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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02

The disposition and willingness or the
Republican party to obtain By fraud
what q not be gained By fair means
have 80 often been exhibited that little
Or no surprise will Be expressed. IL
though some indignation may be felt. q
The announcement that they recently
made an attempt to steal The State Of
Connecticut from the Dem0crats- On
election day in that STATE the tickets
used BY the Democrats were printed 1 =
white letters on . black ground 20 pre-
vent che srading and cutting the Re-
publicans we're rosorting % = order 70
defeat Mr.. Waller. The Democratic can
didate for Governor. ne people a
abe State expressed their viii By elect
an the Democratic ticket BY agood
majority- A Republican candidate for
Auditor il New Haven. however, Was
not satisfied with The doscat 3D.
ministcred 70 him. md carried HE ~
% the courta Connecticut it seomshas
= uniform Ballot Law. which while pro
hibiting distinctive marks tondin4to de-
Gfroy secrecy. provides that The names
Of candidates shall b printed mp
On clean white paper. The New
Haven Judge under the law decided
chat the Democratic black ballots were
f1lcgaI. Seeing . chance 70 defeat tho
WilT u the people. the Republicans inn
mediately recovered from Tie Icthargy
D 4ucnt upon defeat and arrayod
themselves IN favor d : strict coustruo-
tion Of the law. and thev proposed - con-
Gest the election 81 tne whole State
ticket On The ground that Ne ballots cast
" the Democrats were illegal. They
overlooked and were totally unabashed
~ the fact that their MI tickets were
printed with black borders AMI bore
other Distinguishing marks upon them.
The purpose 81 the framen q the Con-
nccticut law Wa obviously % pro rent
employers from exercising improper In
Gucnccs over their men- 10 eccompIish
lhis \ wa not necessary thnt I'll the
ballots should b printed upon "clean
white paper u Was simply necessary
\ that they should I'll - oIlko- Even 4
lhc Democratic tickets he'd been printed
upon s.clean white papeE'' thorc would
hAve been : difference - he Re-
publican tickets boro distinctive marks
upon them The manncg d printing
che Democratic tickets W. : mere Dc.
vice % prevent -countcrloitinR ~ alters-
<ion. The borders and characters upon
Gle Republican ballots were % part q
chem and were openly Intended % DE-
n<r0y their secrecy. But tho Republic.
~ care nothing for the intent 81 The
law. nor for carrying out The wishes d
1he people. Their only desire y 70 Oh
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02


II deserves 70 be known BY the public
that some Of the largest and most im-
portant railways are IN the habit Of
extent that even engineers. iIremen and
switchmen fail asleep e their posts
from sheer exhaustion. ~ y stated On
good authority that . majority of all
the collisions that take place are due 70
this cause. a correspondent Of the New
York Times has been investigating the
matter. and came across such cases Is
the following: A s'aion-keeper said that
he had often Jagged . train md found
the engineer fast asleep. p conductor
snoring N his CAB. and only tine fire
man awake 70 obey his signal. Were
the brennan also 70 doze ofl, = thing 2
unlikely 70 happen, lnasmuch ~ ms
hours 81 service are Inc same, no one
could foresee the consequences a -
mol unusual ior tram men 70 work
twenty-five hours continue sly, and IN
case Of detention or accident. or other
Encouragement q the rotation "a serv-
Ice. the time frequently extends % thir-
~ hours without rest. A certain sia-
tion-master has 70 re af ms post when
again at lou o'clock. " hen the mid
night train y two hours late the station
keepers night = thereby shortened.
Il y stated that I'VE Or six hours a. =
stretch = ail that AZ engineer can stand
without being overtaxed. Six Or eight
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02


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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02

schc,cs {,;Ici n 49, roS becsnss re Re-
c,h5;~~cs nav. heco~e con<ciencc-
s,r;ckcr buf ~ acconnf n me manly
co.,r-s AZ nm. Rnlkiev- their candidate
49, Covernor. Who n6:ifivelv refused 10
fafe ~ Ccve-norskiD N orposlt on %
fhe manifest desire ~ ne Dcoplc. e.
rrcssej n favor AZ AZ. waller bv = ma.
ior;fv' ~ our thousand votoa -Harris-
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Our Washington special recently con-
tanned . dish Of interesting gossip n
regard 70 . political programme sa,d
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02

"A Providence merchant ordered
from - Atlanta, Ga, broker 10000
twcnty-dollar Confederate bills for use
IN advertising The broker filed the
order and had Is. 1000. 600 lcft--Provj
deuce (K. ~ Journal
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-02-02

B. d. Godfrey. o. Ncwt0nvilIc,
Mass. -ignalizcd the New Year by pur.
chasing and sending 20 . list Of twclve
gentlemen - many handsome pocket
Bibles. with tho name Of each IN gilt q
The book. and with each he has sont IN
explanatory letter and appropriate
verses for their especial studs. The lfsl
Of recipients Of these favors h ~ fol.
lows: General B. r. Butler. Jay Gould,
w. H. Vanderbilt Senator Hoar, n. b.
CIafIin. Governor Long, Mayor Palmer,
Lioulenant-G Governor Oliver Amos. John
N. Forbes. George ". johnson md
Aaron Claim. -Bosf0n journal
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
Gcntlcmanly Burglars.

In future gatherings at his club Mr..
J. II. IRVINE, of the firm of Franklin,
McNcagh q Co., will be able to relate a
good story in the shape of u reminis-
cencc. 1t relates to the exploits of two
gentccl burglars who visited his resi-
dencc at Ridgcland early yesterday
morning. The good nature and sang
froid of the two gentlemen who held
their pistols toward his head and talked
about the weathcrarc due largely to the
knowledge that they would not be dis
turbed by Il policeman, there being none
in the village. The burglars crawled
in a window, and, making their way
into the room in which Mr.. and Mrs
Ervine were sleeping, covered them
with pistols, while they ransacked the
apartment. Mr.. IRVINE says they ap-
peared to be pretty decent fellows, that
they kept up a Jolly sort of conversa-
ton while they selected the. property
they wanted. and at his request laid
aside several things of small value which
he desired to hold as kcep-Sakes. When
they were about to enter another room
they deSistcd laughingly when told that
they would find nothing worthy of their
attention except two babies. One of
the men remarked that as it was purely
professional call he would not fright
en- the children. They did not wish to
brighten anybody unnecessarily, and, of
course, they must rely on the gentle
mans statement that nothing was to be
had there. After the cracksmen were
gone, Mr. IRVINE made an inventory of
his possessions. and found that they
had taken two watches and small sum
of money, worth in all about $50. The
same burglars are supposed to have Wis
tied the house of Charles l.. Ames sub
sequently. from which they were fright
ened by a p;stol-shot. The affair has
been reported to the police of this city,
who are on the lookout for the inter-
esting pair. Lieutenant Shea thinks he
will yet run across them. IRVINE thinks
he would know them again. Mr.. En-
vine values his experience very highly.
Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
Called shoulders.

Farm horses are in some seasons more
than in others-in wet and warm sea-
sons especially subject to CALLED
shoulders and backs, and which, when
not timely or properly attended
to, are apt to produce troublesome
sores. The skin not only is abraded by
the collar or saddle parts of the harness,
but the flesh irritated and inflamed; and
If the irritation is kept up, an ichorou,
discharge takes place, which is difficult
to heal without giving the horse pro
longed rest or freedom from work.
When saddle or collar-gall is observed.
the harness should be looked to, and
the pressing points which have caused
the sores should be removed. 1t should
be made a rule to sponge off the &C
cumulated sweat and dirt from the collar
and saddle part of the harness, as well
as from the shoulders and back OF the
horse. when he comes in from work.
In cases of soreness or calling, a solu-
ton should then be used to anoint the
bruised parts every night, after they
have been dried with soft cloth. Such
lotion may consist of two quarts OF
clear lime-water, to which is added half
a pint of raw linseed oil and two ounces
Of powdered sugar OF lead (this being
first dissolved in a little hot water).
Mix the whole well together and keep
it in a corked bottle, shaking the bottle
well before using the contents.-4 Prairie
FARMER,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
Dynamite as a Home Comfort,

One of the oldest incidents in the
history of dynamite is the laudation of
it by paper called the Home Journal as
ameans of elevating the condition of the
poor and oppressed, by enabling the
humblest and most obscure to blow up or
kill at trifing expense anybody who
seems to stand in the way of his happi-
ness. The home in which these doc
trines were accepted and acted on
would be very strange place, indeed.
and would not long need a journal of
any kind. There is one comic side to
these views, but only one, and that is
the notion that if the use of dynamite
by the downtrodden, unhappy, became
general, it would only be used for the
destruction of the tyrant and oppress-
or. 1t would be used, as everybody
knows, or ought to know, principally
for robbery and the unadorned
murder OF enemies, just as the re-
so!ver has, been. Nearly everybody
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

Such rapid improvements have been
made in farm implements that it is get
ting to. be a serious question with the
farmer what he shall buy, and what he
can afford to do without; whatever he
decides to buy he hardly becomes famil-
lar with its use before such improve
ments are made upon it that he is in
doubt if he, can afford to use it, because
the improved one will do so much more
work with less strength. To keep up
with the times and buy all of the ma
chimes that are really labor-saving, that
are now found in the market, would not
only require a large outlay of money
for the purchase but also large out
lay for a storehousc large enough to hold
them.
On very large farms it is important,
and in fact profitable to have a complete
set of improved farm implements, from
a hand-whecl hoe to a thrcshing ma
chine, but on small farms the outlay
for an entire set of improved imple-
mcnts is too large, so the small farmer
is compelled to make :, selection that
will conform to his means and the size
of his farm. If his farm is 50 small that
he keeps but one horse, the difficulty OF
making selection is greatly increased,
because he finds many of the best i'm
PIGMENTS are made for two horses, so he
must either get another horse, or con-
tinuc TO use the old implements.
The large farmers have an advantage
over the small farmers, by being better
able to have a complete set of the most
improved. implements, Manufacturers
of farm implements should try to
cqlaliZe this difference, in measure,
by making some One-horse machines
whenever it is practicable; unless this
is done the small farms will eventually
become Improbable for mixed farming,
and the owners will have to resort to
specialties; or a neighbOrhOod of small
farmers will have to join together and
purchase, to hold in common, the larger
ind most expensive farm implements.
This could be done in good neighbor-
hoods. For example, a manure spreader
or threshing machine could be owned
by several neighbors, and be made to
serve each one when wanted, by a little
previous arrangement. This practice is
already adopted in some portions of the
State. When the parties are good
neighbors everything goes smoothly;
care must be taken not to unite with
men who are all self. -Massachusetts
PlOuqhmGp.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
" Sixty Wives"

Conductor Lane, of the Conneaut &C.
cOmmOdatiOn, tells good story illus
trative of the curiosity of certain peo-
pie, and the average willingness to
credit any and all rumOrs that may be
classed as gossip.
1t was two or three days after the
Mormon reunion at Kirkland had closed,
and about twenty of the saints who had
remained behind had boarded the train
at Willoughby. They soon began to
sing, and as the conductor passed on to-
the rear of the car he was grabbed by a
trio of ladies, who asked in unison,
pointing to the MormOns!
who's them?''
Those" said Mr.. Lane, care Nor
mons -
'.Mormons! Heavens and earth, are
there Mormons on this train?''
'Yes," replied the conductor, ana
then explained that they had been in
attendance at the Kirkland reunion and
were on their way home.
The ladies stood up and watched the
unsuspecting saints long and carefully.
One of them even wandered out into
the aisle to more closely scrutinize their
queer fellow-passengers.
"Of course there's good many more
women than men, are mt there?' asked
one of the ladies, toying with the ques-
ton they so much wanted to ask, as to
the number of wives
"Oh, yes, explained the conductor,
there's about four or five women to
every man."
''You don't say and the ladies con.
fidentially whispered. Finally one Of
the most bold asked:
How many wives did you see any
one man have?''
"Oh," said Mr.. Lane. ''they quite
frequently have ten or fifteen. There
was one on my train yesterday with
twenty-five. He was not recognized,
however. as very much of Mormon.
l took down one old fellow the other
day with sixty wives
A chorus of ''ohs'' followed, and
while the ladies dissected the choice
morsel of gossip the conductor passed
on through the train Cleveland Herald.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
Just Like EN-.

Two ladies who were bound some
where in company yesterday entered ;
Woodward avenue car together, and M
sooner were they seated than both mad.
dive for their purses.
"Oh, let me payr' pleaded one
"Oh. couldn't think of it.''
"Oh, do, now; l have just the
change"
.Oh, but have tickets"
Yes. but you paid the last time
But you can pay some other time,
Here. -!'
She was hurriedly searching through
her portemonnaie. but didn't seem to
find anything.
Il told YOU had-r'
And the second one began a search III
a wild manner, emptying out pins,
needles and buttons, but no money.
"Why! / do declared gasped the
first
''Strangest thing l ever saw"' added
the second.
III pay for BOTH" observed man
on the seat opposite. and he marched
up. fumbled through his pockets and
held out battered quarter to the driver.
The latter would not take it. and the
man marched out and slid off the plat
form in the most solemn manner. and
at the next crossing the ladies said they
had taken the wrong car, rang the bell
and got Off.-Detroit Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

According to Prof. Wilder, nc
plant is more benefited by constant
supply of water than is the strawberry
-Mucilage is a handy thing to have
in the house. But if the bottle is empty,
and the stamp or envelope does moi
stick, probably not one in a hundred
knows that honey is very good substi.
tute.
"A row OF sweet pease brushed and
cultivated in the vegetable garden will,
DIR. Hexamer finds, give an inexhausti-
BILE supply of fragrant flowers all sum.
mer. The more blossoms YOU cut the
more new ones will be produced. N
Y. Tribune
Cream Sauce: Hest one tablespoon
sui OF butter in a skillet, add a teaspoons
full of flour, and stir until perfectly
smooth; then add gradually one cupful
of cold milk, let it boil upOnce, season
to taste with salt and pepper, and serve.
Chicago Journal.
A good way to use up bits of cold
turkey or chicken is to cut them in
pieces, of uniform size if possible. make
a batter of milk and flour and an egg.
sprinkle pepper and salt over the cold
fowl, and mix with the batter; fry as
you do any kind of fritters in hot lard;
drain well; serve hot. This is a good
breakfast dish.-N. Y. Post.
Many so-called cases of pear-bligh,
on ounce stock are not blight at all, but
are simply the killing of the ounce
roots from being planted too shallow.
The ounce root is very tender. and in
localities where winters are severe
should always be heavily mulched. As
the ounce likes cool, moist soil, the
mulch may be left on during the follow
ing summer.-Chicago Herald.
For polish to clean up and brighten
old furniture, pianos, etc, dissolve four
ounces orange shellac in one quart OF
ninety-five per cent. alcohol; to this add
one quart of linseed oil and one pint OF
turpentine: when mixed add four ounces
of sulphuric ether and four ounces OF
aqua ammonia; mix thoroughly and
well before using. Apply With a cloth
or sponge, and rub the surface to which
it is applied until the polish appears
Detroit Post.
1t is a great mistake, says an ex-
change, to let horses out to pasture UNI
til after the spring work is all done.
One feed of grass will spoil a horse $
appetite for hay, and he will be in poor
condition for working, no matter how
highly fed with grain. Many good
farmers keep their horses up all the year.
A healthy man will work through the
summer. with only an occasional day of
recreation besides Sundays. Why
should not well-fed horse do the
same?-N y Hcrald
T. b. Terry, in the Country Gentle
man, reminds farmers that ''stitch in
time" saves labor in looking after po-
tato beetles as well as in any other
business. By picking off the first
beetles that appear, the second crop
will be largely diminished. For those
who escape. and there are always some,
he uses pan with a handle and 4 long
paddle. With these implements man
need not stoop, and can gather from
two rows at once, the tops are not
injured, and there is no danger of poi
son.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
THE SKEIN WE WIND.

IF you and j. to-day,
Should stop and lay
Our Network down, and let our hands fal
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And il some other hand should come and
stOop to find
The threads we carried so that it could wind,
Beginning where stopped; if it should
come TO keep
Our life-work going: seek
To carry on the good design
Distinctly made yours, or mine,
What would il find ?
Some work we must be doing, true or false:
Some threads we wind; some purpose Sc
eXalts
Itself that We look up to. or down,
AS to a crown
To bow before, and We weave
threads
Vi different lengths and thickneSs-somC
mere shrcds-
And wind them round
Till all the skein of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting at the task
To ask
The value of the threads. choose
Strong stuff to use.
No hand but winds some thread:
1t can not stand quite still, till it is
dead.
But when it spins and winds a little skein.
God made each hand for work-not tOil-stan
is required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes OF sand.
If Love should come,
To find bright threads
That we have held. that il may spin them
longer-fnd but shrcds
That break when touched, how
cold,
Sad, shivering, portionlcss, the hands will
The broken strands and know
Fresh cause for woe.
-GcOrgc Klinq'c.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

Two engineers Of New Jersey had
grand fun the other day. Near Bound
Brook their tracks run parallel for three
miles and cross. They brought their
trains together on this parallel and un-
dertook to pass each other at the cross
ing. The engines were very evenly
matched and the engineers were men
who dared, SO that they came to the
crossing together and each undertook
to cross through the others train. 1t
was rare fun for the engineers, but in
running the two trains through each
other, men and women and children
were mangled and killed. This may
not be anything to complain of, but
there is sort of feeling in New Jersey
that the engineers of these two trains
ought to be talked to.-Detro1 Post and
Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

The sea serpent is eclipsed. Captain
Augustus g. Hall, of the schooner Annie
l.. Hall, reports that during recent
cruise along the Grand Banks Of New
foundland, he discovered an immense
trunk turtle, which at first was sup
posed to be vessel bottom up. The
schooner passed within twenty-five feet
of the monster, affording an opportu-
nifty to obtain good view, and the di-
mansions were estimated to be at least
forty feet in length, thirty feet in width,
thirty feet from apex of the back to bot
Tom of the under shell: the fippers were
not less than twenty feet in length
Indianapolis Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

The Wyoming Stock Growers AS
ISOLATION reports that last year 220,OO(
beef cattle were inspected. About
1000 head were killed by the Unior
Pacific Railroad. 1t further report:
that $50, 100000 of Scottish and En-
glish capital was invested last year il
Wyoming and the Texas Panhandle.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

George Alfred Townsend has bought
a house in New York with the proceeds
of his pen, which, like good hus-
band, he has promptly given to his wife.
and in which be expects to end his lit.
erary days,-M Il GrapAte.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

The Texas Legislature has giver
another million acres of land for uni.
versities and another for common
schools, and voted to submit consti
tutional amendment permitting loca
aehool taxation,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

This is a recent ordinance in the
town Of Bellary, India: Resolved
that as the loose monkeys in tho town
have become exceedingly troublesome.
BY attacking women and children car
rying eatables, and overturning the
tiles of the roofs of the houses in the
town, these animals be caught and seat
out into the jungles, and that arrange
ments be made that monkeys may not
receive any injury while being seized.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

-Pere Hyacinthe, of Paris, is coming
to America in the summer to deliver
lectures.