The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-09-08

''Tm like deer that's been hurt"
said the young man. II took to the
woods. Wanted to be alone. You see,
had a lot of thinking to do-the kind
Of thinking that every man must do
for himself. I've got the brush cleared
away, at last, so can see through. l
had made up my mind to 90 down to
your house for the night and was try
ing to decide whether I have energy
enough to do It."
"Come on; It's only a short STEP"
urged the big-hearted B0wlin.
'What I feel the need lof, just now,
Is q week or two Of Sleep" said Mr..
Lincoln, as he rose and started down
the long hill with his friend.
Some time later Bowlin Green gave
Samson this brief account Of what
happened in and about the cabin:
HE wouldn't eat anything. He
wanted to 60 down to the river for
dip, and I went with him. When we
got back, I induced him to take of his
clothes and get into bed. He was fast
asleep in ten minutes. When night
came ! went up the ladder to bed. He
was still asleep when I came down in
the morning. went out and did my
chores. Then I cut two venison
steaks, each about the size o my hand.
and a half moon Of bacon. pounded
the venison to pulp with a little salt
and bacon mixed in. I put it ON the
broiler and over a bed o hickory Goals.
got the coffee into the pot and up
next to the fire and some potatoes in
the ashes. basted bird with bacon
strips and put it into the roaster and
set 1t back O. the broiling bed. Then
made some biscuits and put 'em
into the oven. tell you, in 4 little
while the smell O. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honest! Abe
began to stir. In q minute I heard
him call:
"'Say, Uncle Bowlin, I'm goin' to
get up an eat you out o house and
home. I'm hungry and I feel like q
new man. What time Is itY
"Tt'n be nine o'clock by the time
you're washed and dressed I says.
swell, declare says he, Eve had
about sixteen hours O solid sleep. The
world looks better to me this mern-
ing
"At the table told him a story ;and
got a little laugh out OF him. Tie
stayed with me three weeks, chOring
around the place and taking It easy
He read all the books l had, until4yOu
and. Doc Allen came with the Law
books. Then he pitched into them.
think he has changed a good deal since
Ann died. He talks a lot about Goo
and the hereafter"
In October young Mr.. Lincoln re
turned to his surveying, and in thu
last month OF the year to Vandalia fo
an extra session Of the legislature
where he took a stand against the con
vention system of nominating candi
dates for public office. Samson wen
to Vandalia for a visit with him ant
to see the place before the session end
ed. The next year, In a letter to hi
brother, he says:
"Vandalia is small, crude village
It has strong flavor Of whisky, pro
family and tobacco. The night afte
I got there I went to a banquet wit
Abe Lincoln. Heard lot about tn
dam nigger-loving Yankees who wer
trying to ruin the state and eountr,
with abolition. Theme were som
stories like those we used to hear d
the lumber camp, and no end of pow
erful talk, in which the names Of Co
and the Savior were roughly handled
A few Of the statesmen got drunk, an
after the dinner was over two of then
jumped on the table and danced dow
the whole length Of 1t, shatterinl
plates and cups and Eancers AM
glasses. Nobody seemed TO be abl
to stop them. I hear that they had t
pay several hundred dollars for tn,
damage done. You will be apt to thinl
that there is too much liberty here Il
the West, and perhaps that rs so, bu
the fact Is these men are not half q
bad as they seem to be. Linoola tell
lime that they are honest, almost to ),
man, and sincerely devoted to the pub
! Vic good as they see II. / asked Alb
IiLincoln, who all his life has associate,
with rough-tongued, drinking men
how he managed to hold his ow,
course and keep his talk and habits ~
clean.
"'Why, the fact is' said he. i hav,
;asssciated with the people who live
around me only part Of the time, but
have never stopped assocjating wilt
myself and with Washington and Cla!
and Webster and Shakespeare an,
Burns and DeFoe and Scott ant
Blackstone and Parsons. On tn
whole, I've been in pretty good com
pany.'
"He has not yet accomplished mucl
In the legislature. i don't think tina
he viii until some big issue come
along. I'm not much Of hand a
hunting squirrels he said to me tn
other day. wait till see a bear TIL
people Of Vandaiia and Springfield
have never seen him vet. They DON
know him as do. But they all re
spect him--just for his good-fellow
ship, honesty and decency. / gues
that every fellow with a foul moutl