Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 November 1897 — Page 3

TEE DRIVER'S STORY

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MR. F. A. OBER ENTERTAINED BY THE STAGE JEHU,

The Old Fashioned Concord Coach—An ATMt Courier of Civilization—A "Hold Up" In the Hill*—Xo Politics In It—A

[Special Correspondence.]

SANTA BABBARA, Cal., Oct. 26—I have found it at last, but 1 didn't say "Eureka," for I don't speak Greek. It was standing quietly in front of a hotel

THE OLD CONCORD COACH.

waiting for passengers, and so I stepped aboard and soon was whirled away in a cloud of dust. What I found was that same old stagecoach of our fathers which has become almost as scarce as that other semimythical creature of the past—the "dollar of our daddies."

The last one I had seen—I mean the stagecoach, and not the dollar—was in Cuba six years ago, and there they called it a "diligencia," pronounced "deeleehenthia, with the accent on the "hen. That one was plodding over a dusty road between two towns in the interior, a veritable old Ooncord, with huge wheels, stout leather straps and general make up as if inteed to last forever.

And I reflected as I climbed into this California vehicle and was rattled over the road like a pea in a skillet upon the mutations in the affairs of life, Specially the life of a Ooncord coach. Why, 1 can romember the old stage that used to ply over the road between Boston and Cape Ann just before tho advent of the railroad there. It was driven by one Trask, a merry old "whip," who took things easily and allowed his horses to do the same. I.don't think he was like the stage driver who had driven 40 years in the same county, and who claimed in consequence to be a great traveler.

But Trask is still remembered by at least one saying of his, though it is now some 00 years since ho uttered it. On his way to tho Capo ho passed through the town of Beverly, which was and is celebrated for tho excellence aud univer 8alir,y of its pork and beans. Every Sun day morning about three hours before meeting time you may see nearly all tho Beverly heads of households ambling to or from the public bakeiy for or with their weokly pots of beans. Their liking for beans is proverbial and was then when old Trask drove the stage, and so when a rival stage driver found him obstructing the street one morning as he was helping into his coach an enormourily fat old lady the said rival bethought himself of a witticism at his espouse. "Come, get along with your old bean pot!" ho sang out, and old Trask instantly replied, "So I will soon as I've got in my pork!"

Tho old fashioned Concord coach has been driven out of one portion and another by the advaneo of tho locomotive and tho building of railroads until now wo Hud it only in out of the way places, which the railroad hasn't reached or which it is just about to reach, as is tho case with the stage running betweeu this beautiful city of Santo Barbara and Santa Yuess.

Tho latter place is far up in tho hills where they rise to the dignity of mountains aud is st) small and obscure that it would bo a wasto of time almost to write about it, while Santa Barbara is go well known that it would also be a waste of ink to add another line to the thousands which havo been written in its praise. Being thus "between the devil and the deep sea," as it were, the only thing interesting which suggests itself is a story the driver told mo as wo left the lovely Santn Barbara valley and began to climb the hills. 1 had secured the choice seat on the box with tho driver, and that worthy regaled me with stories of the road. "l)o you see that big old oak?" ho asked of me as we gained the thickest part of the grove and brought into view a widospreadiug live oak with vast trunk hallowed out by firo, 1 admitted that 1 saw it, ami then he said: "Well, right there was the scene of our last hold up about four years ago. The how of it was about this way: The down stage from Santa Ynez was a-coming along at a jog trot, something as we are now, and it was as full of passengers as it could stick. There was a lot of minors and prospectors, some women, and on the box with the driver was a brand new deputy sheriff who had just been sworn in. He was a strapping big feller, full of tight, and had a shiny revolver stuck down into his boot leg. Well, they was a-coming down, as I jpid, aud it was just about noon, hot as phases, aud all the jxvsseugers was hungry aud sleepy. All of a sudden, just as hove in sight—you see, the ^^luakes tt £harp tarn right here— the driver (it was Jack Williams held the lines, and hi* last trip, as he had a young man with hiiu ho was showing the route) he saw the musale of a rifle staring him in the face and heard a voice a-t*illiug him to pall up and not be slow alotJt it either. "Jack was surprised like and disposed to argue the question witfcr the feller behind the. tree, hot he jost poked the gun straight at him, and Jack he crawled down. There wvui't bat oue man, and be wore a black cambric mask, but his eyes shone through the slit* like the pevixxrs of a Jack said, aud seemed to take in everything Wei), I'm blamed it he didn't tnake 'esi all crawl oat of the stage and line

up on the bank yonder meek as Moses when the light went out, and then he just went through 'em one after another. "The deputy? Oh, he didn't have no show at all. He reached down to his boot leg, but the highwayman pointed that rifle at him and said, 'Drop that!' And he dropped it p. d. q. and sat on the bank with the rest of 'em. He died last year, but about three years too late to save his reputation. "Yes, sir, every mother's son and daughter of 'em set in a row on that bank and let that man go through 'em reg'lar. Only one of 'em made a kick, and that was one of the women. She couldn't hold her tongue to save her life, and she up and said, 'I'll beta dollar you're a Democrat or a Populist, for no Republican would serve a woman such a shabby trick!' And the highwayman seemed riled, and he said, 'Madam, it don't matter what my politics are, but I guess I'll have to shake you up ag'inl' He had only got $2 or $3 the first time, but blame me if he didn't make her drop near $200 the second. Then he said, very politelike, 'Madam, it don't do for women to meddle with politics, you sea' \r 111 "Yes, air, one lone man did the whole business, but the passengers said afterward that they didn't dare resist because they knew plumb sure the woods was full of accomplices. However, there they sat, like bumps on a log, when along come the up stage, find when the driver saw the row of mfcn and women setting on the bank he bust out a-laugh-ing, fit to split, and said to Jack, 'Say, what is this, ad picnic?' And the feller with the gun swung it round his way and said: 'That's what it is. Won't you git down and jine us?' "Bill looked down the muzzle (it was Bill Matteson had the lines,) and he knew a hole when he'd got into it, and so he answered, 'Well, don't mind if Ido.' And so down he dumb, and he didn't have many passengers, but they had tc ante all the same, you bet.

I know it was a disgrace to the state, but it's the truth. All the passengers forked over, both loads, and that highwayman got off with the boodle. But that ain't the worst of it either. Of course we had a posse on his trail soon's the news got to the city, but they never struck up with him. The first man that see him next was that same driver, Jack Williams, and it was this a-way: He was coming down two or three days later, and he had a woman on the box with him, and when ho got in sight of the old oak he p'inted it out and said to her, 'Yes, madam, ho stood behind that very tree.' And just then he saw that same old rifle muzzle looking at him, and ho added, 'And if that ain't the same son of a gun, now, madam!' "And so it was, tho very same chap, and ho did 'em up brown ag'in the samo as before. Tho lady, she had said how delightful it would be to havo such an experience as to be held up by a highwayman, but she seemed to have changed her mind after he'd taken hex

TlIK CALIFORNIA STAGECOACH.

purse and all her jewelry, not to mention the earrings out of her ears. "No, they never' got him, but there are persona say they've seen him since, and living in Santa Barbara too. What do I think? Oh, never mind what 1 think. I've troubles enough of my own." FRED A. OBER.

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"Michael Angelo, to gratify the whim of a capricious patron, carved a flgurt) of snow, expending on this perhaps na much pains as upon his immortal Moseo or the imperishable dome of St Peter's. The sculptor and tho architect, the painter and the poet live in their works, which endute after th» the actor's work dies when he dies. He carves his image in suo«v."

So wrote Lawrence Barrett.

Iron Ships Lighter Than Wooden temelS, An iron ship weighs about 20 per cent less than a wooden ship of the same dimensions. Its walls are thinnei, Mid it will carry about 10 per cent more cargo on less draft of water.—New York Sun.

Ait Expert Opinion.

Weary Watkins—Some of 'em says that all this here what is called genius is no gift at all, but just bein able to do hard work.

Hungry Giggins—But ain't bein able to do haxtf work a sort of gift? It ain't natural. —Indianapolis Journal.

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A Moment of Peril.

When the Ironsides, commanded by Captain afterward Admiral —DaliV gren, was off Morris island. South Carolina, while removing coal from her bunkers, it was discovered that the ves sel had sustained a serious injury from a Confederate torpedo. It became necessary to know to what extent the hull had been affected externally under the water.

The diver's boat was brought alongside and the diver descended. It was low water and the instant was seized when the tide ceased to ebb. The diver went carefully over the part of the bottom at the damaged portion, and then reaching the keel concluded to pass under it and look at the other side.

He had accomplished this and was on the other side, when he perceived that the ship* was swinging to the newly flowing tide. He had found just space between the bottom and the jkeel to pass under, and now saw that the vessel, in swinging, would pass close to a shoal ridge of the sandy bottom, and even grind into it. This must inevitably cut off the slender and delicate tube which conveyed air to him and also sever the lines by which, in case of accident, he was to be drawn up. Fastened down by his heavy weights, it would be instant suffocation.

With all the speed that his incumbrances permitted he endeavored to reach the keel and pass under it before it was too late. The ship was coming round rapidly. He passed his head and body, but began to feel the pressure of the keel against the soft ooze.

With great effort he succeeded in dragging his limbs and tubes clear,, and the water became a little deeper, but one arm was so painfully crushed that it was some days before it was in a condition to use.—Youth's Companion.

Onr Manners.

The courtesy of the London shopkeeper charms me today precisely as it did years ago. Perhaps he says "sir" too often, and perhaps he is too profuse in his general politeness, but he is better than the American clerk who will sell me an ounce of tooth powder as though he were conferring upon moan especial favor. The English tradesman may think himself quite your equal, but he doesn't thrust upon you this article of belief. The American tradesman not only thinks so, but makes his conviction patent. It all comes to this, one has manners aud the other has not. "Manners are not idle," a great poet has said, but we of tho west, masses and classes alike, persist in ignoring them. Our classes ignore them—our male classes, I now mean—to a degree that is woeful.

Let any gentleman in New York searchingly ask himself how many other gentlemen he knows whose manners are really gentlemanlike. Nearly every man of good manners whom I have met in America is more or less unpopular. If he is suave of speech, gracious and high bred of deportment, he is at once pronounced "stuck up," "airy," "affected. If he dislikes listening at his club to a certain style of story, he is called "stiffy" aud "chump." If his mode of speech is refined, his language choice and thoroughly 'grammatical, you will hear somebody say of him behind his back, "Oh, that feller bores me out of my boots!"—Edgar Fawcett. ..

Australia could be made to support 400,000,»)00 inhabitants of the black or yellow races able to endure the climate. The present population is only 5,000,000 '•Away With Melancholy, And bid dull caro avaunt," sounds very well In verse, but if you have a case of the "blues" caused by hrtllgestlon, with biliousness added on as an extra horror, you cannot say hey! presto! and thus Insure the departure of those abominable twins. The "proper caper" when thus troubled Is to seek the nUi of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Thereafter you will speodily digest with ease aud eat with appetite, and your liver will reassert its right to regularity. Not only this, you can retire without a horrible dread that the Washington monument willIn dreams—impose itself upon the pit of your stomach. If you feel premonitory symptoms of chills and fever, kidney trouble, or rheumatism, summon the Bitters to the rescue without delay, "lest a worse thing befall you." A feeble condition of the system Is more speedily changed to a vigorous one by this fine tonic than by any other edlclnal agent in existence, A wineglassful three times a day.

Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Ind., says: "I have been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. 1 had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any $50 worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

Neat DOW'R First Temperance Work.

Neal Dow was 25 years old when he delivered his first temperance speech. It was at an anniversary supper of afire company to which he belonged, and his strenuous opposition to the use of liquor was effective to that degree that the fire company adopted temperance as a principle. Later he prevailed upon the Maine Mechanics' Charitable association to forego tho use of wine at its annual dinner.

At that time liquor was almost universally used in Maine. One of the curiotis oust cf Portland in those days was the ringing of the town bell at 12 and at r.'e!~rk by way of warning to meciuuiio tiuit- it was time to leave work and pta drink. This custom the yonr.^ reformer sacetded in having aboii&ix u. Then he persuaded most of the Poland employers to discontinue supplying their men with liquor.

After his first successes Neal Dow felt that temperance was the most important cause of the age. It was owing largely to his efforts that the Young Men's Total Abstinence society of Portland was organized. Its first meeting, it is said, was held in the counting room of a distillery.—Harper's Weekly.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEKCW MAIL, NOVEMBER 6,1897. 3

Coob, Cupboard, Conjnrert Characters—Cook washing up dinner things, mistress sitting at the window making entries in her housekeeping book, little Freddy playing with his lead soldiers at the table.

Mistress—Meat, 10s. 6d. vegetables, 3s. 4d. -yes, but I'm 3 shillings short. Ah, I remember it was the price of admission to the conjuring entertainment last night.

Cook—Was it nice, please, ma'am? Mistress—Very. There were one or two things that struck me as particular ly clever—for instance, changing & pocket handkerchief for a canary—but the best of all was the magic cupboard.

Cook—What was it like? Mistress—The professor showed ns a perfectly empty cupboard, shut the door, said quickly, "One, two, three," opened the door again, and out stepped a littld girl dressed like a doll.

Cook—Bah, I can do that myself I Mistress (astonished)—You! Cook—Just give me your attention for a minute, ma'am. Here is an empty cupboard. Yon know very well it has no double sides. Now I am going to take one of the young master's lead soldiers. I open the cupboard door an inch or two and throw it in, now I say, "One, two, three."

She opened the door wide. A full grown soldier stepped out and marched at the double qnick out of the kitchen. All the thanks she got for the performance was a sevexe ^gging.—J.fe§nd Magazine. ,, \f )'\v Greek Officers.

It is perhaps in discipline more than in anything else that the Greek soldier is lacking. Even the Evzoni, however good at guerrilla warfare in the mountains, would probably feel this defect in a regular campaign. It is no uncommon thing to hear the word of command disputed or discussed on the parade ground or on the march. It probably would be the same on the battlefield. The Greek is too democratic in his tradition and character to admit tho notion of unreasoning obedience to any superior, and, moreover, it is a serious difficulty that there is no recognized class in Greece from whom enough offl cers can be drawn. Some rise from the ranks, and no Greek can ever regard his companion as superior to himself. There is practically no middle class in Greece.

In the country all are equal, except Tillage magnates, who would not think of entering the army, and if they did would not retain their purely local prestige. In Athens there are, indeed, plenty of rich and distinguished families, an1R from some of them the best officers of Greece have come, but the number of them is naturally limited in so small a country. Too many of the officers are merely loungers in boulevards and cafes, who probably despise their men, and for whom their men have no respect. Saturday Review.

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She Saw Her.

Mr. Mann—Did you see that womau just as we crossed over? ,?•*-* Mrs. Mann—You mean the woman in the camel's hair gown and beaver jacket —the one who had on bronze shoes, a hat trimmed with fuchsias and heliotrope, with pink ribbons and a chiffon veil? No, 1 didn't notice her in particular. What were you going to say about her?—Boston Transcript.

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MRS. LYNESS- ESCAPES

Instead of gymnastics or games, instruments of torture were used for modeling the figure of the young lady of half a century ago. A contemporary Writer says that "could tho modern schoolroom (1881) be preserved it would pass for a refined inquisition. There would be found stocks for the fingers (the cheiroplast) and pulleys for tho neck, with weights attached." Fanny Kenible, to whom nature had been by no means unkindly, was found wanting in deportment, and she writes that she wore a "back board made of steel, cohered with red morocco, which consisted of a flat piece placed on my back and strapped down to my waist with a belt and secured at the top by two epaulets strapped over my shoulders. From the middle of this there rose a steel rod or spine with a steel collar, which encircled my throat, fastened behind." The machine proved a failure, and she was put under the tuition of a drill sergeant, who did for her all that was reauired.—"Social England."

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The Hospital and a Fearful Operation.

Hospitals in greatcities are sad places to visit. Threefourths of the patients lying on those snow-white beds, are women and, girls.

Why should this be the case Because they have neglected themselves! Women as a rule attach too little importance to first symptoms of a certain kind. If they have toothache, they will try to save the tooth, though many leave even this too late. They comfort themselves with the thought that they can replace their teeth but they cannot replace their internal organs!

Every ont of those patients in the hospital beds had plenty of warnings in the form of bearing-down feelings, pain at the right or the left of the womb, nervous dyspepsia, pain in the small of the back, the blues,"or some other unnatural symptom, but they did' not heed them.

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