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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

No Mother should be without Castoria
for Children. The old formula of Old DR..
Pitcher. 1t assimilates the food cures
Costiveness, Diarrhoea and wind Colic,
prevents raising Sour Curd, always fever
ishness and destroys Worms, Castoria is
not narcotic. 1t gives health to the
child and rest to the mother. my20-1y
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

Saws the New York Herald of Tuesday
Colonel Ingorsoll delighted an immense
audience last night, and can be sure of
more, for every bad character in New
York wants to believe that christianity
is fraud"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05
A NEW DISCOvERY!
Spiritualism Explained.

The question of questions,
with the learned and unlearned,
the materialist, scientist, re-
ligionists, and in fact every
body, is "What is Modern
Spiritualism?" Is tia verify or
is it all a humbug? Can it be
explained from a physiological
standpoint and does it come
under the head Of Physics, or
does it come from supernatural
causes and without laws or or
der. That the phenomena ex-
lists, is beyond dispute, whether
it will ever be explained re-
I mains to be seen. That some
spirits can be SEEM, handled
I and made use of to good ad-
vantage as well as explained is
also q tact to which all drug
gists and chemists can testify.
They need not be named, be-
cause their name is legion.
We refer principally to those
medicines through which spirits
figure largely as restorative
agencies. Saur's Drug and
Medicine Depot harbors a large
number of healing spirits which
can be purchased for a very
small sum ofmoney and if used
according to directions will be
the means of relieving pain and
restoring the health of the af-
ficted This same drug store
has many other things in which
it seeks to make itself useful
and to benefit mankind. The
book department furnishes the
provisions upon which hun
dreds OF brains are fed and are
thus kept alive and active. The
large stock Of elegant patterns
of wall and window paper is
another medicine by which
many homes is made warm and
comfortable. Then, too, comes
the many different cOlored
paints which a1e not only a
great preservative agency, but
add to the beautiful as well,
tons of which is sold annually
and which gives employment to
thousands of people. This is a
branch Of business IN which this
housealso figures largely. Saur's
Drug and Book store seems tc
-jbefthe depot or store house in
which everything is kept which
San be found in any drug and
book house, at prices which
everybody will acknowledge to
be;very low.
E8&E a
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

A Cincinnati man invented q machine
which dresses a hog in ten minutes.
What boon this will be to that class of
men who are constantly grabbing at
everything and elhowipg their neighbors
out of the way.-Bost0a1 Times,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05
Thanks,

Thos. Howard, Bradford, Pa, writes:
| enclose money for Spring Blossom, as
SAID would if it cured me: my Dys-
pepsia has vanished with all it's symp-
toms. Many thanks; shall never Re
without it in the house.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

LONDON, April 2S.-The completely Of
Grand Duke Nicholas in the plots of the
Nihilists having been made clear, he has
been sentenced by decree or the Emperor
to imprisonment for life.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

FosToRIA. April 3O.-Henry MCCauley,
father of Judge John MCCauley, of the
Common Pleas Court, died hero this
morning at an advanced age.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-05

1t is reported that young girl in Glas-
glow. Scotland has not tasted food since
the beginning of the year.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
The village Postlnistress.

The son of this postmistress says of
his mother; "She's gettin little hard
a hearin', though but I tell her that
amt strange, seein' she's heard so much
in her day. Ears can't last forever you
know, Mis- Linton, an for fifty years
there amt been nothin' goin' on among
the neighbors that ma amt heard. Bein'
in the post-offic Is wearin' to the hearin'
ez well as the eyes. Folks comm an
goin' for their letters generally leave as
much news ez they take away. BY the
way, Mis- Linton yler sister, Liss Brad
leigh's, comm backito-norrow. Ma was
readin' the postal cards last night, and
she came across onA from her." Read
ING nv postal catds p exclaimed Mrs.
Linton. "Why, yes. Ma always reads
'em-leastways sid reads such as isn't
took right off. She says it's her duty.
Might be news of sickness or death OF
suthin' else, that we'd ought to send right
along. They're dreadful aggravatin
readin' through. People don't write as
we'll as they used to, an don't make
things clear, nuther. When anybody
writes jes' Yes or No on a postal, no
postmaster in creation can make anything
of it. But your sisters postal is plain
enough, Mis- Linton thar amt nothin
indefinite about her. She says comm
Thursday, o'clock train. Have Fac
totum meet me- Ma puzzled a good dea
over that word factotum, and we botf
concluded that twas the name of yom
help. Furrin' name, ain'tit? told ms
twas new, any how, an 'ez we had
young calf't we was goin' to raise, al
hadn't named it, we concluded we'd cal
her Factotum, like that furrin' kitche1
girl O yourn, Mis- Linton"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
NIaggie's Mission.

A plain girl, with a plain face and
name, Maggie Gibson, that was all. Short,
plump, and twenty-five. Always burst
ing buttons off her dresses, tearing rents
in skirts and aprons, and ripping open
tight seams.
A white freckled face, broad, and full
of good humor when quiet, a wavy mass
of reddish hair, that would never stay
smoothly braided, wicked ringlets falling
down into the saucy eyes, blue eyes
they were, pretty some times, when
lighted up by life and excitement, dreamy
and commonplace when the soul was
quiet snubby little nose, no character
there, pouting mouth, pale, colorless
lips. Although person well suited tc
the name, "a decidedly commonplace
girl" we would say, at mere glance.
yet, that heart nursed dreams of a re.
splendent future. Not a soul to think
deeply, yet, every day there were desires
and longings and ambitions crowdine
the soul, and expanding the body, i
would seem.
We find her pouring out her wrath OF
aunt Sally's head, because that worthy
lady had demonstrated against an ambi
ton she called "manly," because it re
quired mans strong nerves, aman's cleal
cool brain, his steady hand, big stou
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
An Old Fashioned Nurse.

She was old-in fact, she was great
grandmother-but she still retained the
vigor of middle age, and pursued her
profession of nursing the sick. Her face
was scanned and wrinkled, the wrinkles
being so cris-crossed that one was in
voluntarily reminded of the tanned
alhgator-skin used in making belts and
satchels but her hair retained its nat
ural color, and she kept it in order by
means of her patients brushes and
combs. She had her peculiarities, as
most old nurses have.
Her excessive economy was equaled
only by her acquisitiveness. She had
worn her black lace veil for forty years,
her ''reps" dress, in whose pattern red
gourds chased each other over yellow
ground, dated back to past generation,
and her other garments were chosen for
their lasting quality. OF these she
seemed to have as many layers as an
onion. The layer exposed to view,
when she prepared herself for rest at
night by her patients bedside, consisted
of quilted skirt and bodice of COM
mon blue and white striped bed-ticking.
In her leisure moments she wandered
about the house and lot communing
with herself concerning the family's
waste and extravaganza. She picked up
strings, nails and tin cans she gathered
three shriveled apples that hung on
tree in the back end of the lot and she
dug down into pile of ashes upon which
the rains for months had beaten, tasted
them, and finding them still strong and
good, upbraided the mistress for not
extracting the lye and making soap.
Nothing that was offered to her came
amiss. She accepted old clothes with
avidity, old shoes and joints of rusty
stove-pipe had value in her eyes, also
crippled umbrellas and rubber boots with
holes in them.
She was not consciously y mirth- -provok-
ing in her talk her conversation ran
mostly toward lugubrious recitals of
sickness, death and misfortune, but her
patient extracted amusement from her
words and expressions. Besides these
traits, peculiar to herself, she had many
common to old-fashioned nurses, but
was excelled probably by none in her
capacity for spilling things, for losing
her spectacles and for puttering,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
The Nile.

An English capitalist, Mr.. CASTOR pro-
poses to dam the Nile at the Cataracts
and subject about 5000 acres of land,
which is now desert, to the influence OF
its fertilizing waters. This is stupen-
dOus undertaking; but it is beyond a
doubt that the present rapids are pro-
duced by the debris of ancient works OF
this description which are now strewn on
the bed of the stream, and from an en-
gineering point Of view the work would
be perfectly feasible. The lnundatlon
would then be nder complete control
while the company which should carry
out the work would be reimbursed by
the lands allotted to it out OF nearly a
million acres, which would now for the
first time be brought under cultivation;
It is said that the preliminary capital
has already been raised.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
Arctic Flowers and Berries.

1t might be supposed that in the utter
barrenness of the Arctic landscape flowers
never grew there. This would be a
great mistake The dweller in that
desolate region, after passing a long,
weary winter, with nothing for the eye
to rest upon but the vast expanse of snow
and ice, is in q condition to appreciate
beyond the ability of an inhabitant of
warmer climes the little fowerets that
peep up almost through the snow when
the spring sunlight begins to exercise its
power upon the white mantle of the
earth. In little patches here and there,
where the dark-cOlored moss absorbs the
warm rays of the sun and the snow is
melted from its surface, the most delicate
flowers spring up at once to gladden.the
eye of the weary traveller. 1t needs not
the technical skill of the botanist to adj
mire those lovely tokens of approaching
summer. Thoughts of home, in
warmer and more hospitable climate, fill
his heart with JOY and longings as
meadows filed with daisies and butter
cups spread out before him while he
stands upon the crest of granite hill
that knows no footstep other than the
tread of the stately musk OK or the
antlered reindeer, as they pass in single
file upon their migratory journeys, and
whose caverns echo to no sound save the
bowling of the wolves or the discordant
cawing of the raven. He is boy again,
and involuntarily plucks the feathery
dandeliOn and seeks the time of day by
blowing the puffy fringe from its stem,
or tests the faith of the fair one, who is
dearer to him than ever in this hour of
separation, by picking the leaves from
the yellow-hearted daisy. Tiny little
violets, set in background of black or
dark green moss, adorn the hillsides, and
many flowers unknown to warmer zones
come bravely forth to flourish for a few
weeks only and wither in the August
winds. Very few of these flowers, so
refreshing and charming to the eye, have
any perfume. Nearly all smell of the
dank moss that forms their bed. As
soon as the snow leaves the ground the
hillsides in many localities are covered
with the vine that bears a small black
berry, called by the natives parwOng, in
appearance, though not in flavor, like
the huckleberry. 1t has pungent,
spicy tartness, that is very acceptable
after long diet of meat alone, and the
natives, when they find these vines, stop
every other pursuit for the blissful mo-
mants of nra1rlnainr thar at4an.Na.;'l- -
the fruit. This is kept up, if the crop
only lasts long enough, until they have
made themselves thoroughly sick by
their hoggishness. But the craving for
some sort of vegetable diet is irresistible,
and with true Innuit improvidence they
indulge it, careless of consequences.
Fortunate for them is it that their sum-
mer is short one and the parwong not
abundant, or cholera might be added to
the other dangers of Arctic residence.
But the days of the buttercup and daisy,
and of the butterfly and the mosquito,
are few. With the winter comes the all
pervading snow and the keen, bracing
northwest wind, the rosy cheek and the
frozen nose, but with it also comes
rugged health and a steady diet of walrus
meat.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
The Jester Engaged.

Once Mount Pleasant had the Jester
engaged for his great moral entertain
ment, but in order TO make his next en-
gagement, he had to quit talking at the
expiration of one hour and twenty min
utes and hurry away on special train.
But Mt. Pleasant knew taat he had talk
cd two straight, solid hours at Scottdale.
And was Mt. Pleasant to be snubbed and
put off with smaller lecture than Scott
dale? Perish the thought All of the
lecture or none.
So new arrangements had to be made
for Mt Pleasant. And that night, while
the Jester was putting ON his cap and
bells, he said to lis friends:
II Will make il sickly for these Mount
Pleasanters. viii teach them to clamor
for long lecture when they might just
rs well have n short one / am going to
talk these people to death. am going
to give them all four of my lectures, one
after the other. 1t Will be good joke
on them. l will talk and talk, you see,
until they are tired out, and one after
another, singly and in groups they leave
the roOm, until alone am left III the hall.
That will be awfully funny, and it will be
something new in the lecture business.
Oh, it viii warm them
Well, the curtain rung up and
the shoy went ON. And it kept going on
And on md on. And the audience stuck
to him Ike burr, and along about ten
o clock r little later the Jester began
to grow tnxious. But he kept Mt it, and
by and W a couple of men got up and
went out This was the first break, and
the Jesterieit encouraged. But III few
minutes TIN men, who had only gone out
to see n MAJ, both came back. And he
felt depressed again. But he kept at it,
He was bould to talk that audience out
of National FALL But it was too many
for him. Pe'haps seven or eight people
left the hall Ut different times, but that
was all; and st % minutes after eleven o
clock the exhausted Jester tangled his
sweet bells little out of tune on the
closing joke and fell into chair, limp
and despairinE, while the good-natured
audience, fresl as a rose, retired from
the ring, smiling and ready for another
round. You can't talk out Mount
Pleasant audience.
q never talked SO long in all my life,
the Jester said, land to think that they
should tire me out, after all. Anyhow,
L wasn't feeling very well. I'll come
back next winter when I'm fresh and
strong, and I'll give these people a little
racket for their white alley then"
a. I-~t'.--aA4,, ,,-sSid tho fat passcnBeT,
you're the man. aren't you, that writes
such touching things, once in a while,
about the beauty of silence
But the Jester said he was too sleepy
to talk politics, and the stage being
ready the pilgrims lighted their cigars,
drew up their windows and smoked a
Clergyman of the Episcopal Church all
the way over to Tarr Station, SO that
when he got home that night he made
the parlor smell like drying-house, and
up to this date has not been able to con
vince his wife that he hadn't been smok-
| inc
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
A PROTEST.

Why should II sound cheerless and cold
When man says he has grown oldT
Think you of u head bald and grey,
of "A mortal that's had his day?
should my sons call me "old man."
And the town folk "Uncle Dan?"
just because my strength is spent,
just because my form is bent?
watch the youth as they run about,
With many laugh and merry shout,
And recall my childhood day,
When was thoughtless, free and gay.
Why not, o youth, tenderly speak,
Kindly be TO the old and weak
Gladly from unkindness save,
smooth their pathway 10 the grave.
Thoughtless youth should remember,
Quickly comes bleak December,
Then viii their forms he bent,
Then will their days be spent.
This home my soul shall soon Vacate,
Taking ON the glorious State;
This old form Will ne'er appear,
In that Heaven bleSt and dear.
Glorious season OF youth,
Dwelling in the light of truth,
None old or growing old up there,
'Tis life beyond all tears and care.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14
Curious Sea Inhabitants.

There is a continual warfare going on
in the deep-a constant struggle for the
means of sustaining life. The carnivo-
rous devour the vegetarians, and the
indicators swallow both animal and veg
etable forms and this runs all the way
down the scale, from the shark and the
equally ravenous bluefish to the least OF
the annelids. These last-the sea-wOrms
are wary, but they cannot escape their
enemies. If they were to contine them
selves to the bottom-where they feed,
and where many of them grow to the
length of foot or two-they might in
measure escape, though they would still
be prey to the soup and other fish that
know how to dig for them but they love
to swim, particularly at night and in the
breeding season, and then they are snap
ped UP in countless numbers. They have
almost every variety of forms, and their
structure is marvelous-mOnsters with
hooked jaws at the end of a proboscis, and
with sides of blush green, that throw off
an infinite variety of irridescent hues.
Some of the sea- worms have scales, others
have soft bodies some are sluggish, and
curl themselves up into balls when dis
trlrbed others are restless, particularly
at night; some are round, others fiat !;
some build tubes of sand and cement,
woven together till they make a colony
of many hundred members the tubes of
others are soft and flexible, and some,
when disturbed, withdraw within their
crooked calcareous tubes, and close the
orifice with plug One variety OF the
serpulae has three dark-red eyes another
variety has clusters OF eyes on each tenta-
Gle. The amphipods were accounted of
no great value till it was shown by the
Fish Commission that these small crus-
tacea furnish vast amount of food for
both salt and fresh-water fishes. Indeed,
there is not q creature that swims or
crawls that does not become the food of
some other animal. A beach-fea is
caught up by soup or founder, ,squids
make terrible havoc among young mack
erel, and sharks and stingrays find some
thing appetizing in the gasterpod.
"MY BRETHREN" said Western
minis er. "the preaching of the gospel
To some people is like pouring water
over spOnge-it sOakS and stavs. To
Others il is like the wind blowing
tn ough chicken coop. Nv expert
ence of this congregation is that 1t con-
iains more chicken coops than sponges ,
WgIrE paint may be readily cleaned
with whiting moistened with little water.
Use wooden cloth for rubber and wash
eff clean with water. Cold tea grounds
are also excellent for rubbing or cleaning
paint.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14

A REGULAR BONANZA Her hand was
evidently not on good terms with soap
and water, but was heavily loaded with
jewelry. "By GeorgeI" said Fogg,
there's rich digging over there. I should
say that dirt would assay dollar an
ounce"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14

"A morning-glory-the cock tail,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-14

Little Blossom, you make it so hard
for me to say goodbye to You.
EWhen ."
, 1881-02-19
kts Antonio and His Pig.

l[tItDlt Hf1ES
Our Naples correspondent writes: "Tho othor
dny. Ut lliu NiHKo II liscnoa, II singular r,lcu
tu4Jk place. UtIstulnnTy Oh the uceusun Ut tho
uullliMi leust 1T tho patron saint -St. Antonio.
AT. III. tho picture Ut tho mint, with hts In
sslara1lo ptx, sas nssa "a to tlo ,t.Mr "f slo p,r.
isl church. and alt go nrol,rle'urs Ut hotses:
lhoir respective anl4sals, which wcro decorated
With lang suricolUre,t rlhhons. and 4etu,sIteh
their nbuii ut tho feet uf tho saint. Thun FOL
lowed IL vrotustl,tu ana ehMracteristlc scelle.
Aotscs. assss. .xei', and eyc,! sotno Roor riKs
which riers fpll vi, be,sts took fright. ,llltl
buys wure trntup!ea tnsirr s.a,t, whiio tnttt
sheep ran wll,Ity htsher an1 thithar, mixing
thU,ltscl> NJ with the legs or thuir larsrr uOln
pnn1utss. Meanwhile rrackeEa wero uxplo4Iuh
regardless uf GaIssI0la danger Il, tho Immense
prs,suiu prcecIit was represented ly j ltrgadrr
Ut Police. who ra!mly enjoyed frun Il bale,!ny
the EnIafurtunes uY thu duyotecs. WIN, covered
With Lru1Ksa III consequence VI HutnurpuH tunl-
tley, will ahnK hRFu uHuao to rEllUinbur the sol
vua fcaas Vt sf. Antun!o and hL sx"
, 1881-02-19
MARINE MATTERS.

Spttl1E 13Up11th n 1ht EhleH0b ITfbHHt,
ST. CATuARtSEs, Feb. 18.-A number Of gen.
ttenen Interested iu shtpbudiug aud murine
mntfers-amon0st whom nre said to br II humber
Of buffalo capltaliats-Rre reported to bc en-
dcavorng to secure plat Of grounh along tho
now Wctland Canal, In this city, fur tho purpose
Of establishing q Tu.nmoth dry.dock md ship
yard. 1t Is Hull tho movement Ia headed by Mr..
Willlam stnnton. Of Port ,Colbornc, who hns
been fer years uns1lcecsstulty trying to sccurc
from tho Government site 1T l'urt to1orne.
Sptestt Dtsputet Ia JhA Chicago Irtbui...
TonuSrO Feb. 1s-CRptasn rnyinr, who Is in
tho elnploy Vt tho catndint underwrltcrs. hns
concluded his inspection ut vessels lying IN tho
ports from Kingston to Toronto, with tho excop-
lion OF South llNy nnd llcton. Another olicer
will havc to complete tho Inspection, ms Tnylur
purt,
, 1881-02-19

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. ls.-Thc five
Lapratle ,nurdcrcrs ure now hanging dead to
the railing 1T the yerallda Of tho Court
1lonsc. Attic close Of the Iaprads murder
trlal ut Springfield tonight tic mob
rushed Into the courtroom. took tie
tlyo murlercrs to- the. yeramia Of
the second story Of tho Courthouse,
aud hung them. Attorney-Gencral ,cll
tried to ssup them at tho tuor Ut tho CURT
room, but III vain. One hundred shots were
Ind just c,urgctl tic Jury When tha iuoi,
took out the prisoners. whom tho Sheriff
was MbDut to start 10 tnil.
, 1881-02-19
4 SLICK FOl{1ER,


JACKSON, Mich, Feb. 1S.-Last night
very successful forgery yas perpetrated III
this city. EARLY in the evening n PLEASANT
appearing young man went Into Mnbloy's
clothing store and stated that his nni,e was
james 4. Woods; TINT le had served term
fn prison herc, and was Just released. lie
produced a check on the Peoples National
Bunk Of jackson for SIS, pnyabe to the order
uf james a. Woods. aud signed "Wiltinm
Humphrey, Warden M. s. r." Woods stated
tl,at 1t wns for Ills overtime, earned by
extra work while convict. lie said
the check was given him after banking
hours ;1and TINT 'le Ind walled two hours at
tho prison for Gen, Humphrey in order to
get the cash for tho check, but the General
Ind not returned He sntd he was anxious
to get l,one that night anu asked thu Cashier
t0 give iltln the money for tile check. Tho
cashier stated there WIS not TINT much in the
drawer. Woods promptly spoke up and said
ho wanted to get few articles iii tho cloth
Ing line, uld asked for the balances In money.
TGts was agreed tO, a1lu llo bought Si3.:}0
in g0otls, receiving $1I.T0 Iii cash, md sle-
parted, after expressing thanks. The cheek
was presented ut tho bunk tllls morning, nt!d
at once pronounced Il forgery. fn4uiry ut
the prison revealed the fact TINT Woods llnu
lEgyer been Il convict there, nor hAG any COLI
yfct been discharged this week. 4 warrant
WIS Issued fur Woods. He WIS heard from
Mt Eaton Rapids, but hau left fur Lansing.
Tho job WIS skttIfully worked. Tho dis
charged convict trick was a SUCCESS.