J DAILY HERALD: PLA1T8210UTII,
NEBltASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1880.
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u..Cri:r4 toyo.
A I alt tvMilght In thu firelight,
And dream of lh lontf ao,
M lliouxlit fly lxu:k to IxjyhooJ. ,
And my kuii I aglow.
Ob! divonm Hint long tmva ranlAhod,
Oh' aln bihJ IWihi Joy. s
When nrv I he lrN-a I ch'rUi.'
Wbenrarv 1117 broken toy?
If 7 UiLrn Injrw ah! IlnATen.
Bad It my heart recallx
The drrama that one were dearest.
And over in j aoiti lliore fall
A abadow, like mint at evening.
That dmat without sound or nolae.
And ah 11U ma out forever
from dream of ray broken toyil
Tet I dream aa I alt In the firelight;
Of one who wait bright and fair.
With foy IIn and awti-t trray eyea,
And wavy nut brown huir;
But I all alone In the gloaming.
For the anKi'Ui aliare tier Joy.
And there's nuulit but the memory left ma
Of tnj love and my broken toyil
rrrhapa Id the fur off future,
When the weary yeara are done.
And the grave tia i-lowd above me
Kwilh aoine fair eternuJ nun,
I shall aee, and know the reason
Why I mbMed earth'a aweetitt Joys,
And the pitying Cod In Ileaveu
Will mend my broken toy a I
.to. VermUyo Smith.
WHITSUNTIDE.
Whitsuntide has always been con
sidered by t!io Irish as a very fatal and
nnlucky time for tlio people hold that
fairies and evil spirits havelhcn gTeat
power over men nnd cattle, both by sea
mm laud, and work their deadly . spells
v with malign and mysterious efficacy.
Children born at Whitsuntide, it ij paid,
an foredoomed; they will either have
fhe evil eye, or commit a murder, or die
violent death. Water, also. U very
dangerous; no one should bathe, or go a
journey wherea6tream has to be crossed,
or Bail in a boat, for tho risk is great of
being drowned, unless, indeed, a bride
steers, and then tho boat is 6afe from
harm. Clrcat precautions arc necessary,
likewise, .within the hou.se; and no
000 should venture to light a . candle
without making the 6i;;n of the
cross over tho flamo to keep off
vfl; and young men t;hould be very
OMtious not to bo out late at night, for
all tho dead who have In-en drowned in
tho sea round alxmt como up and ride
TeT tho waves on white horses, and hold
strange revels, and try to carry off the
sung men or to kill them with their
pery darts and draw them down under
(ha sea to livo with tho dead forevcr
tuore. A etory is told of a man named
Murrey, who stayed out late lishing one
Whitsuntide, quite forgetting it was the
Bight of tho death ride. Hut at last he
nearcd the shoro and drew up his host to
unload tho lu;h:aiid then make his way
botno with all speed. Just at the mo-
' fuoot. however, he heard a great rush
ot the waves liehind him, and looking
round he saw a crowd of the dead on
their white hordes making over to tho
boat to seize him; and their face3 were
pala as the face of a corpse, but their
eyes burned like lire. And they stretched
out their long skeleton urms to try and
lay hold of him. but he sprang at once
from the !oat to the shore, and then he
knew ho was safe, though one of them
rode over close to him by the edge of the
rocks, and ho knew him as a friend
f his owa, who hnd been drowned
tho year lcfore; and Jflj heard the voice
of the dead man calling to him through
tho rush uf the water, saying: "Hasten
hasten to your home, for tho dead who
ato yvilh m want you for their com
pany, and if once a dead hand touches
you, there is no help, you are lest for
ever. Ilasten, or you will never 6ee
your home again, but bo with tho dead
forever." Then Murrey knew that the
spirit spoke tho truth, and he left the
host and the lish on the beach and tied
flway home, and never looked back at
the dead on their white horses, for his
heart was idled with fear. And never
Again did he go out to fLJi at Whitsun
tide, though the dead waited for him to
seize him, but ho came not, and lived
henceforth safe from harm. At tliis
Hwon, also, the fairy queens make great
efforts to carry off the tine 6talwart
young men of the country to the fairy
palace in the cleft of the hills, or to lure
(horn to their dancing grounds, where
ty are lulled into dreams by the sweet,
auUXa fairy music, and forget homo and
fclih and kindred, and never desiro to
return again to their own people, or even
If the spell - is broken, and they are
brought hack by some strong infatua
tion, yet vbey are never the same; for
erery one! knows by the dream look in
their eyes that they have danced with
tL) Cairiea'on'tho hill, and been loved by
one of the beautiful but fatal race, who,
when thejf take a fancy to a handsome
mortal lover, cast their spells over him
with resistless power.
A case of this kind happened some
years ago in tle county Wexford. Two
brothera.' fine young fellows of the farm
ing classi were returning home one even
ing in Whibniiitido from their dayV,
holiday, when, to their surprise, a3 they
crossed a broad, beautiful Held, lit up by
r-t'irc: "-"tin, thevsaw
a group of girls dancing, and they were
all draped in white, raid their long hair
fell floating over their shoulders. So
lovely was the tight that the young men
could not choose but stop and watch the
dancers; yet, strange to say, they were ail
strangers: not a familiar face wa3 among
them from the whole country round
And as they looked and wondered, one of
tho girls left the dance, and, coining over
' to the younger biother, laid her hand oa
his arm, while she murmured softly in
his ear: "Come, dance with me, Brian.
1 have waited long for you. Come,
comel and she drew him gently away.
Then Brian flung down his slick on the
' ground, and taking her hand, they were
soon whirling away in the dance, the
handsomest pair that ever trod a
measure on the green sod. Long,
long they danced, till the red light
passed away, and the darkness liegan
to cover tho hills, but still they danced
on and on. for Brian heeded nothing
save tho young girl with her luug liair
floating on his shoulder and the lire of
whoso eyes burned into his heart. At
last the elder brother called to him:
i-4JBrianj come home; leave the dance;
tLa 'mother will be waiting for us!"
"Not yet, net yet," answered Brian; "I
must finish this round. Leave mo and
I will follow you." lk the elder brother
left, and he and the mother watched
nnd waited till midnight for Brian's re
turn, but he never came. Then, tho next
morning, the brother went to see aliout
him, searching everywhere, though in
vain. And all that day to sunset and
tho niht bo scaivlud, still no tidings
could be had. N one had seen him in
tho dance, nor the young girls with tho
whitedressesand the floating hair, though
when Jho ncighlmrs heard tho story they
looked very solemn nnd said there was
no help for tho doomed young man. for
the fairy jiower was strong at Whitsun
tide, and no doubt they had carried him
down under the earth to tho fairy palace,
and he would never, never come back to
his home aaiii.
When Whitsuntide came round the
elder brother set out on his search, and
there, sure enough, in the . very same
green field, with tho red sunset stream
ing down, was a group of young girls in
their whito dresses dancing to tho music
of tho fairy pipes; and in the mid.st was
Brian, dancing with his fairy bride, and
her long yellow hair floated over his
thoulder, and her eyes burned into his
liko coal of lire. "Come away, come
away, Brian," cried tho brother; "you
have Ijoen dancing long enough, and the
mother i at home, Fad and sorrowful,
and lonely, waiting for you. Come
away; lie fore tho darkness falls and the
night comes on." yet, not jet,"
answered Brian; I must finish this
dance." And the fairy brido wound her
beautiful white arms round him and
held him fast. So the brother lost heart,
for he feared to enter the circle lest the
enchantment should fall on him; and he
went back home to tell of his failure.
Then the mother roso up, and taking
thecharm which the fairy man had given
her, she hung it round her neck and went
forth to look for the missing son. And
at last she came to the field and saw him
dancing, and dancing like mad with the
witch girl in his arms; and she called to
him: "Como Uick, come back to us,
Brian, darling; come back; it is your
mother calls." But Brian danced on and
on, and never looked at her nor beetled
her. Then, for the sorrow made her
brave, she went over in the very midst of
the fairy dancers with their glittering
eyes, and taking ther.pell from her neck,
she fiung it over Brian, and clasping his
arm laid her head down on his shoulder,
weeping bitterly. Then, all at once, the
demon spell was broken, for a mother's
tears have strange power, and he let her
take his hand and draw Jiim away from
tho magic circle; and tho form of the
fairy bride seemed to nielc into the sun
set, and 'he whole scene passed away
like a mist, the music and tho dancers
with their Jloating hair, and only Brian
and hi3 mother were left in the field.
Then she led him home, but ho spake no
word, only lay doww to sleep, and so for
seven days they watched by him, but
tili'A Ik slept. Then at the end of seven
days he rose up strong and well a3 ever,
and all the past seemed to him only as a
dream. Yet, for fear of tho fairies, his
mother still made him wear the magic
spell round hi.; neck to keep him from
harm, though i:i process of time a still
stronger sjicll was woven round his life,
for he married a fair young girl of the
village before the next Whitsuntide, good
as well as beautiful, mid from that time
the fairie3 and witches had no power
over him, for a pure, true wife is the
best safeguard ngaintt witchcraft and
devils' wiles that a man can take to bis
heart as the ancel of the house. Lady
Wilde in Ball -Mall Gazette.
Writins on Commission.
A publisher told 1110 the other day a
bit of business experience which is mildly
diverting. A young woman brought
him a manuscript which, after duo con
sideration, he expressed himself willing
to publish in pajxr, 50 cents series,
paying the usual 10 per cent, royalty.
The young woman expressed herself
willing to accept this oiler, although she
frankly said that she had hoped for bet
ter terms.
"But." sho added, thoughtfully, "if it
costs much to make the book, I should
not think 2 cents would leave you a
great deal of profit." "Twenty-live
cents?" repeated tho publisher, not at all
understanding.
"Why," explained she, -"'there are five
of us girls who wrote this together. Ten
per cent of 50 cents is 5 cents, and five
times five is twenty-five. If it takes a
quarter of a dollar to pay us girls our
royalty, that leaves you just the same
amount."
The naivete of the proposition so
amused the publisher that he declares he
was tempted to leave the error unex
plained. He said, however: "But, of
coarse, you can see" that we shall not lose
io much as we should if there had been
ten of you. for then we should have to
make the liook for nothing and lose the
Iwoksellers' discount beside. lieally.
1 though, I fear you will be obliged to do
I with a cent apiece." And his proposition
was rejected with indignat or., the amus
ing part of the story being ihat the lady
who conducted the negotiations declared
that if there were only one author, 10 per
cent, would do very well, but that any
body could see that it would not amount
to anything divided among five people.
Book Buyer.
Tlie Money Order Fysteni.
It Li juit fifty years since the jiostal
money order system was introduced in
Hag-kind. Brior to that time a similar
device had been operated by private
capital, but in 1S3S the government took
chaige of the business. The rates have
been gradually reduced from lime :
! lime, until now they are fixed at the
i v;ry lowest ligure it:ssible. 1 luring the
i part year the amount of money trans
I :; nfift nfMi T1h"j i.I im
UHilCU . t0 W ...... -aMa
of tending money, which has bet 11 copied
Li this country, is alsolutely the safest
Uiethod known. 6an Francisco Chron
icle. The crratest mean heights a::d depths
ft continents and ocean are found in the
northern hemisphere between CO dogs,
and 40degs., and in the southern be
tween 10 dogs, and 30 degs.
. LITTLE FIDDLEliS.
A PEEP AT A MERRY SCHOOL OF
YOUTHFUL VIOLINISTS.
I.iUcv Concert of Katydid Wlien the Two
Hundred Children Uraw Their llowa.
Htidilius Virtuoso T!n- t'.ie l irat Le
kon A Kind 1'rofri.aor.
Fancy 200 littlo' fiddlers all fiddling
away at once! Fancy tho noise! Fancy
the fun I It is liko a concert of katydids
to hear them, and like 6tirring up a shoal
of sand fiddlers to see them running up
and down the steep stairs to and fro from
their lessons. Moreover, it is like trying
to catch an old granddaddy sand fiddler
to catch ono of these little j-oungsters
and ask him how he learned to fiddle
and wlien and where. Saturday after
noon is tho time to see these baby virtu
osos in their glory. From east, from
west, from Harlem and llobokcn they
como skipping along by twos, by threes,
with hiaids In attendance, to worship at
the shrine of tho violin. Professor Wat
son, of Fourteenth street, is master of
this marvelous school, and he draws no
lines regarding sex, age or previous con
dition. Bich and poor alike come and
are treated to the same free instruction.
rirriLS of all kinds.
"You would lie astonished," ho said,
as tho unique entertainment drew to a
close, "to knowsome of tho names that
are among the two thousand we have on
our liooks already. No one, no mutter
how rich ho may bo, cares to throw away
money on finding out simply whether a
child's fancy is a natural taste or a whim.
So people who know of the school send
their boys and girls to mc. 1 can soon
find out if tno child has any cleverness,
and I immediately notify them. If the
Ixjy of rich parents likes his violin, hey
naturally buy him a good instrument and
engage a teacher. Other children come
and go, moro as their own fancy dictates,
but they usually have some one, an older
sister, or an aunt or a grandmother, who
takes pride in their little fiddlings and
soon buys for them a violin of their own,
which they can take home and practice
on to their hearts' content. In that way
I get a partial recompense for my time
and trouble, and at the same time I have
the satisfaction of knowing that I have
been able to keep some children's minds
away from worse things during their
first few years."
It was 2 o'clock when the youngsters
began to arrive. Some fly down the
street as if they moved on 6teel springs,
grinning happy little grins of satisfaction
as they pound on sturdy legs up to the
rooms above. Others, coming for the
first time, wander open mouthed along
tho street, asking now a hand orin
man, and now a policeman, if they kn w
"where tho music man's place is.' Un! ss
they know Professor Watson's name they
are apt to have some trouble in finding
him, for Fourteenth street is full of
"music men." At last they seo some
other littlo boy with a fiddle and their
troubles are all over.
Once upstairs, their real troubles are
usually over, but the poor, unhappy kids
do not seem to think so, A little twist
catches their tongues as they start up
stairs, and by tho time they have reached
the office a double bow knot could not tie
them any tighter. Tho professor's
daughter takes them in hand first and,
after their unruly little members get
limbered up a bit, finds out all about each
now pupil. Then she passes them along
to the next room, where they make their
professional bow to one of tho teachers,
to say nothing of their first violin. They
stand around in helpless rows until the
busy professor comes flying along, then
ono by one are stood out in the middle of
tho floor, their knees joggling beneath
them, and 6et to work.
TUS FIRST LESSON,
"Feet so!" says the professor, his right
heel in the hollow of his left foot.
Invariably the left heel drags itself up
to the right foot.
"Brrrl" says the professor. "You
would tip "over on your noso if you tried
to staud so! Now the violin under your
chin, so that your cheek just rests on it
to keep it steady. Hands off tho strings,
but holding tho case, so! Elbow down.
Bow Li your right hand. Oh, no, never,
my boy. Tliat's a good way to hold a
saw, but it's a bad way to hold a violin
bow. There, look you. Thumb so!
First and second fingers so last two fin
gers so."
Very clumsy the pudgy littlo fingers
aro to begin with, but in a few minutes
when the violin fright is worn o!7 the
fingers begin to limber up, and in a sur
prisingly short timo these babies are
sawing away as natural as life.
in far less tune than it would take a
greater mind these youngsters know each
string as well as they know their own
names, better in fact, than they knew
them when they faced Miss Watson in
tho ofik-e. Then they are crazy for a
tune. Before any ono could believe it
possible their shrewd littlo wits have
conquered the mysteries of the staff and
the notes, and they are sawing away at
e, a, d. g, d. a. e, with all the gusto of
artists. The next step is to twist the
little fingere so they can slide up and
down the strings and pinch them down
at the proper jioiuts, and as soon as that
is done there lK'j;m to grow variations of
tho first wonderful theme.
To an outsider tho hour on a busy
Saturday afternoon la a wonderful 6ight.
The mental dexterity with wluch the
clever professor bandies his small schol
ars, his patience, and the interest whicL
ho takes in the poorest and least clever
of these little free pupils, is something to
bo admired. Irofessor Watson was the
famous Ole Bull's manager, and when
he finds a child whose heart goes out
into the old iiddie that snuggles up under
his chin he takes him aliout through the
rooms and tells stories of the great mas
ter, and shows him tho pictures and
relics that hang about the wall, the
watch which was his gift and, choicest
treasures of all, his violins. New York
World. -
For chapped or cracked hands use a
tea of witch hazel. It is also good for
cankered mouth or throat, with golden
teal and white sugar added.
One a Tramp, Yhca Corernor.
Your correspondent, while passing up
Pennsylvania avenue with a bureau offi
cer, passed a man named Wilkinson,
who was recently turned out of tho office
of the comptroller of tho currency on ac
count of '.'offensive nartisanship.w The
bureau officer, after passing Wilkinson,
turned to me and said:
"You recognize that man? Yes; well,
there was an incident iii tho early jiart
of his life urtdch connects him iu u way
with one of the most prominent Demo
crats in Ohio. A good many years ago
Wilkinson was moving into a house at
Springfield, now one of the most pros
perous manufacturing towns in the cen
tral part of the Buckeyo state. While
his goods were being put into tho house,
and those belonging to tho outgoing
tenant were being put on a wagon, a
seedy looking tramp came up and in
quired if he could get something to eat,
olfering to assist in the work if he was
accommodated. The outgoing tenant
referred tho tramp to the incoming ten
ant, and the latter took the wanderer
into the house and gave him a dinner.
There was not much attention paid to
that tramp, and for years those who saw
him on that day lost sight of him.
Finally ho reapieared, however, entered
into the business of the place and began
to grow, lie grew in every sphere of
life. He became wealthy and influential.
A few years ago ho was governor, and
now ho has .more property and money
than any man in his secti m of lliv t;ute.
It is not necessary for mo to mention his
name. He lives at Springfield yet and is
a very rich man. His name is a house
hold word throughout Ohio." Washing
ton Cor. New York Press.
The Spirit of America.
The American love of bombast has
made way for the American love of
"smartness." Fourth of July firecrackers
have outlived tho pyrotechnics of Fourth
of July orations. Wo still praise om
selves freely, as our ancestors did, but
we do so with Jess "fuss and feathers."
At the bar a similar chango may bo ob
served. It is harder than it used to be
to "enthuse" juries to borrow a word
which, like "hifalutin," seems to imply
that what was once sublime has become
ridiculous. Lawyers talk to twelve men
instead of "addressing the panel." Rufus
Choate, were he to come to life again,
would find it difficult to wiq such cases
as he did win, unless he kept his imagi
nation in a leash, shortened and simpli
fied his periods and made his delivery
more conversational. Even in orations
011 memorial days, or at college festivals,
colloquial English is heard; and the
essays spoken at college commencements
are ceasing to be "mere emptiness." In
the northern, and especially the north
western states, the taste for colloquial,
rather than, pratorical English is, foi
obvious reasons, stronger than in the
south and extreme west; but it is show
ing itself in all parts of tho country. It
is a taste that should be encouraged by
all who prefer the simple to tho ornate,
the natural to the artificial, the sensible
to tho sonorous. Harper's Magazine.
The Antipyrin Habit,
The new coal tar product antipyrin has
already started a vice of its own. ThL
singular compound was discovered by t
German chemist, and on account of it.
remarkable qualities is now used tin
world over. It has the power of reduc
ing the temperature of tho body b;
several degrees, and so is of vast utility
in treating fevers and feverish stages o.
many diseases. It does its work by de
pressing tho action of the heart, anci
generally when employed by physician:
it is accompanied with digitalis to neu
tralize its influence in the latter regard.
Women use it partly because it is a seda
tive and partly because it makes the com
plexion beautifully clear and pale by
keeping tho blood away from the sur
face of the body. The habit, like ah
others, grows upon the person who prac
tices it. It does harm, however, from
tho first. With women who are weak i;
increases their weakness; with those hav
ing a predisposition towards heart dis
ease of any sort it increases tho tend
ency to a terrible extent. Besides these
results antipyrin exerts a peculiar in
fluence upon tho blood, which is not yet
thoroughly understood by tho faculty.
It seems to undergo some decomposition
or breaking down wh n absorbed by the
system.developing unknown compounds,
which either attack the blood itself or
else powerfully influence the nerves and
ganglia, which control the vital func
tions. Richmond Pespatch.
Tho Juoge Had the Call.
I heard a good story about the late
Judge Grosvcnor, of Dunkirk, who was
the local attorney for the Dunkirk and
Warren railroad, and at one time had a
cow killed by a locomotive of the road.
He presented a claim of 25 to the proier
officer cf tho road, who, following the
ordinary custom, had it referred to the
judge, as attorney, to give an opinion as
to the liability of the road. The judge
had tho facts set forth and wrote an
elaborate opinion, holding that the road
was not liable in the case, as the killing
of the cow occurred by reason of the
plaintifFs negligence, and cited numer
ous authorities to sustain his position.
The claim was consequently disallowed,
but the judge's bill of 50 for an opinion
"in the case of Grcsveuor against the
Dunkirk and Warren railroad" was pre
sented to the proper authorities, and in
duo time he received a check for that
amount. Albany Argus.
Fish Commission Experiments.
Marshall McDonald, United States fish
commissioner, is making a comprehen
sive experiment in 6alt and fresh water
aquariums. He has already constructed
several aquariums on the lower lloor of
the building, and stocked them; and he
is now building a large one, 120 feet long,
under a separate roof. The commissioner
said to the correspondent, "1 am going to
bring the seashore to Washington, and
assemble here a full representation of
our marine life. He lias sixty or seventy
species already sporting in salt and fresh
water tanks, one of tho latter containing
specimens of the earliest type of fresh
water fish the ganoids. Science,
The motto, "What i Home without a Mother," exists in many
happy homes in this city, but the eflect of what is home without the
Local Newspaper is sadly realized in many of these "happy homes" in
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Plattsmouth.
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readers "up to the times" in all matters of importance at home and
abroad.
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