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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

peration to his eyes, and before any
one could stop him he bolted away to
be halted by the provost guard in the
rear of the lines and be returned to us
with the stigma of coward" attached
to his name. He is not coward; he
has simply broken down under the
strain, as hundreds of men before him
and hundreds will again. He weeps
and wrings his hands as he takes his
place'in the ranks. You can see other
men grow pale and work their jaws
and look furtively from right to left.
Suspense is about to start a panic
when the shout rolls along the lines:
Attention. They are comingl Dress
back on the leftl Steady, nowl"
1t is the panacea. Five minutes
later men are cursing and shouting
and fighting as If they loved the scent
of Blood but those who live through
the fray will be very serious minded
and quiet for three or four days. 1t
takes time to get the nerve back after
period of suspense.-Capt. Dale, in
Detroit Free Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
A SPY'S ADVENTURE.
Ho Was Praised for His Bravery by Pres
ident Lincoln.

ident Lincoln.
During the Antietam campaign a
cadet engineer, Henry E. Rhoades,
was employed in medical service in
the field hospitals at Frederick City,
Md. One day surgeon asked him il
he would undertake dangerous work
for which he was well qualified. He
consented readily, being influenced by
love OF adventure characteristic of
youth in war time.
The work was secret service in the
confederate lines. Antietam had been
fought, but Gen. Lees army was still
massed along the Potomac, and there
was column of unknown strength
between Frederick City and Washing
ton. What the cadet engineer was
asked to do was to ride across coun-
try and ascertain how large was this
force, and, if possible, what it was
likely to do.
He took the train for Washington
by way of Relay Junction, dressed
himself like Maryland planter, and
mounted n fine gray horse at the
stables of the National hotel The
horse was so frisky from lack of ex-
the saddle, and dragged some distance
along Pennsylvania avenue. Bruised
but undaunted, the young engineer
remounted and rode toward George
town. Following the turnpike he went
on hour after hour until he was with
in the confederate lines between Rock
vile and Clarlssburg. He chatted east
ly with the pickets, passing himself
off as Maryland sympathizer with
the confederate cause, who was on his
way home to Cumberland.
He did not excite suspicion, was in
no haste to ride on, and did not ask
too many questions. He learned that
the force was small, consisting only of
Gen. Early's brigade, and that rein
forcements were not expected. 1t was
practically the rear guard preparing
to retreat
While he was still within the enc
my's lines, he halted at house near
| Hyattstown and asked to be enter
tanned over night. he was kindly re.
ceived by an old planter whose daugh-
ters smiled upon him at dinner, and
talked suspiciously about him when he
had retired to his bedroom.
Their voices made him uneasy, and
looking about his room, he noticed a
stovepipe closed with cap. but COM
municating with the parlor below. He
removed the cap, and, putting his ear
to the hole, heard distinctly the con-
versation in the family room.
The girls were talking very unpleas-
antly about him. One of them was
positive that he did not live in Cum Der.
land, and the other intimated that he
might be spy. The father had less to
say, and the family council finally
broke up
The engineer determined to leave
the house where he was suspected He
waited until everything was quiet, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
THE HosPlTAeLE HOSTESS.
She Always Allows Her Guest Great Deal
of Freedom.

bne Always Allows Her Guest GREAT Deal
of Freedom.
There are homes in which you are
always conscious of you bpunden duty
to conform to rules. You feel that you
must get up to a six o'clock breakfast
when you have been accustomed to in
dulge in morning maps until nine; you
cannot don your wraps and saunter
out to enjoy an hour or two in an art
gallery or library OF rare books,
where one wants to invite ones own
soul for companionship, without your
too solicitous hostess urging you to
wait till she has ordered luncheon so
that she may "go with you and tell
you all about them"
There are homes where the rules are
not flexible because the makers of them
are cast-iron people, but there are 9TH
ers where they lack elasticity simply
from the family's want of tact in pleas
ing those whom they are anxious to
please.
The really hospitable house is the
one where the guest has been asked to
come in order that she may be given an
unusual pleasure, and where, for the
time being, all the uncomfortable re
quirements of her individual home are
set aside for Bohemian freedom anc
unaccountabil
The young married hostess may
chaperon without monopolizing the
callers of her girl guests. She see'
these callers frequently in general so
ciety, and on many occasions for ;
chat, while the visitor, of whom they
are also old friends, is only in tow1
for brief stay and often groans in
wardly at having to sit in enforced 81
lence while her hospitable hostess rat
ties away the precious moments.
The visitor, like the editor, can stan'
a good deal of letting alone. OF course
if she be what is called born sight
seer" one who must be taken from tn
crown of the Liberty statue to the roo
garden crushes, she will not want t
be let alone, or to let any one els
alone.
To be Indifferent about a guests en-
joyment is the grossest evidence of il
breeding and callous feeling, after eS
tending an invitation, but far too fey
people understand the exquisite spiri
OF hospitality underlying the greetin
of the Spanish hostess, when she S
graciously says: The house is your:
senorita. Chicago News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

then softly raised the window. With
a sailors deft fingers he tied the blan-
kets OF the bed together, and fastened
one end to chair. With the aid OF
this blanket-rope he lowered himself
from the window and reached the
ground.
Then stealing into the barn he sad
died his horse and cautiously led the
animal TO the road, expecting mo-
mShtarily an outcry from the win.
dows. Happily the inmates were not
aroused.
The spy mounted his horse and rode
steadily until daybreak. He passed
through Urbana and crossed the Mon
ocacy, and was safe within the union
lines Reaching Frederick City, he
reported at headquarters, giving the
secret information which was urgently
needed.
A few days afterward he was at Gen.
Hartranfts headquarters, when an
important visitor was announced 1t
was President Lincoln, who had come
by train from Washington. The gem
eral introduced the cadet engineer
and related his dangerous exploit.
The president had already heard of
it, but insisted upon having the story
in detail from the young officers lips,
laughing heartily over his escape from
the Hyattstown house.
"Well, boy" said the president,
"that was brave. You have earned q
commission"
A tribute from Lincoln was some
thing worth living for, even If the
commission never came.-Youth's Com
p1nion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
IN DEADLY SUSPENSE.
Just Before the Battle Many Faces Arc
PaIa.

Just Before tho Battle Many Faces Arc
Pale.
Thousands of soldiers of the late
war, union and confederate, were ac-
tive participants in five, six or seven
great battles and dozen hot skir-
mishes. Not one of them could give
an honest answer to the question::
"What are soldiers sensations as he
goes into battleP" He couldn't simply
because no two battles opened or were
fought under the same circumstances,
and, therefore, his sensations were diff
ferent each time. AtChantilly, where
Kearney was killed, saw men in bat
tle-line who were actually weeping
and as pale-faced as the dead. Next
day, on the Bull Run battlefield saw
these same men laughing and frolick-
ing as they wheeled into line and
opened fire. saw the old First Mich
igan cavalry make it's historical
charge at Gettysburg, rushing across
the field to what seemed certain ami
hilation, and there was not pale face
among them On the contrary, many
of them were laughing and singing
and calling out: ''Good-by, old man
see you again in ten minutesg" to ac-
quaintances outside the regiment.
believe my experience was that of
the great majority. If rushed into a
fight no one lost his nerve. If lying
down in support of battery or wait
ing behind breastworlss there was
laughing and joking. The man who
happened to be wounded in the hand
or foot got no more sympathy than as
If he complained of the toothache. II
a shell struck the earth in front of us
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
THE NAPOLEON REVIVAL.
Why the Emperor Is the Most Popular
Character In History.

why the emperor Is the Most Popular
Character in History.
Within the past year there has been
q revival of interest in the career of
Napoleon Bonaparte that is almost
phenomenal. In literature he has fig
ured in the pages of memoirs and rem
iniscences by those who came into
more and less intimate contact with
him. In art not only has he been po-
tent inspiration to modern painters
and sculptors, but he has made price
less all pictorial records of his time. In
the drama he poses as the most pictur-
esque figure that has been brought
upon the stage within the century.
Personal relics of the man are held as
sacred and beyond all price. AS Paul
Bourget aptly says, Napoleon has
hypnotized the French people again"
In France the sting of defeat after
the Franco-Prussian war turned the
thoughts of all to their period of great
est glory, and so it needed but time to
see Napoleon enshrined as an idol. An
equally logical explanation is found
for the most notable feature of the Ma
poleon revival in this country.
The Century'S life of the emperor was
projected five or six years ago, before
anyone could have foreseen the pres
ent attitude of the public mind. 1t
was undertaken solely with the idea
that Napoleon was one of the greatest,
most forceful and picturesque charac-
ters in the entire range of history, and
that hitherto he had been inadequate
| ly represented. For that reason Prof.
! William NJ. Sloane, the greatest Amer
lean student of French history, was
commissioned to write the life, and
his years of study among unpublished
archives have brought out his com
pleted labor at the most opportune mo-
ment. And Prof. Sloane shows us a
new Napoleon, devourer of books, an
unsuccessful literary aspirant, an inef-
fectual Corsican political agitator, but
the new Napoleon certainly makes the
old Napoleon more easily compre-
hended.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
Look out for Cold Weather

but ride inside of the Electric Lighted and
Steam Heated Vestibule Apartment trains
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
way and you will be as warm, comfortable
and cheerful as in your own library or
boudoir. To travel between Chicago, st.
Paul and Minneapolis or between Chicago,
Omaha and Sioux City, in these luxuriously
appointed trains is supreme satisfaction;
and, as the somewhat ancient advertisement
used to read, "for further particulars, see
small bills" Small bills (and large ones
also) will be accepted for passage and sleep
ing car tickets by all coupon ticket agents
For detailed inform alton address Geo. H.
HEAFFoRD, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, Chicago, III.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
Texas, Mexico and California-The wabash
Railroad,


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In connection with the st. Louis, Iron
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G. S. CRANE, G. P. & 7. A., St. Louis, Mo.
F. A. PALMER, Asst G. p. A., 201 S. Clark
Street, Chicago, Ill.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

"DAH's one respeck," said Uncle Eben,
sin which er man is boun' to be ginerous
He kain't mex trouble foh hisse'f wifout
gibbin' somebody else share in it,
Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
Getting II All Around.

Everything that is done in this
house is always blamed onto me-"
shifted the small boy. IAN Pm jist git
tim tired of it. I'll run away, that's
what III do. Dog-gone if mean to be
the Lii Hung Chang of this family any
longer. Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

In Olden Times
People overlooked the Importance OF per-
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action, but now that 1t
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-informed people will not buy other lax
atiyes, which act for a time, but finally in
lure the yStem.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD
NOW the BEST LINE to CALIFORNIA,
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.

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illustrated folders, maps. pamphlets and full par
tculars, call upon your home ticket agent or write
to James Charlton, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, Chicago Alton Railroad Chicago Ill.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption
Cures where other remedies fail 25c.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

DoN'T talk about yourself when you want
to be interesting.-Ram's Horn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
In olden Times

THE truth we hate the most is the truth
that hits us the hardest.-Ram's Horn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

LOVE never bestows burden that is
heavy.-Ram's Horn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

and Texas Ry. will sell tickets at
greatly reduced rates to all points in Texas,
Eddy, New Mexico, and Lake Charles, La.
For particulars address IL. A. Chemir, Room
II The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

IT is easier for n ship-carpenter to spar a
vessel than it is for him to box the compass.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

THE lazy man aims at nothing, and gener-
ally hits it.-HickorY Leaves.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE
state that you saw the Advertisements In. this
MINER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21
PRETTY CHINA CLOSET.
How to Utilize the Corner of a Room ;
Display Fine Ware.

How to Utilize the Corner of a Room to
Display Fine Ware.
AS china has now developed into an
art the china closet has become part
of the furnishing of the dining
At each corner in well-appointedh houses
these quaint cupboards have a wonder
full. picturesque effect, and add much
to the decorations of this room. OF
wood. the curly birch or ash with brass
furnishings are considered by artistic
people to be the best. In one house
where some artists live the lower
shelves of these cupboards, which are
closed by a wooden door, have quaint
motto in brass, which adds to their
clever ornamentation. And the glass
part of these good, useful and delight
full decorative bitsextends almost to the
broad fricze of the wall paper.
OF china. the Copenhagen ware is the
most expensive. 1t is a wonderful blue,
which is of a slate-color effect. The
brown Doulton pitcher, with its queer
lettering, its designs of odd figures and
its flowery wreaths in tones of creams,
are great for the pretty china closet.
The chocolate pot, which is of every
design and shape, can be purchased for
from five dollars to the low price of
one dollar and fifty cents. and yet
every one is model of the chinamak-
er's skill. As a good background for
this decorative affair two or three good
fish or dessert plates will show off adj
mirably well if placed securely by a
fair-sizcd tack against the back of the
shelf. In these dainty closets the
cracker jar and cheese plate should he
always on hand.
At supper given in an artistic din
ing-room not long ago the china closet
was a symphony in blue. The nankeen
china being the scheme, ~.ery piece
from the glass front presented to the
eye a series of Chinese pictures, with
their pagoda effects and peculiar forms
so distinct with these people.
If the china closet is a low one, on
its top there should be stunning vase,
either in Mexican or South American
pottery, or fine piece of Japanese
lockwood will do excellent duty. These
colors of terra Gotta or browns are Rd-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21
LIES AND FoRGERIES.
Efforts OF the Democrats to Bring n
rFoash Upon NtcIt!nieyIsm.

| Efforts OF the Democrats to Bring RO-
rroash Upon NcItinieyIsm.
A tremendous effort is being made
by editors of democratic newspapers
to have the republican leaders at
Washington repudiate McKinleyism,
| to say that neither the old Mckinley
law nor anything like it will ever
again be advocated and enacted by
the republican party.
An interview with Mr. Reed, or
what was represented to be an inter-
view, was recently published in dem
| ocratic newspapers. In this spurious
| connection Mr.. Reed was said to have
declared that McKinleyism was played
out. Mr.. Reed promptly stamped this
interview as fraudulent. John Sher-
man was next brought out by demo-
cratic editors as being a moderate
protectionist," and as being opposed
| to McKinleyism. Senator Sherman
| Immediately denounced this attempt
to place him in false position before
the American people. The other day
a democratic newspaper in New York
printed what was said to be a letter
from Secretary Apsley, of the repub-
lican congressional committee, assert
ing that the recent elections proved
that the republicans had practically
repudiated the Mckinley law. The
same newspaper published an alleged
interview with Chairman Babcock, of
the same committee, to the same gen.
eral effect. Now Apsley declares that
he never wrote the letter, and Babcock
pronounces the interview to be spur
ious. A lie, however, circles the earth,
while truth is getting ready to follow
it. The interviews, all fraudulent.
with Sherman. Reed and Babcock, and
the forged letter of Aspley's, are go
ing the rounds of the democratic press,
always ahead, of course, OF the denials
which have been sent after them.
The concern of the democrats is pos
itively touching. However, they are
anxious without reason. The repub-
lican party is strong and solid for pro-
lection, and McKinleyisn is only an
other name for this living and grow
ing and Observation-Disclosures prin-
ciple.
That gallant tar of Maine, Capt
Boutelle, member of congress from
the Fourth district. doesn't go any too
far when he dec lares that the next
republican national convention will
adopt a platform that will be more
strongly in favor of a protective tariff
than any platform that has ever been
adopted, and that it will favor tariff
that will make up the difference be-
tween the wages in Europe and the
cost of production there, and the high
est possible wages that can exist in
this country and the cost of produc-
ton here"
The democrats are simply wasting
their time in trying by forgeries and
lies to get republicans out of the pro-
lection procession. They are in it and
in it to stay.-Cleveland Leader.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21

mirably suited for a high place, and are
in accord with all the china within the
shelves.
Many of these closets have silk cur
tains fastened by ends to a brass rod.
OF the new silks, the variety is endless.
There are delicate green's of a cash
mere pattern which, for this purpose, is
poem in silk. Then there are lace eff
fects; one stripe of it in apple green,
with an alternative stripe in lace, the
crinlled, variegated material being the
most gorgeous. But any simple drapery
will do if the curtain design is wanted.
To secure a fine decorative bit-all
tones in china for a closet should be
complementary-us pink very sparing-
". red but seldom. Delicate tints in
which gilt has a good share is the
proper caper for that pretty china
closet. Cut glass always is a fine
scheme in small pieces, which, if rightly
placed, will add every time to this cup
board and enhance its brilliancy.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21
Napery for the Household.

In embroidering napery, if house
keeper delights in color wrought on
white, it is a good plan to border or
finish the corners with broidery or
scrolls or flowers of the same color as
the china to be used with it. Thus,
china decorated in red, or blue, or
gold, goes well with linen wrought in
the selfsame color, though it may be
in two or more shades. Three corners
of the cloth, napkins and doilies may
be worked in some conventional de-
sign, and the fourth side filled with
the owners monogram. In this case
the monogram should be nine inches
deep or even more. This involves much
work, and is only possible to amateurs
of leisure. To many minds all white
is only suitable fornapery, except, per-
haps, on occasion. parti-colored coun-
terpiece. It must be confessed that
this suits taste of a chaste order.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21
IHg ZEAL OUTCOME.
An Actual Summing Up of the Results OF
the Late Election.


1t requires much ingenuity to miss
the significance of the election re-
turns which have been coming in of
late. Some democratic journals do
contrive to hide it in part by making
she unwarranted and absurd assump-
ton that all the republicans who
voted in the presidential election of
1892 also voted in the state and con-
gressional election this year, so that
the only transfer of democratic votes
to the republican side which their
figures disclose is the excess of repub-
lican votes at state over the repub-
lican votes at a presidential election.
This excess by itself is surprisingly
large, but it does not represent the en-
tire transfer of votes. 1t is usually
expected that the total vote at state
and congressional elections will De
about 10 per cent. less than at pres
idential elections Thus III 1890 it was
about IL per cent. less than in 1883.
Whatever this natural loss was
through failure of republicans to vote,
the transfer of democrats not only
made it up, but added over 300, 600
more.
The returns are substantially COM
plete for the great body of northern
states east of the Mississippi river,
which have more than half the whole
number of votes in the whole country.
The changes in this body of states, if
distinctly one way, settle every
election and determine the character
of the government. In the followi ng
statement the votes in 1892 and 1894
are given for these states, arranged
in two divisions, the six New England
and three middle states, and the five
central states between Pennsylvania
and the Mississippi river: