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Show 4. THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, STAGE COACH TALES By E. C. TAYLOR The Lost Whisky was a noted JOHN stage coach driver of the early days in Wisconsin. He afterward became a farmer and tavern keep er, and his name is written In the annals of the development of that state from a wilderness to a thrivM. MEISSER " (Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.) lowly but romantic tramp whose rusty Iron and smoky stacks are known to every seaport in the wojfJd,' has largely Joined the sailing ship at anchor. Whereas but a third of the world's tonnage was carried In regularly scheduled liners in 1913, now more than is transported in this fashion, leaving very little for the Independent roving steamer or sailing ship. Canadian grain once crossed in tramp steamers. Now a regular lines ply the North Atlantic Norwegian timber and Pacific coast timber, even, are moved on big liners following a schedule. THE three-quarte- half-doze- n Changing economic and social con- ditions are last vestiges of the pioneer spirit of the seamen of another day. The seamen themselves are different They want steady work and fixed wages, and they like to ship on steamers with a regular schedule, allowing them to make plans In port parts of the world are again becoming the lonely, isolated spots they were before the day of the great explorers or the era of sailing clippers. The number of ships that round Cape Horn, for Instance, now is fewer and becoming steadily fewer. Steamers have no need to go that way. If they are coming from Australia. to Europe, Suez and Good JllCpe are shorter and kinder routes, as; they are bound from or to New Zealand, there is Panama. If they are outward or homeward bound in the West coast trade, Panama canal, too, Is much more convenient even for the far southern port of Valparaiso. In the nnusual event of a steamer passing to the south of the American continent say, on passage from Buenos Aires to nine times out of ten she will use the Magellan passage, or, falling that (for visibility Is often bad there and currents treacherous), she will pass between Tierra del Fuego and the small Island the southern Up of which is the dread o ed Horn. Some Sailing Ships Around the Horn, Even sailing ships avoid Cape Horn now, when they can. It Is a regular thing for the guano barks, coming up from Guanape3 Lobos, and Santa Rosa for Jacksonville, Wilmington, or Falmouth for orders, to pass through the canal instead of using the old highway to the south and doubling the Horn. Indeed, In the grain race of 1930 one sailor d from Australia, the Swedish four-maste- bark Pedersen, made her way Into the Atlantic by way of Panama Instead of the Horn an entirely unprecedented experience that would make a thousand old shellbacks turn In their graves. But there still remains a small coterie of wind ships regularly us-ng the Cape Horn road. There are the German nitrate carriers, the big of the Hamburg Laelsz line Padua, Passat Parma. Parmlr, and Peking all splenbarks, did, upstanding, speedy, and powerful, clenn-lineeconomical They remain in commission to carry nitrate from German mines in Chile to German on the Elbe. They are manned Jargely by boys who must see servsquare-riggeice In ships before their country will allow them to sit for examination as officers. They are well found and make good voyages. Some of them are comparatively new ships. Two have been built since the World war; one of them, the Padua, as late as 1925. They carry no auxiliary engines of any kind. One of ship PInnas, them, the was lost in 1929. ' These Germans, with the sailors the Finnish fleet and one or two Swedes, Just about comprise the whole of the world's square-riggeships. America still has one or two; but, except for the C. B. actu--a- y four-maste- Pri-wal- four-mast- fac-fift- d deep-wate- d d j which Monongahela, Adelaide In January, wag 3928, where she discharged a cargo of lumber, and the ship Tusltaln. which Is a more or less regular user of the Panama canal, none is still In commission. How the Sailor Gets Cargoes. majority of the rounding the Horn are in the grain trade from Australia. This Is the Inst happy hunling ground of the big sailing ship, which has been four-maste- d rfyrrt d tThe The Snag Important Change ;winds Thrilling Spectacle of a TTTAI1 Ship at Sea. Full-Rigge- d steadily ousted from every other trade It ever enjoyed, even the carrying of .Peruvian guano. When Australian wheat harvests are heavy and steamers are inclined to ask high freights because of the difficulty of getting outward cargoes, the sailor still has a chance of sneaking an odd cargo here and there. She Is prepared to accept a much lower rate than the freight steamer. She will go to any outlandish port and register no objection at spending six weeks, or more at loading. She will discharge her own ballast at ber own expense. She does not mind sailing halfway round the world In ballast if only there is the chance of a cargo at the end of It and she carries her wheat well and delivers It in good condition. She has the added advantage, sometimes, of bringing about a gamble to her charterers. She may load on a falling market and set cut with her wheat worth Boilings below payable price. She takes months on her voyage, providing good free warehouse on the way, .and sometimes has the luck to arrive in time' to take advantage of an upward trend of which there was no sign when she left For this reason shippers still like to take an odd gamble with a sailing ship, particularly In recent seasons, when wheat prices have been so dull that the grower's hope' lies in some unforeseen upward trend when "bottom has been touched." bark The Swedish Beatrice in 1930 was chartered to four-maste- d bring home wool from Melbourne to London a trade which throughout this country has been religiously the exclusive right of the steamer simply because she provided long warehousing by the duration of her voyage, and there was a chance that prices would rise while she was on her way. She was 110 days on the passage, and her charterers had the satisfaa tion of clearing better prices for the wool they sent in her than they obtained for any they had sent in steamers. The steamers had dis charged their wool on a falling market months earlier; the Beatrice ar rived to find stocks lower and prices slightly higher. As her freight rate was lower than the steamer's, her chartering was profitable to the ing commonwealth. One day Meisser was driving bis stage between Madison and Prairie du Sac. Besides his passengers, he was carrying on the coach a barrel of whisky consigned to Max of Sauk City. The barrel of whisky accidentally rolled off the coach some distance out from Sauk City, and Meisser did not notice the loss until he pulled up in front of the post office at Sauk City. While the postmaster sorted the mail, Meisser hurried his horses back .over the road in the forlorn hope of finding the lost barrel. He bad gone only a short distance when he noticed the missing keg resting on a pair of brawny shoulders, disappear behind a rick of woods by the side of the road. Pulling his stage and horses up near the wood, he was able to look over the brush. There on the other side was an Irishman, sitting on the keg, and mopping his brow. "Hello, sir. Have you seen a keg of whisky?" Meisser asked. "Yes, sir; it Is right here." "I lost it from my load and would like to have it back again," said Meisser. "Well, sir," the Irishman replied, "you will have to be a bigger man than I am tc get It" What transpired during the next half hour, Meisser never would say. He explained that after some time and persuasion, the Irishman agreed to give up the whisky, but only on condition that Meisser carry him free of charge on his stage coach to Madison. Which Meisser did. Henry Cowles was a famous driv er on the Baraboo-Madiso- n stage line In Wisconsin. Bridges had not In the been built In those days. summer time, the coaches and horses forded the streams, and In winter, they crossed on the Ice. One day Cowles was driving his stage across the Wisconsin river over the "ticklish bender" ice of boyhood days. When driving over this rubbery ice, that undulated as it was crossed, It was necessary for stage coach drivers to gallop their horses to keep from breaking through. Cowles' teams broke through. The horses were extricated with much difficulty. Timid passengers always walked across. The more daring rode, but always held themselves In readiness to leap for safety at an instant's warning. Salmon E. Cowles was driver when his kinsman, Henry, later owned the line. Salmon Cowles was driving four horses and a stage between Lodl and the present site of Waunakee, when one wheel horse became stubborn and deliberately lay down In the water and mud which filled the highway. It lay there for a long time, and after much coaxing, threatening and punishing, even the coach and Its load of passengers wool owners. were stuck fast The other horses But against the lower freight rate could not pull them out Mud was has to be offset the tendency on the knee deep, and he situation was part of underwriters natural, per- embarrassing to the several ladles haps to charge a higher premium who were passengers. for the insurance of sailing ships' indiAt last a big, cargoes. vidual who had appeared amused at Salmon Cowles' frantic efforts to "Races" That Are Not Races. mud-fas- t coach and relieve Since the World war, a few sail- free the stranded the passengers, stepped ing ships have been able annually to obtain wheat charters from Aus- from the coach and waded through tralia to the English channel for or- the mud to high, dry ground. He volunteered to carry all the ders, since they all leave about the same time, and since their scarcity passengers to dry land, and removed the women and children one brings them to the notice of the by one. Then he made the men sailpress and of the public, their wade. ings have come to be known as After much more maneuvering, "races," though they are not really anything of the kind. Some of those the men pulled the coach to firm ships are In no fit condition to rice; ground, and finally persuaded the some of them never were. They are balky horses to resume its task, and not proud clipper ships, built to run the coach rolled on again. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) fleetly before the gale and to carry steerageway through doldmm calms. steel Charm of Guatemala They are great and heavy lined wagons, Guatemala is the most populous with bluff bows and heavy sterns, of Central American republics, havoversparred and undermanned. They ing more than 2,000,000 population make rare visits to dry docks, since In an area of 48,290 square miles. costs money and must It is a land of mountains and valbe a luxury to them. They run upon leys with the exception of a narrow the border line, with crews of inex- strip of lowlands along the sea perienced boys; their gear Is old;' coasts. sometimes their plates leak a little, Guatemala City Is the largest here and there, and they are bad- community of Central America, havly off for sails. ing 120,000 Inhabitants. Quaint and There are still a few ships which Latin in its atmosphere, it has been are able to give good accounts of called a bit of old Seville. Once themselves, and generally do the outside the fine modern hotel, the bark Herzogin visitor might easily Imagine himself Finnish r Cecilie, which was formerly a in the heart of Old Spain. Lloyd training ship; the bark Beatrice, Swedish No Chance the Ciydeslder Roufen-burn- ; formerly been parked beside car had Her Archibald the a fire hydrant fof three hours. As Russell, and the old Dundee-buil- t Lawhill but the bulk of the ships she unlocked the door and got in, a policeman who had been waiting progress slowly over great waters and are content if they come to port for the culprit to appear sauntered over and remarked: at all, without racing. "I've been waiting a long time for concerned more with are They What's your name?"' you. of their cargoes the safe delivery She smiled her sweetest, and as and the return to their homes of all those who set out to sea In them she put her foot on the starter, rethan spectacular and thrilling hold plied: "It wouldn't do you any good I told you. 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