Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1872 — Page 2

Uta on Bronn. DutBOTic xnsr ob a m ma. Ii' DmMB Brown r .kin' b.ut ? II hain t brrn ivuDii fr a ver; Thy .lnte.l him lt kit'b.ff tun.-. Which is wh hr ml htre. Ifur p'raps you'vs iirwerveJ h- h gm rl tomg rh( lym under ground Fur veur or twod.m't mr one reel Preitj much lit slohia' round. Hi Remoter, eh? WbsUoUt Domo. Brown ! w til. I'm ruthsr "shain! to My TUrt hgjn'( much the ort o' Mint Sot up I'V Harte and Hay. He never i-ussed in hi. n.-n'rul life I mention thi with ponrn ... He didn't know how. though be muht a know d Ef he'd a oared to Urn. kut it make it roiuh fur the chap thet sets The writin" uf his biog to hev ter confess he' slingin' ink Over ich a bump on a log. K ho didn't amount to sbuck in arow. Who never wa? out on a tear. nd for taoklin" a neat little game of draw. Couldn't tell a full fioai a MM Fur the Deac. juat war a common cum 0 the most ornarlest kind. . Who never looked out r the window o .sin. And dursn't raise a blind. Tva mi i.lee how narvarle he -.

I've hearn him reiuark-thi limb Thet though he war raised in a Christian land. One wife war enough fur him. Hi.- canal boat onc't it wa years ago When drivers both druv and steerd Run agin trie bank iest above Penn Yan. An' snine o tbe help got sheered. The pilot sot in the ingin-room. And felt his nonle and swore. But the Deac. spread hisself at the gang-plank i.iu Im the ladies ashore. P'iap the Deac, ef h'd bed the re.irin' of some. Would a panned out better that trip; lsut. considerin' of his broufhttn up. He didn't auitc lose his np. , Onf'ortunet-like fur the Deac. an me. He'd careful raisin' to hum: An' yer can't 'speot much of a chap, yer know. "nie he sprouts from a slum. Ef he'd been a high-toned gambolier. Or the rough of a mining camp. With a bushel of sin in his kerricter. An' a touch of Sairey Gamp. Or an injineer or an injun thar Any kind of a rum-histin' lout Per'aps he'd a Jone some pretty big thing! For me to be splurgin' about. Bot he jest plugged on in a no 'count way. A leadin' a good squar life. Till the war keiuon then he pulled up stakes. And said good-bye to his wife. I've hearn tell a grittier man nor him In battle ntver trod. An' he didn't let down in the face of Death, Although he believed in a God. It's qneer how be fout at Fredericksburg The Deac. jeit went in wet: A prayin' an' shootin.' an' every time A fetcbin' his man. you bet. Vet h wasn't sustained by (he soothin' thought When he fell-October 'leventhThat he'd knock'd spots out the commindments. An' been special rough on the seventh. JtH over beyond the turnip patch, Some twenty holes yer can see. That air fi led hr chaps who went from here To fight 'gin General Lee. They went from here 'bout plantin' time, 1 hey Wem back when corn was ripe. An' we buried 'em by that walnut treeAll chaps of tbe Deacon's stripe. We'll cross over thar to the old man's grave. And I guess I'll be gettin' thenYet pardin, stranger. I alters unroof At the grave o' that sort o men. I've been gassin' away promiscas-like. But now I make bold ter say. It don't foil er on a man's a sneak 'Cause he lives in a decent way. I know sjme f Us reck'n contrairy rise. An' sling their ink quite free. But tbey hain't got holt the right end on it, .Accordin' to my idee. An' that's why I've sort o' been chippin in. A plea Jin the Deacon s excuse. For you know we all can't be gamblers thieves. An' all women needn't be loose. and WASHED ASHORE. Bayside," as its owner somewhat Ambitiously christened the incongruous aggregation ot discomforts and wooden balconies at the head of the little cove, was one of those numberless salt-water summer refuses with which the shore of Long Island Sound is studded. It was a quiet sort of place, and the neighborhood was good ; but the most remarkable feature of Bayside that summer was the presence of Nellie Martin. Of course, there were other girls enough, that came and went ; but the steady possession, week after week, of even one undeniable beuty, i6 a windfall for a smsll watering-pl ce. Old Bowers and his managing wife frankly admitted te each other that they could have afforded to board Nellie for nothing. " But not her mother," added the good lady: "those tall, thin people are awful eaters." ' But I rather like the old gentleman," responded her spouse. " He's a good fisherman, and he brings home bis fish ; but I don't believe he's rich." "If they ain't pretty well off," said his wife, " they've no business to have spoiled Nellie to that degree." And beyond all doubt, the willful beauty had been spoiled " to that degree," eo that she frankly accepted all male attention and devotien as no acre than her du,e. without the least apparent idea that it could rightfully demand repayment in more serious coin than her own smiling approval. To do her justice, however, her fault extended to her dealings with even the children ; and she seemed as happy among the veriest babies that came to Bayside as with the most of her grown up admirers. Even when her pale-faced mother chi'led Nellie on her behavior, she could obtain no more than a kiss of peace, and, "Nonsense, mamma; I'm sure it won't hurt either of them." And Mrs. Martin shook her head lov ingly, and held her peace, for when, among so many young gentlemen as appeared and di-appeared at Bay side, a voung lady like Nellie could ay either ot them," it was very clear that there were two in particular. Both of them knew very well which two, for Nellie's other worshippers were undecided whether Jack Loutrel or Murray Nesbitt were most deserving i heir bitterest resentment. One at least f the more favored or skillful pair was sure to be in the way of anybody else w ho dreamed of aspiring to a tete-a-tete with Nellie Martin's blue eyes and golden hair. Fine, presentable fellows were they both, and old Mr. Martin knew all about them, and their lathers before them.

Hither would do," he had said to his rife more than once. " Yea ; hut, husband " M Oh, now, Nellie must choose for herself; and 1 nin't ui all pure she fancies either of them.'' No more was Nellie: hut they both I mused her in just such a way the liked to be amused. .lack and Mut ray gallantly maintained an outward semblauce of perronal good-will to each other, throueh all the upa and downs of their doubtful rivalry; but who shall blame Jack if he experienced a keeri sensation of triumph at rinding Nellie Martin astually in his boat, one splendid duly morning, when he felt sure he was bearing her away from c rresponding devices on land? Alas! for .lack's triumph! If he could only have known that the feeling uppermost in ihe heart of his companion was one of merry anticipation of the disgust of Murray Nesbitt, when he should drive up to Bavsidewitb his new turn out, and find that she and Jack had gone to sea " Nevertheless, for she was fond of boating, she fully appreciated the skill and vigor of Jack's rowing, as the gay little craft darted forward over the glassy water. Nelfle herself could pull very well, but Jack Loutrel was an athlete of no mean order. " It's a splendid morning for a row," she said ; " but we must not stay out too long. The sun will be very hot by-and-by." " Not too long, indeed," said J.ick ; " but I've a notion there's a storm brewing." Perhaps theie wa : but Jack had made up his mind that some things

should be attended to that morning, storm or shine. "Tnere's that desolate-looking little wand, at the mouth of the cove, said Nellie. " Did you ever go ashore there?" " Island ?" replied he. Yes, desolate enough. It's dry now. at low water, but the waves go clean over it when the tides up. Shall we land, and take possession, and make believe there's a chance of tinding ome thing?" " I don't care," said Nellie, and in a few minutes more they were seated cozilv on the low ledge in ihe center, and Jack was silent for a little space, as he looked dreamily out to sea, with his great brown eyes. When he turned them again at Nellie, they had a look in them that almost frightened hr. and she could have wished herself in the boat aiain. "What is the matter. Jack ?" she asked, with an attempt at banter. ''Are you " ' Hush, Nelly ; don't laugh at me just now, interrupted Jack, in a voice that was deep, even for him : but verylow and sweet; I've something I want to say to you. And so he had. and he said it all be fore Nellie could muster courage to stop him. It was hardly a fair advantage for Jack to take, away out there on the half sunken rock, so far from Bayside, and a good quarter of a mile from either shore. Perhaps Nellie herself had some such idea, or it may be she was startled and bewildered. At all events, when her eloquent companion pleaded for an immediate an-wer, she sprang to her feet with a laugh that expressed a world of willful meaning. " Do you mean to mock me, Nellie Martin? Do you not know can you not feel that I am in earnest? It is a matter of life and death with me ! Anawer me! oh, Nellie !" Mr. Jack Loutrel, will you have the goodness to pull ashore, or shall I take the boat, and go alone?" I want to be your oarsman tor hie, Nellie, but not just now. Nellie was already standing by tne boat, as it rocked gently at the edge of the little islet. " Shall I wait for you ? sne said, and there was a half tremor in her voice. Jack Loutrel could not have spoken at that moment to have saved his life, and he sank back upon his 3eat, from which he had partly risen, but witn bis back toward tne boat. He justly felt that he had said something which was worthy of more serious dealing, coming fn.m a man in e. rnest. Perhaps if he had spoken, or had turned his great brown eyes upon her for a moment, the result might have been different; but he sat, without voice or motion, more like a human barnacle than anything else. A moaient more Nellie waited. Mie would have given something for an answer, for any sign of yielding ; but none came, and her proud will carried her into the boat, and seated-her at the oars. She pulled very slowlv, and it was half a mile to the beach in front of the Bayside Hotel, but a curve in the land at last hid the rocK trom ner sight, without her constant gaze discerning the slightest change of posture in the figure she had left sitting on the ledge. It was a tremendous experience for Nellie, altogether unlike any she had ever had before ; and it may have been the tumult and excitement of her feelings, even more than carelessness, that led her to accept so eagerly the offer of a drive with Murray Nesbitt, which waited for her acceptance as she stepped on Bhore. T.ittie change was re duired in her simple aeaside costume, and in k few miuute-i ahe wns whirled away behind the new team. Meanwhile, Jack Loutrel had re mined. in almost sullen ! xedness ot musing, for a much longer time than those who knew him would have dreamed of, for he had risked much on one cast, and he had tailed to win. He was not physically uncomfortable. for the fast nam: clouds had now eclipsed the summer sun. and with t good provision of fishing-tackle, per haps the rock would not have been so

bad a place.

Not so very bad, with due allowances, for now the sore-hearted watcher was suddenly aroused by the plash of little waves that were breaking at his very feet, aud he felt the fresh wind of the sea upon his face. Hallo!" he exclaimed, "the tide coming in? Of course it is; and what am i to do, now Nellie has carried off the boat ?" Black antl heavy the clouds were gathering overhead, and a sort of mist had settled on the water away to windward. " Looks like something rough was coming. Drown, sure, if 1 stay here. This is an awkward piece of business; but I've swam twice as far as that, and carried my clothes, too. They got wretchedly wet, though. Well, here goes !" Jack Loutrel was a man of action, and his outer clothing were quickly enough rolled int a neat, compact bundle, and fastened at the back of his neck. Then, us he stood and watched the swift current of the tide sweeping into the cove, a thought seemed to strike him, and he suddenly snatched off his light chip hat, and sent it spinning out upon the water. " It's one of those varnishcl tilings, and I'm sure it'll tloat. I've got an awful pull to get tishore, and I'll see which'll be at Biyside first I or my hat." If he had any deeper thought he did not put it into words, but dashed gallantly into the fast roughening water. And now the wind was beginning to be something more than a breeze, and Jack s work was all cut out for him, lor he did not care tobe carried too far into the cove by the tide. Still, there was nothing so impossible in the feat, for a man like Jack, but what, in due time, though pale, and dripping, and exhausted, he dragged himself out on dry land. And then he found it no contemptible job to coax himself once more inside of his watersoaked clothing. Beyond him, at a little distance, rose the bald, weather-beaten knob that they call- d " The View," and which formed a stock attraction of the Ba vside " drive."

The road itself passed near where Jack had landed, and he waited a moment in the thick bushes at it edge, for his ears had caught the sound of coming wheels, and he hesitated about making an exhibition of himself. It was a rising tide he had breasted, but within his own heart things were at a terrible low ebb. Nearer and faster came the rattle of the wheels, and then tbey swept past him at their best gait, the new team of Murray Nesbitt, and Nellie Martin herself was sitting beside the handsome driver. She seemed to be looking up at him. too, with more of earnestness and emotion in her face than Jack Loutrel had ever seen there. True, it was but a glimpse he caught as they flashed past him ; but he cared no longer who might see him in his forlorn predicament, and sprung over into the road to make the best of his way to the hotel. That had been an eventful morning for Nellie Martin. It was a long drive that Murray Nesbitt had planned for her, and that, too, not without a purik e ef his own. The swift motion was a good thing for Nellie, and aided amazingly in restoring the tone of her somewhat ruffled spirit; but, for all that, she was more -silent, and in a manner more subdued than Murray had ever known her before. How could he have given up so good and so hopeful an opportunity? At all events, he did not, und Nellie heard him to the end in such a half-humble quietude, that Murray's heart throbbed quick and fast, with a glow of coming triumph. They were not driving very fast just then, but were coming outupon the seaward slope of " The View." Nellie's face had been half-averted, and there was a dreamy look in her eyes that her companion did not see. Suddenly she exclaimed, wjth a sort of half-electric start : "Where is the rock ? Why, it is nothing but foam; and how the wind is blowing !" Murray Nesbitt looked, with puzzled amazement, in the direction in which Nellie pointed. ")h, that rock, he saiu, coony. Why, that's nothing. The water has been over it this haif-hour." "Home! home! Drive back to the hotel, instantly!" gaspe Nellie. "Oh! if anything has happened to him! I left him on the rock without a boat !"' Even Murray's disappointment did not prevent his obeying so serious an injunction, and on they sped, past Jack Loutrel " amousn, lime ureaming inai he would come striding on behind them. It was a short drive, long as it seemed .e. a to Nellie s conscience-stncKen naste; and she ran breathlessly from the carriage to the beach. Careful hands had nauiea tne oonw . . . 9 1 C .1 .... Up high anu iry, lor me mvus muc chasing one another in a rough and tumble that was momentarily becoming more boisterous. No one seemed at hand to help, and Nellie's own fair hands were quickly tugging vainly atone of the gaily-paint ed wherries. "Wait a moment, miss ! shouted behind her th rough voice of the boMkeeper. "Why, yer into the water y r self. You don't want to row out in all that sea?" "Oh ! but we must save him ! I left him on the rocks I" Juat then, a long, creste d, splashing wave died away from around her feet, and left behind it, on the sand, a round, water-soaked chip hat. Nellie ai w it, and covered her face with her hands, for now she knew that Jack Loutrel was not uion the rock. As for Murray Nesbitt, by this time he measurably comprehended the situ I ation, or thought he did, and insisted

in doing hia uttermost to get one or more of the boats into the water, having it in mind to row all over the cove in search of any hope of aiding his unfortunate rival ; while poor Nellie, after a few moments, mechanically picked up the wave-tossed wreck of u hat, and turned back toward the hotel, without vouchsafing a word of explanation to the curious and anxious inquirers, who were now rapidly hurrying down to the water-side. So general, in fact, was tbe exodus, that when Nellie entered the veranda, she found it altogether deserted. On she walked, like ono in u dream ; but at the furth- r end, toward the road, a tall form, clad in garments that clung forlornly close to their wearer, passed stiffly by her, as if it had been one who knew her not. "Oh, Jack!" exclaimed Nellie, and ahe grasped him hard by the arm as she spoke. "Jack Loutrel, if. it you? Jack, here's your hat." Jack had turned upon her a pale, reproachful, almost a stormy faiv; but Nellie's blue eyes were streaming with tears, and her lips, that had been so willful, were quivering as they never had before. "Oh, Jack! if you had not come ashore, I should have died!" "Nellie! Nellie Martin!" "Yes, Jack; I found it out all at once, when I saw there was nobody on the rock. And, then oh ! when 1 thought nothing but your hat Please forgive me, dear Jack !" Alas! for Murray Nesbitt! The glory of his new team had departed, for Jack Loutrel had got his answer.

Snaiks. BY JOSH III 1.1. 1 Nils. The striped snaik iz one ov the slipperyest jobs that natur ever turned loose. They travel on the.lower side ov themself's, and kan slip out ov sight like blowing out a kandle. They were made for some good purpose, but I never hav been informed for what, unless it whz tew hav their heds smashed. They are sed tew be innocent, but they hav got a bad reputashun. and all the innocence in the world won't kure a bad reputashen. Tbey liv in the grass, but seldom git stept on, bekauze they don't sty long enuffin the right place. When I waz a little boy, and wore naked feet, and whz loding around loose for strawberry, I waz oftentimes just a going to step on a striped snaik, but it aiwus cured me ov struwberrvs. If a striped snaik got into a lo-ukre lot before i did, i alwus konsidered that all the strawberrys in that lot belonged tew the snaik. " Fust cum, fust sarve," was mi motto. Iam just az afraid of snaiks now az i waz 40 years ago, and it l should hv tew be az old as Nebakednnezer waz, and go to truss az he did, one striped snaik would spile 50 akers ov good pasture for me. Wimnun don t luv snaiks enny more than l uo, anu l respeai ner lor this. How on earth Eve waz seduced by a snaik iz a fust-class mistery tow me, and if i hadn't read it in the Bible i would bet against it. I beleave everything thare iz in the Bible, the things I kant understand 1 beleave the most. I wouldn't swop oph the phaith I . . i i? i.i i hav got for any living man's knowledge. Snaiks are ov all sorts, and all sizes, and the smaller they are the more I am afraid ov them. I wouldn't buy a farm at half price that had a striped snaik on it. Ded snaiks are a weakness with me; I always respekt them, and whenevar I see a ded one in the road, I don't drop a tear on him, but I drop another stone on him, for fear he might alter his minu and cum tew life agin, for a snaik hates tew die just as mutch az kat duz. I never could ackount for a snaik or a kat hating tew die so bad, unless it waz bekause tha waz so poorly prepared for deth. Lost Its Terror. A man who bought a haunted house in Colosse, N. S., sought an explanation of the mysterious noises with a hammer. He pulled oö a few clapboards, when an explanation flew out, followed by several hundred more. About a bushel of large black bats were discov ered cosily making themselves at home in various crannies in the building, and making the people decidedly " not at home" by their clatter and noise at nii-ht. These bats, when discovered, took all the romance out of that haunted house and cut a long story short. (Voids m Ith Maid and Lney. The Boston Herald says that Gold smith Maid made but one break in her fast heat of 2:16. "Mr. Hickok, the driver of Lucy, offered to trot his mare against any horse in the world, towagon, for $5,000 or $10,000, and hia defiance was announced from the judges' stand." It seems strange that this offer was not accepted by Goldsmith Maid, as Lucy has never beaten her a heat during the naat vear. and Lucv has lately been beaten by Jay Gould, formerly Judge Bingham, in '2:'24, at Philadelphia. Turf, Field and farm. Thk income tax was introduced in England as a temporary measure, by Sir Robert Peel, about thirty years ago. He estimated that, at the rate ol penny to the pound sterling, it would vield $3.500,000. Last year a penny in the pound yielded $7,800,000, showing that the wealth of the country must have more than doubled since the tax waa first introduced.

Curious aud Scientific

Accokdino to Prof. Young, the density of the sun is iibout one-quarter that of the e irth, so the solar gravity is twentyeignt times greater than terrestiral gravity. 100.000 men were em ployed for twenty years in building the great pyramid at Ghizch, and ten years had been previously spent in quarrying the stones and transporting them to the place. A new community has been estab lished in Georgia under the title of the " Elijahites," whose destructive social principle is that their chief officer shall hold one-fifth of thwir real property in fee, and have control of all their current funds. In the examination of the bones collected in the cave at Carlisle, Penn., Prof. Baird found that all the species represented have degenerated in size, and this modern degeneracy ranges from ten to twenty-five per cent. Amonust the novelties in agricultural machinery is a locust or grasshopper catcher, which, by means of an apron extended in front, catches the creatures, and, passing them through rollers, reduces them to a paste, which is dried, broken up, and used for poultry and hog feed. A New York chemist, by a peculiar process, now produces mu k from blood, which cannot be distinguished from the genuine article except by the absence of the hairs generally found in the product of the musk-deer. By adding these, the microscope even fails to detect any difference. Prof. Coze thinks that the splintering of bullets when suddenly arrested by a hard substance, such as a bone or a piece of money, may be due to the heat developed by the sudden impact, and not necessarily to the use of explosive bullets. Dr. A. Hewson, surgeon to the Pennsy.vania Hospital, recommends the dried flowers of the May-weed, or wild camomile, to be scattered about a room to rid it of flies. The same end may be gained by throwing black pepper on a hot shovel and carrying it about the room. Pure water will absorb many unpleasant odors. A pan full of clean fresh water from a well or spring, placed in a room which bus been newly painted, will absorb during the night so much of the smell of the paint as to be totally unfit to drink. A bowl of water remaining in a close sleeping room will always imbibe a very unpleasant flavor. In 15 the Dutch explorers in Nova Zembla built a wooden hut. A fishing exjiedition has recently discoverer! this building, and in it one hundred and fifty objects of interest, among other things books which, after nearly three hundred years, are in a good state of preservation. The collection is to be placed in the Museum of Amsterdam. Three Austrians have patented a process for conveying away, under water, the smoke of river and ocean steamboats. It is said to be a complete success. The invention will greatly in crease the efficacy of submarine vessels, while it will enable all ships of war to do away with their most vulnerable point the funnel. Moreover, the great danger of fire, arising from the passage of sraoke-pipes through the decks of steamers, will be entirely removed. The first scientific society was founded by BaptiBta Porta in 1560. It was called the " Academy ot the secrets ot -Nature." The privacy of the meetings, and the general belief that its members employed the black art, led almost at once to its dissolution by order of the Pope. Ir there is anything in nature that possesses a positive character it is light. Yet the physicist may so reflect the light from a given sourse as to cause it to destroy itself and produce darkness. In like manner two sounds may be made to interfere with each other and either produce silence or increased in tensity of sound, at the will ot the op erator. One of the most marked of organic differences between the sexes is that ot muscular action. No one who carefully watches the muscular acts of women will fail to perceive a tendency to do them with a sort of rush, with a super abundance and sudden exertion ol force, rather than by the gradual appli cation of the precise amount by whicli the end in view can be secured. An electric probe for the discovery of foreign bodies in wounds was exhibited by M. Trouve, at the last General As sembly of the Scientific Association of France. The probe is hollow, and when brought in contact with the foreign substance the indicating apparatus is passed through it. As soon as the latter touches the object to be examined, the vibrator of nn electro-magnet is set in operation, and by the character of its vibrations the surgeon may determine whether the foreign body is lead,, iron, or copper. A Fight Under Water. A curious case of assault and battery was lately brought before the police tribunal at Marseilles. It appears that n livi.i- onniirpd in invent liratinü til wreck of a vessel sunk in the port of that city, discovered an object of some value, which he put aside in a corner of a rock for future disposition. Bpturning for the last time beneath the .surface, he went to secure hia prize, but at that moment two other divers attacked him and attempted to wrest. ? from him. A lively fight ensued, which lasted till the people above, alarmed at the confusion below, drew the combatants up to the surface. The affray thus commenced, fifty or sixty feet below the surface of the water, was ended at the police station.