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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-29

down again to comfort and his
story.
Il was only IL then. and my sister
couldn't have been more than seven.
We were living near Three Falls. close
by the river. 1t was well along in De
ctmber, and though, for wonder.
there wasn't much snow. the ice was
foot thick. and in many places so
smooth and black that you could hard
" tell il from open water Of course
was wild To go skating. and mother told
NE | might if Id take along sister
Lorena and be sure TO come back early.
so | got out the little boxsled and
tucked in Lorena, snug and warm. and
We started.
THAT sled was really a sort of min
iature sleigh. built especially for
Lorena. who was the spoiled child in
our family. II had a cushioned seat
and padded sides. and "A back 20 high
that | could skate behind and push il
like one of those new-fanrled baby
carriages.
''l'll never forget how Lorena looked
that day: she comes up before my
sight just as the bowling of the
wolves sounds in my ears whenever ]
think about it. She had yellow hair
and big eyes and a rosebud sort OF
face: and when she wanted anything
She had only TO pout just the least bit.
and She got it right away. She was
wrapped and mufiled until she seemed
as broad as she was long. but her rosy
cheeks pceped out of her soft worsied
hood like bright red pink smothered
in bed of white cnes. Our Lorena
was little beauty and no mistake. for
all she was sister to such piain-look-
ing fellow.
We went on the ice just above the
rapids. and as soon as had strapped
on my skates and stamped in the heel
orads we started up the river. Mine
were the old-fashsoned kind Of skates.
OF course-the sort that turns up in
front with brass knobs over your toes,
but had ground the edges sharp as a
skinning knife. At every stroke they
shearcd frosty shavings from the ice,
and the sled runners fairly roared as
they sped over its surface. Lorena
shrieked and gurgled with delight;
and we were having such fun that be-
lore we realized il we had reached the
head OF the "sti llwater" almost nine
miles from hcmc-much further than
We had meant to 60. 1t was a wild
place shut in by high banks and thick
woods. with a noisy fall. breaking
Through narrow gorge half choked
With ice and rocks. right in our path
% bar further progress. This brought
US to sfandstill--and me. at least, &
my senses.
'Lorena. we must hurry straight
home | cried.
But I>orena insisted on getting GU
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WOLVES on ICE. !
Nv CHARLES KELSEY GAINES. I
Copyright. isss.
nNu. NO." said our veteran guide.
stretching his tired limbs in the

HNu. NO." said our veteran guide.
stretching his tired limbs in the
.,>,low of campfire from which the
r..t of US shrunk back a little. There
49, no wolves now in the Adirondack
',oodS: AT least ! don't know of any.
r,arybody hates a wolf, and the ugly
nr,,.. have all been killed off, guess.
m. only game laws for them are such
osYer a reward for their scalps.
~Then there used to be wolves in
,besc PARTS ?" queried.
lie pushed n fallen brand back into
re fire with his boot heel.
"Oh. yes. can remember when
here were droyes of thcm-and by
,ba, YOU may know without looking
I'm not particularly young. Yes, /
lnov thing or two about wolves and
M me tell you, right here. they're the
,cliest thing that carries howl inside
hide when once they get on your
trail. Catamounts are bad enough, but
they don't ran in packs. I've known
a hear TO take lot of lead to settle
him. but you only have TO tackle one.
ar maybe two. a. a time. Quite right
YOU are-there used TO be wolves about
here. and I'm not the one 10 forget
It,"
He paused. after the manner of old
men who want encouragement 10 tell
astory.
You've had an adventure. them"
exclaimed. go ahead and tell us all
about IT,"
An adventure to make your hair
,,and on end"-he cried. warming 10
,he subject and sitting erect. ANY
how. il made mine stick up like the
brist'es on a brush You see had an
other life to look out for besides my
own. and that almost scared me
crazy"
He rose to throw on fresh logs; and
while they sputtered and blazed. and
east Pickering CLEAN on tree trunks
deep among the shadows. he settled
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The Chinese Painter.

While the bark Cape City was II
Hong Kong Chinaman was engaged
to paint the necessary name on Zach
bow. lie Produced on one bow the
legend ''Capecity," without space be-
tween the two words. Then he noted
that the ~" was nearest to the ships
stern. and, remembering this fact, he
afforded an excellent example Of how
severely logical his race can be, for
in a little while he had painted on the
other bow the striking Formulation:
"Yticepac." to his own delight and the
crews amazement.--Chamb Jour
nal
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noticed afterward. The swapping jaws
OF another grazed my left ankle: but
iust as All was lost we shot out upon
smooth ice again. and at the same mo
ment a strong gust from behind
swept me forward with its sudden i'm
pulse. cast back one terrified glance
and saw the white teeth and red. loll-
ing tongues several rods in the rear,
and for some minutes | steadily drew
away from them. Then. as turn OF
the river deprived me of my adyant.
age from the wind. was barely able
TO hold what had won.
1T was now growing very dark: ]
could barely make out my tracks be.
tween the blacker shadows of the river
banks. | was weary beyond the pos
sibility Of any further squirting. and
Lorena. ! think. was scarcely con
>cious: but in the distance | thought
caught glimpse of the village lights
on the hill.
Then. all at once. | felt the ice
Welding and cracking under our
weight only for a momen;-ve did
not quite break through. and again !
felt The solid floor Of the frozen river be
Meath my feet. Behind rs rose loud
splas hing and chorus Of yelps. shout
Ing hat the pursuing wolf pack had
not been so lucky. \ minute later We
swung around q sharp bend into the
light OF big fire on the bank. The
men who had been grouped about it,
= 4. 49, u
were running toward us with guns
and axes. We passed between them
and slowly came to a stop; we were
saved.
These men. found. had been n,
work on the river during the after.
noon cutting ics. The wide opening
] they had left had quickly frozen over
but this new ice was still very thin
Our speed had barely carried Us over
but when the luddled wolf pack burs'
upon its surface. already cracked by
our passage. the brutes went through
| in a mass. OF course most IL not al
Of them got out: but they must have
had a tough night of il. for the Their
mometer went below zero. Only tw,
or three detected looking specimen
came in sight round the bend. Theii
coats were so stiff with ice that the,
could hardly crawl and none OF then
ventnrcd near the fire. The men coul,
have shot them without much trouble
but we were safe-that was the mali
fhirg-and the weather was too cold Z
90 chasing vermin.
The old guide rose to his feet.
thine to turn in he said as W
siill sat mo,ionlcsS You needn'
worry: there are no wolves here now.
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Ten per cent. Of the entire popula-
ton of Chinatown, San Francisco, are
opium smokers, and their funds must
be very low when they cannot each in
dulge in two opirm DRINKS every week.
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ycrmont'~ Governors small salary
Vermont gives Mr.. Grout $1,000, tho
most meager salary received ~ AMI
governor in the United StateA
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AFTER the constitution was adopted and
washington was elected president. u be-
came necessary 20 have the young re-
public establish as friendly relations as
,,os.ib,e with the different governments OF
ire earth As We were then weak and I'M
known. and as our government was ocn-
sidered but an experiment. ard was sneered
AZ by the influential classes of the world
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MY friends. find principle or govern
ment that has helped to make us dis
tinctiye and great and you VIII ma IL
was of democratic and Jenersonian par
entare. CHANGING at this quarter or
century during which the breath OF JET
ferson was anmating the nation, we ind
that none of these great men INDUCED in
political hucks;ering or trading they
stood for definite principles and resoluieiy
carried them out. ONCE came TO them IN
cidentaIly, there was no deception OF con-
stituents. no false promises made before
election and broken afterward, no Efforts
to mislead and no betrayal. Jefferson en-
tered public life wealthy. and served ms
country faithfully. lie retired from the
presidency poor and died In poverty. In
the light of more recent events 1 am I'm
pelled to declare: Thank God. this great
man retired from Office poor There was
nothing to sully his character. nothing to
dim the ulster Of his star.
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Mr.. Altgeld then spoke of the first eN-
perience Cleveland had in politics, and
said that he betrayed his benefactor in
order TO obtain the nomination for dis
trict attorney. When he was elected
mayor of Buffalo he befriended all COR
porations under whose influence he had
fallen and fought all Others. lie was
elector governor Of New York on ac-
count of split in the republican party.
He was nominated for president In 1854
us the agent of the monopo!ies and
trusts of the country.
Mr.. Altgcld severely characterized
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration and
said that il was all in favor of trusts
and monopolies.
In 1872 Altgeld said that Cleveland
again came 10 the front through thu
1 influence Of trusts and was severe Oh
The times., 1898-03-11
Grosvenor's Poetry.

Our revered and hirsute friend, Rep
resentative Grosvenor, took occasion,
during the discussion of the fifty mil
lion dollar appropriation bill, to drop
into poetry. Gen. Grosvenor has been
known before to bang the fieIdpiece
and twang the Tyre. separately and
simultaneously. In fact, the noise of a
battle always arouses him to do one
or the other of these two things:
This time, however, he surpassed
himself He said:
Saxon and Norman and Dane arc we,
Yet are we all Dane in our welcome OF thee?
Thee" is presumably President Nc
KinIey with the appropriation bill in
his hand. It is significant of the high
and gentle honor in which Gen. Gros-
venor holds the President, that he used
this Invocation, originally addressed to
the Princess of Wales. 1t is not every
President to whom the couplet would
have seemed appropriate. President
Cleveland for instance, would hardly
have fitted it. There would have been
an incongruity somewhere as one
lHouBhl bI CildHBlHS the A1eAdNdTd.
TO ''Groveri" at the end of the strophe
And there is u freshness and charm
about this verse, too, which is pc
culiarly delightful. Il was written to a
young Danish princess on her arrival
in England at a particularly romantic
and interesting crisis in her history, but
the connection between Princess Alex
andra leaning on the arm of the Prince
OF Wales, and President Mckinley
leaning on the arm Of Mark Hanna,
with the appropriation bill in his hand,
is such as only Grosvenor would have
thought Of making.
And then there is the metaphor in
the thing Gen. Grosvenor has been
called, and has called himself, various
names, but this is the first time it was
ever known that he was a Great Dane.
And he calls all the other members Of
the House TO witness that they are
Great Danes, too, on this joyful oc-
casion. II is time Of universal en-
thusiasm, of wide-spreading and beau
tifuI unanimity. Gen. Grosvenor
wants all the House to lay aside former
preiudices. and be Danes, even as the
President and Grosvenor himself are.
Dane is a good name for it. 1t sounds
better than Republican, if it is
necessary that the House should all
The times., 1898-03-11
THE MARBLEHEAD'S MISSION,
She Carries Ammunition tO the
Texas, Massachusetts and Iowa

Key West. March I9--The AIarbIehead
sailed early this morning for Tortugas
with ammunition for the Texas. Massa-
chusetts and Indiana After delivering
it she will proceed to Tampa. to receive
a large lot of ammunition for the New
York. Iowa. Detroit and Nashville. now
here. The Fern arrived from Havana
yesterday and will return after cOaling.
Her officers would say nothing further
than that everything was quiet in Ha-
vana.
The sailors engaged in handling the
ammunition brought by the steamship,
Nueces were at work the greater part
of last night getting the share belonging
to the vessels at the Tortusas on board
the Marblehead. That the men cOul
have been worked at night is believed 10
he evidence of the haste of the depart
ment in preparing for an emergency.
The ammunition that is coming over
land to Tampa for the feet will be
brought here by the MarbIehead at once
II is said that this supply viii not only
entirely fiji the fleet magazines, but will
leave a surplus, which will for the pres
ent. be stored az the Dry TortHsas.
Admiral Sicard went aflOat this morn
ing to visit the British ship Cordeli,,
and also, it is said, TO inspect the Amer
lean war vessels.
The times., 1898-03-11
Polo, Not Bernabe.

When the new Spanish minister was
born his name was Polo; for the very
primary reason that his fathers name
was Polo. 1t happened that the patro-
nymic of his lady mother was Bernabe,
and hence he is called Senor Luis
Polo Bernabe. We do hope that the
Philistine press of Washington and
other places will not insist upon calling
him Senior Bernabe, as some have begun
to do even now. Let us reiterate: Polo
is his name, and Bernabe only indicates
what was that of his mothers family.
His godfathers and godmothers knew
what they were about when they called
him Polo.
1t is the designation of a noble ath-
Ietic British game, much delighted in by
Anglomaniacs. 1t may be regarded as
having a certain element of suggestive
ness on that account. But diplomatic
courtesy prevents us from making the
slightest remark on that score.
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ing an unreasonable amount of money

ing an unreasonable amount of money
out of the people of the District.
When the telephone first came into
sight as a convenience ii was luxury
which could only be afforded by the rich
who have money to use in experiments.
II WAS, OF course, uncertain. for a time,
whether the new method of communica-
tion could be relied on at all times and
in all places or whether it must remain
luxury, attainable only by the fortunate
few. As time went on. however. it was
proved that the telephone was sure,
safe and easy means of communication.
Its use rapidly became general. Wher-
ever there was business man who
could save money by utilizing the new
invention there the invention went. Even
at eNorbitant rates it was still cheaper,
in money and in time. than any other
service. 1t became, in short, as common
fact of civilization as the railway and
the telegraph. 1t was used to supplement
the latter and was incorporated into the
machinery Of the former As it became
a common fact, it became a cheap con-
venience. But here and there the very con-
venience Of the new invention has made
monopoly and abuse possible. Rather
than do without it, subscribers have paid
eXorbitant rates. This sort of thing has
been going on in the District for some
time and the House and the Senate, by
the wise and just action of this week,
have put a stop to it, and brought the
telephone within the reach of the people
who ought to have it,
The telephone is now so generally used
that ii may almost be ranked as a neces-
sity- When convenience becomes so
common that ordinary people reckon aI=
most with certainty on having it at hand
it is eminenuy fitting that it should not
be mOnopolized by individual greed. If a
business man has an important message
involving large slice of his income,
which il is imperatively necessary for him
to transmit to a friend, and that friend
has no telephone, the business man suf-
fers, and through him the public. If a
doctor can be reached by telephone in a
case of severe illness, it may be the
means of saving a life or at all events,
preventing permanent injury to health.
| And there are hundreds of minor points
]
frustrated hindered or stopped by lack
Of easy communication. The more people
there are who have telephones, and the
oftener they are used, the more easily
viii the business of the world go on. and
the more comfortably, happily and intel
! ligently in the end the public will live.
| The probability is that this service will
/ eventually be rescued from the uncertain
/ grasp Of private owners and placed in
the hands of the Government, as has al
/ ready been done with the postal service
! The telephone, the telegraph and the
! postoffice are too nearly bound up togeth-
! er in the concerns of the general public
! for one OF them to be controlled by the
! State, while the other two remain out
side. Meanwhile, it is good to see that
public interest is protected in the matter
of rates.
The times., 1898-03-11
U. S. SUPREME COURTATTACKED
Gov. I.eedy Discerns Official Mai
feasance and Tsurpatiou-


feasance and Usurpatiou-
Topeka. Kans.. March i0.-In a long in
terview today Gov Leedy attacked the
recent decision of the United States Su-
preme Court in the Nebraska maximum
rate case. and saws it shows that no mat
ter how carefully the robes OF justice are
folded about the personnel Of the Supreme
Court. these robes can no longer conceal
the cloven hoof OF official malfeasanee
and usurpation.
Following the Dartmouth College
case" says the governor. there is long
line of decisions to the effect that corpo-
rations could not plead the same privi-
leges as citizens from the fact that their
creation was voluntary act. yet the Su-
preme Court of the United States. in its
decision. distinctly sets the doctrine as
having been settled by the courts that the
fourteenth amendment refers to corpora
tions, but deny the sOundness of the ba-
sis upon which the decision of the court
rests.
THAT basis is the construction given to
the word person in the fourteenth
amendment to the United States C0nstitu-
ton Justice Harlan says that railroad
corporation is a person within the mean
ing of that word as there used. and upon
that assumption he builds UP his theory
that railways are within the protection
of its terms | deny it. and SO will every
body but corporation lawyer or sub
seryient judicial tool of corporations in
terests. L desire to quote the opinion OF
the Supreme Court OF the United States
before it went into partnership with Nor
gan, Vanderbilt, Gould and company, in
opposition to the opinion they hold in the
Nebraska rate case.
The decisions quoted are Chief Marshall
in the case of the Providence Bank vs..
Billings & Pitts. the Maryland case in the
Twenty-first Wallace. and the celebrated
Mum case.
IF the court shall continue 70 pursue
the corrupt and rotten practices that it
has heretofore by changing its decisions
to suit the interests of railroad corpora
tions, it will make plain the fact that the
people of the United States need not look
farther to the courts for Justice but that
they must either make up their minds to
submit not only to the present exactiOns.
but to the payment of future mortgages
that may be piled upon them by the rail-
roads. or they must take issue with the
courts and exact from them guarantees
that provisions of the Constitution have
been construed by the courts and sane
toned by the people for hundred years
shall be beyond the power of the courts
to change. or, what seems TO be the
better remedy, TO set the idle laborer OF
the country to work to build railroads OF
their own. without bonds or stock TO be
watered and rewatered and watered
again, as is done today"
The times., 1898-03-11

The agitation with regard 10 the ex-
orbitaut rates Of the District telephone
companies has culminated in the passage
Of the House proviso by the Senate. This
action on the part Of the Senate
was rather unexpected. but none the less
pleasing. As the act now stands, il is
unlawful for any person or any telephone
company doing business in the District
OF Columbia 10 charge or receive more
than SO per annum for the use Of a
telephone on a separate wire; so for each
telephone. there being not more than two
on wire; SO for each telephone, there
being not more than three on "a wire. and
s25 for each telephone. there being four
or more on the same wire The telephone
is thus made an article Of reasonable cost.
and che company. is prevented from MAX
The times., 1898-03-11
ENIIsrMANTs ARE SLOW.
Experienced Men for the Navy are
Hard to Get.

The Navy Department wants more
men. The enlistments are not coming in
fast enough. Up to s o'clock yesterday
afternoon. the Boston and New York re-
cruiting stations had enlisted no more
than sixteen men for the Minneapolis
and Columbia, and when nearly eight
hundred are needed.
Commander HawIey received orders
this morning TO take trip through the
South and West to enlist seamen and en-
gineers. Its easy enough to get all
the inexperienced men we want. and
more than enough" said Commander
Hawley, of the enlistment department.
What we want and what We don't seem
to be able TO get are experienced sail
ors."
The enlistment of men for the two new
artillery regiments is progressing rather
slowly in the various recruiting stations
in the East Nearly the same difficulty
is being experienced that is retarding
the work of enlistment in the Navy Ex-
perienced men are wanted, and expert
enced men are hard to get.
The times., 1898-03-11
The Maine Report.

1t is matter Of common report and
belief that the substantial part of the
report being prepared by the Maine
Board of Inquiry is in the hands of the
President Indeed. We may say. with
complete confidence, that there is moth
ing vital TO definite conclusion which
he has not had for several days.
The Congress upon his hands" and
the great nation behind it have been
astonishingly patient in waiting for the
returns. In a general way they know
what they are, but they demand the
returns.
Mr.. Mckinley, enthusiastically backed
as he is by people of ali parties, in a
policy presumed to be actuated by
American patriotism, cannot afford to
keep back the truth about Cuba, the
Maine, or anything else, one minute
longer. His fellow-countrymen have al
ways been inclined to trust him, indi-
vidually, while no one that we
ever saw is willing to politically
trust the man who has always con-
trolled him since he became President
Mr.. Mckinley should take judicial no.
tice that he is suspected of lending
himself and his high position to a syn
dicate Of Wall Street and foreign
sharks, whose purpose it is to make the
Cuban patriots pay them for the polit-
ical independence already won by force
and arms.
Let US have the Maine report, Mr.
President! 1t is for Congress and the
people to decide what ought TO be done
after considering it, 1t would be an
assumption, too impudent to discuss.
that Hanna, Olney, McCook and the
rest should be the arbiters of Ameri-
can duty,
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become like the President and Gen.
Grosvenor. Taken for all in all, this
effusion is one of the finest ever pro-
duced by an Ohio man. If there
should be a war, and Gen. Grosvenor
should become excited by hearing the
bang of the fieIdpiece quite frequently,
there is no telling what his Tyre would
do. He had a fairly good chance on
the statistics of the last campaign, but
a real battle, with lists of killed,
wounded and missing, would give him
a chance to do some really hyperbolical
work