Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-16

I'm Ike deer that's been hurt
said the young man. 81 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 l can see through
had made up my mind to go down TO
your house for the night and was try
ing to decide whether have energy
enough to do IL"
"Come on; it's only a short step"
urged the big-hearted Bowiln.
''What l feel the need Of, just now.
is a week or two Of Sleep" said NJ.
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 20 down 10 the river for
dip. and I went with him. When we
got back, 1 induced him to take of his
clothes and get into bed He was fast
asleep in ten minutes. When night
came I went up the ladder to bed. He
was still asleep when came down IN
the morning. 1 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 N. I put it on the
broler and over a bed o hickory Goals
l got the coffee into the pot and up
next to the fire and some potatoes in
the ashes. / basted q bird with bacon
strips and put it into the rooster and
set it back o the brOiling bed. Then
made some biscuits and put EN-
into the oven. 1 tell you. in a little
while the smell O. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honest Abe
began to stir In minute I heard
him call;
"'say. Uncle Bowlin, I'm goin' 70
get up an eat you out O. house and
home. I'm hungry and 1 feel Ike
new man. What time is itT
"Ttn be nine o'clock By the time
you're washed and dressed says
"'WeIl. I declare says he, I've had
about sixteen hours o. solid sleep. The
world looks better to me this morn
ing
AT the table told him 4 story and
got a little laugh out Of him. He
stayed with me three weeks, choring
around the place and taking ii easy.
He read all the books 7 had. until you
and Doc Allen came with the law
books. Then he pitched into them 1
think he has changed a good deal since
Ann died. He talks a lot about God
and the hereafter"
In October young Mr.. Lincoln re-
turned 10 his surveying, and in the
last month Of the year 10 Yandalia for
an extra session OF the legislature
where he took a stand against the con-
vention system OF nominating candi-
dates for public Office. Samson went
TO YandaIia for a visit with him and
to see the place before the session end
ed. The next year. in q letter 10 his
brother. he says;
"Yandalia is a small, crude village.
1t has a strong favor Of whisky, pro-
family and tobacco. The night after
l got there 1 went TO banquet with
Abe Lincoln. Heard a lot about the
dam nigger-loying Yankees who we're
trying TO ruin the state and country
with abolition There we're some
stories Ike those we used TO hear in
the lumber camp, and no end OF pow
erful talk. In which the names Of God
and the Savior were roughly handled
A few of the statesmen got drunk, and
after the dinner was over two OF them
jumped on the table and danced down
the whole length OF il, shattering
plates and cups and saucers and
glasses Nobody seemed 10 be able
to stop them. hear that they had 10
nav several hundred dollars for the
damage done. You will be apt TO think
that there is too much liberty here In
the West. and perhaps that is so. but
the fact is these men are not half so
bad as they seem 70 be. Lincoln tells
me that they are honest. almost 10 a
man. and sincerely desoted to the pub
lie good as they see il | asked Abe
Lincoln who all his life has associated
with rough-songued. drinking men.
how he managed TO hold his own
course and keep his talk and habits SO
clean.
why, the fact is said he, I have
associated with the people who lived
around me only part Of the time, but l
have never stopped associating with
myself and with Washington and Clay
md Webster and Shakespeare and
Burns and DeFOe and Scott and
Blackstone and Parsons. On the
Whole, I've been in pretty good COM
AMY
CTo BE CoNTINUED)
aFs Him Thinkfnu