1 J i J J 4 V ! r ! ' IT' FIGURE. GfUE OF MASSAGE AND ELSARTE SYSTEM. Ihiturlee of Testerday Dmom tlsof ToIy Irlopm ui lUmatj f Flg-ar and Of I O tli luxuries of yesterday be coriMKltle of today ami tbu very conitbing of to-morrow. It l bun that this should be o. for not AmIjo i it true but In many. The wZouta which caxiie touiat rare (lolii few year ngO are dally seen on l tables. Wby not, wben tbey otuan tho fruit whlcb grow In our 1 The oyU.r, which was some j tinua great offering on friendship's ftl'airefnthers from some friond at tbu m now a staple article of diet all winUnd not acoHtlyone at that, thonp nearly a thousand miles from llio "treasured silken gown of our grant carefully kept In neat folda amid sprigs, la today multiplied by lives, by twenties In the wardrobes of Slaughters. Tho printed pages so ransured In oldon times, are sold or giw daily in these days. Tis but a ftl:ortL a stationary bath in one's house v.iro, extravagant elegance. ftwr stiho first Turkish baths were ttablii.!tf larger cities, yet today would b&bucuco which would cu remark. "Mt" AXO "MASS AO Z. " V-feJsjnary, revised and pub lished It. v.wt contain the word mani cure, yet tlat0d women In the land grow fewer vee who do not put Into practical nt.fcBowiedge cf manicure articles. Vxmo reason that every one prefers to cor balr with the rubber or shell inventitodem times rather than with a bunc,ng strong thorns or fish bones, which itaoot the contrivances of savage roo prefers to use the flle and tho ronudjor 0f the manicuro to trim tho naibj of tne penknife. We see tho overage th carefully cared for finger naili ten years ago not one of tliem used tl, methods of polishing, filing and trim Massage, toorj cf Nineteenth cen tury coining, f onr rugged ancestry would have d cf being rubbed for pleasure or to ei tueu. physical beauty unless it was th,, n their age of lux ury! To bo rublen in ig but an expeet- el part of the MatMi treatment, but to lio rub(ed into stness or slenderness, or t be patted and ed Into roundness and firmness of outltauscig Is Just dawning ujwn tho coiiscit 0f the public as a tbing possible tonpijfih. It will only iy in the very .morrow when the i.npremo inrcportaj this massage treat ment will lie thoni understood by wom en in particular, know how to appre ciate lithcnessandpieness in another .oman, but they ay loth to undertake tho proper exercUjeveiop that same fi ecdom of moveini themselves. That it may be imparted iegree by no act of tiieir own volition, trough the medium of another's bond, act to be heralded with joy, and there Shadow or possibil ity of a doubt thatUOving of a joint lack and forth, roifcj round, gently, slowly, with certain te manipulations, will render it free afestic to a remark ab!o degree. t What do surgeon ja the case of a broken arm, where thiie limb has been held immovable for d weeks bandaged tight and close egaliio body! Do they leave the w rist and Qitiff and lifoles3, n- they appear when tb.tures and splints are removedl No. Atpoint in tho heal ing tho daily, and of ttiiwice daily, visits of the surgeon are madfa even more ex actness than earlier in case, and despita the moans and groans oipatient be bonds every joint of the finger wrist backward and forward, each time er and farther, until the tortured creai can endure no more for tho nonce. Bubgh the man of knowledge may desist unext time be un derstands the necessities ko oase, and no pleadings will turn him this course until tho joints have recovered,r pristine flexi bility. DEMANDS rERSO.VA TETfTIOS. What example can be ht to bear on anything stronger than argument in favor of massage treat me The figure de mands personal attentioilay because it receives most notice froniers, and light ness of gait, suppleness ofijy, freedom of movement are things u I of everyone. homo one said not long a it sho would like to have been born h daughter. This is a more reasonable uhan it seems and less egotistical. The are thoroughly alive to tb lien of today iern theories of education and cultivatio: tbey find it so bard a task to unlearn lay have been taught in order to reach a where they may imbibe a new course of Jg that tis no wonder they wish they mil bcin over anew as a child. i 1 One of the terrors of ndvaxV- age Is the tendency to scoutneas; rfing except wrinkles do women more lik than a heavy, plamping step which A 200 pounds of Cash, more or less, to carry jUt engen ders. Massage Is beneficial ftfhis, though certainly by no means as effect as active exercise. The rubbing for tt should be combined with long, smooth rtfces of the hand from the neck down ligpine, and from tho hips to the heels, J1J0 the same mode of procedure applied to ;jwing girls - - .-..0.. muu auu JJU TQi neigUU, Another ieJp to Ughtneas, gri land supple ness are me movements taugb era of Delsarta. This, perhaf way of all for women who have, ing, springing movements of tl either increase of years or wei saw the beauty of nature as it the human form, and tnHivi the teach- tho best the yield- youth, by Delsarte ould be in to prove theory U bow it might be developed, i - that at every movement or of any A port of the body an almost ptible nppieoi movement should ru igb the entire frame, and wben one sees the grace of carrying out this no other One is aC3-'gSailL ia needcu"in "Ita laugnt that the seat or ail m Iht ment is in the waist, and the undulation oithe body. when the waist theory is graccfj and mas tered, is the more beautiful. Th daughters cf the women of today will beorougbt to the highest state of physical cuilre. Why should not their elder envy thin I "a S. 1. u.w in Chicago Herald. i An Athlete's Col of Hiith. An excellent rule of health givjn by a pro fession athlete is: "Walk toydr place of place of business. Attend ti work in the usual way, resisting every, inclination you may Lave to give way tC indolence. auc tome. Itever mind theweather; iitue rein wuj not hurt you and rhe summer beat will not affect you when yos have dona it long enough to do yoa good, this Is just the timo to begin the walks, piere is ex hilaration in the air to anoonrla walking F and the habit nice formed is net Lkely to be ! abandoned. Chicago HaraidTT J 'J SWEET HOME OF MY YOUTH. gweec bone of my youth, mat the murmuring rtlla That are ouraed la toe laps of lb North BcoUiMb buls. Ere the (rrsy streaks of morning the aoogstar arouae From bis leaf cortaloed eot to bis matlnal vows. My tbouRhU cling to tbee, and lorluKly preas. Sweet 1 10 ma of my youth, on tba banks of the Wben the iray king of light doffs bis gladdening crown And mantles the land with his evening frown: Wben night's somber eov'rlng the earth's over laid. And nmture U mourning the day that Is dead. Then loved thoughts of thee do I fondly caress. Sweet home of my youth, on the banks or the Newt. Though thy tittle flower garden twice ten tunes bos lost Its bright summer garb sluce thy threshold Tve croaa'd. Though Atlantic's wide waters our fortunes divide; Still no time nor space from my memory can hide Or dampen the love 1 am proud to coo few For the home of my youth, on the banks of the Keas. John ratlerson. THE LATEST MECHANICAL WONDER. A Figure That rulla Out it Watch and Tells Una the Time. Professor Charles Uichel, tho Inventor of the flying machine which created so much interest a few years ago, (s Just completing a echanical wonder which is an astonishing piece of mechanism. It promises to create a great furor tliroughout tho country. He has been over a year experimenting with it, and has at lost achieved results which at the out start seemed impossible. Ho was given carte blanche from a watch manufacturing concern to get np the novelty, time and expense be ing a secondary consideration. Professor Uichel has kept the matter secret, and has permitted no one to enter his study except ing one or two intimate friends. A reporter was given a private view last evening. The entrance to the studio is by way of a dork staircase on John street. Double doors. a screen and a heavy curtain shut out the daylight Electric lights are used to work by. There are all sorts of grotesque heads. arms and bits of plaster anatomy hanging around the room, and upon tho work bench are brass molds and a variety of fine tools for the purpose of working In steel and brass. The new wonder is a life sized youth of per haps sixteen years of age. He is a fine look ing lad. In perfect imitation of tho average bov of tho present day. Tho fltnire stands upon tho floor, and is attired In Knickerbock ers and laced shoes, vest, coat, etc. to all ap- tiearances a living boy Professor Richel did Dot approach the figure, but spoke to t, say mg, " Good evening, Bobby; what time is it I" The figure turned its bead and bowed slishtly, and with its left hand pulled back the coat. The right hand, wbjcb bad been hanging at the side, was lifted up to the vest pocket and drew out a watch. The watch was then carried up to the ear, at the same time the bead turned so as to bring the ear down in a listening attitude, while the eyes closed. When the silent youth was assured that the watch was ticking the hand dropped slightly forward; the head turned so as to bring (he face to look fall at the watch, the eyes opened and a pleased smile spread over the features. The bead was then thrown back, the band which held tho watch between the thumb and index fincer returned the watch to the vest pocket and was then gracefully swung back into its resting position by the side. Thn mouth onened. and with a Dleosant. laugh the figure sai4: "It's ust half past S, sentlemen." So naturally wa3 all this performed that for an instant it seemed as if the figure was an actual living being. There waa no jerky movement, nor the slightest jar or noise. The eyes opened and closed and the hea4 moved about to all appearances like a living one. Professor Uichel laughed and said. "What do you think of it?" and then proceeded to ex plain how it was operated. Inside the figure is an electric motor. This had been, sat in op eration by touching a concealed button in the Boor several feet away where the professor had been standing. Afterwards he opened the chest of the figure and exposed Where the cams, springs, weight balanpes, spirals and levers which bad caused the arms and head to move. The cleverest parts are those which cause tho wrjst, thumb and ADEers 10 move. The articulatory mechanism is very similar to that employed in a phonograph. New York World. The Host and His Guests. Social intercourse or the exchange of civili ties should be solely for tho betterment and refinement of mankind, and if the status of such is not based upon a high sense of deli cacy and cultivation the results must t fruitless. A knowledge of human nature Is also im portant in the grouping of people. A wise entertainer knows tho ability of hi3 friends and acquaintances, and would not invite Cassius-liko friends, with aversion to music ia their souls, to a musicale, even though a Rubenstein was to play and a Patti to sing. Neither would he invite the bigot in religion to meet a rival one of another school, nor an apostle of Voltaire expecting pleasure frp.m the discussion sure to. arise. ior wouia ne bid political antipodes to attend a "con versation" on government affairs, with out expecting warm worns ana un pleasant clashing of opinions. Jteitber would such invite the brightest lights or tne dramatic world to meet those whose religious scruples prompt them to look upon the drama as a satanic invention for the destruction 01 human souls. Ifor would it do to invite the merrv. lisrbt hearted, youthful Terpsicborean to meet the sages of the court and the senate. knowiuz intuitively that there could be notb- ini? coneenial between the dignity and thoughtf ulness of the one and the frivolity and merriment of the other. A correct re- frard for the taste and weaknesses of one's eruests must be considered, to bring only con genial people together as far as it is possible to do so. In official entertaining, hosts pave no dis cretion, and are in no wiso responsible for the juxtaposition of discordant elements. The rules of official etiquette fix the position of rank and privilege in the social world, and consequently the unavoidable and incoqgru ous grouping, and unpleasant incidents that sometimes occur. iirs. John A. Logan in Chicago J ournaL Emperor William's Swords. The late Emperor William only used two swords and one saber throughout his long fighting career. The first sword was his boyish weaDon. carried from 1S10 to l&tt, the sec ond was a present from the Czar Nicholas, which served him from 1834 to the time of the war with Austria In 1SC& On the mem orable day of Sadowa the emperor adopted an infantry saber, which he wore to the last. and on which be bad engraved the names of all his victories in the Austrian and Franco- Prussian campaigns. These historical weap ons are to be stored in the Berlin museum. together with the saber belonging to the emperor's father, Frederick William HL which always stood by the side of bis writing table in bis study. iioston TranscnpSi A SHOP 'GIRL'S LIFE. WHAT SWEETENS HER EXISTENCE AND WHAT DOESN'T- Fined tow Being Lst Moat Stand All Day Half an Hoar for Lanch Whom the Ctrl Marry Why tha Seata Were ltanovwL "Well, we have to be here at 8 o'clock every morning, whether we live on the east aide, the west side, in Brooklyn or Harlem, and 8 o'clock Isn't an unreasonable hour at all, nor do we ever complain ; but if wo are ten minutes late, no matter why, we are fined. Of course, to the cash girls this flue means going without the cup of hot colTee or the little bit of fruit she would have bought to piece out her little lunch; but, so far as I concerned, I don't care anything about the flue; It Is the restriction that I object to and the being reprimanded. 1 don't intend to bo late. 1 am just as much interested in being here in time and selling a lot of goods as tho proprietor is himself. 1 like my busi ness, and am proud of tny sales and anxious to bejjin my work for the day, aud the idea thut because 1 happen to miss a car, or have one of the thoutaud little delaying accidents that every woman ami man, too, for that matter is liable to, that 601110 man who knows nothing alxmt 1110 liana rij;bt to repri mand me and lino nw just makes me cross and hurts my prido. "Then the iiardest tiling of all a shop girl has to endure is the constant standing from 8 in the morning until 0 at night, with only one half hour rest at noon. A few years ago some one stirred up this subject and seats were placed behind the counter, but they have been all taken away. Tho salesladies in suit departments can sit down, but not in the room where the customers are. Of course, if they go away in the little side room to rest they miss their customers, and the consequence is that they stand all day outsida We do not mind it on busy days, the excitement keeps us up, but on dull days we almost faint away sometimes standing still with nothing to make us forget how tired we are. "We have half an hour for lunch, which is time enough for a jxirson to eat a cold lunch, but when a girl stands from 3 o'clock until 2, after a 7 o'clock breakfast, she wants some thing besides a sandwich and a cup of tea for her lunch. 1 used to go out and buy my lunch and have a regular hot dinner, as 1 would at home. 1 needed it, and worked all tho better for it, but of course 1 couldn't get it in half an hour. I was usually gone forty minutes. After a while I was denied that privilege, and 1 have to cat my lunch in the lunch room. I dQU't like a cold lunch, and somehow (he thought of the being compelled to do anything like that fills my heart with a kind of bitterness thut takes away ail my ap petite. It isq't the cold lunch or the hot lunch room where they make coffee in one end and eat in the other, though; that isn't exactly what I am used to at home, but it is the restraint that 1 rebel against. '-At 0 o'clock sharp we are all excused in a batch, and away we pour out of the door like a mob of factory bands, and the people all say, 'See tpe shop girl Ifow, if sqine could, when thoy had no customers, go at fifteen minutes to 0 or ten minutes to G, dou't you see we woulJu't all dock out together and trapt attention, for part of us would go at one time and part at another, but now it is push aud crowd and jam to get out, so that if you would go decently an.d in a ladylike way you have to wf,$ until all the crowd is goim. "There flre a great many things I might do evenings to enjoy myself, but I am too tired aud feel so kiud of bitter and sorry and re sentful in my heart that 1 don't want to go anywhere. 1 like my work, am interested in it, and do not want to give it up any more than a man wants to give up his business. My employer is very kind, my salary is very generous, and all that; it is only a few little things aliout the system uf managing the girls that nia!;e us unhappy. We are inde pendent business women, earning as much, and in many cases more than men in the same pluces, and we do not like to be gov erued like the inmates of an orphan home or house of correction. And what kind of men do we marry? Well, they have to be pretty nice, or we don't bother with them. The better class of sales ladies rarely marry employes in the stora Don't you see we are independent, and unless we are going to better ourselves, very much. or unless v-,-3 get hopelessly in love, we do not care to mairy at alt I know many girls who haye married very weU, end have lovely homes. llo we 6ver marry tho customers whom we meet in the store? Well," with a toss of the blonde bead and a pretty flush in the timid face, "I know s,oma who might have married some of their customers, but wouldn't. 'As far as promotion is concerned, that rests eptirely with ourselves, ia based on our ability, and I think is very fair and just. Some girls never get promoted because they lack ability aud push, and others get to the top in a short tuna The promotions are from cash to parcel clerk ,Jfrom that to stock clerk, one who assists ia keeping tho goods in. order, then to bill clerk, saleslady, cashiers and floor walkers, aud wages increase from two dollars up to thirty or more." "How much pay do I getr said a bttle, fair faced maiden behind the counter. "Five dollars a week, unless something happens." "And what does happen to prevent itf "Weil, if Cm late a few minutes I am fined; if I am half an hour late I lose one quarter of a day's wages; if 1 make the least little mistake in my bills that is taken out of my pay, and if I break anything that has to be paid for- If I &m sick half a day 1 lose that, and so you see I don't always get the to. The floor walk&r doesn't always look when she hears a crash, because If she doesn't know what breaks or who breaks it, wby then sho cant report it. But she always docs look if the superintendent is anywhere on the floor. Sometimes one dish costs a whole weed's pay- Ja, our superintendent isn't a woman, and I'm glad of it. . A woman does nothing but scold and stew and fuss all the time over little things. Yes, it's pretty hard to keep up all the fines, but 1 suppose it makes us more careful, so that we really do not have so very many to pay. No, we have no seats now; they have all been taken away. Some times two or three of us crowd on the edge of a drawer that pulls out near the floor, but we fly np lively if we see the floor walker com ing this way." "The girls abused the privilege," explained the floor walker, a delicate looking girL "They were uot quick to rise up when cus tomers came in, and grew neglectful and indolent. Of course, it is tiresome to stand so long, and girls need to be strong to endure it. but they like the worn aside irom mat. and in time they seem to grow accustomed to it, so that they do not mind it as they do at first. "The hardest things we have to get along with are the cranks that come in here to be waited on. Of course, it is our busi ness to show the goods, but just as much their business to be ladylike. 1 tell you some of the eirla behind the counter- are more ladylike than the rich people they wait on. New York Sun. FAITH IN WITCHCRAFT. A CHAPTER OF HISTORY ASTOUND ING TO MODERN NOTIONS. On of tba Delation of the "Good Old Tlmea" Wliot an FnglUh Newspaper Saya renaltlea inflicted by Church and State The Puritan. At Christmas time, according to Shake speare or Mareellus, no witch has power to charm, so hallowed and so gracious is the time. There is perhaps no chapter of history more painful or more autouuding to our modern notions than that devoted to witch craft. Tho delusion was not like one of those sudden outbreaks of fanaticism which spring up, nobody knows ho.v, and die away as sud denly; it was regarded as a lasting evil to be punished with the severest penalties of tho church and of the state. And for the most part the people who perished under this reipn of terror were women. They were gener ally old and ugly, and bad familiar spirits to do their errands; but sometimes young and fair women suffered on the rack and nt the stake under the terrible Imputation of witch craft. To bo accused of this crimo was in most cases to be condemned for it; -and. Indeed, there seemed littlo chance of an escape, for the tests to which accused persons were put In order to try their innocence generally proved mortal. To throw an old woman into the wutcr, and, if she sinks, to save her character at tho expense of her life, is hardly kind to the old woman. Almost any cause sufliced as a reason for burning old women. Two, for example, were burned nt OotMruvf as the supposed uutht'r of u great slonu, und another for destroying a ship at sea by means of spells. They were never burnt, we be lieve, without confession; but then it was the custom to torture them till they did con fes3. Ono notable form of witchcraft, which has been admirably turned to poetic account by Rossetti, was to form a waxen imago of some person obnoxious to the witch, and as this image was gradually melted by the fire, so it was supposed would the victim's life fade away. Of this form of sorcery Eleanor Cobham, wife of Duke Humphrey, was ac cused; and Hollingshed relates that sho was condemned to do open penance in the city of Loudon, and afterward to suffer perpetual imprisonment in the Isle of Man. A kind of sorcery similar to that for which Eleanor Cobham suffered led to the execution, in 1G18, of two women in Lincoln, who were said to have bewitched Lord llosse to death by burying b3 glove; and "as that glove did rot and waste, so did the liver of the said lord rot and waste," In the Fifteenth century Pope Innocent VIII issued a bull against witchcraft, em powering inquisitors to seek for witches and to burn them, and the agreeable vocation must have been pursued with a zest, for one inquisitor burned forty -one witches in one year, and another burned 10Q. It s fatated that tens of thousands cf victims have suf fered for th$s imaginary crime. In tho 'io cese of Camo 1,000 were burned In year at the beginning of tho Sixteen century, and at the aara time frOtf -risbod in Geneva in three uiont -jhe belief in witchcraft and tho '.Ltolerablo cruelties caused by this belief were not confined to the papal church. In the Seventeenth century the Puritans in New England hanged a number of persons as well as two dogs for this imaginary crime. and for two -ears Hopkins, the "witch tinder," drove a flourishing trade In Essex. in 200 years 30,000 witches are said to have been destroyed in England; and as recently as 171G, when the town was enjoying the wit and satire of the "Queen Anne men," a woman and her child 9 years of ago were hanged at Huntingdon. Addison, with a mind that wavered between superstition and good sense, said ho could not forbear believ ing "in such a commerce with evil spirits as that which we express by the name of witch craft," while, at tho samo time, he could give no credit to any particular modern in stance of it." This conclusion is quoted by Blackstono in the fourth volumo of his Commentaries. " Scotland, which is regarded as an enlight ened part of the empire, held with tho ut most tenacity its faith 111 witchcraft. 1 be Scotch, a vigorous people, put their hands to the work heartily. It was easy to find victims, since, as we have said already, they were tortured until they confessed. Take one instance out of thousands. Isabel Craw ford, after tho minister had made earnest prayers to God for opening her closed heart, was tortured with iron hoi's laid upon her bare shins, hor feet being in the stocks. For a time she bore the torture admirably, though about thirty stone of iron were laid on her legs, but in moving tho bars to another part of her shins she broke out into horrible cries, and oonfessod to intercourse with the devil. She was condemned, or course, and at the place of execution openly denied her farmer confession. It is calculated that 2,000 per sons wero . burned in Scotland in the last forty years of the Sixteenth century. A century later a witch epidemic broke out in the village of Monro, in Sweden. A number of children were said to bo be witched and familiar with the devil, who was described as wearing a gray coat, red and blue stockings, a red beard and a. high crowned hat The witches kept this exacting personage supplied with children, and if they did not procure him a good many "they had no peace or quiet for him." The poor wretches were doomed to have 110 more peace or quiet in this world. Seventy were condemned to death, twenty-three were burned iif a single fire at Mohra. It ia noteworthy that a belief in this fright ful superstition, which destroyed more inno cent persons than tho so called Holy Oflice, was held by men of great intellectual po-wei by Erasmus, Bacon and the juaicious Hooker, by Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Browne, Baxter and Sir Matthew Hale. . Illustrated London -News, Tho Palmy Days of Minstrels 5-. I was reading1 that the wife of Jock Hav erly, the once wail known negro minstrel manager, inducei him to give her $10 every night out of the receipts of the show, so that when he went into bankruptcy she possessed a fortune of about $30,000. He begged her to lend him the money, but she refused him and today they are living comfortably on her savings. An hour or two afterward I met Bill Footo, who was a boomer for Haverly when that skyrocket of a manager was high in the air. Foote now runs a boarding bousa in this city, and is the custodian of Dock stader's theatre daring the absence of the Docks tader minstrels on a tour. "Oh, yes; those were 'halcyon' days," said he. "There was a time when the manager of a minstrel company hod to do hardly any thing else than open the doors of a hall and let people pay to come in. The five or six years after the war were especially profii able. New towns, of three to five thousand inhabitants, were constantly being discov ered by wide awake agents, and places of that sort were dead sure to yield Cue audi ences for anything in the way of minstrelsy. But it isn't so now. The milk is all gone out of that cocoanut, and the man who can make a negro minstrel company pay has got to hustle for it. "--.New York Cor. Indianapolis, News, - The Plattsmouth Herald Xs n joying a DA2L1T AND EDITIONS. Tear Will be one liirinr, national interest strongly agitated President will take Cass Countv who Political, and Social of tl 11s year -KOI! Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak ot our JOB Which is first-class in all respects from which our job printers are tur out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMGUTil, Boom in both, its 1888 which the subjects of -a a I I and importance win ne and tJie election ot a place. The people ot would like to learn of Commercial Transactions and would keep apace the times should wi th EITIIEK THE- PTPH MM IMI and ning NEBRASKA. t n