The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-02-12


deer would have gone, and, finally
when we brought up in Maryland,
several miles from home, with the
fawn still going, we concluded TO give
il up and start for home. After going
silently along for some distance, Mr..
Turney said ''well, we gave that deer a
good race, didn't we.n The writer
did not gainsay this remark, for it was
self-evident, and it was some slight
satisfaction for us after our jaunt. On
the other hand, when we killed nice
deer and brought it home with us,
which was not an unusual occurrence,
we were correspondingiy elated-
Squire Henry Rishebarger, was an
old pike boy too. He came TO this
country in the thirties, single man,
when the pike was in the height OF it,
prosperity. He is a cabinet maker,
and of course, can do all sorts of work
pertaining to carpentering. He was
married a good deal more than fifty
years ago TO Miss Rachel HendEickson,
sister of Joseph Hendrickson, an old
pike boy and prominent citizen, who
was mentioned in these papers some
time ago, and half-sister of Thomas
Liston, ESD, who was also prOmi-
nent and a well-knOwn citizen OF Ad-
olson. Squire Rishebarger always
SAYS he and his wife were blown to-
gether by the wind, since a preacher
named Wind married them. Many
a house in this county has been built
by Squire Rishebarger. and there is
hardly house in all the country that
does not contain articles of furniture
made by him. 1t is probable that he
has more and better tools in his shop
than any man in the county. Both
of his sons, Benton and Charles, are
finished workmen, too. The Squire Is
also i'm the undertaking business, in
connection with his son, and they 90
far and near to attend the obsequies of
the people of the country. He is
serving his third term as Justice OF the
peace, and before q marriage license
law had been passed in Pennsylvania,
his Office was the "Gretna Green"
towards which many couples, with
matrimonial intentions, from Mary
land and West Virginia turned their
faces. Parties have been known to
walk fifteen miles, over mountains,
through woods and rocks, carrying
their grub" along, to be married by
the Squire. He has held the scales of
justice evenly balanced, all these years,
between man and man, and eases
without number have been compro-
missed without cost to either party
through his persuasions, and few if
any of his decisions have been reversed
by courts. Indeed the writer has no
knowledge of any being reversed. As
said, the Squire came here when the
pike was in its glory, and he in the
prime of his vigorous young manhood
He saw the wonderful panorama of its
prosperity, daily, with the rush and
hustle and confusion of the countless
stages, wagons, carriages, drOyes Of an
imals, and all there was 10 be seen
then. Now, when all that has passed
away and the old pike is a. quiet As
the lOneliest country road, he lives in
retirement, ease and comfort, his hair
and beard white with the frosts of
nearly eighty winters, and bleached
with the heat of as many summer suns,
bat with a form nearly as erect and
vigorous As OF yore, with the esteem
and respect of his neighbors, and the
community ut large. Outside the
official duties OF his oifiee, which he
faithfully and honestly discharges, aud
occasionally working at a job in his
shop when he feels like it, the Squire
has laid aside all business cares, and
the establishment, so far as the work
Is concerned, at least, is run by the
Junior member of the firm of II. Rish-
charger x Son. As the months and
years chase each other by 50 swiftly,
the old pike boys, and other boys, o.
ten not - old, join the great majori-
ty," and we miss them from their
usual places, and our hearts sadden
when we think of the changes a few
years more must inevitably bring.
Addison, Pa. VI.