The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-03-25

Louis Ludlow, in Evansville Courier

, A. j. Rhodes, of Orange county,
will pass down in history as the only
/. Indiana Office holder who ever ask
ed to have his own official head cut
OF. MIR. Rhodes is a truant officer.
/ Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Geeting is sending blanks out
to truant officers with view to
Learning the benefits of the compul.
sorry education law. The only re-
ply received to date is from Mr..
Rhodes who, after reciting that he
has placed under the school-marm' s
wing twenty-five children who never
attended school, ends with: 81
would make the township trustee
truant officer for his township, as a
matter of economy and convei-
nence. :" AT the Office cf the super
intendent of instruction Truant
Officer Rhodes unusual recommen-
dation is attracting comment.
General Benjamin Harrison has
been caught mapping. After deliv-
ering noted address at Chicago on
the obligation Of wealth to pay its
share of taxes, the general returned
to indianapolis to suddenly remem-
ber the fact that he had not yer paid
his dog license, which was due June
! last and has been delinquent ever
since. He accordingly sent his col
ored man down to the city comp
troller's Office last week to get a
license. The colored man was not
satisfied until the title General"
was prefxed to the ex-president's
name on the license book in large
characters. While the general has
been subject to arrest ever since
June 1st last because of his forget
fulness in harboring an unlicensed
dog, there islno one who seems in
clined to enforce the penalty. 1t
is not strange that he should forget
as the ordinance is one to which
little attention is paid here. The
license books show that the expires
lident's canine family consists of two
dogs, one white spotted hunting
dog and the other a black and white
setter.
\ Ex-G Governor Mathews was the
/, first governor in the United States
who took up publicly the cause of
the Cuban insurgents. He is now
greatly interested in the situation
with Spain.
"The indemnity and the only in
demnity that the United States
should ask is the freedom Of Cuba"
said the ex-governor, seated at the
Grand hotel. by forcing Spain to
this concession the United States
would be pursuing humanitarian
policy and at the same time would
avenge the loss of her countrymen
and her own honor. II seems to me
strange that this has not been
thought of as the solution of the
Iperplexing question. Now when it
is conceded that the Maine was
blown up by Spanish authority l do
not like the policy Of waiting any
longer. Let us agree on our de-
mand and let that demand be the
freedom of Cuba. Let us then pro-
mulgate it in such clear and unmis-
taxable terms that Spain will know
that no dilly-dallying on her part
will be endured"
The report is out that Colonel l.
n. Walker, ex-commander-in chief
of the G. A. r. will lose his head as
state tax commissioner when his
term expires next Spring, notwith-
standing he is an enthusiastic can
didate for re-appointment The
story is that the governor is offended
because of remark made by Gen.
eral Walker at the last state en-
campment of the G.. A. X. at Rich
mond. For some reason the pro-
cession headed by the governor,
stopped in front of a hotel where
the general was sitting on the porch
looking on.
DR.. Tucker, a veteran OF Nobles-
vile. is credited with yelling out,
l"Whoever heard before Of a COVER
nor stopping Grand Army parade
to have his picture taken?" Gen.
eral Walker, according to the story,
added: "It is simply preposterous.
Nobody ever heard Of the like" As
matter Of fact the stop was alto
gether accidental, but the insinua-
tons against the governors sense OF
decorum, according to the story,
struck deep in his breast, and as a
result General Walker is to be turned
down, and as for DR.. Tucker, he is
prescribed from holding SO much as
"a justice OF the peace commission
while Governor Mount holds guber-
material office. AS tax commission