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3 .... j - j -a i . : f n s 1 1 ' jfe ; ? i : I 'i! ! i II !' ill It!, .1 I t ! -in I'Jlfi si 1 1 IM t i ( i f ... ) : s I - 1 DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST, NAPOLEON, P., JANUARY 28, 1897. THE MIRK OF VBDNH. Iy PZBCY BESSELL. ' Copyright, l. bj tin Antltor.J CHAPTER I. ' It was a atrauge aud singularly im pressive KCDO. AH tbo houses of the very anciout Dravidian villago were il luminated more or less by earthen Tea sell containing oil nod wick. Not only did these lights bring oat iiito relief gainst the growing darkness the out lines of the various buildings, bat they had been placed, with tbut patient, painstaking and indifference to individ ual labor peculiar to Asia, in the clefts of trees. They lighted up the great ban yan tree, the special pride of this Tamil or Oravidian region, for it was a tree of more than 1,000 trunks, sent dowi from the enormous branches, covering acres aud forming a sort of natural syl van temple, and they were to be seen glowing amid the frngraut flowers of its tamarinds that shaded tho bungalow of Sahib Karney, tho indigo planter, and some of theso lamps were even shin ing out starliko from the distant hill tops and shedding a fitful light over the dull bluish green and pale red flowers of his indigo plantation. Far on the right, too, the lamps brought into strong relief the stately gopnrams, or towers, at the cntranco of a teniplo, all covered with strange and grotesquo figures, and presently came a burst of fireworks, fol lowed by another aud another, which for an instant brought ns tbo whole landscape into clear view, showing here and there natives in their picturesque whito dresses, and then fading abruptly into gloom, lighted only by tho many twinkling starlike lamps. In a word, it was the depavali, or feast of light, and it had brought many strangers into Tirrnanialli, which, though but an in sigi.iEcant speck on even the trigono metrical survey of India, was in its own estimation a place of infinite im portauce, boasting some of the grandest and holiest of temples and the most de vout worshipers in all southern India. In the veranda, smoking and reclin ing on low cans sofaliko ohairs, were two Europeans Charles Karney and David Ross, his partner. "Doyoukuow, Koss," said tho for mer, "I'm sorry I let my sister goon this foolish errand. I had no idea this feast was due or that it would bring in such a swarm of fanotics." The speaker was a man of about 80, with a narrow, upright forehead, a straight lined mouth aud a general as pect of arithmetic and business in every lineament. "Foolish errand!" replied his part ner. "Would you be quite prepared to say as much to Miss Lilian herself?" Boss was a groat contrast to his com panion, with his broad, open, genial countenance, warm, expressive eyos, and good tempered mouth and chin. "I don't know," rejoined Karney, smiling coldly, "but it's foolish all tho same. Hero am I toiling in this beastly climate, to say nothing of the visitation to the boiler bouHO, where we beat op the indigo, while she dispenses the product among some of the biggost ras cals and greatest wretches in the uni verse." "Some cf the products," corrected tho other. "Don't exaggerate, whatever yon do." i ' 'Too muoh, anyhow, " was the renlv. And Karney wont ou: "I can't divine now all this folly began. Why should not uuian do nice other young ladies in this place? What ore the people to her or sue to tiiem y oss smoked on without replying. He looked rather fixedly at his friend nnd partner, but said nothing. After awhile. however, he asked, "Of course, she did hoi go oione?" " Oh, no. Nasi ban went with her. ' i Koss struck the table at his elbow and made tho glasses on it rattle, and then in an ordinary tone asked, "And wnere is it, pray, and for how long?" ' "Oil if'o 4-n tl . I. :t.l- i i "Tnaro rlgUl." observed Karney. "Now be a sensible fellow. When you joined Die, yon told me you wanted money, and I tork yon Into the concern because I knew you understood how to vat, ferment and run off the stuff. Ton certainly never said you wanted to turn missionary and preach to the scum of this benighted place like my misguided sister. Scum, indeed! Do you think men like that Brahman, Prohrada, who call ed on ns yesterday are likely to be con- Tcrtod?" And Karney fell back on hii couch and laughed a little, low laugh. 'Oh, it's only to that horrible bud hi beyond the hillthere, where yon see mose tnree confounded heathen lights. She's been making a fuss about want ing to see her ustnrdin's faceher teacher, yon know and sent a message that sho could not die happy unless the mem sahib went up. Why, n)y dear fel low, what's tho matter with you to night? There's nothing to make a both er about. When Lilian is hero, she does nothing but fuss about grace and prayer and doctrines until I'm sick of the very name of religion." "It were well if you and I had a lit tle of her goodness. But haven't you heard the news yet?" j "What news?" I "Why, simply this: Some of the lead ing Hindoos have held what they call a dhar in Sofar and have been- discussing how they can best get rid of all this obnoxious teaching. Haven't yon heard that one had boldly said that no matter What happens they must get rid of the mom sahib, and that if a man-was hang ed in such a cause are you listening, Charles Karney? he would be but a martyr. Do you know that your sister believes that one of her converts, Sott iijanadhan, has been poisoned, and yet ood God in the face of all this you Jet your sister go up to that oM woman : on tho hill with no one to protect her better than Nasiban. Charles Karney, I'm ashamed of you!" And Ross sprang np, knocking down tho table, and paced the veranda in a state cf great escite Jment. Karnoy seemed to take this very cool ly. Ho started a littlo when the other rose up so abruptly, but now be only sniiled softly, showing a beautiful sot of white toeth, and inmrmured: "My dear fellow, don't play the royal Ben gal tiger, pray. Don't lusih up-your no ble rage and quarrel with your prosaic and practical partner. What can I do with Biich a sister? Am I to pauperise '.myself and rob yon of your share and place myself within the palo of thacrimi ' nal law because I happen far have a ro mantic, beautiful, fascinating sister, who insists on cairying on literally the gospel? Just think. It'a all Tory fine ta plunge into heroics, but I rather think: you joined me to grow indigo and to prepare that merchantable article iu a profitable way. Eh?" Boss bad cooled down a little. He was impulsive, but he had a dread of ridicule, especially before this exasper ating, cool, calculating man, whom nothing seemed capable of rousing ont of a cold, selfish indifference. He once more sank into his seat and lit a fresh cigar. .. CHAPTER IL Never were brother and sister more un liko, morally and physically, than Lil ian and Charles Karney. Left orphans with equal fortunes, Charles Kuruey had been advised to try indigo planting, and ho induced his sister to accompany him to India, she being desirous to originate a cenana mission and full of tme and genuine enthusiasm for the propagation of Christianity in India. In truth, Charles had behaved with some deception toward his sister, who was as guileless as she was good. He persuaded her to lend him her portion, and there by he had been enabled to procure his plantation, and he for his own part was resolved to make a fortune. To this end ho abandoned all idea of marrying yet awhile, or of amusing himself in the style of most members of his class. He had taken Ross, a cool, clear headed young Scotchman, and his little capital into the concern, in return for some twelfth of tho net profits and a vast amount of special skill that young Ross had somehow acquired in the prepara tion of indigo for markets, the process j being in some respects quite as dehcato and involving as much uninterrupted attention as brewing. When Boss took up his residence ou the plantation, he simply thought at first that Karney was rathor a cold. selfish sort of fellow, who was entirely absorbed in practicing all kinds of econ omies, ana mac nis loveiy sister was a visionary, impracticable aud somewhat eccentric sort of young lady. Sho cer tainly did press her brother on the sub ject of saying "graoe before meat" and would remind him bow his Hindoo neighbors never failed to light np cam phor in the evening before the pictures in their houses of Rama or Krishna and to decorate them with fresh flowers. "And shall we," she would ask, "lot ourselves bo outdono by heathens and idolaters?" Thon there was a continual conflict between brother and sister on the subject of money. Liliau, her broth er declared, was always making de mands on him on account of her pro teges around, and he affirmed that all the beggars, hypocrites and rascals, male and female, of the locality pro tended to listen to her preaching bocanse they knew that by doing so they would be free to her purse. Everybody who has lived in India in timately among the people knows what a curse and scourge dobt is to the mass es. The native of India, it has been apt ly said, is always in debt, and mar riages and funerals alike are terrible sources of pecuniary trouble, and when it was found that the mem sahib at the bungalow of Sahibs Karney and Ross was easily persuaded to aid anyone who would listen to her preaching and re ceive her tracts it was certain that there was some truth in Carney's complaints as to his sister being often victimized by impostors. ji isie, nowever, Ross, who was shrewd enough, had drawn sundry con elusions or n own which were not much to the glory and praise of his partner. He was not nt this period him self what could bo called a religions man. In truth, he was of the type of tne average prudent, moderately clever, steady, temporate, hardworking young man or the day, anxious, like so many more, to make money, and with very vague notions as to what he should do with it when made, but although he did not always agree with Miss Karney's proiession oud practices he had come insensibly under the spell of her influ ence, of her gentleness, her sincerity and unending sympathies, and he folt that wore he her brother it would be difficult indeed to refuso hor aught she asked in the name of charity and Chris tian love. garnered in rotns neia to toe ten side and tbe other end wound round the waist and brought up over the right boulder and down the left side, where, being tucked in, it full down the front in graceful folds. Lilian wore silk somewhat against her inclination, as she wore fine gold bangles on her arms, but she found cer tain advantages in being well dressed. she said, and a facility thence in gain ing tbe ear of those who otherwise might have refused her an audience. The Hindoo woman she was visiting bad long since accepted her as an ustar din, or teacher, and would soon, Lilian believed, benome formally a Christian. On approaching the house, therefore. she was surprised to see outside a young Hindoo female stooping down at tbo threshold and tracing white lines with flour a charm, she well knew, intended to ward off evil. This woman bad smeared her face and such part of her body as was uncovered with a solution of saffron and water to make. herself look "fair." This was one of the super stitious rites from which Lilian had, she imagined, quite weaned her friends. Tho house was built cf sun dried clay bricks, whitewashed with chunam and having inside the entrance the usual room with a pial, or raised alcove, on each sido for receiving visitors. Lilian, followed by Nasiban, went in, tbe Hin doo woman outside simply saying that they could enter. There seemed, Lilian thonght, some thing very strango about the place that day, but sho was anxious to see her friend and hurried to the portion of tho house set apart for females. She went in, and then, inured as she was to much that is trying and startling, she stood for a moment petrified. Before her, on an evi dent bier, in a half sitting posture and covered with bedclothes, she beheld her late pupil with the fatal ground rice and betel showing between her lips, and on her forehead the trident mark of Vishnu. Lilian knew well these secta rlan marks made with sandalwood pasto and used to denote what god is worshiped by the person who bears them. Her face flushed with a righteous indignation. She exclaimed in Tamil, "Who has dared to do this?" and step ping forward took her handkerchief and erasod the symbol of idolatry. Then, taking some of the paste that she per coivca in a jar close by, she made a cross on the brow of the dead woman, in the impulse of that passionate mo ment caraiy minting what she was doing. s While thus engaged a man, treading inaudibly on his shoeless feet and wear ing the sacred thread hanging from his left shoulder to tho right side, stolosoft- And with that word, uttered in an in tensely contemptuous tone, Prohrada left Lilian where tbe stood, for thefitst time in all her experienced missionary work among tbe natives thoroughly un nerved and frightened at she knew not what Returning to tbe bungalow, Lilian had encountered Rosa, He perceived at once that something had happened, and although the was not as a rule given to speak of her own personal adventures, she little by little' communicated the in cident of her encounter with the Brah man. Ron felt and looked serious. "Dear Lilian," he said "let me so address you believe me, I sympathise completely with all you do aud desire, I know how hard you find it to live with your brother, aud I kuow how ut terly single . minded you are, but you must not run into peril, fours is a life too precious to be exposed to danger. Yon must not think that I am given un to worldly care as if life had nothing else. It is not so long since I thonght what can it avail to couvert even a few hundred out of these countless millions? I think and feel differently now. We have individually only individuals to consider, and I bad meant to work and help you, but you must lot me protect you as as your brother would if he were only myself." Koss felt and looked awkward as he got out these words, but Lilian re ceived them in all simplicity, and rightly hold them as sincere, which they were. She gave Ross her band frankly and woloomed him as another helper on her side, and he felt within his secret self that now at all events to touch on the love he felt for this self denying girl so entirely absorbed in others would be a sort of profanity. No, he must work, hope and wait INK WOMAN'S REFORM MOVEMENT. I Jtnkal fesee VUry burnt my jiipe The worl la kin o' gloumj. I've (towmI so thin u peakedllk D7 light iW ihiiM th'oo m. HarT Jo.' nld : Too 're got to quit, it's arch a narxtr hiUtl" An thon aba tuk an burnt my pi pa. , bow I aetchtxl to grab itl Wntaajt Mj pipe my ownt ByJol It'a plain jron don't know Mnry. She burnt it nigh er month ergo, enoa w'ich I ain't had nary Waal, no mora 'n Joa a poS er two Land aakea I Don 't evoi tell ! An a pep'mint lawzcnfer artonrnds T kin o' kill the amulL . Borne day aha'll ketch rna at it, aura. Lord knowa vrut atio'll do to mo I An so I triruble every tUr. Dear ami The outlouX'a (tlooroy. J. h. Beaton in "Tbo uiltintf Boo." CHAPTER III. If ever there was a living embodi ment of sympathy on this earth, it was certainly to be found in Lilian Karney. She sympathizsd up to a certain point With her solfia brothct and made al lowance for him aud his shortcomings Thicb. lio dreamed not of.. Of herself she hardly ovor thought at all, and she was as ' unconscious of her Tjcrsonal ubarms as the nightingale' is of its vo cal sweetness. Sh was irr truth one of those self forgettiaig beings who live mow in the life of those-about them than in thoir own, and she did good so far as her powers permitted without premeditation or effort. When her brother had wondere d how she,, a. ladr refined aud intellectual, eould bring herself to come in contact with the wretched, ignorant beings, old women, hideous and ragged, and often anything but agreeable to tho olfactory sruso, ow- ug to tho ghee wherewith they, were often anointed, she simply looked as tonished, and only aaswored that all she hud ever thonght abou was their souls. In fact, Charles Karuey, who would not have crossed' tho raad to save a native from drowning, except for pub lio opinion, satisfied such conscience as he had by saying that no doubt his sis ter enjoyed what she did. Why, then, should he interfere with her pleasures'? Hor mouoy wa in his factory, and all he had to di wm to tuk? care that ehe drew as littls from him as possible. Accompanied only by Kasiban, vrho generally formed Lilian's bodyguard on these missions of mercy, Lilian was now rapidly traversing some riccfuids, on her way to the Hindoo woman who had expressed so earnest a desire to sea her, and as she presses on it is easy to perceive that she is no common mortal. Lilian was of the middle height, singu larly fair aud delicate of skin, with a somewhat aquiline profile that lost in softness what it suggested in force. Her bair was golden, and her eyes, of warm, .sympathetic brown, reflected the innate kindness of her nature. In order the more readily to obtain admission into the houses of the people Liliau, greatly to her brother's annoyance, had adopt ed the costume of the country to some extent, wearing over her ordinary clothing a silk cloth about 13 yards long and a, yard or two wido, one end OASTOniA. Sit fit- ' to bb continued. Jjiy little bov was taken sick verv Huuaeniy. tlis legs were coia and spotted and his feet and hands in dined to cramp; he would not re- spond when spoken to. I, did not know what was the matter with him unless it was La lirippe. We gave nun Lightning Hot Lrop3 inwardly ana oatnea linn rreely with same, and he recovered. We think Light ninsr Hot Drops saved his life, for wnicn we are very thankful. M. D, For Barnett, Long Run, W. Va. sale by C. F. Ulay. Napoleon. O, Mr. Samuel Niswanrer, of Arming' ton. III., writes: "This is to certifiv tnat I have used Litrhtninyr Cou Drops for the last year. I don't thin i would be alive to-day, only for tin: medicine, l am in my 87th year, recommend Lightning Hot Droos all who have a cough." For sale by u. J) . uiay, jNapoieon, O. lui iMan, followed by Kasiban, went in. ly' in, and as Lilian drew back confront ed her, asking in a low but peculiar tone, "why have you done this?" "Because she is Christ's," was the spontaneous reply, mid the fearless and yet kind, compassionate eyes met his with a power that he folt though he would not yield to it. "She is Vishnu's," he replied, and this time his voice was harsh and threatening. "Had she lived," rejoined Lilian, "she would have been baptized. Von know that she had learned to abhor your monstrous creeds and unbearable eruelties. STou iiave no right to mark her with your idol signs. " "The mem sahib," said tho Brahman gravely, "is unjust and illogical. Did! yoa not teach ymt pupil that the band of the Lord yoor God was all! mighty and' that his eyes see everywhere? Well, wheue is the difference in what jon call our idols? You sny there is no salvation Without faith, buS we have faith too. Why do yon come iiere to vex cur peo ple and make theru diev as this woman died, in despair?" Lilian had encountered this Br.ihman before. He was Prohrada and had done more than any other native in that place to destroy the influence of her mission ary efforts among them. She ldbkad at him resolutely. "You mean," she said. "by dying miserably in despair that she did not die in your hideous medley of conflicting czeeds. Let the wori of Christ stay. Evil wilt certainly befall whoever dare to remove it." Lilian drew herself tip and looked? de fiantly Rtf the- BrahmaE, the more eo as she know -that he wouia not pollute himself by teaching a corpso, but tho next moment the felt a fiiud of sickness come over her. Was it some emanaliou from the bior crwas it the strange, lei). intensely penetrating ey S Prohra'ta? JMover bad she seen eoeh eyes as bis before, never had sho dreamed that hu man eyes-could emit sue! a concentrated malignity and power of evil, never had she seen a mast's eyes so liko thos of tho dread cobra. Sho hrJf turned away. ud then was bilged touook again,, and again she felt sick ami weak. Uhoso eyes shot out magnetic-rays that fasci nated her as; the snake fasoinatw the bird. Prohrada remained silent then his eyes strangely altered. They shrank up into.- their usual slyaharacter, resem bling two small black beads with- only a trace of those laton fires whiah had seemed: to seoroh her-' very brain. He spoke as before gravely: "The mem sahib is brave, but not very kini or po lito ta our gods. I Bay she will some to our temple, and I sy she will worship there, and I say, took, that she will offer up to Vishnn all the-. wealth taat Sahib Karney, her brother; has taken from her; Oh, don't think that we boot Brah man s are ignorant idiots, that we know nothing. Christians! Why, Sn this coun try it is held impious to live in a street without a temple, but how many of your streets have temples? Christian'" Baked Fotatoea, Sir Francis Cruise strongly recommends tbe use of the sand bath or the oommon oven for potatoos as preferable to either boiling or steaming, in the ground tlurt a much higher tenipei'.tture can be used by tne llrst met liod nun a more thorough cook' ins of the starcn erains brought about. JUany delicate patients can use baked po tatoeswho oannot touch them wben boiled, Here is a Chance To get yo.ur money back if you want ic. . , . we mane tins assertion and can prove the truth of it. "CahDnelear's Bronchini, Tbe Great Couch Cure" is uie oniy cougn remedy ever known mat win always give relief instantly nruueiuni never iaus. 1C will cure a com, it win prevent and cure croup, always relieve irritation in the throat it is the best family medicine for any '.!.'roat or luner disease ever known and if it don't do just want we claim tor it you can get your money re funded. Sold at 35 and SO cents. For sale by Saur& Balsley, Napole on, Ohio. lm A Lost Opportunity. From Council Bluffs, la., comes a story tnut illustrates several puases ol Human nature. In that city the other day a man who is very poor, and who is likely to re main so owing to the fact that an aooident has deprived him of both his arms, found large roll of greenbacks. The money lay In the gutter, and the finder could almost bear it beg hiin to pick it up. This, on ac count of his misfortune, be could not da Ho ho quietly kicked the treasure into the Bhadow of a building and tried to think out a snfa method of transferring it to his lamciituuly empty packet. At last a small bootblack sauntered by, and tbe man con cluded to take chances. With a fine pre tense of having just dropped the bill, the inun gruffly ordered the youngster to as sist him. The boy eomprehended the situ ation at a glance, seized tbe little fortune, took to bis heels, and, easily distancing bis angry pursuer, vanished permanently from the scene. Exchange. Mother Almost Worn Oat. Hand's Colic Cure Gave Instant Relief, Beia Bbook. 0.. Maroh 2oth. '96. Dr. Hand "I received yotir sample bottle of Colic On re and was never so glad in mv life. My baby had the wind oolie since she was born and I was almost worn out. I gave her a dofe without my husband's knowledge and it gave her instant relief and she lia not Keen the leapt trouble since I gave her th iiRtdose. I would not be without it for anything. I will recommend your Colic Cure to every mother. -Mrs. J.C. Wade." Sold by all draggists.25e. flu to-llnlla tjfutut( OASTOJEITA. llM Ttrf , Is Gibraltar Useless? Aatartlcle of .exceptional interest evi dently writton by a Spanish military effl cor appears in the Memorial lie Artil lerin, showing that the extended range of modern artillery bus oompletely revolu tionized the conditions which havo hitherto enublod Gibrnltur to protect its own arsenal nnd dockyard and to ufford safety for ves-' sols at anchor under the guns of tbe for tress. When Gibraltar was taken by the Eng lish in 1704, the groatest range for artillery fire was only about 3,000 yards, so that a floet under tho batteries of Gibraltar was secure against attack from the Spanish coast. It is now pointed out that with a com paratively smull expenditure of money by the Spunlsh government batteries con structed In the bay of Algeclras, upon the ridge nt mountains known as the Queen of Spain's Chair, would aotually command Gibraltar at a distance of 9,000 yards, and would be capable of demolishing the whole length of thev fortifications from tbs Gal leries to Europa point. These Spanish bat teries would also threaten tbe entry of ships of war to Moles. This plan would merely Involve the mounting of some 40' heavy guns of from 4.7 inch to 13 inch caliber aad a similar number of howitzers. At the present moment tbe strategical points on this part of the Spanish coast are entirely unfortified, and with Spain's pres ent embarrassments in Cuba and the Phi lippines it is not likely, as the Broad Ar row points out that the Madrid govern ment will take immediate action in tbe matter. But that these batteries may be constructed soma day or other- is far from improbable, and, in view of tbe great im portance to England of Gibraltar as a naval base and the renewed expenditure upon Its -combined I arsenal and dockyard the subject Is beginning to attract tbe serious attention of naval and military authorities. J Now York Herald. THE SANDERS GIRL. V "It maybe was that romances cornea to pass on tbo range when was thar," remarked the old cattleman meditative ly, "but, if so be, I never notes 'em. They sliorely gets plumb by me in the night" The old gentleman had just thrown down a daily paper, aud even as he spoke I read on the turned pago tho glaring headline, "Romance In P.eal Life." His recent literaturo was tho evident oauso of his reflections. Of course," continued the old cat tleman, turning for comfort to his iuev. itablo pipe and inching his chair more aud more into the shade of the porch, of conrse at sech epocks as some de graded sharp takes to dcalin double in a poker game, or the kyards begins to como two at a clatter at faro bank, the proceeding frequent took on what you all might call a hue of romance, an I admits they was likely to get some hec tic niyse'f. But, as I states, for what one would brand as clean strain ro mance I ain't recallin none." "How about those love affairs of your youth?" I ventured. "They must have existed." "Which I don't deny," replied the old gentleman between puffs "that back when I'm a colt in Tennessee I has my flower scented days. But I don't wed nothin, you uotioe. An even while I'm ridin an ropin at these yore young iemaie persona whom I has in my mind thar's never no romance to it, onless it's in woman who ctiangea her mind. Tnis yens incident is about the first cnicifen on the roost of my recollections. " 'It's years an years ago, wben I'm a jearlin. Our company is makin a round op at a camp called Pine Knot, in Ten nessee, organism to embark in tho If pi. icon war at whole lot an thin out the greasers. " 'No one ever does know why I, per sonal, doclaret myso'f in cn this yere embroglia I ain't bigger'n a chargo of powuer at tne time, an am that limited s to statoo I has to climb on to a log to get on to my pony. It Ml... . . . ... uui, as i m teiiin. we all comes .together at Pine Knot to make the shirt l reckon now thar's 600 people thar, as the occasion an the interest the pnblio too: in tne business lest combs the re. gion or folks for miles around. I T1 1 I . . .. xuar a a neap 01 nauashaJUn an Weakness of Lien Qnlckl?. Tkaraatklr. Tamer Care4 Pt-h. ajr a aaw perfected acini una A mrtW that cannot faU an- ir MauueaM Is beyond nomas - .vw IWI.VTBH WW Br day, feel a twnea ( mrr oar, auoa know yourself among man In body, landhaart. Drausand sanded. Bwroostaoia baftir married Ufa la- Imond. Nana fores, will WR7. when fslTtna or kist, are restored by this Irauuient. All weak portions of tbe bodjenlargeo. and urengthensd. Writ for our book, with so planatloua and proofs. Sent eealsd, frea. Over 3juu references. EREKEDICALCO.,StpT8f: PHYSICIANS. A. E. H. MAERKEB well wishin goin on. Motbors an sisters Physician aud Surgeon. JtAPOLEOB.OHIO. an sweetaearts is kissin us goodby, an While thar's some hilaritv thar's morn sods, it s, arter all, as I looks back'ard, rather a damp than a cav affair. wnilo all this yere love an tears is nowm thar s a gent he's our cantnin OmCElBLelata'sDrogStore, Second doorHjoath of 3anr A niiit D&. GEO. R. TEEPLE, BOaOSABYSBADDATI OrTBl who'ssettin off alouo in his saddle an OntarioVetrlnaryColIeKo.Torontr, ain't talcin n hm.,1 Ti...- ., . " heart, no mother, no sistor, for him. " N0 this one about Pine Knot knows party muoh, moro'n his name is iiont; that he's captain, with the gov'n or's commission, an comes from way on yanuer some ers. An so ho sets thar, grim an solid in his saddle, lookin yagnelike off at whore the trees meets the sky, while the rest of us is goin aoout permlscus nnishin up our kissin Ain t he cot no sweetheart to wish goodby to him?" asks a girl of me. Ain't thar no one to kiss him lor good luck as he rides away?" inis yere maiden's name is San ders, an it's a shore fact she's the nret. wco yuuug iemuie wnoover makes a moccasin track in west Tenuesseo. I'd a-killed my pony an gone a foot to bring Canada, TBRATHi.lldlseaaesof horaea andeattl.o floelnSaur&BalgleT'Bdrnir store. . B. HABuISOK. c. M. Hianrenis FEANK M. HABBI80N. DRS. HARRISON, Physicians and Surseons, NAPOLEON. OHIO. 0FICE ?Yor f5aur falsey'g DniK Rtorav Perry btroot, 4rl'Uone 63 and as. ATTORNEYS. " THOS. A. CONWAY, A.ttorney at ljivr, NAPOLEON, OHIO, MONEY TO LOAN. snob a look of soft concern in her eyes Coands0Vock0efJo,tU'1i'dt0' Offloe'00 uuiuvicea ior tnis yere MARTIN KNUPP, Attorney atHia-w, Frio- NAPOLEON, OHIO . Mo.3,oeke's8looK,3eondFlo in the fact that they all escapes me, an ment, an then the big tears begi I never do tie one down once. take p8es8io of her blue eyea. ; Thar was one lady for whom I afore- she blushes like a flower wika W.OAHlLIi. JlMiaDnan.ia CAHILL & DONOVAN, Attorneys at Law NAPOLEON. OHIO . OFFICE on ground door one door East ot Oooyer'ehardware.tore, Washington street, time yearns, which, if I'd done plavod my hand plumb through, I reckon now I might have ronsed out a romance or soniethin thrillin. I'd been due to get up agin Jim Uale s gun shore. You sees this, yere female weds Jim, an I will say he makes the most restless an s'pi- cious married man 1 ever encounters. "But of course I knows my range, an I knows my brand, an as I makes a spechulty of payin no attention to Jim's wife after the nuptials his trail an mine never does, cross onpe. But, speakln of love tangles, brings done I'll look for you yere. shines thar lonesome gent I looks over where he's silent an solitary on his boss, .No," I replies, "he's an orohan. I reckon. Ho's plumb abandoned that away, an so thar's nobody vera to kiea him or shake his hand 'This yere pretty Sanders cirl an I'm pausin agin to stuto thar's nothin of the long horn about her, pure cornfed she was this Sanders beauty I'm sayin looits at this party by himso'f for a mo rn to Next she blushes like a flower an walks over to this lone gent. 'Mlofci. Pnnfo.'n It : wat.. DuunitvB. raiH U na.. ....... her face to him liko a rose, "Vm shore VwKSZ.' PP"lte oort h0" sorry you ain't got no sweetheart to say goodhy, an because you're lonesome that away I'll kiss you an sny ndios myse'f. Will you, my little lady?" savs the lonesome gent as he swings from his saddle to the ground by her side, an thar s sunahino in his eyes m a moment. "I'll think of yon every day for that," no whispers when he kisses her, an if X come back when the waif's C C. FREASE, Attorney at Xixw, HARRY C. HAGUE, ATTORNEY AX LAW, Abstracts of Ti les a Specialty. OFFICE on Wahlnaton Street, one dooreait of the Engine Bouse. T to my memory a story which old San .curigai ouiuris on to ns, tbe same showin that a woman's fancy is rootless an onstabJe as a proposition. Always copper a remate.' savs Cherokee Hall one. day when Texas Thompson is relatin how his wife mal treats him an rings in a divorce on him down at Laredo. 'Alwoys play 'em to lose. JNeil, yere, now, goes on Chero kee as he runs his hand over the h'ar of Faro Noll, who's lookout for Cherokee, i-Muiiy, yere, is tne oniy one I ever meets who can be depended on to come Winner every trip. ' . 'Which females,' says old Sam En ngnc, wno ! soiun mar at tne, time, "an partio'lar young females, is a heap friy olous nacheraL The sight of a rainbow will stampede most of 'em. For myse'f. I'd shorely prefer to try an hold a bunch ol 600 ponies on a bad night than ride herd on the heart of one lady. Between as alls, I more'n half figger the fee tions of a female is migratory, same as buffaloes used to be before they was killed, an sorter goes north in the spring an south ag in m the winter. ' 'As for me,' says Texas Thompson, who's moody touehin them divorce plays his wife is makin down nt Lare do, 'you can gamble I passes all females np. No matter how strong I holds, it looks like on the show downs they out lucks me every time. Wherefore I quits em cold, an any gent who wants my chance with females can shorely have tne same. 'Oh, I don't know!' remarks Doo Peets, sorter gettin in on what's a gen eral play. 'I've been all through the herd, an I must say I deems women easy people every time. They're a heap finer folks than men an faithfuler. 'Which I don't deny females is fine folks, says Texas, 'but what I'm allow ia is they're fitful. They don't stay none. Yon can both hobble an side line em at night, an the first thing that' strikes you when you rolls out in the mornin is they're gone. ' What do you all think, Nell,' ava Dae Peets to Faro Nell; who's percl-ed np on her stool by Cherokee's shoulder, what do you all think of Texas, yere, -malignin of your sex? Why don't yoa 'int him to the example of Dave Tntt an Benson Annie? Thoy all get3 married, an thar they be, capenn along as peace ful as two six shooters on.the same belt. ' Oh, I don't mind what Texas says none,' replies Faro Nell. 'Texas is all right an on the square. Eshouldn't won der if this yere Mrs. Thompson does suw it off on him some shabby gettin that sep'ratiou, un I don't marvel at his re marks. But as long as Cherokee yere thinks I'm right I don't let nobody's views about other women poster m a little bit; so than' It's what I says awhile back,' iii terrupts Enright. v 'Texas Thompson' wife's motives, mighty likely, ain't, in viduous none. It's a heap probable, il the truth is known; that she ain't aimin nothin at Texas she only changes hoi mind. 'Now, about the earliest thing I re members,' goes on Enrigbt, 'is concern- "'The little Sanders girl she-was shorely as handsome as a pinto pony blushes a heap vivid at what she's done. but looks warm an tender. Everybody lOQKin on, while tbe play is some onns- ual an out of line, agrees it s all right, Dem tbat we all was goin to a war. Now yere, goes on Enright, at the same time callin for licker all around, 'is what you all will-agree is a mighty romantic deal that away. Yere's a love affair gets launched. ' Does this lone band gent who gets kissed by the Sanders lady outlive tho war?' asks Texas Thompson, who has braced np an gets mighty, vivacious lis- temn to the story. 'Which he shorely outlives that conflict,' replies Enright, 'an you can gamble he was in tho thick of the stum pede, too, every time. I will say for this yere eaptain that, while I wasn't with him plumb through, he was game a gent as ever fought up hill. Ho's one of those sports who fights an goes f or'ard to his man. Thar's no white feathers on that sort. They're game as hornets. An bad. ' "'Whiob if he don't get downed none,' says Texas Thompson, 'an hits Tennessee alive,' I offers ten to one he leads this Sanders female to the altar. " " 'An you'd lose a whole lot, ' says &nright, at the- same time raisin his whisky glass. That's what I states when I trails out on this yere reminis cence. Females is frivolous an plumh light of fancy. Now, this captain party eomes back to Pine Knot, say about years later, an what do you all think? F. D. PRINTIS, Attorney aat Law, .NAPOLEON, OHIO. Office over Spengler & Co's (trooery store. II. R. DITTMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, - NAPOLEON. O. Office over Moyer's Clothing. Store, Perrr oireec JQD R. L1NTII10UM, V. XT U3VEY A.T LAW. NAPOLEON, OHIO. 1 OFFICE-Room , Humphrey Block, Sec ond floor JUSTICES. 1 JL P. DUNBAR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE And. Pension Agent, Marlon townnhin. Senrv oountv. Ohio. Post offlceaddresp Usmler . JOSEPH WEIBLE, Notary Public and Insur once Wgeiit. t,ORIDA.HKNRY JOONTY.OHIO . DESD8kiiortgageMud0oncracudrawa A(S tortbeoldand reliable Pnoenlx Ins Co.. a Hartford .andalso aiientforthe feoole'sMntnl Benefit ssocialon, of Westervllle Ohlo.a' DuaineBBuromptljattended to J. P. KINSTLE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE NEW BAVARIA, OHIO. Collections a 8peolnltya MISCELLANEOUS. L. R. HUSTON, That Sanders girl's been married mighty TflN!flT?T AT. AT7TT1T ! nigh two years an has an infant child as VAlWViWflasi fttVaUMaV I big as a b'ar cub, which is heginnin to- make a bluff at walkin. Now, on tbe square, an I'm as s'prised about it as you be I was more'n s'prised; I was pained I don't allow, lookin over re sults an recallin the fact of that b'ar cub infant child, that, for all her blnsh- C bop opposite Reiner's booUnd shoe store Olcrrytreut.Sapoleon. Ohio. SDecia lattaa I'. uloJountrytrade. J. S. AUGUSTINE, ( tSnooessortolieed Jlford.) FashionableTonsorialParlors- AT A DaT Vf-Kt AHt1 z:z r.r:r "rr",u cstom.mr.ated court.., .nd JtsiUj guuuLy ti-litD tiwu.y, lUUb I no OtIIJ- GEO. W. VALENTINE, Fashionable Barber and Hai Dresse ROOM Sonth side of Washington St.. nax doortoMcribner'sBaidware Store, NAPOLEON , OHIO. PHILIP WEBB. Fashionable Barberand Hai Dresser. WESTS IDE Perryatreet.a doorssbnth of Plsat, grooerv, Napoleon. Patronsc, .niini.. I good work gnarantesd . ders girl cares a hossha'r rope for him in a week. An it all proves what I re marks, tbat while females ain't malov olent malicious an don't do these yere things to peerce a gent with grief, their 'foctions that away is always honin for the trail an is prone to move camp. 'But, bless 'em, they can't help it none if their hearts be quicksands, an I li bates to 'em again.' Whereat we all drinks with Enright, feelin a heap sim ' Whatever becomes of this pore captain party?' asks Faro Nell. TTRA"lJI" R "ET f1 If Well, the fact about that ean- --." J-J J iWX V. tain,' replies Enright, settin down his glass ng'm, 'while the . same is tbe merest incident an don't have no direot bearing on what I've been relatin ; the fact in his case is he's wedded already. Nacherally after sayin "Howdy!" to the little Sanders girl an applaudkt of her progeny, which it looks like he fully indorses that away, this yere captain gent hits the trail for Nashville, where his wife's been keepin camp an waitin for bint all the time'. ' " Dan Quinu in San Francisco Examiner. , CITY MEAT MARKET. (Sacceeeoito Jobn Dlemer. 1 Kcepsonslaullyon hand.oholcebeefi.noik.ve moi ton, bams and salt pork, lorned Dee iWusas etc. t anners liaviu fat oaitle,boga,up,Bid ' aiidpeliafor sale, should give him a eatlbefor cllius elsewhere. . . No Room for Doubt. Proof, yes overwhelming proof, can be furnished of the excellent curative qualities of Dr. Bull's Cough-Syrup. "I caught a cold which led to a cough and pain in the chest, (pneumonia?) I bought Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and after taking one bottle of it, the cough began to disappear; wben I finished faking the second bottle I was cured. Gusiav Thurmaster, 49 Hickory, St., Cleveland,0." Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup costs but 25 cents, Take only Bull's. KAKLIKKOLBE. Yeterinary :-: Surgeon, IreatsalldtseaaasofthehoHs Office at Blank & Hurlburt's stable. A Family of Sixty-two Children. The Italians are disonssing the ad- noani nrv r.T mn cm l .1 r iuiko Moriria. 1 v . . . lena Grannatta, a lady of 67, who lives utmiiAi... . f IANNA near Nocera, 12 miles from Naples, n. j n i . n Bet husband has been dead ten years, Mai MlB &flfl lDSIHiillCfi Atffillk but during the 19 years they lived to- T "aCUW. aether as man and wife they had 62 I .. promptly. children born to them, 69 of the lot be- in males. Eleven- different timea in Plaoe to the nonerv ViWiT""J0,iK?aa27 J . , " - im ... . ymun uvr .inn n .i.. ... -!.. i, j urease Bieweiry store. Nonnioni nti " uiuq jrcaio iiiows nu. uuiu, auu Ull three different occasions four boys were. announoed, and once boys and a gizh there . were four' The Nobthwbt only f 1 a year. A hnf.rn.nf-a f f j Wseiewerrystore. NapoTeOhio? 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