The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-11-10


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Samson xith NJ NRnhle, m i
mad stuffed witk straw IN front Of
him inpre acrnss tha .nra -,es and
waded tia CREEKS ana sloupLs IN h,s
way 70 sprinpfield The little lad va
in hts fourth wear that summer. He
slept ana talked much on the way and
kept Samson busy with queries about
the sky and the creeks and the great
fowery meadows,
They camped the first night In a
belt Of timber and Samson writes that
the boy slept snpg against me with
his head on my arm. He went to sleep
crying for his mbther." He adds:
ut refunded hlie of the old days Of
my young fatherhood. MIR. Nimble'
wanted to pick all the flowers and
| splash his bare feet In every stream.
In the evening he would talk to the
stars as Ii he were playing with them.
He is like some Of the grown folksNin
Chicago. He would sit hanging on to
the reinss and talk to the horse and
to God by the hour. He used to tell
me that God was a friend Of his and
I think he was right. 1t was good
luck to get back to Sarah and the
children. They took the little stran-
ger into their hearts. Heart room,
mousse room Is IL motto OF MS part
Oh the country b.
1t was a new town to which Samson
returned. The governor M the state
officers had moved to Springfield. The
new capitol was nearing completion.
The hard times which had followed
the downfall Of 'S7 had unjustly dim
inished Mr. Lincoln's confidence In his
ability as q legislator. He enjoyed
the practice OF the law, which had be-
gun to turn his interest from the at
fairs OF state. But the pot OF political
science boiled before the fireplace In
the rear Of Joshua Speeds store every
evening that Lincoln and his assOct-
ates were in Springfield. The wit and
wisdom which dubbed into Its vapors
and the heat that surrounded 1t were
the talk of the town. Many came
to witness the process and presently
1t was moved, for a time, to more
accommodating quarters. Before A
crowd Of people In. the Presbyterian
church, Lincoln Logan, Baker and
Browning for the Wings, and Douglas.
Calhoun yambor and Thomes for
tho Democrats hov,ry o~ssiduous,v
nra,s rod far tho tr;.l debated Tho
hnrninv iss,,os ~ tho +ims Tho effort
NJ oocb auod an ~avop,rg ond ]T,noo,n,s
snaacb va him now bona NJ b,msn,f
W,so mon hogan ~ bave oroa+ coma.
dance IN bis f,+,,ro 10 nod +oLor
tho stvla If Webster for his mode,
He no longer psad tbe hroad humor
which had cb,ractar;zod h;s afrorts nm
+he stumn A study of tho host
sneocbas ~ IN. graat Now Eno,andar
had made him nnest,on II. velua in
q nuhl,c address D,onitv c,ear rea.
son;pg and INCONSISTENCIES ware rho
chief aims of his new method. the lat.
tor off which ia sntlv illustrated nv
this massage from his sneecb In ranlv
tn Douglas in tho debate men+ioned.
ssJf + ever foo, tho son, within Mo
| ~a,ovato and exnapd RI those d,men-
sion. not wholly unworthv Of IFS Al
mighty Architect. n II when T con-
temn,ate tha causa If NV countrv do
serted bv All the world besides, and
r stand,nv nm ho,d, and alone and
hurl,no dea.nco at har v,ctor,ous on-
nre.sors Here without contemnlatinp
before high heaven and
in the face Of the world 7 swear eter-
nal fidelity TO the inst cause. as
deem #. Of the land of nv life, nv
uhartv and NV love-
In those nerfervtd utterances one
NAV And Iittla m admire save q great
sn,r;t seeking To EXPRESS itself and
,acb,pr as vo+ rho refnaman+ of saste
oc,,o1 ~ bis undertaking He was
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