HERALD : PLATTSMOUTH. NEBSUAKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, ls80. r r- - rAiul with my dre. f Am Id A breath of wpl&mJrXIUli Out of the Orient, Betraying whence It comes. Unto a land remote To flU Ita rich bazaars Sails tuU Arabian boat Amid the island stars. Ami In yon harbor calm """ Of Heaven's ocean blue. Empties ber freight of palm Tho twilight's sllrer dew I i"rauk Sherman In American Mag&zlno. WANTED TO MARRY. On a wild mountain road between the Yadkua river and Salisbury, N. C, I came ujKm a bumble cabin in which resided tho Widow Watklns and her three chil dren, the oldest being a boy of 15 and the youngest a girl of 5. I had heard of the widow while ten miles away. Her hus band was a justice of the peace and something of a religious exporter, and what be didn't know about the history of America wasn't worth looking up. His mala ran away with him one day, and f'll into n ravine and both were killed. I lie widow, us one of the natives ex- ;' ssed it, was "the well llxcdcst woman tuiir counties," having a small farm all and considerable iersonal projierty. ':Jf a. mile from tlie house I met Vr-mLih, the boy spoken of. lie was I iv! icaded, barefooted, coatless, vest hss, and so freckled that it was liard to nay what his natural complexion was. He rose up off a rock as I approached, mado an awkward bow and said: '(-'ribLins, stranger." "Cribbins to you, my boy. And who mav you by "Jerry Watkins." '!?on of the widow, eh?" "Vaas. De you'n he 'un? "Yes." "I rom tho no'th." 'Yes." "( 'otne to see ma?" 'V : I'll btop for dinner." "(;k.d on't. Gwino to hev' chicken, lln Font me out to meet you 'un." "Many thanks to both of you." ".Say!" ho continued as he trotted along beside me, "I like von 'un; you 'un wears white shirts and clothes, and I'll jicrger (lt) you "un know roots from tree tops, Hev you 'un cum to marry mar" I laughed, and ho was much put out fur a moment. Then he said: "V.'ish you 'un would. Then I could hev a pun. If you un will I'll mind everything you say." I Vrhaps your mother doesn't want to marry again.1 - "rings! She'd marry you 'un like liht::i;i:r. Say! If you 'un has her you 'un v. id ""git me a gun, won't you? Say! 1 taw a I far yesterday. Say! I know whar 1 could rhoot a powerful lot o' coons. Say! i ll sjeak to ma fur ye if you "un will promise tho gun." 1 he widow was at the door to give me welcome. The second child, who was a 10-year-old girl, was barefooted and freckled and " towheaded, and. the youn ger one had on only a single garment and was rolling in the dirt. Cum right in an t-quat," said the widow as wo t-hook hands. "Pete McCoy was saving lu.t night that you was heudd this way and would stop. Ar ye thiritaM- ? May, jostle him over a glass of buttermilk. We'll cribbins (eat) in about n;i hour." We t: l:;-d about the weather, the state of tho ro.i'ls, etc., as she bustled around to get dinner, but pretty soon Jerry went out of doors and called: "Ma-jina! Cum outer yere!" "Jerry, vou shet!" replied the mother. "'!.;! "will you un marry he unr con tinned Jerry. '.N.r.v, Jerry, if yer don't stop yer guz Ei:n 11! skin "3-cr 'alive!" she exclaimed, t I:o i-toixl in tho door and flourished a bki-Iet at him- J . iiy made o!T and 6at down on a log, nnd t li" - viJow turnetl to me to explain: i,'i't juy no seriousness to ho 'un, sir. Jn rv wants a new jKp right bad, j mi 1 1 d.'say that I'm dun tired of this jvrv rti:'"::l.ng alone, but I'm not t . (7cr myself to anybody." .la t btf'W dinner the oldest girl made fru ft .:t n..-i v. i.'.i m materially assisted by -:i:dy, and bhe suddenly bawled t;i:: gv. in? to taarry him?" .-. .'M:i I" ridded the mother. h wr would!" added tho young . v. :A ! v t iie name of Nancy. .-. :.'r.neyl While I do go fur to i ?! i ; i!:J smartest looking stranger e. f. v- rv I v- r tLir.i I I:o tlec:. r. k.-d n:c-r.i!. cr:u! l i v r a war. meube lie un uon i l ivr.: year, r :c ' .. of r.i." t: ;!:ling shy of the main qnes ; rvl !- ;:;:d"by o 6at down to r. ''ii blessing had been scarcely ..i.t :i Jerry, who had made a tre : l'.'vI "to wash his face and t.i . l.idr, iuvked up at his mo the? I-. .! i !.. r-.yl 'un asked vou yit?" fho chide!. 'J i- n't he 'un want yer?" 1 nt I want a new pap and I .... T .1 J.l .:i ..i'iJ uviuuiiuvu. ious him," she said to mo, as sh I,.-.. (I ::u- to the leg of a cnicten. vv i 1 ro lur to ueciare tuai i have :jvt:.tv-ux acres of land, three inev.iJ. r cow, t!drtv-two hogs, four stacks of hev and in cash, I've alius ForK r di :;groed .vith second marriages, Thcv ir.av:i't te happy." Your husland was a good man, I ve hearth" I replied. Yes. A pumpkin is good good null fur a pumpkin, lie knowed considera ble ord thar' was considerable he never knoweJ. He was all gcodnes3--top muc'i of it. Never made a hundred dol lars in his life." . You must liavo been quite a business wcrr.r.n to have got along so well." "You jigger! I kin turn a dollar as well as the best ff tin. While I will go fur to sav second marriages are not alius hz?Vj. the mi) who gits me don't git no siUer nor complainer. ' 1 managed to turn tho subject for awhile, but as soon as dinner was over Jerrv tuo las mother into the other room for a consultation, and Molly came and Fat down beside me and asked: "Do you un like ma?" "Oh, yes." "And 6ho Hikes you. Wish you was my pap- ilebbe you will be by to morrer." . , I went out and 6at down under a tree to smoke a t i.;ur, and pretty soon Jerry came out. lie had a businecs look all over Ids l.ice as be said: "I've a-cd ma if she would her ve," "Have vou? You are real kind,' "An i t""? tays she wilL" "Indeed!" Ta Jvien shall IcitiW . - - "Say, Jerry, did you' ever have a dol lar all at oncer" I asked, "Lor no nor two bits!" - "If I'll give you a big silver dollar will you let in on tliegun until I come again' "Willi? I loop snakes and bad light ers, but I will!" I gave him tho dollar and he dashed through tho house to show it to his sis ters, and then started on a run for a neighbor's I wo miles away. When I re turned to tho house and said 1 must be going I was met by such an uvalanche of protests that I had to agree to 6tay until next day. That night I "sat up" with the Widow Watkijis. I got aroind to it after awhile to state that I was living with my third, and had three set3 of children numbering five in a set, and that I couldn't possibly see how I could make her my wife. I was very, sorry, but helpless, and I hoped the would let me send her a new gingham dress from Salisbury. "That s honest and straight," bhe said in reply. "While I will go fur to say I like yer looks, and I lulieve we could live happily together, if ye can't marry, why, yo can't. Ye woulJ if ye could, wouldn't ye?" "Quickcr'n scat!" "Tliat's next to it, and I'll go fur to say that I'll wait live years on ye an J see how things turn. Mebbo I'll wait six, but I'll say five fur sartin. I'd as Uef be a fourth as a second wife." And bhe is waiting, while Jerry writes that "guns hev got so cheapless'that ho kin git one fur 3. M. Quad in Detroit Free Press. ! Sun Spots AfiVrt the ir-at Luk? During the sun spot maximum of 4-5-0 the great lakes were at very high levels. Ontario's waters were so high as to submerge dcK-ks at Irondcquoit bay. During tho present sun sjHjt minimum the lake is low. This year the lake is two feet lower than it was last year. Capt. I'alfrey, of the United States en gineers, made a statement of the present low condition of tho Jake before tho chamber of commerce Monday evening. The Democrat and Chronicie called at tention to tho high water in connection with maximum sun Fpots during tho maximum. During the hkdi water lake storms were very destructive. Their force was increased by the solar activity and tho waves reached further, eating into the hind's of the south shore, causing serious damage to property nt many oints. Several buildings wero under mined at Sea Dreezo and tho tracks of tho Iiome, Waterlown and Ogdensburg railway wero encroached upon for a long distance west of Sea Dreezo. A gentleman residing in Terry states that Silver Lake is now so low astocauso serious alarm. The outlet has dried up, and tho surplus waters are discharged by evaporation alone. Silver Iiko follows the general rule of a periodicity in high and low water. corresionding with the sun spot maximum and minimum. Rochester Democrat. The Ilomajice of a Cub. A lino of street cabs has been estab lished iii Trenton, and already one of them has developed a pretty romance. The other evening a merchant, tired out after a hard day's jaunt in New York, walked up the incline at tho Clinton street station and got into oneof the new cabs. As he entered ho saw that a lady had taken a scat, and would evidently be a fellow traveler down town. lie" po litely raised his hat, and the vehicle dashed down Clinton avenue to State street. As they turned the corner on tho way to the center of tho city the electric light flashed into the dark littlo compartment, and in a moment two eyes wero fixed on two others on the oposito side of the cab. The eyes had not met for many a month, and one pair belonged to a hus band and another to his wife. Hie pair had parted, as many people part, over a slight dilEculty, and the unthought of meeting was tho means of mating happy a home which had been dreary for many a day. At first neither spoke; then a hard was extended and grasped, and as the cab crossed the canal bridge the equilibrium of the vehicle was lost, for both sat together, and they alighted to gether. Trenton (N. J.) Times. Autumn Leaves and Ferns. Sparingly introduced, autumn leaves ha.c a lovely decorative use which is all thi '.r own. Too many of them in an apr.rf.aient vulgarize it and spoil each oth. r, besides gathering dust un J hold ing it. A few leaves or vines, perfectly prcsed and daintily disposed, are very charming with their whisper of outdoor bnvze and 6unsldne. No better way of pressing either ferns or autumn leaves has been discovered thru the simple device of laying them sm'ithly, as soon after getting them as K-A'olel between tho leaves, pf an oid k. or between newspapers. A heavy weijht should bo laid on them, and the pa ors should bo changed every three or four days. v.nen tnorougiiiy pressed, savs an ithorltyon the subject, "they should ' 77i"ed over, using lor tho purpose a an i p:- ce of soft cloth, with a mixture con bL ting of three ounces of spirU3 of tur pr atine, two ounces of boiled linseed oil, ti: 1 half an ounce of white varnish. Ironing, either with or without melted wax. changes tho eoler and makes them vcrv brittle." Scottish World. "For My Sake." These three little words are the touch stone of love. Tho application of this touchstone begins with infancy and ends only with tho end of life. If that laby in bis mother's arms could 6peak intelli gently it would 6ay: "It is for my sake tliat a mother's evo watches unsleeping through the midnight hours, and her arras hold mo until they are ready to dra;i off for weariness." "For my sake" ex 7 a successful man acknowledges gra'cfully that his parents toiled and economized in order to buy books and pay college bills. "For my sake" pro vides tho sheltering roof and the arm chair for dear old grandma st the fire fci i. Take those words out of our lan guage and you would rob homo of its sweetness end human life of some of its noLIest aspirations. Exchange. Tom White is a colored porter for a ilacon (Ga.) firm. He has never been oa a railroad train, and he had the idea that you got on and immediately found yourself at your destination. lie was sent to Sandersville the other night and got off at the first station, where lie was soon informed tliat he was twelve miles from Macon raid about thirty from San dersville. He walked back, arriving homo at 3 o'clock in the morning. " lie swears that he will never ride on a rail way train again. Tall men live longer than short ones. AN AFRICAN KING. AT ONE TIME NOV A A MONARCH, HE 'LONGSHOREMAN. ' 13 CaiU FurreJl Tells tlie Story In the I'res enee of tho Kins He Ate tlie Furs uutl loiiuue of a MiHHionary Iirouglit to Tliln Country as a Slave In 1S57. The party boarded the Lord of the Isles and wero soon discussing some good Santa Cruz in tho cabin of Capt. I' a n ew. - "I was midshipman in tho F.nglish navy," said the captain, "serving on board her majesty's good fehip Scorpion thirty years ago, when slavery was still an institution of this country. The Scorpion was dispatched from the Med iterranean to join tho Atlantic squadron in tho Uight of Denin, and had orders to put down the slave trade, then unusually active, lie-fore wo had leen three mouths on tho coast wo cantured half a dozen dhows. Wo wero informed by a mis sionary that there was a camp or depot noont a mile inland, wlicre blaves and ivory wero exchanged for ruiu ami money, and as our instructions were to extirpalo tho evil wherever it was to be found, 500 marines and blue h.ckets of tho squadron wero marched to attack tiiisuciot. llio resistance wo encoun tered was merely nominal, and I believe our small force could have taken all Central Africa.. "Now it happened that Carambo IV king or bultan of western Foulah, had died a few days before the attack, and bis son (permit mo to introduce to your majesty a reporter of The New York .-itar; Jiis son, i say, succeeded him as Carambo V." Carambo smiled in a melancholy sort of way at this recital, and tears came into his eves, width ho turned away Ids head to conceal. "Tako another drop of Santa Cruz, Caramlio," suggested tho captain. The king complied, and tho captain con tinued his story. the icrca in battle. 'Intelligence of tho breaking up of camp, and of the consequent stoppage of supplies i:i cash, rum and muskets, reached Carambo by carriers early next morning, ami burning with ardor to have revenge, and signalize tho begin ning of bis reign with a victory, he marched an army down to tho coast, which reached our camp four days I iter, and promptly began an assault. To do his majesty nothing but justice, stripling as he then was. ho led his savago legions like a hero, and though his warriors fell thick and fast around him, he jumped, spear and buckler in hand, right intoour line of rifle pits with his weird war cry of Amoo! hai! hai! hail fchai! AmoQ!' lie was wounded on tho right temple with a sv.oid. and captured after a des perate struggle, while those of his party who did not disperse were also taken prisoner's. It was an ugly gash you got, Carambo?" "Y'cs, Massa Farr'!," said Carambo, turning the right side of his face toward the narrator, and showing a 6car stretch ing from tho outward corner of tho eye down to the jawbone. The mark was barely perceptible, but it was there, and no mistake. ".Before Carambo left his capital for the attack," the captain continued, "he had ordered the roasting and eating of a Portuguese missionary priest. Did you eat any of him, Carambo?" "Yes," answered the king, simply, "I ate his ears and ids tongue." MYes, I remember. It was for this that, while wo released his subjects after a day or two, we took the monarch him self prisoner to tho Island of Ascension. o also learned that ho had sacrificed fifty of the late king's wives on his tomb. and was about as sanguinary a touds man generally as might be picked up in Central Africa." "I was tho Napoleon," spoke up Ca rambo, proudly, as he gulped down an other snifter of Santa Cruz. CIIECKINO A ROYAL CAREER. "Possibly. I visited the island two months after, and found Carambo hand and glove with the royal marines who garrisoned tho place. lie had learned to smoke, and drank all the rum he could get with great gusto, lie wore a pair of long Wellington boots and a grenadier's big shako, which were all he did wear, and enough, too, in that hot climate. Tho shako was distorted into the 6hape of a crown, and with this on his royal cranium he stalked about the island, and accepted tho title of king with infinite grr.ee. 1 saw him dozens of times after tlu's when calling in for coal and water, and found him growing so demoralized that I wrote to tlie admiral, who, in turn, represented his case to tho government, with tho result that ho was released and sent heme, on swearing allegiance to Quern Victoria. That was the last of Iuei I saw until I met liim on tho wharf uair an nourcgo, running a cotton truck. Perliaps Carambo can tell us how he came here," This Carambo did in very bad, but stiil Intelligible, English. It appears that in his absence his sub jects choso another king, who marched poor Carambo down to the coast with 1,500 others and sold him to American 6lavers. Ho was again sold for 1,200 at auction in Richmond in 18o7 to a planter, who treated him kindly. Lie was among those arrested by Gen. Butler as contra band of war in 1S&2, and of course made free by President Lincoln's proclamation. For tho rest, he came north after the war, -worked in various capacities, but being a man of great strength lie finally decided to -work along shore until he could make money enough to run a kal somining establishment. "But your name is not Carambo now?" queried tho reporter. "ily name is always Carambo," an swered his -Foulan majestv with dignity, "but they call me John Howard, and I live at 4 J Lligh street." "Here," said the captain, philosoph ically, you have a king in your midst, and yet you do almost royal homage to every lord or soi-distant lord that comes along. It is very singular." New York. Star. Charles II. Ball, of New York city, owns a monkey which is attracting con siderable attention. Tho animal is 5 years old and weighs 6ix pounds. All of his joints are double. Among the many accomplishments of tho monkey is his ability to tak. Not only can ho say "papa," "mamma" and "cuckoo" as well as any parrot, but he will, when hungry, say, "Jack wants his grub." At Dijon a convict under n sentence of twenty years' penal servitude was per mitted to leave his prison and marry his sweetheart. He returned to prison after tho ceremony, and in two years' time his wifo will be ablo to join him in New Caledonia. SOCIAL CRUCIFIXION. ITunbititlw Who Co Into Sorlrty and Ar Mnde Miserable Thereby. Tlie subject of going into society to get her is one of- e ndless discussion le tween men and their wives; these favor ing, pressing, insisting on it; those op- lK'sing, l Women ndiculing, protesting against it. often carry their iniint bv de claring that if their husbands will not go out they will not, either. A just or gen erous man f.i averse to keeping bis wife at homo simply because ho considers soc ial entertainments of any and every kind stupid and disagreeable, lie knows that she delights in them, and that for her to relinquish them is a ositivo sac- niice. l here is no more reason why 6he tthould stay away than why he should go; a. id, therefore, he goes, but goes reluc tantly, with ill will, and, as it were, by compulsion. It may seem singular that she should iHTinit him to, knowing as she does how baleful the thing i;. It seems downright sehis'i in her and women arc rarely seliish but she believes that sho cannot ali'ord to release him: that her frequent ing Koeiety without him is the beginning of their separation, of their leading dis tinct lives, of their steady divergence. Her Ik lief may not Ie correct, but it is i ii'.n i-e. Hem e is i he r.ot warranted in mi i'.itaiiiing her position to the last? At j!T;y rate, sho maintains it, though not without great cost, greater often than she rrnli.es. ller husband resents more j'.iul more his dragooning into society, lie never puts on his dress suit, or orders the ear; iage for that purpose, without a feeling of inward bitterness of his wife's exaeiingnes! of M-'-:r.i.::,i.-'n 1-j a wrong; and the leelmg finally produces habitual His wife cussausj action and cynicism, is unconsciously briiiginir about what sho is trying to avoid settled dis content with her and tho conjugal con dition. It wero bettor she should let him obey his propensity than thwart it thus; for alienation would be slower with free dom than with fetters. What a deal of mischief is society, fri volous, hollow, insignificant society, cap able of doing! The dragooned husband feels that ho is a social impostor; that he abuses hospitality by partaking of it b1 t- ilain or bo entertained. . io is bored to ueaui, aiiunis coim-llant.08hows it- jIe y aw ns, oeniuci ,ian j or handkerchief, and lor tho moment fairly despises his wife, noticing across the room her animated manner and obvious gratification. His looii and air and gait aro funereal. If no were burying a friend ho would, he lanc-ics, icci moro cheerful. Stealing into a corner, ever and anon, to glance iui uveiy at ms watch, lie thinks tliat it must have stopped. Has there ever be fore been so long an evening? His wife indicates that the is about to leave; but ho knows what that means, and resigns himself to another leaden-footed hour. Evcrythine: must have an end: finnllir she departs, and his face for the mo ment is flushed with nleasure. imniA- diately dispelled by the remembrance tliat there aro to be five evenino-s morn of similar boredom within tho cominar week, lie dreams of what ho has under gone and must undergo hi tho torture chambers of society; his sleep is broken and feverish; ho rises in the morning despondent and irritable. His wife may dimly suspect tho cause; but sho lacks the intelligence, perhaps the magna nimity, to re 1 iev him of his onerous obli gation. In tho end he will be verv hkelv to throw it olf, and it will be accom panied by no little of his old affection and sympathy. the women are few who would make good ilieir declaration of surrender ing society it their husbands should flatly refuse to escort them. Thev think they would, and for a while they might abstain; but the enticement is too great to De long resisted. irst, they will go out alone occasionally; then frequently; nt last regularly. Women who have dragooned their lieges for several seasons, and then acquitted them, may run the risk of losing tho early placo occupied in their hearts (.is not such loss mutual and unavoidable, with most couples, in any I circumstances?); but they get onfarmort; comfortably. Men love freedom above evertiiing; and when they havo it they are more amiab'eand patient than when it is in any way curtailed. Husbands who have been exceedingly disagreeable at home, so long as tli ey havo felt constrained to dischargo social duties in their own per sons, havo behaved quite decently after turning over those duties entirely to their partners. The average woman gets rid of her romance and sentiment by five or six years of connubial experience (the first year will answer for the average innn), and prefers domestic peace and toleration to the cherisliment of the lof tiest ideals. Junius Henri Browne in Chicago America. A Small Economist. A littlo lioy whoso parents were al ways discussing waj'S and means in his presence was constantly reminded of the expense of everything until tho early lessons of domestic econ omy wero tuck deep in his soul. When ho was 3 years old some friend3 visited the family, having with them a year old baby. This was such a fund of delight that 1 ho small bov's parents re- marseu mat tney should line such a baby in their own household, and they looked at Inm to see how he would take the suggestion. What was their sur prise when ho answered gravely: "You know you couldn't afford it!' Detrcit Free Tress. Endurance of tho Apacbcs. A white man tires after covering a march of twenty miles on a dead level Erairie. An Apache would make at least fty miles in the same time over rough, rocky mountain piles, and not feel half so much fatigue as the soldier would in making Ids score of miles. Cavalry can not work in such a ccunti y, and white men cannot compete -with natives in their own stronghold. PluUadelphia Record. Tlie Quail a Iropliet. Tho quail has the gift of prophecy. In some parts of Tyrol tho number of his calls is behoved to denote the prico of com, each call signifying a gulden. In other parts, if he calls six times, the year will bo a bad one; if eight times, it will be tolerably prosperous; but should he cell tea times or beyond that number, everything will flourish. Audubon Mag azine. Skeptical, but Curious. Husband I liad my fortune told today. "Wife You don't believe in that sort of thing, do you? H; No. . V". Nor I. It is all foolishness, the worst of foclisluiess. H. So I think. "VV, (after a pause) That did she tell you, John? Eoston Courier. i word to t lie The motto, ""What is J Ionic happy homes in this city, but tho Local .Newspaper i wtdly realized Plattsmouth. Is sleadilv finding its way comes to stav. It ma leaders "up to the times" in all abroad. During the THE Every available means will be used to make the columns of The IIeicalu a perfect storehouse from which you can obtain all in formation, and will keep np its record as being the best Advertising Medium for all purposes. A' This paper is within the reach of dress in the city or sent by mail. T CENiS mi Is the Best County Newspaper in old Cass, and this has boen lur tli maiiv now Vll I'iVT'vll l.J UC niv j 1888. Special merits for the Wkf.ki.v, are all the county news, six columns of good Republican Editorial, News Accounts of all import ant political or business events, one-half page each week containing a choice piece ot Vocal or Listrumentftl Music, choice selections of Miscellaneous Reading Matter. Advertising in it brings profitable returns. Our Is equal to any, and does work to the satisfaction of patrons from all over the county, and receives orders by mail from a distance, which are promptly filled. We have work, from the plain calling card to colored work, books and blank Work neatly and promptly executed. Large stock kept on hand Lejral blank; fur sale. Office Cor. Vine and r without a Motlier," exists in many effect of what is homo without tho in many of these ''happy homes" in HE TEA LB into these homes, and it always c;re, more cheerful and keeps its matters ol importance at home ana Year 1889 PER all, and will be delivered to any ad mmips added to our list duriniT facilities for doing all kirn of 5th, Telephone 38. WEEK Department IriSon