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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

soft mouth that had touched his heart
made him culver with the thought that
little soul like that was in such awful
danger; made him promise himself to
save 1t. IL he had the power; made him
call them all towards for standing
there, staring and shouting and doing
nothing. The engines had not yet
come, and the house. all in flames in
side, belched forth fire from its many
windows, as though they had been the
mouths Of the tabled dragon. And in
the midst Of the crowd a girl. restrained
by kindly hands. struggled and
screamed:
LET me go. Let me go. They left
her in my care. She's burning To death
up there. I'd rather die than face
them. Let me go!''
And lshnael heard the voice and saw
the face of the nursc-maii who had
held the baby up 10 kiss him.
us it the little kid you had along Of
you?" he asked, clntcnng the girls
shoulder with his big hand. "Tnat
little critter-say?'
"ies, yes" cried the girl. make them
let me go She's atop Of the house.
back in the nursery. Oh. make them
let me go."
You stay here" said Ishmael. 'Ill
60 myself, and I'll bring her out OF
never come At all.
And with these words Ishmael
dashed into the building. already a
very furnace OF red flame. A shout
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

God. and with all outward purity
about it, too-fragrant. fresh and
white Of garb as n lily is Of leaf. such
thing had never touched hiin before
lie wanted to be kind to it, and he
hardly knew how. He bent his head 9.
little.
Give us kiss" he said, in gruf
rumble Of a voice. and the nurse girl
held the baby up to him.
Give the gentleman a French kiss,
She said. and Innocence personificd did
not even know sin in the flesh when it
looked al and touched it. The cherub
hands caught softly at the mans
wniskers. the angel mouth kissed his
two cheeks. one after the other. then
his mouth
SAY, day day" cried the girl, and
baby said il, and the two were gone.
The man had never had pure kiss
beforehand never felt tender emo
ton. had never loved anyone. On the
instant he loved this baby. lie walked
away very quickly. His heart was
troubled, as the waters OF the pool
when the angel descended into it. lie
passed the people going home. and
asked himself il they had babies 1T
home like that one.
"l'll be respectable. I'll go to for
eign parts and start fair. won't have
Jail and gallows ahead of me. and I'll
have a little kid like that to call me
daddy"
And then two big tears squeezed
themselves out of his eyes and rolled
down his checks, uncon>ciously.
III 70 in the steamer" he said.
III change my name. If I'm not
nabbed for this bank affair I'll make
my fortune as these fellows do. I'm
their match. J reckon. I'll not have
the gallows ahead Of me, as it's like
saall IL ] stay here. And I'll have little
kids and an old woman. will"
There was more Of il. lie could not
help swearing. but, | think, had hc
known how. he would have prayed this
time instead. But just then there came
rpcf. his ear n sudden tumult. Men
We're ilving past him; bell was ring
ing; women were shrcking. He caught
boy and asked him what the row was.
House afre. and young one burn.
ing up in it," said the boy.
And ut that Ishmacl followed tho
crowd. lie had never before cared fos
anyone's danger. lie had never felt pity
ior anyone. Now the thought OF that
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

5airtson's Farroty ra,ave~ On tho reau.
ties OF Protection.

To the republicans OF Indiana IN
convention assembled cx-vrcs,dent
Harrison said: "Our people became 50
rich" under the benign operation OF re-
publican tariff laws. labor was 50 uni
scrsaliy employed nj good wages. that
men ceased u appreciate the danger
and tho disaster that was involved in
an abandonment Of protection rrinci-
pies"
Yes. 'our people" became rich. The
benciiciarics Of the protective tariff be-
came rich. They waxed fat. and lnbri-
Gated the republican machine with
their fatness to their own great advan-
tage. Gut did the people become rich?
DID they become rich collectively or in
proportion 10 their numbers faster
under the republican system OF COM
ncrcial and industrial restriction and
bondage than they did under the dem
ocratic system Of comparative freedom?
The census returns tell q different
story. They show the true valuation
OF oil real and personal property in
millions of dollars 1000, 900 omittcd) in
the years named. the increase per cent.
the value OF property per capita and
the increase per capita, as follows:
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18
TEN THOUSAND KILLED.
Fearful Loss Of Llfc by an Earthquake In
Venezuela.

CARACAS. May IA terrible earth
quake took place in Venezuela on April
-. The cities Of Merida. LaGunillas.
Chiguara and San Juan. situated in the
northwest Of the republic in the region
OF the Andes. are reported as having
been totally destroyed by a fierce
shock nj IL o'clock on the night OF
April -.
Many villages were wiped out. The
full details OF the catastrophe will he
learned slowly, but It Is probable that
10. 900 people have persisted. and It is
certain that the greatest suffering pre-
walls in the places visited by the earth'
quake.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18
MR.. HARRISONS ERROR.
The NATURAL Rcsult of Taxing Labor q
benefit Capital.


Ex-Prcsidcnt Harrison ia . public
reference 10 the Coxey army says: II
believe that II the republican policies
of administration had not been threat
cned we should not have witnessed this
sad. almost appalling manifestation"
1t is by such utterances rs this that the
cx-prcsidcnt max Is it almost impossible
for intelligent men TO preserve that re-
spcct for him that his position in life
entities him TO-
Ever since the Mckinley bill became
effective the industrial distress through
out the country has been increasing.
Ncar.y two years ago the discomfort in
cidcnt to il took the form Of riot and
murder at Pittsburgh. Pa. and, though
the strikers were subducd by military
force and workngmen in other sections
were restrained by fear Of similar
treatment. the condition proceeded
from bad TO worse, until it finally dis
closed to Coxey the method which the
cx-president dcprecates in such solemn
terms
But the change OF policies Of admin.
istration from republican to democratic
is not responsible for It. II Il the
natural and logical result OF taxing
poor and patient people to the extent
OF hundreds Of millions annually that
the favored few in the sugar trust, the
steel combine and the organizations Of
aggregated capital might multiply
their millions and continue TO contro
elections by bribery and corruption :
Kansas City Times
The meanness of tho tactics by
which Mr.. Reed won his vindication II
the quorum-counting business SHOULD
not escape attention. lie flibustcret
persis:cnily over petty affairs and de
libcrately stopped tho course OF thu
house. with no great public issue .
stake. for merely selfish reasons Target:
personal to himself. He and his part.
have not gained In the respect OF thu
people by such a course But the dem
ocrats, unable to maintain q quorum
with great majority to draw from
how contemplate they appcar!-
Springfield tMass.) Republican lind. }.
The Pennsylvania riots ore TIL
direct results Of MclIinlcyism. Tariff
laws that protect capitalists in the i'm
portation II cheap labor always pro
d,sc~ such sasulta IN ~ World
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

The Pennsylvania riots ore the
direct results Of McIlinlcyism- Tariff
laws that protect capitalists in the inn
portation of cheap labor always pro
duce such resultA IN. Y. World
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

FREpERIcksHURo. Va, May 1.-The
weather being propitious, there was
nothing in the way Of a most success
full celebration Of the event To which
patriotic women. and the people Of
Virginia particularly, have looked for
ward 10 for so many months-the dedi.
cation of the monument TO Mary Wash
ington, the mother of the first presi-
dent.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18
MARY.
THE MOTHER or
WASHINGTON.

A cap surmounts the die. and from
this rises the beautiful white shaft
The site is at the edge Of beautiful
plateau am near the two gray boul-
ders upon which the patriots mother
was accustomed to sit for hours daily
with her knitting.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

1t Is rcassuring to note that many
os:h . pension cranks In the country
arc being brought to book for their Of
lenses. 1t is little difficult 10 recon-
cilc tho fact that republican organs
DENY tho existence of pension frauds,
yet applaud the punishment Of these
men who hove been doing nothing but
: fraudulent business for years De-
troit Free l'rcsS
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18
THROUGH FIRE.


T. A X ; ag .
among I h osc
who trod the
busy streets If
Great \ q W
lork, W a. u
man one could
scarcely h v g
passed without
some notice; n
man with beet
ling eyebrows
and glittcring
black eyes and
a hard rcdness
ofchcek; shout
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

The Indiana republicans patri-
otically dcnouncc the hauling down
the American flag at Hawaii" despite
the fact that the good republican pres
ident, who ''disavowcd" the action OF
hls minister In raising II. was present
n The convention. IN. Y. Post
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
500 DAY ON THE BOOM.
How Six Men Made the Biggest
Wages Ever Paid on the West
Branch.

Wages Ever Paid on the West
Branch.
From the Williamsport Sun.
81 must tell you how we got ahead of
the professional divers who were here in
the 1889 flood. The Pennsylvania rail
road run a lot of loaded freight cars up
their Linden branch the day of the food
and put them on Linden bridge to anchor
it. some OF the cars were loaded with
steel made the very day before at Johns
town. The whole lot went through the
bridge to the bottom of the river and the
railroad company asked US If we could
get it up. We agreed to do the job for
Sl5 ton, but they thought the price was
too high and hired two divers 1t s25 day,
to say nothing of the extra crew they had
TO assist in the operation of rowing them
about, letting them down and up and
pumping air TO them. After working two
weehs the divers recovered two tons of
steel ana some barbed wire.
at was beautiful steel in long, thin
bars, for making knives, forks, cutlery,
etc, but when they got II 40 1t was found
to be dirty with sand. which they failed
to remove before raising it, and they had
bent and twisted it all out of shape. The
railroad company was disguised. They
came to US again and told US to 90 ahead,
saying they would lend US their divers
into the bargain. We told EN- we didn't
want their divers. but they sent 'em any
how, and we didn't object, of course, but
sawed wood. AT o'clock in the morn
ing six of us took the steam sple-driver-
as the boom company had no use for it
that daY-and went to work. The cars
were down in sixteen feet of water
las we were preparing to drop a heavy
chain TO get hold of the sunken cars, the
divers arrived. One of them began to
put on his suit and said: Quick as l
get this on Ill 60 down with your tackle.
Get your chain ready ] stepped OF and
went to the bottom. When | came up
that chain was securely fastened to one
end Of the car. The diver by This time
had his rubber suit and brass shoes on
and he yelled for the chain. l says: The
chains on the car now You
never see fellow 50 done
out as he was The divers
fooled around there few hours and then
went back TO town.
We'll, we had all that steel-forty-thre
tons Of it-straight and clean. on the bank
where the railroad people could load it on
their cars, by o'clock that night. How
did we do it, This way: After | got the
chain under one end of the car, as | told
you, we raised her with our steam spile-
driver till that end stood at about 45 de-
grees, and held her there. Then we did
the same thing to the other end and had
the car on the level. but still under water
so that we could stand on her with part
of our bodies out Of water. The steel was
covered by about Two feet Of sand This
we shoveled out, then raised the car still
more, and lifted the steel bars out into
our flats"
That's a pretty good days work, " said
the reporter, making mental calcula-
tion. "Forty-three tons at SIS a ton
wauld be S645 for you six men, or over
500 for each man for a days work
That's probably the best wages ever paid
on the boom, is it noti"
Yes, said Gundrum, "but at the rate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
A BEAUTIFUL HORSE THIEF.
She is May Colvin, an Ozark Girl of
1S, and as Pretty as a Picture.
From the St. Louis Republic.

The female department of the peniten-
tiary undoubtedly furnishes the most de
PRAYED types of humanity. Primarily,
the partiality of courts and juries for
women characterizes every judicial sys-
TEN of civilization; and so it must be a
depra we'd and dangerous woman indeed,
whom a Jury of Americans viii sentence
to penal servitude.
DECIDEDLY the most unique personality of
the female population of the prison is May
Colvin. May is only Is years old, and is
a rustic beauty. Dress her in the gor-
geous paraphernalia of Lillian Russell
and she would be a more brilliant beauty
than that stage celebrity She has great
blue eyes ana mass of tewselled blond
hair OF Titan tint. Her form is luscious
well rounded and plump-and her
cheeks are red with the vigor-
Gus life of the Ozarks, whence she
came. Her mouth is one that an
impressionab bic artist would go wild
over, with it's cherry red-lips of sensuous
curves the whole forming the most per-
feet CupidS bow. And withal May is a
horse tnief, and doesn't denyit Certainly
the confinement IN the penitentiary has
brought out her native beauty, that must
have been blurred or obscured by all
her exposure TO all sorts of rough weather
while neeing over the plains and noun
tains of the southwest from the officers,
or else no jury could have ever been in
duced TO give her termnn prison, espe-
cially for so common and pleoeian an of
fence as stealing horses.
But May is not only horse thief, but
Jail breaker as we'll by her own confess
sion. Her feat in breaking from the Jail
at t1irard. Kan, where she was confined
aoout Two years ago for horse stealing,
her escape to Jasper county, Mo, and her
subsequent capture there and prosecu-
tionon an old charge, will be recalled by
the readers of newspapers.
We'll, have no hard luck story to
tell, - was the way May greeted the Re-
public representative. They made no
mistake in my case. Nearly ybody
else in here is innocent, according TO
their own statement. but I'm not I'm
here for stealing horses.
When | heard you were here and
wanted to see me, I thought you were an
oircer from Girard, Kan, and wanted to
take me back there for breaking out of
lail I'm glad you are not, but | guess
they'll come for me as soon as my term is
ont here. which will be IN about fourteen
mouths. if l behave myself I've been a
pretty good girl since I've been here The
reason for it, l guess, is that | haven't
had a chance to be bad. However, I've
50 managed 10 Oredh lne ruleS as 10 De
put in the dark room two or three times.
But I'm going TO behave myself from now
on. so / can get the benefit of the three
fourJhs rule
II don't know why I've turned out so
bad unless it is that it was just born in
me. My mother is a good woman, only
30 wears old, now member Of the Metho-
| dist church, and has been married three
| times. She raised me right, and my
| father. who is dentist, was always
! kind and indulgent 10 me. / went 10 the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
THE BEARS STRANGE FRIEND.
He Looked as Big as Jumbo and He
Lives in a Florida Cavern.
From The Chicago Times.

rom lne CnlCdBO 1lIueo'
Otto c. Butterwick spent last week in
the Annutaliga, Fla, hammock, running
out some land for j. K. Johnson, of Jack
sonville After running out the line west
to the southwest corner Of section IA the
party chained east After claiming thir-
tv-t6ree chains the head chairman
William A. Skinner, called back TO the
chairman:
1t was eighty links to the edge of the
bank:
Here's that sinkhole. Stick pin and
straighten the chain"
Butterwick walked up to where Skin
ner was looking in the sink, and said:
Billy. that looks like a cave opening
there 10 the left"
The party went into the cave, Skinner,
being ahead. After getting into IL some
twenty feet they saw bear tracks, and
tracks larger than pail bottom.
During the evening the surveying
partv fell TO talking about the cave.
William A. Skinner, Pleasant Evans, w.
M. Mccall, and Jose Lamantetoue, all
neigh bors. have passed the sink hole
while hunting and can 80 to 1t, but never
examined IT, and did not know that there
was a cave opening into the sink hole.
The north side of the sink hole, where
the entrance to the cave Is, Is perpendicu-
and the south side is gentle rise. in
which wafer courses in wet weather
During the conversation Lamantetode
said:
DO you remem Der that professor that
came down from Michigan several years
ago. Well, you all remember what tale
he told He said he was out hunting
squirrel one evening down in that neigh
borhood of the hammock, when he heard
pig squeal desperately. Upon walking
In the direction of the sound he came
upon two bears that were each hugging a
pig to death, and then carried them TO a
gopher hole. One Of the bears got tired
of his load and covered his pig up with
palmetto leaves. Pretty soon the bears
came back with big animal. which he
said was about as big as Jumbo, Bar
nuns big elephant-if you know how
big that isl don't. He said he did not
know what to call it, that he would have
TO leave that to some naturalist This
big animal came along, brushed the pal
mettos aside, and took the pig at one bite,
but he dropped the head on one side of
his Jaw and "a ham on the other, and then
the bears jumped for the crum bs-the head
and the ham-and deyoured them Then
the bears went into the gopher hole and
brought out the other Pig, and they all
ate it. Then the big thing smacked his
chops. gave blow like steam escaping,
and departed, and the bears jumped on
his back for a ride.
The professor said: The observation
is as old as history that certain animals
of unlike species may live together, or
more or less intimate terms, to the ad-
vantage of both, as associates, mess
mates, or helpmeets. Thus a troops of
jackals may keep company with a lion,
and by their yelping guide him 70 the
prey, for the sake of participating in
some small measure at the feast. A lit
tie plover lives with the Egyptian croco-
die and by his cry gives warning of the
approach of enemies, for the sake of
food which it picks or fear
lessly from the reptiles teeth. Natur-
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bet was more'n tickled when I tumbled
him often his roost?
" Gals that kin banker an won't
banker must be made to banker says
an hung the hootowI glZZdru up 10
dry
One o these days, when near that
Mandy Jane PenstocK mas passed over
Jurdan, I'm goln' PACK 10 lne TOOK au
jest as like as not thump the lie outeh
sam Brace. sam an me WORKED on me
same logon job an aIter paggeu the
owl l says to him one day:
Sam says, you an me won't DUNK
IN together mucn longer 1SayS-
"How's that says sam:
lin golnter marry SaIlle MagohperS
next week l says.
"'No = says sam. 'SaIIle 5 give IN, mas
She
Not yit, | says, put SHE'S golnter;
I've powdered a hoot-owIs gll1aru, l
says. 'Jis' shoot yer eye down the foaG
agin, Cap. If tha'S anything mussln OF
it up that mowt put ye IN NINA o Uhe
iuklin I've Civ We o Mandy Jane, gimme
the wink an I'll scoOt,'
The road was still clear.
sam looked sprlsed niue When
love powder, an pooty soon he says:
"'Well' he says, I'm golnter take sal
lie to the picnic tomorrow, an pose
1hatll be the last time l kin gallaVant
her anywheres, 'cordin' to that, he says.
'''Ihat's what it will, Sammy, says.
eaNrandv lane Penstocl mowt a ben a
simmer When she was a gal. fer all [
iynolT hnt 7 don't lis recomem Der when
that was she'll hef to think back a
good ways if she recomem bers 1t herself
Rnt leayin' out bone an sinner, an a
rootv sharp nose, Mandy Jane don't cut
much of a figger nowadays. She's con
siderable sot in her ways, though, an
when She has sumpin' on her mind that
she's gointer do, she's gointer do it or
things'll rumble
sam Brace he took Sallie to the pic
mic an | was there with my hoo-owl S
gilzard all ready. Sallle klttened con-
d'able to sam, an 1t made me Squlrn 10
see her, I tell We, but l says to myself, All
right, my ladyn [ says, But walt TILL
the hoot-owl sings to YEP l says. Blme0y
| saws to sam n Sallie.
leone over an I'll treat ye,' | says.
Come cit some lemonade, [ says.
An they come along, an | bought the
lemonade, an when Sallie wasn't lookln'
7 tumbled the OWLS gizzard love powder
into her glass.
ION . she saws. 'Yonders Mandy
lane Pensto ky she says MANDY must
have treat too she says.
80 she calls Mandy Jane over, an l
orders a glass fer her Now see what
Saliie done. She hands the glass that had
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ansts are familiar with numerous in
stances among the lower orders of ami
mails where individuals of different
species live together and render each
some service to their associates. 1t is a
common thing, for example. to find min
ute craOs ana other crustaceans living.
for the sake of protection. within the en-,
Velopes OF shell fish. But many frag-
ments of the food which the crab has
captured are put to profit by the mollusk.
whence 1t appears that guest and host do
mutually help another l believe these
pears ana That animal are living together
res, SIR, ne was sanguiue and conf
dent and wanted US to make a party to-
DAY for the bears and animals, but wa
only laughed at him for his fish warn
Then after day or two, he said he didn,t
want TO stay In no such a darned country
where the people were not alive to their
own interests, and left. I'll tell YOU bows.
since I've seen what I have to-day begin
10 believe what he said, because all these
people that live in this settlement, on the
edge OF the hammock, and that work
hard, can tell you how they are losing
hogs all the time, and don't know where
they go. There's Marshall and Morris
and a half dozen others got discouraged
raising hogs, and sold out their brands to
Billy here, so now when Billy wants
to Kill any he has cot to
carry a paper with the marks and
brands for fear he kills some one else:
he's got so many marks he can't remem-
Der them all. Yes, sir believe these
bears come out every evening for their
feed and bring this hog eater with them.
Those tracks we saw down there to-day
are the tracks of that animal, and he
must be whopper And I'll bet that's
what goes through those fences on the
edge of the hammock that the people saw
cattlemen let down so their cattle can eat
other folks crops. From the size of
those tracks I'll bet he can brush away a
fence as easy as you would a few
toothpicks."
Mr.. Butterwick is going back to finish
up the survey next week and will take a
bottle Of kerosene and a fam beau with
him so that he can explore the cave