The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-12
THE STAGE DRIVERS STORY.
How General SCOTS Life VIVA Sav.d :.
HOY Hia nriYar Tzlcs ESc~D~d Do.&l,

How General SCOTS Life was Saved and
How His Driver Twice Escaped Death.
Inc traveller OF the present day, as he ID
hurried along by the lightning express in
It's buffet carr and palace sleepers, seldom
reverts IN thought to the time when the sta &c
coacn ana packet were the only means of
communication between distant points IL is
rare that one OF the real old-time stage divers
Is met with nowadays and when the writer
recently ran across Fayette Haskell, of Lock
port, N. T., he felt like 3 photographer over the
discovery OF some rare volume Of forgotten
lore MIR. Haskell, although one OF the
pioneers 10 stage driving Che formerly ran
from Lewiston to Niagara Falls and Buffalo).
Is male 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 a mountain near Lewiston
with no less parsonage then General Scott
AS passenger, the brakes gave way and the
coach came on the heels OF the wheel horses.
The only remedy was to whip the leaders to a
gallop. Gaining additional momentum with
each revolution OF the wheels the coach
swayed and pitched down the mountain side
and into the streets OF Lewiston. Straight
ahead at the foot of the steep hull flowed the
Niagara river, towards which the four horses
dashed apparently TO certain death. Yet the
firm hand never relaxed its hold nor the clear
brain Its conception Of what must be done in
this emergency. On dashed the horses until
the narrow dock was reached on the river
oank, when by = mastery exhibition Of nerve
and daring, the coach WAS turned IN scarce its
own length and the horses brought to q stand
stlil before the pale iookers-on could realize
what had occurred. A purse was raised by
General Scott and presented to MIR. Haskell
with high compliments for his skill and BRAY
cry.
robust constitution tie strain Of continuous
work and exposure proved too much for MIR.
HaskelPs constitution. The constant jolting Of
the coach and tne necessarily cramped position
IN which he WAS obliged to sit, contributed to
this end, and at times he was obliged to abandon
driving altogether.
Speaking Of this period he said:
Il found 1t almost impossible to sleep at
night; my appetite left me entirely and had a
tired feeling which l never knew before and
could not account for"
did you give up driving entirelyT'
"No. L tried to keep up but it was only with
the greatest effort. This state of things con-
tInued for nearly twenty years until last Oc-
tober, when l went all to pieces"
"iu what wey?"
'Oh. l doubled all up; could not walk without
a cane and WAS incapable of any effort or ex
ertion. had a constant desire to urinate both
day and night and although / felt like passing
gallon every ten minutes only few drops
could escape and they thick with sediment.
Finally it ceased to flow entirely and l thought
death was very near"
"What did you do them"
What should have done long before: listen
to my wife. Under her advice l began new
treatment"
''And with what result?''
Wonderful. 1t unstopped the closed
passages and what was still more wonderful
regulated the flow. The sediment vanished;
my appetite returned and | am now well aud
good for twenty more years wholly through the
aid of Warmers Safe Cure that has done won
ders for me as we'll as for so many others"
Mr.. Haskill's experience is repeated every
day in the lives Of thousands of American men
and women. An unknown evil is undermining
the existence of an innumerable number who
do not realize the danger they are in until
health has entirely departed and death per-
haps stsres them in the face. To neglect such
important matters is like drifting into the
current of Niagara above the Falls.
The project of the canton of Zongol-
lea has arrived at Orizoha, Mex, to ask
for aid in destroying an immense
swarm of locusts, twenty-seven miles
long, which are devastating the crops
in that section. A number of cantons
tre threatened,