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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-04
NOT EXACTLY A BABY.
How q Woman Played Trick on q Cable
Car Conductor.

John, dear, some one ought TO speak
to that woman. See, she's smoth'-
"I'm not running this road. Besides,
it's probably her own kid. "
"Well, | shall certainly inform the
authorities. It's over 10 minutes that
dear little thing hasn't had breath OF
air. Won't you call the police!'
OF course this dialogue was furnished
by husband and wife. Scene-A cable
car bound down town. The character
spoken of as THAT woman" was fe-
male of uncertain age and decided stern
ness. She boarded the Car mt Fifty
ninth street. In her arms she carried
the "it'' referred to man faLhion as
"the kid" Tenderly, almost to suffo-
cation, the woman Rugged her charge.
Not even the end of its tiny nose nor a
lisp of baby hair peeped out from the
folds of the long cloak. The woman
Struggled and cuddled the bundled child,
and never an infantile wall or a gasp
for breath aroused the wondering pas
seugers TO action. When the Car reach
ed Thirty fourth street, THAT woman.
still hugging her bundle, left the car.
The husband and wife followed. The
car sped on.
Safe on the sidewalk, the woman
paused, shook the folds Of the baby 7
cloak, ard deposited on the pavement |
long cared, wet nosed, watery eyet
spaniel. That was all.
well, John, I'm beat, said the wife
"So's the conductor and the compa
n.y." responded John. ''She smuggle'
the beast and got the best Of the compa
nv. was smart enough to mind III,
own business. Come on. New Yorl
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STOP AND THINK.

Every time you make a purchase,
whether it is to your interest or not.
For the nearer you keep your mon
ey in reach the more benefit you
derive from it. By favoring US,
and buying no other than a hand
made Guckes Broom, Mops,
Whisks, Toy and Ceiling brooms.
And if your merchant don't handle
them, ask him to get them, or call
at our factory, or write us a postal
card and we will send you our
brooms. We sell both wholesale
and retail.
FARMERS wishing their
corn made up into brooms and who
havn't got the cash, should remem-
Der that we eat, and will take any
thing in the produce line for our
pay.
GUcKEs Broom MF'G. Co.,
H. F. GucKEs, Manager.
June IL. 1857
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HENRY IRVING AS A JOKER.
He and Tools Made q Tipsy Walter Rs-
pent Temporarily.


Sir Henry Irving tells an amusing
story Of joke that he, with Mr.. Toole
and third party, played some years
ago at Glasgow hotel. After their
work they were supping at the hotel,
where says Sir Henry. there was In
the room high screen. The instant the
waiter was gone we commenced opera
lions. We stripped the silyerware. Of
which there was n tol,rable supply,
from the table and placed il behind the
screen. We then opened the window
and turned out the gas, and finally all
got under the table We had only 10 re-
main in our cramped position a few
minutes before we heard the unsteady
feet Of cur friend. the waiter, along the
passage.
1.-THE darkened room amazed him and
tie cold air from the window seemed
to strike him with alright.
.'Goodness.' exclaimed he, it's
thieves they are. A thocht as much frae
the, luiks o. them. and frae their gay
talk and their LAUGHTER. Eth. but I'm
a ruined man. A wish a had nae taen
the hale o. that last bottle. Hear! Hear!
Thievesl Thievesl Murder! Thieves
Thievesr and shouting at the top OF his
voice he ran out of the room and along
the passage
1.-The minute he had gone we shut
the door, lit the gas, restored the silver
to the table and sat round as before,
enjoying a quiet cigar. Presently there
W as confused murmur along the pas
sage 1t grew louder and louder. and
III poured truly motley throng, most
ly half dressed, consisting of the man
aeer, two men in bare legs and slip
pers, and a lady with blanket, in thu
alarm Of fear caught up, followed b,
our agonized friend, the waiter. ON
man was armed with a poker and tn
other carried bronze statuette read,
to hurl ut the thief. As they entered w
all sat back and looked at them i'll vel
feigned amazement, and Toole SAT-
to the astonished and bewildered man
ager, Do you always come in this wa
with your friends when gentlema
asks for lis billy London Telegraph
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THE MAKING OF POISON.
A Factory Where the Most Deadly Drugs
Are Prepared.

A Factory Where the Most Deadly Drugs
Are Prepared.
In London is a strange establishment,
behind wilderness Of warehouses and
tumbledown tenements, in remote
suburb. Its massive gates are locked and
jealously guarded. A visitor must not
only be careful where he steps and re-
frain from touching, he must also
breathe with great caution. One OF the
terrible poisons manufactured here is
pure anhydrous acid, drug seldom
seen outside chemical laboratory. This
is the deadliest of all known poisons.
The discoveIer was stricken dead from
inhaling its fumes. From 3 to 8 per
cent Of this chemical added to 90 or 81
parts of water makes prussic acid. This
diluted poison causes instant death,
even when taken i'll minute quantities
Next to anhydrous acid, the worst
poison they make is cyanide OF potas-
stun. Last year they turned out over
900 tons Of it. Five grains being a
fatal dose, the annual output would be
sufficient to kill 1880, 900 people. In
the workroom, where men are gathered
around q witch's caldron containing
over a hundred weight Of molten eva
hide, a strange picture is presented.
The seething mass Of white hot liquid
poison, with the lambert play Of the
furnace fires. the phantom faces Of the
workmen, enveloped in an uncanny
looking glass mask, peering into the
heart Of the dreadful mixture through
the thick atmosphere, are terrible
sight In another room, where are tons
Of the finished product, looking like
crystalized sugar. good enough te
eat, one man is never allowed alone.
For some inexplicable reason it exer.
cises strange fascination for the mer
who inhale its fumes. They are haunt
ed by q desire to eat it. But. knowing
that satisfying the craving means in
slant death, most, but not all. are able
to resist it. Aside from this fascination
its manufacture is not considered un
healthy. The same cannot be said Of
corrosive sublimate. Its fumes are dead
ly.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, Trustee of HARRISON township
will att md to township business on eacl
Saturday Of the year, at my Once, any
persons having township business v
trrnsact are required to present 1t 10 Nm
on Saturdays. Il,
The township library will be kept "
my home in Haysville. H.
Indiana School Books are for SAFE v
Henry Ruehrschneck in Haysville' anu
Adam Harker in Kellerville, Indiana
JoHN SEITz,
Aug. 30, 1S95-y. Irus'ee'
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TIE CHlPMUNk.
How He Rcuses Himself aud Welcomes
the spring.

the spring.
As the woodchuck sleeps away the
bitterness Of cold. SO in his narrower
chamber sleeps the chipmunk. Happy
little hermit, lover of the sun, mate OF
the song sparrow and the butterflies,
what goodly and hopeful token OF the
earth's renewed life is he, verifying the
promises Of his own chalices, the squir-
rel cups. set in the warmest corners OF
the woodside, with libations Of dew and
shower drops, of the bluebird's carol,
the sparrow's song of spring
/ He comes forth from his long night
into the fullness of the sunlit day, to
proclaim his awakening to his summer
comrades, gay recluse clad all in the
motley, a Jester, maybe, yet no fool.
His voice, for all its monotonv, is in
spring Of gladness and contentmcnt,
whether he utters his thin, sharp chirp
or full mouthed cluck. or laughs chit
tering mockery as he scurries in at his
narrow door.
He winds along his crooked pathway
of the fence rails and forages for half
forgotten nuts in the familiar grounds,
Drown WITH stitWn i'h''s VI N"H "As'
dead grass. Sometimes he ventures to
the top rail and climbs to giddy ten
foot height on tree, whence he looks
abroad, wondering, OH the wide expanse
of an acre.
Music hath charms for him, and you
may entrance him with softly whis-
tied tune and entice him TO frolic with
"A herds grass head gently moved be-
| fore him.
When the fairies have made the white
curd of mallow blossoms into cheese for
the children and the chipmunk, it is a
, pretty sight TO see him gathering his
, share handily and toothily stripping of
q the green covers, filing his cheek
. pouches with the dainty disks and
= scampering away TO the cellar with his
: ungrudged portion Alack the day
| when the sweets of the sprouting corn
A tempt him TO turn rogue, for then hs
!. becomes banded outlaw, and the sud
y den thunder Of the gun announces his
y tragic fate He keeps well the secret OF
constructing his cunning house, with
out show Of heaped or scattered sol
at its entrance. Bearing himself hon
estly and escaping his enemies, the cat
:. the hawk and the boy, he lives Ions
day Of happy, inoffensive life. TheI
|. when the filmy curtain Of the lndiai
a summer falls upon the year again M
q bids US long good night. New Eng
A land Fields and Woods.
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The Obliging bankrupt.

Good comradeship may count for
much. No man ever typified this better
than the Wall street broker who said
to his friend the reporter: II didn't
fail until after the evening papers went
to press 80 that you could have il all to
yourself in the morning. Come around
IN an hour or so, and I'll give you the
figures "-Writer.
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II is recommended that there should
be "a regular hour for feeding poultry.
II is wonderful how quickly the fowls
will know when the time arrives This
~ especially SD with ducks.
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Madison Township Trustee
Notice.

Notice 10 given that hereafter the Trus-
tee Of Madison township will be at the
store room Of Mr.. John p. Norman. in
Ireland, on every Saturday, for the pur.
Jose OF attending to township business,
and all persons having business with the
township are expected to contine it to
those days.
The township library is kept at Isaac
Alexander's in Ireland, where all may
obtain the books.
The Indiana School books will be
found at Norman 4 Gray's store at ali
times. john +. NORMAN,
Aug. 10, '95-y Trustee Madison Tp
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The home Of Timothy Tarn, in the
parish Of Dufton, near Appleby, West
noreland, England, is the most isolated
dwelling place in the three Kingdoms.
No human being lives nearer than III
miles
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Lowest rates to all Eastern ana Western
points. Folders, rates, and general infor
nation Will be furnished upon applicatnn
to V. II. CLAYCOMB, Ag't Jaspar
f.. ID STRATrAS, TRAY Pass agt Mt Vernon
Ill X. A. CAMPBELL, Gen'l Pass. Agcr
It Louis Mo
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Hall Township Business.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, Trustee of Hall township, VII.
attend to township business on each Sat
urday of the year, at my office, and per-
sons having township business to tran
sact are required to present it to him on
Saturdays.
The township library will also be found
at my office near Rosamond, and the cit.
liens are invited to call there for library
books.
The Indiana Series Of School books
may be had at my office, and at John }.
Meschede's, in Celestine.
LEVI l.. JACOBS,
Trustee Hall township.
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Columbia Township Irus'
tees Notice.

The undersigned, Trustee Of ColumO !,
r.. Dubois county, Ind, will attenu ~
Township business at his residence " ~
wery Saturday, and persons having
ownship business to transact are ~, ~
,uested TO present it on that day Of 'iH
week. $3.50, =. th1
The Township Library IL kept u I'm
,f{ice OF the Trustee, where those eD
titled can obtain books.
~ X. r. SnIrH, Trustee.
Auv. 10th. 1857.
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It's regular summer day picnic
to revel in the bargains and de-
molishing prices offered by The
COURIER advertisers.
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and the cement will not get inside OF
Il. where the repair strip lies.
When you have puncture, get right
of. Riding tire hat, when it has a
rack or nail In 1t, may damage 1t con-
siderAhly.
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Boone Township Trustees
Notice.

The undersigned, Trustee Of Boone
township, Dubois county, hereby gives
notice that he will attend TO all business
to the office OF Trustee, a. DIS
residence, about one mile west OF for-
tersville, on Portersville and lelsha
road, on Saturdays of each week am
requests all persons having townsMP
business to present it on Saturday wv
zens desiring books from the Townsnp
Library, are notified that the Library =
kept by VIM. McIIarris, in PortersVlie'
n. b. CoFFMAS, Trustee
Aug Z, lS96-y.
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The Weekly Edition Has II Pages
The times., 1897-05-18
The GospeI of ST. John.

The eminent and sanity John Wanna
maker who, having made the largest con-
tribution TO the Harrison campaign fund,
thus became Postmaster General OF the
United States, is in a mental. and public
platform, condition of 1ustifiable political
pessiinism combined with apparent parcsis.
In a speech delivered in Philadelphia last
week Mr. Wanamaker gave utterance to
things which cannot fail TO grieye his erst-
while friends, Mr.. Mckinley. Mr.. Hanna,
Mr.. Havemeyer, Mr.. Atkins, and other
brethren in the bond Of sugar and stocks.
Coming from such a source, they are OF
more than passing interest:
The tide will soon setin strongly against
the Republican party unless the depression
or business is altered. idleness anu want
breed a bitter discomfort which VIII never
he overcome until there are ample employ
ments.
The foes America has TO fear are not
the sullen, savage Turks nor the lnsurrec-
tionsCs of Cuba nor the teTr1tory-grasping
British, but they are our own patient ana
heart-tlred people, our own SUFFERING
mucb-promiSed people, who, betrayed and
dfsheart tened, no longer have falth in their
party, and viii turn to any leadership That
offers PROMISE OF better times, believing
that worse times can never come than
those now existing.
Passing by Mr. WaBamaker's grouping
of the "insuTect ionlsts OF Cuba with
the ''suilen, savage Turks" and the ter
Iitory -lrasplng British which is an eyi,
dcnce either of deprayed heartlessness or
of advanced paresis, it cannot he doubted
that there is great deal of truth in
what he says. The betrayed and disheart-
ened, suffering and much-proInised people
are not to bc regarded in the light OF foes
to America, but rather OF that party which
has shown itself the offensive negatjon
OF everything American
Mr. wanamaker is little ahead of
his fellows in seeing the handwriting on
the wall 1t will not be long before AL OF
them VIII recognize 1t, as well as The
certainty that the country viii turn to
any leadership promising rescue from
government by the Republican party.
The times., 1897-05-18
RETURN OF ROOSEVELT.
VIII Say Nothing About His Navy
Yard Inquiries.

Assistant Secretary Roosevelt resumed d
his officiai duties at the Navy Departs ment
yesterday morning He declined 10 express
his convictions concerning Tie investigation
he made OF the Brooklyn navy yard last
was not nearly SO lad as ii had been re-
ported to be.
he most OF the complaints investigated
related TO removals which had been made
during the past month ana of these Mr.
Roosevelt found but two or three of suf-
ficient Importance To refer to Secretary
Long.
The Assistant Secretary found that in
the case or the discharged veterans, the
men lost their positions because OF their
physical inability 10 DO the work
The number OF applications for posi- tons
in the Treasury Department filed yesterday
Were fewer than usual The list was as
follows:
f. Bromar, Wartrace, Tenn, TO be regis
ter OF Treasury at Washington, u. C.: ID
II Clark, Washington, 10 be deputy auditor
for the Postoffice at Washington, ID. c.;
T E. Davis, Grafton, w. Va, TO be COL
Iector OF internal revenue at Parkersburg,
w Va; Z A NorvelI, SbeIbyviIle, Tenn
to be internal revenue collector at Nash
vile, Tenn; g. W. Liebertb, Newport,
Covington, KY.
The consul at Managua has informed the
Department OF State that James Spraker,
OF New York, died there the 18th instant
OF pernicious fever.
The times., 1897-05-18

purpose. We have displayed ourselves
before civilization as the cruel, heart
less and cowardly ally of Spain. Ma
tlonal honor has been torn from our
backs, the cries of outraged wonanhood
and helpless childhood, shriekiDg under
the slashes of the cruel Spanish knife,
have appealed TO us in vain
But it is not the American people who
are to blame; nevertheless they have in
Cured and will bear the igina for genera
tions. Who, then, is to blame? If we
know, are theyto go unchecked, un whipped
of justice? Is the title OF American citizen
to become kissing and byword among
the nations that sugar kings hail be fur
ther enriched, and the holders Of Spanish
bonds protected, at the cost of an ocean OF
innocent blood and a he'll full OF coun-
try's black disgrace?
The times., 1897-05-18

The incarceration of Mr.. Elverton Il.
Chapman began yesterday and he went to
his fate with becoming dignity and good
nature. Mr.. Chapman considers hinrself as
q victim of war, the chances OF which
he took, and does not complain. We
believe that the Offense of which he was
convicted ought to be punished for tine
benefit OF society and to deter others
from tampering with statesmen who may
be Inclined 10 take sugar in theirs but
we are sorry that justice should lave to
lock up mum like Mr- Chapman in
seven by ten cell for thirty days. even
considering the comparatively humane
treatment accorded Co first-ciass misde-
meanants.
The times., 1897-05-18
an IMBEcILE BOYS CRIME.
Frank Machener Cuts Little Mabel
KurtZ's Throat,

Philadelphia, May 7.-Afte four months
confinement in Norristown Insane Asylum,
where he was regarded as harmless ina
beetle, Frank ID. Machemer, "A nineteen year
old youth was released for week to view
the Washington and Girard monument pa
rades, and Saturday afternoon he cut the
throat Of Mabel KurtZ. a seven-year-old
girl, in the cellar Of her home, No. 3s05
North Broad street
The little girls windpipe was severed,
but the juguIar vein was not cut, and at
the Samaritan Hospital, where she was
taken, the windpipe was sewed up, and it
is thought she will live. After committing
the horrible deed Machemer returned to the
Kurtz residence, and while he sat in the
parlor a sister Of the injured girl called
Policeman Cassel from Broad street and
Machemer was taken TO the Twenty-second
district police station.
Machemer stoutiy denied committing the
crime when first taken into custody, but
later acknowledged it.
For years he has known the Kurty family
andliked to visitthem. Yesterday afternoon
about $50 O'Clock he rang the front door
bell at No. 3S0S North Broad street, and
as Mrs KurtZ wasl lying down upstairs, Mabel
went TO the door. No one else was in the
house From the conversation at the
door Mrs Kurtz thought that another little
girl had called, and did lot get up until she
heard the front door slam. She went to
the window and sa Machener walking
rapidly down the street.
Knowing him as well as she did, she
felt no alarm, but went down stairs in a
few minutes, and couldn't find Mabel
She had reached the front of the house,
when the child. holding her head in the
air with blood streaming over her dress,
walked into the parlor.
The mothers screams brought a police
man, who Immediately summoned an am
buance, so that the child received prompt
attention at the hospital
Machemer willingly submitted TO arrest,
claiming. however, that he was innocent
OF any crime At the insane asylum where
he had been confined he was considered
as a harmless individual, and was fire.
quently Allowed to. visit his mother.
The times., 1897-05-18
The Forseunan Matter.

In an article published in The Times Of
Wednesday morning last, describing the
robbery of a man from Wisconsin named
Forseman, allusion was made TO a Mr..
Moore, who from the description which
Forseman gave, has been confounded with
Mr.. David Moore an employe of the House
OF Representatives. So far as The Times
is concerned, it desires to correct in the
fullest and most positive manner the i'm
putation conveyed against Mr.. Moore,
whom we find to be trusted member Of
the Capitol force Of employees, and who is
vouched for in every way by Hon. j. w,
Pabcock, chairman of the District OF Column
bia Committee. Whatever suggestions Mr.
Forseman gave out or intended to convey
about his loss, il is not now possible to
state, rs he has left the city, but it i S
clearly shown that Mr.. Moore only met him
as friend from Wisconsin. and left him
early in the afternoon of the day on the
evening OF which he was robbed The
Times wishes to wholly vindicate Mr..
Moore if from anything in the article men
toned it was fairly to be inferred that he
had any connection with the Forseman
affair.
The times., 1897-05-18
ROW IN A STATE SENATE.
A Kentucky Legislator Calls the
Presiding Officer an Usurper.

Frankfort. KY. May 17--There was a
sensational scene in the Senate when
called to order today Senator Steven
son made a motion to lay an appeal frOm
the chair on the table. Senator Goebei IN
sisted on his night to the chair. and at
tempted to take possession. Lieut.. Gov.
Werthington, with anger in his eyes, re-
sented Mr. GoeheI's attack, when Goebel
replied: "You are an usurper."
Lieut.. GOV. Worthington replied: BY
God. | have a constitutional right to be here
and propose to maintain it,
He rose from the chair in a threatening
attitude and the widest excitement fol-
lowed 1t looked as If personal en-
counter would result between the two, but
the geld men and the Republicans adopted
motion To adjourn until 3 O'Clock this
afternoon.
The silver men came together. but find
ing they had no quorum. adjourned until
ESQ this afternoon. 1t is expected that
a sensational clash viii occur Oh the as
sembling of the Senate this afternoon.