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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

if she permitted herself to indulge this
talent, told her little story with grace,
and could mimic very successfully the
peculiarities of the person who was the
subject.
''She had fine taste for belle-lettre
reading, which was judlcously applied in
the selection of pieces she admired.
This quality, by improving her talents
for conversation, contributed not incon-
siderably to make her most desirable
and agreeable companion. 1t beguiled
many of those winter evenings during
which her protracted i'll health and her
feeble nervous system confined us en-
tirely to each other. l can never cease
to look back on them with deep interest
and regret. Time has not diminished,
and will not diminish, this interest and
this regret.
''In all the relations of life she was a
model which those to whom it was given
cannot initiate too closely. AS the wife,
the mother, the mistress of a family, and
the friend, her life furnished an example
to those who could observe intimately
which will not be forgotten. She felt
deeply the distress of others, and in
dulged the feeling literally on objects
she believed to be meritorious.
"She was educated with profound
reverence for religion, which she pre-
served to her last moment. This senti-
ment among her earliest and deepest
impressions gave character to her whole
life. Hers was the religion taught by
the Savior of man. She was cheerful,
mild, benevolent, serious, humane, in
tent on self-improvement and the i'm
provement of those who looked to her for
precept and example. She was q firm
believer in the faith inculcated by the
Church in which she was bred, but her
soft and gentle temper was incapable of
adopting the gloomy and austere dogmas
which some of its professors have sought
to ingraft on it.
Il have lost her, and with her | have
lost the solace of my life. Yet she re-
mains still the companion of my retired
hours, still occupies my inmost bosom.
When alone and unemployed, my mind
increasingly recurs to her.
more than thousand times since the
18th of December, 1881, have | repeated
to myself the beautiful lines written by
Burgoyne under a similar atflction, sub
shutting Mary for Anna:
'"Encompassed in an angels frame
An angels virtues lay:
How soon did Heaven assert its claim,
And take its own away!
any Mary's worth my Mary's charms,
Can never more return.
What now shall fill these widowed armsf
All mel my Mary's urn
An mel an me! my Mary's urn
-Harper'S Magazine
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The SnOb Family.

Mr.. and Mrs. Snob and little Snob must
have fresh air and recreation out of town.
1t is sometimes their pleasure to show
their fine clothes and diamonds at
costly hotel. But there are times when
Mr.. Snob wants to economize. He re-
fleets that if he goes with his family to
lesser boarding house there is no law
preventing them from sitting on the
portico of the big hotel, airing their style
and picking their teeth as if they regu-
larly paid their bill to the diamond
mounted hotel clerk. Topick their teeth
in public is an uncouth, and ungentle-
manly trick. but Snob does it in sight of
all men, and is deeply conscious of his
importance while he does so. As he
walks the halls of the popular hotel or
lounges in its office or bar room, he con-
graduates himself that he is putting on
considerable style at small expense;
When Mr.. Snob mingles with his fell
low-boarders at the less pretentious hos
telry he carries with him the air of one
who belongs at a much more stylish
place. He looks down ON the rest of the
company as of very little account. 1t is
for him and his party that the house is
managed and for their comfort and en-
joyment that the boats, the croquet sets,
the best chairs and the choicest corners
of the portlcoes are created. His family
assert theirsuperiority over the others by
gathering themselves into little group
and refusing to associate with anybody
else. From behind the barricade of their
own self-importance they shoot out the
envenomed tongue criticism against the
raiment, the habits and the genealogy of
those whom they dislike. At table they
whisper severe remarks about others
and show by the upturned nose, the
winking eye or the pouting lip that they
are taking note ofthe sayings and doings
of those who, instead of being made like
themselves, or porcelain are made of or
binary clay.
When Snob and his family 90 home
there is sense of relief at the boarding
house. The rest of the boarders CRATE
fully realize that they are no longer the
subjects of inspection or the victims of
unfavorable criticism. They can wear
what they please, without being annoyed
by having it intimated that the goods
with which Mr.. Snob has provided his
family are more costly or in better style.
They can eat their meals in peace, with
out worrying over the probability that
the Snobs will take away their appetites
by saying or doing something unpleas-
ant. The servants are glad, for the
Snobs are difficult people to wait on,
and are always complaining about some
thing or other. Yet the family will al
ways be more or less present at summer
resorts. Their presence must be en-
dured, like that of the mosquitoes.
PHILADELPHIA Times
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English Publicans.

To give some idea of the extent of
disease and death which is caused by
alcohol, | may narrate striking fact
relating to one class of men. the class
which makes its living and its dying,
also, by strong drinks. This is the
class called publicans, hotel-keepers, or
beer-shop keepers. The publicans, as
ass, seem very comfortably placed
in the world. They live in nice, warm
houses; they have plenty of food on
their tables; they are not obliged to go
out in all weathers and at all hours of
the night, like policemen or game
keepers; they are not exposed to great
dangers like men who drive railway
trains; they are not exposed to infec-
tiouS diseases like doctors; they are not
exposed to cold and heat and wet and
privation like agricultural laborers. In
short, they are placed in more favora-
BILE circumstances than almost any 9TH
er class of the community, except in
this one respect, that having alcohol
always before them, they are constant
ly tempted to partake of it. The elect
of this practice is shown in their NOR
tality. Notwithstanding their advan-
tages, they die so much faster from dis,
eases caused by alcohol than the rest
of the people, that in England, as the
public records tell us, 1873 pubicans die
in proportion to 100 of the whole of the
community who are employed in sew
enty leading occupations. For eighty
deaths of game keepers there are 1873
deaths of publ ans. Even railway
drivers and servants. who are exposed
to so many dangers, die at the lower rate
of 121 to 1873 publicans. B. w. Richard-
son. N. A., N. d., LII. D., F. r. s., ias
"4AlcohoL and Its action on the B0dy."
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They Turned a Ralc.

Less than three months ago wreck
of man staggered into the Office of a
weekly paper in Eastern Michigan and
Strangely enough the publisher was an
old schoolmate. They were boys to-
gether They were apprentices in the
same town. They worked side by side
as finished compositors. One had So
briefly and thrift-the other had a good
heart and an open hand. Twenty
years made the one rich and intluen-
tial-the other a drunkard who slept
in the gutter as often rs in a bed. The
one had made use of what God had Civ
en- him. but the other had deliberately
make himself wreck.
The meeting calledup host of recol-
lections, and the contrast between their
situations was so great that the old
drunkard was sobered as he realized it.
He was offered work. but he had be-
come too broken. The stick and the
rule were no longer for him. He was
offered temporary home, but he
looked at his rags and felt his shame
for the first time in months. When
money was handed him he waved il
back and said:
II shall not want it. l ask, in the
name of olden days and as q fellow
craftsman, one little favor"
at shall be granted"
"Whcn you Know that l am dead,
then turn rule for me and give me a
single line"
The promise was made and the old
wreck iloated out again on the current
of life, borne here and there and feeling
that death was to be the end. Yester-
day copy of the weekly reached the
Free Press with proof that the editor
had fulfilled his promise, He had turned
a rule for the poor wreck, and had given
him a line:
"Dicd, September 81, 1882, George White"
That was all, but in that line was such
n sermon as no man on earth could de-
liver. For every word there was n year
of woe and degradation. For every
letter there were tears and heart-aches
and promises and failures. Detroit
tTec Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
Society Note.

A GOODNESS has arisen between Kosius-
co Murphy and Mrs. Hufnagel, one of
the most fashionable ladies of Austin.
There was lawn party at the Hufnagel
mansion. Mrs. Hufnagel showed Mr.
Murphy over the grounds, and asked
him what he thought of their arrange
ment.
Il am delighted madam was Their
ply. wherever look | see the foot
prints of your genius"
As Mrs. Hufnagel has . foot almost as
big as a wheelbarrow, she supposed
there was something personal in the re-
mark. She did not hint exactly that she
was not glad to have him stay to supper,
but she opened the gate, and pointed into
the street, and Murphy, who is very sem
sitive, strolled away. TtraS Sgli"gS,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
Temperance Reading.
THE BEVERAGE OF HE'LL.

Tho following passionate outburst (pul
lished years ago. on the part of an innocer
victim of the curse of strong drink is wort
reproducing at this time:
Go feel what / have felt
Go bear what have borne
Sink meath the blow a father dealt,
And the cold world proud scOrn:
Then suffer on from year to year
Thy sole relief the scorching tear.
Go kneel as l have knelt,
ImplOre, beseech and pray
Strive the besotted heart to melt,
The downward course to stay
BE dashed with bitter curse aside,
Your prayers burlesqucd, your tears defied
Go weep as have wept
Ger II loved fathers fall,
See every promised blessing swept
Youths sweetness turned to gall;
Ilfe's fading flowers strewed all the way
Go see what have seen,
Behold the strong man bow
With crashing teeth-lps bathed in blood
And cold and livid brow;
Go catch the whitening glance and see
There mirrored his souls misery.
Go to thy mothers side,
And her crushed bosom cheer:
Thine own deep anguish hide
Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear;
Mark her worn frame and whitening brow;
The gray that streaks her dark hair now;
With fading frame and trembling limb
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose plighted faith in early youth
Promised eternal love and truth;
But who, foresworn, had yielded up
That promise to the maddenng cup,
And led her down through love and light
And all that made her promise br ght-
And chained her there mid want and strife,
That lowly thing-a drunkard's wife
And stamped on chldhOods brow, so mild,
That whitening blight-the drunkard's child.
Go hear, and feel, and see, and know,
All that my soul has felt and known
Then look upon the wine-cup's glow;
See if It's beauty can atone
Think if its flavor you can try,
When all proclaim; tbs drink and die!
Tell me hate the how'll
Hate is Il feeble word!
he-abhor-my very soul
With deep disgust is stirred
Wheneer see, or hear, or tell
OF that dark Beverage of He'll!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
Adulterated Opium.

Itappaars from chemical investigation
that opium is generally worse even than
it appears to be, from the fact that, on
account of its many authorizations, its
strength can only be guessed at. Some
samples lately a alyzed showed that over
a third of the mass was composed of
crushed linseed. Other samples are
found mixed with liquorice, cashew, Sc
same oils, gum arabic and tragacanth,
sand, vegetable earth, lead, starch and
animal eXcrement. A lot imported into
England looked well, but contained only
two per cent of morphine. Bullets Of
clay, chopped poppy leaves, rumeX
leaves; tuberces of helianthus, dahlia
colchcum and dried mushrooms are
found, the resinous character of the sub
stance being supplied by plentiful use
of pitch. Turkish opium contains rails
ms, crushed poppy, dcsiccated eggs,
wax, rosin and pulyerized brick. One
sample was made up of opium, clay and
dried eXcrement.- N Y. SIN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
An advertisement in the Free,,a,,,

AN advertisement in the Freenuan's
Journal, Dublin, says: ''Mrs. C. Edge
has grown five sunlowers from seed from
Utica, Oneida County, America, seven
feet four inches high, leaf one foot in
length and breadth, stem four d half
inches in circumference; blossom. outer
edge orange with pale yellow centers,
circumference of the blossom of sun
flower eighteen inches; they are a splen-
did specimen of the smtlower, worthy
Of cultivation as curiosity.''
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

"A smile as large as they can indulge
in in Rhode Island without its lying over
the territory of the adjacent States, is
now in progress in that commonwealth
on the discovery that the sentinel, who,
Turing the recent siege of CanorcEet
stood upon the outer walls and held the
place against all corners, was a fourteen
year-old house-girl who put on martial
attire for the occasion,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
CONTRARY MEN.

Some men do write when they do wrong,
And some do live who dye;
Ard some are short when they are long,
And stand when they do lie.
A man is surly when he's late;
Is round when he is square,;
He die early and dilate,
And may be foul when fair"
He may be fast when he is slow,
And ''loOse" when he is tight"
And "high" when he is very low,
And heavy when he's Light"
He may be wet when he is "dry;"
He may be great when small;
May purchase when he won't go by;
Have naught when he has awl.
He may be sick when he is "Sweh,"
And hot when he is scold;
He's skilled so he on earth may dwell,
And when he's young he's sold.
-NOrTtStOlUn HerGld.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

IT costs this country 500 times as
much for intoXicants as it does to pay
Che salaries of the clergy. The figures
ure -. 200, 600, 900 and so, 900. 900.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

-Ayoung nun escaped from London
convent by scaling the garden wall, a
daring and dillicultfeat. Then she stole
a dress and hat from a house in the
neighborhood, donned them in place of
the nuns clothes, and made her escape.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

The waltz will soon be waltzed out OF
style, or atl least the hugging part of it.
Many dancing masters now refuse to
teach it in any form Form on for a
quadrillc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

Mrs Lydia Gaber, while awaiting
trial in Philadelphia as common scold,
because she talked SO long and so badly
to her ncighbors, killed herself. -P6tla.
aeiDhin Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21

Tho following passionate Outburst pub
hshed years ago. on the part of an innocent
victim of the curse of strong drink is worth
reproducing at this time:
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-06-08
The swindlers have adopted 4 new II 81,

& = X .. = III ta Hrf ~ n
The swindlers have adopted new plan,
to beat the unsuspecting farmers. The
latest is worked as follows by a pair Of
scalawags: Noticing the advertisement Of
stray horses and cows, one of them goes
to the advertiser and asks to see the ami
NAL. His request being granted, he in
forms the advertiser that the animal is not
the onefor which he is looking. The fsl-
low goes back to his pal and gives him. q
description of the animal, and The pal then
goes to the advertiser and describes the
horse or cow accurately and gets possession:
Then the swindler tells the advertiser that
be lives long way of and does not want
to be troubled with taking the animal
home, and offers to sell 1t for about half
what the animal is worth. The advertiser
generally makes the purchase, and In nine
cases out often subsequently has to give
up the animal into the possession of the
owner, losing the money he paid the i'm
posters Itought to- excite the farmers
suspicion. when the pretended owner, AZ.
tef coming along distance to hunt up b
stray, should be willing 20 sell II atsacli !
sacrifice. KHatsssss& IN assss.IsiFt MI aa sz
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-06-08
Another Chance.

Mr.. Theisen having purchased the lar
gest amount OF wall paper &c. OF G. "A.
Kneeland, between May 10th and June lst,
has received the chrome offered. AS many
more have wish to compete who did not,
Mr.. Kneeland makes the following offer:
The person buying the largest amount Of
wall paper or window shades between
june 5th and Goth will have their choice
ofa fine lady's pocket book, shopping bag
or framed chrome, size 24xS0. And to the
one. buying the largest amount of paint q
gentleman's pocket book or the chrome
will be given. All goods warranted as
represented.
ct G. A, KNEELAND,
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MAY Blossoms.

The following marriage licenses were is
sued during the month of May, 1882:
J. Burnside and Catharine Macklin.
III. L. Kinderand Martha J. Heartley.
w. F. Ritz and Catherine p. Spieth.
NJ. Rogers and Hattie Hoffman.
G. Buck and Clara F. Harmon.
j. A.. .Kerstetter and Edith Davis.
Henry Meyer and Mary Schroeder.
A. Whitmer and Elizabeth Gentzell.
]. Gerlitz and Katie Simmons.
c. A. Riggle and Hattie i. Haynes.
w. H. Huber and Mary L. Schleinz.
{. Fl. johnson and Mary E. Hayes.
Ask for Lincoln's lightning Fluid Soap
at Hirseland's. 2t
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Council Proceedings.

REGULAR MEETING, June 5, ss2.-Mem-
bers present: Brown, Honeck, McColly,
Meyerholtz, saygers, Tyler. Mayor Haag
in the chair. ~
An ordinance, to provide for the con-
struction of sewer on south side of Mau-
NEE River, was introduced by Mr.. Myer-
holtz and read first, second and third times
and passed.
An ordinance, pending for the improve
ment and enlargement ofa sewer therein
named, was introduced by Mr.. Meyer
holtz, and read first. second and third
times and passed.
An ordinance, providing for the levying
oftaxesin Napoleon for the year 1882, was
presented by Mr.. Tyler, and read first,
second and third times and passed.
An ordinance to regulate auctioneering
and repeal an ordinance therein named,
was read second and third times, and
passed.
The following bills were examined by
asr.ti a..
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PersonaI.


Mrs, Frank Flsk visited in Defiance last
MT. H,rgs.rs visited J. rSlsas hi.
week. kHtf W FI
Or. Jss. Haly and family are visiting ip
Tifin. ~ 4 ~
Otto HOneck visited Adrian. Mich.,' YES
terday. d
Atrylss Off. Wayne. wa, I'M town
Monday. -tA ~ fF6 tk4
E. T. Dunn, of FIndlsy. was in town
Tuesday.
B.F. Wade, Of Toledo, took in Napoleon
on Monday.
John Cameron leaves for Europe to-mor-
row morning.
DIR. Stout, Of Florida, LEFT for Oregon on
Tuesday evening. ~- 80 ~
Miss Lou Ditteuhaver returns to Lead
Vile, COL, to-day.
Herman Hintz is sojourning up In Mich
igan for few weeks.
Mrs. Durbin, of Chicago, is spending the
summer in Napoleon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kittner, OF Defiance, spent
Sabbath in Napoleon.
Miss Kate Wilson is visiting in Nor
walk and EIyfia this week.
Mrs. Augustus Bull is visiting friends
and relatives in Fremont. w
Rev. Baichley and wife, Of Grand Rap
ids, was in town last Thursday.
Judge Moore returned to Ottowa on
Saturday, after adjourning Court.
Mrs. ]. P. Reeder left on Tuesday fol
Pennsylvania, on visit to her parents.
Miss Nellie Finucan has accepted po.
sition as copyist in Recorder Hartnett's
Office.
Miss Lizzie Bigger starts for Hutchin.
son, Kan, to-day on visit to friends and
relatives.
Col. Norton attended meeting of the
grand lodge of the Legion OF Honor at Co
lumbus this week.
Martin Knupp left for Ottowa on Satur
J day to attend the funeral of his brother-ir
law, Mr.. Ralph Phgh. ANc
Stanley Jones, ofNapoleon, has accepted
a position in the grocery of J. M. Ryder
Co.-Defance Times.
F.B. Sawyer, of @. Fl. Sawyer & Co.
Toledo, was in town Tuesday. Frank il
jolly fellow and good salesman.
Mrs. M. Knupp returned to Napoleon
on Monday. She attended the funeral o
her brother Ralph at Ottowa On Sunday
last. fsfs{ II
Ella M. Hall, accompanied by he
mother, lett this morning for Nimisilla, o.
where they intend to spend part of tn,
summer.
]. d. Norton, ]. N. High, L. g. Randall
II. M. Wisler, and Wv, Frease ATTENDED
i, the Republican Convention at Columbu.
yesterday.
J. X. Withers, one of the best r. r
Agents on the Wabash Route, or any 9th
! er route, left Sabbath for the far west on
; two or three weeks absence.
Miss Lulu Higgins returned from Cleve
land last Thursday, where she has beei
running treatment for her eyes for the pas
I nine months. She will return again il
|, July. She is under the care of Dr.. x. G
Scott, an eminent occulist who thinks he
> sight will eventually be restored.
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The following in regard to the death of
Ralph Pugh. brother-in-law OF Prosecut-
ing Attorney Knupp, we take from an
Ottowa correspondence to the Bee:

The death OF Ralph Pugh, young and prominent
attorney Of this place, which occurred at the resi-
dcnca OF his father, ID. Pugh, ESQ., last Ffiday. was
. sad instance OF young man early cut on In q ca
reer which gave promise OF great honors. Mr.. Pugh
had been absent months seeking health In more
congenial clfIhea, but finding the search vain and
fruiess one, returned last week TO die amid those
who loved him. Ills course In life had been marked
by honor aud uprightness, and he had won the res
pect and kind consideration OF all who knew him
Deceased was In his twenty fourth year and had
resided In ottowa since ls62 He graduated In the
Ottowa High School In 1878, when not quite fifteen
years Of age standing second in the large class OF that
year. Commencing IN 1875 he spent two years IN
the University at Wooster Ohio, and aterward stud
was about three years since attacked with consump-
ton, which never thereafter ioosed lite hold upon
him. His funeral was attended yesterday at the
Presbyterian Church, Rev, W. A. Echals ofieiatine
and large assembly Of relatives and sympathizing
friends followed his remains TO their resting place in
the Ottowa Cemetery ffisf Hltf &
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Colorado Excursions.

Colorado round trip tourist tickets at
greatly reduced rates, via G. d. & @. R. r.,
new Chicago and Denver Through Line,
good during summer menths and National
Mining and Industrial Exposition in Sep
tember are now on sale and full particn-
lars as to trains and rates can be obtained
from any Coupon Ticket Office in the Uni
ted States or Canada. 4t COW.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-06-08

The undersigned has already organized
class in vocal music of pupils ranging
from ten to fourteen years. Any other pu-
pills desiring lessons in singing will please
notify me during the present week.
Glass will meet on Friday, June 9th,
8 .. M, at Mr.. Halls music store lin Mil
Ter House), aiterward in the Tyler Block
over the NORTHWEST Office, every Tues
day and Friday. Terms very easy. For
particulars apply to the undersigned. I
viii also continue to give instrumental
lessons either on piano, organ or guitar.
CLARA KNIsELY.
3 Napoleon, 0. June 7, 1882.
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Wants Supplied.

1t yon want quires of good writing pa
per for 35 cts.
Ifyou want u box oigood envelopes for
45 cts.
Ifyou want 5 quires of good foolscap
paper for rs cts.
II you want paper, envelopes, blank
books DC, to sell again.
Ifyou want anything in the stationery
or blank book line, cheaper than You ever
bought before, at wholesale or retail, goto
Kneeland's urug store.
Have you seen the new waist and saque
.l.. q a IIolln.. 4. Cx.>ia