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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

for her fastened his footsteps. He
broke into q run. Everything seemed
to detain him and hold him back. With
impatient hand he thrust aside the
branches which obstructed his way
Would he never reach the pond Surely
he had been more than half mile! At
length he caught a glimpse of the
water shining through the trees. He
redoubled his pace, and in another
moment was tremblingly parting the
foliage which hid his view, fearing the
worst.
A sight burst upon his vision, which
made his heart leap for Joy, and, falling
on his knees, he thanked God that He
had spared to him the life of the woman
he loved. For there, in the middle of
the pond, was Gussie Hamilton, sitting
helplessly in her boat, having lost over
board her paddle, which had foated out
of reach, and the seat was SO firmly fas-
tened in that she could not get it out to
paddle with.
At the sight of Henry she uttered a
cry of Joy. Henry quickly constructed
raft of some logs, and was soon able to
restore to her the lost paddle.
We will not intrude upon them dur
ing their walk home, as Henry asked
her a question important to them alone !;
and she answered it satisfactorily, we
should judge from her calliug him dar-
ling Harry when they stepped on to the
piazza.
The Joy of Florence Lincoln and Miss
Thornton at her safe return was un-
bounded.
Little remains to be told. Henry
Thornton and Gussie Hamilton were
married the following winter. Florence
Lincoln was also married, and is now in
Europe with her husband, a man in
every way worthy of her love.
Let us take one glimpse of the home
of Henry Thornton and his wife.
The old gentleman who is called
grandpa by these two laughing children
on his knee, and to whom he is showing
his watch, is no other than James
Thornton, the guardian of Gusse Ham
ilton.
"Henry dear, " exclaimed Mrs. Thorn
ton, suddenly, did you know we have
been married just ten years to-day? ?"
"No, have we ?" replies Henry,
glancing from his paper to his wife's
happy face.
'And I haven't been drowned yet,
have I?"
"No; and God grant that you may
never be p' exclaimed Henry, drawing
his wife on to his knee, and kissing her
tenderly. "I guess that gypsy didn't
want me to marry you" continues he,
" and her beware of water was a lit
tie ruse to prevent it; but, if that was
the case she signally failed, for ] should
never have thought where to have looked
for you that day, had it not been for the
gipsys warning p
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
Vowel Sounds.

As no language can be articulated
without the use of vowel, it is curious
that in writing many Oriental dialects,
the reader must have scholarship enough
to know where to place a, e, i, o, or u, as
the case may be, to get at the complete
meaning of a sentence. 1t is SO with the
Turkish, Arabic, and ancient Hebrew,
for example. Since the introduction of
points there is an Indication where they
should be placed, but without specifying
the kind of sound.
All northern dialects are harsh and gut
tural. In mild climates almost all words
end with vewel, hence they are soft and
musical. Pascagoula, Pensacola and
Alabama contrast strangely with Passa-
mauuoddy, Pickwacket and Penobscot,
in the State of Mainn.
To write language with more letters
than are sounded in speaking it is very
embarrassing to a beginner. Such is the
French. The "t' in depot" is not dis
coverable in conversation. So of vast
many words in that language which leads
to Imaginable blunders with those who are
ambitious, late in life, to become lin
guists.
Philologists say a cat is superior to
man in one respect, as she can sound five
vowels at once in y-a-e-u-l-L
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
HIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1878.


PERSONAL
APATHY is the name of the Memphis
chief of police.
Edmund YATES has invested 50, 900 in
Chicago real estate.
The wife of Gov. Stafford, of Arizo-
ma, is suing for divorce.
AQUA SoAMMoNIA is the latest name
coined for Chicago paper.
The father-in-law of Ole Bull is a
State Senator for Wisconsin.
The famous W. H. McArdle has re-
sumed charge of the Vicksburg Her.
AID.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is President of the
Carolina Life Insurance Company of
Memphis, Tenn.
JAMES ORD, the father of Gen. E. O..
G. Ord, died at the Generals residence,
in Omaha, Jan. 25, aged S8.
A ST. LOUIS preacher defines gentle
man as a man who can put on clean
| shirt-collar without being conspicuous.
FRANK BLAIR is said to take his defeat
very hard, and some of his intimate
friends predict that he will not live long.
GEN. BABcocK reports that the White
House, at Washington, is no longer fit
for the private residence of the Presi-
dent.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs has arrived in
Atlanta. He is now in favor of quietly
permitting the Government to go to
smash.
ARCHBISHOP CONNOLLY, of Halifax,
has issued a pastoral circular exhorting
his flock to desist from selling liquor on
Sunday.
A CHAIR used by Louis Napoleon at
the old Napoleon Hotel, Hoboken, N.
j., in 1897, is on exhibition at Hobo
ken salooon.
WITHIN the past week the news has
been sent of the death of Resolved Smith
and Preserved Gardner, two leading New
Englanders. Predestinated Jones and
Glorifed Robinson still survive.
The editor of the Wabash Sentinel
wants to know if "the man who sent
him a challenge to fight duel means
business" or whether " his buzzard soul
laughs at the ghastly joke.
MIKE MoCoonE, the pugilist, has been
before st. Louis court for charging a
customer 81. 95 for two drinks of whisky,
then knocking him down and kicking him
into the street, where he was SO frozen
that he has lost the use of both hands for
life.
MARGARET OF NAVARRO, sister of
Charles TX, was among the earliest Ia
dies to wear locks borrowed from other
crowns. She was bald from her youth,
and footmen with blonde hair were spe-
cially retained to be shorn of their hair,
from time to- time, for their mistress,
who, in dread of being deprived of her
curls by an accident, always carried a
supply in her pocket.
The city physician of Springfield,
Mass, is woman. It is said that she
has not made single blunder during
her official career that she has attended
100 more patients than any of her prede-
cessors in the same length of time, at
800 less expense and that, acting as
nurse as well as doctor, her practice
among the poor has been specially bene-
fetal.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
What is in a Piece of Wood.

We now part with our cold violins'
with feelings not unmingled with re-
gret the very sums of money given for
them bear witness to their strange, in
definite value and Importance 300 gum
cas- is common price for a fine Stradi-
varius. The owner of the 4" Messie"
refused 600 guineas for that unique
gem, while 800 and even 1000 guineas
have been offered by some who could
not get their favorites for less. Fifteen
hundred acres of land in Pennsylvania
were on one occasion given for Stainer;
and as the city of Pittsburgh is now built
upon that land, we may confidently say
that this has turned out to be the heavi-
est price ever paid for a violin. And
what is it that we pay for ? A little
wood, varnish, paint-a few shillings
would buy all the materials; the sim
plest mechanical knowledge is sufficient
to cut up and put together the common
fiddle, which is now sold for ten or hf-
teen shillings, and looks to the novice SO
much more desirable than the GO Messie,
or " Pucelle,' though not unlike them.
Then what do we pay for? We pay for
what no money can produce again we
pay for conditions that have passed
away ; we pay for the inspiration of a
matchless workman, and q subtle Will
infused into elements which seem beg
carly, but have become priceless We
pay for the concentrated experience of
not one life, but many, put into curve
or afuting-for afew thin plates of wood,
fixed together with an instinct that is
dead, but that ere it died made these
slips of wood almost living organism
in some respects more than living or
ganism, because immortal. There is no
reason why the violin should ever wear
out It grows old with its perpetual
youth. It sings over the grave of many
generations Time, that sometimes
robs it of a little varnish, has no power
over its anointed fabric-it need never
be battered. The Joan Carlino viola is
800 years old, and still almost without a
scratch. The hard perennial substance
STEPPED in the sihcate like varnish, has
well nigh turned to stone, but without
losing single quality of sweetness OF
resonance. The violin is the only fossil
that still lives, and lives with a fullness
of life and freshness that contrasts mys-
teriously enough with the failing, sickly
and whitening generations of man. Ever
should mishaps brIlise or break Its
beauty it can be endlessly restored-it
is never fit for death, but survives 6
thousand calamities; nay, even when cut
up, dismembered, its several parts scat
tered through a dozen workshops anC
through 500 years, it lives on with kinc
of metempsychosis in new forms, ane
still clings strangely to its individuality
SO that men taking up patchwork vio
lin, say it is fine, the front is poor, the
head is tame; but then, see, here is (
Stradivarius back. Thus human in it
power and pathos, and superhuman IL
its immortal fabric, the violin reigns th'
prince of all Instruments, and in tn
hands of a Paganini or Joachim, tn
Joy and wonder of the civilized world
Contemporary Review.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
THE GHOST OF BUCKL1N,s MILL.
BY EUGENE j. HALL.

illustrated by o. ]. Hopkirs.l
Say, stranger, where are yer trayelin tn,
An what is yer bizness, hey?
If you'll jest hold on, III ride with you,
If yer goin' down my way.
Il the old gray hoss yer drivin' yourn?
Hev yer bin in these parts afore?
Be You the feller that Hiram Crane
See over to Comstock's store?
No? Wal, that's curis. Now how did it come
Hev yer strayed away from hum to-day,
Or got relations here?
So yer don't know nothin' about these parts?
That's queer enough to kill.
Hain't yer never heerd o. Moses Cole
An the ghost o. Bucklin's Mill?
Moses Cole that's me, yer know,
I've allus lived rite here;
Dads been livin on his old farm
goin on fifty year.
The fact is, stranger, the t'other night
I over tn Goshen Gate
With lot of the fellers, loafn round,
Till it got to be kind o. late.
An when started tu travel hum
Twas mitey dark and still,
An felt uncommonly lonesome down
In the holler by Bucklin's Mill.
stood alone on the old stun bridge,
leanin' agin the rail,
While the moonlite streakin' through the clouds
Looked tarrally queer and pale.
I heerd a mightey uncommon sound
Rite overhead in the air;
An the holler round seemed hted up
With sort of ghostly glare.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
A. Chinese Inn.

Passing through the great door, the
visitor finds himself in a large unpaved
yard, with buildings all around it. On
one side are perhaps six or eight guest
rooms, little boxes about twelve feet
square, with paper in place of glass for
windows, doors which do not fit, and
through the openings of which wind and
dust find their way. A very rickety old
chair and an equally decrepit table are
the only furniture, the bed being simply
brick or mud platform, filing nearly
half the room, and raised about two feet
from the floor Underneath it is hue,
into which, in cold weather, dry grass or
other fuel is pushed and fired, the heat
or smoke passing a zigzag line just
under the surface of the couch, and
finally escaping up a vent in the wall.
Other fireplace there is none and IT, as
often happens, the chimney should be
foul, the warmed bed is but poor com
pensation for smarting eyes and partial
suffocation. There are other rooms
sometimes at the top of the yard, and 1T
is always an object to secure them, as
they are trife larger and cleaner and
possibly in better repair. The charges
are moderate ten to two hundred
cents per night, with extras for food;
On entering the inn, your cart Is backed
up close to the door of your room, the
mules are embarrassed, and enjoy their
roll in the dust; and the host appears,
with the inevitable teapot, to receive
your orders for food. The meal dis
patched, the weary guest rolls himself
up in his coverlet to sleep till daybreak
if he can; I; but rats and lesser vermlr
often disturb his rest.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
Numerous.

RULED paper-The French press.
PAPER for the roughs- -Sandpaper.
DRAWING paper-The dentists bill.
A TAKING paper-Sheriff's warrant.
SPIRrrUA1IsT's paper-(W)rapp pa
per.
THE paper that is full of rows-The
paper of pins.
PAPER containing many fine points
| The paper of needles.
THE paper having the largest circula-
tion-The paper of tobacco.
THE paper that most resembles the
reader-'Iis you (tissue) paper.
WHAT is the difference between a tor
toise-shell tom and burnt child? One
| is brindled cat, the other a hndled
| brat.
A WESTERN journal offers this induce
ment I" All subscribers paying in adj
vance will be entitled to a frst-class
| obituary notice in case of death. "
A GENTLEMAN lately entered shop in
which were books and various miscel-
laneous articles for sale, and asked the
shopman if he had Goldsmith's Greece.
"No," said he, "but have some splendid
hair oil.
AN Irish housemaid who had been
sent to call gentleman to dinner, found
him engaged in using a toothbrush.
"Well, is he coming ?" asked the lady.
"Yes, ma'am, directly; he is just
sharpening his teeth.
A YOUNG lady in Western New York
has just declined an offer of marriage
from wealthyklover whose name is
Hussey. It issfHpossible not to admire
the spunk of that woman, who refuses
to be called Hussey for any man.
A RoMPNa 4-year old boy had been
denied some trifing qualification by his
mother, but it did not seem SO trihing
to him as to her. So, striking an atti-
tude before her, he said with the utmost
gravity, Mother, were you ever boy2"
AN old lady in town of Worcester
county, Mass, recently refused the gift
of a load of wood from a tree which had
been struck by lightning, through fear
that some of the 'sfiuid " might remain
in the wood and cause disaster to her
stove.
CON, Mr. Butcher, what quantity of
| bone there was in that last piece of meat
we had from you," said lady, very in
| dignantly. 'FWas there, ma'am But
howsomever, the very fust fat bullock L
kill without any bone, I'll let you have
one joint for nothing"
"Do YOU cast things here ?'' inquired
chap the other day, as he sauntered
into foundry and addressed the pro
prietor. eyes, we do" You cast all
kinds of things in iron, eh ?'' was the
next query. "Certainly don't you see
| it is our business ?' "Ah well, cast a
shadow, will you?" He was cast out.
|
A PORTSMOUTH belle recently married
a San Francisco millionaire, and the
local paper says AS she tucked away
the deeds of $500, 600 worth of property
on the Pacific Slope, and gazed on her
SIS, 900 solitaire diamond and other like
tokens, she doubtless concluded that
going to the Golden Gate for spouse
was equal to marrying a naval officer at
| home"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
A BackwOOdsman's Magnificent Present
to President Grant.

Yesterday afternoon there arrived in
this city, by the Union Pacific, "a magnif-
cent piece of handiwork in the shape of
desk, which was being semitic Washing
ton as a gift to Gen. Grant from the
builder, Frederick E. Schultze, of Boze-
man, one hundred miles from Helena,
in Montana Territory. It was shipped
in four sections, or boxes, and descrip-
ton of it, obtained from one who knew
all about it, is well worth producing for
the perusal of our readers. It was
modelled after rock at Wind River, and
is four stories in height. In the first
story there is book-stand on each side,
and in the center there is a place for a
seat. The second story is a secretary,
and is composed of three revolving
cylinders, which, upon merely touching
| a spring, can be turned around, bringing
into view six drawers, mirror, ink
| stand, pigeon-holes, ETC. A library for
| fine books composes the third story,
while the fourth is an arch which can be
revolved so as to show either side. The
desk, when placed into position, is eleven
| feet high. Nine hundred feet of cedar
and two hundred feet of pine were used
in its construction and it consists of
4, 100 different pieces, and not nail or
screw can be found in it, none having
been used. The weight is 1890 pounds.
| In6 OrHdulSu6dl NOrh Is VI 1lo liOoo
ingenious design, being inlaid and of
the finest polish.
Two years were consumed by Mr..
Schultze, assisted by his son Fritz, in build
ing this remarkable piece of furniture.
It was all done by hand, there being no
machinery in Bozeman, which is place
of only about three hundred inhabitants.
Prof. Hayden, who, when he was West,
saw the desk, says that it is one of the
finest pieces of workmanship in the world,
and he is lending some assistance to Mr..
Schultze in bringing it to Washington.
An influential man named Beck has
already gone on to Washington to make
preparations for the reception of the
desk upon it's arrival there.-Omaho
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Foreign.

GAR1BALDI is going to make a tour of
Scotland next summer.
THE Emperor of Austria has collec-
ton of criminals skulls comprising 400
specimens.
NoRwEaIANs keep the smallpox away
by wearing bag of sunfower seeds
around the neck.
PIUs TX. has witnessed the death of
one hundred Cardinals during his pontifi
cate of quarter of century.
PARIS pickpockets have dogs with
them, and when the dog grabs the man
by the leg, the thief gets into his
pocket.
AN Edinburgh telegrapher has discov-
cred that messages may be transmitted
from both ends of single wire stimuli
taneously. -
In Vienna the streets are3 crowded
with curious people all the day long,
watching the progress of the Exhibition
building.
NAPOLEON w. is tall, slim and of
very little attention to dress, and would
easily pass for Hebrew.
THE Chairman of the Relief Commit
tee in Persia says that the assistance
rendered by Sir Moses Montefore, the
rich London Jew, saved thousand
lives.
AN English Postmaster has gone ten
thousand miles away, with Government
band around each hand and another
around his leg, for five years, for en-
bezzling $50.
DIR. LIVINGSTONE found tribe, living
on the borders of one of the Central
| African lakes, the women of which were
quite disgusted on hearing that in En-
gland a man had but one wife.
ITALIAN brigands, not content with
merely numbering, have taken to mutt
lating their victims. A soldier was
found in a mountain pass with his breast
and abdomen cut open and his entrails
torn out.
CHARLES LowN FOWLER, a London
reporter who died lately, devoted his at
tention entirely, during a long life, to
the "writing up" of fires. s He pursued
this line of reporting so eagerly that he
was said to literally live upon a fire.
engine.
The London Times has half column
article on an extraordinary marriage at
the parish church of old St. Marylebone.
| It was that of Miss Kate Fox, one OF the
Fox sisters, whose spiritual manifesto
tions began at Rochester many years
ago, and who were the founders OF
modern spiritualism, to Mr.. Henry
Diedrich Jencken, barrister at law.
THE English Court of Chancery have
at last made a decision in the Townly
estate, which has been before the court
for thirty years. It appears the estate
was confiscated because three of the
owners came over to this country and
settled here The estate is valued at the
large sum of $3.50, 900, 900, and 100 heirs
in the United States were interested IL
it.
A HEALTH HNT.-The Science O
Health repeats what we all ought tc
heed when it says !: "The more maj
bundles up to keep from colds the more
more he may. Some persons do nothing
but watch against exposures, and keel
themselves very busy. The best safe
guards nre daily exercise in the open air
and the free use of cold water, taking
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
BOSS BAGsHAW.


Boss Bagshaw was a cobbIer,
Once hvin' at Bulls Head,
Where long he waxed stout and fat,
As well as his shoe thread.
And though he sowed not what he reaped,
He ripped what he had sowed;
And almost apostolic care
For way-worn soles he sowed.
The boss a doctor never was,
Though often did he heel
And kips and calls he did cut up,
As for the public veal.
Though he could neither write nor read,
The shoeless were aware
That for the understanding he
Did exercise care.
No evil fortune, small or great,
Could make his spirits fall;
He even sang right merrily
When once he lost his awl.
And even to his dying day,
OF Bagshaw be it told,
He never sold a leaky boot,
Though such he oft baif-soled.
Once he, from too much drink, was in
A state of lether-gy,
When thieves made booty of his shoes,
And with them they did flee.
When they came to, says he, if
Get once upon their tracks,
For hsvin' stolen of my stock
They'll get shoemaker's whacks.
That afternoon one thief he l1etched,
Which quickly came to grief;
For boss he went from weltin' shoes
To weltin' of the thief.
The NJ. P.'s ketched another one,
Maxim out of town..
And when the thief was taken up
He seemed quite taken down.
Boss piled his trade for thirty years,
Or somewhat thereabout,
For he, though long peggin' in,
Was longer peggin' out.
But Bagshaw couldn't always live
Like cobblers in the past,
He one day from his last did go,
To come unto his last.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -
BY J. AUGUSTINE s1aNA1eo.

Where beautiful the wild flowers grew,
By Danubes turbid stream,
And nature bloomed bright to the view,
Like youths romantic dream,
There knelt, beneath the mellow light
OF Luna's golden hue,
Armed cap-a-pie, a gallant knight
Bidding his love adieu.
She said, 1 give thee to our God,
For right to dare and do"
Then plucked violet from the sod,
gift to blind the two.
just then an idle zephyr's breath
The flower blew on the wave;
The knight plunged in, defying death,
That precious gift TO save.
He madly dashed the waters by
Until he reached the flower;
He caught it up and held it high,
A token of loves power.
She saw him sink beneath the tide
Unhappy was her lot;
He kissed the gift. and dying sighed,
"Oh, love, JOrget-ne-nOt."
The knight was buried near Ehe deep,
The lady by his side;
Together now they calmly sleep
Where she had pined and died.
The violet that he strove TO save
Grew on that lonely spot,
The same flowers bloom above their grave
They're called .fOTget-Dle-71Ot.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

A MAN WITHOUT IN'ARDs. young
man recently died in Chester county,
Pa, who had been suffering from en-
largnment of the spleen and liver, fol-
lowed by abdominal dropsy. A post
7,1oytenl examination revealed the fact
that the liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach
and bowels were completely absorbed,
without leaving any portion of them re-
manning nothing being found in the
abdomen but a portion of the omentum
and the serous fluid.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

ALEX. III. STEPHENS has given away
more money than any man in Georgia.
He gives away the bulk of his income
every year, and has educated at his own
expense nearly 40 poor but deserving
young men and women of the State.
The amount he gives away is only
limited by his income,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

BANCROFT is wandering in the direc.
ton of the Pyramids, gathering material
for forthcoming book.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

DoEsTIcKs, who went to Minneapolis
for his health, got it, and now goes back
to New York to run down again. he
saws he had rather be an invalid In New
York than an athlete in Minnesota In the
winter,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

An jest rite over the old stun bridge
There sot on an old dead tree,
A wallopin great hoot owl that kept
A winkin his eyes on me.
AM stranger, I've jest made up my mind,-
I reckon I'm nearly right,
That ghosts don't travel around the world
A scarin' folks in the night.