Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-02-25

| IN Gallogher's place ana wond-by the
way, are the Gallaghers living there
yet;''
"Oh, mol They moved away long ago
and fine, big, stone public school has
been built there"
"a stone public school? Why, Henry,
when we were boys a one room frame
house did us pretty well. Do you remem-
Der how we used to revile the boys who
attended the academy and call them
academy rats, because the academy
had two rooms, and consequently two
stoves?"
"Yes, and they called US district
rats, and we fought about it." said
Henry. by theway, DR., Culver lived
on the other side, didn't hei Well, there
is q whisky cure institute there nova
big one-the third in the state"
The next morning Hardesty started
out to view the property before finally
deciding not to sell. He declared that it
was hardly worth while, as he had no
pressing need for money, and it was al
ways pleasant to think of the old times,
and the old place, and the old home
"When we get to that corner" he
hid, prcud to show that he still remem-
| tered things ''we will turn and cross
10 rc'"mcn. passing by old Mrs. Mar
WINS cottage and swinging TO the right
by Hen Gettle's hothouse. F"
"I'm afraid we can't, said the agent
and friend. "You mean to cross the
common, don't you, as we used to in
making the short cut for the river when
we went fishing? Well" as Hardesty
nodded in a delighted affirmative, 1--WE
can't do it, for it is all built up now.
Mrs. Marvin's cottage site is taken up
by the residence of the mayor, and Hen
Gettle's home is now his home no lon
ger, but is three story hotel You see
the town has been progressing in II
years.
Hardesty looked at his friend in won
der and not altogether i'll pleasure.
"On the way" he said, II should
like to pass the old one room school
where Lo Fleetwood used to teach, and
out of the window of which leaped II
years ago. 1t is down this way, isn't it?"
"It has been moved back in the lot,
and a big grocery, has been built on the
front--the playground, you know, where
we used to play foot and half and sail
ors' Bombay. The old school has been
converted into a stable for the horses of
the man who runs the grocery. We
abandoned it as school ten years ago
and erected q pressed brick structure
down in the next block. We have been
progressing materially.
"You don't mean to tell me the old
school is used as stable?'' cried Har-
desty. Sand that playground gone tool
Why, the happiest moments of my life
and yours were passed there listening tc
half witted Billy Mendenall initiating
bird songs and skinning the cat on the
horizontal bar, which we bought by 6
popular subscription Of old iron ant
rags"
"Yes, it was in the way of improve
ment. +"
As they talked they walked. Hardest.
hardly knew himself for the changes il
the old town-the dear old town bacl
, to which he had looked SO fondly. OF
,, there in Chicago he had been in tn
! habit of passing opinion on men ant
! saying: "Ah, you poor, hustling, de
luded mortals, you are entirely differen
, from Squire Lo Stone and OFT Templa
!. ! and the other quiet, tranquil souls il
that other town where my old home is
: l am glad have that dear place.
= will be like an anchorage to me in thi
!. stormy sea.'' And now, and now-why
!. Just think of it'll The old school stable
Henry" be finally remarked, "ther
= is just one thing seriously want to an
: must see. There used to be a big cotton
:. wood tree over on the river bank-yo
!. remember it--where carved my nam
one day-my name and that Of a girl
. I'm married now, but, do you know
:. I'd like to see that old tree and see
: the initials are there yet The girl wa
Ida Jordan. 1 suppose, of course, sh
. has 10 children and"-
"She's dead, Dave-died two yeal
: after you left. And the tree has bee
: cut down to give way to lumber var
! and"-
Hardesty interrupted him.
! "Say," he cried, "you sell that stu
= of mine for what you can get. / don
= want to see it again. Your town is tc
= = prosperous for me. There's only OF
y thing more l want to know. I want
!. lick the man who cut down that tre
" Who is he? Where can he be found?"
y "It was on my land, and I cut
: down. said his friend, the agent.
! Chicago Record.
3 Concerning the Nightcap.
VI The nightcaps almost universally wol
d some 20 years ago are now quite as un
b versally discarded. There is diversi
i. of opinion in regard to the wisdom
d this change. While some doctors asse
1t that there is much less badness sin
If they were abandoned, others deola
d with equal fervor that neuralgia al
is catarrh are much more common sin
,, the n:ghtcap was banished from Il
n wardrobe.