Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-26

IAN 1 10 DC murdered, you say9
''Yes, you"
''Who wants to murder meg"
Nobody else but your own wife"
YOU'RE a liar, and be confoundedr'
exclaimed the man, almost in fury.
"Hemi well that needs to be proved.
/ heard people say so and thought il
right to come and warn you. You
would do well to have an eye on your
wife and TO try her, anyhow"
How will she murder me, and whyp"
'-She will try 20 cut your throat with
your razor, while you are asleep, so
people say, and that as soon as she gets
chance. Why she wants to do It, l
don't know"
"I will try her." said the man sullen-
". ''If it is false, then will settle with
you"
81 only tell you what l heard people
say. Try her yourself and you will see.
GOod-day, sir" With this Mag left,
saying to herself: "The old gentleman
is all right, too. will soon have my
shoes" ..r.
At noon. when the man went home
for his dinner, he watched his wife
closely. Noticing that size viewed him,
now and then, in q stolen, distrustful
way, he grew suspicious, and began to
look and act sour and sharp. "Ahar'
thought his wife, 81 sec the trouble COM
ing already"
After dinner he lay down as usual to
take his nap; but this time to try his
wife. Having shut his eyes he soon be-
gan to snorc, and thus pretended to be
most souudiy asleep, His wife kept
on doing her work after dinner as usual
until she heard him snoring. Then she.
went into the room in which he W a
lying on the lounge, and to find on!
whether he was sleeping soundly enough
for ner purpose, she managed to make
a noise by upsetting chair. He did
not stir, but snored away as strongly as
before.
On tip-toe she went to the bureau.
opened it cautiously, and took out her
husbands razor. Having removed it
from its case, she again stepped on tip
toe up to where her husband was lying.
She stopped down towards him, hold
ing the razor in her hand to cut the hair
away from his throat; when, to her
greatest dismay, he jumped up, seized
her hand, from which the razor dropped
to the floor, and in his rage hurled her
into corner of the room. The story
now goes on to tell us that from this
time forward the old couple never had
day of peace, so that at last they had
to separate.
The next day about noon Old Mag
came along the same road. She found
the Devil sitting on the same stone,
waiting for her. When he saw her ap-
preaching he got up, climbed over the
fence, and putting the shoes to the end
of a long pole, made ready to hand
them to her.
"Why, old fellow, what do you
mean?" laughed the witch. "Are you
afraid of mep''
Indeed, am and ought to be-" an
swered the Devil; you did in one day
what l could not do in forty years.
That beats me! l have reason to fear
you. Here, take your shoes; you have
earned them well for your skillful and
successful work"
Dear readers, will not go bail for
the truth of this story, just such as it is;
but truth it is. There are such devils
in human form, that through their
malice succeed in leading others into
sin, thus bringing misery and death to
the soul and doing what Satan himself,
maybe, could not do To such devils
as these Jesus says: ''Woe to him
through whom scandals come. 1t were
better for him that milestone were put
about his neck and be cast into the sea. ="
Luke II, 2.-Ihe Guardian AngeI.