Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-02

MS warm cot OF lutO ouilNiOu altuBtiutf.
But a look on his watch brings him
quickly round again. He hurriedly
covers his whole mortal frame with a
big dressing gown and pair Of warm
slippers, and, as soon as the fire he Is
building crackles Justify without q
single drawback (sometimes he makes
au awful job Of IN he regains his spirits
and stretching out his hands as in
hearty benediction over his now glow
ing and cleaning stove he exclaims al
most I atheii,ally: Blessing on the my
warmest friend, foreverl" Poor fel-
low, he does not notice the strange sat
rcal laugh on the shining face that
adorns his "warmest friend or he
would never have ventured to bring
his new boots in such c;ose proximity
to the sphere of action of his "warmest
friend.
He feels quite comforted now. II
the manuscript is spoiled let it be-hls
speech will surely appear in print-so
much the better, the judge can read it
then. Now then, for getting ready.
The cold water splashes about him
with exciting hilarity, comb and brush
rake and stroke admirably and the
mirror smiles complacently on face
buoyant with soap-suds, and happy ex-
pectations. Now, for the shirt
.Je-ru -sa- lem, three times!" Why a
sudden duoiecimo dynamite explosion
could not have affected him worse
than the aspect of this, his nearest
neighbor! 1t lay on the chair where
he put it last night, bat on the bright
shining bosom lay-the ink. stained
wet silk kerchief, be had thrown it
there SO hastily-"Ah, We demons!
that accounts for the diabolical laugh,
heard just then! "What now?'-He
lifts it up tenderly. softly, as you
would lift up a dear little baby, that
innocently sat down on yon stove pipe.
Oh, dear" for thunder) was all he
muttered, of course inky all over, all
over! George was brave fellow,
who kne v we'll how to meet difficulties
of every kind, but who will blame him
for seating himself now on that identi.
cal old arm chair that fired the first
alarm shot at his shinbone this morn
ing, folding his arms over his knees as
an old granny might do who has split
all her milk and hope, that he looked
up at the unhappy corpus delicts as saw
aye as cat might look at drowned
rat. mo use crying, old boy he
reused himself after while, 'have to
get another one, that's all!' Yes and
1t is equally useless telling about the
time he had had in finding one, and
that at last he had to comply with
somewhatl sky-bluish article minus
Two buttons and without shade of
"nobiness. r.
MeanA hile the mirror and stove had
necessarily exchanged kilograms flor
vas-a-vis, and could even look into
each others wIndows) and if George
nad been less occupied by search and
anger he would have smelt rat long
ago. When he turned to his boots at
last, they were past the smelling point,
for those bright supporters of his un-
derstanding were gone beyond hope!
His "warmest friend had proved too
hot for calf-skin and polish. "Burned!'
Yes, burned, very much so! "What
now?" We cannot let him answer
that question without our advice and
will not track his mseries further, we
will only state, that sweet little Mon
dee was in time for the first and only
train; that she somwhat startled her
lncle Colonel (who was to accompany
he little beauty on only a shopping
our to ca by necessarily looking
lround on the depot like a young
.hicken that has lost the hen, and by
vehemently "too late,
when young man appeared on the
platform just after the train was rush
ny off at full speed.
Such is the fight with demons. Ev
rybody that fought it will agree that
t is the worst kind of wrestling ever
or invented.