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6 •Christian Family. PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 1877. Pioneering Out Wèst. empty. Then I began to feel the In the beginning of this article wo responsibility of my position. A —. . . , • spoke of the ever-varying excitements MISS MARY STUMP, EDITOR. There is quite an element m our I wMch led the dfift lation lamp with no oil in it, the train due ——----------------------------------------- —i F-'.-A . American population that never does | now her0 anf , nQW . q 8ean ,h of in ten minutes, with the chances of i£s The Last Hymn. get anchored to business. It is either i . — , , being thrown off the track, and no ,, ., , ... .-. ... I some new fortunes. There is scarcely ’T; *T MABIÁNX1 ------ all the while waiting for something to r*BSlW|.HAB. telling liow many people killed or a year or a season that does not feed torn up, or following the varied and wounded ! In a case of this kind, sir, the appetite for venture by exhibiting The Sabbath day was endiug, in a village even a brakeman will do his best to rapidly changing' excitements' that some new avenue of wealth of the by the sea, The uttered benediction touched the people save human life, although he some arise to drift it about. This class gen most wonderful promise. In the light tenderly,. times loses hid own in the attempt; erally looks with disdain upon the of all this, can it be true that there is And they rose to face the sunset in the and all he gets for it is' having his plodding sort, and aimsMbv a swift " nothing new under the^sun ?” but as -k-e glowing, lighted west, name in the paper and being. called a way to wealth. Taken’as a yhole, it a matter of fact and history, is there And then hastened to their dwellings for is composed of people w'ho are alway s brave fellow. not every day shown up something , God’s blessed boon of rest. poor, but sanguine. Though often “ Quicker tfian 1 tell it, I made up new and wonderful ? When the peo But they looked across the waters, and a my mind that the train must be well bied and of hîghftamily, they are, ple, at the time of the Pike’s' Peak storm was raging There ; signalled, lamp or no lamp.^ But how in a business point of view, shaky, gold furor, were swarming in the new A fierce spirit moved above them—the wild spirit of the air— f to do it was the question. If I ran and as members of society, shabby camps at the base of the Rocky moun Apd it lashed, and shook, and tore them, ahead without a light, the engineer genteel. This floating element puts tains, they had taken but little thought till f they thundered, groaned and might think I wanted to stop the aside the old maxim -that a “ rolling of what they should eat, or how they Tabomed, train for robbery—for such things stone gathers no moss,” with that oth should be warmed. It was left for Apd, plas ! for any vessel in their yawning have often been done, you know—and.. er one, modelled more to their fancy; accidental discovery,’that the suppos gulf entombed. would not only dash right on -faster “ nothing venture,,nothing gain /’and, ed barrqp soil would, With irrigation^ Very anxious were.-the people on that than ever, but. maybe try to scald nie disregarding the old saws that would produce the'choicest wheat; and fti rocky coast of Wales, as the locomotive rushed by. 1 tell make every man creep before he walks, hunting the foot-hilh» for gold and Lest the dawns of coming morrows should be telling awful tales, - ’ you I felt like praying just then ; but and w alk before he runs, it would, at silver, were found the coal mines from When the sea had spent its passion, and brakemen are not .selected for their the first bound, leap to fortune. which the whole population is now should cast upon she shore The class which we describe is com religious feelings _ so. 1 ,didn’t pray stqiplicd-with fuel, aniTon which' the Biiaof wreck,, and sa olieu victim*, -as it much, but looked around: and saw a posed of men of one’ idea, commonly Agréât Pacific railways depend for their had done .heretofore. light shining in a window some dis defined as having something on the supplies. Jt has been found, too, that With the rough winds blowing round heri J eh . se G ross . tance off. 1 laid down my lantern brain—what, depends on demand, salt, copper, oil, and iron exist, and . a brave woman strained her eyes. ------- , , —■» 4------------- j ¡rarefully on the track, made, a bee! market value, and the largest immedi their future development may-prove a And she saw ale ng the billows a large The Brakesman’s Story. vessel fall and rise, ! line for the house, and soon'my knock ■ ate returns. It is now cotton, then supply great enough to meet the wants wheat ; to-day oil, to-morww pig iron ; Oh ! it did not need a prophet to tell what li Yes,, sir,” said the brakeman, as ■brought a woman to the door,-who; this yea-t cattle or wool,- next year; of consumption arid the commerce' of the end must Let * look ed «more irighteaed than I was at I the future populous States that form For no ship, could, ride in safety near that he .stood by the stove warming his my excited appearance. It was use-' gold And silver. IF changes so fest, the’ backbone of the continent. Then shore on such a sea. numbed hands, after coming in from less to ask for sfterru oil — the only that a man who is Carried away with the millions of cattle grazing on the Then the pitying people hurried frota their breaking, “ People think, its they sit it never knows-occupation of-home; homes and thronged the beach. in their warm seats and only hear Us sort wc use—so I cried out; he must be-on the go ; his life -js liter- j diy tufts of ^buffalo grass, form not “‘For God’s sake, get me some - Oh ! for the power to cross the waters and call out the different stations, that we ally spent in the. chase. There is no 1 only, an abundant supply of beef mi the perisluug to'reach 1 . the .population that now exists here have a nice, soft, easy time. But we straw 1 ’ Helpless hands were wrung for sorrow, “ She seemed to realize the position, spot in the1 diggings of California that but it is shipping its surplus^ qi v&t, •know hotter. Imagine yourself out tenderjfiarts«grew cold with dread, and quickjy brought a-Joundle. .Feel he has not visited ; nothing about Ar juicy beerin great quantities (’hi-' And the ship, mged-by the tempest, to the on a flat can all night, with the snow izona diamond fieldsH.hatr.he docs not* fatui rock-shore sped. • ' dashing into-youf face, your hands on ing* in my pocket. I found three know. You cannot tell him anything cago, St. Louis and the markets of the matches, and grabbing the straw, I “ She ha s pa rt ed in the middle 1 Oh ! the a cold iron brake, and think if. that’s new about cotton, nor how to market Mississippi valley. The wool product made my way back to the track. half ot her goes down ! ' i easy ; or up on the top of a freight is starting up new factories, and is “ Laying the straw between the it. He is. familiar with the best among the possibilities of future ex God have mercy ! Is His heaven far to car, running along, the wind cutting strikes at Oil City and Pit Hole, and seek for those who drown ?” , , like a knife, dark as pitch, and watch rails, I struck a match and. shoved it ten chances to one was on the ground tensive trade. Lo ! when next the white, shocked faces ing.for fear, you may rush suddenly into the bundle. It flickered an in to witness them. The best *• colors ” Should the rocks and gulches begin looked with terror on the sea, stant and then went out. I felt and to fail in their yield of gold and silver, Only one last clinging figure on the spar under a bridge and be swept off, and and the biggest rfuggets from Idaho to perhaps left to die in the snow. Is found the straw damp. there are large areas unexplored which was seeiuto be. the Black Hills have a» history' which .“Just then a dull, faint, rumbling that ptisy ?. Does that look like a soft may prove richer than any yet dis he will at any time stop to relate ; and Nearer the trembling watchers came the job ? To be sure, when we are trans •sound came down on the wind, and I he is acquainted with the most sur covered « it may possibly confine it wreck tossed by the wave, ~ , And the man still clung and floated, ferred to passenger cars, the work is knew she was . coming—the train prising “ clean up ” of modern times. self, so far as profitable working is thongh no power on earth could save. nice enough, but the dangers wo have would soon be there ! The jron mines of Lake Superior, the concerned, to California and Nevada, “ Could we send him a short message ? to go through (for generally we have " I struck the second match and it furnaces of Pittsburgh, the trails from and to the main range of the Rockv Here’s a trumpet. Shout away !” touched off the straw. A blaze, a lit to go on freight cars first) entitle us Denison to Abilene, the amazing wool mountains; and the gold and silver Twas the preaches’s hand that took it, and tle smoke, and it was dark again, and to something better on a passenger he Wondered what to say. clips of New Mexico, the fortunes supply of the future may come largely raising my eyes I saw the head-light Any memory of his sermon ? Firstly ? car, and we ain’t sorry when we get of the.approaching train away in the made in corner lots at Duluth or from this belt, extending from the orders to take the head end of such a Secondly? Ah, no I Denver—all are an old story to him, Black Hills to San Juan, and possibly distancs. But trains doiKt crawl, and There’ was but one” thing to ntler in the regular train. and in most of them he has borne a to old Mexico. The past two years awfbl hour of woe : have placed a population of 10,000 in “ There are few brakemen who the buzzing along the rail told me to conspicuous pa’rt. So he shouted through the trumped, can’t tell some never-to-be-forgotten be lively. The red light was burning Thus the'fiast twenty years have the Black Hills, and a like {gelation “Look to Jesus ! Can you hear ?” incident connected with their life on but faintly; five minutes more an<l it given.pur floating population a chance in the San Juan region. What the And “ Ay, ay, sir !" rang the answer o’er the rail. To explain, let me toll you would go out. For an instant I stqjflrl to mÜSke the rounds of the whole coun results of their labor have been, it' is the waters loud and clear. a story from my own experience. 1 paralyzed, when a shrill scream from try, and while to most of them it has impossible to tell; but the fact that Then they hatched. He is singing : “Jesus, remember one night, it was fearfully the engine brought me to iny senses, proved tjie child’s pastime of‘‘chasing those who have ventured thither stay, lover of my soul and I saw that inside of two1 minutes And the winds brought back the echo, cold, right in the middle of winter, the golden spoil at; the - foot of the and that others are going, would seem, “ while the nearer waters roll and snowing hard, I was breaking in she would be there ! rainbow," to some it has brought the to show that they find their sanguine ‘ Seizing the lantern with one hand, Strange! indeed, it was to hear him, “ till ttthe middle of a freight train. It was riches that they were so eagerly pur hopes realized. Colorado, the central the storm of life is past, », • running along On . slow time that I struck the last match, and bendinn- o suing, and they are to-day the advo section of this mineral belt, has for Singing bravely from the waters, “ Oh, down laid it -carfullv inside the straw J night, and we were about two or three • * cates of the adventurous, pioneering several years been producing from receive my soul at last.” miles from the station. I was stand - and then dashed forward, waving the Angericán spirit. They are gathering ; $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 in gold and He could have no other refuge ! “ Hangs, ■ ing’ by the brake of a flat car,’ trying red light. The glare from the head- new accessions in the rising youth of silver. Wyoming on the north./aKl my helpless soul on Thee ; liglit shown down the track, and the Leave, -eh, leave ine nol”—Tho singer to get .warm by . stamping. wishing the dry.. 'Tby rur-mr-n-n sttdden in } .New Mexico on the south, would «eem that we were ar the depot, so that 1 engineer saw me, but did not notice Í ! their temperament that decisions al- Í cajiable of doing as well, if whatgeol- dropped at last into the sea, red light-Athe suddeirwaving had j And the. watchers, looking homeward could go back to, the caboose out of the ... , . • - I wavs com*'npmr thespur of the mo- ‘ gists and '■■rientific c-.p^rs- .tell us is through their eyes with tears made dim, the bitter cold,' when suddenly I felt put it out--only screeching, he came i i. ■ , . ° 'ment. It is nothing for such men to true. Said, “ He passed to be with Jesus in the straight on. \V hendhe train, was al- i i , * O t ----- -------- --- m ! have pack jacks and i supply the train bumping and jumping as ft’ Let it not be saiift- then, that oui’ ■ trains singing of that hymn.” most on me, I jumped one /fide, and,. a wheel had broken, and I knew pioneers in the far Weskfail to fill an 1, —Chicago Journal. overly’ head, i ready for a season’s prospecting, and something was wrong. The whistle slinging the lantern important niche among working, toil then leave the matter of destination Written fqj the Messenger. blew for brakes, and in a mighty short dashed it into the cab. The^pgineer to the flip of a copper as to whether it ing humanity. They open the way. * Kindness. saw the lamp as it broke on “the floor, time we had the train stopped. ___ I shall be the Deadwood diggings or and show up to the enterprise and and, seeing the red glass and battered “ With the rest of the men I went The reason I have taken this San Juan. These seem to be the in genius of the people the great natural lantern, whistled the danger signal viting treasure field?; all others arc wealth which lies hidden in the val theme is because of its great influence back to see what was the matter, and tried to check up. upon human lives, bringing many a thinking that 1 might get a chcnee at apparently forgotten. The pioneer leys and mountains of the country. It "Looking down the track, 1 almost and prospector think that in one or is theirs to boat the tracks, scale the one back from the paths of error or a stovo, for I was nearly frozen. screamed fronj excitement. The last the other they have at last found the heights, bare the forests, and explore by its lack speeding on a souls un Going back about three hundred feet, match had found a dry spot, and the land whose very stones arc gold, and the hidden riches, while'the plo<lding, doing. The subject is a beautiful we found that one of the rails had got straw was blazing up bright, The "out of whose hills they can dig working people gather up and utilize: one and 1 would tliat I could impreqp loose and was out of place, but as we train came to. a stand-still. She was something better than brass.” Noth what is pointed out to them. Mt is upon my young friends the necessity had been going slow, we had run over saved : that’s all I remembcp. the spot safely. Our conductor looked ing stands in the way. Though the th$ province of the' pioneer to “apy of cultivating a spirit of kindness “ The next I knew I was in the out, and seeing me, said : regions into which they aré moving nut tin' beat that each new section toward all whom we may meet, and baggage ear, They said- they had “ ‘ Jim, get back and j signal the be " brimstone and salt and binning,’’ has, and to report back to the waiting especially toward the little home band found me lying by the train, in a passenger train. She will be along in yet gold is their aim, anil they will thousands who stand ready to " go in that gathers every mom Iffg around dead faint, and—excuse me, we are hazard everything to get it. a short time, now ; and take this/ he and possess the land.”—Aw. the breakfa t table. We must have going to stop now. said, handing me a red-light lantern ; 1 a constant care oVrT'’ words and In one sense this spirit of advent A professor in a certain theological “ Jefferson r he sung out. The ure that is al way* on* the strain to see ‘we’ll go on. You'can come along actions lest while we have seminary at Chicago, is credited with train stopped, an$l the writer went the world and.to get the lion’s share with the other train.’ “ Kind words for the stranger, the remark, made in a public address satisfied that a brakeman’s life of „the LesOfflr re is in it, has been of " With that all hands gift on board, hpme, ! And oare for the sometime guest, recently, that there are two kinds of We hare for our own the bitter tone and soon there was nothing but my- is 1 an exciting one.- Ex. important service in making Ameri ministers " those who labor for the Though we love onr own the beet.”. self and the lantern left. cans acquainted with their country, salvation of souls, and those wlm lai .or That little stanza lisped by so many . " A cold gust brought pis to myself An Bigin, TIL, newspap- r bad this and hi showing up its resources ; it for the salvation of theology.” There little -tongus, at mother’s knee, would with a quick turn, and I then l’cmcm- advertisement: i "Found—A buckskin has been a lending of tlic Way which gladden that same mother’s heart, if bored what I had to do. . Holding the 1 mitten: If the owner will leave the ! lias pointed out the mines, fixed the’ J.s considerable of the theology of tin, the child she loves would, not forget lantern up, I saw the light was fliek- other at this office he will greatly settlements, and founded tljc new present day which' sadly stands i» need of“ being bom again- ut least- Jo do t. •. ering, and shaking it, found it almost oblige the finder.” States of the great West. as a prerequisite to soul-taving. . “ Little deeds of kindness,” Nor to say, a “ The little words of love That make onr earth an Eden Like to heaven above.'? It makes one shudder when a little boy takes the ax and Cuts off Tabby’s head, or drowns her kitties in the brook, laugh ng at their pitious cries. Cruelty to animals or to any thing in our power, my children is a sure sign of a mean cowardly nature, and such when they grow up will have hard ugly lines upon their faces, so that^ill good people will shud thorn as they do a plague. Though there are many in the world like the Great heart of old,there is only one true model of per fect love and kindness, He who rules by love not fear, and who said, “ Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid thyn not.”. Read within God’s holy book the life and sufferings of Christ our Lord, and learn there His great loving kindness toward the children of earth. Learn there the holy way of living, and . “ Scatter seeds of kindness For your reaping by-and-by.”