The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

| study over their possible use. | con-
clude they are 10 dry the anatomy with.
On subsequent inquiry | ascertain,d that
they were 10 be worn while rang the bell
and Marie came I'm 10 substitute hot water
for cold.
The American commission 10 the ex-
hibition occupies bare, disconsolate,
shabby suite of rooms. They resemble
much the editorial offices of those ephe-
neral daily papers which, commencing
with very small capital, after n spasmodic
career OF few months fall despairingly
into the arms of the sheriff. l had once
occasion 10 visit the commission on little
matter OF business. What that was
have forgotten | recollect only the null
tiplicity of doors in those apartments.
When turned to depart, opened every
door but the proper one. | went into
closets, private apartments and intricate
passages, and after making the entire
round without discovering egress, made
another tour Of them, but still could not
find where | had entered. A solitary
American was seated i'm the readng-room
looking weary and homesick, and asked
him II he could tell me the right road out
of the American commission. He said
he hardly knew: this was his first visit,
but he'd try. So both of us went pros
pecting around and opening all the doors
we met, while deaconish old gentleman
behind a desk looked on apparently In
terested, yet Offering nothing in the way
of Information or suggestion. lpresume.
however, this is the only amusement the
man has in this forlorn place. | was be-
ginning to think of descending by way of
the windows when the strange American
or Lost fnpnd N door uybioh laA ipfn fbp
main entry, and we both left at the same
time, CAD to escape.
| will do one side of the American
department in theexhibition stern justice.
1t commences with long picture placed
there by the Pork Packers Association Of
Cincinnati, descriptive Of the processes
which millions OF American hogs are
subjected to while being converted into
pork. There are hogs going in long
procession to be killed, and going, too,
in determined sort of way, as II they
knew il was their business To be killed.
Then came hogs killed, hogs scalded,
hogs scraped, hogs cut up into shoulders,
hams, sides, jowls; hogs sailed, hogs
smoked. Underneath this sketch are
number of implanted buggy and carriage
wheels; next, a pile of pick-handles; not
far off, little mound of grindstoHes, a
platoon of clothes-wringers next, a soil
tary iron wheel-Darrow communing with
a patent fire-extinguisher following this
a crowd of green iron pumps, with sew
ing-machines i'm full force. Such is bit
of the American department.
1t is the fashion here that every one
should have growl at the general SLIM
ness and slovenliness of our department..
Every one gives our dropping eagle a
kick. This is all wrong. We can't send
our greatest wonders and triumphs' to
Europe. There is neither room nor OPP
portunity in the building for showing off
one of our political torchlight professions,
or vigilance-committee hanging, or a
Chicago or Boston fire, or a steamboat
blow-up, or railway smash-up. Were
the present chief OF the commission man
of originality and talent, he might even
now save the national reputation by bun
ding all the pumps, churns, patent
clothes-washers, wheel-barrows and pick
handles out of doors, and converting one
ofthe United States rooms into reserva-
ten for the Modocs, and the other into a
corral for buffaloes and grizzly bears.
These, with a mustang poet or two from
Oregon, a live American daily pa
per, with corps Of reporters
trained to squeeze themselves through
door-cracks and key-holes. might
retrieve the national honor, If shown up
realistically and artistically .-Prentice
Milford, IN Lippincotts for September.