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NUMBER
VOLUME- XIII.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, 'THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1877.
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IX 1877.
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LAND COMUdSlOXER, T. M. R. R.
Patchwork Philosophy.
I've been thinking some, Keziah,
While a sitting at my work.
Though I ain't the sort of woman
To let thinking make me shirk
Ez I oay, I've been a thinking
What a very curious way
That our lives are patched together,
Cut sind fit 'ein as we may !
It'a a square of blue or crimson.
Then a square of dark and light,
Then a half of red and yellow,
By a half of solid whito ;
And with all our kalkilationa
Ez to how the patterns run.
We can never tell cggsackly
Until e'er the quilt Is done.
There's that bit of blue, jes yonder,
Tin as bright as a June sky, yet
'Taint your flimsy kind of cambric
That you daren't as much as wet,
If been flve-and-twenty summers
Since that cambric gown was new.
And these withered cheeks bad roses
That was best set off by blue.
Then that laylock on the corner.
It belonged to Betsy Wade ;
Shv was alius sort of shiftless.
Buying what was sure to fade.
But she somehow took folks' fancies ;
For men ne'er are otherwise
And the'weakest tort of woman
Can throw eawdust in their eye.
And that check 'twas off a weskit
That I made for Abel Green,
We was yes, chile nigh to married,
When when Betsy came between ;
Wal, 'taint worth the Miking over,
Howsoe'er the squares may fit.
Ye kin never tell, till J'iniug,
Ez to how the colors hit.
For the blue will spile the purple.
And the laylock spile the gray.
And the squares ye matched so certain,
Will match je the other way.
And with all yer careful patching.
You are alius sure to find
That the pattern, when it's finished.
Ain't exactly to your nnnrt.
So, Keziah, I've been thinking.
Here a-sitting at my work
Though I ain't the sort of woniau
To let fancies make me shirk
That our lives are like a patch-work,
With its squares of dark and light.
AUd there's only One above us
Who can do the j'ming ribt t
LITTLE FOXES.
4Dear me! there comes Grandma
Jarvis !" sighed prett y Mabel Lee, as she
looked out of the window and saw an
old lad coming across the lawn a very
queer looking old ladyr in a plain gray
gown, a dark purple shawl, and an old-
fashioned silk calash, over her thick-
ruffled cap.
"Mabel!', said her mother indignant
ly.
"Oh, I Ifiiow it, mammy dear. I'm
an awful sinner ; but Grandma Jarvis
is so good, and sensib e, and so forth, I
ahvay3 feel as if I were a poor little
nut in the jaws of a steel nut-cracker
when she is about."
'She generally finds out and brings
out the good in you," said Mrs. Lee,
smiling, but she said no more, for Mrs.
Jarvis turned the door-handle at that
moment and came in.
You saw at once, if you saw her face,
that she was a person of keen insight
and judgment; perhaps less lovable
(lion rronllnrp '111.1 ?nMi nrmpinnci r. :i-
ture, but yet a woman to be thorough-
lv trusted and relied on
Mabel was a lady-like, bright gui,
spoiled, to be sure, as children are apt
to be, when there is but one in the fam
ily, and resenting, like any spoiled child,
her grandmother's sharp comments and
sensible advice. At heart, however,
she respected her, and perhaps a little
more that the old lady was rich and
generous, and young people, even the
leaat mercenary and grasping, feel
kindlv toward the hand that brings
timely and costly gifts.
Mabel even forgave the Old World
dress, since that gray gown was heavy
lustreless silk, the thick-quilled cap-ruf
fles India muslin and thread-lace; the
nurnle shawl crane, covered with em
broidery, and the white kerchief fas
tened with one great diamond.
Grandma Jarvis never thought about
her clothes further than to have them
comfortable, and not too outre. She
knew very well the world was like Ma-
bel, and would forgive the simple fash
ion for the costly material, and, with a
certain grim humor, she always called
her diamond pin "Charity,
"It covers so many of my sins, my
dear, sue saiu. "X pass ior a woman
of sense with ninety people out of
hundred, simply on account of this big
trinket. It blinds them so they can't
see I am out of the fashion."
To-day Mrs. Jarvis had a definite er
rand. She sat down on the sofa and
took off her calash with deliberation
"Mehetabfcl," she said, fixing her eyes
on the young cirl, whose color rose to
her fair face at the obnoxious name,
"I hear you are going to be married.'
Mabel blushed still more hotly, and
looked straight out of the window. The
tell-tale pane reflected a knit brow and
unmistakably crass lips.
Mrs. Jarvis laughed.
"You are rather startling, mother."
"I should think the fact was more
startling than I am,' dryly answered
the old lady. "I got. your note last
night, Hetty, and I made up my mind
to come over this morning and see about
it.
"Yours are the first congratulations,
mother. Nobody else knows it."
"I haven't congratulated anybody
yet," snapped Mrs. Jarvis. I never do
congratulate anybody till a year after
their wedding-day, and then I don't
have to very often. I came to say,
don't any of you give the child a tea
service. I want to do that myself. She's
got roy name, and it ought to be gilt,
or silvered, or something, to console
her for such an old-fashioned appella
tion, though she does top and tail it as
if it were a gooseberry,"
"O grandma!" Mabel turned a pleas
ed and pretty face away from the win
dow now.
"Don't be overcome yet. Maybe
you'll change your mind before the end
miss. I've got a bit of advice for you
and a promise to take first. The ad
vice is to leave off the piano for six
months, and take to the kitchen. Men
cant live on love and w altzes, much less
a man of the Selden tribe. 1 know 'em.
If he don't have good food, he'll be sour
first, and then he'll have dyspepsia, and
there'll be a sound of a aoing in the
tops of the mulberry trees ; which things
are a figure. But that's the advice."
"O grandma, I can make a splendid
cake, and ice-pudding, too, and Char
lottes, just as good as Cross!"
"Fiddle-stick! You can't make bread
or boil a potato, or broil a steak."
"Iiut anybody can do that."
Mrs. Lee smiled, and grandma turn
ed a withering look on Mabel.
"Don't be a fool! There isn't one in
a hundred can do either, and I doubt if
you've got brains to; but you might
try."
There rose up instantly a mighty re
solve in Mabel's feminine soul to show
Grandma Jarvis that she could do more
than she gave her credit for, that she
would.learn how to cook in spite of this
discouraging prophecy. It is just pos
sible grandma knew who she was talk
ing to.
"Then, as to the promise. I'm going
to send yo:i over a motto; one of these
painted gimcracks everybody hangs up
everywhere. I don't know why they
call them illuminated, I'm sure, except
by the rule of contraries, for they need
extra spectacles and a calcium light to
read them by; but you can read mine;
I warned off the curlicues; only prom
ise to read it every morning before
breakfast, or I can tell you you won't
get the tea-set."
"Oh, yes, of course I'll read it, grand
ma the idea!"
"Well, well, if you read it you'll think
about it, I'll warrant. Now I must go
home and send John over with the
things;" and, with a frosty little caress
on Mabel's fair cheek, and'a nod to her
mother, the old lady went.
Grandma kisses me just like a clam
shell," said Mabel, in half-soliloquy, as
she sat down tigain by the window.
Ier moLher could, not help laughing,
for the cool nip of thin lips, that was
grandma's substitute for a kiss, certain
ly did suggest, shells and clamminess
John came direelly back with the pack
age, and Mabel eagerly untied and un
folded it. The motto was printed in
large German text, easy to read, though
gay with gold and colors, and it ran
thus:
"Take us the foxes, the little foxes
that spoil the vines, for our vines have
tender grapes."
Mabel stared.
"Mother, what on earth does it mean ?'
Mis. Lee smiled and sighed, both, as
she read the legend over the smls
shoulder. "Look here, Mab," said she
slipping a flat gold hoop off her third
fincrer. and the iiirl read inside, "Beware
of little foxes!" and looked up, freshly
astonished, into her mother's face.
"I suppose grandma means me to tell S
you a story, Mabel, which she told me
when I was first engaged. It hurt her
bitterly to tell it; but it did me much
good. I think she could not bring her
self to tell you. You are not her daugh
ter, and cannot love her as I do, and
you never have had reason to pity her
as I have. You never saw Grandfath
er Jarvis Mabel."
.Whj', I thought he died before I was
born."
"No, he died ten years ag j in Brazil -
I never saw him myself, Mab; he nev
er even knew he had a daughter."
"Mother!"
Mrs. L3e's lovely dark eyes filled with
tears as she drew Mabel down beside
her on the sofa.
"I have been told that grandma was
a very beautiful, high -spirited girl at
your age, dw; animated, brilliant,
thoroughly satisfied with herself and
her surroundings, especially when Jo
nathan Jarvis fell in love with her.
Her father died when she was three
years old, and her invalid mother ador
ed the child, ami spoiled her even more
than I do you."
Mabel kissed the soft hand laid on
her shoulder and gave it a willful little
bite. "Don't be horrid, mammy, or 1
shall oat vou ri:rht un. As if I was
one bit spoiled!"
"If you were not, my child, you would
not need grandma's lesson. She was
spoiled, as I said, and Jonathan Jarvis
knew it, but he was bewitched by her
spirit and beauty, and thought, as men
are apt to think, that he could control
and cure all that. She loved him, toe
very deeply, after her fashion, and
there was nothing to delay their mar
riage, but the day was scarcely fixed
when her mother suddenly sank and
died. Grandmother did not mourn so
hopelessly that it was thought best to
put off .her marriage, though, out of re
respect to her mother's memory, there
was no wedding party, and the "happy
pair" began their life at once in the old
homestead, where grandma lives to
day.
"Thn nntlook before these two was
very fair; youth, health, competency
what seemed to be devoted love, made
them an apparently enviable couple
but no sooner were theso unbroken
wills broucrht into daily contact than
trouble began.
"You may laugh, Mabel, but their
first dispute was about a coffee-pot.
Mother preferred the old-fashioned urn,
her husband the newer style of pitcher.
Neither would yield in a mere matter
of taste, and this was the beginning of
evil.
"Silly? Yes, it looks wonderfully
silly to us; but I think I heard a very
warm discussion only yesterday on the
proper style of riding hats for a lady."
Mabel colored to the waves of her
dark hair, and tried to ssnilo.
"They came to a compromise on this
matter, agreeing to drink chocolate in
place of coffee; but other small dis
putes followed; they all burnt in on
grandma's mind, but I forgot most of
them, so slight and trivial were the
matters of discussion, though they grew
to active means of torment.
"A child was born, and Jonathan, in
his sad and sore heart, thought that
would bring peace, and his indignant
and grieved wife hoped it also, for each
blamed the other as combatants will;
but the baby's eyes never saw their
strife; it died, and the hope died with
it. Little frets are what wear away
love and life, Mabel. My poor father!
and my poor mother! There was no
kindly friend to say a judicious word
to either. They showed a smiling front
to tke world outside, but grev more
alienated daily.
"There was no real quarrel, no vital
disagreement, but the hourly fret of
undisciplined tempers, impatient na
tures, strong wills and a self-consideration
that forbade yielding, that cher
ished pride and petulance, that recog
nized no daity except as owed to itself.
"The end of these tilings hastened.
Before the nameless babe had slept iu
its green grave a year, lather had set
out for, Brazil in a merchant vessel,
leaving this short adieu to his wife:
You can say I have gone South on
business. Mehetabel, he wrote, 'but
you know I shall never come back. I
am tired ot living in torment, anu ou
will be glad to part with one who could
never please you. So farewell, lours
to command. Jonathan Jarvis.
"Mother was frantically angry t
first. She raved in her own chamber
over what she termed a mortal insult,
but, as day after day came on, and her
loneliness and weakness grew over her,
she began to see things more honestly ;
and when news came that the ship had
foundered at sea, and all hands perish
ed, then she va3 entirely prostrated.
As she told me, her past life rose up,
looked her in the face, and struck her
down.
"I was prematurely born, and a very
long illness carried her to the gates of
the grave. She recovered at last, a
stern and saddened woman, with only
one interest in her life; but she brought
me up with strictness and care, tender
ly as she loved me; and when I was
about to take my life up for myself,
told me this bitter story, and gave me
this ring.
" 'If I had killed the little foxes,' said
she, sadly. 'I might to-day have a good
ly vineyard of my own. Beware of
them, Hetty. They have spoiled my
life.'
"And after all, Mabel, my father was
not lost on that wreck. lie was pick
ed up by another vessel, and under an
assumed name, lived on in Brazil. In
the grasp of mortal illness, he wrote to
his wife, asking and giving pardon. It
.. as from him that all Iter wealth came,
but she h:i3 never forgiven herself."
"Poor grandma!" sobbed Mabel, "and
have been so horridly hateful to her!"
"It will cor.solo her for all your
freaks, ray darling, if you only irofit
by her pitiful story."
The next time grandma Jarvis came
over, Mauel greeteu ner wnn a -sluu-gent
hug and a heartfelt kiss, not at all
of the clamshell order.
"Gracious!" exclaimed the old lady,
withdrawing herself a little to look at
Mabel; but she saw the brown eyes fill,
and her own grew dim.
"Go along, child, go along," she growl
ed, under her breath. "And, now you ve
gwt your lesson, don't forget it,"
It would have been hard for Mabel
to do so. when the exquisitely wrought
tea-set ';hat adorned her table through
all her married life bore on every cover
thfily and eager head of a tiny fox,
and the Very cream pitcher had fur its
handle the slender body of that treach
orous animal, its eager head peering
over the brim, and its long, bushy tail
curving outward at the base. Many
and many a time, when some trifling
matter irritated her, and a quick or
stinging word rose to her lips, a glance
at the tea-set shut her pretty mouth
closely just in time; and when grand
ma Jarvis came into Boston a year af
ter Mabel's marriage, to eat her Christ
mas dinner at Mr. Selden's, she nodded
quaintly at the lady of the house as
she said: "I congratulate you now,
Mehetabel. I can do it with a clear
conscience, lis ueen a yuou uuiumi
year, I see."
Mabel colored and laughed, and her
husband stared"," but nobody explained
the sybillic utterance ; only Mrs. Lee
gate her mother a loving and grateful
look.
And the moral is; Let U3 all go fox
hunting! Rose Terry Cooke, In Youths
Companion.
The Nebraska
mouth) is on our
Herald (Platts
table, this week.
marked "X." The Herald is among
the pioneer papers of the State, and is
too well known to need any encomiums
t nur hands. We cladly welcome it
to a place on our list , York, Republl
Crossing the jILsouri in jc 01 Jen Time.
The Dakota City Eagle says Betsy
Dick, an Omaha Indian woman, is an
advocate of woman's rights. She re
fuses to marry, and won't ride sideways
on her pony. She can kill as many
buffaloes as any man iu the tribe, talks
good English, and is indifferent to what
the brethren and sisters say.
"We can just discount that story on
"Old Betsy." This editor once came to
the Iowa side of the Missouri river at
nightfall, with his house and his wife
and his goods and chattels all on the
Nebraska side. The ferry was a Cot
tonwood skiff. The ferryman was
pretty full, and had another bottle of
mixhead sticking out of his buckskin
jacket pocket. The river was up and
booming, the wind blowing like great
guns.
Two Yankee land hunters stood shiv
ering on the shore, dreading to trust
their precious lives to the frail bark
and the unkempt ferryman, and hating
worse to stand the mosquitoes, iu a
cabin on the bank, all nfght. Know
ing the ferryman well, in spite of his
vagaries we climbed in and told him to
push off. Twice the Yankees got in.
looked at the angry waves and got out
on shore again. We got angry, the fer
ryman took a drink, and the travelers
balanced the chances of death by drown
ing or blood letting. Just then "Old
Betsy" hove i.i sight with long strides,
a short rifle strapped to her back, and
barefoot to the knees. With a grunt
she crawled over the ferryman, by us,
and seating herself in the stern she
grabbed a short paddle and growled
something in Indian. Betsy didn't
care for the high water. One of the
travelers climbed in after her, swear
ing a big oath, if a old squaw
wasn't afraid to cros3 the river on that
raft he wasn't. The other one backed
out and stayed ou with the "muskeets"
ail night. It was dark by that time,
and about as dark as we ever saw it.
and as dirty crossing as any one ever
saw. We all landed safe on the Neb.
side, and that "Yank" took big stories
of "Indian Betz" and his own bravery
home with him, you bet.
Responsibility of Lawyers.
The Lucca divorce case in New York
city has brought out somewhat novel
interpretation of the law as resuects
the duties of lawyers to clients. Mine.
Lucca sued her lawyers for recovery
of fees. They had procured for her a
divorce, and she married and then it
turned out the divorce was not regular
Judge Donahue of New York in the
regular trial dismissed Lucca's claim;
and the case was appealed to the" Su
preme, which has unanimously revers
ed the decission of Judge Donahue and
ordered a new trial. The chief justice
in his decision discusses the charge
of negligence or want of skfll of the
attorneys, and says:
"The law requires that every attorney
and counselor shall possess and use ad
equate skill, -yid that he shall employ
it in every case according to the im
portance and intricacy of the case; and
if the case miscarries in consequence
of culpable neglect or gross ignorance,
he can recover no compensation for
services which were useless to his cli
ent by reason of his neglect or ignor
ance. An attorney must be presumed
to be familiar with the law and rules
regulating practice in actions which he
undertakes. This part of the business
of the practice of law pertains especi
ally to the duties of an attorney. It is
substantially clerical and mechanical
and ignorance of the law and rules of
practice or negligence iu conforming
to them in obtaining judgements, is
altogether inexcusable. Such ignor
ance and negligence subject attorneys
to actions for injuries which their
clients may sustain. In these
clays, when lawyers are made with
such rapid facility, their unfortunate
clients ought not to bo deprived of
such protection as the right of -action
for malpractice can secure." Omaha
Republican.
People and Things.
Most men love little women, and by
a strange reciprocity, little women love
most men.
An Irishman may be kilt entirely,"
bqt a Scotchman's don't come down to
his knees. Rochester Express.
Four naw jug1 factories have been
established at Holly Springs, Mis3.
Yet some one has said that the
Southern Democracy is dying out.
Michigan had a thousand illegiti
mate baths last year. Something
ought to bs done, if nothing more than
to stop the statistics. Rochester Dem
ocrat. When a man can't find anything
about the house he should always look
in his collar box.
One single paragraph in Herbert
Spencers essay on "Primitive Marriage
in a late magazine, contains the words
endonaray, exogamy,' polygamy, mon
ogamy, polyandry, polyginy, iind agna
tion. He intended to shove into the
same paragraph the words cosmogany,
mahogany, phlebotomy, xerophthahny,
and several other and-so-fourth-rays;
but he had to stop to jab his pen in the
hik-stand for a fresh installment of
writing fluid, and afterward coccjud
ed, to lei ft SO tha,
FOE THE HOUSEHOLD.
How to Cleanse and Keei
Till
Hair. Be ve-y cautious about
doing;
any violence to your hair. If well cared
for, thoroughly cleansed, often brushed
and nicely dressed, it will always be
pretty, whatever the shade vh it a or
black, red or brown, or blonde. Was!,
it about once or twice a month with
soft warm water into which you have
broken the yolk of two eggs. Biaislv
daily night and morning with a mod
erately hard and then a quite soft
bruslu Singe the split hairs with a
hair-pin heated red-hot in the gaj jet
or candle flame. As often as poasiblu
let it hang about your shoulders ai:o
get the air through it. Braid it in.
loose plaits, or, if you roll it in puffs,,
do not "friz" the hair underneath. .
Olive Logan in Bazar.
To Tkeat Felons. Elder Evans,
of the Lebanon (N. Y.) Shaken, says;.
"For the past 10 years we have ttoatcA
felo'ns with hot watir, and with uncr-.
ring success. No cutting, no blister-
ing, no any thing, but immersing the
tinger, baud, or even the whole arm If
necessary, in water a3 hot as can be.
borne, until the paiu is gone and the.
core is loosened and drawn from the
bone. When rusty nails have produc-.
ed wounds, the same course has been,
pursued. If on hand, or foot, keep it,
in hot water."
An entertaining writer in the Colo-,
rado Farmer has the following good
words for milk as a factor in iV-jcTt.
making:
Among the many dishes of which,
milk is the standard material none re-,
quire it more than desserts. We are,
so fond o something, as the children
would say, to leave a pleasant taste
in the mouth, that our dinners do not
seem complete without a concluding
delicacy. Desserts add but a trifle to,
housekeeping expciices, especially thosti
simply made of milk and eggs. With ,
a little ingenuity one receipt ma
serve with variations foe. so tvaauy
dishes.
Make n soft boiled custard by uins
a pint of milk, the jolk of two eggs
two tablespoonfuLs of sugar, and a tear,
spoonful of corn starch. slice two ran-,
ges, and line the bottom of your pud-,
ding dish: flavor the custard with thn
juice and grated peel of one orange (be
careful to grate only the yellow part;
the white skin is very bitter,), turn the.
custard over the orange and bake ten
or fifteen minues. Beat the whit ot
the two eggs with a tablc3pocnful of
sugar, and spread it on the top when,
the pudding is baked and let it brown
slightly. For another pudding tslicc,
four apples and let them simmer in
the oven with a little water till ten-.
der. Make a custard m the same way
as before, pour over them, but flavor
with lemon. Again put half a can of
strawberries, peaches, pineapple in
your pudding, and j ou y,ary vcir pud-,
ding according to yourjruit.
The remaining fruit in the can may
be used another day by making a corn-i
starch pudding according to tho re-,
ceipe on the package, adding tho fruit
while it is boiling, to be served cither
hot or cold, with cream and sugar or
a sauce. With berries it is nice to,
make a sauce of a cup of sugar, half
a cub of butter rubbed to a cream, fla
vored with a teaspoonful of le mon and
vanilla, two teaspoonful of vinegar,
Then pour upon the mixture a teacu.H
f ul of berry juice boiling hot. This
same receipt, with a cupful of juico
from stewed prunes, makes a delicious
sauce for a boiled pudding or roly-poly,
By using a fruit in this way one can
well make two desserts.
I will give one other -standard receipt
to be varied according to taste. Put
half a package of gelatine in a cup of
cold water and let it stand ten min
utes, then pour ou a cup of boiling wa
ter, stirring until thoroughly dissolved..
Add a cup of cream or milk, two table-.
poonfuls of sugar, and a cup of cold
boiled coffee, and mold, to ue eaten
cold with cream and sugar. This is
called coffee cream. For chocolate.
cream, make in the same way, but add
instead of coffee a cup of gruted.choeo-,
late boiled in a cup of milk. For
orange cream add the juice and grated
peel of one orange and the yolk of two.
e"rs. For pineapple cream, a few
slices of pineapple, a cup of juice, and.
the yolk of two eggs.
Other fruits may be used n the same
way.
COOKING BEANS.
Beans are a very valuable food.
Persisted in wc have known them,
to cure many cases of scrofulous taint
accompanied by disfiguring eruptions,
Tho contained oil, not unlike castor
oil in character, induces a gentle uctiv-.
ity of the alimentary 'canal, and the
effects of the blood-poison disappear iq
due time.
But with beans and peas cooking is
every thiug. As ordinarily brought to
th table, they are utterly unfit for-a
human stomach. They are almost
never cooked enough. They are heavily
freighted with B--.lt and in k and grease,
The" pork is pe.haps stale or ill-fed and
rank. It gives off its excess of. pa.t in
thP rfioUiii. and beans absorb it. It,
exudes grease and the beans are satur
ated with it. There is a close-gramed,
ten-'ccous hull un n the bean and pea,
which takes high lip.it. on contiuued,
todissohc. This shell cannot be du
"ested until dissolved. Tho cooking
process must do thi. or the mass must
be strained or sifted. Baking is not
the biiat uiodo of cooking beans and
peas. They need water and a good,
deal of it. 3LV-n sou? is te V'V.',t
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