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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-25

GARDENERS SITUATION WANTED-BY A RE-
" spectacle young German married. one child knows
the and cultivation of plants vegetables and grap-
cries. greenhouse lay out garuens
would like to take care of gentemans place. best city
reference. Address call Thomas Carkes scotsman
and florist junction OF Fulton and Fort Green place.
bro kxn
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
The Lost /" Atlantic.''

VIM. E. Cramer, of the Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin, says of the lost
steamer:
During the past three years we have
crossed the ocean in two steamers, the
Cambria, of the Glasgow line, and the
Atlantic, of the White Star line. They
have both since gone to the bottom, the
Cambria with 159 passengers, and the
Atlantic with 730. A captain has deal
to do with the safety of ship. If he is
frst-class man, permeated with a thor
ough sense of duty, the chances of safety
on the sea are about equal to those on
the land. Capt. Craig was the COM
mander of the Cambria in 1869, and
when his vessel entered the dangerous
channels between the north of Ireland
and Scotland he was SO very careful that
he would not permit any other officer but
| himself to stand on the lookout. And
there, with glass in hand, he would re-
main for hours. Capt. Perry was the
commander of the Atlantic when we
crossed the ocean in January, 1872. As
the vesselapproached the American coast
his watchfulness was unceasing by night
and by day, because, he said, here
there is real danger" When the vessel
was in the deep sea he left far more to
his subordinates, who were trained men,
but when nearing the coast he felt that
he could trust no one with the RESPONSE
bility but himself, and all the passengers
experienced feeling of security under
the guidance of SO tried, so skillful and
| SO thoughtful an officer. We know moth
ing of Capt. Williams, of the Atlantic,
but, on nearing the coast, we think a
frst-class captain would have considered
it breach of duty to be in his berth.
The Atlantic is built of iron and cost
$3.50, 900 in gold, and has been in service
only two years. She is doubtless insured
in Liverpool, but no insurance, however
large, can repay the company for the
prestige which they will lose by this ter
| rible disaster,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
THE NEW POSTAGE ACT.
The Abolished ss Free Matter - List


It is important for the public to
know what is included in the law
known as "the repeal of the franking
privilege"
All mail known as " free matter" un-
der existing laws, onwhich postage must
be paid after June 80, by reason of this
rspeal, is classed under twelve heads,
as follows, viz.
1. All mail to and from the President
and Vice-President.
2. Official communications to or from
Cabinet or bureau officers, chief clerks,
or franking officers of each of the execu-
tive departments.
3. All letters or printed matter to OF
from members of Congress, Secretary OF
the Senate, or Clerk cf the House OF
Representatives
4. Petitions to Congress.
5. Copyright matter to the Libra
rian of Congress, if so marked on the
package.
6. Smithsonian Institute mail.
7. Exchanges between publishers, one
copy of each publication not to exceed
sixteen ounces weight.
8. Weekly newspapers to actual sub
scribers within the county where pub
ished.
9. Notices from postmasters of refus-
ais to take publications.
10. Dead letters returned to writer's.
IL. Medals, certificates of thanks, OF
other testimonials awarded by Legisla-
lures to their soldiers.
12. Under special act of Congress,
passed some years since, all mail mat
ters to and from Mary Lincoln, widow Of
Abraham Lincoln, during her natural
life.
Those persons now having the frank
ing privilege are the President, Vice.
President, Senators, Representatives
delegates, Secretary of the Senate, Clerl
of House, Cabinet and bureau officers,
all their Cabinet clerks, postmasters
for official communication only, as also
collectors of internal revenue, and Mrs
Lincoln.
Under the present law free matter is
carried at cost of about 81 ,250, 900
while the estimate made for amounts re
! quired to pay actual necessary oficia
postage for the ensuing fiscal year is
about So, 100000.
The changes in the law will be espec
tally onerous on the library of Congress
and the Smithsonian Institute whose ad
vantages in this respect have never beer
abused, and were always used in the In
terest and diffusion of knowledge. An
! other change which will be of great in.
convenience, is that relative to returning
"dead letters" to their writers, whe1
known. The English postofiee follows
the rule we have, and collects when the
letter is delivered. The only matter tina
can be sent under the amended law aftel
the 30th of June next, with prepay
ment, is newspapers sent regularly
Postage is to be collected ON them quar-
terly when delivered. Present regula
| tions remain in effect.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Discount on Dizziness,

The New York Observer, being re-
Egious paper, may be appropriately
heard on the question treated below. 1t
says
The time has gone by for dull
preachers. The activities of the age,
the diffusion of knowledge by schools,
books and periodicals, the spirit of in
quiry, the spread of inidelity, the prev
alence of doubt, the subtlety of false
science, demand live, strong, earnest
men to preach the gospel. It will not
answer to educate dullness or mediocri-
ty. 1t was forbidden that son of
Aaron should bea priest if he had any
blemish. Even fiat nose excluded
him. And the age wants no baked
ministers. The West will not hear
them. The East cannot bear them.
The heather know too much to take
them. They are not wanted on this
earth. To get money to educate dull
boys because they are pious is robbing
God and a fraud upon the church. 1t
is crime or blunder, and sometimes
both.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Cheap Poultry Yard.

Set posts firmly in the ground, six feet
high, eight feet apart. Take No wire,
and stretch from post to post outside,
fastening with staples made of wire
driven into posts. Place three wires
one inchapart, one foot from the ground !;
another at three feet ten inches from the
ground another three at the top of
posts. Take common laths and weave
in, leaving three inches space between
sides of each. This makes the fence
four feet high. Then take other laths,
picket one end, and chamfer the other
like achisel blade, and Intervene among
the top wires; then shove the chamfered
edge down beside the top OF the the bottom bottom
This makes a cheap, durable, pretty
fence, that is seven feet and ten inches
high, and fowl-tight. Wires should be
left somewhat slack, as Interviewing the
laths viii take it up.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Humorous.

WHEN young voyager makes his way
to the top of the Pyramids we presume
he is enjoying the benefits of foreign
climb.
MANY ladies give as an excuse for mar
rying for money that they seldom find
ANYTHING else in man nowadays worth
having.
AN editors pistol having been stolen,
he advertises that if the thief VIII return
it he Will give him the contents and no
questions asked.
A MEMBER of the Mexican Congress
opposed a railroad bill the other day,
because" said he, it VIII ruin the
pack-mule business.
"ToMMY, you're a pig" said father
to his little boy; "now, do you know
what pig is, Tommy ?'' Yes, pa;
pigs hogs little boy"
THE latest verdict recorded was upon
a gentleman who expired in fit a ine-
briation. The jury returned: "Death
by hanging round grog-shop.
The most infallible way of preventing
a kitchen door from creaking, is said to
be to engage a servatn girl whose sweet
hearts come to the house to see her.
A YOUNG man who was caught strain
ing his sweetheart to his bosom the
other night, iustifes himself on the
ground that he has right to strain his
own money.
A BooKBINDER said to his wife at the
wedding, 1t seems that now we are
bound together, two volumes in one,
with clasps. I" "Yes," observed q guest,
some side highly ornamented with
Turkey morocco, and the other plain
calf. !"
"I AM not used to begging" said
little girl to a lady of whom she had
asked aims, "because only two weeks
ago nv father was merchant y Why,
child, how could he be reduced to pow
erty SO soon?" "My father took bad
two-dollar bill at his peanut stand, and
it ruined him, sobbed the child.
The st. Louis Journal says: GA
Young man came into the Office of this
paper with a manuscript poem. 1t be-
gan with The snow, the snow, the
beautiful snow His friends may get
the body by applying at the basement
and paying for the dry goods box con-
tanning the remains of the deceased.
THIS is told of father who was one
evening teaching his little boy to rec1te
his Sunday school lesson. It was from
the fourteenth chapter of Matthew,
wherein is related the parable of ma
licious individual who went about SOW
| ing tares '' What is tare? Tell me,
my son, what tare is, !" asked the anx-
ious parent. "You had 'em r Johnny,
what do you mean ?" asked the father,
opening his eyes rather wide. Why,
last week, when you didn't come home
for three days." said Johnny, 1 heard
mother tell Aunt Susan that you were
on a tare."
ANOTHER clever gentleman has bee de-
ceived by the hydrants. 1t wae New
Years, and he was rejoicing under the
| influence of about one thousand drops
of Joy. He ran against hydrant while
homeward- bound, working long longi-
tudes. He happened to mistake the
hydrant for colored boy. "Skuse me,
sonnie," said he, patting the hydrant
paternally;;" :" didn't mean to run down
cause you was black. Grow up Chic)
and be useful man. Initiate (hic) my
example" and here he laid quarter on
its nozzle and went on with lighter
heart and the satisfaction that he had
made one poor soul happy.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Sc Fall of Man,,

How it strikes the Danbury NeaOs
man, is appended: You are generally
looking at something very intently when
it happens perhaps you are smiling to
yourself. Then your left foot shoots out
to one side with a suddenness that
creates a sickness in the family. Ice
commences to form on your spine and
perspiration on your brow, and your
scalp Lifts enough to permit a streak of
cold air to pass under. The other leg
goes out at this juncture, your head
snaps violently to the front, and there is
faint impression on your mind that the
world is about to come to an end with
nobody in charge. Miles of sidewalk
spin out from you Like lightning. Three
story buildings jump over your head in
quick succession. People disappear
suddenly and with appalling mystery.
Then your eyes close, your conscious
ness wanes, and your soul goes out with
one expiring quiver, and-and you ar
rive. The hard reality of the scene is
then forced upon you with unpleasant
abruptness. Everything is in its place
but your spine. You get up and move
off with sickly attempt at smile, feel
ing at the time that the back of youl
head is laughing from ear to ear, and
finding that the hardest thing is, not
the sidewalk, but to keep from rubbing
yourself"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
TEST OF FRIENDSHIP.
By JOHN @. SAKE.

ONE years ago, when was young,
And filled with hopes and pride and folly,
I re sorrow came, and DER me flung
Its gloomy pail of melancholy,
had q friend of just my years;
loved him with deep devotion;
His griefs and joys, his hopes and fears,
Produced in me a like emotion.
toiled for years to win name,
Through sleepless nights and days OF trouble
To learn this truth at last, that fame
Is but an empty, air-blown bubble.
My friend sought wealth and often wrote
That he was rich and loved me dearly;
And always closed his-friendly note
With "Yours most truly and sincerely"
And once he wrote I" My dear old chum,
If you are short-now don't be silly
just drop a line and name the sum
To me, your friend and crony, Wllne.
But still had q foolish pride
To keep from him my little pinches;
We Hhc, II possible, to hide
Our wants from one that never hinches.
And thus Iabored late and long,
Until my hopes and nerves we're shattered,
Until my health, which, never strong,
Gave out, and then my friends soon scattered; I;
For they had learned ned sIaInsss,i that was poor;
But to the rich it shuts the door,
And makes its victim seem distasteful.
And now, thought, since health has flown,
Ny ancient, wealthy friend viii aid me;
A small amount, trifing loan
From one so true will not degrade me.
For still he wrote, that better far
He loved me than q blood relation;
He talked about his " lucky STAR
His wife and means, his wealth and station.
Then with q faltering pen, one day,
Il had not nerve to do it boldlyD
wrote, Z" L have my rent to pay"
Nor dreamed that he would take it coldly.
waited 1ong-I watched the mail,
TIL all my clothes were growing seedy;
It came at last 1 read in jail
"Ive nearer friends just twice as needy"
Thus ended one of boyhood's dreams,
As manya dream before has ended;
Friendship is rarely what it seems
With money, often closely blended.
left my books, and earned my bread
BY earnest, patient, healthful labor,
And slept serenely in my bed,
Nor owe dime to friend or neighbor.
The moral here is easy shown,
If they who read viii only heed it:
To test friend just ask loan
OF money when you really need it.
Another lesson may be learned,
Unaided by the light Of science:
That gold and fame are only earned
BY patient toll and self-rehance.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 3l2.
FARM AND GARDEN.
Farming i'm the Moon.

A farmers club in Central Illinois, as
we learn from the Secretary, has been
discussing the subject of the influence
of the moon on vegetation. The par
ticular point in the discussion was in re-
gard to the proper time to SOW wheat in
order to gain the greatest amount of
good from the influences of the moon.
As is usual when this subject comes up,
there were some who denied that the
moon exerts any influence on growing
crops, while the others affirmed that it
did exert a powerful influence, and one
which farmers should avail themselves
of.
No Intelligent person, or persons pos
sessed of large share of common sense,
we think, believes that the moon exerts
any occult influence on vegetation in any
stage of its development. There is, how
ever, some reason for believing that the
moons rays do not influence the growth
of vegetation, and observation seems to
confirm the idea that established plants
do make more rapid growth during the
period of the moons greatest light, than
during that of her greatest obscuration
all the circumstances being equally
favorable. 1t is also claimed to be a
fact, and there is some reason for the
belief, that very tender plants, for ex-
ample young wheat plants, do best if al
lowed period of rest during the night,
in which they recuperate, as babies and
young ducks do while hardy young
plants like the sprouts of potatoes and
other bulbs, which have something to
feed upon directly, do better if their
growth is pushed during the whole of
the day and night.
Admitting both of these premises to
be true, the conclusion would be this !:
IF we could regulate the weather in re-
spect to warmth and dryness, or be rea-
sonably assured that they would be fa-
vorable during the whole of the season
when planting and sowing must be done
to insure a crop, we would SOW their
seeds when plants are very tender at the
start, SO that they would break ground
during "the dark of the moon," to the
end that they might have the night 8
rest" so grateful and recuperative to all
who work. On the other hand, we would,
everything being favorable, and good
weather being insured, plant potatoes,
at the start, SO that they would come
up "in the light of the moon, " in order
that they might make the fattest growth
possible. But there are so many ifs
in the way" that we do not believe it is
practicable to take advantage of the Ia
vorable action of the moons influence,
if, indeed, it exerts influences especially
favorable or unfavorable /; and our con-
yictions are, that the farmer who puts
off seeding when the land is in good
condition in order to plant or SOW during
the right time of the moon, Will be quite
! likely stto beg in harvest" and have
wise people laugh at him for his folly
Prairie Farmer.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
RnIea FOR Earners.

1. Take good papers and read them.
2. Keep account of farm operations.
8. Do not have implements scattered
over the farm, exposed to snow, rain and
heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings at a
proper time, and do not suffer subse-
quent three-fold expenditure of time and
money.
8. Use money judiciously, and do not
attend auction sales to purchase all
kinds of trumpery, because it is cheap.
6. See that fences are well repaired
and cattle grazing in the meadows, or
grain fields, or orchards.
7. Do not refuse to make correct ex-
periments, in small way, of many new
things.
8. Plant fruit trees well, care for
them, and of course get good crops.
9. Practice economy by giving stock
good shelter during the winter also
good food, taking out all that is un-
sound, half rotten or mouldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of cats OF
snarling dogs around the premises, who
eat more in month than they are worth
in a whole lifetime.
IL. Read the advertisements, know
what is going on, and frequently save
money by it.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Monster Krupp Guns.

The famous establishment of Krupp,
at Essen, Germany, is going to send to
the Vienna Exhibition two specimens of
It's Z" big guns, that surpass anything of
the kind this foundry has ever yet pro-
duced. The first is a gigantic brass
cannon, the tube of which viii be 81 20
meters in length, and 1.48 meters in
diameter, and which viii weigh 76O
quintals, or $4,000 kilogrammes. The
second is manufactured of one single
block of brass four meters long, and 1.50
meters in diameter, of the weight of
I, 900 quintals, or so, 900 kilogrammes.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1873

that all others failed to satisfy him, and
brought him only WEAKNESS and blank p
She held up the plate. The audience
looked and roared, the ladies darting
meanwhile malicious glaces at the un-
fortunate Berlaps, ready to sink through
the platform, out of the public view.
Even the professors shook with laughter.
On the plate glowed an engaging like
ness of Bonbon Berlaps himself. Bon
bon Berlaps' ideal was-Bonbon Ber-
laps !-AppIetons' Journal.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Value OF the Potato.

: Prof. Tyndall illustrates the value of
a single potato by supposing that every
potato in the world but one were de-
stroyed that one would contain in itself
the possibility of again stocking the
world with an invaluable article of food.
If one potato would produce, when
planted, only crop of ten potatoes, in
ten years the total product of the pro-
duce of this one potato would be equal
to ten thousand millions, which would
be sufficient to stock the whole world
with seed. The real value of that single
potato, then, would be such that it would
be better that the city of London or
New York should be totally destroyed
than that tuber should be lost to the
world.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
VOL. VINO. 81.
THE STRANGE COUNTRY.

have come from mystical Land of Light
To a strange country;
The land have left is forgotten quite
In the land see.
The round earth rolls beneath my feet,
And the still stars glow;
The murmuring waters rise and retreat,
The winds come and go.
Sure as = heart beat all things seem
In this strange country.
So sure, SO bright, in glow of dream,
All things flow free.
It is life, all life, all awful and plain,
In the sea and the flood,
In the beating heart, in the wondrOus brain,
In the flesh and the blood.
Deep as death is the daily strife
Of this strange country;
All things move up till they blossom in life
And tremble and flee.
Nothing is stranger than the rest,
From the pole to the pole
The world in the ditch, the eggs IN the nest,
The flesh and the soul.
Look in mine eyes, o man meet
In this strange countryi
Come to mine arms, o maiden sweet,
With thy mouth kiss me!
Who goes by with crown on his brown
King Solomon?
He is stranger, too, VOW,
And must journey on.
o wondrous faces that up start
In this strange country?
o identities that become part
OF my soul and me
What are ye building SO fast and fleet,
o humankind
"We are building cities for those whose feet
Are coming behind.
Our stay is short; we must fly again
From this strange country;
But others are growing, women and men,
Eternally."
Ay, what art thou, and what am 1,
But breaking wavei
Rising and falling, swift we fly
To the shore of the grave.
have come from mystical Land of Light
To this strange country
This dawn came shall go tonight;
Ay, me ay, me!
hold my hand to my head and stand
Meath the airs blue arc;
try to remember the mystical land,
But all is dark.
And all around me swim shapes like mine,
In this strange country;
They break in the glamour of CLEANS divine,
And they moan, Ay, mel
Like waves in the cold moons silvery breath
They gather and roll
Each crest OF white is birth or death,
Each sound is q soul.
o what is the Eye that CLEANS so bright
Der this strange country?
1t draws us along with chain of light,
As the moon the sea!
robert Buchanan, IN Good Words.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17

A SAN FRANCISCO widow who keeps
the skull of her deceased husband in a
glass case, once remarked to friend
who was viewing the remains: "Alas !!
how often 1 have banged those bones
with a broomstick. I'm sorry for it
now"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17

Two deaf mutes were arrested in At
lanta, Ga, one day last week, for making
q disturbance while drunk.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17

JOHN SHERMAN and the President are
not friendly.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17

BENJAMIN ISRAEL, eldest son of Ben
Butler, will enter at West Point, next
term.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-21

tested, and actually. by virtue Of the title
set up and most ably and vigorously
urged on the part of the plaintiff, involv-
ing greater intereststh than were ever before
staked in any similar encounter on this
coast.
But am admonished that the time ap-
propriated for my use in this place, on
one occasion, has expired. A more COM
plete and systematic description of this
most remarkable mining camp; nara.
tive of the great mining trial, "all of
which saw and part of which / was;"
with personal description of the Judge,
lawyers, witnesses and others connected
Herewith; an account of trip to Bull.
honville and the Mormon town of Pa
naca, twelve miles distant from Phoebe,
and description Of tho Warm Springs
and the mills in that vicinity; the nara
tive of somewhat lengthy and detail in
terview with the celebrated Mother Lee
(who superintendent and carried on the
Indian war OF 1867, in this neighbor-
hood); and description of Eureka, and
mining trial there; these must all be re-
luctantly set aside at this time-perhaps
to be submitted to you in this place on
some future accession.
So with vivid personal recollections of
the scene, now plant myself squarely
on Panaca Flat. and bid YOU good night.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-21
Billy the Stage Boy.
Billy the Milk Boy.
n le4CELGT- Etc sslL
Billy the Wood Boy !

DILLY SELLS WOOD, MILK, AND WILL
~ give any person quicker ride to Bullion
vile than any other conveyance. .t=.
He'asso sells milk and wood at the same
old rates.
Matt ". cuIvxRwELL.