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£m:'< T, r" *jy& i-.; >fl1 *v . -•>:} I 'i A Siory of the Buitders ofDemocracy. o' .v;*i. i ffH- »V ,« ' IRVING By *1, * i • CHAPTER XX--Continued. *>• *3/-'v a tM young man disappeared through the dwr of the private office and soon returned and conducted Samson into the presence of Mr. Davis. The two men recognized each other. <. "Well, sir, what la it about 1* the young speculator demanded. "The daughter of my old friend. Jack Kelso, owes you some money and , I want to pay It," said Samson. "Oh, that is a matter between Miss . Kelso and me," Mr. Davis spoke politely and with a smile. ^ / "Not exactly--since I knew about i It," Samsoo answered. "I refuse to discuss heraffalrs .^t-h . you," Davis declared. "I suppose you mistrust me," said Samson. "Well, I've offered to pay you and I'm going to make it plain to them that they don't have to worry any more about the money you loaned * them." • 4 "Very w«H, I bid you good morning." "Don't be In a hurry," Samson answered. "I have a note of five thousand dollars against you. It is indorsed to me by Henry Brimstead and I want to collect it." ' "I refuse to pay it," Davis promptly answered. "Tbten I shall have to put It In the hands of a lawyer," said Samson. -Put It where you like but don't consume any more of my time." "But you'll have to hear me say that I don't think you're honest." "I have heard you," Davis answered calmly. , Samson withdrew and went to the home of Mrs. Kelso. He found her \ with Bim's boy in her lap--a handsome little lad, then a bit over two years old--at the house on La Salle street. Samson told of the failure of Bim's letter to reach him and of his offer to 'return the money which Da- . vis had paid for their relief. "I don't like the man and I don't want you to be under obligation to ' him," said Samson. "The story of Harry's death was false and I think that he Is responsible for It. He wanted her to marry him right away after that--of course. And she went to the plague settlement to avoid marriage. I know her better than you do. She has read him right. Her soul has looked into his soul and it keeps her away from him." But Mrs. Kelso1 could believe no evil of her benefactor, nor would she promise to cease depending on his bounty. Samson was a little disheartened by the visit. He went to see John Wentworth, the editor of the Democrat, of whose extreme length Mr. Lincoln had humorously spoken In his presence. The young New Englander was seven feet tall. He welcomed the broadshouldered man from Sangamon county and began at once to question him about Honest Abe and "Steve" Douglas and O. H. Browning and E. D. Baker and all the able men of the middle counties. At the first opportunity Samson came to the business of his call--the mischievous lie regarding Harry's death which had appeared In the Democrat. Mr. Wentworth went to the proofroom and found the manuscript of the article. Samson told of the evil It had wrought and conveyed his suspicions to the editor. ••Davis is rather unscrupulous," said Wentworth. "We know a lot about him in this office." Samson looked at the article and presently said: "Here is a note that he gave to a, friend of mine. It looks to me as if the note and the article •were written by the same hand." Mr. Wentworth compared the two and said. "You are right. The same person wrote them. But it .was not Davis." Wheu Samson left the office erf the Democrat he had accomplished little save the confirmation of his suspicions. There was nothing he could do about it He went to Ell Fredenberg. "What has Davis done to you?" Samson asked, recalling where he bad met Ell that morning. EU explained that he had borrowed money from Davis to tide him over the ^ - hard times and was paying 12 per C»t for it. Dis morning I get dot letter from CHAPTER.XXI. Wherein * Remarkable School of Political Science Begins Its Sessions In the Rear of Joshua Speed's Store. Also at Samson's Fireside Honest Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the Right of Revolution. his secretary," he Aid as he passed m. letter to Samson. W It was a demand for payment In the handwriting of the Brimstead note and had some effect on this little his tory. It conveyed definite knowledge of the authorship of a malicious falsehood. It, aroused the anger and sympathy of Samson Traylor. In the conditions then prevailing Eli was unable to get the money. He was in danger of losing his business. Samsen spent the day investigating the affairs of the merchant. His banker pod others spoke well of him. He was Said to be#a man of character and "credit embarrassed by the unexpected scarcity of good money. So It came about that, before he left the news ' 0ty, Samson bought a fourth Interest lit the business of Ell Fredenberg. ^he jots he owned were then worth less than when he had bought them, but |lis faith in the future of Chicago had jiot abated. * He wrote: a long letter to Biia recounting the history of his visit and jlranklv stating the suspicions to which he had been led. He set out in the west road at daylight toward 'r the Riviere des Plalnes, having wisely decided »vsd4 (MUsiaf tb9 plague The boy Joe had had a golden -veek at the home of the Brimsteads. The fair Annabel, knowing not the power that lay in her beauty, had captured his young heart scarcely fifteen years of age. He had no Interest In her younger sister, Mary. But Annabel, with her long skirts and full form and glowing eyes and gentle dignity, had stirred him to the depths. When he left he carried a soul heavy with regret and great resolutions. Not that he had mentioned the matter to her or to any one. It was a thing too sacred for speech. To -God, in his prayers, he spoke of it, but to nd other. He asked to be made and to be thought worthy. He would have had the whole world stopped and put to sleep for a term until he w«|gpdellvered from the bondage of his tender youth. That being impossible, if was for him a sad, but not a hopeless world. Indeed, he rejoiced in his sadness. Annabel was four years older than he. If he could make her to know the depth of his passion, perhaps she would wait for him. He sought for self-expression in The Household Book of Poetry--a sorrowful and pious volume. He could find no ladder of rhyme with an adequate reach. He endeavored to build one. He wrote melancholy verses and letters, confessing his patesion, to Annabel, which she did not encourage, but which she always kept and valued for their ingenuous and noble ardor. Some of these Anacreontics are among the treasures Inherited by her descendants. They were a matter of slight importance, one would say, but they mark the beginning of a great career. Immediately after his return to the new home In Springfield, the boy, Josiah, set out to make himself honored of his ideal. In the effort he made himself honored of many. His eager brain had soon taken the footing of manhood. A remarkable school of political science had begun Its sessions In the little Western village of Springfield. The world had never seen the like of It. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, E. D. Baker, O. H. Browning, Jesse B. Thomas, and Josiah Lamborn --a most unusual array of talent as subsequent history has proved--were wont to gather around the, fireplace In the rear of Joshua Speed/s store, evenings, to discuss the issues of the time. Samson and his Wn Joe oflme often to hear the talk. DougTffs looked like a dwarf among those long-geared men. He was slight and short, being only about five feet tall, but he had a big, round head covered with thick, straight, dark hair, a bulldog look and a voice like thunder. Douglas and Lincoln were in a heated argument over the admission of slavery to the territories the first night that Samson and ak sat down with them. didn't like that little rooster of a man, he had such a high and mighty way with him and so frankly opposed the principles we believe in. He was an out-and-out pro-slavery man. He would have every state free to regulate Its domestic Institutions, in its own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln held that It amounted to saying 'that if one man chose to enslave another no third party shall be allowed to object.' " In the course of the argument Douglas alleged that the Whigs were the aristocrats of the country. That reminds me of a night when I was speaking at Havana," said Honest Abe. "A man with a ruffled shirt and a massive gold watch chain got up and charged that the Whigs were aristocrats. Douglas In his broad cloth and fine linen reminds me of that man. I'm not going to answer Douglas as I answered him. Most of the Whigs I know are my kind of folks. I was a poor boy working on a flatboat at eight dollars a month and had only one pair o£ breeches and they were buckskin. If you know the nature of buckskin, you know that when it Is wet and dried by the sun it will shrink and my breeches kept shrinking and deserting the sock area of my legs until several inches of them were bare above my shoes Whilst I was growing longer they were growing shorter and so much tighter that they left a blue streak around my legs which can be seen to this day. If you call that aristocracy I know of one Whig that is an aristocrat." "But look at the New England type of Whig exemplified by tke imperious and majestic Webster," said Douglas to keep you from being a shotgun lawyer," Abe Lincoln began. 'Tve got a good first lesson for you. I found it in a letter which Rufus Choate had written to Judge Davis. In it he says that we rightly have great respect for the decisions of the majority, but that the law Is something va'stly greater and more sacred than the verdict of any majority. "The law,' he says, 'comes down to us one mighty and continuous stream of wisdom and ex-, perience accumulated, ancestral, widening and deepening and washing itself clearer as it runs on, the agent of civilization, the builder of a thousand cities. To have lived through ages of unceasing trial with the passions, interests and affairs of men, to have lived through the drums and tramplings of conquest, through revolution and reform and all the changing cycles of opinion, to have attended the progress of the race and gathered unto Itself the approbation wf civilized humanity Is to have proved thflt it carries in It some spark of Immortal life."' The face of Lincoln changed as he recited the lines of the learned and distinguished lawyer of Massachuchusetts. His face glowed like a lighted lantern when he began to say those eloquent words," Samson writes In his diary. "He wrote them down so that Josiah could commit them to memory." "That is a wonderful statement," Samson remarked. Abe answered: "It suggests to me that the voice of the people In any one generation may or may not be Inspired, but that the voice of the best men of all ages, expressing their sense of justice and of right. In the law, Is and must be the voice of God. The Spirit and body of its decrees are as indestructible as the throne of Heaven. You can overthrow them but until their power is re-established, as surely It will be, you will live in savagery." You do not deny the right of revolution." No, but I can see no excuse for It In America. It has remained for us to add to the body of the law the Idea that men are created free and equal. The lack of the saving principle In the codes of the worl<J has been the great cause of injustice and oppression." Honest Abe rose and walked up and down the room in silence for a moment. Then he added: Choate phrased it well when be said: 'We should beware of awaking the tremendous divinities of change from their long sleep. Let us think of that when we consider what we shall do with the evils that afflict us.'" The boy Joe had been deeply Interested in this talk. "If you'll lend me a book, I'd like to begin studying," he said. There's time enough for that," said Lincoln. "First, I want you to understand what the law Is and what the lawyer should be. You wouldn't want to be a pettifogger. Choate Is the right model. He has a dignity suited to the greatness of his chosen master. They say that before a justice of the peace, in a room no bigger than a shoemaker's shop, his work is done with the same dignity and care that Copyright. Irrtar B*eh«n«r iips are silent. It must show in your life and fill the spaces between your words. It will help you to choose and charge them with • the love of great things that carry conviction. "I remember, when I was a boy over In Gentryville, a shaggy, plain-dressed man rode up to the door one day. He had a cheerful, kindly face. His character began to speak to us before he opened his mouth to ask for a drink of water. MiI don't know who you Are,' my father said. 'But I'd like it awful well if you'd light and talk to us.* He did and we didn't know till he had gone that he was the governor of the state. A good character shines like a candle on a dark night. You can't mistake it. A firefly can't hol/l his light long enough to compete with It 'Webster said in the Knapp trial: 'There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.' 'A great truth like that makes wonderful music on the lips of a sincere ma|. An orator must be a lover and discoverer of such unwritten laws." It was nearing midnight when they heard footsteps on the board walk In front of the house. In a moment Harry Needles entered in cavalry uniform with fine top boots and silver spurs, erect as a young Indian brave and bronzed by tropic suns. "Hello!" he said as he took off his belt and clanking saber. "I hang up my sword. I have had enough of War." He had ridden across country from the boat landing and, arriving so late, had left his horse at a livery stable. 'I'm lucky to find you and Abe and Joe all up and waiting for me," he said as he shook their hands. "How's mother?" 'I'm well," Sarah called from the top of the stairway. y'Tll be down In a minute." yr For an hour or more they sat by the fireside while Harry told of his adventures in the great swamps of southern Florida. • "* "I've done my share of the fighting," he said at length. "I'm going north, tomorrow to find Bim and her mother." "I shall want you to serve a complaint on one Lionel Davis," said Mr. Lincoln. "I have one of my own to serve on him," Harry answered. "But I hope that our case can be settled out of court." "I think that I'll go with you as far as Tazewell county and draw the papers there," said Lincoln. .When the latter had left for his lodgings and Joe and his mother had gone to bed, Samson told Harry the details of his visit to Chicago. "She may have taken the disease and died with it before now," said the young man. "I'll be on my way to Honey Creek In the morning.'* (TO CONTINUED.) • EACH MONTH HAS ITS JEWEL Almost Universal Belief in Marvelous Properties Attached to the Various Precious 8tones. The ancients attributed marvelous properties to many of the precious stones. There is a significance attached to the various stones In making birthday, engagement and wedding presents. The different months and the stones sacred to them, with their respective meanings, follow: January, garnet; constancy and fidelity In every engagement. February, amethyst; preventive against violent passions. March, bloodstone; courage* wisdom and firmness In affection. April, sapphire; free from enchantment, denotes repentance. May, emerald; discovers false triends and Insures true love. June, agate; Insures long life, health and prosperity. July, ruby; discovers poison, corrects evils resulting from mistaken friendship. August, sardonyx; insures conjugal felicity. September, chrysolite; free from evil passions and sadness of the mind. October, opal; denotes hope, sharpens the sight and faith of the possessor. November, topaz; fidelity and friendship, prevents bad dreams. December, turquoise; prosperity la love. "Waster was another poor lad," Lincoln answered. "His father's home was a log cabin in a lonely land until about the time Daniel was born, when the family moved to a small frame house. His is the majesty of a great intellect" There was much talk of this sort until Mr. Lincoln excused himself to walk home with his two friends who had Just returned from the North, being eager to learn of Samson's visit. The latter gave him a full account of it and asked him to undertake the collection of Brimstead's note. "I'll get after that fellow right away," said Lincoln. *Tm glad to get a chance at one of those men who have been skinning the farmers." They sat down by the fireside in Samson's house. "Joe has decided that he wants to be a lawyer," said Samson. "W®U, Joe, we'll all do what we can Harry Told of His Adventures In the Great Swamps. he would show in the supreme court of Massachusetts. A newspaper says that in a dog case at Beverly he treated the dog as If he were a lion and the crabbed old squire with the consideration due a chief justice. "He knows how to handle the English language," Samson observed. "He got that by reading. He Is the best read man at the American bar and the best Bible student. There a lot of work ahead of you, Joe, before you are a lawyer, and when you're admitted success comes only of the capacity for work. Brougham wrote the peroration of bis speech in de fense of Queen Caroline nineteen times." "I want to be a great orator," the boy exclaimed witji engaging frank ness. "Then you must remember that character Is the biggest part of It," Honest Abe declared. "Great thoughts come out of a great character and only out of that. They will come even if you have little learning and none of the graces which attract the eye. »ne Knows What It Is Scientifically, but Realiy it Depends on Circbmttancea. Scientifically, of course, a day IS M hours long, but it is the popular custom to separate this f>eriod Into the two parts of "day" and "night," and when one says "all day," only the daylight hours are meant, ahd this meaning may be further qualified and limited to a specific number of hours ; If a person is hired to work "a day" he expects to give service Jar the usual or legal number of hours, a very necessary arrangement in order that endless contentions and misunderstandings be avoided, since the length of a daylight day varies widely. Actually, modern understanding is that one shall work so many hours, not so mqfiy days. At London, England, the longest dayr light day has 16>4 hours, while at Stockholm, Sweden, it is 18^ hours lu length. At Petrograd, Russia, the longest day is 19 hours, and the shortest five, while -at. Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interruption. In Spitzbergen the longest day is 8% months. In the United States the duration of the longest day depends upon the locality, but that of Kansas City, a little less than 15 hours, is about an average longest day for the whole country. Legally "a day" may be^ hours or almost any shorter period, depending upon specific statutes, custom and common understanding. If one engages a hotel room for "a day" he is entitled to Its use, unless there is a specific understanding to the contrary, for 24 hours continuously, but a horse hired for "a day" could not be retained for more than 12 hours and, unless otherwise agreed, that 12 hours would run between sunrise and sunset, and' it would be necessary to surrender the animal at sunset, no matter when it was taken out. For general purposes, the law divides the 24-hour period into equal parts as "day" and "night," and assumes that the daylight hours are meant in general agreements. A man who contracts to deliver ice "once a day," for example, would be required to deliver it during the* daylight hours and at some reasonable lyid convenient time, but if a gas company reserved the right to shut off the gas for an hour once each day" In order to make repairs, for instance. It could do so at any hour of the 24. It is thus clear that It is no more possible to answer specifically the question, How long is a day? than the classical query, How large Is a pt0f» of chalk?--1-Kansas City Star. *PRIGE$ Hosphate Hie B<\S( Low IYkv< I Healthful Raking Powder- ObUinuible ( Qn t a i ns r V (> \ in m Use'if -and Save ! Write lor New Dr.Price ( ook Book - (f s fix Price Baki iPowder F a c t o r y , toqUndepeinlence Blvd . Chicago,111 Seagull and Golf. Every golfer knows the story of the Sussex man who was put off his play by the ships passing up and down the English channel, but there are other dangers than ships to a game on the seashore. Seagulls, to wit. Just as a ball was being chipped on the green at Port Erin, Isle of Man, a seagull swooped down® seized the stationary ball and carried it off. After flying for about a hundred yards the bird dropped the ball, but at once recovered it, flew another hundred yards and dropped it again. Then the player came into Lis own. There was a problem that might have served as a summertime subject for newspaper correspondence, for while one* player argued that the ball should be played where it was dropped, another contended that as It had been displaced by an agency outside the game, it should be replaced where it originally lay. This was done, but there should be a definite ruling on the point. Seagull golf which may do for Manxland may not do for all the golfing world, It's Necessary. "Alice dresses awfully loud', doesn't she?" "Yes, but then her husband Is very deaf," Always the Way. "This film Is too bad to show." "Nonsense! Label It as educa&N* al."--Film Fun. ' • •."W Use SAPOLIO For Every Room in the House In the kitchen SAPOLIO cleans pots,pans, oilclpth and cutlery; in the bathroom SAPOLIO cleans porcelain, marble, tiling --the wash basin and bathtub; in the hallway SAPOLIO cleans painted woodwork, doors, sills and concrete or stone floors. See that the name SAPOLIO is on every package. ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO. Sola Msutmfmetmrt* New York U.S. A. ? ' ./ U..'V u Curious Form of Door. One of the oldest of human inventions is the door swinging on hinges at one side. Some weaving insects, such as trap-door spiders, employ a similar device. But nothing is too old or too good to escape the efforts at Improvement. A Belgian, Joseph Henri Dlerick, invented a door of a new type, consisting of two triangular parts which close together on a diagonal line, running from one lower4 corner of the door, opening to the opposite upper corner. The two parts, or leaves, are pivoted In such a manner that when opened they swing into partitions in the celling, leaving an entirely unobstructed passage. EShining-up Days Are Here, Use STOVE POLISH Its Shine Is Wonderful Savathceoaponafor kttehanaprona. Martin A. Martin. Mftm.,Chi*a0i Road to fame. The road to fame is not an easy one and the efforts of novelists and writers to climb the ladder are full of reverses and disappointments, as following instances show: W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, sold his first play for $150, yet he was able later to count his Income from his plays and comic operas la hundreds of thousands. For years Sir Arthur Plnero treasured a set of shlrtstuds, his honorarium for his first play, "Two Hundred a Year." His next, entitled, "Two Can Play at That .Game," made him richer by $25, while his third only added $250 to his banking account. Later, "Sweet Lavender" put $20,000 into his pocket. Jack London sola l^js.j^ry, "The Black Cat," for $40. t / , ------ ' ' ' There was no grief among the Bwine because pearls were not cast before them.. Egyptian Decorative Ideaa. Experts tell us that in the decora* tion of furniture the Egyptian cabinet maker never veiled construction. He obeyed the sound principle and precept that decoration should spring from construction, and not construction from decoration. Elements of ornament apparently were the same in private as In public buildings. These elements were the lotus and papyrus bowers, the palm branch and the feathers of birds, as well as a number 6t geometrical patterns derived from primitive arts of weaving and plaiting. The simple or complex treatment of lotus and papyrus flowers, buds, leaves and stems, U is asserted, made the Egyptian system of mural decoration rich, varied and glowing, as well as thoroughly in harmony with the scale of color set by nature tn the Nile valley* Dresses From Dogs' Weak Women wbo own dogs can weava jumpers out of the combings of thelf-j petsl The originators of this new spinning industry claim that "doggy1* clothes are pleasant to wear. Th# garments are made on the old sptnp. nlng wheels used by our great-grand^ mothers. Pekingese combings make light, soft garments of all kinds. Colalie wool makes warm socks, and thf combings of the retriever cozy muf» tiers. The combings of the poodle make the elegant waistcoats suitable for winter sports. The wool from bif white dogs makes effective hospital garments, while tiny fancy dogs glvf a fine heavy white yarn. t - The surest way to be a hundred percent American is to be a hundred percent man. Limited Enthusiasm. The leading lady of an incoming theatrical company met the leading man of an outgoing troupe at the railroad station. "Did you have a good house heasT* She asked eagerly. "No, pretty small," he admitted. "Too bad, but perhaps you got a lot of applause?" "Well," he hesitated, "there was a dog that managed somehow to "get Into the place and once I noticed him wag his tall."--American Legion Weekly. Firm Stand Needed. Young Wife--My husband likes, cooking, Delia, but he wants tfi know if you .can make your toast a trifle thinner. . Delia--Tell him no, ma'am, from both of us; why, if we'd be glvin* in to him now, in six months they'd be no Uvto' with him.--Life, ^ -- : Uncle Eben's Ideiu - "De man dat puts on airs over de common people," said Uncle Eben, "Is slttln' In the mos' dangerous kind of a draft." Thought Teacher Dense. A teacher tried to impress on the child's mind the sound of the letter "a" by having him repeat it several times In different words. Getting tired of the repetition the child looked at But you must have a character the teacher and sa^ ' "D#s*t ye* that Is over speaking, eves when your know It yet!" *. Safety First. The marines are notoriously able t#| live off the country, writes Mary Roberts Rlnehart. In time of need they have methods of acquiring what is necessary, and most of us know the story of the little plckinnlny In th# road: "Mammy, come and look at the sol» diers coming!" Mammy goes out and surveys approaching ranks. Then she shouts to her offspring In shrill apprehension : "Them ain't soldiers, honey. Them's marines. You come right on in and bring that' dog in with you Leatherneck. f. Height of Women Inereaslfifr The increase in the height of women gone on steadily for more than fifty years, but measurements have, altered most notably In the last two de> cades. Our grandmothers stood barely five feet In their shoes, but their daughters measure five feet four Inches, and their athletic granddaughters of today measure from five foot to Ave foot tap la their stockings. 35*:'« The 'Block Signals Are Working-- In aome respects, human exi i ti like railroading. ^ ^ Every moment of the Iwiatucja dUB1" social day the block signals are giving right of way to keenness and alertness --while the slow and the heavy muac wait on the sidetrack for their chsnf to move forward. " . The ability to "go fHWplife "get there" depends much on the poise of Jbody, brain and nerves that comes with correct diet and proper noorishitifint. That's why so many choose Grape- Huts for breakfast and lunch. Served •With cream or milk it is completely nourishing, partly pre-digested, and it jupplies the vital mineral fialta m accessary to full nutritka. ^ :'v ? Grape-Nuts has a rich, delightful ftivor, is ready to serve on the instant --and is distinctly the food for and physical alertness mil speed. At "-•I ;:*• •• •J 'There's a jRmwmH -at-JL J?; •M-K- m