Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 26, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 December 1883 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C DOANK. JPuTnituhMs. JAbTKU. INDIANA. HAiU TUG!' NKW YKAlt. thou New Year ! tho thou bant oome fiM) aaTftfttt V2a i-IJ rU,R! "! hi. crown, . AS4" " Jr o 'Time down to die. 1 88 tw,n pf him. ud learned u know fheliMito aol virtue or the dear Old Ywr. He l"Jrtt me manr a comfort, mauy a joy, Altboufcab. jres-he caused me many a But for the tears, ai qfleo as ther Bow'. M fsvetnc unace, be nv m suite urain. And UuMnie to look upward to HopVs And see la rainbow gUMuain through the retu. The dear U W Year ! He eane m merrily A thou dost Oomw, just twelve short month And nwcur he ha grown old at hurt. Shall we forget the dUthlul lifer Ah, no! 'Thou art a straurer: what know wen of thee? V pnmOtm mmy all tie fair and brtsrht: WBut wSmy a mornta dawning cloudlessly Ha bruMfht a weary dar and tortay Bleat. U, wo will welcome thee, ay, trust thee, two: JJT fair and ypanx and irlad, and wo TJr wlf rair and ypenx and find, ai M, Mlne on shy reum, kln, "thee '' tmk" y throoo from WHAT CAMS Of IT. "And now, good-bye! I'm off for the turkey, girit! Ws ocntld not have otto for Carotin as, but we will have one for New Tear's Day." It wa Theo Clyde who spoke, m she tied a faded trine veil over her straw hat and drew a shabby fur cape close around her white throat. She was a very pretty piri, with tarouoise-blue eyet .nnd a dash of scarlet in her cheeks anil-lip. If yon get your money, youjjkrean," said stalely Marian, Theo's elder sister, who wore her calico wrapper with the grace of a Prince ro al. O. MissBriarby la always punctual, and she will be satisfied with the (Irene, 1 know." 'And be sure you get applet and raisin for th mince-meat, Theo." crKd Mslge, the youngest of all. "Let's have, a real Christinas dinner . to-morrow, if it is a week late. It's so long ain.-e we've had a nice dinner!" ' Hut I'm only to get three, dollar for the drew, on know, Madge. I'll do the best I can with that.'- And, Hatching up a small basket containing tbe newly-tinished dress, Theo tripped awav in cav spirits. The three prl kept house in the vi idow Spring n-third-story front room. inswe, tne air wax air wax nuld ana balmv ax a .ummer morning, but outHide it wa.t sharp and keen, and a tine, powdery snow wa beginning to fall. The dress gave entire atiFaetion, and Miss Briarby wished Theo a happv New Year. Theo's purchaser were soon made. Such a plump turkey! It almost filled the banket on her arm. Then to the meat shop for beef and suet: aud the Jolly meat-man threw in a freah. crisp bunch of celery, smitten to Ute. heart, no doubt, by Theo's bright eyes and ruby lips. Next, two pounds of raisin, mi rich and sugary it made one's mouth water to Ittok at them. Half a dollar rema ned, and Theo entered a ft-uit atore, tempted bv the dis play of golden-hued oranee and ba-1 nana, Hraxilian date, choice clustent of Malaga grapes, iitwiou tigs and odor ous pineapples. Th gas was brillianUv lighted imdde. for the short December day was fat drawing to a close. A man in a slouched hat and seedy overcoat lounged in after Theo, and stood leaning against the counter. Now, then, what do you wantF" dejnanuen ine proprietor, roughly. "Nothing1 was the low reply. 'Then the sooner you get out of her te better!" blustered the vender of tmnieal fruits. "We don't harbor tmmne!" 'Tm not a tramp," answered the Mramrer. "Then you're drunk: and get out of mmn neiore i cat i a policeman: "For shame! Ofor shame!" cried xneo, wiui oiaximr eyes. "To treat a human bein eo on New Year's Eve, too!'' "He's an impostor." asserted the hard-hearted dealer. "I've not tasted bread for two davs," said the men, in husky tones. "Here, sir," aud Theo followed the tnittger into the sttVet; "take this." And she thrust her lasket into his "No, nor said "I " the poor man. "But you must! Yon will need it And take this, too!'' And she forced him reluctantly to accept her purse, also, and then quickly hastened away. 43ut's coming!" cried Madge, flying to the open dor. is a faint footstep stranded on tne stairs. "The basket must be heavy, she walks so slowly. Now for the tttrkry w hv. Theo, yon haven't brought it! Wa'it too heavy? Are they going to send it?" Tbeo rotated her adventure. "And I'm only sorry you and Marian will be disappointed, she added, re ffratfnllv. "Yon did aurtnoUr right. ' saM Marinn, heroically. "We are not starving yet, thank sadness! and he was, poor But Theo sUH shook her head, and the teats ssfjrkied In her eyes. Til rnd yew gave It to hhn," eried Mndfa, nnd addtd, softly, "Yon know, Theo, who has said: Inaentnoh as ye hnve done It unto the least of these, ye have dan H unto Mel" The white nine floor had been washed and aeonred within an inch of Ba Ufv: the brightly-polished window-panes shoot and shlatmered, at if daring ont

to look at them and not blink: the round brass knobs on the uld-fasbioued walnut sideboard beamed good-naturedly in tbe slant rays of the morning son; a pot of briglrt yellow chrysanthemums stood in one of tie white-curtained windows, fragrant and full of bloom, and a handsome tortoise-ahell cat took hi mdrnlng nap on a braided rug lefore. the lire. The three housekeepers washed up taelr brvakfat-ervi4ef and swept the mom and dusted, and put to rights with a seal worthy st least of a more extended kphere of at tioo. Suddenly a heavy, lumbering step was heard on titn stair, and a sounding rap on Um door caused a momentary panic in the little room. Marian, rallying first, opened the door. "A box, mum, for Miss Theo Clydeexpenses tmid. mum." The girls looked at each other in astonishment. There's no direction on tbe box,"

Kl Marian, examining it carefully. "It's a mistakeit's not for us,'rs Then. 'Let's open it," cried Madge. "It ean't hurt us, anyway, and she produced a hatchet. They pounded and pried at the lid, bruised their fingers, and finally got the box open and exposed to view a plump turkey. r r "And raisins!" cried Madge, pulling open a paper -bag and filling her mouth with the contents. And beef! And suet! And oelery!" said Marian. Ibeo looked up a if stupefied. Why, It's miner' she exclaimed at last "Of course it's yours! Who said it wasn't?" answered Madge, helping herself plentifully to the raisins again. 'But it's what I bought and gave to the roan!" persisted Tiioo. But you didn't buy oranges and lemons and three big pineapples, did your' asked Marion. still incredulous 'No; but I bought the, other things I know they an the satne. And look; Marian, look, Madge, here's my pure, too, with tbe half-dollar still in it! What can it mean?" No one could tell. But wonders will never to. Another knock sounded on the door. Theo ojiened it, her lips and checks warlet with exc itement. Before her stood a man in a slouched hat and needy overcoat, muffled up to hbs chin. Tbeo reco jnlt d him. Come in," she -ommanded, imperiously, "sndtell u the meaning of f hw." And she poii.ted to the ooen box. where figw and raisins lay scattered noout. orantri's ana iiuet lav in cIom , proximity to pineapples antf leef. and the turkey had fallen helplenft on hit naokr among the rosy pearmains that lined the bottom of the box. where lie held up one plump drum stick, as if beseeching the sympathy of the pectator. The tramp walked ohligingly m. He Jul led off the seedy overcoat: he threw own his slouched hat: and there stood a handsome, broad-houidered young man, with gray eos and crisp chestnut hair. Cousin Tom!" cried Marian, astounded. Whv, Cousin Tom!" echoed Madge. But Theo stood silent, with drooping eves and blushing cheek-. "Ami have vou no irreetinjr for me. Theo?" aked Tom -who. bv-tfm.wav. was only a thinl r fourth cousin, after an. Thro shook her head. "Mow do I know but thnt yen art an imposter?" beakod. Tom laughed. " I had no intention of deceiving you. I thought I recognized yon on the street, but It was io dirk I followed you into the fruit-store in order to be certain before venturing to speak." " But yon said you hadn't tasted bread for two days," pouted Theo, relenting A little, " Well, I hadn't. You see. our train was snowed up for nearly a week, and the bread all gave out; we had plenty of meat, and pie, and cake, tbougn, so we didn't miss the bread much." " But what a seedy old coat and hat!" said Madge, eyeing the cast-on garments suspiciously. "They are rather seedy, to be sure." said Tom. "Tbe fact Is, when we changed cars I chanced to be taking a nap, and when the conductor suceeettea in rousing me that ooat and hat were the only ones left in the car; so It was Hobson s choice, at you see." While Marian and Madge were flit ting about the room roast:ng the tnrkey, chopninir mincemeat, seasoninr the pltim-puddlng, and laying the table for four, Theo and Cousin Tom stood by the window, whispering together over the yellow chrysanthemums. "Ann you it never, never get jealous any more, asked Iheo, with averted face ami tell-tale check. "NeVer." declared Tom. And he slipped a plain gold rintr on her rinswc and perhap stow a air kias, while the two aistem discreetly batted the turkey who knowsf Ctooayo Tritm$u. To the criticisms of families la the Mohawk Valley that the munet of their ancestors on the Oriskany nMnument are spelled as the old names were and not at tne modern are, tne uuea iirraw replies that the monument was not erected to the living but to the dead, and defends the Oneida Istootteaf society In adhering to the actual meth ods of spelling which prevailed among the better educated daseet of the Mohawk Valley one hundred years ago. New York bat a elub called the "Tltlans," to which no one of smaller stature than aix feet and four Inches la admitted. iv. F. 2Vfw.

The Hre Bet an Issue, It Is wonderful with what persitncy the Republican ed tors are nam mariner away at the Houtliera outrage" hti-t-nes. They have apparently seined upon thin a the basi of their campaign work, and are determined to put ft forward as the chief argument of their oanvaKs. Nothing mor strongly Illustrates the weukn of their cause than the resurrection of this thoroughly dead isue. It wat worked for all it was worth in 1176. and vet the doubtful States of New York. New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana went Democratic, and with sufficiently large majorities to te'tle once for all the failure of such an Ustie to make Republican voters. The people of thi country will not be led by the no by scheming Republican politicians, and thU is plain to everybody. Tbe Republican editors, however, profew not to know it, and are now busy at work trying to create a public sentiment calculated to provoke hostility between the sections upon tbe ground of the antipathy of the white people of the South toward the negro. This will certainly fail, for the simple reason that tbe voters of the North have now other and more important questions to consider than the political status of the negro. After tbe war, when the South vu in a chaotic condition, there might have been some reason why benevolent people would take a lively interest in tbe negro from s natural dWre to protect him from the pasnions which the war had produced; but after twenty years of peace, and with all these passions allayed, and the intermingling which common interests has made necessary, no such sentimental feeling exists, and no iiring of the Northern heart is needed. The negro has made trouble enough in this country already.

ana tne peace of the nation requires that this disturbing element le taken out of politic!. There is no doubt that the people of the North agree with this sentiment, and will so declare if this subject 14 again for ed into prominence. The man who would deliberately reopen such an exciting topic and parade before tbe public eye the exaggerated evidences of Southern hostility to the negro, simply to stimulate the failing fortunes of a political party, is no friend of peace and good government, and has not at heart the welfare of his country. He is simply a fomeuter of strifes and discords, and deserves no place in the considerations of patriotic people. Tite issued of the time are thoroughly and intensely practical. They have to do with the material development of industrial activities and the advancement of the people who contribute to the wealth and progress of tbe Nation. Whether labor hall have better protection against the organised oppressions of capital and whether tbe burdens of taxation shall be lightened so that patient toiler shall be able to live tolerably and decently and not dig and delve for their masters like so many slaves these are the questions of the hour transcending far the sentimental love for tbe negro, and above and beyond such clap-trap as our Republican friends would put forward for publio consideration. The laboring millions of tbe country, whose wants and needs have for years been overlooked by senseless clamors for negro rights, are not likely to grow enthusiasUe over supposed negro wrongs when they with better and stronger claims to National interest cannot get an audience, denied tbem by the very men who now clamor for negro sympathy. Tbe cry of the skilled workman in the factory and in the shop has never had an answering response from these Republican enthusiasts except to give the capitalist mora opportunity tn double his dividends, and it is not at all likely that the forgotten laborer will rend his shirt over negro difficulties in the South while his own claim tn publio attention has never neen needed. The negro has had more care and more publio sympathy and attention than the white man The whole force and power of the Government has been exerted In his behalf. Congress has declared itself to be his friend, and ReCblicau statesmanship has exhausted elf devising ways and means for his benefit and advantage. He has no reason to complain and no amount of political clamor will secure him further attention If in following the fortunes of men who were willing to disorganise all social laws and customs and ruin anything and everything hurt so that their selfish ambition might prosper, negroes found themselves m antagonism to the well-being of the State and the interests of her oiUaens, and involved themselves in trouble, the industrious mechanic who minds his business and seeks by patient labor to advance himself, need not be called on to espouse such a quarrel, and eertaialy not to take issue against the race of which he fat a part. The thousands of id'e, shiftless negroes la the South, who neglect their work to turn politicians and stand about the polling places prating of rights of wak h they know nothing, and spend:ng their time encouraging idleness among others, these are not worth the attent on of thinking people, and yet it is this olass who are always getting Into trouble and from which the election Hots come. It Is the height of absurdity to make such a crowd of thoughtless idlers and loafers the basts far political issues, and invite the attention of the country to their local fights and brawls as topics of National interest. Wo have had enough of the mgro as an element ia political contidevntkui. Be has the same protection which the white man has, and if he violates the peace and gets into trouble he hat ail eedfttl remedtet for defense nod deliverance. He Is no mora a National issue, and no amount of ex cited datamation nan make him

Tbe reconstruction measures constituted a bold attempt to destroy oar political system, and murder the liberties of the people. The essential guarantee of freedom, extorted from the crown after many centuries of struggle and bloodshed on the part of the people in Kngiand, secured in Magna Chart a, and copied into our Constitutions, were here, al a single blow cloven down, and a military despotism estaU lished on their ruins. Alas! for the

recklessness of unhallowed ambition and partisan cupidity. The partisans who did it, kmowingly set aside the Constitution they had sworn to support, and tniiljully and uunwWy trampled down its most sacred and es sentlal provisions. This was a solemn warning to the people against the dangers attending even the most positive Saraatees of their liberties in a writi Constitution, when the Dan tons, Robespierres and Marats have the lead in public affairs. If the impeachment of President Johnson had been successful, and Ben Wade had been put into his place, the myrmidon of power, under the lead of Thad Stevens, would have taken the control of affairs, and this country would have had to pass through the horrid scenes of the French revolution. By a narrow escape the country was saved such barbarous and Inexpressible calamities. The attempt to ran Grant for a third terra was a futile and remote expedient to accomplish the same result. Whon Haves became President through the extraordinary device of the Electoral Commission, " be was weak enoujrh ' (as the Radicals termed it) ' to think that there was some vitality left in the old Constitution," and therefore with drew the army from the Southern States. And for this he was proscribed aud excommunicated from his party, and has never since had even a respect ful recojrniUon irom the Radical ma or itv. That the Radical makiritv intend. ed to continue tne military Government over the Southern States as subjugated provinces for twenty years, as Thad Stevens said, or until the relations of the Southern States as members of the federal Union were utterly destroyed, is manifest and undeniable. They made a mistake in Hayes, and publio opinion has been running against them. That the radical Republican majority intended a revolution in our political system; that they designed to use the results of the war to destroy and blot out the States, centralize all power in the Federal Government, Is clear and certain. For this purpose the solemn pledge of .the public faith and honor under tbe Crittenden Resolution w: shamelessly repudiated. The destruction of what Clay denominated "the fairest fabric of human government that ever rose to animate tbe hopes of civilized man" was not only attempted and intended, but so far accomplished as actually to destroy for a time ten States as mem oers at tne federal union. Had this political nartv at the do of the war carried out the pledge of the urmenden Kesotutton and restored the Union, "with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unim paired,'' and aimed to cultivate peace. amity and fraternity with the people of the Southern States, which true states manship required, it would have cured for itself the respect of the world and the connoenoe of tne country. But. Alas! the Radical leaders never rose to a comprehension of any such magnanim ity or elevation of thought. Lust of partisan power and public plunder tilled their minds. Revolution, the centrali sation of all power in the Federal Government, and the destruction of tbe Southern States as States of the American Union they viewed as essential to their partisan ascendency. For this they were willing to sacrifice not only the Constitution and the Union, but the last great experiment of man for free government. "Liberty! bow many crimes are committed in thy name!4 Truly has it been said: - Man's tnhMMuutitr to man Makes countless thousands mourn." A man who murders, or attempts to murder another man from base and selfish purposes. Is an object of abbot renoo to mankind in general. But a man, or set of men, who murder or attempt to murder tbe liberties of a whole people, valued far beyond the sanctity of human life, commits a crime which, in turpitude and atrocity, defies the power of human language t define or express. Victor Hugo, with all his great descriptive powers, has taken a whole volume to portray in his " History of a Crime " the magnitude and atrocity of the crime of the usurper, Louis Napoleon, in robbing the people of France of their liberies, nnd substituting a military despotism for the Republic of that country. American Bcjirter. Hat Likely ft Fire the Northern Heart. What do the Republicans expect to do with the old mildewed ami motheaten bloodvuhirt in 1884? It didn't fire the Northern heart la 1876, and it Is not likely to do it now. ; The fact is. It was never anything but a cloak to hide the nefarious acts of the Repub lican cspetbaBgera when they had Federal bayonets to hack their despotic rule of the Southern States. This outrage business never determined the re sult of a alack) la a Northern State except when the revnfanoa of popular sentiment, which the persistent viiinoation of the South finally created, brought kVpobliean States into Use DswMoratic comma. How, then. Is It to benefit the Republican party at thla late day? There art no Southern States except Virginia ia the power of a Republican Executive, and Mahone need not hope to do such acts nnder the cover of the bloody shirt as were dun la Louisiana and other Southern States la 187&reanps.

A review recenLly started In a .e.M .a a. .a

at eauued crroan, tne benur to skim the America. Sojourner Truth's real that which had been given to her by her lirt master --was Isabella Harden burg. A', r. Stttt. - Congressman Lanham, of Texas, represents a district of eighty-seven counties, some of which are as large as Mnssachusotta. - Miss Winnie HaU, of Temple. Tex., admits that she is the oldest old msid In America, if not in the wide world. She was one hundred years old the Amy. Chicago BerauL Fine bust noriraita of Adams and Van Huron have bees recovered from the garret of the White House, by President Arthur's order, and aung up tn tne Men rartor. -Mrs. George Bancroft, thewtft of rable historian, reached her the venerable eightieth birthday recently. She It de scribed as a very pretty lady, wonderful lv well preserved, and, indeed, mush healthier than her husband. The volume of voluminous speeches and eulogies of the late Senator Ben Hilt, authorised by the Legislature of Georgia, has at length been issued foor tbousand copies for the ute of the Senate and eight thousand for the use of the House. Mr. Carlisle, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, is moat happy m bis domestic relations. Ha . defers in everything to his genial and dignified wife, and frankly ackuowiedges his obligations to her for the success of bis public career. Their borne in Covington is proverbial for hospitality and good cheer. CUcay BeraUi. Long Branch, N. J., is the residence of Jason Butler, aged one hundred and five, and his wife, who la ninety-three. Mr. Butler proudly claims to be represented in all parts of the world, as he hat one ton doing missionary work in China, another a sailer now whaling in the Pacific, a grandchild in England, and a grand-daughter married to a trader in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It Is observed that, no matter how averse a man may be to walking, ha never takes kindly to riding a ratt. "Yes " said Dadofallowaki, "I always think of a physician when I tea one of those horrid gin mixtures." Make you sick?" "Oh no. bat it's a lias I shun. itWon use. Cheeky passenger: "Any fear tj1 my disturbing: tbe magnetic currents. Captain, by Ming near the compass?" Captain: "Oh, no, sir. Brass has ao enoct on it whatever, air." Ataes. Amesnberof the New Yoi Phonetic Club writes to this able nnd fatfiuentfad journal, asking nt to 'Nlrop the final ue in words so endhur. and speU dialog, epilog, etc, etc." Well, ck. We are willing to drop the a limhed extent, but when the we kick. ueto New York Language Club asks as to spall glue, gi, we protest. BurUmgtm IsunenMnsMtuns A trying case: "Oh nor she exclaimed, in consternation, "surely not, doctor!" "Yes," be said, "yon art eertaialy threatened with scarlet fever." "What shall I do, what shall I dor' the moaned, in great distrust. "O, doctor, couldn't vou throw it Into other kind of faverr Scarlet la so trying to dtlplAtOail. my Are; i coins; to the torut, Amyr' at of her mend. tbe htohschool Yss. sWar, I think Til go," waa the reply, "yen know Adolphie ha taught me a Bttis tne language, i can any no aucn and ans tusptM comrous.' Besides, I am food of Kraut ana ooiogna sausage, yon ans Mildred fatotedT -Otf CO Arris. "Do you know, thr, that vou outraged not only the fixed laws of society, but yon have lost the rsspset of your frienda and relations by nuu lying this mulatto?" said an irate father to his eldest eon. who stood in defiant at titude before him. "What it your exno for this grave and jTreaaedlshle of fense?" "I was coior blind,' was theplyof the "What are yon erynur ahontf Mked a kind-hearted stranger of a lad who was standing in front of a newa paper office weening nt if his heart would break. " O, dad's snsssnp stairs to lick tbe editor." "WelL has he me down yet?" pursued the couth) Samaritan. " Pieces of htm have? ex plained the boy, indulging fat a outburst of tears, "and I'm e the rest every nunute." AreeVys "Any Quail "Yessahr' Quail on "Tosstf Yessahr Strike, bat hour aw! Have von cot any quail on trust?'' "Ncsah! It't entirely out oh is etna, hr "we i inapottu. rinng nsa a glass of itor and n stale cracker and touauth

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out of Stnatn, He walked into a high totswi restaurant on Wejodwnrd avenue and seated Unseen at one of the tables with an air of butagat boms After polhuinga gtaaa aid uhnalng the eroton bag over tne plain, ho beckoned to a eoiertd nt ttsmwt: