Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 23, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 July 1881 — Page 3

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ITT VS. nsnvv w vw wfwwHj YfvvwtDll m titles, 1 ebose the one 1 use as being the oddest; and I always had a fancy for odd things. And now for my story. On what mr aunt (br marriage) and her family founded tbetr claims to aristocracy I never could discover. My ancle had been a merchant, it is true, sad one of considerable prominence ia bit day. I have been told, and so had b-en bis father before him, and his father's father before that. That his business in his most prosperous time was intimately connected with China' is impressed upon my mind (I became an inmate of his house when 1 was about six years of age, in consequence of the death of both my parents within a week of each other, leaving me with no means of support, and no other relative) by the fact that every first of June saw bright mw mattings laid on our floors, to remain there until eold weather came again, and that our mantels and what-nots were decorated with many wretty.dniatv littk porcelain cups, thin as egg-shells rariMvaui www ukjr, out m times Kow, according to all I hare learned on the subject, real, simon pare aristocrats look down upon trade even of the grandest scale, ana never nave anytnmg woo witn n runner tnan once i

, whU marrying one ot Its sons or taniping about the room in tbe new dsoghtuv who have come into posses- J ,nit of clothes aunt had just paid for swu of mUltoni enough to offset tbe Dr with her hniidsonmpearl honor. . riajr. However, our family (I ventured to "Whatever is done, we candonotninclnde myself, none of my cousins " obbed Ethel, being within bearing) assumed all the; .-Of course not, replied Roland, airs Of the "blue bloods" Of the Old ormmllr: "th w..mn of xur fmm.lv uv.

eowMfy. Eleanor, our second, wore a look of deep indignation for several days after a manly, clever, good-looking fallow, the brother of one of her old school mates, with a comfortable Income, bat j who was the junior partner of a arm keening a retail store on Sixth Avenue, proponed for her band. "The presumption of the man!" she

excuusaeo, raising ner aronea eyebrows her youth, a loose curt dangling over in astonishment, and curling her full, each cheek-bone, being fully persuaded red upper lip ia scorn: "To imagine for that no other fashion wm half so gracea moment that because I honored him ' fat or becoming with my company to tbe opera two or LHscharge the chambermaid," prothree Umes, I would marry him! If his i po, Uf -and ml Dorothea (1 am business had been wholesale, it would Dorothea) Ho her work. It is about have been bad enough; bat fancy a mn sn b fit for. She never had a bit of person who sells vias nnd needles br a fMiinr mtvm Hw,r kr

hw nipir, mn mc ay hn jru: jieveri I would die first" Minerva, oar fourth, was equally ' WIIW UllHH M HW raivnwir i a I w-"r" ,W"T cr wrwwer laarimcs had introdooed into the fami- i ly clrcie a rare thing for one of her brothers to do, for, like all other men, ; as far as my limited experience roes, ; they scarcerr ever thought their com panion to be good enough to be the companions of their sisters when he ventured to express his admiration for her. The young man soon after succeeded to a rery handsome property, and heenms a great swell " a perfect too-too," no I believe the fashionable way of expressing it now isa kind of being after Minerva's own heart; but shawns never invited to ride behind his fast horses, and, what was much worse, never again asked to take the head of bistable. And in like Manner the graceful and snthueiastic professor of musto, the stont, good-natured proprietor of the extensive iron-works (" wholesale and reteu) on the next block, the young artist, who has since risen to wealth and fame, and sundry other, all falling short of tbe aristocratic standard set np by our family, were snubbed by my lsdi cousins, aided by their brothers, and not wholly unassisted by their mother, i never bad had, at the time this story commences, being then hi my eighteenth year, a chance to snub any one; for, lacking the personal attractions of my relative, as well as their ''high-toned' natures truth to tell, having decidedly denaocrnUc tendeathu I was kept la the bsiekgrooad on all occasions. Iet it be remarked in passing that JBtanor eventually nmrried, when rather an old girl, a widower in the milk hMrinsTorr wholesale, however the father of four children. At the same time Minervn, a few years younger, deigned to become the wife of nn Worry bachelor, something or other in a shoe tnaaufnotory. But they held their beads as high as ever, and declared hey. had seerlrfoed themselves for the htmlty, uncle having failed for the seoudtlaaa through ho fuuit of his own,, or oM man a few mouths before the tegbii wedding. That their n ' " Iv Lm

care of after their departure throe old mMs, a young mm, and two belptest young men. who, baring Immni brought up to do nothing, did it to perfection. After the failure, uncle rot a situation as superintendent of one of the many departments in the large establishment of tbe gentleman who sold "pin sod needles by the paper, and lace by the yard" (be was now bead of the linn, and bad a pretty, lady -like wife and two pretty ehildrea), and we dismissed one f oueorvsnts and moved into a But in spite of all oar efforts at economy oar income proved vastly inadequate to our expenses, and this was tbe cause of so muck bewailing and bemoaning tun our boose seemed to be bereft of all gladness and sunshine. And one evening, after Ethel, oar youngest daughter, bad burst into tears because aunt had declared it would be impossible to have ice-cream meringues, wine Jellies, and similar dainties every day for dessert, for the two sufficient reasons that we couldn't afford them and our present oook couldn't make them. I ventured to suggest to the weeping damsel that if she found 1Mb !.C-I.. 1.1- uttl.it L

fond of good things to eat), she might ' Knit ana crochet some of the worsted i articles nhe was ia tbe habit of making so artistically for herself, and sell them to" Mr. Lee, uncle's omployer, I was about to nay, when 1 was interrupted by , a shrill shriek. 1 Work for a store!" she cried. "I'd start tirst." You wretched girl!" added my aunt. "How dare vou even lam t of such a thing? Ethel, my darling, calm yourself," . "It is not enough that strangers i should presume upon our poverty," joined in CVanthe, also frowning upon me, "but one bound to us by ties of blood, though it must be confessed , more alien than many a stranger would i be, must advance ideas that shock: nnd ' wound us. Imagine" turning to her i brother Roland, who lay on the only ' lounge in the room, complacently re- , garding himself In the mirror on the opposite wall" that impertinent Mrs. I ttrauttlixv mmln turn t)i mnmtitir with the air of doing a kindness, too, to ever mr a position in her academy " Great heavens!" exclaimed Roland, springing to his feet and tbe cause must be a mighty one that brings Ro land to bis feet. "One of mv sisters a teacher! Great heavens! and he went I er work." I thought to myself. Nor the men neither, except poor old uncle, who is fagging at a fceak from morning until But our income most be increael, ' , said Alethea, looking up from her novel, and Joining in the conversation for 1 the tirst time.' Alethea was our eldest, and still wore her hah in the fashion of Mo. aiM MVr kail: aha alwava ironldbite her bread, sbrhedmy aunt. and she has seemed sadly out of place BBMHMT my ohiktrea. ae comes ot a working 1 n m& race, ana ner Mens ana tastes II nianlr nf trmAm trmAm trmA" T discovered in after-years that my annt's grandmother on (be maternal side made i. fortune not of tAhaeon. " But discharging the chamber-maid won't help very much," said Alethea. " It will not, agreed Roland. "What is saved thereby will no more than find me in the little extras no society man eaa do without.'' "Dear! dearf aunt took up the burden again, " could I hare foreseen that your father would have come down in this way, I never would have married him. I really don't know what is to be done, unless we emigrate to someeountrr place where we are unknown, and where it don't matter how we live.' " Tbe country!" screamed her children, in chorus. "Better death at once.' I can't imagine where I got the courage to do so after my late sharp rebuffs, bat at this moment I blurted out something that bad been in my mind for several weeks: Why could not Alethea and Ethel room together, nnd Alethea' s room, which is the pleaeantest in the boose, be let to a lodger one who would" Rut here I paused abruptly. Alethea hati fainted in the arms of my aunt, who, glancing at roe over the top of her eldest daughter's head, commanded me in her deepest tone (aunt; has rather a bass voice) to "leave the room -instantly." Rat in a short time, during which things had been getting worse, and we bad been reduced to rice puddings for dessert on week-days and apple tarts on Sandavs, I was allowed to prepare an sdvertisement for the morning's paper, m which was offered to "an elderlv gentleman, who most have excellent references, a fine room in the house of a family of refinement, who had never before taken n lodger, for the privilege of occupying which he would bu expected to pay a liberal equivalent." i disapproved highly of tin wording of Ihieeall for hetpTbwt my Mint and

MffnmHlHe ewaPTBPaa ns" nn ww hi these very terms, and so Iwas

petted to yield, inwardly ooaviaoed that tt would bring no reply. Rut It did. The very afternoon of the morning it appeared, a carriage with a trunk strapped en behind drove np to our door. An old gentleman got oat, hobbled up our stops, and rang our door-belL " You must see him. Dorothea," said my aunt, leaving toe parlor, followed by a tram of her children. "It is your affair altogether. I wilt have nothing to do with V' " We none of us will have anything to do with it," chimed In my cousins, "hv were not born -th the souls of lodging-bouse keepers;" and away they sailed as I opened the door to the seconda little louder than the first ring of the caller. He was a short, slightly-formed old Kntbunan, with big. bright, bbwsx eyes, hits ustachsf tmxd" ' "You have a room to letf" ho asked. " I have," I answered, ushering him into the parlor, where be gbanoed keenly around, and then as keenly into my face, while be announced in a decisive tone: "I have come to take it. My luggage is at the door. Be so kind as to toil me where to direct tbe man to carry " But" I began, in a hesitating way. utterly confused by the strangers brusque, not to my bigh-hasuled, manner. " But me no but.' " quoted the old gentleman. "I am Amos Griffin, lately from Ensrland. where I havs been

' living for the last twenty years. Sines 1 1 landed in New York, a month ago to- , day. 1 have been boarding at the St. Nicholas. But where' s your mother!'" I hastened to assure him that I was i empowered to negotiate with him. " Ah. indeed! Well, then, I'll go on. though it strikes me that you are rather ; oung for tne bosuteas. iou 'nave never taken a lodger before.1 1 am f glad of it, for reasons which it is not necessary to explain, iou want, a liberal equivalent' for your fine room; I am prepared to give it That leaves only one thing to be arranged. I should like my breakfast at eight precisely every morning." "But we did not propose to give breakfast.'' " 1 know you didn't; bat I'll give yon another ' liberal equivalent' for it. You can't be very well off, or you wouldn't take a lodger; and tbe more liberal equivalents yon can get from him, the better. Will you be Hind enough to show me to my room? Ye, sir," I replied, meekly, completely succumbing to the big black eyes and strong win power of the fraillooking old man, and totally forgetting to ask for the "references" insisted upon in the advertisement. Where upon he stepped to the front door and beckoned to tbe man outside, who, taking tne trunk upon bis back, followed him. as he followed me, to the second story front room. "Ah." said our lodger, as he entered it, "this it not bad not at all bad." And it wasn't. As I have said before, it was the pleasantest room in the house, nnd I had arranged it as prettily as I could with the means at my command. Fortunately these included a number of nice engravings .and vases and a capacious bamboo chair with a crimson cushion, and footstool of liks color. And the fragrance of the honeysuckles that stole in at tbe window from the balcony, and tbe two or three sunbeams that had found their way through the half-closed blinds nnd danced in triumph on the wall, and the half-doaea gayly-bound books (mine) on the mantel, and tbe ivy growing from a red pot on the bracket in one corner, nil combined to make tbe room a pleasant place indeed. Mr. Griffin had been our lodger exaetlv two years, during which I had C pared and snperintendod the servof his breakfasts and taken entire charge of his room, " as well as though I had been brought up to that sort of thing," as my cousin Clean the remarked, and the rest of the family, with tbe exception of uncle, who became quite friendly with him, had only met him some dosen tiroes at which times thev assumed their most dign I Bed dignity when be was taken sick. It's an old complaint, which wilt carry me off some time," said he to me; " but I hope not this time. Anyhow. Little Honesty" (a name he had given me from the first -I hope 1 deserved it), "live or die, I intend to remain hers. Nowhere else could I be as comfortable. You mint engage an extra set rant, and rou and she together mast nurse me. I should certainly die of a professional. By-tbihby, who is your family physi1 told htm. If I am not better, send for him tomorrow. I nm going out mow only a few steps,'' meeting my look of surfrise. I want, to see mv lawyer, and shaVt take to my bed for several days yet." That afternoon, taking care not to repent the old gentleman's exact words, but putting his remarks In the form of a request to be allowed to remain, I stated the case to the family. "Going to be ill?1' exclaimed Alethea. Dear met how disagreeable l" "I'm sure I don't want him to stay, he might die here," said my aunt, who had the utmost horror of death. "He's an old nuisance, anyhow,1' proclaimed Ethel, "and always has been, and I blush that ant relative of mine should have degraded herself so fur as to beocme his servaut maid." Here I will mention that mv oousin Roland, a month or so before this, had married a young lady with a large fortune, and out of that fortune he generMts)r MMMtoa4t to Haaitn the famtlv a nsTunsnSiJ wwwssa eur sseww w wpwr ewwy w jyULgT JL jS fbfly 4lJB JPWwBTMpeu Jsnm sjw ewarWThaerhs usemrswSm aseam,

KMH eaeWfco9s'ijr JTeifcp' sJNans' uhMp eawaWs'TSra jJav tors, wuo husbands had prospered, and thereupon been obliged by their wives to share their prosperity with us, that we might lire si least, as Minerva expressed it, ' with tkgwti economy." And so we were not entirely dependent upon our lodger for desserts and mv era! other things. Bat to go back. " He is not an old nuisance, said L indignantly. "He ia a kind-hearted old man, and I'm very fond of him. ' "Good gracious!" "Yes, Mist Ethel." I went on. "I repeat it. I am very fond of him. And if my aunt will allow me lam sure mv uncle will I will take ail the extra care resulting from his sickness upon myself, and no one else shall be annoyed in the least. After living beneath our roof for two years, and contributing so bountifully to our comforts you needn't glare at me, Cleanthe; he has. for I am quite certain noons else would have paid us so liberally it would be the basest ingratitude, not to say cruelty', to send htm among strangers now that he most need care and klodne s." " Are you quite through. Miss Rey

nolds?" asked my aunt, sarcastically. " 1 had no idea you were so eloquent, never having heard vou preach before. But of one thing I am determined; you shall not call in our doctor to your patient. He is a perfect aristocrat, and has no idea we keep a lodger, and I do not wish him to know it." "There's a young saw-bones a few doors below,'' drawled my youngest gentleman cousin, who resented my waiting upon any one but himself; "he'll do for your fine old -nnisance." That very evening Mr. Grirtin had a bad turn, and I sent for the "young saw-bones a few doors below" in great haste. He proved to be a Dr. Rice, a frank-looking, brown-haired, gray-eyed, broad-browed youn man, with gentle voice and quick, light step. And tbe old gentleman, taking a great fancy to htm, decided on retaining him a decision that relieved me greatly, bearing in mir d as I did my aunt's embargo iu regard to our family physician. And from that time lor three montns, although very seldom confined to bis .bed, our lodger never had a well day. At tbe end of the three months, however, be began to mend slowly, and at the and of two more was on his feet again. And then he told me he had made up his mind to return to England. " I am sorry, very sorry, to part with you,'' I replied. "But it is right that you should go." "Well said. Little Honesty. And now let's begin to pack," said he. Dr. Rice and I went with the old gentleman to the steamer that was to carry him away, and waved a last farewell to him in the midst of a crowd also waving last farewells- from the pier, as the vessel slowly moved out into the stream; and then we returned to our respective homes to read the letters he had placed in our respective hands with his final good-by. Mute I read in the privacy of my own room at first; and when I had partly recovered from my astonishment and delight, I flew down stairs,, called the family together, and read it to them. It was as follows: "Dm Littmi Hoinwrr. Had I olea which I dtda't, tnaakt under God to you and Dr. Kiee-I should hare left eaoh of my dear voting friends ten thousand dollars In oqr will. Hoi sarins; lived, 1 am solas" to do a muoh plsai aeter tains' I am solar to iv them the tea thousand at oace. My iawjrar will you both to-morrow. Jtnos Oairrrh. P. S.-1 have also left a sllsht bequest to Miss Ethel Ewbert. 8h will Sad It oa the lower shelf of the okwet m the mom I occupied when 1 was her eousra Dorothea's todser.'' Ethel for once forgot her graceful, gliding step. Sbe started hr.tily for the stairs, bat her youngest brother was before her, and she was fain to turn back again as he slid down the baluster, and landed in oar midst with something itt his arms. It was a large framed photograph of Amos Griffin, with a card attached bearing these words, "An excellent picture of An Old Nuisance.' " I nmrried Dr. Rice, Mmymr ifsshfy. Pigs WaMewfaag in Mure and Resting. Fan allowed to lie out upon a dungheap, as they do for the beat, are ant to become scabby and otherwise diseased. They should have oomfortable and clean sties. For, 'tis a libel upon the breed to say that tnev have a preference for dirt when a cleanly retreat is obtainable. Wallowing we must reSnl as a bath, which of necessity he ken sometimes in the coffee -ooiored, and, we doubt not, caustic liquid of the barn-yard; but which, probably, were no more to bis taste, gentle reader, than yours, were a bed of oosy clay convenient. To prevent pigs rooting up the pasture, various modes are adopted; some paring off with a rasor the gristle on the top of the nose, to the quick; others dividing the ligament, which never re-unites, so that the snout is powerless; others Insert a ring. The latter plan is the most common and perhap4 the most humane. Something undoubted must be done, as it is a bad habit that rapidly grows upon them, and they do much mischief in no time, which it takes trouble and time to repair. Buffbn mentions that pigs root up the ground in quest of earth worms as well as bulbs, and that the wild boar has a stouter snout, whether from practice, or nature, than the domestic hog, and digs'deeper in a straight line; whereas the tarns sort goes at random every way, being obviously less dependent on his nasal apprehension. There should be always a heap of binders, or burnt alar, in a corner of the sty, which you will see young and old rooting about and cracking like walnuts, on oocaskm. They stem to enjoy it much, and it noes Utem good m many wa ,rs, correcting acidity and condoning fkatr mm lauld nHamnhas hs the eaB'on OWUntw wwmwwm aarwwvaWBjs 0 warw tu 4MsCaHMan wiMf tPfftlMflft

FEB80SAL AWi UWUkML It is reported that Prut Huxley if coming to the States on an angling tour.

Jsred Baaifftt. of Morth Conn , has and wean twelve silver bustons made in 1744. Had t4e money which they cost been mvested at thus time, the interest added to the m insluul would have made them worth iUlMaft the present time. Among recent valuable additions a the British Mueeum am aume ram Mexican books, including a low of the earliest produotioni of the Snsalah American press, which belonged to Us President of the Smperor Maximilian's first Ministry, Don Joss Fsmsado Rnmlrtu Harper $ Afoonsiuc prints a knag and interesting letter from Hawthorne, written in l3l. in which he spsaks hopefully of being able at no very dlataat day to buy a quiet and oomforhabso little home somewhere near the sea Jar $1,600 or S3.00J. Literary men nowadays are hardly so modest in their expectations. A lady, Miss Mary Robinson, in said to be the coming English poet. Sbe has trained herselt ia classic (are ok uatil sbe knows tbe langnuge better than a professor, and translates it into glowing English us correct as stobert Browning's and more intelligible. Her original work also shows signs of great promise, both lyric and dramatic. Carla Serena, a travel? well-known abroad, has been visiting the most remote countries of the East during the past few years and has writton a narrative of her tourney which hi printed in twelve volumes. Madame Carta Serena Is the only lady who has been made an honorary member of all the principal Geographical Societies of Europe. The Paris Oaulot represents a passer-by as inquiring, at the funeral of Littre: "Who is thisLittrc? ' and gives tbe various replies as follows: A woman "He was the ugliest man in Paris." A young man " He was a nominal ohap. wno pretended tnat we are as from the monkey." A business " He was the author of my dictionary." A priest--"He was a savant" An idler" He was a worker." A friend "He was a simple-hearted and good man, who lived between his wife and his daughter, both devoted to him." The income of Jon Tborlaksou, the poet and preacher of Ieeland, wm leas than six pounds r;a year. He, in common with other pastors, had to eke out a support by aU kinds of bard labor. He was a blacksmith; he made hay and tended cattle, and. no doubt, was wilting to follow any honest calling, to keep himself and family from actual starvation. But, notwithstanding his miserable surroundings and his life of drudgery, Tbormkson. at tbe age of seventy years, finished a translation of Milton's "Paradise Lost," having previously translated Pope's "Rssay on Man" mtu Icelandic RTTMOROCIS. i: Condensed handbook for picnics this season Carry ulsters, umbrellas, rubber overcoats; and, by the way, take a kerosene stove to warm the butter so 1 twill spread. - New Haven Jfsytsfcr. How is this for a three-years old r An old man waa passing the house. Sunder, takmsr exoeedinnr short steps. Tbe little one looked at him for several minutes and then cried out: "Momma, don't he walk stingy T' 8prigJkUL Union. Little Johnny had been caught by his aunt teasing a fiy. "Johnny said she, 'snpposittg soma great psest a thousand times bigger man yours ah! should tease you and perhaps eat yam all upr "I hope,' said Johnny, "ha'd feel as bad as I do when I swallow a fiy." Boston framorfyl. A man who was fishing for trout in the Tkmesta years ago, so the story runs, caught his hook on a hug si goM and brought it safely to shore. As he looked at the gold he sadly said, "Just my look; never ooold catch any fish." CHI Ctfy flerriofc. Young man, beware of stock and grain speculations! If you want an "option" that is safe, gut the option to the hand of a good, sensible ghi ot marriageable age, and pat up a lot and a neat little cottage aa a margia. It will be the grandest speculation yon ever made, and will bring you big profits. Ton can stake yourlast dollar on OlUwfi Jfcuul awS amVuas JsVOwVSJJjwave (UanveVr' eye. Small Harry had never seen a baseviol, and when his eyes lighted oa one at a public rehearsal one day, he nsturally thought it the most enot mous tiddle he ever beheld. He was full of ucstions and exclamations about it. arry's excitement reached the highest pitch when the owner of the instrument teiaed and began to tune it The little fellow rose from his seat in his eagerness, his eyes stretched to their widest extent. The performer thrummed, and boomed and twanged awhile, got tits viol tuned to his llkmsf. leaned it against a chair and sat du-wit once more. Small Harry sank into his seat with a deep sigh of disappointment and sympathy, exclaiming: "Ah, mamma, hs can't do itl" BoSm Courier. !eeu smJaaajJae5iCaj daV ssaarbIIB'5afca?n5E 4(PeoJJampJu clerk under tbe present system may. with gooa luck ana good oouauot bined. niter ebrbtesn veers set raise himself to a pecuniary pinnacle wherebv be would be entitled to a sal ary of l80 per annum. The wages of a third-class clerk commence at sixteen shillings week, and rise by airadnui lucreuHml am to the sum of twunty-sevwu. I tJSBfM? e (rueWb, inMfc enanmaamB SRNEl shUlings; and, Mtu

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