Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-01

Chew lARGE'S PLUGS. The Great tobacco Antido
poor woman who had been treated by IN
competent doctors, who asked large fees,
where it says, "She had suffered many
things of many physicians and had spent
all that she had and was nothing better,
but rather grew worse" For our glorious
science of medicine and surgery-more sub
lime than astronomy, for we have more to
do with disease than with the stars; more
beautiful than botany, for bloom of health
In the cheek of wife and child is worth
more to us than all the roses of the garden
for this grandest of all Sciences the sci
encs of healing every pillow of recovered
invalid, every ward of American and Eu-
ropean hospital, may well cry out: "Thank
God for old DR. Hippocrates. l. like Paul,
am indebted to he Greeks"
Furthermore, all the world is obligated
to Hellas more than it can ever pay for its
aeroics in the cause Of liberty and right.
| United Europe today had not better think
| ihat the Greeks will not fight. There may
be fallings back and vacillations and tenn
porary defeat, hut if Greece is right all
Europe cannot put her down. The othsr
nations, before they open the portfolios of
their men-of-war against that small king
dom, had better read of the battle of Mara
thon, where 10000 Athenians, led on by
Miltiades, triSmphed over 100, 900 of their
enemies. A mat time, in Greek council of
war; five generals were for beginning the
battle and five were againstit. Callimach-
us presided at the council of war, had the
deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed
him, saying:
"It now rests with you, Callimachus,
either to enslave Athens, or by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor-
tality of fame for never since the Athe-
mans were people were they in such dan
ger as they are in at this moment. If they
bow the knee to these Medes, they are to
be given up to Hippias, and you know
what they will then have to suffer, but if
Athens comes victorious out of this con-
test she has it in her power to become the
first city Of Greece. Your vote Is to decide
whether we are to join battle or not. If we
do not bring on battle presently, some
factious intrigue will disunite the Athe-
mans, and the city will be betrayed to the
Medes, but if we fight before there is any
thing rotten in the state of Athens be-
lieve that, provided the gods will give fair
field and no favor, we are able to get the
best of it in the engagement"
Greek Heroes.
That won the vote Of Callimachus, and
soon the battle opened, and in full run the
men of Miltiades fell upon the Persian
hosts, shouting: son, sons of Greecel
Strike for the freedom of your country
Strike for the freedom Of your children
and your wives, for the shrines of your fa-
thers' gods and for the sepulchers of your
siresl' While only 192 Greeks fell 6, 400
Persians lay dead upon the field, and many
of the Asiatic hosts who took to the war
vessels in the harbor were consumed in
the shipping. Persian oppression was re.
buked, Grecian liberty was achieved, the
cause of civilization was advanced, and the
western world and all nations have felt the
heroics Had there been no Miltiades
there might have been no Washington.
Also at Thermopyle 800 Greeks, along
road only wide enough for wheel tracl
between q mountain and marsh, dice
rather than surrender. Had there been M
Thermopyle there might have been ne
Bunker Hill. The echo of Athenian an(
Spartan heroics was heard at the gates o.
Lucknow, and Sevastopol, and Bannock
burn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg
English Magma Charta and Declaration o.
American Independence, and the song O.
Robert Burns, entitled IA Mans Maj
For a. That" were only the long contin
ued reverberation of what was said ant
!, done 90 centuries before in that little king
, dom that the powers Of Europe are nov
imposing upon. Greece having again ant
, again shown that 10 men in the right ar
stronger than 100 men in the wrong, tn
, beroics of Leonidas and Aristides and The
, mistocles will not cease their mission un
: til the last man on earth is as free as Got
, made him. There is not on either side o
| the Atlantic today republic that canno
+ truthfully employ the words of the tex
, and say, 81 am debtor to the Greeks"
Debt to the Greeks.
But now comes the practical question
How can we pay that debt or part of it
For we cannot pay more than 10 per cen
7 of that debt in which Paul acknowledge,
9 himself bankrupt. BY praying Almight
1 God that he will help Greece in it's presen
, war with Mohammedanism and the con
Q certed empires Of Europe. l know he
. queen, a noble, Christian woman, her fac
!; the throne of all benefcence and lowell
. ness, her life an example of noble wife
! hood and motherhood. God help those pal
/ aces in these days of awful exigency! Gu
s American senate did well the other day
? when, in that capitol building which owe
to Greece it's columnar impressiveness
they passed hearty resolution of sympa
= thy for that nation Would that all VIII
have potent words that can be heard i
Europe would utter them now, when the
are so much needed Let us repeat to thel
= in English what they centuries ago dt
=. clared to the world in Greek, BLESSED al
those who are prosecuted for righteous
ness sake, for theirs is the kingdom {
= heaven"
Another way of partly paying our del
J.. to the Greeks is by higher appreciation {
o the learning and self sacrifice of the me
: who in our own land stand for all that tn
ancient Greeks stood. While here and thel
. one comes to public approval and rewar
the most of them live in priyation or o
:. salary disgracefully small. The scholars
' the arch8ologists, the artists, the litera
most of them live up three or for
: flights of stairs and by small windows tht
n do not let in the full sunlight. You pa!
> them every day in your streets withor
= any recognition. Grub street, where man
y of the mighty men of the past suffered,
!, long enough to reach around the worlt
- No need of wasting our sympathy upo
y the unappreciated thinkers and workers
= the past, though Linn@us sold his worl
for single ducat, though Noah Webster
spelling book yielded him more than h
dictionary though Correggio, the gre'
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