'W^JJi^t!ffi' 7 'f^ff Ode For the Fourth or July, 1814. which he passed. As no one had been they saw the dominoes and revolvers of was so wild that a cool-headed sporting friends at a distance, sometimes friends 1 seen to precede him, betting men were the road agents. By William CuUen Bryant in the Hampshire man speedily made a fortune by betting happened to call and look through the Sei ms to be something the matter, 1 4 aoon 6ffeiing odds that the colonel was Gazette, July 6,1814. against every heory that was advanced. institutions, and would contribute, but running away from somebody. gentlemen," said the colonel, blandly, as* Then the polonel made a tour of the If always there came relief at the right time* Amidst the storms that shake the land, Strictly speaking, they were wron?but he opened the door. ''Won't you please stores, and fitted himself with a"newSuit A tew years later a donation ot $25,000 was The dm of paity fiay, they won all the money that had been get otft? Don't trouble yourself to d?aw of clothes, carefully eschewing all of the And woee of tfiuliy war, we meet f. received, and he opened another instituin staked agaiest them, for within half an 'cos my friend here's got his weapon To hymn this sacred day, ^Sw generous patterns and~pronounced colors the same street. Then another era hour's time there passi over the same For all thatbieathes of ancient worth i cocked an' his fingers is rather nervous. So dear to the average miner. He bought came. They were overcrowded there Our lingering hope reveres road an anxious-looking individual, who Ain't got a handkerchief, hev yer?" asked a new hat and put on anew pair of boots 1 were 125 orphans and more wanting to JEach print of Ireedom's sacred steps, reigned up in front of the principal he of the first passenger who" descended and pruned his finger-nails, and 'stranger Each trace of happier years. come in. They decided to build. About w^f^rf* O 4 saloon of the place, and asked if the from ,the stage. "Hev? Well, now, that|s than all, he mildly declined all invitations $75,000 were necessary, though they did i colonel had passed. lucky. Just put your hands behind you, to drink. \i frtVeir Our skies have glowed with burning towns, rot have $7 in the treasury. He determined pleasesothat's it." And the unfortunate Had the gallant colonel known that he Our snows have blushed with gore, As the colonel stood in''the*door of the to go ahead with the building,and And fresh is many a nameless crave, man was securely bound in an ininstant. was followed, and by whom, there would principal saloon, where the stage always therefore began to pray. He prayed one By Eric's weepmg shore. have.been an extra election held at the stopped, the Challenge Hill constable day, two days, five daye, and still no In sadness let the anthem flow, place very shortly after, for the pursuer The remaining passengers were treated was feen to approach the colonel, and money came in. He prayed still trust- But tell the men of strife, was the constable of Challenge Hill, and with like courtesy, and the colonel and O their own heads shall rest the guilt tap him on the shoulder, upon which all fulIy-7-fifteen days, thirty days, and not a for constables and all officers of the law Of all this waste of life. his friends 'examined the pockets of the men, who bet that the colonel was dodging singleperiny came. the colonel possessed hatred of unspeakable captives. Old Black remained unmolested, somebody, "claimed the stakes. But But raise, to swell the general song, On the thirty-fourth day the first donation intensity. for who ever heard of a stage driver those who stood near the colonel heard Our notes of holiest-sound of $5,000 came in, and he wasn't 1 i On galloped the colonel, following the having monev? i And bless the hands wnich rent the chain the const'able say: Ht all excited, [laughter.] He had gieat The struggling world that bound. stage road, which threaded the old mining "Boys?" said the colonel, calling his Colonel, I take it all back. When I faith, whicu had been strengthened by iLo! Europe wakes the sleep of death camps in Duck Creek but suddenly brother agents aside and comparing receipts, seen you get out of Challenge Hill it exercise. At first he could trust God for Her pristine glories warm! he turned abruptly out of the road and "'tain't much of a haul but there come to me that you might be in tbe$5, "The soul of ancient freedom comes afterwards lor $10, afterwards for urged his horse through the young pines is only one wo nan, an' she's old enough And fills her mighty form! road-agent business, so I followed you $100, afterwards for $1,000, and now he and bushes, which grew thickly by theto be a feller's grandmother. Better fet duty you know But when I seed you could tru8tGodfor $1,000,000. He repeated Well have ye fought, ye friends of man, road, while the constable galloped rapidly her alone, eh?" sell Tipsie I knew I was on the wrong that he wouldn't have been i xcited Well was your valor shown on to the next camp. "Like enough sne'll pan out more'n all trail. I wouldn't suspect you now if all The grateful nations breathe from war, at receiving $50,000 instead of $5,000 at There seemed to be no path through the rest of the stage put together," growled The tyrant lies o'erihrown. the siages in the state wuz robbed and that time. The money came in rapidly, the thicket into which the colonel had Well mij ht tempt the dangerous fray, Cranks, carefully testing the thickness I'll give you satisfaction any way you and in a few months he had enongh money Well dare the desperate deed turned, but Tipsie walsed between the of tue case of a gold watch. "Jest like want it.'' to commence building, but he did not Ye knew how just our causeYe knew trees and shrubs as if they were the familiar the low-lived deceitfulness of some folks "It's all right,'' said the colonel, with put his signature to the contract until The voice that bade ye bleed objects of her own stable yard. to h're an old woman to carry their money a smile. The constable afterwards said there was enough to pay far the whele Suddenly a voice from the bushes so it'd go safer. Mebbe what she's got To thee the mighty plan we owe that nobody had any idea of how curiously building. Yet a strange circumstauce shouted: To bid the world" be free ain't nothin' to some folkd that's got the colonel smiled when his beard was that while ihere was $40,000 or The thanks of nations, Queen of Isles! "What's up?" hosses, that kin win 'em money at races, was off. $50,000 in the bank to the credit of the Ai poured to heaven and thee. "Businessthat's whet," replied the but" Suddenly the stage pulled up at thebuildiug fund, the orphans were otten Yes'hadst not thou, with fearless arm, colonel The colonel abruptly ended the conversation Stayed the descending 3courge door with a crash, and the male passen suffering tor breikfa*t, yet he nevei "It's time, replied the voice, and its These stiaim, that chant a nation's birth, and approached the stage. He gers hun led into the saloon in a state of touched a cent ot the fund. If he had Had hapl} hymned its dirge ownera Jbearded-six-footer emerged was very chivalrous, but Crank's sarcastic utter indignation and impecuniosity. done so the first time his spiritual thermometer from the bushes, and stroked Tipsie's reference to Tipsie needed avenging, The story of the robbery attracted would have gone down ten de^ But where was raised our country's hand nose with freedom of an old cquaitance. and as he could not consistently with Amidst that dreadful strife? everybody, and, during the excitement, grees, and ten degrees erery time afterwards. "We aint had a nip since last right, and Where was her voice when hopes grewfaint, business arrangements put an end tothe colonel slipped out quietly, and opened And freedom fought for life* thar aint a cr.vcker or a handful of flour in Cranks, the old lady would have to suffer. the door of the stage. The old lady The house was opened soon afterwards Oh' bitter are the tears we shed, the shanty. The old gal go back on started and cried "I beg your pardin, ma'am," said the Columbia! o'er thj shame! and filled, and there were still applications yer?" "George!" colonel, raising his hat politely with one A stain the deluge could not cleanse and he did not know what to do. Forever blots thy fame. "Yes," replied the colonel ruefully, hand while lie opened the coach door And the colonel jumped into the stage, Then he prayed, and finallv started in to "lost every ulasted race. 'Twasn't her with the other, "but we're taking up a and put his arm tenderly about the build another asylum for 700 orphans. In Nor to avenge a nation's wrongs faultbless her she done her level best. collection fur some deserving object. We trembling form of the old lady, exclaiming: Does power demand our aid four or ,five years two more houses were Ev'rybody to home?" wuz agoin' to make the gentlemen fork The, sword is baredbut angry Heaven completed, and there was room for 1,000 Fiowns on the accursed blade. "You bet," said the man "All been a over the hull amount, but ez they hain't "Mother!''BKET HAUTE. orphans, and that too, though the first vThe men who snatched it from the sheath, prayin' for yer to turn up with the rocks, got enough, we will hev to bother you house had cost $75,000. Then there A feaiful cuise withstands an' somethin' with more color than The old lady trembled, felt for her were more orphans waiting and he six The blood of innocent is red The Prayer Gauge. spring water. Come on."' Upon their guilty hands. pocket-book, raised her veil. The colonel years later had built two" more houses, The man led the way and Tipsie and looked into her face slammed the costing $300,000. These asylums were In a recent lecture at Chicago Rev. Still, to defendour country's shores, the colonel followed, and the trio suddenly stage door, and sitting on the hub of one near together and were like ahttle town. George Mueller, of Bristol, England, gave We hasten to the field tound themselves before a small of the wheels, stared vacantly into space. These five houses had 1,700 windows And should the foe invadeour ranks an account of the methods by wh'ch he log hut, but in front of which sat three May fall, but never leld. larger then those of Far well Hall. There "Nothin?" queried Perkins in a whisper, proceeded and now supports a number of Th day that sees the victory theirs, 1 solemn, disconsolate individuals, who were generally from 500 to 600 hand. and with a face full of genuine sympathy. orphan asylums. What .had led to the Shall look on many a grave looked appeahngly to the colonel. The children were only those who had idea he said, was his visits in pastoral Our vetei an fatherb taught their sons "Mac ''1 tell yer how t'was, tellars." been bereft of both parents, and another "Noyes," said the colonel, dreamily. work, when he felt there was nothing so To guaid the soil they gave. J&id the colonel, meekly, "while I picket condition was that they must have been "Tnat is, untie 'em and let the stage go wanting as faith in Chiistian people and *the mare." Come to thine ancient haunts, and bring lawfu'ly begotten and stcll another condition ahead," he continued, springing to hiscare for the fatherless childien. There Thy tram of happy years. The colonel was absent but a very few was that they must be destitute. feet. "I'll hurry back to the cabin." did not seem much chance to do anything, Oh, PEACE' the sunshine of thy smile moments, but when he returned each of When these conditions were fullfihed no And the colonel dashed into the bushes as he had no money or influence Shall dry a nation's tears' the tour was attired in pistols and knife, child was refused from any part ot the From hill, and plain, and ocean's verge, and left his followers so paralyzed with but having weighed the matter well he while Mac was distributing some dominoes, While with the unwonted sail, world. astonishment that Old Black afterwards determined to trust in the living God, JShall burst a boundless shout of joy, made from a rather dirty flour bag. remarked that "ef ther'd been anybody and begin an orphan asylum, leaving the Thy rain renewed, to hail! "Tain't so late ez all that, is it?" inquired to the hosses he could hev cleaned the care of it to God. He was not a hasty That Insurance Case. i the colonel. hull crowd with his whip." person, and it took long consideration tor Retiring From Bniuess. "Better be an hour a head than miss in "Mamus Cajlius," Cicero said to his legal The passengers, now relieved of their him to reach that decision. One eveniny this 'ere night," and one oi the four. friend, meeting him one morning on weapons, were unbound, allowed to enter he was reading through the word of god, What the colonel's business was noTjody 'I ain't been so thirsty since I come the other side ct a screen under the capitol, the stage, and the door wa3 slammed and came to the eighty first Psalm, and knew, nor did anybody caro particularly. round the Horn in '50, an' we run short "what shah it be?" upon which Old Black picked upjn his read: He purchased for cash only, and ot water. Somebody'll get hurt it ther' reins as coolly as if he had lain them Cselius said he would take a little spiritus "I am the Lord thy God. which brought never giumbled at the price of anything ain't any bitters on the old concern down at a station while the horses were fumenti optimus, straight, and the thee out of the land of Egypt open thy he wanted who could ask more than they will, or my name ain't Perkins." being changed then he cracked his whip orator, remarking that that was the size mouth wide and I will fill it." that? and the stage rolled off, while the colonel's "Don count on your chickens 'fore ol his, went on: He fell on his knees and prayed to God Curious people occasionly wondered party hastened back to their hut, fondly they're hatched, Perky," said one of the "I wish you would ge* out the necessary to give him a suitable house for the how, when it had been fullv two years inspecting as they went certain flasks they party, as he adjusted the dominc under papers some time to-day, and biing orphan asylum and a thousand pounds, or since the colonel, with everyone else, had obtained while transacting their the rim of Lis hat. "S'posin' ther' shud suit for me against the Yellow Tiber Fire $5,000 in American money. That seemed abandoned Dutch Creek to the Chinese, business with the occupants of the stage. be too many for us?" and Marine Insurance Company, for the like an immense sum, and he trusted he managed to spend money freely and amount of its policies on my villa at Great was the surprise of the road "Stidy, stidy, Cianks!" remonstrated in God to get it. The first dav he received o lose oonsideiable at cards and horse Tusculum, and my town bouse." agents as they entered their hut. for there the colonel. "Nobody ever gets along et two shillings from a poor arman sraces. In fact, the keeper of that one of M. Cselius looked up in amazement. stood the colonel in a clean white shirt, they 'low 'emselves to be skeered." missionary, and another little donation tthe two CiaUenge Hill saloons which the "Why." he exclaimed, "when did they and in a suit of clothin" made from the "Fact," chimed in the smallest and from another missionary, but little by colonel did not patronize, was once heard burn down? And what was it? Accident? limited spare wardrobes of the other thinnest man in the party. "The Bibl" little the money came in, and shortly after to absent-mindedly wonder whether the Mob? Some ot Clodius' people?" members ot the gang. says somethin' mighty hot 'bout that. I he received $500 from a poor wonkan, colonel hadn't a money mill somewhere, "No," Cicero said, they are intact as But the suspicious Cranks speedily disremember dzcklv how it goes but I've who earned $1 a day from sewing. He where he turned out double eagles, and yet and in fact I haven't insured them subordinated his wonder to his prudence heerd Paison Buzzy, down in Maine, at first refused the money, but +he woman slugs' (the coast name for fifty-dollar yet, but I am going to do so to-morrow, as, laying on the table a watch, two preach a rippin old sermon many a time. compelled him to keep it. In about .gold pieces") and I want to bring suit against the pistols, a pocket-book and a heavy purse, The old man never thort what a comfort three or four months he was in a position When so important a personage as a campany now, so if ever they should happen he exclaimed:- them sermons wus agoin' te be to a road to rent a house capable of receiving bar-keeper indulges publicly in an idea, to burn I woi_'t have quite so long to "Come, Colonel, business before pleasure agent, though. That time we stopped thirty orphans, and appointed a time for the inhabitances of Challenge Hill, like wait for the money." let's divide an' scatter. Ef anybody Slim Mike's stage, and he didn't hev no receiving applications." He went to the good Californians everywhere, considered Cselius saw that the orator's head was should hear about it an' find our trial, an' more manners than to draw on me, them house and waited three hours,, but there themselves in duty bound to give it grave level, and brought suit that afternoon. ketch the traps in our possession, they sermons wuz a perfect blessing to me was not an application. He went home consideration, so tor a few days certain Eleven years afterward the villa at Tusculum might" the thought of 'em cleared my head as discouraged, and cast himself on the industrious professional gentlemen, who and the town house were both destroyed "Divide yourselves!" said the col ,nel, quick as a cocktail. An' floor, almost in despair. He prayed won money of the colonel, carefully weighed by fire. The suit had by that with abruptness and a great oath. "I to God. The next morning the first application "I don't want io dispute Logroller's some of the brightest pieces aiid tested time been in five different courts, and had don't want none of it." was received, and in a month pious strain," interrupted the colonel ihem with acids, and tasted them, and been confirmed and reversed and remand "Colonel," said Perkins, removing his forty two applications were received, and "but ez it's Old Black that's adriven' today tsawed them in two, and retired them, and ed. and referred to the master to take Oldown domino, and looking axiously into in six months he opened another nouse instead of Slim Mike, an' ez melted them up ana had the lumps assayed, proof, and stricken from the docket, and the leader's face, "be you sick? Here's for very little boys and girls, below 8 Black aliers makes his time, hedn't we rebutted, and surrebutted, and impleaded, some bully brandy which I found in one years. better vamose?" and rejoined, and filed, and quashed, The result was a complete vindication of the passenger's pockets." In nine months he opened a third* The door of the shanty was hastily and continued, until nobody knew what of the colonel, and a loss of considerable "I hain't nothin'," replied the colonel house for boys over 8 years, and during closed, and the men filed through the it was about, and Cicero was notified, .custom to the indiscreet bar-keeper. with averted eyes. "I'm goin\ ana I'm six months the prosperity of these institutions thicket until near the road, when they three weeks after the fire, that he would The colonel was as good natured a man a retirin' from this business forever." was unabated. Then all the marched rapidly on in parallel lines with have to prove wilful and long continued as had ever been known at Challenge Hill, "Ain't a agoin' to turn evidence?'* money was gone. People would think it. After about halt an hour, Perkins, absence aad .neglect, as he could not got ibut being moital, the colonel had his occasional cried Cranks, grasping the pistol on thethat he should then be discouraged but who was ]eading, halted, and wipW pis a decree simply grpunds ot incompatibility times of despondency, and one table. on the contrary, he gloiied in the fact, perspirating-'brow with his shirt sleeved ot temperament.^ And when he" of tiem occurred alter a series o% races "I'm a-goin'to make a lead mine ot for it would show the world what could "Fur enough from home, now," said he, went to the secretary of the company, in which he had staked his all on his own you if you don't take that back!" roared be done in tre nineteenth century in answer "Tain't no use bein' a gentleman ef yer that official told him the company didn't &ay maie Tipsie, and had lost. the colonel, with abound which caused to prayer. Thousands of these orphans ter work too hard." know any thing,about the fire, and had Look'ng reproachfully at his beloved Cranks to drop the pistol and retire precipitately, had been brought up and educated "Safe enough, I reckon," replied the no time to attend to such things. "The -animal he failed to feel the aching void apologizing as he went. M'm in the fear of the Lord, and in his trip colonel. "We'll dp the usual I'll halt company's business, the secretary said, of his pockets, and drinking deeply, goin'iotend to my own business an' to this country he had met many of his 'em, Longroller 'tend to the driver, was to insure houses, not to run "around swearing eloquently and glaring defiantly that's enpugh to keep any man bizzy. former pupils well-to-do and Christians. Cranks takes the boot, an' Mac an' Perk to fires, asking about the insurance. If at all man kind, were equally unproductive Somebody lend me fifty dollars 'till I see This was what had been accomplished takes right an' left. An'I know it's he wanted any information on those of coin. them again." simply in answer to prayer in this century. toughbut considerin' how everlastin' points, he would have to ask the firemen The boys at the saloon sympathized Perkins pressed the money into the "When it came to being witnout eternally hard up we are, I reckon we'll or the newspaper reporters. most feelingly with the colonel they were colonel's band, and within two minutes money he felt that the time had come to hev to ask contnoutions from the ladies, The more a man reads in these ,old ^unceasing in their invitations to drink, the colonel was on Tipsie's back ,and gal* prove"the Lord. He called the help of too. ef that's anv aboard- eh, boys?" histories, the more he is convinced that and they even exhibited considerable loped on in the direction the stage had the asylums together and told them not "Reckon so," replied Logroller, with a the insurance business in the days of the Christain forbearance, when the colonel taken. to buy a single article except for cash. chuckle that seemed to inspire even his praetors was a great deal more like it is savagely dissented with every one who advanced He overtook it, he passed it, and still During the torty-four years that the asylums black domino with a merry wrinkle or to-dayHawkey*. \J^ any proposition, no matter how he galloped on. had lived they had never contracted two. "What's the use ov women's rights "incontrovertible. ^m- cent of debt. He reasoned that it The people at Mud Gulch knew the ef they don't ever hev a chance ov exercisin' But unappreciated sympathy grows decidedly Kovel Punishment lor Thett. was the work of God, and that they colonel well, and made a rule never to 'em? Hevin' their purses borrowed tiresome of the giver, "and it was should not be conducted according to be astonished at anything he did but 'ud show them the hull doctrine in, a bran with a fcelling of relief that the boys saw worldly institutions. He knew that there they made an exception to the rule when new light." 'the colonel $triae out of the saloon, could be no loss in doing God's work in thecolonel canvassed the principal barrooms respect- "Come, come, boys," interposed the meunt Tipsie, and gallop furiously away. God's way. According to these principles for men who wished to purchase a -J-.---V slipped 7 colonel, "thar's the crack Old Black's Riding on horsebacjt has always been he had acted all these years, and he into tne house djf Mf. Sterling Jenkuifl,5eho horse and when a gambler who was whip: Pick yer bushesquick! All lives on ib* Talbottom roHd. gnd stole a considered an excellent sort of exercise, had never had to retrace any steps. It flush obtained Tipsis for twenty slugsonly jump when I whistle!" watch and some other valuables: Mr/ .and fast riding is universally admitted to soon came to this, that they would have a thousand dollars, when the colonel Jenkins tracked and overtook them in Hamilton. sbe one of the most healthful and delightful Each man secreted himself near th a breakfast and there would be nothing had always said that there wasn't He recovered his propertv but did means of exhilaration in the world. roadside. The stage came swinging for dinner. Then he would call the help gold enough on top* of ground to buy i not desire to put thV rascals in jail, so he along handsomely, the inside were together for a prayer-meeting* when the JBut when a man is so absorbed in his herMud Gulch experienced a decided told them that if they would whip each t. laughing heartily at something, and Old dinner would always come. extrcise that he will not stop to speak to sensation. other he would not i-rosecute tnem. This Black wasjust giving a delicate touch to a friend and when his exhilaration is so One or two enterprising persons speidilydiscoveredvthat Often it was necessary to "have a they agreed to dq. They, were token out, the flank of the off leader, when the ^complete that he turns his eyes from tne colonel was not in stripped to the waistj and provided with second prayer meeting to get a supper, colonel gave a shrill, quick whistle, and well meaning thumbs pointing significantly a communicative mood so every one retired stout hickory switches. One was tied to a and sometimes still another prayer meeting five men rang into the road. into doorways through which a treeand^the others laidton his back lustily to his favorite saloon to bet according to get something for bieakfast. The air if with the switches until Mr. Jenkins expressed man has often passed while seeking bracing to his own opinion of tbe colonel's suddenly1 The horses stopped as plan was invariably successful. This himself satisfied. The ceremony influences,^ is bt natural that people motives and actions. happened not once, noi ten times, nor a it were a matter of common occurrence. J%f was gone through with each one. They should express some wonder. But when the colonel, after remaining hundred times, nor a thousand times, Old Black dropped the reins, crossed Ms were then dispersed with smarting baoks and The colonel was well known at Toddy in the barber shop for half an hour, but many thousattd times, and never was legs and stared into the sky, and the penitent hearts. They said that their ii Flat, Come Hand, Blazers, Murdjrer's emerged with his face clean shaved and there a single failure. Sometime the letter passengers all put out their heads with a mother worked in the mills here, and that .Bar. and several other villages through hair nea'ly trimmed and parted, betting carrier would briny a remitance from rapidity equalled only by that which their father was dead. _. nBil t^as* iniaifeawmfttti