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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-11-12

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-11-12
Notice of Application for Liquor
License.

November l2ih --3w
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Point D'AlencOn Lace.

1t is estimated that there are five hun
dred thousand lace makers in Europe,
of whom nearly one half are employed
in France. Almost all of the latter work
at home. Of the French laces the most
noted is the point DAlencon, which has
had a wide celebrity for more than two
centuries, and has been sty led the queen
of lace. 1t is made entirely by hand
with fine needle on a parchment pat
tern, in small pieces which are afterward
united by invisible seams. The firmness
and solidity of the texture are remark
able. Horse hair is often introduced
along the edge to give firmness. AL
though the workmanship of this lace has
always been of great beauty, the designs
in the older specimens were seldom
copied from nature. This circumstance
gave marked advantage to the laces OF
Brussels, which represented flowers and
other natural designs with high degree
of accuracy. The defect, however, has
disappeared in the point DAlencon OF
recent manufacture; at the Paris Expo
sition of 1867, were specimens containing
admirable copies of natural flowers, in
termixed with grasses and ferns. Ow-
ing to its elaborate construction, this lace
is seldom seen in large pieces. A dress
made of point D'Alencon, the production
of Bayeux, consisting of two founces
and trimmings, was exhibited at the
Exposition of 1867, the price Of which
was eighty-five thousand francs. 1t re-
quired forty women seven years to COM
plete it.-Appleton's american Cyclopedia.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
What Is Grape Made or?

This il a question of frequent interro
gation-0wing, no doubt, to the genera
discussion consequent upon the recent
fraudulent importations-bIt rs often Il
it indefinitely answered, SO thoroughly
is the original material metamorphosed
by the treatment it undergoes before this
curious fabric is ready for market, the
transformation al times being so great
that even the most skillful are deceived
as to the component material as we
learn that one of, if not the oldest,
merchants testified in court that he
always supposed that Grape was made of
wOrsted-a pardOnable mistake when we
consider how airy and unsiiky it not only
appears but feels.
The fact is, however, that the article of
chief value i'm the production of Grape is
the finest italian silk, spun and woven in
a peculiar manner, and treated to various
mechanical and chemical operations
some of which are held in the most pro-
found secresy-that its manufacture not
only calls into play the most exquisite
skill and practice, but requires the in
vestment of enormous capital.
Grape is sometimes made OF cotton, and
passes under the names of albert" and
Victoria" for such uses that do not
require the more expensive article.
The use of this emblem of woe is so on
the increase that the diminutive band or
rosette that formerly sufiiced mourning
purposes has been overcome by fashion,
until stricken ones indicate their grief
by dense folds of Grape, that seemingly
envelope them in clouds of unconsolable
sorrow.
Grape, the civilized world over, is the
insignia of mourning, and no other article
can fill its place, it Deing the outgrowth
of refined civilization that, demanding
a suitable fabric, has found in it a
marvellous adaptability.-M Y Com
a,lercidJ Advertiser,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
The Highwayman's Reward.

In 1869, a gentleman was passing one
night over POnt Neuf, Paris, with Ian
tern. A man came up to him and said,
"Read this paper" He held up his Ian
tern, and read as follows:
"Speak not word when you've this read,
Or in an instant you'll be dead
Give us your money, watch, and rings,
With other valuable things
Then quick in silence, you depart,
OrI, with knife, will cleave your heart!"
Not being man of much pluck, the
affrighted gentleman gave up his watch
and money, and ran of. He soon gave
the alarm, and the highwayman was
arrested.
"What have you to say for yourself?"
inquired the magistrate before whom the
robber was ushered.
"That l am not guilty of robbery,
though took the watch and money"
"Why not guiltyT asked the magis-
trate.
"Simply because / can neither read
nor write. l picked up the paper just
at the moment / met this gentleman
with a lantern. Thinking it might be
something valuable, / politely asked him
to read it for me. He complied with
my request, and presently handed me
his watch and his purse, and ran off.
supposed the paper to be of great value
to him, and that he thus literally re-
warded me for finding it. He gave me
no time to return thanks, which out of
politeness / was ready to perform"
The gentleman accepted the plea of the
robber, and withdrew his complaint.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
A Lunatic's Trick.

The superintendent of an insane asylum
in France, while passing through the
wards recently, noticed man of very
innofensive appearance sobbing in his
bed like a child. "My poor friend,
what is the matterT asked the ply
sician.
"Ah, sir" said the lunatic, "my
neighbor has played me sad trick. He
concealed my knife, and / have been
looking for it two hours without being
able to find it," Then he added with
smile, childlike and bland, But
l will play him fine trick in return"
"That's all right" said the superin-
tendent, consolingly patting him on the
shoulder as he passed on.
Two days later the superintendent
chanced to walk through the same room
early in the morning. His insane friend
stepped up to him, and said:
II have found my knife again, and
have played that trick on my comrade, as
| told you should do"
"How is that ?"
while he was asleep / hid his
head"
"This man is very crazy" thought
the superintendent; then he asked:
"And what did you do with it, then T'
81 put it in the linen closet; but
you must not tell him." was the an
swer.
The physician walked mechanically TO
the closet, opened the door and looked
in. The head of the lunatic's comrade
was there.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Horses That Went to Church When
the Folks Didn't.

A pair of horses that had been used
during the week on team work to Spring
field, on Sunday were harnessed and
driven to the door unhitched, and the
family being rather tardy that morning,
as soon as the second bell began to ring
the horses started of alone, and with their
usual Sunday motion, went up in front
of the church, when, after waiting the
usual time, they quietly went around
under the horse shed.
The father Of our reporter, owing TO in
creasing infirmities, rode alone to meet
ing, half mile, driving an old gray
mare twenty years old, and had not
failed of going every Sabbath for some
years. On one occasion, owing to fall,
father could not go to meeting, and on
Sunday morning, as the time for meeting
approached, the horse, in a lot near the
house, manifested great uneasiness, and
when the second bell struck she leaped
over the fence and trotted quietly TO
church, stopping at her usual hitching
place, under an elm tree, until the close
of the service, when the faithful animal
returned safely to the house.-Hdrttord
Comm Post.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
A Quarryman's Luck.
Port Jervis Dispatch to N. Y. Herald.l


Something like year ago, quarry
man named Fritz Simmons, living in the
town of Saugerties, Ulster county, and
barely earning enough to support him
self and large family, received letter
postmarked "Freyburg, Germany" 1t
was written by man who stated that
he was the attorney of the estate of
Conrad Schmidt, an uncle of Simmons,
who had died, leaving a fortune of some
fifty thousand guilders (twenty thousand
dollars in gold), having no heirs but the
nephew in Ulster county. Simmons
was directed to have power of attorney
issued by the proper authorities in this
country, upon the receipt of which by
the German lawyer the fortune would
be forthcoming. Simmons, who by the
way is an intelligent man, put no faith
in the statements of the letter, although
he had an uncle living in Freyburg by
the name of Conrad Schmidt, but sup
posed it was the work of sharpers who
desired to obtain money from him on
the pretense of the fortune. He paid no
attention to the letter, and the circum-
stance was soon forgotten by him. Since
then, as is now learned, the lawyer in
Germany has been making inquiry by
letter i'm various places in this country
for the whereabouts of Fritz Simmons,
and finally asked the German Consul in
New York to aid him. The consul
short time since wrote to the postmas-
ters of various places, making inquiry
for Simmons, and among them was the
postmaster at Saugerties. Simmons was
..f ha int nf ha
letter, and the proper papers were made
out and sent to Germany. Last week
he received gold draft for twenty
thousand dollars from the consul, which
was duly honored, and the quarryman
is lifted from poverty to comparative
Opulence.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Man Alone 10 Blame.

A German philosopher, having in his
minds eye the citizens of France and
Germany, says that i'm a society where
the men are uneducated and light
headed, they will be light-hearted and
immoral, and the women will be even
more so, as women are what men make
them, and in turn men are reacted upon
by their own molding of women. Thus,
where the men are ignorant and unstable
in character, they are seen to indulge in
brutal tastes and foolish, empty pranks
and tricks; and, taking exact pattern af-
ter them, the women are equally SO, with
little more added, which accounts for
the excess of affected turns and quirks
and disgusting topknotishness generally
laid exclusively, and wrongly, on femi-
nine shoulders. In that society continues
the philosopher, where the men are in
dustrious and brain developed, the wo-
men resort to fewer monkeyisms, are more
sincere, reasonable, and generally better
behaved. From which IL clearly results
that the animal has himself to blame
for all that goes wrong in human af-
fairs--and he needn't try to lay it on his
fair partner in the concern. Suun
c,fi0ne
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
The Latest Fashions.

At each opening of French costumes
new designs are shown for polonaises
These show most varied shapes, but the
prevalent idea among them is to do away
with elaborate bOuffant drapery, and
make straight. simply-shaped garments
The Marguerite seams are found in al
most all backs of polonaises, and these
seams are now heightened moe than
ever by beginning not merely in the
shoulder seams, but in the back of the
neck where the shoulder seam joins the
neck; this makes three long seams down
the middle of the back, and extending
over the tournure. The pelisse polOnaise
is the name given to an undraped gar
ment just introduced by Worth. 1t re-
sembles gentleman's double-breasted
frock coat in shape, is open plainly from
the waist down the back, has pocket-haps
on the sides, and is fastened by three
buttons in front. The seams in the back
are like those just described as begin
ming at the neck where it meets the
shoulder, and these three seams are al
most parallel down the back, except that
the outer ones take inward at the waist.
The handsomest model of this is of black
brocade silk, stiff enough for dowager.
This silk has black satin leaves so closely
brocaded upon it that the repped ground
is almost concealed. The trimmings are
of the simplest kind, being merely fac
ing on the collars and cuffs OF. cardinal
red silks, while the slightest line of the
cardinal appears down the back and
front where the garment falls open; the
lower edgeis merely hemmed. The skirt
to wear with this is plain black hros
grain, with three very fine knife plaitings,
each four inches deep, and set quite
apart from each other instead of tapping
in the present fashion.
Among simple and stylish new over
skirts is good design that requires but
two breadths of the wide wool goods
now in vogue, yet is long enough and
full enough for taste. The front is a
wide, deep apron, with the fullness ne
cessary for length laid in two folds high
across the top. The back is three
cornered piece, pointed in shawl shape
below, trimmed all around, and its full
ness laid in easy plaits set on the sides of
the front. The middle of this triangu-
lar breadth would not be long enough
for the puffed loop at the top of the back
if it were sewed to the belt, hence it is
suspended by tape that is concealed
under the two double box-plaits that its
width requires.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
An Illinois Ku.Klux Sentenced.

Marshall Grain, one of the William
son county Ku-Klux, has been sentenced
to death by the Judge of the Circuit
Court Of Williamson county. His exc
cution is to take place on the 2lst of
January next. While being taken back
to Jail, he could be heard two hundred
yards, sobbing and calling for mercy.
After Grain became calm again, he sent
for Judge Allen, of the counsel for the
people, and made detailed statement of
all his crimes, involving citizens of Will
Hanson not before mentioned in connec-
tion with the murders. He expressed
himself satisfied with the fate in store
for him, and requested that the following
letter, which he wrote in a good hand,
should be read to the people in the court
room.
DEAR SIR--It is with high respect to you
that write you. do not hold any preju-
dice against you for the sentence you put
upon me, hoping and praying to Gt d that /
may get forgiveness for my crimes. May
God change my heart, and give me a new
heart, that l may be converted before
die, and 60 home to Heaven, where there
will be no more parting. II there Is any
prejudice alleged against me by the people,
| pray God that il may be removed as far as
the east is from the west. pray to God that
our country may evermore be In peace and
harmony. do believe, with all my heart,
that Judge Crawford Is doing his duty. May
God brace him up in doing justice toward
all mankind. As long as life exists in this
sinful world may God bless and save all
mankind, is my prayer. l want the prayers
of every one OF Gods people. ! pray TO
God for change OF heart and home In
heaven. MARSHALL T. GRAIN.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Gems OF Wisdom.

Patience is 80 like fortitude that she
seems to be either her sister or her
daughter.
Earthly pride is like the passing flower,
that springs to fall, and blossoms but
to die.
The passions, like fire, are useful in a
thousand ways, and dangerous only in
one-through their excess.
Passions, new born, at first are in our
power, but when their tide runs strong
they sweep away resolves.
Violent passions are formed in solitude.
in the hustle of tile world no object has
time to make deep impression.
Ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts
and morsels unctuous, greases his pure
mind that from all consideration slips.
Sensibility would be good FORTRESS
If she had but one hand; with her right
she opens the door to pleasure, but with
her left to pain.
The pious and just bonoring of our
selves may be the radical moisture and
fountainhead from whence every lauda-
BILE and worthy enterprise issues forth.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn
the wheels at the same machinery OF
sensibility; one is wind power and the
other is water power, that Is all.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18

me with a vldictive look ON his face
that frightened me. He said:
"The band is not in close enough con.
tact with your head. l will tighten it a
little"
He turned the screws, and / felt the
pressure upon my forehead. The Pro-
fessOr again looked at the galvanometer,
but the needle did not so much as quiver.
Again came the pressure of the band
about my head, this time SO hard as to be
painful. Still no DETECTION of the index
of the galvanometer. Another turn of
the screws, and the pain that / felt was so
acute that lost all patience with the
Professor and attempted to seize his hand.
To my horror, l could not move. The
wine he had given me had taken away
the power of volition. Then my agony
began. could think, see, and feel as
well as ever, but the power Of motion
was denied me, or nearly so, for the
utmost could do was to follow with my
eye the motions of the Professor. Sud-
denly it flashed upon me that his mind
had become unsettled by severe mental
labor, and that its vagaries had formed
an absurd theory, to which he was bound
to make the experiments fit. l was the
unlucky subject, and in his insane de-
sire to prove his theory correct l might
suffer untold misery, and may be lose
life itself
The terrors of the next five minutes
were indescribable, and l shudder even
now when / think of them. The Pro-
fessor took from the CRATE an iron which
was heated to nearly a white heat, and
then approached me with it. At first he
held it at some distance from my face,
but gradually brought it nearer. Nearer
and nearer it came, and ! felt the fierce
heat burning my eyeballs Slowly it
came closer and closer, until it was
about to touch my forehead, when ] felt
returning power, and l leaped from the
chair, overturning the tripod and drag
ging the instrument to the floor.
The Professor faded from before me,
and l found myself in my own room. 1t
was broad daylight, and had slept and
dreamed. l was awake just enough to
know that it was a dream, when threw
myself down upon my bed and slept
again. When [ awoke it was past noon,
and that was the reason / was late at the
Herald Office on Monday, the 10th day of
August
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Our Boys.

Louis and William Renk, aged seven
teen and fifteen years, have for two years
led immoral lives, and few months ago
fed from home. Lately they sent a
letter to their father, at 40 Ludlow street,
New York city, to the effect that Detec-
tive Kealey knew where Dick Rodney
(Louis) was, and could arrest him if the
father would go to 800 Mulberry street.
The letter purported to be signed by
Detective Kealey. Mr.. Renk obeyed,
and as soon as he had left, his sons forced
open the back door, pulled pistols and
dirk knives, and drove their brothers into
another room, where they locked them
in. They then seized their mother, and,
while Louis held her and pointed a pistol
at her head, William robbed her OF a
gold watch, locket and chain, and q
pocket-book. They then threatened to
kill her and their brothers If they at
tempted 10 prevent them from making
their escape, They have been arrested.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
Strange Poisoning Story.

The Star, of Wilmington, North Caro-
lima, publishes curious story from one
of the inland counties. 1t is to the effect
that n man and wife went away from
home for the day, leaving their children
in charge Of negro girl. On their re-
turn the four children lay dead on the
floor, and on the table was half eaten
cabbage. The girl said that the children
had eaten of the cabbage, and soon after
were seized with convulsions, and vomit-
ing, and died. The horror-stricken par
ents suspected, of course, that the servant
had poisoned the children, and in
sisted that she should eat some of the
cabbage. She willingly complied, and
partook heartily. A few minutes after
eating she also died. The father then
Investigated the vegetable and found in
the heart of il a small rattlesnake, boiled
to death. The Star does not vouch for
the truth of the story, but says that II
was told by reliable countryman, who
however, could not remember the names
of the alleged victims of the dead rattle
snake.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
japanese Good Breeding.

In an article on japanese manners the
Fortnightly Revie,0 says: Natural good
breeding is characteristic of even the
lowest of the japanese. 1t is not merely
the civility of the people, but their po-
liteness and grace which so wins the
strangers hearts. We discussed it as we
walked. Can it, as doubtless are the
order and condition of the roads and
other public works, be owing to the pro-
longed existence of local aristocracy
To the presence of natural leaders
throughout the land who are regarded as
at once both chiefs to obey and models to
initiate? Will polished manners long
continue among people urged to get
the utmost profit from the soil to meet
their contributions to the exigencies of a
government invisibly residing in dis
tant city, and represented by one of the
new class of political adventures, who,
now sitting in the seat of the DaimO,
has but two cares-tO gain promotion to
higher place and accumulate savings out
of his slender appointments? Will
those who have grown gray and reared
their children beneath the sway of a long
line of hereditary lords fashion their
manners upon the new-fangled habits of
the sharp politician who comes from
Toxic, in stiff and ungraceful Western
dress, to talk to them of the eternal
truths of political economy and the law
of nations; who, instead of retainers, is
obeyed by some halfdozen politicians in
ill-fitting European trowsers and uncom-
Portable European boots, and who, taking
the place of Imabarr, or perhaps of the
great Ava himself, dwells in a modest
abode without the gate of Imabarr'
castle?
AS each passer-by neared the visitors,
he or she removed the short blue hand.
kerchief wrapped turban-wise around
the head, and, as room was made that
the latter might pass, stopped with not
ungraceful bow and good-day" in the
national salutation, "O-tu-o." Hoes
and mattocks and other farming tools
were cheerfully and politely rendered
for inspection when desired. The own
ers of neat little houses by the roadside
seemed pleased to see the strangers ex-
anime their curious details: their accu-
rate carpentry-.iunctions without nail
or bolt; sliding doors and shutters;
windows formed of delicate panes of
semi-transparent paper. Seated on the
cleanly matted platform of one more
pretentious than the others was an old
man, whose truly Roman features dis
tinguished him among Mongolian race
as of handsome presence and noble mien,
yet of mien not more noble than was his
manner. He grandly acquiesced in the
intrusion of an inquirer, saluted with
lordly grace, told the distance still be-
tween the visitors and Imabarr, and in
formed the interpreter that no Eu-
ropeans ever passed along that road
hafora
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
LONG AGO.

You sang 10 me the dear refrain
used TO know,
While memory's voice Joined In the strain
So sweet and low,
And woke within my heart again
The long ago.
For as you sung seemed 10 hear
The sounding sea
In rushing surges bringing near
Its waves to me:
While Plashing oar-beat', soft and clear,
Again upon the rocky shore
/ sit alone;
Beneath my feet the breakers roar;
The wild winds moan;
Across my cheek feel once more
The sea breeze blown.
watch the white-winged ships go by
With precious freights;
Far off they sail into the sky,
Through misty gates:
And, high above, the sea-birds cry A
To call their mates.
For many an hour, in days long past,
i fingered there,
With restless heart that longed 20 cast
r. Its sad despair
Beneath the waves, and find at last
An end to care.
But cool winds nerved my weakened will;
The murmuring sea
Seemed chanting low the peace be still ["
OF Galilee;
And Hopes fair breezes rose to fill
LIES argosy.
So blest the harbor gained at last,
Dear love, with thee,
/ would OF all the stormy past
Forgetful be.
Sing happier songs, and from me cast
Sad memory!
-LouispiHe C0urier-,J0uruAL