The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-17
The Stage-Drivers Story.
How General SCOTS Life was Saved
and How His Driver Twice
Escaped Death.


The traveller of the present day, as he is
hurried along by the lightning express, In
Its buffet cara and palace sleepers, seldom
reVerts in thought to the time when the
stage coach and packet were the only means
OF communication between distant points.
1t is rare that one of the real old time
stage drivers is met with now DAYS and
when the writer recently ran across Fayette
Haskell, of Lockport, N. Y, he felt like a
photographer over the discovery of some
rare volume of ".orgotten lore" Mr.. Has.
kell, although one of the pioneers in stage
driving, Che formerly ran from Lewiston to
Niagara Falls and Buffalo,, is hale and
hearty and bids fair to live for many years.
The strange stories of his early adventures,
would fill volume. At one time when
going down mountain near Lewiston
with no less parsonage than General
Scott as passenger, the brakes gave away
| and the coach came on the heels of the
wheel horses. The only remedy was to
whip the leaders to gallop. Gaining ad-
| ditional momentum with each revolution
of the wheels the coach swayed and pitched
down the mount in side and into the streets
of Lewiston. Straight ahead at the foot Of
the steep hill flowed the Niagara river,
towards which the four horses dashed, ap.
parently to certain death. Yet the firm
hand never relaxed its hold, nor the clear
brain its conception of what must be done
in the emergency, On dashed the horses
until the narrow dock was reached on the
river bank when by mastery exhibition
of nerve and daring, the coach was turned
in scarce its own length and the horses
brought to a stand still before the pale
lockers on could realize what had occurred.
A purse was raised by General Scott and
presented to Mr.. Haskell with high COM
pliments for his skill and bravery.
Notwithstanding all his strength and
| his robust constitution the strain of contin-
uous work and exposure proved too much
| for Mr.. Haskell's constitution. The con.
slant jolting of the coach and the necessar.
lily cramped position in which he was oblig-
ed to sit, contributed to this end, and at
times he was obliged to abandon driving
altogether.
Speaking Of this period he said:
~ found it almost impossible to sleep at
night; my appetite left me entirely and I
had a tired feeling which l never knew
before and could not account for"
odd you give up driving entirelya'
mo. tried to keep up but it was only
with the greatest effort. This state of
things continue for nearly twenty years I'M
til last October when went all to pieces. II
"In what way2"
"Oh, doubled all up; could not walk
without cane and was incapable of any
effort or exertion. l had constant desire
to urinate both day and night and although
l felt like passing gallon every ten min
utes only few drops could escape and
they thick with sediment. Finally it ceased
to flow entirely and thought death was
very near"
"What did you do thenl'
"What I should have done long before
listen to my life. Under her advice be-
gan a new treatment"
"And with what resutl"
Wonderful. 1t unstopped the closed
passages and what was still more wonder
full regulated the flow. The sediment van
ished; my appetite returned and am now
well and good for twenty more years
wholly through the aid of Warmers Safe
Cure that has done wonders for me as well
as for SO many Others"
Mr.. Haskell's experience is repeated
every day in the lives of thousands of Amer.
lean men and women. An unknown evil is
undermining the existence of an innumera-
BILE number who do not realize the danger
they are in until health perhaps stares
them in the face. To neglect such import
ant matters is like drifting in the current
of Niagara above the Falls.