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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
Scott,s Popularity.

Asa novelist, Scott's unparalleled pop
ularity fifty years ago has been perhaps
in some degree diminished by the
achievements of more recent writers of
fiction. When our fathers were enjoy
ing the humor of the ssAntiquary" or the
pathos of the bride of Lammermoor, !"
there was no Dickens, no Thackeray, no
Lytton, no Trollope, no Charles Reade,
no Charlotte Bronte, no George Eliot
Some of these writers have surpassed
Scott in breadth of humor, in profound
knowledge of the human heart, in subtle
analysis, in exquisite perfection of style.
One sees almost at glance how inferior
he is in one direction to Dickens, IN an
other to Thackerary, in another to Geo.
Eliot; but taken as whole we think
that Scott is still, as in his lifetime,
though not by far the greatest writer of
fiction in its highest form, the greatest of
all modern writer's of romance, the novel
ist who has given the multitude the
largest measure of delight, and that of
the purest kind; who has told the best
stories, and has ennobled what he has
written with the charm of the liveliest
Imagination. And that this charm is still
powerfully exercised is evident from the
fact that there are seven or eight editions
of the Waverley Novels always upon sale
and selling rapidly. Mr.. Carlyle antici-
pates the time when they will cease to
amuse. 1t is possible that new ages may
require a new literature, but Scott's
works have lost no popularity in fifty
years. No wonder that Scotland is glad
to celebrate the birth of her worthiest
son, but Sir Walter Is the 'Eworld's dar-
nng'' also, and it has. rarely happened
that the worlds applause has been be-
slowed so worthily. =.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
Horrible AdulteratIons.

And now comes butter into the ring of
the impurities. An analytical chemist
has extracted from a portion of Hudson
river mud, taken from that river near
Vesey street, pure white fat. At this
stage it lacks both taste and smell, but
properly manipulated, it makes very
popular article of food-whether tracea-
bic to the refuse of manufactures and of
ships or other sources it is impossible to
say. That there is, however, no doubt
about the tact, is proved by the circum-
stance, that, about a week ago a small
proprietor on the bank of that noble
stream, thunderstruck by the apparent
extravaganza of an offer for a section of
his wharf, learned that it was a very
favorable situation for q butter factory.
Now, the faster this secret oozes out of
its discoverer's brain into the receptive
organs of other imposters, the faster, of
course, will the mud it utilizes be made
to ooze out of its native bed into pats of
New York and Philadelphia butter,
which, if the article as to its origin were
fully to be told, would be stamped with
IL likeness, not merely OF a COW, but of
Hendrick Hudson. Unfortunately.
knowledge of adulteration is not step
toward its suppression. We must grin
and bear it, although we are quite awake
to the fact, that our milk is sluiced with
water, our ale colored delicate brown
with IquOrice, and our butter likely
enough to be enriched with the fertiliZ-
ing properties of mud
What ale We to do, when one proverb
warns us that every one eats peck of
dirt before he dies, and another never to
quarrel with our bread and butter, not
even when the latter is mud pie with a
vengeance of the earth indeed earthly
Industrial Protector.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
struggle ON to victory.

Never give up when you are right. A
frown is only a muscular contraction,
and can't last long. A laagh of derision
can be laughed out of the good, or the
good out of you; you are weaker in in
fellecb than the fool whose argument is a
guffaw, and whose logic is sneer. Are
you a drunkard? Do you feel in your
sober moments that you are degraded
Good thoughts, these; cherish them.
Ponder on your disgrace though your
heart feels cold ,and you would sooner die
than live were you not afraid; but
infinite goodness has drawn the vail d;
struggle on, upward, and out of these
despairing thoughts assert your man
hood, and the demons will enter into the
human swine who. have taught you to
wallow in the filth of drunkenness, and
you will be saved. Struggle on to vic
tory. Are you thief? Steal no more
strike eourageously to break down the
barriers of prejudice you yourself have
constructed. Behonest, not from policy,
but for rrighteousness' sake, and neither
earth nor hell can prevent your victory.
Have you been humbugged or swindled
by your partner in business, and have
you lost all? Don't despair, and for
swearall human companionship. Strug-
gle on; you will at last meet the right
man, and victory will be yours. Strug-
gle on, all men, for the right, for life is
but one continuous struggle from the
first infantile cry to that last sigh, which
is rushing of the soul to escape from
the last struggled with death.A Struggle
above all things-agonize.i if it must be
to ascend; let your progress be ever up
hill, until you reach that summit from
which, to endless life, ever serene and
happy, there is but one step.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

hair was rumpled, and the blue eyes were
| just opening from sleep. The intelligent
forehead was wrinkled strangely. II
was my boy Billy. L was afraid he would
cry ttpapa.'' If he did, the implacable
man would add the murder of the chile
to the murder of the father.
But my boy did none of this. He had
/ suppose, crept under the table unknown
to me, and fallen asleep there. L tried
to tell the little fellow to hide again, and
wait for the final half hour when my
| tormentor would be gone. Whether he
| understood me or not, aided by what he
had heard, 1 did not know; but he
| quickly withdrew his little curly head
| first kissing his hand lightly at me, and
| then shaking his fist at the schemer
watching so belligerently his dumb fire
| agents. ,,g,-ss-... -er,.,r
The half hour wore slowly away. o
heavensi what agony did L sufferI not
for myself, but for my child.f A light
noise might discover his presence; the
match might run its tetller sooner than
was expected. He might be murdered
orb1own to atoms. df r stGug.ar
The fuse burned on-on. The half
! The brother of the murderer rises to
go! joy! b@s sgbaiIuGi EDS
Commit your soul to Gods keeping
he said. etYou hold the evidence of my
brothers guilt-notfring can save you
now ~ s5T[TGSa. lHB = -tr.t. =.
L With that, he turned to take his hat
from off the table covered with the GRIM
son cloth, beneath which hid my price
less boy. Something attracted his atten-
ton. He held out his hands and leaned
forward. 1lthought he, had discovered
my boy! No! he was lifting something
in either hanu-the wires of the electric
Battery In another instant my boy had
leapedBfron under the table, and was
turning the crank fast and furiously.. .
The mhrderer's brother was in the
power of my boy. He could mot drop
the wires; he was helpless and notion
less. How mysboy cried forahelp!f The
old college rang again. 1.-The prisoners
brother added his voice to my boys in
his agony! He begged, he beseeehed-
all his nerves were raeked-great waves
of galvanism uleaped, surged, and trem-
bled, and jarred over every sensitive
nerve and fibre. Still my boy was in
flexible, and shouted and turned faster.
Unperceived, upon the marble,r in the
lnfiammable oil. In an instant a great
length burned away. 1t would last just
five minutes and no more. --s
'Fatheri" shouted my boy, E'if no as
Lsistance comes, this william must die with
us; dare not let him free. Help help
help!'' - ss-5.F. t. afs=-- :.
Alas! could not answer him.
But some one else didl Thank God
The fuse is burnt up! The rope is on
fire, the nitro-glycerine The door opens,
Tom Richards on midnight visit to the
sick, has heard the cry. He comprehends
all, seizes the can in his hand-the weight
deseends, indeed, but not on the death
dealing oil. No, down it goes through
the office hoorsdown, down, like an evil
spirit, to give back a dull, metallic echo
from the stones of the cellar beneath.
We are saved! "' e SIS
Joe Johnson, the prisoner, was hanged,
but his brother remains unpunished by
the law, for he stabbed himself with q
knife, and thus escaped the hangman's
rope. e.I.-r sf.s-.s ~
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
Reware of I1nIostor,s.

The american Grocer says: Country
merchants and those of the South and
West particularly, should beware of per-
sons who represent themselves travellers
for well-known New York houses, and
solicit orders and make contracts, appar-
antly in the most genuine manner, gem
orally ending the business by requesting
the merchant to cash a small draft for
travelling expenses. When it is too late
the merchant finds the contract unau-
thoffzed and the draft worthless. The
latest case reported is that of parties
travelling under the names of Eddie
Helme and Willie Fountaine, who pro-
duce certificate written upon the letter.
head of some Well-known New York
house, and then proceed to sell goods at
such attractive prices and terms that
several firms have been induced to give
orders for goods or ship produce to
houses in New York, who, as it is need
less to say, were much surprised to hear
of the Transactions These imposters in
Yariably end by requesting the cashing
of draft, sometimes on the New York
houses and sometimes on Southern banks,
where they represent that they have
funds Country merchants should never
do business with a travelling agent unless
personally acquainted with him or
voached for by some friend or neighbor.
All genuine travellers have their arrange
ments for funds SO made that they need
not call upon strangers for favQrs. Ger
tificates written on the printed forms of
New. York houses are not reliable, for
the counting rooms of all large houses
are open to the public and stationary is
easily procured and certificates forged to
suit.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
Paris Two Hundred Years Ago

LIE Rural newspaper publishes letter
written by jacques Sanguin, provost of
the merchants of Paris, to Henri w.,
which gives not very fiattering but
probably very truthful account of the
French capital and its inhabitants in the
year 1892. ''It contains he says, ''two
kinds of population, one very different
from the other, both in mind and heart.
The true population, born and bred in
Paris, is the most intelligent; while the
other, Sire, is the offscouring of all
France. Every town in your provinces
has its sewer which conveys its impuri-
ties to Paris. For instance, girl goes
wrong at Rouen. Forthwith she takes
the coach and comes to Paris to conceal
her shame. She brings forth little be-
ing and the Partisan feeds it though it is
the child of Norman; and every one
cries out against the licentiousness OF
Paris, If a man has stolen at Lyons, he
comes to Paris to hide from the police :;
as there is no trade here so lucrative as
that of thief, he pursues his calling
with the greatest success. If he is caught,
this is what happens: the Partisan who
has been robbed him, and every one in
the provinces says, paris is the place for
robbers If man from Marseilles has
committed a murder, Paris is his refuge
and his impunity; and if he kills any
one elsa Partisan, that is to say-the
people in the provinpes Say, sThere are
more assassins in Paris than all the rest
of France 1t is time, Sire, that this
were brought to an end. The town of
Paris must no longer be the hosiery of
the thieves and sluts of your provinces.
Let energetic laws cast this SCUM out OF
the town, SO that the Partisan stream
may resume its purity and transpar-
ency,"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
EVERYTHING.

At sixty-five years of age the author
OF lien thousand Year, takes unto
himself wife.
The great prosperity of English rail-
ways is exciting much attention from
the British press.
Italy has twenty-one universities, of
which twenty were last year attended by
| 5,940 students.
An Englishman is slid Eever to travel
without an umbrella and dressing case.
Nashville is getting frightened by
| report that large cave exists under that
city.
1t is said that the sheriff of New York
makes 100000 out of the Ludlow street
Jail.
Seventy different kinds of rice are cul-
tivated in India, besides avarice.-[ Chi
cdgO Republican. an
You should get married exactly at
noon, nowadays, if you respect the
claims of fashion.
The "Origin of Speech'' may often be
traced to the 'EVeuve Clicquot. ~ Judy.
A rare edition (among modern novels)
The second.-[Judy. ~ 5,-
ten eggs went as baggage on the Knox
vile railroad, in Tennessee, recently.
Ladies at the White Mountains sleep
under coverlets of newspapers, as there
| are not blankets enough to go round.
President Gowen, of the Reading Rail-
road, draws $4,000 more.salary annually
than President Grant does.
Boring for the Lake Tahoe water tun-
mel through the Sierra Nevada mountains
was to commence September 1st.
Chicago has eight public libraries and
| reading rooms, nine hospitals and four
teen charitable asylums.
Ought an advocate of the policy of
noh7interference in every difficulty to
be rewarded with NEEDLE Pr Boston
Advertiser.
Acockney friend accounts for Scott's
rapidly springing into fame by saying
that he was the greatest Waulter of his
day. Fun.
A 'slong-lost brother came rushing
back to the Dubuque homestead the
other day, after vacation of seventeen
years.
In addition to its other troubles, Peru
has lately received fifty copies of "What
L Know About Farming"
A Saratoga correspondent says that
"plaiting fingers on the piazzas' is more
popular there than dancing.
A Wautoma, Wisconsin, lover wrote
his sweetheart: "There is not globule
of blood in my heart that does not bear
your photograph" A very reflective
sort of fellow he must have been.
The Philadelphia Bulletin tells this:
'One of the Peale family dropped into
Independence Hall and looked at the
pictures. Portrait No. 90, labeled sGen.
Charles Lee, J-attracted the especial atten-
ton of the visitor. The picture appeared
to have somewhat familiar appearance
A closer examination was made, and
then it was discovered that the painting
was portrait of Gen. Arthur O'Conner,
of the Irish Rebellion of 1898. We have
the satisfaction of knowing, however,
that our City Fathers were not the only
persons 'sold' by the bogus portrait, as
New York publisher, who was engaged
in publishing life of Gen. Lee, sent
here and had an engraving made from
the portrait for the purpose of illustra-
ting the book. 1t is quite possible there
may be other portraits in the 'HalP not
properly marked. Who knows?"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
SECOND FLOOR.


This floor is filled to repletion with a
a most superb stock oflace feathers, lin
ings, sole feathers; the best make of
shoe-lasts, and maple and birch pegs,
lampblack, crimping-b brakes, hemlock
sole and fair bride feathers. In the
front part of this floor is, situated the
Office, of ample dimensions, in which
the business of the house. is transacted.
The
THIRD AND FOURTH FLOORS
Are used for the purpose of currying
and finishing skirting. harness, fair and
black bride, collar, wax upper, calf and
Kip skins; and on the fourth floor, the
ceiling being some twenty feet in hight,
an additional foor is let into make an
other story. s. -. -
THE swAREHo6 So. =
In addition to the main building, Mr..
Wooifey invited us into the warehouse
attached to the premises, where we
found still more fine Buffalo leather.
Said he: awe have disposed of a1arge
portion ofithe goods usually stored here,
and the-stock is rather below the aver
ages' Yet there appeared sufficient to
supply every resident ofithe city with at
leastone pair OF soles.s s5z x a
In a resume of the above, we feel free
to say that we were equally surprised
and pleased at the extent to which we
found the hide and leather, trade adj
vaneed in the Queen City, and it Is a
pleasure with us to be enabled to lay be-
fore our readers full description of this
magnificent establishment. ,4a E.fif
I'VE are satisfied that no city in the
Union can make better showing in this
line, Aand we recommend all strangers
visiting Cincinnati in search of hides,
leather, &C., to give Mr.. Woolley call.
With so complete and superior a stock to
select from, none need go away unsuited.
Cincinnati manufactures enterprise,
skill and energy are well exemplified in
this house, which has quietly advanced
to aleading position in its speciality, and
now almost controls the trade in the
West. -
we found Mr.. Woelley an urbane and
pleasant gentleman, and opine that those
who have business with him will coin
eide with US.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
A Farmers Experience.

That the success of farming is an ex-
perience.
That to ask a mans advice is not stoop-
ing, but often of much benefit.
That to keep place for everything,
and everything in its place, saves many
step, and is pretty sure to lead to good
tools, and to keeping them in order.
That kindness to stock, like good shell
ter, is a saving of fodder
That to fight weeds is to favor grain,
and to do justice to your neighbors.
That in making home agreeable you
keep your boys out of the city.
That it is good thing to keep an eve
out on experiments, and note all, both
good and bad.
That it is good thing to grow into
farming-not jump into it.
That it is good rule to sell your grain
when it is ready.
That the first mellow soil in the spring
is your mellowest, and should be first put
in.
That all of farming is summed up i'll
the manure heap on the farm.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
2g-10 EATON, OHIO THURSDAY, OCTOBER

and curriers', i'm plements are of endless
variety and beautiful finish, and the col
lection upon this floor is disposed in the
most elegant manner, economy of space
and elegance of arrangement being con-
sidered inthe placing of each article for
the inspection of customers, and that no
loss ftime- maybe necessary in making
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

tsWhen a distinguished American
dies,''t said shrewd and sarcastic OBJ
server, not long ago, ''his admiring
friends and countrymen Immediately re-
solve to build him magnificent monu-
ment, and then-they don'tbu it."
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

The San Francisco Bulletin, in view of
the increase of overland railroad freights,
advocates making that city a free port.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

For Job Printing call at this office.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

At sixty-fve years of age the author
of "Ten thousand Year, takes unto
himself wife.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05
suB-CELLAR,

In which Is stored the large stock of oils
kept on hand by this house; and here we
desire to say that no other leather and
finding house In the country contains so
extensive and well-selected a stock OF
oils for the use of tanners. In this spe-
cialty we found tanners oil, tallow, Lab
rador cod, straits and bank oils, japonica
and the various extracts of hemlock and
chestnut oak sbarks. Notwithstanding
the extent of the building, for want of
room a large number of hides are obliged
ito be kept in this sub-cellar.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-05

selections
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-17
ALEX A N d IA.

STAY OF ExECUTION-In the case OF Bird
sentenced TO three years in the penitentiary for
blgamy, stay Of execution was granted to give
the prisoners counsel time to apply for q super
sedeas.
HIDDEN TRHAsURB-A corked bottle was
recently found floating i'm the overlooked cellar
OF MT. Samuel Grigg, at the upper end of King
street, containing note dated june u, 1864,
stating that large sum of money had been de-
posted somewhere about the premises by man
who Is supposed committed suicide during the
war. Large numbers OF persons were promptly
on the premises with buckets in hand to make q
search for the hidden treasure.
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL-
RoAD.-The grading OF the Alexandria and
fredericksburg Railroad having been completed
to the stone bridge, the contractors, Messrs.
Henry street, north Of Queen, on Monday morn
ing I next:
corner of the intersection of Duke and ROYAL
streets, with the old framed building thereon,
formerly used as St. Johns Academy, has been
sold by Messrs. Green & Wise, real estate agents,
$500 cash.
COAL sHIPMENrs-The amount of coal
shipped from this port during the week ending
to-day has been as follows: American Coal
Company 3,517 tons; Hampshire and Baltimore
Company 1,067 tons; and j. p. Agnew us tons
SCHOOL FUND APPORTIoNMENT.-To-da the
State Superintendent Of the Public Instruction
VIII apportion among all Of the counties and
cities Of the Commonwealth except Norfolk and
portsmouth, sS1 900. There are in the Common
wealth, between rae ages of 1--WE ard twenty-one
years, 4o4 ,s32 persons, who constitute what is
known as the schod population The proposed
apportionnent will give twenty cents per head
for each person tn a county or city. between the
ages named. norfolk and Portsmouth hare
not complied with the requirements of tie
present from the benefits Of the apportionment.
Gazette Of Saturday evening. -1N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-17
lEGIsLATryE ASSEMBLY.

COTNCIL.-saturday, Mr.. Brown, from the Com
mittee on the judiciary, reported back the bill for
the relief Of Columbian College; which was passed.
Bill for the construction of a new fire engine in the
northern part of the city, was read Mr.. Eaton Of
fered an amendment, to locate the building the
lot Of ground belonging to the CITY, the corner of
. and 9th streets. Referred.
Bill modifying the practice Of the Supreme Court
the appointment of Justices of the Peace laid
taxes by the Board Of Public Works; referred.
House bill changing the nsme Of Union alley to
school street referred House bill providing for the
appointment Of Inspector Of Petroleum and other
burning fluids; referred House bill for the purchase
Ct certain grounds east Of the Capitol, for market
purposes; referred.
Mr.. Eaton submitted resolution that the Gov
ernor be authorized TO contract with General o. O..
Howard for the support OF poor and INDECENT persons
OF color who are inmates of the Freedmans Hos
pital He submitted q letter from Dr. Reyburn, sur
geon in charge of the hospital, showing that they
should be supported by the District Laid over.
Mr.. Browne, from the Committee on Police, re-
p rte1 back the bill to prevent the carrying of con-
cealed weapons, with an amendment adding to the
list Of such weapons loaded canes; passed. He also
introduced bill 10 suppress the crying of papers
the Lord day fixing the penalty in each case at S.
La I'd over.
Mr. Brown called up the House resolution re-
lating to the adjournment the 18th instant to the
18th day of September. After some discussion the
concurrent resolution was amended king sine die
adjournment on the 18th Of July; which was agreed
to, and the bill passed.