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THE DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1885
TANITY HARPWARE.
By ALAN UUIR. :. V-.
CTTRODTJCTORY.
fAlflTT.
I hare lived In the village of Hampton as
child, boy and man for nearly 70 yearn. If yon
were to start from Exeter and travel north
ward say a matter of 50 miles, and were then
to look around, you would see a circle of pleas
ant bills, afar the spires and tlie smoke of a
city, and at hand a large well-to-do village.
That village is Hampton, my native place.
Supposing the month July, and the time 10
o'clock of a sunshiny morning, you might
also gee a shabby genteel old fellow, with
white hair, a stoop, good strong shoulders,
five feet eight inches from the beginning to
the end of him, leaning on a sixpenny oak
tick, and altogether giving you the impres
sion of a man eking out a not uncomfortable
existence on something like a pound a week.
You might be interested enough to ask some
passer-by who the old gentleman might be,
shuffling along for bis morning air and sun
shine. The answer would be, "Dr. Book."
The shabby genteel old fellow would be my
self. I kept a small chemist's shop in Hampton
for many years, and the inhabitants called
me "doctor." Doctor is that doctor does,
and I have cured half the village, first and
last; but I tell you plainly that I never wrote
M. R. C. 8. or F. C. P. or any such rubbish
after my plain John Book. Ah, dear friends,
if might surprise you were I to tell all that
has happened in Hampton during my time,
our population, you observe, being a matter
of two thousand, more or less. There has
.been a deal of wickedness many an aching
heart, many a scalding tear, many a cruel
deed few and simple folk though we soem.
But why should I recaQ, anything of the sort,
when aU my present concern is to describe
the way the story here following came to be
written? Our squire's daughter, as pleasant
spoken a young lady as you could meet,
writes novels, so lam told; and one day,
knowing her well, I ventured to say to her:
"You don't spend much of the year in
Hampton, missf
"No; Hampton is dull, doctor. Besides"
this she said with a laugh and a bit of a
blush "you see, I like to see life. There is
life in London, in Paris, in Madrid, but not
in Hampton."
"No?" Isold.
"Not a bit," she replied. "All is quiet and
regular here, and people sleep and wake as
quietly as a butterfly opening and closing its
wings as it basks in the sunshine."
Now, well I knew what the young lady
meant by "life," and why she wanted to see
"life."
"See here, miss," said I, pointing across to
the churchyard; "there is a matter of two
or three acres of green grass there, thin as a
carpe' If you could just roll that green
coverku aside, and read the hearts that are
going back to dust there so quietly, you
would find enough life, as you call it, to
keep a Mr. Shakespeare busy for a score of
years." .
"Ah, doctor," she said, pleasantly; "but
you and I don't mean the same thing when
we talk about life."
"Perhaps not, miss," said L
For all that, when I told her I had written
a sort of novel out of my own observation,
how pleased she was, and how kind of her to
read it, striking out one word, writing in
another, sometimes making a sentence or two
out of her own head. How gay my dull old
parlor looked, with that young lady sitting
at the table, quill in hand, touching her lip
with the feather while she thought things
over!
"Now, that's pretty I" she exclaimed one
morning, as she had put in a line of her own.
"Is it not pretty, doctorr
"Well, miss," I answered, "there's some
thing pretty about somewhere."
And so the novel was made ready for
print. Fancy old Dr. Book in print old Dr.
Book, with corrections and additions by a
beautiful young lady who talks French and
Italian, and was not bom for years after he
had marked his first gray hair I
So here is the whole story, from first to
last, by Dr. Book, revised and corrected by
Miss Millicent Hervey. Whatever in the
writing is plain, straightforward,unadorned,
useful for the purpose, just like a gray home
spun sock that keeps a man's leg warm, by
Dr. Book; whatever is dainty, pretty, catch
ing, elegant, like a ,silk stocking on a pretty
foot, by Miss Millicent Hervey. If there's
any vulgarity, you observe, that' nte. AU
the fireside language and wayside language
by Dr. Book; the dictionary department un
der the sole management of Miss Millicent
Hervey. But while I ramble on like this the
story waits.
PAKT THE FIRST.
CHAPTER I.
IK WHICH WE CRT TO OUR NOVEL, "OPEN,
SESAME!"
lifc.lLlNU hnll-way down tha
pe of or.o of cur low hills
itficdi a small farm-house,
which in my memory lay va
cant lor many yam.
I often or d ?re 1 how it came to pass that
the house lay empty so long that it began to
tall into decay. But decay was the word.
Sometimes a roving boy, seeing nobody
'I watt all nin down, and Hood's 8nr
gaimrilla proved Just the medicine I
needed," writes
Take It now.
hundreds of people.
about, would shy a (too and smash a' win
dow; r half a toaen would play Aunt Sally
with the red chimney sot, or rush and scuffle
about in the little garden. And in the grow,
ing weather the weeds came up around the
door, and the moss would quietly steal into
crevices of walls and roof. And in the win
ter rein would beat in the windows aforesaid,
or the snow would melt on the roof and drip
through, carrying the ceiling down and leav
ing the skeleton of the house with no flesh on
its bones. So garden and house, windows
and ceilings were all going to the bad to
gether, and at last we called the place Tum
bledown Farm; and we used to say that even
toe rats knew better than to live in Tumble
down Farm. .
One day, however, my boy, who was up to
his eyes in gossip, came rushing in, basket in
hand, and called out, "The farm's taken!"
"Tumbledown FarmP I said. "Never!"
'Tve seen the people." cries he; "an old
fellow in a nightcap and spectacles hooray I
and a young lady in. Ob, my!"
"No more than two in family, fJoor l
asked.
"Only two," he replied. "And to see him!
Hcorayl And to see her Oh, my I
"Heard the name, Bob?"
"Hardware."
"And have you heard anything else,
Bob?''
"Nothing else, sir."
"Bob," said L "what business is this of
yours? Attend to your duties and deliver
your medicines. Can I ever teach you to
think about your work and leave other peo
ple alone? Bob," I said, "you will never
rise. But if your profession was anything
sinful, you would take to it, and work your
way up."
(For, yon see, the boy was an orphan; so I
used to talk to him like a father, and bear
him his catechism on Sunday afternoon
besides.)
Mysterious tenants these new comers
turned out As for the old man, he scarcely
ever went outside his little garden, and all
we knew about him amounted to this: lw
was tall, decrepit, with a long white bear"!
and heavy spectacles, and seemed in wretchod
health. But his daughter came into tlie vil
lage almost every day, and soon became a
well known character.
She was a striking young woman. From
what I afterward learned her age can hardly
have been more than twenty-two, but she
looked six years older. Her figure was that
of one in the fullness of womanhood, her bust
the most shapely I ever saw, and her neck
and head wonderfully graceful. She was
mindful of the beauty of her figure, and wore
her shawl cleverly so as to sec herself off;
and she knew that she hod a pretty pair of
feet, and let other people know it, too. Her
step was quicK, and her carriage lively and
alert. She had the whitest skin possible, a
handsome face, boldly cut, and two dark
eyes easier noticed than forgotten. No doubt
you will say this catalogue would set up half
a dozen women in the beauty business, and if
I were painting a heroine I might be satisfied
with something less; but I soberly assure
you that time after time, when she went by
my store, I have said to myself, "I have seen
a handsome duchess, and a score of handsome
dairy maids; but, duchess or dairy maid,
your like I never saw. And how is it, miss
or ma'am," I would think, "that, living iu
that shabby home, you can afford to wear
boots as spruce and new as if those feet of
yours were shoemaker's patterns set out in a
shop window!"
Remember, I admired this young woman's
appearance, and that was aU. Something in
her manner gave me a turn against her.
There was wickedness in her eyes 1 express
myself awkwardly, but my way of putting
it is this: her eyes seemed such that, when
you looked into 0iem, your own were fas
tened for a moment, and in withdrawing
your glance you seemed to draw the wicked
eyes after you. Not that she tried any arte
on me, gray-beard as I was; but I could see
how she laid herself out. to fascinate others,
and succeeded. Upon consideration, I put
her down for an actress. Evidently she had
been at some work that had made her easy
and familiar, and had nibbed the blushes off
her cheeks. Perhaps she never crossed the
line that divided propriety from impropriety,
but she was pretty well used to skating close
to the thin ice, if I may so speak.
Our rector, who made a point of calling on
every new parishioner, poor or rich, very
soon found his way to Tumbledown Farm.
Rector, a gentleman born, never asked im
pertinent questions, but had such a knack of
extracting information that, without any ap
pearance of curiosity, he would find out all
about a man from his own lips, too. In
this case, however, he came home as wise as
he went, and no wiser. It had slipped out
through the postmaster, I believe that the
new comer's name was Hardware; and
when, by way of commencing a conversation
about them, I asked the rector one morning
who they were, all he could tell me was the
name, which I knew already. I said all;
but he had one bit of news.
"The young woman is his daughter, I sup
pose?" I said.
"She is; he calls her Vanity," replied the
rector.
"Whatf cried I. '
"Vanity."
"Strangest name for a Christian I ever
heard," I remarked. "Miss Vanity Hard
waresounds odd enough. Well, Vanity is
lhat Vanity does."
Somehow I am fond of that phrase, and
often use it.
The rector looked a little sharp at me; he
always frowned at the smallest beginnings of
what in his sermons he used to coll evil speak
ing, and I instantly saw I must hold my
tongue. But that name, "Vanity Hard
ware," kept ringing in my ears, and made
me more curious than ever to know some
thing of the young woman who bore it.
"Bide your time, John Book," said I to my
self. ''Everything will come to light if you
wait long enough." And I was right.
Once or twice Mr. Hardware was seen in
the village. He was very infirm, and used
to drive down in Jupp's fly, which was as
much an institution in our village as the
parish church, both structures being about
the same age. Hardware was tall, and looked
venerable. He wore a brown cap with lap
pets over the ears and a long blue cloak with
a cape fastened at the neck by a little brass
chain and catch the oddest I ever saw. His
hair you could scarcely see, but his beard was
long and white; and his shoes were large,
with knobs on the toes, which caught my eye
as from my window I watched him lumber
ing out of the carriage.
"Bunions," said I.
He could hardly rise m his seat, falling
back twice, and helped out at last by his
daughter an Jt the cabman.
"Lumbago," said I again.
Then he was seized by a coughing fit that
nearly shook him to pieces.
"Asthma," cried I the third time. "I
should say your physic, inside and out,
would eost you five shillings a week sup
posing you were good for that much money."
Almost immediately after the father and
daughter crossed over the street and entered
my shop, he supporting himself on her arm,
and leaning heavily on his stick beside. He
fell into a chair with a great sigh of relief,
and Miss Vanity came to the counter and
made two or three purchases, the old man
wheezing and mumbling to himself all the
time. I wondered if his mind was all right;
ns to his body, that was the most striking
imago of decrepitude I ever beheld.
"Their strength is but labor ana sorrow,"
Oeorsre ComDbell, Hopkinsville, Ky
says: "Burdock Blood Bitters is the best
preparation for the blood and stomach
think L "Hay the Lord take me before my
Joints are stutr ' s
In mr little card an there was a blossomr.
sweet-smelling rose, which grew close beside
a gnarled, withered, Jder-baab: Do yon
know," Miss Vanity, dressy and handsome
and young, standing beside this grumbling
Antiquity, made me think of the rote anil
tbeelderl " ' 7 ' "
Now begins the story proper. Just, as I
M thinking! tt the row and the elder,
voting fellow, wIhhb I dearly loved, nauied
Willie Snow, stepped into my shop. He
wanted sixpenny worth of spirits of wine in
haste; so, with one of his easy, pleasant nods,
he asked Miss Vanity to allow him to be
served before her, upon which she drew aside.
While I was measuring out the spirit they
thought old gray-hair saw nothing; but "Oho,
my lass or my lady H thinks I; for I marked
her watching him while be stood leaning
carelessly against the counter, as taking a
young fellow as one would meet in a day's
walk. There came over ber face the loon l
spoke of before, as if she would snare him, or
try to snare him, when she got a chance. She
got the chance soon; foe as Willio put the
vial in his pocket, he turned to thank her.
She smiled, showing a set of fine white teeth,
and, having fixed her dark eyes upon him
just for an instant, withdrew her gaze in
affected confusion. How those tell-tale eyes
sunk down beneath their long dark lashes
with an air of tender modesty that might
melt any man's heart!
"Well done. Miss Vanity!" thinks L "Nxt
to being bashful, the prettiest thing iu a
pretty woman is to seem so." .
But Willie, being not ball my age, could
not be expected to tako the thing in this cool
way. A light flashed in his soft grsy eyes,
surprise and pleasure mixing their lays, and
the color deepened on his cheek. He hesitated.
"Good good morning," said he, with
stammering lips. "Thank y ou I"
Vanity raised ber downcast eyes, and
when their looks met her face kindled into a
smile, the sweetest in the world.
"You are very welcome."
Only four words, mark you. But how
charming she looked! A thousand soft and
winning beams played over her face, her
voice had a melancholy ring, and her eyes
drooped to the ground again. Actress ac
tress, from her pretty cheek to her heart's
core!
Willie seemed struck and dazed; he passed
out silently and she turned to mo again. No
more lifting and dropping of the eyes, I
promise you. Sixty years of age, and an old
coat sprinkled with snuff, guard one against
these tricks. And when I, in my stupid way,
counted thirteeupence-half penny and six
pence and one-and-ninepence to be three-and-flvepence
halfpenny
"Three-and-orpence-halfpenny," cried
she, with a sharp shake of the head and eyes
as cold as steel.
"I beg your pardon," said I. Then to my
self I went on: "Love or money, it's all the
same to you, my lady sharp's the word I"
The old man hobbled out to the cab again,
dragging at his daughter's arm. I must say
she seemed kind to him. He managed to get
must say she seemed kind to him.
seated, and the carriage door was fastened
up with a bit of string. The handle had
dropped off a year before, and had never
been replaced, inconsequence, Jupp explained
to his customers, of the iron trade in the
north being choked with foreign orders. So
crazy old carriage and crazy old gentleman
went off together, creaking and groaning,
jolting and ejaculating. And I here declare
to you that though i disliked that young
woman and despised her artful ways, yet
when she was gone out of the shop I sud
denly discovered that a certain thing in my
breast, which I bad believed to be dead as a
cinder twenty years ago, was hot and lively,
just like a young coal new kindled.
CHAPTER IL
PORTRAIT OF A VIRTUOUS AND MODEST
YOUNG MAN.
Willie Snow, taking him all around, was
ineofthe finest young men I ever knew.
'When he was only 15 his father, a bank clerk,
died suddenly, leaving behind him a widow,
one son, and 70 pounds a year. Mrs. Snow
lived decently on her income and gave her
son a good education; and in due time he got
a situation at an iron worker's in the city,
where he rapidly rose in the esteem of his
employers, being clever with head and hand,
and well conducted. Willie had been a good
son, and when, a year before this time, his
mother died of pleurisy, he showed remark
able sorrow, and, indeed, did not pick
up his spirits for many months. He
was now in an excellent position.
Every one who knew the con
cern in which he was employed declared that
Willie Snow must be a junior partner before
long the business could not get on without
him. In addition to all this, he was good
looking. Handsome is scarcely the word to
use; for, applied to a man, it denotes a style
rather mote masculine than his. Without
being the least womanish, there was an inde
scribable delicacy in Willie's face which pre
pared yort for an address the most engaging
in the wo ld. his eyes were clear gray; ms
hair dark, and thrown across his left temple
in becoming irregularity; he was tall, but
not too tall; and a particular melancholy in
hisexpression made his Kind, fraDk smile very
pleasant to see. You may laugh at old Dr.
Book banging over his portrait, but I loved
the lad every one loved the lad.
The girls especially. A more heart break
ing fellow you could not find in all the west
of England; and he broke hearts, for one
reason, just because he never tried. His
"howdVoudo" was always cheerful; and.
perhaps without intending it, when he saluted
young women he let an unusual softness
slant out in the odd sidelong look it was his
habit to give. However that may have been.
he won the girls' affections everywhere; and
if I were to count up the one-sided love affairs
in which he was the hero he who never
troubled his head about love I should not
find the fingers of two pairs of hands sufficient
for the purpose. Willie had been a favorite of
mine as child and boy ; and now, though he had
reached the age when young men are apt to
foreet early friends, he-kept up an unbroken
kintimacy with me, and I knew all the ins and
outs of his life.
Have I said he did not trouble his head
about love? I ought to qualify that state
ment; far just now he was on the point of
Attorney General Garland decides
that the cattlemen of Indain Territory
must go, as neither 'the President nor
Interior Department has a right to
being engaged, and a tery prudent choice he
was about to Banker ' There" w p young ,
woman, any orphan like Mi elf, and good
looking, gittog (it is tras) a premise of tam
ing eat rather bony when the phnnpnnsf of,
fouth wore off. - Her manners were pi mm sit.
hough people said that the less she knew of
rem the more she seemed to like yon, and
or ways with -smot Manns mmi sela
Hons were ungracious, Bat she was a thrifty
managing girl, and had small fortune of '
ber own, which already, by her prudence and
ood sense, had begun to roll over and in
ixease like a great saowbaiL as Ja money's
way when one knows how to deal with it.
rhis Miss Nancy Steele, of her own free will,
fell desperately m love with Willie, and
let him know it cleverly, for she was
dever in all things, . I was not quite
re that he loved ber back again. And .
whether be felt flattered at the conquest, or
was too good-natured to repel such an ad
vance, or whether motives of prudence
weighed with the lad, I need not inquire,
rhe upshot was that affairs between the two
were plainly nearing that point where the
measure of the young woman's finger is
taken. Nancy showed her feelings of triumph
by tightening her lips into a smile that told
of a strong will rejoicing in its own success;
the other girls began to flag, seeing that the
race was already won; and Willie went his
wmmon round, easy? good-natured, and as
taking as ever. Only the final word had not
been spoken. The fish had nibbled, was
hooked, and Miss Nancy was just gathering
her wrist to swish him on to the land. At
that point their love story halts for the
present.
The evening of the day upon which Willie
met Miss Vanity Hardware in my shop he
looked in to see me. Something was on that
young man's mind that he was afraid to
mention, and be kept talking about a score
of matters in which be was not the least in
terested. But he felt interested in some
thing, and deeply, too, for his cheek showed
an unusual flush, and he was restless, sitting
down, rising up, opening and shutting books,
but never looking himself for a moment
At last the secret came out.
"Singular old man I saw in your shop this
morning."
"You thought sor I replied, resolved to
give him no help.
"lhat young woman is bis daugnter, I
suppose r'
"bo I understand."
Nothing more for a moment or two.
"He is the most singular looking person I
ever saw," said Willie, appearing prodigiously
interested in the old man. "guite a curiosity."
"You thought sor' I remarked again.
"A total stranger in Hampton, of course?"
Willie went on.
"He did not say he hod ever been here
before."
The boy looked nonplussed, but soon took
courage.
"What is his name?" he asked.
"Hardware."
"What an extraordinary name! "And where
does he live?"
"In the old farm up hill."
"Well," said Willie, rising to leave, "he is
a remarkable looking man, and I confess I
felt curious to know something about him."
"Quite right, Will," replied 1. "Better be
curious about old men than about young
women. You saw nothing striking in the
iiaughter?" did you.
He took me to be serious, speaking as I did
n my dry way.
Pretty sort of girl," be said, wltn moke-
ilelieve indifference. "A very tolerable girl
indeed."
I call her a woman full grown," said I,
emphatically. "Knows more than nine men
out of ten, I'll be bound."
But Willie did not seem to hear me; he left
the shop without another word.
From this time forward, whenever he came
to see me, his talk was about the Hardwares,
and nothing else, except when he branched
off on the neighboring subject, Nancy Steele.
Willie told me, in one form or another, a
considerable portion of the story I am going
to repeat to you; and all I have to do is to
keep the events and conversations in their
proper order, which (as I am writing second
hand, and not from my own observation) V
not so easv as it may seem to those who have
never tried to reproduce a long narrative
which they heard from another, and that
years ago.
A few days after, as Willie was going home
to bis dinner, he met Miss Vanity walking
at her usual active pace, and looking as hand
some as ever, and (ought l.to say it?) as
brazen. The pair might have changed sexes
for a moment; the young man blushed like a
girl fallen in love for the hrst tune; the young
woman preserved her easy, rakish air, like a
man pretty well used to love and its etceteras.
Willie would have given a ten-pound note
for any decent pretext under which he might
have spoken to her. As a matter of fact, be
stole only one sly glance in passing. Poor boy !
he was dressing her in all the tenderness and
modesty of his own passion, blind to what
every one else could see. I dare say if he
had gone straight up to her and patted her
on the cheek sue would nave laughed and
thought him a pleasant young fellow.
It was by no means easy to climb the fence
of mystery that shut the Hardwares from
public view. You, perhaps, are used to a
large town, and know nothing of life in a
country village; but l assure you where two
thousand people live in a neighborhood, every
body knowing everything about everybody
else, if all of a sudden two strangers of strik
ing appearance come there and make their
abode in an out-of-the-way house, and' go on
from week to week paying their bills and
living respectably, but never giving the
smallest account of themselves under ctr
cum (lances like these, elderly ladies of in
quisitive disposition, whose chief amusement
in life is to watch their neighbors through
the parlor blind, are apt to get as excited as
gamblers when play is deep. ,
One of these excellent ladies, named Miss
Axford, was especially anxious to discover
everything about the Hardwares. Though
nearly 80 years of age she was still sharp and
active, with a palate for spiced gossip.
Morning by morning she went the round of
the village, hearing all she could, telling aU
she could with uplifted hands and eyes that
now and then offered to leap from their
sockets. She carried an old red satchel hung
over her arm by a steel chain scandal
satchel I called it; and wherever she and her
bag went, names and fames were in danger.
Miss Axford, as I have said, ran crazy about
the Hardware! Once every week she would
call in upon me.
"Have you heard anything yet, Dr.
Book?"
"About what, ma'am r I would say, know-
ins quite well all the time.
"About those people in the furm on the
hill."
"Not a word, ma'am, no more than if they
were ghosts."
"I expect you to be able to tell me news,"
she would say sharply. She had a bold on
me, her quarter's account running from
three pounds fo three pounds ton, for she
doctored the poor or thought she did, rather.
Generally her medicines were thrown out of
the back window as soon as' she herself went
out of the front door.
"When I hear anything, ma'am," my re-
civ would be, "you shall know it at once.
But one day she looked in, fluttering with
excitement.
"I have heard some news at last," she
cried.
"What may it be, ma'am?"
fTO BB COHTIUCBp.'
Tlie penitentiary expenses ..for the
past fiscal year exceeded the recipts
by. $13,004.32.
Clow confinement is at all times nn
deelrabl; but most especially is 1 so in
a roora that has been . freshly tainted
amid fhe fumes of the lead and oil and
other an healthy odors that proceed from
the painter's brush and poU Patrick Q.
Moloney, of Washington, D. C, writes,
that be contracted painter's colic in a
parlor, which b was painting, and was
cured by Mishler's Herb Bitters. For
cramps, colic, indigestion or complaints
of the bowels, liver and kidneys, it is in
fallible.
CAMPBELL & VAN CAM PEN,
Attorney e-At-Law,
NAPOLEON, ... OHIO.
Pp-Abstracta and Opinions cffTitle s Specialty.
R. V. CAHILL,
Attorney-at-Law. Napoleon, Ohio.
NAPOLEON. OHIO.
0
.fflcein ProsecmtinrA.tiorney-somosin theOowrt
Home. J"i
STEPHiNSON. MABTIN KNCPP.
STEPHENSON & KNUPP.
Attorneys and Connselors-aUliaw,
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FFICE in Vocke't Block, Snd Flocr, po!on,
Ohio.
F. M. RUMMELL,
Attorney-at-Law
AMD Real Estate Agent. Otfix Hahn Meyer
bnllding, (second etory), Napoleon, O. All bus-
Ineeseutruatedto hi car will o promptly al
tendedto. decl8-78.
A. L. LESSICK,
Attorney - at - Law.
Office room T, Vooke Block, Napoleon, Ohio.
mchl7-'81tf
H. M. WISLER,
Attorney -at-Law, Napoleon, Ohio,
OFFICE in Humphrey Block,
aug 14--M
E. A. PALMER,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
NAPOLEON, O.
Also Attorney for Pensions, Bounty, oaca pay,
etc. CollectionsDromntly'attended to. Omce
ap stairs Vocke Block fronting Perry Street.
. M. HA AO. J. P. BAG AN
HAAG fc RAG AN,
Attorneys-at-Law, Napoleon, Ohio.
ROOMS No. 6 A , Vocke Block. Will practlcein
North Western courts and United State! courts.
BnalnesswlllreceiTepromptattenuoB. Aprlls-tHI
. S. M. HAGUE,
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law,
5 NAPOLEON, OHIO.
I7111practlcetbelawin allita branches, In Henry
T T ana neignoormg oounue.,
Real estate law and
Abstract, ot Title
a apecialty.
Office in Shoner
Block, Perry Street
justice of the exce.
PETER PUNCHES,
Notary) Public and General Collecting
Agent,
HAMLER, OHIO. ,
Deeds, Mortgages and contracts orawu. aii
business promptly attended to.
PHILIP C. SCHWAB,
Justice of the Peace,
PLEA8ANT township, Henry county, Ohio.
New BarariaP.O.
W. A. TRESSLER,
Justice of the Peace,
1 ND GENERAL COLLEUTINU AoJKPfT.
A fnee over Frease'e store. Washington atreet, op
posite Court House, Napoleon, uuio.
juay lu-sm.
JOSEPH WEIBLE,
Notary Public and InsurancelAgeut
FLORIDA, OHIO.
TMEn Mnrtsacea and Contracts drawn. Agent
J for the old and reliable Phoenix Ins. Co., of
Hertford. and also aeent for the People's Mutual
Benefit Association, of WestervUle,Ohio. A 11 busi
ness promptly attended to.
II. S. VVEBSl'EB,
Justice of the Peace,
Damascus Tp Henry County, O.
Collections Promptly Attended To.
Post Office, McClure.
ghgsiciaus.
MRS. H. H. SHEFFIELD,
HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
NAPOLEON, O.
Office, at residence, comer of Clinton street ana
H.i. . Will attend to calls' In town ot
country. Office hours, 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. anu
7 to 9 p. m.
J. BLOOMFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon, Napoleon,
men 4, 7a.
E. B. HARRISON,
Physician and Surgeon, Napoleon, O.
SUFFICE orerSanr's drng atore
Office hours
tO 9 A. M.
12 tolP. M. jndto7 r at.
Nov872-ly
MRS. P. A. SAUR,
Physician and Surgeon, Napoleon, O.
WILL attend calls in town or country. Office ai
Saur's drug Store. jan ii, 7S
DR. J. S. HALY,
Physician and Surgeon, Napoleon, O.
VTTILL attend to calls in town and country . Office
VV at bis residence on Clinton Street, jly 1,1880
DR. A. E. MAERKER,
Phvsioian and Surgeon, Napoleon, O.
OFFICE over Lelst's Drug Store.
JulylS-tf.
GEO. W. VALENTINE,
Fashionable Barber and Hair Dresser.
R'
OOM west aide of Perry street, Napoleon, p.
jau in, io
PHILIP WEBB, .
Barber and Hrlr Dresser,
OPPOSITE Bltzar'a block, Perry St., Napoleon,
J O. Patronage aouoitea ana guvu jt g
A. C. JOHNSON,
Stylish Barber and Hair, Cutter.
QPEcIAL attention paid to Hair Dressing and
O Shampooing. Room on w """'""j gJ-
DENTISTRY.
A.. S- O O JST 13 1 T,
I Successor to W . H .8t ilwell.J
DENTIST.
OffleeoTarReader'sBootand Shot tore. All
operationspartainlngto Dentistry carefully per
orated. Laoghins as, administered for the
nn nassxtracuonoiteeiu. nu H.H..I...U.
sttHExmlbrB d witbqvtpaix
NaDOleon.OblO.UCt.l.io. i
R.:M'CASKYJ
Dealer; in HEAL ESTATE.
Tanci and wild ln4 for sale cheap A spaa of
load li) Sraft hern tor sale. Tub fives with
rood acuity. Also breeder la the SawM iHim of
ihort kora aod alga fraoa cattle tad PoWad China
Hog. Stock for ail. aplll-U
J. 33. MESS,
NEW BAVARIA, OHIO,
PLANS AND 8PECIEICATIOKS A SPECIALTY.
PD.14,1SM.
JOHN DIEMEP,
Proprietor of
Napoleon Meat Market,
KI oonatantW on hand the choice.! Beef, Pork,
Veal, Mutton, Ilaru. mhI Shoulder., gait Pork,
s savirirlat caltle, hoga
sheep, hides and pelts for tale should ft va hi ma
call.
Bhop, Dieoier'f Blw. n Miirt.
FKED YACK.EE 'S
Boot and Shoe Shop!
Perry St., north of Canal Bridge.
All kinds of Bocta anil KIiom .....r. 1
order In the neatest and moat aubstanUal manner on
short notice
aw-Bvpairing promptly attended to. oct 23-tf
s. Jul. h;owick.
Merchant Tailor.
Napoleon, Ohio, Perry atreet, Cary's new block.
Parties wishing neat fitting autt of clothe, will do
well to call on me. By .electing from my Tery
,5?n,, Tef BM llne ' Plec goods yon will have
no difficulty in finding auch mwula - nn
aire. E-SaUafactlon eivim in v r.!,i..
iepM4-79M S.M.BONICKi'
Fulton Meat Market.
POHLMAN BROS., PROP'S.
Washington St., Humphrey's Block.
WE have one of the finest meat market in this
section, and will alwava kwn nn hi
meats of all kinds, and w ill pay the highest, cash
Pi mr uiw, nogs, soeep, calves, poultry, hldea
and pelts. Farmers having any of Ibei-e to sell will
do well to call onus. The public is rcxpectf ally In
vited to call snd give us a trial. We will guarantee
satisfaction. P0HLMANBHO8.
Sash and Blind Factory
AND
PLANING MILL.
Thiesen, Hildred & Co. Proprieters.
Take pleasure in announcing to the public and all in
uccu ui .ii; muig in me w ay or Building material
that they are now prepared to inrnirh them with
lumber lor bulldina DuitioceK. from thM ornimri f.
the roof. W keen constantly on band
COMiCMIllilR
i i
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Casing, Sidings, Shin- sr-
gles, Floorings, Finished Lum
ber, Rough Lumber,
and sverv kind of lumber reanlrrd for a hnilfiitto
Custom work done on short notice . Poplar, walnut.
wnitewooa. asnana oak lumber bought and sold.
Janl78-tf THIESEN, HILDRED 4 CO.
F. F. SHONER,
DEALER IN
Saddles,
Harness,
- BRIDLES,
Halters, Whips, Etc.
REPAIRING DONE
on ehortnotice. We areaelllngonrstockcheap.and
invite a call from all needing anything in our line,
AuworKwarraniearogiveeatisxaction.
Shop on Perry street,
Next DoortoL'arj-'sNew Block; Z
Deo. 14.
NEW BOOM !
AND
Mew Gocds.
Respectfully inform the citizens of Napoleon and
Henry county tnattneyarenow occupying their new
room, In the brick block erected upon the ruins of
their old stand, where they invite all their old custom
ers, and aa many new ones as wish to come, to call snd
seethem. Our stock is
MEYERHOLTZ
BROS
Entirely New 1 "
and comprises
Groceries, Provisions,
Queens & Glassware,
and in fact everything found in a flret-cliss grocery.
w e intcna to Keep congrsntiy on nana a ran sioca
of goods In our line, and invite a share of the public
yatronsge.
CASH PAID FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE
Brick and Tile !
We also manufacture a superior quality of brick
and tile, which are sold at the low est pric es. Parties
intending bnilding or ditching should give as s call,
examine our stock and get prices.
MEYERHOLTZ A BRO.,
Napoleon, Ohio.
Confectionery and Bakery
GEO. IP, OTJUIDES
Confectioner! & Baker, .
WOULD respectfully oall attention to his super
ior quality of
Ice Cream, made from Pure
Cream.
Sold by the dish, quart or quantity. Fresh Confec
tionery, Bread, Cakes etc., always on hand. Lunch
served up on short notice and reasonable price.
GEO. F. CUBDBS.
East of Engine House, Napoleon, O.
(Claims a specialty. Warrants, and ADDI-
TIONAL HOMESTEAD CERTIF1
CATE8 and all kinds of LAND BCBIP
' 1 1 ..u miantiuTtrrt tfu.
DO ll Kill, DU SJUIU Dl or JjI'IJIj X ' J2iflm
TRIES, LAND, PATENT and PENSION oases at
tended to. Correspondence solicited. A. A:
Thomas, Attorney at Law. Room 26
St. Cloud Bld'g, WasMneton. U -r
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE
lunnTiiuirefti
; Only $1.50 Per Year.
ever manuracturea-"
grant the leases.