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The New York herald., 1922-03-09
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The New York herald., 1922-03-09
SUBURBAN TRAINS DELAYED.

suburban trafflc over the Harlem hi.
vision OF the New York Central Railroad
was delayed for a short time yesterday
morning by three telegraph poles bio w
across the tracks at Brewster. NJ ", In
the storm OF Tuesday night. Commuters
served by this division were from a hair
to three-auarters OF an hour late ar.
The New York herald., 1922-03-09
FAMOUS OLD HOTEL BURNED.

STAFFORD, n. Y, March s.-The
Stafford Hotel, a famous hosiery on
the old stage route between New York
and Buffalo. burned this morning. The
building was 125 years old. Loss of
business because of the prohibition law
closed the hotel several months ago.
Connecticut western news., 1922-05-11

the fleeing men, whose coat tails the dog had seized, was yelling for help. The minister rescued him and the dog went on roaring after the others. When the New Salemites got to the edge of the grove they could hear a number of regulators climbing into the treetops. Samson had a man in each hand; Abe had another, while Harry Needles and Alexander Fergu- son were in possession of the man whom the dog had captured. The minister was out In the grove with his bloodhound that was barking and growing under a tree. Jack Kelso arrived with lantern. One of Sam sons captives began swearing and struggling to get away. Samson gave him a little shake and bade him be quiet. The man uttered cry of fear and pain and offered no more resist ance. Stephen Nuckles came out of the grove.
 "The rest O tkat ar party done gone upstairs to roost," said the minister. "T reckon my dog'n keep lem thar We better jest tote these men inter the house an have 8 prayin' bee. I've got a right smart good chanct, now, to whop op Satan"
 They moved the raiders horses. Then the party-save Harry Needles, who stayed in the grove to keep watch took its captives into the cabin. Three of them were boys from o1rb%ooy, 4o +xvap+u uaorC oF o0a ryha other was a lanky, bearded Tennes- seean some forty years old. One of the young lads had hurt his hand in the evenings frolic. Blood was dripping from 1t. The four sat silent and fear full and ashamed. ".
 Sarah made tea and put 1t with meat and milk and doughnuts and bread and butter on the table for them. Samson washed and bandaged the boys wound. The captives ate as if they were hungry, while the minister went out to feed his dog. When the men had finished eating Samson offered them tobacco. The oldest man filled his pipe and lighted it with a coal. Not one of the captiyes had said a WOTu uulll LuAS L1AA AOhhCS5GNdA marked after his pipe was going:
 ''Thankee, mister, You done been right good to us."| E. a..-s-' . "Who told you to come herei" Sam son demanded.
 "'Twere a man from St. Louis. He done said you hated the South an were holpin' niggers to run away"
 And he offered to pay you to come here and burn this house and run Traylor out of the county, didn't her" Abe asked. .rs,
 He did-yes, suh--he suah did," answered the man--like child in his ignorance and simplicity.
 T thought so," Abe rejoined. You tackled big job, my friend. Did you know that every one of you could be sent to prison for term of years, and
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I've good mind to see that you go there. You men have got to begin right now to behave yourselves mighty proper or you'll begin to sup sorrow"
 Stephen Nuckles returned as Abe was speaking.
 You jest leave lem to me, MT. Lin- coln," he said. "These be good men, but ol' Satan done got his hooks on 'em. Mis- Traylor, ef you don't mind, be goin' to do job O prayin' right now. Men, you jest git down on yo' knees right hyar along O me-"
 It is recorded later in the diary that the rude Shepherd of the prairies worked with these men on their farms for weeks until be had them wonted to the fold. ..s4-.. -
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It was growing dark. Ann Rutledge arrived on her pony, and called Abe aside and told him that the raiders the windows of Radford's store be- cause he had refused to sell them liquor.
 Don't say anything about it," Abe cautioned her. "Just go into the house with Sarah Traylor and sit down and have good visit. We'll look after the raiders"
 Then Abe told Samson what was up. The men concealed themselves in some bushes by the roadside while the minister. sat close. against an end of the house with his bloodhound beside him. Before they were settled in their places they heard the regulators coming. There were eight men in the party according to Abe's count as they passed. The men, in conceal ment, hurried to the cabin and sur rounded 1t, crouched against the walls. In a moment they could see a big spot, blackeri than the darkness, moving toward them. It was the massed raiders: They came on with the stealth of cat nearing it's prey. A lonlike roar broke the silence, The preachers bloodhound leaped forward. The waiting men sprang to their feet and charged. The raiders turned and ran, pell nell, in a panic toward their horses. Suddenly the darkness seemed to fill with moving figures. One of
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when he turned far down the road and waved his hand to her.
 "Oh, my pretty lass Do you not hear the birds singing in the mead owsT" said Jack Kelso. Think of the happiness all around you and of the greater happiness that Is coming when he returns. Shame on youl I"
 'Tm afraid he'll never come back" Ann sobbed. J #
 Nonsense Don't get a maggot in your brain and let the crows go walk ing over your face. Come. we'll take a ride in the meadows and if I don't bring you back laughing you may call me no prophet" .s. 4. .s a.
 So the event passed. l#
 Harry travelled about with Abe a good deal that summer, "electoneer- ing" as they called 1t, from farm to farm. Abe used to go into the fields, with the men whose favor he sought, and bend his long back over scythe or a cradle and race them playfully across the field of grain cutting & wider swath than any other and al- ways holding the lead. Every man was out of breath at the end of his swath and needed a few minutes for recuperation. That gave Abe a chance for his statemenn of the county's needs and his plan of satisfying them. He had met and talked with a majority of the voters before the campaign ended in his election in August. a
 At odd times that summer he had been surveying a new road with liar " Needles for his helper. In Sep tember they resumed their work upon it in the vicinity of New Salem and Abe began to carry the letters in hls hat again. Every day Ann was look ing for him as he came by in the dim light of the early morwng on his way to work.
 Anything for meg" she would ask.
 ''No mail in since saw you, Ann," was the usual answer.
 Often he would say: 'Tm afraid not, but 'here-you take these letters and look through 'em and make sure"
 Ann would take them In her hands, trembling with eagerness, and run int doors to the candleIight, and look them over. Always she came back with the little bundle of letters very slowly as If her disappointment were a heavy burden.
 'ThererI be one next mail if have to write it myself" Abe said one morning ip October as he went on.
 To Harry Needles, who was with him. that morning, he said:
 "I wonder why that fellow don't write to Ann. I couldn't believe that he has been fooling her, but now don't. know what to think of him.
 Continued on page 9
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In Which Abe, Elected to the LeoIeIa-
 ture, Gives What Comfort He Can to
 Ann RutIedge In the Beginning of
 Her Sorrows-AIso He Goes to Springfield for New Clothes. |, Radford's grocery had been so 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 a time Berry and Lincoln bought 1t, giving notes in payment and applied for a license to sell the liquors they had thus acquired.
 Late that autumn a boy baby ar rived in the Traylor home. Mrs. On stott, Mrs. Waddell and Mrs. Kelso came to help and one or the other of them did the nursing and cooking while Sarah was in bed and for a little time thereafter. The coming of the baby was comfort to this lone ly mother of the prairies. There is a letter from Sarah to her brother dated May, 10, 1883, in which she sums up some months of history in the words that follow:
 "The Lord ,has given us a new son. l have lived through the ordeal thanks to His goodness-and am strong onofn Thn aq hn hohx hoe 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. l 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 in politics. Abe lets Harry read the books that he bor- rows from Major Stuart of Springfield. The boy is bent on being a lawyer and improving his mind. Bim Kelso writes to her mother that she is very hap py in her new home but there Is some thing between the lines which seems to indicate that she is trying to put a good face on a, 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 out to the Traylors' with let ter in his hat for Sarah.
 Flows business?" Samson asked.
 Going to peter out, I reckon" Abe answered with a sorrowful look. "It will leave me badly in debt. I want ed something that would give me a chance for study and I got it. By jing! It looks as if I was going to have years of study trying to get over it. Have you got any work to give me? 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. ...
Connecticut western news., 1922-05-11
SYNOPSIS.
Copyright, Irving DaOhsIlsR

. INOTOi0s
 CHAPTER I-Samson and Sarah Tray Tor, with theif two children, Josiah and p1teey, travel by wagon from their home pisnty. fRar destinatio M is the coun- @ uy of the eangamon. in Illinois.
 CHAPTER II.-At Niagara Falls they q youth named John McNen, who also eN6idAs to go to the Sangamon country.
 cru. sarah S hH SinistrstionS % save nsvi1 the h iifo of youth, Harry Needles, in the last etages of fever, and he accompanies the Treylors. They reach New Salem, Illinois. r- -aOln- -.,-.,''. =, -.
 CHAPTER ul:-Among the Traylors' Jack Kelso and his pretty daughter Bin. v years of age. .s@#z.t ..4e... . os1s at Nsw Salem, and begins building fowdies attempt to break up the proceed Harry Needles strikes Bap McNoL of tho Armstrong crowd, and McNou threat ems vengeance. ..
 CHAPTER VIA few days later Harry, Alone, i attacked by McNoll and has EAng, end woald have been roughly. use{ a Shotsm@ John HcNeii, the. TrayiUrV NiGE1ra Falls acqL aintance, is markedly AtfSnttye to Ann Rutledge. Lincoln is in lNv0 with Ann, but has never had enough Courage to tell her so.
 CHAPTER VI Traylor helps two slaves, who had run away from SG Louis. to escape. Eliphalet Biggs, owner Of the 1lAvSs, fOllowtng them, attempts to boat up Iraylor and in a .Aght has his arm
 CHAPTER VIL-Waitng for his arm to heal Riggs meets Bim Kelso, with Yhom Harry Needles haa fallen in love. DA&ED asks for Bim's hand, but her father refuses his consent. Bikgs re- turnO to 4t Louis. IL
 CHAPTER vIII.-Bim confssses to NAFry that she loves BiRgs, and the youth io diOconsolate. Lincoln decides to 1eNk seat in the legialature. He and Harry volunteer for the BlAok Hawk war, and leave New Salem.
 CHAPTER N.-Biggs comes back to tao village and he and Bim elope. Harry learns of 1t on his way home from the ''Wnr" Lincoln's advice and philosophy sustain him in his grief.
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CHAPTER xI.

h Which Abe, Elected to the LeoIsIa- ture, Gives What Comfort He Can to Ann RutIedoe In the Beginning of Her Sorrows-Aiso He Goes to Springfield for New Clothes.
Connecticut western news., 1922-05-11

CEAPTMR VI. Traylor helps two slaves, who had run away from St Louis, to escape. Eliphalst Biggs, owner Of the nlAvS9, fOllowtng them, attempts to beat up Iraylor and in a Aght has his arm
Connecticut western news., 1922-05-11

CHAPTER VII-Waiung for his arm to heal, Riggs meets Bim Kelso, with Yhom Harry Needles has fallen in love. 1AHgs asks for Bim's hand, but her father refuses his consent. Bikgs re-
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CHAPTER I-Samson and Sarah Tray. lQr, with theif two children, Josiah and %otley, travel by wagon from their home n Vsrgenne1, Vt, to the West, the land p1 plenty. Their destination Is the Coun-
Connecticut western news., 1922-05-11

CHAPTDR vIII.-Bim confssses to youth 10 0t0consolate, Lincoln decides to loAlE . seat in the legislature. He and Harry volunteer for the BlAok Hawk war, and leave New Salem.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
Mrs. MaxfeLd
Disposes
By WILL T. AMES

VI ~~~~r ~ NN~Naeio @NoHbp0pos C}hulCAtd
Letitia Maxfield smiled the small
est Of amused little smiles over hel
knitting as she stole covert glance
at Albert Crafts across the living
room center table. The center table,
survival of period when there
must be a center table quite as
necessarily as a roof, was exhibit b
in the evidence that Letita Max.
field was not the ruler of that
household Exhibit A consisted of
Mrs Maxf1eld, who did rule 1t. No
one, no matter how great a stranger,
could spend an hour in the pres
ence Of Letitia Maxfield and her moth
er without becoming aware that the
latter tyrannized over her daughter
unremittingly, shamelessly, by the
device Of exaggerated self-renuncia-
uon. The center table presented a
case In point Albert Crafts, now be-
slowed uncomfortably In the cane
seated rocker with the curved back,
wishing to goodness that Mrs. Maxfeld
would go to bed. or at least get up
from that distressing wretched white
enameled chair in which she was por-
traying martyrdom, was another.
Mother" Letitia had said long
time ago, let's Danish this dreadful
table and shift things around in this
room so as to make II Just the least
bit like home"
very well. my DEAR" Mrs. Max
field had answered, with all the woes
of whole generation of mankind reg
istered in her long-suffering coun-
tenance. whatever you see fit to do,
do, of course. 1t is not to be expected
that 1t would make any great differ
ence to you that this is the way your
poor dear father knew our home. You
were quite young" Letitia, as a mat
ter of fact, was In her fourth year
when Mr.. Maxfield went to his reward
-"and changing fashions naturally are |
more important to you than his men,
DRY. Do what you like with the room,
but please do not ask me to use 1t aft
erward."
So. of course, Letitia being Letitia,
the room remained as 1t was, center
table and all, an entirely dreadful lat
mess.
Likewise in the case of Albert
Crafts. Ten years ago, when Letitia
was sllghter and prettier-if not so
Maxfield discerned
he imminent likelihood of Albert's
suit carrying the girl Off her feet. So
The began to be unspeakably sad
iened by the Inevitable prospect that
iome day, of course, her one eve lamb
would be going away out of her life
md leaving everything all barren and
imply and cold, and so on. All Of
which. being actuated by no suspicion
n the world that such disaster imme-
lately impended, so far as the eve
amb knew, served to make tender
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
NEED FAITH AND CONFIDENCE
Positions Open for Newly Trained
Victims OF World War Before
They Arc Ready.

That the rehabilitated World war
veterans success In life depends
absolutely upon his faith In himself,
Is the assertion Of MHJ. W. F. Lent,
chief Of the employment service Of
the United States veterans bureau
which has In charge the proper train.
Ing Of thousands OF disabled service
men.
Major Lent In speaking before the
headquarters staff Of the. American
Legion In indianapolis, said that the
Legion and the Legion Auxiliary had
as one Of their greatest obligations
the task of instilling into the hearts
OF service men an absolute faith and
confidence In themselves and their
abilities to cope with life's problems.
He said that the government is to
have a place for every veteran three
or four months before the veteran
Is ready to take 1t. I'VE do not
guarantee that man who has studied
to be factory superintendent will
be placed in that position" the major
explained, "but he will be placed in
the path so that he can obtain such
position through his own initiative
and ability. ~.~-~..s,s 49,. -
I'VE. want employers to understand,
too, that these men are no longer
cripples. They may be physically
crippled, but not industrially or vo-
cationally. When we put a man
with one arm into job, he is as we'll
able, and perhaps more so, to do that
particular work as Is the man with
TWO arTnSn
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15

presenting a historical motion picture
at one Of the local show houses.
Miss Hilda Schsurer. charming ss
a "iapper- OF 1922, was still more at.
tractive as "fapper Of 177o." The
crowds which packed one of the
largest and finest motion picture the
aters in the Middle West during the
entire showing of Cardigan" pic
ture of Revolutionary days, which the
American Legion Is sponsoring. was
proof Of the fact that Miss Scheurer
and her sister "flappers" did good
Job of advertising.
1t was not the first work Miss
Scheurer has done for the American
Legion. She is an ardent worker In
the Legion Auxiliary.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
War Gases for Farm Pests.

Gases which were used with such
deadly effect during the World war
are now being used for the extermina-
ton Of farm pests. Gases have been
used in the West for the extermina-
ton Of jack rabbits and gophers.
Mustard gas Is sprinkled over the
paths Of rabbits, irritating their feet
and causing them to rub them across
the face. The poison then quickly
becomes effective.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
Clock for Airpianes.

The air service of the United States
War Department has developed a pc
culiar kind Of clock to be used on air
planes. 1t Is said the clock will keep
perfect time In any temperature from
90 degrees below zero to $50 degrees
above. Furthermore, the vibration of
the plane does not affect the accuracy
Of the timepiece, which has move
ment like a watch and Is wound by
electricity.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
Scotch Thrift.

In a talk on thrift, banker told a
story about q Scotch farmer who, on
frequent shopping trips In town, would
hitch his horse on Main street, and
having securely attached the feed bag
would lift a hen from the wagon and
tie her with a stout cord to one Of
the shafts, In such manner that she
would be able to pick up every bit OF
oats the horse nigh drop while wrest.
ling with the feed bag.-Judge.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
hearted Letitia feel like something that
deserved to be shot at sunrise.

hearted Letitia feel Ike something tina
deserved to be shot at sunrise.
And so 1t had been. With the re
suit that Letitia Maxfeld, in the cours'
Of time, came to hold tho creed tina,
to think of herself Ii the very least
or to fail to put her mother not only
first but second and third. and all tht
way down to about tenth, was to b<
an unworthy, miserable creature.
This is the road that runs through
the land Of Spinsterhood to the de
serted village Of Lonely Old Age In
nine cases out Of every ten. 1t Just
happened, however, that the love OF
Albert Crafts for his self-sacrfficing
sweetheart was not mere calf love
He was a man, this slow-moving young
fellow, and he never gave up. Year
after year he kept up the steady, I'M
despairfng though not over hopeful
pursuit of the particular brand Of hap
piness ON which he had set his heart in
the beginning.
sits no use, Albert" Letitia would
say, n shall not marry. viii not
leave mother"
"But I've told you a hundred times,
dear" Albert would protest, ''that
there need be no separation"
Always Letitia shook her head at
this point. She would not formulate
words even to herself, the realization
that somehow it would be unfair to
subject another life to the same cark-
ing influence that had 30 manacled her
own. This was because Letitia's brain
knew that her mother was a selfish ty-
rant, the very while her heart kept
insisting that that mother was a rare
and tender plant which needed every
bit of the daughters generous young
soul for its spiritual sustenance. "She
has always missed father 50, the poor
dear" Letitia said to herself over and
over again.
And so Letitia had come to the point
where she could find just wee bit
of amusement in the awkwardly con-
cealed wish of Albert Crafts that Mrs.
Maxfield would go to bed, and in the
determination of Mrs.
Crafts to do nothing of the kind. She
had an uncanny way OF knowing, had
that lady, when one of the occasions
had arrived upon which Albert Just
had to propose to Letitia |
again. Only that very day, with her
very best air Of martyred abnegation. |
she had said to her daughter: Lett |
tia. my child, If your happiness de-
mands that you marry, pray do not
me. 1 am only your mother,
after all, you know" And Letitia, in
a burst Of generous sympathy, had
kissed her and made believe shake
her, and said: stop 1t. mumsie.
am perfectly happy with you" And
1t the moment she believed 1t, the
yoosei
Albert was just on the point of
giving up and going home in despair
when the door opened and Mr.. Stryker
entered portentiously. Mr.. Stryker
vas six feet tall, sixty years old, and
laborately bearded. He looked like
tall as well as portly Santa Claus.
or more than a month he had been
ledger In the Maxfield home, the
My one that establishment had ever
He lectured, being the
erald Of an amazing theory about the