Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-02
Bsmpttatit Norttwest.
Fighting Against demons.
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Fighting against difficulties! For
sooth. il is nothing compared with
fighting against demonsi "Demons!
Yes. did not you know that at least ! o.
900 lively demons govern your inani
mate. prosaic surroundings, and that
they will lurk out at you at odd times
and occasions and make war against
you in the most agyravsting manner,
that you may fight but never will con
qner them. that you are their toy, their
very slave2
/ will not speak of the strange fact.
that no one ever finds mlslaid thing
except in the last place he looks for il;
that's natural, for he generally stops
hunting there because he has it then;
nor will call to mind that a person
always gets hold Of at least a dozen
forks before that knife he wants slips
into his hands, or visa versa; nor that
the hont-ia regularly opens its jaws
to their utmost capacity in order to
slip off your heel when you are in the
greatest hurry to get your boots oil
nor that on certain occasions when q
stiff Northwestern blows the buttons oI
your overcoat persist in dropping of
like ripe apples from a tree in the fall
That's nothing when YOU get used tt
il, at least it is only fist to fist figh
with expected woes, for the exclama
tion Just what | thought, On suct
occasions slips out too naturally to ht
mistaken. But alas for the poor Mas
ter of the Manor, if all the 10000 De
mons of thy household goods enter in
to a conspiracy against thee at once
Here is George, for instance, brave
nuUle George. How he has WORKED
and fought ami persisted in overcom
ing the $1,000 difficulties that sore VI
against him. Just now lie stands on
the verge of reaching every thing ht
wished for. He is fast asleep, peaceful
and innocent as new born bahe
dreaming of d glorious morning and a
still more glorious day that shall make
him the proudest, happiest man on
earth. He wakes now with start, that
pops hun boldly upright in his berth.
Great Caesar" he calculates, 81 really
thought had oversight the time, but
thank my stars it is quite dark yeti
And down unuer the warm soft clothes
dives the nose with moustache appen-
dage, and while the eyelids drop like
shutters on the so below zero in the
bedroom, the mind opens to inspect
once more all the preparations tor the
hot battle Of the day, the battle for
fame and love.
Yes, there on the table it lies, the
beautiful lecture, his maiden speech,
that shall win everything for him. He
has copied it very elaborately, Tor he
will somehow slip 1t into dear little
Mondie's hands, and she will smuggle
it into the judges study where he will
see it and surely read it. Then he will
doubtless think differently of the young
''scapegrace," who dares to look at his
Rosamonde The Judge won't attend
his lecture, he won't take a railroad
trip for that with all his rheumatism
that will not stay away-but Monde
will be there--he is sure of that. Last
alght in the hustle and crowd of the
vestibule al the close of the prayer
meeting he managed to get so near her;
That he could venture low pleading
"Comlng2' She had nodded her
graceful head so quickly and deeply,
that old uncle Colonel, on whose arm
she was hanging comfortably, observed,
'Not yet Monde, steps are pretty far
off yet, my dear!' Yes she would
come, and then his thought wandered
% the new suit, the splendid fitting
lew suit and to the brightly polished
boots under the chair near the center
able and to the shirt on that chair.
George like most gentlemen is partic-
llary accurate with just this carmen,
nd mas looked through his whole store
# them without finding more than
his one acceptable to his demands)
'ut this one is splendid, really splen-
lid, everything is splendid for to-day.
'hus he thinks it all over in his cosy
ed, now il he only does not miss the
rain that shall speed him to c., the
lace of his grand battle.
Poor short-sighted mortal! He has d
o presentment, that just this day all a
he demons are in league to defeat his I
oble plans and intentions. I
Yes, that train! He jumps out of {
ed and hastens for the center-table to 0
,rike a light and to look at his watch. r
'nly three steps and behold! the r
lnocent looking old easy chair has al a
eady managed to put out one of its Il
ockers aud trips him most unmerci- 0
lilly. He rubs his shin bone with an v
of the softest benediction tt
lowable at such accidents and limps a
, the table. Grabbing around for the a
!atch.box, there it is, one. two, three a
Great Lueifer- -matches!' not one Il
arms, more, more, and more unpa- a
ently), now for the sixth match-and q
10 hand that grabs it, is somewhat "
srvous by this time, it tips something. 2
ut the match burns and the lamp is G.
GIFTED. -"Je-rus a-lemI It's the ink. II
and that upset, and the beautiful +
looks more like an outflow q
the black sea verbally than any. p'
ing else! Well, we'll, Mr.. George, &C