Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-21

NfSlO w UliOSC, Was lt1ACu CdptlFO
by rowing band of Indians and held for
over a year. He finally succeeded in max
ing his escape, but was in the mountains
for months; at last, and by the merest
chance, getting to the coast again, and so
on back to San Francisco. He became
cashier in bank, and while in this posi-
ton married the daughter Of the banks
president. 1t was not long after this be-
fore my father found himself president of
the bank, which was the largest institution
of its kind on the Pacific coast.
ut was then that my father began his
public career, and he continued to rise in
worldly station until his death came. l
am now one of the officers of the bank of
which my father was for years president,
and have large and pressing interests to
oversee, yet have left all for time for
the sole purpose of following out the
wishes-I may almost say last wishes-of
my father relative to this trip to Rochester
and the hunting up of the other two of
that original little party of forty years ago.
| have some mementoes with me that
father put aside for those he expected to
| meet this year at Rochester, and now am
afraid that we will have to unite our pow
ers in an effort to find No. of the original
parity"
Just then a violent stamping was heard
in oneof the little staterooms on one side of
where the narrators and their small body
Of listeners were seated. Then two or
three sharp kicks came against the door.
followed by:
"Consarn It'll ef hadn't got sech Internal
tight boots, jest t. go down t. Rochester in,
wouldn't hev t. kick tn Internal legs of'n
me when l wanted t. put them on"
Then there came a great bang, with a
''Thar, by golP'
Immediately thereafter q tall, thin,
straight haired old fellow opened the door
of the room from which the noise had
come and, minus collar and with one
trowser leg caught en- the top of his boot,
he stood in the dim glare of the oscillating
light and looked with bewilderment toward
the wondering ones about the table.
''Ken any of you fellers tell me eff I've
been dreamin'?" he inquired after mo-
ment or two had passed.
81 don't believe we can. UNCLE" said one
of the number.
"Hev you fellers been tellin' yarns?"
he again asked, without much attention to
the answer just received.
The little old gentleman ventured to say
that they had been considering some old
time events.
'sThen amt been dreamin; I knowed
was awake. Say, which one of you was
tellin' that last story?" he asked; and upon
the young man acknowledging that he was
the one the old fellow said:
"Put her right thar, then, for l knowed
your l." then turning toward the group
he inquired:
"Now, who was it tibet told III III first yarn
bout those three chaps?"
The little old gentleman bobbed up, pre-
pared by his former surprise to have al
most anything happen.
'"Then," calculated the old fellow, his
disheveled hair and sparkling eyes indicat-
ing much excitement, "I'll be dubbed and
skinned fer sneakin', wild eyed rattle
snake eff l amt Their missin' link. Pm one
of Their same crowd tibet separated at De-
troit away back thar in ~, an Pm jest on
my way-M' Under m I-down t. Rochester
t. shake hans all Ground ag'in. By ther
great whale that eat up tibet Teller Job,
but this is er concordance"
After further expressions of surprise on
the part of each the tall old man was
Gained down sufficiently to tell his story,
which was as follows:
"Wall, boys, jest went back few mile
an set right down on 1850 acres of as fine
land as lay out of doors, an thar I've been
a-settin' ever since, except when l was get
tim bout clearin' off all tn timber,
pullin' out TIL stumps, am fencin', an
buildin' house an barns, an DOM tn hun
dred things tibet come in feller's way on
farm. Of course got me wife, an she's
right in thar now, a-listenin' to every word
I say. She's smart woman, too, want
to tell you," said he, slyly winking at his
hearers.
'Wali, as to Happenings of any sort of
consequence, guess we amt he'd none. l
am a thorough mossback. sc see. Hev been
one for forty year, an know but little of
anything else.
GAS to FORUM hey that farm, with all
thet's on it, an tibet seems to be about all
ken handle. An for that matter, | don't
know but what 1 hev all really kere
about. Pve got ten boys an six gals, am
ST had million they wouldn't be salts
fed So, when | go. thar'll be only the
| farm an tibet won't be sech great thing
fer sixteen to fight over Otherwise may
say tibet the world has used me toler'ble
well. I've never went t. bed hungry, as l
ken remember, an hev always he'd good
shelter from TIL storm. Take it all Ground,
an my story amt very long, nor does it
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events; but I'll tell yer what ter do. Well
go down an look over OF Rochester an
see eff she has any marks of famil arity, an
then adjourn back t. my farm, whar I'll
regale We with hard cider. apples, dough-
nuts an grandchildren. An I'll show We
| what I've done in forty years. time with
genuine hard muscle. Glare in St. Louis
| Republic.
Are Americans Equal Before the Law?
Nearly all Americans, even those who
think our fning and searching tariff
laws q tyrannous restraint on personal
freedom, think that all persons are equal
before the law of our great country
They are sadly deluded. It is not only
true that those of us (the people, who
cannot combine into trusts, buy ma
tional election, and get openly paid at
Washington by self constituted car
and a microscopic Napoleon, must pay
UP for those who can; but worse than
that, we cannot dress as others can I'M
less we pay more than they We must
pay what amounts to 65 per cent. on
every piece Of foreign goods we wear,
and under the bill Mr.. Milliken intro
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these United States only he and the pro-
tectionist devils who then possessed him
can say how much more. On top Of all
this if one of us saves up money and, to
get long needed rest, goes to England,
where he uses his freedom to buy what
goods he pleases by having some clothes
made there, the poorer he is the more he
must pay duties on.
Mr.. Astor returning from Europe can
bring twenty-one trunks with him, each
filed with clothing, and pay no duties.
The reason is that one of his "means
and station" needs enough clothes to fill
retail store to be suitably clothed. Ye
gods, what an amount of nakedness he
must havel But you and |, who can
only have one or two suits year at