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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

The act of 1887, forfeiting the land
grant of the Atlantic q Pacific Rail
way Co., was sustained in all points
by the supreme court of the United
States, on the 18th, the opinion being
read by Justice Brown. 1t was ex-
haustive, reviewing all the defenses
set up by the company and finding
against 1t at every point.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

LEE HARRISON, who claimed TO be a
first cousin to ex-President Harrison,
died in Denison, Tex, on the 18TH,
from a dose of morphine. The de-
ceased was IN straitened clrcum-
stances.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

vANDALs have again been at work
on the Marquette statue in Washing
ton. The latest crank has broken of
several feathers from the caps of the
bronzeIndians which decorate the base.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

THE porte has informed the powers
that Turkey viii attack Greece in
Thessaly in the event of the powers
failing to restrain hostile action on the
part Of Greece in Crete.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

GEN BoB who is in command of the
gendarmerie at Canea, on the 10th,
formally notified Col. Vassos, COM
manding the Greek troops at Akrotiri,
of the joint occupation of Crete by the
powers. To this notification the
Greek colonel replied: II am ordered
to occupy the island and must carry
out my orders until receive other in
structions"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

On the 18th the banks of New York
city held S5l. $780, in excess of the
requirements OF the 35-per cent. rule.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

IT is estimated that the appropria-
tions by the present congress will ag-
gregate Sl,O44. 46S, 900.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

Arthur DuEsTRow, the wealthy
st. Louisan, who three years ago muir
dered his wife and babe at his home
In that city, was hanged, on the 10th, at
Union, Mo-, where, under change Of
venue, he was tried and convicted.
His lawyers had set up the plea of
mental responsibility, and their
client kept up the farce of pretended
insanity so well as TO lead many to
doubt the wisdom Of his execution,
until he got view of the gibbet upon
which he was TO be executed, when he
broke down. went aud banged for his
1ife.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

In the British house of commons, on
the 18th, Mr.. George n. Curzon, par
liamentary secretary to the foreign Of
fee, announced that the latest news
received by the government showing
the situation ia Crete was that the
Christians were the aggressors and
were attacking the Moslems in many
localities. A large number OF Mos
lens, MIR. Curzon said, had been killed
and Is villages had been burned.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

The Man Responsible for Gen. MRce0's
Death As-assinsted - Cuban Patriots
Vowed Seng-nc~--lf Reports Are True
They uav. kept Their Oath-Zertucha's
Stories of the Msc~o Tragedy Did Not
Hang Together Well.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26

THE colorcd people of indianapolis
neld mass meetings TO urge the passage
OF the bill putting white and colored
children into the same public schools
CLYDE KoEnLER, aged 81, committed
suicide at the Central house, Prince
ton, the other morning, by shooting.
He recently married the daughter Of
Rev. Ramsey, Presbyterian minister
at Wabash. Koehler left letters for
his wife, mothcr-in-law and his en-
ployer, Kirsch, a Chicago candy manu-
facturer. Domestic troubles assigned
as the cause.
Ex-CoUNTY officials OF DE Kalb coun-
ty have been found sac. 900 short
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Judge and Jury.

An exchange tells story of we'll
known Judge who is noted for his fond
ness for conveying in his charges to
jurors, his own opinions in regard to
the merits Of the case in hand. Re
Gently, in giving such a charge, he ex-
pressed his views very plainly, but TO
his amazement the jury remained out
for some hours.
The judge inquired of the officer what
was the matter, and learned from him
that one juror was holding out against
the other eleven. He sent for the jury
at once, and stating to the jurors that
he had plainly intimated how the case
ought to be decided, said he understood
that one juror was standing out against
the other eleven. He proceeded to re-
buke the juror sharply.
The obstinate juror, as it happened,
was nervous little man, and as soon
as the judge was done, he arose and
said:
Your honor. may l say word"
Yes, sir" said the indignant Judge;
what have you to say?"
We'll, what l wanted to say is, l am
the only fellow that's on your side"
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

Candidates for the dishonOr Of being
th3 meanest husband are, fortunate
ly, not abundant in the United States,
but occasionally they enter the lists.
One Kentucky benedict gave his wife
on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their
wedding four yards of domestic" out
of which she was TO make him a shirt,
this being the only gift from him in
the quarter of a century. A strong
competitor is the Ohio man who gave
his wife but SO in four years. Out Of
this she had TO expend So to replace a
parasOl for her sister, which the man
had lost, and he borrowed the remain
ing 50 of her TO get his trunk out Of
pawn and forgot to pay 1t. The only
money he ever spent for her in any
way was a nickel paid for a sack Of
peanuts, of which he took the lions
share. The wife was forced to clothe
herself and pay for her own board.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

The students of the University of
Rochester in New York State have not
obtained much notoriety for "hazing," +"
but this appears to have been due to
accident rather than to lack of energy.
An episode of student playfulness
which has just been made public shows
that these young men at Rochester are
worthy of high rank IN the college
world for their ingenuity in devissng
methods Of torturing each other. A
freshman was the victim, and when he
had been finished he was 81 "raving
maniac" He was beaten by some so
phomores SO severely that although he
did not lose his life he lost his mind.
This must have been rare college sport.
One can picture the Zest with which
these young men entered into the game
of pommeling their fellow student un-
til his physical endurance and then his
mind gave way under the strain. 1t
must have been a spectacle something
like that in the cell Of DIR. Ruiz In Cuba
when Spanish brutes were beating out
his life. Now let the police department
of Rochester show the world how fast
they can avenge this outrage. Pour the
entire detective machinery OF the city,
if necessary. into this college and hunt
out these demons who are masquerad-
ing as students. 1t is time an example
should be made of such brutes as these,
and few opportunities could be better
than this.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

There occurred in Chicago recently
a six-day bicycle race which seems to
have been merely contest to see how
much pain and fatigue the riders could
stand. The spectacle Of a number Of
men, dizzy with pain, morphine and IA
tigue, struggling through the cruelty
of a protra cted physical strain, sleep
less and but lightly fed, for six days
and six nights, ought to bring vigOr-
Gus protest from all sane riders of the
wheel and from the public in general.
The modern prize fight, with It's short.
quick knockout" may be brutalizing,
but 1t is all over in an hour or so, and
the contestants punishment Is trifing
compared with the siX-day torture Of
the racing wheelmen. There was about
as much sport" in the bicycle race as
there would be In public exhibition
Of human vivisection, the prize to go to
the man who could endure the most
pain without screaming. The race is
not defensible on any grounds what
soever. 1t proves nothing; it Is no fair
test OF riding powers, and. as exercise,
1t is immensely damaging to the health.
Bicycle riding is a good thing. Bicycle
racing, when conducted fairly and
sanely, as other athletic contests, may
be commended. But this six-day torture
exhibition has injured both.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
What Hats Weigh.

DO you know the actual weight of
a hat?" queried the spruce salesman,
as he handed out several new styles"
People don't generally. l asked a
man that question yesterday and he
guessed fourteen ounces on that hat,
which weigh exactly four and half.
An ordinary silk hat weighs only seven.
Il looked up the matter recently, and
so l know precisely. A 's1lker' Is al
most the heaviest hat made, though
hunting hats weigh more for their hay-
ing an inner lining of great stiffness
and strength to save q man if he should
be thrown on his head. The hunting
top hats weigh ten ounces, and the
hunting derbys nine. A winter derby
weighs five and a quarter ounces, vary
ing quarter ounce either way for
size, and a summer soft felt three and
three-quarter ounces.
when it comes to women's headgear
there are all sorts of weights, though
seldom does woman's hat of any kind
run more than seven ounces. 1t de-
pends on the kind Of trimming and fall
lals. Some ribbons are heavy, and so
are some artificial flowers. Jet IS
heavy, too. The average little bonens
weighs two ounces to two and half, a
trimmed sailor three and a half, and a
'Sennett' tthe kind tha: have Drims stiff
fened with glue). four and three-quar-
ters.
The French creations are heavier,
but they are not so weighty as you
might suppose. Six and half to seven
ounces means big hat, and one you
would need x rays to see through, IT
you happened TO sit behind it."-NeW
York Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
He PniIed the Tooth.

The sight Of a row of forceps has
closed the mouths of many sufferers,
even after they had seated themselves
in the dentists chair. Dental surgeons
anticipate this. The Philadelphia Rec
ord tells how q dentist Of that city
made an obstinate Irishman show his
teeth.
Pat came 10 his office with his jaw
very much swollen from tooth he de-
sired to have pulled, but when the stIf-
fering son of Erin got into the dentists
chair and saw the cleaning pair of for
ceps approaching his face he positively
refused to open his mouth.
The dentist quietly told his office boy
to prick his patient with a pin, and
when Pat opened his mouth to yell the
dentist seized the tooth, and out 1t
came.
ut didn't hurt as much as you ex-
pected it would, did it?" the dentist
asked, smiling.
We'll no." replied Pat, hesitatingly,
as If doubling the truthfulness of his
admission. But" he added, placing
his hand on the spot where the boy
jabbed him with the pin, "begorra, lit
tie did / think the roots would reach
down like that"
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

In the latest Echoes from the Ok
ford Magazine" one of the humorous
verse-writers suggests that in the sum-
mer term, when the University is given
over to young lady teachers attending
the University Extension lectures. it
should be called school of Flirta-
tion." The examiners in it should then
prepare their questions in the follow
ing fashion:
f'If 4 be good-looking and 20;
If 3 be divine and Is;
If c be-well-J0, with plenty
Of wit preternaturally keen:
Can you show by what use of quadratics
The squaring of c may he done?
And when by applied mathematics
VIII Is and 20 be 2"
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

Some time ago. says the Philadel-
phia Record, ~ well-dressed young
swoman was taken i'll in the street, and
was removed in a supposed dying con-
dition to hospital uptown. The wom-
an recovered shortly after admission,
and it was then that peculiar bleed
ing OF her gums was noticed. As the
doctors at the hospital had never seen
a similar case, the woman was request
ed to remain that it might be examin-
ed. After several weeks they gave up
In disgust, and the woman was dis
charged. This program had been car
tied out time and time again by the
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
70 A SOUTHERN Gn1L.

Her eyes
Would match the Southern skies
When Southern skies were buest
Her heart
Will always take its part
Where Southern hearts are truest:
Bright pearls
The gems of Southern girls,
Her winning smile discloses;
Her cheeks
When admiration speaks.
Were only Southern roses
Her voice
By nature and by choice,
Fen those who know her slightest
Will find
AS soft as Southern wind
When Southern winds are lightest.
Her laugh
As light as wine or chaff,
Breaks clear at witty sallies, -
AS brooks
Run bubbling through the hooks
Of all her Southern valleys.
Such youth,
With all its charms, forsooth--
Alas. too we'll 1 know i'll
VIII claim
A song of love and fame
Sung by some Southern poet;
But she
In future years maybe
These verses will discover,
Some time
May read this little rhyme
Sung by Northern lover.
Buffalo Commercial.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

A Baltimore husband consulted an
astrologer rs to the cause Of his wife's
death, and found out that "a scheme
of the heavens taken for that time
shows the moon afflicted by the oppo-
sition of the fiery planet Mars. The
planet Venus, indicating the lady. ruled
the ascendant, and was applying TO the
evil semi-square of Jupiter, lord of the
eighth house. that of death. The moon
had the evil sesqui-quadrade of the sun,
who was lord of the fourth house, de-
noting the grave. The sixth house al
ways shows the Illness and in this case
kVenus ruled the sixth as well as the
first, indicating that the lady was the
cause of her own Illness" The fam
ily doctor said it was canned lobster.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
KENTUcKY's OLD scHooLHoUsE.

ing this school Among the famous
men who, IS boys, received the first
rudiments Of an education III this old
stone schoolhouse were Governor Allen
Trimble of Ohio, Governor Clark Of
Kentucky. J. Cabell Breckinridge, the
father Of General John G. Breckin-
ridge; DR.. Robert Breckenridge and his
son. ex-Congressman w G. p Breckin-
ridge: Thomas f. Marshall, Kentucky's
famous orator, and DR.. L. w. Green,
president Of Hampden-Sidney College.
For the past ten years the historic
building has been utilized as a store
house for plunder.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
one Little Difficulty.

1t takes a mechanical mind to under
stand a machine, and mechanics are
often amused at the ready notion Of
some people that they fully compre-
bend an apparatus OF which they have
not grasped the first principle.
such a person was lately heard sex
planning" a motorcycle, or self-propel-
ling carriage, to some admiring friends.
He told them what everything was
"for." and then he added, frankly:
'sThe only thing about it that bothers
me is the question how it goes without
a horsep'
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

A worse blow to China than the ex-
ciusion law is about TO fall upon that
empire. The denizens of Colorado and
Western Kansas have learned that a
good quality of tea can be made from
alfalfa leaves and they are proposing
to build UP a great home industry and
keep the millions of taels we send to
the Flowery Kingdom each year for
tea at home. Perhaps 1t will not be
long before chests of Maverick Co.
long are on the market or Colorado
Chop Chow, or Cimarron Young Hy-
son
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

Milton has left his testimony of the
need that men have of intellectual ca
pacity and cultivation in wife. with
out IT." he says, '"there must come the
unspeakable WEAKNESS and despair of
all social delight, which turns the bless
ed ordinance of God into a sore evil
under the sun; or at least to a familiar
mischief, a dropping and disconsolate
household, captivity without refuge
or reputation.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

In our early youth, while yet we live
only among those we love, we love
without restraint, and our hearts over
flow in every look, word and action.
But when we enter the world, and are
repulsed by strangers, forgotten by
friends, we grow more and more timid
In our approaches even to those we
love best. How delightful TO us, then,
are the careSses of little children! All
sincerity, all affection, they fly into our
arms; and then, and then only, we feel
our first confidence, our first pleasure.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

An electric car going at full speed col
lides with a railway train, also going at
full speed. As a result three persons
are dead, one fatally injured and sever
al others badly hurt. The gates were
closed and the accident was caused by
the motor car. which Is one belonging
TO the Calumet Electric Street Railway
Company, Chicago, becoming unman-
ageable, bursting through the guards
and rushing upon the track in front Of
the express train. 1t Is said that this
same motor performed the same trick
at the same place the prior Sunday,
happily without fatality at that time.
The officials of the company deny this,
and say that it was another motor
which gave the Sunday performance.
The company had, then, two unman-
ageable motors instead Of one and kept
them running over this dangerous
crossing. One naturally asks how many
more wild trains the company owns,
and what assurance passengers have
that trip over its lines may be made
with safety to life and limb.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

a recent issue of the Pueblo (ColO.)
Chieftain contained the following in
teresting advertisement: "Wanted-
By competent woman, a place to work
for her husbands board" This sounds
like Western echo of the ''new wOm4
an" movement, but 1t probably is the
work of the same "old" woman who
has been doing just that thing every
where, since the time whereof the mem
ory of man runneth not to the contrary.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
His Soy;ci4r,

ITS seandalous!" exclaimed the ex-
tremely penurious property-owner, as
he gazed at lot of urchins who were
playing il the street.
TO what do you refer?"
These children. Just look at their
dirty facesr'
1T does seem too bad that they
should have so little care"
''Um; wasn't thinking of that. They
are carrying off my real estate
Washington Star. -
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Her Divided skirts.

"And you have the assurance to tell
me that you discharged your laundress
because of her belief in divided skirts? =?
A new woman like you?"
''YOu didn't let me finish. I was 60
ing to explain that she had an idea that
1t was the proper thing to divide my
supply of skirts between herself and
her 1S-year-old daughter"
"Ohr'-Indianapolis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

'It's strange how some men are al.
ways Fortunate" remarked Mr.. Snaggs.
''Now here is that man Jones. He is
so uniformly fortunate that he is called
Lucky Jones' He has sued for breach
of promise and the jury awarded the
girl $4,000"
Il don't see how he was lucky in that
case" interrupted Mrs. Snaggs.
''You don't, Ell? Why, he escaped
marrying her."-Texas Sitter.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

Senator elect Harris of Kansas is not
only a classical scholar. but hog rails
er as well. He has six prize porkers
on his farm. which he has named, ac-
cording to an esteemed contemporary,
Acestorides, Basterhini, Callistagoras,
Pachnamunis, PythagOras, and Aris-
tides. Mr. Harris contemplates sending
them to Greece about next killing time.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
OLD SCHOOLHOUSE.
It's In Kentucky, and rs Erected West
of the A1leGhenies.

On a hillside, near the border line
that divides Woodford from Fayette
County, in Kentucky, stands q dilaDi-
dated stone building that was the first
educational institution erected west Of
the Allegheny mountains. 1t Is consid-
erably more than 100 years old, and
the school conducted within its walls
was an original branch of the famous
Pennsylvania University.
Two Presidents-George Washington
and John Adams-made liberal contri-
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Took Her ar Her Word.

What do you mean, sir" roared the
irate father, ''by bringing your trunk
to my house and ordering room?"
I'm adopted as one of the family"
coolly answered the young man. your
daughter said she would be sister to
me."-Detroit Free Press.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

of the prOyerb that there is nothing
new under the sun, 1t is pointed out
that there was a hOrseless wagon as
early as 1861. The horse ran away.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

The appearance of the Hon Col
Strathy. of Montreal, at the recent Ma
joribanks- Brown wedding at Nashville
clad In full Highland costume, with
sporan, philiberg. and sturdy bare legs,
almost paralyzed the nerve centers of
the elite of that ancient town.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
woman until she had visited nearly

woman until she had visited nearly
every hospital in town. Several physi-
clans became suspicious and laid plot,
which the unsuspecting woman walked
into. Strict watch was kept from over
a transom, and just before time for the
doctors visit she was noticed sticking
a large needle in various parts of her
gums. By the time the doctor arrived
her mouth was in a frightful condi-
riOn ~
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
On1v Thiucr t. L.

Eastern Guest Gn the Red Gulch
Wayfarer's ResO-Look here. waiter,
] can't drink this coffee.
Waiter with brace of revolvers in
his belD-Well, you can't eat it. that's
dead sure: so l guess you'll have to go
wirhout.-Someryille Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
A Sometimes Useful Method.

II must compliment you," said the
eminent lawyers admirer, ION the thor
oughness with which you understand
the Constitution of the United States"
'Thank you, but"
''Of course, I appreciate the fact that
1t is your business to do So"
''You are mistaken. 1t is very rarely
that I undertake to go SO far as to I'M
derstand it myself. Ny purpose is in
many cases answered if can keep 9TH
er people from understanding it,
Washington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

Another attempt is being made to pre-
scribe exactly the kind of food that
children shall eat, but as long as the
pantry door is left ajar the old-fash-
toned kinds of cake and jam VIII be
able TO hold their own.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
The Real Styles.

Il was downtown to-day looking at
the new styles"
But isn't it rather early, my dear,
for the spring goods to be in?''
who is talking about spring goods
mean wheels. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
A Slieht Contrast.

"What a stylish dress!'
eyes, it cost me $50. 1 had it made
to wear to the last charity card party"
"What does it cost to go to one of the
parties?"
"Twenty five cents. - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

about the ignorance of a clever trust
representative when he is brought be-
fore a legislative investigating COM
mittee.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Spell Bound.
The Paint of Xinu

Mrs. Vanderaster-I am so glad we
have secured Count Mineralwasser for
our reception! What splendid abandon
he possesses!
Mr.. deraster-Maybe, but 1 doubt
if the wife and children he abandoned
in Vienna think so.-New York Tri
bune.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Its Fascinntion.

"What possible fascination can there
be about arctic eXploration?"
''Well, for one thing, they have such
a long night there that no one can OBJ
iect to man staying out occasionally"
Philadelphia North American.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
How He Did IL

Admirer-I really do not know how
you managed to write that splendid
article.
Scrbe-Oh, the usual way-with a
pen.-Clips.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15

a New York court has decided that
baby shows are Illegal. This tendency
of the Judiciary TO interfere in dOmes-
tic affairs is one of the crying evils of
the times
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Guarding Against 1T.

First Burglar (at midnight, In store
Il hope we won't be interrupted.
Second Burglar-No; I've just put a
sign in the window: CLOSED ON ac-
count of stock-taking. New York Tri-
hune.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Never Drank Again

Benham-Henry, 1 am glad to learn
that you don't drink any more, but
how did you come to leave off?
Henry-You remember the last time
my mother-in-law was here?
Benham-Yes.
Honeywell, one night while she was
here l came home in pretty bad shape
and saw three Of her. That sattled it.
English Paper.
The Winslow mail., 1897-05-15
Her Ideal.

Vinnie-AEinnie will never marry un-
til she meets her ideal.
Vietta-What is her ideal?
Vinnie-A man who will propose
Glasgow Times.