Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 December 1880 — Page 3

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WEEKLY COURIER.

C. WOAXK. IwWIkr.

INDIANA,

STOKM AND SHINS, i. AWtrHKB (w4ea, l2ry, wwry My I How the w tree-toya aetverl The lad Full flk'Hlr upo the rale-soaked earth, Awl, i-tlll more kmd, the wlW nw'easter itrto.vw. And It be that ever mnltirHt hNe? AhiI t-H II bo I hat ever akle wer 14hi? And cum It bo t hut ever hrcewa wnf t The wind waul bee scarce hindered m he Ik1'And what If nevermore tho earth ahmild lie iiftke wurm wind efwbautt-d and earetwed? Ami what If tlits Krny shroud which now she vei'nn Were that f her lat, Umg. eternal real? it. Win ever day h beautiful iw this? Was over wind w mtt, or sky o fair? Ws ever imw mi xft-ii, and hII the -work! Fo fret Hml Hire and owoet beyend wornpare? llnvr the triad tipe-top Kllaten in the turn t How, tilting there, the ndilri Hiiufs sUroad AomriMicay mat alt the earth through him Seems iclviHK thanks and praiik to our Uod t And can It be that kle were ever dark? That suiillt'ht ever watwlcalred in vain? That ever fell, day after weary day,

itewwraffniirn'Hw 01 me cni-criegs rain? olw-atttlful, tt wm It cannot die! Or die Iwt to brlinr other to their birth IMj ? fair mi thl that with unending ioy MtHll inlr the pulea or the happy earth. nr. 0 foolfe heart I thwe things are for aalKti, Hut late It. seemed that thuu wat never "And what." thou aaM'at, "If nevermore again Life should be anything but dark and sail?" To-day thmi ory'st, "Was ever such a day? Wh ever life ao sweet, or love mi true Where arc the clouds of doubt aud grief and pain? Vanfohed forever In theHtalnle blue!"

it i a snarp, thin face, who strayed n they went up street, and hoard about i flTt k a wi, 7 TuV,. J uf wi' the- street Mii If he hadn't nay. ! hi home, ami all mnnaur of hW

mg to Ho, ami vet wanted to do some- ami that his mother had only Jack's- ' da I t Xr -it1 t. ft-'. t i mK. J think If ha immi the taul that was the clusLiiiit.bov' iiamn. J.lri "TT ?"Uf?eL 'i 'n..b?

I1B im5M it tn thn hi. WilliH mirlrtnlivan. mil,. ,U . " HOl. u l"C m"rr WIIMlOW-iMIl

Xay, to-day It been but blhw wMhout

"tanfeheil forever? That iMHiKht haa allov:

Ami that uh days forevennore mutt be; I'eace unto peace stu-ccedlnff, Joy to Joy." -John H. Chmlwkk, VhrhtktH UnUm.

THE ACROBAT.

Yes, that's ray narao; the patent self-acting acrobat: it ia nintod on ray back, unless the children havo pulled the paper off. They have? Well, it is lucky I know tho narao. I learned it when I stood on a Newark toy-stand, waiting for some one to come and buy hmj; my-spring was all right then, and I kept .turning somersaults all day. 'Didn't I get tired?" Not a bit; so long as the spring was right it never

hurt me. Antl now it's broken, and

tney say I can't be don't know whw

sick last year, the doctor said he had no spring in him and must go to the sea-shore to get well. I wished I might go, too, but they didn't take me; nothing went but tho creeping doll, and her spring was right enough. You've been sick, too, and all the children tell you their troubles; do you think I could be mended like Jamie is his spring like mine? No! I thought not. IIis spring would corao tack with air and water.

I think it was mUr for Mm

with we tumbling lnidehiiu; h'rt-claj

ftuiiMini mm a great deal of Hoim.'t lines!

1 he matine crowd stopped m thev went and as they came home, and bought a good many little thiHgs, but among the liefct jwople who camo after

iiiiHHr was a simony man with

nair a along

in th

one

akeu my master how I worked, and my master told him " with a spring." but very shortly, for I think ho did not like the man's looks. He sH)ke pleasantly enough, I thought, and by and by stationed himself in a doorway near by, and kept looking at me from trader his eyebrows and biting his lip. I think ray master had a notion that this idle man might steal me, and was relieved presently when he saw a pleasnt-look-ing lady recognize the shabby fellow as she came out of the book store. She shook hands with him, too, she did, that Judy; 1 remember suhiiip- that lmr

glove was ripping. How are you get

ting on those days, Jem?" she said, in

a nice, bright vo ce.

"Not so very well. Mb Ellen." he

answered.

'Not,out of work again, I hopo?" "No. not quite: but onlv half-work.

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anu that makes it hard to pay the rent." Mis Ellen looked sober. "Halfwork is hard, Jem; no one knows that better than I just now. People haven't much money to spend for pictures, and I don't know that they ought to have; but it is hard on us" who paint them." Jem listonod respectfully, butas if ho only took part of it in, and Miss Ellen gave a little jump,. as if she had been

talking to herself. "But what about the new invention, Jem?" Jem's faco lighted up. "I've worked at it a good doal, Miss Ellen; I've more time for it than I wish I had! And I was just wondering now how it would do to run it by a spring, liko thatfellow there," pointing to me. "I don't know; would the ipringhave enough power?" "That's what I caa't toll till I reckon it out, ma'am," said Jom; and where I was on ray feet and not on my head I could soe how bright his face was. "But, 3-ousoe, if tho wheel" and then

came a long discourse about wheels and pinions and cogs, which I don't believe Mm Ellen understood, for all she listonod so patiently. You know most women hate machines; it is all they

cn uo to Keep tne ciock wounu up and then some ot them mil turn the hands back whenever thev nloaso! But it

boygrlMMiHgthjMi at having the took ptHt for H, and I hnl him tH hk

good i of me, too-nad jjerhaiw ten cenU at

moewaont. so Mr. (Jrtott u n.i t.. ..i. .... i i ,i

" " ' ...mm VII1.l,M1lliriJUl 1 M.'irivii 1111 u..ll A . . -

tOMthop. oai.li i.rrl.r. .n-Vl V.. TWV Winpy. M.V Haurl W M

wked the boy ever m nmuv i, ' 1 " V ?' "V..11 imn

wife that Jem would iaka jrood thing

Ktirlwl !!!! ' S ,! h,tVB WJ- UMfltl as

mended, though I ' didn't matter to Jem so long as he had a

After Jamie was listener; I've seen the same

settles tho matter

they wouldn't do

you say. That just m my mind; I know

we any good, for I've had both: ohph

when tho boys threw me out of tho nursery window, and I hung by one leg from the old ear-tree; and once when there was a moving, and I fell out of the basket into a mud-puddle and wasn't found for two days. My tumbling days are over; but I hopo they won t throw me away; perhaiw they won't, for little Alice that died used to laugh at me so muoh.

I have given a great deal of pleas- j lire? Thank you, ma'am; I wish I could tumble this once for you. I know you'd enjoy tho performance. It's very ' pleasant now to think what a good time ' I have helped people to have; 1 took ;

thin? since

in that young engineer that our Miss

Jenny is going to marry. And then, too, between turns, I began to see that she was looking at Jem in a queer sort of way. At iirst she had thought about him, and not his looks; and now tho looks were foremost, and she pulled out a little square, white thing and a pencil and began making marks, signing to Jem to go on telling hor about his contrivance.

"Now, if tho spring can make tho figure turn over that bar and back again, why couldn't a stronger one give the same motion?" Jem was saying, when up came a gentleman and tho dearest Httlo girl I oversaw: such a

, bright, sweet face. I foil in love with ' her, and she lo3t her heart to me. j"Oh-h, papa, isn't ho just elegant?" and she jumped up and down, holding her father's hand. Of course I did my tvery best tumbling then, and she J laughed so that every one about laughed too, and her father couldn't keep a very straight face when he tried to quiet her. Then the chestnut-boy gave a chuckle

and overvbotly laughed again, except Miss Ellen, who was busy with hor paper, and looked as if she "didn't have time for fun just then; but she had to stop in a moment, for the geutleman recognized her. "Street studies. Nelly?" he said,

looking over her shoulder. I found out

get much. Mr. Orton was the sort of a

man u get at a boy; I felt that, even if I did not hear well, owing to wrappingpaper, When we got torth houwj Air. Orton didn't pay Jack, but told the man who opened the door to take him into tfie kitchen and tell cook to give him some supper; and when Jack went home ho had a basket of eatables and a bundle of Master Dick's clothes, and was told to come to the factory next morning, perhaps the foreman could tiud him a job; ami the foreman did, and Jack's there still and doing well. Well, 1 was agreat comfort to Mastor Dick, and in that way to the whole house for it is no trifle to a familv when a lively boy of thirteen broaks his log; and then, when ho heard about Jack, ho was ashamed of his growling, only I did not hear him tell Nan that ho thought chestnut roasting must bo

real fun. But Nan thought ft must bo awful tiresome to bo doing tho same tbJLig always. I could have told her as to Uutt it all depended on the spring that set you going! So I tumbled on to rav own iilaamre

and everybody else's, and even Christmas did not put ray nose out of joint vory much, for a whole troop of little cousins came to stay with our children, and I was now to them. Ono day, between Christmas and New Yoar's, there was a grand jnbilee; all the cousins were to spend the day here, and were to come early and stay late, because it was a holiday week, and becauso Dick was well again, They had a grand time, and the new toys had rough handling. I was just beginning to think ono might be wound up too fast and too often, whon Mr. Orton camo in, carrying a great pioture, and behind him were Mrs. Orton and her sisters, and the lady thoy called Miss Ellen. Everything was dropped then, and I hit myself a dreadful thump when Dick lot me fall; but fortunately I landed right side up, so I could soe the picture getting hung. What do you think it was? The old tov-stand, nothing else, with Nau and Jack and tho strango man that seemed to be taking pattern by me; and I was there, too! Dick picked me up and showod

me my iiKoness, out a nan onon seen

anu so the fun; and on a r.iinv div.

when everything is jailled out, perhaps they may be glad of me yt-lor a

battle or a procession, or something like that you know! But won't von tell

your friends to be very careful about handling their neighbors' private machinery, and not to take tho spring out of people? Thank vou; I feel hotter about the creeping-doll's future now.

Churchman.

An radian ea Indian Cera.

bOMK ten yoars ago I received from an educated Indian of the Penobscot

tribe (Maine) named Pool Susup, a letter in regard to the cultivation aud se

joction oi corn with roferonee to its im

provement, especially in oarliness. Mr.

ausup wrote:

" Indian corn is called by tho Indians woachin, and is believed by thom to

nave originated in Mexico. When white

men discoyorod America thoy found it

m cultivation over tne two continents, from latitude forty degrees south to the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River. That was probably its extreme

tiraii m tne northeast. How it could have been propagated and ripenod so far north of its native tropical home has

uouu a stiDieci ot curious speculation.

.fcvery cultivator has doubtless noticed how difficult it is to perfect the plant

iuiu emeu uoiaraeu at any considerable distance south of the region in which

ne endeavors to raise it Seed pro

vmou uuui new xorK win seldom or

never perfect itself in Maine, and it is

uoemea unsafe to plant that brought

iruui iM.iKwcuuseiifl. xiow tnon did the

inuian. without other agricultural edu

tuaii mai uerivea irom ms own

unrecorded and imperfect observ ations,

nusn iw production from the Gulf ot Mexico to the St. Lawrence? Ho certainly accomplished this result ages before the white mar. visited him, and it

was to tne natives that tho early white settlers of New England were indebted for their seed corn of the varieties now

in use

"An annual plant may extend itself

wiMu vi neob muufr me lsomeriuai imos by accidental causes, but it could not

have moved into a- colder climate, rc-

cultivation

myself in the looking-glass before; and ltu. i' T. , knew I wasn't handsome; but the other gj l' i?"? Nh Un f nnrtmit u- far,,a uore than ordinary skill. It must

great pleasure in being pleasant But

the best tune I havo to think about is my hist day on the toy-stand; may I tell vou aljout it? Thank von. ma'am.

Aly owner was a toy-deafer, who had '

a very nice stand on a leading street in afterward they were old friends.

Newark. 1 came to him in a package ' She laughed and blushed, and showed from New York, about the middle of him her paper. December, ami bemin to tumbln m Aoon , " Capital!" said he. " Capital! Little

as I was wound up next morning, fori Nan's line portrait hasn't as much of

was the latest novelty, and he calcu- her real self; but the others?

lated that 1 ousht to brim? him a run of She spoke quick and low

custom. I felt there was a great re- him glance at the chestnut-boy

spoiiMbtlity upon mo, for I heard him " m lo doorway. Who

ion ms wilo that I had cost a ffood dual: at uie naruer man ever.

buthe hoped I would bring him the

portraits were lamous. Jvery one congratulated Miss Ellen, and Mrs. Orton was delighted to hear how many people had climbed up to her studio since " the new toy " had been in the picture-dealer s window. And then Mr. Orton was called away, and it was a little quieter; while Miss Ellen chatted with her friends about other work she had on hand, until Dick and his cousin Sam got into a squabble about the way a battle-tield

ought to bo laid out Dick got pretty loud, beingalittlespoiled by the petting his broken log hail brought him, and would likely havo come to grief if his father had not come back with a great piece of news. Whom do you think 1 havo beer talking to, Ellen?" he said to the young artist She looked up quickly, and her cheeks grew very pink. Mr. Orton began to laugh. "No. miss, nothing of the sort; how foolish of mo to ask a girl with a lover !

sucn a question! it is ttie fellow in your picture there, your solemnlyintent friend in the corner. Tho toy gave him an idea, it seem3." "Oh, has Jem got tho machine to work?" I think Miss Ellen did forget her lover then, as she ought, if two pcoplo aro one, and it isn't right to think about yourself too much. " Yes, he has been down to the mill with it and Harris thinks it a cattital

i thing, and sent him up to me. 1 had

rather trust Harris' sense of machinery than my own. but I have promised tb

have required ages to have been annli

mated in that country now constituting

uanaaa and the JSew England States. "The Indian has his tradition re

garding the method by which the north-

perfected. Like all the grasses and many other annual plants, corn grows

unwaru oy joints or sections. The In

dians observed that the time required

loprouuce anu periect a joint was one change of the moon, and as the oar of

corn starts only from a joint there was necessarily about seven days bctwesn the forming of the oars on succossivo joints. Now if an ear could be made to start at tho second joint, it would mature some five weeks in advance of

that which should be formed on the seventh joint By constantly selecting for seod the lowest ears ho finally obtained varieties that produced from joints lower than the original plant, and verv much earlier. Thus in time corn was produced, small in stalk and ear, and adapted to tho short summers of the North. Slowly but permanently it passed into tho eight-rowed corn, "producing constantly on the lowor joints, and ripening in three months from the day of planting." This Indian account of the origin of

early varieties of corn acoords with rav

own observations. In Northeastern

Vermont and the neighboring town

ships of Canada, corn "sets" upon the

seconu anu tmru joints. Jn the south ern part of the State, in the Connect!

cut and Champlain valleys, the large

. r u

wonn oi his money, even if I was not

sold. So, hi tho morning, when ho had put the whole stand in nice order, and ail the dolls, and gum-balls, and boxes of blocks, and tin wagons were all sot m array, I wa put on tho shelf just above, and began to tumble my very best. We hadn't muoh company that mornng, and in tho afternoon it rainod; but. the next day was bright and clear, and the two-hoaded vocalist gave a nlatineo juet beyond, and, of course, all the children and grown people stopped to look - H It sounds very vain, doesn't it? but a does mo good to think about all I helped to do that day, and I should not have done it if the ioople had not stopped to look at me. H was ono of theso late hard-tiraos winters, and my master, finding trade lKMr, had a qhostnut-roaster as well as a toy-stand, ami the boy who turned the handle for him waswell, vory loor and in rags, and very seldom with a clean face, but such a bright pair of pyesMhelr glance was likothe sparkle t m ,m'VHddli. He was greatly I I,! wS,th m" you may boliove, anil don t think ho would have attended o e mits welUf It hadn't been that wanted hk bit of mono at home i orsu day tkmi usual. "As it was, !

l t n .1 a ..... 1 a . I i .in HUM T u'n IT.T 1 Itin I .iv.intt.w-. ma . a nr.

n j viwiuu uunu on .huikiuv ituii see it ineu. wi.t-njuu t.uiuwus ij.irui.vu

ami r ,1C wis io oe tne rem inventing sort, , vi: -hc iuuiui win uuu anUi5aVlii ...... . .. , , ..... e . c...i. m l it

jHiiltliii ""ve aoout it, nut a utile misty mm uut uiurougmy nuu uiu j , t . ,.a if nnon near tlm fanAiln. linn ovi-t

n 8 1UU UI: anything, we must see that he is not."lon Lake Champlain. If we plant

"Well," he said at last, "when you work up that sketch let mo know. If I like it finished as well as I do outlined, 111 givo you two prices for itone for Nan's likeness and one for the whole picture. Is it a bargain?" Miss Ellon laughed and shook her head. " No, for f should always fear that you would want to run when you

saw it, and that would mako my lingers all thumbs. But you shall have the first chance, Mr. Orton," with a funny way, as if she was pretending to do him a great favor. Little Nan had not grown tired waiting; she admired me too much for that; antl now she begged, "Oh, papa, do buy tho tumbling man; it will be so nice for Dick." " Nice for a boy who has broken his log to look at a patent jumping-jack! Queer sort of consolation. Nan. But I suppose it may a3 well be this toy as anything else," and ho took out his pocket-book, and asked how much I would cost Then, just as my master was stopping me, tho gentlemau gave a little whistle, antl asked Nan how they were to get mo homo wouldn't it be bettor to send for mo next morning?

sHU uuui i iiku mm, mm i mum my

swindled out of it."

" If it (lots come outright, how much you will have done for him and me and Jack Willis!" said Miss Ellon, in a choky voice. "I? Nonsense, child; I did not give you and this man brains, and mako Jack nimblo and willing. Hero's the real architect of your fortunes!" And ho picked mo up and set mo on the mantelpiece. "Three cheers for the lucky

tumoier, ooysi" iney raised such a shout that tho ladies put their hands up to their ears. "Robert the neighbors!" Mrs. Orton gasped. "Never mind, Carrio; they would call the police at anv other time of the year, but this is holiday week. Onco again, children." There was one moro great shout ami then tho grown people ran away, o.xcept Mr. Orton, who stopped to get Sam s ship ready for sailing, and Miss Ellen I will tell 3o what she stayed for, I

havo been proud of it every since she

Southern corn, as many do for green

fodder, we find the oars upon tho sev

enth joint and above, and this corn never ripens anywhere in New England. Whatover'the variety observed, the period required for its perfection is measured by the number of joints from the ground at which tho oars aro

formod. If, therefore, tho cultivator

of this plant wishes to advance the ripening of his future crops, 'let him imitate the Indian in selecting the seed, and "pick low.' Cor. Examiner and Chronicle.

Tiir London Lancet has undertaken to inquire into the hygienic conditions of school lifo in educational establishments. Aiming principally to disclose defects which arc generally over-looked or little noticed, it invites aud expects the co-operation of tho conductors of the schools. It has framed a list of questions relating to the character and cajmclty Of the premises, tho accommo-

stoopod over the mantel ami kissed me, 1 dation for pnnils, provision til air and and whispered, "My dear, dear old diet, hours of school work and plav, tho man, what a treasure you aro!" But general health diiringtho year, sanitary when Dick camo over sho was busy t arrangements of the establishment anil winding mo up, and no ono ever know, the system Of medical inspection in use.

.Jem s machine turned out all right l no results of its inquiries will h given

master was afraid tho gentleman might I hover unite undorstnoil what It wtu. in tltc form of rntwirt and sncre-nstionsi

change his mind, for ho spoko up quick ; only I know It was a little contrivance with a view of defining the conditions

ami said, "ihtsboy here can t'iko it hat eased off the larger machine's of health in body and mind of youth atfor you. sir." Wasn't the cUcitnut- j kkr. Mr. Orton helped htm jet the tending schooL

Tk iert f Hsmswatk YHUir. We observe that soma ReMUSeaa l4Hira mainly, however, of the rural por.iuion are predieting the tUrlv dissolution and Anal wiping out of the Demoeratk! party. As this prediction hue been put forth at various timss aad with various degrees of emphasis aad assurance for the past tweaty years, it may be regarded as somewhat stale; and therefore it is, we presume, tliat none of the more influential Kepubliciui organs indulge in a repetition of what lias been so repeatedly falsified by the facts. "Oft doomed to death.

yet fated not to die," can Iw said more truly of the Democratic party than of any other political organization the country has ever seen, or is likely to see. A vitality whioh has survived such internal disruption as that of IHGQ, such elements of demoralization as those that prevailed during the war, six successive Presidential defeMs, including the Presidential fraud, whioh was worse than defeat may be oonfeidered practically invulnerable. It we add to all those external trials the severer one of the knavos and fools who have used and abused the party for their own purposes the false friends inlinitely more dangerous than the most powerful and vindictive enemies Democratic lifo becomes little short of a miracle, and it is difficult to imagine any combination of circumstances whioh will suspend the miraole. To those who study polities from what may be termed the philosophical standpoint, the secret of this unconnuorable vitality is easily discovered. The bed-rock upon which the Democratic party rests existed long before the Federal Constitution was framed, or oven National independence achieved. It was in the mind of Thomas Jefferson and other apostles of human liberty ia Europe as well as America, while England and her colonies were still united in apparently indissoluble bonds, and whon popular government was vet only a bright and seemingly unrealizable droam. This bed-rock is simply the rights, power and wisdom of the people iu their broadest and best sense. Lincoln, though he went unwillingly, we believo widely astray in nractice.

enunciated the Democratic theory with absolute correctness iu the famous sentence, "a Government of the noo-

pie, by, tho people, and for the people." This is Jeffersontan Democracy of the straightest and purost sort. The Hamil-

uju.au roueraiisiu wmcn Air. uarneia

so much admires and his nartv has

virtually adopted is a Government of radically different character. It is a

strong Government:'' the strength

coming from those centralizing tendencies which invariably and inevitably diminish and at last

absorb the rights and power of

the people. It is a "splendid Government;" the splendor being at the exliense of tho people's Docket, and intended to blind their eyos to the gradual loss of their liberties a loss for whioh there is no remedy save revolution. Hi a Republic, therefore, there must

always be a Democratic party; that is,

party which represents the Jeler-

sonian theory of government as op

posed to the Hamiltonian. Whon the

Democratic party dies, the Republic will have ceased to exist The name "Democratic" is nothing, and aaothor

might be substituted whenever desirable. The Democratic party of Jeffer

son's day was called "Republican."

Jut the principles are everything, and

when those are abandoned popular

government will be in its coffin. If the

present Democratic party were to dis

band, as did its gallant rival the Whig, within six months it would have a suc

cessor embodying, no matter how muoh disguised, the same essential and fundamental ideas. And while Democratic

olicy may bo this, that, or the other

thing and is occasionally something tho reverse of Democratic-Uhe prinoinle

is immutable and immortal; "the same

festerday, to-day and forever."

it is easy, therefore, for the dullest of

our ltepuuitcan friends to sea that

though they have beaten the Democratic candidate for the Presidency for the sixth successive time (including the ,raud) they aro no nearer destroying tho Democratic party than when Fremont was nominated. They havo morely thrown down the India-rubber ball, again, and may now watch it bounce once more as it has bounced nine times in the tost eighty years. This "l)Oimcingness," if we may coin a word, is illustrated in the invincible good-nature with which Democrats have borne their latess defeat They are not sour and sullen as were Republicans after tho Maine sux prise. Thsy show none of that Republican spirit which Grant manifested (before Indiana) when he said, iu substance, that ia event of Democratic victory the North would watch Congress and tho new Administration jealously, antl if they went . wrong (that is, not to suit Republicans) " would rise up aud put a stop to it" The Democracy, sadly disappointed indeed, but not in the least disheartened, contemplate the future with perfect complacency; able to stand anything he ret of the people can stand, and knowing that tho people will as surely

sooner or later come to them on their

bed-rock principle as the Mississippi tlow.s to tho sea. Republicans are com

pelled to be always looking round for

nn issue." Democrats have theirs

always at hand; an issue as old as tho Hrst dawn of popular government, and

destined to last as long as a vestige of

popular government lingers upon the earth. bl. Lanh IlcjHtttimn.

- Jewell ought to be happy, but it Isn't at all likely that he Is. The recollections of his letter to Garfield, and his

guiioless innocence in letting Truth gst..-a hold of it, will embitter his exUtonee J

for may a long day.