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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-12-28

CmcAGo, Dec. IA special fran At
lanta- Ca, says: The little town ~ Mes
sina u ogitated over visit
amer the manner or the ..white
Capsv from about hundred mem-
hers of q .Farmers' Alliance.r u.
y. Thompson. merchant. refused "a
agree % the Alliances requirements, and
Was boycotted. The merchant. by way Of
retaliation. organized club Of negro Ia
borers. who should demand high~r wages
from the farmers. Friday might two hun
dred men covered every corner ~ the
town and surrounded Thompson's house,
They dug an open grave,then piIncdc Grape
on his door and left note warning hun
shnt - would b visited Azain.
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The baby leaned against his knee.
One little clinging hand
Was thrust within his own; hts eyes
Like deep blue walls OF paradise
Or patch Of SUMMED sea.
Searched well Oid Byrnam's face: no fear.
TO shrinking back: -who brought you here
can not unuerstaud-
~Tour eyes are like my Ethers wcrc:~--
"A woman young and fair
Bwnt glidcs across the fire-lit space:
(1ose By the baby takes her place:
Ole Byrnam feels blur
Before his eyes: : mist Of tears.
= Al me-' be sixha 1.-THE lonely yearsr'
Father, the garden affair
II found q N the DAYS Of old:
On, say some avenue
H opca stiil. that may come
lack 70 your heart. back 70 ny homes
want NOT lands nor gold:
= crave but this dear silver hair
To take within my loving care
Close. close Old ByFnsm drew
me kneelsnR mother and her china
pray thee. daughter. cease-'
-zae homevsrd singers stood 70 gaze
O. Byrnam's Windows Al ablaze.
And lips and eyes that smiled:
they rightly named the faces fair
Ard standing u the yellow glare.
They sang asong % pesceL
MARGAREr HofMn&
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DOT PAUSED on THE LITTLE BRIDGE
the Christmas night SKY and it, golden
stars Soon the silver-tonguet bells In
the little church would ring forth their
rHlns proclaiming the anniversary Of the
birth Of the SAVIOUR and their mus q
would rise and fall over the trees, would
die away across the snow.
Dot had thus far followed the tracks Of
Jobs footsteps, which were easily rccog-
nizahle in the moonlight for but few pe--
sons had Travelled the road since the last
snowfall All the farmers drove 10 town
il teams Now she missed the traces she
was following, but she soon found the
place where he jumped the fence
When JOB awoke from his crampei po-
sition and gael about him he was some
what nonplusscd At first his memory was
not equal 20 an explanation Of how ne
came there: hut only for = second did he
fail 70 rccollect. for something stirred in
his heart and brought tears 70 his eyes
when the bells began toring and the soft.
sweet chimes came TO him across the snow
And softer and sweeter than the Christ
mas chimes was the cheek Of velvet that
was pressed close 70 his own plain face,
and softer and sweeter still were the tones
Of the voice that whispered in his ear:
merry Christmas. my lover
When the village pastor was reused
from his warm bed 70 listen 20 their story.
he was somewhat annoyed. but when they
had finished. he exclaimed:
I'll du ct. lii du e. ef q costs n.er pas
sonship.'
And ne married them then and there.
Ezra Flint avoke on Christmas morning
and found himself poor man. indeed
The papers Dot placed in the czsi<et were
her mothers will and the title deeds TO
the property left her bF the will. over
which. now that she was Of ace and mar
ried. her father had no further control
They constituted the largest portion OF her
fathers alleged wealth. and coupled with
the loss Of his daughters respect left
him poverty stricken In mind and pocket
alike
II Job had opened the little parcel he
had thrust in his pocket without exa-nin-
ing. he would have found . nice m-f1er
and q pair Of warm -nittens. and PINNED TO
the scarf was . Christmas card with two
hearts pierced with an arrow pr.nted on
its face The letter given him IN the road
By the farmer was an offer Of professors
seat in neighborinz college. but Dot ir-
sisted that he should still cortiuue 70 b
the .Old Cog Of the village. and any
summer YOU take notion % visit Cider
burg you are liable 20 md painfully
honely man teaching his scholars outside
the school house beneath the shade trees
A handsome young woman whom he CALI
Christmas present. is his assistant and
doubt II there . pedagogue In the world
whose scholars entertain = deeper and
truer affection for him than do the pupils
Of the honey schoolmaster with the iron
bound specfacles-- Old Cog
Brnr Arxorp
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a Po1Ican which fo~sesse-1 the Faculty
Of AassciatIng 1.ieAs-
Houxeau de IL Haze tells Of > pelican
living in . fishermzn's Il nily ~ santo
Domingo that was fed upon the refuse Of
the nah cleaning Looking for its food. IL
went TO the shore every day and waited
for the boats TO come back The fisher
men rested on Sunday. and the bird &C
quircd % clear q notion OF the return Of
that day. when IL had - fast. thar il
would not stir from the tree on which IL
was accustomed 70 spend - time II j.
mot necessary 70 suppose that The pelican
had learned 20 count the SIX days q The
end Of which it, masters would not 90
fishing bU. while IL really estimated
daily the tine .-nen IL must make IL ex-
cursion 70 the shore. II was informed OF
the return Of Sunday BY observation Of
what was going on in the house. -, for
instance. By the fishermen putting On
their Sunday clothes. in The same way ~
the dog knew when its master was going
70 hunt BY seeing him with his gun and
game bag. In such instances. animals
show that they have the faculty OF associ-
atinx ideas. Of observing consecutive
facts. and establishing . correlativc con-
ncction between them--things which have
been proved By abundance Of other evil
Eence. and which demonstrate not less in
tcuiEencc than acquaintancs with the ten
signs exposing the first ten numbers. CT
the use OF . system Of mum Grafton 20 en-
press larger numbcrs Nsn<- Cen<nos
I0D<r. On Popular SCENES Monthly.
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FIndIng Of the Issfy 81 Engineer TIawe<s
Youngest Child ia fhs Lake 1t EsSrmlng-
ham. Ala Ifsue~ Exhibits No Emotion
when Informed - t-ahiic sentiment lse-
turning 20 = Normal Condition.
BrRurxGuxx. Ala Dec- lc About
eleven O'Clock yesterday the officers who
have been for week searching For the
body OF little Irene Haxes- found IL at the
bottom ~ the lake. only q few feet from
the spot where the body OF Mrs. HAYES
was found one week ago. IL was weight
ed down with about nifty pounds ~ rail-
road iron. hut bore no marks Of violence
The finding OF the body caused no excite
ment- No further attempt at lynching
HAYES j. anticipated. When told Of the
finding OF his baby's body HAYES refused
TO talk
When Hawes was informed az the jail
that the body os his little daughter Irene
had been found he looked up with Just the
slightest show OF interest," asd. slowly
arising from his cot inquired. without the
slightest tremor in his voice: awhere did
they End hers
He was told. and without making any
reply. or showing the slightest emotion.
he resumed his seat. and bowling his
head. sat for some time Is II in deep
thought He was askedif he would like to
see the body. but he made no reply Sew
eral other questions elected no answer
except that he lad NO statement 10 make
Fannie Bryant, the negro woman held
- an acc0mplice- was next seen She
stated that she had already been informed
by her lawyer that Irene's body had been
found. and that he cautioned her not to
say anything, and refused 70 further con-
xarzo IN the suhiecf
Before the reporter left the JAIL strin-
gent orders were issued 20 admit no one
to Hawes' cell. The news Of the finding
OF the body created no excitement In the
city. No crowds have gathered on the
street, and very few have visited tho
undertaker's shop where the body lies
While no repetition Of last saturdays
terrible ARRAY i feared, every precaution
has been taken TO guard against any at
tack on the Jail. An extra force Ok deputy
sherifs are guarding the approaches
thereto. No one i allowed % 60 near the
Jail without an order from TIN sheriff.
The Coroner's jury. investigating tho
shooting N last Saturday night, held only
q short session yesterday. number Of
witnesses were examined. but their testi-
mony was unimportant Public feeling -
rapidly assuming its normal condition.
and the belief il gaining ground thas
the Sheriff only did his duty.
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friend him by giving him even : comedy
countenance. He was positively 20 home
~ - 20 be comical when his features were
rciaxcd from the smile be were while his
patience was being taxed by the thick
headed urchins Of the village school
He was the principal In : school where
'thcrc were no assistant tcachcrA There
Wcrc twenty 1.-TWO scholars In tho school,
but they could Be divided into almost a.
many classes - individuals. This was
owing % Job's kin<ress Of heart. for he
believed II advancing his pupils in proper
: ticn 70 their ability 70 learn. In consc-
qucnce the school hours cftentimcs proved
20 b TO short % hear all the classes.
He was well beloved ~ his family =
- he termed them, although. without any
feeling 81 disrc-pcct. they were apt "a
mention him behind his back - .Old
Cog" Whether this title originated
through HE wearing pair Of iron bowed
sgiesses sash . country folk term ~sox.
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CHICAGO. Dec ia man giving tEe
name Of Henry Briggs, and who said ~
was a Waterman at Battery ID, marrow NJ
escaped lynching on Wabash avenue this
morning. The police lad 10 use theif
clubs 70 keep the crowd nvar ~ y
him. Before JUSTICE Viii me waS
charged with an attempt crin.innllyf
assault Miss Maria Mrn~mployed
Roscnblatt's factory - Wnbnsh tNr
me- The girls storyss TINT Hriggt ioi-
lowed her into tine sway, whert I'm
caught her. Her screr brought asS's'-
ance and the man netAd narro~lyes-
capped lynching. A. t.i wa< some qnes-
tom a. to his identity, WIS ict or with
SO fne.
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HI Cnrlstmos Eve
that brought hap
pIncss % the greater
number Of homes In
Cidcrburg brought
20 Job PIppin moth
ing more than =
long. uncomfortable
journey through the
snow and . bitter
disappointment
Job Pippin was
not o handsome
man. Nature had
neglected 70 BE-
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CINCINNATI. Dec. 1s.--Mrs. Janc Hess.
propriefress Of the Royal Hotil. corner -
Court and Walnut Streets has fiied suis
for divorce from her husband. John Hess,
charging cnnelty. non-support and deser-
ton Mrs. Hess l. the mother Of the well
known actress. julia MarloMe.
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CoxcoRD, n. H., Dec 1s.-It j. reported
that two locomotives have ccllided on me
Concord railroad near Bow. One man,
named williams, il reported killed. md
another badly injured.
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- :! !
SA. Lr@zS2S
h&aYt@
S3 - e.szsy
%A9kt nm s ! ana .siss
->X>S6Q| ER Beneath The Chriss
AXf>MDf mas stars.
RNr3 The old stone mansion
wv On the hill
kN Above the town sized
dark and stili
save but one single light
Thss Through he grated window cleaned
Whcre. ~ alone, Old Byrnan dreamed
Behind his bolts and bars
me caroI-sInrers going By
flushed an their noisy Eice
I'M veil beyond ne Byrnsm farm
Hair fearful Of some hateful charm
Within the evil eve
or this old man Who lonely safe.
no guest. no TREAD with n BIZ gate.
The Cnristmas-tidc 70 see.
Thcse careless singers could MT knew
The thoughts that filed the brain
OfByrnam As the freight falls
IN nfful flashes on the walls.
What Ancscs come and 60
49, In..I A1w4
xyren love vas law. and life was praise.
And memory WAS not Pain
Again he hears the Ginning bells.
A. IN the long ago.
He hears the sweet old story read
o. Chr:s,-child. 10 His maneer bed;
Joyous singer tells
OF wondcrs IN the Heavens when
The angels sang: Good v II 20 mc1.
And peace In rivers now"
Hark. what was shats breath OF ali.
A crcak OF door or tree.
Brcaks In upon O,d Byrnams dream.
Ard makes his dark eyes nash and giean:
None knew the garden stsir
nat Ethel;~ 70 himself he sad:
- And Eshel-Ah- my Ethers deati
Forever dead 10 me.
~Ican not break divided hearts
And she was all my own
IA came that stranger from the iowa.
with hair and eyes Of velvet brown
Again old Byrnam starts:
= Nov must look 70 locks and keys,
who c0mesy' he called The garden trees
Fierce lsshcd the walls Of stone
within the doorway's curtained gloom
little ch,Id ne sew.
All clothed IN white with golden head
= Are you the Chrisf-childy' Byrnam sad
In silence cross the room
-Gtraight 70 bis knee the VISION came:
- I'm ntfIe Byrnam. that's my name
And you're my grandpspA"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
EVER SPREADING.
ROumania In0culated With Socialist
Ideas,

Encouraging accounts Of the 80
ciallst agitation in Roumania reach
us. The London J,tstice, reviewing
the movement there says: "The So
cialist propaganda was commenced
in Roumania by number of Russian
refugees in 1877. In 1880 the move.
ment began to take real shape. Pro-
pagandist societies and groups were
formed in various pa It's of the pro-
vince. In 1885 the socialists had a
daily organ at Bucharest and a
monthly review at Jassy. The towns
where the socialists are strongest are
Bucharest, Jassy, Galatz, Bralia,
Barau and Craicova. In the coun-
try districts, too, the great majority
of the peasantry are thoroughly in
sympathy with the socialists.
"In fact, throughout the Danu-
bian provinces socialist ideas are per-
meatlng the workers. This is great
" due to their favorable situation,
inasmuch as many socialists from
Russia end Austria have taken up
their abode, for a time at least, in
the Danubian provinces when COM
! PEELED to leave their own countries.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28

dered men had left the task of support
ing their families. This body, consisting
of thirty two trade unions, having nobly
assumed the responsibility. Thirteen
children were left, ten under years of
age, and the Oldest but Is. 1t would
seem that official vengeance might have
been satisfied in bereaving them, without
taking additional pleasure in prosecuting
widows and orphans. But not SO, The
Chicago press announce and the asso-
ciated press spread the foul lie broadcast
that the families are living in atiiuence:
that Mrs. Parsons recently bought gold
watch and scalskin sacque, when the fact
is she has done neither; that Mrs Spies is
guilty of paying the eXtravagant rent of
$25 month for an upper tenement, which
is likewise false; and in similar manner
the others are treated.
presume the friends of these men
would be glad to see all of the families
enjoying every comfort of life, living in
their own homes and with competent
income to relieve them from any fear of
want; but the press are annoyed that
sympathy has been awakened; that the
cry Of widows and orphans should be
needed; that the damnable murder should
be rebuked and the wards of liberty
should be fed. In the meantime organ
lied laborers in Chicago stand by them,
and generously claim the duty of re-
lieving their wants, and feel their in
competence, however great may be the
response to their appeal, to even do
enough for the families of men who died
for them.-A Writer IN Chicago Alarm.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28

And tho noble within
And washed forth
And tho the
The brings weahsI
And tho the lofty I'M
And
And tho her elon tarebade felon gab her livery
And tho the oakum ask-I tell all-Se 5
And compelled
And tho she seeks
And hate wounded
Yet eshe will hang her harp BabeIs
All she strikes every and swell
And Knocked
Until
plant, song sgs pe1shed subed
Nor of fantastic inerlude-
Tho moeen the purple be that decks
Oh no the those OF sorrow, dsnay
lis triumph songthe the
As well as odhead spake: raS, rH be'
Will belnd lead the nations of hots
And heads
stretch forth almighty till it reviviies
You only cells; grave;
wave
le fools! Do live in
Rests nook for dwell in heart
Does each bosom shelter that beats generous
Not workshop rooing
I1a! Am not the Breath of Life that and
therefore, will beand peoples your
And necks will plant strong
hoatit hea-tlnls history law
The day otoh Babyon Ts cool beneath thy willow
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
THE BREWERS LOCKOUT.
The Bosses Pretend to BE Happy. and
the Boycott Goes On.

The great lockout of the union
brewers in New York still continues,
and the boycott of the "pool' is as
suming greater dimensions as the
supply of union beer increases.
Still the men will have won hard
earned victory if they succeed in de-
feating the "pool" with it's millions.
One great difficulty is the fact that
the men pf money have control Of a
large number of saloons, whose
keepers are merely employees of the
bosses. On the other hand there is
much sympathy with the men, and
they are doing their best to introduce
union beer wherever they can, and
they have SO far succeeded in driv-
ing out pool beer from many saloons.
One of the largest pool brewers, Stein,
has already made arrangements with
the Union, thus making breach in
the enemy's ranks.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
THE "klCkING" KNIGHTS.
Their Charges Answered With Ex.
pulsiOn-They Still Kick,


The Provisional Committee of the
Kicking" Knights of Labor has is
sued circular in which the follow
ing paragraphs appear:
GAS an immediate result of the issuance
of the circular last Fall a universal de-
mand was made by the Order for state
ment Of the receipts and expenditures of
the general office at Philadelphia for the
year ending with October |, 1887. The
aggregate receipts were known to be
nearly $500, 200, but detailed statement
of the expenditures was refused at the
Minneapolis convention, and all that
could be learned was that not dollar of
the $500, 900 received was then in the
hands Of the general treasurer.
during the past half year appeals and
demands have been made of the general
officers to produce report of the fnan-
cial transactions, but notwithstanding
the fact that the officers were threatened
with legal proceedings to compel an ac
counting, no report has been given and
none ever will be.
districts have dissolved, locals have
lapsed and individual members have
withdrawn their support At the Rich
mond session of the general assembly the
reports showed i02, 600 members. At
Minneapolis the figures were 1000
On the first day of the present month
the books of the general secretary show
less than 240, 600 members in the order,
showing a loss of more than one-half of
the membership since the last general
assembly
The circular is addressed to the
Knights OF Labor, and they are
urged to join with the Provisional
Committee to rescue the Order from
the "ring." The circular is signed
by Joseph r. Buchanan, as Secrc-
tary of the Provisional Committee.
It's a pretty hard matter to build
a new house Oh a rotten foundation
with half baked bricks.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
BOSTON,.
Enthusiastic meeting of Hebrew So
cialists-The World DO Move.

The Hebrew Educational Society is an
association which was formed in event
full days just preceding the Chicago
tragedy. Since its inception it has done
good work in sowing Socialistic seed in
its chosen ground. Over 600 Hebrews
picked New Era Hall last Sunday eve
ming in response to its call for public
meeting and as many more were turned
away unable to get in. No livilier
gathering has occurred since the men,
orable lth of November
S. Iolotarotf, Russian Socialist from
New York, addressed the meeting for
nearly an hour an half, at times evok
ing intense enthusiasm, manifested in
cheers and cries in Hebrew. He was
followed by H. Zemetky, after which the
audience rose and sung the "Marseillaise"
In a Hebrew translation to piano ac-
compartment, rendered by Mrs. Baza-
linski. The audience then without a
dissenting voice adopted resolutions, of
which the following is a translation.
owe, the Jewish workers of Boston,
III uldSs meeting dSSenDleu, express our
sympathy with the views of the Social
lists, and we join them in condemnation
of the present system in which we are
compelled to spend our life in hard toll,
in order that few idlers may spend
their existence in supertous luxury; and,
WHEREAS, the present system exists
only on account of the ignorance of the
workers, we, therefore
ReSolre to spread these socialstic prin-
ciples among them, that they may in the
present system, and make an end of it
and their miseries."
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
COMMERCIALlST VIEW.
A Capitalist Paper Prints an Eye
Opener.

The Commercial Adrerttser of De-
troie, Michigan, gives its readers a
peep into futurity by saying: "Slow-
ly but surely II condition of affairs
seems approaching that will force
the masses into abject submission or
determined revolt against the oppres-
sion of scheming capitalists. 1t is a
frightful state of affairs to contem-
plate, but it is folly to assert that
events of almost daily occurrence do
not point directly to coming peasant
slavery or an era of popular revolu-
ton in the United States. X
The working classes are being driven
like a great herd of cattle upa slowly
narrowing canyon. When they
reach the impossible cliffs they will
turn, and the history of all race or
class oppression will be repeated.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
THE GHOULS OF THE PRESS.

Not content with bounding the
''leaders" of the labor movement in Chi
cago to death and gloating over their
murder by the official stranger of Cook
county, even their widows and children
are subject to malicious misrepresenta-
ton and abuse by the press. After the
jumping jack who is called the mayor
refused the use of hall for the purpose
of increasing the relief fund an appeal
was issued to the country by the Central
Labor union, in whose hands the muir
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
NOT|CEl |

Subscribers outside of New Haven
City and County will hereafter re
ceiye the WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE
from our new publishing house, %
East 4th street, New York City, to
which address they will hereafter
send their communications and re-
mittances.
The New Haven WORKMEN's AD-
vocATE will hereafter be published,
as heretofore, at ISL Chapel street,
New Haven, where subscribers and
friends will be welcomed rs usual.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-28
9rice ; Gemts

enthusiasm, with continued snow,
hail. sleet, rain, and bitter winds
sufficient to damp all your energies,
1t Is a matter for congratulation that
the agitation has not gone back, but
rather forward, though not to the
extent some of us perhaps, would
like to see. However, we cannot ex-
pect to be always in perpetual state
OF revolutionary excitement; it is in
no way desirable that we should.
The movement must have its quiet
times as well as its excitable periods.
After all, the strength of a move
ment should be gauged rather by the
number who stick to it in quiet, unin-
terestlng times than those who join
1t when it is easy to feel enthusiastic
because of stirring events.
The quletness of the winter has
had one advantage. Our speakers
will be fresh for the summers propa-
ganda, instead of being worn out,
and having bad chests and lungs
through the open-air work of the
winter Of 1867. In two or three
weeks time we hope to be in full
swing again-that is, if the weather
will permit, for snow is still hanging
about, and may come down again at
any moment. II. W. LEE.