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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

TnE Baltimore railroad tunfcl. one
feats of modern times. built under the
city of baltimore. Md, from Camden
STATE 10 Bayview junction. on tho
Philadelphia division Of the baltimore
4 Ohio railroad. distance Of ~
miles, was formally opened for bust
ness on the lst
A NoRrH-BoUSD passenger train on
the Chicago 4 Alton railroad was
boarded by three robbers At a point
the night of the LIST, and in the fight
which ensued with the train men,
Engineer Holman, one Of the oldest
engineers on the road. was killed The
robbers were pursued and captured.
ON the steamer Vigilancia, which ar
rived at New York. on the LIST. from
Havana. was Ramon c. Williams. con-
sui general Of the United States at
Havana Mr.. Williams declined &c
say anything about Cuban affairs
THE town Of Patterson. Kas., was
visited by death-dealing cyclone. on
the LIST. which destroyed property 10
the value Of of s225.00o and caused the
death of many persons and injury to a
great many others
GUATEMALA has united with Hondu-
ras in dispatch 10 Secretary Gresham
asking him TO use his good Offices 10
bring about a peaceable solution of
the Nicaragua dispute with Great
Britain.
LARlNER. a small town in Union
county, Ia. was nearly wiped out by
fire on the lst- Seventeen business
houses were burned. The loss and in
surance are unknown. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
THE bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer
Chick. of Mount Clemens. Mich, were
notified. on the lst, that there is de-
talcation of funds amounting 10 about
$40. 00O and they are requested 10 make
the shortage good.
THE department of state received 3
cable message from Ambassador Bay.
ard. on the ID. stating that Great
Britain had accepted the guarantee
made by Salvador of the payment OF
the indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon
don within fortnight and that sc
soon as Nicaragua should confirm the
guarantee and so inform the British
admiral the latter had been instructed
TO quit Corinto
On the sth Warden Sage of the Sing
Sing y. u. state prison sent out invi-
tatious TO the witnesses selected 10 at
tend the electrocution of DIR. Buchan.
an. the wife-murderer, the date OF
whose executio had been twice post
poned through efforts of his attorneys
in his behalf.
LIEUT.. VALENTTS GALLEGE. who sur
rendered fifty Spanish soldiers TO the
Cuban rebels. and who was afterward
arrested and turned over 10 the Span
ish military authorities, was, after
trial by court-martial, shot. on the
Isl, in the fortress of Cabana at Ha-
vana.
SECRETARY CARLISLE. IL is stated,
will enter the Kentucky campaign
about the 18th of this month. and de-
liver two or more speeches, at points
yet to be selected in favor of sound
currency.
IL the Cape Colony parliament.
which opened in Cape Town. on the
I I'd. proposition was submitted 10 alb
sorb Bechuanaland.
THE preliminary examination of Dur
rant on the charge Of numbering Miss
Lamont was commenced at San Fran
cisco on the I'd.
Col R. ii. MCLEAN was a passenger
4 on the steamer Alameda. which sailed
4 from san Francisco. on the I'd. fol
Honolulu. Col. Mclean was recently
appointed by President Dole to take
\ command of the Hawaiian army.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10
MISSIONARIES APPOINTED.


SPRINGFIELD. o., May 3. A session
Of the foreign missions board of the
Methodist Protestant church Of the
United Statcs closed yesterday after
noon. The following were appointed
missionaries: Rev. T.. NJ. Iioughland.
Belmont, o.: Rev. J. $. Williams,
Green borough. n. c.; Rev. Ernest Ev.
ans, Adrian, Mich. Fifteen hundred
dollars was set aside TO build a church
At Yokohama. The other work done
was mainly of routine nature.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

DISPATCH from Yokohama. on the
2gth, said the mil<ado was suffering
from the effects Of chill, and thatthe
fetes which were 70 have been held in
Kio,o. 10 celebrate the victories OF Ja
pan, had been postponed in conse-
Queuce
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE supreme court of Ohio, on the
30th. held. in case from Lucas coun-
". that the owner of building Is not
liable 10 sub-contractor. IL after pay
ing The contractor said contractor
fail 10 pay the sub-contractor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

For the nine months ending March
81 last 1870. $50 immigrants arrived in
the United States. They are known
TO have brought with them in cash
81, ss7, $40. and il is believed that many
times this amount escaped the scrutiny
OF the Officials.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10
THE NlCARAcUAN DIsPuT re.
England Wins. After Making some slight
Concessions

LONDON, May s-Thc Central News
says that Lord Kimberly. in response
20 inquiries at the foreign flee yester-
day afternoon in regard tn the status
Of the Nicaraguan dispute. declined to
discuss the purport of the communion
tions received from y Nicaragua or from
other sources concerning the matter;
but IL Is learned from semi-official
source that the affair has been set
tied. England making some slight con-
cessions
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE German marine department has
contracted with the North Germa Il
Lloyds aud Hamburg-American steam
ship companies for the construction OF
ten ocean liners which shall become
armed auxiliary cruisers in the event
OF war
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

The Paris Authorize says that seven
teen soldiers have died in the hospital
/ Wire from the effects Of eating
tainted canned meat purchased from
an American firm. and that thirty-i0ur
others were, on the LIST, seriously III
from the same cause.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE marriage Of the duse of Aosta
to Princess Helene Of Orleans has been
indefinitely postponed, owing 10 an ac-
cident 10 the due d'Orleans. brother 10
the spective bride and head of the
house of Orleans.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

Mrs MARY BROWN a monogamian
pepsioner, died. on the 10TH at her
home 5 niles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow Of Joe Brown. a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

GREAT BRITAIN is said 10 be prepar
ing 70 take aggressive measures for
the collection Of the interest on Hon
duras bonds negotiated in England
nearly twenty years ago. the interest
and arrearages upon which amount ia
between 10000 and $4,000. The
proposition is to collect the revenues
Of Honduras ports until the claim Il:
satisfied
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

The public debt statement, issued
OIL the ls,. shows net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury
during April. Of So 100. s57.5s. Total
cash N the treasury, $751;, 1855.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE 200 students at the Ohio Wes-
leyan university. at Delaware, O..
were notified by President Eashford.
at the annual chapel exercises. on the
evening of the I'd. that. beginning
with the opening next fall. no student,
will be allowed to attend who persists
IA the use of tobacco
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

For using a profane epithet -four
times. Mr. John Hoffman, a contractor,
was, on the SOth. fined s2.6s-sixty'
seven cents for each timely Alder
man Donovan. Of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

Az outbreak OF the plague at the
naval station at Moi, IN southern Ja-
pan, was reported, on the 3Oth, but the
United States sanitary inspector at
Yokohama reports that such strict
measures for repression have been
adopted that there is very little dan
yer that the disease will spread.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE resignation Of Theodore Roose
Welt as a member of the civil-service
commission was received 1T the execu-
tive mansion on the 30th.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

FLoRIpA's quarantine regulation,
went into effect on the 2d and will
continue in force until Nov. Is next.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10
WEEKLY COURIER.
q. DO ANE,. Publishers.

LEVI r. TAFT one Of Michigan's emf.
nent jnrist>. died al his home in Pom
tiac, on the Goth. aged IS.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

Oh he Isl Gov. Morton OF New York
g.anted Dr. buchanan, the wife muir
derer. another weeks respite.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

FRAUD orders have been issued to
the postmasters at 81. Paul, Mimi.
Pittsburgh. Pa, and Chicago, for
bidding the delivery of any mail mat
tiers 10 the Put lishers' Collection
Agency" which has Offices all over the
country, and has persisted in attempt
ing TO enforce the so-called news
paper laws in spite of the warnin =
of the post Office department
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE French foreign Office is firmly
convinced that the United states gov
eminent is secretly supporting Japa n,
and this belief is shared in the Rus.
sian aud German embassies in Paris.
This feeling is causing the French
government a good deal Of anxiety
concerning the outcome Of the joint
protest Of Germany, France and Rus
STA against japanese occupation Of Chi
nese mainla and territory.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

A PREAMBLE and resolutions were in
PRODUCED ia the New York state as
sembly. On the "a, expressing sym
pathy with the "Cabans engaged in a
struggle 20 throw of the yoke Of
Spain and establish their national in
dependence and fears that the span,
ish soldiers may repeat the barbarous
atrocities which characterized the wal
of is6s," and calling on the presiden,
ITO take proper steps to insure the
citizens and soldiers Of Cuba the right,
Of telligerents under the rules Of IN cd
srn warfare"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

THE grand jury, which for three
weeks had been invest eating the dy n
amite explosion horror at Butte,
Mont, in which fifty-eight men lost
their lives. reported, on the 2gth. that
it had been unable TO fix the respoE.
sibility. Civil suits for damages aggre'
eating s25O.OO0 have been brought
against the two hardware companies
In Whose warehouses the explosives
we're stored in violation Of law.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
NEW AND POPULAR COURSE IN
CURRENT CLASSICS AT
YALE.
Or. W. |. PHELPS FOUNDER.
HE IS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST
INSTRUCTORS IN The IN
STITUTION.
VALUE OF THE MODERN NOVEL.
Rending Clubs in Various Parts
of the Country Taking the
Same Course.

Curiously enough perhaps in the
view Of many who are not devoted
especially to the Greek and Latin
classics, it is only of late, compara-
lively speaking, that the institutions
of the higher learning in America and
England have given any considera-
BILE attention to what may be termed
the classics of these times. Little
by little, however, and one by one,
the colleges and universities of the
United States are taking up the study
of the written gems of contemporary
literature. The most advanced step
in this direction has been taken at
Yale. one of the Oldest and in some
WAYS most conservative of all Amer
lean colleges. At this institution
course of lectures is now being de-
livered on modern novels, the first
of it's sort ever given at any Amerl-
can school and possibly in advance
of anything similar in any other
country.
1t is interesting to note that the
course is being delivered by one of
the Youngest members of the faculty
DIR. William L. Phelps-and that it
is, by all odds, the most popular of
all the courses of the year. There
are many who will hope that the ex-
ample of Yale will be followed by
other colleges and universities and
that the study of contemporary lit
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

Twain, with his coat and vest off, work.
ed away at the book in the midst of
the muss. He seldom stopped work
before midnight, and would sit up un-
til nearly morning reading, smoking
and singing. The success of the work
was a great surprise to him, and he
proudly wrote one of his friends short
ly after it was published that it had
taken thirty tons of paper to print it.
1 have been over most of the ground
which is described in it, and it was
wonderfully true to life. 1t is far
more accurate than many of the guide
books, and Mr.. Clemens must have
made very full notes in the midst Of
the scenes which he describes.
The books which followed paid him
much better, as far as royalty was
concerned, and the royalties which he
received from the dramatiza ton of his
stories have been considerable. 1.-The
Gilded Age" in which John T. Ray
, mond made an international reputation
for Col. Mulberry Sellers, was espe-
cfally profitable. In connection with
this, saWstf1e other day an oil paint
ing with Raymond and Twain standing
together shaking hands with each 9TH
er. The painting was framed in the re-
fuse pulp which comes from the grind
ing up of the old greenbacks by the
treasury department. On brass plate
below it were printed the words which
SO often came from Col. Sellers mouth,
millions in it," and as 1 looked
could not help wishing that these
words would tell the story of the re-
suits of Mark Twain's tour around the
world, and that there would be mill
ions in it, for him.
Frank G. Carpenter.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

gone along to take care of the boy
and look ait the animals. AIT another
time Mark pretended to be talking
i'm his sleep, and got off a portion
of a very original conundrum in the
hearing of his father. The elder
Clemens reproved him in a way which
he does not like to remember to this
day. In speaking of 1T Mark asks
his friends not to pry into the results
of the experiment, usually concluding
with the sorrowful remark, '.It was
of no consequence to any one but
me-
NEW STORIES OF RILEY.
1t was the same with James Whit
comb Riley. His father never ap-
preciated him, and I doubt whether
he ever realized the real greatness
of Riley's genius. A short time ago
Riley and one of his newspaper
friends were talking about the days
of their boyhood, when Riley said:
'"They never thought I'd amount to
much at home. My father was a
country lawyer, and he believed in
facts. Facts were all he cared for,
| and he thought that the boy who
couldn't learn arithmetic wouldn't
amount to anything. My brothers
were all a good deal like him. They
had an aptitude for mathematics,
and they stood we'll in their classes
at school. AS for me, I couldn't
learn arithmetic. I never liked the
blanked crooked things called fig
ures, and I couldn't see the sense Of
working away at them. AS for read
ing, 1 got along with it very well. 1
usually read the books through for
the stories before the class had mas
tered one-third Of them. But I
couldn't make it in arithmetic. The
result was that the whole family
pitied me. 1 was told again and
again that would probably have to
| be supported by the rest, and when I
ran off and went away with a circus
one day to stand at the door and
eXtol the virtues of the SideShoWS, it
did not make a sensation. My moth
er perhaps wiped her eyes and
| thought that I might come back
some day, some way; but to the rest
it was settled with the phrase, 4 told
you So I don't think my father
ever understood me. I shall never
forget one thing which estranged me
| from him.
cit was when I was quite little
| fellow. We were just commencing
new reader, and, as usual, 1 had
| finished it before the class had read
ten lessons. There were several
pieces of poetry in the book, and one
of these I read over and over again.
It was very pathetic, and I always
| had to cry when 1 read it. At last
| the class came to it. The day we
were to read it I sat in my seat and
figured out just what verses I would
have to read. knew where I stood
in the class, you know. Well, I
saw that would have to read those
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
How 1t Is Done.
Courier-J

COurier-J ournal.
But there is an impression abroad
that there are always congressman
upon whom a prospective increase in
their own bank accounts has a greater
influence than anything immedia tely
affecting the trust. These men would
scorn a bribe, unless it was a very
large one, but they might listen to
representation that the stock of the
sugar trust is a good purchase, as it is
certain to be much higher in the spring
or summer, especially if legislation
should prove favorable. Those who
are not able to carry any great blocks
of stocks for a few months, for want
of spare money, are almost certain to
find some liberal gentleman who will
agree to carry it for them. If, in the
course of a friendly conversation, it
should transpire that they are really
Jealous for keeping up the price of
sugar, it is not at all improbable that
they would find somebody not only
willing to carry the stock for them,
but to guarantee them against loss. In
that event, when the stock advanced
twenty or thirty points, they would re-
alize how good and how pleasant a
thing it is to have views in consonance
with those of the trust officials.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

not go out into the world and discuss
the literature of their own day. This
they should certainly be able to do. " (:
DR.. William Lyon Phelps is in his
thirty-first year, and is "a native of,
New York city. He was prepared for
college at the Hartford High school
and entered Yale in the fall of 1888
While an undergraduate he was we'll
known for his literary attainments,
and after graduation he passed two
years in literary study. Then he taught
English for a year at Westminster
school. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. In 1890 he
went to Harvard and received the Nor
gan fellowship. In 1891 he took the de-
gree of NJ: A. from Harvard and Phi.
D. from Yale. In the same year he was
appointed instructor of English at Har-
ward. In 1892 he returned to his alma
mater, where he has been teaching with
unusual success for the past three
years.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
GEMS. BARLOW AND GORDON.
Their Meeting on the Field of
Gettysburg and Fifteen Years

Their Meeting on the Field of
Gettysburg and Fifteen Years
After.
In addressing an audience in Indian
apolis on the evening of Oct. 81 last,
Gen. John B. Gordon told anew this in
cident of his experience in the battle of
Gettysburg:
LAS 1 rode over the CORY field
found a major general of the Union
army lying as if lifeless, with the broil-
ing sun shining upon his face. 1 had
seen him fall and as l rode by 1 dis
mounted from my horse and gave him
water. A bullet had struck his spinal
column and had paralyZed him. L did
not suppose that he could last an hour,
and ordered a litter to have him car
ried to the rear. AS L stopped down be-
side him he bade me take from his
pocket some letters, which l found
were from his wife. AS his eye, strain
ed with suffering, rested for the last
time, as he supposed, on the beloved
signature he said:
General, if you live through this
war and meet my wife, Mrs. Frances c.
saw me. Tell her that you saw me fall
and that 1 fell fighting at the front.
Tell her 1 freely gave my life for my
country, but that my one unutterable
grief is that L must go without looking
into her sweet face Where is she?
asked. Very near me- he said. She
is with Gen. Meade's forces And as
he spoke 1 was touched by a peculiar
sympathy, for she who bears with me
the sweet relation Of wife shared with
me the dangers and the privations of
the camp, lowering like an angel of
protection and of inspiration to duty
L replied that if L lived through the
conflict would notify his wife in ac-
cordance with his request. At the in
slant the battle ceased 1 sent a note
to the wife, not telling her that he was
dead, as l believed, but that he was
desperately wounded and a prisoner in
my hands. 1 told her she could have
safe escort through my lines to see
and attend her husband. And she soon
arrived. Early next morning the bat
tie was renewed, and then, in that hasty
retreat, 1 thought no more of the GAL
liant Barlow.
The war progressed and ended,
and, strangely enough, Barlow recov-
cred He saw In the newspapers that
Confederate Gen. Gordon bearing
my own name and initials, and who
was cousin of mine, had been killed,
and so he thought 1 was dead. Fifteen
years later 1 was invited one evening
to take dinner at the house of friend
in Washington, and was informed
that would meet Gen. Barlow That
fact did not impress itself upon my
mind, for was not Gen. Barlow dead?
Had not left him dying in his blood
stained bed of clover? Gen. Barlow
had similar reflection about Gen.
Gordon. As we were sitting at the
table 1 asked Gen. Barlow:
Are you related to the Gen. Bar
low who was killed at Gettysburg?'
1 am the man. he said, and turn
ing to me he asked:
Are you related to the Gen. Cor
don who killed me?'
I am the man. I said. The scene
which followed beggars description.
ton. But it is not strange that the the
friendship born in the midst of battle
is more sacred because of the circum-
StnceS,"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

and one day persuaded him to come
UP with me ito Indianapolis. When
we arrived in the city I asked father
to come with me to a clothing store.
He was pretty well dressed for a
country lawyer, but not quite as
we'll as 1 thought he ought to be for
Indianapolis. I bought him a new
outfit from shoes to hat, and then
took him home to my hotel. I told
the landlord that we wanted the
best rooms in the house. I took him
about the city with me, and every-
where he went he was pointed out
as Jim Riley's father. 1 tell you,
that did me good. It was the proud
est day of my life"
II wish you could have seen Riley
when he said that" the newspaper
man went on. '"Triumphs of that kind
are the really great .triumphs of ones
life. We like to have the world speak
well of us, but it is only the praise of
the people at home that we really care
for. Now, take Bill Nye. His exper-
ience was much the same as that Of
Riley. We were talking about it the
last time 1 saw him. The Nye family
came from Vermont, and of the whole
tribe they thought that little Edgar
Wilson would amount to the least. He
was rather sfckly, and when he started
west to go just as far as he could GO.
there was not much grieving. The rest
OF the family, matter-of-fact-peopl
We're doing well, and two of the boys,
who, like Riley's arithmetical brothers.
knew nothing of figures, had gone to
Minneapolis to practice law. Bill Nye
went as far as Wyoming before he stop
ped. He made a reputation there in
connection with the Laramie Boomer
ang, and then came east and increased
it. He now gets more than the salary
of the chief justice Of the United
States out of his newspaper work alone
and his lecture business is equal to the
interest on a good-sized fortune. He
has almost entirely recovered his
health. which has been temporarily de-
ranged by overwork, and with a little
care he will come out all right. He Is.
at any rate, practically Independent.
His father still lives on his Vermont
farm. He and Bill correspond now and
then, and not long ago the old farmer
wrote his boy that he believed he would
sell the farm. He said it was heavily
mortgaged, and it was all he could do
to pay the interest. He had written to
Bill Nye's brothers in Minneapolis. but
they didn't seem to be able to do any,
thing. He still owed $500, and as he
was an old man, this was too much
for him to carry, and he thought he
would sell. AS Bill Nye read this his
eyes began to fill. He is, you know, a
mighty sensitive fellow, with all his
fun. He happened to have some money
on deposit in the bank, and he took out
his check book and filled out a check
for 81, 500. He signed 1t in such big let
ters that 1t almost covered the face of
the check, and wrote his name in full.
Edgar Wilson Nye. This he sent to his
father, and told him to pay off the
and as he did so, away down
in his soul, venture, he said to him
self: Well, guess they'll think some
thing now Of the sickly little cuss whom
they thought they would have to sup