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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12
THE LADDER.


Every person must climb
life's ladder. No matter who
or what they areor where they
come from, the ladder is placed
before them to climb. Some
run up its rounds actively and
with apparent ease; others are
slow but sure; others fall when
half way up; others reach all
but the last round than fall.
Some of our people deserve
the success they have attained;
they are entitled to a resting
place on the top round of life's
ladder; their pluck, tact and
business energy has placed
them there, a position they are
Justly entitled to hold.
There are probably few busi-
ness men in this part of the
state in the same line of trade,
who by dint Of honesty and
years of steady earnest toll,
have reached lofty aposition
on the ladder of fame as Messrs.
Saur & Balsley, proprietors Of
the far famed Drug, Book and
Wall Paper House under their
control. Their business career
in Napoleon dates back over a
quarter of century, during
which period they have con-
stantly studied the wants of the
people in this locality and their
efforts have been duly appre-
ciated.
The firm has had an unpre.
cedented holiday trade, but
many articles, both useful and
ornamental isstill on exhibition
which they are offering at ex.
trenely low figures, in order
to make room for their usual
spring stock. 1t will repay
any one to take advantage o1
the goods and prices now rang
ing at this house.
In the way Of wall and cell
ing papers, paints, oils, var
nishes, brushes, etc., a large
andvaried stockis always show1
and the record Of this house or
these goods is not allowed to
lag. The stock is complete
throughout, and the brands anc
quality of the goods tested, anc
all sold as cheap if not cheaper
than can be had in the grea
Northwest.
With a small outlay you Cal
decorate your homes, making
them both attractive and com
Portable, two of the requisite
of a perfect and happy fireside
To still make the expense les
one can place these papers up
on the walls themselves; it re
quires no expert. Then VIII,
not do this for your families, b,
buying some Of the fine pattern
of wall paper on sale at Sau
& Balsley's :?
All the celebrated paten
medicines always on hand, fo
the cure of any ache and pail
known to the human and ami
NAL family. Pure and fresl
drugs, for which this house i
noted.
Everybody is welcome to tht
store Of Saur & Balsley, wheth
er they wish to purchase Of
not, and everybody is invited
to call and take a look over thu
vaststock.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by d
]. Humphrey. Tyr.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12
consump.Ion Surety Cured.

To THE EDrroR;-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above.named
disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless
cases have been permanently cured. Ishall be glad
to send two bottles Of my remedy FREE to any Of
your readers who have consumption If they will
send me their Express and P. O. address. Respect
fully, T. A. SLoCUM, M. G., 1S1 Pearl st., N. z.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12

A Washington lady out of curiosity
asked Uncle Jerry Simpson to show
her whether or not he wore stockings.
He signified willingness if she would
do likewise. Her curiosity fed.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12

RHEUMATISM CURED IN DAY.--stMystic
Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radi
cally cures in to days. Its action upon the
system is remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause and the disease inn
mediately disappears. The first dose greatly
benefits. 75cents. Sold by d. J. Humphrey,
druggist, Napoleon, dec II 90-1y
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
dentistry I'm China.

The report of the physician in
charge of the Ningpo Missionary Hos
pital for the past year con tains some
interesting observations on tooth-draw-
ing in China. DIR. DAILY remarks that
Chinese teeth are much .aore easily
extracted than those of Europeans.
The native dentists are said to posses9
a wonderful powder, which is rubbed
on the gum over the affected tooth;
after an interval Of about Eve minutes
the patient is told to sn6eze. where
upon the tooth falls out DR.. Daily
has offered a reward OF 500 TO anyone
performing the operation in this way
in his presence, on condition that he
is allowed TO choose the tooth and ex-
anime the mouth before and afterward
SO far no one will consent to perform
the operation on these conditions. -
British and Colonial Druggist.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
He proposed to Remove "a Nuisance

A boy of five or six years, accord
ing to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
was made happy by the arrival of {
baby sister. He had been the ont
child in the family, and, being goos
and obedient boy mad been humored
until he was perhaps in some danger
of being spoiled. Before the little
new sister was many weeks old, how
ever, Master Fred began to feel that
his own position was sadly altered.
The stranger had supplanted him.
Father, mother and servants were AZ
the time talking about the baby.
There was no mistake; Fred was DO
longer king
The boy began TO be unhappy, and
'ust then he remembered placart
which his father had put up at con
spicuous point on the premises some
months before: ashes TO give away.
Inquire within" Fred had taken
great interest in this notice, and had
nquired minutely into its meaning.
lie remembered now that very soon
sfterward a man called and carted
away the ashes
He had been to kindergarten and
fould spell and print after fashion.
60. with such helps and hints as he
vas able to get slyly from the serv-
lnts he managed 10 concoct the follow
ing sign, which his astonished father
found one day posted in IA slightly posi-
son. as he came home to dinner:
"A BABY 90 give away
inquire OF FED.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
A Piano for the Vatican.

A London correspondent hears OF a
magnificent piano which has been
manufactured by one of our leading
makers for the Vatican. The instru-
ment is valued at 500 guineas, and is
enriched with the latest improvements,
including a sostenuto pedal Not only
has the greatest care been bestowed on
touch and tone, but the case of this
piano has also been the object OF ex-
ceeding care.
It is decorated with tea roses on a
dull. gold ground, and vapished with
vernis royal. which, while imparting
TO the instrument an unusually bril-
liant appearance, enhances considera-
bly, the sorority and sweetness Of its
tone.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
THE BEGINNINGS OF LONDON.
A Town la the Midst of Marshes With
Small Prospects.


Let us 90 back 70 the beginning OF
AL things writes Walter Besant in
Harpers monthly-to the lay OF the land
in which London was planted. The
reader, if he will consult that very ad-
mirable book, 'Loftie's History OF
London, will find most instructive
map. 1t shows the terrain before the
city was built at all. The river Thames,
between Mortlake on the west and
Blackwell on the east, pursued SER
pentine way, in the midst of marshes
stretching north and south. There were
marshes all the way. Az spring tides
and at all tides little ab0ve the COM
mon these marshes were under water:
they were always swampy and covered
with ponds; half a dozen tributary
brooks flowed into them and were lost
In them. They varied greatly in
breadth. being generally much broader
on the south side than on the north.
On this side the higher land rose up
suddenly in cliff or steep Hill from
twenty to five-and-thirty feet in height.
This cliff, followed from the east, APP
preached the river, touched it at one
point and then receded again as it went
westward. This point where the cliff
Overhung the river, was the only place
where the city could have been
founded.
call it "a point, but it consisted of two
hillocks, each about thirty-fve feet
high, standing on either side of the
little stream of Walbrook, where it flows
into the Thames. On one of these hills,
probably that on the west, was small
fortress of the Britons. constructed
after the well-known fashion OF hill
forts. numberless examples OF which
remain scattered about the country.
On the other hillock the Roman city
was first commenced.
Here was the beginning OF the city;
here was instituted very early a ferry
over the river. On the eastern hill the
Romans built their forum an basilica
with the official houses and quarters.
When foreign trade began to Increase,
The merchants were obliged 20 spread
themselves along the bank; they built
quays and river walls to keep out the
water, and the city extended iaterally
to east and west just as far as was
convenient for the purposes of trade;
that is. not farther than Fleet street
on the west, and the present site of the
Tower on the east. 1t than began to
spread slowly northward, bat slowly,
because mile OF river fron.can accom-
modate great working population.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
Songs between Testimony.

The habit of long, painful blanks
or the monotony OF the ever recurring
song between testimonies, is deadly
Journalism. That course will drag
the life out OF the best meeting and
best people in the world. A meeting
where everything moves forward
under the amounting power, can
scarcely be too long, but one which
drags and drags is almost too long
when il has scarcely begun. But the
strange feature of the case is that the
meeting which drags usually con-
tinues beyond the reasonable time.
when one which moves up with the
work in hand usually closes up in
reasonable and proper time.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

EVERY man is fitted TO ill some
position Of Importance. Every mans
mind Is more or less expansive, more
or less reaching. more or less compre-
hensive. The man who loves his pro-
fession always possesses an inquiring
mind; he is judiciously inquisitive; he
guides his inquisitiveness in the line
OF his profession; he is learner and a
teacher. If he becomes a mark among
men. tae mark is always in proportion
TO his success. If he confines his in
vestigations 10 n scientific line he dis
covers and applies the truths which
govern his operations. This makes
him a. successful man; if a farmer, he
is ready for all emergencies, he sue
ceeds because be understands natures
laws aud her demands. His crops are
always fsir, almost always good, gen
er'ly aaperior and ho nourishcg liz
a goes Ray tree.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

OF course, two much curiosity in a
man is to be deprecated, but if Column
bus, Stanley and all the other great
explorers had not had a great deal of
a. certain sort OF curiosity, the world
would not be as far advanced as it is
to-day. The same may be said of in
ventors. Curiosity is the principal
cause OF all the great inventions that
have done so much to save labor and
make life easy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

Too large q part OF the great ad-
vance in popular intelligence has been
devoted to studying the wickedness
and evil rather than the good in the
world. Most newspapers devote too
large part of their space TO criminal
records, giving TO the superficial OBJ
server the idea that wrong doing is
enormously Increasing, when the fact
Is that it is only more fully reported
than formerly. A pleasant change
would be to have the better class OF
newspapers devote more space to the
record of what is being done TO help
human kind. This is no less news
than the record of evil, and is vastly
more edifying.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

In Great Britain, as in most OF the
old-world dynasties, the throne is held
by the reigning monarch through the
suffcrance of the people. Constitu-
tional government dispenses with its
monarchial appendages slowly but
none the less surely. The beneficent
Victorian era has doubtless retarded
the disposition Of the English royal
house, but there are scores of well-in-
formed political prophets who do not
look for the continuance of the English
monarchy beyond one or possibly two
successors to Queen Victoria
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
SHILOH'S
CONSU NJ PTlON
CURE.

The success Of this Great Cough Cure IS
v;,hout a parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell il on pos
tive guarantee, test that no other cure can sue
cessirlly stand. That 1t may become known,
the PROJECTORS, at an enormous expense, are
placing Sample Bottle Free INTO every bone
In the United States and Canada. II you haze
a COUCH. Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use H. Tor
il will cure you. If your child has the Group,
or Whooplng Cough, use it promptly, and relief
is sure. II you dread that inaidlous disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SHILOHS CURE, Price 10 cts. so Cts and
sI.oo.s II your Lungs are sore or Bach lame,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Pnce IS cts.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

1T is not always the man who does
the largest business and makes the
most show in the world that makes
the greatest success in life. About the
surest way to succeed in any business
is to go slow and careful, and eep
INCREASINGLY at it. There are "A
great many examples of success gained
in this way, although they may not be
held up to the eyes of the world.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

INCREASE in insanity has beer
marked OF late years. The state
should not contribute to its further
spread. Immurement in an insane
asylum is generally sufficient to make
the sane insane. Every safeguard
should be thrown about those sus-
pected of dementia. The law now re-
quires open examination in court The
law cannot safely be relaxed.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

The idea is that chances in gam
bling and ordinary business risks oc-
cupy substantially the same relation,
and that the one is really, either in
point of morals, or responsibility, no
more reprehensible than the other.
Such is the confusion of ideas on this
subject which prevails in certain
mi nds
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

A STRONG WILL a patient temper, and
sound common sense, when united in
the same individual are rs good as a
fortune TO their possessor Barring
untoward accidents, the man endowed
with these qualities who starts on his
career with determination TO reach u
desirable position does reach it.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

THE Great American desert still
covers not less than 30, 900 square
miles. One hundred million acres are
believed to be reclaimable. The re-
claimable area in San Bernardino
county, in California, alone is larger
than the states of Delaware and Mary
land. The Importance of the question
of irrigation to the whole country can,
then, hardly be exaggerated.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
4 Long story.

Just look at my horses tail; notice
tow long it is. how soft the hair, how
glossy, how"
Look here Tom. just cut that tail
short, will your"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

IT is evident that the steamship
companies in their eli orts To get as
much business as possible, are respon-
sible for n great deal Of the low grade
immigration about which there has
been so much discussion since the un-
pleasant affair at New Orleans.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

BE hospitable TO the man who
differs from your view. Possibly
he may be right and you wrong.
Study to please but never give
yourself away clieaply.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

A little 4-year-old mother was re-.
Gently heard scolding her doll. Jus
see what an awful cold you's got!
You leave of your flannel shirt, and
your hood, an run roun' in your bare
feet, then / mus sit up all night
nursin' you. That's the whole troof
in q nutmeg!"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

II thou wouldst attain to thy highest
go look upon flower; what that does
wistlessly, that do thou willingly
Shiller.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24
BRhDFIELD'S n
FEMALE \
REGULATOR

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years from Menstrual Irregularity,
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of Brad FIELDS Female Regulator. It's
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BRADFiELD REGULATOR CO..
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

A woman can say more with n few
tears than man can express in a book
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-24

If you would protect yourself
from Painful, Profuse, Scanty,
Suppressed or Irregular Mem
situation you must use
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05

presidents telegram of October %. ask
ing reparation for the recent murder
of American sailors in the streets of
Valparaiso: The minister of foreign
affairs replies that the government of
the United States formulateS demands
and advances threats that without
being cast back with acrimony, are not
acceptable, nor could they be accepted
in the present case or in any other of
like nature. He does not doubt the
sincerity, rectitude or EXPERIENCES of the
investigation on board the Baltimore,
but will recognize only the jurisdiction
and authority of his own country to
judge and punish the guilty in Gillian
territory. He says the administra-
tive and judicial authorities have
been Investigating affairs that
judicial investigation under Gillian
law is secret and the time is not yet ar
rived to make known the result; when
that time does arrive he will commu-
nicate the result. although he does not
recognize any other authority COM
petent to judge criminal cases than
that established by the Chilian people
Until the time arrives to disclose the
result of the investigation he can not
admit that the disorders in Valparaiso
or the silence of his department should
appear as an expression of unfriendli-
ness toward the government of the
United States which might put in peril
the friendly relations between the two
Countries"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05
cHILrs REPLY.

Text OF the Gillian Governments Reply
to the Demand of the United States For
PREPARATION For the Valparaiso AFFAIR.
WASHINGTON, Oct So-A cipher ca
blegram from Minister Egan was re-
eeived by the state department yester-
day morning but it was nearly noon
before it could be laid before the presi-
dent
An hour afterward messengers were
dispatched to Secretary Blaine and Sec
rotary Tracy requesting their presence
at the White house. The secretaries
promptly responded, Mr.. Blaine from
his house and Secretary Tracy from the
navy department
Soon after o'clock an official state
ment of the contents of Minister Egan's
dispatch was made public as follows:
The department of state received
this morning telegram from Minister
Egan. dated Santiago. October %. in
which he gives the following as the re-
ply of the Gillian government to the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05
ROBBERS.
A Bank Cashier Reused Out of
Bed By Thieves.
FORCED TO GO TO THE BANK.
The Cash Handed Out and ssAu Revoirs-
Other Bold Thieves Chloroform .
Wealthy Citizen and Strip His
Premises of the Lucre.

DAKOTA CITY, Neh, Nov. "A
courier reached here this morning at
o'clock and notified Sheriff Ryan that
the Homer state bank had been robbed
a few hours previously by the boldest
outlawry ever known in this section
The bank is the property of the FL
deity Loan & Trust Co, of Sioux City,
Ia, and Herman Freeze is the cashier
and only employe. He lives four blocks
from the bank building and was at
home alone.
About o'clock this morning Freeze
was awakened by some one knocking
on the door. When he answered the
call he was met by two masked men
with drawn revolvers who demanded
that he go with them to the bank.
This he was forced to do.
Arriving there the men demanded
that the safe be opened and the cash
turned over. This also Freeze was
compelled to do. Before doing this
they gagged Freeze with handkerchief,
which prevented him giving an alarm.
There was in the safe 81, coo in cash. all
of which was taken.
The robbers then took the cashier to
the door and, tying his hands behind
his back, fastened him to the door lock,
and, bidding him good evening, disap-
peared in the darkness
Freeze soon freed himself and gave
the alarm, but up to the present time
no c1ew has been found
The cashier claims that he can identi-
fy the robbers, but as they have had a
good scope of territory to travel in,
their capture is doubtful.
THIEVES IN NEW HANPSHTRE
PORTSMOUTH, n. H, Nov. 2.-One OF
the boldest robberies ever perpetrated
in this city occurred yesterday morn
ing, between the hours of and 4, when
the house on Market street occupied by
George Scott, vice-president of the
Portsmouth Brewing Co., was entered
and robbed.
The entrance was effected through
a rear window and the thief proceeded
to the room occupied by Mr.. Scott and
wife, and after removing all MIR. SCOTS
clothing chloroformed Mr.. and Mrs.
Scott
The pockets of the clothing were
rif1ed. the key to the safe and gold
watch and charm valued at $500 were
taken and diamond pin valued at S15C
was removed from a shirt
After securing the key to the safe the
thief proceeded to the lower story,
where the safe is kept opened and
rif1ed it, securing between 81. 600 and
SIS, 600 in money, several articles OF
jeweiry, bank books, notes and private
papers. The total value of the money
and negotiable articles taken will
amount to nearly 81. 600.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05
RIVER DISASTER.

The Steamer Oliver Bierne Burned on the
Lower Mississippi i Probably Twenty
Lives Lost
VICksBUEG, Miss, Oct. 30.-The
handsome steamer Oliver Bierne was
burned to the waters edge at $50
o'clock yesterday morning near Milli-
ken's landing, twelve miles below Vicks-
burg Twenty persons at the least cal
culation are believed to have persisted.
The Oliver Bierne was a new and
handsome passenger boat and was
built in Jeffersonville. Ind, four years
ago. She has been used in the excur-
sion business on the Mississippi for the
past two summers and during the win
ter season has piled between local points
at the lower end of the river. The
boat was valued at $50. 900 and owned
by the Planters & Merchants Packing
Co., of New Orleans She left this city
last Wednesday with over 100 deck pas
sengers and carried fifteen cabin pas
sengers. This list was increased by
additional passengers taken on board
at Cairo. Memphis and other landings
The Bierne, after getting to the Mis-
sissippi river, accepted freight on her
way down and when she reached Milli-
ken's bend she had aboard several hun
dred bales of cotton in addition to a
quantity of miscellaneous freight She
reached Milliken's bend at night and
landed there, intending to resume her
trip down the river in the morning at
daybreak. The passengers and crew
were asleep when at $50 o'clock an
alarm of fire was suddenly sounded and
almost before anyone was awake the
boat was in flames.
The vessel had about eighty deck and
about twenty cabin passengers 1t is
difficult to ascertain the loss of lives,
the several reports differing as to the
exact number, but conservative esti-
mates are that twenty were lost The
following are known to have been
among those who perished:
Mrs Waddell, an elderly lady of New
Orleans; Sam Entricken. son of the
clerk; two daughters of DR.. Worr ell, of
Baton Rouge: a chambermaid; daugh-
ter of Mrs. Adams. of Omaha
Mrs Grandson Jones and her daugh-
ter were both drowned. Their bodies,
with those of four colored men. !, ere
recovered Capt Thorwegen had drag
hooks made and used every possible
means to recover the bodies of the lost
passengers.