Puget Sound weekly Argus. [volume], February 26, 1880, Image 6

About Puget Sound weekly Argus. [volume] (Port Townsend, W.T. [Wash.]) 1876-1882

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My Grandfather’s Story
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and in his lll'lllll‘, must have lm-n ilt'ith‘;
and pnwvrfazlu-«J wry llv‘rcnlcs in ftrrllll
and stzx-ngth. l
John boasted lit-in: onc oi the mrly‘
pionccrs of Ohio. lie early entered
that wild country and commenced in
the wools clearing 3 home for himself
and his young wafc 4; very attractive
girl she must have been when she first
became Mary Harvey, for even at the
time of which I am writing, when she
was Wcll past her sixticth birthduy, shi
still presented the appearance of haying
been beautiful. Her eyes were yet
bright, large and black. and when at all
escitcd she looked like what she had
prowd herself, a dining woman-just
such it one as a pioneer would.,wisely sc
lect to accompany him into a strange
land, into; the wfiidofprsfi, to; be his
fricnl and hulpmcct in more ways than
one. . , .
“ When Mary and I first came into
this wilderness," said John, us he rel
moved his tobacco pipe from lr‘twrcn‘
his lips and looked up townrd his wife: ‘
who was standing near him, partly rcsn~
ing her body by placing it against the
side of hisgrcnt home-made arm chair,
“it was full of Indians—treacherous
fellows they were, too—but they’ve all
gone; they’ve just died out—melted
away as srow disappears before the
heat of the snn,‘ and as silently. They
came very mar settling me," he added,
after a short pause. “It was when I‘
built my cabin and commenced to fix up }
a bit. And but for Mary here, I guess
they; have engined me." .. ll
“ «ll? '3 tS’ ‘ , diathel‘, ‘
no; “it. “$1.53.,“ be!
fore, but never in detail from his or
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grandmother’hfhps. , i
“ W's-11, it happened in this .wise," he
begun.‘ “ When I entered the wilder
ness I thought I'd not justly toward the
red men, and see “if I‘ couldn't buy a
hundred‘or ‘tR-o 'aci-‘iis of the land they
owned! ,By‘égoing. this I hoped to se
cure til ir‘fri dship and thus save my
self from future trouble or dunner. At
that time the village of the Indians was
placed at the month of the Licking
river, in Kentucky, just opposite where
Cincinnati now il.‘ Well, I saw the
head men'of the Ohio tribe, and for
a dozen Millions,- a'ifew iitntoéls; a lot of
cured tobacco, powder, shot, some old
hats and"'clOthes;they wanted whisky,
but- I. o n’t 'm it ,theng—th y
mid lull mrliylgthohsflgdm :lt
wss_' thy an stn _. E‘lmy
thingyzhs'azna ih"go3d“‘fditlh. re
turned to my cabin. i‘Mary was with
me. mid A ,9. ~91" expats this
homelihelaZiincor‘nefortable; or, you set:
we expected there'd soon be ’an‘addition
toourfeni'hlg. _ '"' “‘
“ Well;s lugs won't hihely for nearly
two months; the Indians didn’t come
near us, and we supposed from that
they considered our land sacred where
they had no right to onten ;But at the
end of the second month trouble came
upon us in a heart. It grew out of an
accident, I was in the woods hunting, 1
and perceiving an object moving cautious- ‘
lg at s. distance, having a cover
: 'g on it'thst loolwd like the skin' of a
black hear, I thought I'd have a shot at.
it: Covering the animal, as I supposed
it to he,'l I! led the trigger, and - when
I'd I”.me riflei'the smoke clearing
any, I saw it lying on the ground mo
tionless. I hurried up tnit and to my
surprise found I had killed an Indian of
considerable reputation as a brave or
sub-chief. He had, I supposed, put on
s boss's skin the better to hunt. It was
I common practice among the red men.
I carried the Indy of the dead man to
my cabin ond hastened to nttil'y his
friends. When I’d related how the no-
dduwhmlovn that them were
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o {.tli'? my rillc with Inc.
“Wlwn I had got about half way on
my journey I found myself in a dense
piece of woodland, but thinking no harm
lti‘ndged into it, singing to pass the
time. I had just about got into the
heart of this wood when I found myself‘
suddenly surrounded by flitting, dancingl
figures. I stopped and watched thesel
shadows, not imagining danger. l
“Suddenly a terrific war-whoop, sent
out of a dozen throats, filled the forest,‘
and then before I recovered from my
astonishment I found myself surroilnded
by painted devils flourishing weapon of
every savage fashion. I uttemoted to
use my ex upon thcee liends but they
had calculated upon this, and before I
could get it from my shoulder I was
struck on the right arm with a heavily
loaded stick. {t was paralyzed for the
moment, and the Only weapon. I could
use in my defense luy at my feet, It
\vasinstuntlg picked up :by one of the
claw and I as hurried to a large beech
tree, and tied with ropes, which I saw'
had been stolen from my own barn l
“When they had so tied mo that I
could not movu a torch was lighted, and
by the i'eflection on each face I 81W that
they Were fiends and relations of tho
manl had accidentally killed.
“I began to talk to them of their evil
conduct, but they only laughed and
howled. .They informed me that if I
was brave it was now the time for me to
show how a. pale face could endure the
fire! ‘
“At this four or five of the painted
fiends ran into the woods, one carrying
my ux, in order td'gather up dry wig
and branches that. would readily b 9
piled about me and fired, destroy me;
While these pregmbions were going on
I thought ohny liool' wife, the condition
she was in and the danger she would b
fixposed to lithe devils, after they had
estroyed me,‘ should venture to the
cabin. . .
“While I was thus meditating, the
torch being momentarily [rushed so near
my facethat the skin was blistercd, the
report of a rifle was heard, and one of
the Indians who had been dancing
around the tree, standing uftener on his
hands than on his feet, while in that at
titude tumbled over dead. There was
instant commotion among. the savages 5
but before they recovered from their
so ' ,asoco " _ rese in,,a
lbthlshm NELWMgd ihagl been
standing "hetero nw .wroiying, his cra
torical powers. felLflat on his face. J net
as a report of the scconfiigun‘, as heard,
a ball crashed through‘ skzl. , They
forget me afld‘niade‘toward‘ the river;
but they hadhardly run a dozen yardsp
when a devil‘lwho held the handle of a
'eoalping Mimi! in his mouth, and who
had morethau once threatened to raise
my hair, was, as I heard a third report,
struck in the stomach. He fell and
writhed at my feet iii terrible agonies
I pitied him. The third shot, no one of
which had failed tomiss its object, so
frightened-the crew shat not even stop
pin: to gather up their dead, they run
‘ swrftly away. ' '-
‘ “While I' was fli'us rejoicing in my
1 heart at the timely insistence that had
thus come to me, I tried to look in the
direction in which the shots had come.
The torch had been extinguished, and
for several minutes I stood bound to the
’ trcein aeiienco he dead as the night
was dark.
“Aftona whilbl faintly heard, as if
it wore the steps of p. panther or wild:
cat,‘ something Wulkihg cautiously over
the dry brambies that filled the forest”
I thought it win one of tho savages who
was making his way to whom I was to
brain And then scalp me. But when I
bud worked nay-cl! into this' belief, at
the sumo time “ruining every nerve: to
burn. wonder the conls that bL um] um,
I felt : Imud touch mine.
“1 wind hoalsely; ‘Who‘l Huh 2'
“And tom, “owninhment. my “if" in
a low voice, lu-r limbs trembling in (X
--cito-Im-nt Immoral :
“ ‘Hmt, John.’
"l mu than to upcnk, when aha put
u finger on my month, Ind than with my
hunting knits, the cut the cords tho.
bound me.
" ‘ll ooh, John !' the "pan-d. ‘Tsh
this gnu. It is your; 1 hue mine.
d-o'
“I too‘: it in one» of my band; Ind
thou putting on ma mum] her voist.
In]! «tried her out of the woods to the
lowa.
“When '0 lat”, cow, uni cloud
lad W the door, Ilury Hated. It
vuwy boon belon 111. muted.
In tim nn-nniin: ' your :nofhr-r wrs horn.
: “W 0 4&5 who: this," I 1" :uhicd, aha-I'll
[1 L-xsv, “your gun: Il;u);hr 1' fluid 1;) - that
z'mring .B"an :uxidu n; hml Influx-null to
mu, as I was :mny m Luv, shv resolved
to go in mun-h (if in". She took some
ammunition and I: AIIS (hut, m-vordroanr
ing of Indians nizsnihn: 1H), and her own
gun and my h-uviar xilhu In [hissing
throngfii the wood“, she. saw u light.
Approaching CiilltlUHßlj' and noisviossly,
to her horror, she mw mo Jmun',l to a
m-v, and thv painted liexnls around 1110.
Instead of fainting, she became calm
and rosoiutv, and loading tho rifles, she
fired them. I'M‘ll time tumbling over a
savage. Then she hastily reloaded the
guns. But the had only an opportunity
to use one of them before the gang dis
uppoared. The rest of the story you
know.”
A Thorny Road to Destrucuon.
The royal road to newspaper honor is
very steep and very rocky. Take the
case of an aspirant who comes to the
managing editor of a certain metropoli~
tan paper. lie is referred to the city
;editor. That :tutncrat questions him
lubout his experience and finds it nil. It
lhis appearance. pleases, and there is
room in the oliice, ho is told to come. the
next day, and. that he will be given
work on “space"~—that is, paid for what
he writes at so much per column. 116
reports at the office twice a day for a
Week, perhaps gets one assignment or
detail‘each (lay,'ti‘nd finds on pay day
that he has‘edmed $lO and has spent $6
for car fore. "If news is scam: and he
does not possets unusual energy, his
hills may not average more than this
amount for an entire Summer. In such
a case he generally abandons the busi
ness and takes up some occupation
which does not demand so much of its
followers. If he really is in love with
the work and feels the stimulus which
comes from eager rivalry with competi
tors for the best reports of local inci
dents, in will soonmako a “hit”and get
momwork, or olse'he placed on a regu
lar salary. Then his further progress
is only a question of ability, health and
time. Changes will occur in the ollice,
and promotion, though slow, _will be
suroto, lnm .whodhidcs, his time and
does hisworl: well. But tlu.sro__is,no
.romance about the business. Ibo suc
”cessful reporter 'may become speciitl' cor
,FPSPOHQ‘CN. or city editor, or n'iglit edi'
tor, or, editorial writer. But whether
his work is to write“ or revise other
,mcn's writing, he will be compelled to
lahOr hard, and generally under pressure.
His hours of labor are constantly men
a‘ced by sudden demands for extra work.
Often he sits eight hours untlcr a gaslight
at the most exacting task ofreyising the
hastily-written manuscript of' local re.
porters. He must see that there are no
lepsesin the. grammar, that z‘r‘o inao
we statements 91:9 WES-e .32“ {my
Ills ‘lous assertions are excised, (that 131!
expressions of opinion'oro out odt. a
must remove all. irrevolaut - details, and
them gim the articles attractive. head‘
am. To follow. this , work six. niqhtal
in .the :week tests theistrongest constitu
tion. 0a all‘tto’gm‘at @llin papers in
th‘é leading cities'the pdéepf um, man
who comes into‘jourqalisip, a nogico and
takes any..-poaition.ahouo that of r‘e
porte: is as {oneJin 1fl.2t119?§33d- The
fact 'that a ’mah does "escape this
necessary drudgery is against his future
usefulness as an editor. He will- nor 1-
know the relative Value of news, and o
constantly rled to underrate the "ripe t
ancc'of locml’hiattérs.‘ "And the paper'
which negleot‘rlocal’flefl and is persiiltJ
truly" batten to a: Marmarpriaing‘
rival is sure to lose} heavily in tho cir
culation... Despite --tho about work and
me hours there is aw singular attraction
about newspaper 16,45“? Journalism
possesses a stimulus-unmown in more
staid professions. .~The’ fondness of its
members for Bohemian life and their
devotion to the business resemble the
passion of actors for the stage. Meri
will stay in journalism, though they
make furlcssmoney than they would,
in other pursuits which require for less
exertion. ' A notable instance of this
perversity was furni~hed by tho New
York World, which used to boast of the
brightmt stair of any paper in that city.l
Thelmrn were all college graduates, nul‘
Lleir daily meetings Were scammed willy
Wit and humor. liut the standing jukfll
for ILCWt'flHI'TV vans that. a nun must doi
5: run outside literary work, :14, tln- tat-9‘
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hs-avwr ll'flnYln' mlarivn pull by the}
pip: r to t'.o in--nilwr.~:. j
“Dofior,” exclaimed g tag to a well
known physicim. “how loll: will it Luke
hanging to produce duth?" “Twmty,
or u must. thirty,.ulmua," replied
thodocwr "using; "‘but why do you
at!" “Oh, but!” lat night I
I“ I man Wu. for two mom]
loan, we! be in'c dad yet.” “You
did!" oxcldlnod tho doctor. emphat
-Ilolly. “l hm" haul I word of this,
yet. Wan-did th- an hug!” “no
uuhngiqnouda m up town.“
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