Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 February 1878 — Page 6
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TWO J.JTTLM FAIMS OF MOOTS. Tw )ltU hoot, te-alght, II ui ftr htm tlryiag; Two JlMht )utlv X tirwl fMrt in a truMtiWi-lMHl hn lylntt. TtM tmcki., thy lft mimmi th Hoor, Mftkv mm 14 mHk like aigklaic. Tfce lilt4 IhmH with eoiiiw UmwI Tkmy nut tN llvkHfc l' f Aswl oTtvatiHten I Hliwvrt wkh Tht Uy wwa ml lit hwk)'; S UrMl Mill I KJ )MHr so olt Ttwir heavy twi Ht iIhv. Thy walk Rbotit th aew.utoweu ktohhiI Wiwra iHiitl Ih ilMty 11m; It 1 rolled up In marble rauwl, Awl lMkl ',h lltUe ; At aliclit uiwH tl nursery In every shaiH) it tfrkwl To'Hhv I was iUsuomnI to Molil; Jat,"wlwn I look, tniht, At tlnv little boot by the Urn, With copper toe sk lirtKHt, I talHk Ihw Mill my heart would be, To put them out o( sight, Fr, In a trunk wn stain I've laid Two f-oeksof white and blue; II caltett to lit those boot away, U GtMl 1 what should 1 do? I mourn that there are nut, to-night, ThrtH pair instead of two. I mourn 1k-o;uis I thought 1hw nice My m-ltehbor 'crosa the way Coakl keep her carpets- all tlio years From (tot tin worn or jtray ; Yet well 1 know she'd smile to own Some little hoots to-day! We mothers weary net, and worn, Over our load of care; Bat how we (-peak to thoHi little ones I,et each of us beware, For what would our Untitles be, to-night, If no little boot were there? Mrt.Stutm Trull Perry.
SLEEP. "So He giveth His beloved sleep." i'.cxrr.2. He sees when their footsteps falter, when their heart grows weak and faint, He marks when their .-tretiKth is falling, and listens to each complaint; He bW them rest for a reason, for the pathway has gi own too steep; And folded in fair green pastures, He alveth His loved ones sleep. Like weary and worn-out children, that sigh for the davlight'a close, He kwjws that they oft are longing for lnnne and its sweet repose; Se He calls them in from their labors ere the MhadMWs around thent creep, Anl silently watehintr o'er them. He Klveth His loved ones sleep. He giveth it, oh, o gently! as a mother will Imsh to rest The lwb that she softly pillows so tenderly on her breast; Forgotten are now the trials and sorrows that made them weep, .For with many a soothlntcprotHlse He giveth His loved ones sleep. He Klveth it! friend the dearest can never this boon bestow; Hat Ho touches the drooping eyelids, and placid the feature grow; Their foes may gather around them, and storm may round them sweep, SHt, guarding them safe from danger. He giveth His loved one sleep. All dread of the distant future, all fears that opnrest to-day, like mfsts, that clear in the sunlight, have noiselessly passed away; 2or call nor clamor can rouse them from slumbers so pure and deep, For only His voice can reach them Who giveth His loved ones sleep. Weep not that their toll are over, weep not that their race is run; God grant we may rest as calmly when our work, like theirs, is done! Till then we would yield with gladness our treasures to Him to keep. And rejoleti in the sweet assurance. He giveth Ills loved one sleep. (!4thH Jleun. A DREAM AX l ITS CONSEQUENCES. When I was 12 .years of age I was invited by Mrs. Hall, my godmother, to nay Iter a visit before going to a boarding-school, where I was to remain for a few years. My mother had died when I was very young, and my father thought it better to'be at a nice school, where I would bo Hmong girls of my own age, than in a house with only his sister and himself. Mrs. Hall was very fond of me; she had no children of her own, and, hud my father consented, she and Mr. Hall would have taken me to live with them entirely. It was a lovely day in June when I arrived at my god mother's, and she was delighted to see me, The house was beautifully situated on high ground, surrounded by grand old trees, and on one side wa a flower-garden. One morning godmother said to mo: " Come tu e up stairs with me, Lilian, and I will show you some Indian jewels that my undo left me lately. ' ane openeu the drawer of an inlaid sandal-wood caUnet and took out a small case, in which were a pair of earrings, a brooch
I thotMfht I had never seen any th ng so . y "u y -1 l2 Wore. " My dear Lilian," . to be so frightened by only a stupid S she. " I intend to give you these on ! jrcHin. I said I would drive over the yturs lvtmth birthday? Isec, however, , Hwl thing after breakfast and see .f any there is a stoie IcWia one of the earl I thing was wrong with Mary or her rti will taki It into town to-divi mother. The only thing that puzzled Shave trep: ired'" the fXd U f th?t Mrt .a should be inVntioncarefully and put it in her pur.-e; the . w deceiving Mrs. Benson Shu actcase with the tther diamonds she put in ed as housekeeper and lady's maid to om of " Iho drawers of her dreUig- .her, and was behoved to J be most tmst"j " worthy in every way. She had been 5 After lunch Mr. and Mrs. Hall took , four years with her, atid was much rente with them to the town, which washed- She was h lont, reserved about four miles distant. The earring , find of person about 155 years of age was left at the jeweler's al.d as we Were I One thing 1 had often remarked nlwut to spend the day at a friend's house we 'or was, that when speaking to any one arranged to call for it on our way back. . never ooked straight at them ; but Hot vou will sav. what has all this to do . 1 thought it m ght be from a kind of witiryonr dret.ra? Well, wait a little shyness more than any thing ebe. and yi.u will see. As soon as breakfast was over I set Ve spent a pleasant day, called for telling my husband I would very th earring on our way, and arrived Uely not return until the next day ; and, home about half-past y o'clock. As I n possible, ho was to come for me. He was taking off my bonnet, godmother could drive over early ami spend the came into tho room. "Lilian," said day; and we would return home toge'hslie, " I can not find the case of dia- er in the evening, if all was well with monds anywhere. DM Heave it in tho i ins mother. drawer in my dressing-glass before 1 W hen I arrived I found Mrs. Benson
went out? I went to put in the other
earrhitr now, and it was not thore.-Who every thing seemingly just m usual cuu have taken it. Martha was sitting at work in her little " You certainly left it m tlio dressing- room, which opened off Mrs. Benson's, glass drawer," L said. " Could any of , dressing-room. 1 could not help lookthe servants have taken it, do you ing at her more closely than 1 would think?" : have done at another time, and I "1 am ure they would no," she an-i thought I saw a hwk of displeasure swered. " I hare had them with me for cross her face at seeing nut. Mary ami vear-. and sever missed anything be- her mother were, of course, delighted: for." i l see me, and asked why Henry dkl " Arc tlK'ic any ttnmic'i about U:at not come too. Sol told them 1 would!
could have oerae m through the wis dow?" "No, Lilian; there are no strangers about the place except the gardener, and he seems a moet respectable man. I got a very high character of him from his last place, in fact, we are told he was a most truaworthy person." Next day there was a wonderful commotion about the missing juwel-case. The police were sent for, and every place whs searched over ami over again, but to no purpose. One thing, however.puxxled us; on the window-sill was a foot-mark, ami near the dressing-table a little bit of earth, as if otV a shoe or boot, which led us to think that the thief must have come in through the window. But how did he get up to it? It was a good height from the ground, and the creeping plants were not in the least broken, as would have been the case had any body climbed up by them. A ladder must have been employed, and it was little to the credit of the police that this fact had not been properly considered. As the matter stood it was a mystery, and seemed likely to remain so, and only one earring was left of the valuable set. In a few days I left for school, where I remained for four years. I spent every vacation between my home and my godmother's. We often spoke of the stolen diamonds, but nothing had ever been hoard of them, though a reward of 50 had been offered by Mr. Mall for any information that would lead, to the detection of the thief. On my sixteenth birthday my godmother gave me a beautiful watch ami chain ami the diamond earring, which she had got arranged as a necklet. "lam so sorry, Lilian," said she, "that 1 have not the rest of those diamonds to give you ; but if ever they are found, they shall bo yours, my dear." I must now pass over t-ix years.whieh went by quietly and happily, nothing very important taking place until the last year, during which time I had been married. My husband was a barrister. We lived in the north of Kngland. My mother-in-law, Mrs. Benson, and Mary, one of her daughters, lived some miles away from us, near the sea-coast. It was a very' lonely place, a long way from the little fishing-town, or rather
village, of Uurnley. I confess 1 often felt very nervous about Mrs. Benson and 1 1 I . ! . 1 1 I 1 iter uaugmer nvuig aioiiu iier iiusukihi being dead many yoars). Except three women-servants in the house and tho coachman and his family, who lived in the lodge, there was no one nearer than Burnley, four miles off. Besides, it was known that there was a large quantity of plate in the house ; and the little seaside villago was often the resort of smugglers and other wild and lawless characters. One day, while thinking of them, I felt so unoasy that I said to my husband: "I hope, Henry, that there is nothing wrong with yonr mother; she has been in my mind all day." " Oh," saiil he, "why should you feel so anxious about her to-day? I saw her last Tuesday; and if she were ill, Mary would be sure to let us know. It is only one of your 'fancies,1 little wife." Still I did not feel easy, for more than once beforo my so-called "fancy" had proved to bo a "reality;" so 1 determined that in a few days I would jro and sec Mrs. Benson. All that evening I 1 1 - . ,4 . . 1. .. .1. ...... I. .-f could not gci uer uut m luy niuuf;uus, j and it was a long time before I went to sleep. I think it must have been about ', o'clock in the morning tha,t I woke in a state of terror. I had dreamed that I saw Mrs. Benson standing in the window of her bedroom, beckoning mo to ! come to her, and pointing to a female ligure who was stealing along under the ; shadoof the trees in tiie avenue, for the moon was shining brightlv. I started up, thinking I heard her calling me. And here is the most cxtraor-1 diuary part 6f it all though I whs now quite awake, I heard, as I thought, a voice saying to me: " Go tell Mrs. Benson Martha is deceiving her ; tell her to send her away at once." Three times these words seemed to be repeated in my ear. I can't describe exactly what the voice was like; it was not loud, but quite distinct; and I felt as , 1 listened that it was a warning, and that I must obey it. I woke my husband and told him my dream and the words I had heard. Mo tried to calm ami wary looking as wen as ever, aim
stay till the next day, if they would have me, and Henry would come for me, then, They were quite pleased at that arrangement; for it was not very often my husband could spend a whole day with them. As the day passed on and nothing out of tlte way happened, I began to think I had frightened myself needlessly, and that my dream or vision might have been the result of an over-anxious mind. And then Martha, what about her? Altogether I was perplexed. I did not know what to think; but I still felt a certain undefined uneasiness. I offered up a silent prayer to be directed to do right, and determined to wait patiently
and do. nothing for a while. I almost hoped I might near tho voice again.giving me definite instructions how to act. Lunch passed and dinner also; and the evening being very warm, for it was tho middle of July,' we sat at the open window enjoying the cooling breeze that set in from tho sea. As they were oarly people, shortly after 10 o'clock we said "good night," and went up to our bed-rooms. My room looked on the avenue, some parts of which were in deep shado, while in other parts tho moonlight shono brightly through breaks in the trees. I did not fool m the least sleepy; and, putting out my caudle, I sat by tho window, looking at tho lovely view; for I could sec the coast quite plainly, and the distant sea glittered like silver in the moonlight. I did not think how long I had been sitting there, until I hoard tho hall clock strike 12. Just then I heard, as I thought, a footstep outside of my door, which evidently stopped there, and then in a few seconds passed on. I did not mind, thinking it might be one of the servants, who nad been up later than usual, and was now goiiur quietlv 1 io oeu. i uogan 10 uuuross, not lightI iug the candle again, as 1 had light I enough from the moon. As I came towards tho window to close it, I saw, I exactly as in my dream, a female figure evidently keeping in the shade of tho trees going down tho avenue. I deI termined to follow and see who it was, for I now felt the warning voice was not sent to me for nothing, and I seemed to ( get courage, girl though 1 was, to fathom ' tho mystery. I hastily dressed, threw a 1 dark shawl over my "head, and, going I noiselessly down stairs, opened the glass door in the drawing-room window, and left it so that I could come in again. I j kept in the'shade of the trees as much as possible, and quickly followed the path I had seen the woman take. Presently I heard voices; one was a , man's, the other a woman's, But ( who was she? I came close, and cot , I I r. .1 , . . e . I y i t ueiimu iargu group oi tincK snruos. i could now see and hear them quite well ; they were standing in the light; I was in the deep shade. Just then the woman turned her head towards me. It was Martha I What did she want there at that hour? And who was this man? I was puzzled. Where had I seen that face before? for that I had seen it before I was certain ; but where, and when, I could not remember. He was speaking in a low voice, and I did not hear very .1J...! . 1 ...1. .. t... I..... . 1 1 . a r T. uisuuuuy wumi nu saiu, uui uic last, icw I words wore: " And why not to-night? Delays are always dangerous, especially ' now, as they are beginning to suspect me." "Because Mrs. Benson's daughter-in-law is here, and she is sleeping in the room over the plate closet, and would be sure to hear the least noise. Wait until to-morrow night ; she will be gone then. But, indeed, John, I don't. like this business at all. I think we'd better give it up, No luck will come of it, I am sure." "Look here, Martha," said tho man. "I have a chance of getting safe off now. I have it all settled, if you will only help mo to get this old woman's plate. With that and a few little trinkets I happened to pick up a few years ago, you and I may set up in business over in America. The ether fellows will help me. Meet me here to-morrow night, to let me know that all is safe for us. See here. I have brought you a valuable present. Keep it until the plate is secure with me; for you must stay here until all blows over; then itake some excuse for leaving, and come over and join me in New York. If you want money, sell these diamonds in Liverpool ; they are worth no end of money." I could see quite well that he took something out of his pocket and gave it to her. Sho held it up to look at it; and there, glistening in bright moonlight, I saw my godmother's diamond earring! the ono that had lwen stolen over nine years ago, with tho other jewels, from her room. Here, then, at last was the mystery solved, every thing mado clear, and all through my dream! Presently the light fell on the man's face again, and I instantly recognized my "godmother's very respectable gardener. A decent ; man lie was believed to lie, but a thief all the time, and one who hid his evil deeds under a cloak of religion. And who was thi? woman he seemed to have got such power over? KvidcntJy his wife; for 1 gathered that from his conversation with her, I waited where I was until they were both goneMartha back to the house ami ler husband to the village; then, as quietly as 1 could, I returned to the house and reached my room. Falling on my knees I gave thank to (Jod for "making me the means of iihumgout such a wicked piot, j ami perhaps saving the lives of more than one under that roof, for it is more than likely that had those desperate men been disturbed in their midnight plunder, they would not have hesitated at any deed which would enabled them to carry out their wicked plans, I slept lillle that night, and next morning tried to appear calm and composed, though I was frightened and really ill. I was longing for lay hus
band to come that I might tell him all, aud consult what waa best to be done, to prevent robbery and jierhaiw bloodshed. At last, to my great relief, I saw him coming. I ran to the gate to meet him, and told him what 1 had seen and hoard tho night before. "Now," I said, "will you over laugh at my fancies' again?" " No, my dear little wife," said he; " I never will." Wu then arranged that we should tell his mother and sister every thing; and he was to go the nearest police station and arrange with tho chief officer to have a number of men ready in the wood near the house at 12 o'clock that night; that after dinner we were to say " goodbye " to Mrs. Benson, and drive homo; but would return and join tlte police in the wood, and wait there until we saw Martha leave tho house to meet her husband. Wo wore then to go in and wait until the thieves came in, when thoy were to bo surrounded and taken prisoners. My husband wanted me to remain at our own house ; but I would not do so, as I said I would only bo imagining all sorts of dreadful things; besides, I knew his mother and Mary would ike to have mo with them. It all turned out as well as could bo. Tho night was very tine; and just at 12 o'clock Martha stole down to tho place whore I had seen her tho night beforo; then we all, about a dozen policemen and ourselves, went into the house. The men were stationed out of sight in different rooms, waiting for tho robber's entrance. Henry came up to Mrs. Henson's room, where all of us women were, including the two servants. With breathless anxiety wo watched and waited. From where I stood I could see the way they would come. It was about 2 o'clock when I saw Martha coming up tho walk and four men with her. "Look!" I said; "there they are." They went around to tho back door, and we heard them stealing along the passage in the direction of the plate-closet. Then a sudden rush a scream from the wretched Martha imprecations loud and bitter a shot another scream! " May God grant no lives will be lost ! " wo prayed. Poor Mary nearly fainted. At last we heard the "officer call Henry to come down. The four men were well secured and taken to the police-station. Martha was taken there, too. She confessed she had let them in for the purpose of stealing the silver. One of the robbers was slightly wounded in the arm, but no one else was hurt. Very thankful was I when I found next day that none was the worse for having gone through such a terrible scene. Tho house where Martha's husband lodged W33 searched, and the case of diamonds and many other valuable articles found there. This immensely respectable gardener had been a disgrace to his family and his profession. Left very much to himself through tho indulgence of his employer, ho had contracted habits of tippling with low associates at the neighboring village, and became so Completely demoralized as at length to assume tho degraded character of a burglar. Now came tho retribution which attends on wrong-doing. The thieves were all tried at the next Assizes, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. It is now manv years since all this happened; but I can never forget what I went through those two dreadful nights; though I remember with thankfulness, that through my dream aud the warning voice I heard, I was the means of averting a great wrong, aud perhaps murder. I do not impute any thing supernatural to my dream. It may have merely been tho result of tension of feelings, sopportod by some coincidences. At all events, the results were such as I have tlescribed. Chumber$''s Journal. A Lewer-Caaada Castem. Two old people were sold the other day at the church door of a parish in Quebec, incumbered with a farm, to tho highest bidder. They handed over their property to their children, on condition that so long as the old people lived those children should lodge and board them, wash and mend tlielr clothing, furnish them with outer garments and linen, shoos and head-dresses, all suitable to their condition; take them to diine service on Sundays and on feast days, and bring them home ; place a horse and vehicle at their disposal on demand ; fetch and fee the priest and doctor when desired : keep in good order the best bod reserved for them until the death of the survivor; allow them access to all buildings and lands they may wish to enter; satisfy all their necessary wants, piritunl or corporal, and iu times of sickness furnish them with due luxuries; and, finally, at their death bury them in the parish cemetery, provide an ordluaiy funeral service aud a memorial service at the end of the year, beside having ten low umses chant od for the repose of their souls. The new possessors of the property failed, and now the property is offered for sale, subject to tho charges in the deed of donations. This a very common practice in Lower Canada, and many of the contracts would be worth reproduction, if only to show how carefully tho old habitants, disposing of their property, provide for such (not) unconsidered trifles as clay pipes and nutmegs. Toronto Globe. A new oil pipe, known as tho Seaboard Pipe Lino, is soon to be laid from Butler County, Pa , to Baltimore, a distance of 2!K) miles, The transporting capacity will be fi,000 barrels of oil per day, and the How will lie incessant. It is expected to bring into Baltimore annually about two million barrels of crude oil, about equal to the quantity now carried there by two railroads.
An English Mllllea Dissected. It would lie curious to know how many of your readers have brought fully" homo to their inner consciousness the real significance of that little word " billion " which wo have -con of late so glibly used in your columns. There are, indeed, few intellects that can fairly grasp it and digest it as a whole; and there are, doubtless, many thousands who can not appreciate its true worth even when reduced to fragments for moro eaav assimilation. Its arithmetical synilxtl is simplo and without much pretension; there are no largo figures pist a modest 1, followed ' by k dozen ciphers, and that is all. Let use briefly take a glance at it as a measure of time, distance, and weight. As a measure of time, I would take ono second as tho unit, and carry mvself in thought through the lapse of ages back to tho first day of tho year 1 of our era, remembering" that in all these years wo have UGfi days, and in every day just 8G,-100" seconds of time. Hence, in returning in thought back again to this year ot grace 1878, ono might have supposed that a billion of seconds had long since elapsed; but this is not so. We havo not even passed one-sixteenth part of tli.it number in all these lonr, event
ful vears, for it takf s just :tl,7G8 years 17 days, 22 hours, 15 miuutcs,and7i seconds to constitute a billion of seconds of time, It is no easy matter to bring under the cognizance of the human eye a billion of objects of any kind. Let us try in imagination to arrange this number for inspection, and for this purpose I would select a sovereign as a familiar object. Let us put one on tho ground and pile upon it as many as will reach 20 feet in height; then let us place numbers of similar columns in close contact, forming a straight line, and making a sort of wall 20 feet high, showing only the thin edges of the coin. Imagine two such walls running parallel to each other ami forming, as it were, a long street. Wo must then keep on extemling these wallsfor miles nay, hundreds of "miles, and still we shall le far short of the required number. And it is not until we nave extended our imaginary street to a distance of 2,:i8Gi miles that we shall havo presented for inspection our one billion of coins. Or in lieu of this arrangement we may place them flat upon the ground, forming one continuous line like a long golden chain, with every link in close contact. But to do this we must pass over land and sea, mountain and valley, desert and plain, crossing tho equator, and returning arouud .tho southern hemisphere, through the traekless ocean, retrace our way again across tlte equator, then still on and on, until we again arrive at our starting-point; and when we have thus passed a golden chain arouud the huge bulk of the earth, we shall be but at the beginning of our task. We must drag this imaginary chain no less than 7C3 times round the globe. If we can further imagine all these rows of links laid closely side by side, and every one in contact with its neighber, we shall havo formed a golden band around the world just 62 feet 6 inches wide; and this will represent our one billion of coins. Such a chain, if laid in a straight line, would reach a fraction over 18,328,445 miles, the weight of which, if estimated at onefourth ounce each sovereign, would be 6,975,447 tons, and would require for their transport no less than 2,325 ships, each with a full cargo of 3,IXK) tons. Even then there would be a residue of 447 tons, representing C 1,081,920 sovereigns. Por a measure of height let us take a much smaller unit as" our measuring rod. The thin sheets of paper on winch these lines arc printed, if laid out flat and firmly pressed together as in a wellbound book, would represent a measure of about l-3;Wd of an'inch in thicknoss. Let us see how high a dense pile formed by a billion of these thin paper leaves wonld reach. We must, in imagination, pile them vertically upward, by degrees reaching tho height of our tallest spires; and, passing these, tho pile must still grow higher, topping the Alps and the Andes, and tho highest peaks of the Himalayas, aud shooting up from thence through the fleecy clouds, pass beyond the confines of our attenuated atmosphere, and leap up into tho blue ether with which the universe is filled, standing proudly up far beyond the roach of nil terrestrial things; still )ik on your thousands and millions of thin leaves, for we are only beginning to rear the mighty mass. Add millions on millions of sheets, and thousands of miles on these, and still tho number will lack Its due amount. Let us paiic to look at the neat plowed edges of the book beforo us. iSce how closely Ho those thin flakes of paper, how many there are iu the mere width of a span, and then turn out eyes in imagination upwards to our mighty column of accumulated sheets. It now contains its appointed number, and our one bill! n shoots of the 7Vhn superimposed upon each other, and pressed into a compact mtws, has reached an altitude of I7:)1H miles. Those who have taken tho trouble to follow me thus far, I think, agree with mo that a billion is u fearful tiling, and that few can appreciate its real value. As for quadrillions uud trillions, they are simply words, more words, wholly incapablo of adequately impressing thumsolvc.i on the human intellect, fenrij Awtiicr, in tha l,onifm Timet. Levi Davis, a son of Commissioner Davis, of Delaware County, Intl., had bteti attending a Mothodl-t revival meeting, and while returning homo on horseback the animal shied and threw him, hU head striking tho ground and producing fatal injuries.