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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30

ADe Lincoln s"fn~d 10 sarah anu
said: This is growing country. You
| ought 70 see The cities sprinr.ng ~
there in the legislature | was looking
with great satisfaction at the crop
when Samson came along one day and
fell on II. He was like a frost IN mid
summer"
''The seed was sown too early" Sam
son rejOined. You and may live to
see all the dreams of yandaIia come
true"
And oil the nightmares too" said
the young statesman.
'Yes. we're going to wake up and
find cold morning and not much to
eat In the house and the wolf at the
door. but wen live through it,"
Then the young statesman proposed
IF you are going with Harry. I'll go
along and see what they've done on
the Illinois and Michigan canal. Some
contractors who worked on the Erie
canal will start from Chicago Monday
TO look the ground over and bid on the
construction of che southern end of 1t.
| want to talk with them when they
come along down the line"
81 guess a few days in the saddle
would do you good" said Samson.
81 reckon it would. I've been
cloyed on house air and oratory and
future greatness. The prairie wind
and your pessimism will straighten
me up"
Harry rode to the village that after
noon TO get Colonel" and Mrs. Lukins
TO come out to the farm and stay with
Sarah while he and Samson were
away.
Josiah now a sturdy boy of thirteen, |
stood in the dooryard, holding the two
saddle ponies from Nebraska which
Samson had bought of drover. Bet
sey, a handsome young miss almost fif-
teen years old, stood beside him.
Sarah. whose face had begun to show
the wear of years full of loneliness
and hard work, was packing the sad
lle-bags, now nearly filed, with extra
socks and shirts and doughnuts aid
bread and butter.
They met Abe Lincoln at the tavern,
where he was waiting on a big horse
which he had borrowed for the trip
rom james Rutledge. Without de-
ay, the three men set out on the
lorth road in perfect weather. From
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30
In Different Glasses.

A visitor in an Australian home In
quired of his hosts little son: DO
you go TO school now?"
''Yes, sir"
"And what do you learn-reading.
writing, sums?'
ooh, yes, and I learn religion. too.-
'Religion?"
"Yes. learn the little religion which
teaches that we all come from Adam
But my older brother is In a higher
class; he learns the big religion. and
that teaches that we all come from
monkeys. Boston Transcript.
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"i've Been CIoyed on House Air and
Oratory and Future Greatness"

the hills edge they could look over 9
wooded plain running far to the east
AS they rode on, the young states
man repeated long passage from one
of the sermons of DIR. William Ellery
Charming on the instability of HUI
man Affairs"
Il wish that l had your memory
Samson remarked
my memory is like a piece OF
metal" said the young legislator.
Learning is not easy for me. It's
rather slow work-like engraving with
tool. But when a thing is once
printed on my memory ii seems to stay
there. 1t doesn't rub out. When
run across a great idea, well ex-
my mind where | can live with ii. In
this way every man can have his own
little art gallery and be in the com
pany Of great men,"
They forded a creek I'm deep water,
where a bridge had been washed away.
AS they came out dripping on the
farther shore, Lincoln remarked:
''The thing to do in fording a deep
stream is to keep watch o. your
horses ears. AS long as you can see
'em you're all right"
"Mr. Lincoln, I'm sOrry-you got
into a hole" said Samson.
81 don't mind that. but while we're
travelling together. please don't call me
Mr.. Lincoln | don't think I've done
anything to deserve such lack of re-
spect."
Samson answered: IF you're nice
to US. | don't know but wen call We
Abe again. just for few days. You
can't expect us TO go too far with a |
man who associates with judges and |
generals and governors and such trash.
II you keep II up. you're bound to lose
standing in our community"
II know I've changed said Abe.
I've grown older since Ann died
ears ago-but don't want you fei-
ows to throw me over. I'm on the
anne level that you are and intend
o stay there It's a fool notion that
zen 90 ND some heavenly stairway to
mother plane when they begin to do
Kings worth while. That's kind of
pudalistic twaddle. The wise man
eeps his feet on the ground and lifts
is mind as high as possible. The
ieher he lifts 1t. the more respecf he
IN have for the common folk. Have {
'sher Of you seen McNamar since he I
OF hack."
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CHAPTER xvI-Continued.

ID
''He has not yet accomplished much
In the Legislature | don't think that
he will until some big issue comes
along. I'm not much of a hand at
hunting SQUIRRELS he said to me the
other day. Wait I'll see a bear The
people of yandalia and Springfield
have never seen him yet They don't
know him as l do. But they all re-
spect him-just for his good-fellow-
ship, honesty and decency. | guess
that every fellow with foul mouth
hates himself for il and envies the
man who isn't like him. They begin
90 see his skill as a politician, which
has shown itself In the passage of
bill removing the capital TO Spring
field. Abe Lincoln was the man who
put 1t through. But he has not yet I'M
covered his best talents. Mark my
word, some day Lincoln will be big
man.
''The death of his sweetheart has
aged and sobered him. When we are
together he often sits looking down
with a sad face. For while not a
word out of him. Suddenly he will
begin saying things, the effect of
which will go with me to my grave.
although l cannot call back the words
and place them as he did. He is what
I would call great captain Of words.
Seems as If heard the band playing |
while they marched by me as well |
dressed and stepping as proud and |
regular as the Boston Guards. In |
some great battle between Right and /
Wrong you will hear from him.
hope it may be the battle between
Slavery and Freedom, although at
present he thinks they must avoid
coming to clinch. In my opinion 1t
cannot be done. l expect to live to
see the fight and to take part in it,"
Late In the session of 1S36-1S37 the
prophetic truth Of these words began
TO reveal itself. A bill was being put
through the legislature denouncing the
growth of abolition sentiment and its
activity in organized societies and up
holding the right of property in slaves.
Suddenly Lincoln had come to fork
n the road Popularity, the urge of
many friends, the counsel of wealth
md power, and public opinion, the call
II good politics pointed in one direc-
ion and the crowd went that way. 1t
vas stampede. Lincoln stood alone
{ the corner. The crowd beckoned.
ut In vain. One man came back and
oined him. 1t was Dan Stone, who (
'as not a candidate for reelection.
lis political career was ended. There ,
ere three words on the sign-board I
ointing toward the perllous and lone {
: road that Lincoln proposed to fol- I
Nv. They were the words Justice and
uman Rights. Lincoln and Dan S
tone took that road in a protest, de- O
airing that they believed the institu- S
on of slavery was founded upon in |
lstice and bad policy" Lincoln had +
'llowed his conscience, instead of the n
'owd.
AT twenty-eight years of age he had h
lfeiy passed the great danger point Z
his career. The declaration at De- Il
Itur, the speeches against Douglas. ID
e miracle Of turning 4.000.000 beasts II
to 4,0O0.000 men, the sublime utter
ice at Gettysburg, the wise parallels. O
e second inaugural, the innumerable h
is of mercy, all of which lifted him c;
to undying fame. were now possible. ST
enceforth he was TO go forward with 81
e growing approval of his own spirit
d the favor of God. m
dl
l.
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Harry Take a Long Ride Together
and the Latter Visit the FIourishine
Little City of Chicago.
Mr.. Lincoln had brought the papers
which Harry was TO take to BIN, and
made haste to deliver them. The boy
was eager 10 be off on his mission. The
fields were sown. The new buyer was
coming to take possession In two
weeks. Samson and Harry had fin
ished their work In New Salem.
"Wait till tomorrow and maybe ri
go with ye." said Samson. I'm anx-
ious TO take look at that little mush-
room city of Chicago"
"And buy p few corner lots?' Abe
asked, with smile.
No; I'll wait till next year. They'll
be cheaper then. believe IN Chicago.
It's placed right-on the waterway TO
the north and east, with good country
on three sides and transportation on
'he other. 1t can go into partnership |
win Steam Power right away and be- |
gin to do business. Your grain ana |
pork can go straight from there 10 Al |
Dany and New York and Boston ana |
Baltimore without being rehandled
When railroads come-if they ever do |
Steam Power will be showing grain
and meat and passengers into Cbicayo
from every point Of the compass"
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sauffriere Eruption.

On April 80. 1913. the yincentiss
Sauffriere burst forth In all its fury
opening circular ci.asm over half 8
mile in diameter and nearly 500 fec
deep. So awful was the discharr
that Rarhadoes 100 miles sway. ws
thickly covered with 80 ~c,enHie 8v<
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30
PIunging in Authorship.

"Can't you lend me ten spot, old
MANI" remarked Black. who had
Glanced to meet White at the corner.
"I'm dead broke. Been writing stories
for the magazines and haven't made
cent?"
"What became of that $1,000 your
uncle left your?
II used that up for postage. Way
side Tales.
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BOOK THREE
CHAPTER XVII.
Wherein Young Mr.. Lincoln Betrays
Ignorance Of Two Highly Important
Subjects

Ignorance Of Two Highly Important
Subjects
There were two subjects of which
Mr.. Lincoln had little understanding.
They were women and finance. Until
they had rightly appraised the value
of his friendship, women had been
went to regard him with a RANT curl
osity. He had been aware of this. and
for years had avoided women. save
those of old acquaintance. When he
lived at the tavern in the village, often
ne had gone without a meal. rather
than expose himself to the eyes of
strange women. The reason for this
was well understood by those who knew
him The young man was an exceed.
ingiy sensitive human being No
oouot ne had suffered more than any
one knew from ill-concealed ridicule
but he had been able to bear IL with
composure in his callow youth. LATER
nothing reused his anger like an ar
tempt to ridicule him.
Two women he had regarded with
great tenderness-his foster mother.
the second wife of Thomas Lincoln.
and Ann Rutledge. Others had been
TO him, mostly. delightful but inscru-
table beings. Tie company of women
and of dollars lad been equally unfa-
rniliar to him. He had said more than
cnce in his young manhood that he felt
is 'bariassed 10 the presence OF either.
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Two groves of primeval trees have
been discovered by Pennsylvania state
forestry officials in Huntingdon coun-
ty, near the Centre county line, in the
Logan state forest There is great
variety of very large trees in an area
Of 200 acres. A henlock WAS found
measuring twelve feet in circumfer-
ence.
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In thousands of homes,
a line" is drawn at the
breakfast table. Tea or
coffee is served for
grown-ups" and Postum
for children. But some
parents do not discrinin-
ate. Caffeine and tannin,
the injurious contents of
coffee and tea, seriously
retard the development of
the delicate nerve tissues
In children.
Consequently, instead
ofrich, satisfying Postum,
children are over stirau-
lated by the drugs in tea
and coffee; and so may
grow up irritable and
nervous. Any doctor can
tell you that this is a
great evil and should be
corrected.
Although some par
ents feel a certain justifi-
cation for the personal
indulgence in coffee, yet
the harm to them may
be equally serious. 1t
may take a little while
longer for the drugs in
coffee and tea to affect
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OO you discriminate at the dining
fable-or are you Moughtless?

an older person, but In
many cases the nervous
system and allied bodily
functions will become
weakened. The surest
way to avoid such pos
sibilities is to quit coffee
entirely and drink Postum
instead. The change per-
mits you to get sound,
restful sleep.
Postum is the we'll
known, meal-time beverss
age. Like thousands of
others you will like it be-
cause, in flavor, it is
much like a high-grade
coffee.
Do away with the dis
tinction at the table.
Serve delicious Postum,
piping hot, to all the fam
lily. One weeks trial and
it is likelythat you'll never
return to tea and coffee.
Postum comes in two
forms: Instant Postum Tin dns)
made instantly in the cup by
the addition of boiling water.
Postum Cereal Tin packages Of
larger bulk, for those who pre-
Ter 10 make the drink while the
meal is being prepared) made
by boiling for 20 minutes.
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Catch of Cod in Norway.

The catch of cod in Norway for the
season just ended is greater than in
any one of the preceding four years.
However, the value CT the catch was
about 22,000,000 crowns, as compared
with value of 45,000,O00 crowns for
the 1920 season. The total number OF
fish caught in 1921 was 39,000,000; the
1920 catch totaled 3S,80OO 900. The
selling price is considerably lower and
the high cost of equipment and oils
makes the profit less than average
The operating expenses were at the
same level as during the war.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30

voman's inhumanity to woman
causes many men to live and die In
the bachelor class.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30

Mice, the most hunted of all animals.
are still the most numerous of four
footed creatures.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30

No Ornament.
wont the new stenographer work r
mo" well, fire her. She isn't tf1as
pretty"
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CHAPTER XVIII.

In Which Mr.. Lincoln, Samson and
Harry Take Long Ride Together
and the Latter Visit the FIourishing
Little City of Chicago.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
House Authorizes
Cities To Build
Community Houses

By unanimous vote the mouse
this morning passed senate olii
35s, authorizing Incorporated cit
les and towns to purchase SITES
and erect and maintain communl-
ty houses for the benefit OF sol
diers. sailors and marines OF the
army and navy. It was explained
that this act would enable sew
eraI Oregon cities to take sueh
action without amending their
charters and that steps toward
this end already have been taken
by the city Of Hillsboro. where Il
is proposed 70 erect a commodious
community house.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
City Dads Vote Their
:: :: collective" =:
Thanks to Hal Patton

Alderman Hal Patton of Salem
presumably enjoying himself al
Long Beach, ,ACal., i'll today be ac-
costed by a Western Union tele-
graph messenger boy. He. will be
handed a telegram. AS he essays
to open it, his movement will be
arrested.
ITS collect the boy i'll remind
him.
Mr.. Patton, no doubt will hest
tate. Perhaps he will be told it is
from Salem. He will consider. Mr.
Patton has extensive business inter
ests in Salem. Maybe somebody has
skipped the country owing him for
three lead pencils and a copy OF
Three Weeks" Mr.. Patton will
reach in his pocket, draw forth a
coin of liberal dimensions and drop
it in the boys hands. Nervously he
will open the telegram.
Then he will read the Salem city
council, at its regular meeting last
night, unanimously voted him it.
collective" thanks for the three
crates of oranges which Mr.. Pat.
ton sent his brother aldermen in re.
sponse to q request made prior tC
his departure by Councilman H. H
Vandervort. The orttes which Mr.
Patton sent measure 6 Y inches by
2 X inches and contained six tan
gerine" oranges each.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
Bulletins

London Feb. ga wireless message from Berlin today
says that according Swiss reports the Montenegns have
declared holy against the Serbians Two Serbian reg
ents occupied Cetne Montenegro and the situation
is grave, the message says
Toxic Feb pa finding of not guilty has been rendered
by the court martial which tried Toshgora Ogasawara the
sentry who shot Lieutenant Langdon of the u S. S. Albany
at Vadvostok last month"; officially announced by the
war department today The trial was the charge of acc
dental murder.
Spokane Wash. Feb. 22.-Fifteen million bushels OF
wheat have been contracted for with farmers of Washington
Oregon and Idaho by the Washington Wheat Growers assoc
aom was announced today by Bruce Lampson in charge
of organization work for the association Of the total
100000 bushels contracted for in Oregon Mr. Lampson
stated.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
ersonneI Of Harding's Cabinet Is Announced
Wonder If There Is
:: Gas ::
Too In This Garage

Bend, Or, Feb. $50 rapidly
has liquor making equipment been
accommodating in the county Jail
that Sheriff S. r. Roberts ordered
the removal of eight completed
plants. These were transferred 10
the garage of Special Agent l.. A.
w. Nixon. Four stores, which had
been formerly used by moonshiners
were sold to secondhand dealers by
the sheriff and the purchase price
of $40 turned over to the Red
Cross.
Sheriff Roberts has endeayored
to secure instructions regarding the
disposition to be made of confis-
Gated stills. but has received no adj
vice up to date. If the accumula-
tion of moonshine plants continues
he may be forced to sell the equip.
ment as junk copper to allow for
more storage room for the bulky
evidence, he states.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
Wilson'S S Work
In Future For
World Peace

Washington, Feb. 22.-PresidenI
Wilson in an address today to 9
delegation from the woodrow VIII
son club of Harvard university
whom he received at the White
House, declared he would bend his
efforts to the last in supporting tha
cause of world peace.
To the group of six Harvard nm
dergraduates whom he received in
the company of Mrs. Wilson, the
president said he would leave to his
torians the task of interpreting the
events of the Par.S peace confer
ence.
Declaring that if he ever devoted
himself again to writing it would
be along impersonal lines. The
president said he most preferred TO
spend the remainder of his days III
advancing the cause of world peace
and to that end s:e would give his
whole strength and time.
Robert C. Stuart Jr., who head
ed the delegation. told the presi-
dent that the Harvard woodrow
Wilson club wished upon the an
niversary of the birth of Washing
ton TO extend their greeting TO
"you, the great American OF our
generation" and that inspired by
Wilsonian ideals. the club purposed
to perpetuate the ideals to which
the president had given concrete
expression.
Mrs Wilson, who was standing
beside the president, apparently
much moved by the tribute eN-
pressed by the college men, eK-
nressed wish that she might make
a speech. but said she would nos
because she never had.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
Governor Scores lax
Legislative Methods
In Returning Measure

In returning with his veto senate
bill number 17-Humcs bill relat-
ing to the court of domestic rela-
sion to call the attention Of the SEN
ate to the slipshod methods follow
ed by thel lawmakers in drafting the
laws of the state.
A number of bills have been re-
turned by the governor to both
fects both in the title and body of
the bill which would make the
measures imperative If placed on
the statute books. Many OF these
defects involve but slight over
sights on the part of those franz
ing the bills yet have been serious
enough to warrant the attention of
the legislature in making the nee
essary corrections, this proc edure
consuming many minutes OF Valu.
able time in the closing hours cf
the session.
SO numerous were these defects
that Governor Olcott found it i'm
possible with his limited office
force to give the measures reaching
the executive department the at
tention which their importance
justified and asked for and was al
lowed the assistance of two lawyers
whose duty it is to scrutini2e every
bill reaching the governors office
for jossible defects.
THE executive orliCe very pa
tiently aud conscientiously has
pointed out to individual members
OF the senate and house grave err
rors in from 80 to 35 enrolled bills
reaching the office" the governors
veto message attached to senate
bill II reads. BY sucn action il
has, in a number of cases, caused
corrections to be made which have
validated and made sound bills
otherwise admittedly void because
Of error in legal form or otherwise.
The session is now drawing to a
close and 1T is impossible with the
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vast mass of bills now pouring into
the governors office, to attempt to
further adopt such procedure.
SENATE bill II evidently attempts
to amend chapter of the general
lows of oregon for 1890. While
such an amendment is called for in
the title no such amendment is
made in the body of the bill and
apparently, therefore, the bill is
worthless in it's present form.
In passing, l might also add that
chapter two of the general laws of
Oregon for 1920 has been codified
in full in oregon laws of that year.
The state of oregon expended a
large sum of money in the prepa-
good reason why amendments I'm
bills of this session should fail to
refer to sections of the new code
rather than to session laws now
supposed to be obsolete and winch
are often discarded. In this same
connection, senate bill number ! Z
refers in divers places to the gen
ei III laws VI OIeSOu IOf 1874, IS1 d,
1917 and 1919 and in addition
thereto refers to sections of lord S
oregon laws.
Legislation in this form can add
nothing but confusion for all of the
members of the bench and bar of
the state, the message concludes.
The bill in question involved sew
eral amendments to the act of 1920
creating the couI. OF domestic re-
lations for Multnomah county and
was the storm center for several
hearings before the senate judiciary
committee at which social workers
from Portland appeared to protest
against what they characterized as
an attempt to scuttle the children's
court. Rather than devote the time
necessary to reframing the bill to
eliminate the defects pointed out
by the governor the senate submit
ted it to Summary execution
through indefinite postpoaement.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22

thence south through Tillamook
and other coast counties to the
California line.
From Astoria through Clatsop
and Tilla nook counties to Newport
the highway has already been To-
Gated or under contract. There al
50 are sections under contract an
Coos and Curry counties and part
of Lane. The road along the coast
is about two thirds located now, so
that the new bill adds about one
third of new road and names the
entire rOutes the Roosevelt high
way.
Parts now under contract are
known as the coast highway. As
now arranged the Roosevelt high
way can be improved out Of state
funds. the same as other state
roads.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-22
Bill Increasing
Prosecutors Pay
Killed by House

Members of the house OF repre-
sentatiyes this morning made EN-
nbatic protest against the genera
rise Of salaries Of district a1-Or-
news of Oregon provided iot ~
house bill $50. The bill was hiiisu
by a decisive vote a..
The house also gave its oisap-
,roval to house bin 3s7, introouc-
I'd bv the committee on irrigation.
Tern1itting the sale Of such bonds
for % ninety percent Of the face val
ne if a better sale could not De
secured. various members Of the
house declared that if an irriga-
sane an. prospects such discount n
he bonds would be unnecessary,
rb;1e he discount proposed would
hermit the floating Of bonds tor
nroiects Of doubtful status