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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
THE LATE JOHN b. COUGH.

In sketch of John b. Cough, who
died as he had lived upon the platform.
and who was to the last one of the most
popular of public speakers, and, after
Father Mathew, the most famous
apostle of temperance, it was stated
that although very generous man, he
declined to lecture for the benefit of en-
terprises and societies of all kinds, which
constantly applied to him. 1t is to be
hoped that nobody regrets his refusal or
thinks him to have been less generous
because of the refusal. There is no
more common or more objectionable
form of mendicancy than that which
asks this kind of aims Mr.. Cough re-
ceived very large income from his
public lectures. and of this money he
was not avaricious. On the contrary,
he gave literally, and often, doubtless,
to the very objects for the benefit of
which he was vainly asked 10 lecture
A man practices his profession or pur-
sues his business for his livelihood and
the support of his family, and he deter
mines for himself the amount and the
direction of his gifts and charities.
That is what the charitable society
forgets which asks a singer to sing, or
an actor to act, or Il painter to paint a
picture, or lecturer to give lecture,
for its benefit, upon the score of charity.
One of the Woodworking guild of lectu-
rers some years ago replied to solici-
tation of this kind by asking the chair
man of the committee what business he
pursued. Il am dealer in jewelry."
"Well, Mr. Chairman said the lectu-
rer, II am very much interested in a
little society like yours in my own town;
now let us be fair: l will give you the
profits of my business for one evening
for your society, if you will give me
those of your business for one day for
the benefit of my society,""
The good chairman stared and smiled.
The lecturer continued: sHave YOU ap-
piled to our friend Mr.. Sheepskin, the at
torneyp" "No; what forpn asked the
chairman. "Why, to aid your society
by contributing days feesP' The
chairman smiled, and looked puzzled.
"What l mean," said the lecturer, ''is
simply that there is no more reason why
you should ask me to give you the entire
profit of my business for certain time
than to ask anybody else to do the same
thing. The fact that l am a lecturer is
not q reason that you should make the
application to me rather than to law
yer, or a merchant. or an artist. Do
you ask Mr.. Booth to bestow his receipts
for next Saturday upon your society be-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

GEN, GEORGE ERNEST B0ULANGER.
Gen. Boulanger's career thus far has been
like the upward flight of rocket, and his
future will bear watching He is the young
est of the French generals, being yetnot quite
So He is the son of Breton lawyer, while
his mother was English Thus he combines
the fire and dash of one race with the coolness
and stubbornness of the other. He possesses
q magnificent military physique, and since his
recent duel and the publication of an article
in The Paris Figaro, in which Boulanger is
mentioned as "a menace to the republic,
owing to overreaching ambition that will not
rest until he has either plunged Franco into
war of revenge with Germany Or has had
himself proclaimed dictator"
This article has set all Europe agog, and on
investigation of Boulanger's career it is found
he has been governed by the principle that
might, under whatever form it marifests
itself overreaches right in spite of all the fine
essays to prove the contrary, and with La
Fontaine he believes ''the logic of the strong
est is always the best"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
Unrequited.

when the sun IL IS high o'cr the earth, love,
And the sweet woodland sounds greet nine
ear,
Then my heart is happy with mirth, love,
And Ijoy that to me thou art dear.
II is sweetest OF music, thy voice, love,
And the sun shining down on thy face
Is picture that makes me rejOice, love
When the sun Il is bright in Its place.
when the shadows Of night gather round,
love,
And the sounds Of the woodland are still'd,
When the eYentide Quiets abound. love,
Then weep for the hopes unfulhlled.
And 1 sigh that my heart Is so weak, love,
Ny heart that is thy heart for aye,
And grieve for the words thou't not speak,
love,
At the shadowy close of the day.
Oil the sun Is so strong in its light. love,
And tho moon sheds its beams, ahi so soft,
That my heart IL is swayed by their might,
love,
As the maid who hath listened too oft.
30 in sunshine I'll welcome thy smile, love,
In sunshine I'll greet thee with cheer
But the shadows are mine to beguile, love.
With the vainest regrets and a tear.
Flora N. Montgomery.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

literary style as the first. There are touches
of pathos in them that have never been ex-
celled, there are strokes of humor worthy of
Thackeray.
Nevertheless, the .uthor has never yet done
his best. He is a busy young newspaper man,
editor and proprietor of The Atchison, (Kan.)
Daily Globe. His stories have been written
outside of working hours, and much of them
hurriedly and weariedly done. After he
makes small fortune as newspaper proprietor
we may all hope that he will give himself up
to novel writing altogether. He tells us that
not line of his first book was written by
sunlight.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
Hay Fever.

Ely's Cream Balm was recommended
to me by my druggist as a preventive
to hay fever. Have been using it as di-
rected and have found it a specific for
that much dreaded and lothsome dis
ease. For ten years or more l have
been great sufferer each year, from
August 9th till frost, and have tried
many alleged remedies for its cure, but
Ely's Cream Balm is the only preven-
tive I have ever found. Hay fever suf-
ferers ought to know of its efficacy F.
B. Ainsworth, of F. B. Ainsworth & Co.,
Publishers, indianapolis, Ind. 2t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

notice in The World
gave the "Story of
a Country Town" a
boom which has not
yet died out. The
author received ad-
vantageous offers
for other books
from leading pub
fishers. Since then
he has written two
1.-THE Mystery of
the Locks" and
3The Moonlig G b t
Boy" Both are
characterized by the
same uuaint- ouiet
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
What She Thought They Were.

II see by the Chronicle Telegraph that
automatic eouplers are to be generally
introduced" remarked Amy TO the
high school girl last night. n
Eyes, / noticed that myself" replied
Mildred.
"What are automatic couplers, Mil
dred?" was Amy's next question.
Il am not positive" was the reply,
"but infer that they are sort of at
tachment to the new marriage license
law, but I'll ask Augustus when he calls
tonight PItsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
GEN. souLANeeR.
The French Minister of war-win He
Become DictatOrs

The French Minister Of War-Win He
Become Dictat0rs
Il Is the unexpected that happens in France,
and just now ali Europe is expecting some
thing % happen there. Successful as the
present government in our sister republic
seems to be, there is an Unborn desire among
Nenchmen for a hcro-a strong, dashing,
fearless leader, one who will carry himself
far above the law. II is the old story Of the
frogs desiring q king. They treated with
contempt the log king that Jupiter sent them,
ON account OF the familiarity such king per-
mitted; but they were compelled to respect
and fear the stork, their later king, who de
voured them as he wiIled.
Looking back at the list of leaders Of the
French people, from Little Nap" to Gam
beta, it would appear that the stork king
was what they most admired, and, judging
from his past career, this is about what they
are going to have in the person Of Gen.
Boulanger, the present minister of war in the
de FreYcinet cabinet
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

Those who believe that nature will
work off a cough or cold should under
stand that this is done at the expense
of the constitution. Each time this
weakens the system, and we all know
that the termination of this dangerous
practice is consumptive's grave.
Don't take the chances, when a fifty
cent bottle of DIR. Bigelow's Positive
Cure will safely and promptly cure any
recent cough, cold or throat or lung
trouble. Buy the dollar bottle of for
chronic cases or family use. Sold by
J. G. Saur.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

sin ce. Richard
Chandler, another
youth of 46 years,
has become fired
with the ambition
to emulate Traynor
and succeed where
the latter failed. A
doctor Of Bath, ,
Me-, fitted out the
Traynor expedition
and offers to pre-
mare a similar out
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

What is more disagreeable to a lady
than to know that her hair not Only
lost its color, but is full of dandruff?
Yet such was the case with mine until
] used Parker's Hair Balsam. My hair
is now black and perfectly clean and
glossy. Mrs. E. Sweeny, Chicago.
! mo
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26
ROWING AROUND THE WORLD.

Richard Chandler, Who Will Make the
Attempt, and His Boat.
About two years ago John Traynor put to
sea from Bath, Me-, in a rowboat, with the
avowed purpose of rowing around the world.
Whether he became discouraged, landed at
some other point on the coast, skipped west
and is now a festive ccw boy under nom de
plume, or whether he was wrecked, is not
known, for nothing has been heard of him
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

Neither matter nor mind, nor both
combined, could keep this world from
.pecomiDg howl!ng wilderness with
out moral forces. JourRDl of Education.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

fit for any man who will attempt the voyage.
Chandler informed the doctor about week
ago that he had made up his mind to row
across the ocean
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
CRIME.

ALoN2o L. KENDALL, aged 40, of Lock
land, Ohio, shot and killed a burglar who
had entered his dwelling early Wednesday
morning.
Ar Ellington, Iowa, Monday night,
Joseph White stabbed and killed f. S.
Northup, and then shot himself dead.
jealousy caused the tragedy.
RoBERr SMITH, 10 years old, colored.
was executed at Nicholas vile, Ky, for the
murder of his step-father, James Sea.
The murderer sold his body to ply
sician for $50, which he expended for
fruit.
Ar Grand Lodge, Mich, Monday night
John Morse went to the home of his di-,
vorced wife, and shot ner i'll the shoulder.
He was chased by mob, when he stop
ped suddenly and sent a bullet through
his head dying i'll II few minutes.
ONE HICKoCK, a gambler, well-known in
Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and
Niles, Mich, recently committed bigamy
by marrying a courtesan at Ashland, Wis.
His legal wife, Nellie Dorsey, followed
him to st. Paul, and accosted him ON the
street, but he repulsed her, and she fell
dead of heart disease.
In n fit of insanity at Joliet. Thursday
night, Mrs. Sarah Quirk attacked her
daughter with an AK, and laid open her
scalp. The young woman, however over
powered her mother, and held her until
assistance arrived, 4 son of Mrs. Quirk
is mn official of the Chicago fire depart
ment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23

The United States supreme court has
revived cause cciebre by a decision the
other day reversing n judgment rendered
in the United States circuit court, and re
mauding the case for new trial. In De
cember. 1877, the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. of New York, issued an endow
ment policy on the life of one Armstrong
for 10000. The policy was made pay
able TO the assured or his assigns on the
Sth day of December, 1897, or, if he
should die before that time, then to his
legal representative. The policy was as
signed by Armstrong 10 one Hunter, who
paid the premium thereon. Six weeks
after the issuance of the policy Armstrong
died from the results of an assault, and
Hunter was convicted of the murder and
executed. The required notice and proof
of the death of Armstrong was made, but
the company refused To pay, whereupon
the suit was brought by the widow upon
the policy. At the trial of the suit the
Yeading of certain testimony showing
that Hunter Intentionally caused the
death of Armstrong was excluded. This
forms the ground of the supreme courts
decision. The excitement attending the
case at the former trial will hardly be
renewed after the lapse of so long Il
time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
FOREIGN.

THE German Government adheres to its
project of raising the duty on spirits. 1t
is expected that the center party will
abandon its opposition to the measure
and the government will secure major
ity vote for the scheme.
PATRICK DUNN, who was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment for connec-
tod with the blowing up of gasometer
at Glasgow with dynamite, has been re-
leased from prison. His health has been
completely shattered.
THE Cologne Gazette says that the duke
of Edinburgh, commander of the British
Mediterranean fleet, in a recent council of
war, proposed to destroy the Greek fleet,
but the Russian admiral stated that his
instructions permitted him only to par
ticipate in the blockade Of the Greek
coast.
THE Earl of Shaftsbury, while riding in
a public cab Tuesday afternoon, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with Il
revolver. His health of late had been
very much impaired and his continued
ailment induced mental depression. He
was 81 years of age.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
Romance and Realism.
Harper's Magazine.

IL is drol to find Balzac, who suffered
such bitter scorn and hate for his realism
while he was alive, now become a fetch
in his turn, to be shaken in the faces of
those who will not blindly worship him.
But 1t is no new thing in the history of
literature: whatever is established is sac
red with those who do not think. At the
beginning of the century, when romance
was making the same fight against effete
classicism which realism is making to-
day against effete romance, the Italian
poet Monti declared that "the romantic
was the cold grave of the Beautiful" just
as the realistic is now supposed to be.
The romance of that day and the realism
of this are in certain degree the same
Romance then sought, as realism seeks
now, to widen the bonds of sympathy. to
level every barrier against aesthetic free
dom, to escape from the paralysis of ira
ditiOn. 1t exhausted itself in this impulse;
and it remaided for realism to assert that
fidelity TO experience and probability of
motive are essential conditions of a great
imaginative literature. 1t is not a new
theory, but it has never before universal
ly characterized literary endeavor. When
realism becomes false to itself. when it
heaps up facts merely, and maps
life instead of picturing 1t, realism will
perish too. Every true realist instinct
lively knows this, and it is perhaps the
reason why he Is careful of every fact, and
feels himself bound to express or to in
dicate its meaning at the risk of over-mor-
alizing. In life he finds nothing insig-
nificant; all tells for destiny and character
nothing that God has made is contempt
ible. He cannot look upon human life
and declare this thing or that thing un-
worthy of notice, any more than the scien-
tist can declare fact of the material
world beneath the dignity of his inquiry.
He feels in every nerve the equality of
things and the unity of men; his soul is
exalted, not by vain shows and shadows
and ideals but by realities. in which alone
the truth lives. In criticism it is his bus
iness to break the images of false gods
and misshapen heroes, to take away the
poor silly toys that many grown people
would still like to play with. He cannot
keep terms with Jack the Giant-killer
or Puss in Boots, under any name or in
any place, even when they reappear as the
convict Vautrec, or the Marquis de Mon
trivaut, or the Sworn Thirteen Noblemen.
He must say to himself that Balzac. when
he imagained these monsters, was not Bal
sac. he was Dumas: he was not realistic, he
WIS romantic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
GENERAL NOTES.

The balance i'll the hands of tho DIR.
Reilley, treasurer of the Irish National
League of America, amounts to 81 l,2S3.-
&c.
THE State Superintendent of Public
instruction reports that there are in Hi
nois 2,37S persons between the ages of II
and II thHt cannot write.
lr is said that several hundred mining
experts and capitalists of Michigan are
about to start from the upper peninsula
for Alaska, on account of representations
made by Governor Swineford.
AMONG the freaks of the late Minnesota
cyclone was the carrying of n marble
gravestone from Il st. Cloud cemetery
across the Mississippi, three miles, and
landing il in the heart of Saull Rapids.
A safe weighing l,500 pounds was carried
400 feet.
THE late Ann Jauo Mercer. of Phil
adelphia, bequeathed her estate i'll Mont
gomery County, with buildings, furniture
horses, etc, for the establishment of a
home for aged and infrm clergymen of
the Presbyterian faith who do not use
tobacco i'll any form; and set aside a sum
OF 100000 to maintain the establishment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
He Didn't Know What to Say.
Texas Siftings.

A blunt old German member of the
Illinois legislature, Mr.. Plotke, was one of
the committee appointed to investigate
the State Penitentiary at Chester. While
there he was called to make speech to
the cOnvicts. 1t was certainly speaking
under difficulties. He said:
Il hardly know wot to say to you.
cannot call you shentlemens, because you
Is not shentlemens. aud again l can't call
you friends. because dot might gif mine
self away. Vot shall l call you den? l
will call you members of the Illinois Pen
itentiary. shOost as we are members of the
Illinois Sheneral Assembly. You have
been unanimously elected to fill the places
you have widin desc walls shust the same
as we members of the Sheneral Assembly
have been elected. / can not say dot | am
am glad YOU is here. because dot might
make you feel bad, and den again / can
not say dot was sorry dot you is here.
because l dink it was good dot you vas
here now because you is here, and hopes
you will do your duty shooS de same a
we do our duty for de term for which you
Is elected
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
PRATTS POST LAKE ROAD.
Workmen Repairing the Line Oshkosh CIR,
ly Benefited by the EnterpriSe

ly Benefited by the Enterprise.
OSHKOSH, Wis, April sl.-A crew of
men left this morning for Pratt's rail-
road, near Post Lake, it having become
necessary by reason of the frost having
left the ground. TO ballast it nearly the
whole length of the line. II wss sup
posed that it would be necessary to do
this work last fall before any logs could
De hauled over it. but when the ground
troze IT furnished good road bed, and
the company were able to haul nearly
%SN,ooS feet of timber last winter. This
TIMBER has been put into Post Lake and
Will be run down the Wolf river and
sawed IN this city this summer. MIR.
Pratt expects that the road will
De oSllsSted by July /, and thst
at least 1s,ooo,oo0 feet more of
timber will be put into Post Lake this
season. When the road, at its present
length, Is IN complete running order, il
VIII add from 15,oo0,oo0 to 10000, 900 feet
of timber to the log supply of Oshkosh.
Mr.. Pratt says If the road could be ex-
tended twenty miles east and west of the
Wolf river, IT would be tributary 10 GOO,
WNueo feet of splendid pine timber,
which would be brought TO Oshkosh and
sawed here, and thereby add new and
large source Of supply to the home mar
Set. crew of 500 men have been en-
ployed on the road during the last seven
months, majority of whom reside in
oshkosh. About 81 left this morning,
and 90 more will so on Wednesday, max
ing the new crew number about 100 in all
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
Lord R0sebery Il Primrose.
London Correspondence.

When the idea of racing bankrupt of
but few years ago being made Secretary
of state for foreign affairs; for that was
virtually the financial and social cOndi-
ton of the Earl of Rosebery iu 1877,
when he paid up his turf debts by a mar
riage with Miss Rothschild. Apropos of
Lord Rosebery, | have been told-with
what truth | am unable to say-that he
once behaved in a most dishonorable way
to a Miss Duncan. of New York. He had
gone out on heiress-hunting to America,
like the common run of impoverished
peers with coronet for sale to American
papas, and had become engaged to Miss
Duncan, whose father was one of the sol
id men of New York. Before the mar
riage took place rumOrs reached the earl,
who had come back to England that Mr..
Duncan was in financial difficulties Like
a shot he wrote to break the engageme mt.
As Mr.. Duncan shortly after thoroughly
reinstated himself, the difficulty being but
a temporary one, it was rather a sell for
Lord ROsebery, whose real motives had
been so completely given away, for Miss
Duncan was as beautiful and refined as
she was rich. and about as complete op-
posite to Miss Rothschild-whose purse
afterward came to the noble earl's rescue
from ignomous baukruptcy-as one can
imagine. Lord ROsebery is a great friend
and toady of Gladstone, and that togeth-
er with his alliance by marriage with the
money power of the Rothschilds, has got
him recognition. 1t is curious thing
that Lord Rosebery's family name is
Primrose, and that with such tory pat
rouicymic he should be so pronounced a
radical.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
John Bro WINS Body"
Philadelphia Ledger.

james Beale, late of Company /,
Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers, writes
to the Ledger:
The tune of John Brown" was adapted
from camp-Ineeting tune-''Say, broth
ers. will you meet us:n This, in turn,
was modelled from a song written for a
fire company-"Say, bummers, will you
meet us!'' The words originated with
members of the Tiger Battalion" Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Militia; and, as these
members subsequently enlisted in the
Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Infan-
try fWebster Regimentj, we naturally
claim words and music of the John
Brown Song" 1t first appeared in April,
1861, in a quartet of the Tigers -Jen-
kins, EdgerIy, Purnette and John Brown
and was simply sort of joke on the
name of the last mentioned. he was
Scotehman. and failed to see any point
in the witticism, which, of course, only
made it more lasting. The Twelfth
Massachusetts sang it in Boston Harbor,
at Fort Warren, were the first to sing IL in
New York City. July, 1861, where it made
sensation, and continued chanting il
until il had become so common property
as to have lost all novelty. We claim
the adaptation of the tune and these
words:
4John Browns bo5y lies moIdering in mis- grave
His soul goes marching IN,
Gis.ry. bali~iDjah."
Our regimentai band lMaitiand's, of
Brockton. Mass.,D was the first to arrange
and play the tune.
Two of the quartet are now living in
Boston, Mass John Brown was drowned
in Virginia. June, 1862, and Jenkins
whereabouts are unknown All were ser
geants in the Twelfth Massachusetts vol
unteers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23

WASHINGTON, April 1.-Congressman
Butterworth and DIR. Bush, of Chicago,
vice president of the whisky distillers'
association, appeared before the senate
committee on finance this morning, to
advocate the senate amendment to the
bill relating to the taxation of fractional
parts of gallon of distilled spirits. A
division of the internal revenue depart
ment was also present, and favored the
passage of the house bill without amend
ment. The house bill places tax upon
any fractional part of a gallon of spirits.
while the senate amendment exempts
from taxation any fractional part of a
gallon which does not exceed one per
centum of the contents of the cask or
package.