Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 25, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 January 1883 — Page 3

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. DO AN IS, lutolUler. JASPER - INDIANA. FIFTY YKAU8 APART. ny W In tho winter esmtn. An I tke Mr tninM brtrkt ftwfweeot 0n kwa pfMMHMt Mntjr u in mart, And tke other Just sersntooa. 'Jltojr itut in a happy atleaee As the as4nws deestta fiMtt Oiti- Urm in a rowlnar futtir. And one In a long, bat past Each dwsms of a raah nf musts, And a uumtlon wnjapersd low; On will near it tale eventa-, Uae kkard It Kmc S. of a tovnur huaMni. WnoM brnra kaart to Mm Minna r pnr one the Jor la coming. For one the Jr has flown. Barn dreams of a life of gladness fwMii undr the sunny skiee: AnH foota tbe hone mii) inn mMrr Hhitte In Uh happy ejrra. Who known whh-h dream la the brlirktwi? All I wfco know wt Ink 1 tin bcntf The aorrow and Jy n mlnsrieu, Jnst only tn end la mat. i Wor Jfeaurox, "OClt" MR. J EX KINK. I unw fortunate in my uncle. 80 everybody thoitirht, for Uncle liraithwaite wu M wealthy and thriving a manufacturer an any in Lambeth, nnd 1, hi dead (filter's ton. Cyril Vaughan bv name, was not merely drawing a fafr salary, with the prospect of a partnership, but was actually engaged to be married to my second cousin, reputed a jjreat heiress deir, sweet Lucy Bralthwaite the old man's only child. A mere, just man was John rraithwaite. Ue had won his own way in life by rigid self-denial nnd unwearying industry during a joyless youth, and I doubt if he ever thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of his well-earned prosperity': Hwas only when his eye rested on his daughter's pretty face that his stern look relaxed. Lrtcy reminded hint, doubtless, of her gentle mother. But he was a good master to a goo 1 servant, notably where he, who was by nature and habit suspicions, could repose full trust He did so in his ronfldent'al clerk, .Jacob Jenkins. That head clerk was one out of a thousand. "Respectable Jenkins1' was the nickname by which irreverent youngsters in the counting-house spoke with bated breath of that pearl of clerks; but even those pert office lads had a belfef in the man he was so respectable, with his lean, well-shaven face, his neatly-brushed suit of formal black, and his square-toed boots. Never, as I hare heard, in the twenty-nine years of his toll ksd honest Jenkins been known to ask for a holiday, to shirk extra work, or to make a blunder as to tare and tret, a thing of inomeut with a firm like ours, Urge exporters as we were. As for mvself, I am afraid that my poor merits if I had any, were quite eclipsed by thte of that commercial comet, Jenkins, Indeed, I know of no reason, except my blood relationship to our principal, head of the house of BraKhwaite, Perry Co., for any comparison between that veteran of the desk and my inaxtveriettccd self. Hut my uncle often said, in his gruff way: "Take Jenkins lor your model!1 or "Cyril, lad, it will be one while before you fill Jenkins shoes' see hew neatly he settled that business With Chauvin et Flls. of Bordeaux, and how cleverly he avoided the heavy loss of that last shipment when Krakow ami Kindergarten, of Hamburg, were going to smash' Yet I stuck to my work, young as I was, and did my beat not to be undeserving of the prospective partnership, and somehow I got a ragre impression in my Head that instead of my being jealous of Jenkins, Jenkins wms jealous of me. One day there wms a big check to be changednearer to three thousand pounds than two and it was my task, o unusual one, to present the draft at Peabod y Sons'. In a house like oars, where the fnrnsoe were always aglow, ftnd tall chimneys always smoking, the outgoing for wages, horse-keep and fuel were, I need hardly say. very large. On that day how well 1 remember ! I was in exceptionally high spirits. I had been talking with dear Lucy, and tltough her father, who said that we -children need not be in a hurry, would never conaent to name even n approximate day for our wedding, still there was a vague prospect of connubial bliss next spring. It was fine Bright weather, and on Tuesday there was to he a garden party at some Richmond villa, to which we were all to go. Altogether I was in excellent spirit, and s far as anv man eonld be from dreaming of the evil that was to come. "How will von take it?" asked the bank cannier. "Short!' " I answered, with a sort of boyish pride in my newly-acquired fsmiliarlty with business phrases, and with my gold an l notes 1 raft the bank. As I did so, a nian staggered toward we. Jostled me, then reeled away, mr.ttcrmg "Beg pardon." and would hare fallen hut for the support of my arm. 1 w In a moment that the man was "W. But he looked 111, very ill, hagm and hollow-eyed, though stUl yenng, and he was decently clad In a well-worn volretine suit, with large, bronxe b tfems. There was a smack of Jn country about him, waif as he was in the midst of London, nnd his accent, jo far sn X could judge, was that of 1 orkslr re or Northumberland"Ycu are ill, 1 fear." I inquired, "nnd perhaps n stranger to London" . "N gh clemmed in this blessed Lou qo of yours, paved wi' golden guineas, onr old crone say tip in Craven " ftutlered the country n an in the same th -, reedy volet; paved wf traps, V I. nnd cattse for it, shkos ail that sFoiwytbersiorsd up, whotkerferBess

and Ben or for me " and the he would have fallen but for mv assistance. Clearly the man was fainting; and from starvation. We bad walked sons distance. In tempting proximity, at the corner of a aide street, was a house, over the door of which, in great gold letters, gleamed the words ''Luncheon liar." Into this, quite instinctively, I half dragged, half hustled the man. It was the middle of the day, luncheon-time, a brisk hour for business in the citv. in the eating and drinking line at least, and the place I bad entered was full of customers, young men .mostly, noisily chatting over their sandwiches. As I flung open the swinging-door I felt sure that I caught a glimpse of my uncle's confidential clerk on the pavement outside. " Mr. Jenkins!" I called out. but he evidently did not hear me, but pasted on.

1 nere was a rnsn of excited young j lerows lowara us "net yon ties drunk!" "Four to five he's dead!" ' Kun overf and so forth - and it was not immediately that I could iret some lostorallv e. But the poor country roan' s ', 1 ace was una, jus eyes close a, nis teeth fast shut, and he could swallow nothing. Then a doctor was sent for, and tne doctor was slow in coating, and I had explanation after explanation to give, first to the dull-witted landlord, who came blinking out of a back parlor; t hen to inquisitive customer; and when, at hut, a breathless surgeon, hastily summoned, came panting in at the heavy swing-door, amid the surging crowd, there was a necessary word or so with him. "But where Is my patient?" asked the bewildered msn of science; and. indeed, the "poor fellow" who was the object of all this stir bad disappeared in the midst of the hubbub, and with him had vanished the heavy, steelclasped, black morocco poeketbook, which I remembered too late to have incautiously laid on a table in the flurry and confusion of our sudden and awkward entry, and which was gone, pitilessly gone. "Cyril Vanghaa, I always deemed you to be a simpleton soft, as we Yorkshire chaps say but now I know Jrou to be a knave?1 thundered out my rate uncle, the north country accent in his wrathful voice becoming unusually predominant. "Had you not been my relative, had not my girl who shall never be the wife of such a scoundrelbegged you off. I would have prosecuted you as I would any other rogue, and sent you to quarry stone among convicts at Dartmoor or Tortlaad. As it is, i won't hear another wort! of your lies or your excuses. Go, go! or I shall forget Lucy's pleadings, and act as a citiren, and not as a father. The 'confidence trick,' eh? The countryman the I am not your dupe, lad! Go and get yourself hanged elsewhere! You won't starve on the sum of which you hare robbed me." Then came a terrible three monthsit was that or more a time of depression, of crnshe 1 spirits, a half-broken heart for me. That I was wrongfully suspected gave me but cold comfort. 1 was innocent, but Lucy was Um to me; my prospect were blighted, no one would give work to me, and I was poor, and sinking fast into the direst depths of want I remember how pale, and thin, and shabby I had become, when I received a visit from my uncle's lawyer. Mr, Wor.launt. "Mr. Vaughan, you wonder to see nte." said the shrewd solicitor, as he took the broken chair I die ml him -my wretched room In a suburban lodging-house contained but one "but I come now as a messenger of good tiding. Do you remember a serving man, Enoch Clint by name, who 11 your uncle my client, Mr. Bralthwaite, engaged some six weeks before the unlucky affair of the stolen money f He was a smart young fellow with excellent testimonials ail forged, by the bye and made himself useful both in the house and in the stable yard, and was vastly popu'ar with his fellow-servants on account of his powers of mimicry and the juggling tricks whioh he could perform I had an indistinct recollection of having seen and heard of such a person in mr uncle's household, and 1 said so, wondering how there could be anything in Enoch Clint to concern mc "This Fnoch Clint." said Mr. Mcrdaunt slowly, "was a north countryman." 1 stared at him, scrt'ly puaried. "He was your countryman," drawled out the shrewd lawyer, and then a light broke in upon me, and I grew sick and dissy. and could hardly hear Mr. Mordaunt's friendly voice as he said, ahakIng my passive hand the while; "You have been sorely wronged, Mr. Vaughan. I, for one, belie ml you gulltv, for which 1 heartily beg your pardon. Now, listen to me. This poor wretch, Enoch Clint, wi two days since run over by a heavily-laden van, not fifty yards from his master's door, and carried back to the house, the crushed and blood-stained wreck of a man. He asked for his master, and. Mr. Brathwnlte being absent, he prayed to see Mis Lucy. To her, in the doetor's presence, the dying man gasped out some inarticulate confession, clearing you from all blame but that of a credulity, purdonable at your age, and implicating most seriously another person. At his own desire his broken statement was, by the doctor's help, taken down in writing, but he died before the narrative was complete. Miss Lucy had an interview with her father, I need scarcely say, on his return home, as a se juel to which, Mr. BroithwaMe, more agitated than I had ever known him to b. called on me, and laid the matter before me. We, too, had along talk, and the result of It that on the following morning 1 received a visit from --have you guessed It? the conf dentlal otork. Air. Jenkins. " Onr Mr. Jenkins?" I returned, jterplexed by the half-comic e- pression of the solicitor's faos.

Tour Mr. Jenkins, if you will ding to the ancient formula, assented the lawyer, with twinkling eyes. l"sat commercial luminary came to ma blandI5. unsuspecting, for, as it tamed out, he had not oven heard of the death of his aocomplios. My first a t, when he had made his bow and seated himself in the client's chair, was to shut the door and look it When he heard the click of the lock ha stared, and turned as pale as his shirt -collar. "Now.my friend,' I said to him, in a frank, pleasant way. my advice to you is. for your own good, to make a eiesa breast of it at once." "Then you should have seen the ingenious wonder of his intsresting countenance. "Excuse me, Mr. Mordaunt but I cannot have heard you aright' he said, alter a pause. " Oh, yes, you have,1 said L shaking a finger at him. 'Come, come, Mr. Jenkins, it is time for you to drop the sheep's clothing, and stand forth as the wolf you are-Amly this I promise, in Mr. Rraithwaite' s name, that if your revelations le full and ample you shall have gentler and more generous treatment than yon deserve.' " A stormy colloquy ensued. Once I thought the man meant to strike me, but there was something In my eye that restrained him. I suppose, for next he began to sob. and then to whine like a beaten hound, as, sitting on the edge of my writing-table, and glaring at the carpet, he stammered out a confess 'on, which I reduced to writing, and to which he presently affixed his reluctant signature. " The revelation, when this slippery witness was at length brought to make it he did not know, you see. Mr. Cyril how much his colleague had confessed was a tolerable complete one. He had, it seemed, an especial malice against yourself, as the kinsman and future partner and heir of the employer whom it had been the business of nut life to dupe by a show of seal and a display of mock honesty I say, mock, because, probably, when the books come to be over-hauled, it will be found that this was not the first time of a betrayal of trust And Mr. Jenkins thought too. that young as you were, you did not share Mr. Bralthwaite' s high opinion of him. and might one day ask troublesome questions. "Wherefore, by the help of a forged character, be got this fellow Clint Into your uncle's service, put him up to the trick which he had played on you Clint had been alow comedian, mountebank, and thimble-rigger in his timeami received from Clint himself, at the door of the city public house, the morocco poeketbook containing the gold and notes which you in the hurry and excitement of the moment had Why, Mr. Vaughan. you are ill?" But if he said more I beard it not for I was weak with kmc privation and sleeplessness, and the blood surged up to my temples, and there was a roar as of wares in my ears, and I sank fainting on tin floor. I have not much more to tell. How cordial, and self-reproachful even, was the reception which my uncle, Mr. Brathwaite, extended to me, or with what tearful joy my Luey'a eyes met mine, are easy to imagine, but difficult to describe. "I wronged you, my boy, and 1 thank Heaven that 1 was wrong in what I thought" dd the old man, with a sob in his imperious voice: "Lucy, here, knew you best" John Bcrwvk:

llosks vs. the Power ef ObserraMea. It was lately remarked in these columns that one of the dangers attendant on education was that it might lessen men's powers of observation. There is no doubt we apprehend, that this possibility does exist Bookishness ana absence of mind are no new faults among students. Among the more cultivated classes they have, indeed, been for a considerable time in process of diminution, and the last half-century more particularly has seen a great change in this respect Physical science has roused students, who in former ages woukl hare been abstract thinkers and nothing more, to careful and stead v observation of external things. Facilities of traveling hare acted as another stimulus in the same direction; and the love of nature has been a power over sentimental minds, and has 'ed them insensibly from a quiet enjoyment of their surroundings to more active investigation. So that altogether the classes which at the present day hare the advantage of the higher education are far more observant than were their forerunners of three or four centuries ago; and, though eren now many of the mathematicians and philosophers who walk the streets of our universities live largely in a mood of abstract thought we must be careful of finding undue fault with this, for the inward eye has some el aims not lightly to be despised. But, with respect to the mass of the nation, the question we have raised is one that de serves a good deal of attention. Popular education is still in the bookish stage; and, without complaining of what is Inevitable, we may and ought to inquire whether literary atudy does now in the lower ranks promote' thst vice of inobservance whioh it certainly promoted in the higher ranks a century or two ago. Equally we have to inquire whether the virtue which is the converse of this error may be fostered; whether and how the study of books may be made to minister to powers of direct observation, instead of being adverse to them, and to aisist in the general business of lite Popular Science Jfbtstsfy. Major John Harold having recoV" ered a verdict of $80,00u against the 2fow York Elevated Kailroad for person il injuries it had Inflicted upon him, the road carried the ease Into three higher iwWHsV but the verdict s4nok

Columbus Brown, the maa who d'.s severed a boa oontstinmga huge amount of money at Franklin, Venango County, Pa., had long bad a mania for discovering the treasure which was thought to havs been buried by the French while in possession of that part of the country. He had dreamed of finding it again and again. The other night he dresmed. as usual, that ho was counting and handling a chest of gold, and that be had found it buried in the earth at the foot of a tree, in an open field. 80 excited was he that he awoke, only to find it all a dream, as usuaL He arose, walked to the window, and there, before fain, m the field, stood the Identical tree which he had seen in hisdieam, but be put H resolutely aside as a dream, as most sensible men would have done, and retired to bed and to sleep. He bad scarcely closed bis eyes till he was again in the field and digging at the root of the tree. Ho was informed in some manner, he cannot tell how, hot by a man with a foreign accent and in a military uniform, with a sword and sash, that if bo would measure a certain d 'stance from the center of a rook in the run, doe north, and then measure thirty-three feet due west from that point be would And the treasure he had so often seen in hut dreams. Early the next morning he arete, and. procuring a tape line, went and measured as be had been directed in his dream. What was his surprise to find thst each and every measurement brought him to the foot of the chestnut t ee In the open Held. Brown did not tell any one about his dream, nor of the result; but during the dav he went to Colonel Breakiey, who owns the ground, and asked and obtained permission, 00 some pretext to dbg near the chestnut tree. He and his son, a lad of sixteen, commence 1 digging at the root of the tree, and at a depth of something over six feet about four p. m.. struck something almost under tue center of the tree which gave forth a metallic sound. A further clearing away of the gravel and stones disclosed the sides or end of an iron box or chest Wild with excitement they continued to dig until they had unearthed the chest or box. which was thirty-one inches long, twenty inches wide, and tweatvfour inches deep, or about the dimensions of an ordinary trunk. Their united efforts could only turn it over, but could not lift it from the excavation. The young man was sent for a hammer and cold chisel, and the lid was soon removed. The sight which met their gase was enough to turn the head of any man. The box was nearly two-thirds filled with gold and silver coin, tarnished and covered with sand mold, but nevertheless gold. The coin 4 are mostly French, but a nnmber of English, German and Spanish are mong the lot They bear dates 1729, 1744. 175L and various other dates, the latest of which is 1754, which is the

ear fort macnauit was com- ' On a brace ruler found In the chest the name "JoncaJre" is pta'nly stamped. It is a well-known fact that this was the name of the officer in command of the French troops. A careful estimate of the coins mane a total value of about t7,00U The coins were fdaeed on exhibition at the banks. The ortunaie owner has been oflered ten times Its value for a single coin. I'kiladtlphia frcss. sWeaking Jf Is Meart It was a clothing dealer on the Bowery, and as the slab-sided young maa opened the door he rubbed his hands over each other and said: "Come in, my front I guess you vhas looking for an overcoat Try on disone, for seven dollars." "Thankee. I've got about eighty dollars in my pocket, and I thought "Ah! Mine front you vhas come to the right blaee. How you like a blue suit for ten dollars!" "I've got about eighty dollars In my pocket and was looking for " "Take dts gray for fourteen dollars. Yon never bad such a bargain in all your porn days." "As I was saying, I've got about eighty dollars, and 1 want to buy a pretty fair one." "Here is one all wool for twelve dollars; shamp right into H." "A pretty fair one, with silver plated handles," continued the young man. "I've got eml I'm dor only dealer in all New York who keep oaforgoats tnit silver blated handles." "I don't mean overcoats." "Nor "I mean oofflns! Let's see your latest fall styles." "My front" whispered the dealer, as he took his arm, I uon't keep gofflns. Vhen I realise dot you haf eighty dollars In your pocket, und I ha re no gofflns to solL I feel dot I might m hell gif oop dis mad straggle for riches, lutf some pity on a broken-hesrte 1 man, und take two bed- ,u!lts at three dollar apiece, nnd let dot goflin go." Wall Mreet Yitr. A banjo-piayer in Boston the other night had an audience reaching from that city to Irovkienos, the music in the latter city being, it is said, very distinct. The central telephone office was called and asked If musk; was wanted, and an affirmative answer being given, the player began. A number of other otnees were notified, and for fifteen minutes telephone employes in several neighboring ehies and towns wore entertained. Mrs. John Kreider, of Leamaa Place, Pa,, has prepared n album, containing locks of hair iron, the bends of 1,104 of her relati' ns and friends. Each ringlet is held In it place by a piece of vitmmL. with lata natms of the slssaar ss sf"eraswssae seasa pssess ssssunasnus s sapa' wjpusvps

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Cnuusnh. so well known tot bo 1 am (of Uvisgooe's lils wadJTnwlth Livingstune when ho died. It Is the opinion of Evi Barnes that Mr. Moody Is nuking morn Chn tisas than any man living, and Mr. IngersoU more tnnde!s.--M T, Ttme. Mrs. Bay, the first wnsnaa who to LoadviUe, dug in the the p sins as a scoot took in washing, an I now has a fortune of $1,000,000. ban Frtmcuco Gkroniclt, The Attorney-General of Quoboo, Mr. Joseph Alfred Monasson. recently appointed a gentleman a Justice of thn Pea -e. and officially notifying hint wrote: "As I have boon Informed tsust a certain number of those whom I have raised to the position of J. P. ana dead and burled, you will bo khsst enough to lot mo know before ton days whether you are dead or alive. In onto you do not reply within the next tarn oaysyou wui 00 Henri Comte de PHs James, who la visiting San Francisco, chums to be a direct decendant of James the Booond. His mother, a real Stuart married n French nobleman. The Count who Is a Lieutenant in the Second Begimeat at French Iragoons. says that Amorloa Is "the best place In the world to makn money, the most charming place In the world for the tourist and the most admirable place in the world for thn sportsman." He has been hunting thn buffalo and grissly for three months. Miss Esmeralda Boyle, who was the leading spirit ht organizing the 4Literary Society of Washington'' at Mm. Dahtgreu's homo, is the daughter of an old naval officer, whose eccentricity was to name his children for whatever port r place he was in at the time ef their birth. Hence one of his daughters was named Oceana, being born while he was among the South sea Islands, and another Pacifioa, for the same reason. A son hie named Juan Fer nsndes, because he had been visiting that Island just before the child wan born. Miss Esmeralda was born am Spain and spent her childhood at Madeira. CAicooo Tim. Frank Lumbard, a well-known campaign-singer of Chicago, whoso death was recently announced, left his wise and daughter penniless. So long ago as lS&t Frank was singing at poiitiosl gatherings, and in the days of the war no public assemblage in Chicago was complete without him. Ho wont to Vicksburg with the Sanitary Communion in 186H, and sang "Old Shady." "The Star-Spangled Banner." "John Brown" and other patriotic songs to the hoys ht the field. During the Uncoln-MeChn-lan campaign in 1864 be sang at hundreds of meetings In Illinois, and m thn congressional and presidential easnnahrns since that time his voice has nW aaigns ways beard Chiomffo iresm. HUMOMKJft. They tell of a woman who looks at food and her hangar is Makea splendid wife for a poor In those days of Jugfc prtoss. Younsr Irauoewife: "What able Ut'le eggs! You must really test them. JansVto let the ben sit on them a little longer, or w mast change A Boston man has discovered a was of roan lag sewing machines by hot ahi We can furnish him plenty of ninetyeignt negroes m too snaae next Vctruu rree rress. " Do you subscribe to all the articles of the Athanasian creed?" was asked an old lady. "No, I don't! I can't afford it There's a collection next week for the convention fund, and I can't do any mors," was ths reply. Cnfcsjge Tribune. A Philadelphia maa has invented n doll which creeps, sings and, if wound ap at bsd-time. will veil like a wild Indian right in the middle of the night The Pmmdehmm Newt man advises sat young fellows contemplating mstttmony to buy one each and enow they like it N no tenths of the crime of the world is perpetrated after randowa, and If the Society for the Prevention of Crime ht sincere in its work. It will hn mediately ask Congress to enacts law to prevent tbe sun going down before ton o'clock p. m.Norrut9wn BtmUL Scone on railroad platform at Heidelberg. Traveler to university student: " Sir, you are crowding; keep back, sir." U: a, fiercely, "Wt you like it? Allow me to tell you that 1 am at your service at any time and place." Traveler, benlgnantly: "Oh, indeed: that is very kind of yon. Just carry this sacbel to the hotel" DeIroit Fret Yeas. A Falling out once Occurred between the Stomach and the Other Mont bars of the Body, whereupon an lUnsss of all Ensued. "See, now." said the Other Members, "what a Blamed Fool you are, for Instead of t dug tbe Healthy, Comfortable stomach yon 0000 Wore, you are Now red, iced to tbe Morttoationof Keen ng Cases for a Drug Store,1' Denver Tnoun-Primtr. Mrs. L. F. M. W hat hi bakinsr-nowder? Wo don't exactly know. ma' ant The The - Biae-Up Willgood one, and the b ten t half had. lam-B ley" fa f fltw4nPa TVuattiP There's0 the "liH-Up-and-Olt" will that do for von? Or. won! lika thm " timid KtantfirP' 1w tea von the truth. Mrs. L. F. M., plain ddfashloned ;east Is good enough for ht. But if yon must use unnatural moans to make your broad rise, we ll sent yon oust of tne poems wo got.