Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 August 1877 — Page 2

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THE WAVING 0F THE CORN. ar siusEr ianibr. fteBKktMHB, wktwe gnarly kaml yet kindly wheeled Tkv pkmxk to ri this solitary' tree With lover, wIkhm) round plat, reserved In eool green radius twice lay length may be Scaatfn the iora thy furrows tm might To pleasure August, be, fatr.tboagkU?, and sae, That kere eonta oft together daily I, Srekeri pna ia summer! mortal ecu tasy, Do Mir witk tkanka to tliee, as atlrs tills morn With waring of the corn. Unseen, the farmer's boy from round the kill Whistles, a snatek that seeks kto soul ua And in some time witk taae, kowbeft akrill; Tke srieket tells atraigbt on kis simple tkoaght Nay, 'Ub the cricket's way of being gtlll ; Tke eWler be dronee In, ana gomiM nHg kt: Far down the wood, a one-deairingdove Timed aae tke keatiagof tkekeart ef love; Jkn4 tkeaa be all tke souade tkat mix, eaoh WHk waring of tke corn. From kere t where tke louder paaaiona dwell, G reea loaguee of hilly separat ton roll ; . Trade erivte wlterc yon far clover ridges Ye terrible Townt, ne'er elaim tke trembliag aenl That, oraftleaa all to buy or board or sell. From eat your deadly complex quarrel stole To eempany witk large amIaMe tree, Suek koney summer with unjeakms beea, And take Time's stroke aa softly aa this morn Takea waving of tke corn. Mftrptt'a fa aw. ionise bick rcAxiroiKU. It k wall kowa that a bally i always coward. Tkk doctrine k aarfy instilled into ih mind oi th small boy by M motter, Ua Stwday-tool teaoW, Md oUmt panoM of equal faatitiariiy with tfca habite aad awatoia of boffiee. At tbe aaaall boy rrows up he narer has a doabt tbat a bi man with a rough rotee and a bullying maanar ia a coward. All literature, whether of the juvenile or the adult variety, afrreeg upon this point. The Sunday-school story .and the dime novel teem with large and -cowardly boys, who are put to flight by courageous little fellows half their size, who simply threaten them with a determined look. No lees an authority than Dr. Holland himself shows bow one brave young man with holy motives is .always more than a matoh for at least three bullies, and consequently cowardly ndfiaae. The following little narrative concerning a large Californian bully and a consumptive theological student need, therefore, surprise no one who has thoroughly learned the great lesson that Nature, in order to preserve the balance of things, serves out full rations of courage to small men, and gives large men ly a very small proportion of that preaioue commodity. Roaring Dick had been the despot of Blue Dog from the day when he first entered that prosperous mining town. He 'was more than six feet high, and weighed fully 900 pounds. Apparently, he con.slated exclusively of bones, muscles and an interior tank of huge dimensions. for the storage of whisky Dressed in the picturesque costume of the miner, which consist mainly of red shirt and boots, and wearing a long grizzled beard, he naturally awakened universal admiration; and, when to this grottadwork of dress he added a belt containing; two revolvers and a large bowie-knife, admira.tion was eclipsed by awe. When he strode into the Imperial Saloon and struck his fist on the counter, the barkeeping smilingly handed him the whisky bottle and never dreamed of hinting at pay. Refreshed with a full tumbler, Soaring Dick would lazily lean against the counter and survey the inmates of the saloon. Occasionally he would ask, in a tfeep, rich voice: "Is there any coyote here who wants to have his ears cut og ?" but not a soul would answer the polite invitation. With one exception, the whole town of Btoe Dog was cowed by the man's terrible reputation. It was said that he had killed thirty-seven different mea, and that he carried ia one of his pockets thirtyseven front teeth, it being his charming custom to always knock out a front tooth of every new corpse of his own killing. On at least one occasion he had ordered every man in Blue Dog to remain within doors during a certain day, under pain of death, and when the appointed day arrived he patrolled the streets with his repeating rifle without iadiag m en a head visible at a window. The only man who was not confessedly

afraid of Houring Diok was Pinehtirst, the gambler. This men's pale face never blanched at the sight of the terrible bully, nor did the deep color of his Kontan nose ever fade in tira face of any peril. Piaehurat was extremely gentlemanly ami profane, and was known to to be a deed shot with the revolver, although he rarely hadoooasion to display his skill. Whenever Roaring Dick aceldcnUUly came into llnehurst's presence the latter would stealthily glide away, lest lie should be tempted to engage in a ooarse shooting-match. Thus Uie bully ami the gambler never came in conflict, and tle former was careful never to enter the latter' elegaut banking-house. One day there came to Blue Dog a thin, delicate young man, dreswnl in black clothing, carrying a valise full of tracts. He could not have been more than twenty-two years old, and he was evidently so'far advanced in consumption that his presumption in coming to die in California was at first resented as a deliberate insult to the unequaled olimato of that glorious State. Nevertheless, be soon gained first the pity, then the regard ot the rough miners of Blue Dog. He would enter their cabins and beg them to accept a few tracts ; and he would walk into the crowded saloons and press tracts upon every drunken or sober man present. Ho even visited Pinehurst's bank, and interrupted the proprietor while dealing by placing a tract entitled " Beware of tho Cards'' upon the "lay out." Ko one was angry. The patrons of tho bank morely laughed, and Pinelmrst, remarking, 44ou will find a square meal in the next room, Mr. Shupkins," proceeded to turn up a winning card, and swept in all the checks on the table. Mr. Simpkins had been in Bluo Dog

for a whole week, and had distributed tracts to that extent that the whole landscape blossomed with them, before fortune brought him face to face with Hearing Dick. On the evening of the eighth day after his arrival, he entered tho Imperial Saloon, at about 9 o'clock, and to his surprise found the place profoundly silent. It oaring Dick was leaning in his favorite attitude against the counter, and had just announced his readiness to cut any man into fine slices who felt desirous to undergo that pleasing process. Apparently he had been drinking more than usual, for he seemed particularly bloodthirsty. Mr. Simpkins had hardly entered the saloon when the bully remarked, in a pathetic voice, that he reallv must kill somebody. " I haven't killed a man in ten days, barring Chinamen," said Roaring Dick, " and I can't sleen peaceful without blood. I ain't particular who it is; I'd just as soon lay out one of these yere coyotes as another ; but I put it to you as white men, if such you be, whether somebody oughtn't to rile me a little, just oat of Christian charity." What was the astonishment of the miners to hear Mr. Simpkins calmly reply that if the big drunken fellow leaning on the counter wanted to fight, he was prepared to further his views. For a moment Roaring Diok was absolutely stupefied. Could he believe his ears? Did this sick boy, armed with nothing but a handful of tracts, actually venture to speak to the terror of Calaveras County? The thing was so absurd tbat the giant positively laughed, and said: "You don't appear to know me, sonnv." Pale but determined, the young .missionary quietly said that ho knew the bully perfectly well. "I know you much better than these men do," he added. " They know you to be a bully, bat I know you to be a coward. All bullies, are cowards, and I mean to prove that you are not an exception to the rule." In spite of this insult, the bully restrained his thirst for blood. He said that he did not want to kill children : ; that Mr. Simpkins didn't really need any killing, since be had plainly died some years ago, and had deserted from the churchyard, where he belonged. This evasive language could not shake Mr. Simpkins's determination. He persistedin challenging Roaring Dick to deadly combat, and finally took that dreaded ruffian by the ear and led him j toward the door. The spectacle was a sublime one. Here was a mere lad, a hopeless invalid, actually turning the terror of the county out into the street! The cowed miners regained their courage. They sprang to their feet; cheered wildly for the gallant Simpkins, and hurled insults at the bully. Suddenly that individual paused, and remarked, "This hyer foolishness has gone far enough." He picked up the unfortunate Simpkins, tore him to pieces, threw the fragments in the face of his revilers, and then drawing a revolver with each hand, opened fire with such celerity and deadly aim, that in a few seconds nine corpses lay on the floor, and not a living person save Roaring Dick stood in the saloon. Outside, the stars shone serene and beautiful in the unequaled California sky. The watch-dog bayed in the distance at some wandering cat. The night wind sighed among the clothes-lines in the Chinese quarter. Inside the saloon nine corpses, exclusive of the fragments of Mr. Simpkins, would, perhaps, have cried for vengeance had they not been corpses ; though, to be sure, in thai case they would not have wanted veigeance. There seems 'to be something wrong about this story. The bully ought to have Imen cowed by the little man, and the latter ought to have demonstrated that his big antagonist was a coward. But we can not have all things to please us. After all, what ia a fact, that it should stand in the way of a theory? We know that all bullies are cowards, and we can afford to ignore the unwillingness of Roaring Diok of Calaveras to illustrate that theory in his own person. Nme Terk Timet.

BOTTOM FACTS ABOUT MULIS. HHrnereaa Review ot tke Animal from Mlterlenl and other tMNMdfMilaU, The mule is the only animal that Noah didn't take into the ark with him. I have looked over the freight list carefully, and could not see a mule waybilled for any place. So olear-lteaded a man as Noah did not dare take one on board, as he knew he would kick a hole through her in less than a week. I don't know a man on whose head you could pour quicksilver and run less risk of its spilling oft' than on Noah's. He was a dreadful level-headed man, ami before the freshet was over every hotly on earth realised the fact. The origin of tho niulo is enveloped in a good ileal of mystery, Tradition informs us that whon tho flood had subsided and the ark hod landed on Mount Ararat, Noah was very much surprised

in one of his lirst observations to lmd a good healthy mule standing on the top of an adiominsr mountain. i tie same tra dition informs us that the mule is the mm. . m. - t . . oniy antrnai inai nveti uirougn me noon outside the ark. Tho mule can be considered in a good many ways, though tho worst place from which to consider him is directly from behind, anywhere within a radius of ton feet. I never consider a mule from that point, unless I am looking Ollt through the tlue of a boiler. Sea captains and people who have to uo wiin mines always pay an extra rate to life insurance companies. A mule and a belt of country where yellow fover is indigenous generally stand tho same as regards tho death rate. the worn mule conies from tho Ureek,

and signifios "to stop," and tho mule suddenly. 1 never saw the ! and crosses from which depended bits of himseircomesto a stop also. Likoraul- thread of life snap so abruptly as It did 1 still'ened rope. "To those," said h.. tiphod by like producos like. Grass- ,m ti,at occasion. Ho didn't have time ' "they tie prisoners who are lobe torturhoppors multiplied by grasshoppers pro- t0 leave n message for his family. That ' ed. A common mode of punishment is duce famine, and potato-bugs multiplied . ,nui0 si,ni,iy ducked his head, and then to cut them to pieces while alive, beginby potato-bugs produce- a rise in tlio ( a ja.ir of heels tlow out behind; there ' ning with the eyelids, tho nose and the price of yeast. But whon you try to , WiW a crjlgi. tt ji..jng of spiintcrH, and Hps, and then going on to tho arms and multiply mules by mulos they don't mill-, tjiat WRS Hu; Hm( the noxt moment the h'gs. There is Ah Kong, tho bondsmen," tiply, and hence tho word mule, lou ,nui0 an,i j. at0(Mi aion(J niy few, covered he continued, indicating a thickset man, may study your arithmetic, nud road witii astonishment two feet deep, and with trousers and sleeves rolled up and

imuugunu ui ,'".a iwuuwo, out i-u not discover why this is so, any moro than you can why a woman can not put on a rubber without leaning up against something. The mule has one more leg than a milking stool, and ho can stand on ono and wave the other throe round in as many different directions. He has only three senses, hearing, seeing and smolltt t rr x . i ing. no nas no more sense o; a stone jug, and will eat any

contains nutriment, anu no don't care choice, to either work in a nitro-glyce-two cents whether it be one per cent, or rfne factory, or tako caro of a mule, I ninety-nine. All ho asks is to pass him siim,i,i , tnr tha ftnrx- a Sn nf

along his plate, with whatever happens , an explosion, there would bo more pes-, to be handy round the pantry, and ho 8ibHUy of my friends finding some little won't go away and blow how poor the mnmnnirww nf mi wUh wlii.Hi

steak is. He just eats whatever is set before him, and asks no questions. Mules are naturally deaf, but that supremo wisdom that teaches tho little boy to wipe his nose on his sleeve has fitted tho mule out with a pair of ears that counteracts its deafness, so he can hear as readily as a person when you don't want him to. These ears answer a double purpose as tunnels to pour sound into his ears, and also as fans to brush away the flies with and keep his head cool. They aro hung by hiniros to the sides of his head, and flap back ward and forward like a pair of wet ' trousers round a boy's legs In cold latitudes quite a tasty business is done in mules' ears. The oars are cut ott and 1 dried, and sold for snow-shoes, and then the stubs are trimmed up and the mulos are sent bouth and sold for horses. In this wav a arrest manv fine horse? were nurchased for the armv bv tho United ' statfw. i If I were tb have a large picture of I innocence to hang up in my parlor, and I did not wish to sit for it myself, I should get a correct likeness of a mule. There is innocence enough depicted in a mule's countenance to fit out a Sunday-school class. It looks as guileless as an angle-worm. A mule never grows old or dies. Once brought into existence he continues on forever. The original mule is now alive somewhere in the South. Mules are chiefly found in the South ami West. They have been more abused than Judas Iscariot. A boy who would not throw a stone at a mule if he got a chance wuld be considered by his parents as too moan to raise. The mule is a good worker, but ho can not be depended on. He is liable to strike, and when a mule strikes human calculation fails to find out any rule by which to reckon when he will So to work again. It is useless to pound i im, for he will stand more beating than j a siiung-room caqiet. no nas oeen known to stand eleven days in one spot, apparently thinking of something, and then start oft' again as though nothing had happened. Down South, when they have a surplus of small darkies on the plantation, they send them out into the barn-yard to play, where there is a loose mule. They always bid them good-byo when they start out, for they are sure the parting will bo final. This is the most economical style of funeral now in the market. To fully appreciate the mule, one should listen to his voice You never can really know whether you like a mule or not till you have heard him sing. I attended a mule concert at Fort Snefling. The programme opened with a soprano solo, and then swung into a duet, and then pranced off into a trio, followed up by a quartette, and ending with a full chorus by 160 mules. I didn't hear the whole thing, for when I came to, the regimental surgeon was standing over me, giving me powerful restoratives, and f heard him say that I might possibly get; out again, though I would never be a well man again. I have been through the New York Stock Exohange,

and sjHmt part of a day in a boiler factory, and have been on ohm or two Sunday-school excursions for children, hut I never knew what noise was till I heard a lot of army mules bray, One of the dead certainties about a mule is that he is sure-footed, especially with his hind feet. He never misplace them. If he advertises that his feet will be at a certain stiot at a certain time, with a sample of mule-shoes to which he would call your attention, vou will always find thorn there at tfiu appointed time. He is as reliable as the day of judgment, and he never cancels an engagement. Kvcry man now living who drove a mule team during the war now

uraws a pension. I never owned a mule. I came near buying ono unco, Ho was a line-look-ting animal; his ears stood up like the side spires on an Episcopal Church. His tail was trimmed down so that it looked f Yk a tar-brush loaning up weainst him. He was striped oil' like the American tlag, and Raphael's cherubs never lookj m moro aUg0ij0 than did that mule. Hu ""JS v" v w ivwn . M innocence, though he was, in no sense. The owner sat m the wagon, with his chin resting on his hand and his elbow resting on his kneo. In the othor hand ho held a stick with a brad in the end of it. It examined tho mule and H8kcil th(J. mau a fow nuoetious, and out of tnnrn form Innntrml if tha mnln I was kind, or ir he kicked? "Kind? , Kick?" said tho man, and those were the last words he ever uttered. He roach ed his stick over tho front of the wagon, and stuck tho brad into that mule. It

was awiui to see a man snuneti outas.oi skuus oioacning m mo sun, some quickly as ho was. It almost boxos and jars of quicklime in which

his covered wuii part of an old bridle. Tho next day I road an account in tho tolegraphic news of a shower of flesh in Kentucky. I was tho only man that could explain that phenomenon, and I did not dare to, lost i should be miplicated in the alVair with the other muio. I have seen death in many forms, but assuage their grief. A very small piece of mo would lighten I will hunt round and if I find any other facts that belong to the mule, I will write them down, and send them to you by express CO. D. Gco.A.Quimby, in the Button Globe. Santa Anna's Daaghter and General Shields. Gen. Santa Anna was in command of the Mexicans at Cerro Gordo. Ho was utterly defeated and compelled to rematerial unvf Miwi vr ? j avroTUC) lit j' soi'liUi iJj and killed and wounded. omezas was dangerously wounded in the fight, and of course left behind at Jalapa. Whon he became convalescent ho was informed that a lady living opformeil that a lady living opj house where he lay had been and attentive, and had been help to his attendants. As posito the house where he lay had been very kind of much soon a he was allowed to walk out ho went to thank her, whon he learned to his surprise that she was the daughter of Santa Anna. In the course of the conversation that followed, he remarket! : "Hut did you know who it was that you wore ministoring to all this time?" "Not at first," she replied. "I discovered after a time that you were Gen. Shields, who I had heard was killed." " Perhaps, had you known at the first that I was one who had a largo share in defeating your father, you would not have relieved me." She drew herself up with the air of an old Castilian. " Sir," she said, " had you with ! your own hand killed my father in fair fightr-in fair fight I would have done, j ior you m your extremity jusi. as mucn , as I now have." And she looked it as well as spoke it. New York Times. Smart Keek Werk. Mr. Gladstone showed at tho recent Caxton Exhibition at South Kensington, London, a Bible which had gone through every stage from printing to completion at Oxford that day. He did not say in his speech that its production was at tho outset due to an American, but took all tho glory to English work. Tho idea, however, holongcd to Henry Stevens, a Vermont man, now some years in England and a fellow of tho society of antiquaries of which another American, Col. Chester (who is tho principal authority in matters of pediin all England), Is also a member. r. Stevens, taking as his text the words of the old English printer: " This boko was begun in 'wn daye, and fynished in 'wn daye," resolved to make It literally true in his anniversary, and applied to the press of the University of Oxford to perform the feat. The type of the Bible was already composed, used and prepared, but it was printed and the sheets sent to London, where they were folded, gathered, collected, sewn, cut, tho edges gilded and the book bound in morocco, with hardly a "sot-off" by pressure in the ink, in four hours. Tho conios shown at tho meeting were distributed to a favored few, Dom Pedro being one.

' 1 don't recollect of overseeing a funeral i mo space there was oareiy room

1 18.8lc inRn gotten up with less pomp and display made tlieni kneel one before tho other ' thinST that I tlinn mi tliut ruwaamri It X linil mv I ill alnirltt lilKW. twntltv-fntir iriifrvi In

Chfoeae KxeeatfeHsv We found the eourt-yard throngtnl with yellow-uniformed soldiers, armwl with halberds and match-locks, cavaHers on little coffee-colored ponies, parasols, banaers, gongs, a rich sedan chair carried by six coolies rolled in red all tho cortege of a great Mandarin and in the middle, seated on the ground in baskets, with sullen countenances and heavily Ironed, a dozen ragged men, the victims. At each "moment a now captive was brought up. One by one a police nfilcinl lugged them out of the cell; each was

mumi aim uouuu oy tno turnkeys ami i placed in the basket, to bo carried, do1 pending from a bamboo, by two bearers a wooden tag tied round his neck gave .Ills name and age, and a label pasted upon a stick announced the crime or which he was to die, by order of the i Emperor. The execution ground is a small, tr! angular space ; on ono side is a low wall, 1 ".. 1 F " I " ' 1 " - ' on another are some wretched houses. , Tho inhabitants some potters ami a carponter pay no taxes. They seemed to bo misorablv poor, and altogether in ditierent to the scene to be enacted. They used the field to dry their pottery; indeed, as we arrived, an old Chinaman was hurriedly removing pots and jars from tho center to make room for the executioner and his victims. At lirst sight nothing could be mote innocent and calm than this little " Pottor's field," but on looking along tho walliiwi iur, wnaiuiu ono seer a neap 'Hearing a largo saner. " no is an importanl personage and leaves tho heavy work to his assistants. Decapitating is his specialty." At this moment the cortege entered 4 me nine ueiu : me coolies, out of breath j and sweating, deposited their lading on I uiu irruuim: mu cxuciiiiouors seized t their victims, led them to tho middle of their pinioned arms; wrapped round their skulls the queues that had been loosened or disarranged then waited ! The Mandarin did not arrive. He had probably had some difficulty in making his way through the crowded streets, and till" he reached the ground nothing could be done. While waiting for him the headsman examined critically the edge of his weapon, and tightened his girdle, and thekueeling prisoners wearily twisted their outstretched necks. Thus at least ton minutes passed. Imagine what thoughts must have coursed through the brains of those poor devils during those ten centuries of waiting, the mental torture superadded without motive and by sheer negligence to their physical punishment. There they were, kneeling in a long lino, each one beholding before him the heads that should he lopped oil ore his turn came. 1 1 scanned the yellow faces with home j such thought as this, but I did not seo upon them one impression, one indicalion of sentiment, one ' sign of fear. Every w 1 thin, indifference, or i sciousnoss. Two wi lion of sentiment, one muscle move, one ' sign of fear. Every where was resignaor brutish uncon kere ckuwinr the betel-root, or something of the sort. At last the crowd opened mid the Mandarin's sedan appeared. This was the signal to begin. What then transpired I dare not write you. Its remembrance is like that of a nightmare. I have still before my eyes the two executioners swinging their reddened blades, heads rolling upon tho ground or remaining attached to the necks by a rag of flesh, decapitated trunks sinking down all flecked with gore. I see AhFong breaking off from his work to change his sword, tho edge of which had become dulled : then I again hear the stool clicking on the neck-bone, the thud of heads falHiiff on the brickv clav. tho cry of admiration by tho throng at each scionune blow. In a few minutes all was done; in tho middle of the yard in a pool of bloody mire lay twenty-four lopped corpses, and the attendants wore plashing about in it, carrying by tho hair several beads with fixed eyeballs, or dragging behind them tho bodies, hacked, ignoble, hideous. At this instant the headsman, who had just noticed us, approached and presenting, still smoking with blood, tho two swords with which tho work had lieon done, offered to sell them to h for five dollars, tis wo might liko to have them by way of souvenir! Now homo comes the " sweet girl graduate " and takes off her robes of symbolic white and her accompanying smile of ineffable sweetness, ami it i atonco touching and beautiful te see how readily she enters upon tho meaotonous round of domestic duties; and boxes hor littlo brother's ears, and scoops tho bulk of tho strawberries, and tells hor littlo sister to wash tho dishes Just as sweetly and unaffectedly as if sho hadn't studied Greek and Latin, aHd M many ologios as alio is years old. Who says our girls aro spoiled by a college education? Puck. It is now proposed to make arrangements for Issuiiiga two-dollnrgold eoln, mid the wholo thing looks Ikoau underhanded attempt to put gold entirely beyond tho reach of' nowspapior ieV flrutfcport Stamford.

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