Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 May 1904 — Page 7

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THE WELDED 5ULLET A Storv for Decoration Day

By MPS. F. M. HOWARD.

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even a lowering loud had crossed the ierf-c-: sky. and the sun shone cheerily, and the soft breezea fanned th- hceks of two ladies sitting together on one f the many ruaii' sea's. Th proeion had gone ani flowers wers

everywhere, and especially on th3 graves whuh were mari.eJ by the little flags. There were many of tbetn. for th-

ror. anl I can remember yet the stun look of d-spair whiru would VMM over her poor faca wh-n an engage- . mem was in progress mt. which Har-j ry was likely to be called. "It came at last. After the battle of Gettysburg thy wen- r. - home both

"Anil your grandmother?" aakaal Mr? Warner, in a tone of horror. ' Went qui: mad at the sight. She I bad dreamed of it ha I tried to fortify t-r:f. anii become used to the awful .. . . ..f the pnssibili j bJt t !. ? r-a ' lr.jve reason .-ompletatJ from;

small wi n nan tv-u nrr iuc uwu Lemer of those storm -tossed days, and

any r-i v;dence that

i -L i . i-u. .5'?. tben A sodden light broke reef Ml countenance. '1 bei. re, upou my aoui. tb nam' was (i'irdt.i. ; a to iateretc : in what was eviden' a bit of family history that 1 searched for th eviI '-in.- their i .. uuiy. wtoili 1 r..i-.-ily found on letters in the pockets " I renumber writing up tue incident for the northern paper I was en-

d on hut of lourse .on nt-v.-r sit-

that. Yes, 1 am aimoat positive Lht nam as Gordon hut I can make sure by referring to the article iu mv raiboiks at home Any relative cf o:r.i, ma'am?' lor grandmother was still looking at him in an agony of effort to (omprehend all be was saying ' "Tell it to her again.' said mother in a low vol .. 'They were her sons: I knew they could never barm one another, my dear, dear brothers, and r's voice broke in a low sob ' H- told the story over in dear, gentle tones, dilating upon the teoletn M of that last embrace Uraadmother s face grew whit,- and at the last word she fainted, something which, had nev r occurred during all the dreadful days of her insanity. She wa. like a little child when she came out r (hat long, deathlike swoon. Her mind teaSse to have gone back to list days when her sons were boys at home together, and sh? talked of them

more naturally than she had sine that dreadful day when they were brought home, and the nigbtmare ol dread and terror which oad hovered over her so long seemed to be dispelled atmost entirely." What a mercy." Mrs. Warner ex claimed, fervently. "But what of tb bullet charm? Your friend said it was connected with the story." "Yes. quite remarkably to Here it is on my watch guard &l this moment a souvenir so pre ions that nothing could replace it. "Mr Kolf told us that h had picked it up but a little way ffom where my uncles were lying, and grandmother seized upon the fan as a proof that if her boys. In t&Ys incitement of the battle, had really shot at each other, tkxi's own hand had caught the missiles nd welded them together, as the hearts of her sons were united in their life and in death Mr. Rolf never took back the charm but gave it to grandmother, and she cherished it as her most valued possession as long as she lived."

"I do not wonder that you cherish Mrs Warner turned over the curious reib- reverently The gold was Aorn and the ring almost black with age. but the leaden bullets, flattened by the force with which they had come together, were perfect as ever and urn very smooth with constant wear. "You said your grandmother never fully recovered " "No. not fully, but her later year were comforted. If she grew weary and excited, the touch ot the welded

THE TARIFF IS TO BLAME I FARMERS ASK QUESTIONS. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Prosperity Bcasted Of in Republican Platforms Is Disproved by Published Facta. People with small incomes farn.Tdrkanu w orkmg men should husband their r. sources and savings, for a period of bust cess depression wou.d sem to be

tl of that era of the financial

many a brave Johnnie anone Union soldi r had taken Maat near the rustic seal n spo. where two graws we and lavishly cov. rd with fi underneath the sod were two one of the gray and the oxt and tear bad fallen equ "It is a sad story." remi K- nneth. whose sweet ftc lines drawn by great sufl tare. "1 cannot expect you all it meant to us. seeing besieged, onr homes Ihres

despoiled. It was no wond that the southern women sonable that hatred an! pa nursed Into the very veins fant babes I was only a then, but the memory will

out. though calmness and berer Judg

oent have taken out the b.rerncss aa

neb was the case, she took it for

j granted that they had met and killed

' ea h other, and for years she nursed 'he idea in her poor, crazrd brain un- ( til it seemed as if we should go insane " And did ehe never recover ' "Not entirely The sequel is the wrangest of a'l Several years after I peace was declared we were entertaining a friend, a n saper man. w ho had made a success in bis profession. J! had oa his watch chain a peculiar ' lookins. i harm and I. with the c uriosity of youth, noti, ed It. -T: .nrr . l: i- . M:i-":".ar h:---.ry ' ! be said. dea hmg it from his chain and handing It to me. I was two buN ' l"tR. welded together as they me: in

examined it with hverest before ; ng it on t my mcther. as retTTer theL. S3id Mr f the field of Gs'tysburs for my r At the nam- "f (:. '. rh we never men-io.-.d in her 'tire emndmot her . snnKen eves

lished in the tv-t. r.L nes date and the mort. . i - -beat day at the bead of

news. The report ai;r stating the unprecedented collapse of ii.' Ibnck market says: "The conviction is growing, however, that the i aust of the stagnation in the stock market is deerT ly icg than any temporary factor, and has todowith the gradual emerging of the conditions of general contraction in business and industry in all directions." Hard times always follow a boom and business depression means that the man MM seek th job and not the job the man The reduction In wages that commenced last fall will surely be more

accentuated as the demand for labor be-

; comes less and the railroads and other great corporations reduce their workI ing fott e. Indeed, this reduction has already commend for the New Y'ork

1 Central railroad has ordered all its de

partments to cut down expenses and the men employed to be reduo d to the least number necessary to carry on the business of the road. Other railroads will likewise retrench, and this will cause st at nation in the labor market, for when "the man is seeking the job" be is r:. ':.;,-.;..; va ;" La- last MftfoyfJl offers, a hen he know - that thousands a"re a-- r it This breakdown of prosperity whi'-h the protectionists boast is produced by the protective tariff is the outcome that has been foretold by the democrats. The goose is slowly dying that laid the golden eze. and the few have the gold and the many will now have to suffer. But the deception that the republican leaders have pra' ticed on their followers is still being continued, for on the same day that the Associated Press seat out its pessimistic report on the business outlook, the republican wate convention of New Jer.-ey in the platform

adopted declared: "That the protective tariff has brought the greatest prosperity to capita! and labor " Republican platfcrms are notoriously unrell-

! able, and the idle men In the protected

Industries in the silk mills, the woolen mills, and other factories running on short time in New Jersey, the C6.000 Idle men In the textile field in Philadelphia alone, are facts that disprove the reliability of the New Jersey platform, besides the "general contraction in business" that the Associated Press announces Prosperity has vanished from so many r t -. and so many homes are restrictinc their expenses, that there must be something wrocc with the system thst the republicans are boasting of. The New Jersey platform, however, told the truth about the prosperity the tariff has broucht to capital H it had

the trusts ni i omblnes can keep up rhe price of what they produce, they will still have a measure of prosperity, but with falline wases ar.d men otr of work, even the trust- will suffer, for the capactty of the people to consume is measured by the amount of money they earn In curtailing expenses, luxuries and then

Mr. Ba brock and Other Republican Congressmen Bothered with Awkward Interrogatories. Giving the faruvr- taff) 6-' r election and promising tbem legislation that never was intended to materiell. Is a favorite game of th republican leaders. It is therefore not an unexpected pleasure to rate the first installment of guff and bluff given out by Hon Joeph Weeka liaocock. hairman of the republican tongresfional committee, in which he bring In the "intelligent farmer as the standby of the G O P. Mr. Babcock says he has implicit faith that the ' intelligent farmers" will vote the republican ticket, for they have telephones in their houses and read the daily newspapers. That Mr. Habcock really believes the "intelligent farmer" will support the party in league with the trusts and corporations is doubtful, for he la evidently much exercised, though he says he is not worrying over the outlook for a republican majori-y in the r.ext c T.cr-. vr Mr Babcock evidently is alarmed about what the "intelligent farmer" will do. for he also says: "It keeps a member of congress busy all the time to answer the questie ns they ask him about public affairs." May be. when he gaveout that interview Mr. Babcock was thinking of the uncomfortable questions that many of hit own constituents have been asking him. about the charges of his too lose connection with the rai.road corporations, the padding the mails iatbe interest of those institutions and bisfailure to push hia bill to reform the tariff schedule thaa shelters the steel trust, thofgh he declared the tariff must be reformed. Or possibly he was thinking of the charges made by Secretary Bristow that over If! republican congressmen, including himself, had been mixed up with the post office grafters, if not la leaxue with them The "intelligent farmer" who reads the daily newspapers could hardly hava missed knowing about those charges and a number of other scandals that Mr. Babcock and his party are responsible for. and it is hardly any wonder that it has kept thoee members of congress busy, as it has Mr Babcock for he tells os so explaining and twisting and turning, to answer the questions, of not only the "intelligent farmer." bu- of

others of his. and their, constituents No more favorable news for the rienio-

I crats has been published than this acI knowiedged Interest the farmers are ' takine in public affairs. No doubt they are inquiring about republican extravagance, about the enormous increase j in pn e of what they buy and the cause i for it. They doubtless want to know why the packers combine is paying less j for cattle and hogs and yet the prke i of meat to the consumer is relatively I higher than It was. There is no end to the questions that intelÜRen farmers will ask candidates for congress that will : purzle the republicans to evade, let j alone to answer That is just what the I democrats want, full and free discussion lind Intelligent inquiry by all voters. EXIT COMMISSIONER WARE. Will Leave the Pension Office to Afford Mr. Roosevelt a Chance lo Square Himself. J No explanation is made at Washinglion of the report Jthai Commissioner : Ware, of the pension office, is soon to

tile market tells the rale. In the Journal of Commerce. May n. the headlines of the article on the dry goods trade says:

n-ii interest, sickened me r. away from of my ta.'k.

rpaaaion "War nt its best Is horror

suffered.' Mrs Warner said. gntly "Grandmother had two sons' resumed Mr? Kenneth, "ana tall, beautiful lads tfcey were 1 can f the thrill of my childish worship of my uncles. William and Iforry Wl -liaru was the oldest, snd two year2

before the war broke out he had

very advantageous offer to business in New York. We 1 held slaves, not so mu h iro pie as a dlsias'e for t! s when the war broke on; I question had com para iv.j do in molding our fVelfaga.

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SH.E CAVE ME Te-r. ChRM ballets in her hand would quiet her. and she would sit for hours with it, whispering softly: 'God is good. He is very' good.' in a gen'le. uncomplaining tone which would bring tears to our eyes. I cared for h- r in her lat illness and she gave nie the charm as the choicest legacy she had to bestow I think she was Quite sane for the few minutes before her death The vat an', troubled look wae all gone from her eyes, and they were perfectly radiant with joy at the last at she rea hed upward w ith her thin, wasted handf. crying: 'My boys, my boys.' in thrilline tones of Joy. The sun was dropping westward as the ladies rose to go. Mrs Kenneth had replaced the charm upon her chain and Mrs Warner wiped away the tears of sympathy which had gathered In her eyes, and as they left the crounda she looked back Th monument stood bathed In the plowing sunshln-. a shining finger pointin upward out of the grave of the dark and terrible past Lessons of Memorial Day. Memorial day has played a larger share than many of us realize In our national life. In no country on the globe is a day so entirely devoted to the memory of Its heroes, so generally observed throughout the length and !reaiith the land. The day itself Is well i hosen when the spring offers Its choicest blossoms in profusion and nature presents its loveliest aspect. It Is s day . ulled from the period when life is a: Its best to do honor to those "who being dead, yet live!" What a eson It is to the chil l, so M,Hf impressed by example. It is a

to realize that It I thus good are molded, to hear their es sing the aationa! , the story af obc i deed. No danger of a dearth its as loaf a- Memorial day

chase "A Waitire Period on All Lines General Blief That Were Prices to Be Anr I n Ixiwer Basi- Buy ing Would Be Sufficient to Cause Speedy Reacts r Many Lir.es Selling tt or Below Cost To-Day " The came

newspaper on the a dispa' I f re m Kj say? "The plan four das a week

le day publish ver Kaai . avail unning the mil h has been trie

for the past five Weeks has proved disappointing. Some of the asents at least stronply favored a reduction in wage, even though i was pretty well understM' that a genera: strike would follow such a move. Other manufacturers fao a shutdown without a reduction. There Is general apprehension over the sittia'ion " A numler of o'her dispatihes In the same Issue of the Journal of Commerceindicate similar conditions at other places Resolutions by republican conventions, that prosperry reigns supreme, and the protective tariff :s'he cause of It is mere bluff, when the facta show that business is depressed and rrowir.R more so. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When the irritation bill was pending in congress it w promised that the desert could be made to blossom as the rose for about five dollars an acre. Later the country was informed that this was the cost to private water companies, which tad taken all the easy Jobs, and that roterr.n-.ent irrigation would cost ten dollars an acre. The statement just made by the interior department Is that f?7 ..... nee, i Mifflre to irritate i oq acres Philadelphia Record. It begin? to look as if the esteemed republicans will have to give trading stamps In order to dispose of that ice presidential nomination Chicago ChronUle Carnl D Wright shows (bat the rost af living is increased four per cent n the lat year, while wages cave been decreased. Oen Grosvenor will now hurry up figure proving that this condition is dee to a fear In the country that ti e democrats may win In November

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derstand tbat the move is connected in some way with his offhand wa of grant- . : .-.:.e p. L.-.:.- tj ..... war vetThis service pension or . e r Las met with more general and more scathing ondemnation than any other act of Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Nearly every newspaper in the I'nited States has denounced it not only as a dangerous usurpation of power, but a a piece of electioneering cemagogy. and the climax came with Bourke Cochran's tvat speech, so e.oquent. so logical, so sincere and so alarming that it practically silenced all opposition. The probability is that from the time that speech was delivered the administration determined to withdraw its servic e pension order The first intimation given cf this was the admission of the government supporters in a debate in the house of representatives that both of the service pensions which bad been ordered In this way and which had been ostentatiously paraded as the justification of Commissioner Ware's as der. never really bet arr.e effective, but were canceled and withdrawn soon after they were made. The rumored retirement of Commissioner Ware is the next intimation of the proposed backdown, and it is not difficult to continue the story into the fntur The new commissioner will happen to be a man who an not approe of the service pension order, and at whose request it will in due time be canceled and withdrawn. The Chicago Chronicle says that In this episode we ee bow people in tower can take the back tree k and unload their responsibility on others so smoothly as not even to attrai t attention, though a larger turn-basin may be required for such a monumental blunder as this enIce pension order than ir the ra- of smaller mistakes. Waste That Must Be Stopped. The growth in national expense seems to be in rea.:r. t only in arithmetical, bnt threstens soon to reach geometrical progression As compared with former records the pre-, nt administration has aeeedad the previous one M more than $'""'"'"' " Iflng greater than that of Lnln. Nsdedtaff cost of the civil war when computed on a sole basis The time will come when the

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The little company gathered In the upper room a' about dusk and took their p!areS ujx.n the couch?s. which extended around three sides of the low table. Matthew speaks of their "sitting" at the table, but the word is misleading. Leonardo da Vine i's painting, the "Last Supper " Is a nrnst Interesting sMidyof the scene best 'he painter had been misled into makinc the company sit at the table as we do. Ti.ey did not sit. but reclined. Between verges no md :i read (1) the words of Jesus. Luke 22:14-1: (1 the contention as to who should be greatest. Lnke 22 24-:m. and irti the wnshfne of ÜM dtaHples' feaf by Jesus John It: 1-tO. The Passover'meal consisted of unleavene.l br- ad. bitter herbs, w ine and a lamb This feast commemorates the era;e from Egypt, and was the "Independence day" of the Jews. A-'!.v vwreeviPL- H. -ai-! : " John tdds Re was troubled in the spirit." The tartaaaaaa af the strain of the last 24 hours of Jesus' life we ran hardly imagine "One of you shall betray me And they w-re exceeding sorrowful:" Ea fi one questioned himself, though no one but Judas meant to betray Him Fach (Hie knew hi.- own weakness "He tbat dipped his hand with Me In the dish:" "Knives and forks and pla'es for ea b guest were unknown. The food was piled in a great i ir. ular dish, over it was poured the broth, and the guests, with their fingers dipped a pleeeof mea' or of barley cake into the broth and thus ue tLm IVaaaaet At this poln read John t&SS-M, which I ells of Judas' leaving the room At last the Master and HI? true friends wer. alone. "Jesus took t.read. and blessed-" That is. blessed God for it. or. as Luke mts it. "When He had given thanks" "This is My body:" This stands for. symbolize. My body. Myself. When His tils. I pies ate bread the were to thlr.k of Him "And He took a cup. and cave thanks " Though the up was a symbol of the life Mood He was to pour nut. He could give thanks for it "The -ov. r.ar. " up Ex 24: f.-.. Jrr ?l:ril-4 and Luke 22 2'. in this order, for explanation II was a covenant he. fween Ood and men "Poured fir many unto remission of sirs:" This states Jesu-' purpose in living and dy'nc: Uaaat from that time to this testifies to the marvelous effe. tlveness of that life and death Jesus came not to save men from punishment but to save them from deserving punishment fo save them from sir. Luke adds here Jesus' Wares, "This do In remembrance! of Me " It was a suggestion and request th spirit of w hirh loyal followers of the Master will always observe with reverence and lore. It Is one of the sacred Hfes of our religion V is the spirit, not the form, in which the sicniftVanr of any rite lies "I shall not drink henceforth." etc.: "Referring to his Immediate death, and expressing His faith In a triumphant kingdom "--Burton and Mathews Jesus' farewell disonr?e are found In John It:t1 - M:H and HU Intercessory prayer In John IT The hymn that w as sung a' the close of the Pessovr fees t v. as IV lor,-in. SENTENCE SLRMON ll'icie-m -!e yokes are always hegv-

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A cheap rel'j'oa never made a valuable i hara ter Sin in itself Is to he dreadd more 'ban Its consequences It Is easy when yon have a seat to tell the other man how to stand up. It Is no use 'alkftng about your yearnIncs for Cod when "ii :.re M.'.inr

iipre I ytWsf eamirps froan the devil. 1 " "'' t0 I Tb world i po' willing to aropt rred too vf!r r.,at? of ijvis, if you will only 1 "" et H lay 0u the ttreata here Ram't Horn.