The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, March 12, 1888, Image 3
'xllb' DAILY . .iE AGE OF SWINDLE. HE REV. Dn. TALM AGE'S SERMON - AT THE TABERNACLE. .Wliuo n Mitn't Itiikliifsit JAtn I to tin Not lUUglon I a Hutnling Wlif-u It ! lllght to Itorrow. Brooklyn, March 11. The hymn Fun; at th' Tuhernat lo this morning begiii.s: ' A cl'iu.l tit il in-. i n (iiouml II'.M !.;: i:i l-ill hiii vi-.v; J'myvt t!i- si : ..'T-iv'y lrl, Alul oliv.ai'l i.i t'-.y t.y. Ak, last (!.,- j;(.v. J. Do Witt Tahiin-re, ). )., i;... p:, ii,r, had baptizi-d by Fpri.ililir; J if, ihii mornm;.?. baptized by i i i i ji 't.-.i- 'T, t !.: u lio i rt r-rrcil tlii.i l:io k u I . ; !i-!ry bavin;; U rn built under t!i" jki!;'I. Tl.c ml-jict of hi.-i F'nnn'i v:;s: 'il:- A uf H in!lo," and t!i 1 :t .!.' viii, 1!: Wlio.u trust i,!n!l I ;i (-!!: r '.; v. i !.' iJr. Taluiae K;il: 'i'iif lv. i i.i;) L Willful r.rrliitecl.s in all the v. orl l an- !!' ! : I 1 h pider. The tun' pi! 1 1 . a : r i:i i.MMf.nKTy ami Iho i'n-r i.riii-. I.i a lai-,;:t.-r l; ....( fr flies. ' 'f i a '. i,. !!. ; !. .!.;: r i 'ii :;ii.' when tlio in:i ci.it!. i.'.:; ::;i-i slum . iio:i tlie fIM"r'ii v. i). !. :;.. 1 willi dew, tin; J.o.-.-.u'n. r j-'.:!l.-l:i-f . i ; I :i; lit enou;;h for a ; :i i ! c .-;; i niatiiral ll. lM' S t.UTi .lill. ill i'oi- the jxior fly v. I.i !i. i.i J.: i v pttof that very d:y, c.'.!!ir.s i '...r.d i. -:i:i'j lit atal Int.. i.il :t :! ..le.yrd. The ily was iill't IJ: i' I ii v.::-, a in-f liri';f, nii'l would iv. 1 li.tlr'--. i :;L :t the n! !.er end if tin; Ilif t . - ! li :'. 1 u a ; ii -i own life ; ; i !'f v::if i 'own a f 'I'l'ii; . i: '. : 'i . ; .(, l.'if aiil i'::.' Jii li..il :: . : ; r : li.i- v!( iimi.fil lly. S-: ? i : ;!'.. ,i t!lt-iM.!s of thfSpi! l' '..' 1', f I.::: i . i i:-.11 .i::iis of tlu-:.i ; ); r l i i.'ic th- y fo::v vi i: I : !!: hiima.i , aiiil it t.'a ; ..:.(. i i !i m t' tiirikf a thivail a ; I :r i- : a !::iim.-iii hair. JIir.t in: ! : ; . il i..st ji:n is tin- r. v i:i '.-ii-r in thf r.;.J.;if, l'::i h:rl o- : .. 1 lai.K-l that it th :.';!::! !' ;. V.o!:'.i i: ijv, TV !l y t-aisn for it ; i.:f. ! I U'. . .)'. I'. anihor of my t :;t a: ! i' I. i-::l i i. of Iii., ;.iy. a . '.;ii t v. : I.fti t!i- vin-;!cii.in Tif .ill' t .i . -:i i i !, n i;h j.no'.hcr. iir:il aa-iV : ; . ::! i'. ' j i '.o-ii w i;h t';f : ::!iii' I !!::! i-r . :..! y iii.1 sain r.-jii'!. .M.:--. ii .' i'. i I h:. : : many '. '. r : i. 1 i '., il hit s! 'j'iltlV I i-i ! ' : ' .1 a li'ai'uhfll till! iiliira::! Ma !: i:: . a i i.iy ol many l;:f!l l::.iTi 11..' lr: n.i . :l i : i i r. . ! ; of o'.h-t-TH i.i I . I- ' i i-.i'-iv i viiii. lit than in tin ? 1 i-i f- f.f-i. 1 lie ii ii.-oi' :' :' h.ia'i-.: ami ili-ao'war-n:i'.v f - wii'i thf i'mi. !.- iif Iar;.;o v.-.'. .t--.-, aa.l t!i-i: vih r aiiii.l Kt oilifi" uai'.! an 1 ' f-fii.- i.aiiil Uniii'il ISiati-s ;ll.-als. Imvo ...alo a --I ilfiu-i? of rime that m ' -.imi.- .. iuy I !p -irhtful man an' I woiiin. ;!! . . vry j!iil jinlhn.fi. t aii'! ( i.ii-'l a l j-.:;!:: What thull l.o ih-!.f to t.;y i!..- .L:-:;:a? There ij a inu:i:o i?i :.hi .i-i, :i tyj !:').. n. a. sir occo. I si..ii'!l::u - a.-k wiy.-i- U' if it would not huln th r t'-.-r fta-n ..:.!.j;i- w ills tibo iUiT.t'i tin' -niKUiv I'lnctly to the exec -iitors nivl oiiii -rs ( i th-' conrt, aal aj lKi!:t thf wi.iw.i a: 'I rjih.s!i.-s a coin r.uCoe to ': tiiat former Kt all t!iai ciiil not I a !.' i.; i i'i'-::i. ThoMiniile fact ii tha' thvii-are a la rue iniiiilKr of l:ie: tailing !.a ;.'Jl lirivia; fast liofres. ai'.-l a 'iioi-i-i -,?, f-::;c!!rii Huh hull i-N ami eo:.r.iia.;r -;.;:a:iry .-! ats who are in: worii. VI 'f ." r-.-tum toothers ft:.ir jti't ri;-!;! ' s;jsm sii'hlea lcvi t'li.'.." I . !. :'i.l wa!i : i'.liol -d air tjfiu t ret lie (; :: li. - v.crM. and seem a!.i O.:.t rea-'.y h i" i i t'c 1:. v.hcii in two or tatve y:;r.i la.-y I :----oiii out a;aki, lia.vi; cm; ;v-".ii-i-il wiili t'm-ir ciiiirxn: , tli. : i , j .1 th":n nothing l.ur l-' f'r. ls. a.--! o?ily Terence between h' ! c-'lal c.iptcv of iroserity ami the J .. :.i- t!:.;t iii' t-uvs are I.iiU'illos i:; u ;-l el' a- v" i.:. ::nd their lior.-es ; a. !:'!.' i-i t wy'.ny t- -oj-'ls loss than th !r .r l;vc- in-tcail t f one rotiatry .-i :.t (' ' i . e l.avo. I have w-at.-'ieil mi.! have a- i ! tiiat nine out of ton oi tho w. 1 V.:'. i i v. hat is called l.ij!i Ihe. li:ive r--re .-terras aiar than bc-i'ore i:- f:.ii:--. a;. I in taauy of these casi-.- f.iili:i'e U i . i ;-- a :.;.:. ;-, :.i oc-rer-iie the I'i'V! -i :t; of !.o:it-.t ii. "-: ; aa.l j.at th. wcvl.l o';" ihe t v. hh ihey raetke a l.irge wi.:.i!. There i; -.aie'-hirg wo? fuiiy w.-i.-v: in ;!:e fact th-a ti:e.;2 tilings rae '. -. , I ir.-t .f ;.'.!. I a-. r,;o thf hhano ca cariijs, itsih.'o ..-.-.t Um'i liavctors anl lo;-.ru.- havii; x iu char; e ; ".'.at ha. racial instua'ii : . It t .:.-'! not he .-.-ihle for a i :v-i at o,- e or laaaacnt eLiCi-r of a hank:.: ; i ' a i.-.-.wiau!o it j car r .-r--. i.h ai ! :u iin. I will i:i!3: :.'!:.' ; :.:; t. at ii' l!; -se franls iirecavt-i. i i f : '. ' or i:ae ears wiiho'.'.r. il. . :' :. ' '. : r 1.e t::rec:ors f.ve par'.ae:-.- i:. ' .; a.ay a1'. ' j i-aeieJ jart of tl.-- ; :. or :-..-y ar.- ;'U-hy of a tn:l;:.'-Ie ia .i '. h a" w h.v.i ( h-t wiil li-.-M la .: : ; i- s a ;!' nj l.e lseluS thf? a-.kae..vh-i: I t .laaiirs. V. hut li-ht have j r-.- ..: -...-.: l iwaa-.; i;:ea to allow tin lr i. : s t l a .:t:.-Il.:ul &-i tlitvctoT--, i.: a !". : el..! ia-fltutlea, fothai xm.-oi,hl ;t: 1 are ta relr in ciiieeil to ' ; " ih- y ia or bu;' the !!: Il; : . wl. a ii: y, the iatl lis.ae.1 -:i.-..- v a.v ol ' A n.. thing for the safety ef th.-i::--.lr:tl :.: It is a case of deetj li a m .-: r ; :. la :ihle. -Jany jH-ople w!:h a : :r.-l :i of la-.aey not neeaeu for iarta- O.r a o a! hv.agh it Htzy l-e u V:vA i n lar oa n: '.!.-: -i.-asahl-V ere w iiiio'jt irici-ia e -ar '.t-':!t t'aJvi them. :ia'l they :.vj p.;:ivlel solely by the characi- r of Ihe whose names are uuocai-.wl wiih tin institution. AVh.eu tl:"; trash ir.ir.e, ami wish the overthrow of the banks went the sruall earnings aa l i.mit.-.l fortunes of wi'loV6 and craliaiiS, cal the help jesslv ag'l, the c'.ireciors tt..l with Idiotic stare, and to the iaoiiiry of thfl frenzied dviwitoi-5 r.n i c:o..Lhel Iers who bad lost their ail. and to the arrai.rmaeat of an indignant pal he had nothing to pay exee't: "We thought i- was all right. Vie i lit I n t know there was any thing wrong going on." It waf their lutv to know. Tht-; o-.l ia a i::t:aa " u hi'tli de'.adi Lhf iHjk-vvilh the idea that tht v were car inV.y obs-rvant: Call ing th.-in chta directors, they did not dirwt. Tluy lial oa.j.ortuaity of r.a dithig n-cear.H and i:aieeurg the lok?. 2o time to do so? Tb-n ihfy lml no boInei to iwcept tlie ry.jtIon. It fecms to mo llio firide of F)tne moniod men to bo directors in a great many institutions, and all they know ii v. helhuOor npt they get their dividcTids rgulaiTy, and their names are used a.i dfi-oy ilui-ks to bring others near enough to Ixj inade game of. "What llnt of all is needed in that Q.OUO bank dint-tors nnd insurance crmipany direct ors resign or attend to their bunnies an diroctorH. The business world will bo full of fraud just an long oh fraud in so easy. When you arrt the -resident and wen-tary of u kmk for an embezzle ment carried oti for many yearn, have j.lenty of Hlicriffa out the name day to arrorill the directors. They are guilty either of neglect or complicity. "Oh," Home ono will nay, 'belter preach the gosM-l ami let business mat ters alone." I reply: If your gosjicl does not inspire comnton honesty in the dealiiif.s of men, the sooner you close up your gosjK'l and pitch it into the depths of the Atlantic ocean the lx-tter. An orthodox swim Hi r is worse than a hetero dox swindler. The recitation of all the t .r. i-hi-ms and creetls ever written, and iiajiKing irom all the communion chalices that ever glittered in the churches of Christendom will never 6avo your soul unless your business character coi re.s'oiids with your religious profes sion. Some of the worst scoundrels in America have been memlx-rs of churches, arid they ;ot fat on sermons about heaven when they most needed to have the pulpits preach that which would either bring them to rejK-ntance or th nu tter Ihoiu out of the holy communions where their presence was a sacrilege and an infamy. We must esjccially deplore the mis fortune of banks ia various parts of Ihia country in that they damage the banking institution, which is the great conven-ieii'-e of the centuries, and indispensable to comim-rce and the advance of nations. Wi:h oae hand it blesses the lender and v. ii 1 1 th'1 other it blesses the lxirrower. The bank was liorn of the world's neccs-:-:ti "s and is venerable with the marks of thousands of years. Two hundred years before Christ the bmk of Ilium existed aad paid its dejiositors 10 per cent. The bank of Venice was established in 1 171, and was of such higli credit that its bills were at a premium above coins, which were frequently clipiel. Bank of Genoa, founded in l:M.j; Bank of Barcelona, I !01; Bank of Aj nsten lam, 1099: Ifcinkof Hamburg, founded 1019, its circulation haMcd on great silver bars kept ia the vaults; Bank of England, started by William Patterson in 1(112, up to this day managing the stujiendous debt of F.ngland; Bank of Scotland, founded in 10!-,; Bank of Ireland, 1783: Bank of North AmericSi, planned by llobcrt Mor ris, 1771, without whoso financial help ail the bravery of our grandfathers would not have achieved American independ ence. But now we have banks in all our cities and towns, thousands and thousands. On their shoulders are tho in teitsts of private individuals and great -or; orations. In them are the great arteries through which run the currents of the nation's life. They have been the res- aiccs of the thousands of financiers ia days of business exigency. They f taad for accommodation, for facility, for individual, state and national relief. At their head and in their management there is as much interest and moral worlh" as in any class of men perhaps move. How nefarious, then, the be havior of those who bring disrepute upon this venerable, benignant and God honored institution. We also deplore abuse of trust funds, 1 cause they lly in the face of that divine goodness which seems determined to bless this land. We are having the eighth year of imexanipled national har vest. The wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and the corn gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide of God's mercy toward this land is put back by those great dykes of dishonest resistance. When God provides enough food and clothing to feed and apparel this wdiole nation like princes, the scrabble of dis honest men to get more than their share, and get it at all hazards, keeps every thing shaking with uncertainty and everlxxly aking: "What next?" Every week makes new revelations. How nut ny more bank presidents and bank cashiers have been speculating with other people's money, and how many more bank directors are hi imbecile eilence, letting the perfidy go on, tho great and patient God only knows ! My opinion is mat we nave got near mo bottom. The wind has been pricked frora the great bubble of American i peculation. The men who thought that the judgment day was at least 5.000 ;-cars off, found it in 1S83, 1SS7, 18SG; end this nation has been taught that men r.iurt keep their hands out cf other peo ple':; pockets. Great businesses built on borrowed capital have been obliterated tr.-.d men who had nothing have lost all they had. I U-lieve we are started on a higher career of prosperity than this land, has ever seen, if, and if, and if. If the ilrst men, and especially Chrisr tiaa men, will leara never to Sjieculate upon liorrowed capital. If you have a r.iii.d to take your own money and turn it all into kites, to fly them over every commons ia the United States, you do ;' iety no wrong, except when you tum hie yoar helpless children into the poor house for tho pablic to take care of. But you have no right to take tho money of ; others and turn it into kites. There is ' one word that has deluded more people ; lato bankruptcy and state prison and i perdition than ary other "word in com mercial life, and that is the word liorrow. That one word ia responsible for all tho : defalcations and embezzlements ami financial consternations of tho last twenty years. When executors conclude to speculate with the funds of an estate comnnttcd to their charge, they do not purloin; they 6ay they only borrow. When a banker makes an overdraft, upoa bis institution, he does not commit a theft; he only borrows. When the officer of a company, by flaming ad vertisement in some religious papers, and gilt certificate of stock, gets a multi tude of country people to put their 6m all earning? into an enterprise for carrying oa some undeveloped nothing, he' does jut fraudulently take their money, he only borrows. When a young man with easy access to his employer's money drawer, or the confidential clerk by close propinquity to the account books, takes a few dollars for a Wall street excur sion, he expects to put it all bade; La wHlput it all back rery booh. He only IxirrowB. What is needed Is some man of gigantic limb to take his place at the curbstone in front of Trinity church, and when that word borrow comes bounding along, kick it clean through to Wall street ferryboat, and if, striking on that, it bounds clear over till it strikes Brook lyn Heights or Brooklyn Hill, it will be well for the City of Churches. Why, when j-ou are going to do wrong, pronounce so long a word us borrow, a word of six letters, when you cau get a hhorUT word more descriptive of the reality, a word of only five letters, the word steal ? There are, times when we all borrow, and borrow legitimately, and borrow with the divine blessing, for Christ in his sermon on the mount enjoins "from hiui that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." A young man rightly borrows money to get his education. Purchasing a house, and not able to pay all down in cash, the purchaser rightly lwrrows it on mortgage. Crises come in business when it would be wrong for a man not to borrow. Bc.t I roll this warning through all these aisles, over the backs of all these Iews, never borrow to seculate; not a dollar, not a cent, not a farthing. Young men, young men, I warn you by j our wordly prosects and the value of your immortals souls, do not do it. There are breakers distinguished for their shipwrecks the Hanways, tho Needles, tho Caskets, the Douvers, the Anderlos, tho Skerries and many a craft lias gono to pieces on those rocks; but I have to tell you that all the Hanways, and the Needles, and the Caskets, and the Sker ries are as nothing compared with the long line of breakers which bound the tx-ean of commercial life, north, south, east and west, with the white foam of their despair and the dirge of their dam nation the breakers of borrow. If I bad only a worldly weapon to uso on this subject I would give you the fact, fresh from tho lughest authority, that 00 xt cent, of those who go ' into spocula tion in Wall street lose all; but I have a better warning than a worldly warning. From the place where men have per ished body, mind and soul standoff, stand off! Abstract pulpit discussion must step aside on this question. Faith and reix ntance are absolutely necessary, but faith and repentance arc no more doctrines of the Bible than commercial integrity. Render to all their dues. Owe no man anything. And while I mean to preach faith and reientaiice, more and more to preach them, I do not mean to spend any time in chasing the Ilittites and Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times, when there are so many evils right around us destroying men and women for time and for eternity. The greatest evangelistic preacher the world ever saw, a man who died for his evan gelism, peerless Paul wrote to the liomans, "Provide things honest in the sight of all men;" wrote to the Corin thians, "Do that which is honest' wrote to the Philippians, "Whatsoever things are honest;" wrote to the He brews, "Willing in all things to live honestly." Tho Bible says that faith without works is dead, which being liber ally translated, means that if your busi ness life does not correspond with your profession, your religion is a humbug. Hero is something that needs to be sounded. into the ears of all the young men of America, and iterated and reiter ated, if this country is ever to be deliv ered from its calamities, and commercial prosperity is to be established and per petuated, live within your means. I have the highest commercial author ity for saying that when the memorable trouble broke out in Wall street four years ago there were $225,000,000 in suspense which had already been spent. Spend no more titan yon make. And let us adjust all our business and our homes by the principles of the Chris tian religion. Our religion ought to mean just as much on Saturday and Monday as on the day between, and not bo a mere peri phrasis of sanctity. Our religion ought to first clean our hearts, and then it ought to clean our lives. Religion is not, as some seem to think, a 6ort of church delectation, a kind of confectionery, a sort of spiritual caramel, or holy gum drop, or sanctified peppermint, or theo logical anaesthetic. It is an omnipotent principle, all controlling, all conquering. You may get along with something less than that, and you may deceive yourself with it ; but you cannot deceive God, and you cannot deceive the world. The keen business man will put on bis spectacles, and he will look clear through to the back of your head and see whether your religion is a fiction or a fact. And you cannot hide your samples of sugar, of rice( or tea, or coffee if they are false; you cannot hide them under tho cloth of a com munion table. All your prayers go for nothing so long as you misrepresent your banking institution, and in the amount of jour resources you put down more specie, and more fractional currency, and more clearing house certificates, and more legal tender notes, and mere loans, and more discounts than there really are, and when j qu give an account of your liabilities you do not mention all the un paid dividends, and the United States bank notes outstanding, and the indi tidual deposits, and the obligations to ether banks and bankers. An authority more scrutinizing than that of any bank examiner will go through and through and through your business. I stand this morning before many who have trust funds. It is a compliment to j ou that you have been so intrusted ; but I charge you, iii the presence of God and the world, be careful, be as careful, of the property of others as you are careful of your own. Above all, keep your own private account at the bank separate from your account as trustee of an, estate, or trustee of an institution. Tiiat is the point at which thousands of people make shipwreck. They get the property of others mixed vip with their own rropert", they put it into investment, aha awav "it au goes, ana mey cannot return that I which they borrowed. Then comes the ex ' plosion, and the money market; is shaken, ' and tho 'press denounces, ana the church thundert expulsion. You have no right to use the property of others, except for their advantage, nor. without consent, un less they are minors. If, with their pon 6ent, you invest their, property as well as vou can, and it is all lost, you are not to blame; you did the, best you could, but do not come into the delusion which has - ruined so many men, of thinking because a thing U In their posaeftelon, therefore It is '.heirs. You have a solefem trust that God has given you. In this vast assem blage thero may be Home who have mis appropriated trust funds.. Put them back, or, if you have bo hopelessly in volved them that you canunot put them back, confess .the whol. thing to those whom you have wronged, and you will sleep better nights, and you will have the letter chance for your soul. What a nari thing it would lie if, after you are dead, your adminis trator should find out from the account looks, or from the lack of vouchers, that you not only wero lankrupt in estate, but that you lost your soul. If all the trust funds that have been misappropri ated should suddenly fly to their owners, and all tho property that has been pur loined should suddenly go back to its owners, it would crush into ruin everj city in America. A missionary m one of tho islands of the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and tho next morning ho looked out of his' window, and he saw his yard full of goods of all kinds. He wondered and asked the cause of all this. "Well," said the na tives, "our gods that we liavo been worshiping permit us to steal, but ac cording to what you said j-esterdaj', the God of heaven and earth will not allow this, so we bring back all these goods, and we ask you to help us in taking them to tho places where they belong." If next Sabbath all tho ministers in America should preach sermons on the abuse of trust funds, ami on the evils of purloining, and tho sermons were all blessed of God, and regulations were made that all the th!- ' - M taken to the city halls, it would not In long before every city hall in America would be crowdetl from cellar to cujiola. Let mo say in the most emphatic man ner to all young men, dishonesty will never pay. An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground and tho owner would not sell it, but tho owner finally consented to let it to him until he could raise ono crop, and the abljot sowed acorns, a crop of 200 years! And I tell you, j-oung man, that the dishonesties which you plant in jour heart and life will seem to be very insig nificant, but they will grow up until thej will overshadow you with horrible dark ness, overshadow all time and all eter nity. It will not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop for everlasting ages. I have also a word of comfort for all who suffer "from the malfeasance of others, and every honest man, woman and child does suffer from what goes on in financial scampdom. Society is. so bound together that all the misfortunes which good ieople suffer in business matters come from the misdeeds of others. Bear up under distress, strong in God. He will see j'ou through, though your misfortunes should be cen tupled. Philosophers tell us that a col umn of air forty-five miles in height rests on every man's head and shoul ders. But that is nothing compared with the pressure that business life has put upon many of j ou. God made up his mind long ago how many or how few dollars it would be best for j'ou to have. Trust to his appointment. The door will soon open to let you out and let you up. What shock of delight for men who for thirty years have been in business anxiety when they shall suddenly awake in everlasting holiday. On the maps of the Arctic regions there are two places whose names are remarkable given, I suppose, by some polar exiedition: "Cape Farewell" and "Thank God Har bor." At this last the Polaris wintered in 1871, and the Tigress in 1873. Some ships have passed the capo, yet never reached the harbor. But from what I know of many of you, I have con cluded that though your voyage of life may be very rough, run into by iceln'rgs on this side and icebergs on that, j"ou will in due time reach Cape Farewell am7, there bid good-by to all annoyances, an : soon after drop anchor in the calm an i imperturbable waters of Thank God harbor. "There the wicked cease from, troubling, and the weary are at rest." St. Petersburg's "Thieves' Market." The most interesting shops in Russia arc ia what is called the thieves market, where you may be sure that everything j'ou see is stolen property. There is a law under which a merchant in tho thieves' quarter is permitted, to bin- at his own risk from any one who comes to sell, and after a certain time has been given the owner and the police to recover his prop erty he may expose the article for sale to the public. The pawaishops are coa ducted by the government, and thero all unredeemed pledges are sold at public auction after n year and a daj- liavo ex pired, but tho purchaser is not allowed to e?:aniine the goods nor purchase what he wilLs. All articles are put up in the ordyr of their numliers, like unclaimed jiack ages at an express pffi, and if one want? to bid. on a" particular article he mutt wait till it is reached on the list. In the thieves' market, however, there is no pawning. Everything is purchased out right or left by the thief with the mer chant for sale on commission. Usually a thief wla has an article to sell is compelled to wait thirty days be fore )xe receives his pay, and, in the meantime, the owner bias the right to recover by proving his property, through the police, and paying the merchant a fee for his services; but very shrewd means are taken by the Jews that invest this, quarter to evade the recovery of such articles. The theives with articles for said are usually the servants of tho higher classes, who pilfer their masters and mis tresses of orr,ampit3, clothing, china, books and; other articles, which are not missed till long after the limit of exemp tion from recovery. Jn. these shops the bric-a-brac Tnu.nte? ?an find a mine of Curot and jewelry that? can be purchasi', very pheap. I found china that .'al been stolen from the Winter iace and other imperial residences, and was told that tetter an entertainment the thieves' quarter was always full of it, the waiters carrying it away under their coats. We knew it was genuine by th6 marks and the pattern, for we has been through the china closets of the palace the day before. All sorts of cloth ing, hats, boots, shoes, shirts, cravats, dresses, skirts, stockings" and every con ceivable article that enters into the use of men and women can be purchased in the thieves' quarter, and the buyer need ask , no question. An article exposed for sale , there that has not been stolen is as rare as an honest dealer. William Eleroy J Curtis ia Chicago News. FURNITURE Parlor Sets, -FOR ALL FINE :-: FURNITURE! Parlors, Bedrooms, Diiiiii-rooins. IKLitchciis, Hallways, Offices, (JO TO Where a magnificent J'ricch UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING A SPECIALTY CORNER. MAIN AND SIXTH The Plattsm Js n joying a EDITION S. The Tear Will be one during which the subjects of national interest ami importance will be strongly agitated and the election of :i President will take place, 'ihe people of Cass County who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions . of tin's year and would keep apace with the times should juj- ii( -ron aily or Weekly Herald Now while we h-ive the .-ubp et before the people we will venture to tpcak ot our f'.W 51 I- Ml 1 bub a AVhieh is n'rst-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, EMTOUIUM Bedroom Sets CLASSES OF- Fo it- stock of (iootls and Fnir abound. 1 ' L A TTSM OUT1 1, N 1 1 1 H A S K A . d 23 00322. in both, its lie fa AMD WHHKLT' 1888 . h f.i t kitiii;i: tht; WA 7W NEBRASKA. T li CUT I mLM a