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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

STRONG CHARACTERs.-Streng of char
acter consists of two things-power of will
and power of self-restraint. 1t requires
two things, therefore, for its existence
strong feelings and strong command over
them. Now it is here we make q great mis-
take we mistake strong feelings for strong
character. A man who bears all before
him, before whose frown domestics trem-
BILE, and whose bursts Of fury make the
children of the household quake-because
he has will obeyed, and his own way in all
things-we call him strong man. The
truth is, that is the weak man, it is his pas
sions that are strong; he, mastered by
them, is weak. You must measure the
strength of n man by the power of the feel
ings he subdues, not by the power Of those
which subdue him. And hence composure
is very often the highest result Of strength.
Did we never see a man receive a fragrant
insult, and only grow a little pale and then
reply quietly? That is man spiritually
strong. Or, did we never see man in an
guish stand, as if carved out of solid rock,
mastering himself? Or one bearing a
hopeless daily trial remain silent, and new
er tell the world what cankerod his home
peace? That is strength. He who, with
strong passions, remains chaste; he who,
keenly sensitive, with manly powers of in
dignation in him, can be provoked and yet
restrain himself, and iorgive-these are the
strong men, the spiritual heroes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

The FIRST INvADERs.-On one of the
picturesque old postroads leading from
Brussels TO AK la Chapelle is the quaint
old city of Tongres. This was originally
founded by the Tungi, who according to
Tacitus) were the first German tribe who,
crossing the Rhine, expelled the Gauls and
settled themselves in their country. This
was the commencement of the struggle for
the left bank of the Rhine, now being car
ried on.
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BRATTI EBORO VT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1870.

Peter Cartwright the western backwoods
preacher.
Glance now at the cabin. It's upholstcr-
ing was furnished by A. t. Stewart at that
tmo an enterprising young tradesman,
keeping little seven-by-nine shop in
Chambers street. Though the luster of
tho goods has long passed away, its dura-
bility remains, to attest to the honesty and
good judgment of the young dealer, and by
which ho has since risen to be the foremost
merchant In our country.
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Poetry.
TN' .fBsE.vCE.
ny PHKBE CARY.

BY PHkbE GARY.
Watch her kindly, stars:
From the sweet protecting ehiee,
Follow her with tender eyes;
Look 90 lovingly that she
Cannot ohooso but think Of me:
watch her kindly, starsi
Sootho hor swoctiy, night:
On her eyoe, o'orwearied, press
Tho tired lids with light caroes;
Lot that shadowy hand Of thino
Ever in her dreams seem mine:
sootho her sweetiy, night
Wake her gently, morn:
La the notes Of carly birds
Seem iko Loves melodious words;
Every pleasant sound, my dear,
When she stirs from sleep should hear;
Wake her gently, morni
Kiss her softly, winds:
Softly, that Bho may not miss
Any sweet; accustomed bliss;
On her lips, her eyes, her face,
TIL come TO take your place:
Kiss and kiss her, windsl
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THE
Central RailrOadsI0Va
2S5 MILES IN LENGTH.
Now Nearly Completed.

This Company now pushing their work forward
connect st. Louis and st. Paul is graded and under
contract to be finished this season. The fac. that this
enterprise has boon undertaken by combination Of
leading bankers and railroad capitalists of well known
wealth. experience and ability nsures it's carly
pletion md future success.
The road runa through the richest and most thicky
settled portion Of Iowa. md is built in the interests Of
the great Northern system Of roads which centre at
81. Paul. The
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
A Dog story.


COMMODORE SCUDDER, of the United
States Navy, had a double-nosed pointer
dog of which he Dragged a good deal, and
for which he would have refused larger
sum than was ever offered for dog since
the creation of the world. But he Is dead
now-not Commodore Scudder, but the
dog. Like the famous hound Gelert, he
died a martyr to his high sense of honor.
The Commodore told me the story:
day." he said, and took the dog along.
We,hadn't much luck at first, but after
awhile Buster-that was the dogs name
stood and pointed at covey of the finest
birds ever saw in all my born days.
They were squatting down in the low
grass, a dozen yards off, in plain sight, and
l determined to fire at them as they lay. /
lifted my gun, took deliberate aims and
would have killed a dozen at least; but
before could pull the trigger q courier
dashed up with dispatch which he said
required Immediate attention.
reserved my fire and read the dis
patch. 1t was an order from the Navy
Department to proceed, without q mo-
ment's delay, to Philadelphia, to take
command of q squadron which wae about
to sail to the Mediterranean. was so
much excited, you understand, that laid
down my gun right on the spot, and went
of, leaving Buster there pointing at those
birds like they were North Stars and he
was mariners compass, 80 to speak.
forgot all about him but he was faith
full dog, Buster was-and, like Casabian.
ca, he wouldn't have left even a burning
ship without my. orders.
"Well, / went to the Mediterranean
and cruised around for three years, hay
ing first rate time. When ! returned
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WHOLE NO. 2s1.

at the end of the cruise, 1t occurred TO
me, as stepped ashore in Philadelphia,
to 20 out and see how things were at the
place where1 went cunning. John and 1
Went-and the first thing came across
was my gun, lying there with the barrel
covered with Gust and broken clean on
the rotten stock. But what was my sur
prise, upon going few PAGES further. TO
find the skeleton of that heroic, double
nosed pointer, standing up just where
had left the dog three years beforeI He
had never budged an inch, Mr.. Quill, not
single solitary inch, that double -nosed
pointer hadn't; but he had stood there
and pointed at those birds, until he had
perished in his tracksi Well sir, after
shedding tear over my departed friend,
went few yards ahead, and-ttere Gcere
the skeletons Of those pdTtridgesI regard
this as the most extraordinary circum-
stance that ever came under my obserya-
ton; but if any man presumes to doubt
my word, III shoot him on the spot-I
will, by George r.
It was queer, that story of Scudder's
about his dog, bat it would hardly be safe
to say what I think about it.-John QUilt.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
Merry Plays.

HIGH LIFE, OR THE UGLY CLUB.-One
room must be emptied of the company,
and five or six gentlemen must volunteer
to belong to the Ugly Club, and must
practice making up faces (or possibly rig
up some comic masks) until they acquire
oountenances which it will be difficult to
pass without smile.
These stand near the entrance of the
vacant room.
Now announce to the company that
you have o room devoted exclusively to
the aristocracy, and those who wish to
rise in life, and who have q sufficiently
dignified department, may enter but they
must be introduced to the members of the
Ugly Club at the door.
The company now try their fortune
one by one, and none bat those who can
bow successfully to the members of the
club, and wish each stately "good even
ing" without smiling or laughing, can be
admitted.
Those who pass the ordeal must be in
troduce6- to others who may have already
passed into the room, by some fictitious
Hardscrabble, NJ Lady Porringer," " The
Duke of Terra del Fuego," etc, etc.
DUTCH CoNCERT.-In this the company
are formed into an orchestra, or band, in
which each one chooses an instrument
and some one Is leader. When the con
cert commences, all play with spirit, imi-
tating the motions of playing, but not
making any sound. The leader now goes
around to the different players, and as he
stops in front of one, he suddenly begins
to initiate the instrument which that one
plays; and that player must as suddenly
cease initiating his own instrument, and
initiate that which the leader has been
performing on.
The members of the company are sew
orally playing on the drum, fife, ACCORDION,
jewsharp, triangle, trumpet, bugle, cornet,
banjo, guitar, trombone, violoncello,
double bass, ODE. clarionet, cymbals, tam
BOURNE, hand-organ, bag-pipe, bones,
horn, piano, melodeon, harp, church-bell,
and gong. Mr.. c., the leader plays the
violin. He walks about Dusily, then sud
denly faces the guitar player, and begins
to initiate that instrument. Miss D., who
is playing the guitar, suddenly begins to
about awhile, playing the guitar, when he
suddenly begins to play the drum. The
drummer suddenly shifts to the guitar.
The leader presently begins to play the
trombone, when the trombone player be-
gins to play the drum; and 30 on. Any
one who does not forthwith change instru-
ments when the leader changes, must be
continues until the leader is left nearly
alone, or the company are tired.
All must be done in silence. Laughter
and talking must be made to pay a forfeit.
ODD AND EvEN.-Italian peasants are
said to amuse themselves for an hour at a
time with this simple game, which is played
by two, who suddenly throw out the right
hand at each other, opening one, two,
three or four fingers. First one, and
then the other, must tell the sum of the
fingers, and whether it is odd or even.
Tell instantly. Three or even four may
throw out their hands at once, in which
case it will take a quick sight and good
adding power to telL-SpOrts and Games.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
A Balloon Duel.

PERHAPS the most remarkab' duel ever
fought took place in 1908. It was peculiar
ly French in its tone, and could hardly
have occurred under any other than q
French state of society. NJ. de Grandpre
and M. le Pique had a quarrel, arising out
of jealousy concerning lady engaged at
the Imperial Opera, one Mademoiselle
Tirevit. They agreed to fight duel to
settle their respective claims; and, in
order that the heat of angry passion should
not interfere with the polished elegance
of the proceeding, they postponed the
duel for a month-the lady agreeing to
bestow her smiles on the survivor of the
two, if the other was killed or, at all
events, this was inferred by the two men, If
not actually expressed. The duellists
were to fight in the air. Two balloons
were constructed, precisely alike. Onthe
day denoted, De Grandpre and his Sc
cond entered the car of one balloon, LIE
Pique and his second that of the other ;
it was in the garden of the Tuilleries,
amid an immense concourse of spec
tators. The gentlemen were to IRE,
not at each other, but at each other
balloons, in order to bring them down by
the escape of gas; and as pistols might
hardly have served for this purpose, each
aeronaut took q blunderbuss inehis car. At
a. given signal the ropes that retained the
cars were cut, and the balloons assembled.
The wind was moderate, and kept the bal
looms at about their original distance OF
eighty yards apart. When about half q
mile above the surface of the earth, pre-
concerted signal for firing was given, N.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14

The ice patches at the poles OF Mars
which have been observed to Increase
and decrease regularly as each pole is
alternately turned away from the sun or
towards him, are almost conclusive evi-
dence of the existence of an atmosphere
similar to that of the earth, in which the
processes of evaporation and ainfaI,
melting and thawing, are perpetually
going on, as in the case OF the earth But
the amount of solar heat and solar evap-
Grafton must be much more variable than
with us, owing to the great eccentricity
Of the orbit of the planet. This viii also
give rise to much greater differences OF
extreme and average temperature IN the
two hemispheres than with US, and hence
give possibility Of far wider range, and
much greater differences in the modes of
existence than are known on the earth.
From this we may infer that the number
of classes and species Of vegetables and
animals is much greater, while the num-
ber of individuals of each order is much
smaller on the surface of Mars than on
that of the earth, and 1t Is very probable
that the majority are monsnnial-having
an existence limited to one year OF Mars
life.
It is also noteworthy that the positions
of the ice formations indicate that the
poles of Mars are the regions of greatest
cold, which Is not the case on the earth's
surface, the point of minimum tempera-
ture in our Northern Hemisphere lying
ten or twelve degrees from the pole,
toward the American Continent, while
our magnetic poles show an equally wide
departure from the poles of rotation. It
is already known that the position of the
magnetic pole is deducible from study of
the lunar motion, and 1t is highly proba-
BILE that the position of the points of least
temperature will yet be traced to the same
cause. Mars being unattended by moon,
there is, in his case, no apparent cause for
difference in the average locality of the
several poles of rotation, magnetism, and
Chicago Tribune.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
POETRY.
TO 4 CITY 90 USIN ABOUT 70 BE
MARRIED.
BIZ JoHN g. SAKE.

Is It true what they tell me, my beautiful cousin
You are going to be marriedS-haV settieo 'he
That the cards are all printeds-the wedding-dress
And everything fixed for an evening in May'
Ah-wefl-just imagine-had been TURK,
And Vott-but no matter-'tis idle to wh1nei
In the purest Of bosoms some envy may lurk,
And feel little q own it y In mine
'zSs ovsr the struggle was but for minute;
A word OF adviceSif there's anything in it,
An sSceilent en- ma2im a1t yHu Is st:n eTes tapsrto
Which means (since your Latin venture to
For practical Weldon tits best to refer to
teacher who knows what he's talking about
III
Crest MOI " I've been married this many year;
And know rather more than a bachelor can;
And more-I suppose tits equally clear
OF course therein Be matters to weary and vex,
But woman IL mighty, and Patience enduresi
Though we (not very calamity sag it of yours!
Tue strong should be merciful Woman we find,
Though weaker in body, surpassing us stu
(When she knows what 1t is)-not to mention
H,e gentle How hard Won win md 1t to bear
When your husband isvrong; and as dinieult'
In the other here contingency-not at all rare
Whenyou're forced, in your heart to confess he
was right
V.
Be careful Of tribes; maxim OF weight
In questions affecting the heart or the head;
In wedlock, consider, how often the fate
OF the gravest affairs may depend on thread
On button perhaps All the :" coDjugal de-
Should never be strained to its ultimate test;
Full many matron has found with sigh.
That the fixture was barely button, at besti
VI.
A truce to this jestingI While friends by the
dozen
Their kind gratulations are fain to employ;
None than nOet-VOur mfrth-lOViuQ
Puts his heart In the words while he's '' wishing
You 10y"
Quite through to its close may your conjugal hfel
Maintain the impressions with which It began;
The women still saying 81 envy the wife 30
And husbands exclaiming, '1 envy the manr
Mdy 25fh, 1870.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
The Planet Mars.

FROM a work recently issued by r. A.
Proctor, F. R. A. 8. of England, entitled
"Other Worlds Besides Our Own" we
reproduce maps of the two hemispheres
of the planet as seen through good tele-
in print, and the credit of the observa-
tions on which they are based is due to
Mr.. Dawes, not to Mr.. Proctor. They
show the distribution of land and water
on the surface of the planet. We give
reference letters to the earth names of the
more important continents and seas. We
have no means Of knowing how they are
designated by the inhabitants Of the
planet
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14

le Pique fired but missed. M. de Grandpre
fired and sent ball through LIE p que's
balloon. The balloon collapsed, the car
descended with frightful rapidity, and lie
Pique and his second were dashed to
pieces. De Grandpre continued his ascent
triumphantly, and terminated his aerial
voyage successfully at distance of seven
leagues from Paris.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1870.

Dot dropped profound courtesy.
"Ma'am," she said, promptly, "me and
Dad will be proud"
And thus the matter ended.-OasseUs s
Ar0dzine
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j Necessaries OF Life.

aCartwright is in favor of low reve-
nue. tariff, that closely approximates free
trade, and in favor of all the necessaries
of life being absolutely free of d1ty.n- :
IIHoodsfeld SPIRIT. s
"Do YOU misrepresent Mr.. Cartwri ght +?
or do YOU know what You are talking
about ? s e
aIf Mr.. Cartwright really is sin favor
of all the necessaries Of life being abse-
lutely free Of duty, then he is bound to
tell us some other wav to raise the
money necessary to administer the Gov.
eminent and meet its Obligations; for a
tariff Of that kind wouldn't be worth the
machinery " e 70 cohees H. orls ne IN fayor
~ ~, - ~ "a ool,ao.ad - no, AZ, AZ
est on the National Debt and .oraduall,
reduce it?n- Marietta Register.
The resolution adopted by the Demo.
cratic State Convention reads.
aResalued, That we denouuce the pres
ent tariff, as we'll as the substitute lately
introduced 10 the House OF Kepresenta.
.sa Msans ~ ao r"SSsra &c ays tta iaa
and industry Of the country; that thew
are solely designated to advance the inter-
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Taritf.. Exlorl,an

The present Radical tariff, enacted at
of Pennsylvania and New
England monopolists, and by the votes
of such Ohio Radicals as SHBLLABAR.
GER, ScnENcR, BINGHAM, SHERMAN, Gan.
FIELD and others, taxes in the most bun
Cling manner a multitude of merely or
namental products, used by the wealthy
for purposes of taste and decoration,
less than half the rate imposed upon the
laboring classes for the necessarics of
life. 1t is thus that the rich grow richer
and the poor grow poorer. The Gin;
cianati Commercial cites a number Of
examples of this method of taxation,
which are not changed by the amended
tariff that goessinto operation in January
next, but. will remain next year to OPP
press and burthen the people. Here Is
the list made ou. blythe Commercial.
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holders paid 6oecents on the dollarfor
it, we would redeem it at the same price,
Where il was agreed that it should be re-
deemed in the currency of the country
we would SO redeem it. But we would
not, as your party has done, Nr. Regis
ter, double and thribble the debt, by
passing rascaliy funding bills for the
benefit of the wealthy at the expense of
the tax payers. .exs
We tlo not expect the editor of the
Register to even attempt to refute the
above facts, because, in the first place,
he has not the ability, aud secondly, he
mas not, and cannot obtain, the facts ne
cessary to refute them.
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a.The Odious Income TAX.

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m, so. w ~, WV -, ~ Ai r !.
A.. ~ , ~ III
:, :, 81. g !. I I
:, H. 4,,ro,,rh danaarors h.aal-ars Il,
fillino his noclke.ss i with lead and tyino q d
cannon ball to each foot would be set
down az a. a fo0 But IT. q an majority OF the the
nepuSi.e''ns y SonSlSss ale uolus n
lad themselves them with fhe income Tay
just before, plnngipg into a stormy cam.
paign wherein many OF them would have
liouuie enos " Ase' anoas IN, even WIZ :.
ou' S5 supsIous ,;,, pps s;u eoaI I O
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,,r,. !, q = z
uooaslleld .i,l a d aplrs says opragae S
ted to Congress,
"Why not be honest in your asser-
tlons9 Or does falsehood suit you bet
VI .li'lh l .iul,l' 49,, Ml. @ Moore mas steaallY
have no shadow Of Z rigbt , 'to claim % hat hat
Mr.. Spague will do otherwise. He
will not misfepresent every Republican
IN the Aivtn Observation-Disclosures -lsegas7
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~. = A1N my al a., 'on' . DAi'A
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