The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07

lage Of the center Of Randolph, after mis-
parents had moved
from the farm, Mr..
Smalley wrote: my E1OrIz0H
life at the center en- EuIaroed
larged the horizon of
my boyiSh mind. 1t
was something to pass the two stores Oh
my way to school and to hear the ring
Of the blacksmith's anvil; something, too,
to watch the working Of the saw mill on
the creek, and to see for the first time
steam engine, that ran the machinery Of
a little turning mill, where rude furni-
ture was made. The little Congregational
meeting house." with its glittering tin
topped steeple, seemed a noble cathedral
to my childish mind. The merchant, who
benevolently gave me a stick of pepper
mint candy now and then, appeared to
me a famous traveller, because he had
actually ridden on a railroad and seen
New York city. The first railroad was
built through our part Of Ohio between
l84S and 1852, three years being consumed
in the construction Of about sixty miles
of track. The farmers had little faith
in the new form Of transportation. They
were sure that it would never pay and
they argued that a few teams would be
sufficient to haul all of the produce out
OF the country. Dreadful tales OF railway
accidents were told, and few were dis
posed to trust themselves to this perilous
mode Of travel. 1 remember a popular
song which was current at the time, the
first verse Of which ran as follows:
o" IF you want to take railroad 1t will
go pretty nice,
If you want to take railroad it will
go pretty nice,
If you want to take railroad 1t will
go pretty nice,
But you'd better go afoot, for that's half
price.
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They go very fast. the truth I'll declare,
They go very fast, the truth I'll declare.
1t takes one man to hold on to another
mans hair
"When L was fourteen years old, after,
having served a year of apprenticeship
in a printing office in Fredonia, New
York, I secured employment In the
gainesville CO., Telegraph, where 1 per-
formed the duties of printers devil. 1
remember that 1 had outgroWn my
clothes, that my trousers were about six
inches too short, and that the town boys
used to guy the newcomer as he trudged
along on Tuesday evenings delivering his
newspapers from house to house. My
bargain was that should be boarded by
the editor and should receive $50 year.
was allowed one extra paper to sell, If
possible, and this brought me weekly
spending money to the amount of cents,
which I always invested in a certain
kind of candy. This was the extent of
my dissipation
PRINTER AND sCHOOLMAsTER.
when I worked at the printers trade
in New York the st. Nicholas was the
leading fashionable
-. hotel, and Its rate
LAlo was $3.50 day. The
In Nav, VorL uptown hotel was
the New York, on
Broadway just be-
low Eighth street. Horace Greeley was
then almost at the zenith of his fame,
and his Tribune, with its generous wei
come to all new ideas, and its ardent
championship Of the anti-slavery cause,
was much beloved by all reformers and
progressive thinkers. A friend took me
up three flights of stairs one Sunday to
show me the EDITORIAL rooms Of the great
newspaper. 1 looked with awe on the
vacant desks and chairs-it was an hour
when nobody was on duty-little dream
ing that at one Of those very desks, many
years later, would sit, writing editorials
and correspondence. Coming down the
stairs we met Q. K. Philander Doesticks
them the popular newspaper humorist,
wearing his hair long, under a bell-crown-
ed SLOUGH hat. His real name was Nor
timer Thompson. Henry J. Raymond had
lust started the Times. The Herald was
conducted by the elder Bennett. Any
morning about one might see William
Cullen Bryant walking down Broadway
to his editorial work on the Evening Post.
That quaint and clever Irishman, Hugh
Hastings, conducted the Commercial Adj
vertiser The leading magazines were
Harper's Putnams, and the old Knicker-