Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-04

Ddd. IOdAlS =lLlLS 10 SHROSbOO' ~
always set in with the moving season.
The naked trees will soon dress
themselves. They ought to be asham-
ed to remain in a nude state so long.
The man who wanted his advertise
ment "put in a conspicuous place so
that people will see it" called last
week.
The sweet voice of the mud-turtle
and that of the lig%htning-rod man will
soon be heard in the land. Get out
your shot guns.
The candidates whose "smiles were
child-like and bland" last Monday,
now keep their hands i'll their peck
cts when they meet you.
The serenade by "ChurchilI's String
Band" was delightful. Boys that will
peal repetition. Consider us hat in
hand, making our best bow to you all.
The vendors of "benzine" inform US
that their sales of the article are double
what it was two weeks ago. So it
goes. The greater the effort to put it
down, the more it "goes DOWN."
The beer drinkers of Terre Haute
have combined in an effort to force
the vendors to use larger glasses.-
They plead that more beer can be sold
that way. Jess So.
After an alb sence of several days, we
are pleased to announce the return of
the assistant Treasurer" to its old
quarters. When will the principal of
the office return?
La ancient days the precept was
"Know thyself.n in modern times it
has been snppIanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, "Know thy neigh
Dor and everything about him."
Spring will bring its pains as well
as its pleasures-its folly and fun will
be mingled with %fretfulness and fe-
vers-its fay breezes be interviewer
with financial fiusters.
Big congregations will be the order
of things in churches soon-it is most
time for spring goods9tobe in the
market, and the "dear creatures' viii;
each want to show their new harnessl
Oh, deari
We passeda dry friend on the street
the other day solifoquizing thusly:-
Our melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the year; the temperance
folks have stopped our whisky sings,
and next they'll stop our beerl
Some green chap has sent MS FOUR
TEEN pages of manuscript in which
"W. f. Plumper tells a story about
building to suit his friends" and asks
us to put it in. There is no RESPONSE
BILE name to it. Ofcourse we will put
it in - the stove!
1t is pleasant to hear from old friends
occasionally, if only in an accidental
way; we are therefore gratified to
hear from good old Ben Wade. Some
body interviewed him the other day
upon the political situation. He ans
wered briefly, beautifully, pertinently
and conclusiyely, "h-lis to pay all
round"
A donation party was recently Civ
Ell to a very worthy minister in a
neighboring town. His loving flock
came to his house, and brought forty
six bead and worsted watch-pockets
and three bundles of bed-slats ; and
then they ate seventy dollars3worth of
the minister's provisions and danced
his parlor carpet into rags. The pas
tor says hat one more donation party
will put him in the poor house.
The oId-fashioned humanitarian doc
trine that the drunkard was a diseas-
ed creature, incapable of effort and
possessing no moral accountability,
while the whisky seller was a fiend tc
be hunted down at all points, is fall
ing through. There is a growing dis
position to regard the drunkard as
sinner to a certain extent and to pun
ish him accordingly. We I glad t.
see it.
Very few of our readers L awar
of the exacting duties incumbent upol
those who are connected with the edi
ting of a newspaper. 1t is one of tn
hardships of the profession, that tn
mind and body are not allowed to la;
for sickness, or to stop for calamit,
or sorrow. The Judge may adjourn
l his court, the school and the workshop
: may close shutters, the ma
| veil his features and turn friends an
strangers from the door, but the jour
: nalist may forget Tomorrow tie sol
/ row of to-day, and must write gayl
S and freshly as a newsmonger on tn
: triies of the hour, whatever burde
o has been laid upon that same hour b
n Providence.