Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 24, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 December 1881 — Page 3

WEEKLY CPU RIER. O- UO.OI1C. tuoltaiter. JA8PKR, . - - INDIANA.

A VISIT rUOMMT. NICHOLAS. I tba night before when alt Mat a eveeture wm eUrtnw. nuteOTma awueet IMMtwklmt MM the eUMnner artth gmrm. tSt. IIMmMMKOWlMtMtti in "ftbUe vhunueof tneu- blades 4 wi www in mm- katefcfef, and I hi my ena, Heri Jtiet esttMd our brains far a knur winters When out on Mm lewa Umm atom suck a hu ier, 1 tprnir from Mjr bed to see whet wm Um Matter. Away to the window I tew Ilka a flat. Tor open the Miirilorg Mad ihrrw up the soli: To atooa om tttn breast of the ww fallen now Ga a lnater of midday to objec-ta bakm: When what to mjr woudariait eyea mow id ap But a miniature aleiabaad eurht tlnr i pear With a littla M driver, an lively and quick, ikacw m a momaai it Mut be m. Nlek! iere maid than eajrles bMenursarstbey same. Jtadbe whistled, and sbouUd. aud oeUed tbewt by neate: "Now. Dauber! now, Dancer! now, Pranoer! now Vixen: - On, Comet! on. Cupid', on. Pond or and MM Tt) ttK top of tb porch. In the to of tba wall; Wow daah awajr. dash awar, Saab awar all -Am dry lvaa tbat before tba wild kurrtoaa -When ther moot with a obstacle, Mount to the iky, -As up o tba houaatop tba eanrsars they now. With tba sMfh full of toy and m. Mtoholes. too: And thou In twIakHmr I baard on tba roof The praactuf and pawtaar of e-cb little boor. Aj I drew in mr headend wat turning around, Down tba cbimnay SU Xicbota earne with a bound, Ha waa dressed all ta fur front Ma band to bfa loot. And hie eMNaae waraaU tattaahnd with aabea and eoet; X bnndle of toya ba bad Hue on hi beak. And bo looked Hhe a paddier juat upaabte; hb pack. Mb ayoa bow taey t wink lad '. bia dimples bow marry! Mb) etwees wan Hka toast, bin bom Ilka a oherry - Hm droll littla month waa drawn up Ilka a bow. And t ba baard on bat obta wm as watte as the now. Tba tump of a pipe ba bald ttfffct ia bat teeth. .And tba took a it encircled Em baad Hka a wteth. He bail a b.-oad fare and a llttte raond bally. That bk when ha laubed Ilk a a bowt full of jeUr. . Ha waa coubby and plump a rfcrbt oUy aJd olf And 1 lauffbad when I aaw hint, ba aprie of myself. , A wink of his aya and a twttt of hs baad Porn irava mm to know I bad nothtarte deed. Ha pake not a word, but want atrafejnt to bis work. And Oiled all tba atoekfoc; than turned with a Jerk. And. layluii kla taaar aaida of has mom, And rivlna a nod. n ba cabunev ha ro He pranir to hta ftie4-to. to kb) team gave a Matte. And awar they all new Mka tba down of a ttatatle; Hut I beard htm axotaua, are be drove out of atjrk.: Merry ChrletMai to aU, and to aft a irood iabtl" V. CMMtkfTM.AU LMM MBBLH. tai TtMraa JNait,! ' ' JIXOLK JtMST. It wm om of the few davs of porfoct Mhinf which oottld b ex peeled during Ue whol winter, and it wm Um dar Biore Chriatmaa. How the sleigh hells kept carnival in the itrooU! How mad the echoes wore! How, from wonting Ui aooti, from noon to nJjrht, the claahinjr, melody floated on the air. then, a yon listened, died sway like the trailing off of a white sntohe-wreatti in the difttanee, only to grow sad grow again, with the same Bearing, searing, the aame receding, receding. "Snowrtsfce, you're too still for a -sleigh-ride. Yon leave Kathleen and me to do all the talking. How esa any body be quiet when the sfabrh-beOs jiagle like thP Lhrtenr Ine school-bov brother gave a whistle and a touch which the spirited borae understood perieoUy. With an auaweriag toai of his head he sprang off at a pace which shook out of the string of slehrhhelk every particle of music they had " in them. "There, now,' merry Dick went on, "I know you'll answer for rourself after Utat,f But he bent toward the pale, pure face with .a gratis motion, and drew closer up the white wolf-okin round her. Few indeed hot sofmned their voices in speaking to her, for Snowflaks wm blind. "I forgot to talk, Pick. I bsHere," . she answered in her km voioe, "I was mlly dreaming, in spite of the swirhbella,' "Dreaming! Out here in this wideawake day? Drsaaalsur about whavt1' ondered Dick. . a ....... . . . . "A dream of alla4i.hHa aaU tl. Wind ghi. slowly. And Kathleen at her side answered with a Hash of her great dark eyes: "Oh! I could dream about the sleighbells myself. Don't they sound gay and victorious and suosnssfulP Nobody's bells are like our bella, the silver hells that grandpa, bouarht beenuse they Feed your ear, Hnow flake, that Christinas when you were a little girl." "Ah! grandpa spoiled me." said Hnowilake, smiling, and I wm too young to know how unreasonable I was to ask such a Christmas gift. But I love this "ring of sleigh-bells just m much m I did then," "And hare them hung the year round In vour own room." finished Kathleen. ' Xes, I know, and no wonder they say pleasant things to you. Even I, when they shook and jingled so, thought to Hiyself of procession and conquerors and good fortune and grand suitors foming home from the wars to claim tkelr lady-ioves," "Ah! and what did SaowlUto dream. I wraderr queried Dick, eurionsly, u'g his horse so that the bells rang snore softly. " I wm usteulng to all the bella" reft4 the Wind girl, "llnrfc, Diekl jfrfc, Kathleen! Do you notice how 4bow they bmnd ur slss dissfrMPi

InlHlalll Ub MMdly It aVVHtft nHa4aftaMHnMWBnl t( 19

It it oaijr a fauor mutro lives eoming up through those souada. trying to repress thsnatelvM throngh them. There are some merry belht. like hyighter; and again Uakliag bells. soft anal kind like I Heads' voioas. Bat, then, snme mnke painful dioxrds. and I heard-Oh! there it is agnmr the blind girl shivered, " do you hear them, too? How strangely heavy and hoarse and slow those bells ring, and what a creaking, funereal tone the have! Never mind: underneath them all I hear our own sweet, steady bells, so dear to my ear, so true and clear, like one deep, perfect, sure joy, underneath the confused, otmflietiag. changing over-current a) wars." " Well done, dreamer?" laughed Dick, albeit a tride huskily, " whoever would think of all that but vour And Kathleen, radiant, willful Kathktea, with her bright cheek, her shining eyes, her half -de Han t ways, pressed reverently the blind girl's hand. She wm not over-tolerant of other people or their fancies, and sentiment she declared she despised; But she never held lightly any word that ohowrlake said; Snownake wm the one unearthly thing that among saints, angels, myths and goddesses she believed m, she said. "I suppose these thoughts she hM come to comfort her in the dark," she rattled on. He had a boy's horror of an over-dose of sober talk. Perhaps at snme ages, indeed, it would prove fatal. a "Til swear by the sleigh-bells. inownake, that when 1 ve made my fortune out in India with Uncle Lane, the sleigh-bells themselves shall announce it to you. You shall hear them oome jmeiittir madly down the street and up the avenue to the door where Jrou have been faithfully waiting forme ike my true little lady-love, as you are. Then, having thus prepared you, 1 will rush in. throw my gold baars at your feet, and so devote myMlf and them to you that you shall live ever after in one perpetual concert of sleigh-bells, the year round!" Dashing acro the corner and through the avenue as be finished speaking. Dick drew up with a resonant clash of bells before the broad door of the eoraelr old house which people ia Seneral called the ftquare Hones, or iatridual, m case they were tunctihous, the Squire's Jiouae. jrxaut secohp. Kathleen. Kathleen, you cannot, yon wili not break my heart?" Kathleen's lip quivered, her eves fell before the half-commanding, half-be-see 'hing gaie that rested with such intensity upon her face: For a second she wm honest with herself, and owned silently that if she broke this manly heart it wm breaking her own. too. Then there rang out on the clear, frosty ah of the star-lit Christmas eve, and penetrated keenly into the breathless hush of tbs room where Kathleen and her suitor hsd finished hanging the Christmas wreaths be had brought her, an hour ago. a peal of sleigh-bells the very same old, .silver-voiced bells that the blind girl had loved, shaken "by the impatient stamp of the coal-black horse standing at the gate. . r , Not at the gate of tie old fair home, "the 'SquinTs House," but before a cramped, brick tenement in a dull city street. Full of hope and courage. Dick had left the beloved Square Mouse' and gone out to Uncle Lane and India when he had finished sohooL Upon his father's sudden death and the almost simultaneous disaster which swallowed up many more fortunes than this one, Dick, at whatever sacrifice, would have hastened home but for Kathleen. But Kathleen, strong d self-willed m ever, would not bear to her gentle mother, would not for once hear to Snownake. " Uncle Lane writes, and Dick himself, writes, that Dick's fortune is made if he can remain at his poet a given space of time. Remain he shall." vowed Kathleen, clenching her bands, "sad he shall know so much only of our losses as is nscssesrr. He anail have every chanosto jrah the fortune Jbt now beoomc a matter of sneh Utter Kathleen's temper, Kathleen's will, Kathleen's real fores and faculty carried their credentials with them, and drew over to her side friends and helpers by whose aid everything wm sold, Ki, even the silver sleigh-bells, for owflake insisted on it a transfer effected to this changed home, and work found for Kathleen that the mother and her daughters made brave efforts to call the equivalent of their living expense. H So Dick wm left to work on manfully at his far-od toil, saddened, indeod, but trasuspiciotts that Kathleen's letten leu tne naif uniotu ot taetr reverses and all the stint and sufleriug thereby entailed. "Courage, then, whitest Snowffake, dearest lady-love!" l.e wrote, blithely, 1 11 claim the sleigh-bells yet." Foot, bmnrhtr Kathleen t What a change that jtngle of the sleigh-bells at the gate wrought in her softened thoughtst So It wm Frank CoQasnore who had brottght Snow Hake's sitTer sleigh-bells? She had not known, had, indeed, tried1 not to know who had bought them. A twinge of unreasonable anger stung her at the discovery now. It wm a welllimed diseoiery, she thought tea flash. Bite had been on the point of forgetting fiite that this could never ageinbe Um athieen Morris of old tinm this wm a poor girl, a jghi who worked for her living and Frank Orthtsnoru had no right to n nonnettmg witu sewn a

taat I oooMi War

Hit lady nssdher eViigned her be

htm ussetn and wowa to hew ! fatally easy it is for srossin to By an invisible totofMaone with : tne lady atsters operottt: "Of coe if Frank had not already gone so far, if he aw not feel ia honor bound, there could he nothing more between them. Why! they've had to mII everything, positively everything, my dear, down to their sleigfa-belia. But, as it in. Frank being the soul of honor. It's very lucky for her, certain I v, and doubtless she will take every pains to hold him fast.' Unlucky stamp of his nianter'i pet hone that Kathleen herself in other days had named Pride! Frank Collantore drove him last and far that day. n disappointed, wrathful man. ltgoaded him to hear the swest-tonsd bens, and I am afraid that both to him sad to Kathleen Christmas that year meant so little good-will that they took very XVb9flCr JpNfceaUS tl JsnT(( dull enJfi?(Pnl tuj eMuMMR about thorn neaon. SMarTMFenr mww Ma peannw JIHOLX TKXHD. "There is more sleighing this winter than usual. How the alebxh-bells riot to-day!" said the blind girl. Her face ; wns m serene and pure as ever, only j paler and thinner. In apits of all that had oome and gone since the had told to Dick and Kathleen, ears ago, that , "uream ot sietgn-oeiis,' sne ioonea. like one who had am aya kept the toy she had spoken of than "one deep, perfect, sure Joy, underneath tbs confused, convicting, cltanginjr overcurrenL" The tinkling belli ofjanghter and pleaaance were indeed little heard in this narrow city home; even friends' voices were grown few, and. shielded by her blindness though she was, there were many times when discordant circumstances or painful anxieties reminded her how old delights had grown rusty, and with what a weight her heart beat new. The three lonely women could not fir.eak even to each other of that whiTi wm their worst dread, as this add"! year waned to Its cIom. There bad been a long delay in letters and remittances from Dick. Letters sent to him at the old address, letters sent to Uncle Lane, had been returned unopened. What could it mean? Helplessly they looked at each other, and silent) v titodded on. Evan Kathleen, self-confident Kathleen, be- ( gan to doubt herself at last. Perhaps t she hsd made a dreadful mistake in try- j ing to manage herself, and to hide all j from Dick Her mother had long ago . insisted on sharing Kathleen's worn, until her health had begun to fail The feeble step, the slight cough, were a constant reproach to Kathleen. Her own roses were faded, sod many a night of weary toil, many a self-aacri-. nee for the sake of the one who oould lull aaa tlu. atmtaurv kul illiiinil tim i fire that still could flash sosnetimM in her eyes. As her sister spoke, she looked up. Something in the transparent face, an increased delicacy and sharpness, wm kmimkl nut ktr tka aliu.f nf tlu Hart. ' through the window near, and with a sharp pang she thought: "8b looks too like an augeL Am 1 going to lose them all? Is this the punishment of inv sen-wm r" Tor a moment she could not sneak in reply to Showrlaks's remark about the j bells, but she did not need, for her sis-1 tr presently asked, going on. placidly j wim ner KHitung, wikh anew, out lawir scanty income: "What bells are those I hear now P They grate and clank. They are like doors turning on disused hiages." Kathleen glanced out to see, and rose, flushing a little. Our landlord is com tug in. dear. I will receive him, and would you sit with mother while be stays? Ton shall not be teased with our badgering about money matters." Despite her utmost efforts the month's rent now due was not ready; Snowflake need not know But what could be the "badgering about money matters'1 that kept Mr. Lawrence so long the sister began to wonder with her mother, by and by. She tried not to hear the voices, tuut sounded m though some one were entreating, persuading, arguing, and m though Kathleen's sMwers wore agitated and brief. Still mors to prevent that quick and sensitive listening which wm her habit from gathering aught that Kathleen would rather not hnve overheard, the blind sriri smve herself up to thoughts which sir day had been oppressing her, and all day had been withstood? This wm Dick's birthday: one week before Christmas. Ah! the old holiday frolics; the old ChrietmM cheer, the merry-ntakings that, in the dear, "square house," used to mark this date! And now and then oh, dear Diok! where can you be? And if you only knew!" whispered the blind girl to herseK, crying softly, m she thought and thought. Meanwhile Kathleen was sore beset. Wm Mr. Lawrence right? Ones she had believed her own judgment infallible; her faith in it wm shaken now. Wm he right, after all? Even though he were not her first love, could she not be all he asked, a faithful wife? Did it matter any more about herself, since the love she had so recklessly rejected could never complete her own life? Here would be peace, protection, even luxury, for the wasting mothor and the delicate sister; she would not longer hesitate thus selfishly," for her own strength had had to own itself overtaxed of Into, and oould not kmg be adequate to the harden she had so proudly assumed. Almost the which would end au hud been to her lips, when tbs door opened and the Wind girl stood titers, gnive?ing with excitement, an unwonted flush on nor Rheek. "Hark! nark I don't you heenr them ?" saw cried, in a onJok, rmging voies.

Dsriinst. whs is fcf" and

ran to bar. frightened and mystified. eJnnflP(Ms eal(fcaWP( SMbutntltN04nnl yon hssr them? How fast tewy ate conning! How they chime and euan!' Kathleen did hear at last the old silver musk of the string of slehgh-bsUs. "It Is no wonder, Suow 'ake," she tried to my ealmlY. "1 presume the ChlhMtorM have them still, and 1 know the family Is back from Europe. Probably some of them are driving nest'' But louder in more frantic gfee rung the familiar bells, and stopped; stopped DlcBh! it Is Dick?" gasped DMOwfake. Which wm Dick, which wm Frank CkQamore poor, daaed Kathleea oould not clearly be sure at first. She wm only sure of one thing; she had not said "Tm" to Mr. Lawrence; indeed, he had quietly disappeared. How did they ted everything? How did everything get found out? At last there were no secrets. Between smUea, tears, silence and speech all wm exElained. On Kathleen's part, why she ad deceived Dick so, and why, after disagreeing herself by a fainting-fit like any common, weak-nerved girt, destitute of will and energy, she had to lie still, utterly weak and nerveless from the relaxation of the kmg over-strain. On Dick's part, howoertain rumors had reached him which made him both indignant and alarmed. - I oould not believe at first that you oould have misled me so. Kathleen," said Dick, "but Anally I could endure it no longer. When Uncle Lane found that return I would, even though my fortune wm m yet only n small fortune, be declared that be would oome, too. I will own. Kathleen, that I wm too angry with you to write home then. I said I would surprise you. and. If you suffered any suspense meanwhile, it would serve you right I wm a brute!" Dick interrupted himself to interpolate gratuitously. Then he resumed: "Poor Uncle Lane! At his sge the hardships It was our ill-luck to encounter wcie too much for him. He grew very ill and at the very first European port we were put ashore and 1 turned nurse. It wm a peculiar malady; we both hoped every week that the next would see him rallying, so that we might go on. 'Don't write; we'll surprise them yet.' he would say. Hut death, alas! surFrised him first. Then for a longwhi e remember nothing. 1 suppose Iwm very 111; I know I wm months getting well, months in oaring whether I ever came home or not So you see my surprise is a very belated surprise, indeed," said Dick, drawing Snowflake closer. "But a genuine one in the end. For instance, only imagine my sensations," laughed Frank Oollamore, "at having this bearded stranger grip my horse's bit in the middle of the street, and examine those sleigh-bells as if he were a madman." "It wm a mad proceeding," answered Dick, "but 1 had only just landed, and wm feeling my way to this street, and number when I suddenly heard the dear old bells. 1 knew them in au instant; 1 never dreamed that any but some of you oould be driving behind them, and I suppose 1 did lose my wits. Certainly, I never felt no transfixed with amazement as to see Frank, whom I knew on a second glance, glowering at me over the bells where I bad found SnowHake's initials engraved, font as thev always were." "They shall go back to their rightful owner," saidafr. Collsmore, gently. " Snowflake won't refuse that gift from me on ChristntM Day I know, particuhtrly if I take Kathleen's" " Oh, hush, hush!" said n warning voioe from Kathleen's sofa, and lust then no one minded the interruption, for Dick wm speaking. I believe, little Snowflake, that my boyish boMt has come true; I hnve brought you behind the sleigh-bells a fortune, or almost a fortune, at last, for Undo Lane hM left his all to me. But." sad Dick's voice shook. " it kns cost me dear, for I have lost ia him a second father. And to you all three it almost osrne. I fear, too late. Not quite! They kept their ChrietmM of n week later with chastened gladness indeed, but good cars and freedom from anxiety In time brought health, assured though never robust, to the Invalid mother, pence unntfned to the Mind ghi, and the old. warm glow to Kathleen's face, the old sparkle to her dark eyes. "But now I know,' she said to Snowflake on her wedding-day. as they stood once more in the parlors of " the Square House," "that your prophecy out of the sleigh-bells wm reality, not all dream, m F thought then; I know that sven the harm and discordant claehiag, which, seemed such s dreary (Mmttiputi f fuaii " Srin' JL Menueette Setae, The Mennotrltes intend keeping to themselves, and have no Intention of mnrrving or rriving in marriage with the children of the land. At first some of the girls went out to servioe, but hnvlng cot married the forth that all the others were to return home at once which wm done. As a race they are thrifty and industrious, but their neighbors say that the women do most of the work. An open ditch about a mile in length, beautifully dug;, and with the turf neatly hanked up em each side, was said to no all women's work. Large numbers of women wore also to be seem the fleidV .Bse, to. flPeaO( aW aMfinJJJjfiJiaeS AlphottM Dandet says of his wits that "she is am artist herself. There la u a wktb f Vav nuililili tkarf ka baa nF .Ma mtmA Mn. ion see hM ne Umrumhef I ponders: Wne audfeieV'

Kseryene who Ism ami enmenatm em Mtawaatt Bd ftelat Ca's store km dMijafoM fcmd hm en riositysroosedby the nhatnV iMaMf ftinunm eHMNMnnMnWl etneMsanl naunl tint the door posts. tVjehthioi h lets mm tarred to many that tins wmr snten bjsktemy Itaveheaeaditavnay jjel ev JuMn aV4VttMMki 4WSo((((nJ which such a snsoknon njnmM tneJem.

the mporter boldly attacked lis) tsnV St aad wm at hmgtu lewswMbjr ting pointed out to hint fan) mm who brought in this trophy nf tint chase. Dressed in a duck mk wnhn high hunting boots, a blue sMrt. a sots white hat; aa athletic, well-knit surmounted by a head a paint envy, eym of steel blue, the wm a fair sample of AnMricnm hood. He refused to allow his nn be used, hot gayer the facts asfultonm: corns urns in August a party ox or four went out from Ruby on n When they had reached a point twenty miles wast of Ruby, on the reservation, they succeeded fat kafsusp some half-doien deer. Not being aha to transport their game they buried t and left, intending to return later env About a month afterward two of the party returned, and, much to then din gust, found the deer bad been dug un by a bear, as they supposed Om el them, accompanied by two dogs, started in pursuit of tbs bear on his trail. I followed," said this gentleman, tap mountains and then &waagaht,liks the King of France; across gulches ami basins, where probably no whits man had ever been before. All the time the trail grew more distinct, aad the suspicion that palpitated my heart innnti more certain m everything betokened a very large animal ahead. I might tell you how X scrambled over places asmost impossible, but to make along story short, I came up to the mnraudnr, and a moment afterward wished I wm anywhere in the world except fat front ot tnat grinning near, nti men.' and he turned to standing around, "that bear Mar m the side of a bouse. " It wm on the side of the miles from civtiixatkm, no wm at hand. One of my dog stopped about one hundred yards front the animal, and with tail erect aad every hnh bristling, refused to go forward, I looked at the bear and the bear looted at me. I looked around and saw there wm no way out of it Bruin also in the situation and growled, shoeing the ugliest fly trap I ever saw. " For a moment hostilities were suspended, and both sides studied the situation. Then Old Sleep,' with n ferocious snarl, sprang lorwnrd, the bear did not notice him. dog went nearer and nearer, with om swipe of his paw the knocked him into eternity at the mountain side. My blood and I let fly with my Winchester, it did not seem to do any good, bear started at me. I fired s SUU he came on. I fired still shot, but couldn't stop the as The whole mountain seemed and I kvyw" my hair stood on Nearer and nearer he came and again and again I shot, but without any effect. I thought it wm my last dny. My chips were ready to go in, hot when be wm ot about ten feet I fired my ham shot sad, thank tiod, dropped hint. I made up my mind then that 1 hadn't to loosfor any. Gentlemen, that bear weighed Bjy Tea, skill, when green, weighed sixty pound. He measured from tip to thL eight feet. "It is a Am bear skin, but when yen we me looexing around for any live, uatamed animal that looks lues a been you can buy all the propertfos hi Conundrum Basin for fifty The gentleman ia duel wined the pctapirntion, which the re membrance had stertod, from has and nervously walked away. I (UNO.) Aomexiwmiiuret. The Siamese Nation been nlnnjced into by the a death of the court aad body of the King. One nwrniac. hearty breakfast, he went mad mite unexpectedly and trampled five of his attendants to death. To shoot hhm would have been sacrilege. An attempt to traoquiliise his partntisd spirit by ens rciing him with a huge ring of holy bamboo, apecislly Messed by the high priest of his own particular tempte, proved worse than lasfiectual, for he broke throngh the ring and all hut terminated the high prWs career upon too spot. He wm them with grant difitcnlty driven tatoaoioM trnl furious endeavors to hat the walls with his tasks, he toppled over on his side, uttered a last cry of rage and gave up the ghost. Naturally enough, this heavy calamity wm attributed to criminal carelessness on the next of one or other of the at tendant intrusted with tne sacred elenhent's feedinsr. The mtorrogatod the nttmbtamof the eepbaat'i household mpetinCfnad, fatting to elkntauy indivkfnal etssneeleu ej dtaqoency, oeoreed that theyshouM all he puadshed. It Is told about a Lm Vegas gadt While sitting under a tree at Mineral C.ll waJtlaMF inr bar lovnr. a eanunsnsm no along ana approscnnnxnmm began to hug her. She tlbttman it wm her king of tttn Mia to leanen Mr kirn and to lsamed oncm ana enjoyem n awgntff nasw teg: "MttrT" It brain turn bear ej p and he retreated to the hUl and hhl hi the throt days to jet over hll earns tsnne