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New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
PI AY AND WORK AT SYCAMORE HILL

they were on the point OF entering
church. concluded d homily by a quo
tation which showed a certain haziness
of memory concerning the marriage and
baptismal services: mo, little boy. II
this conduct continues, | shall think
that you neither love. honor, nor obey
me!" However. the culprit was much
! impressed with a sense of shortcoming
.as TO the obligations he had undertaken
so the result was as satisfactory as If
the quotation had been from the right
service.
As for the education of the children.
there was, OF course, much OF it that rep
resented downright hard work and druds-
cry. There was also much training that
came as by-product and was perhaps
almost as valuable-not as a substitute.
but as an addition. After their supper
the children, when little. would come
trotting up TO their mothers room To be
read to. and it was always a surprise to
me TO notice the extremely varied reading
which interested them, from Howard
Pyle's Robin Hood" Mary Alicia Owens
"Noodoo Tales" and Joel Chandler Har-
riss Aaron in the Wild Woods" to
"Lycidas" and king John" II their
mother was absent, ] would try TO act as
vice-mother-a poor substitute. fear-su-
perintending the supper and reading aloud
afterward. The children did not wish
me to read the books they desired their
mother to read. and | usually took some
such book as "Hereward the Wake" or
Guy Mannering,' or The Last of the
Mohicans," or else some story about a
man-eating tiger. or n man-eatng lion,
from one of the hunting books in my Ii
brary.
Besides proiting by the more canonlcal
books on education, We profited by certain
essays and articles of a less orthodox
type. | wish to express my warmest
gratitude for such books-not Of avowed-
ly didactic purpose-as Laura Richards's
books, Josephine Dodge Daskam's Mad
ness of Philip" Palmer Coxs queer
People" the melodies of Father Goose
and Mother Wild Goose, Flandreau's S
Mrs. Whites" Myra Kelly's stories of
her little East Side pupils, and Michel
sons "Madigans." 1t is well to take
duties and life generally seriously. Ii Is
also we'll To remember that a sense Of
humor Is healthy anti-scorbutic to that
portentous seriousness which refeats its
own purpose.
Occasionally bits OF self-education
proved of unexpected help to the children
In later years. Like other children, they
were apt to take to bed with them
treasures which they particularly es-
teemed one of the boys. just before
his sixteenth birthday. went moose hunt
Ing with the family doctor and close per-
sonal friend of the entire family Alex
ander Lambert. Once night overlook
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
JACK SlAOE.

Many OF the station men were killed by
the Indians. as well as numbers OF the
riders while off duty. but only one rider
was ever slain while actually on his
run" although several Of them were
wounded so badly that they died soon
after completing the trip. one ana all
, they took these risks az matter Oh
course. One Of the most notorious OF
them all was Jack Slade, who had
charge of a division. Mark Twain crossed
the plains in the summer OF 1860 and met
Slade on route. He devotes more than
two chapters in the volume called
"Roughing II" to a description of Siade'
and the description is guaranteed TO make
the blood OF a modern Eastern tenderfoot
freeze solid.
Not the least daring of the riders was
Colonel William r. Cody. later famous
throughout two hemispheres-that being
the greatest number he could find to con-
ouer-under the name OF Buffalo BIZ.
To him. according TO Mr.. Bradley. be-
longs the credit of achieving probably
tbe longest continuous performance with
out a formal rest period in the history
of this or any other courier service III
happened while he was working In Slade
division. covering an unusually perilous
run OF seventy-six miles between Red
Ruttes and Three Crossings. "One day
when he reached his terminal at Three
Crossings" says Mr. Bradley, Cody
found that his successor. who was "a
have taken the mall out had been killed
the night before. AS there was no extra
rider available, II fell to young Cody to
nll the dead courier's place until a sue
cessor could be procured. The lad was
undaunted and anxious for the added
responsibility. Within a moment he was
off on fresh horse for Rocky Ridge,
eighty-five miles away. Notwithstanding
the dangers and great fatigue OF the
trip. Cody rode safely from Three Cross
Ings to his terminal and returned with
the eastbound mail, going back over his
own division and into Red Buttes without
delay or mishap-an aggregate run of S22
miles"
The pony express came to an end
when a continuous telegraph line to the
coast was put through, and, although
numerous connecting lines of the same
kind of service were maintained there
after at various points in the West, there
was never any other whose fame or Inn
portance approached that of the line from
ST. Joseph all the way TO Sacramento.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

, them before they camped, and they lad
TO lie down just where they were. Next
morning Dr. Lambert rather enviously
congratulated the boy on the fact that
stones and roots evidently did not inter.
fere with the soundness of his sleep 10
which the boy responded. WELL doctor.
you see il isn't very long since | used
to take fourteen china animals to bed
with me every night"
GROWING UP.
As the children grew up Sycamore Hill
remained delightful FOR them. There
|, were picnics. and riding parties, there
were dances in the north room-sometmes
fancy dress dances-and open-air plays
on the green tennis court of one OF the
cousins houses. The children are no
longer children now. Most OF them are
men and women working out their own
fates in the big world; some i'm our own
land, others across the great oceans, or
where the Southern Cross blazes In the
tropic nights Some OF them have chill
dren of their own; some are working at
one thing, some at another; in cable ships
In business Offices, in factories. in news
paper Offices. building steel bridges boss
ing gravel trains and steam shovels or
laying tracks and experimenting freight
traffic. They have had their share of ac-
cidents and escapes as | write. word
comes from a far-off land that one OF
them. whom Seth Bullock used to call
Kim" because he was the friend of all
mankind. while bossing a dangerous but
necessary steel structural job has had
two ribs and two back teeth broken, and
is back at work. They have known. and
they will know, JOY and sorrow. triumph
and temporary defeat. But believe they
are all the better off because OF their
happy and healthy childhood.
II is impossible to win the great prizes
OF life without running risks. and the
greatest OF all prizes are those connected
with the home. No father and mother
can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety,
and there are dreadful moments when
death comes very near those we love,
even ii for the time being IL passes by.
But life is great adventure, and the
worst OF all fears is the fear OF living.
There are many forms OF success many
forms Of triumph. But there Is no other
success that in any shape or way ap-
proaches that which is open to most OF
the many. many men and women who
have the right ideals. These are the men
and the women who see that 1t Is the
intimate and homely things that count
most. They are the men and women who
have the courage to strive for the happi-
LA 1T n
effort and self-sacrifice, and only to those
whose Joy IN life springs I'm part from
power Of work and sense Of duty.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
CHRISTMAS TIME.

We had a sleigh for winter; but H.
when there was much snow. the whole
family desired to 20 somewhere We
would nut the body OF the farm wagon
on runners and all bundle IN together
We always liked snow at Christmas time'
and the sleigh ride down 10 the church
on Christmas eve. One or the hymns al
WAYS sung at this Christmas eve festival
begins. "It's Christmas eve on the river
It's Christmas eve on the bay All good
natives OF the village firmly believe that
this hymn was written here, and with
direct reference to oyster Bay; although
# such were the case the word river
would have TO be taken In hyperbonc
sense, as the nearest approach TO river
is the village pond. | used to share this
belief myself, until my faith was shaken
by a Denver lady who wrote that she
had sung that hymn when child In
Michigan, and that at the present time
her little Denver babies also loved IT, al
though I'm their case the river was not
represented by even village pond.
When we were in Washington the
children usually went with their mother
TO the Episcopal Church. while | went
to the Dutch Reformed. But II any child
misbehaved itself 1t was sometimes sent
next Sunday to church with me, on the
theory that my companionship would
have a sedative effect-which 1t did. as
and the child walked along with rather
constrained politeness. each eying the
other with watchful readiness for the
unexpected. on one occasion, when the
childs conduct fell just shor; of war
rantng extreme measures, his mother, as
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

-or-R most important letters and
" b,s,r4ss communications carried
i ocross mountain and desert oy
awe-inspiring desperadoes. each o"0
armed with rife, knife and orace Vi p''
tolls, plenty OF notches Oh MS re'oi'''
butt TO indicate the number OF khliHsS no
has placed TO his credit in a shadV past
riding like mad through drencnlng SUI III
darkest night or bowling blizzard men
aced with death. or every trip AT '"e
hands OF road agents or wild Indians
that is only glimpse If what was per-
haps the most thrilling and romantic man
service ever carried IN In thIs vi aug
other country-the pony express. roi
sixteen months. covering period just
before and Just after the outbreak OF the
Civil War this service was operated over
the 1856 miles between st. Joseph Mo-
and Sacramento, Cal, the schedule call
ing for the whole distance 20 be covered
ON HORSEBACK In 232 hours. or at an
average Of about eight and half miles
an hour.
That does not represent the endurance
called for from these riders. however.
Sometimes. when one rider had been
killed or was prevented for some reason
fIom taking mis- regular ri:n, another rider
would do double or treble duty, with
hardly a chance TO rest save the two min
tes sually allowed at each station for a
change of horses. Under these circum-
stances riders have been known TO travel
distances between three hundred and four
hff,.l
than scanty bite of food snatched while
changing mounts. They have left records
OF trips Of one hundred or two hundred
miles. or even furthec made. on the av-
erage, at a speed OF more than eighteen
miles an hour.
FAST MAIL.
The first rider ever sent out on the
eastbounG pony express service started
from Sacramento on April 3, 1860, directly
after the arrival Of the steamer bringing
'he mail up the river from San Francisco,
covered the first twenty miles Of his route
III ntty minutes. Even a railroad
uain at the present time, travelling from
81 Joseph 10 the coast. averages hardly
more than thirty miles an hour for the
\ trip.
courage OF a most extraordina y kind,
A sreat physical endurance and a passion
a'e prloe In seeing that the mil went
through on time were the qualities essen
siai 10 the rider before the service could
"e success--and it WAS a success. Be-
''ues the station men and the division
superintendents. there were approximately
e'shty riders constantly in the service
throughout Its existence, and not one en-
"oye Is shown by any record to have been
uPiA'thiul to his duty in putting the mail
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MENACE IN
SPEEDING OF
MAIL TRUCKS
Continued from third page.

a rate as to endanger the lives of the IN
habitants.
In that case the testimony showed tnat
the driver was going recklessly through
Market street. Philadelphia. "at the rate
of eight or nine miles an hour"
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
FORBES-ROBERTSON AS SHYLOCK

The rough and unconventional char
acter OF the men VINO made up the ranks
OF the pony express service has already
been mentioned. or course, the number
Of really bad men among them was rela-
lively small. and so far as desperate
loyalty to the service is concerned not
one of them was ever accused or even
suspectcd of weakness Of falsity
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
Continued from third page.

themselves i'm rowboats and camp out
for the night along the Sound. some
timcs I would go along so as to take the
smaller children. once =. schooner was
wrecked on a point half dozen miles
away. She held together well Tor
season or two after having been cleared
of everything down to the timbers. and
this gave ug the chance to make camp
ins-out trips I'm which the girls could
also be included for we put them TO
sleep in the wreck, while the boys slept
on the shore; squaw picnics. the chill
dren called them.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
THE LITTLE COVE SCHOOL.

My children. when young, went to the
public school near us, the little cove
School. as II is called. For nearly thirty
years we have given the Christmas tree
10 the school. Before tho gifts are dis
tributed I am expected. to make an ad-
dress, which is always mercifully snort
my own children having impressed upon
me with frank sincerity the attitude OF
other children to addresses OF this Kind
on such occasions.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

through as nearly on time as possible.
Yet in their ranks were murderers, thieves
highway robbers and other desperate
types such as the Great West produced
when sparseness Of population practically
nullified all law. OF course, there were
plenty OF men among those who helped
make the pony express a success VINO III
their later years became decent ana Vaiu-
able citizens, but there were also many
who met violent deaths and more than
one OF them were hanged.
STORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.
References to this service, various de-
tails Of its operation and numerous aheV-
dotes OF the picturesque characters 10 oe
found in it's ranks are found by the nun
dred I'm the writings of those whose theme
was the West in its pre-railroad days
But only now have they been gathereu
together In complete narrative by dlehh
ID. Bradley and published by A. Z. NC
CIurg & Co. Of Chicago. The title OF the
volume is "The Story OF the Pony EX-
nress." The facts in this story were taken
from Mr. Bradley's little book
The pony express was simply the out
come Of natural and persistent deHahu
for a quicker mail service to the coast
urged on by the vital necessity OF raplc
official communication between the ieo-
eral government at Washington ana the
territorial government in California, Tor
the secession Of the Southern States was
imminent and the loyalty of California 10
tho Union was in grave doubt IL was
This consideration, in fact. that led TO inc
Selection Of what was called the middle
,ou,e Via Colorado and salt Lake. when
tho service WAS at length established IN
stead of the more open and less dangerous
southern route, which would nave le'
through territory that was reckoned as
part of the potential Confederacy'
IN THE SOS.
Back in the sos the transportation Of
litter or other piece Of mail from the
Eastern States to California by the usual
routes required between three and four
weeks at tie very least. Efforts had been
made as early as 1855 to have established
fast overland lire &c carry mail exclu-
slvely. bat as such a venture must have
big subsidy from Congress in order TO
clear expenses. and as Congress persist
entity refused TO grant any such aid the
project had never been consummated. At
length, however, this help was granted,
the consent Of Congress being greatly
fastened by a well-founded fear that the
secessionists on the coast might gain
control OF the government of California,
as well as by the fact that reputable and
financially responsible overland stage
coach rroprietors had taken an interest
In the scheme
The plan as worked out in detail called
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
PERI, RODE WITH THE PONY EXPRESS

|, for schedule that would clip fun ten
DAYS from the time within which letter
could at that time be carried from the
Eastern States TO the coast The plan
succeeded and the extra ten days were
eliminated-and now and then, when ev-
erythng went just right, there was re-
duction OF more than ten days. This IS
how ia WAS done.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
THE CONTRACTING FIRM.

The contract for the new service had
been undertaken by the firm OF Russell
Majors a. Waddell which had already cs-
tablished q wide reputation I'm the freight
and mall business OF the West and en-
joyed the confidence Of business men all
oV er the country to a most extraordinary
degree. They already owned or quickly
acquired connecting stage routes through
out the entire distance 10 be covered by
the pony express. and then thoroughly
renovated the way stations or built new
ones. Horses must be changed, of course,
every few miles, so that when the initial
equipment was complete there were 190
stations. four hundred station attendants
and helpers, about four hundred and
twenty horses and eighty riders.
This represented an immense outlay OF
capital. The horses had to be of excep-
tional speed and endurance, not only In
order TO get the mail through on sched-
ule. but also because-as was fully appre-
ciated in adyance-the riders must fire.
quently depend upon speed alone to es-
cape death at the hands OF Indians or
road agents" Although the service was
called the pony" express. there were
many blooded horses. as well as ponies,
included in the outfit, and an average OF
500 apiece was paid for them-a high
price In those days. Some Of the en-
ployes on the service received only so
month. but the riders were all
well paid. some OF them. whose routes
were the most difficult and dangerous,
getting as high as $50 a month.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

In that case the testimony showed that
the driver was going recklessly through
Market street. Philadelphia. ''at the rate
of eight or nine miles an hour"
A CASE IN 1852.
In 1852 the Attorney General or the
United States was called upon by the
Postmaster General to determine whether
a municipal ordinance prohibiting the pas
sage of railroad cars at a greater speed
than six miles an hour was in connict
with the act OF Congress. The Attorney
General referred approvingly to Judge
Washington's opinion and said (see VOL
of the Op. Atty Gen. PIP. S4, SOD:
when such regulations are fairly and
dscreetly made with intent to preserve
the peace. safety and wellbeing of the
inhabitants of the city they may be said
to flow from powers necessary and proper
| in themselves, which the act OF Congress
| of the United States does not intend to
, take away nor impugn.'
So far as Mr.. Cobb has been able to as
certain, the principles embodied above
have never been disturbed.
In the case of Illinois Central Rail-
road Company VS.. Illinois in l63 u. S. li2.
| a railroad was compelled by law TO stop
all its trains at every county seat. This
compelled a fast mail train 10 go onto
siding for three and a half hours and
back again.
1t was held that this was an unrea-
| sonable obstruction of the passage oil
the mails. But the court stated: 1T may
well he as held by the courts or llll-
nois, that the arrangements made by the
company with the Postoffice Department
of the United States cannot have the
effect of abrogating a reasonable police
regulation of the state. But statute
1 of the state which necessarily interferes
| with the speedy and uninterrupted car
riage Of the mails OF the United States
cannot be considered as a reasonable po-
| lice regulation"
| Mr.. Cobb asserts that the foregoing
language clearly. justifies an ordinance
that seeks in a reasonable manner to pre-
serve the safety of the public. for sucn
an enactment, he believes, cannot be said
20 unnecessarily interfere" since well
fare of the people is Of the highest ne
4 ceSSitV
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
OPENING UP THE SERVICE.

The opening OF the servce-April 3,
1ssO-was the occasion for great rejoicing
al both ends of the line, for the eastbound
and westbound riders were started at as
near the same hours p. mas possible
The cities of st. Joseph, San Francisco
and Sacramento were lavishly decorated,
and there were speeches, brass bands and
roaring crowds as the couriers started off.
The eastbound mail went through on the
first trip in nine days and twenty-three
hours, and the westbound mail in eleven
DAYS and twelve hours. The arrival OF
the riders at their destinations was the
signal for more wild rejoicing. and. Gays
Mr.. Bradley, probably no greater dem
constructions were ever held in California
cities than when the first incoming ox-
press arrived"
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SOUTH SALISBURY

Byron Matterson is in very
feeble condition.
Mr.. Walbridges ambulance was
in the village to take the remains OF
Lee Harrington TO his late home re-
mains came from Troy where he died
after an operation.
John A. Scheuerle, secretary of the
Bennington County Improvement as
ISOLATION, will preside in the NJ. E.
church on Sunday evening. March
Both on THE More Abundant Life.
Service at 7.30. All are cordially in
vited.
This community is clouded with
gloom over the sudden death Of two
boys just verging into manhood,
stricken so severely and suddenly
and taken within a day or so of
each other. Mr.. Rice's, son died in
the home during an operation. Mr..
Tarrington's son died in a hospital in
Troy under an operation. Remains
brought to his late home on Wednes
day evening.
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