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ESTABLISHED 1856.
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The crimson sunset faded into gray:
Upon the murmurous sea the twilight fell ;
The last trarm breath of tho delicious day
Passed with a mute farewell.
Above my head in the soft purple sky
A wild note sounded like a shrill-voiced
bell;
Three gulls met, wheeled, and parted with a
cry
That seemed to say "Farewell !"
I watched them; one sailed east, and one
soard west.
And one went floating south; while like a
knell
That mournful cry the empty sky po-sessed,
"Farewell, farewell, farewell"
"Farewell!" I thought, ft is the earth's one
Bpeech ;
All human voices the sad chorus swell;
Though mighty loVe to heaven's high gate
may reach.
Yet may he say, "Farewell !"
The rolling world is girdled with the sound,
Perpetually breathe from all who dwell
Upon its bosom, for no place Is found
Where is notheard, "Farewell!"
"Farewell, farewell" from wave to wave 'tis
to3etl,
From wind to wind; earth has oue tale to
tell;
All other sounds are dulled and drowned and
lOit
In this one cry, "Farewell!"
From the October Atlantic.
BECKYS rOBTUKE,
A3 Becky sat on the doorstep of the
doctor's cottage, knitting in the twi
light, all the work done for the eve
ning the milk strained and put by
in the shining pans, the cups and
saucera all poliihed and standing in
rows on edge in the pantry, all the
flies scared out, and all the shutters
closed in tho well dusted room she
fell a-thinking of Bob Parker, and
wondering whether ho meant any
thing by grinning at her so when he
stopped to say a word about the
weather at the back gate.
"I'd like to know," said Becky to
herself. "Bob is a good young fellow,
and I'm rnos tired of livin' out ; even
if I wasn't, doctor does want a man
on the place, and Mrs. Cope I don't
think would mind hevin' married
help.
"Heigh, oh! I reckon married life
has its trials, too. There's some turns
out very bad; but you don't want to
go and sot down an old maid after all,
and I kind o' expect whichever way
yon do, youMl'bo sorry. So you
might as wellvhave somebody to find.
the marketia' as not. Bob is hand
some, too, in his'Sundny better-most,
and he's light. -and I'm dark, and
I've heard that's lucky. I"
"Want to have your fortune told,
pretty lady?" said a voice at her ear
at this moment.
Beck' was a good Methodist and
believed heartily in a peripatetic Sa
tan. When this inquiry came so pat
upon her day dream, she jumped up
aud uttered a little scream, feeling
quite sure that it was the old gentle
man in proper person that stood at
her elbow ; but as she recovered
breath, she saw nothing more dread
ful than a slight, young gi'psy wo
man, in a red flannel saqueand short
brown calico dress, with a handker
chief over her head, a baby strapped
to her back, and some odd trifles-
shoe-strings, buttons, a comb or two,
and a few boxes of matches, ranged
as if for sale, in a dingy little chip
basket, which she carried in her hand.
"Let the poor gypay tell the lady's
fortune," said the soft voice again.
"She knows what she was thinking
of as she sat there, and she can tell
her if her wish'll come true."
When a girl, simple or gentle, looks
into vacancy and simpers" to herself,
would it be hard if a shrewd bystander
could not guess her thoughts. But
this apt lilt struck Becky as miracul
ous. She said "Law, now !" and
blushed again.
"The pretty lady knows that I can
see her thoughts," said the gypsy.
An English girl doubtless would
have disclaimed the title "lady," and
remarked that she "was but a ser
vant;" but Yankee help, what is left
01 it, considers itself entitled to the
term as well as its mistress.' And as
for the "pretty," Becky had her mir
ror and her vanity as well as you and
I. She merely responded, "I hain't
said nothin' ," and sat down on the
poarch agaiu. But she looked at the
sibyl with longing eyes, and longed
to question her.
If it had bee a common fortune-teller,
like Mrs. Bobbs, in the village,
why, of course, it would not have
beeu a temptation, becaus no one be
lieved old Mrs. Bobbs knew much
after all, even if she did tell Maggie
fKin mat sde'd maary a man that
came from foreign parts. And every
one knew that came true, for Maggie
iT02 Af- t - CO
" ..us. nenwackhammer, the Ger
man blacksmith's wife, that day. But
a real gypsy-a gypsy with black
and hair, and a brown skin, and a lit
tle dusky baby on her back-whv,
that was some one worth while and
Becky felt it too good an opportunity
to let slip; but what should she do?
&he had spent all her wages, and gyp
sies did not read the stars for lo've
as she knew very well. '
"I dunno about fortins, she said
gaining time to think. "Doa't be
lieve in 'em."
"Wait till you've heard yours." Bald
the woman.
"Besides," said Becky, "I hain't
no Bmall change."
The gypsy looked grave. Then
smiled again, and Baid :
"Oh, I might find one," said Beoky
"P'raps I might. If Mrs. Cone was
J home she'd lend two shillln' tome,
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she would. She sots store on me,
Sirs Cope does but she and the doc
tor b39 gone away in gig to see their
darter that has a new baby, and I'm
all alone and shall be all
night,
so
you see
.if
"Oh. yes!" said the gypsy, with a'
sudden flash In her eyes, "but as for
money, no matter. I have taken a
spoon, a silver spoon, you know, that
the lady gave the cook. I wouldn't
touch one that wasn't honestly come
by."
"Of course not," said Becky, "I
wouldn't sit here a talkin' with you
if I thought you would; but Mrs.
Cope ain't one to give away spoons."
"Nor to hae much silver," said the
gypsy.
"Much you know," said Becky.
"Why, she's got a dozen tea and a
dozen dessert and six table and two
salt; tea-pot, cream-jug and butter
plate; and two knives and sugar
tongs. There now."
"Yes, I know" said the gypsy. ."I
cau see 'em shining in in some
thing dark and deep11
"The old sideboard in the sittin'
room." said Becky. "That's so."
"Well," said the woman, "It's bet
ter to be a gypsy, and not care for
things like those. They are all trou
ble. Butseehowwe run awajT from
our talk, and the Ught-haired man, a
riding in a cart, a thinking of you all
the while. I see him," said the wo
man, squeezing up her eyes. "He
has red cheeks, and very tnick boots,
and, yes a striped shirt, not a white
one."
"I vow and declare!" said Becky.
"And he hasn't proposed yet, I
think," said the gypsy.
Becky unconsciously shook her
head.
"I see he hasn't" said the prophet
ess. "And what you want to know is
when he will!"
"I never did," said Becky, not as a
denial, but as an ejaculation.
"Listen, pretty lady!" said the
woman glancing down the road, along
which a sulky-looking man, with a
tinkers outfit, was just then plodding.
"Listen, lady. I can tell you all you
want to know, and I'll make a bar
gain. I'll ask you nothing now, and
I'll come back in a year; and if I've
told you true, you can pay me then.
Could anything be fairer?"
"Why, I reckon not," said Becky.
"And at nine to-night," said the
gypffi,ttth Pretty lad wilMame to.
tbeJSravofthe old barnyonder; and
the' gypsy will work a spell with three
hairs of the pretty lady's head, and
a bit of somethingthe man she thinks
of has touched, and she shall know
what she wants to know. It's a good
fortune; the lady needn't be afraid.
Wait! Does h s name begin with A,
or JiV
" B, is it? Well, we'll know all
about B Bo about Bob? eh ? at 9
to-night behind the old barn;" and
off she walked, following the trudg
ing tinker down th road, while Becky
clasped her hands together and cri
ed :
"It's more than nat'ral. Lord for
give us all?"
Nine o'clock seemed very long in
coming to Becky. Perhaps the gypsy
woman found the time long, too. All
woman are impatent, but the tinker,
who had trudged back along the road,
took it quietly, lying among the long
grass unoer the trees, quite hidden
from all observation by the shadow of
the foliage aud the dusk of eventide,
thinkiug of something pleasant that
made him grin, and chewing bad to
bacco. However, whether it seemed slow
or fast, time went on, of course, and
brought nine o'clock with it. Beeky
listenend to the last stroke dropping
from the eight-day clock in the kitch
en, as sbQ locked the door after her,
shook the door of the hen coop to nee
that it was fast, and hurried toward
the big barn tremulous with expecta
tion. When she was out of sight, the
tinker arose out of the grass and leant
over the fence of the garden, and
chewed there a long while. Then he
slipped his long legs across it and
came into the door-yard.
The gypsy and her baby waited for
Becky according to promise, and the
gypsy had a pack of cards in her bo
som, aud an end of a candle iu her
pocket. She lit the candle with
matches from the tame receptacle, aud
Becky held it while she read her fate
for her. Firstly, the gypsy saw the
light young man. aud then the ring,
and theu a heart turned toward her,
and then oh, yes! then was the
wedding. Bob would offer himself
in three days, and they would be mar
ried in three months. After that the
prophetess, warming with her sub
ject, predicted two children, and a
wagon and horse, three cows, and
numberless pigs. To rural vision
nothing more was needed. Becky
produced a calico dress which might
still be worn, and a ginger-cake for
the baby. The woman praised the
dress, thanked her, bade the child say
"ta ta" to the pretty lady, and Becky
would have gone away but that the
woman stopped her.
"I haven't told you all yet," she
said; "not all. I see a surprise ; per
haps it is a present. Sit down. Let
us see. But perhaps you can see it
yourself. Pat your handkerchief ov
er your face, lady. Now shut your
eyes. Think hard of whatyou'd like
best to have. What comes Into your
mind?"
"Grand'ther always promised," be
gan Becky, but she did not finish just
then. Something twined itself-about
her waist, not the arm of a. lover or
BROWKVILLE, IvHEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1874.
his wraith, a harder thing a bit of
clothes-line. The handkerchief fell
from her face the gypsy woman was
helping the tinker to bind her arms
behind her.
"You need not be afraid, pretty
lady , you will not be hurt," said the
soft-voiced sibyl ; "not hurt at all,
lady. Only you must not follow us ;
and the fortune that is all true. Gyp
sies read the stars."
When Dr. Cope and his wife came
back next morning they found their
silver gone, the wardrobe robbed, and
every chicken flown ; a little after
they found Becky gagged and bound
behind the barn, and, though an
acute detective was called in to find
tho property, he never found it. But,
of course, although he could not
make Mrs. Becky a confederate, he
got the story of the gypsy out of her ;
and Bob Parker has been heard to de
clare, speaking of poor Becky, that
''sich a darned fool he never hard
tell on," the prophecy does not seem
likely to prove true. And Bob, the
two children, the wagon, horse3,
cowa, and pigs are still only dreams
vainly nourished in the eouI of Becky
Pilkins.
SOME EVERY DAT MAXIMS.
"Moral Courage" was printed in
large letters and put as the caption of
the following items, aud placed in a
conspicuous place on the door of a
systematic merchant in New York,
for constant reference :
Have the courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in
your pocket.
Have the courage to speak your
mind when it.is necessary that you
should do so, and hold your tongue
when it is prudent that you should do
so.
Have the courage to speak to a
friend In a 'seedy' coat, even though
you are in company with a rich one
and rivhly attired.
Have the courage to own you are
poor, and thus disarm poverty of its
sharpest sting.
Have the courage to tell a man why
you refuse to credit him.
Have the courage to tell a man why
you will not lend him your mouey.
Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have
when you are convinced that he lacks
principle; a friend should bear with
a friend's inflrmltfes, but not with
his-vices ,-.-T JJ
HaveHhe courage to snow your re
spect for honesty, in whatever guise
it appears, and your contempt for dis
honesty and duplicity by whomsoever
exhibited.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new
ones.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fashion, in all things
Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance rather than to seek
for knowledge under false pretenses.
Have the courage, in providing an
entertainment for your friends, not to
exceed 3-0111 means
Have the courage to insure the
property in your possession, and
thereby pay your debts in full.
Have the courage to obey your
Maker at the risk of being ridiculed
bj- man.
The Democratic party wants to pre
serve intact "white civilization" in
the South. It had better get some
first.
Can auything to compare with our
progress and prosperity under Repub
lican management be showu from
the history of our opponents?
The Republican party was the
growth of necessity, the creation of
the ideaa of the nineteenth century
against those that took hold of other
ages.
With such principles yet to contend
for, the party has not fulfilled its mis
sion, but yet has work todo thatshall
elevate mankind and make the world
happier and better.
Till the South recognizes tho digni
ty of labor, equality of political and
civil rights, and the utmost freedom
of political faith, her'magnificent coun
try will never be developed.
Colored citizens have borne their
part in the contests through which
we have passed, and we must not
shrink from fairly enforcing the guar
antees we have given them.
He is a traitor to humanity and
Heaven who does not insist on the
same terms of citizenship for all ; on
the same laws for all ; and on the
same respect for all the rights of all.
In the reign of terrorism that would
surely follow a national Democratic
success, life itself would be as insecure
as valueless to colored Republicans
and their white friends in the South.
It was the protest of humanity and
justice against cruelty and tyranny
and to it came a.l who believed In
equal right before the law, freedom
for all mankind, and honesty as the
ruling motto.
Though the Republican party, or
rather the men elected by the party,
have not always discharged their
duties with fidelity, the record made
during the past fourteen years chal
lenges the admiration of patriots.
"What does Governor Leslie, of Ken
tucky, mean when he talks in a re
cent proclamation about a "female
colored girl ?"
A San Francisco man committed
suicide because a pictorial sheet char
acterized him as an, "oh nuisance."
A COROLLARY
Susan B.
Says that she
Never sat on Theodore's knee.
H. Vf. B.
Says that be
Never once touched Mrs. T-
Now, If we
io agree
Susan B
Had nothing todowtth Theodore T.
Then you see,
"Wo agree,
H. W. B.
Did not touch 'Lisabeth's L. E. G.
OUE NEW YOKK LETTER.
The Elections Tweed Vanderbllt
Bualneas T Weather.
Correspondence NeVraHka Advertiser.
New York, Nov. 14; ISZi
THE ELECTIONS.
Did you hear anything drop out
your way? Are you, dear Republi
can reader, in receipt of notes every
hour from your jocular Democratic
friends, asking you how you like it?
Does your Democratic neighbor slap
your back with a vigor unknown to
former years, and remark, "Things
have kind o' changed, aint they?"
That is what is affecting the Republi
cans of New York just now. A more
hilarious, jolly set of men than the
Democracy are not in existence. The
enormous majority given to the De
mocracy In this city is very easily ex
plained. A vast number ef Republi
cansthe best and hardest working
Republicans formerly voted deliber
ately and in cool blood for Tilden and
the Democratic ticket. They did
this, not because they have lost their
Republicanism and propose to go in
to the Democratic party, but because
they believe that the leadership of the
party has fallen into bad hands, and
that a rebuke is necessary. One sol
id, substantial merchant, who has al
ways given liberally of his time and
money to the Republican cause, told
n.e the day before election that be
should vote the straight Democratic
ticlret.
"Your reason ?" I asked.
"Because," was his reply, "it is
time to slap somebody in the face.
The good old party has gone estray.
We promised civil reform, and we
have not done a thing in that direc
tion. We promised the settlement of
affairs in the South, and anarchy
reigna there. We pledged ourselves
topurity jn the administration of af
falrsandoIOBeri; Butler runs the
appointing power. Simmons was
made Collector of the Port Of Boston
against the protest of every merchant
of that city. Shepherd is in favor In
Washington, and, in short, the buz
zards, the camp-followers, the brig
auds, of the party aro too close to
headquarters. I am going to vote
with the Democracy just this once, as
a note of warning."
As this man did, so did thousands
of others. The Republicans of the
city felt that a change was necessary
that within the party evils had
grown up that required radical and
very severe treatment. And so they
either voted the Democratic ticket, or
refused to vote at all.
The Democracy are as jubilant as
men can be. The Manhattan Club,
which is the headquarters of the lead
ers of the organization, was, on Fri
day night, a scene of revelry of the
wildest possible kind. Champagne
flowed freely, and the more Demo
cratic fluid whiskey was as com
mon as water. Thurman, of Ohio,
made a speech, as did Tilden aud the
other magnates.
No wonder they feel jubilant. They
see ahead of them a long vista of good
things. They see in this triumph
the election of a Democratic Presi
dent in 1S76, which gives unto them
the unchecked control of the city, the
State, the whole country. Through
the minds of these men float visions
of positions of trust unhampered, and
of pluuder unlimited. They see in
the immediate future a revival of the
glorious days of Tammany, when the
great city, bound hand and foot, was
in their hands, bleeding money at ev
ery pore. They see the revival of the
Amerious Club, with its jolly gang of
roysterers; of the oid Tweed times;
in brief, when every man who could
control fifty votes had his bands in
the treasury, elbow deep. And, by
the way,
BOSS TWEED
is the most jubilant man living. He
expects an early pardon and a quick
deliverance from his bond3. The old
man chafes under his confinement
now more than ever. He wants to be
out. Now that the Democraoy have
made the world fit for him to bustle
in, he wants to be in a position to
bustle. He knows very well that the
Democracy will need him ; and that
now that they have the power, they
will not permit him to languish in
bonds.
Possibly when Tweed gets out, and
gets his hand on the wires once more,
the Republicans who were eo fast to
vote for Tilden may conclude that It
would have been better to have borne
the ills they had rather than fly to
those they knew not of. New York
will taste the sweets of ring rule once
more, sure'. What short memories
men have.
SOMETHING ABOUT VANDERBILT.
Gladly, oh how gladly, do I turn
my eyes from the political ffeld in
any other direction. Who is there on
this side of the water who has not
heard of Vanderbllt the railroad king?
Would you know something more of
him? Well, the old erentleman Is
now eighty-two years of age and is as
strong and vigorous as he ever was,
or, at least, he does as much work as
he ever did. He has outlived all his
contemporaries. The great bulk of
his enormous fortune he has made
within the last ten years. When he
bought Harlem stock it was down
worth nothing he made it valuable.
To make it more valuable he got con
trol of its only rival, the Hudson Riv
er, and to make that just as profitable
as it could be he gobbled the Central.
And then to give Central a proper
Western outlet he took in the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern. Hav
ing a direct line to Chicago, the Com
modore adopted one idea, viz: that
the only points to be considered were
New York and Chicago, and whoev
er Interferred with this notion was re
morselessly killed. Erastus Corning
made a fight for Albany, and he went
under. Pean Richmond made a fight
for Buffalo, and he was swamped.
And what is true of Bichmond and
Corning Is true of everybody who has
ever come in his way.
In the course of nature he cannot
long hold out, and it is some interest
to know of the people who are to iu
herit his vast estate and vast power.
He has had thirteen children. The
oldest fs the wife of J. M. Cross, Esq.,
of this city ; the next is the wife of
D. B. Allen ; Ethelinda Eliza mar
ried a broker, Osgood, acid Emily is
the wife of W. IC Thorne. Next af
ter the four girls came a boy, who was
named William. "Billy," as he is
familiarily known, is his father's
lieutenant in the railroad world, and
has very great ability in fact, it is
said he is stronger and quite as hard
as his father. Then come three
daughters, and another boy, Corneli
us. The latter is a widower, and a
man of little acoount. He is a spend
thrift, and so utterly unlike his fath
er that the old man refuses to pay his
debts, or, for that matter, have any
thing to do with him. It will be re
membered that the late Horace Gree
ley lent this Vanderbilt a large sum,
which the father' refused to pay.
Francis and George, who followed
Cornelius, died young.
William is looked upon as his fath
er's successor indeed, it is said that
the great king of the rail has made
his will, leaving him his entire es
tate, specifying particularly, howev
er, how it is to be used. He desires
that the supremacy In transportation
which he has Jield so many years,
shall remain in the family, and that
it shall go on and accumulate, as such
interests always do if they are con
trolled by a hand strong enough to
keep them together.
The people have different hopes,
and it is well that time is alwa3's on
their side. The power wielded by
Cornelius Vanderbilt is too great to
be safely entrusted to any one man.
He holds the keys to the transporta
tion facilities of the country. He has
the screws in hi3 hands, and a single
turn cost3 the farmers of the West
and the merchants of the East mil
lions. He has it iu his power to make
or ruin cities, and who can say what
injustice, caprice or interest may do?
He is too strong to be fought, and so
the whole country ha3 got down on
its knee3 before this gray-haired old
man and worships him. It is not the
first time the people have bowed be
fore a golden cal f.
Let us hope that when he dies, Wil
liam, the son, will be content to give
up this great power and let it divide
itself naturally.
BUSINESS
is thin enough, though it is improv
ing slowly. There i3 enough show
ing itself to save the year from dry
rot, and that is about all. The West
does not come up as it ought. What
is the matter? The Democracy say
that it will improve now that the
elections have given a prospect of
Democratic supremacy. Willit? We
shall see.
THE WE AT HEP.
is more like June than November. It
is warm, and oh, how dry. There
has been no rain for two months, and
everything is suffering. In the coun
try round about the suffering Is terri
ble. What is the matter? No rain
and Democratic victories everywhere?
There ought to be a change.
PlETRO.
An Indiana clergyman sued a
newspaper for libel and dropped dead
within a week. The Detroit Free
Press says these fellows will learn
something by and by.
Old Dr. Todd's son is bringing
Todd's manual down to date a much
needed work, for there is very little
in that manual of Old
modern mixed drinks.
Todd's about
A ferryman was asked by a timid
lady whether any persons were ever
lost in the river over which he rowed.
"Oh ! no," said he, "we always find
'em the next day
i
The opinion is being strengthened
every day that the man who first
made a shirt to open behind did more
for the world than one who has dis
covered five comets.
Love's Language Young bride :
"Was she hisown darling duckums?"
"Yes; she was ownty donty darling
duckums." Exit old married man,
enraged and disgusted.
T
Albert Edward can pay his debttf If
he want3 to. He don't want to, how-evor
YOL. 19.-2NT0. 21.
DEAFNESS.
Probably the most frequent way n
which the ears are injured is by the
attempt to clean them. It ought to
be understood that the passage of the
ear does not require cleaning ly U3.
Nature undertakes that task, and in
the healthy state fulfills it perfectly.
Her means for cleansing the ear is the
wax. Perhaps the reader has never
heard what becomes of the ear-was.
I will tell him. It dries up intothin,
fine scales, and these peel off one by
one from the surface of the passage,
and fall out Imperceptibly, leaving
behind them a perfectly clean,
smooth surface. In health the pass
age of the ear is never dirty ; but if
we attempt to clean it, we infallibly
make it so. Here by a strange lack
of justice, as it would seem, which,
however, has no doubt a deep justice f
at the bottom the best people, and
those who love cleanliness, suffer
most, and good and careful nurses do
a mischief negligent ones avoid.
Washing the ears out with soap and
water is bad ; It keeps the war moist
when it ought to become dry and sca
ly. Increases it3 quantity unduly, and
makes it absorb the dust with which
the air always abounds. But the
most hurtful thing is introducing the
corner of the towel screwed up, and
twisting it around. This does more
harm to the ear than all other mis
takes together. It drives the wax
down upon the membrane much
more than it gets out. Let any one
who doubts this make a tube like the
passage, especially with the curve
which it possesses; let him put a thin
membrane at one end, smear Its In
ner surface with a substance like the
ear-wax, and then try and get It out
so bv a towel ! But this plan does
much more mischief than merely
pressing down the wax. It Irritates
the passage, and makes it cast off
small flakes of akin, whloh dry up
and become extremely hard, and
these are also pressed down upon the
membrane. Often it Is not only deaf
ness which ensues, but pain and in
flamation, and then matter Is formed
which the hard mass prevents from
escaping, and the membrane becomes
diseased, and worse may follow. The
ear should never be cleaned out with
the screwed up corner of a towel.
Washing should extend only to the
outer surface, as far as the fingercan
Teach. Hintonjs Physiology for Prac
tical Use. ., - -
NEBRASKA CIT;T AND THE TRUNXt
ROAD.
In speaking of the Trunk Road,
the Nebraska City Zfeics says: "A
connection with Plattsmouth is of no
particular Importance to us ; and any
attempt to secure bonds either In
Cass or Otoe for such river bank line
would be futile."
If some young newspaper fledgling
had written the above we should not
wonder, but we are informed that the
JYcutf' men are. old Nebraskans, and
bow any man who has sense and has
watched the effects of railroads on
this State can pen such nonsense is
beyond our comprehension. If this
Trunk road had been built years ago,
towns and villages would have sprung
up on the Nebraska side of the river,
and wealth and prosperity centered
here. The A. & N. would have nev
er been built and probably theM. P.
Setting aside this view and saying
nothing about the utter and silly
selfishness of Nebraska City, (If that
is her view of the case) please look
for oue moment at the ignorance dis
played in the above.
Bonds are voted in Cass. $150,000
has been subscribed in Plattsmouth
and Cass county, for said river line,
or one from north to south throuirh
the county and $150,000 more from
another source was once offered (and
may be again) if the projectors would
run down by Factoryvilla, and in
through Otoe west of Nebraska City.
With a savage county seat fight on
her hand, and the people of Cas3, and
many in Otoe keen for this move, no
editor, with horse sense, would write
that Nebraska City had no interest in
the Trunk line above their own lim
its. This road will be built, if not
down the river, then back of Nebras
ka City to a point on the A. & N..
and the money has almost been ready
several tirae3. Kind of twist your
neck around, and IooTc at it this way,
will you. Plattsmouth Herald.
The Medina Gazette says that both
its Liverpool and Brunswick letters
mentioned the strange fact on the
17th ult., after a heavy shower of rain.
Mr. Wm. Newton discovered great
numbers of little fish, of the black
bas3 tribe, in the grass in his pasture
lot, which could only have got there
by being rained down.
A youthful Pennsylvania Granger,
about to be chastised by his father,
the other day, called for I113 grand
father to protect him from the middle
man. A Troy woman who got all ready
to elope with a young man, but find
ing that he had been eating onions
for supper, she went back to her hus
band. A poor sewing girl at Indianapolis
has fallen heir to $SS 000. and the
man for whom she made shirts at 20
cents each wants to make her his
darling.
An act of great politeness
ingastove. -Polish-
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE C0UXTT
-Wnst Shall We do with Onr Daught
ers." Mrs. Livermore has made this que
ry the text to one of her fine lectures.
It Is certainly an important problem,
but the Devenport Democrat thus
sums up some sensible lessons which,
should eariy bo impressed upo.
them :
Teach them self-reliance.
1
Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to made shirts.
T.each them to foot up store bills.'
Teach them not to wear false hair.
Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.
Bring them up In the way they
should go.
Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
Teach them how to make their own
dresses.
Teach them that a dollar is only s
hundred cents.
Teach them to cook a good meal of
victuals.
Teaoh them how to darn stockings,
and sew on buttons:
Teach them everyday, dry, hard,
practical common sense.
Teach them tosay No, and mean it ,
or Yes. and stick to It.
Teach them to wear calico dreasea
and do it like queens-.
Give them a good substantial com
mon school education.
Teach them that a good rosy romp
is worth fifty consumptives.
Teach them to regard the morals'
and not the money of their beaux.
Teach them all the mysteries of tho
kitchen, the dining-room, and tho'
parlor.
Teach them that the more one lives,
within h'ls income tea more he will
save.
Teach them to have nothing to da
with Intemperate and dissolute young
men.
Teach them the further one lives,
beyond his income the nearer he getef
to the poorhouse.
Rely upon it that upon your teaoh-.
idg depends in a great measure thq
weal Or woe of their after life.
Teach ibfem that a good, steady me-t
chauic without a cent is worth a dos
en loafers in broadcloth.
Teach them the accomplishments,
music, painting, drawing, if you have
time and money to do it with.
Teaoh them that God made them In
his own image, and ito amount of
tight lacing will improveHheVmodel;
domestic;
The best time to buy a farm i3 Au
gust and September, for then the poor
spots appear.
Rule for Measuring Grain in1 X
Bin. Multiply the length, breadth
and height together, and that pro
duot bj' four-fifths. For example : A
bin, 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, 3 feet
high, eqals 96 solid feet, multiplied
by fourfifths, equals seventy-six and
four-fifths, the number of bushels in
the bin.
The Herald of Health Is of opinion
that the simple color of ones sur
roundings has a marked influence on
his health. It says: "Yellow on the
walls of our rooms ha3 a very depress
ing effected on the mind. Violet is
worse. A man would go mad iu a
little while in a violet papered or
painted room. Black rooms, or rooms
heavily draped in mourning, produce
gloom and forecoding. Never wear
mourning long, unless you wish to be
sad and sorrowful beyond what naturo
ever intended.
A Rat Proof Smokehouse. The
rat3 can be excluded from the smoke
house at a trifling co3t by observing
the following directions. Tn the first
place, build your house of brick or
stone, excavated from the earth with
in the foundation to the depth of
twelve or fifteen inches. Wih rock
well broken, (such as used for macad
amizing) spread the broken rock six
inches deep, and thoroughly saturate
with thin lime aud small mortar.
When this becomes hard add another
coat of rock eijrht fnehew thick, aud
saturate as before. Then tin the bot
tom and edges of the door, and tho
protection is complete. Three wagon
loads of rock, and one of tand, ten
bushels of lime, are sufficient for any
ordinary sized s raokehouse.
--a-
Lady "Before I engage you, I
should like to know what your re
ligion is." Cook "Oh. ma'am, I al
ways feel it my duty to be of the same
religidn as the family I'm in."
A rejected lover In Switzerland, to
whom life seemed a blank and furth
er existence a burden, tried to com
mit suicide by flinging himself into a
bear's den. Ke insisted upon being
hugged, anyhow.
"Uncle, how do yqu do? Which
would you like bett work for wages
or part of de crop?" "Waal. I 'clar,
I tink bofe de best, if you can only
brung 'em togedder."
There Is evidently a very brilliant
future befire Weston, but the gener
al opinion is that he wont begin to re
alize it much until somebody saws ofJT
his legs.
A Georgetown man advertises con
cerning his runa'.vay wife, that "As I
ileVer pay mj- own debt3, it is reason
able to suppose that I will not pay
hers."
A 3'awl-boat-ing
babies.
-One filled with cry-
