muddy, yru d e end growing village w ith thick woods on Ils north side— and bought furniture T h e ir wagon was loaded and they were reedy to atari fo r home. They were w alking on the main atreet when H a rry touched Samsons arm and whispered i J “There's M cNoll and Callyhan." The pair were w alking a few steps ahead of Sameon and H arry. In a second Samson’s big hand was on Mc- Noll’e shoulder “This Is M r. McNoll, I believe." said Samson. The other turned with a scared look. “W hat do you want o’ me?" he de­ manded. Samson threw him to the ground w ith a Jerk ao atroog and violent that It rent the sleeve from hla shonlder M cN nll’s companion, who had felt the weight of Samson’s hand and had had enough of It. turned and ran. “W hat do ye want o’ m e t' McNoll asked again as he struggled M free himself. "W hat do I want o’ you— you puny little coward,” said Samson, as he lifted the hully to his feet and g avi him a toss and swung him In t h f air and continued to address him. “I ’m Just goln’ to muss you up proper. J f me” • "You're too young to ever fall In lore, I rcel.on." “No. I na not," he answered with de­ cision ' Have yon got a raaorY' «he asked. "No." “I reckon It would be a powerful help You put soap on your lip and tuow It off with a razor My father says It makes the grass grow." There was a moment of silence dur­ ing which ahe brushed the mane of Iter potv. Then she asked tim idly: "Do you like yellow hair?" •*1» i, If It looks like yours." “I f you d o n | mind I ’ll put a mus tadie on you Jnat— Just to look at every time I think of you.” "When I think of you I put violets In your hair," be said. R e took a step toward her as he spoke and as he did so she started bar pony. A little way off ahe checked h ’ n and said: I'm sorry. There are no etolets now." She rode away slowly waving her hand and singing with the Joy of a bird In the springtime That evening when H arry was help­ ing Samson with the horses he saldr "I'm going to tell you a secret. 1 wish you wouldn't say anything about h." H am ann stood pulling the hair out of hla card and looking very stern as he listened while H arry told of the assnult upon him and hew Rim had arrived and driven the rowdies away with her gun hut he said not a word of her demonstration of tender sym­ pathy To him, that had clothed the whole adventure with a kind of sanctity ao that he could not hear to have It talked about Samson's eyes glowed with anger They searched the face of the hoy His voice was deep and solemn when he seld : “Thia Is a serious m atter Why do yon wish to keep It a secret?" The boy blushed For a moment h< knew not what to say. Then he spoke: " It ain’t me so much—It1» h e r" he managed to say. "Rhe wouldn’t want It to he talked abont and I don't either." Sameon began to understand "She'» quite a girl, I gneea," he said thought fully "She must have the nerve of i man— I declare she m tiet " "Yeeatr-eet They’d ’»' got hurt I' they hadn’t gone away, fh a t’a s u re ' said H arry "W e’ll look out for them a fter thia Sameon rejoined The first tim e ' meet that man McNoll h e ll have t< tattle a lth me and he’ll pay cash o Ihe nail." Blm having heard of H arry'a par In Abe's light and of the feet that h. was to be working alone all day at th new house had ridden ou» throng th e woods to the open p rairie an hunted In eight o f the new cabin the afternoon Unw illing to confees hr eatreme Internet In the boy she hat •aid not a word of her brave act. I ‘ was not sbante: It was partly a k lr of rebellion against the tyranny < youthful ardor J It was partly the fea o f ridicule. Ro It happened that the adventure of H a rry Needles made scarcely a rip pie on the ser.Mtlve suvfaca of the vll l a ^ Ufa I t w ill he aeen. however, that it had started strong undercur r^Pie H>ely. In time, to make them­ " I ’m Just Goln’ to Musa You Up Proper." you don't say you're sorry and mean It I ’ll put s tow string on your neck and give you to some one that wants a dog.” " I ’m sorry.” said McNoll. "Hones I a m ! I was drunk when I done It." Samson released his prisoner A number In the crowd which had gath cred around them clapped their hands and shouted, "H u rrah tor the •tranger I" A constable took Samson's hand and said: “Yon deserve s vote of thanks That n an and his friends have made me more trouble than all the rest of the drinking men put to­ gether." "And I am making trouble for m y­ self," said Samson. “I have made m y­ self ashamed. 1 am no fighting man, I was never In such a muss on a pub­ lic street before and with God s help It w ill never happen again " "Where do you live?” the officer asked “ In New Salem." " I wish It was here. We need men like you." Samson wrote In his dlarye "On the way home my heart was sore I prayed Id silence that God would forgive me for my had example to the hoy. I p ru n ite d that I would not again misuse the strength H e has given ate In my old home I would have been disgraced by It. The m in­ ister would have preached of the de stnictlon that follow s’ the violent man to put him d ow n ; the people would have looked askance at- me. l>acon 'iornera would have culled me aside to look Into my soul, and Judge Grandy end hie w ife would not have nvlted me to their parties Here It's llfferent A chap who can take th * aw In his hand« and bring the evil tan to his senses even If he has to ilt him over the head. Is loo’ .c-d up to It s a ra c k lt's country You feel It as •non as yon get hero. l a time f fear I shall he as headlong as the rest of ’hem Rome w ay the news of my act has got here from Springfield Sarah vaa kind of co’ up Jack Kelso has nicknamed me The man with the iron i r i «,’ and Abo. who la a better man •very way. laughs at my emharrasa tnenf and says I ought to feel honored For one thing Jack Armstrong has •come s good clttsen His w ife has foxed a pair of breeches for Ahe They say McNoll has le ft the country there has been no d eviltry here since hat day. 1 gneea the gang Is broken up— too much Iron la tte way.“ Rarah enloyed fixing up the cabin Jack Kelao had given her some deer and buffalo skins to lay on the floor« The upgvr r»Mgi. reached hy « »ttcl I ladder, had Its two beds, one of which H a rry occupied The children slept I below In a trundle bed that was pushed under the larger one when It was made up In the morning. “Some time I'm going to pnt In a win diet rap and get rid o' that atlck ' ladder." Samson had aald. Sarah had all the arta of the New England home maker Under her hand the cabin, in color, atmosphere and general neatneaa. would have de­ lighted a higher taste than was to be found on the prairies, save In the brain of Kelso, who really had tome acquaintance with beauty. To be sure th e had was In one corner spread , with Its upper cover knit of gray yarn Sermonizing In color with the bark of the log walls. A handsome dark hrown buffalo robe lay beside It. The rifle and powder horn were hung above the mantel. The fireplace had Its crane of wrought iron. Every one In the little village came to the house warming. The people were In their best clothes The women wore dresses of new calico— save Mrs. Doctor Allen, who wore a black silk dress which had come w ith her from her late home In Lexington. Blm Kelso came In a drees of red mnslln trimmed with white lace. Ann R ut­ ledge also wore a red dress and came w ith Abe. T he la tte r was fath er grotesque In his new ltnsey trousers, of a better length than the former pair, but still too short. " It Isn’t fa ir to blame the trousers or the tailo r," he had said when he had tried them on. “M y legs are sc long that the Imagination of the tallot Is sure to fa ll short If the cloth don't - Next time T il have 'em made to meas ure with a ten-foot pole Instead of a yardstick. I f they're too long I can roll 'em up and let out a link or two when they shrink. E ver since I was a boy I have been troubled w ith shrink­ ing pants.” Abe wore a blue swallow-tail coaj with hrsss buttons, the tails of which were so short as to he well above the danger of pressure when he sat down His cowhide shoes had been well blackened; the blue yarn o f his socks showed above th jm "These darned socks of mine a t i rather proud and conceited," he used to say. “They •Ike to show off." H e wore a shirt of white, un­ bleached cotton, a starched collar and black tie. In speaking of his collar to Samson, lie aald that he felt like a w ild horse 'n a box stall. Mentor Gruham, the schoolmaster, »■a» there— a smooth-faced man with a large head, sandy h air and a small mustache, who spoke by note, as It were. Kelso called him the great articulator and said that he walked In the valley of the shadow o f Lindley M urray. He seemed to keep a watch ful eye on his words, as If they were a lot of grltoolboys not to be trusted They came out with a kind of self conscious rectitude. T iio children's games had begun and the little house rang w ith their songs and laughter, while their elders sat by the Ore and along the walls talking. Ann Rutledge and Blm Kelso and H a rry Needles and John McNeil played w ith them. In one of the dances all Joined In singing the versea: I w o n 't have none o’ y er w a e v lly wheat. I w o n't have ro n e o' y er b a rle y 1 w o n 't have none o' yer w eevtly wheat To m ak e a cake fo r C h e rle y 'barley te a fine young man. C h a rle y is a dandy 'barley likes to kits the girl». Whenever It come» handy When a victim was caught In th flying scrimmage at the end of a pc- sage In the giime of Prisoners, he c »he wns h ro njb: before the blind folded Judge: ' "Heavy, heavy hangs over your head." said the constable. "Fine or superfine?" the Jndge In •a ire d . "Fine." said the constable which meant that the victim was a hoy Then the sentence was pronounced and generally It was th is : “Go bow to the w ittiest, kneel to the prettiest and kiss the one that yon love best.” H a rry was the first prisoner. He went straight to Blm Kelse and bowe l and knelt, and when he had risen she turned and ran like a scared deet around the chairs and the crowd of onlookers, some assisting and some checking her flight, before the nimble youth H ard pressed, »he ran out of the open door, w ith a merry laugh end Just beyond the steps Harry caught and kissed her. and her cheeks had the color of rosea when he led her hack. John McNeil kissed Ann Rutledge that evening and was moat attentive to het', and the women were saying that the two had fallen In love with each other "See how she looks at him ." one of them whispered "W ell, It's Just the way he looks at her," the other answered. At the first pause lb the m errim ent Kelao stood on a chair, end then al­ ienee fell upon Ihe little company. "My good neighbors." he began, “we • r e here Io rejoice that new friends have come to ue and that a new home (a born In our midst W e bid thenf welcome They etV big-boned big hearted folks No man has grown large who has not at ooe tim e or an­ other had hla feet la the soli and felt It» magic power goiag up Into h !t blood and bone and ainew Here te a wonderful sou and the Inspiration of wide horizons. here are broad aad far Ule fieida Where the vora grow« , I i ; high you can grow statesmen It may be that out of one of these little cab Ins a man will come to carry the torch ot Liberty and Justice so high that Its light will shine Into every dark place So let no one despise the cabin — humble ss It la. Samson and Sarah Traylor, I welcome and congratulate you. Whatever may come, yon can find no better friends than these, and of this you may be sure, no child of the prairies w ill ever go about w ith a hand organ and a monkey. O ur friend. Honest Ahe, Is one of the few rich men In this neighborhood. Among hie assets are 'Klrkham's Grammar.' ’The P ilgrim ’s Progress,’ the ‘Lives of Washington and Henry Clay.' ‘Ham let's Soliloquy.’ ‘Othello’s Speech to the Senate,’ ‘Marc Anthony’s Address' and a part of 'W ebster’s Reply to Hayne ' A man came along the other day and sold him a barrel of rubbish for two bits. In It he found a volume of Blackstone's Commentaries ' Old Blackstone challenged him to a wrestle and Abe has grappled with him I reckon he'll take his measure as easily as he took Jack Armstrong's. Lately he has got possession of a noble asset. It Is ‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night,' by Robert Burns. I propose to ask him to let us share his enjoyment of this treasure.” Abe, who had been sitting with his legs doubled beneath him on a buffalo skin, between Joe and Betsey T raylor, rose and s a id : “Mr. Kelso's remarks, especially the part which applied to me, remind me of the story of the prosperous grocer of Joliet. One Saturday night he and his boys were busy selling sausage. Suddenly In came a map w ith whom beautiful country anil uie sou is rich, but there te some sickness. Sam­ son and I were both sick at the same time. I never knew Samson to give up before. He couldn't go on. hla head ached so. L ittle Joe helped me get the fire started and brought some wa ter and waited on ua. H arry Needles had gone away to Springfield for M r O ffut w ith a drove of hogs. Tw o oth er boys are w ith him. He Is going to buy a new suit. H e Is a very proud boy. Joe and Betsey got back with the doctor at nine. T h a t night Abe Lincoln came and sat up w ith us and gave us our medicine and kept the fire going. It was comical to see him lying beside Joe In his trundle bed, w ith his long legs sticking over the end of it and his feet standing on the floor about a yard from the bed. He was spread all over the place. He talked about religion and his views would shock most of our frleflds In the East. H e doesn’t believe In the kind of Heaven that the ministers talk about or any eternal hell. H e says that nobody knows anything about the hereafter, except that God Is a kind and forgiving fath er and that all men are H is children. He says that we can only serve God by serving each other. H e seems to think that every man, good or bad, black or white, rich J or poor, Is his broltier. He thinks that Henry Clay, next to Daniel Web­ ster, is the greatest man In the coun­ try H e Is studying hard. Expects to go out add make speeches fo r Clay | next summer. H e Is quite seveie In hit talk against General Jackson. _He and Samson agree in politics and . re­ ligion. They are a good deal alike H e Is very fond of Samson and-Qav- ry— calls them his partners. W e love tills big aw kw ard giunt. H is feet are set in the straight way and we think that he Is going to make his m ark In the world. “You said you would come out next spring to look about. Please don’t disappoint us. 1 think It would almost break my heart. 1 am counting the days. Don’t be a fra id of fever and ague. Saplngton's pills cure It In three or four days. I would lake the steum- hoat at Pittsburg, the roads In Ohio and Indiana are so bad. You can get a steamer up the Illino is riv e r ut A l­ ton and get off at Beardstown and drive across country. I f we knew when you were coming Suuison or Abe would meet you. Give our love to all the folks and friends. "Yours affectionately, “Sarah and Samson." Up the Road to the North in the Night. p ben Samson had driven into the bam Its doors w ere closed and the ne­ groes were called front their place of hiding. Samson w rite s : " I never realized what a blessing It Is to be free until I saw- that scared tntin and woman craw ling out from un der the dusty hay and shaking them­ selves like a p air of dogs. The weath- er was not cold or I guess they would have been frozen. They knelt togeth­ er on the bam floor and the woman prayed fo r God's protection through the day. Peasley brought food for them and stowed them away on the top of his haymow w ith a pair of buf- ralo skins. I suppose they got some sleep there. I went Into the house to breakfast and while I ate Brlmstead told me about his trip. H is children were there. They looked clean and decent. H e lived In a log cabin a little furth er up the road. Mrs. Peasley’s sister w aited on me. She is a fat and heerful looking lady, very light com plented. H e r h a ir Is red— like tomato ketchup. Looks to me a likely, stout armed, good-hearted woman who can do a lot of hard work. She can see a 'oke anti has an answer handy every me." For details of the rem ainder of th. listorlc visit of Samson T ra y lo r to thi ome of John Peasley we are indebtcc o a le tte r from John to his b ro th « . I t had been a cold w inter and not easy Io keep com fortable In the little house. In Ihe worst w eather Sam­ son had used to get up at ulght to keep the fire going. Late In January a wind from the southeast melted the snow and warmed the a ir of the mid­ (To be continued) lands so that, fo r a week or so, It seemed as If spring were come. One night of this week Sambo awoke the fam ily w ith Ills barking. A strong FINDS SNAKE .IN BATHROOF. wind was rushing across the plains and roaring over the cabin and w ail­ Reptile Discovered by Seven-year-old "He and Hla Boye AVer» Busy 8elllng ing In its chimney. Suddenly there Child Had Climfced Tree and was a rap on Its door. When Samson Sausages." Crawled Through Window. opened It he saw In the moonlight a he had quarreled a n d .la id two dead young colored man ah'd woman stand­ Reading, Pa.— V irgin ia Funk, seven rata on the counter. ing near the doorstep years old. daughter of Oscar A. Funk, “ ‘There,' said he, th is makes seven "Is dis Mlstah T raylor?" the young discovered a black snake five feet nine today. I'll call Monday and get my man asked. Inches long In the bathroom of her f money.' “I t Is," said Samson. “W hat can 1 home at Esterly. T he snake-cllmbed-a “ We were doing a good business here do for yon?” tree near the house, dropped on a • making fun. It seems a p ity to ruin "Mas'r. de good Lord done fetched rear portico and then crawled In the It and throw suspicion on the quality us here to ask you (o' help," said the bathroom window. of the goods by throwing a cat on negro. "W e he nigh wone out w ith cold The child closed the bathroom and the counter.” an hnngah suh deed we be." called her falh er, Oscar A . Funk,, a This raised a storm of m errim ent, hip game hunter In Canada for «ev- Samson asked them In and put wood a fter which he recited the poem of on the fire, and Sarah got up and made I eral years. H e opened the bathroom Burns, w ith keen appreciation of Its some hoi iea and brought food from door, threw a towel over the reptile quality. Samson repeatedly w rites of the cupboard and gave It to the stran- and carried It to the yard, where Ills gift for Interpretation, especially. gers who sat shivering in the firelight his guest. Wesley E Conklin of of the comic, and now and then lay« They were a good-looking pair, the Philadelphia shot the snake. particular stress on his power o f m im ­ young woman being almost while Mrs. Conklin, w ife of the PhllA- icry. I They were man and w ife The lattei delphinn was w ith the child when she John Cameron sang “The Sword of stopped eating and moaned and shook entered the bathroom. Bunker H ill” and “F o rty Years Ago. w ith emotion as her husband told Tom." Samson played while the older their story. T heir master had died 1 “ Stolen” Gems Found Under Mattreas. people danced until midnight. Then. Ihe year before and they had been ^Vllkee-Rnrre. Pa.— Mrs. Thomas arter noisy farewells, men. women and brought to St Louis to be sold in the Lew's has found the Jewels upon the There they "had es qu»st of which she had set nffl. era of children started In the moonlit road slave m arket raped hy night and gone to the hous« three -cities Mrs. Lewis left the toward the village. Ann Rutledge had of an old friend of their form er ownet gems tinder a mattress in a Philadel­ Abe on one arm and John M cN eil on who lived north of the city on th< phia hotel and fnrgot all nhout them Ihe other. „ --•’-er shore. He ' "• ‘nken oltv on until she had returned home Then them snd brought them across the she didn't remember having le ft them C H A P T E R V I. Mississippi and started thetfl on the at »he hotel, and decided she had been north road w ith a letter to E lijah robbed. Which Describes the Lonely L ife In Lovejoy of Alton and a supply of food. a P ra irie Cabin and a Stirring Ad­ Since then they had been hiding days Surgeons Close Safety Pin In Stomach. venture on the Underground R ail­ In the swamps and thickets and had road About the T im a It Began Op­ Vncas, O kla.— An open safetv pin traveled by night. M r. Lovejoy had eration» sent them to Erastus W right of swallowed by the elght-montli-ntd son of M r and Mrs George Jacqulres, was When Samson paid M r. Oollaher, a Springfield, and M r. W right had given them the name of Samson T ra y lo r and removed from the baby's stomach "detector" came with the la tte r te look sn operation. Physicians the location of his cabin From there without at the money before It was accepted. they were hound for the house of John closed fhe pin hy the use of Insfru- T here were many counterfeits and hills m e n tr and then lifte d If out through good only at a certain discount of Peasley. In Hopedale. Tazew ell county. the child's mouth. Lovejoy had asked them Io keep the face value going about those days and the detector was In great requeat. D i­ le tte r vjlth which they had begun their travel«. T he letter stated that rectly a fte r moving In, Samson dug a their late master had often expressed well and lined It w ith a hollow log. Farmer Showered With his purpose of . le a 'In g them their free­ H e bought tool» and another team and Burning Whisky Dies dom when he ^houlrt pass away. He then he and H a rry began their fall had left no w ill and since his death the plowing Day a fte r day fo r week» W ilkes-Barre. P a — The ex­ two had fallen into the hands of his they paced w ith their turning furrow » plosion o f a private still In hla nepfew a despotic, violent young a a tll a hundred acre«, stretching h alf cellar resulted In the death of drunkard of the name of Biggs. a mile to the nest and well to the Joseph A. F ry e r o f Parsons, Samson wag so moved by their story north of the house, wera black w ith near here, who was showered that he hitched up his horses and put them. Fever and ague descended up­ with the burning whisky. It be­ aonte hay In the wagon box and made on the little home In the early winter. came known here today through off with the fugitive» up the road to In a lettea. to her brother, dated a physician'» report. ihe north in the night W ie n daylight January 4th. I4S2, Sarah w rites: "W e have been longing fo r new« ■ ame he co\ere