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Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

carried to the polls; the busy man
was hunted out and persuaded to take
time to vote. In several instances
women made repeated visits until they
had forced the Indifferent to the
polls.
One old lady had declared upon
hearing the news that women had re-
ceived the franchise that she hoped
she might die before one of her
daughters disgraced her by going to
the polls. AS the campaign progressed
she became interested so that. as q
consequence, she was among the early,
voters at the polls on Election Day.
and cast her ballot before her daugh-
ters did. The sentiment in favor of
woman suffrage grew by reason Of the
general interest in the election. It
was a growth from above to below.
The best people Of the State took up
the matter first, and then the igno-
rant, the indifferent and those who
had opposed woman suffrage were
compelled to acknowledge that the
act of voting did not degrade woman
in the slightest degree.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

munion with them for tn end. Then
the question as to how 1 should be
found set me again 10 trouble.
I was lying on place seldom seen
by any hunter on the mountain. III
should remain there my bones would
bleach perhaps for years unfound.
Only the foxes and the carrion birds
would visit them. They might in a
season be evergrown by the bushes,
and hidden forever from mortal eye.
Ipictured the agony of my wife
waiting in uncertainty. The shock
ing thought that some wicked person
might persuade her that ! had de-
serted her came into my brain.
Would it not be merciful to her to
rush through or to one side of the
bushes and fall over the precipice
Below there on the boulders my body
might soon be seen by some hunter,
and certainly my clothing and bones
would be found in the spring or
sooner. But what of God? In His
sight should be guilty of suicide if 1
anticipated by but a little what seemed
my doom?
I half-rose in this new agony and
put my right hand among the bushes,
meaning to lean and peer over the
cliff. Now the moon was clear. Ny
hand struck something hard. With a
loud cry of Joy I found it was clutch
ing my hunting-knifel This had
slipped out of its sheath during my
sliding, and lodged among the bushes.
"Praise God from Whom all bles.
sings fowl" My heart was nightly
cheered with the sense that He had
not forsaken me. AS I turned to the
steep slide, and began hacking out
holes for climbing had little thought
of how small was still my chance of
escape.
But I was very careful, working
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
The MistletOe.

"But mistletoe-English mistleto e :?
Surely that will never lose its hold"
some reader may exclaim.
Not in name, perhaps, but in sub
stance. For you must know, real
English mistletoe is as rare in this
country as q white blackbird; and
that SO called by florists, and supposed
to possess all the properties with which
the black-art of the Middle Ages en-
dowed the mystic parasite because
grown on British soil, comes princi-
pally from Normandy. where it -four
ishes in such mad profussion as to be
o veritable nuisance, while it has so
embraced and strangled the roadside
poplar trees that the French Govern
ment has ordered it to be entirely de-
stroyed. If this edict is carried into
effect, we shall see very little of the
true mistletoe (Viscum album, but
will have to content ourselves with it's
American cousin, the Phoradendron
faveseens, which abounds in some of
the Southern States, is really far pret-
tier, and bears more berries, but lacks
the romantic associations clustered
about the "All-heal" of the old Druids.
We may venture to predict, however,
that so long as there are merry hearts
and fond-lovers on the earth, some
sort of mistletoe, ancient or modern,
will be hung up on each recurring
December for, as sweet poetress OF
England sings:
''Under the mistletos peace ami good will
Mingle the spirits that long have been
twain;
Leaves of the olive-branch twine with it still,
While breathings OF hope fillthe long carol
strain.
Yet, why should this holy and festival mirth
In the reign of old CEristmas-tide only be
found?
Hang up loves mistletoe over the earth,
And let us kiss underit all the year round. !"
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
PhOtOgraphing Mcte0rs.

An interesting device for photo
graphing meteors has recently been.
placed in the Yale University Observa-
tory. It consists Of an inclined shaft
carrying a number'of cameras SO in
clined as to include in their combined
field large area Of sky. The shaft is
turned by clockwork SO as to follow
the motion of the stars and make their
images appear as points instead of
lines, as would be the case if the ca
meras were fixed. With this arrange
ment the paths of the meteors are
shown in their true relation to the
heavenly bodies and their direction at
once determined. The instrument is
exceedingly useful in discovering the
radiant points" Of meteors-the spots
in the sky from which they start. De
troit Free Press.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

chatting informally with his neigh
Eor, not Of the issues Of the day nor
with an idea OF influencing votes, but
of the breakfast yet untasted, or of
the unique experience which each was
enjoying. A mounted police officer
appearing would be chaffed and told
to go elsewhere to find discord and
trouble.
The lines for the first two or three
hours contained from 100 to 200 vot-
ers, but by II o'clock the rush was
ended, and then during the remaining
hours the polls were practically de-
serted. An occasional voter would
drop In, cast his, ballot, and depart as
quietly as he had come. Women in
pairs and in small parties would enter
the booths, prepare their ballots, de-
posit them in the boxes, and go with
out o word. There was general ex-
preston of satisfaction on their faces.
The women were more expeditions
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

straight wall began. 1t was about four
hundred feet high. slowed round
someh6A-- and went heels first, then
head first, fat on my back.
You may suppose had not time to
think much on the way down; but /
saw a great deal. i saw Nelly and the
baby all alone in the house waiting for
me. I saw what 1 should look like
after falling four hundred feet on
boulders. I saw Nelly's people thou
sand miles away and more, and she
with the baby N her arms and with
out ten dollars in the bureau drawer
hoping many day and night for the
bundle at the cliffs foot to walk in
alive. 1t was had to see all that and
feel myself sliding to destruction.
AS slowed round a second time,
and found myself going down on my
back, feet first, lifted my head and
saw a stunted pine close ahead. My
Winchester was still in my right hand /;
somehow I had clutched it by the
muzzle. In flash threw out my
hand, hoping to fling the gun around
the little pine and stop myself; but
the hammer of the gun struck the
pine, and the charge was fred into
me.
The bullet plowed through the mus
cles of my forearm, made flesh
wound in my right side, and cut away
my cartridge belt.
had slid about one hundred and
fifty feet when this happened. The
shock of the noise and the bullet
stunned me, I suppose, for the next
thing knew was that I lay in a clump
of small bushes.
The sun had gone down, but there
was still clear afterglow when came
to my full wits, in surprise to find
myself alive. For an instant l won
dered il had dropped over the cliff.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

out with his wife before the polls
opened and stood iu line with the day
laborer awaiting his turn to vote. In
many instances family of several
voters. including the servants, went
in body to the polls.
Few women had to go to the polls
unattended. The went to the voting
booths as they would go to the theatre
or church with escorts. Often one
man would have several women under
his charge. The utmost good humor
aud good order prevailed. In the
bright sunlight of the early morning
the long lines of men and women were
q curious study. Everybody was
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
Christmas Celery.

On Christmas Day, though the tur-
keys tender, the eaters stuff.
Christmas dinner at home, no mat
ter how meagre, is preferable to
Christmas lunch in the bar-room.
A nice easy exercise for Christmas
Day is that of counting the change
you have left. 1t can be done gen
orally with one hand.
IF the ''heft" of the pocketbook
was, in every instance, commensurate
with the promptings OF the heart, what
a glorious Christmas 1t would be for
the poor.
Now is the accepted time for the re-
launching of that cid dyule.tide ''chest-
NUT, /" "What is the difference between
this umbrella and the 25th of last De-
cember?" Zone is a Christmas pres
ent and the other is Christmas past. "
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

there in the moonlight. Should my
knife slip from my hand it would
hardly be stopped again by the fringe
of bushes. Should hands and feet
fail of their hold on the slope I might
slide aside from the fringe, and go
over to death.
picked and dug till I had three
pairs of holes extending as far up as I
could reach. Then, when I had
moved my feet into the lowest of these
holes, and was cutting fourth pair
at my full reach, my new strength left
me suddenly. There I rested, face
down, for many moments.
Again I set to work again I drew
myself up; on I went far as my
strength would allow; and again ex-
hausted forced me to rest. But now
l was up twenty-five or thirty feet
from the clump of bushes, and the
fear that I might slip, slide down and
miss them in sliding became extreme
horror. [ could not endure this.
Very cautiously I let myself down
again till lay once more among the
friendly bushes.
The tale would be long to tell how
l went up again and again, each time
gaining short distance and each time
compelled to descend by the fear of
losing my grip or fainting and sliding
aside from the bushes. Ny weakness,
probably from loss of blood, was such
as I cannot describe to the under.
standing of one who has never felt
like this. Ny limbs trembled as with
an ague. And all this time had to
work with and place my main depend
ence on my awkward, unwounded left
hand and arm.
After long. time l reached the
stunted pine against which my Win
chester had been exploded in my de-
scent. Then rested, straddling the
tree, holding my arms around it and
toward the cliff. Now the moon was
often obscured by clouds, strong
wind had risen, and I expected II regu-
lar Montana blizzard. But it proved
to be only squall, and again turned
to my work.
To let go of the tree and turn round
safely put me to agony of doubt, but
I did it and lay trembling, face down,
with my feet against the tree, till
found strength to hack and dig again.
I can remember little of what I die
after that, till at last drew myself
up and lay on top of the mountain.
For some time I coull not move
and when | did stand up I doubted
whether I had strength to escape, of
ter all. Ny steps we're feeble and m,
brain reeled. But still staggered OF
toward Nelly and the baby. It wa
not till I had passed almost to tn
foot of the mountain, keeping alway
| in my morning tracks, that I sanl
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
WOMEN TOOK PART IN THE
ELECTION IN COLORADO.
They Not Only Voted Themselves,
But Insisted Upon the Men
Votins-Seenes at the
Polls.

XXToMEN voted for all can
AA/ didates at the recent cleo
Y Y tion in Colorado. A
Denver letter to the New
York Sun describes the scenes and in
cidents on Election Day as follows:
The total vote in Colorado was in
round numbers 156, 900 this year. Two
years ago it was SO, 900, although 1892
was Presidential year and there was
a strong desire to make a stand for
the silver cause. Furthermore, times
were good in 1892, and the mining
districts were more populous than at
this election. The phenomenal in.
crease in votes over two years, ago
does not indicate an increase in popu-
lation in Colorado. Facts disprove
that. The women voted to fully
ninety per cent. of their registration,
and their enthusiasm was reflected in
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cHRIsTMAs.
Here comes old Father Christmas,
With sound OF fife and drums !
With mistletos about his brows,

Here comes old Father Christmas,
With sound OF ffe and drunsi
With mistletoe about his brows,
SO merrily he comes
His arms ara full of all good cheer,
His face with laughter glows;
He shin.s like any household fire
Amid the cruel SHOWS.
He Is the old folks Christmas,
Ys warns their hearts like wine,
lie thaws their winter into spring
And makes their faces shine.
Hurrah for Father Christmasl
Ring all the merry bells!
And bring the grandsires all around
To hear the tale he tells.
Here comes the Christmas angel,
So gentle and so calm.
As softly as the falling flakes.
He comes with flute and psalm,
Ali in cloud OF glory.
As once upon the plain.
TO shepherd boys in Jewry
He brings good news again;
He is the young folks Christmas:
He makes their eyes grow bright
With words of hope and tender thought.
And visions of delight.
Hail to the Christmas angel!
Allpeace on earth he bringss
lie gathers all the youths and maids
Rereath his shining wings.
Here comes the little Chrlst-child,
All innocence and joy,
An bearing gifts in either hanl
For every girl and boy.
He tells the tender story
About the Holy Maid.
And Jesus in the manger,
Before the oxen laid.
Like any little winter biri,
He sings this sweetest song.
Till all the cherubs in the sky
To hear His carol throng
He is the chlIdren's Christmas;
They come without call
TO gather round the gracious Chill
Who brlngeth JOY to all.
But who shall bring their Christmas
Who wrestle still with life?
No grandslres, youths, nor little folks,
But they who wage the strife;
The fathers and the mothers
Who fight Tor homes and bread,
Who watch and ward the living,
And bury all the dead.
All by their side at Christmas-tide
The Lord of Christmas stands;
He smooths the furrows from the brows
With strong and tender hands.
81 take my Christmas gift." he saith,
From thee, tired soul, and thee;
Who giveth TO My little ones
Giveth unto Me-"
Philadelphia Ledger.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
An ExhauSting Task.

Alpha-'T see that your friend
Bondsby has sailed for Europe. What
is the object of his visit?"
Omega-"He goes to recuperate his
health, which is broken down by over
work"
Alpha-"Overwork? Why, I never
knew him to do days work in his
life."
Omega-"You don't know all. One
day last week he went out to select a
Christmas present for his wife, and he
came home suffering from nervous
prostration.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
On Christmas Eve.

''Darling!" exclaimed Algernon
Thinshanks, as they sat in the soft
freight glow on Christmas Eve, 81
sometimes wish l had lived in the dis
tant past, in the days of baronial
halls, and feudal castles, and armored
knights. There is romance about
the delightful past which the prosaic
present cannot awaken. Which do you
like best, dearest, the past or the pres
ent?"
SAT this time of the year, Algernon,
the present, by oil means !" responded
Mabel, promptly.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
I tried to rise, and in doing SO looked |
through the bushes.

1 tried to rise, and in doing so looked
through the bushes.
There was nothing just in front of
them. They grew on the cliffs top
for about twelve feet wide along its
very edge. had nothing but these
frail bushes between me and the
boulders far below.
Seeing this, I trembled and crouched
down. Then I noticed the blood
from my wounded arm. Tt was drip
ping to the snow at the roots of the
bushes, and my movements had already
sprinkled many red spots around.
I lay long time in the snow, keep
ing my right side to the bushes, for I
feared that should go through if I
lay uphill and pressed against them
with only the breadth of my feet.
Then I lifted up my wounded arm,
hoping to stop the flow of red. Per-
haps the loss of blood had helped to
break down my nerves. At any rate,
I shuddered and shook, and thought I
was about to faint. Itseemed a great
time before I could control myself
sufficiently to seek for some means of
escape.
But I did not look down over the
cliff. 1t seemed that one more sight
of that abyss would lure me to jump
over in despair. I looked up the
slope.
The track I had made was as if o
very wide broom had swept snow off
hard, white ice. But I reflected that
this was only thin sheet of ice cover
ing deep snow. I could not break
through the slippery crust with hand
or foot; but I might cut holes in it
with my pocket-knife, and climb by
these.
So I put my hand in my pocket to
search for the knife. 1t was not there.
It was not in any of my pockets.
suppose it had slipped out during my
head-first sliding.
For a moment hope went out of me.
Then it sprang up fresh. My hunt.
ing knife! How could I have forgot
ten it? 1 put my hand to the
sheath. The sheath was empty!
Now it seemed certain that l must
die; SO certain that the raving spirit
of protest was stilled in my heart.
resigned myself to God. There was
nothing to do except go mad OF accept
my fate, and to accept is to be calm.
think I then had the very feeling
with which SO many of the dying turI
their faces silently to the wall wheI
told that death is near. Evening hat
new come on.
To the bushes I turned my face, let
ting my wonderful arm which painet
me little, come to the snow. With tina
movement of resignation my thought
few again distinctly to my wife ant
child; it was as if my soul sought com
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

my wife said to me:
Charley, wouldn'tit be nice if we
had venison steak, too?"
The "too" meant in addition to q
turkey, pair of chickens, boiled
ham, a plum pudding, and I don't
know how many kinds of cakes and
pies that she had planned for our
Christmas dinner.
"Well, Nelly, as there's only your
self and the baby and me to be at
dinner, don't suppose we'd starve
without venison steak" I said,
laughing. "But there'll be some fun
getting black tailed deer"
So took my Winchester late in the
forenoon and started for the mountain,
after kissing my young wife and the
baby-our first. If Nelly had asked
for an elephant steak, dare say I'd
have tried to get one.
She had come out to the far West
with me after I had visited home in
Michigan only two years before, and
my pride was that she should want for
nothing. We had done we'll from the
start, and SO we do yet, thanks be to
God and steady work in season.
The night before I started up the
canon with my rife and hunting knife
there had been fall of about six
inches of snow. This would make it
easy to track game. So I went along
in good spirits, struck the foot of the
mountain two miles from home, and
decided to go up an immense gulch
straight in front of me.
l soon reached the head of the
gulch and the top of the mountain.
Then turned around on the back
bone of the mountain, and went back
nearly in the same direction I had
come, only about a thousand feet
higher. 1t was here 1 sighted my
game, a fat doe, on the west side of
the backbone, just on the edge of a
gulch. This was about three o'clock
in the afternoon, and the sun was al
ready low.
The doe had not seen me, and did
not mean she should till could get
close enough to make sure OF that
steak. So I worked over on the east
side of the backbone, and went along
till got right on top of slope di-
rectly above great wall OF mountain
that l had admired on the way up.
was then watching for the doe
more than for my steps, and that
carelessress nearly finished me. Sud-
denly my feet slipped, and I went
sliding down the steep mountain side.
was not more than fairly on my
back when [ understood what had
happened. I had trod on the old
drifts of snow which had been melted
on the surface by the Chinook winds
few days previously, and had then
frozen again into hard slope of ice.
This was covered by the fresh snow OF
the night, and SO J. had not noticed
the danger.
The fresh snow went with me. ]
could not hold on by it at all; and l
was making quick trip down. The
slope was about two hundred and
fifty feet long. Where it stopped the
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

The new Australian gold fields ap-
parentIy are worked under the same
difficulties as those of Arizona--an al
most constant water famine.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

Tt is figured that every man, woman
and child in the United States eats an
average of four and half bushels of
wheat in a year in the form of bread
or breakfast cereals.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
The Festivity Not Yet Complete.

Tommy-"Come on out an play"
Eddy-'I can't"
Tommy-"Why not?"
Eddy-'I got some Christmas things
wot I amt broke yet.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
A CHRISTMAS STEAK,

N the morning be-
fore Christmas Day
t e n years ago,
when l was living
in the Prickly Pear
Canon, twenty-five
miles northwest of
Helena, Montana,
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20

Illinois railroads employed in 1898
66, $50 hands, whose wages amounted
to $40, ,072, ,676.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-09-14

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