Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-02-24
An Adirondack Stage Driver.
M KATE TlELp.


I asked.
well, reckon the human family can't
he beat replies the driver, suddenly
waking up. If you keep your eyes open
tight you'll see that theirs more Of 'em
than you can shake a stick at
What is the next best crop? p
Well, on the whole, guess nothing
in particular
Again subsiding, he again wakes up
with the question
you wouldn't like to be buried here,
would you %
why not p
Because the soils so poor you'd never
rise ag'in,'
am inclined to believe that my friend
the driver had said this at least once be-
fore, if not ofener, for there is con.
seriousness in his eye not unlike that no.
ticcable in atterdinner wits Immediately
| subsequent 10 an impromptu bon mot
over which slecpless nights and anxious
days have been passed. Laughing with
the heartiness of an i"genue in modem
comedy, and being nodded loapproving- TO
" in consequence (such is the worlds
farce, even among the Adirondack
made inquiries concerning the climate.
'The climate can't be got ah' ad on no.
how. Nobody never dies here, except
by accident. Sometimes people do
kinder give odt, but they are strangers
! aud generally come from New York,
| We wont stay here all the year round,
dry up and blow away when we get tired
OF living. Pm gettin' spare nor l used
to be-
AT this stage of the journey Mr.. Driver
seemed 10 entertain fears OF drying up
before his time. Jumping out OF the
wagon, and proceeding to spring, he
enptied the remains of bottle labelled
castor ol' into glass containing very
little water. 1t is very peculiar looking
castpr-oil, so peculiar that venture to
ask whether there is any prohiuitory law
among the mountains.
Guess no,,' answered Mr.. Driver, who
offered to share his dose of tor oil
and was rewarded for his virtue by re-
tusal, 'We are law unto ourselves
| Where there's no laws there's no trans
| gressCrs.S Aint that the best way
What's the use of making laws Just foi
the fun OF standing around and seeing
'em broke ? don't call prohibition
temperance nohow, do you And tel
you what, them folks that come here and
go into epileptic fits whenever they see
fellow warming himself with drop o
someth n that amt tea, are just the aw
| fullest critters on tobacco and coffee that
ever you sot your eyes on. They beat 4
smudye ut smoking, aud they drink
| coffee as oiien as them emiGrants vote in
New York on lection day. My eyes
amt strong though blacker nor nigger
1t they go in for temperance, Why on
arih don't they peg away on il all
around =
Expecting reply, the driver paused
to listen, but inhumauly forhear 10
argue, mainly because cannot. Silence
is supposed to imply pro:undily, conse
| quently preserved it until the putting
of another question.
slow do you people behavc?'
'Pretty well, on the whole. We've
only one church up here. The more
churches the more backslidiu' / find
Are you marlied, Mr.. Driver =
'No, Im iookin' round for rich wife
When can find II woman worth thirty
thousand dollars reckon III marry her.
ihlnk considerable of women. l think
they've got TO save the country. Men
have got to be so oorrurt that if some,
thin don't step in, we'll go to pieces as
slick as maple sirnp.'
'rhen you would have women vote 2
NO wouldn't neither Here you ga
lang, you SAL in'erlopatcs the driver
with cut OF the whip at the off mare.
Il don't go womcn's rights nohow.
When Isay think considerable of wo-
men mean think considerable of 'eln
in their way, but don't want 'em in my
way. Homes the place for 'em and
home influence is their sphere