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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20
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BOOTS And SHOES!.

r. Beck hiss inst returned from the
East. and has bought stock ar goods
which he ofrrs for cssH IowsE TmAs
EVER. See The prices Eastern work &
Child's shoes from IS cents M: Mi-ses'
from 81 up: Ladies from 81 IT.. and IL
all styles: Mcn'~ AMI Boys ~olid l,ati.~r
brogans ~ IS: Fine boots - so.
better grade or gocil
At a very small adyaire: Meas calf
boots only s. 80 10 50 81. Homemade
work in his ow . shop reduced very lo~
ard warranted viz: Women's calf shoes
81 TO - 80; Mems coarse shoes - 81:
Mems calf s3 co: Ne'.'- coarse boots 81.
Kip 81 50 to s. o.; !. Domestic csif 80 90;
Philadelphia S. So, French - 70. IL
best style.
EAsTslnE orFrRLic SQUARE.
April IL. '7s--ly. JASPER. IND.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20

- Old Mr. Jenkins who will be re-
memoered rs a basket maker by many
q me citizens Of HARRISON and Balm
bridge townships. diei at the county
Ioor Asylum last week. Ills wife had
olcd short time before. They were
na'ivcs Of England and had enjoyed a
happy married life, Notwithstanding the
o'scomforts OF poverty ia later years,
ior over sixty-fve years.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20

RrA Nice lot OF motto frames chcal
at WeaiLerford 4 shorts gallery.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20
COUNTRY PRODUCE.

IN lis store ~ West sixth street snd
trade NJ 81 kinds solicited.
-. 81 lSv--i- JOSIAH BrcrAEv.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Artistic Flower Pots.

Those ladies who have organized an
association for the encouragement OF
art-industry among women says Apple
tons Journal, are no doubt disposed to
listen to suggestions, and to welcome
anything which would open new fields
of labor for the class they are interested
in. Have these ladies observed that,
while the cultivation of flowers in our
cities has of recent years spread rapidly,
no Improvement i'm an artistic direction
has been made over the old-fashioned
hower-pot? A vessel of chaste and ele-
CANT form for flower culture cannot be
found, unless the recently designed box
with tile ornaments is an exception.
These tile boxes, however, are very
costly, and at best but inadequately
meet the demand. We need vases or
pots made of ordinary unglazed pottery,
simply and tastefully decorated, and Of
various sizes and shapes so as to suit
either the window-ledge, the veranda,
the balcony, or the courtyard, and ar
forded at low prices. There are now in
some of our court-yards urns of painted
IN that are certainly ugly enough, and
silly pots of very vulgar and fiorid or
mentation may occasionally be seen
at the shops of the dealers; but vessels
of inexpensive material and pure deco
ration suitable for the purpose described
are not to be found. Before window
hower-culture can be very general,
good deal will have to be learned by
those who now every spring permit
their hope and faith TO triumph over
their experience in former years; but
eventually it will come to be understood
that flowers will not flourish when
baked on hot stones, as we see attempt
ed in every street in our cities, and the
fact that selection must be made Of
plants, governed by the conditions of
exposure to sun or shade, will yet guide
the persistent flower-lover into the prac-
tical wisdom out of which his windows
shall in time be brought to bloom in
brilliant hanging parterres, charming
to those who look upon them and
sources of endless pleasure to their
owners.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Memory.

What strange, mysterious thing is
memoryl Often blessing, but some
times curse. When our memories
are of the good, the true, and the beau
tiful of good works, kind deeds, and
loving smiles given and bestowed, then
are they very lovely, but, when they are
Of the opposite, then they become a
burden grievous to be borne. The men,
ories of home, friends, and childhood's
happy hours, "when the world to us was
fairy land" and mothers voice the
sweetest music, and brothers and sis
ters helped to make home lovely and
life delightful, are too pleasant for us
to wish ever to lose them. Sometimes,
however, our memories seem strange
and unreal, and our waking and sleep
ing dreams seem strangely blended, so
that it is often difficult to disentangle
one from the other; and often, after
lapse of time, trifles that, at the time of
their occurrence, we took no note of,
flash athwart our minds, and we won
der why it is thus.
The thought often suggests itself,
When am old, will memory be plea
sure, or otherwise? think it will de-
pend much upon our own deeds. OF
course, rs we grow older, the mind
seems TO wander back to early days, and
the events that absorbed us then will
come back with all the vividness of
life. Still, know that the recollection
of the many wrongs we have done, the
little unkindnesses we have offered to
others, the unjust thoughts We have
cherished toward those who have never
wronged us, and even the small vani-
ties that, in themselves seemed HARM
less, though taking the place of nobler
and higher thoughts, will then be as a
weight on our memory, casting shadow
over our lives, and darkening joys that,
but for them, would be naught but
holy.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

What becomes of the old moons9
What becomes of the old crusts Of
bread in Paris? asks Figaro and then
tells their transformations. The bou-
langer en- rieur, "Baker Of the Old"
freely translated, utilizes the pieces Of
dry, damaged and abandoned bread.
He gathers the crusts in boarding
houses, converts, and hotels. These
morsels, covered with sand, stained with
ink and often picked from heaps of re-
fuse, are sold by servants to the Baker
of DID," who turns them into new
preparations. The merchandise Is
first carefully divided. The frag-
ments which are judged to be still
in presentable condition are dried
In an oven and for mcroutes au pot,
which are used in soup at low-class
restaurants. Almost all the lozenge-
shaped crusts served in dishes of veg
etables have this origin. The crumbs
and defective crusts are pounded in q
mortar until they become white paste;
which butchers use to adorn outlets.
All the material that appears absolute
ly incapable of further service, is roast
ed, reduced to charcoal, ground into
powder, and by the addition of few
drops Of essence of mint is converted
into tooth paste. Such is one Of the
metamorphoses of Partisan industry.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Old Letters.

No two words could we'll be brought
together, out of which more pregnant
meaning might be cleaned, than the
above. Old letters! the very intonation
of our voice as we utter them startles
us. They summon up anew the long
silent echoes of sounds heard only in
that once world of youth-a chaos now
out of which We have passed; till,
rising boldly before us in this our later
sphere, like severe rebuking spectfes,
come all buried joys, dead loves, sworn
and forsworn friendships and irrecon-
cilable hates. Drag yonder chest from
among the cobwebs that have gathered
about it for thirty mortal years; take
down the rusted key from the nail where
it has hung so long. Does it CRATE and
jar in the unused locks? What of that?
The sound is significant, in perfect uni
son with the tone that shall vibrate
through the hearts most secret chords
when the mournful lid is lifted, and the
indwelling spirit invoked, and the hol-
low sepulchre laid bare. But couragel
raise the groaning lid, and dive beneath
the accumulated rubbish for the long,
boarded and long-neglected packet.
Lay out, one by one before you, the
motley muster-roll that holds in record
the startling fictions of life. Pahl
smell as of damp mould hangs about it
like charnel. A brave hand is needed
to unloose the string; the knot resists,
as though it felt the mercy of delay.
But old men lack patience, and so you
cut the Gordian knot. Now look as in
a mirror, and behold!-Chan,bers' Jour.
nal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Keep the Stocks Strong.

Mrs. Tappen, in the Beekeeper's Mag
azine, gives the following advice: "For
several years We practiced method
which We can recommend to any one
who care more for rapid increase than
for surplus honey, and it has this ad-
vantage, that you obtain nice white
clover or linn honey while you leave
the bees to fill up for winter on that
which is not so saleable. Having all
colonies very strong at the beginning of
the month, keep them so by supplying
them either with empty comb or space
in which to build it. Use the extractor
freely when yeu can do so without in
juring the brood, and secure all the
honey possible. Have supply Of
young queens or hand and at the end of
the linn harvest divide all your colonies,
just as you would do in May or June,
supplying each division with fertile
queen. Watch them all and feed il
they need it, but usually without this
help all will become strong stocks be-
fore frost. Wed0 not warrant increase
if this plan be attempted with any other
than strong colonies"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

Yes know there are b great many
provoking things in this life; for in
stance, it is provoking to find after you
have written half-a-dozen letters with
snub-nosed pen, that you had choice
new ones lying just under your nose, in
q box of cast-off powders that the doc
ter left-the very last place in the world
that a convalescent would be rummag-
ing.
It's just trifie provoking to have
some ignoramus set the clock back fif-
teen minutes just as you expected to
take the train for funeral, or, what is
akin to it, a political convention.
1t is aggravating, to say the least, to
have the teapot cover drop of every
time you pour cut a cup of tea.
Green wood is terrific evil, especial
ly when it is an inch too long at each
end. And, OIL when the best platter is
smashed the day before christmas, it is
simply awful. But then what are you
going to do about it, anyhow 1t keeps
ors on the move so to fare at every
thing.
Oh, your husband don't come home
nights, chr Well, he is a brute-that is,
If you are pleasant and keep pictures
on the wall. Tell him said 80, will
your Don't look in the least ru6ied,
though; don't even scosol, If there is a
dent in your forehead just as deep as
the window sash, made by bobbing your
head against the window to look Tor bis
coming.
Fretting is not admirable in any case.
1t takes the fat OF, deepens the
wrinkles. fades out the hair; and bile.
In stirred-up condition yellows the
skin. Oh, it don't pay" to fret il you
want to be handsome. Take everything
as it comes, whether it be q broken
clothes line or late husband.
And if you and 1, my friend, wait in
patience till beauty crowns our efforts,
patience will have had q perfect work
in at least two lives
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
A Composers Eccentricities.

The correspondents are admonishing
Americans that Richard Wagner is
something of a-a-well, he buys things
and doesn'tpay for them. And a funny
story about this foible of his is told in
a selection from his correspondence,
just published in Vienna, being sixteen
letters to mantua-makerl Not love-
letters-Frau Cosima has no occasion for
jealousy-but it seems that, in his pas
sion for satin dressing gowns and things,
he became indebted to Fraulein Bertha,
and, as she couldn't get her pay from
him, she takes this means to get it out
of his correspondence, which is said to
be quite different in style FROM the
Nibelung dramas. 1t appears that
Wagner ordered $4,000 worth of satin
in four years, in one letter calling for
250 ellis of satin, four satin dressing
gowns and three satin bed-quilts. When
strangers visit him they are shown into
room.hung with gray satin from cell
ing to floor and all the furniture covered
with the same. When the host himself
appears, he wears medieval cap Of
gray satin, an immense cloak of gray
satin, short breeches of gray satin, gray
silk stockings and gray silk bottines
with oxydized silver buckles. If the
visitor makes a favorable impression,
the host begs his guest to enter room
hung with rose satin, and to excuse his
momentary absence. He soon returns
clad in rose satin from head to foot.
Such are the stories now current, from
which it will be seen that inspiration is
no cheap commodity with Wagner.
Byron's gin and water wasn't so artistic,
but it was cheaper, and it served.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Gold Weighed by Machinery.

One of the most interesting and as
tonishing departments within the whole
compass of the Bank of England is the
weighing department, in which, with
the rapidity of thought, and precision
approaching the hundredth part of
grain, the weight of gold coin is deter
mined. There are six weighing ma
chimes and three weighers to attend
them. Large rolls of sovereigns, or
half-sOvereigns, are placed in grooves,
and are shaken one at time, by the
motion of the machine, into the scale.
If they are of the standard weight, they
are thrown by the same mechanical in
telligence into box at the right hand
side Of the person who watches the Op-
Grafton; if they have lost the hundredth
part of a grain, they are cast into box
on the left. Those which stand the
test are put into bags of 900 each, and
those below par are cut by a machine
and sent back to the mint.-London
Times
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

To all Of us constantly choice is OF
fered: choice of many names, but OF
one significance: choice which may
be described variously, but which is
fundamentally the same. 1t is the
choice between law and license; be-
tween pleasure and duty; between the
flesh and the spirit; between God and
Satan; between worldly life and
heavenly hope; between Incorporate
sensualism and sober chastity; between
the love of self extended into forgetful-
ness of God, and the love Of God vic
torious in the forgetfulness of self; be-
tween something which is near and
seems sweet, but which in our heart of
hearts we know to be fatal and ruinous,
and something which is far off and
hard, but which in our inmost hearts
we acknowledge to be noble and divine.
In some form or other, great or small,
this choice comes daily, and almost
hourly, to all of us! daily, and almost
hourly, we have to appeal to great prin-
ciples to support us in the performance
of little duties, or stimulate us to the
resistance of small temptations.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

Imlrisoning chairs are stated to have
been employed by the monks in the dark
er ages, and were originally designed
for the purpose of entrapping those who
ventured to penetrate the mysteries Of
seclusion. They were formed like COM
mon arm-chairs; two levers were fixed
at the extremity of the arms, and the
same number Immediately below the
seat. These. on pressing the cushion,
suddenly discharged four powerful
springs, acting on the levers like man.
trap, and so firmly was the occupant Of
a chair of this description fixed, that it
would take the united force of four or
five persons to set him free. A similar
chair was exhibited at Villa Borghese,
at Rome, in 1914, and Evelyn, in his
Memoirs, says: "They showed us also
a chayre which catches any one who
sits downe in it, so as not to be able to
stir out, 10y certain springs concealed in
the armes. and back thereof, which, at
sitting downe surprises man on the
suddaine, locking him in by the armes
or thighs, after true trecherous Ital-
ian guise."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Saving Seed.

The following instance Of care in
growing and saving seed, initiated and
carried into practice by farmers gener-
ally, would add annually an untold
amount to their income and the wealth
OF the country. A farmer, well known
for his care in the selection of his seed,
made it a practice to set apart each year
certain portion of his fields for the
raising of seed. Upon these seed-plats
none but the most select seed was used,
and of given quality. The best cul-
tivation was given without regard to
cost, and the product of these seed
plats was used for the general crops;
the top or extra grain being carefully
sorted each year. to be again sown for
future seed. Thus he always had none
but the best and most mature seed for
sowing, aud always obtained an extra
price from others, for seed from his
fields. But his own selected seed for
these seed-piats, ccdld not be bought at
any price.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Grandfather's Pet.

This is tho room where she slept,
Only year a,lO,-
Quiet aud care uliy swept.
Blinds and curtains like snow.
There. by the bed in the dusky gloom.
She would kneel with her tiny ciaspcd HANDS
and pray,
Here is the little white rose of a room.
With The fragrance fled away!
Nelly, granifather's pet,
With her wise little face,-
/ seem to hear heryet
Singing about the place;
But the crowds roll ON and the streets are
drear,
And the world seems hard with bitter
doom.
And Nelly IS singing elsewhere-and here
Is the little white rose of a room.
Why, If she stood just there,
As she used To do.
With h,r long light yellow hair,
And her eyes of blue
And ran to my side with living tOuch,
Though know she is quiet, and buried, and
dead,
should not wonder much;
For she was so young. you know
Only seven years old,
And she loved me, loved me so,
Though was gray and old:
And her face WIS So wise and so sweet TO see.
And Ii still looked living when she lay dead.
And she used to plead for mother und me
By the side of that very bedl
| wonder, now, If she
Knows am standing here,
Feeling, wherever she be,
We hold the place SO dear?
II cannot be that she sleeps too sound,
Still in her little nightguwn drcst,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used To rest.
L have felt hard fortunes stinrs.
And baitled i'm doubt and strife.
And never thought much Of things
BeyC nd this human life;
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men. with their prayers
untrue
NAY, ~ fher she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used To dol
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

Lucy Stone, who has been preaching
woman suffrage in Colorado, writes
that the Mexicans there have no plows,
but stir the ground with crooked
stick. To thresh grain they lay it in a
large circle and turn horses or flock OF
goats upon it. Two or three men then
drive the animals repeatedly round, un-
til the wheat is trodden out. The
straw is then thrown up with fork or
with sticks, and the chaff is blown
away. Such wheat as may be required
for family use is washed by the women,
and that which is sold remains un-
washed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
Conundrums in Difficult Circumstances.

COnundrums in Difficult Circumstances.
"What river,n said she, as she tight
ened her grip on the mahogany chair
and uttered howl of anguish, while
tears ran down her cheeks, 'sdo espe-
cially remind you Off"
Why" said he, giving the forceps an
experimental wrench about a quarter
of the way around, "of the Tusk-roar-
err" and he calmly but firmly extracted
what she thought was the end Of the
shoulder blade.
"And what other river nowp" said the
brave girl, turned white as q sheet, as
he held the bone up in the air and -four
ished it triumphantly.
why, of the Tusk-loser, of course"
he answered, handing her the ammonia
And then she smiled with confusion
and modification, and acknowledged
that the tooth was perfectly sound, and
she had it drawn only to get chance to
propcund two conundrums that she
thought he couldn't guess.
He returned the fair girls love and
devotion, and they were welded last
Christmas and have had q large family
of children.-Hasokeye.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

To renovate scorchod linen 1t Is gen.
orally sufficient to wet the spot with
soap suds, and place it in the sun. Soap
boiled in milk is also very successfully
used for the same purpose.
A little boy was asked the other day
IL he knew where the wicked finally
went to. He answered: "They prac-
tice law here spell and then go to the
legislature"
A lump OF wet saleratus applied to
the sting of q wasp, or spider, or bee,
viii stop the pain almost instantly, and
prevent all swelling Of the part. 1t
seems specific for insect poison.
Three score and ten is not . very
green old age il, as astronomers assert,
the period Of time in which this earth
will be ihhabitable, is as a minute to
eternity of its actual existence. And
yet some people really forget that they
were ever young.
A society has been formed In Indian
apolis, with subordinate organizations
in all the leading cities and towns Of
the State, to relieve the people of the
surplus laborers by obtaining homes
for them where land is cheaper, and la
Dor in greater demand.
The human body expands immensely
with age. When eleven young men are
seated on one side of street car, they
can easily sit up little closer and make
room for pretty girl, but seven Of
them can monopolize an entire seat to
the utter exclusion of an old woman.
Mohammed's bible. It the Koran, was
written about A. d. Jog. 1t was written
in Kordish Arabic. Mohammed aimed
to unite the pagans, Hebrews aud
Christians in one faith. He admitted
in the Koran the divine Mission oE both
Moses and Jesus Christ. The Koran
was translated into Latin in the year
1l43, and into English and other Euro
pean languages in 176s.
An experiment has been tried at the
vineyard of the agricultural college of
Mass, to ascertain the effect Of girdling
branches of vines bearing fruit. and It
Is claimed that clusters of grapes on gir-
died branches will be ripe at least one
week before others on the same vine
where the branches are not Rirdled.
The female hop-plant, which Is the
object OF careful cultivation on account
of its bitter and odorous strobiles en-
ployed in brewing. is much richer i'm
principles than the male plant, from
which it is distinguished by its aro-
matte, tonic and narcotic properties,
qualities which are combined In no
other substance.
Putrid water is Immediately deprived
Of its bad smell by charcoal. When
meat, fish, etc., from intense heat or
long keeping, are likely to pass into
state OF corruption, simple and easy
mode Of keeping them sound and health
ful Ia to put few pieces OF charcoal,
about the size OF an egg. into the pot or
saucepan wherein the aesh or flsh is 10
be boiled.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
A minister reading the FIRST Ii,

A minister reading the first line or so
of a chapter in the Bible, the clerk, by
some mistake or other, read it after
him. The clergyman read as follows
"Moses was an austele man, and made
atonement for the sins of his people,"
The clerk who could not exactly catch
the sentence, reported it thus:-''Moses
was an oysterman, and made ointment
for the shins of his people," Again,
"And the Lord smote Job with sore
boils," as ''The Lord shot Job with four
balls"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Notaries Public and
N Authorized War Claim Agents Offices at
Bourbon and Plymouth. Indiana. Especial
attention given to the settlement Of decedents
Estates. Conveyanclng. and the collection OF
Soldiers Claims for Pensions; will attend
promptly to all professional business ems
trusted to them. and practice in Marshall and
adjoining coanties. plymouth Office on Gano
street between Michigan and Center streets.
Bourbon Office FerIrrlr )clnsln. Office. 25u
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
VIM. N. BAILEY, m. D.,

DHYSICIAN K SURGEON. Thirty years
i practice. Graduate of two Medical col
leges. and six years Surgeon in the army of
the U. s. lvol. serv) Can compete success
fully with any quaek in the United States.
Thankful for past favors. is still In regular
practice. and only requires TO be better known
to have an extensive one. Office in Sears
new brick, cor. of Michigan and LaPorte
streets.
Plymouth Ind. July 1st 1876. 1y