The Bingham County news., 1922-03-10

Of a tree on the hillside. He looked
terribly peaked" as Uncle Bowiin
has said In letter.
"Why, Abe. where have you beenr
he asked. 1.-THE whole village Is
scared. Samson Traylor was here last
night lookin' for ye."
I'm like a deer that's been hurt"
said the young man. II took to the
woods. Wanted to be alone. You see,
l had 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. !
had made up my mind to 60 down to
your house for the night and was try
ing to decide whether have energy
enough to do It."
"Come on; It's only a short step."
urged the big-hearted Bowlin.
"What l feel the need of, just now,
is a 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 go down to the river for
dip. and l went with him. When we
got back, l induced him to take off his
clothes and get into bed. He was fast
asleep in ten minutes. When night
came l went up the ladder to bed He
was still asleep when 1 came down in
the morning. I went out and did my
chores. Then cut two venison
steaks. each about the size O. my hand.
and half moon Of bacon. l pounded
the venison to pulp with little salt
and bacon mixed in. put it on the
brOiler and over bed O. hickory Goals.
l got the coffee into the pot and up
next to the fire and some potatoes In
the ashes. l basted a bird with bacon
strips and put 1t into the roaster and
set 1t back O. the broiling bed. Then
I made some biscuits and put 'em
into the oven. tell you. in a little
while the smell O. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honestl 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 tiDe u itr
"Tt'1l be nine O'Clock BY the time
you're washed and dressed sayA i.
"Wol1, I declare says he. I've had
about sixteen hours O solid sleep. The
world locks better to me this morn
mg.'
AT the table told him Q stsry and
got . little laugh out Of him. He
stayed WITH me three weeks, choring
around the place and taking 1t easy.
He read all the books I had, until ysa
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 lot about Gsd
and the hereafter"
In October young Mr.. Lincoln re-
turned to his surveying. and in the
last month of the year to Vandalia for
an extra session Of the legislature,
where he took stand against the csn-
vention system Of nominating canAi-
dates for public ONCE. Samson went
to vandalia for a visit with him and
to see the place before tho session end
ed. The next year. in . letter to bic
brother, he says:
"Vandalia is . small. crude villaOs.
It has a strong flavor OF whisky, Dro-
family and tobacco. The night aftse
I got there went to q banquet With
Abe Lincoln. Heard q lot about ~
dam nisser-loving Yankees who wsrs
trying to ruin the state and csva1xy
with abolition. Thsre were soos
stories like those we used to hear in
the lumber camp. and no end Of psw.
efful 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 1t, shattering
plates and cups and saucers and
glasses. Nobody seemed to be able
to stop them. hear that they had to
pay 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 to be. Lincoln tells
me that they are honest, almost to a
man, and sincerely devoted to the pub
lie good as they see 1t. l asked Abe
Lincoln, who all his life has associated
with rOugh-tongued. 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
have never stopped associating with
myself and with Washington and Clay
and Webster and Shakespeare and
Burns and DeFoe and Scott and
Blackstone and Parsons. On the
whole, I've been In pretty good COM
pany.'
He has not vet ACCOMPLISHED much