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UVE A HERO AND DIE A MAN. Bravely into the haul of life. Bravely into th rattle of sinfe, Eater Li-ini that are noble and true. Doing the work you are fitted to do; Dagger M ail t b'tMr who their duty would li 1114 ; He's safe who feela ure that the field shall be won. So rent uot In aero, rise hleh a you can; Lire like hero and die like a man. Never at now were heroes required. Never aa now the divinely inspired; The world waita for leader to lead it along. In aid of the right and opposed to the wrong; It welcomes the poet who soars as he sings. And the word of the Lord which the true prophet brings. So don't be a Nero, all evil to plan, But live like a hero and die like a man. The cross needa uplifting to point men above. To tell thetn God Uvea full of mercy and love: That no aoul need perish, redemption ia near, Though yonder ia heaven, the kingdom la here; That the true life that I lived is the living for others. For God la our Father and all men are brothers. So rest not in zero, np. high as you can. Live like a hero and die like a man. Rev. J. P. Hutchinson. HAPLESS HEZEKIAH. DOVT know any one for whoin I V-V am sorrier than l O yvjl ara for Hezeklah good fellow and always was, but he never seamed to have the luck a real good man should have, and very often does not But I have been particularly sorry for him since that Kitty Clone affair. Kitty was by all odds the prettiest girl In town, and Hezeklah, like most of the other courting men In that vicinity, fell In love with her. She was tawny haired, with snapping black eyes and a tongue that was as sharp as a two edged razor, but she was as bright as a dollar In a basket of chips, and she had only to smile to have a retinue of men at her beck. I stood closer to Hezeklah than any man hi town, and practically knew bis Inmost thoughts. In fact, I was the only one he confided In after the Kitty Clone affair, Kitty, before that, being a little nearer to him, he thought, than I was. He confided the whole sad story to me, and I cannot refrain from telling It now. For some subtle purpose, not at the time apparent, Kitty had Indicated very plainly her preference for Heze klah, anil a happier man no one ever saw in our town. But preferem-e, mere ly, was not what Hezeklah sought, and he let her see that quite early. It began to happen one moonlight night on her father's porch, where the honeysuckles clambf ed over the roof and the sweet w!M t .e vine entwined t!:e corner. Throrgb the trellised Tines, the silver shafts or the moon shot that soft night in June itnd fell In sifted strands over Kilty a:; 1 Hezeklah sitting In the mellow shadows. If the night ingale had lieen indigenous to that sec tion, I am sure It world have added Its liquid notes to the music In Hezekiah's heart, but there w as no nightingale, and Hezeklah did not miss It. Kitty was enough for him. and Kitty sat dose beside him, and every word she spoke was a bird song to him. "Did you know. Miss Kitty," he said, tentatively, for-I Jexckiab was not a brash lover, and he had not mentioned the sacred subject of love to her, al though he had thought up a thousand ways by which he might, and had thrown them all aside when the time came, "Did you know that I have some thing to say to you?" "Well," she twinkled, "I should hope you had, Mr. Heston. I'm sure I don't want to do all the talking." "I could listen to you if you did, I am sure." he replied, with a halting help lessness of manner that men have sonie times In the moonlight "That sounds so much like sweet hearts talk," she twittered, as she shook the gold of her pretty hair out into the line of the silver light with Its scent of honeysuckles and roses. "Perhaps It is," he ventured, doubt fully. "But I am sure you don't want to talk such nonsense to me," she pro tested. "Why not?" he answered so promptly that he frightened himself. But not Kitty; oh, no. "Because," she answered, "we have known each other so long that it would sound silly for you to say such things to me." "Must a man select a stranger If he wants to confide to a woman all that is In his heart r he Inquired with a grav ity that made her laugh. "Ob, I suppose not Still It doesn't seem quite natural for you to make love to me." "If I did, what would you say?" "I really don't know, Mr. Heston," he said, tucking her head down and blushing, perhaps, though It was not risible In U shadows of the porch. "Too know," be went on, with more courage, now that he had made the start, "that I have recently come Into a little fortune of something like $10 ooe, and " "I thought It bad come In to yon," she Interrupted, with a ptaneaat little bird not of n chuckle. BeMttta was ynst stnptd aad dew XpMC te be deUgntsd with soefc tJrtw of fMrtalM wit, and Kitty's U cat nma waa always n. E Lied tt new, tat MS with a shade ot refle, action, 'or the I nasn or it uau uazzicu mm wnen ue w as on the path to telling her what was la hi heart. "Isn't it Just the same?" he asked, with a laugh, half of admiration and half of nervousness. "Jh, of course, but what were you about to say ? Excuse me for Interrupt ing yuu." "Do you want me to say It?" be asked, bo eagerly that she laughed at him again. "How do I know? It may be some thing dreadful." "It Is something about the sweetest thing In the world." he said, bravely to her. "Frank Moore said I was that," she answered, with a demurcuess that was distracting. "Is It about me?" Hezeklah got up and walked to the edge of the porch. He looked fiercely up at the moon as if he thought there ought to be blood on It, but there wasn't, and the sweet odors of the night were wafted to him on the silent stir ring breeze, and he was soothed. "Whatever Is the matter?" she asked. In the querulous tone of young women under similar circumstances, and he turned to her again. "Kitty," he said, dropping the polite title of young-ladyhood, "it Is you. and It Is me, too. Both of us," he added, re gardless of syntax. "Who ever said you were the sweetest thing In the world. I'd like to know?" she laughed, and Hezeklah thought he could see the keen edge of her tongue flash In the moonlight "You never did." he replied. In the surliest manner. "Oo," she crooned to him, softly. In the language of the cradle, "has de 'lttle toosty wootsy pinched his b'essed 'lttle fumr Hezeklah went to the edge of the porch again and was about to shake his fist at the moon, when he saw some one open the gate from the street and come up the walk toward the house. It was the hated Frank Moore, and Hezeklah had only a minute to make his peace with the sarcastic goddess. "Kitty," he exclaimed, desperately. as he came back to her, "there conies Moore. It's only 9 o'clock and he will stay here all evening. I can't say all I want to say. but I can say this much I love you, Kitty, and I want you to be my wife. Will you?" In his excitement he had taken her hand and she had risen to his side. "Come to-morrow night" she said. In the softest whisper, and the gentle pres sure of her hand spoke a sweeter lan guage to hltn than even the music of her lips. "Ah, Frank." greeted Hezeklah, as his late rival came up, "I'm glad to see you, real glad" anil he was speaking the solemn truth, for there is no telling how much time he would have wasted If Moore hadn't come just as he did "I was about going, and It looks like a pity to leave Miss Kitty all alone amidst this bower of honeysuckles, moonshine, roses and June. Come and take my place. I'm sure she will welcome you with open arms, or words to that effect." "Why, Mr. Heston." protested Miss Kitty, "you are really brilliant this evening. Who taught you how? It must be an acquired habit. I'm sure it Isn't natural." Moore laughed at this pleasant persi flage of Kitty's. Everybody laughed at Kitty's wit except the victims of It but on this occasion, even the victim laughed, for he could yet feel the ecstasy of Kitty's hand clasping his, and could yet hear the music of her words. "Come to-morrow night." Of course, Mr. Moore apologized for disturbing their tete-a-tete, and said he had merely dropped In for a minute, but men are given to that kind of pal liating prevarication, and he sat down In tlie most comfortable place he could find, before Hezeklah had left the porch. Hezeklah did not tarry long after this, but Mr. Moore remained for two hours, chattering with Miss Kitty, and then they separated, leaving the moon, the honeysuckles and roses out In tbe June night all alone. The stars twin kled in the silver blue sky, the fra grance of the flowers filled the air, and, far down the quiet street, Hezeklah sat by his open window dreaming the night away, and there was a smile on his face as if an angel bad come In the glory of the moonlight and touched him with tbe breath of June. And tbe next night It rained. But there was sunshine, and moon light and honeysuckles and roses and June in Hezeklab's heart, and be was promptly In piquant Kitty's pretty par lor early on the night of the morrow which had promised so much to him. AlasI how easily things go wrong and so forth. They quarreled, and Hezeklah went out Into the night, gloomier than the night was. All the music of her voice waa a, discord, and the dank dark air waa filled with an odor as of dead honeysuckles and roses, and adecaylng Jane. But the next night was perfect again, and once more Hezeklah sat with Miss Kitty on the porch and the moon was flooding tbe valley with the yellow Ugbt that marks it as it rests npon tbe distant moan tain tope. "Kitty,' said Hesekiaa, in the voice of penitent, "can yon forgive meT" "I . Kr. Heston, but wUl ir she newired, net unkindly. " AH, FRANK, I'm GLAD TO SEE YOtT." "Won't JouT' be pleaded. "And If 1 dor' she asked, with a coy ness that charmed him. "You will many me," be said so firm ly that she trembled. "Then I'll forgive you," and hersancy face was buried in his coat front and the gold of her tresses threw a soft . 2fcfaW f "K1TTT.CA3I VOU VOKOITE ME 7" light Into his face that gave It the look of a seraph's. And It came to pass according to the prophecy of Hezeklah. That's why I'm so sorry for Hezeklah Heston. I'm Hezeklah Heston, and Kitty has been my wife for twenty years, and her hair Is no less tawny, nor is her tongue less sharp, than when the honeysuckles, the roses, the moon light aud June threw their gentle glamour o'er the scene. L'tlca Globe. Effective. Rome beautiful effects In the orna mentation of glass are now produced by Gorllu, of Zurich, his method In this kind of work lieing. It Is claimed, a decided improvement in the art The design Is first engraved on a printing plate of rublter, positively, that la. In the same way as that in which it will be afterward seen, and the plate is coated then with varnish color aud pressed upon a glass plate; the latter is strewed with bronze powder, sheet aluminum, or other suitable material, the iMJrtions forming the design re maining empty, and being, therefore, transparent At this stage the glass plat-j Is placed in a frame having a backing of strong pajier board, on the front of which Is mounted a brilliant sheet of tinfoil or tin plate, provided with prominent squares In suitable positions. The de sign Is thus shown by a brilliant, re flected light through the transparent part of the glass. Its other portion forming a backing stamped In relief. Heretofore, raised enam.-led writing and deslgus In relief on glass have been produced by means of a brush and thin enamel paint but Gorlltz us-.-s stencil plates of tinfoil or other flexible ma terial and a glass-powder ?oiiiosltion made up of the consistency of molas ses, with turpentine and "glaze." Science and Sorrow. That sorrow and grief exert a bad Influence on the functions of the body has long been known, but the nature of this effect Is now receiving careful atteutiou from physiologists. Accord ing to Dr. Louise Fiske, sorrow Is a disease, and should be treated as such. The internal organs of dogs which have died of homesickness or otber forms of depression, show a deteriora tion similar to that caused by starva tion or Infectious diseases. Dr. Louise Fiske considers that sorrow, as a dis ease, must run iu course, and that all attempts to banish it and cheer the pa tient up are futile. As a disease it must be tn-ated in a siHtial way, and she recommends quiet drives In the country, or gentle walks with Nature. In the woods or by the seashore. The patient should not be tasked either In mind or body. The bright, sweet so- lety of children Is preferable to that of adults, and the presence of the fa miliar newspaper or magazine may be a comfort where the most tender and sympathetic friend Is troublesome.! Mourning wear !s. In her opinion, use ful for a time, a year at most, because1 It secures consideration for the suf ferer; but If continued too long. It be comes a burden and a source of low spirits. Jt Was the President' Sister. Several years ago a lady entered one of the large dry goods stores In Warfb- lngton, and the tired saleswoman, com Ing forward to wait on her, lnvoluntarl ly said: "Oh, the violets!" The lady, who had forgotten she was wearing a bunch of tbe spring's beau ties, as she took them off and handed them across the counter, said: "Yes, did you not know they are in bloom In the park?" The other woman's eyea filled with tears as she said: "Oh, I never see the park now. Iam too tired when Sunday comes to go out there. "But you surely can go some half hol iday." "Perhaps, and I thank you so much for these." As she was leaving, after making ber purchases, the lady said: "If I call for you Saturday afternoon, can you drive out to the park with me?" Then seeing the gladness In tbe other's eyes, without waiting for an answer, said: "I will be here at 1 o'clock for you," and banding ber card, left tbe store. As she passed through tbe door tbe saleswoman looked at the card In her band It was the President's sister's. A Faithful Doc. A coroner's Jury at Elizabeth brought out a touching story of a beautiful dog here. Little George Martin was playing with a can of nitroglycerin, when It blew up, Injuring him fatally. Hie large Newfoundland dog waa with him. The dog wore a collar, and to this the boy clung tightly. Then tbe faithful dog started borne with bis precious burden. Tbe little sufferer was dragged thus for a mile. After reaching borne tbe dog refused to lent bin young mas ter's rooca and remained there until the tad dtadV-Pkltadelphla Reooro, HE rest cure Is now practiced at home by many women who have come to a proper realization of its value. It used to be an expensive rem edy, necessitating an absence of six or eight weeks In a private hospital, with trained nurse, masseuse and the rest. Including a trunk full of pretty tea gowns rr the convalescence. Now the sensible woman has discovered she can take her cure In homeopathic doses without stopping her work or quitting her family. A half hour daily of complete retire ment, lying down In loose clothes and banishing all w orry, all thought Indeed. if possible, works wonders If iterwe- vered In. Have tbe shades drawn anil close the eyes. A tired brain strays restfully In darkened ways; even uie ctianlcal eye-impressions of w hich one- does not seem to be thinking at all consume a little force; blindness, physi cally ami mentally, is what is sought and It Is this that rests aud restores, ror tne woman whose work Is at home the half hour Immediately preeed ing or following luncheon la apt to be one that could be spent In this nr When there are children old enough to go to school after the meal Is better. for the little folks will have turned back to their lessons, no callers need be exacted, and the afternoon's task or engagement can usually brook this little delay. For the mothers whose babies are still In arms the rest should be taken while their little charges sleep. The business woman, whose work must be done at office or shop, must Invent her chance for rest. It Is a com mon habit of several young newspaper women, reporters, to step Into one of the big shops or hotels, si-ek the parlor and conscientiously rest for fifteen or thirty minutes, ns their time penults. In shops It must be taken with the stop for luncheon, as a rule; In ottices It may also have to be. but often there Is a lull In business that may be almost regularly depended upon. The bod-carrier finishes the contents of his dinner pail, then lolls against a friendly fence in sheer animal rest Perhaps he lights a pipeu often he does not but he rests In every liber of his being. A shop girl hurries over her bread and ten to try her eyes and tax her Interest with a story paper, eagerly devoured till the last moment, or she sjicnds her rest time In exciting gossip with her neighbors. Either is foolish expenditure of needed force. The closer the strain the greater the need for the complete and daily respite, however brief. Such winkers should pursue the opportunity to take It re lentlessly. To Clean Hilk Waists. Both light and dark silk waists, when soiled, may be greatly Improved in ap pearance by sponging them well with gasoline or uaptha. Take a clean piece of old bleached cloth, wet It In the gas oline, aud rub quickly all over the waist rubbing the silk lengthwise. Wipe the silk over with a clean dry cloth and hang In the open air for the odor of the (ieaiiitig lluld to evaporate. If wrinkled, press the silk on the wrong side with a moderately warm Iron, first laying a cloth over its surface. This kind of cleaning w ill remove all grease ami much grime, though not nil kinds of spots. Carpets and furniture coverings are often greatly Improved by cleaning In the same way. Do uot bring the gasoline or naphtha near a fire or light, and thoroughly air any thing cleaned with It When a carpet has been cleaned by It leave windows open for an entire day. Worth' Laxt Gown. Designed by tbe famous French dressmaker shortly before bis death. Msit Wives Promise to Obey Writers for several religions news papers In Oreat Britain are threshing over old straw by discussing whether It la right for women to promise at fhe marriage altar to obey their husbands. Whatever theoretical objections may lie urged against the Me of the word "obey" In the hymeneal service, It is evident that It baa few terrors for tbe modern generation, tbe "advanced woman," to the contrary notwith standing Marrying and tbe giving In marriage go on pretty much tbe name aa In tbe days of tbe Noaehlan cata T cijsm. wnettier this la a tribute to the superior sway of human 'iature or a tacit admission tt the re-rvel right of womau, that "when the will she will, and when she won't she won't opinions will differ. The probablli ties are that the employment of tbe term "obey" is commouly treated in the spirit with which the diplomatic ami venerated founder of the Pick wick Club was accustomed to confront a parliamentary condition. It is looked upon as a sort of poetic license war rantl by the marriage license. Girls Mast Be Weil-Bred. The reign of the unconventional soci ety young woman Is over. She shocks now her own country women even more than foreigners. There are thousands of daughters of well-to-do mothers In this couutry who are brought up on the old aristocratic theory that a woman should study mod erately hard until she Is eighteen, then look as pretty as she can, and devote herself until she Is married to having what Is called on this side of '.he Atlan tic a good time. To be sure. In France the good time does not come until after marriage, aud there are other differences; but the well-bred lady of social graces Is the well bred lady, whether it le In Lon don, Paris, Vienna or New York, and a ball-room In one capital Is essentially the same as In all the others, unless It be that over here the very young peo ple are allowed to crowd out every body else. There are thousands of mothers who are content that this should lie the lim it of their daughters' experi -nee: A rea sonably good eddeation and perfect manners, four years of whirl and then husband, or no husband and a con servative, afternoon tea-drlnkingsplns-terhood -and they are thankful on the whole when their girls put their necks meekly beneath the yoke of conven tion and do as past generations of women all over the civilized worlfl have done. Hcrlbner's Magazine. The Model Wife. She rises every morning, Just when the roosters crow; She gently spl!t the kindling Makes the old stove puff and blow. She puts the breakfast on to cook, Ami sintrs as if at piny; Am! while the batter uakes are made, Uer li lisl.u ml snores away! The children show her gentle car, Their nightly slumbers o'er; She dresses half a dozen. Ami she whips a dozen more! Then to the room she doth repair; Her hnliand hours her say: "I've almost worked myself to death! Are you going to sleep all duy?" -Atlanta Constitution. A Woman Is the Contractor. A woman, Mrs. Henry 1). Cram, of Boston, will furnish the Paris Exposi tion of i:xi with seventy-five derricks, to be used in the construction of all the buildings that are to be of durable stone. Mrs. Cram will personally su perintend the placing of these derricks An Excellent Reason. The sexes can never be truly equal. No mutter wlnit's written and said and done, While the utupiilost tnan has fourteen pockets And the cleverest woman has none. -Life. Hetty Green has ?00,(X0,00, but is said to live on $7 a week. Mrs. John J. Ingalla Is a famous cook, and can serve a dinner to perfection. The University of Aberdeen has con ferred the degree of LL.D. on Miss Jane Harrison. Miss Anna Shaw, D. D., says the bent way to address an audience Is to talk as If you were scolding your husband An authority on anthropology says that the ears of women are set further forward on the head than those of men. John Hunter, the famous anatomist once said that the feminine love of con versation was In consequence of a pe culiarity In brain tissue. The woman's club movement has pen etrated even Into the heart of the White Mountains, and there is a very flourish ing club at North Conway. The idea Is tteing considered to unite all the women's dubs In Kentucky In a stock company for the erection of a handsome woman's building In Lex ington. Tbe real and personal estate of tbe late Mrs. Cock ran, wife of Congress man Cockran, of New York, Is estimat ed at $110,000 aud Is left absolutely to her husband. There Is now a crape paper craze, and flowers, photograph frames, lamp shades and mats attest the possibilities of the flimsy fabric In tbe designing fin gers of woman. Vests to be worn with tailor gowns are made of bengallne and various kinds of silk, both fancy and plain They are closely fitted and buttoned downthe front with horn buttons. The daintiest underwear Is made of nainsook or batiste In white or pale colors ana nanasomeiy trimmed with Itlier nsrrow Valenciennes lace and Insertion or Alencon aud Venice laces, with much band embroidery for vart ty SLEEPING CAR RIGHTS. Condition When the Company la Be ponsible for Luvkts. Charles Peak rode from Oakland, fat, to Ixs Angeles, ou the night of June 5. a Pullman sleeping car. Hefoie he went to lied, about midnight, he went to the smoking room, and there found the porter sound asleep. He occupied .1 lower berth, and put his coat and waistcoat In the unoccupied lerth above him. When he got up In the morning they were gone. He sued the company, and a San Francisco Justice gave him a verdict The company con tended that It was absolved from re sixuislbllity by Its notice on the back of the Iwrth check, which says: "Bag gage, wearing apparel, money. Jewelry or other valuables taken Into the car will be entirely at the owuer's risk." The Justice held that this notice was not sufficient and that the company must be responsible for tbe clothes a passenger actually wore, otherwise the whole schemeof the sleeping car failed. The Justice says: "It Is enough to say, upon the evi dence In tills case, that If this colored porter had done his duty the loss of this coat and vest could never have happened. .It Is uncontroverted evi dence that this porter was dead asleep about midnight of the night In ques tion. In the smoking-room of the car. out of sight of the aisle of the car, and everything which might go on In the various sections of the car opening upon the aisle. 'I am prepared to hold that the proof of the loss alone of the w earing apparel of a passenger In a sleeping car like this In the night time Is enough to make the defendant liable. In the ab sence of any showing on the part of the defendant that Its servants did their duty to the fullest extent. As a matter of law, there Is no presumption that they did. All parts of the sleeping car that Is. all parts not occupied by oth er passengers should be safe for the passengers to deposit any article of (crsoual projwrty in or on which he usually wears on his person, or carries with his person, such as a coat a cane, an umbrella, or hat" Punning Philosophers. When some of the first thinkers of New England formed themselves into a community, to live and work together at Brook Farm, they did so to demon strate great moral and economical truths; but they also, It becomes evi dent, managed to have a "good time" by the way. Mr. J. T. Codman, in his "Brook Farm Memories," says that these men and women kept up an In terminable fire of small fun and Joke, punsand lions mots, Inoffensively shoot ing them off right and left In all times aud places. Some little children were chasing one another on a very warm day. "Why are thime children friiC11" Africans?" one of the phlloolhs& asked. And he answered his own (jucs- tlon: "Because they belong to the hot and tot race." "Is Mr. much of a carpenter?" "Not a bit of one; that's plain." "What sort of a man Is that long haired fellow opposite?" "He's good. In the main (mane)." "Mrs. Is a regular steamboat!" "Yes, I know; she goes by steam, self-'steem." "Have you seen my umbrella?" asked one. "What sort of an umbrella was It?" "It had a hooked end." "I have not seen It but I had a nice one once, and the end was exactly like yours. It was hooked, too." Passing a rosy but unkempt lljtle Imy, Miss remarked to a friend: "Isn't he a little honey?" "Yes." was the reply. "Honey with out the comb." "Do you thing Miss I!, beautiful? She bows to iierfectlon." "Yes, but she hasn't bowed to me. Has she to you?" "Who are tbe girls out In that boat with the old man?" The name of the boat was the Dart "Why, his darters, of course!" An Iron Tree. Mr. W. E. Armstrong, Waco, Texas. sends an account from a well known serial, of a tree discovered In Africa by a well-known professor," which only feeds on metal. The natives "worshlu It" and when they get any coins bury them as sacrifices beneath the ground around the tree, and which the tree feeds on. The trunk Is like Iron, the leaves like tin, and every part of It simulating some form of metal. The only surprise Is that such Intelligent magnilnes should be taken In by such transparent newspaper Jokes. Every once In a while something like this Is gotten up to the astonishment of the world, attributed, of course, to "tbe well-known German," Prof. Moen sbeln, or some other equally well known myth. They are pretty to read, but bard to believe In. Expense of Living Abroad, A traveler who has tried to live abroad In "refinement and strict econo my," epitomizes as follows: "In Italy, well, there are many families who take penslonalres, but comfort Is not always great there. England, without a show of doubt provides the beet comfort all around, the best table with the moat wholesome food, and tbe most refined style of living. After this comes Ger many, with a bountiful table; France, with a more delicate one, perhaps, and Switzerland, with a combination of the two." A Tidy Cat A cat In an Exchange street ofllr h. a unique way of disposing of any re mains of food given to ber on paper. After she Is dose she narJunMr ...i carefully folds the paper. Inclasnn. v x-raps, and will occasionally take the further precaution to remove tbe pack, ge she hss formed to some entof -the-way corner or ook.-!ertfca4 Transcript,