Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 23, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 February 1881 — Page 3

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O.OOAMM. lvhMahr. JASPER, INDIANA. -i(ink erw.d mo yuutur, young; to die! I.luv likf a dawnltur, ray day. m relict fnMH her Mir young feet sway. And la-aiea from Ma in -Hawi un fteokoMed mm! won and rd her on. 8In lurhi w mHy int'i, Knb wittt the dews cf iiatadise. Anl bt t br wK tmii'l au to grasp Tko injr umI crowded to af r clasu, Kucb a uip-le.aMd nil Ht dear: How otxixl wampum that iittftot was near? Mm hhh1 m jronnif. en younr to dil Wi)H IDl' oW MMI Wt MMIjr av: Tn Nature own appointed war TtHi rlite grain sth-nvl in mum lie. The ripe fruit from the laden tree. fhf eer le.it jult the lmrt brown bous; summer h rfono. ri Mitnmn now. God' hitrvoittitnt'; Ike thaerca antons Hw anweu raise in reepUMr . And tkoufk we grieve, we would not stay Hwsllninr ftokft se tketr v. fa wanes so,voinur. m young to diet We ouaathm anauilr and vain Whet never aaewcr tkm make plain: ('MlttMtnU tMJNMUMMnt Wbiek frustrata Bto beniyn Intent? Wk wm elw vtaatoJ like Bower la mortal Mtn end mortal akower. And left to row, and tnuyfct to Moot, " flsna SslantssBBann tftkenasnslnr esssWl BmnLaBmA( WbywwtT"tUe, If oats for UU sorties adr" Mte seemed eo yotuMr, w young to die! Bet new d youth what do I key mean Meaaurtd tee eternal kenle i)f Hod, and sifted owtaad mfci Mb) unerring seems end welched? may e test thetr sens or wortk, near jrttb annuo, torn of eartk, mments of a hmg exile, Ur know tke anewls di ntrt mile. Hotdlat tut truth Immortal saute. To hear i prate of youth and aae? se routur. an vnunr to diet So needed hare by evety one, Mor there; for Heannt hat need of none. And yet. how own we tell or sear Heaven hi eo far, to far awav f Now rto wknok He Wiaeftil More It tuH and neeilntk nothlnf morel It may he tint anme tiny apace Uetod JeH thMUttle atawi fnoe, Or tke full euiMbtne mteead one ray UnUt our darling found the way. 3mmn UMMdat. n Carttifcta Union. CARA mUTAKK Whkk Mis. Donald took bar aistor'i cottd dttgiit)r to bring up anikiai the ltuuriea of br wtMUthy homo, be lelt toatrftkeeatty Utat she was doing a very kind ana charftsbto act. Mrs. Norris was a hard-workinsr farmer's wife, with a house lull of children, and with Terr scanty means to supply their wants. Her wealthy widowed sister had been on a short risit to her, and the night before aha left, said: "I think. Mary, you better let me take Cara to eoitoate. Grace is lour teen years old, and she can help you with the beys. Cam doesn't seem to be of wank se anyway, lor I notice she's a terrible little shirk when there's any housework to be done. She's Tery pretty, though, and she'll be prettier when she's grown, and of course I want the prettiest. Tit do as well by her while I live as though she was my own eMM; but! do not wish to promise to leave her anything when 1 die. My son will inherit all I have, you know. But ru educate her, and be a mother to her. Poor overworked Mrs. Norris gasped lor breath at the idea of parting with her pretty, useless Cara; but her consent and that of her husband was soon gained. Mr. Norris, however, though a plain farmer and with little education, had m deal of bard practical sense, and he at tint demurred. "I don't think it will do the girl any good to briajr her up above nor own station in life, Mrs. Donald. She'll be taught extravagant habits, and I'd like to know what good such habits will do her when she U left without means to gratify them. You cannot leave her any property, you say, and you don't look overly strong yourself, ma'am. Any day she mav come back upon us with bar bead full of flighty notions, and perhaps soomin' the home-folks and home-ways. No, ma'am; I thank yon for your kind odor, but Vd rather keep my daughter at home' The lady thought to herself, " he's a rude boor." but she had a point to gain, so she smiled sweetly as she said: " You're certainly a strange man, Mr. Norris. Don't you believe in education, and wouldn't you be pleased to have your daughter so well taught and so highly accomplished that she could make a good living if anything happens to me? Don't calculate upon my speedy death, either, for I'm not in ill health if 1 do look delicate. Do take the matter Into favorable consideration." "I don't need any consideration," was hi blunt answer, " to set what's beat for4he child and for all of us." ' Well, then, nut it In this way: Do you think you are justified in refusing this offer, which will make Cara, if she studies, independent of you or of any oMrf If every person thought as you no, there would be no progress in the world. n -But Mr. Norris was not convinced. " Cam hates her books," he said. " If Grace didn't help her and tiush her MOttg she'd wear the dunco cap all the tfcaw at atnool. 1 don't think she'll do anything to help the progress of Urn world, Mrs. Donald." But with his wife eager lor the plan, d Cam coaxing and crying, like the wnifnl child she was, Mr. Norris was at ask conquered. fcCara was transplanted to the fairytawi of a wealthy home, and at Ooodale farm life went on la the old way. Not exotly in the old way, either, for tMingh there was always hard work far tie young people there, yet as Mr. North)' moans Increased they had mora tftew lor study, and the three boys and Oraos ware intelligent, and with their yftyflr Qkhool kavaniayai aeaujroda ow3ss MMT SemnrffrwVVVn

one pretext return home on a visit. The dhHaneowas too great for the busy farmer or his wile to take time for a trip to the city. Ho they contented themselves with Cara's monthly letters, by which they knew she was well and happy. She seemed, however, to take no interest in home-mat ten. Her letters were brief; merely duty-letters, very constrained and artificial. But when she was eighteen, and had left school, her father insisted that she should viait her home. It was a visit that gav no pleasure to any one. The father looked with consternation at hi affected, tine-lady daughter. She turned with disgust from the homely ways of her family. Mrs. Donald, who was with her, afraid of some outburst, hurried their departure. "Thank Heaven, that task i over!" said this injudicious woman, with a sigh of relief, as her carriage rolled from the door of the farm-house. " How coarse and vulgar your lather's manners are, Cara! I think they've grown worse with time. He positively eats with his knife, and the boys are just as bad. Only think if it hadn't been for me, you'd have eaten like them, and talked in that brusque sharp manner that Grace affects. You outrht to be everlastingly gratofttl, now that you ran understand all I ve rescued you from." "Of course I am. auntie," Cara languidly assented. I've been shocked and disgusted more than 1 can tell, by all I saw and heard at the farm. I do hope I'll never have to go back there." "What do you think your lather asked me?" Mrs. Donald said, after a pause. "He wanted to know If your education had prepared you to make your own living." uark colored angrily. ne did not like study, and her progress at school had been very slow. Even her accom plishments were super tidal, and she was thorough iff nothing but the art of adornlnsT her pretty person. "What did you tell him, auntie?" she.asked. "I didn't know what to say, lor you ve done nothinsr in the wav of study, you know. He would nave blamed me lor that, although you know mat is not ray mult, and would nave declared that he knew you would not make progress in sobooung. I merely told him to wait patiently and he would ana mat you woum make a support." Cara laughed significantly. "Oh, of course, you know what mean. With your pretty lace and nice society manners, you ought to marry well and soon. It's all nonsense not to talk orer these matters plainly. It's your only chance, Cara; but when you've landed your tish, vou'd better not take Mm to Ooodale Farm." and Mrs. Donald laughed contemptuously. " lle'd be disillusioned' with a vengeance, when be sees papa and the cubs at dinner, and Grace's red arms shining through soap-suds. But she is handsome enough, I must say, though she's so abrupt; and she's bright, too." If any one had told Mrs. Donald that sne was coarser in mind and in speech, and in all that makw the true woman. than the savages of Goodale Farm, she would have called him mad. But yet in holding up her sister's family to Cara's scorn, she lelt great complacency; -he really thought that she had rescued one member of it from commonplace, and what seemed to her, vulvar influences, and that it was a commendable work to teach the girl to despise such a mode of living, even at the expense of alienating her from her parents. In proposing to her, too, to secure a rich husband, she lelt that she was only doing her duty by showing her the sole mode by which she could retain her place in the paradise of fashionable so ciety. The most dangerous people to the real welfare of mankind are those who are perfectly satisfied with their own narrow routine of life, andean see nothinsr greater or better in the world than certain social ambitions and triumph. They have no yearnings lor a higher or a better life, and no idea of duty beyond a lew social requirements. A lew months after this conversation, Mrs. Donald was taken seriously HI. From the first there was no hope of her recovery, and in a state of semi-con-solousness she drifted into a world for which she had made no preparation. Her son, a worthy and avaricious man, who had never approved of his mother's whim of adopting Cara, and did not like the girl, sent her home as soon as possible after the funeral ceremony. I've written to your father to oome lor you, Cara," he said, within a week after the funeral. "My wife will move here, and your room will be needed. Of course, you can take the olothlng my mother gave you, though I'm afraid your silks will be hardly suitable lor farm-work. If I were yon, I'd dispose of them." He left the room, leading the girl convulsed with grief, less for the deatl aunt than for the luxurious home from which she was thus summarily expelled. She ! would have humbled Herself, and borne anything to be allowed to remain where she was. When her father came lor her. she had exhausted her tears, and had fallen into a state of sullen despair. " Seems to me you're more sulky than sorry, Cara," her father said, as they jogged on in the spring-wagon, a mode ofeonveyance which had brought a bhuh of shame to the girl's oheek as she was lifted Into It. I reckon you hate the thought of Hying at home with your own people, after the fine folks you've been used to. I'm afraid it will be like the peacock I bttrnght among my chickens last year, that swelled and strutted and spread Its tall In the sua, till the fowls seemed

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to band against it, and picked and fought it Into guod behavior." "If everybody's going to hate me, and treat me badly."--aad Cara burst into tears at tke comparison. "Hush, child!" ker lather said, soothingly. "I didn't mean that. Only you 11 have to get used to our ways, and at first It will be hard. I dare say in time you'll be just like one of us, and we'll all forget you ever went away." This was worse and worse. Would she ever sink so low as to like to tolerate the mode of life which lay before her? No; she had been too well taught lor that. Heavier and heavier grew her heart until they arrived at Goodale Farm. " Here, old woman!" orled Mr. Norris, with a loud laugh, to his wife, who had run out to welcome her daughter. " Hero's your doll come back again to us. We shall hare to get off the city husk before we can see if she's got anything In her. but I'm glad she's back at her own home. Here, take ber in, and give us some supper!" The mother kissed her daughter, but seemed half afraid to intrude a more affectionate greeting upon the fine lady, who met ber languidly, and looked around with ill-disguised scorn upon the homely sitting-room. Grace, clear-eyed and sensible, carried her off to the room they were to share together, lor she saw her mother was hurt at Cara's cold and almost Insolent manner. It was a very plain room, but fairly shining with neatness. Cara glanced at the bare floor, the white cotton curtains at the windows, the home-woven bed-spread, and the cherry bureau, with its small mirror, and throwing herself into a chair, buret into a passion of tears. "I wish I was dead! I wish I was dead!" she sobbed. " I never oan be

happy again, never! never!" Grace understood ber very well, but sensibly ohose to misunderstand. " Of course you'll miss your aunt terribly at nrst, uara," sne saut; " nut then, after all, you've come home to our own mother. I can't fancy a ehild of mother's missing anyone long when we have her. Tom see you hardly know her yet" But Cara wept on, and Grace, standing at the window, waited patiently and silently until she had exhausted herself. " What do you read here?" she cried, as her eyes, roving about, foil on several shelves of books. Grace laughed merrily. "Walt until the winter evenings, and then sen lor yourself. We take it by turns to read aloud, and you can't Imagine the number of books we get through with In that way. We are regular book-oor-inornate, and every oent the boys and I get, we spend on books." "I think I'd have got better furniture," Cara said, glancing oontemptu ouslyaround. " Well, tastes differ." Grace answered, good-humoredty. "Furniture could never give us the pleasure that books do. We have access, too, to Colonel Stearn's fine library, and if you care lor reading, you'll not be dull here." "But 1 don't care lor it," Cara answered, sharply, "except novels. I hadn't much time lor them, either, with the visiting, and dressing, and parties. Oh, how will I ever be able to live horeP" There was no answer to bo made to this lamentation, so Grace quietly walked out, and left her to her own thoughts. The next day, and the next, Cara lounged about the house, with a fretful, querulous look, which took all the beauty out of hor face. Grace and the mother vainly strove to interest her in their occupations. She shrank from soiling her hands with housework. Sewing she knew nothing about, and did not wish to learn, and reading was a bore. She was one of those irresponsible girls we meet with too often, whose ideas of duty are to do only what is agreeable to themselves, and to shirk any act which conflicts with self-indulgence. She srrumbled and shrhed until uoor Mrs. Norris' lite became a burden, and Grace's patience was sorely tested by the perpetual sell-lamentation. Mr. Norris did not notice this at first. but when he did, be came down sharply upon the delinquent. "I won't have that girl dawdling around here. Mary, and looking as u she'd turn sweet milk sour. Give her a task, if she's too laxy to take one, and see that she does it She's sulked now for a month, and It's time to stop it What on earth do you want Cara?'1 " I want to get away from here!" she said, angrily. "I'm wretched, and I can't stay here." " I s'pose that popinjay of atrkvelinjr clerk that came here last night has started you in afresh place. I heard him going on about the theater and opera, and ladies' bonnets and dresses. You look down upon us, but if my boys were not more intelligent than your city clerk, I'd be ashamed of them. Why, Grace knows ten times more than you, and she's more polite,, and has better manners." " Grace more polite than 1 am!" Cara exclaimed In astonishment " Certainly she is. You were so rude to James Hilary last night that I was ashamed of you." "James Hilary!" and Cara curled her lip. "A country boor. I don't oars about such society, thank yon, sir." "No, nor kind feeling, either, for you'd Insult any ona if yon thought them (not of your world,' as you oalHt rd like to know what your world really is, child. It's not sensible, judging from you and the clerk, for you are nraek alike. It's not MaMly, nor helpftd, nor tjeantifnl, tttner, to nry tswtt; for all your citified atars and met will never make von as niee akdavety win never make yon as Grnok," a er ;

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her father went out, hanging the door behind him. lor his temper was. up, Cara turned a wrathful fane to her another, who had been an uneasy listener to this conversation. "Grace superior to me!" she orled. " I'd like to see her In fashionable society, and that Is my world, and I'm not going to be kept here. Mr. V ?lsnd has asked me to marry hint, and because he lives in the city I'm going to do it I used to see him at Max & Harvard's, where he clerked, though he never dared speak to me then; but just to get away from here, I'll take him. He savs he's always liked me, and at least IrU be able to go to the theater, and not be buried alive beret" " My dear ohild!" Mrs. Norris was so much dismayed that she gasped for breath. "Mr. Noland is a poor clerk, and probably not able to support you. You know nothing about his character or standing. Oh, my dear, don't be foolish and rash! Try to accommodate yourself to our ways, and don't throw away your future in that manner.' But the weak, obstinate girl would not listen to her. If sne oouTd only get back to the city she thought in some way or other she would manage to make her way to the charmed circle. She was too inexperienced to understand that without wealth or position this would be an impossible task. She was like a silly child, who only cared to escape from fancied bondage. Mr. Noland made his proposition in form to Mr. Norris, and It was as formally refused. But a lew days afterwards Cara left her home, on the pretext of spending the day with a neighbor, and never returned. A lew lines to ber mother told her that she had married Noland, and was perfectly satisfied with the step she had taken. Whether the satisfaction continued as the years passed by. the reader can judge. Her family did not oast her off. ana iney were often cauea upon to contribute to her support particularly Grace, who had married an intelligent and manly farmer, and who aealstedher with no niggard hand. Had it not been lor these despised relatives, Cara and ber children would have starved; and the last I heard of her, she had sent her eldest daughter to her mother's care at the "farm j "Never let her leave it mother," she wrote. " Let ber learn duty and work. and try and make her like Grace. What a blind fool I was!" More than one thoughtful reader will say amen to that route s uomppnum. "Black' iriarls. A rAwronostxtt of resta called at a jeweler's shop to inquire as to the value of a black stone that he said hi been offered him as a pledge. The jeweler found the stone to be a great rarity, a black pearl, and pronounced it very valuable, out said he had never seen a black pearl Before, and could not set a price upon it He referred the pawnbroker to a prominent Jewelry houso of Vienna. To the latter the man repaired and repeated his inquiries, but no sooner had ne displayed the pearl than a police officer was sent for, and he was arrested on the general suspicion . . a a .a a utat ne coma not nave come honestly ny it. This, however, proved to he a mis take, it was satisfactorily shown that he had paid arrears of taxes for a poor neighbor of his in resth, ana had thus saved him some trouble and distress, and In return this man gave him the pearl. The donor of the precious stone had been a trusted servant of the distinguished Count Bathyauyi, and had received as a souvenir from his master before his execution a scarf pin that the latter had always worn. Pressed for money, he sold the gold of the pin, but kept the stone. He did not suppose It to be worth much, and now gave it to the pawnbroker as the only return he oould make for the letter's aid. Bledermann, the Vienna court jeweler, whose suspicions had caused the pawnbroker's arrest is a distinguished ex pert In precious stones. He says that the English Crown formerly possessed three black pearls among Its precious adornments, but that they were stolen some two hundred years ago. They were the only stones of the Kind then known to exist in the world. How Count Bathyanyi came into possession of his has not been ascertained. tJteless Expendttare. Wmi.K every girl and woman should justly take a pride in her own adornment and that of the home, sne, should use her own judgment and not buy just because a thing is cheap. Od,t what you ftaed, and before buying , think whether you really need the article. It is probably a pretty trifle In dress. In furniture; but what solid benefit will it be to you? Or it is some luxury lor the table, that you oan as well do without Think, therefore, before you spend your money. Or you need a new oarpet new sofa, new chairs, new bedstead, or new dress; you are tempted to buy something a little handsomer than you had intended, and while you hesitate the dealer says to you, "It's only a trifle more, and see how far prettier It is." But before you purchase, stop to think. Will yon be the better a year hence, much fete In old ace. for having squandered your money? Is it not wiser to "lay by something for a rainy day?" AU these luxuries gratify yon only for the moment; you soon tire of them, and their only permanent effect is to eontnme your means. It Is by such little extravagances, not much, separately, but ruinous la the segregate that tke great majority of families are kept compare it to deny yourself utsjltt ex sonalf ttaadass snesMsssn WWaim WVWWV WWSPmrWWSrWW"! step toward leastusw th!t Rk .BtAtre you ano4. asrfttae nm step hmaon hj think OfftfHto 4ev vVsfvih

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man hm ere too many novels la tkeJtoade ftjople. e eeee se a evesj fBW jHMJt WaeVkVJF H wm so generally anticipated, has tnyltli f svsasasa 1'uasipksrr McC'Jsh said, ilai' that. (VhimmI the of I'hilosophy is the literary Boston. l'uortstOB HuxuTt hat atoetv tainted to sucoeed the late Frank land as Inspector General of tike ish fisheries. Sbnator Mauoitb, of Virginia, haa a tine library In his home at Petersburg, and many valuable plotores, and. has scholarly and artistic tastes. Tux late E. A. Sothera is said to have earned an annual income of f 167,000, and ft is added that be spent hit money almost as rapidly at he made hV Thomas BAtutr Alduick lives in Ponkapog, a quiet spot in the town of Canton, Mass., in an old-fashioned twostory bouse, built at the beginning of the present centnry. It Is good to know that George Ittse has left some unpublished works behind her. One of these is a "History of Ideas of IinmnrtaUty," written several years ago. The other It a complete translation of Splnosa's "Ethlos," executed during the Strauss and Fentrbaeh period. u Kino OecAk, of Sweden, hat just published a volume entitled, M Potent and Leaflets from My Journal.' Khtg Louis, of Portugal, has completed hfi translation into rortoguese oc peare's " Richard IIL" The prooiedt of the sale of his translations are devoted to charitable purposes. A rnrvATt letter from a Boston lady visiting Edinburgh to a friend in Hart ford, Kays: "Miss Isabella mm, book on Janta vou have nrobablv in a tiny, irMi-iooamg creature, warn great startled eyes. One wonders at the spirit and uourage she had to explore strange regions without any keif oompanhnt. She is to be married m March to a Dr. Bishop, a physician ef Edinburgh, who makes generous prom ises as to her freedom in tke future; but as she hat nothing of the repent oreeping vhm1 about her one It almost 4Khfca asi AakaaaA sVaVjakea aa uaaaa aML sorry, nowever, taore a long, romnntitnturyctinnented with this match 1 . i , . , . . .a. nres. BtmbenviiU amid. Maxy a man goes to his grave without ever having known what It was to get spilt out of a sleigh. Oo itrsfef Advertuer. "lxQjrnrjre ianootnt:" Not the ptumber isn't the swear . Ostatttf Meeortkr. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is a snowball: and, yonder goes the sen of a jfimmmt, Brooklyn Un4o-Arym. Ta T.TVB amwtti livlnarS1 t answered In the aAimative by the aunt who holds a free ticket to tke fhsster. - ftffifirniiTefis MtraUL Jamuamt it an "of" i month It generally Itnger than swear off. Norriknm Jmrald. A Philadelphia srirL who it an the pert at handkerchief flirtation, thinks she ought to be appointed Chief of the Signal Service. W. T.Sxprou. A Gbrxax eroigrant girl, wetehiny over two hundred, has been abdnctea in New York. A tort of robbery, you know. --Seism " What," asked the teacher. " the greatest obstacle Waehingtou encountered in crossing the Delaware ? And the smart bad boy thought for a minute and then made answer. "The toll mM' ' 1 MitHmqto ffeieseys. Tin train had just rolled into the station, and little Charley stood listena moment to the sound of the Wei estins bouse escape. Then, turning to his lather, he said, "Pa, the engine's all out o breath, ain't itP' Botton TramvipL A tocdbmt and far-seehtg married her two daughters som ssro to a plumber and an ice now, no matter whether there it a nun winter or a severe one, she hat a box at the Charity Ball, and spends the next summer at Newport, or goes to Europe, with one or other of her sons-in-law. CWe. CoxYKRSATtox between two school boys: First boy 'Tve been down to have my head felt by a pnrcstotogist " Second boy-' 'What did he say?"lrat boy "Oh. he said I had a treat brain. but my body wasn't equal to It and he long a a ... . Z. boy m now i nun to toe p kt-Met ibstj Tax New England Divorce Beform Leatrue is a new Boston Society, with such men at Governor Long, Theodore Woolsey, President Chad bourne, and President Chamberlain as members. Whether the Intention is to disoonrage divorce altogether, or to merely reform the ways of procuring it does notcieerly appear. In an address recently delivered m that city, the Rev. Samuel W. Dike said that divorce was a Yankee notion, and was spreading in New England faster than anywhere en. "Is It the native American element widen Emerally avails Itself of the dtvorte wt," he declared, "and ttmjasjittn of lloentieotnses in Now England and the destruction of unborn lkfs are to be attributed to the loossnisa of m oanead by the rnhtxatson ef tne riktbond-"

told my uuvnorne a ortertaxe me one o' school lor a year, and just let me play to rest and develop my physique, and. Guv'nor's xomsr to do it" Second