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THE DAILY ULIltALD: PL'AVi-tf-n.-Wu'JIlASIIA, MONDAY, jn.Y o. l&wo. 7' ; - IS: SOUIt EXPERIENCES. EEV.T.DE WITT TALK AGE PREACH ES IN BROOKLYN la Some IJt tlie Beelrln Soemi t Ir-lo minute A Grovel In Almont Every " fcho The Omnipotent Sympathy of , Jnut C'hrlat. ItKooKLY.v. Julv 8. The Hev. T. De Will Ta inline returned home last week from a tour of the Chautauqua in Mis souri, Kansas, Nebraska ami Minnesota.' ' IIo was obliged to cancel very important Miira-nicnts, Mliich lie deeply itgrtttd. J lis subject today wus"Sour Kxpcrience?," and Ii'ih text: "When Jesus therefore hud received the vinegar." .John, xir, -iO: Tholjrigands of Jerusalem had done their work. It was almost sundown, and Jesus was dying. Persons in crucifixion often lingered on from day to day crying, beg ging, cursing; but Christ had Leon exhausted - tiy years of maltreatment. Fillowless, , poorly fed, flogged as Lent over and tied to V. n low post, his bare hack was inflamed with ' the scourges intersticed with pieces of lead and bone and now for whole hours the weight of his body hung on delicate tendons, ami, according to custom, a violent stroke under the armpits hail been given by the executioner. Iiizzy, swooning, nauseated, feveri.-ii a world of agony is compressed in the tvyj words: ,4I thirst!" O skies of Judea, let avirop of rain strike on his burning tongue. O world, with rolling rivers, and sparkling lakes, and spraying fountains, pive Jesus something to drink. If there lo any pity in earth, or heaven, or hell, let it now le demonstrated in behalf of this royal sulTerer. Tho wealthy women of Jerusalem used to have a fund of money with which they provided wine for those ( people who died in crucifixion a powerful opiate to deaden tho pain; but Christ would not take it Jlo wanted to die sober, and so J he refused the wine. But afterward they go ' to a cup of vinegar and soak a sponge in it, i and put it on a stick of hyssop, and then tprcss it anain.st tho hot lips of Christ. You ray tho wine was an anaesthetic and intended to relieve or deaden tho pain. But tho vino par wa3 an iiiMilt. I am disposed to adopt the theory of tho old English commentators, who believed that instead of its being an opiate to soothe, it was vinegar to insult. Malaga ami Burgundy for grand dukc-s and duchesses, uud costly wines from royal vats for bloated iiiiie ials; but stinging acids for a dying Christ. Ho took tho vinegar. In some lives the saccharine seems to pre dominate. Life is sunshine on a bank of flowers. A thousand bands to clap approval. In lid-ember or in Januarj", looking aeros3 their table, llcy see all their family present. Health rubicund, fcjkios flamboyant. Days resilient. But in a great many cases there are not so many sugars as ac ids. Tho annoy fnc, end tho vexations, and the disapitoint- a . i:- . . -. .. . i . . L:n . t 'I'll rT-.' ( i, a era vol in almost every slum. An Arabian legend a3 that there was a worm in Solo mon's stair, gnawing its strength away, and there ir. a weak spot in every cni thly enpport that a man leans on. King Georgo of Eng land forgot all tho grandeur? of his throne boeause one day, in au interview, Beau Bmmmell called him by his flrst name and ailJanl him as a servant, crying: "George, ring tho lifll." Miss Langdon, honored all tho world over for her px-tic genius, is m worried over the evil reports Ret afloat regarding her, that f-ho U found dead, with an empty lottle .f pru fc nctd in her hand. Goldsmith said that his Jit't. was a wrtehe.1 K'ing. and that all that nt und contempt could bring 10 it had lioeirbrought, and cries out: "What, then, is there formidable in a jailf Correggios fine Itfiintiug is hung up for a tavern sign. IIo-fu-th cuiim.t Hell his Lest paintings except W'Ugh a raffle, Andrew Delsart makes tho great fresco in the church of the Annunciata, at Florence, and gets for pay a sack of corn; an there are annoyances and vexations in liigJ places cs will as in low places, showing that in a great many lives the sours are greater than the sweets. "When Jesus thero foro had received tho vinegar." It is alsurd to suppose that ft man who has always been well can sympathize with those who are sick ; or that one who has always lvcn honored can appreciate tho sorrow of theso who arc despised; or that one who has leen boru to a great fortune can understand the distress and the straits of those who are destitute. 1 he fact that Christ himself took the vinegar makes bim able to sympathize today and forever with all those whoso cup is filled with frharp acids of this life. IIo took the vinegar! In the lirst place, there is the sourners of letrayal. Tho treachery of Judas hurt Christ's feelings more than all tho friendship of his disciples did him good. You have had many friends; but there waa one friend upon whom you put especial stress. Yon feasted him. You loaned bim money. You be friended him in th dark passes of life, when he especially needed a friend. Afterward, he turned upon you, and he took advantage of your former intimacies. IIo wrote against von. He talked against you. IIo microscop ized your faults. IIo flung contempt at you when vou ought to have received nothing but gratitute. At first, you could not sleep at nights. Tljcn you went about with a sense of having beta scaug. That difDeulty will never be healed, for though mutual friends may arbitrate in tho matter until you fchall shake hands, the old cordiality will ' never come back. .Now I commend top such the sympathy of a betrayed Christ. Why, they sold him for less than our twenty dollars! They all forsook him, and fled. They cut him to tho quick. He drank that cup of betrayal to the dregs. He took the vinegar. i There is also tho sourness of pain. There are some of you who have not seen a well !ay for many years. By keeping out of draughts, ami by carefully studying dietetics, you continue to this time; but O, the head achef. and the sideaehes, aud the backaches, and tho heartaches which have been your accompaniment all the way through I Ycu have struggled under a heavy mortgage of physical disabilities; and instead of the placidity that once characterized you, it is now only with great effort that you keep away from irritability and sharp retort. D.fliculties of respiration, of digestion, of locomotion, make up the great obstacle in your life, and you tug and sweat along the pathway, and wonder w hen the exhaustion end My friends, the brightest crowns in heaven will not be given to those who, in stirrups, dashed to the cav alry charge, while the general applauded, ' and tho sound of clashing sabers ran;? through the land; but the brightest crown J in Leaven, I believe, will bo given to those who trudged on amid chronic ailments which unnerved their strength, yet all the time maintaining their faith in God. It is cora ptiijivtJy easy to fight in a regiment of a thousand men, charging up the parapets to the sound of martial music, but it is not so easy to esJnre when no one but the nurse and the doctoi Jre the witnesses of the Christian -fortitude. Besides that you never bad any .ApaioB worse than Christ's. The sharpnesses v)t stung tbrgegh qte brain, through hi bands, through bis feet, through his heart, went as great as yours, certainly. IIo was as 'sick and as wary. Not a nervo, or muscle, or ligament escaped. All the pangs of all the nations of all the ages compresecd into one sour cup. IIo took tho vinegar! There is also the sourness of poverty. Your income does not meet your outgoings, aud that always gives an honest man anxiety. There is no sign of destitution about you pleasant appearance and a cheerful home for you; but God only knows what a time you have hod to manago your privato finances. Just as the bills run up the wages seem to run down. But you are not the only one who has not been paid for hard work. The great Wilkie sold his celebrated piece, "The Blind Fiddler," for fifty guineas, although afterwards it brought its thousands. The world hangs in admiration over tho sketch of Oainstwrough, yet that very sketch hung for years in the shop window because there was not any purchaser. Oliver Goldsmith sold his "Vicar of Wakefield" for a few pounds, in order to keep tho bailiff out cf the door; . and tho vast majority of men in all occupations and professions are not fully paid for their work. You may say nothing, but life to you is a hard push; and when you sit down with your wife and talk over the expenses, you both rise tip dis couraged. You abridge here, and you abridge there, and you get things snug for smooth sailings, and lot suddenly there is a largo doctor's bill to pay, or you have lost your iocketbook, or some creditor has failed, and 3-ou are thrown abeam end. "Well, brother, you are in glorious company. Christ owned not the houso in which ho stopped, or tho colt on which ho rode, or the boat iu which he sailed. IIo lived in a bor rowed house; he was buried iu a bor rowed grave. Exposed to all kinds of weather, yet ho hail only one suit of clothes. IIo breakfasted in tho morning, and no one could possibly tell where he could get anything to eat before night. IIo would have been pronounced a financial failure. IIo had to perform a miracle to get money to pay a tax bill. Not a dollar did he own. Privation of domesticity; privation of nutritious food; privation of a comfortable couch on which to sleep; privation of all worldly resources. The ki"ol of the earth had chased chalioeaout of which to drink; but Christ had nothing but a plain cup set before him, and it was very sharp and it was L very sour. " lie toot tne vinegar. There also is tne sourness oi ocreavemeni. Thero were years that passed along before your family circle was invaded by death; but tho moment the charmed circle was broken everything seemed to 'dissolve. Hardly have you put the black apparel in tho wardrobe before you have again to take it out. Great and rpi'd changes n your farur ily record. You got the house and rejoiced in it, but tho churtn was gone as soon as tho crape hung on the door belL The one upon whom you most depended was taken away from you. A cold marble slab lies on your heart today. Once, as the children romped through the house, you put your Lai.d over your aching head, and said: ' "Oh. if could only have it still." Oh, it is too 'still now. You lost your iatienco when the tops, and the strings; and the shells were leff amid flixr; but oh, J'pu would bo willing to havo tho trinkets scattered all over the floor again, if they were scattered by tho Fame hands. With what a ruthless plqwsh&ra bereavement rips up the heart. But Jesus knows all about that. You cannot till him anything nv in regard to bereavement. He had only a few friends, and when be lost one it brought tears to his eyes. Lazarus had often entertained him at his house. "Sow Lazarus is dead and buried, and Christ breaks doyn with emotion the conyulsipn of grief shuddering through all the ages of lerivementv Christ knows wliat it is to go through the bouse missing a familiar inniotfi Christ knovo what it i to see an unoccupied place at the table. Were there not four of them Mary and Martha and Christ and I.azarus? Four of them. But where is Lazarus ? Lonely and afflicted Christ, his great loving eyes tilled with tears, which drop from eye to cheek, and from cheek to beard, ami from beard to robe, aud from role to floor. Oh, yes, yes, he knows ail about the loneliness and the heartbreak. Ho took tho vinegar! Then thcro iV tho sourness of the death hour. Whatever elso we may escape, that acid sponge will bo pressed to our lips. 1 sometimes have a curiosity to know how I will behave when I come to die. Whether I will bo calm or excited whether I will be filled with reminiscence or with anticipation. I cannot say. But come to the point I must and you must, Jn tho si thousand years that havo passed only two persons have got into tho eternal world without death, and I do not suppose ' that God is going to send a carriage for us with horses of flame to draw us up tho stoops of Leaven ; but I suppose wo will have to go like the preceding genera tions. An officer from the future world will knock at the dwr-pf our heart and servo on us the writ of ejectment, and we will have to surrender. And we will wake up after these autumnal and wintry aud vernal and. summary glories have vanished from our vision we will wake up into a realm which has only one season, and that the season of everlast ing love. But 3"ou say: don't want to break Jut from my present associations. It is ISO chilly and so damp tq gq down the stairs of that vault. IJoivfc Wuut anything drawn so tightly over my eyes. If there were only some way cf breaking through the partition between worlds without tearing this body all to shreds. I wonder if the sur geons and the eloctors cannot compound & mixture by which this body and soul can all tho time be kept together? Is there no' es capo from this separation? None; ab solutely none. So lock eve r this audience today tho vast majority of you seeming in good health and spirits aud yet I realize that in a short time, all of us will be gone gone from earth, and gone for ever. A great many men t umble through the gates of the f uture, as it were, and we dp not know where they havo gone, and they only add gloom and mystery to the passage; but Jesus Christ so mightily stormed tho gates of that future world that they havo never since been closely shut. Christ knows what it is to leave this world, of the beauty of which ho was more appreciative thau we ever could bo. He knows tho exquisiteness of the phosphorescence pf tho sea; he trod it. IIo knows tho glories of the midnight heavens; for they were tho spangled canopy of his wilderness pillow. He knows about tho fowls of the air; they whirred their way through his discourse. He knows about the sorrows of leaving this beautiful world. Not a taper was kindlyd in the darkness. He died physicianless. He died in cold sweat, and dizziness and hemorrhage and agony that have put him in sympathy with all the dying. He goes through Christendom and he gathers up the stings out of all the death pillows and he puts them under his own neck and head: He gathers on his own tongue the burning thirsts of many generations. Tho sponge is soaked in tho sorrows of all thoso who have died in their beds as well as soaked in the sorrows of all those who perished in icy or fiery martyrdom. .While heaven was pity ing and earth was mocking and hell was de riding, ho took the vinegar I To all those to this audience to whom life has been an acerbity a dose they could not swallow, a draught that set their teeth on edge and a-rasping I preach I hft omnipotent sympathy of Jesus Christ Tho sister or Ilerscbcl, the astronomer, used to help him fn Lis work. He got all tho credit; she got none. tSho used to spend much of her time polishing the telescopes through which be brought the distant worlds nigh, and it is my ambition now, this hour, to clear the lens of your spiritual vision, so that looking through the dark night of your earthly troubles you may behold tho glorious constellation of a Saviour's mercy and a Saviour's love. O, my friends, do not try to carry all your ills alono. Do not put your poor shoulder under the Apeninnes when tho Almighty Christ is ready to lift up all your burdens. When you havo a trouble of any kind, you rush this way, and that way; and you wonder what this man will say about it, and what that man will say about it; and you try this prescription, and that prescription, and tho other prescription. Oh, why do you not go straight to the heart of Christ, knowing that for our own sinning and suffering raco he took tho vinegar 1 Thero was a vessel that had been tossed on tho sous for a great many weeks, and been disabled, and the supply of water gave out, and tho crew were dying of thirst. After many days they saw a sail against tho sky. They sigualod it. When tho vessel camo nearer the peoplo on tho suffering ship cried to tho captain of tho other vessel: "Send us some water. Wo are dying for lack of water." And the captain of the vessel that was hailed responded: "Dip your buckets where you are. You aro in the mouth of tho Amazon, and there are scores of miles of fresh water nil around about you, und hundreds of feet dec-p." And theu they dropped their buckets over the side of the vessel, oud brought up the clear, bright, fresh water, ami put out tho tire of their thirst. So I hail you today, after a long and perilous voyage, thirsting as you ore for pardon, and thirsting for com fort, and thirsting for eternal life; and I nsl you what is the sa of your going in that death struck state, while all around you is tho deep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of God's sympathetic mercy. O, dip your buckets, and drink, and live forever, "Whosoever will, let him come qncl take of tho water of life freely," Yet my utterance in almost choked at tho thought that there aro ieople hero who will refuse this divino sympathy; and they will try to fight their own batttles, and drink their own vinegar, and carry their own bur dens; aud their life, instead of being a tri umphal march from victory to victory, will le a hobbling on from defeat to defeat, uiitil they piako f'.na surrender to retributive dis aster. O, wish I could texlay gather up in mine arms all tho woes of men und women all their heart aches all their di.-uppoitit-ments-nll their chugrics and 3ust tak them right to the feet of sympathizing Jesus. Jlo took 15 vinegar. Nana Sahib, after ho had lost his last battle in India, fell back into tho jungles of Ihera jungles so full of malaria that no mortal could live there, Ho curried with him, also, a ruby of great luster and of great value. IIo died iu thoe jungles; his body was never found, and tho ruby has never yet been re covered. And I fear that today there are scme that fall back from this subject into tho sickening, killing jungles of their sin, carrying a gem of infinity value a price lesi; soul-to be lost f oi-evt r. O, that that ruby might flash in the eternal coronation. But no. Theic aro some, I fear, in this audience who tmn away from this offered mere, and com fort, aud Divine sympathy; notwithstanding that Christ, for all who would accept his grace, trudged tho long waj-, and suffcr-ed the lacerating thongs, and received m his face tho expectorations of the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and the discouraged, and, he dis comforted of tho race, tCfk the vinegar. Slay Gcd Almighty break the infatuation, t,ini cad ypu out into tho strong hope, and tho good cheer, and the glorious sunshine of this t riumphant Gospel. Paper Iulp from Cotton Stalks. For several weeks there hayp been on, ex hibition in tho office of tho clerk of the supe rior court samples of pulp made of the hulls and stalks of the cotton plant. The pulp is as white as snow, and, can bo. ppnyei ted into tho finest writing papr. it is regnrded as valu able, and is the product of parts of the cotton plant hitherto doomed valueless. Tho pro cess by which it is made is new. It is a pro cess by which the ligneous substances of the hulls and seed are dissolved. Bj this process over 50 per cent, of tho filler is extracted from tho hulls, which have been regf.yxleci as fit only for fuel in the mills or. for feed and fertilising purposes, and w hich wore sold for 4 a ton. These, converted into pulp, will be worth about ?40 a ton. From tho tilks usually left to rot in the fjel i this new pro cess utilizes abpat 33 per cent, of fiber at a very small expense. It has been settled that thera are fertilizing properties in tho pil of the cotton seed, and it is asserted that the fiber, will not decompose for six 3'ears and cannot bo used as, ft ferti lizer. This is why the woody matter elimi nated from. t- stalk and hull is much more valuable as a decomposing fertilizer than, tho entire seed By the samo process the ramio plant and its troublesome cpusin, the bagasso stalk, Is met and overcome. By tho decorti cating process the fiber was. crushed and toru out by a slow am! expensive process. In tho new prx:esa tho ligino is simply dissolved out, and the snowy films of the ramie and the tawnier threads of tho sugar cane are coaxed out as easily as the infantile kitten to its milk. Atlanta Constitution. Sho Sent J1?T Kaby Home, Mr. Brent Good, president of the Lyceum Theatre company, told at a dinner party tho other evening this story of a lady who was determined to witness the play of "The Wife:" "I was at the Lyceum the other night, standing alongside our treasurer, when a well dressed ladies enter-ed and handed their tickets tp the doorkeeper. One of them had a baby in her arms. I firmly but, I trust, politely told the mother that no babies were allowed in the house. She expostulate!, but I asked her how she, if alone, would like to have a noisy baby in an adjacent scat. The argument prevailed, but sho said., that her money must be returned. It was pyqniptly given hpr au4 se went and stood outside with her babe in her arms as if reflecting. Then she returned and requested that a dis trict messenger be called. A rather stuall boy responded to the summons, and the lady handed him her baby and requested him to take it to her house somewhere in Ilarlem. The little boy looked grewsome, but he un dertook the tki ud I presume performed it safely. When he had gone the determined woman returned, purchased a ticket, and saw the show." New York Evening Sun. Cautions for Talkers, Savon is the perfect number, arid if the following seven rules wero faithfully ob served, they would do something toward making a perfect man. Beforo thou openest thy mouth, think, I. What thou shalt speak, S. Why thou 6houldst speak it, 3. To whom thou art about to speak. 4. Concerning whom or what, thou art about to speak. 5. Wtat will result therefrom. C. What benefit it can produce. 7. Who may be listening. Youth's Com panion. - 60NS OF ADAM. Newspaper Comment Coucrrnlng; Men of Note 1'ernonal Mention. Mr. Walter Bcsant is a small, animated, bright eyed and block haired man, fond of tho theatre, claret and a pipe. Riaz Tasha, the new prime minister of Egypt, is a Mohammedan. His predecessor, Nubar Pasha, was an Armenian Christian. Longfellow, tho poet, was once a member of tho old "Portland Rifles," and paraded in a brilliant green uniform. But he soon found that Lij natural vocation was to sing rather than fight. Tho father of Mr. Blackburno, the great chess player, is a professional phrenologist, aud predicted of h:s son, when the latter wes a child, that ho would become exceedingly proficient in chess, Paul Rajon, tho celebrated etcher, died in Lis country seat at Anvers-sur-Oiso several weeks ago. Ho hid just returned from a very successful trip in America, where ho had etched many portraits, including that of Mrs. Cloveland Last fall a bug flow into tho ear of nenry Bolton, of Frederick township, Montgomery county. Pa., rendering him entirely deaf on that side. A few days ago tho bug dropped out and his hearing almost immediately re turned. King Kalakaua, tbo versatile monarch of J tho Sandwich Islands, has written a learned treatise on the Diametrical Physiognomy of the Earth. The article is based on olserva tions cf the volcanio phenomena for which tho Hawaiian group is noted. Uncle Elias Harper, of Blakely, Ga., is 04 years old, but still quite halo and active, lie is a veteran of the w ar of 1S13 and preserves as a keepsake n Spnii::.'i ! !!:.r, l. J i.. 1777, the first money ho received for his ser vices. Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, is a roje maker, and ho sometimes exhibits to his friends a curious rope cablo that ho keeps in his office. It is made of hangmen's 1'ojtes, each strand having been taken from a roe by which some joor criminal's neck was broken. Count Mauriiro Esterhazy has licen put un der guardianship to check his inad extrava gance. Ho owns, free and clear of ineiiia branees, moro tlian :i"-!0,(iK) acres of land ir. Hungary, and can travel in n straight 'ino more than fifty miles without ;jtiitting his estate. fy'jibrin Storke, an eccentric old cobbler i Jefferson, Ga., who still keeps at hi" trade although S!) years old, is a verau 0f thret. wars, 1 Ie beat n dri in Jackson's army at the battle Z New Orleans, fought in the '. -exican war and served with credit through tho war of the rebellion. Dcspito his ad vanced ago he makes as good a shoo as anj shoemaker i:i the state. While the emieror of Brazil was ill in Milan his estimated excuses were 4(X),0(X francs. The regular hotel bill was 1 ,CK francs a day, but on account of his illness other guests had to leave, and for thirty-five days the cost was I3.",C00 francs. A physician from Paris made two trips to Milan for 40,fl(i0 francs, two Italian doctors wero paid 1,"00 francs a day, and he had to give a lot of fees. For some time past Mr. W. D, Howells has abandoned pen and pencil in his litwary conijxisitions, using tho tjpo writer instead Mr. Howells sits .back If-istireiy in his chair, thinks out bi train of thought, carefully fashions hs sentence and p.s each is- com pleted transmits it to paper, striking the ke-s with ono hf.nd. Many other authors are fol lowing Mr. Howells' example, but for a long timo there was a prejudice among literary people against the typo writer. They imagined that work done with it was stifled and formal. This opinion has since been abandoned by many writers. A curious story nnent tho Japanese em peror's opinion of dancing is told by The Tokio pc-tnp.Cv That journal relates that re cently a minister of state, while in audience, touched upon tho subject of dancing, whero upon his. majesty expressed the opinion that the prevalence of such a voluptuous custom was a sure indication of tho decay of the nation. Tho state minister in question, hear ing his majesty express such strong viows on tho subject, upon retiring from iWn presence immediately gave private, orders to those en gaged in tho consty-malon of tho new palace to dismo.utlo iho dancing saloon in tho new builalng, which was already completed. Mr. W. H. II. MVJi ray has started on an exploring Ry,d hunting expedition in tho most Secluded and least visited regions of the Itockics, north of tho Canadian line. He will bo gono about six months and intends to cover uUtvut iifiOO miles in the saddle, visiting regions as yet unexplored. Tho Canadian government has granted him tho protection and assistance of the mounted police and tho Hudson Bay company has given his expedi tion its support. An experienced artist will go with him for the purpose of procuring illustrations " to accompany his letters for the press and his magazine articles. A great part of his explorations will bo in tho valley of the Peace river, of which even the Cana dian government knows almost nothing. This region lies about (5 clegs, north of the Canadian line and east of the Selkirks. A Cowbrjys Kali in Mexico. The salon de bailar, a room 2310, v.'ith its hard mud floor, ia irrigated to prevent dust and cleared of everything but a few benches. (Jandltjs are stuck along and on tho wall, the women huddle together at ono end of the room f.nd the men stand and squat about at tho other, everybody rolling and smoking cigarettes. Tho baud of four pieces turns it self loose and joy is unconfin.ed. Men and women are supplied with a judicious amount of mescal; very rarely is anything served to eat tid daylight. The Mexicans are born dancers, and many of their graceful, stately figures might well be copied by our American masters. Dancing is interspersed by volun teer singing, accompanied by the guitar when tho songs are by women. The songs of tho men are of such a character that they cannot havo cor need any accoaripaiqment, every line ending with i chorus, in which every body joins, and at times fine harmony ia ren dered. At 2 o'clock a. in. everybody is feel ing jolly; at 3 in a fighting mood; at 4 o'clock only the sober ones are dancing, espe cially the loyers; at 5, as the first glimmer of dawn comes creeping over the mountains, the band winds up with tho lovers' "danza." The last sweet woixls are w hispered in the senorlta's ear, and the company disperse f or an hour's sleep. Six o'clock sees a reunion of tha xiwpunchi ers, heavy eyed and a bit ulky. A nop-i showing up at that hour is carefully noted, and at the next dance the delinquent is sent on duty night herding. Not much work is done that day. The men who ride the lines are out, but invisible asleep probably in some canyon. Chihuahua Cor. New York World - A Huge Machine. In a work on meteorology Camilla Flam marion declares the -atmosphere to be a huge machino, on which every living thing is de pendent. There are in this machine neither wheel work, pistons nor cogs, nevertheless it does the work of several millions of horses, and this work has for its end and effect the preservation of life. A rfonsaw Traveler. uJ The Plattsmouth Herald Is on joying o. 23 DAXL1T AETB WEEELT EDITIONS. The Tear Will lie one during which tho fdihjects of n:itional interest and importance will he strongly agitated and the election of a l'reteident will lake place. The people of Cass Countv who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would the times Foil Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak of our "Which is first-class in all respects and from wliich our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, 003. in both, its 888 keep apace with should KITIIKK T1IK- k NEBRASKA. 1 . I r I-