Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 April 1873 — Page 6

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, yt 4 ar St Wh rock nsfg a haa M. r - t si -J. r - c a !-- lra rraor. . yvf- : . r kWi I M Sr. - fci s wkaa aaaaca .-ai br ki Why a haw am wtf iwcjti Jwat ak aaw kjSW aakfl by awaawMfklL X Iii HI WATCH. , said my friend. Be;"oice with Tom Cheater, who had come into my asnctan. "Yes, rejoice with me; I nave oi5coveu a new sena . Doo bebeve it," I ssad, somewhat grnnipüj, for I was writing hard, and did n.t want to be disturbed. "SoloBKMi said there was nothing new under ttoau." Bight you are, and right Solomon of course is ; but then, this isn't under the sun it's s ghost.1 Tom knew my weakness for the socalled " uperauttirai,"' and therefore bt :z'..t jus eh st wrll t. tb- front at first. ' A read, cenrtine ghost ; an unmistakabir case of a haunted house ; family Lst -r-ic: -eries of char-:r.t'tr--.l :: I Maw s.-reu . m -:L' -eu: ir.to bine its. rot the address in my pocket, and leave to sit' there any night, or as many nights as I please, and I mean to, if you go with me. " I agreed at ooce. I took one or two cigars before our arwere complete. house stood in a suburb regarded as eligible, and which s wU rIl Tottenham as anvprincipally for the reason that ia, as aeaxtv as possible, at a- $ y : i tie c.-pass tr-m the real locality. "The fact is," I said. u I candidly confess I should not like to ait alone. I own I should be afraid to do So. It may be only my own imsginstinin that I dread, but we are proiottndry ignorant of the limit of this powder. No, I would not go alone. Equally open to objection is a party of two ; for if one collapsed, the other would be left in a disagreeable position. A aaaO ' select' party is " A third member I shall certainly stipulate for." rejoined Tom, " and that is ray dog Brash.' If anybody in the ttiuipti to play us a trick, and him, I pity that practical ' jok r. He wül devoutly wish himself a ghost. I can answer for thai." was voted of the parry of the and Tom and I ana 1 ly de::.r- -.:ar. c .a.i.aru a. wh.m as well call Brown. Jones and I IT. TthllUr We lected thera on the ground that they were, as far as we knew, nlaiasi rl in their views of ghostly matters. "So aO is settled ; there will be five of tkK Lark in odd nuaaiaera," laughed Tom, a he left aw. "But a wont be odd numbers," I answered ; " jo forget the dog." " So, I den t. I count the quailruped as well as the bipeds ; but atfll I say odd numbers, for I reckon on the ghost, t Good night, old fellow." I slept the sleep of lnnorenec, though . I recalled next Burning scattered fragments of s dream in which " Brush," still in the flesh, was worrying my late maiden aunt's black cat, who must, according to the ordinary course of events, in the ftnnmlia. have been made into p zMiij y""ar ag'. Hird work dnr.rjg the rest of the week drove all ghosts out of my head ; so that I was in the most kkUf.cVaTir " frame of I

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I adjourned on the knife-

board of a city-bound twnnibua to the rendezvous of Saturday. The dinner itnie and vent : ml in due ahum we dkl the Utter also, having previously fortified the inner man, on the honieooaths? principle i imilis siuiium - a m bus, with modicuni of spirit Keep the spinu up By poonu jnrit down." iuii remarked oar self-elected jokemonger. Reaching the haunted bonne tut the shade of evening were falling, we found ; eTen these were not able to lend an air of romance to the place. It was the moat unromanUc, uughostly looking house possible, being, in fact, nothing ' m re nor less than a perky villa, of the kind usually abutting on the main thor- : oughiare of a suburb. Cheater had the kev, and between us we had brought material for a mild symposium. We did not want to give warning to the aborigines of our nocturnal visit, by purchasing articles on the spot, so we brought down everything even candles with us, and we had every reason to believe we entered the house unperceived by anv one. Rrnh" was the first to make an hk siwvtion of the basement, and we did the

same with the whole mansion, peering ! was fanned, as by a person passing rapiato everv hole and corner capable of , dly throngh the apartment. Tom and

containing the ghost of s deceased mouse. It did not take as long; for the villa was not extensive. There were sundry articles of furniture left behind by the lat family who had skedaddled all the heavier movables, in fact. We lighted candles, therefore, in the front parlor, c!tsed the shutters and drew the cur-

j Mi so as not to attract attention from g eaeü otüer in blanK an.t ntter as- ! outide, and then paused to deliberate tonishment. As soon as it had closed.

on the plan of proeeding. , Brush timidly emergtHi from his We had no notion ; so we agreed to sit ' corner, buried his nose in between my where we were, in the front parlor, and knees and as plainly as he could, withif the ghost did ot put in an appear- i out articulate words, lesought me to get anee there, try another et Age afterward, up and go.

We were quite prepared to make a of m ÄQJ namber of for matter of that. Brown, Jones and Robinson, who assumed the humble position of " supers" on this occasion, lighted pipes, and after duly gaining permission, devoted themselves to the unspiritual amusement of , three-penny loo. "Brush'' coiled him- ' self up on the hearth rug, having no Jonbt exercised his invagination so far L t. there was a good fire in front of him. We that is, Tom Chester and myself as the chief actors of the occasion, devoted ourselves to semi-spiritual conversation, so a to keep ourselves en rapport with any ghost who might wish to communicate with us. We had purposely left open the doors of both the front and back parlors communicating with the passage or entrance hall, and also the folding doors letween the two rooms, so that we might hear any noises about the bouse, and also . place no material obstacle in the way of the ghost's entrance, if he thought pr per to pay us his r.-j Of course the stairs creaked, aud the - boards in the door and cupJoar: doors eresked in the usual way, and, as t'.- f did so, drew our eyes ever and anon to the door in expectation of seeing some- i thing. There were noises like things tumbling down in the kitchen, and the equally lucid explanation of rats. e tc. Gradually the Saturday i-rawier. in the cockney village grew quiet, and as the church clock struck twelve. Chester enunciated, in his mot sepnlchral tone, I the words: T c-'W tkr very arise hkag xiaar s night. Whan gTBTryarda tin "I wouldn't continue the quotation," I said ; " it is sugg -stive, to ssy the least.' The trio, tired of their loo, began to bk insufferably bored ; and Brown, or Jones, or Robinson was in the act of making up the following practical remark : " Last up train gone ; we're in for the night now," when how shall I describe what occurred ? The first thing that struck us all simultaneously was the sensation of an intensely cold draught of air so we should have termed it under ordinary circumstances rather, let me say, s violent cold wind, which chilled as all to the marrow, making our fiesh creep and our teeth chatter. Unlike ordinary draft", however, this came with sufficient force to blow wide the door of the back parlor, which had previously stood half, or perhaps threequarters open, with s bang. It was s deep house, though, and the back parlor door was, therefore, quite out in the darkness ; so after a preliminary start, to which ibme of us need have been sshamed to plead guilty, we sat straining our eyes into the gloom to see what was coming next One of the trio very feebly remarked that the ghost must be the spirit of a departed Esquimaux, and had brought the Borth wind with him. It mav safelv be saie! that none of the party was in the least degree frightened i

up to this point. Tom flutter'- reuiark waa to Um purpose : "Somebody has quietly opened a door down stairs, and let in that draft. Well soon fiud out. Hi. ' Brush !' " Xo ned to call "Brush.' He was

w ide awake directly the back door , opened ; but, to our astonishment, instead of rushing at the door, he bolted hastily from it into the extreme oppoait corner of the room where we were aitting, and there sat with his face to the wall, howling with terror. "Why, 'Brush,' old man. what's the matter? At 'em, 'Brush.' pin 'em, gixid dog '." But " Brush " would not stir. This waa not reassuring ; for there was nothing mortal, from a torn cat up to a prizefighter, "Brush' was not ready to "tackle." It certainly startled us. for we all knew the old dog's mettle. Now occurs my great difficulty as a faithful chronicler of my own and the others' experiences. What followed was instantaneous ; but what was it ? Nobody saw anything, and yet everybody was, at the same moment, conscious of something that passed right through the two rooms from the back to the front, and out of the front room into ! the passage. The candle on the table myseH did r.ot feel the actual contact ; but still we knew that something had passed so close to us as to touch us, had the touch been recognizable by the ordinary sense. Finally the door of the front room was thrown wide, just as that of the back room had baWB, after which it closed with a bang, and left us starStill nobody spoke. By commot. -on-sent we all arose, took a candle with us right out into the front garden before we extinguished it, turned our head toward the city, and tacitly agreed to walk home. In plain English, we had leen scared out like the rest. , When we got to the village church we , say that it was not yet a quarter past twelve. Our ghost experience had been if not "delightful." The brief. night in the ghost chamber, properly so called, had been a matter of minates ordv. It was not until we had leen toned by a good spurt on the road that we found our tongues. When we did, however, we agreed, one and aB. that no imaginable form of horror, no apparition, however hideous, could have so knocked us over as that invisible yet palpable presence of something that complete evidence of personality unaccompanied by any of those appeals to sense or sight by which, in onr present condition, and under ordinary circumstances, such personality is proved. Even " Brush," who usually "rampaged" about the roads during anything like a noctural ramble, expressed bis rympsthy by dangling to our heels. It would have been interesting if he could have found tongue to tell us what was the impression made on his senses by a night in a ghost -chamber. I have not the slightest explanation to offer of this circumstance. I can ouly say we are none of ns anxious to sit again ; and Tom Chester has decided not to hire the villa for dark seances. It is a pity, perhaps, to spoil a good ghost story by anything like an anti-climax ; but the practical man who got the key for us never passes any of us on the street without expressing the tenderest regard for onr salubrity, and a fervent hope we will not endanger our health or ' nerves by sitting in a thorough draft." Hess is another proof that dogs have the wer of reasoning : A sagacious canine at Rnmney, N. H, lately pursued a woodchuck, which continually foiled him by running through a drain. When he had played that trick two or three times, the dog gave him a rest in the drain, and trotted over to a neighbor's ami brought another dog, a frequent sharer in his youthful sports. Statu .timer his companion at one end of the drain, he entered the other and stirred up Mr. Woodchuck, who started again for daylight, only to be grabbed by the faithful sentinel. If this isn't reason, what is it ? A Western juvenile, who bears the burden of thirteen long summers on his shoulders with most refreshing conti

deuce, was served with s moderate allow- I of totals, with $160,000,000 ; Pennance of dessert, one day, at the dinner ' "-T'rni come" next, with $89,000,000 ; table; but the quantity was decidedly , n1 Massachusetts next, with $60,211,below his notions of justice or reason, as he evinced with a contemptuous curl of The inhabitants of San Francisco have the lip, and the dry observation to his i paid to the Collector, up to the present

maternal : " Did you put this here for t-" ms ?" It is unnecessary to add thit he was snnolied with another ment, as he deserved to be.

the a t A' y A'. '. ... xb rom.n.u s Lond.in papers of the :id and Ith ure at hand with the following iletuils of the gn at forgeries on the Hank of Kugland: It was discovered on Saturday thut bills to an enormous amount hutl U n forged upon all the rri:u'ipal houses in the city of London, ami that them- billa had been discounted at the West Eud brauch of the Bank of England in Hurling (iardena, which ili.e an entirely different kind of busiuesa from the ) arent

; establishment m the city. It is intended for the convenience of gentlemen and ladies and West End tradesmen who might find it inconvenient to journey to the city in order to transact their usual , business. H is not, therefore, ordinarily concerned with the large bill trau sac - tions of city commerce, auu in consequence is less bound by strict regulations in dealing with any business of that nature which might accidentally be brought to it. The conspirators must have been aware of this, and they laid their plans for approaching the Bank of England by this weaker portion of its defences. Warren, an American who managed the plot, was in no hurry, aud took care to gain a good footing before he ventured on his ultimate enterprise. He lx haved for some time just like an ordinary customer of good resources. He drew upon his balance and renewed it, but kept it always at a good figure. After a while he deposited some bills. They were good and genuine bills. Still ' he was careful not to be hasty, and he continued his transactions with the bunk ! until he had acquired the reputation of a person engaged in lcgitimateconimerce, and thoroughly trustworthy. At length ' the moment came for the presentation of the forged bills. They were discounted without hesitation, and the authors of the fraud had, to all appearances, .succeeded in safely pocketing alnuit 100,000. All these arrangements were masterpieces of ingenuity and patience, but the bills themselves must have required the greatest amount of labor. In the first place many of the larpe firms upon whom the bills purported to he drawn are in the habit of.usiug a peculiar kind of Per, 'with certain water-marks and printed mutter. All this would have to bo imitated, and as the bills were tlrawn on more than one firm, there must have been several of such imitation. There reraaineil the drawing of the bills und affixing the signatures, and each bill must have requiaed a series of feats in successful forging. Some of the bills were backed by sound acceptors, so that there might easily V as many a.s half a dozen signatures on a single bill. Yet the bills were so perfect that not one of them was questioned on the gronnd of the acceptances not iqniearing genuine, bnt the men who had exerted their skill, foresight and perseverance sufficient to insure the unhesitating acceptauce of the forged bills could not escape one trivial blunder, which revealed the whole plot. They presented two bills in which the date ef acceptance hael Itee-n oinitteeL Inquiry was, of coarse, made of the firm whse acceptance was thus undated, and it was discovered that the bill was neit genuine, and the whole series were then found to be forgeries. How much further the plot migat have been carried it is ' impossible to ssy. Advertisements pnl-lishe-d caution bankers sntl brokers, ami all other persons, against dealing in a ' numlier of United States 5-iO, 10-40, and funded loan bonds amounting in the aggregate to $237,000, they, it is alleg d, having leen acquired out of the profits of the forgery. The loss to the Bank of England is stated at 180,000. The Roth- 1 schilds are mentioned as one of the firms on which the forged drafts were drawn, bnt no other names are given. DE A TH BY TUM AX. Since the invention of the guillotine aud the garrote, that old -fashioned in- 1 strnrnent of execution, the ax, has fallen into disuse, except upon the melodramatic stage. Recently, however, two criminals were decapitated by the ax in Naples, probably in order to make a distinction lietween their crime , and offenses of ordinary felons. The t criminals in question were women, who had lieen convicted of having delilerately munleresj a large number of helpless infants who had been left in their care. Tnr. last census shows that, besides our national debt, the cities, towns. counties, snd States in this country, had a public inelebteelnesa, in 1870, of $864,785,067. Of this amount, $324,747,000 is bonded State debt, 9107,000,000 bonded county debt, ami $269,460,000 bonded municipal elebt. New York heads th time, for this year's taxes, the enermuis j amount of $3,106,000. The winde amount '

install-1 of taxes, collected and still due, M Si,-1320,000.

l IIAIIY I XTEH VIE H'A'J TO A WM ON, Jt T A u, i,u. only a l.al.y, thml any hair, VrH Ju.t a lull, (uii hrrt- aud n,,.,, nil) a baby, naow you Uavr mod ; aJMfootrtl aud dllu.il, aatv't UlUr wo. Only a baliy, 'Mi MM at all ; What arr you good for, only to .u f Only a baby, juat a wrrk old ; What arc you urn f..r, you UttU amid ! BAUT 'a lcl I Ihily a baby ! what abould i bo? tart o' big folk baa lrru littlr Ukr. mc 'Alut dot anv batr ! fU I harr too ;

T'w-n I Itavrul, .!.- it I . , , No! auy treib would nt hate our; blwl drl my dlum-r by i;uaiuK a bonr. WUal am I hrrr for ? 'at prrtty mean ; Wbo'a dot a brlter right, 1 rvrr you awn ? What am I dood for, did yon aay ? Kbrr no many dood fbliiga every day. Ti'UPw I uall aometimM, xomrtunea 1 bawl, Zey dawut ut me, 'cauae I'mr an attiall. Only a baby, "en, atr, 'afa o ; "N if you only could, you'd be our too. At ' all I have to aay ; you'ra moat Un old. I det tnto bed, toe'e drttin' cold. V A Hl KT I ES What shape is a kiss ? A lip-tickle. What must lie done to conduct u news- ' paper right ? Write. What game does a lady's bustle reI senible ? Back -gammon. ' Exctke haste and a bad pen," as the pig said when Jie broke out. The husbandman sows wheat while the housewife sews "tares." Patek money was first used in 1483, and has leen abused ever since. What flowers are there between a lady's nose and chin? Two-bps. W in" are policemen never run over? Be'cause they are never in the way. What is better than pivsence of mind in a railway accident ? Absence of IkmIv. It is said that corkscrews have sunk more than cerk-joekets have ever saved. When a man has no miiul of his own, his wife generally gives, him a piece of hers. What did the engine whistle say to the stoker? Don't touch me or I'll scream. "WitK8," asks the Iaubury Acte. " is that elderly scamp who has howled for sixty-thit years for an old-fashioned winter? Where is the old reptile that we can get at him ? How we would like to run him through a planing mill run by ice wator, and cut him oien with a snow-plow, and fill him full of snow balls, and sew him up with an icicle, and strap him to the north pole nutil the spring rams released him. The awful wretch!" An lllinoisaii advertises for s female servant. ' ' Not, " he says, 4 ' the onliuary girl, who comet- into families and stays for her Itoard and clothes a howling infant with a reel face and no teeth, swathed in rlannel and very partial to colic ; but a broad-shouldered, deep-chestod, twofisted servant girl red hair, freckles and general ugliness preferred on account of M oldest boy in the family." A Danbi kt young man who was once a clerk lately went on a farm to work. The first night in his new position he was detailed to remove a calf from the apartment of its parent to another shed, and while engaged, as thousands have been before him, in shoving the contrary least along, the mother reached under the tails of his coat with her horns, and suddenly lifted him up against the roof of the building with a force that threatened to shatter every bone in his Ixxly. The first thing he did on returning to earth was to rub himself ; the next thing was to throw up his place. He saiel he didn't doubt that agriculture was a noble pursuit, ami that the farmer needed an assistant in the discharge of the multifarious duties, bnt he didn't believe the Creator designed him for making skylights in cow-ahoda. 1 'kinbur if JNnm Thk Greeley Tribun avers that the Rocky Mountain turkey never sings until dark, and even then it fails to do itself justice unless the sky is cloudy. It frequents the deeie8t and most inaccessible canons of the mountains, and it can only le tnqipcd during the early spring and autumn months. A piece of bright tin tieel to a long pole will attract scores of these turkeys. Mr. Dunbar, a Denver naturalist, says that it is a species of the albiaon a bird that is found among the Andes in South America. It is certainly a strange bird, and at times its singing is reslly beautiful. The Illinois Legislature has enacted, and the Governor approved, a law in which workingmen are specially interested. It declares that "for any one to use violence er intimidation to influence, the action of employers or employed in the adjustment of their indnstrial relations is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1011, and for any one to combine with others for such a purpose is a misdemeanor punishable by $00 fino or six months' imprisonment."