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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
PeriIs Of the Young.

In a lecture on the peril< OF the young
in Brooklyn, Rev Dewitt Talmage said
One class of t. mptaIipn comes from the
dishonest or loose employers. WIIal
hope is there for boy who learns ill d
store that lie is eXtusable; that MAI
oug''t 70 be hOnest-When it pays; that
il is wrong TO cheat-unless you can do
it we'll. The boy soon learns to cheat 50
sharply that he is finally promoted t" b,
his clerk. One morning the employ Ell
comes to the store and finds that the safe
has been broken open. Has the head
clerk been here? No; and he never will
be here again. He has acted on 10 new
principle-it was taught in the store.
There is a class of young men in New
''drummers." They have IA legitimate
business-there is a lawful way TO
transact it, and an unlawful way. Their,
are Inemhers of this class who take mer-
chants from the WtsI, and the country
round about, through all the dregs of the
city, showing them ''sight>," and intro
ducing them into the casinos and hell
OF vice. There is private drawer i'll
the store where money is kept to pay the
expenses of these private excursions.
The proprietor is, perhaps, a prOfessedlJ
religious man, and may be in a pray er
meeting while his clerk is at work.
What will be the result of this dissip,-
tion to the clerk? Sume day he " il
come into the store ragged and drunk,
md then he will be called ga disgrace u
the est blishmeut,'' and he will b,
hicked out. Young men of this Associa-
ton, sttnd round these clerks! Encuur-
age them TO be honest, and if honesty
leads them to want, put your hands int.
your pockets and help them. Many d
young man commences his dissipation
in Il tashI .nable club house and ends i'll
damnation at the Five Points.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
The 1hicsOfLoaGnr.

The Golden Era, alluding to the illness
of Mr.. c. lax a. the result OF over-work,
-ays: sour merchants, editors, finan-
ciers. lawyers, ministers and railroad
Officers are committing the same sin, anu
suffering the S me penalty. In TACT,
tins, for III. master-spifits Ot our timr
is the favorite mode OF dyfng-rrIe-
thanasia OF the nineteenth century.
The one thing that our ablest men are
unable TO do ois-to loaf. The very air OF
this age is charged with the oxygen
restless enterprise, and it acts upon
mems souls as Il new and a more fu lou
alcohol. The high places of the land
contain men guilty OF gross intcmper
ance in work, regularly drunk with
ot Il tyrann us and unintermitting in
dustry. 1t may he question wh' ther
the best assurance of a long life is not II
feeble constitution. The men of iron
frames, OIL muscles wrought of the heart
OF oak, of giant energy and endurance,
are The very men who presume upon tn,
Xtent of their physical capital, and
soonest hecome bankrupt i'll vitality
The ethics OF loafing needs to be eX-
pounded, and the sin OF inordinate ill
du>try to be denounced. No man has
Il better right to kill himself by over
working than he ha- to do it by over
drinking. If suicide be crime, lie who
dies by putting too great a task upon his
strength is as truly IA criminal as he who
dies by putting bullet through his
head. If a certain amount of rest and
recreation is necessary to ii mans health
and life, the omission 10 take it is as great
TN otfense against Gods law in nature,
as would be the ON ssion to take food
and death by wilful starvation is no more
an act Of self-d, struction than is deaIlr
by Milful fatigue"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
A YeritahIe SILVER Island.

Marvellous stories are told of the ores
that are being taken out of the Silver
Island region, on the northern shore OF
Lake Superior. The Chicago Tribune is
informed that from space of only about
sixty feet square a Detroit company last
fall took out eighty tons OF ore that
worked out $SO,OOO; that during the
winter $5OO,OOU to 81 ,O00, 600 worth of ore
was mined anu made ready for shipping 1;
that on the reoptning of navigation a
single vessel brought down to Detroit,
in one cargo, $2S0,O00 i'll ore; that good
deal of the ore taken out during the
winter will turn out $4,000 and some of
it 81 900 per ton, and that smaller guam
titles have produced at the rate Of $17,-
900 per ton. No such yield as that re-
ported from this Lake Superior region
has ever before been reported on the
American continent. The average pay
ing return OF the Comstuck and Colorado
mines is from $50 to $500 per ton. Silver
Island is situated in Thunder Bay, fear
tul and wonderful region, where in
cipient thunder and lightning roar and
flash around precipitious, craggy cliffs a
thousand feet i'll height, indicating the
presence in enormous quantities OF min
eral deposits of some kind.
The vein which crosses Silver Island
had been Traced across the main land a
distance of seven miles, and it is said to
be clearly defined from the surrounding
rocks by being several feet in width and
two or three feet high, and of wholly
different and harder material. Two OF
three other companies have prospected
and obtained, as they think, lands fully
us promising as those occupied by the
Detroit Company. So great. however, i:
the confidence of the astute capitalists ol
the latter company that they are erecting
reduction works near Detroit, and al
ready have five hundred men employed
in getting out the ore. 1t is very seldom
that the first adventurers i'll such tielus
procure the whole OF the most valuable
OF the treasure. 1t is evidently not 6
pocket deposit, but a tissure vein of ar
genti1erous galena, or silver and leaC
bearing rock, of which the lowest ye
taken out proves the richest.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

jewvlry, the only difference being III
color. The red is found in the Mediter
ranean Sea. The choice coral OF jew ell
er> is, then, the skeleton portion of a liv-
ing form. While alive and gr"widg the
surface is envtlOped in i crust of lime,
out OF which, through many minute
pores, the rolyps spread their star-lik'
mouths. This black coral is equally fine
in ils texture, and has tie same wavy gloss
that characterizes the red. 1t w"ulu
prove pleasing material tor the same
uses. Some of the old g rgonias, bear
ing large, heavy tops, have from time to
time thrown out new deposit of the
ro"t, SD Us to make sure hold against
the heavy sea. These, when found dry
upon the beaches, so closely resemble tht
gnarled roots of u Tree in colO- and form
that nothing but the well-known results
OF the chrnii' al analysis will convince
ore una quainted with til IN. 1t is pre-
cisely the same as animal horn or hOol.
L DIR. j. B. HOLDER, in Hdrper'S Nug
dzihe for july.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
Manufacture of Spring KNIVES

Few people, says the Nechanic's Mag
"ztte, have all idea through What num-
Ter of hands their pock, knives have
passed IN the process OF manufacture. A
tar of steel destined to furnish d mum lei
of blades il heated to redness. A Length.
is cut off, and the IOrser speeuny
"mOOdS'' this, that il, shapes ii roughly
into the loim of d pucket kniIe blade.
Another heating is then required to ii.
the end tor being fashioned in.o tie
Iang, and yet another before it can uIl-
deIgO the further operation of ''smith
ing" the last stage OF winch is tie
Stamping of the mark of the thumb hail
to I'll, ililate opening. The tang is then
ground, and the blade marked with the
lame OF the ii IN. The slight buIgc OH
the reverse side caused by this operation
is removed by fire or tie gIinustone
The blade is then hardened by II, atiIIg it
to redness and plunging 1t into water up
10 the tang.
The tempering process follows next
the blueish fellow tint being considered
as indicating that the proper degree o,
heat at which to immerse the blade enc,
more i'll cold water has been attained.
After this tile various kinds OF blades ar,
classified ill the warehouse, and undergo
sundry grinding operations to tit them
for being hatted. Twelve distinct pro
cesses have by this time heen gone
before the knife is completely finished,
although the number OF ha, DIS which ii
has now to pass through d. pends in II
sreat measure on the finish to be given
10 the handle, according to the quality
OF the blades with which it il fitted, and
the price Which The completed i'll uticle is
intended to realize.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

About a week ago, the San Francisco
newspapers contained an account of the
death of James Hunter, at San Rafael,
giving the day ON which the funeral
would take place in that town. On the
day appointed or the burial, a large mum
ber OF the friends of the family residing
in San Francisco, and several ladies and
gentlemen Who formerly was intimately
tcquainted with the deceased ana his
FAMILY, and had since taken up their r. si-
dence i'll Oakland, repairef to San Rafael
to attend the funeral OF their old friend
Mr.. Hunter, it may he stated here, Was ii
liquor merchant of San Francisco, and
had a country residence in San Rata /,
and having large circle of trends, his
funeral was largely attended. The
church. in fact, was full. The ceremO-
nies were conducted with mu' h soltm-
nifty, and produced deep ami visible Ell
Iect upon those who had known and es-
teemed the departed one. A gentleman
" no was prtsent-who, by the way, is ii
prominent city official of Oakland, who
had deemed il a duty to attend the last sati
rites OF his triend-informs US that a
number of ladies and gentlemen who hao
accompanied him from this city and San
Francisco, were so much affected by the
sermon and the loss sustained by the
death of Mr.. Hunter, that th' y were un-
able to restrain their tears and sObs OF an
guish. AT the conclusion of the cert mo-
Lies the pall-bearers gathered around the
coffin and proceeded to carry it out of the
church, when one OF the San Francisco
ladies was observed to step forward II ON
her seat and throw her arms around the
neck OF one of the mourners, and, in a
nalf hysterical manner eXclaim, ''Oh,
Mr.. Hunter, we thought this WAS your
funerall' HIRE was an episode with a
-ngeance. The coffin was set back on
the altar, and around the interrupted
pail bearers gath, red some twenty OF
more of the del, Cation from San Fran
CISCO and Oakland, who had come all the
way to attend the funeral OF Mr.. Hunter
Some held back, their superstition fore
ing the beliei into their minds tuat Gheil
friends ghost stood be .Ore them instead
of the genuine flesh and blood reality
As the "yalIar kivered" hooks say, "Let
us draw The curtain which hides the
dreadful mystery Mr.. james Hunter
liquor dealer o. San Francisco, who hid
a country residence at san Rafael, was
ds dead as door nail, AMI so com l,letell
.efunct that even Oh GabrIels truml
Wouldn't wake him at this epo h of the
world. Bu there were tw o James Hun
ers, both were liquor dealers, and boil
lucky enough to have high old scene
as might be supposed. Let us drop The
| all .-OhtGno Cot- 11Ghsc1pt
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

GrUmhlerS.

very large, very respectable, and
very know ing class of misanturopes re-
joice in the lame OF GI Iumblers-persOns
Who are so Suie thit the OrId is going
to ruin, that they resent every attempt
to comfort them as an insult to I'll, il sa-
gacity, and rcrordingly seek their Chief
consolation III beirg inconsolapIe, their
chief pl assure is being dispiea>ed. 1heIr
raven crOaks drown ali melodies of lark
nd linneG. Indee'i, like ia, queS. they
can SUCK melon, holy out of song, as d
easel sucks eggs" 1t is to them we
are doubt e>s in eUted for that phrase
which includes all our actions and all the
circumstances OF our being i'll this world
under the general term OF she concerns
of life" Dolerull and grabbed, their
conversation is Il succession OF omInouS
prophecies emitted in series of grow L..
Mad at the inIaLuatiOn Oh these simple
tons who IHSlSJ on feeling cheer Ell by
cheerful things, they grutfiy hint of tin
tempeStS Whlcu are hid i'll the SuuSh me
and caluI. \ Ou must meet one of them
IL the Stret t, anu III guSh OF delight at
lie hea\ enlIneSs OF the weather, venture,
The suggestion that 1T is fine day
"Yes,' lie replies, one OF those inIernal
sLOrm-Ureedei Such a creature hav-
ing no other comfort than kind OF fret
IuI saLlsIa, ton in finding fault, YOU
make him hopelessly miserable when
you leave him no Sha .oW OF Il cause Ior
complaint. Thus Charles Lamb speaks
OF one OF his comp ,nions who, i'll the
.ame of whist, Was always grumblinS
because he had 20 few Jrumps. By some
i,rtitice i'll dealing, the whole thirt, ell
were once given INN, in the hope that
ttiat solnc sound o. giee might be audi bic
In oush his instructive grunt; but after
examining his hand a. tentively, he
looked More wretched than ever. "Well,
Iom," said Lamb, ''haven't you got
enough trumps now?" s'Ees," was the
grow ing answ er, "Uut I've got no other
car " ludeeu, discomfort, Ill the coll
rirmed grumUler, is literally Il complaint,
a settl, u disease OF the mind. AL his
perceptions of nature and lite being
twisted and distorted into the shape of
his own Mretched tancies, he can see
nothing as il is. Obstinate i'll ab>urdity,
you can not tempt or Coax him into
sense. ''He is us stiff as a poker" Said a
friend of one OF these unreasonable and
un, easoning dogmatists. ''Stitf as Il
poker" Vas the reply; .'why he would
set an exam pie to Il poker.'' Dejr ton
i'll the heart Is thus apt to become stupid
lty in the head; anu against SIMPLE
stupidity "heaven and earth fight i'll
vain" In fact, the grumbler culIIVate>
his Grabbed Iolly y as u Conscientious uutv,
and swaggeis and ellis Oh the strength
of it as il to be snarling bore Was 10
Reach the summit OF human ex, e lence.
and 10 grow i'll stupidity was TO grow in
grace. 'Sir," said d.. Johnson, in refer
ence to one of this class-"SIr, Sherry is
dull, naturally dull; but he must have
taken Il great deal OF pains 10 bec''me
" hat we now STE him. Such an excess
OF stupidity is not in nature, sir. L AIN
willing to allow him all the merit fOr it
he can claim"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

INDUCED from childhood in the ha-
bitual use OF them all. The fact that
many who have not employed these
stimulants have also lived long does
not disprove our. proposition. 1t is
useless to follow the subject from this
point of view, for, like all other SUBJ
jects argued pro ct con in the light of
examples, it is liable to become so
entangled in maze of verbiage and
assertion that proves nothing, and
all engaged in it find themselves in
the end just where they started from,
nobody convinced, and sense of
having made themselves ridiculous in
the pursuit of a shadow the prevail
ing feeling.
But there is another standpoint
from which the matter can be viewed,
which all understand, and that is pub
lie interest and the welfare of trade
and commerce Let us suppose for
a moment that the entire trade in the
small luxuries of comparatively light
individual cost should suddenly ter
inmate What would become of the
thousands of producers of tobacco,
cigars, smokers articles, confections,
and the whole fraternity of dealers
in wares of no actual value in them
selves, but which man in a civilized
state, with his artificial wants, de-
mands? Still this is hut a narrow
view, and refers only to the compare
lively few through whose hands these
productions reach the consumers.
The entire agricultural population Of
whole States and nationalities would
find themselves at a stand-still idle
for want of a market The incentive
for operations being removed, the
operations would cease; universal
bankruptcy would ensue; trade would
come to a dead halt; commerce
would languish the worlds shipping
would rot upon the untraveled seas :;
all manufactures would die; famine
and pestilence would brood over the
earth; and the blackness and silence
of chaos would envelop all things.
The trade in these and kindred COM
modities keeps money in circulation,
builds cities, covers the ocean with
the white winged fleets of the nations,
any is really the source of all mate
rial prosperity, individual and collect
i've, and we cannot afford to "despisc
the day of small things"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

Henry P. Seymour, disgusting miser,
was unearthed by the Hartford police the
other day, in state OF filth that beggars
description. In the midst OF Il mass OF
nastin-ss was dirty lounge, on which
the old man had slept, while in an ad-
joining room was the decaying carcass
OF hog, which had probably been there
for weeks, till it was almost completely
decomposed, and the animal lite IN and
upon it was crawling in every directi n.
Seymour was escorted to the station
house, and measures taken to clean out
his den and apply chemical purifiers.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

WILLARD Young, cadet at West Point,
told an in:el viewing reporter, the otIer
day, that he has sixteen brothers and
twenty two sisters. LII regard 10 ''haz-
iIg," the young prophet complained:
III the cadets see us go by, they spit out
their quius of tobacco on the grass, and
then old+r us i'll the most peremptoIy
way to pick them up with our ringers
and carry th' m off the g,ound. Now, L
think that's a shame. l know it's only
done to annoy and degrade us, and I've
made up my mind TO put my fist under
the ear of the first fellow that orders me
to do such thing again. IGon't believe
that there is any sense in such things,
menial."
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20

Mr.. Lincoln was exceedingly aston
ished one day, rs he WIS inspecting the
prison in ashington, by a prisoner " ho
Iamiliarly saId 10 hun: elbow are ou.
Mr.. PRECEDENT? Pm glad to see you.
believe that you ana l have be, IL i'll every
Jail i'll the Union" ''This anu the Jail at
Springfield are the only ones l was ever
i'll i'll my life," sald Mr.. Lincoln. ''Very
likely, responded the Regular, but l
have been i'll all the rest"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
WHOLE NUMBER 221.
HUMOROUS.

"Chille Coddy, Roast County, G, H."
is the shape ChillicoIhe takes ON a letter
" hich was mailed at Columbus yester-
daV
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
THE NEWS.

Vice President Colfax has written a
letter denying that he has rrconsiurred
his determination to retire from public
Iifo
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-07
Choice Poetry.
Love Lightens Labor,

A Al,.. -
Al ,,'.,''., - ,ose iro,n her peo one morn,
or tho n,,os' 'as ',a,,,'. a = n.' 'ous % %ure"u
rha, .,,'n. y. V'o'ne.s .o pe washed, and more
There's the meals ,o 90, o,s ~, -,
And the children ~ n - ''e" w '"e "oiu'
To school. pnd tho min, w. H. .,.,,
churped. '''" W o' sS'"'ineu ano
And ali 10 no ,o,a ,,,.,
'''
% n"u ra'neu IN me night, and all the wood
"as wet us IL could be;
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-07

REMARKABLE NATURAL CURIOSITY
IN SUsQUEHANNA County. The Mont
rose Republican says that it is well
known that great trouble and expense
nave been caused by the sinking of a
portion OF the track of the jefferson
railroad, where it crosses a swamp in
Ararat township, in this county. 1t
has been found that under the swamp
Is subterranean pond, of several acres
In extent and of considerable DEPTH
This pond is covered by about six feet
in depth of black earth, which supports
a heavy growth of woods. The trees
are mostly soft maple, pine, hemlock
and birch, many of them ranging from
six inches to three feet in diameter
Last fall 1t was discovered that this
subterranean pond contains many fish,
OF the kinds usually found in ponds in
TINS part Of The country-pickero and
"shlners' among others-but all with.
out eyes! In the darkness of theirsub.
terranean abode, they have no use for
the organ of vision.
Inc Ball Pond, about mile and a
half distant, is now 'growing over.',-
A considerable part of it has become
subterranean within the last twenty
years, and probably before many years
it will be entirely covered like the 9th.
er. This pond is about twenty acres in
extent. For some distance from the
shore it is filled with dense growth OF
water lilies, and these no doubt furnish
the foundation on which the super
structure OF earth is commenced
Should this pond become completely
covered and consequently hid in dark
ness, the fish in its waters would proba-
bly, In time become eyeless, as Others
have done.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-07
Clothing, 60.
NEW STOCK OF CLOTHING.
Fresh arrival OF

NEW STOCK OF CLOTHING.
Fresh arrival OF
SUMMER GOODS.
DAVID LowENBERG
invites attention to his stock OF
CHEAP AND FASHIONABLE CLOTHING.
at his storeon
Main Street. two doors above tho American IIouse
bloomsbury, Pa,
where ne has just received from New York and
Philadelphia full assortment of
MEN AND BOYS CLOTHING,
including tho most fashionable, durable, and
handsome
consisting of
BOX, SACK, Roco, GUM, AND oIL-aLoTH
CoATSAND PANTS.
oi all Sorts sizes and colors. lie has also roplen
ished his already large stock of
FALL AND WINTER suAwLs,
STRIPED, FIGURED. AND PLAIN VESTS
SHIRTS, CRAvATs, STOCKS. COLLARS
HANDKERCufEFs, GLOVES,
sUsrENDERs, AND FANCY ARTICLES
He mas constantly on hand n large and well.se.
ected assortment of
CLOTHS AND vEsTINGs,
which he is prepared 10 make TO order into any
kind OF clothing, on very short notice. and in the
best manner. All his clothing is made to wear
and most of II is of home manufacture.
GOLD WATCHES AND JEwILRY,
OF every description, fine and cheap. His case OF
jewelry is not surpassed in thlsplace. Call and
examine his general assortment OF
CLOTHING, WATCHES JEwELRY, &C.
Janl'7! DAVID LOwENBERG.