The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-25

years. He was the first man to build
| anove the Courthouse. which was thought
away uptown" in those DAYS. His home
was on the corner of Victoria and Santa
| Barbara streets. he was reasonably pros-
! porous In those days. but in an evil hour
| he secured loan on his property, and
| after some years of struggle the foreclosure
| OF mortgage lett him DennieSs. His home
| is now the property of Mr.. j. w Calkins,
president of the First National Bank, and
the house that Mr.. Rodehaver built, a
nice home in those times, forms part of
the present CalkinS mansion. Mr.. Rode
haver afteTward moved 10 Golela, where
he has since farmed in small way, being
known and respected as an industrious
Intelligent man, modest and retiring. 1t
is doubtful whether soul in Goleta, ont
side of his own family, is aware that be
/ has ever strung a rhyme. The esteem ia
which be is held Is evlnced by the fact that
in spite OF his very impOltic manner OF
running for office the returns show that
our poet was elected by goGd majority.
Blest is the poet who his in MS wife
one who can sympathlZe with hin and at
the same time gently call him back 10 the
actual and the real when he Il in danger
of roaming too far in the ideal. If a casual
observers opinion is Of any consequence
our poet possesses such treasure in his
plump little WIFI, whose maiden name was
Julia Ellsworth, and who, in spite of her
same disposition for merry raillery that
must have characterized her as q girl.
She looked sadly after her husband as he
left the room, she spoke quiet word of
sympathetic explanation in his absence,
telling of the beautiful sympathy that had
existed between mother aud son which
forty-tour years OF separation HAD
been pOweress to weaken, but when he
came back and tried 10 explain how his
emotions had overmastersd him she, feel
Ing that the situation was becoming too
strained for the visitor, gave him wicked
little prod:
You mustn't mind him, Mrs. L. He
sometimes cries over his uoetryp'
mis- aroused his resentment and helped
MIN TO put The great sorrow of his lifetime
from MS minu, as she had meant he
should
NOW. L must explain that" he began
WIN some neat. What my wife refers to
10 WIS: rich man here. a neighbor OF
ouIs, nau horse-in old hOrse-that had
oetsea MN faithfully for lifetime. This
year lhere came the drought and the failure
Oh crops and the hiyn price OF hav. and he
tuIueu IL out to die, without food or water.
AZ Az 1nat pasture over there. When it was
uarK aud no one could see used to carry
~ nay ana water. | wrote some versus
tnat called Old Horse Tom And Won
see when got to writing abuut him and
thlnklng OF The way that man served that
oiu hOlSe aIler Ms lifetime of faith fnl
service-whv, you sect" ''iu'
Yes, saw much more than Mr.. Rode-
haver meant to tell. L saw the little ha.t
room Of the house. in which we were sir.
ting, celied with wood and furnishen viii
ia ole, Sewlng-machine a Iounge throa
chairs and little corner bookshelf nilsd
with books. And hay has been cent a
pound this year in Santa Barbara. and
Dig bucket of water is heavy load for q
man who has just finished a hard DAYS
work. 1t wOulI be interesting to know
how many such instances Of self-sacrifce
and uDreckoned doing of his Masters worL
have been put down 10 the account of
George Rodehaver.
1t is the wife who has saved the poams
REMAINDER that! Many have been LOST
but gathered in scrapbook are enough TO
fill goodly volume, excluding some thai
might perhaps be called doggerel, good of