Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-10-07
CHAPTER X.
oOpyEighe IEviHs BAehstlss

va WHICH ApS1 GtSC6G0 70 SNo ASUs1t@-
ture, Gives What Comfort He Can to
Ann Rutledge In the Beginning OF
Her Sorrows-AIso He Gees 60
Springfield Tor New Clothes.
Radford's grocery had been 80
wrecked by the raiders that its owner
was disheartened. Reinforced by John,
Cameron and James Rutledge he had
succeeded In drawing them away be-
fore they could steal whisky enough to
get drunk. But they had thrown
much OF his goods into the street.
Radford mended his windows and Of
fered his stock for sale. After time
Berry and Lincoln bought 1t, giving
notes In payment and applied for
license to sell the liquors they had
thus acquired.
Late that autumn p boy baby ar
rived in the TraylOr home. Mrs. On
stott, Mrs. Waddeil and Mrs. KelsO
came to help and enc or the other
of them did the nursing and cooking
while Sarah was In bed and for a
little time thereafter. The coming
ly mother Of the pralries.
There IL a letter from Sarah to her
brother dated May. 10. 1888, in which
she sums up some months of history
In the words that follow:
'"The Lord has given US a new son.
have lived through the ordeal
thanks to His goOdness--and am strong
again. The coming Of the baby has
reconciled us to the loss of our old
friends as much as anything could.
It has made this little home dear to
us and proved the quality Of our new
friends. Nothing is too much for them
to do. don't wonder. that Abe Lin
coin has so much confidence In the
people Of this country. They are
sound at heart, both the northerners
and the southerners. Harry Needles
Is getting over his disappointment. He
goes down to the store often to sit
with Abe and Jack KelsO and hear
them talk. He and Samson are get
ting deeply interested n politics. Abe
let's Harry read the books that he Dor
rows from Major Stuart OF Springfield.
The boy is bent ON being a lawyer and
improving his mind. BIN Kelso writes
to her mother that she is very hap
py in her new home but there Ia some
thing between the lines which seems
to indicate that she Is trying to put
a good face on bad matter. Abe
has been appointed postmaster. Ev-
cry time he leaves the store he takes
the letters In his hat and delivers them
as he gets a chance. We have named
the new baby Samuel
One evening, of that summer, Abe
came ont TO the Traylors' with q let
ter In his hat for Sarah.
Flows busIness7" Samson asked
"Going TO peter out. reckon" Abe
answered with a sorroWful look. sat
will leave me badly In debt. / want
ed something that would give me a
chance for study and I got II. BY
jing 1t looks as IL l. was going to
have years Of study trying to get over
IT, Have you got any work to give
,me2 You know can split rails about
as fast as the next man and I'll take
my pay In wheat or corn"
''You may give me all the. time you
can spend outside the store" said
Samson.
That evening they had talk about
the whisky business and It's relation to
the character Of Eliphaiet Biggs and
to sundry infractiOns Of law and order
in their community. Samson had de-
clared that 1t was wrong to sell
liquor.
"AIl that kind OF thing can be safe-
ly left to the common sense Of our
people," said Abe. THE remedy 10
education, not revolutions Slowly the
people will have to set down all the
items In the ledger Of common sense
that passes from sire to son. BY and
by some generation viii strike a bal
ance. That may not come IN a hun
dred years. Soon or late the major
ity OF the people viii reach : reckon
ing with John BarleycOrni II there's
too much against him they viii act.
You might as well try 70 stop q gla-
cier by building dam ID front Of Il.
They have opened an account with
slavery, too. BY and by they'll de-
eide Its fate"
Such was his faith In the, common
folk OF America whose way Of learn
ing and whose love Of the right he
knew az no man has known Il.
In this connection the New Ing
lander wrote In his diary:
"He has spent his boyhOod In the
South and his young manhood In the
MOrth. He has studied the East and
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