Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 March 1879 — Page 2

TMM KAUNAS pXVJL. The jim mm Iram BisYkawWR? InMtaaeettMuktagkKaspaeo , The Khan's rl eye amt pu4 face, "rMk vote. Hint feMiarWrtw tread, "Tfcea ht a aevU," llama sM. ' "lliak fcwWdr exclaimed the Khan, "XMMdM MtM at OtWW. 0 MMMir Xr." K4MWM HMru m 4NW WiBf 0m my that earsed tame et thme. "Leave f"K d wine, yo tort and drink Wkhmt f ImMm ob the WMc "Whr clear and eoW from mountain mows, TtM NahrtM Zehea downward Mews. "$irwHw remain, the eome to me; May AttrfRS ytoy m with thee r Awe-stfowk. fH feu awl wine, the Khan Went forth where ahr el Zefeea win. Hoata wmw M food, the l dat lite had, the water pMs And when t Mxth hwoh'J s?4metar Carved 4mrp shore the evening fetar, lie MHOikt attain th KSHton's door, t vwlt ad trembling ad helere, lint fttreturoi Umh aad sJear of hrain; Behotd," a seal, "the Nl is smtn." ' Xy." llamsa answered, "starved ana The ert one Vies in death-like swoaad. Bt evil breaks the strongest gyve. And JIM like htm have charmed lives. " One breaker of the Jtee e( grape May call him up la living shape. Whea the red wine of l!aUkt.liH Sparkles lor thee, beware, O Khan I "With water qaeneh the are within, And drown eaeh day thy devUkiuJ" Thenceforward the great Khan huaned the cap As Shitaa's own, though otTered Hp, With laKhtHfc eyes and Jeweled hand, By Yaikand'a maids aad Sarmaoaad's. And. lathe lofty vestioale 01 the medrese of Kaush hodal, The tlenti of the holy law A golden-lettered tablet saw, "With these words, bv a canning hand. Graved oh it at the Khaa'a command: 'la Allah's name to him who hath A devil, Kbatt el Hawed aaith, " Widely mir rrophet cursed the vine; The Head that loves the breath of wlae 41 So prayer canlay, no raaraboat Nor Meecaa dervls can drive oat. "I, Khan el Hawed, know the charm That rolM him of his power to harm. "Drowa Him, 0 Wam'a ohlldl the Fpell To ave thee Ilea In taak and well I" J. G. WMitier, in I'wtk't Compattln. IX THE WINTER. In the wiater, clearest Jasper O'er the lonelv valley smiles; In the winter, birda with marie 'ever Hood the wooUaad atelee. Ih the wiater, dew the hHVOde Gaily eot the yeatter sex; Ih the winter, o'er tne sidewalk Hangs the ulster, lor aa X. In the winter, softest sky-dewR All the cedar pennons dps; Ih the winter, the pedestrian On the coal-hole cover slips. Ih the winter, oa the window Keealy shines eaeh f rety gem ; Ih the winter, foRdLeander Leaves hie girl at it a. m. In the wiater, to the opera C. AtiraHtua Mliu.Je takee ; Ih the wln'T. OorghiHa it lathes o'er the buekwheat cakes; la the wiater, silver sleigh -bells Jingle swettly, mile on mile ; Ih the wlHter, doth the imow-hall levate the sllkea tile. In the winter.uea-f ar.sparrows KohihI the galdee chirp awl prank; Ih the iBtr, doth the plumb? r lat some shekels in the bank. Ih the winter, shrill winds whtetle , Throatch the lover's MimMer nook; Ih the winter, there are other Things eaeugh to till a book. W.A. CreftU. CJEMUS IL POPKISS, (JKOCEK. . I had been devoting myself too assidwt- t v work embroideriBsr in oilk aad in consequence ay eyes begas. to fail. And the oculist to whom l ap plied for advice, assured me that nothing would save my eyes but wearing a bead age over them for a month at least, perhaps more, and then using them with great care in the future. "And that month, Miss Sprague," be added, " should be spent in some quiet country house, whore you could have perfect root." Luckily, just before this mandate waa isouod, a young actress for whom I had embroidered a dress, having made "a groat hit " in the play in which she wore ft, was pleased to declare that half hor success was owing to the pink rosebuds aad blue forget-me-nots that wore scattered ia artistic confusioB all over the white satia (the design waa my own) aad in the kindest manner sent nte $100 iaotoad of $50, the price agreed upon for my work. So I was well able to follow the Doctor's advice as to myself, and to pay Mrs. Bairnsfatber for taking care of Soinny while I was away. And I was thiaking in what paper or papers I had bettor advertise for the " quiet country home," as the Dootor slammed the street door, whoa Mr.Popkias oam i& aad paid Bat before I toll you what ho said I'll toll you a little more about myself at that particular time. I was aa orphan, without kith, except Mrs. Boirmsfatber aad Mr. Popkins, aad a yoasg maa who boarded with Mrs. Bolraefathor or kin, but Spinny gpeaeer first, then S penny, then SpinBy, bit 10-year-old brother in the groat etty where I lived. My father, a aoa Cafiaifl, had boob lost at to whoa I was If years of age. My mother died who I was 18. Until that time we had lived hi aa old-fashioned cottage in a pretty Tillage ia Coanootioat mother Toooiviac a peaeioa from the saip-owa-rs ia whose senriee my father I'M ate

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life, which, tofthrwith tb monr we MTBMt wilk tha akl of tha oow aa th kiokM, MuibtoU u to lira vorv oom fortaMy. Butwkoa Mothor Um4 th ptnekin iKod wMi hor, and thd oUf whs lot and tha oow and chiokona wera sold to a young owipk who had long lookod Ukb thorn with longing eye. Aa4 I, with what liUle money our effects had brooght, started with Spinny, thoa 6 ars old, to sok ray fortune in buy, Hoiay Now York. J hwl oao frioad there, at loast. Sho had boon a frioad 4 ay mother, and had paid tM short vkuts every summer as long as I could romottbor, Mrs. Bakasfatber, and to hor house I wont. She lot lodgings, somewhat in the English manner, being an Englishwoman, albeit as her name indicated hor ancestors were Scotoh, aad, fortunately, the second-story back room with a bedstead that pretended to bo a chest of drawers in the day time ami a hall bedroom adjoining wore unoccupied, and in them I was Installed with much kindness by the motherly landlady. And after a few weeks I eot some baby oaps and

i cloaks to embroider (ever since 1 could use a needle I had been fond of making I sprays and flowers on whatever bits of ' .tW n foil in 1V tftfOvN Ktlt ttlB

pay for ray work was very poor indeed, I one else. And now the Doctor has orand I had as much as I could do to sup- dered you to go into fancy crackers

Don mvseu anu oimmv, wuu had a healthy boy's appetite for the four years beiore l oecame acquaimcu wua air, Popkins. "Genius H. Popkins.Grocer." How I laughed when I first saw his card in the landlady's card-basket, as though "Popkins" wasn't absurd enough to preface it with "Genius!" "An old bachelor," I said, "I should think so! Where could a woman be found who would be willing to change her name, whatever it was, for "Mrs. Genius H. Popkins?" " 'What's in a name?' as Shakespeare 'as it, my dear," said Mrs. Bairnsfathor mildly. " 'E's a good fellow, 'o is, indeed; 'as lodged with my friend, Mrs. Til. for tha last three vears. and sle thoueht every think of Mm. Never would 'ave parted willingly with 'im if she 'adn't a died." " A very sufficient reason for doing so," I said; "but why, oh! why, don't he change his name? It is too ridiculous." " Popkins, or no Popkins," insisted Mrs. Bairnsfather, " 'e's has good has gold. A little lively I 'ear, but I wish I 'ad a 'ouse full of them." " A little lively." He was. He gave bachelor parties at least twice a week, from which peals of laughter ascended to my room all evening long, and which always ended with an uproarious singing of " Auld Lang Syne" at midnight. At first tnis annoyed me very much, but after awhile I became so used to it that I woke up regularly when the singing began, and joined in the chorus of course they couldn't hear sae and then went to sleep directly. "Heaia't pretty," said Spinney to me one dav, referring to Mr. Popkins, " but he's juet bully. He giv' mo a box of prunes this raornin' a hull box and didn't the fellers at school hang 'round when I brought it out at luBoh-time! Too. indeed !" And one afternoon, about a week after the box of prunes, nay .room door was suddenly thrown open and Spinney appeared, leading a smiling gentleman by the hand, and called out (Spinney always shouted at me as though I were , half a mile away), " Hollo! Gertie" (my name's Gertrude), " here's Mr. Popkins ' and he says n&ay I go to tne circus!" Trn. H. iWkimi " I thought to , t .k.f a n.uui.lnit n M. awus,u - J Nonius' hoT" 1 And he was. Red hair which, unlike any I had ever seen before, curled part i in one direction and part iu another; small, twinkling blue eyes, wmcn aimost aisappearea wsen se laugneu , his laugh, by the way, began with a loud cmffaw and ended with a lowchuckle: a double chin ; a ruddy complexion and I an extraordinary nose. It wasn't Ho-1 man, it wasn't straignt, it wasn't aquiline, it wasn't snub; it was simply Mr. Popkins's nose, and he was short and stout, and wore a blue flannel suit, and I couldn't help thinking if he and his clothing wore well blended what a gorgeous purple would be the result. " Hope I doa't intrude," said Mr. Popkins. "Not at all," answered I, "if you will pardoa my going oa with my work." I was embroidering a pair of suspenders which some young lady was going UJ 1 1 e Bai snnumuk u am birthday, asdwhich he, no doubt, would think, aad she, no doubt, would allow him to think, the work of her own fair hands. "Very beautiful work it is," said Mr. PV,na nH T rf 1 k tn kava a M& ltta tkm And that's the way my acquaintance with Mr. Popkins began. And after that what a kind uncle I thought him he was always having some pretty little article of dress embroidered for some one of his numerous nieces. And it was while finishing one of these one evening Mr. Popkins was taking a cup of tea with Spinny that the kind hearted bachelor said to me, "I have a proposal to make to you, Miss Sprague; your tea not being the very best suggests it to me. Suppose I supply you with groceries ia part payment for the finery you make forme? Ill let you have them at wholesale prkea." I gladly agreed, and dear me! I was surprised to Had, at the end of the week, how much cheaper it was to buy at wholesale prices. My table, although every thing Was much bettor than I had been accustomed to, cost mo loos than it ever had coot, and in consequence I was enabled to procure many a little delicacy for Spinny aad myself which I could not have even dreamed of before. Ia fact good luok seemed to have walk-

od in with Mr. Topkins the first time ho entered my door. It was ho who iaero duoed the young aotroos to wo who gave mo the highest prioe I bad ever raoeked for obroidorMg a dross. By-th4y, the aoto the soot with the saonoy oaded rather oddly. As you value sardines and olives smile sweetly upon old Popkins." " Old Fopklns." Only fro and tWrty after all. What was the young lady thinking about? And why did sho imagine I valued 'sardines ami olives ?" I dkln.U-1 don't and if I did, iu what way would 4,smiling sweetly" upon Mr, Popkiae afoot sardines and olives?" And aow I'll tell you what Mr. Popkins said the day he with a good-siaed basket on his arm made hw appearance just as the Dootor slammed the street door. "Thought you'd have trouble," beginning to unpack the basket and lay the various articles it contained, naming each one as he did so, upon my din ing-table, "knew it always stitching at that confounded Dutch cheese; hope you like it embroidery. Shouldn't have given you any to do myself, only was conQdent if I didn't you'd take it from a jar of Boston gherkins some

the country, and bind over your eyes a flask of salad oil a bandage for a month or more that's all." I burst out laughing. How could I help it, hearing the odd little man mix me and the groceries up in such a comical way? " My dear Miss Sprague," said he, gravely, "it is no laughing matter. What are you going to do?" " Obey the Doctor's orders," said I. " I'll begin by advertising for the quiet country home this very evening." "Let me take the advertisement," said Mr. Popkins. " I know a newspaper man deals with me who'll have it done nail price." "Andtnen, wnen I've xounoit," l went on, " I'll ask Mrs. Bairnsfatber to because, dearly as I love him, I can't take him with me and find perfect rest." "I'll look after Spinny," said Mr. Popkins. " Hem! I forgot the deviled tongue, but I guess you don't need any, and" (precipitately) "are you in want of money ? If you are " " I have plenty," I interrupted. "You have?" with astonishment. " and I told him about the young actress, saying nothing about the last line in her note, of course ; and, much to my surprise, instead of looking pleased he looked rather glum. " I was hoping you hadn't," he said "Hoping I hadn't, Mr. Popkins?" "Yes; and then," wiping his brow with his handkerchief, and speaking with still greater haste, "I was going to ask you to marry- me and let me pay all your bills in future." "Oh! Mr. Popkins," I gasped, "I am very much obliged to you, indeed, I am, but I couldn't ihink of tuch a thing, under any circusastaBoos." "You object to my hair, perhaps," said he; "I'll shave my head." "No-o-o," said I. "To my laugh? I'll never laugh again." "No-o-o." "To my name? I'll have it changed by act ol Congress." " No-o-o." "To my nose? I'd look worse without it." I .. At 4 V I o-o-o vox, is yee-x mean no, I -r 1 I There issome one else?" f . . , I x aiauiiueiBu. uuiu" uu" 1 ulu ' 5 iur ulBr . "iogard you as a fnend-a very r'VAnd you couldn't bring yourself to think of me as n husband? Oh, I see you couldn't. Good-bye. I'll supply you with groceries all the same." And away he went, looking so woe-begonc that I, remembering his many kindnesses to Spinny and myself, felt inclined to drop a tear or two ; but I conquered the feeling and commenced to pack my trunk instead. Most of my answers to Mr. Popkins, I must confess, had not been exactly true, including the one about " somebody else." There was a young man boarding with Mrs. Bairnsfather Arthur Lcroy by name a very handsome young man straight nose oreara-and-rose complexion fair hair light blue eyes (his forehead was rather narrow, to be sure, and the lower part of his face somewhat heavy) who had paid me a great deal of attention, and if I was not in love with him, I thought I was. And ev7 reason to believe-short of iormai ueciarauon mat, ne was in ' love with me. And so, as far as that crrww;. thnra wax onmehmlv 1.mi I advertised at least Mr. Popkins did. I was astonished to how little the advertisement cost; and out of some fifty answers, which one of Mr. Popkins'a clerks brought me, I selected that is, Mr. Popkins the good-natured fellow was still as kind as before ray emphatic discoaragemeat of his suit selected one which was the very place I was seeking. And on going to see it I was not disappointed. A dear, little cottage, owned and occupied by aa old German couple, who spoke just enough English to enable me to make my wants intelligible, at the foot of a high hill covered with green grass, wild flowers and young troosfwitha tiny brook leaping tlown the hillside and running gaily through the finely laid out gardoa bo other house ia sight save the precisely similar cottage noxt door faraway from any Imblic road. I dooidod immediately to ook ao further. And to Weetbrook I moved one lonely day. Arthur Leroy kUeed my hand

at parting aad said ho should bo doso-

mm bbuI my return u utv tij tornooa the bandage was plaood over my ores to remain there until my physkxia eoaooatod to it removal. " Perfect rest!" 1 certainly had in my bow. abode -0 perfect for an aotfve spirit like mine. And had it not been for the singing of the birds, the cluck ol the hoasVtho lowing of tbooattlo, the hum of the boos and most of all taepeoule Boxt door, I should have fled after two or three days back to my room at Mrs. Bairnsfather's. The people next door proved to bo exoelleat company, though wa wore totally unknown to each other. The two gardens were separated by a board fence, loosely put together and overgrown with a luxuriant growth of morning-glorioo and passion flowers. And my favorite retreat in our garden on the hot July afternoons was a tiny arbor covered with Ayreshire roses and honevsuckles. and apparently the favor ite retreat of the people next door was a similar arbor in the corner of thoir garden and so it came to pass that from sarin? their conversation I didn't ex actly listen to it at tirst, but as Mrs. Clupplns, of Pickwickian memory, remarked, "it forced itself upon my oar" I came to think of them as the happiest family I had ever heard. There was a husband, a wife, a grandmothor and a baby, and they were all fondly in love with each other and constantly telling each other so. Therefore, I was ranch surprised one day it was about two weeks alter my arrival at Weetbrook, and I'd been rather honsssick for Spinny and disappointed that I'd heard nothing from Arthur Leroy, and sorry about Mr. Popkins I was sitting beneath the roses anil VinnercnnV-laa .tn haar th littla wife nuu mvh.j"" i noxt door (I'd quite made up my mind sho was a little woman; suddenly burst out with: "Oh! Low, dear, to think that onco I thought I never could love you. " Because I wasn't handsome and be cause I had such a queer name, Minnie," he said with a Irugh. "Because I thought" you were not handsome. You know, darling, all girls think of Aim as blue-eyed, goldenhaired, crolden-mustached, with cornplexion to match, or ravtn-baired and dark-eyed, with complexion to match,

and when I first knew you you were learn the stage business and to cvontuneither." ally secure a speaking part, whereby ho " And I am neither now, Minnie." miht advance in the profession. 'His "I know that, silly, but to me you solicitations were so persistent and his have the dearest face in the world, and , manner so persuasive that permission I'm so thankful baby looks like you. , was granted to him to act as an assistShe has your own bright auburn hair ant in the carpentering department. He and lorolygray eyes. As for the name, ' proved to be all ho had claimed, was 'tis funny, awful funny Mrs. Low stoady and useful, and so skillful that Dutch 'but I wouldn't change it for wh9n the mastor-carpenter was obliged the most poetical title ever known." by sickness to retire the new comer Well, the days passed on, and I was . was promoted to the vacant place. He trying my best to be patient and not WR3 a universal favorite with the cornsucceeding very well, when on the third 1 pAny, attracted the attention of Miss Sunday of my banishment Spinny came i vard aHd Mr. Lecic bv valuables sugges

down to see me. " Popkins wouldn't come," he bgan, tor he'd hugged me 'till I nearly after choked. ked. " Said you wouldn't care to him. Sent VOU a box Of Candles. though. May I have all the gum-drops? And Leroy's gone away. Ain't coming back, neither." " Gone away?" repeated I.

"Yes; but don't you care. I didn't part. No one else was available, his like him much. And I heard him talkin' offer was accepted, and, to the astonishabout you to another feller 4th of July. I ment of all, he made an immense hit,

I was a-hidin' 'hind the door, 'cause Bob Smith was a-gom' to throw some torpedoes at me, and Leroy he comes up the stoop and says: 'Gertie's a nice girl, and a pretty girl, but may be she'll bo blind, and who'd want a blind wife? And don't want a wife any how, and stirs getting and I'll slope.' He di too fond of me, idn't say slope, but he meant it. And I say, Gertie.you ain't too fond of him, are you? And why wouldn't you care to sec Popkins? lie's my man, he is. lie takes me to the Aquarium, and Coney Island, rnd all over. Don't you like Popkins, Gertie?" " I like him very much, Spinny," said I, with burning cheeks. " Well, I'll tell him so," said Spinny, " and p'raps next time he'll come along." After Spinny went away I had an angry cry over Arthur Leroy's impertinent remarks, and for ml him, so I could not have been very much iu love with him after all. And then I began to think about Mr. Popkins. In fact, I could think of nothing else. The blinding of my oyes for so long a time seemed to have suddenly made ray mental vision unusually clear and I saw "with my mind's eye" many things which, perhaps, otherwise I might never have aeea. I saw the groceries, inotcad of being sold to me at "wholesale prices," had been sold at a nrioo set by Mr. Popkins. and that price not half theiractual value.. I saw that the nieces only existed in the brain of Mr. Popkins, and that the little dresses, and aprons, and what not for which ho had paid me so well, were stowed away in some cloeet in his apartments. I saw that the boasted friend ship with the "newspaper man" was a myth, and I saw that he saw Weebrook oofore i. uiu, anu iuai w ma iuouxuuhinoes and care I owed the many comforts I had found awaiting mo. " Why is he so ugly?" I asked myself. 41 It seems other men have just as absurd names. Low Dutch 1 is worse than Genius H. Popkins,' I think, but no one could be uglier. Not one handsome feature. If ho only had the lovely, gray eyes of the husband next door those eyes which have descended to the baby I might" but here I stopped and went out to the arbor to listen to the talking, laughing aad singing of my unknown friends. Well, the last day of ray stay ia Weebrook arrived. My eyes had been growing stronger and stronger, and for several days! had not wora the bandage in

the house, and now I was to bo allowed

to go out with only a green shade i to shield thorn from the sunshine. Into the gardoa I flow as soon a I hoard the welcome news. There surely must bo peep-hole ia that fence, aad 1 so longed to that happy family. There urns a poop-hole. Down on my knees I went and peeped. There sat the grandmothor, knitting in hand. There tood the young mo her a slender woman, not as small as I had fancied her and rauoh prettier than I with the baby in her arms. "Here comes papa," sho was saying. And "papa" came. Ho was shorter, stouter, had redder hair, a double chin, queer nose; in short, waa much uglier than Mr. Popkins. The gray eyes wore there, to be sure, but one of them had a oast in it. And the baby, dear little thing,(ui have just .such eyes, cast and all. " Good-bye, Mrs. Low Dutch," I said under my breath, as they were all kissing and hugging each other. " In your case Love haa proved a great magician. God blosa you, and your husband, and your baby, ami your oaoys granumammai " And three months after returning to Mrs. Bairnsfather's my cards bore the inscription, "Genius H. Popkins," minus " Grocer" and plus "Mrs." And two years from that time J had a cottage in Weebrouk, and a garden, and an arbor, and thought my husband's I face the dearesc in the world, and wouldn't have changed my name for 1 the most pootical of titles, and I bad two babies twins ever so much like their father, and I should like to have seen the person who would have dared to have said they were not the- handsomest children ever born! Martjarct Eytinye, in Detroit Free Press. A Stage Kemance. Early in the present dramatic season, while the Genevieve Ward Combinaj tion was playing in the Philadelphia .Academy of Music, a youth of excellent address, fine personal anDcarance and apparent education, applied to Mossrs, Jarret A Palmer for a situation in any department whereby he might go on the then proposed tour. He said that he needed no salary, was a willing worker, , I 'l !..! t.l a zood mechanic and abundantly able i to pay his own railroad fares and hotel 1 bills. His object was to thorousrhlv tions as to stage ouects, ana even discussed Shakespeare with them in a manner which showed ins tnorougn acquainij 8nCe wjth the works of the groat poet. ! Tn t ral,anna'a Punalu Mr Praitf. 1 whD played John Qrit in "Jane Shore," was uken seriously ill, and the new comer, who went by the name of "Bob" Trimmer, volunteered to appear in the was called before the curtain anu ino next morning thu press said that " Mr. Craig," whose name was retained in j the bills, " divided the honors with the star." The morrow found him in his f proper department again, and he mado l no reference to his wondrous histrionic I success. He adroitly parried all questions as to his home and family, and he remained a "living mystery " until, a few days ago, in Hamilton, a letter was receiveu oy air. looaer, me maimed, dated at Cambridge, Mass., and signed by the mysterious young man's father, who by some means had learned hi 1 1 . f f - t . I ....... rvy. son's whereabouts, and wrote begging , Mr. Tooker and Miss Ward to use their influence towards securing his return to his home. The mystery was a mystery no longer, and the young man, yielding to the desire of his parents, returned to Cambridge, where he is known as Mr. Lawrence Otis. Providence (.'. .) 1 Press. Camels in Arizona. I The Yuma Sentinel a few days ago i contained the following: " A herd of camels was driven here from Jevada nearly two years ago. Finding no profitable work for them, their owners turned them loose alongthe Gila to the i eastward of Yuma. There they have boon living and breeding, looking fat i and sleek all the time. For a while they 'wore in danger of extermination. Whenever they put in an appearance along the wagon road they frightened mulos and hoi see beyond control oi mo drivers. They soon earned the everlasting hatred of teamsters, some of whom acquired a habit of shooting camels on sight. Since, however, the ' railroad haa been delivering freight at 1 Adonde, the road along the Gila this oiuo ui maw iin um ly abandoned by teamsters, and the remaining camels have now a good chance to show what they can do in the way of Sropagation. The waterless desert of oaora, south and southeast of Yuma, is known to possess immense deposits of salt, sulphur, borax and soda. Its mountains are also known to carry extensive deposits of metals. To these camels wo look for eventually making these treasures accessible and available. , a a i. Mary Anderson chews gum, but she does it with a tragic intensity and an artistic dramatic action that is scarcely equaled by any other gnm-chewor in this country. Chicago Tribune.