The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

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Where deepest drifts were snowing Andcoldest waves wero blowing We’dlinger, feebly crowing; , , ’■0, hownice,” . * —II. ('. Hodge, in UoodaU's.Sun. 1 ) 0 WiV TfIG GRADE. Story o f a S tagecoach R ide in tho Rockies. IIE telling ©f tlie stories of s t a g e c o a c h , i l a y s on the frontier h a s only just be­ gun. For every o n e yet told, t h e r e are a thousand better ones -hidden in the mom. tains, h a n g i n g in faint e c h o e s abox/t the- cautp fire's of the pio­ neers.; If you l i v e awhile in the cabins along the Yuba, above Marysville, you will find miners still •coyoting among the thrice-sifted ■piles of gravel for the aftermath of ’40; you will, find old stage drivers, with bent and twisted hands, who know every noted driver of the Pucific coast; you will hear stories" of staging in, the fifties and sixties, in the wildest parts’ of the {sierras, that have -never reached print, but have been carried on, through ’ttnanifold traditions, until they have reached the completeness and the dignity of an epic of the stage­ coach. Besides the longer stories one hears there are dozens o f ' lesser episodes of the staging days—the -episode of Smoky's runaway, for instance. {smoky was a famous stage driver ho- 1 ecu Brass W ’ey and Marysville, by way of Penn vuhey, Hough and Ready, ismartsvillc. and Timbuetoo. About 1801 he was in his glory, the ideal of a driver, and able to hold his own with anyone ou tlie route, lie received his name from the remark of a little girl, the daughter of the hotelkeeper at Murphy's Ranch,.' She once slid off his lap and ran oil’, saying that ho was “too smoky to stay with;” she "liked men who did not puff cigars in her face." After this episode Smoky's real name fell into disuse; he was “Smoky” and “Old Smoky” from the Sierra to the Sacramento. , • Oh the day when Smoky had liis run­ away affair, the stage swung into Brass Valley early in tho morning, with two passengers aboard, both in* “VOr'fSB TOO SMOKY.” {side. They had breakfast, tind then Smoky took charge. He drove around in front of the store to wait for another passenger; he put on Hie brake, ns he supposed, twisted the reins about the brake-bar, and went into tho store. The four horses started off a t full Speed, and, striking a stone, the ja r let the brake then the horses flow down the grade like sons of destruc­ tion. The passengers sat In silence, a litilo sur-priced at the rapid motion, but be­ lieving that the driver was on tho box. One of them was ft smalt, nervous, bright-eyed young man, newly coine. to California -a young man who was just beginning a career of invention and manufacturing achievement tha t has given him placu among the score or so of foremost Califoi nians. The other man was a me re nonentity, The youug man with the bright eyes began to see that, something was xvj-obg with the stage. It went too fast; it swung too much. lie climbed on the seat, and let down the narrow window nearest the driver’s box. lie. leaned out and managed to raise himself far enough to see that tin1 horses were running away. lie called to the driver hut received no reply. The young man reflected that tho road ahead was'not an easy one for a runaway stagecoach to manage. They wore now on the down grade, next' came a hill, th ru another descent, then a second hill, then a long, steep and winding piece of down grade. The horses must- bo stopped ■before this descent was reached or a smash-up was inevitable. He decided to do bis best to cheek the horses; if he failed be would jump .out and leave them. ' Tho first tiling to do was to swing on the driver's box. A heavier man might have failed,- -but the young stranger was alert and muscular; ho watched liis chance, caught the iron bar a t the end of tho seat, drew himself out, poised a second on the window sill, and leaped upward just as the stagecoach swung toward him. lie foxind himself landed, 'in consequence, upon the driver’s seat, and clinging,tq>the brake- bar. The lines were flying wildly over the heads of the horses,-or tangled under their feet. , ■ The young man began to put on the brakes, not with any haste, hut slowly and • carefully.- The great curving blocks of oak settled down against tho wheels, but the rapidity of the vehicle’s motion was now such that there was danger of heating the'tires and causing them to fly from the wheels. Again and again he tightened the brakes, and ' released them! steadying the massive- coach as it swung around the sharp curves of the dusty road, and reeled from side to side like a drunken giant. At one moment the young man felt the coach scrape against the cloven pine roots of the mountain side, and at the next lie felt it eddy along the verge of the X'avine, and lean over the abyss as if ready to .plunge down into the tops of the oaks on Nigger Flat, live hun­ dred feet below. ■Pretty soon the bottom of . the grade was reached, and tho young man put tlie brakes down hard. But it was only a little rise after all, and the horses were running a t the top of their speed THU COACH liKKI.KI) I.llyli A HUUNKEX (HAN'T. —the stage went on, hardly checked by the doubled obstacles, and began another descent. Again the same tac­ tics followed; the brake was used with the utmost skill and patience, but an outsider would have said there was lit­ tle gain. The second ascent came nt last, and here, on a broken road, full of deep'ruts wh'ch helped to check the stage, the young man brought every­ thing up standing. A two-mile run it had been, and the horses were still rearing and plunging. Tlie other passenger peered careful­ ly out of tho window and asked what was the matter. lie xvas ordered to open tlie door, jnmp out, and take tho leaders by tho head. The young man, “set” tlie brakes, climbed down and be­ gan to collect tlie remnnts of the lines and knot them together. A little later Smoky came running up in a state of despair and exhaus­ tion. His pleasure a t discovering tho coach and horses uninjured took tho form of a series of wild yells and .contortions that would have done credit to a Sliasta Indian skeleton dance. Ho climbed back on the box, the pas­ sengers got in, and tho stage started off a t redoubled speed to make up for lost time. The story went around among tho stage-drivers. There was one young fellow that must be taken care of. He was to have the seat with the driver, no matter who wanted it; he was the “man wot stopped Smoky's turnout on tlie Penn Valley tirade. ” Even to-day if tlie hero of tills true tale were to leave tiis great mills and business en­ terprises in San Francisco, and go to the wilds of Modoe and Siskiyou beyond the outposts of tlie railroad, ho would bo almost sure to discover th a t bis name and fame were known; that the word would be sent along the line: “Shnohy’s passenger is goln* over this road,” and the grumpiest of old stagers would unbend, and treat oliim as an equal. The young man •who fellnilied out over the wheel and "put down tlie brakes” on .Smoky’s stagecoach thirty years ago, is still an honorary member of the craft of ancient and wcaler-bcat- en masters of the whip and ribbons, —Charfes IF. Shinn, in N. Y. IndcpQua* •nt, OF. GENERAL INTEREST. TEMPERANCE NOTES. —-The Pickwick club, Louisville, Ky., Is reported to be the “sxveUebi” organiz­ ation of colored men in tin?country. It is literary as well us, social and its leaders set the fashion for tlie colored jeunes.se dorce of the town, —A New York youth wrote a letter to his fiancee recently and while on tliu way to mail i t lost it in an elevated railroad car. When tho train was re­ turning the fiancee boarded it and wua surprised, to find a letter on the seat addressed to her. She quickly recog­ nized tho handwriting, however, and was quietly reading it while the youth was writing, the same thing over again. —The most ingenious of the nickel-- in-the-slot machines now plays poker On x-eceipt of two half dimes—-or four if as many choose to play the game. It -is pharisaically called a tell-your-fort- tine machine, but tho poker th a t it plays is of the genuine kind, which will bankrupt any man who sticks to it dur- irig that distressing period which play­ ers speak o f'a s "not my day for win­ ning.” —Mrs. Cxxnninghnm, of Belfast, is the mother of triplets—bright babies now txvo years old. 'When'they wore young­ er these triplets xvere a soxirco of un- mixed joy, but. now they are getting to be something of a nuisauce to 'th e mother, for every timo she goes down town the babies arc bound to go, too, and admiring crowds follow tlicm from shop to shop as though they xvere part of a circus parade. • —Undertakers say that it.is a common thing with the families of tlie poor hi New York to send for them as soon as a member of tho household is pronounced to bo dying. On a recent occasion an assistant in a ’west side funeral estab­ lishment waited foxxr hours in the outer hall for the ln$£ breath to be drawn, and then ventured a mild sxiggestion to tlie .family that they should wait in turn and send for him in the morning. —Somexxvator meters recently pur-' chased by the New York City authori­ ties, a t §70 each, have been condemned because they registered three times as : much water-as passed through, them, -i They lxndevidently been constructed by a mechanic who had xvon distinction n$ a maker of industrious gas-meters which never fail to tick -out a big record. If the gas companies know his address, be will not long rxist in idle­ ness. : —Rats are very selfish. A Brooklyn lady has discovered •th is, fnet, and act­ ing upon it, placed a piece of looking- glass in the side of a trap opposite the entrance. The rat, seeing the reflec­ tion of an animal of its- kind about to enter,1 .hastens its movements, and of course gets in first Tlie lady who thought of this .trick has been quite successful in catching rats, and in tho very trap which before they had stxidi* ously.shunned. —-An Atchison man had- a “night­ mare” after eating a lunch of cheese, mustard and dried beef, and had a dis­ agreeable dream that bis son xvas in great.danger instead of being xinabie to run from ghosts, as is usually the case in nightmares, he xvas unable to get ready to go to the rescue of liis son, Finally he awoke, and xvas so impressed with the dream tha t lie wept into his son’s room. lie found him out of bed and on tho roof of tho house,' where he had climbed in bis steep. - —One ex-cuingW. T. Reeves, manager of tlie Postal Telegraph Co. in Madison, ,Fill., found that his wires did not xvork between that point and Greensboro. In the morning*Mr. Reeves Started out on an investigating t urn When xvlthin six miles'of Greensboro lie found txvo mammoth snakes hanging across the wires in such a manner as to connoct the currents of each. The snakes had been killed, tied together and hung out to bring rain, tho xvork being dono by darkies la the neighborhood. —A prominent cable car line official in Pittsburgh said recently: "The ropes on cable roads are, as a rule, sold as soon as they are put in. Tile rope upon xvhich we are traveling xvas sold several weeks ago. The old ropes aic sold for inclines, elevators, etc. They arc better for that purpose than if they were new. They have become so thor­ oughly soaked with oil and tar, and so stretched that they are seasoned. They will never wear out on inclines or ele­ vators because there is no strain on them compared with tliat of a cable road, and they have been tested so that they may be, relied on. After they have been ib use a short time on the cable roads, and before they' show any signs of wear, they are replaced by noxv ones.” _______________ M e re T h a n n lMtilr. A young man in a doxvn toxvn whole­ sale house early yesterday morning slipped into the law office of a friend of his and wanted to borroxv ten dol­ lars. “What’s that for?” inqnired the laxv- ycr. “You had fifty dollars in your pocket last evening a t 7 o'clock.” “But I haven’t got it now/' groaned the visitor. , “Where is it?” "Sat in a game last night from 10 'to t." “Oh!” exclaimed the. lawyer-as tho plot was revealed. “That’s it. Pot full of money on tho table; 1 lxtul aces up; other fellow had a pair of deuces. I got rattled; he got tho’po t" “ It was a bluff then?” “Bluff nothing, It xvns a precipice, and I foil over it. Ginuno (lie ten doi« lars cud let inc gut back to the office,* —Dot alt Free 1’rcM, A BUSINESS VIEW. W liu t th u .lw m i T ratllc i'o s ts th e I.o g ltl- uinU' lltiHlucKK of O iid City. Tlie keepers of; saloons insist that their business is dvery xvhit as legiti­ mate as the sale of food, or of clothing, or of furniture, ox*any other retail oc* cupation. •This is not true. Dealers in these uud the thousands of oilier articles of daily consumption and use are engaged in supplying tlie natural wants of humanity. Tim saloon keeper is not. The former gives* to liis custom­ er an equivalent for his money. The saloon keeper does not. Rum is neither food nor clothing, nor does it supply any need of the healthy .human body. It is a poison which injures, and in large enough doses xvill kill. Tlie men xvho sell it are not on the same 'plane as retail business men, Instead of catering to humanity’s needs, they pander to its vices. Tlieir occupation is on the same level as that of those xxdio traffic in the souls and bodies of, women to satisfy men’s lust There is no legitimate business that, would not bo largely benefited if this traffic in liquid ruin were destroyed. Wo.'Will.-enter into a little calcula­ tion to show how much tho "traffic costs Toledo. We think it probable that there is not a saloon in the city whose average sales are less than $310 per day. Unless the saloon keeper take in this rnxxeli at least, he cannot live:' for, though the percentage of profitin' the retail sale of liqxior is enonnoxis, yet xvlien the first cost of the liquor, the rent of tho room, and the cost of- fire, gas, taxes and other expenses are taken oxit, there would be too navroxv a margin for profit if the saloon’s sales averaged less- than 810 daily. I t is said that the lnrge and fashionable saloons on Summit ^street claim to average §400 and over per day, We think that the average of $10 per day for all the saloons in the city is proba­ bly too low. Hoxvever, xve. would soon­ er err on that side, than on the other, and so xvill let it stand. There are, according-to the collector o f. internal revenue, over 000 saloons in this city. .For convenience , in calculation let /us' take that number, Assuming the average of daily receipts to be only §10, tlie amount paid ’over their counters is over .§0,000 daily, and over SI,878,000 yearly. It, xvill .be noted that xve omit Sunday, and do' 'not take into calcxxlation the illegal sales of that day, xvhich are very large; hence our estimate is very low if. xve make it §-2.000,000 yearly. Thpik of what tliat §2,000,000 a year loses to tho city, and \o all legitimate lines of business and you xvill begin to have a faint idea of what the rum traf­ fic costs Toledo in a purely business way every year! It does not do a cent’s worth of good to those xvho buy it, nor to their- xvLvcs and children. The amount spent for rum is simply that much filched from other necessities and comforts. If there xvere not a rum- hole in Toledo that §2,000,000 xvoxild be nearly all spent with business men in legitimate lilies.- The men xylxo now pay it out for liquor would tli'en spend it for more food or- tliat of a butter quality; for better clothing for them-, selves, their wives and their children; for better furniture, home ■ 'comforts and the little luxuries of life. They xvoxild live in better houses; they would exist mi n higher plane. A por­ tion of it would probably be saved’and nut axvav in,savings banks ns u deposit against times of sickness or misfortune, or when old ago shall coine. Look now for a moment at the busi­ ness side of tills state of affairs. Let tho retail merchants of Toledo consider* for a moment tlie value to themselves of an additional expenditure of §0,000 per day from vetnil consumers. We have no means of knowing .what is the average total amount of retail sales daily in the city, but xve are quite cer­ tain that the regular addition of 80,000 to the total for every working day in tho year xvould give such a boom to the retail trade as it has not ex­ perienced in.years, aud it xvould be permanent. It xvould not lie only for one day, but for every day in the week and for every xveek ill tlie year. If there .is any class of tlie community whose own interests should prompt them to bo bitter opponents of the rum traffic it is our retail merchants, Tixe benefit of the suppression of the saloons of Toledo xvould not he confined to the retail business and to the/drink­ ing class of her population; nor would the enormous sum added to the legiti­ mate business transactions lie the only benefit. Toledo xvould derive. There would be Jess crime and disorder; the expenses of our police force and our courts and prisons xvould be. diminished, while the burden of pauperism would be much lightened. There ■would, be more men xvliu would bn.v lots and build cottages thereon: men who are not now tax payers xvould accumulate their sav­ ings and become such. The effect Would not be for one year, but go on through each succeeding year. The basis of taxation xvould be broadened, the xate of taxation xvould be loxvered; there would be sue.h an increase in the demand for staple articles that it xvould probably iiu-tease the number of our retail establishments, and add to the output of many of oitr manufacturing ones, i And who xvould lie damaged by such a state of tilings? Not one, unless it xvere some of the men now engaged in saloon keeping; the ‘benefit xvould nc* -rue either directly ov indirectly to every other citizen. 'The saloon men would be compelled to enter upon some legitimate occupation, and the increase iu the amount of mini".!* poured dally into trade channels lvuuid make plenty of openings for tlxem to embark in some line of supplying tlie .legitimate needs of the people xvliieh would return honest x’ulue for every dollar spent, in­ stead of the disease and suffering, poverty and xvant, -vice and' crime which result from the traffic in rum. I t is the enemy of every kind of legiti­ mate business; and a consideration of the facts which xve, have set forth should lead every business man to join heart and hand in tlie effort to Vulier- nn t/ie limn Power. —-Toledo Blade. THE MISSION^ 6 f ~AN~ ORGAN,a lluxv It!i Music Converted » Saloon- K eeper. Homo one. with a cottage oi'gan moved into a house next a saloon. Tho house xvas double and the Baloon and the parlor adjoined, so that what trans­ pired in one place could be plainly heard in the other. Noxv it occurred Chat a sxyeet child of the lady possessing the organ died, and tlie fat, -xvheozy landlord professed much sympathy, but it did not extend any further after the little .boy’s burial than the. next Saturday night, when a number of rough drinking men met in the saloon to have some violin music, and as the nature of the pieees being, rendered xvas anything but soul-sooth­ ing tho poor, lonely-hearted mother’ ’ wrung her bands in anguish and won­ dered xvbat she could do. , ’ - Then- she thought of tlie organ, and ’ going over softly to it she raised the lid and began playing the xrell-knowa time of Martyn, and as she played she sang: •*Josua, Hover of ray uonl, I,et rao to Thy bosojn lly; Wlihli the rauing.billows roll, lVhilo the tempest still is high. • Hide me, O, my Saviour I hide. Till the'storm of life Is p a s t;. Safe into tho havou guide. Oh, receive my soul at last." She had played but one x*erse of tho street hymn xvlien all became quiet in the barroom, and the lady felt sure from the solemn hush- that they xvero ■all listening. Then she lifted up a si­ lent prayer tliat the hymn she xx-as, playing might prove a lasting blessing; and so God ordained, for when the lady- ceased playing, sobbing ready to break her heart, all tlie shutters of the saloon xvere closed and tixe place was shut for the night. \ ,Tlie next evening the saloon keeper sent iii txvo lady members of his family to beg the lady to play and sing: “Jesus. I,ox-or of my soul." Wonderingly, the lady complied Stiil more strange, lxe sent in again and again for the same, until both tho music alul tlie xvords became so monotonous., that flic Indy longed for something else just for a change. But the organ, together xvith the sxveet xvords, accomplished ' their mission. The bard heart xi’as soft­ ened, anil tlie saloon keeper found him- sely longing to be -able to make those, words tlie sxveet prayer of. his own heart. In the midst of these nexv, strange desires, he xvas taken sick, lie then sent for a preacher to pray for him, and tried to make preparations for death. During* liis death-agony, the lady xvho owned the organ said to him: "For.God,so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that xvlio- soex'er should believe on Him, might not perish, but have everlnstiiig life.” VOli, yes,” lie reptfed; "1 knoxv all that, but I am so -tired, so tired"—and so lie died. It is to be hoped that the man was saved, for he repented and believed, and God is very merciful. 'The tnan left a xvill ordering that liis saloon be closed forever, and that his children should alxvays attend church and Sunday-school. One more less saloon brought about by an organ. A bow drawn at a venture, when ac­ companied by prayer, often accom­ plishes more timn stated, formal xvork. —Mrs. A. li. C. llnskell, in National Temperance Advocate. NOTES*"Hh REAN D~THERE. T hebe arc 17,409 juvenile temperance organizations in Great Britain xvith a total membership of 2,122.1)70. T he Blue Cross Total Abstinence so­ ciety, Kxvitzerland, organized twelve years ago, noxv numbers several thou­ sand members and -has branches in Belgium, France and Germany, T he New York Evening Post says tliat for 1800 §;>,794,S73 xvas dispensed for the maintenance of the prisoners and paupers of tlie public and private Institutions of that city, and that a very large percentage of these inmates arc such through the influence of strong drink. T hkue is no other crime tha t xvill so besot and imbnite a than as that of drunkenness. A broken-hearted xvife appeared before .justice King, of Buf­ falo, one day last xycek ami testified against her husband tha t he had not only neglected to provide for her but even stole the tiny shoes and the spare uuderclotliing of his baby as she laid* in tlie cradle, and sold them for five cents, so he could buy a drink,—Buffalo Christian Advocate. T he business of drunkard-making has been allowed to go on in the vicin­ ity of tlie soldiers’home established by tlie government until many of the gal­ lant old veterans th a t tlie “hoyk in gray” could not conquer have become slaves to a greater foe than southern rebels, Drunkenness has become so prevalent and alarming that the offi­ cials nt the Milxvaukco home foxind it necessary to issue special ordefs threat­ ening severe punishment if it continues. —The Lover.