Tilt' DAILY HERALD, lf.-Vri-SMWuTU, NEBUASK A. TntTRSO A Y. APRIL 12. 1S88.
TWO TOINTS OFTVAHNING
SUGGESTED IN CONNECTION WITH
LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S CAREER.
Why V 8 Valuable ft I.lfm Cut OfT Ho
I'arly? Vxrv ,r Toll Kxpcnclittirea
arid Incuini Hie I'erlU of Aliuuduut
Work.
It is rare to Fee a woman who, if, tried
ly her own slandnrd and tli.it of those
Immediately around her, has led ;t nobler
or more completely satisfactory life than
LrtMii.-x'i AIott. IJut hincc we ought never
to Ihj Kiti.-licd cither with ourscl vcs or
with anylxxly else, nnd kince one of the
chief uses of the study of tine character
lto discover wherein it could lx yet
liner, there is always a lesson to
1 drawn front the very limitations
of each career. The tlnvst thought
ever expressed hy Ilowells, I think, in
whore he suggots that success itself may
perhaps went very much like failure, wen
from the inside; and there lire few emi
nent persons, probably, so sunk in conceit
that they could not n fiord to other.-; cer
tain warnings ha well as examples from
their own achievements. The obituaries
usually iui.-s sncli warnings; imbed, they
ore apt to turn expressly away from lln.-m
and think it a little ungenerous to draw
them, the consequence l-iiig that such
obituaries are as valueless as an inscrip
tion on a monument, and, like that, re
duce all character to a level of common
place and conventional virtue. There are,
Xorhaps, but two points of warning, or
even of hmitat ion, that need to be sug
Kcstd In connection with Miss Alcott's
brilliant career, but each of these is of
Himo weight.
First it is fair to nsk why this valuable
life was cut off so early at "." instead of
M, this last being her father's term of
years Was it not because she burned the
candle too deserately, while his burned
calmly and at limes even feebly? Of late
years she has suffered repeatedly, it is
tstiitcd, from nervous prostration and other
disorders coining from excess of work.
She never had any leisure; she w as always
overworked. tJrant that this evil came
largely from those exacting demands of
admirers and corre.ioiKlent.s which have
leen more than once pointed out in these
columns, and which make it often hard
for a really useful life to prolong itself.
INK I suspect there was aunt her -reason,
which seldom fails to tell ujioii successful
authors. The lato Mr. James T. Fields
once told me that he asked Charles Iteade,
when at the height of his fame, "Why do
you give us no more of those delightful
shorter tales like 'Peg Wolhngton' and
'Christie Johnstone,' on which your fame
was iirst founded?' "iJecause," 6aid
Kcude, simply, "I cannot now afford It."
"When he was comparatively poor and tin
"knowit he could write masterpieces; when
lie had achieved fame and fortune, and
acquired the habits that come with these,
he no longer had the leisure to write them.
It is the same with health, time, and lifo
itself. The young girl who earns $ by
her first published story has an immense
sense .pf wealth; let her cherish it, for she
will probably never feel so rich again. A
a rule, if you earn !f."00 a year, you spend
it; if you earn So.OOO n year, your stand
ard ot expenditures almost invariably ex
pands to match it; and for the most part,
the inort money one earn, the harder it
is to take a vacation. This applies to
those who spend money selfishly, but it
applies with tenfold force to those who
are generous.
When the writer was planning in the
autumn of 1SU1 to enlist a regiment for
the civil war, it occurred to him to invite
the celebrated John II. Cough to go as
chaplain, since his personal magnetism
and eloquence, although he was not a
clergyman, would be felt through the
whole Union army. On inquiry it turned
out that Mr. lough was absolutely fet
tered by bis own large earnings and pro
fuse charities, be could easily earn ")0 or
i:l(MJ ad-iylhe year round by lecturing;
hut nil this larg -income was mortgaged
in advance to yor.ng n:cn whom he was
educating and jr or families whom he w ai
supporting, so that he absolutely i-ou'd
not afford to stop work for a moment.
Had he been poorer, he could "have gone.
So when one reads of Miss Alcott's coming
info the otlice of The Woman's Journal,
m:d bringing $100 that the had earned
liefore breakfast one is led to ask w hether
it would not have been letter not tr have
earned it than to give it away so lavishly
ns to have to tro to work after breakfast
for another Z-lM, instead of taking a day
ff and letting tne tired brain re.t. It is
the last lcs.-o!t ever learned by write: 3
and artists to be wisely economical of
themselves, and ro spare the sources from
wl'ich prosperity and usefulness too easily
flow.
The other lesson goes deeper. Miss Al
cott's intellectual work itself found a
limitation in it grade by reason of it:;
ready abundance. rh J.'iul the ear of her
pnb'.ie; :-he was, as was o.:itl of lier, "a
lieiiefixtor of iHmeholdsy' aiui perhaps
she did it is Impossible to prove the con
tra r 3- the very highest work of which
t,he was capable. i3ut it was not very
high or very permanent', s!?e never
equaled her first successful work ii fic
tion, and for the rest of her life, as in the
. case of llret Ilarte, she simply repeated
the same few delineations. They were, of
course, more innocent and healthful than
llarte's, but they were as monotonous;
children, dou' lk'.-s, continued to cry for
them, but no maturer reader at least
none familiar with licerature cared to
keep the run t f them. Her muse was do
mestic, fcimple and sociable; the instinct
of art sh never had. It is difficult to
Imagine her as pondering a situation
deeply, still less as concerning herself
about phrase or diction. In this she was
curiously unlike Helen Jackson, who was
an artist by nature and by habit, and who
was able to write "Itamona" so rapidly
that it seemed au improvisation, localise
she had learned the use of her tools be-
' fore. T. W. lligginson in Harper's Jia
ar. Land Good for Orange.
A gentle Jew in the southern country
wanted to sell a lot of land to an eastern
man! He hit on a new scheme. He
bought a couple of boxes of oranges and
carted them out to this bjn'.i and buried
them in different parts of the ground.
The eastern man wanted to see the land.
"Is it ccod for oranges?"
"Bootiful. bootifuL You never see such
bootifnl land for oranges."
"Cot auy there?"
"Ob, yes; vv certainly."
They reached the place. There were no
trees. The Jew took a spade and began
digging. . .. ..
-I don't see any oranges," saidtne
eastern man.
"My tear f riendt, j-ou don't understand
the orange business. I has all my oranges
under the ground. Them ieoples as puts
them out on the trees loses half their crop
efery year. There they are; ain't tLey
bootiful" San Francisco Chronicle.
RUSSIAN FANATICISM.
HORRIBLE THINGS DONE BY CER
TAIN PEASANT RELIGIONISTS.
A FMtiat'e IV ho I'reaclted the Kul of tli
World and Advocated Suicide by Starva
tion A 31 ad Hand llio Jumper a
Ltm Harmful Sect.
Not nil tho fanaticism of Russia goes into
litical und nihilistic agitation, if the state
ments inn-le in a recent article in an English
review by M. N. Tsukui have a reasonable
foundation in truth.
In the province of Perm, beyond tho Kama
twenty years ago, ho Buys, there was in tho
depths of tho f:rcstj an educated peasant,
Khodkine, passionately addicted to read i tig,
and sending nv.f.t of his time over religious
Ijooks, which he expoundi.-d in his own fa.!i
ion. Ho fiixm convinced himself that the end
of the world wt3 at hand, and p-ersuaoVd
himself and o band of followers that tho only
way to save their kouIi wm to leave the
world to hide in tho forest, nt.d to make an
end of tho lifo of ignominy and sin i:i which
they wero involved. 1 1 i.s first disciples were
his mother, brother, nistcr-iu-law and uncle.
"Anti-Chrint i.s already eonin," ho declared,
"and goes to and fro in the earth. The end
of the world is at hand; let us fly to tho
fon-sts, bury ourselves alive, and die of
hunger," and tho half in.viuo converts fol
lowed his example, a largo congregation
going with liim into tho wood:, where tho
men set out to dig actual catacombs and the
women made grave clot hen. Threo days
wero thus consumed, and theit all the disci
ples, dressed in these clothes, threo several
times renounced satau and a!l his works
This ceremony over, Kho-ikino said:
".Now that you have renounced satnn, j'ou
must iiie of hunger. If you t ike no nourish
ment and drink no water lor twelve days,
you will enter into tho kingdom of heaven."
Blindly they set themselves to follow Lis
command. Days of intolerable njjony fol
lowed, and at last the tortured women und
children began to cry aloud for water.
Touched by the pitiful wailing of tho chil
dren, some of tho tunatic3 knelt to their chief
and lesought him for mercy for tho little
ones; but he was immovable and refused the
petition, while the children writhed in agony
sucking grass, chewing fern fronds, ami
swallowing sand. Two of the band, able to
endure no longer, slipped away in tho night,
and Khodkine, fearful that aid might be
summoned, determined to hasten matters.
"Tho hour is come. Are you ready V ha
said.
" We aro ready," they exclaimed.
Then, at his command, they began a mas
sacre. The children were first killed and tho
bodies of the victims buried. Then the sur
vivors decided to resume the fast, but the two
fugitives having warned the police, about
this time a body of officers was seen approach
ing. The madness of the fanatics reached its
height, and, swearing to shed their blood for
Christ, they began an indiscriminate self
slaughter. The women, and then tho weakest
of the men, were killed with hatchets, until
finally Khodkine and threo others were the
sole survivors. They attempted to escape
into tho forest, but were captured and turned
over to justice.
A few j ears ago, M. Tsakni says, tho monk
Tulare en joj-ed great iopu!arity on the hanks
of the Volga, and taught that tho solo mode
of salvation for man was voluntary death.
"It is impossible," he said, "to continuo to
live in this world immersed in sin and false
hood. We must seek safety ia death; we
must die for Christ." Large numbers of
disciples attached themselves to this prophet
of death, and one night eighty-four persons
r:"t in a cavern prepared beforehand near a
ri'er. Straw and faggots were at hand, that
they might hasten death if the polieo should
interfere. They began to fast and pray, but
one woman became skeptical an to the ellieacy
of death as a means to salvation, and in the
darkness slipped away to a ueighboring vil
lac;p, where t he gave the alarm to the author
ities. The inhabitants turned out en mao?e
au 1 went toward tho rivir. Their coming
ivt: seeu by a sentinel of the fanatics, who
shouted:
"Anti-Christ is coining. Fly! Let us no
give onr-elvcs up living into the hands v
our cactTofs."
The mad baud s. i fire to t&e straw, and tiie
peo:;a::c vi'.'r.ers endeavored to extinguish
the fl-u-..e.s. A t-; riVOo struggle followed.
The police and the vilisgera tried to snatch
the victims from the fire; but they defended
themselves, wrestling with their would bo
saviors, throwing tiiein aside and killing
themselves with hatchets, shouting- all the
time, "Vfe die for ChrUt!" Many of them
were saved in site of themselves, however.
After these had been tried and convicted,
on.- of tho condemned, Toushkoff, escaped
ft cm prison, and himself began to propagate
the religion of suicide. More than sixty per
souj in tbat same locality decided to givo
themselves up to voluntary death. Whole
families fathers, mothers and children
were included in the number. On a day
fixed beforehand they met for mutual mas
sacre in the house of cue of their number,
l'ci-.saut P. entered the house of his neighbor,
and, after killing him, with his wifa and
ili.-iireu, wtiit to tho barn where the ether
fanatics wero waiting fcr hint with their'
wives, and these ealmlj put their Leads on
a Mock, w hile P. played the part of execu
tioner. Then Le went to tho barn of an
other' peasant woman, killed her and hor
kinswomen, while an accomplice killed the
children. Then the accomplice put his head
on the block and begged P. to cut it off, P.
himself bei::g rubsequer.tly killed by another
of the band, so that ia all thirty-five persoiis
met their tiL-atb. in this way before a peasant
woman, chancing to rass in the neighbor
hood, was terrified by the epeetaela and ran
to yive the alarm.
A lc?s harmful sect existing in the Cauca
sus and neighboring countries arc called Pri
goouy, or the "Jumpers." They have car
ried religious ecstasy to tho highest point.
Their principal apcstle calls himself God,
and teaches chiefly that, since the end of the
world is t hand, all must prepare for it by
repentaiice and purilieatioti front past sin by
confession to the elect of trod. The enthusi
asm of the disciples is such that they leave
their work and devote all their time to
prayer and to listening to sermons. The
principal dogma of tho sect is belief in tho
descent cf the Holy Spirit upon believers.
This takes place only upon the elect during
religious meetings, and continually only
upon two or three persons in each meeting.
Habitually it occurs only at tho end of the
meeting, when all have "been suitably pre
pared by prayer. The signs of the presence
are usually a pallor of the face, quickened
breath, then a swaying of the whole body, a
rhythmic tapping with the feet, violent con
tortions and jumping, and in the end a
heavy fall upon the ground. Some of the
believers sway, and then, springing on the
benches, begin to jump. Others fall from
the benches to the floor and there renuun
stretched out fcr an hour or more. Others
march around the table with theatrical
stride, shaken by hysterical sobs, and, while
twirling in their'places, throwing themselves
about. lulling on the ground, or, raising
themselves strain, thev retain a fixed look of
i the greatest solemnity. At the end of the
meeting the teachers and apostles embrace
each other and then retire to opposite sides
cf the room .Then the brothers and sisters
come to them successively, throw themselves
, on the ground three times before them and
1 embrace them three tuue, Sew York Sua
A Cood Fnee Preparation.
The fashion of braiding the hair Is not
very lK'iieficial for the hair nor tho health
of the child. Many little girls have had
chronic headaches which were relieved as
soon as the hair was left to flow looae,
which is the natural lftaimer.
Those mothers who wish their little
girls to have a thick, healthy growth of
haif, which will not fall when they be
come women, should follow these few
hints, and they will find their fondest
wishes gratified. First, each child should
wet its hair thoroughly with cold water at
the roots every morning, and then comb
it out smoothly, after which it should be
brushed until dry or until the scalp is
warm.
Kvery child should have its own brush
and comb, and never under any circum
stances use those of another. More cases
of scalp disease and dandruff havo been
developed by the habit of all using the
same comb and brush than can be count
ed. If the hair is wet, combed and
brushed regularly, it will remain soft ami
glossy. It needs no washing all over, ex
cept perhaps once a month in summer.
No soap or alcohol or alkali of any kind
should ever be used, as they nil destroy tho
oily secretions which nourl ;h the hair.
Urushing and the use of a gooil lino comb
will keep the scalp clean und free from
danuruir.
Some authorities claim that a little
girl's hair should be kept short until tho
age of lo, but I have seen more girls with
fine heads of hair v ho have never had it
cut, than girls who have worn their's shin
gled all their lives, with thick, handsome
hair.
In many countries the ends of the hair
are singed with a candle, and there it is
claimed that cutting the hair allows the
pigment and other moisture to escape
through the hollow hairs, and that singe
ing only shrivels the hair and keeps the
pigment in. I can only say that those
people wha use that plan are not so bald
ns nations as we are. I think cleanliness,
good brushing mid no alkalis are the best
means of keeping the hair perfect, and, if
it is desirable, the ends could be kept even
by scorchintf, and the hair should not be
tightly braided at any time.
Children's eyebrows should always bo
brushed backward and their eyelashes let
strictly i;lone, only keeping the eyes free
from impurities and inllammation. They
will develop better so, and there is no
tlanger of putting out their eyes with
sharp scissors, as I have seen done. Olive
Harper.
C'oi:ectI:;j ns i Profession.
"lean do better with bad bills than
anybody else," says tho manager, "be
cause I employ professional collectors.
Collecting is a profession just as much as
soliciting is, or the practice of medicine or
law. The collector must be a diplomat,
a courtier, a judge aud an executioner. I
have men in my employ who command
big salaries because they have developed
wonderful tact iu this direction. To show
you the difference in men, last week 1
gave a lot of down town bills to a new
collector. After two days' work he came
back without a dollar. This week my
regular collector returned to work. The
debtors wero strangers to him, ns they
had been to the other man, but this col
lector knew his busiuess and t'other
one didn't. This man came back with
about 50 cent, of the money. I have the
city divided into districts, and each col
lector attends strictly to his own terri
tory. That saves unnecessary traveling.
It also enables him to make frequent calls
where he can get his money only on the
installment plan, which is a method often
pursued with poor people.
"I can tell you one tiling. It is not the
poor people to whom money comes slowly
and by hard knocks that refuse to pay
their bills. They will pay when they can.
It is the well to do dead beats that give
us most trouble men who could pay, but
won't just as long as they can get out of
it. You would be surprised to hear the
names of some of the dead beats I could
mention to you prominent business men
nnd men high in official station. Lawyers:
are the worst. I do not mean the poor,
struggling lawyers, for they cannot get
extensive credit; but successful, promi
nent lawyers, who could pay if they would.
The city i.s full of 'respectable' dead beats
Well, jufet you go into the collection busi
r.ess and you'll find out how many ther
arc." Chicago Herald.
The Aeadian's Movable House.
It is not an unusual sight to tho inhab
itant of the Attakapas prairie to see a
house moving along upon wheels. He
may look out from his doorway in the
evening before retiring and have an unob
structed view before him, but on arising
next morning find a house only a few
yards distant. One unaccustomed to the
sight would probably think that the
nights of the Arabians had returned, and
Aladdin, by rubbing his wonderful lamp,
had conveyed the building there? Others
would know that some Acadian, tired of
his homestead, perhaps, because the neigh
borhood had become too populous, or one
who had squatted upon laud that had sud
denly found an owner, was seeking new
quarters.
When the Acadian wishes to move his
dwelling he goes to Lis kindred and"
friends, and gets "each to bring oyer his
"work beeves" and a pair of wheels. Two
long sills are then placed under the house.
The ends of each sill are chained to a pair
of wheels. The beeves are hitched in
front, and amid great gesticulations, chat
tering and popping of whips the house
moves along to its . destination. While
the men aro driving the teams along, the
good women foJk inside are preparing the
fatted hog and Attakapas corn bread; for
it will be a merry timo when the house
reaches its stopping place and is placed
upon its resting blocks, where it is to re
main until next moving time. Beverly B.
Garrison in New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Care of tbo Hair.
But when ladies are past the age when
the wrinkles aro only suspected the fol
lowing is good to use:
Turpentine, HQ drops; rain water, 8
drachms.
Mix and apply at night, letting it dry
upon the surface.
But when the wrinkle is an obstinate
fact, deep and determined, the only thing
to be done is to fill them up with some
thing, and for that purpose the best thing
known is a paste, composed thus:
Essence of turpentine, 2 1-2 drachms;
gum mastic, 2 ounces; fresh butter, 2
ounces.
Mix and apply at night regularly for a
month, bathiug the face in tepid water
only, in the mornings, which will aid the
case. In another month repeat the same
treatment. There is nothing better, no
matter what those who sell cosmetics may
say. If I were to give the names of these
four nrticles under which they are sold in
dainty little pots at from $1 to $3 each,
you would at once know of them through
! florid advertisements, but they would be
no better than each caa make herself at
j tho cost of & few cents. OliveLHarper.
WITII ARABI PASHA.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF A ONCE
FAMOUS EGYPTIAN LEADER.
It.tcrvlewed by m Journalist, the F:lle
Trie to "Talk KnglUh" Little While.
The Paslia' Two fchj Daughter Slier
bet and Sugar.
And now back came the turbaned eon,
.inviting us to follow him to the house. As
we approached the steps that led up to the
veranda we saw looking down upon us from
alove a tall, large framed man in complete
European costume, with the exception of tlio
fez that surmounted his gray head. Thcro
was no need for uie to as! who he was, for
his features bore a sufficiently close resent
bianco to the countless portrait which made
nil Europe familiar with that face only a
few years ago to enable me to recognise at
tho first glance Arahi I'asha himself.
I saluted him in French, which ho ieaks
fluently, like most Egyptian and Turkish
statesmen. Hut, somewhat to my surprise,
ho answered mo in English (probably wish
ing to show how quickly he had learned it),
and in English our tulk was thenceforth con
ducted. As ho placed a chair for Mrs. Ker
Le observed politely: "I am very sorry to
have been so late in receiving you, but I had
to say my prayers first." You were quite
right," answered I; "pray, sit down," and wo
all threo seaUl ourselves in tho front of the
veranda, at a point which commanded a
full view of the garden.
During the conversation which followed
wo jwere able to examine more closely the
IKj-sonal appearance of !' o im:: tv'.o I
centrated upon himself lor u brief space tho
attention of the whole world. His complex
ion (especially where tho cap had covered his
forehead) was surprisingly fair for an Eg3"j
tian, the color of the skin being not a whit
darker than that of many an Englishman
after a year or two in this burning climate.
His high stature and powerful frame im
parted a certain dignity to his appearance at
first sight which was marred on a closer in-
sj lection by tho nerveless limpness of all his
movement: The slight sternness given to
his eyes by tho large, overhanging eyebrows
was utterly belied by tho heavy placidity of
the lower face, broadening toward the jaw,
and framed in a Bhort, thick, iron gray
beard. To all outward appearance he might
have lieen an English trader, a German
savant, a rich he it caste anything, in short,
except what he really was. Neither in his
face, bearing, nor voice was there anything
to remind us that we were standing in the
presence of a man who had once been the
hero of a war, at whose bidding had been
lavished thousands of lives and millions of
treasure, and whoso hand had clutched at
and well nigh seized the scepter of the
Pharaohs.
His appearanco certainly gained nothing
by his adoption of that uncomely European
dress to which so many Orientals unaccount
ably sacrificed their own picturesque and
graceful garb, always losing incalculably by
tho exchange. The pasha's costume consisted
of a looso morning coat of light gray, white
vest and shirt, fawn colored trousers, whito
stockings, and black leather shoes with
rosettes. His cuffs were fastened wi:h "eat's-ej-e"
sleeve buttons, and on his right hand ho
wore a large gold ring set with a fine moon
stone. But although no fault could be fJa:id
with the clothes themselves, they were mani
festly out of keeping with the man who wore
them. "I'm very glad to see your garden
looking so fresh and green," said I, ns we
seated ourselves, "for it must lie very, hot
hero just now." "Plenty hot," answered
Arabi, "but much rain, too. This last wct';
wo have rain every day plenty rain." "Wo
had we in the Indian ocetfei, aud very tired
of it wo were. However, it keeps the t;-cs
nnd shrubs fresh, if it does nothing else.
Those are very pretty leaves that you've gt
.-rowing there along the front of the ver
anda." "Yes, very nice," assented t'ji
pasha. "Wait, I pick 3-ou some." And in a
trice ho had filled Mrs. Ker's hands with
splendidly marked crotou leaves, one of
which had twisted itself so closely and
strongly into a spiral coil that it was no cr.sy
matter to straighten it out. "Strange leaf
that," said Arabi, pointing to it with the
nearest approach to a laugh of which r.n
Egyptian is capable. "He look just liita i
hair. See how he twist round."
Just t that moment we caught sight of
tho dusky faces end sparkling eyes of to
tiny girls (probably the pasha's children br
Cingalese wives) who were peeping at us
from behind the screen of' matting that
masked the doorway leading from the vc-r-n-da
into the house. Both seemed "rather
rhy of us just at first, but efter a little recon
noitering tho elder of the two (for the
younger could not be persuaded to approach)
cams forward and made friends with v,j
readily enough. I twined one of the croton
leaves around her black hair in a kind of
fillet, and the littlo woman seemed consider
ably amused at her new decoration. "They
rather frightened of stranger," observed the
pasha with a smile, "and yet they see plenty
of them." "Yes; I suppose you havo a good
many visitors here," "les; whenever ship
come in, great many people come to see mo.
This morning plenty come; plenty lady
come, too."
Kot a single allusion did Arabi make to
the events which have connected his name
so inseparably with tho history of Egypt,
aud we naturally shrank from touching upon
a subject which must necessarily be a sore
one to him. Oa other r oints he was more
communicative, expressing freely enough his
discontent with the climato of Colombo,
which had proved far too damp for his
health after the proverbial dryness of East
Africa, and Lad already inflicted upon Lim
a chronic rheumatism, as was abundantly
evident from his stuf and painful movements.
He also told us that one of his sons whom
we afterward met in tho course cf an after
noon drive was living not far from him,
but that the rest of his children were in Egypt.
We all rose to take our leave, but our de
parture was delayed for a few moments by
the sudden appearance of s native servant
bearing a small silver tray, on which stood
four tall tumblers filled to tho brim with)
lemon sherlet sweetened wi. Egyptian
sugar. The ladies contented themselves with
sipping the mixture, which did not seeni
much to their taste; but the doctor and 1
drained our tumblers to tho last drop, greatly
to tho satisfaction of Arabi himself, who ap
peared pleased when I reminded him that the
sugar of Egypt has the name of being the
sweetest in the world. David Ker's Ceylon
Letter in New York Times.
For Sweet Charity's Sake.
Mr. A. Good morning, Mr. B. I came to
see if you will give something toward help
ing a poor woman down in Cheap street, who
has a big family of children, and she con
fined to her bed by sickness.
Mr. B. H-m yes; sorry, but unfortu-
! nately I am awfully short just now. You see
j that we are going to give the pastor a rilvc-r
service, and it won't do for me to refuse to
give my share; and besides, I am thinking of
subscribing something for tho new ball club.
' I'm really sorry for the poor woman, indeed.
I am; but then you see just bow I'm fixed,
I Boston Transcript,
The Plattsmouth Herald
. Xs oa joying a Boom in both, its
DASIilT AND WEEKLY
EDITIONS.
Tke Tear 1888
Will bo one during which the subjects of
national interest ami importance will be
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. 'Jhe people of
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep aj ace with'
the times thould
isubsc hib:
-FOIt
Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to f-peak ot our
Which is first-class in all respects and
from which our job printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSMOUTH,
KITH Kit THIS-
'imv "v-ri: --i iftri-T-rszr
NEBRASKA.
