I'LATTSM () TTI 1 WEEKLY HE KALI), THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 18S7.
MUNICIPAL CRIME.
HOW. DR. TALMAGE PROPOSES TO
DECREASE IT.
A Filthy City Always a VCh-kftfl City.
Tho Ntviiarn f u I'litco n Tent of
Its IMorullty Compulnory Education
Advocated.
Brooklyn, .Tune 10. This morning at
tho Tabernacle the Hev. T. Do Witt Tnl
mago read, ircvious to tho sermon, por
tions of Kciiijturc descriptive of uncicnt
cities mid gave out the hymn:
"Fli'Ms nr viit the liarv?st waiting;
Wlio will li-ur tin: kIii-uvl'S uwayr"
His text was, "And tho men of the city
fiaid unto F.lishn, lk-hold, I pray thee, the
situation of this city is pleasant, as my
Lord seeth; but tho water is naught and
tho ground barren. And he ail, 15rin
me a new cruse, nnd put Bait therein. And
they brought it to him. And ho went
forth unto the spring of the waters, and
cast tho salt in there, and said, Thus said
tho Lord, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence uny more
death or barren land. So tho waters were
heated unto this day." 'II Kinps ii, 19-22.
Dr. Talinape Raid: It Is difficult to
estimate how much of tho prosperity
and health of u. city are dependent
upon good water. The time when
through well laid pipes and from safe
reservoir an abundance of water from
Croton or Ridgewood or Schuylkill is
brought into tho city is appropriately cel
ebrated with oration and pyrotechnic dis
play. Thank God every day for clear,
bright, beautiful sparkling water as it
drops in the shower or tosses up In the
fountain or rushes out at the hydrant.
The city of Jericho, notwithstanding all
Its physical and commercial advantages,
was lacking in this important element.
There was enough water, but it was dis
eased, and the people were crying out by
reason thereof. Elisha, the prophet, conies
to the rescue, lie says: "Get me a new
cruse; fill it with salt and bring it to me."
So tho cruse of salt was brought to the
prophet, and I see him walking out to the
general reservoir, and he takes that salt
and throws it into the reservoir, and lo!
all the impurities depart, through a super
natural and divine influence, aud the
waters are good and fresh and clear, and
all the people clap their hands and lift up
their faces in the gladness. Water for
Jericho clear, bright, beautiful, God
given water!
At different times I have pointed out to
yon tho fountains of municipal corruption,
and this morning I propose to show you
what are tho means for the rectification of
those fountains. There are four or ilvo
kinds of salt that have a cleansing ten
dency. So far as G.od may help me, I
shall bring a cruse of salt to the work,
and empty it into the great reservoir of
municipal crime, sin and shame, ignorance
and abominati.m.
In this work of cleansing our cities, I
have lirst to remark that there is a work
for the broom and the shovel that nothing
elso can do. There always has been an
intVnate connection between iniquity and
dirt. The filthy parts of the great cities
nre always the most iniquitous parts. The
gutters and the pavements of the Fourth
ward, Xew York, illustrate and symbolize
the character of the people in the Fourth
ward. "
The first thing that a bad man doe3
when he is converted is thoroughly to
wash himself. There were, this morning,
on the way to the dillereut churches,
thousands of men in proper apparel who,
before their conversion, were unlit in their
Sabbath dress. When on the Sabbath I
pee a mau uncleanly in his dress, my sus
picions In regard to hi3 moral character
ure aroused, and they are always well
founded. So as to allow no excuse for
lack of ablution, God has cleft tho conti
nents with rivers and lakes, and has sunk
five great oceans, and all the world ought
to be clean. Away, then, with the dirt
from our cities, not only' because the
physical health needs an ablution, but be
cause all the great moral and religious
interests of the cities demand it as a posi
tive necessity. A filthy city always has
been and always will lie a wicked city.
Through tho upturning of the earth for
great improvement our city could not Ijo
expected to be as clean as usual, but
for the illimitable dirt of Brooklyn for
the last six months there is no excuse. It
is not merely a matter of dust in the eyes,
and mud for the shoes, and of stench for
tho nostrils, but of morals for the soul.
Another corrective influence that wo
would bring to bear upon the evils of our
great cities is a Christian printing press.
The newspapers of any place aro the test
of its morality or immorality. The news
boy who runs along the streets with a roll
of papers under his arm is a tremendous
force that cannot be turned aside nor re
sisted, and at his every step the city is
elevated or degraded. This hungry, all
devouring American mind must havo
something to read, and upon editors and
authors and book publishers and parents
and teachers rest the responsibility of
what they shall read. Almost every man
you meet has a book in his hand or a
newspaper in his pocket. What book is it
you have In your hand? What newspaper
is it you have in your pocket? Ministers
may preach, reformers may plan, philan
thropists may toil for the elevation of tho
Buffering and the criminal, but until all
the newspapers of the land and nil the
booksellers of the land set themselves
against an iniquitous literature until
then we shall bo fighting against fearful
odds. Every time the cylinders of our
great publishing houses turn they make
the earth quake. From them goes forth a
thought like an angel of light to feed and
bless the world, or like an angel of dark
ness to smite it with corruption and sin
and shame and death. May God by his
omnipotent spirit purify and elevate the
American printing press 1
I go on further and say we must depend
upon the school for a great deal of correct
ing influence. A community can no more
afford to have ignorant men in its midst
than it can afford to have uncaged hyenas.
Ignorance is the mother of hydra headed
crime. Thirty-one per cent, of nil the
criminals of New York state can neither
read nor write. Intellectual darkness is
generally tho precursor of moral dark
ness. I know there are educated out
lawsmen who, through their sharpness
of intellect, are inado more dangerous.
They use their fine penmanship in signing
other people's names, and their science in
ingenious burglaries, aud their fine man
ners in adroit libertinism. They go their
round of sin with well cut upparel, and
dangling jewelry, and watches of eighteen
karats, and kid gloves. They aro refined,
educated, magnificent villains. But that
Is the exception.. It is generally tho case
that the criminal classes arc n3 ignorant
as they are wicked. For the proof of
what I say, go into the prisons and the
penitentiaries, and look upon the men
and women incarcerated. The dishonesty
in the eye, the low passion in the lip, are
not more conspicuous than the ignorance
4a iSoj2TJ&S3L -3e JOTPraat SlfiiSfia fire
always tho dangerous classes. Dema
gogues marshal them. They are htliu
less, and ate driven before tho galo.
It is high time that all city and state
authority, as well as tho Federal govern
ment, appreciate the awful statistics that,
while years ago in this country there was
set apart 000,000 acres of land for
school purposes, there are now in New Eng
land 11)1,000 people who can neither read
nor write, and in the state of Pennsylvania
222,000 who can neither read nor write,
and in the state of New York 211,000 who
can neither read nor write, while in the
United Slates there are nearly 0,000,000
who can neither read nor write. Statistics
enough to stagger and confound any man
who loves his God and his country- Now,
in view of this fact, I am in favor of com
pulsory education. When parents ure so
bestial as to neglect this duty to tho child,
I say the law, with a strong hand, at the
same time with a gentle hand, ought to
lead these little ones into the light of
intelligence and good morals. It was a
beautiful tableau when in our city a
swarthy policeman having picked up a
lost child in the street, was found appeas
ing its cries with u stick of candy lie hail
bought at tho apple stand. That was
well done, and beautifully done. But,
oh! these thousands of little ones through
our streets who are crying for the bread
of knowledge and intelligence. Shall we
not give it to them? The officers of the
law ought to go down into the cellars, and
up into the garrets, and bring out these
benighted little ones, and put them under
educational Influences; after they have
passed through the bath and under the
comb, putting before them the spelling
book, nnd teaching them to read the
Lord's Prayer and the sermon on tho
mount: "Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven."
Our city ought to be father and mother
both to these outcast little ones. As a
recipe for the cure of much of the woe,
and want and crime of our city, I give the
words which Thorwaldsen had chiseled on
the open scroll in the hand of the statue
of John Gutenberg, the inventor of tho art
of printing: "Let there be light!"-
Still further: Reformatory societies are
an important element in the rectification
of the public fountain. Without calling
any of them by name, I refer more espe
cially to those which recognize tho phys
ical as well as tho moral woes of the
world. There was pathos and a great
deal of common sense in what the poor
woman said to Dr. Guthrie when he was
telling her what a very good woman she
ought to be. "Oh," she said, "if you
were as hungry and cold as I am, you
could think of nothing else." I believe
the great want of our city is the Gospel
and something to eat. Faith and repent
nnco are of infinite importance; but they
cannot satisfy an empty stomach. You
have to go forth in this work with the
bread of eternal life in your right hand
and the bread of this life in your left
hand, and then you can touch them, im
itating the Lord Jesus Christ, who first
broke tho bread and fed the multitude in
tho wilderness, and then began to preach,
recognizing the fact that while people are
hungry they will not listen and they will
not repent. We want more common sense
in the distribution of our charities; fewer
magnificent theories, and more hard
work.
Still further: The great remedial in
fluence is the gospel of Christ. Take that
down through the lanes of suffering. Take
that down amid the hovels of sin. Take
that up amid the mansions and palaces of
your city. That is the salt that can cure
all the poisoned fountains of public in
iquity. Do you know that in this cluster
of three cities, New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn, there are a great multitude of
homeless children? You see I speak more
in regard to tho youth and tho children of
the country, because old villains arc
seldom reformed, and, therefore, I talk
more about the littlo ones. They sleep
under the stoops, in the burned out safe,
in tho wagons in the streets, on the barges,
wherever they can get a board to cover
them. And in tho summer they sleep all
night loug.in the parks. Their destitution
is well set forth by an incident. A city
missionary asked one of them: "Where is
your home?" Said he: "I don't have no
home, sir." "Well, where are your father
and mother?" "They are dead, sir."
"Did you overhear of Jesus Christ?" "No,
I don't think I ever heard of him." "Did
you ever hear of God?" "Yes, I've heard
of God. Some of the poor people think it
kind of lucky at night to say something
over about that before they go to sleep.
Yes, sir, I've heard of him." Think cf a
conversation like that in a Christian city.
How many are waiting for you to come
out in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ
and rescue them from tho wretchedness
here! Oh, that the church of God had
arms long enough and hearts warm
enough to take them up! How many of
them there are! As I was thinking of
the subject this morning, it seemed to me
as though thero was a great brink, and
that these little ones with cut and torn
feet were coming on toward it. And here
is a group of orphans. Oh, fathers and
mothers, what do you think of these
fatherless and motherless little ones? No
hand at home to take care of their ap
parel, no heart to pity them. Said one
Little one, when the mother died: "Who
will take care of my clothes now?" The
little ones are thrown out in thi3 great,
cold world. They are shivering on the
brink like lambs on tho verge of a preci
pice. Does not your blood run cold as
they go over it?
And here is another group that como on
toward the precipice. They are the chil
dren of besotted parents. They are worse
off than orphans. Look at that pale
cheek; woe bleached it. Look at that
gash across the forehead; the father
struck it. Hear that heart piercing cry;
a drunken mother's blasphemy compelled
it. And we come out and say: "O ye suf
fering, peeled and blistered ones, we come
to help you." "Too late!" cry thousands
of voices; "the path we travel is steep
down, and we can't stop. Too late!" And
we catch our breath and make a terrific
outcry. "Too late!" is echoed from the
garret to the cellar, from the gin shop and
from the brothel. "Too later ' It is too
late, and they go over.
Here is another group, an army of
neglected children. They come on toward
the brink, and every time they step 10,000
hearts break. The ground is red with the
blood of their feet. The air is heavy with
their groans. Their ranks are being filled
up from all the houses of "iniquity and
shame. Skeleton Despair pushes them on
toward the brink. The death knell, has
already begun to toll, and the angels of
God hover like birds over the plunge of a
cataract. While these children are on the
brink they halt, and throw out their hand3
and cry: "Help! help!" Oh, church of
God, will you help? Men and women
bought by the blood of the Son of God,
will yon help? while Christ cries from the
heavens: "Save them from going down; I
am the ransom."
I stopped on the street and just looked
at the face of one of those little ones.
Have you ever examined the faces of the
neglected children of the poorf; Other
children hve gladnes3. fa they, faces.
When a group of them rush across tho
road, it seems as though a spring gust
hnd unloosened an orchard of npplo blos
soms. But these children of the ioor.
There Is but little ring in their laughter,
nnd it stops quick, as though some bitter
memory tripped it. They havo an old
walk. They do not skip or run on tho
lumber just for the pleasure of leaping
down. They never bathed in tho moun
tain stream. They never waded in tho
brook for pebbles. They never chased
tho butterfly across the lawn, putting
their hat right down where it was just
before. Childhood has been dashed
out of them. Want waved its wizard
wand above the manger of their
birth, and withered leaves ure
lying where God intended a budding giant
cf battle. Once in a while one of these
children gets out. Here is one, for in
stance. At 10 years of age lie is sent out
by his parents, who say to him: "Here is
a basket; now go off and beg and steal."
The boy says: "I cun't steal." They kick
him into a corner. That night he puts
his swollen head into tho straw, but a
voice comes from heaven, saying: "Cour
age, poor boy, courage!" Covering up his
head from the bestiality, and stopping his
ears from the cursing, he gets on up
better and better. He washes his face
clean at tho public hydrant. With
a few pennies got at running errands
he gets a better coat. Rough men,
knowing that he comes from a low
street, say: "Back with you, you little
villain, to the place whore you camo
from." But that niatfit the boy says:
"God help me, I can't go back;" and
quicker than ever mother Hew at the cry
of a child's pain, the IiOid responds from
the heavens: "Courage, poor boy, cour
age!" Bis bright face gets him a posi
tion. After a while he is second clerk.
Years pass on, and he is first clerk.
Years pass on. The glory of young man
hood is on him. lie comes into the firm.
J le goes on from one business success to
another. He has achieved great fortune.
He is the friend of the church of God, the
friend of all good institutions, and one
day he stands talking to the board of
trade or to the chamber of commerce.
People say: "Do you know who that is?
Why, that is a merchant prince, and he
was born on Elm street." But God says
in regard to him something better than
that: "These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the Lamb." Oh, for some one to write
tho history of boy heroes and girl heroines
who have triumphed over want and star
vation, and filth and rags! Yea, tho
record has already been made, made by
the hand of God; and when these shall
como at last with songs aud rejoicing, it
will take a very broad banner to hold the
names of nil the battlefields on which they
got tho victory.
Some years ago a roughly clad, ragged
boy came into my brother's ofiice in New
York and said: "Mr. Talmage, lend me
$5." My brother said: "Who are you?"
The boy replied: "I am nobody. Lend
me J5." "What do you want to do with
$o?" "Well," the boy replied, "my
mother is sick and poor and I want to go
into the newspaper business, and I shall
get a home for her and I will pay you
back." My brother gave him the $5, of
course never expecting to see it again; but
he said: "When will you pay it?" The
boy said: "I will pay it in six months,
sir." Time went by, and one day a lad
came into my brother's office and said:
"There's your $." "What do you
mean? What 5?" inquired my brother.
"Don't you remember that a boy came in
here six months ago and wanted to bor
row $3 to go into the newspaper busi
ness?" "Oh, yes, I remember; are you
the lad?" "Yes," he replied, "I have got
along nicely. I have got a nice home for
my mother (she is sick yet) and I am as
well clothed as you are, and there's your
5." Oh, wa3 he not worth saving? Why,
that lad is worth fifty such boys as I have
sometimes seen moving in elegant circles,
never put to any use for God or man.
Worth saving! I go farther that that
and tell you they are not only worth sav
ing but they are being saved. One of
these lads picked up from our streets and
sent west by a benevolent society wrote
cast, saying: "I am getting along first
rate. I am on probation in the Methodist
church. I shall be entered as a
member the 1st of next month. I now
teach a Sunday school class of eleven
boys. I get along first rate with it. This
is a splendid country to make a Living in.
If the boys running around the street with
a blacking box on their shoulder, or a
bundle of papers under their arms, only
knew what high old times we boys havo
out here, they wouldn't hesitate about
coming west, but come tho first chance
they got." So some by one humane and
Christian visitation, and some by another,
are being rescued. In one reform school,
through which 2,000 of the Little ones
passed, 1,995 turned out well. In other
words, only five of the 2,000 turned out
badly. There are thousands of them who,
through Christian societies, have been
transplanted to beautiful homes all over
this land, and thero are many who,
through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown. A
little girl was found in tho streets of Bal
timore and taken into one of the reform
societies, and they said to her: "What is
your name?" She said: "My name is
Mary." "What is your other name?" She
said: "I don't know." So they took her
into the reform society, and as they did
not know her last name they always
called her "Mary Lost," since she had
been picked up out of the street. But she
grew on, and after awhile the Holy Spirit
came to her heart, and she became a
Christian child, and she changed her
name; and when anybody asked her
what her name was she said: "It used
to be Mary Lost; but now, since I
have become a Christian, it is Mary
Found."
For this vast multitude are we willing
to go forth from this morning's service
and see what we can do, employing all
the agencies I have spoken of for the rect
ification of the poisoned fountains? We
live in a beautiful city. The Lines have
fallen to us in pleasant places and we
have a goodly heritage; and any man who
does not Like a residence in Brooklyn must
be a most uncomfortable and unreasonable
man. But, my friends, the material
prosperity of a city is not its chief glory.
There may be fine houses and beautiful
streets, and that all bo the garniture of
a sepulcher. Some of the most prosper
ous cities of the world have gone down;
not one stone left upon another. But a
city may be in ruins long before a tower
has fallen, or a column has crumbled, or a
tomb has been defaced. When in
a city the churches of God are
full of cold formalities and inanimate re
ligion; when the houses of commerce are
the abode of fraud and unholy traffic,
when the streets are filler1 with crime un
arrested and sin unenlightened and help
lessness unpitied that city is in ruins,
though every church were a St. Peter's
and every moneyed institution were a
Bank of England and every library were
a British museum and every house had a
porch like thflt of JRbeuus and a- roof like
that of Amiens and a tower like that of
Antwerp and traceried windows like thoso
of Freiburg.
My brethren, our pulses loat rapidly
the time away, and soon we shull be gone,
and what wo have to do for tho city in
which wo live we must do right speedily
or never do it all. In that day when
those who have wrapped themselves in
luxuries and desiised tho poor shall come
to shame and everlasting contempt, I
hope it may be said of you and me that
we gave bread to tho hungry nnd wiped
away the tear of the orphan and upon the
wanderer of the street we opened tho
brightness nnd benediction of a Christian
home; and then, through our instrumen
tality it shall be known on earth and in
Heaven that Mary Ixjst became Mary
Found I
ODDS AND ENDS.
A workman in a vineyard in Napa val
ley, Cal., committed suicide the other day
by jumping into a cask of wine and
drowning.
The outside seats of the New York Fifth
avenue stages are now largely patronized
by ladies in tho evening, and consequently
the avenue has quite a coaching club pa
rade every night.
Says a London cable: "The subject is
fast resolving into the question whether
the Queen's jubilee is to bo an incident
of Buffalo Bill's capture of London, or
whether Buffalo Bill is an incident of the
jubilee."
A law taxing cats in that state ten
cents "per capita" is projected by a legis
lator of Georgia.
Mexico reports a big business boom,
with a great rush of foreign capital.
A naval officer, writing home, says that
the Japanese calkers who labored on his
vessel did three timers as much work as
the same number of our navy yard work
men. A book of rules for playing lawn tennis
has been published, but it omits the most
important rule of all for beginners, which
is: First get jour lawn. Ixmisville
Courier-Journal.
A pension is claimed by a Little Rock
woman on the ground of nervous debility
produced by seeing a wounded Federal
soldier's leg amputated.
Lots of pretty girls in New York wear
nutmet around their neck as a charm
against malaria. Young men have it
sprinlded on top of a glass of milk and
things for the same purpose. Omaha
World.
The Will to Hons in Rummer Drews.
While the president celebrated his wed
ding anniversary "far from the madding
crowd," the day was observed in a more
commonplace way at the White House by
sweeping off the back stoop and polishing
up the handle of the big front door. The
day was entirely given over to house
cleaning. Cobwebs were brushed away
and spiders driven in terror from their
lairs; carpets were torn up and shaken
and beaten until a cloud of dust encircled
tho house like a dense fog. Everything is
top side down, buncheel together and scat
tered alxiut. Curtains and old clothes
were carefully packed away in camphor
and drugs, "where moth and rust doth
not corrupt, and thieves do not break
through nnd steal." Hammers resounded
through the halls and corridors almost as
if another story were in process of con
struction. Marble slabs, floors and furni
ture are being industriously and vigor
ously scoured by many a brawny arm
until, when the president returns, he will
miss many old landmarks.
The green, blue and red parlors have
been tleprived of their carpets, and mat
ting has been substituted. The blue room
carpet, upon whicA the famous wedding
took place, has seen Its last days of
service. A designer from New York has
made a design for a new moquette carpet
for that apartment. It will be of blue
shading from indigo to robin's egg, to
correspond with the Tiffany frescoes of
the walls, and sprayed with delicate
flowers. Mrs. Cleveland superintended
the arrangement of this design, and the
carpet is now being made, but will not be
laid until autumn. The east room carpet
will retain its place during the summer,
and in the autumn it will be superseded
by an Axminster carpet of a creamy and
gold ground, to harmonize with the walls
and ceiling, and partially covered with
intertwining sprays of fern. The silk
covers of the east room furniture will be
replaced with plush, and the furniture of
the green parlor will be covered. Wash
ington Cor. Baltimore American.
Bliss Elizabeth Stuart Thclps.
The announcement made that a novel
based on the woman suffrage question
was being written by Miss Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps has apparently no founda
tion whatever. In a letter from Miss
Phelps lying before me she writes:
"There is not one syllable of truth in
the statement. I am not writing a
woman suffrage novel, I have not written
a woman suffrage novel, and I never in
tend to write a woman suffrage novel.
"I have had a very ill winter, and have
now completely lost the use of my eyes,
which makes it difficult, if not impossible,
for mo to answer all the letters from
strangers that come to me.
"It would be a courtesy to me If the
fact might be made known that my illness
makes it impossible for me to attend to
the numerous letters which I constantly
receive from unknown friends and readers
of my books. This might prevent some
wounded feeling on the part of strangers
who may misunderstand my silence.
"Elizabeth Stcakt Phelps."
Ben: Terley Foore's Work.
Aside from his work as a news gatherer
and political spectator, Ben: Perley Poore
earned the gratitude of every writer in
the Land through the great number of ref
erence works which he published. He
taught the teachers of men. The book of
Webster in the proof rooms and the man
uals and directories of Pen: Perley Poore
in the editorial rooms have been for the
last quarter of a ' century the volumes
most often open to consultation. If a
young man write a book nowadays, of
which 100.000 copies are distributed, the
papers begin drafting his grandfather's
history; but 800,000 copies of Major
Poore's "Life of General Taylor" were
sold over thirty years ago. Chicago
Herald. -
An Old German Rible.
John Conrad, Preston. Ills., has In his
possession a German Bible which was
printed in the fifteenth century, being SU3
years old. It is 16 inches long, 10 inches
deep, and C 1-2 inches thick, and weighs
from fourteen to sixteen pounds. It
also has a register of the Conrad family
for 200 years. Its binding 13 made of
sable leather, and lined with hard wood
and bolted together. It is in a remark
ably good state of preservation. New
Orleans Tiiaes-Deraocrat.
-for a wtct
SSIAUi:tl 1XOV is a Dark Bay pacer, 1.1J hands high, weighing 1,300
pounds. His close, c ompact form and noted reputation for endurance makes him
one of the best horses of the day. He has a record of 2:2, nnd paced the fifth
heat of a race at Columbus, Ohio, in 2:2.". lie was bred in Kentucky, sired by
(ien'l Ringgold, and his dam was Tecumsch. He has already got one colt in tho
2:Ii0 list a marvelous showing for a horse with his chances and stamps him n
one of the foremost horses in the land.
The old pacing Pilot Mood is what made Maud S., Jay Eye See, nnd others of
lesser note trot. The pacer Blue Bull sired more trotters in the 2::!0 list than nny
other horse in the world, and their net value far exceeds all horses in Cass county.
Speed and bottom in horses, if not wanted for sporting purposes, are still of im
mense benefit in saving time and labor in every occupation in which the horsa i
employed. It is an old saying that "he who causes two blades of grass to grow
where only one grew before is a public benefactor;" why less a benefactor lie who
produces a horse, which, with same care and expense, will with ease travel doublet
the distance, or do twice the work of an ordinary horse. It costs no more to fetid
and care to raise a good horse than a poor one. The good are always in demand,
and if sold bring double or treble the price of the common horse.
SHAKER BOY will stand the coming season in Cass county, at the following
places and times: W. M. Loughridgc's stable at Murray, Monday and Tuesday of
each week. Owner's stable, one mile cast of Eiht Mile Grove, Wednesday and
Thursday. Louis Korrcll's, at the foot of Main street, 1'latt.Miioulh, who has a
splendid and convenient stable fitted up for the occasion, Friday and Saturday.
TERMS :
To insure marc with foal, $10.00, if paid for before foaling, and if not, $12.00.
Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible, if any occur.
Any one selling mam will lc held responsible for fees of service.
JOHN CLE
arciware, Moves or i inware
'WITHOUT FIIIST SKKINO COODS AM) OUTAININU MUCKS AT
JOHN
You cannot fail to find what yon want at our store. So please call before going
elsewhere, at the Golding Building, Main Street. Plattsinouth, Neb.
Sign oflhe Padlock, 0ct- 29 18S!i JOHN S . LUKE
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BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON" HAND.
Sugar Cured Meats, Hams, Bacon, Lard, &c, &c. .
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those wanting the best of every kind of Meat to call on ns. We can o v you
Mutton, Pork? Veal Beef, Ham Bacon,
FISH- ALL KINDS OF GAME IN SlASON.
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