Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-13
Man for the Ages
Continued from Page SKI

and hard work, was packing the SAD
adle-bags. now nearly filed, with extra
socks and shirts and doughnuts and
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
from James R~utledge. Without de-
Law the three men set out on the
north road in perfect weather. From
the hilps edge they could look over a
wooded plain running far to the east.
AS they rode on, the young states
man repeated a long passage from one
OF the ermon of DR.. William EIlery
Charming on the instability of HUI
man Affairs"
II wish that I had your memory"
samson remarked.
my memory is like a piece OF
metal" said the young legislator.
sTearning is not easy for me. It's
rather slow work-like engraving with
q tool. But when a thing is once
printed on my memory 1t seems to stay
there. 1t doesn't rub out. When l
run across a great idea, well ex-
pressed, 1 like to put it on the wall OF
my mind where 1 a live with 1t. 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 in deep water,
where a bridge had been washed away.
AS they came out dripping on the
farther shore. Lincoln remarked:
1.-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"
sMr. Lincoln, I'm sorry-you got
into a hole,' said Samson.
III don't mind that, but while we're
travelling together, please don't call me
MI. Lincoln 1 don't think I've done
an4thing to deserve such lack Of re-
spect."
Samson answered: "Tf you're nice
4o rs, 1 don't know but We'll call We
Abe again, just for a few days. You
can't expect us to 60 too far with a
man who associates with judges IN
eenerals and governors and such trash.
W you keep 1t up, you're bound to lose
sf&nding in our community"
n know I've changed" said Abe.
afve grown older since Ann died
ears ago-but 1 don't want you fell
y lows to throw me over. I'm on the
same level that you are and L 1ntend
I'd stay there. It's a fool notion that
men 60 up some heavenly stairway to
another plane when they begin to do
things worth while. That's a kind OF
fendalistic ~twaddle. The wise man
Keeps his feet on the ground and lifts
hfs mind as high as possible. The
higher he lifts it, the more respect he
viii have for the common folk. Have
elther Of you seen McNamar since he
kot backY
1T saw him the day he drove into
the village Harry answered. Fl
s0s1s expecting to find Ann and make
ID his promise to marry her."
W<Poor fool! It's a sad story all
~kround," said Abe Lincoln. "He's not
"a bad fellow, I reckon, but he broke
MqAnn's heart. Didn't realize What a
BENDER thing it was. I can't forgive
ADJ him."
t In the middle of the afternoon they
h came in sight Of the home Of Henry
Brimstead.
Pd Here's where we stop and feed,
md listen to Henry's secrets" said
Samson.
M The level fields were cut into
suuares outlined by wooden stakes.
Brimstead was moving the grass in
D his dooryard. He dropped his scythe
and came to welcome the travellers.
"Say, don't you know that you are
Standing in the center of a large and
PROMISING city?' he said to Samson.
You are standing at the corner OF
q Grand avenue and Empire street, In
HE growing city of Ell Dorado, near
he great water highway of Illinois"
Brimstead detained.
"Where's the growin'T' Samson de-
handed.
Brimstead came closer and said in a
confidential tone: eff you stand right
where you are an listen, you'll hear it
growin'."
ut sounds a good deal like a turnip
growin' in a garden" Samson re-
marked, t~houghtfully.
rGive it a fair chance" Brimstead
went on. 1.-TWO cellars have been dug
over there in the pasture. One is for
the town hall and the other for the
University which the Methodists are
gping to build. A railroad has been
Surveyed and Is expected this sum-
mer. Every corner lot has been sold
and paid for, half cash and half
notes"
"The brokers in Chicago got the
ash and you got the notes?"
you've said it. I've got a drawer
Ill of notes."
"And you've quit farmin'T'