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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
Twenty Thousand A Year.

1t appears to be taken for granted
that poverty is the normal state OF
clergymen, and that the preacher
who is in easy circumstances is but
poor exemplar of the doctrines he
sets forth from Sunday to Sunday.
We apprehend, however, that this
opinion results quite as much from
the fact that the majority of clergy
man are underpaid, as from any good
reason why they should be SO.
In these days of prin nting-presses
and newspapers, a man who is COM
PEELED to earn his livelihood by per-
suing some secular calling during the
week can hardly be expected to
preach edifyingly to an Intelligent
congregation on Sunday. We must
not, then, take great credit to our
selves because we agree to contribute
to the support of one who will make
it his business to so prepare himself
during the week, as to be able on the
Sabbath to dispense to us moral and
religious instruction.
Some of our religious exchanges, we
notice, have been discussing wheth-
er it be just to expect a minister
to perforrG the varied duties required
of him for the slender pittance of six
hundred dollars a year, and they
have our hearty wishes in the cru
sade against such narrowness. SeY-
eral of the daily papers, on the other
hand, have been pouring out the
walls of their wrath on a well-known
clergyman, because his congregation
proposed to increase his salary to
$50, 900 (Which increase he, however,
declined with thanks.) Butsuppose,
he had accepted it, what then?
We do not consider it to be either
desirable or expedient that our cler-
gymen should live in ostentatious
luxury; and yet we are persuaded
that it is a spirit of niggardliness
which resolves to give them no more
than just enough to pay their current
expenses. A good library of refer
ence is all but indispensable for a
clegyman as well as an editor, and it
requires no small expenditure to OBJ
tain one, as those who have tried
the experiment on small means are
well aware. Nor is there any reason
why a clergyman should not have
the means of giving his children a
thorough education, Including a col
legiate course, without the assistance
of some Hberal-minded parishioner.
It may not have occurred to those
who feel Mortified at the idea of a
clergyman with g salary of $20, 900,
that, in attempting to bold leading
down to a dead level Of
remuneration, they are effectuaIIy
riveting the chains that now gall the
Observation-Disclosures martyrs !;
but such is none the less the fact.
LII people. were more accustomed to
pay ministers as other professional
men, according to the real value of
their services, they would undoubt-
edly hear less frequently of parishes
paying only starvation salaries to
their pastors. and Home.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

ANECDOTE OF THE Blind ohm
Stanley, the musician, lost his sight
when only two years of age. He he'd
so correct an ear, that he never for
got the voice of a person he had once
heard speak. An instance is given
in which he rGcollected the voice of
a person he had not heard for twenty
years, who then accosted him in an
assumed voice. If twenty people
were seated at table together, he
would address them all in their reg
ular order, without their being pre-
viously known to him. Riding on
horseback was one of his favorite ex-
ercises, though it would seem very
dangerous one for the blind, and to-
ward the close of his life, when he
to give his friends an airing, he would
take them the pleasantest road, and
point out the most agreeable pros
poets. He played AZ whist with
great readiness and Judgment. Each
card was marked at the corner with
the point of a needle, but these
marks were SO delicately fine as
scarcely to be discerned by any per-
son not previously apprised of them.
His hand was generally first arrang-
ed, and it was not uncommon for
him to complain of the party that
they were tedious in sorting the cards.
He could tell the precise time by
watch. He knew the number of per-
sons in a room when he entered it |;
would direct his voice to each person
in particular-even to strangers after
they had once spoken; and would
miss any one who was absent, and
could tell who that one was.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
What has he Made 2

The Albany Post thus sensibly re-
plies to statement made in the New
York Herald that during the lasi
twenty years William 3. Astor has
so managed fortune of twenty mill
lions as to roll it into sixty millions
"Suppose he has, what then ?
What has he made by the operation,
except increased worriment to keep
the run of his increased wealth? As
tor, with sixty millions, eats no more
oysters, quail, woodcock and boned
turkey, than he did when he was
worth ten millions. He dresses no
better and has a thousand times less
fun. We beat him on the sleep, and
have no law suits with tenants and
trespassers. Robbers lay for Astor
every time he goes outdoors after
dark. They don't think of us. As
tor, with sixty millions of dollars,
has sixty millions of troubles. To
keep the run of his rents, bonds and
real estates. keeps Astor in work four
teen hours day, and yet Astor gets
three square meals day, which is
Just what We obtain without any mill
lions, any tenants, any real estate,
and only work eight hours per day.
eff mems happiness increased with
their money, every body should be
justified in WOrSh1p1ng the Golden
Calf. The happiness increases with
their earnings up to a certain point
the point necessary to secure them
the comforts of life, say So, 200 q year.
All beyond this is superf1uOus. Be
ing superhuous, it is productive of nc
good whatever. The richer the man,
the greater is the probability thai
his sons will live on billiards and die
in the lnebriate asylum. With con.
tentment and $1,000 a year a man
may be as happy as prince. With.
out contentment you will be miser
able, even if your wealth equal the
rent rolls of Croesus."
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
&c to Work.

The idea of respectable employ
ment" is the rock upon which thou
sands split, and which shipwreck
themselves and all who depend upon
them. ALI employments are alike
respectable that bring honest gain.
The laborer who is willing to turn
his hands to anything is as respect
able as the clerk or draperstore tender.
Indeed the man who is ready to work
wherever work offers, whatever ii
may be, rather than lie idle and beg
is by far more respectable man than
one who turns up his nose at hard
labor, wearies his friends with his
complaint that he can find nothing
respectable to do, pockets their bene-
factions without thankfulness, and
goes on from day to day, a useless,
lazy grumbler. The only remedy
for him is to arise and go out and
seek employment, throw the false
idea of frespectability to the winds,
and become in reality a respectable
man by becoming useful man.
Strive for employment of some
kind. If you fail on the first appli-
cation, try the second, and so on I;
even if you fail ninety nine times,
the hundredth application may be
triumphant. "Try again" should
be the encouraging motto OF all VINO
are looking for employment. Wait
ing, Micawber like, for something to
turn up, won't help yOuI The world
will help those who are striving to
help themselves.
The selfish maxim, the world owes
me living never -advantaged any
one; but it has carried many to
the almshouse and more we fear to
the DrisOn There ia enough in the
world for every man, but the condi-
tion upon which that living is attain
able is expressed in word (; EFFORT.
The sentence, "by the sweat of thy
brow, thou shalt earn thy bread" is
in full force and it would be a woeful
day for humanity were that sentence
reversed. In obedience to that con-
dition, we secure health, both of body
and mind, and make life the blessing
which a merciful Providence design
ed that it should be.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

It is said that no less than twelve
men of this Congress and the last, of
both partieshave been charged with
the miserable business of selling
cadetships, and that: considerable
testimony tending to prove the allie
CATION has been offered in every
case. This is certainly. astartling
revelation. Whatever may be the
facts or the results, the country de-
mands the fair trial and prompt ex-
pulsion OF all men who have dared to
put up at auction the rights and
privileges of the people. &And if the
convicted and expelled members
will only turn states evidence and
volunteer their testimony in expos
ing all other Congressional corrup-
tiOns and iniquities with which they
are IN any way acquainted, they
will be furnishing fruits meet for re-
Dentance
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
LITERARY NOTICES.

THE LADY's FRIEND.-A beauti-
full steel engraving of Windsor Castle, the res
idence of Queen Victoria, is the opening en-
beIlishment Of the March number. Then we
have the large plate of Colored Fashions, CIV
ing the latest styles from ParIs. This is fol-
lowed by.a charming spring scene. 1.-THE
Swallows Nest" The music for this number
is ''The Bedford Springs Polka" Among
the numerous wood-cuts illustrating the latest
styles for Jackets, Suits, &C., the ladies will
fnd q riding-dres of the newest fashion. The
literary matter is usually varied and attrac-
tive. Published BY Deacon q PETERSON, q Sls
year (which also includes a large steel engrav-
ing.) -Four copies, SO. Five copies (and one
gratis), %, 1.-THE Lady's Friend" and
T'The Saturday Evening Post' (and ONE en-
graving,) S4.00.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
The Moon and the Weather.

Most people believe that change
of moon brings about change OF
weather.
A certain honest High Sheriff, find
ing himself shut up in his own coach
with the late Justice M, whose rep
utation as a trough customer"
though keen wit, had preceded him
on the circuit, was rather at a loss for
conversation there was another
Judge, of course, in the vehicle, but
he was a silent man, and so the poor
Sheriff was left to his own resources.
"My Lord" said he, at last, "the
moon has changed, and so 1 hope we
shall have fine weather."
"Are you then, such a fool, sir,
growled. the great M, "to believe
that the moon has anything to do
Here the silent Judge, who was a
courtly man, interposed with :
Really, Brother M, think you are
very hard upon our friend, Mr.. High
Sheriff. I confess that I, for my
part, believe that the moon has a
very considerable influence on the
state of the weather"
"Then all that L can say is, Broth
err" rejoined great M, "that you
are as great fool as the Sheriff.
The author of the present useful
volume takes the same view as the
crusty Judge. "One frequently
hea- g." he says, "of the weather al
tering at the change of the moon : but
careful observers have been unable to
detect any real difference in the state
of the air at such times" The sun,
indeed, is better prophet; but then
his predictions only refer to the
coming few hours. "When it ts
~ Ia Faf !,
er, for the sky is red and loworing."
Matthew xvi. And this Is corrobo-
rated by many a popular saw.
''Sky red at night is the sailors delight
Sky red in the morning is the sailors warn
Eost weather beliefs, however,
Notwithstanding that they may be
both ancient and far diffused, are
iilusive and unfounded. There is a
nautical proverb which arises from a
supposed clearance of clouds which
takes place when the full moon rises !:
"The full moon eats clouds $" and
there is also an Indian saying, al
most identical: 1.-THE full moon
grows fat on Clouds" Yet close OBJ
servation has proved that there is no
fact of the sort. Again: "The west
wind is gentleman and goes to bed"
(that is, drops in the EVENING", says
the proverb but Cornish men know
better. It "drops on" to their ships,
and behaves in a manner anything
but gentlemanlike. Weather prov
erbs are. in fact, as a general rule,
only to be trusted when they are
quite local they are almost all em-
pirical, and founded on insufh cient
data and it is only on limited
area that anything like certainty
can be attained.-Chamber's Jour.
mol
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

"Zel's Popular Encyclopedia, p
promises to be an emimently valuable COM
pendulum Of knowledge. 1t is sold only by
subscription. 1t Is published by T. Ellwood
Zell, Philadelphia. The publisher of the
work is at the head of one of the Oldest houses
In the United States founded in 1879, and
guarantees the work will be equal in all re-
spects to the parts already issued and that Il
they exceed fifty parts (of forty pages each) al
so cents per part, the additional parts shall be
ers hence the cost of the entire work. un-
bound, shall not exceed $25. co. and that the
charge for binding in good English cloth, shall
not be more than 81 % per volume, two vol
umes in all. We will only add that Zell's il
the Encyclopedias written since the war, con-
sequently all the battles and heroes are given,
and often accompanied with illustrations.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

In numbers there Is safety. It was
upon this principle that the formula of JUD-
SONS MOUNTAIN HERB PMLs was prepared.
DR.. Judson, intending to spend fortune
in advertising his pills, submitted his re-
cipe 70 the revision OF the most Intelligent
the result is simple but most ef-
1caclous medicine-the Judson's Mountain
All distractions, cseanse the akin of All MIN
Piles and blotches, and are perfectly sure and
safe in their operation. The Judson,a . Noun
tain Herb Pills cure Bfl1iousnesa, Female ir-
Irregularities, Headache, and many OF the dis
eases arising nom impare blood and derang-
ed digestion. Use the Judson'B Mountain
Herb Pulls, and when you have proved their
virtue recommend them TO your friends. They
are both suEar-coated and plsfn. For sale ey-
erVWhero. =
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
The Sin Of Exaggeration.

There is a fault, which does not
get itself called by the ugly name of
lie, but which is q dangerously close
relation to it, and that is the habit of
exaggeration. A man hears q thing,
true enough perhaps in its original
shape, but he passes it on with lit
tie addition of his own. The man to
whom he passed it on adds his touch
of exaggeration, until, at last, the
statement is so swollen and distorted
as to convey anything but the facts
of the case. Take many statements
which have gone forth and obtained
credence in the world and yet, though
they are in their final stage grossly
false, and do sore injustice, it is diff
ficult to charge any one with a full
grown lie, in the share he has had
in propagating the deceit. The result
is sort of accumulative lie, made
by successive persons contributing a
little touch of eXaggeration to the
story as it came into their hands.
The worst of it is that this mis-
chief is caused by the exercise of q
power which is sometimes useful
mean that creative imaginative pow
er which lends life to a description.
A man hears thing, and then gives
it the color of his own thoughts
almost unconsciously and yet, as ]
fear, this may produce very mischie-
vous, perhaps disastrous results.
And who is to blame? Why, every
one who has share in the accretions
which the story or statement has
received. See how responsible we
may be for the effects of lie, even
when we do not wish to deceive
How careful we should be not to add
to what we hear. If we must needs
repeat it, or help to circulate it, LEI
it leave US as it came. Let us pass
it on scrupulously unchanged, with
no twist or increase of our own.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

A lady living at Marseilles was re-
turning from church on q recent Sun
day, when she heard steps behind
her, and felt some one take her hand
and draw it under his arm. Turning
round she saw gentleman, elegantly
dressed, who was quite q stranger to
her. She tried to put away her arm
but the unknown held it firmly, and
said with an air of the greatest polite
ness, Madame, I am thief, and am
know that am a stranger in the
town, and will never suspect me If
they see me in the company of q
lady SO respectfully connected as you
must be % = ~ - sl3- 7 .-A
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

"Indade, an ye must just ask the
mistress. She tou1d me how to feed
the cow; an did it, an she houlds
out uncommon-doesn' shrink one
bit, and drinks every dhrop I give
her of the hot sup, and likes it too"
,ssWell, well, Corny, obey in all
things, and if all her commands can
make such returns, shall be willing
to obey also. / thought we should
have to buy both milk and Dutter to
supply our family this winter but
feed the COW well, and that will be
needless Hearth and Home.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The New York Sun asks :-ot
what benefit to the country is the
Solicitor of the Navy Department ?
His bureau was created by Congress
during the war. It was made to re-
lieveSecretary welles of work which
1t was impossib blee for him to do.
With Lees surrender passed away
the necessity for q Solicitor General.
Yet for five years Mr.. Solicitor
Bolles and his small army Of clerks
have drawn their salaries with per-
tinacious regularity. Let Congress
lop this excrescence from the Navy
Department without delay. SN
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

Some music teacher once wrote
that "the art ofplaying violin re-
quires the incest perception and the
most sensibility of any art in the
known world" Upon which an ed
itor comments in the following man
ner "The art of publishing a news
paper, and making it pay, and at the
body, beats fiiddlin' higher than a
kite"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
THE ALDINE PREss.-The typ

THE ALDINE PREss.-The typo
graphic art is shown in its perfection In this
ournal, published by SUTTON, BOVINE Il Co,
New York. 1t Is a monthly, and has attain
ed to its third volume. Each issue seems an
improvement on its predecessors, where i'm
provement is hardly possible, and all are beau
tiful. With twelve pages, of goodly news
paper size, it contains much excellent literary
matter every month, and is illustrated with
the finest specimens of engraving. The Feb
ruary number, especially fine in matter and
manner, deserves heartiest commendation.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
TuE fur trade is probably the only

THE fur trade is probably the only
traffic of any importanee-except,
perhaps that in ice-which can be
carried on in our new territory of
Alaska. The principal sources OF
supply there are the seal fisheries
and the attention of Congress has
lately been directed to the necessity
OF so restricting the indiscriminate
slaughter Of seals as to prevent the
utter determination of thess animals
sion. s -
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

Southey says, in one of his, letters ::
I have told you OF the Span1ard who
always put on his spectacles when
he was about to eat cherries, that
they might look the bigger and more
tempting. In like manner, 1 make
the most of my enjoyments: and
though I do not cast my cares away.
I pack them in as little compass as /
can, and carry them as conveniently
as can for myself, and never let
them annoy Others"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

We have reports Of atroei-
ties committed BY !thestroops of LO-
pez in Paraguay such asecutting the
throats of starving and unprotected
women, and leaving their bodies
scattered along the highways. De-
serters report4 Lopez as habitually
drunk. s r
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

A correspondent of the New En-
gland Farmer has made skim-milk
cheese in the fall when milk can be
kept sweet several days, by putting
the juice of grated carrots into the
milk after skimming, as is done to
color butter, and then treat the milk
in the ordinary way of making
cheese. After forty years experience
he pronounces such cheese nice.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The numerous deluded " American
heirs" to English estates, who are
constantly being fleeced by lawyers,
would save their money if they were
aware that an alien cannot be an heir
in England where there is no will,
and that he can not take real estate,
even If left to him by will.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

Use DIR. Pierce's AlteratiYe Ex-
tract, or Golden Medical Discovery
for all Coughs, Colds, Bronchial or
Lung Diseases. It arrests and cures
Consumption in it's early stages. Sold
and twenty-five cents to DR.. r. ".
Pierce, Buffalo, N. ", and get three
bottles free of express charges.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
EoIine. or. Mapnolia Vale

Eoline, or, Magnolia Vale or,
The Heiress of GIenmore. By CAROLINE LEE
HKNTZ. Philadelphia T. B. Peterson
Brothers Chicago IS. c. Griggs q Co.
This is the sixth volume issued of Petersons'
new and beautiful edition of the complete
works of Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, to be is
sued complete IN twelve large duodecimo vol
umes. Two volumes will be published each
month until the series Is complete.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

Among the bills presented at a re-
cent meeting of the Sandusky Coun-
Gil, was one demanding $3.50 "for
preaching funeral sermon for OAR
key died with smallpox" Notwith-
standing its reasonableness it was re-
ferred. @a
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The Londen Times; on the subject
of the recent decision by the Supreme
court Of, the United States on the
matters oflegal tenders, asserts that
the decision has restored English
confidence in American justice. soaa
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

A notorious desperate named Good
berry Kirby, who killed Constable
Gotten, near McMinnyille, Tennes-
see, a few days since, is wanted bad
Fly, and 5000 will be paid for his cap
turo,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

"A Belfast storekeeper, annoyed by
loafers who persisted in roosting on
the granite sill of his window, poured
sulphuric acid on the stone, so that
each of the loafers left a part of his
trousers there when he got up.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The Old and New for March inn
proves with age. In the "Record of Progress
we find an elaborate pune of Riverside, one Of
the suburbs OF Chicago There is also q short
article on the public works OF Chicago, which
Is not an advertisement.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

All the business houses at Sitka
Alaska, have succeeded in gettine
in their ice, and the crop is said to bg
very fine-almost quarter OF mile
hick.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The town of Lost Trail, Montana,
has only one woman within its linn
its, and the husband can't sleep
nights because SO many men stand
around his gate and CRATE their
teeth.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
JOB PRINTING
In all It's branches, neatly and promptly exc
cuted at this once on reasonable, terms.
q = Y I'd q EIsnE

"A Aov r EIS HRS
Are reareated TO hand in their ravors as early
II the wssk IS possibse. et =
All orders for job'work or advertising, when
sent bySaaii, win receive as prompt attention
If parties called in person.
Advertisements not undei contract must be
plainly marked the flenfth of time desired. or
they WIN be continued and charged for till or
dered out. enNsE
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17

The New York Snn says THE
negro, having got his Thirteenth,
his Fourteenth, and his Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution,
ought soon to, disappear from the
theatre of Federal politics as star
actor, and hereafter figure only on
the local boards of the Southern
States. ,,s,f.gf,. 10 .ess qg, rs s,rr.,