Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 September 1890 — Page 3
DRY GOODS.
New Goods.
We are prepared this spring to show
the people of Montgomery county
one of the largest and finest lot of
carpets and floor coverings ever in
ithis city. In order to accommodate
pur large and increasing trade and
slupply the demand for fine artistic
carpets we have lately enlarged our
carpet room so that it now includes
th£ full extent of our building, giv
ingus abundance of light and plenty
of room to show one of the largest
and cheapest lots of carpets ever open
ed in town We have many different
patterns now open and new
arrivals every day. Call and see.
We have got the prices and patterns.
You can find all the latest^ styles in
Lowell and Hartford extra supers,
which are warranted the best carpets
made in the U. S. Our line of ta
pestry brussels were never so com
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brussels at 50 cents per yard. Rag
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A LIVELY ADVENTURE.
At 9 o'clock one September evening in 1876, says a writer" in the Youth's Companion, I took the coach which left Custer City—or Custer village, for the town consisted of twenty or thirty log structures—to go to Sidney, Neb: A poach 1 suppose it should be called, though on the plains this vehible, which has the driver's seat on the same level as the passengers1 seat, is called a "hack."
I had gone to the "hills" to engage in mining, but after four months of prospecting had decided to open a gen-eral-supply store at the new town of Dead wood and was on my way to Omaha to purchase goods for the venture.
A tin lamp, fastened to one corner of the "hack," discovered to me two passengers within as I entered and took my seat. One was an old gentleman, apparently weak and ill, for although it was not a cold night, he was inullled in a coarse, heavy ulster overcoat. Moreover, such of his face as 1 could see betweeu a gray beard which almost covered it and the rim of a slouch hat was pale and thin, the eyes looked sunken and unnatural. At least so they struck me at a cursory glance.
The other passenger was a young fellow of 22 or 23 years, I judged, decidedly dandified in his dress for that region. He wore a still hat and a stand-up collar encircled by a neat tie, and had on a dark suit, evidently custom made, which was an unusual "get-up" for that region, and one which at once aroused my suspicions, for the only persons I had seen about the mining towns dressed iu anything like that fashion were gamblers, a* class of men I had made it a point to avoid.
Just before setting out the driver came to the side of the vehicle, thrust in a light Winchester carbine, and placed it between my knees. "I see you didn't have no gun.11 said he, "an1 I keep a couple of extra ones for secli.1'
That was all. No further explanation was necessary in those days. I took charge of the weapon','"although I was as little expert in its use as I was in handling the Smith & Wesson in my hip-pocket, which indeed I had never yet discharged.
I knew enough of life in the mines to know that the "bad man with a gun" is usually the man who gets into nifliculty rather than the peaceful and unarmed citizen but a stage ride from Custer to Sidney at that time was a trip not altogether likely to be without its adventures, and for ouce I regretted my unfamiliarity with "shootingirons."
It occurred to me that if we were "jumped by road agents," as the phrase went, the freebooters of the route would have little to fear from the occupants of the hack, whether they got much money or not. There were usually valuables of some sort in the iron box under the driver's seat.
The young man who sat opposite me had a carbine across his lap, but I fancied he knew even less of its use than I did. As we started he sat, without noticing me, twirling a slight mustache and humming a tune. "A fresh gamester if one at all," I said to myself upon a second look at him.
The old man had no arms in sight. The driver no doubt regarded him as out of the light in any event.
As we rolled on up into Buffalo gap 1 had a few words of conversation with my companions. 1 learned that the elder was an old farmer, who had come out to see what he could do in the new mines, but he had been ill with mountain fever, and afterward attacked by rheumatism, so that he had been forced to abandon his projects and return to the east. He spoke freely and in the English of the western men.
The young fellow said he was from New York. "Neh Yawk," he pronounced it. He was, he said, a student of mining engineering, but he did not mention what his business had been iu that region but that was not strange, for he could not talk much. A jolting stage bowling over a rough country at eight miles an hour does not give the best opportunity for conversation.
I soon became sleepy, and leaning back iu my corner took such momentary cat-naps as the uatnre of the road permitted. At 11 o'clock we made a brief halt at a temporary stage station, where the driver's four-in-hand team was exchanged for fresh horses.
I peeped out aud got a glimpse of the team, of two men with lanterns, of a low structure of sod or adobe faintly outlined, and of the black side of a pine-covered mountain beyond. The night was quite dark, with floating clouds and no moon. It became somewhat lighter as we passed out of the gap a little later, as I noted through a crack in the "flap" opposite.
The road was now smoother, and I settled back in my corner, as my companions had done, to get a little solid sleep if possible. I dozed off for a time, but was awakened by the groaning of the old man beside me. He seemed to be in great pain and writhed about nervously. I asked him what was the trouble. He replied that his rheumatism was nearly killing him. "I wish the driver'd let me aout when we git t' th' nex' crick. He'll water likely, 'n I've jest got t' stretch mv legs er die. Ye see Pm troubled with cramp rheumatism, an' th' an't no room iu hycr to git the cramp out o' me legs."
I told him I would speak to the driver when we halted, a few moments later, at the bank of a stream—White river,I believe. I thrust my head out of the side and asked that the old gentleman might be let out for a moment to stretch his legs. "All right?" said the driver, as be clambered down from his seat. "I'm goin' tor let the bosses take a pull at the drink."
I then helped the old man to dismonut—steadying him by the arm as he got. down. Ho seemetl to have a good deal of dilliculty iu alighting, and groaned in a most lugubrious fashion. The young man opposite mo lay curled up on his seat, but I could see that his eyes were wide open, aud that he was eyeing me with a sharp, keen glance. My eyes probably responded when they fell upon his, for he straightened up in an alert fashion and leaned toward
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"Say." he "whispered, "do you tblnV that old chap's all rightP Strikes me that groaning of his was put on. What d'ye think?"
The question startled me no less than the young fellow's manner, and I was about to make some reply when a gun or pistol shot rang in our ears, followed by a yell either of pain or surprise, and a lurch of the hack threw me forward against my companion's knees.
Either the shot or the yell had startled our team, and we went down the bank and into the stream with a lunge. I heard shots—one, two, three—as we splashed through the water. Then moi'e yells, louaand lierce.
My notion of what had happened or was happening was confused^for a moment, and then I saw my comi*ade— for the light still burned—crawling through to the driver's seat as we went careening up the opposite bank.
A second later he had gathered the lines, which were tied in front, and while he held them with one hand he grasped a rib of the hack with the other. Then he leaned out and glanced back.
Luckily the horses, which were going at a gallop—they were animals which needed no urging—kept to the road, and the cool-headed young fellow was not pitched out. "There's a lot of 'em," he shouted in at me a moment later. "I can just see four or five getting onto their horses. They've killed the driver, I guess, and are after us now."
With that he gathered up the longlashed whip, which lay in the boot, and, dropping upon his knees, began yelling aud laying the whip upon the team.
In a moment we were going at a fearful pace, and, despite the excitement and fright of the moment, I noticed that, our horses came to hand, and ran with a steady* even gait, which did credit to the young man's driving. "Get ready for 'em now," he yelled back at me "they'll, be down on us iu a minute. Open the back flap 'n pour it into
1em
with your guns, and when
they're empty get mine under the seat." He was my captain as well as driver, and I obeyed instinctively, for I certaiuly had formed no plan of defense or action.
I managed to unbutton and roll up the leather behind, and peering oUt, I saw that Ave were indeed followed. It was light enough to distinguish objects dimly at a 100 yards, and there were at least live horsemen in our rear, tearing along at the top of their animal's speed. Knowing that they were within rifle shot 1 opea lire on ihem over the seat. I worked the lever of my gun as. rapidly as I could but made awkward business of it. Presently I got a shell stuck, and began trying to get it out. In the' meantime our pursuers were gaining with every second.
They were within fifty yards before I could get out my shell, and I was toe excited to think of using another gun. Suddenly the light in the .hack went out, and a hand upon my shoulder jerked me backward. Then a voice yelled in my ear: "Let me get at them! Load the guns for me let the team go. Wc might's well smash as be riddled with bullets. Here—here's two boxes of cartridges."
I dropped back to the other seat aud gave place to him. He threw his carbine over the back of the hind seat and began firing. Crack! crack! crack! It seemed to me that a steady stream ol lire poured out of the back of the stage and before I had filled the magazine of mv gun his was empty. He snatched mine, however, aud thrust his own back to me.
Loading was awkward business at first, as I had to feel for the feeder, but I manageil soon to thrust them into my gun as fast as he could work the lever of his own. The men. whoever tud whatever they were, rode up to within twenty-five or thirty yards, and spreading out. opened fire on us. "Keep close down in the bottom!" shouted my comrade, as he kept on with his firing.
The "road agents" did not come nearer, evidently fearing too great exposure to the stream of shots from the hack, and my courage rose to something near the level of my companion's. I caught glimpses as I glanced up now and then of a plunging horseman, with shadowy. outstretched arm, from which flashed blaze after blaze of light.
All at once we began descending into a gully, and the liack bounced from side to side so vioently that it was impossible for us to do anything but cling to ihe sides of the box. "it's all right!"' rang my companion's voice in my ears, shortly after we began the descent "They've quit. They can't ride along the side of the gulch, and daren't follow straight behind. There's a stage ranch below, too. I remember the road."
Sure enough, the men had dropped back, aud the shots had ceased. My cool, brave companion now clambcred over me, and in some way got into the front seat of the jumping coach. A moment later I noticed that we were slowing up aud runnnigmore steadity. Five minutes more and we halted,what was left of us. safe and sound in front of a stage station.
Our story was soon told, our horses exchauged, aud a fresh driver, double armed, put with us. Such little accidents did not stop stages in those parts.
There was no danger, they told us, from that same gang. The three men who were left promised to go immediately aud look after our other driver.
It was only the darkness and the motion of the vehicle and the horses that had saved us from being hit. We found several bullet-marks about the coach next morning. One of them, well aimed, had gone through the back seat at an angle and into the front, aud mi^ht have passed directly between us. My respect for my young comrade was greatly raised by the events of that night, "and was further increased by an after acquaintance which discovered his real modesty and worth.
On my return to the "Hills" I learned that our driver had been picked up at the crossing of the creek badly wounded, and also that the bravo fellow had yelled to the team to go the very second he was hit. He- had been carried
to Sidney. As IO the rneumatic old man he was of course a rascal in league with the band who attacked us.
She Spiked Her Own Gun.
A well-known citizen adopted a novel expedient the other night to secure peace. It was incumbent on him to attend to some business downtown and he promised his wife he would positively be back at 8:30. There would be no slip-up, no accidents or mishaps,no "ifs or "buts"—there could be no mistake about it—he would be home at 8:30 prompt. His wife looked a little doubtful. "Will you give me $1 for every hour you are later than that?" she asked. "Done," he exclaimed, and forgot all about it.
As he groped his way in at 11 o'clock he suddenly bethought himself of his wager. Of course his wife was up. "Here, my dear, I'm two hours aud a half late, here's §5. Double pay. Now, don't say a word." The lady saw that she could not honorably refuse to abide by the compact, but declares now that she wouldn't have taken $10 for the curtain lecture which -he had mapped out and committed to memory for the occasion.—bi. Louis Republic.
The Princess of Wales takes a lively interest iu hammered brasswork. an art which is taught at her school in Sau'lringham.
A ROCK THAT CROWS.
The Cnrlous Stone That Is Increasing in Bulk and Puzzling tlie Scientists.
The outer formation of this rock ha» a limestone appearance, but once remove the moss and chisel into the gritty surface, and the real beaut}* antf peculiarity of the ropk is seen. A cellular formation,like a mammoth sponge, is discovered, and about the cells is stone as hard as adamant. On cutting further in, this cell-like substance is found to continue, but it seems to have been transformed into a translucent Hint. This remarkable petrifaction has been wrought by the action of the water from the spring upon the moss. The water seems to have the singular property of turning into stone everything that is brought in contact with it for any length of time. It lias an acid taste', and is doubtless heavily charged with mineral substances, although thus far it has never been analyzed. "The most remarkable fact about it is that it accomplishes so much*iu so short a time. The moss grows luxuriantly in the dark hollows, aud the lapidescent quality of the water has operated year after yearupou the layers of moss, turning them into a hone3'comb of stone, and adding to what was at first a small rock, until to-day there is this great bowlder of petrified vegetationT A short time after the moss begins to grow in the spring it commences to solidfy at the roots, and the petrification follows closely on the track of the growing moss like the formation of coral on the work of the coral insects. As it progresses the dark green of the vegetation becames yellowish, theu changes to brown, anil darkens as the rock grows older. The moss is not all that is perpetuated in stone by the action, of the water. Plants,leaves, twigs, every vegetable substance that has fallen on the rock aud lain there has been impregnated with it, and, as by the touch of au inexorable fate, been turned into stone by it. Stratum upou stratum of the moss stone has grown over them aud many such objects are now to be found hermetically sealed deep in the heart of the rock.
The Real Economist.'
You lieai- a great deal about the pinching and saving aud hard work of the fanner, but if you go to his house you will ffteu iiud that it is his wife and daughters who have pinched and saved and skimped enough to buy the new organ or the new carpet, and who have paid for the new pictures of father and mother that hang on the best room wall. A farmer's wife says little about it, but with her butter money aud her egg money she ofteu accomplishes as much as her complaining'husband.— Atchison Qlobe. A' IV:
Minnie—"There has been so many changes rung ou the word 'lady' that I am inclined to think it is better to be just a plain woman." Mamie—"Certainly, dear, that is exactly what you are."—'1'crre Haute Express.
Young man," thundered the campmeeting orator, "were you ever lired with enthusiasm?" "It is a painful suhject," ho responded "but I was. Miss. Miss Medly's father supplied the enthusiasm."—St. Joseph News.
When the bad boy sings "I want to be an angel" so sweetly at Sunday school the neighbors who know him week days cau't help wishing fervently that he could have his want- gratified right away.—Somcrville Journal.
An Illinois church society dismissed its pastor because ho played croquet so late that he missed the prayer-meeting. There is a time for all things, but the pastor no doubt had uioTe fun than if he had prayed so late that he missed the croquot.-pj.Vdrm/0H7re Herald.
Muldoon—I'-Well. will you go to worruk or ?{ot?" O'Brien—"Lave us toss up for i®." Muldoon—"How so?" O'Brien—-"'ioss up a cint. If it comes down heads/or tails we don't wurruk. If it conies filown nayther one nor the othoi' we WIBTUK."—America.
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In a deep, dark ravine, a few milef from New Castle, in North Beaver township, Lawrence county, Ky., is a phenomenon in the shape of a growing rock. Fifty years ago wheu it w^s first noticed an inverted wooden pail would almost cover it. To-day it is a great bowlder, ten feet or more in.circumference, and weighing not less than fifty tons. During the summer months it is covered with dense, rich moss two or three inches deep, through which the water from a- spring trickle? coutinually. The wonder maker is the little spring, so small at this season that a few pails of water dipped from it \Vould drain it dry. But it works in a manner very different from the dripping water in caves that carries a burden of lime-stone in a solution with it, and leaves its wonders in stalagmites and stalacties.
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