davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1888-09-26

No class in the world, probably, is
judged SO little on it's merits as the Eng
ish upper class. At home it casts a
glamour or mems eyes, a glamour SO great
that Mr.. Darwin absolutely believed it
physically superior to other classes, al
though another social observer, Mr.. Ed
ward Jenkins, made, a few years since,
the remark why noble earls should
be SO ugly is a problem of nat
ure," and this strikes the Ameri-
can visitor to the house of lords as
being nearer the truth. ESQ great is, at
any rate, their lingering prestige among
Liberals, that a leading London reformer
once told me that it was almost essential
to the success of a radical meeting to get
a lord to preside at it, and l have myself
been present at such a gathering in Lon
don, when one of the few really good
speakers ever heard in England-a man
full of information on the very point at
issue, and expressing it admirably-was
put down, in that brutal way only seen
among Englishmen, through the impa-
tience of the audience to hear u dull and
inarticulate lord, who had nothing to say
and said it.
a class thus situated cannot be Judged
by what is said about it in its own nome;
and when it is ~transplanted it is apt to
drift among q class of similar admirers
abroad. No doubt there are noblemen in
England whose manners q critical Ameri-
can would call high bred; but it is Ger.
tain that one may travel a good deal in
that country, and even go through u CON
siderable course of London dinner parties,
without having the good luck to encoun-
ter u specimen.-T. w. Higginson in The
Forum,
, 1888-09-26

The park canoe is the Indians chef
d'Guvre. 1t seems to me not only a beau
tiful object, but a suggestive emblem of
his life. 1t is the most natural boat in
the world; to make it he peels the bark
from a birch, splits a cedar for timbers
and planks, binds it together with roots,
and closes the seams with pitch from the
pine. His tools are an x, a crooked
knife, and an awl made of a deer's bone.
No compass and square cover his weak
ness, for every piece tells the exact truth
of his hand and eye; not ven q bench
removes him from the earth, nor a roof
covers him from the sky; he kneels at his
work. And the women embody their ut
t@chment in the pitch they press into the
cracks. 1t is natures model, made by the
wild man in the woods. The life of the
bark canoe is equally poetic; it floats
through mountain lakes with the beaver,
and III rapids with the otter; indeed,
all its companions are creatures of the
forest; it is faithful to nature to the very
last, when it retires to the shore of some
lonely pond to mold under it's mound OF
feathcry moss.-C. Ii. Farnham in Har.
per's Magazine.
, 1888-09-26

The dreams of the blind are of great
Importance, and the fact that persons
born blind never dream of seeing is estab-
iished by the Investigations of competent
inquirers. So far as we know, there is no
proof of a single instance of a person born
blind ever in dreams fancying that he saw.
The subject has been treated by Joseph
Jastrow in The Presbyterian Review. He
has examined nearly two hundred per-
sons of both sexes in the institutions for
the blind in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Thirty-two became blind before com
pleting their fifth year, and not n of
these thirty-two sees in dreams. Con-
corning Laura Bridgman, the blind and
deaf mute, Professor g. Stanley Hall,
quoted by Mr.. Jastrow, says: Sight and
hearing are as absent from her dreams as
they are from the dark and silent world
which alone she knows. Rev. DR.. j. NJ.
Buckley in The Century.
, 1888-09-26
Medicine for Canine Pets.

Never treat your dog roughly in ad-
ministering medicine. Kindness will bring
about quicker and better results than
force. Give medicines hat are in the
form of powders in gelatine capsules. To
administer these take the dog, if a small
one, on your knee, if a large one, between
the knees, open the mouth gently but
firmly, holding the head up as high as
you can, and have some one to put the
capsules as far down the throat as posi-
BILE, now close the jaws and give the dog
q sharp tap under the chin, which will
cause him to swallow the capsule. When
liquid medicines are not of a disagreeable
taste they can be given in drinking water
or in broth. When it is necessary to force
q dog to take them, hold him in the same
position as when giving capsules, but do
not hold the jaws so wide open, and have
your assistant pour the medicine from q
long necked bottle into the bach part of
the mouth n little at a time; hold the
nose until you are sure he has swallowed
the dose. As soon as all is down give the
dog u morsel of meat and take him out for
n run. This will often prevent him from
vomiting the medicine. Globe Democrat.
, 1888-09-26
Normandy Coast Fishing Excursion.

was most anxious to go on a fishing
expedition, and a few days after | arrived
quite a large party of us started from the
villa. 1t was all such a new thing to me
that l examined curiously all belonging
to it with no common interest. My cos.
tune, as well as those of the other ladies',
was most peculiar. We had on our bath
ing suits, over which we wore short
jackets of striped flannel; pretty cork
shoes and large straw hats completed our
attire. Some carried pitchforks and
buckets, others nets and poles. The gen
tlemen wore knickerbockers and short
jackets and went barefooted. On the
beach we found a number of donkey carts
awaiting us, and small boys in attend
ance, who were to beat the poor beasts
in case they became refractory.
The tide was we'll on its way Quit
falls or recedes from two to three miles
each day-and we had several hours be
fore us for our trip. With much urging
and slow advancing we arrived at a good
spot, so the gentlemen assured us, and
seizing the pitchforks we all began to dig.
The first removal of sane showed me
quantities of small fishes squirming
around in the wet and loosened sand.
Grabbing them up in our hands we de-
posted them in our pals, and so went
from place to place fishing in this most
curious manner. 1t became quite exciting
toward the end, for we made wagers as to
who would gather the greatest quantity,
and in our hurry to grab all we could see
half would squirm out of our hands like
cells. These tiny fish arc q species of an
chovy, and make a most delicious FIXTURE,
well repaying one at dinner time for the
trouble of hunting them.-Cor. Argonaut.
, 1888-09-26
Question of vital Importance.

Who should marry and who should Eot
marry is a question of vital Importance in
the deliberations at Boston of the Prison
association 1t is a question that sooner
or later must be boldly confronted by
church and state alike. Like begets like
all the world over. from man down to
animalcula AS the parents are so will
the children be. 1t is a law of nature
that cannot be repealed, yet in it's effect
is hlhng the prisons, hospitals and insane
asylums of the land to overlooking, add
ing to the snm total of crime and misery
everywhere and taxing the sound, the
law abiding. the industrious, to support
the diseased, the criminally base and the
constitutiorally depraved and lazy. An
Indiana delegate to the association put
the matter in a terse and thought inspir
ing way MIR. Reeves attacked the civil
marriage contract, saying of the state
that no matter who comes for a permit,
the strong or the weak minded, the sound
and healthy. or the deformed, the million.
aire or the hereditary pauper all are
given a permit alike, and this civil con
tract is thus fully completed by sanction
OF law. II a man wants to run a locomo-
tive or practice medicine or plead in the
courts, he must submit to a rigid exam
nation as to his fitness for the position
and be able to pass one.
But when he comes forward to get q
permit to enter into q contract, the most
sacred that can be assumed. which vitality
affects the bodies social and polite, as
veil IS corporal, rot n word IS said. Al
a. Licensed Tic chr-ch regards mar
RE as . Eoly coyc--I,. Il makes little
o. no inquiry as u cG2cid2tes. So We
have q shocking view uf marriage upheld
By church and state 4 constant increase
OF pauperism and c-ir-c must follcw. Men
t-d il to their Interests to improve TIC
r.'cs or horses, Gors. cats, cows. chick
c1a,Itzeons and other animals, but that
r-%whose members ere formed in the
i1Eo Of the Creator must take its
c.a:.ccs ard do its mating after tie
tashIon OF a lottery Chance rules tie
s-'cI::ca of r.Cn and women for the holy
Offices Of pareutage. and that chance does
IFS work is shown by tie statistics Of
criminality in this and other countries
P%ittsburo Bulletin.
, 1888-09-26

"Have you no word of comfort for me,
Aurora2"
Epaminondas Chugg gazed In strong
despair at the young woman who, in q few
brief and coldly spoken words, had ended
the brightest dream of his life. Aurora
Fitzpatrick was beautiful as a showman's
$4,000 dream. To "a faultless face and
elegantly upholstered figure she united a
voice like an echo from the choir of para.
disc and a paternal pr~ogenitor with the
largest bank account of any operator on
the street. Many and many a time had
Epaminondas sat in a Queen Anne chair in
the Fitzpatrick parlor drinking in her
Eastlake Michigan beauty until his head
ached. Many a time had he proudly at
tended her to the theatre, the opera, and
the restaurant, and subsequently tossed
upon his restless couch the livelong night
in the pangs of love and Indigestion. The
hour had come at last when he could keep
silent no longer. He had declared himself
and been informed with cold politeness by
the heiress of the Fitzpatrick millions that
h regretted to be compelled to return
his proffered hand and heart as unavailable
for her use.
What can 1 say, Mr.. Chugg. that will
soften the blow which it deeply pains me
to intiict?" she said. in reply to his despair
ing question.
Add a postscript of some kind" he
said, wildly: give me an open date or q
chance to hedge. If you ant grant me q
rehearing don't crush me by a cold sen.
tence of death. Commend me at least to
the mercy of heaven"
'Mr. Chugg," exclaimed the lovely
maiden in alarm, you speak with strange
incoherency. You lave read too much
campaign poetry"
Aurora Fitzpatrick" replied Epami-
nondas Chugg, in a voice whose tragic
misery thrilled her to the remotest fiber
of her being, II nave read nothing for six
weeks except William d. Howe1s' last
novel"
90, my poor Epaminondas!" impulsive-
ly burst from the lips Of the beautiful
girl, while her eyes kindled with tender
pity and her face lit up with a passion
born radiance, you nave endured enough
affection already If a lifetime of loving
devotion will compensate you for the suf.
ferings of these six weeks take mel am
yoursr'-Chicago Tribune.
, 1888-09-26

1t has been observed in Italy by Pal
mieri that on n clear day, with every in
d~ication of c, ;inued fine weather, the
electrometer wnl indicate a change long
before the Observation-Disclosures Tray
eler.
, 1888-09-26

Cheyenne Transfer Co.-From FIVE
pounds per dav to a carload at a time.
Reasonable reductions to large consumers.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
Severe Plainness of Tolstoi's Home.

On arriving at the house Count Tolstoi
showed me into little room on the right
hand side of the entrance. There" said
he, you can occupy housekeeping in
the little library among the books, and
you can dress in the adjoining room
where | dress" The dressing room was
also the sitting room and work room of
the count. In the recess by the window
lay the shoemaking tools with which he
used to employ himself; near the door
was washstand and mirror.
Perhaps you would like to wash now,"
said he, opening the washstand. You
can wash here When you are done you
can empty the water out SO, and, suit
ing the action to the word, the count
stepped out ON the raised terrace in front
of the house and flung the dirty water
out into the garden. This was done so
naturally, and with such an evident un-
conscious confidence that it was the right
thing thing to do, that you could not
feel more than momentary impress
sion as to the incongruity of the novel
ist, philosopher and nobleman. emptying
his dirty water for the convenience
of his guest. had been told, moreover,
that the counts simplicity was more
theatrical than real-that he Jared as a
peasant and did" his hair with silver
comb, and so forth. saw nothing of
this. There was certainly no silver plate
Or luxurious plenishings in the counts
living rooms. Everything was severely
plain and in harmony with the desire of
its occupant to simplify his life.-W. T.
Stead in st. Louis Republic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

Under the state law Of Michigan no
duelist can cast d vote.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
A Duel with. Paint brushes.

One of the commonest ordeals to which
novices were subjected in the painters
studios in Paris was the paint brush duel.
The two latest arrivals were stripped to
the waist and perched on very high stools
face to face at arms length. They were
then armed with big brushes filled with
color, one with Prussian blue and the
other with crimson lake, and the duel
began. Perfect strangers to each other,
and having no insults to avenge, the
combatants went very gingerly to work
at the outset, anxious to keep their bal
ance and avoid being daubed with paint.
But stimulated by the shouts of specta-
tors, they gradually warmed to their
work. A first blow was struck and re-
turned; wavering, staggering and writh-
ing, the opponents, with their bodies all
splashed with paint. broke their brushes
and rolled on the floor, where they ex-
changed their blue and red sores in a
hand to hand fight, which ended in the
duelists fraternally soaping and washing
each others wounds. --Morau- -Nauthier. (
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
A Hor.. IN rroplcaI Africa.

Several incidents Of recent African ex-
ploration can to mind the stories that
were told of the early travels of white
men in this country. A white man on
horseback is a very unusual spectacle in
tropical Africa, and the animal Mr..
Hodister rode few months ago made
almost as much of q sensation as the
horses that Cortez introduced into Mex
leo. HOLSTERS journey was a short
one, extending only from Landana, on
the coast, to Bona, on the Congo, but it
led the traveller through a densely
peopled region of which little is yet
known
my horse" he writes, made great
sensation. At sight of him all the
women in the villages at first were pet
rified with astonishment. They stood
motionless, with their eyes fixed on the
strange animal. Coming to themselves
at last, with their hands raised above
their heads, they raised their cry of
'Ho, no, hol expressive Of boundless as
constituent. Some of them threw them
selves upon the ground, shifting their
breasts. Could it be, they said, that
such great beast. with a white man
above him, was harmless? Such an ami
NAL must certainly eat black people.
when we convinced them at last that
horse was harmless and that he was a
very useful animal they ventured nearer.
They had no eyes for anything but the
horse. As we passed through the vii
lagos many of the inhabitants followed
us. The men turned back after mile
or SO, but many of the women, who
showed the greatest interest and curl
osity, followed us for three miles. When
my horse trotted they trotted, too, their
eyes fixed on the beast. Unmindful of
where they were stepping they fell into
the burrows in the manioc fields, and
tumbled down in the tall grass. They
kept pointing the animals out to the ba-
bies that were fastened on their backs.
From some of the villages deputationf
came to me asking me to stop while in
their towns that they might have time
to admire the prodigy"
A whole menagerie of African curl
osities would not excite So much atten
tion in the civilized world as this horse
aroused in a part of Africa where thu
zebra never roams and no species o.
the horse family is known.-New Yorl
Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
Professor Proctor on weather Prospects.

The late Richard A Proctor. it ap-
pears, had no faith in the modern system
of weather guessing, based on the so
called science of planetary meteorol-
ogy," or the appearance of the sun spots.
Some years ago, while storm bound at
Davenport, Ia. the professor was inter-
viewed by the editor of The Democrat.
and reference being made to that SUBJ
ject. lie said: "Oh, that is all humbug;
you might as well try to tell where the
largest wave or the greatest white cap
will rise during storm in mid ocean, as
to localize storms by observing the posi-
ton of the planets or the size of sun
spots. 1t cannot be done. Look at it a
minute. You single out a very small
portion of the earth. which is a very
small portion of our universe, and say
the movements of the heavenly bodies
will produce such and such conditions of
weather in certain neighborhood. region,
state, continent The earth isn't con-
cerned more than any other planet. The
vast extent of untold millions of miles is
narrowed down. localized, to an atom,
as it were. No astronomical research
justifies any such thing. have no pa
tience with it. ."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

Whose deal is it?''
"Who dealt last?"
"You; didn't yOu?p
81 don't know"
"Oh, it's Mr.. BIS deal"
"Why, so it is?n
"What's trumps?n
Diamonds"
Diamonds? Well, If 1 amt got the
awfuilest hand.n
..Well, just haven't got thing"
"I never did have quite such awful
luck.r
"Whose play is it,"
"Let me see, what's trumps?'
Diamonds"
"Oh, so it is; how stupid of me to
forget"
"It's your play"
"Oh, is il? What led?"
"Spades.n
LET me see, now-um-um-spades
led and diamonds are trumps2"
"Hurry and play"
"Oh! if you didn't have ten trumps." +"
"Who took that trick?n
"You mean thing"
"O-o-oh! if You didn't make four!
You're horrid! Whose deal is it?"
Then they say it all over again.-Tin1e
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
A SUGGESTION.

Let the wild red rose bloom Though not to thee
So delicately perfect as the white
And unwed lily dropping In the light;
Though she has known the kisses of the bee
And tells her amorous tale to passsrs by,
In perfumed whispers and with untcHght grace.
Still let the red rose bloom in her own place;
She could not be the lily should she try
Why to the wondrous nightingale cry Hush.
Or bid her cease her wild, heartbreaking lay.
And tune her voice to initiate the way
The whippoorwl makes music, or the thrushS
all airs Of sorrow to one theme belong,
And passion In not copyrighted Yet
Each heart writes its own music. Why not let
The nightingale unchded sing her songf
Ella Wheeler Wilcox In New York Sun
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

For Rheumatism.
BRAND NEW. STRONG PROOFS
On Crutchcs. PAtoka, NJ, Nay ~, 1855.
was taken With rhsumA mAtiEm IN 1887; sgHsrod
intense pain for about Ex months; walked only on
erutehes: used 81. Jacobs oil; cured about tWo
weeks ago, complstsy. RILEY J. PUaH.
~ Years. Newton. III, Nay 3S is1o.
Prom 1858 70 1ssb-About ~ yekrs-I suffered
with ThszmstiIn Of the hip. vas cured by The
uhs Of ST. Jacobs oil. T. Q. DoDD.
IS Years. Maple Hill Mich, Nay 8. issl
Mr. JOHN J. sATTH. EnAlsy, Michigan. vas
GfaietsA with rhsumatim 10 Year,; his case vas
pronouneed incurabls by two phyEeiAnI, but wAs
cured BY 81. Jacobs OIL and has remained 20 TIVE
years. g. MeoRKARY, Druggist.
9 Years. covsl, III. Nay 40. isSs.
About dx years ago contracted rheumatism;
eonsultsd doctors but got relief till used 81
Jacobs OIL was cured by botteI; return Of pain
since. JAMES MEREDITH.
Since 1855. No. Branch. Mich, May Il, 1888
Fall Of 1883 taken with IniAmmatory Rhsu-
mAtism and suffered two weeks; cured BY one
bottle Of &c. Jacobs Oil. Mrs. J. H.VAdDBcAR.
AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
THE CHARLES A. VoGELER Co., Baltimore. Nd
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
Interested People.

Advertising patent medicine in the pecu-
liar way in which the proprietor Of Kemp's
Balsam, for coughs and colds does, it is in
deed wonderful. He authorizes all druggists
to give those who cali for it, sample bottle
free, that they may try it before purchasing.
The large bottles are 30 cents and 81. We
certainly would advise trial. 1t may save
you from consumption.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

A western farmer writes to the secre-
tary of the county fair association as
follows: "Please offer a premium for
the biggest fool in the county and ! will
be there to take it. I stopped my
paper and few days later travelling
sWindler came along and did me up for
$50 in good money. I renewed my
subscription and secured all the back
numbers and the first issue after quit
taking it containeda full exposure OF
the trick that got away with me-"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

To temporize with your health in.
stead of promptly using Laxador, is moi
indicative of much thoughtfulness
Laxador is sold by all druggists.
Many of our young married people
don't know what a blessing DIR. Bull:
Baby Syrup is until the youngster is
able to "yelr' by the hour.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13

Subscribe for the NORTHWEST $l.5O year.
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The Handsomest Lady in Napoleon
Remarked to friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsam for the throat and
lungs was a superior remedy, as it stopped
her cough instantly when other cough RENE,
dies had no effect whatever. So to prove
this and convince you of its merit, any drug
gist will give you a sample bottle free.
Large size soc. and 81.
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The Population Of, Napoleon

The POpuiattOnO Napoleon
Is about 8, 800, andw we would say at least one
half fare troubled with some affection of the
throat and lungs, as those complaints are,
according to statistics, more numerous than
to neglect the opportunity 10 call on their
druggist and get a bottle Of Kemp's Balsam
for the throat and lungs. Trial size free.
Large bottles 30 cents and 81. Sold BY all
druggists.