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KLY llEHALl): I'LArfSMOUril.yKKUASKA, JaXUaUY 5, 1892. LANGUAGE IS SWEET. EXPRESSION BY THE TONGUE IS NECESSARY TO HAPP1NCS3. I.iro Would lit' Mighty Di'tnliite Without fcwrrt WimU Miirli Iore Itruiitiful . Cuiilil V .H ike Thin ! itimo if Wo Took Mnr I'lidi In TalUIni;. How vr,iM you enjoy lif wiih wet vonls left mt? My littlest one runs t ino anil with both nnns ubout my luck pull nil- down to kiss uu, ainl wliisjicrs us if it wcrH u now secret: "Papa, I love yon. Oil, liow I ju.st do love, lovo yon!" What u nest it irf to bo palled about so when one Ls busy! How it ilblocates ono'a collar nnl one's thoughts! Hut what would you lake for snch prattle? Jlow would yon lika it checked, and in ttead of Mich Hiiontancity bo compelled to imaxinoyou uro loved? Dear mo, old man, but why no fussy? Do you not know you sro loved? Do not actions tpenk louder than words? Does not your wife cook your meuls, uud does not your Kil l put your room in order? Must you also bo mussed over and gabbled to in order to be Bati: Tied? Then conies my oldest boy, a grand fellow, Btout and wholesome and brainy, nnd beforo I am aware his Hnn is ubotit my neck, and he pulls my head over on liia shoulder with a kiss and a 'Tapa, you are awful dear to me." Pshaw, what is Ibero in words? A few sounds noth ing t lsc! I am not ko certain about that. I only know that I would not take a mint of money for that small bouquet of my boy's words. No, not for the world would 1 have to guess ut his affection and get linnjrry for a solid certainty. There is not enough such eloquence, as I have looked About tiie world. And yet it should not flow too easily. Tonguy lovo is quito another thing from open heart edness. In my opinion we fIiouM bring up our young folk to easily and frankly express their feelings, only not to express any more than they feel. The art and trick of speech is to b more eloquent than true, nnd so to turn love into a lie. Somewhere 1 have lately read a good story of h married couple that from oine spleen vowed not to speak to each other. Well, if they had not really loved they could have got on without talk, but in this r iiko they could not. So by happy inspiration they used tho household cat as u go between, "do," said Betsy, "and tell John that dinner is ready," "Go," answered Johu, "anil tell Betsy 1 am on hand." "Here, puss," says John, "tell Dotsy this pudding is remarkably pood, and 1 will take another plate of it if she pleases." "Oo tell John," answers Uetsy, "that I am glad ho likes this peach shortcake, and he Bhall have throe pieces if ho will." So for years they kept their vows, but told their love unit got on famously. It is a general fact thirt friendship grows stronger by a short separation and cor respondence by pen. A man or woman will say 6weet or truo things in a letter that they would not say first by mouth. 1 do not quite understand this, but 1 know it is true. Friends treasnro let ters, uud friendship never is quito itself until a few letters have passed. I en courage young folk to writo letters to learn the art of talking well. Oho would auppose it would be the other way that good talkers should write well. How came it ubont that the tonjrtm and adjucent organs got control of Lin puage? Possibly Dido can explain this. She leaps and bounds about mo in over whelming joy. Her nose is in my face and her paws on my chest. At last, ut terly unable to express all her emotion, she throws back her head and explodes In a bark. It is nothing but an explo sion, but it is a great relief to her. That is the beginning of speech in all creatures only a noise made by the rush of emotion through the mouth. By nnd by this noise is modified to ex press different emotions. Tho dog can ex press a dozen passions und resentments, and yet most of these are told by the tail nnd the body in general. The next step is, or was, to modify these sound.! into musical roles. The bird dons not enunciate first, but sings. Tho lower races sing well and talk badly. Tho highest art is to sing well and talk equally well. So languago slowly gets stolen by a certain set of organs that at first had little to do with it. The legs nnd hands como less into play to tell emotions; tho tail, which has done so much nnimnl talking, is aborted. I thiuk it is aborted mainly because its functions nro mostly passed over to tho tongue. I have not heard whether tho tailed tribe of Africnns wag those appendages in friendly greeting like dogs or not. I would not own a tailless cat or have a horse's tail even clipped of its hair. It is to nbbreviato speech; it is to lop off the organ of ex pression. You will see that my theory about tho development of language accounts for many abnormal forms of speech. Pro fauity is a mere explosion of sound, closely allied to the dog's bark mid the cat's squall. It is not so wicked as it is beastly. It is tho natural language of a vulgar fellow who has no art of high lnngunge. Half tho world talks by ex plosion and expletives. Tho more beast ly a man's habits the more profane he becomes by necessity. It is his natural language. What a stretch it is from such a man to Coleridge or Emerson or Lowell! I heard of a man the other day, "Ah, he is a great scientist, to be sure, but he is also such a splendid talker." The art of sayiug fino things finely you cannot afford to bo without. "Live with wolves and you will learn to howl," says the Spanish proverb. We ought to be able to add, "Live with men and you will learn to talk well." But that is not so. There are too few really good talkers really wise and witty tongues. E. P. Poell inSt. Louis Glolie-Democrat. II Know. Judge Come, you'd better plead guil ty.. You'll get off easier. Prisoner Ah, 1 twig yer lay. Yer vrant to get home to dinner! London Tit-Bito. NothlujJ ew I inter tlic Mm. "I a in beginning to Ulievo that there is absolutely nothing new under die sun, but that every thought is a rtvival oran imitatioi' or a downright plagiarism of some one which pri-a-dcd it years and years ago," said Calvin S. SouthwoodM ho warmed bis feet cgainst a heater in the rotunda of tho Liudoil. "Even the inventions that appear so brand new may have cxi.4ef or their possibility been suggested away back before the dawn of history. At any rate this is evi lently truo in tlio lei.lius of literature. In this line, if in nothingel.se, history rfr peals itself and tho work! runs in cycles. 1 attended church Sunday fact, I assurt you and heard a distinguished gentle man uso a metaphor as his own which 1 at once recognized as used once by Olivet Wendell Holmes, and which iu different form I once ran across in an old book containing the 'Canterbury' Tales. Yes terday I read iu a magazine an artick by a writer of national reputation, wht used as his own the expression, 'Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.' "This expression was evidently taken bodily from tho 'Poor Richard's Alma nac' of Benjamin Franklin, and this di tinguished philosopher I feel sure bor rowed it either consciously or uncon sciously from nn old German book full of folklore. Many of these old thoughts iu more recent writers are unconsciously reproduced, and in their new dress cau hardly bo recognized. 'A guilty con science needs no accuser' may easily be recognized iu Hamlet's soliloquy, 'That conscience does make cowards of us all,' but it appeared far back of that, in the sacred pages, 'The wicked flee when no man pursuelh, and no doubt iu othet shapes ages before that. No, them' nothing new under the mm." St. Louis U lobe-Democrat. More l'otato. Return had a great contempt for mere words, however eloquent. One evening ho met at a sort of a literary dinner M. C'aro, the philosopher beloved of fino hi dies, who set himself to prove the exist ence of Ood. His eloquent assertions did not seein to interest tho sage. In the middle of one of his most sonorous pe riods M. Kenan attempted to make him self heard. But all the ladies were intensely in terested. They would not have their pleasure spoiled. "Iu a moment, M. Penan, we will listen to you in your turn." lie bowed submissively. Toward tho end of dinner I.I. Caro, out of breath, stopped with a rhetorical emphasis. At onco every one turned to ward tho illustrious scholar, hoping that he would enter the lists, and the hostess, with an encouraging smile, said: "Now, M. llenan" "I am afraid, dear lady, that 1 am now a little behindhand." "No, no!" "I wanted to ask for a little tnoro po tato." Fortnightly Review. Indorsed for Olllce. I nice looking old gentleman with a florid complexion approached tho ap pointment clerk of the treasury one day with an application for a place, indorsed by somo letters of recommendation. When tho official asked him a question he said: "Please writo it down. I am so deaf that I could not hear a sound if a cannon were fired off close to my ear." General McCauley thought that this was rather a disadvantage for an appli cant for employment as a clerk, but he asked the stranger to write his name and address. The old gentleman shook his head. "It is impossible," ho said. ' I cannot write at all, because my hand is palsied." Washington Cor. New York Sun. Clara Jane'n Hardworking Hen. Clara Juno Edwards has placed on our table two largo hen eggs. They are about tho fcize of turkey eggs. Clara Jane says that the hen that laid 'em has laid two of this size every day for the last four years, but has now gone to set tiu. Tho eggs have been broken in the frying pan and they have each two yolks. A little calculation will show that this is nearly 3,000 eggs iu the space of four years from one hen, equal to 12,000 com mon sized hen eggs. Stewart County Hopper. Frightened. Into a Fever. Frederick I of Prussia was killed by fear. His wife was insane, and one day she escaped from her keepers, and dab bling her clothes in blood rushed upon her husband while he was dozing in his chair. King Frederick imagined her to bo the white lady whoso ghost was be lieved to appear whenever the death of a member of tho royal family was to oc cur, aud ho was thrown into a fever and died in six weeks. Dr. Elder in Wash ington Tost. Arcuatomvd to llclng Wiijluld. There was a Bavarian prince who was so cutirely accustomed to being contin ually waylaid and followed about by his admirers that once on coming out of tho Frauenkircho (Church of Our Lady), feeling himself 'held back by the cloak, he turned abruptly round and angrily exclaimed, "This is really not tho place!" before he saw, to his relief, that it was only his cloak which had hitched, in passing, on a nail. Exchange. Etliun Allcn'i ltcpl). While Ethan Allen was held a pris oner in New York an offer was mado him of a large tract of land in Vermont or Connecticut, as he preferred, pro vided ho would espouse tho cause of England. His reply is characteristic: "If by fidelity I have recommended myself to General Howe, I shall be loath by uufaithfnlness to lose the gen eral's good opinion." Youth's Com panion. tinai-ded Sympathy. Very Stout Nervous Old Lady (to truard) Oh, guard, wouldn't it be dread ful if there was a collision on the line I'm about to travel by? Facetious Guard Yes, mum, it would be for any one you happened to fall on. Eichange. FEMALE ClliMIXALS. A DETECTIVE SAYS THAT WOMEN ArtE M0i".I CHUCL THAN MEN. Ill Kfitllty 'I ii t Are R Many I'i ral Criminal u Thi-re Are Male, hut Clr riunotum'en ( iiiinili to Shield the Wick ed Vom;in Women Seldom nuforni. Theodore C. Metzler, the well known San Francisco detective, has not had twenty-six years of experience in his pro fession without obtaining some very strong impressions and opinions in regard to crime and criminals. "As a sort of text," said Sir. Metzler, "for what I have to say on this subject, I will state that in considering men and women as criminals, between whom and their deeds comparisons are to lie mado, I consider that, while man is undoubted ly, as a rule, the more prominent in crime, woman, on tho other hand, is at once more cruel und cunning in what she does. "From the cirenmstanco that a con siderable less number of women than men are convicted of crime the infer ence is drawn that in women the crim inal propensities are weaker or under better control. Such a conclusion Is, however, not borne out by tho facts, for when crimes havo been traced to women it has been found in the great majority of cases that tho guilty deeds have been committed not only with systematic cunning, but also with a coolness and cruelty which have seldom been attrib uted to man. "There are several reasons," continued Mr. Metzler, "why so few women have been convicted of crime. Man's natural sympathy for her often causes him to overlook important points against her, and then again ho is always extra care ful for fear ho might do her injustice and injury. Men in the detective pro fession may pretend to have no sympathy for a woman, yet a good looking face und a bewitching smile always find a tender spot in their hearts. "Of course there are exceptions, but they are very few. If thero aro men in this profession who aro not susceptible to a woman's plea, I, in my experience of twenty-six years, have failed to find them. "Another thing: It is seldom consid ered that girls uro watched more care fully than boys uud are under greater restraint. Neither is it taken into ac count that older females spend more of their time nt home, while males of their own ago tire on tho street or mingling with persons whoso habits are not al ways the best. Many of the temptations to crime come from business complica tions, in which women have little or no share, as they spend most of their time at home with their children nnd female companions. Most homicides, you know, are tho results of anger excited when persons are away from their homes and families, as violent quarrels generally take place in tho street or barroom, and not in tho parlor or sitting room. "Now as to the cruelty and delibera tion of the female criminal. The history of crime shows that most of the murders committed by women aro those jierpe t rated by the administration of poison. They show careful preparation and great deliberation. In almost every instance treachery is employed, the victim being invited to partake of refreshments by ono who is presumed to be a friend. "Murder by the administration of poi son is considered the most foul and the darkest of all crimes, but it is the one that women have been addicted to more generally than men in all ages and countries. "Another very remarkable fact," con tinued the detectivo, "has recently been mentioned in a London paper by the chaplain of Clerkenwell jail. It is that some criminals are practically incurable. From a table prepared by him it was shown that during last year thero were committed to the prisons and jails of England nnd Wales 5,080 men and 9,701 women who had been convicted no less than ten times previously. You see the forco of the comparison. "A partial explanation of this strange state of things may bo found in the fact that women are more thoroughgoing in all things, good, bad or indifferent, than tho men. They do nothing by halves. Uu tho matter the construction of a shortcako, the making of a crazy quilt or tho poisoning of a rival, woman de votes all her time, knowledge and talent to what she has iu view. "Then, again, a woman has less chance of reforming than a man. The latter can go to a strango or distant place, raise whiskers or shave those he had, as sumo a different name and commence life anew. He cau generally find em ployment, but with tho woman it is more difficult. Disguise is not so easy, and if she goes to a different place some one is liable to recognize her. "A strauge woman is always looked on with suspicion, as it is presumed that she would prefer to live in the town whero sho was brought up nnd where her old acquaintances are. A man gets credit for his enterprise if lie goes to a now country and engages in a bnsiness for himself, but such is not the case with a woman. If she is once discov ered her own sex nre the first to point their fingers at her, turn tip their noses and refuse to associate with her, the re sult of which is that she becomes hard ened and callous, aud is again driven to crime." San Francisco Post. As Far A Ixiok (io. "They've raked in a pretty tough look ing lot this morning, haven't they?" ob served the stranger, who hsd dropped in at tho police station. "You are looking at the wrong gang," said the rejiorter to whom he had spoken. "Those are not the prisoners. They are the lawyers." Exchange. Where llonton Street Cut Their Nuraee. The English names given to the Back Bay streets were evolved by a couple of Irish-Americans on the board of survey, aided by a copy of the "British Peer age." Boston Pilot. AN ANGRY INSPECTOR. Hr. Helen limit' Experience In aMutetiir iu Ciiiiluii;rii. One of the sights of Copenhagn is the Rosenborg castle collection, officially known as the "Chrniiel jgical Collection of the Kings of Denmark." When Mrs. Helen Hunt went to see it she bought it "full ticket." so as to insure the entire attention of the uiu-enm inspector. Ha was a handsome man, fifty years old or more, und wIipii he began to speak Eng lish the visitor's delight was unbounded. What an afternoon she should have! "I uin so-ry," sho said, "that we have so short a time in which to see these beau tiful and interest nig collect ions. Two hours is nothing!" "Oh, I shall explain to you everything," he said, and he pro ceeded to throw open the doors of mys terious wall closets. Says Mrs. Hunt: The first thing he pointed out to me was tho famous Oldenborg horn, said to have been given to Count Otto of Olden borg by a mountain nymph in a forest one day in tho year 1)09. As he pointed to it I opened my catalogue to find the place where it was mentioned, that I might make on the margin some notes of points that I wished to recollect. I might have been looking at it for per haps half a minute when thundering from the mouth of my splendid Dane came: "Do you prefer that you read it iu the catalogue than that I tell you?" I am not sure, but my impression is I actually jumped at his tone. I know I was frightened. I explained to him that I was not looking for it in the cata logue to read then and there, but only to associate what I saw with its place nnd with the illustrations iu the cata logue, aud to make notes for future use. no hardly heard a word I said. Tutting out his'hand and waving my poor cata logue awny, he said: "It is all there. You shall find every thing there as I tell you. Will yon lis ten?" Quite cowed, I tried to listen, but 1 found that without my marginal notes I should remember nothing. I opened my catalogue again. The very sight of it seemed to act upon him like a scarlet flag on a bull. Instantly he hurst out upon me again. In vain I tried to stem the tide of his angry words, and tho angrier he got the less intelligible became his English. "Perhaps you take mo for a servant in this museum," ho said. "Perhaps my name is as good in my country as yours is in your own!" "Oh, do do listen to mo one minute!" I said. "If you will only hear me I think 1 can make you understand. I do implore you not to bo angry." "I am not angry. I have listened to you every timo too many times. I have not time to listen any more." This he said so angrily that I felt the tears coming into my eyes. I was in de spair. I turned to Harriet nnd said, "Very well, Harriet, wo will go." "You shall not go!" he exclaimed. "Twenty years 1 have shown this mu seum nnd never yet was uny one before dissatisfied with what I tell them. 1 have myself written this catalogue you carry. Now I will nothing say, and you can ask if you wish I should explain any thing." He folded his arms and stepped back, the very imago of a splendid man in a sulk. I hesitated what to do, but at last I gulped down my wounded feelings and went on looking and making notes. Presently he began to cool down, to see his mistake. In less than half an hour ho had ceased to bo hostile, and before I the end of the hour he had become friend ly, nnd more. He seized both my hands in his, exclaiming: "We shall be good friends good! You must como ugaiu to Rosenborg; you must Bee it all. I will myself show you every room. No mutter who sends to come in, they shall not lie admitted. I go alone with you." A Story About the Fanny. A pretty fable about the pansy is cur rent among French nnd German chil dren. The flower has five petals and five sepals. In most pausies, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals nro plain in color nnd threo nve gay. The two plain petals have a single sepal, two of the gay petals havo a eepal each, and the third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable is that the pansy rep resents a family consisting of husband wife nnd four daughters, two of the lat ter beijig stepchildren of tho wife. The plain petals nre tho stepchildren, with only one chair; the two small gay petals nre the daughters, with a chair each, und the largo gay petal is the wife, with two chairs. To find the father one must strip nway the petals until the stamens and pistils nro bare. They have a fanciful resemblance to an old man with a flannel wrap about bis neck, his shoulders upraised and his feet in a bathtub. Detroit Free Press. A Hefrartory Youth, A child four years old is the son of a man who is almost abnormally pious. This youth was told to go to see a fami ly visitor who had incautiously shown nn interest in him. Instead of doing so he backed nwny, lodged himself in a corner, and with a convincing shake of the head nnd flourish of the lists ex claimed: "I wont, I won't, I wou't, for Jesus' Bake. Amen." New York Re corder. limiting It Ointly. "Sirs. Small," said the lodger to his landlady, "I thought you didn't allow smoking in the parlor?" "I dou't," replied Mrs. Small with en ergy. "Who's doing it, I'd like to know?" "Well, if you have time you might step in and remonstrate with the lamp." Exchange. To Dlmilpiite an Orange. It is not generally known that an orange hit in the exact center by a rifle ball will vanish at once from sight. Such, however, is the fact. Shooting it through the cynter scatters it in such in finitesimal pie:es that it is at once lost to sight. Pittsburg Dispatch. 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