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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
Something About Advertising.

1t is time all business men should
understand that, with here and there
special exception, the newspaper is par
excellence the only medium for adver-
tising that is worth their serious atten-
ton. The newspaper is a thing of life,
visible fact, sure of it's circulation,
certain to be read. 1t constantly renews
its youth daily or weekly it appears
afresh, containing many old faces, max
ing themselves constantly more and
more familiar, but holding also fresh
facts, the latest news, the last wonder;
even in its gossip, it gives the matter of
its time and tells us what is alive and
moving, up to the very date it bears,
while its advertising columns show what
is being done in commercial circles and
lay before it's readers a concise sum-
mary of those new ideas through which
money is made by their fellows. AS
compared with all other advertising
methods it's charges are reasonable, and
its promises modest, and while the
business man is supporting it, he is,
moreover, gaining from it in more ways
than he may see at first sight.
How is it on the other hand with the
"Hotel Albums "Strangers Guides, :"
and such like volumes introduced to the
merchant by the supple young solicitor,
or "the grandest advertising scheme
ever projected ?" It is true that the mer
chant is promised " "a circulation of
from five to ten thousand and a copy
gratis to every hotel" But is the prom
ise kept are one thousand copies
printed Five hundred?-one hundred? :?
The advertiser has no means of know
ing. It is too often the case that such
schemes are advertising traps which the
merchant blindly enters. In the news
paper every facility is offered him in
ascertaining the strength and probable
value of his investment, while, at the
| issue to its various subscribers, who pay
for it and are bound to read it. But
| supposing the volumes referred to are
to be found in all the hotels ; who reads
them ? You see hundreds of people in
| hotel parlors with their newspaper, but
how many look over the old, dilapidat-
ed, margin-scribbled " Guide to Strang-
ers?" The moment such a work is
published it becomes old. The matter
and the pictures are already obsolete
before the last advertiser pays in. Have
these the influence of the family news
paper, chiefest of household gods
Probably not. The 'tHotel Album, -
if its publishers promises are kept, is
sent to divers hotels. Suppose for a
moment that strangers read them, OF
what advantage is it as compared with
the paper which strikes the very heart
center of those from whom the merchant
expects his trade. And, last of all, the
Album !" gives him but one insertion.
One insertion for perhaps a hundred
dollars. The same amount would make
the merchants name household word
in the community from which he draws
his best custom-custom that he car
look after among people he knows
something about.
The question then arises, Why dc
merchants waste money in this kind o.
advertising Perhaps the merchants
could best tell us if they would. d.-Nea0s
paper Reporter.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
NINETY-TTIREE.

What's that you said to me, deary?
I'm ninety-three years old to-day?
Is it so2 All, well; to be sure,
How fast time travels away!
1t seems but days passing
Since was down by the mill
Gathering lilies for Polly
Sweet Polly, who lived on the hill.
For Polly was going to wed me;
She'd promised when harvest was done,
When I'd gathered my corn and potatoes
My house was long since begun-
She would leave her home on the hillside,
Her father and mother, for me;
And you may be sure no couple
We're ever 80 happy as we.
And SO when the frosts of October
Had set all the NAPLES ablaze,
When the harvest-moon lighted the evenings,
And smoky and soft were the days,
When my house was all papered and painted,
My potatoes and corn in the bin,
Sweet Polly came unto my cottage
Her presence made sunlight within.
There was joy in my house, and the children
That gathered about my knee,
With their innocent frolics and pastimes,
Their voices of pleasure and glee,
Grew to bless us and cheer us when, toilworn,
We faltered from age by the way;
To strengthen and shield us when waiting
In patience the close of the day.
For fifty long years did we travel
Together, my Polly and 1,
And when the death-angel called to her,
She lay down in calmneSs TO dle:
For she said we have been to each other
All of sweetness that one life could ask;
And you will soon follow me, Dermot,
When you shall have finished your task
And now I am waiting my summons
The Master will call me home;
And shall unite with my Polly
Again where no parting will come.
The night seemeth long in the ending,
But know that the morning is near,
That the day will soon break in its glory,
And the sunlight of Heaven appear.
Pleasant and bright was Hfes morning,
Its noontide with happiness crowned,
And in the calm light of its evening
Some joy with its sorrow was found;
But now am in the dark nighttime,
When life brings no pleasure to me,
And 1 wait for the time that shall loosen
This burden of years NnETY-rHREE.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

The New York papers announced, all
through the early summer, that the
number of Americans going to Europe
was immense-larger than ever before
$4,000 at the least-and all caused by
the high prices at the watering places,
which, they assured us, were well nigh
deserted. It turns out, now, that the
number reached only 1s, 533, which is
just 495 more than last year, and that
the watering places were not deserted,
after all.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
VOL. VINO. 40.
THE OLD COUPLE,

1t stands in a sunny meadow,
The house SO mossy and brown,
With its cumbrous old stone climneys,
And the gray roof slopiug down.
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees century old;
And the winds go chanting through them,
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,
And the roses bloom on the hill
And beside the brook on the pastures,
The herbs go feeding at will.
The children have gone and left them,
They sit in the sun alonei
And the old wife's tears are falling
AS she harks to the well-known tone
That won her heart in her girlhood,
That has soothed her in many care,
And praises her now for the brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again Of her bridal
How, dressed in her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover
In the mornings rosy light.
oh, the morning is rosy as ever,
But the rose from her cheek is fled;
And the sunshine still is golden,
But it falls on silYered head.
And the girlhood dreams, once vanished,
Come back in her winter time,
Till her feeble pulses tremble
With the thrill of spring-time's prime.
And locking forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown
Since, clad in her bridal whiteness,
She crossed the o!d doer-stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold,
The love in her girlhood plghted
Has never grown dim nor old.
They sat in peace in the sunshine
Till the day was almost done,
And then, at its close, an angel
Stole over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together
He touched their eyelids with balm
And their last breath hoated upward
Like the close of solemn psalm.
Like a bridal pair they traversed
The unseen, mystical road
That leads to the beautiful city
"Whose builder and maker is God"
Perhaps in that miracle country
They will give her lost youth back,
And the flowers of a vanished spring-time
Will bloom in the spirits track
One draught from the living waters
Shall call back his manhoods prime,
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outlived time.
But the shapes that they left behind them,
The wrinkles and silver hair,
Made holy to us by the kisses
The angel had printed there,
We will hide away meath the willows,
When the day is low in the west,
Where the sunbeams cannot find them,
Nor the winds disturb their rest.
And we'll suffer no tell-tale tombstone,
With its age and date, to rise
Ger the two who are old no longer
In the Fathers House in the skies.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

COFFEE is higher now than before the
duty was taken off, owing to the lighter
supply of the producing countries, par
ticularly from the greatest -Brazil-and
the fact that the trade has been SO spec
ulative in the last two or three years,
two or three New York capitalists al
most controlling the entire market.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

JOHN OWENS is the richest actor in
the country.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

GEORGIA farmers appear to have
needed the counsel SO often given to
planters in the cotton States to grow
their own corn. This year 1,702, 169
acresIwere planted in cotton, and 1, 791 =
favor of the latter and there are be-
sides over 100000 acres planted with
other crops.
, 1873-08-19

Tho action Of tho County Commissioners, yoa-
torday, in adopting tho majority report OF tho
Joint Committee awarding tho preniuus for tho
Court.HouBo plans, took several people by anr-
prise, for it waa understood that plan had been
gotten up to rccomlnt tho report, with directions
to sotnrn 1t amended as to gyo Tilly Tie Arst.
plizs, and that eight votes had boon secured for.
1t. This scheme would have been carried out, :.
had 1t not boon for John Crawford, WHO failed
to como to tino; or rathor, WHO yot--
cd OIL tho othor Bl1o, and defoatea
tho project. Therefore. ~ mAttors then stood,
tho commissioners had adopted to report and
tho Council Ind rocu,nmtted 1t, with instructions
to their Committee to ascertain tho oust Of the
plans it boing understood, however, that tho.
real object WAS to secure a modification Of the
report. ). -
promptly roconHderol itB action. decided TO-
make virtue of nocesatty. aud gave Matz his
s5ooo with ITO oxpr'sH ~ Mundsetstsndlng tat that
ereotad according to his plan.
, 1873-08-19
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Garden City Division SOM Of Temperance, tho
Oldest organization Of tho kind In Chicago, Will
hold their nlnetoenth anniversary exercises this
evening ot tho hall oornor OF Clintun and Ran
dolph btreesB. There will be speaking. nuBIo,
and refroshmontg, .
Saturday last for Ford Riyor, Groom bay, on lor
first trip. sho ia : handsome, well-built
schooner, with three maatB, ia full canal-azo,
and IL fitted out iu tlrHt-claBs fashion. Hor OWL
er'a namo is e. J. MoYeigh, resident OF Chi
cago.
held 1T tho Firth baptist Church, cornor Of irur-
rison aud sauganon streets, this evening. Ad-
tlreaees will bo deliyeted by the nov. N. r.
Raylin, tho Hon. A. T.. Morrison, and othor
prominent apoakors.
Tho Methodist oamp-Meeting will begin to-
morrow at their grounds noar Desplalnes
Northwestern Road on Kinzle stroot at a. nl..
800 p. rn., and 6;20 p. m. Tickets for the round
trip will cost 81, II bought at the depot 1t not
fill faro will bo Charged. baggage FREQ.
Tho Oommittee on Equalization Of Taxes has
not yet oomplotel ita equalization OF tho county
asvossment this year. The work on the real
railroad asBosamonts were not received from
Springfield till yostertiay aud tho porsonal prop
erty books have not boon worked up. The Com
! mittee expects to report Friday: It Is nnter-
asoou Eha* apout FatV9o, ,uUu 1aY0 peon aaaeu 70
tho assesHed yaluo Of rea! oatate in Hyde Park,
while tile valuation In Lake, Jofrerson, proyiao,
and homo othor country towns has been reduced.
We have just rocolyed from tho publisher,
Ja1ues Van Vochten, Esq, q copy OF hts new map
OF Chicago. Old in tho bt,snoHa III Van Yeohtel,
il, ho has succeotlod In l.s last issuo In accom-
plishiMg bottor work than l!o Aas over done be-.
fore. Tho now map Hhows distinctly, aud without
| confusion, tho oily and ward boutdarlos with
tha numbers Of tho lattor, tue lluos Of the burnt
district and Of the fre lilntts. aud tho parks and
bouleYards. Tho stroot inlox IL brought down
to date, and In lii accordance with tile ordinance
| passed. last year, making MaliBon aud Btato the
| basa linea for tho yarlous atreo.s. This map,
| which costa a. can DO obtained at the publish.
| er'q olQoe, No. 124 Clark atreQt.
, 1873-08-19

who Is to 10 governed by IT, We pros'Into tlfis
Was dono at Lomont. If 1t want, thon shoro
ia somebody olso bosidos tho conductor aud
enginoor to blamo But, ovcn If 1t waa stono tho
error In tho Bystem still ro1nains. Eyory ata-
to1i-maator BlAould hnve absolute power to hold
oyory train tlat arrives. IIo should bo tho dop-
uty Of t1o trafll-diapatchcr. by tlis means tho
train-lispnscl1or would practically bo at every
station in porBon. II tho station-master at 1e-
mont had been voatod with tLfs authority, tho
naurfterous coal trnln would nevor havo boon
started. No ono would have darod to start
It without exploit instructions from tho sta
tion.mnstor undor this rulo Those instructions
tho station-mastor would noyor havo given. It
is reported that ho demonstrated with thu con-
dnctor or other poraona on tho coal tratn against
starting; ii ho had boon vested with tho author-
ity to hold tho train, tho engineer would not
havo dared to open tho thrott1o-valvo of 1is
machine.
Ihird-Tho officers of tho Chicago l. Alton
Road havo boon blamed by many perHons for tho
dolay in gotting roliof train to tho wreck. Wo
aro inclined to think that thore iB no fault to bo
found on thla score. Certainly they wore not
moro dilatory than otlor railroad officers would
hayo boon updor similar circumstances. 1ufor-
nation Of tho disaster had to be takon to Lcmont
on foot; thence It camo to Chicago by
telegraph, mud tho proper ofIicors Ind to
bo sont for, and doctors called out
Of bed, and tho roiof train organized.
1.o
confueion Of such an occasion. But thoro is ono
precaution which all railroads SHOULD take, and
which wo belioyo that fow OF them have takon.
Thoro should DO m extra engine, with steam up,
at tho terminal Stations II not elsewhere, oil tho
tfmo. II such systona had boon in voguoon
tho Chicago b Alton Road, thore is no doubt
that moro speedy rollot would hayo ronched tho
suffering victima Of tho disaster.
Wo do moi know what additional re-
aponsibility may be fixed upon tho CHI
oago b Alton Railroad Company and
Its managers by future Investigations but tho
criticism wo have madc Is generally applicable
to nearly MI tho railroads In tho country. The
Lomont disaster should DO the point Of dopar-
turo leading to rcctilcation Of those obvious
orrora in management. There was one procau-
tlon which ayorted a moro aerious loss Of lifo
than actually occurred in tho late collision, and
for which tho Company should have credit. Tho
passenger cars, ns we'll ns tho sleeping coachos,
! wero provided with the Miller platform, which
alone could have prevented toloscoping in q
collision Of such trou1ondous force. Railroads
which havo neglected to provide these platforms
| and couplings should now DO convinced OF thoir
usefulness, aud attach them at onco to all thei1
| passenger conclos.
, 1873-08-19

Tho Chicngo produce markets were more &C.
two yesterday. Mess pork was in fair domand,
and steady ut 915.o5@10.00 for CASH or soller
September. Lard was quiet, and SHADE hrmer
at 7Jz@8c per ib for winter. and 75G@79lc for
s,,lnmor rendered. MoatB wero quiet and firm
at 73l@8c for shoulders, o11l@996c for short
middiings, and lo@12c FOR sweot-pick1ed hams.
Luke freights wero rather more active and un-
changed, at DC for corn to Buffalo Highwines
wero excited. advancing 21lc, but closed
easicr, at 94o por gallon. Flour was moro
active and firm. Wheat waB active, aud 111o
lower for cash, closing at s1.22; but 20 htghor
OH options, closing at $1.21 seller tho month,
end 51.l3N seller September. Corn was aotiYo
and unchanged, closing at 3957sSc cash or seller
September. Oats were moderately active, md
A@14o lower closing at 271Go cash, and 26}Gc
seller September. lyo wan quiet and strong, at
G7e cash, and G516c sollcr September. Barloy
WIS active, and 2@5o higher, closing ut 51.05 for
new No. seller September. Hogs were in do.
n,and at steady prices, With sales at s480@4.o0
Cattle wero without quotable change, though
choice grades were hrmar.
, 1873-08-19

Tho Common Council wero informed by tho
Mayor last ovening that llo Desired to ionve tho
city this yfeok for an indefinite tirne and that 1t
would 10 necessary for thom to choose an Acting
Mayor In his p1nco. Aid. L. i. Bond was
then chosen to act as Mayor during Mr. h1cdils
absonce. This selection iH such ae to ropder 1t
nnikely that Mayor Modill will tlndis neceesaryto
foturn during tho remainder Of his term OF Office.
He will leave Chicago this woek, and sail from
New York on tho 9th inst with his family for
Europe, to be gono year or moro.
, 1873-08-19

tho aa]odrnment Of c6ngtess, md Of these is
Morton. II Logansport (Iaa. Iharo,. ..-,',- ~
..-sono, may oak what I hive done With It
vato ,ieo, lavo control ot It. and inton S to teep @
control Of It until I am shown somo person llold-
lug q better claim to- It than hnvo
vic ipd atoon moro @ % tSan s n'f had, 20 II t@n%y wey
true that Sherman hnl returned llIa back-pay,
but he wantod to know whether or not ha would
kccp. tlio oxtra pay of his coming ak yaara,
holding TINT 1t Ii aH much moral wrong to &c.
was elected under Tho 80, 900 salary az to accept
Of tho th!acl-pay-Leois D. Campbell, at Aa'n'i~
Only fey months ago and re wore aa-
ana strikcrs Of tho party, that those worry mon
candidates for oongross] woro n,odels Of virtue
fathers: would bo subvorted Tint, in fact.
bo overturned, . unless those ionogt,
Office. And nov We aro told by tho highest
authorities Of tho party that thcir. saates
0. e1o naturally sna .,t low dspsesseS md and cor
ful, kind, and indulgont to them+ e]so they will
disgrace themselves aud tho nation. In p]ain
English, NO muHt hlro thom to 1.-Two decent, sobor
lives. From all this thero can DO but ono Of two
conclusions, either tho Republican proes miarop-
most ontrageousIy, Or elso 1t Is morally degrad-
Ing to DO Congressman. Most poop1o will
come to tho fotmer onolusson.-Pr3noeion (l|I.)
Tribune.
,-Bolioyng that tho "partahor ia aa bad as
tho thief," no condemn all who received dollar
Of TINT buck pny. We 800 no ditYcronce in their
guilt. whether voting for OF against It, il they
took tho monoy.-1faQuoketa 1Io,oa) Ereeisto,.
hns'n s s.1s no qsTss 'n IN Te1as 3;
Texas may have many ttinga to regret, and eomo
things to bo ashamed Of, but NO do not think
thero is much danger Of rewarding with futuro
Office the coarse aud crafty mon who took part In
urY"
, 1873-08-19
Tho toBtimony OF Tho othors corroboratel
thoBo statements concerning tho culpabillty Of
tho engineer aud conductor Of tho oonl trim.

In commenting upon tho rooont railroad dta-
astor wlach occurred noar Wigeu. England, tho
London Netos .takos tho ground tllat thoro onn
ho In that country no accidents Which oan DO
etrfotly regarded as Unavoidable" It admita
TINT In certain countries and climates, tho olo
nlonta lnaY furnish causos ovor which human
management eau oxorciBo no oonfrol,- ns
tito awooping Of q whole train Of cara from tho
truck By O tornado, or tho sudden Alfdos of 10nd
and auow, or tho impetuous washing awhy Of
bridges. Aa thoHe oa,18eB nro nevor prcuont
IN England, It Ia hold TINT mono can occur which
could not have boon proventod by humnn cantion
and foresight. Tho accident Which oallod out
this oommont was nearly us serious, though not
80 appalling, as tho Lo1nont disaator. Eight
persona woro killed instantly, and thirty worc
badly wounded. Tho train was q hoavy one,
consisting Of twenty-tvo carriages (tho English
railroad-oarriago being about one-thirl the szo
Of tho American pnssonger.coaoh), three vans
Qaggngo-cars), and two engines. Tho cars woro
all full, q largo number Of tho passengers being
on their way to Scotland for tho summer. Within
foW yards OF the platform ut Wigan station. tho
train pnaBes two Hwitohos leading off to circular
tracks accommodating local trains. Tho two
onginos and seventeen of tho coaches passed
! over all right; tho others woro somehow, not
yet explained, thrown or tho line, and jammcd
up against tho station-buildinga. OF oourso, tho
wrock WAS complete. But, on tho hypothesis
that no act is entirely unavoidable, this
fdoa obtains very generally in England in
vostgation wll be thorough, and the responsl-
bility Axod whore It properly bolonga
, 1873-08-19
II, why, but 10 thta will DO addod, Tho forvent
gratitude Of thoso who survive, and the toarful
btaBBtuEe OF tho frfeufla of tho dead, =.

u, way, but 10 this will bo added, ,tlio. forvent
gratitude of those who aurvivo, and the toarful
blessings of tho friends Of tho dcad. .c -
There wore other instances Of heroihm on this
aud occasion. Tho tondor caro-, tho sympathetic
heart, tho loving handa Of woman aidod these
mon and tho othors who WORD roady to- do whom
the way was shown thom. sucl, OCCASIONS az thcBo
hearts; but, on tho other hand, TINT thoro aro
those who havo noryo enough for any situation
MI almost suporhuman atrongth with which to
work. and an intuitlye knowledge how bost to
adminstor those offlcea OF consolation aud morcy
which belong only to woman's tondor hands.
Tho interviews Of our reporters have discovered
tho nano Of ono Of theao ladios, Mrs. Robert
McCart Of Bloomington, IN little Indy who
worked like M angel," 1lr. Burgess. tho sleop-
ing-car conductor, says This little lady found
hor misaion,-somehow 1t Is almost always tho
littlo women who havo tho great hearts a1id
Btrong nerves,-and sho performed It like q
heroine, and tho sngo1s Of moroy above muat
havo recognized ono Of their number in tllis
AuBtA u WbIV} DelUHA llt utcuh VI tl1GBe HUI
and women belong to tho unwritton history
Of horoog, and got thoro, must como a day
whom much that appcars great must bo
pronounced small, and on that day tbeao will bo
recognized and rocolvo thoir reward. Tho
record Of tho daoda Of horoisn On that night
would bo incomplete without roforonco to tho
oloar grit Of Mr: Lottlo, Of Springfield, who,
while In tho agony Of death, sent for tho sleop-
ing-car conductor, told him his namo. made his
will md signed it, ond handed over his watch
and jcwo1ry to bo sont to his wifo and family,
and thon requested tho conductor to leave him
and help those to whom help would ba OF
avail. That man was made In the heroic
mould. Ho was horribly sca]dod, boilod, aud
mutllatcd, and yot ho would not dio until he lad
performed hia last duty ike man. In this tor
riblo retrospect 1t is gratifying to contemplate
auch instances aa NO have o1tod. It proves once
moro TINT, In tho presence Of these groat catas-
trophies, us high nobility Of character md as
ohivalrous degroe Of purpose may bo devel-
oped as tho world'e battlo-nolds have oyer shown,
or tho pngca Of history have recorded.
, 1873-08-19

Tho railway disastor Of Saturday night shows
how ceuautial tho Miller or tho Blackstone
coupler il to the safety Of railway travel. Had
it not been for tho coupler In use on tho Alton
Road, there can bo no doubt that the cars would
have "teleBcopcd," and tho 1oBB of life
would have probably boon three or four
timoa what It was. Those couplors and
tho platforms Of the cars Wore made
so strong that they kept the four hind cars in
line on tho track, giving the people in tho two
pussonger coaches a pretty severe jar; but tue
Shoppers aoem to have escaped evcn TINT. Had
tie coaolea on rho Pennsylvania Railway boon
10 coupled, the accident on TINT road, last Do
co,nber, would not have occurred, and Ave llyoa
woull hayo boon gavod.