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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01
Where Bread is Cheap.

1t was a sad, sad sight, in which was
blended tears and laughter. On the
Santa Fe train was large family of Ger
mans. There were fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters, and raft of little
ones. Some were able to crawl up and
sit on q seat, others were still at the
breast. They were all bound for the Ne
osho Valley. All were tired, hungry,
and worn out from four weeks pas
sage. They had left crowded Germany,
where they had been struggling for an
existence, and they were going to their
new home in the New World. When
the children cried for meat or something
better than the stale black bread the
mothers hushed them and told them
that they would soon be at Plymouth,
beyond Emporia, where they would
meet Uncle Heinrich and Aunt Lena,
and when. they got out onto the farm
they would all have meat and milk.
80, it will be beheaven," said one of the
men, ''to live in country where our
children can have all the milk and meat
they want!'
As the train passed Emporia, Kansas,
the poor Germans began to raise the
windows and admire the beautiful
country along the Santa Fe Road. The
next station was to be the long looked
for new home. The mothers, wreathed
in smiles, began to wash the children's
faces for the last time. Then when the
rosy-cheeked children were fixed they
took white handkerchiefs out of their
bags and put them around their own
necks. Poor women, they had but one
dress on earth, but as they were going
to see brothers and sisters and neigh
bors who had been away from Germany
ard living in Kansas for five years
they wanted to look as well as they
could.
"The next station is the place." said
a big, healthful German as he tied q
blue handkerchief over his old soiled
collar, ''and here we'll never be hungry
again. Here my little babies can have
all they want to eat.''
"Will your friends meet you at the
trainp" l asked, becoming deeply in
terested in the poor but now happy
group.
"Yes, they know we are coming this
week, and they'll be down at every
train. Heinrich's is only two miles of. "
''There they are! waiting for u.s."
said the wife, stretching her head out of
the window, and sure enough here was
a crowd of twenty American-Germans
on the platform as the train drew up.
Soon the fathers and mothers lead the
way off the train, carrying the big bum
dies, the children following with the
dozens of little packages. AS they
struck the platform brothers and sisters
and fathers and children came together
in long embrace. Every eye was
dimmed with tears. Every voice fall
tered and every throat choked with
emotion. 1t was the pother of great
joy. But soon they wiped their tears
away and began to laugh and pat and
smooth each other on the back. Then
the Kansas Germans led them across the
street to a hotel where big dinner was
ordered. 1t was worth a days travel
to see those appetites appeased. In two
years these German immigrants who
looked so hungry on the cars will own
good farms.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01
Nhpsiriaas.
A II PHILLIPS
G. H. SHERMAN,

Physician and Surgeon, Napoleon, o.
WILL attend to calls in the country and town.
w also pay particular attention to diseases Of the
eye and ear Office first door over Humphreys Drug
store, Washington street.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01
"Mr." and ESQ"
TLongmAn'e Magazine.

But now comes another OF our
anomalies, one which greatly puzzles
European continentals, and which is
not always grasped even by our
American klnsfolk. This is the nature
of the Esquire. A class of people are
habitually:ca!led plain "Mr." in ordlna
ry talk who would be greatly offended
if their letters were so addressed. l
am not speaking of those who claim a
higher adjective description: | mean
those who are spoken of as ''Mr. A.
B." but who, in any formal descrlp-
ton, from the address OF letter up
ward, must be described as "a. B.,
ESQ.," In itself, Esquire, like Knight,
is a title, if not of Office, Of something
very like office; and it would not have
been wonderful if it had been usual to
call men "Knight A." and "Esquire e
B." But "Knight A." seems never to
have been In use; and Esquire or
rather Esquire B." can hardly be
said to have ever been in polite use.
Men like Hampden, who would have
ranked as mobiles anywhere out of the
British kingdoms, were simply "Mr
Hampden,' and the like.
To be sure, "Mr." was then more oi
distinct title that it is now. | have
seen somewhere In the early records OF
a New England colony an order, in
which, among other pains and penal
ties decreed against a certain man, il
is forbidden to speak of him any lon
ger as "Mr." Possibly, though used
to be spoken of as "Mr.,' he did not
bold the technical rank of Esquire.
For Esquire Is technical rank, as
much as Earl or Knight; and one odd
thing is that when the word, in a con-
tracted shape. is put before name, it
means something different from that
technical rank. Many people put
"Esq.' after their names, not by mere
assumption or conventionallty, but OF
perfect right, to whom no living soul
would ever think of tacking on
esquire" before their names. Squire
A." marks a position which, if moi
strictly official, certainly comes very
near to it-a position which is not
held by all who are described as es
quires even by strict formal right.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01

In hundreds of instances where Hot
Springs and other treatment failed to
cure scrofula and syphilitic disorders,
the sufferer has sought and found cure
in DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sar-
saparilla. Itenriches the blood, strength
ems the urinary and digestive organs,
and quickly removes all indications OF
ill health and blood disease, from a
pimple to running sore, from head
ache to a rheumatic pain. Its superb
ority over all other blood purifiers and
strengthening medicines is admitted by
all who test its curative effect and in
fluence. 1t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01
Where to see lhe Great TrOtters OF
New York.
TCincinnati Times Star.


No two men in America have had
more experience with fine trotting
stock, and none are better judges than
Calvin NJ. Priest, of the New York Club
Stables, 2Sth street near Fifth Avenue,
and Dan Mace, of the Excelsior Stables
west 29th street, New York, the cham.
pion double-team driver of the United
States. Both of these gentlemen say,
that for painful ailments in horses, such
as cuts, bruises, swellings, lameness,
stiffness, St. Jacobs Oil is superior to
anything they have ever used or heard
of. This is also the opinion of Prof.
David Robarge, the celebrated horse
shoer of the metropolis, and thousands
ofstock-owners throughout the country.
AS a pain-cure for man and beast st.
Jacobs Oil has no equal. Mr.. Priest re-
cites the case of valuable trotter, SO
stiff from rheumatism that he could
not move an inch. By one thorough
application of st. Jacobs Oil at night,
the animal was completely cured, and
was fit for the race-track the next day.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01
The True Test.

If a man is hungry within an hour
more or less after meal he is dyspep-
tic, it shows his stomach is not able to
dispose of what he has eaten, but to eat
and thus impose more work, is an
absurdity. Take DIR. Jones' Red Glover
Tonic which cures dyspepsia, and all
stomach, liver, kidney and bladder trou.
bles. 1t is a perfect tonic, appetizer
blood purifier, sure cure for ague and
malaria diseases. Price so cents, of D.
]. Humphrey.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-01

Albuquerque, N. NJ, boasts of being
the youngest town in the world lighted
with electricity. Albuquerque is an in
FAINT of three years, which after twelve
months experience with gas, outgrew
that antiquated illuminator and Install
ed the electric light in its streets and
public buildings.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
A HERMIT AT HOME.
The Curious Old Man Who Lives I'm One
OF the Abandoned Forts Beyond WASH
fnnton.

The Curious Old Man Who Lives in One
of the Abandoned Forts Beyond WASH
ington.
A real live hermit has been living for
years--none can tell how many--in maga-
zine in one of the old forts that disfguro the
numerous hills above Uniontown. He is q
lonely old man, who dwels in dismal solitude,
avoiding contact and communication with his
fellow men as though humanity were the
embodiment of physical pestilenco and
tho personifcation of moral loprosy.
He visits Uniontown at long intervals
to lay in storos and ON these expeditions he
seeks to avoid notice. shrinking into corners
and refusing to talk with any ono except the
storekeeper or his clerk, and saying as little
to them as he can help. His strange and
mysterious conduct attracted the attention of
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN reporter day or
two ago, and an attempt was made to draw him
into conversation, but without success. When
the strange being left the village tho reporter
followed When near the top of one Of the
wooded hills the hermit darted to the side of
the road and without looking to tho right or
left disappeared through the thicket. Tho
reporter has tened to the spot, and after con-
siderable search found, by pushing aside n
mass of underbrush, u narrow path. The
| hermit was not 10 be seen, and neither was
there O vestige of human habitation in sight.
A short walk up the slippery path brought the
searcher to q stone arch half concealed beneath
cover of earth and briars. A small opening
about three feet across was discovered behind
a curtain of brush mating, and into this aper-
| ture the reporter orawled, determined TO pur-
sue his adventure to the end. He felt his
way along the Shiny wall through the passage,
which was dark as the bottomless pit, until
| he suddenly found himself in an underground
room or dungeon dimly lighted from above.
| In the corner most remote from the passage
could be seen the hermit bending over II brush
fire, which gave forth dim, hiclSering light
aud thin cloud of sitting smoke.
The scene was wicrd and fantastic,
and the curious reporter felt cold chill run
| down his back as he contemplated the strange
| picture that was spread before him. The
occupant of tho den, unaware of the presence
OF the intruder, did not move, and the latter
was strongly tempted to retire. but summon
| ing all his courage he advanced to the side of
| the old man. The hermit displayed no signs
of trepidation, but, on the contrary, his eyes
fairly bazed with wrath. He surveyed the
| yOungman for u moment with an expression OF
mingled hatred, disdain and contempt, and
resumed his crOuching position before the
| twig fire without word. Nothing the re-
porter could say could draw from him word,
and, after II brief stop, the visitor retired
none the wiser, but considerably edited
| Who he is or what drove him to solitude none
can tell and none pretends to know. The her
nit keeps his secret well, and 1t will probably
die with him.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
LET INFIDELITY BLUSH.


A Missionary from British Guiuna Comes
God.
In old times the star of Bethlehem brought
peace on earth and good will to man, and now
the star fDomerara promises rest for the veXcd
question, is there q God ~ The Rev. Mr..
Suttongof British Guiana has located in
Washington and announces himself divinely
called to II mission of proving the existence
of God. Mr.. Sutton's secular business is
practical engineering, and having followed
the water most Of his life is now naturally
enough n fisher of souls. His travels have
been extensive and his experience varied. lie
can handle a safety valve in six different
languages and point the way of saliva
tion, like native, from France to
Guiana He has borne. testimony of the Spirit
from Trinidad TO FinisteTre, aud grown
nightly in grace ON both sides of the tropic.
Although he is the most unassuming of men,
you cannot listen to his story without draw
ing parallel to Paul. Ho was converted,
not while riding mule on the highway to
Damascus, but while handling a monkey
wrench on board West Indian drogher, of
the coast of Hayti. Paul broke Jail at the
dead of night in tho darkest dungeons of
MacedOnia's capital, by loud prayers in He
brew but Sutton opened his prison doors in
kingston at high noon of the clock, by the
force of his eXhortation in Portuguese. Paul,
in the island Of Malta, shook OIL, with n wave
of his arm, II yenomous serpent but Sutton,
in tho island Of Jamaica, with shake of
his Bible, paralyzed n constable. almost
thou persuadest me to be Christian" said
Agrippi TO Paul. Not almost but quito dost
thou persuade me to let thee go git up and
git ," said the English judge to Sutton. Mr..
Sutton has settled in Washington, where he is
minister of the Methodist church, and will
summon the souls to the marriage feast of
the Lamb, wedding garment or no wedding
garment He is solemnly in earnest, but lati.
tudnarisn is charity He wars with the
sword of the Lord, not Of Gideon. lie will
open the door to the foolish virgins however
late the hour, even if their lamps arc gone
out and the coal oil stores closed. His strong
point is proving the existence of God, which
he does with the simplest but most effective
oratory. Born in Guiana, converted in llayti,
prosecuted in Jamaica, proselyting in Portu-
gal, and sanctifed in Spain, the call of his
duty brought him from France to America,
where, with African feryor of faith and u
slightly foreign accent, he will overthrow
agnosticism and manage q steam engine He
has Travelled in many lands and seen nothing
new under the sun and will prove the exist
ence of God in Baptist meeting house ON
Capitol hill Wednesday night.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
nEpARTNIENr nOTs.

The Interior department yesterday issued so
land patents and 1876 pension certificates.
The President has recognized August Foigel as
consul consul general OF the German empire at New
The first four working days of February in tho
patent office foot up aggregate of $40 l5l. 40.
The highest day was Thursdny-S6 l56,05,
The President has approved the JOINT resolution
auth Ti2lng the public printer TO remove certain
material from the government printing office.
All the bids for star route contracts were class-
fed yesterday IN tho Office of the second assistant
postmaster general, and the awards will bo made
known March 3.
The receipts from internal revenue yesterday
were SlJ0019. uud from customs, S676A22. The
national bank notes received for redemption yes
terduy amount u s2l1,OOO.
The secretary of the treasury has prepared re-
port on the REORGANIZATION OF the customs service
Ii was sent to the speaker of the house OF repre-
sentatives this afternoon.
The State department announces that a rumor
current at the capitol this morning that the Presi
dent has Withdrawn from the senate the Well La
Abra Mexican treaty is not true, and that the
treaty has not been Withdrawn.
The court of claims met yesterday aud allowed
the appeal filed in the case OF swift, Courtney &
Beecher against the United states Several cases
against the District of Columbia arising out OF
| contracts with the old board of public works,
We're dismissed for want OF prosecution.
The general superintendent of the life saving
service has instructed the keepers Of stations 10
preserve all strange specimens of fish ana marine
curOsties which may be washed ashore, And
notify Prof Bard, of The Smithsonian institution,
50 that the specimens may BE- forwarded 10 this
city if deemed OF sufficient value for scientific
purposes
Secretary Lincoln has furnished the secretary OF
| tho interior with copies of telegpms from Gen.
Pope describing the preparations made by tho
military TO secure the Oklahoma lands from intru.
sion gen Pope says he does not expect ioroible
resistance but In any event he is prepared TO en-
force the removal of raiders Tclegmms received
a. tue Indian bureau ildicale that Siienuons
efforts are making on the part nf the military TO
elect all alien half breeds buffalo hunters and
| Canadian Indians from the Fort Peck (Montana)
! Indian reservation.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
TIE SEASON OF REST.

Ten weeks of joy at floodtide, with wine
running red and laughter ringing till past
midnight with every phase of social pleasure
and full houses on all occasions; with dia-
monds glittering, silks rustling, and faint per-
fumes floating in ravishing clouds with mon
bowing to beauty and beauty smiling on men
ten weeks of this has not been without its
conquests and its weddings, and now comes
not penance-but rest and abstinence
from the winey excitement of the
gay season. There may DO hero and there u
case of penance, and more frequently some
need of it; but, speaking generally, the beau
monde pulls down the curtains and retires in
surfoit to welcome fast-puts off the silk and
sits in sackcloth, or sacks of cloth more mod
est, and wrappers becoming forsworn vanity,
and no expectation of party rings at the door
bell. As sleep is the mendcr of careworn bod
les and minds, and welcome when wanted,
so is Lent welcome to the society people
of Washington at this time. They have
had their fill. The white house has been
open and brilliant as never before and other
mansions have been lighted for merry feet to
dance until the merry feet are tired Oriental
hospitality in all its splcndor has been Law
ished upon throngs of visitors to the Chinese
and japanese ministers here, and all nations
of the earth have taken hand in the
revelry; carriages, coupcs, hansoms, and
herdiCs have been busy with the trans
portation of wealth. wisdom, youth,
and beauty at all hours of the day and
night, and Lent comes like cradlesong to
lull everybody in the social world TO rest, and
pious reflection for those so inclined. Those
who have pious words for sins of every kind
may get some attention now, though the
piety of the world is left mostly TO the ladies'
as the pleasure is controlled by them.
They have held their partners up TO u
rare pitch of excitement through
the season. and now they must keep them
down TO soft symphony of subdued lenten
propriety, so to speak. To say the least, it
has been one of the most neutrality-suspicious.
for society Washington has ever experienced,
and Lent will be as welcome rs was the first
reception.
The devout churchman, Anglican or
Roman, keeps strictly the fasts and observ-
ances of the period of which to-day is the be-
ginning. In the Catholic churches service
commences early, aud us u sign of humility
worshippcrs place ashes on their foreheads
and consccrate themselves to penance. Strict
EpisCOpalians and Catholics rigidly observe
the abstemious ordinances of Lent, and those
especially of the former denomination, even
If they arc not spiritually rigid, usually eat
no meat on Ash Wednesday. With society
generally Lent is n welcome season from the
social routs of the months previous, wherein
they can recuperate for another period OF
pleasure.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
THE SEASON OF SHADOW.
The Reign Of Gayety is Over and the Solemn
Lenten Days Have Come,
Close of Most Brilliant Social Season
Rt the Capital.
ssLENT."
BY SAMUEL ADAMS wreoIN.

I'M HAMlEh ADEmN MAhnANs
Weep and lament for the sinful days,
Tears for the laughter gay,
Weep and lamet for the nights Of Joy,
Led by the passions astray.
Drop the white hand of the siren fair,
Turn from her charms away.
Kisses no more for the red wines cup
Tears and lnmenting to-day.
Take of the roses from beauty's brow,
Think Oft the days gone bye.
Think ofihe suffering, tempted Lord
Hungering and ready to die;
Tempted aud tried by the Evil One,
Burdened aud faint and lone.
sorrowful days dark nights of gloom
Weep for thy sins, and moan
All the long days and woarisome hours,
Longing and starving for breud;
All the sad tears Of the weeping night
Falling upon His head.
Weary and burdened, forsaken by all,
Strong in His Fathers might,
Triumphed at Inst DER the power Of hell
over the iiends OF night
Now the sweet angels, in shining bands,
Thronglng the golden street,
Hasten on pinions oil love dlVine-
kissing the bruised feet.
Wipe off the tears Of the weeping night,
Comfort and life impart
Heavenly mama the soraphs bring
Peace to the burdoned heart
So may the angels of peace and love,
Wiping our tears away,
Point us to mansions of light and joy
Heavens unclouded day.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1888.
National Republican., 1883-02-07

Mr.. Layton was testifying two ladies entered
the committee room aud listened attentively
TO his statement. Their presence led Senator
Blair to remark that so far as he was con-
corned he desired to have tho inquiry extend
70 the condition and grievances of working
George said he had the same desire, and that
he regarded that as a very important part of
the proposed investigation. The examination
of Mr. Layton will bo concluded to-day.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
EdncntInn nf Lnhnr.

The subcommittee Of the senate committee
on education and labor consisting of Senator
Blair, the chairman, and Senator George, be-
gan the taking Of testimony yesterday in the
investigation which the senate has ordered
into the relations between labor and capital
and the condition Of the laboring classes Tho
only witness examined was Mr. Robert ID.
Labor m organization embracing, he said,
some y, 800 members, and having branches all
over this country and Canada. All who have
ever been "wage workers" are eligible for
membership, and meme are excluded except
lawyers, bankers, and rum sellers" While
National Republican., 1883-02-07
Thc IRONY OF Politlcs,

Tho desire for protection knows no politi-
cal enmity. Yesterday several petitions came
to ex-Gov. Pound, of Wisconsin, praying that
the duty on lumber be not reduced one of which
was headed by Hon. G. l.. Park, who will
contest Gov. Pounds seat in tho next con-
gress. 1t was given particular attention by
the conscientious member from Wisconsin.
National Republican., 1883-02-07
Round sum Tor the sioux.

The speaker laid before tho house yesterday
letter from the secretary of the interior ask
ing congress to make an appropriation OF
$250,O00 TO cover deficiency in the sum ap,
propriatcd to carry out the terms of the treaty
with the Sioux Indians. Secretary Teller
urges immediate action III view of tho fact
that no funds are available for the purchase
of beef at Standing Rock agency, though pro,
posas for the the same were made on tho first
-
National Republican., 1883-02-07
%rtturts.
-.s JOHN II. GOUGiV. ~
LINCoLN HALL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
stUNHE DELIGHTS OF TRAVEL WITHOUT
IT'S DISCOMFOHTS,"
THE REAGAN ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
VIII be given NJ the
CONGIiItG ATfONAi, CHURCH

Corner ofTenth and q streets
Dates, nights, and subjects aS follows;
Monday. Feb. l2-PARIs THE MAdSIrICENr.
Friday, Feb, l8-LoNDoN FnoM THE Tor or AN
OMSIBilS.
Saturday. Fob. 17-VnSIcE, MILAN, AND THE
ITALIAN LAKES
Monday, Feb. iO-sPAIN FROM THE PYRESEEs TO
SEVILLE.
Tuesday Feb, 2O--GLIMPsEs or SCOTLAND.
Wednesday, Feb. 2l-SourHEnN SPAIN AND
MOHoCCO.
Matinee, Feb, iT-RAMBLISGs IN RoMR.
Each of these lectures Will he mngniiicently and
protusely illustrated by means of an oXy-hydrogen
light and the 10 to 20 pictures shown each evening
viii be projected upon canvas screen .of about 100
square feet Course ticket (reserved) 20 include all
tile evening lectures, e2i Schoars course ticket (re-
seryed) e single reserved seat b0c general ilmls-
sion %; Scholar admission ticket. i5c, reserved,
25c. Course tickets and single reserved seat
tickets will be sold at Ells's Music store, O Penn.
sylvana avenue Sale Of seats begins Thursday,
Feb, =, at % u. m. j, S, VALE Manager,
lpsEOtH
National Republican., 1883-02-07
The superintendonts Quarters ut An
nnpoIis.

The speaker laid before the house this morn
ing communication from the secretary of
the navy, in response to the resolution of tho
house asking why the old mansion, used as
superintendent's headquarters at Annapolis,
was condemned aud torn down, and inquiring
the cost of rebuilding. The letter states in
effect that the old mansion, which was built
in 1920, was in danger of falling from decay,
and gives the architects estimate for rebuild-
ing SlB0OO