Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 27, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 December 1884 — Page 7

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THE POKT'l DIFFICULTY. (A seer Pott, a tm session bavins promto iTPwNtjr Ulri to write an tide to her. found that toiutoady trwed to win tbt the ewbjest h beyond lit KeacU, and be CYur Jhsbffl after taw foUowtn mannwr : Tow aok tM ta writ you a poem. Don't roe know you're a poem you ralf. Which- betas? ooaipaml with my effort. Would appear as does china tu dotf ir Creator, who writ in the heavens

His verses wan Mar on uw inue,

muslo

you.

Ha srfven at rhythm and taui Vw a, wortd full of beauty; in ;

Way tlMNt eUtmM I write yon a pownt Why need I to tfUl rHlm4 imkl 1 aunt, it h true, paint the rainbow. But the colon, I fear, would be ooid. Toa assy think 1 am not actkia; fairly Aa tana I build line upon hue J eaa't write aa ak to a poem, You'll permit u therefore to decline. , JfercJkMt Travehr.

STAGE-STRUCK.

n uruei onuourm or

Hto Wife's Histrionic Attempt.

,": ip "'w11 plaj IsSJafS MpVa but the nenaantta

My dear,' said Mrs. Spoopendyke,

contemplating herself in the glass aa she removed ber hat and gloves. My dear, wasn't the theater lost too sweet

for anything! Do you know, I think' I

would like to go on the stage?"

"Like to drive, perhaps" suggested

Mr. Spoopendyke.

" I mean act," replied his wife. I

-think I could do it as well as any pi

those womea to-night Do you know much about theater? Is it hard?" "So," grunted Mr. Spoopendyke, tagging at hi boots. "It would be very easy for you. All you hare to do is stand around and talk, and you won't want any rehearsals for that" " But I would have to practice twisttag around ho a to fall in that man's arms likeehe did," niused Mrs. Spoop--endyke. " I don't think I could do it as gracefully as she did without trying several time. '' " That- the part you want to play, is it?" growled Mr. Spoopendyke. with a shade of trreen in his eve. ".you let

tne see vou fall on any man's shoulder like that, and you'll Hud no trouble in retting twisted around a few timet, what your idea in going on the stage? Have you got a stomach full of devotion to art like the rest of the women of this generation? Got a sort of notion that you can go on the boards and show the old stagers how it's done, haven't ye? Feel the tires of histrionic genius climbing up vour spine, don't ye? Well, you don t! It's nothing but your measly vanity. "Don't you think I would know how to act?'' she asked, pulling her crimp ever her forehead, assuming a stern exwasaion of visage, and stretching her arms down rigidly at her aides. " This it the way I would foil the villain." " I that what you call it?" inquired Mr. Spoopendyke, nursing his knee and glowering upon her. "It looks more as if you were bidding against another woman for a second-hand hair-cloth sofa at an auction. If that sort of thing is calculated to foil the villain, he must fte pretty light in the wait" 1 Inn't kiinw." smiled Mrs. Soooo-

endyke, rubbing her chin. " In all the plars I have ever seen, they always

drive the bad man off with a haugbty

look. Say, dear, isn't this the way . to

welcome a husband after a long absence?" and she parted her lips, gazed eagerly into space and extended her arms). "That's the way to hail a streetear!" grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "If yon want to make the welcome to the husband perfectly natural, you ought to have the smell of onions in the hall . and your back-hair in your mouth. Taat't the kind of welcome I always mm " ' "No you don't, either," protested Mrs. Spoopendyke. " I always ran right up to you and kiss you!" Weil there's a emell of onions about II soenewhere' persisted Mr. Snoopen- . ayk-. "What makes you stick your arm out like andiron?'" he demanded. " You look as If you were trying to keep "Anyhow, that's the way they do it," mgued Mrs. Spoopendyke. a trine abashed. Than, when they get the Miters teHtaff tbesn that their ancle has

speculated nway all their property, they 4 Ha this," and Mrs. Spoopendyke threw her hnad to her forehead, stag aered hack, and caturht hold of a chair.

"Which to e that, the uncle or

the pmoattvf aafod Mr. Spoopendyke, erafjtf the pWformanee with hhrh diafavrT "It looks something like the

property at the taH end of the spaculation, baHt resembles more accurately the uncle buying a lower berth tor Candn.' "I meant Hfor the orphan who had keen despoiled," murmured Mrs. Spoopeadyke, strmightenlng up and looking lattaer doWMSft "It was atended for an attitude of despair. How would you do It, this wsy?" and she sank into the ekair. covered her flee with her hands and sobbed violently. If 1 wanted to give the impression of a'tlgm hoot and cava I should do it Just that way, growled Mr. Spoopendyke. Should I throw my arms wrwald ttsttamly and let my send mil sof she inttired, suHing the gesture to the queThat's more like It," Bssented Mr. toopendyke with a grin.., Pfwple

-who hadn't seen the

mink you were eon the waabwtsainn. 1

"I don't earn." romuaaaratsd Ifm.

Spoonendyke; ! know I eouM sen If I

could get a chance. Now see as scorn

my lover when I find out that be loves me not and has been paying his addresses to the heiress,'' and she threw

her head back, stretched out one arm, and covered her face with a pale cost of loathing'.

"That might do, said Mr. Spoopen

dyke, slowly, " it looks to me like an attempt to borrow 92.60. Stick out the other band and make it five. I don't

know, though," be continued, "both arms would look like 'bring me me

ch-ild!' I guess you'd better stick to

the original amount. You'll be more ait to collect." 'Pi-rhujw you think I'd do better in comwlv." faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke. her spirit dashed by adverse criticUm. "Now, wc will supKMe that I am the cook who boiled the watermelon, and

you, as the master of the house, are en-'

raged with me. How will this do for the cook'x attitude of bewilderment and penitence?" She struck a comical attitude ami aaed al him aghast. "Don't r don't!" exclaimed Mr. Spooendvke, burying hia face in bis hands ami .tivtendinir to be overcome

with emotion. "It la beautlfr' Jt it

reminds me so much of rrfother fte".;h! IMcose let up! I can't bear it!" and Mr. S)Noiendvke sobbed aloud. . "I didn't intend it that way, dear,"

sighod Mrs. Spoopendyke embracing him tenderlv. "Fonrive me; but I

thought I was acting funny." "ThatN all right. 'snorted Mr. Spoonendvke. recoveries himself with a jerk.

"You talk about acting! Look here, now: T'll lust trlvo vou one nassase.

and let that be tho end of this whole

bminesM.'

Mr. Sooooendvke arose, thrust on

hand into the breast of hi coat, set his

teeth ttdit and srrowled. Then he rolled

his even around and roared: "Aha!" Ad

vanoiitg one foot with the stamp of an elephant, he nwung his arm around; and crash! The mantle ornaments lay In

a confused heap on the floor. Ok ilnar mtirmtirMl S

aJssk

Oh. dear!" murmuretl Mrs. Spoop-

endvke. trembling from head to foot, "iiot onuirh?,rdemanded Mr. Spool

endvke. survevini; the wreck with dis

tended eves. "Want the rest of this

stene. or will vou have the play with

drawn on account of nickness in the

familv? Want to act ome more, don t ve?" he howled, his gorge rising. "Got some kind of a notion fastened to your

head with hair pins that the whole dramatic business depends on you, and that yon only want a wig and a curtain to be a whole then-

tor with spectators out in iron

and a bar next door! Oh, go right on and act!" he yelled, and then striking a high falsettto. he smieaked: Henrico, me own Henrico an! pardon these tears! Oh, Sod! How can 1 tell him? Concealment is useless! Henrico! ah !me own Henrico! The carriage waits!" and Mr. 8poopendyke fell over backward on the bed snd tired his feet up in the air. " On with the dance!" he roared, springing to a perpendicular again. "Bring on the ballet!" and spinning around like a top in the excitement of his wrath, he lost his balance, came down hard on the smashed china, and then went speechless to his couch. " I don't care," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, brushing nway the debris so she could safely sit on the floor to take off her shoes. " I think I could act as well as most of them, though, of course, I couldn't play villain parts as well as he can, and I don't think I emild smash as manv shinffs. When

he gives me another iesson, f think I'll

UKe mm out in ine ucm wntre m imb

break anything but his back."

that US east

studies it with a candid mind mm Mi to find in it evidence of a statesman

ship of the very sort that It emphaticaity demanded in the rYesUency. A great part of this evidence relates to the simple, direct, honest dkwharge of duty.

but the pnnutpfa upon which he pas acted in that discharge of duty are radical and essential, and he has expressed

with them a decision and clearness

which leave no doubt of his mteUeetusdJ

capacity and his moral strength, hs letters and speeches, his messsges as Mayor and as Governor, are all characterized by the same forcible perspiouitv: no one can be under any doubt as

to their meaning; they do sot admit of

two interpretation, wnen Jar. vieve-

laud was called upon to reform toe municipality of Buffalo he made a short

speech in accepting tne' nommaaon which struck the key-note of his ser

vice. "When," he said, "we consider

that public official are the trustees of the oeonle and hold 'then places and

exercise their nowers for the benefit of

the people, there should need no higher

inducement to a faithful ana nonesi aifharire of uublic dntv." "These are

very old truths," he added, but he believed that the people wanted them, "sincerelv and without mental reservation, adopted as a rule of conduct." When he addressed his inaugural message to the Common Council he knew that there were those in that body who were not converted to snch a role of conduct, and he admonished them in terms similar to those he has lately used in, reference to National affairs. The money of the people must not be diverted to other purjioses than their protection sad interest, there must not be a' greater sum used in any municipal purpose than is necessary: "it sometimes appears," he warned them, that "tho office-holder assume, that a different rule of fidelity prevails between him and the a ai

tax-payer than mat wnicn snouiu regulate his conduct when as an individual he holds the money of his neighbor." The jobbers in the Common Council got to work as if Mavor Cleveland's words had meant nothing in particular, but they were undeceived when his notable veto of the street-cleaning contract award came. The Council had given

the contract of cleaning the streets of

Buffalo for five years for Wr2,500, moTe

than tlOU.tM) higher than that of another oerfectlv responsible party, and

e.W,JUU more man me wuceessiui cmtrnctor had himself offered to do it for a

few weeks before. His indignant veto

message is a revelation of a rooted hon

esty ot nature:

This is a time frvnlsln speech, and my ob-

JeeUon to tn action of jrour honorable body now under conkternon shall be, plainly

stated. I with noiday aaeent rmm tae sarae

because I rejrara n as tne culmination n most baiefaeed. Impudent and baaaetoaa scheme to tx-tray the interests of the people

and worse loan ttjuauuer iav pumiv wpobj . I will not be misunderstood to twis matter. There are those whose rotes were jrhf for this resoluttoa whom I can not an will not uanest of a willful Msieet of the latereata

tbey are aworn to protect: but It baa been fuuV oemontfrateVl that there are intluebces

both In and annul jour nonorsoie may wnwn

nonest man 10

was saaiad with the abothnunen wW ajaw "nssaannnjsni w snunw maavw' - ........

dose of the

of SI

tause

amwnmV

mumtuaMMt m pamns ij aAamhmssslmsT

and aot seennsi aVy mm ke wmi tny. I was thsmght to

lSmil!? 1 f Sltiirr nad the

nroogbthe thm disr3 of fofcwtoty contrusuiotts, this kfH tooo naked extortion, reducing the ccmpoMatSoa which shotdd'ha honestly WBed, and welling a fmsd used to dbwh the people asd defeat the ponular will."

rT.uL ZX.nM f hhor and ntiUican defeat as any thing elm, tin

rTIt tw: emimtlon ia the Nary DepiftsjM the

asveTbetorr'iirt

Jsa.MUsn smaown ftk.M It MWWtr HlfT. AM I OtHl iVMroiiWaW tW

T aw-

br nnmhasit and RUtHunt

enoWh to threaten UVt destruction of sv

the robhery and the trial which follows

It. had Mhaps as mneh to do with m

dmg It wft focinldabte toteUi- erase tor vass wsawi ansa wpw-r

wielded bv srisantle corporations. t:oa, too depression in osniness as a rsv Cebrnd na. ZmTZj suit of BobuSt fmA o snfl

mnA in Ia in relation to the Issue

stsatly arising. Corporations, he ,de

clares, should he nrotectea tn weir tegiUnaats sphere, "but when by combination or by the exercise of unwarranted power they oppress the neonle. the same authority which cre

ated should restrain them and protect the right of the citizen." "The labor ing classea . . . should be protected In

tnetr efforts pencesoiy to assert m rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognise the care of the State for honest toil, and hi framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman." These were Cleveland declarations before he became Gov

ernor.

In of tohnr la hf easts fat

afforded evidence enotifhflutt ti rmrtv oWrved to go cut of power, and at

perbsps evidence enough uitougnt to go to nieees. flit MirVives Its present defeat wha will It do? It has oeclared itself against temperanee and h hard at work atthla moment in denunciation of it John and his disciples.. It will stOl be the party of the monopolists, for Democracy is opposed to monopoly and its success hi built largely lrpon that opposition; but font years Is a long time, and within that period monopoly will be robbed by judicious legUuatJon and Com. meat of much of Its power. It js at hn

best a sectional party wtm evetj opportunity to establish itself In the South it failed to do so, and it can look for no

Hettber nan It recover mt

it hebom es evenr

avoid with the sreatest care.

watch

Clumsy

Instaaattona,

mIiib aliMllee or naaalwW

wiu a mm of low. cbsas eusnina. as to the

moUvesand purposes of others; and the mock

aerotsmoT praieaToniery wnieo opmir w elare that a wboteaome public sentiment is to be Mt it asusht, ossetJsaes deeetves and leads hoaest men to aid tn the coMununatJon ofsahemes which If exposed theywauld look upon with abhorrence. We are fast raining positions in the srades of public tow.Miahin Thor a nn middle around. Those

. . - . 1 J A

WIMt are not lor voe people, cnuex in w mil w

vour honorable bodr. are acatnst

should be tisated accordingly.

There Is a healthy ring in those sen

tences that left no doubt as to Cleveland's nualitv. The message made

known to the Democracy of New York,

And with tins thrifty resolution. Mrs. as one says, that "a jpah "1Q

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uate the reforms wnicn uovernor niaen had instituted into the State;" but it

made that known to the country as well.

We need not repeat the story of how he saved Buffalo within six months a mil

lion dollars by veto messages, which, as

a HPDUDllcan paper ssua, "saw uewura

I .

Snoonendvke fell upon a microscopic

hole in the heel of her sock,' and lost aiirht of the staire in the interest the

nbrasion excited. Drake' Traveler'

Magatine. Chametoon Hair.

The hair of a young girl who died at municipal classics." and by careful perie age of fifteen In an insane asylum sonal administration of affairs. He for

the aire

of Hamburg is reported to have shown alterations of color coinciding with

periodical changes lathe patient's tad and" nhvsical condition. B

nilentie fits, it wns noticed that the

experienced while in the asyhMn quite regular alternationa of excitement and Mimam asveh of about a wssk's dura

tion; and that the color of her hair was Md darina each tieriod of ajrHahon,

while it iMonmt blonde In her quiet hv tervals, a complete change of st tak

ing place ia two or tnrse nays.

Jynsjftsaw frstwer.

When both parenta have eyes of thl same color, thirty-eight per cent, of tho children follow their parent -in this feature, and of the twelve ner cent, born

with eyes other than the parental color part "must be attributed to intermittent beredhv. More females than males

have black or brown eyes fat theproportkm of fortv to forty-Sve. Wtth dif

ferent colored eyes in the two parents thirtv-three ner coat of the children

follow the fathers in being dark-eyed, and sixty ner cent, follow their mother

in being darkyed.-C.9o Time.

Wild crane are abundant in Cali

fornia, where they are gathered in large quantities for making jam and jelly. They make a much more delicious arti

cle, It Is said, than, the cultivated grapes.

New York has a monthly naagasine

conducted bv a lady and devoted an.

fcrely to the faith cum.

Uuists tint lahet

the first time In the history of the city

made it imperative that the Auditor

aknnld reallv audit, bv a moroufh ex

amination of the city accounts, instead of a mere formal certification of totals.

He substituted competition for work

that had beam used for Political 01

Sage. Averywoere ne saw hum mw p got the full value of their money, was not deterred by the danger of

misconstrnction from following his eon

vietions: he vetoed resolutions appro

oriatlnaT money for a Bremen s oenevo-

Unt association and for the Decoration

Day observances, on constitutional and

lewal eronnds. lust as anerwaru wnen

he was Governor, he vetoed the trvecent fare bill and the Catholic Protec tory bill. His practice of civil reform In the affairs of Buffalo was re

called last vear when he vetoed the depredations

the Awostntttion of the Buffalo lire Department, a Democratic measure, concerning which he said: " A tried, economical and efficient administration of an important department a large city is to be destroyed, upon partisan grounds or to satisfy personal animosities, in order that the places and patronage attached thereto may be used tor party advancement, 1 believe," he added, "la an open and sturdy partitaashlp which secures the legitimate advantages of party supremacy, hut part iii wrrt made for the people, and I am unwilling to give my assent to measures purely partisan, which Will sacrifice or endanger their interacts." That Is an admirable sentiment and worthy of a statesman. Cleveland has rcpeasedly expressed the soundest

A Imnrf hl ft -at aet liOVArnOr

rhonathem Neitber can it

n rtTnnbitean. one Democrat and one tost power in the North by creattnf an

representative of anti-monopoly. Me took an early opportunity to urge a greater publicity of all corporation proceedings, by requiring minute snd frequent reports, that the public may know how their funds are Mnt, and said the State should provide a way "by which the squandering or niisu; of corporate fut 'is should be made good to

the parties injured." He passed every bill nut one of the seven introduced Into the Legislature last year by the State Trades Assembly, Including the abolition of convict contract labor and the CHtKhlifthment of a Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bill he vetoed was the bill to regulate the hours f labor 6f conductors and drivers of New York City bore-cars, his reason being solely that it would not accomplish the object deirel. It will be found that in every in

stance where he has disapproved a hill desired in the interest of lalior, it ha

been from his faithfulness to another

strong and worthy trait of bis charac

ter, bis unoompromwing inorougnneiw. It shows also his absolute disregard fox

his own uersonal interest-, which could

have been so easily served by signing

thin and other defective bills.

In short, wherever we follow Uov

ernor Cleveland, we And genuineness.

thoroughness, courage, subordination

of self, a high sense of public honor and honesty, and a conscience for the service of the people. He said at the Buffalo semi-centennial in l"K82: "We

boast of our citizenship to-night. But

this citizenship brings witn it on lies

not unlike thone we owe our neighbor and our God." He has been faithful

to this high conception of the citinen s

responsibilities faltliiui aireauy ia

great things, ana ne nas mowb mo capacity and the conscience' to he faith

ful In the, greatest things the Nation

has to employ Its servants with. Springfield (Ma.) Republican

The First Bank-

It is one of the most remarkable of

phenomeha that the first bank ever es

tablished won a success nnequaieu in

later times. The Bank of Venice bad

its origin in 1171 from a forced public loan, rawed to fit a fleet, and is the first

appearance of a public funded aer. Every citizen was obliged to contribute tho one-hundredth part of his posses-

Tbe person assessed were then

organized as a chamber of loans fur

tnetr common protection ana vx we receipt of the yearly interest of four par centum. Subsequently its creditors were permitted to transfer their olauns in whole or in part The Government, finding that these transfers were In demand, reduced the rates of interest until no interest wax paid. Afterward It sold cash inscriptions of credit on its books. These inscriptions oat gold, but were not convertible into gold. As a matter of fact, although termed a bank, its issues were Government paper, and Its business was carried on solely for the benefit of the pnblic treasury. . This bank is still one of the foremost financial Institutions in the world. For two hundred years the Bank of Venice stood alone. Albany Time.

unjust prejudice against the other locality. The time for this has gone br. The effort in that direction made John Sherman just previous to the late campaign was a wretched failure. The miserable falsehood that Democrsaw mean! a restoration to staiwr whien has brought such terror to Southern whites and blacks alike will have an effect upon the voters of both the North and South which will hurt the Bepohlican party badly. It will strengthen the Democratic ranks in both sections, for the lie will be shown to be a Be. and the truth will bring discredit upon most of the stories of Southern outrage on which the Republican partv throve so long. If the Republican party lives, hoar will it manage to get back the ladependent Republicans who had so largo an influence upon the late election Why should tbey go back on it if the Administration of the man for whom nhey voted proves to be good and the party at his back proves to be worthy of the confidence placed In it? How

can they4 serve both monopoly labor, rtr will thev reondiate the

in order to serve the other Will they

come out ooenhr for protection r

would bo morejuwevrous than it

yet been, for the people have and will become more and more

.with the fact, that nroteetkm in

pubucaa hands am capital alone- and

shall he without protection ta

market. This tarhT ouestioa m burbear it has been. It will be

discussed durutg the next four vaatn than it has beenduring the past tturty years. Democrats may now havathe courage of tbefai convictions in favor of tariff reform, for tbey have nothing to fear; and she people have Olscomnsfl that under Republican protection thoy have grown. poorer until huwlreds of thousands of them are sufferiag a humiliation as workers that they have never suftVred before, y. T. Orapkie ,

m a a ' The ftsoutt. The election of Mr. Cleveland oenr Mr. Blains is significant of many thiafa,, hut of none mom conspicuously than thaw: It Is a protest against the stockjobber, the money-maker and the monopolist in pontics, a declaration tat favor of plain, honest and ccofvwnhnal imrtarnxoent. and a notification to nil

demagogues, no matter whence nsey eome. mat the ncnaent generatfon of

men are not to be' swayed

are dead, but by

An anecdote, Years ago a Vermont farmer lost many sheep through

of wolves, ne jour

neyed to Boston and returned with a wolf dog which cost him many dollars. He started out the next day and soon his dog wa following up a scent rapidly and disappeared tin the woods. The farmer on horseback followed and met a chopper: "Wall, stranger, did yer sen e'er a dog and a wolf goby?" "Yaas." "Wall, how was it?!' "The dorg was a lectio ahead.5' &rt7fe Journml. A lady of Mayenoe, Germany, formerly in good cbVumstances. told her Into husband's tombstone to the superintendent of the Jewish Cemetery, it had cost $750 some years ago. She accepted 97.60, and it was removed from the (Thristhn to the Jewish gmve-yara. fthc used the money to pay her passage to Ameiica. "(

qnawtions that live.

weighted. He appeared on the stusnn ia defense of the existing order of

thins. Polfcies known to be

found in hfm aa ardent

Without one word from aha

beffinniiur to the end of the canvass m

favor ot goou government nation of rinm. fobbere an

lists, he aoDealed to noneAof the 1

impulses of the people and

himself with attempts to play on reliff-ious and sectional preitKllces.

failure of his campaign should stand as a warning forever, not only to aspiring

and characterless men, on to psnssn and people as well.

The politician wno does nos use note of these things Is far from shrewd. The defeat of Mr. Bleiao Is due to the popular impression that we have gone faff enough In the direction toward which we are now headed. The campaign against him has been bitterly personal, but it had to be so from the very nature of the case. Not one of tho httiotts eharges brought against him was a campaign Invontion. All were matters of record long ago, and In consequence of the Republican belief in them his attempts to secure the nomination f his partv twice failed. He finally secured the "nomination, but he has lt the Presidency. Some of the men who have been most vehement in upholding Mr. Blaine's innocence will within r fort Bight be found abusing him. hi record and his canvass, but such is practical politics, and nothing else is ever expected. Chicago UtraM.

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