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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
THE COUNCIL OF HORSES.

Upon time neighing steed,
Who grazed among numerous breed,
With mutiny had fired the train,
And spread dissension through the plain.
On matters that concerned the state
The council met in grand debate.
A colt whose eye-balls famed with ire,
Elate with strength and youthful fire,
In haste stepped forth before the rest,
And thus the listening throng addressed:
"Alasi how abject is our race,
Condemned to slavery and disgracei
Shall VIC our servitude retain,
Because our sires have borne the chain?
Consider, friends, your strength and might,
'Tis conquest to assert your right.
How cumbrous is the gilded coach!
The pride of man is our reproach.
Were we designed for daily toll,
To drag the ploughshare through the soilj
To sweat in harness ON the road,
To groan beneath the carriers load?
How feeble are the two-lcSged kind
What force is in our nerves combined
Shall then our nobler jaws submit
To foam and champ the CALLING bit!
Shall naughty man my back bestride?
Shall the sharp spur provoke my side?
Forbid it, friends Reject the rein;
Your shame, your infamy tlisdain.
Let him the lion first control,
And still the tigers famished growl.
Let us, like them our freedom claim,
And make him tremble at our name.'
A general nod approved the cause,
And all the circle neighed applause.
When, 10 with grave and solemn pace,
A steed advanced before the race,
With age and long experience wise;
Around he cast his thoughtful eyes,
And to the murmurs of his train
Thus spoke the Nestor of the plain:
"When had health and strength, like you
The tolls of servitude knew.
Now grateful man rewards my pains,
And gives me all these wide domains.
At will crop the years increase;
My latter life is rest and peace.
grant to man we lend our pains,
Help him TO cultivate the plans;
But doth not he divide the care
Through all the labors of the year?
How many thousand structures rise
To fence us from inclement skies?
For us he bears the sultry day,
And stores up all our winters hay.
He sows, he reaps the harvest's grain;
We share the toll, and share the gain.
Since every creature was decreed
To serve each others mutual need,
Appease your discontented mind,
And act the part by Heaven assigned.
The tumult ceased. The colt submitted,
And, like his ancestors, was bItted.
Gays Fables
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
Wit and HumOr.
WHAnEMAN's motto-Ile try.

WHALEMAN's motto-Ile try.
WoMAN's movement-Using the fan.
BARRIERS say that bald headed men
dye easy.
A MAN sticks at nothing when he tries
to stab ghost.
"THE cause of woman suffrage -
Scarcity of husbands.
WHAT did Noah's bees do while ahoat9
They kept the archives,
The annual prediction of ths seventeen
year locusts turns punctually up.
Why are jokes like nuts9 Because the
dryer they are the better they crack.
You can't weigh an eel with scales, be-
cause they have no scales, you know.
IT is only when the rich are sick that
they realize the impotence of wealth.
QUITE likely. Somebody says that
birch rods make the best baby jumpers.
A WORD to ladies-It's always safe to
be " engaged" when man, or woman
either, rings the door bell and asks to
see " the lady of the house.
WHEN the envious Miss McFlimsey
sees her rival dressed in something more
than ordinary elegance, she simply NUT
ters the significant word "Smuggled !"
B11BBs' boy says that if he thought he
should ever get so old that he wouldn't
care for molasses ball, he would pray
that he might die when he was young
and innocent.
BERGH says that the popular mode of
killing mosquitoes by rolling them be-
tween the thumb and forefnger is bar
barous, as it only half kills the insects.
Tying shot around their necks and drown
ing them would be more humane.
"THE revisers of the Bible have
reached Isaiah in twenty-eight sessions. "
This is very slow work. cold Whaxem,
schoolmaster, reached Isaiah in one ses-
sion. Isaiah was in the act of placing q
crooked pin on the masters seat at the
time"
"Do you intend to neasticate your
house 2" inquired lady of friend who
was building. He was critical, cultured
New Englander, as exact as witty. What
dron look came over his face as he an
swered "My wife says that I can eat
like an anaconda, and am blessed with
the digestion of an ostrich but, really,
madam, I don't think 1 could manage
three-story brick"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The New York Herald publishes SELL
sational dispatch from London to the
effect that it has been discovered in En-
gland that Messrs. Moody and Sankey,
the celebrated Evangelists, are in the
employ of P. T. Barnu1n, the great show
man, whose object is to found new re-
ligion. The story runs that Moody and
Sankey are put forward as a counter
poise to the novelty of English and
American Cardinals.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

An old blind horse at Saltwater,
Mimi, walked off bluff seventy-five
feet in height, and was not hurt, the old
nag walking off about his browsing, as
though he had not just made the beat
time on record for short distance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

A FARMER in jackson county, No.,
recently ditched and destroyed one hun
dred and twenty bushels of grasshoppers
in three days work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

One of the crew of the ill-fated Schiller
was arrested in Hoboken for being
drunk, few days before the vessel
sailed, and sent to jail for five days. His
time expired the day after the Schiller
sailed, and he escaped the fate of most
of his companions. This statement is
made as matter of news, and not to
encourage bibulous persons in the habit
of getting drunk in the hope of thereby
escaping marine disasters.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The late John G. Breckenridge was
one of three of the most exalted Masons
in the United States-Gen. Albert Pike,
of Arkansas, and Col. De Saussere, of
South Carolina, holding equal rank.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The New York Herald calls the
Brooklyn trial the "Trial of Endurance. :"
But whose endurance is most tried9 We
presume it must be the iury's.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

IT is estimated that three-tenths of
the goods imported in New York are
smuggled, and that the government does
not derive over 79 per cent. of the gross
revenue due upon importations in that
city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

A CHICAGO editor mentions the fact
hat Weston, the pedestrian fraud, is
again walking against time, and cruelty
exclaims "If he would only walk up
very hard against barrel of nitro
ryIvcerine t''
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
FRESH TOPICS.

The annual rental of pews in Ply
mouth Church came off the other day,
and netted fhe neat little sum of $71, ,165.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

AT the recent election In st. Louis,
the new system by which the judges of
election count the ballots every hour was
followed with the most satisfactory re-
suits. The returns were all in early,
and it was shown that the hourly an
nouncements of the number of votes
cast was an effective preventive of some
of the frauds that have heretofore been
noticeable on the part of judges of cleo
ton. With an increased number of pre-
cincts. to reduce the pressure at the polls
and render voting more convenient, this
new system will doubtless meet the gen.
eral appreciation, and should be univer-
sslly adopted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

SOME one proposes that the descend
ants of the original signers of the Declar-
alton of Independence shall meet in 1876,
at Philadelphia, and have a frst-class
pow-wow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Business cards of five lines less, s. per annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements OF marriages and deaths,
and church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices will be
charged cents per line.
Fayors MUST be handed in early as Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects of general or 10
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

A NICE old revolutionary party lives
at Lodi, Ohio. His name is Homer
Griffin. He is la years old, has only
one arm, never smoked nor chewed nor
snuffed, but (alas y has been an habitual
consumer of ardent spirits for over a
century. He can still work in the gar
den and chop wood with his remaining
arm. His first vote was cast for George
Washington, who was consequently
elected, many others following young
Mr.. Grifin's example.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

As THIS is the season of gush and love
making, this item will interest senti-
mental youths and maidens: "When
you write on postal card to your sweet
heart, use ink made of solution of 10
grains hyposulphite of soda in 16 tea
spoonfuls of water. This is colorless,
but on being exposed to heat turns
black"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

ANEW YORK dispatch saysJudge Neil
son is outlining his charge to the jury in
the Tilton-Beecher scandal case. His
Honor's ideas of what the Judges
charge should be are somewhat different
from the practice which has obtained
with some of the Judges in the State.
Judge Nelson is opposed, as general
rule, to any comments by the Judge
upon the testimony as presented. He
believes in confning bis charge to an
outline of the case as presented, the
points of law involved, and points in the
evidence that are entitled to particular
consideration. The charge will proba-
bly, occupy from day to a day and a
half.
A NEW YORK letter writer, gossiping
about New York journals and journalists,
says the Tribune probably has more out
side contributors than any daily in the
country. As manly as twenty-five OF
thirty men and women of ability, learn
ing and reputation furnish editorials
from time to time; among them Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, Lucia Gilbert
Runkle, Octavius B. rockingham, Re
becca Harding Davis, John Fiske, Julis
Ward, Howe, Henry James, Edmund
Clarence Stedman, Kate Field, Thomai
Hughes, Moncure D. Conway, VIM. R
Alger, Gail Hamilton, John G. White
and Richard Henry Stoddard. The rat.
is $40 to SIS a column sometimes
though not often, $50 and upward.
Mr.. JAMES LICK, the eccentric Cali
fornia millionaire, has made new trus
deed, differing from the one revoked Il
a very few particulars. The donatio
for ststuary at the State capital of $3.50,
900 Is changed to $1,000 for statuar
at the City Hall in San Francisco. Th
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
blessing OTHERS.

Who blesses others in his daily deeds,
Will find the healing that his spirit needs;
For every flower in others pathway strewn,
Confers its fragrant beauty on our own.
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"Do not say iHore." SHE
pleaded. 'sYou do not know
what You ask, | shall meter
marry"
"Why not?'
"My past. she said, quietly
Il cannot reveal it, and it forbi1s
such a thing"
He approached nearer.
s'Christiie," he said softly =
'.Christine, | know it all, and
there is nothing in it that should
separate us !.
"You YOU she faltered
''Mcre the
sfhe man who Won you. Chris
tine, let me win yon again
And he did. He never regret
ted having won Christine for his
wife from stle wiekedest woman
hi the cGlonies,r who confessed at
tile last moment that she was hot
lier own daughter, but dnly an
adopted child.
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Selected Story.
WON BY CARDS.

+. For Christine
" For Christine! !" the strang-
er repeated, as he took his
place at the table, while the
old woman, with a ringing
laugh, shufiled the cards once
more, and again the game
went on.
It was a wild, wierd scene,
which perhaps could not have
been witnessed in any other
part Of the globe.
A group of men, in every de-
.scription of dress, numbering
no lers than a hundred, stood
looking on-some in silence,
S0me uttering paths and ban
dying coarse jokes, as they
watched Madame Dupray, the
wickedest woman in the colo
MES, fleece her last victim.
Two weeks before, she had
announced that she should set
her daughter up to be played
for. If the man lost he was to
pay Madame one hundred
pounds; if he won Christine
was to pass into his hands, the
Madame's control over her al
an end |!
This was Madame's latest
desperate game, and in antici-
patton Of this she had kept he1
daughter in seclusion. Only a
4 few had ever looked upon
her face; and those few raved
50 about her beauty that it in
famed the hearts of their com
rAdes.
Tonight she Had stood be-
fofe them. Never had their
eyes fallen on such lovelingss.
Madame arrayed Der in costly
robes; but even though she had
been clad in rags, her rich, ra-
diant, dusky beauty would
have bewildered the eye.
Her beauty Infatuated the
beholder, and one by one the
men advanced, and flung down
heir one hundred pound stake.
* K Z
nd one by one they arose, de.
ieated, while Madame's ser
vant swept the gold away.
Some risked, but the game
vent on; Others played game
aiter game, until their pockets
Nere cleaned out, before they
would give up.
Madame was exultant; she
vas reaping . rich harvest to-
night What = lucky though.
Y had been.
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Selected Poetry.
Seek Not Harshly.

d.
Speak not harshly-much of care
Every human heart must bear;
Enough of shadows darby lie
Yelled within the sunniest eye.
By thy childhood's gushing tears,
BY the griefs of after years
By the anguish thou dost know,
add not to anothcr's woe.
Speak not harshly.-nuch of sin
Dwelleth every heart within;
In its closely covered cells
Many wayward passion dwells.
By the many hours nisspent,
BY the gifts to errors lent,
BY the wrong thou didst not shun,
BY the good thou hast not done
With a lenient spirit scan
The weakness.o of thy fellow man.
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How Her Father Helped Tiieini

How Her Father Helped Thein.
The Dubuque Times tells
this little story Of ii bashful
pair who had spent months III
preliminary courtslIip without
getting at the decisive point !:
John had gone to the house
where bis admirer lived, upon
at least twenty different i,cca>
sions; resolved to know bis fate,
but when ushered into the,
presence of the fair one, into
whose keeping he had placed
his heart, his courage would
Invariably "go back On him, =
and he would return to his
lonely room in great6f supense
than befOre. Upon the eveii>
ing in question, he had de>
4tefnined that, come what
would, be would tell his Mary
he loved her. He WOULD once
for all decide the matter; bnt
as upon each former occasion
he could get the proposal no
farther than his throat. There
it stuck, aud he Had just de-
termined to giilp it down aud
give up the siege, when the
door opened and in stalked the
girls father, who adyancedafo
where they We're sitting and
thus addressed thenls
Il came in to put 4 stop to
this internal foolishness. It
amt the counting expenses that
I'm looking at, for coal oils
cheap an wood can be had for
the haliin'; but I'm sick an
tired O. this billin' and cooin'
like q pair q sick doves, keep
ing me awake d nights, and
it's got to be stopped right
here. Mary Jane, look up
here. Do you love John Henry
well enough to marry him r
Why; father, I-I-yon
must
"Stop that darn foolishin' ,
yelled the old man. "Answer
yes or no, and mighty quick,
too. It's got to be settled now
or never z
"Well, but, father, don't
you knowif you'd only
wait and r
Dry up; answer yes Of mo-
Speak, !" roared the old gent
well, yes, then. There,
now" and Mary again hid her
face.
THAT business that is the
way to talk. Now, John. look
here look up here or III shake
lyou all to pieces. Do you
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BELLEVUE, La. THURSDAY, JULY %, 1876

she never frittered 1t away as
other girls do"
" Have you any bill against
me 2" he queried.
"None whatever"
"Then good day = and he
was gone.
Six years later.
Guy Hardcliffe had succeed
ed id the mines beyond his
widest expectation. Almost
at the last moment, when his
courage was beginning to fail,
he had struck upon such a
streak Of gold, III Golden
Gulch, that his fortune was
made in a few days. Then
word came to him that his nn-
Gle was dead, aud he came into
the Hardcliffe property and
title.
He sailed for England, and
Went to his new home. Everys
thing was strange to Tim. The
customs of his country, tile
stiffness Of his new life every
thing was dull-and he gave
up, and went to Paris; to see if
he could there be amused for a
little WhilE:
Madenioiselle Stantelli was
advertised, aud : many were
flocking to see her: She was
the new cantatrice about WHOM
all the men were going crazy.
Her beauty aud her voice were
raved about, until Guy Hard
cliffe determined to go, and
see her for himself.
Once in the building, lie was
spell bound. III the beautiful
creature; whose glowing lowell
ness infatuated all who went
to see or hear her he recogiiized
the girl won by a game Of
cards Christine Dupray!
He watched, he listened, and
in that hour he felt his doom
sealed. No woman had ever
thrilled him as this woman did;
no woman had ever seemed
the same.
He made no remarks, but
asked his friend her history:
"She came from Australia, !"
his friend said-an orphan,
alone. Her voice, on ship
board attracted the attention
of old Mezzo, aud lie engaged
her to 60 to Italy and have her
talents educated. She did SO,
and when he introduced her
into the public she was imme-
diately successful. Men wefe
mad about her. he continued,
wherever she went" and
Mezzo's widowed sister travels
ed with her, aud took care OF
her, aud no one could say a
word derogatory to her.''
Hardcliffe listened like one
in a dream.
"Introduce mel" he said.
When brought in close cons
tact with her, he admired her
even more deeply than when
she was on the stage; to him,
as to the rest, she maintained
the coldest politeness. He
knew that she did not recog-
nize him; for he had changed
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fore her vision and made her
sick at heart. From the little,
ignorant, fourteen year-old, she
had developed into a glowing,
educated, refined young lady
of eighteen, and now a letter
came addressed to herself. It
read:
. 1t is four years since Isaw
you. Yonr school DAYS are
drawing to a close. I al1 COM
ing to ask you to be my wife,
and 60 with me to a home of
your own"
There was no word that she
belonged to him, nothing that
indicated his ownership of her,
she shrank back from tie let
ter with alright. She could not
meet this man! She dare not
meet him! What must she do !?
She went out into the open
air. At a little distance she
could see a steamer at the
wharf, almost ready to leave
for the Australian shore. a
wild thought to escape came
into her mind. She had been
kept with money which she had
made but little use of. Per
haps she had enough now to
take her far away. She return
ed to the school, secured her
money and jewelry, and has
tened to the boat.
She had just time to write a
note before the plank was pull
ed in, and amid the cheers and
good-byes the boat started on
her journey. She purchased a
ticket, making an excuse for
coming so late that she Had
just received a letter which
summoned her to England.
Two days later Mr.. Hard
cliffe made his appearance at
the school and asked for his
ward, Christine. The matron
handed him a sealed envelope.
It contained the note she had
scribbled on the moment Of her
departure. She wrote:
$ 1 cannot stay to meet you.
[ am now on board the Eagle,
and before you get this will be
tar away. | am not going out
of ingratitude. / remember
what you have done for me:
you rescued me from degfada-
tion worse than death; and
have given me an education
which but few in the country
received. And now out of the
goodness Of your heart, not
knowing how else to dispose
! OF me, You are willing to marry
me rather than allow me to be
cast on the world friendlEss.
Such an act | cannot permit.
! You shall not be bound to
Christine Dupray, daughter Of
the swickedest woman in the
colonies The blight would be
fatal to us both. I leave my
thanks;and Christine will pray
for you as long as the breath
OF life is in her body. Fare
well, FOREVER"
| He read the note, and then
turned to the. .preceptress who
was standing nervously await
ing him to speak.
|. My protege has gone to
England, J" be said, quietly
6 She could not wait to consult
me. I hope she had money to
defray her expenses. .
The woman breathed more
freely. She had exnected .
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Her skill in cards was some
thing almost Internal, as many
poor fellows could attest to
their sorrow. Hardly a miner,
with his bag of gold, came
down from the mountains
whom the Madame did not
lure into her den; and once in
the fascination would be so
] strong that, when they went
out, they did so ruined. Some
had retrieved their fortunes;
others "had gone to the dogs
and many a poor fellow had
filled a suicides grave.
Tonight but few had intend
! ed to play when they entered,
but now the last victim was
sitting down. He kept his hat
slouched over his eyes; no one
knew him. He had dropped
in to look on; he had no inten-
tion to have anything to do
with this ''hellish game;;' as
he called it.
Madame played like one
possessed, but her good luck
was leaving her. She laid down
no card her opponent could
mot defeat; and, as the game
I progressed, stiffness reigned,
every sound died out all were
absorbed in seeing if, indeed,
] Christine Dupray was to be
won tonight.
One card more! Madame
threw the pack on the floor in
a rage, and the stranger arose,
saying:
" Christine is mine p
/ A wild, deafening cry arose;
though defeated themselves,
the men were glad that some
one had won her Madame
could not play thatgame over.
The stranger advanced to
Christine he saw the wild look
of affraight in her beautiful,
dusky eyes, and his voice in
tuitively became softer;. as he
said:
! . Get your hat. This is no
place for you. You will be
safer with me than here, y
glancing around upon the
rough, wild group.
AS one in a dream she obey
ed him, and the men parted to
let them pass out. Madame
said no word of adieu to her
daughter; she only muttered
curses upon the fellow whose
] skill was greater.than her own.
The stranger took the girl to
/ a hotel and early next morn
ling he took her ito parts un-
known" to those who had tried
to win her; bnt in reality, only
to place her in a good board
ing-school in one of the cities.
He paid for q years tuition
in advance. He gave them his
address, wished them to write
J twice a year and inform him OF
her progress; and then, bidding
! the girl to keep to herself all
OF her history, he took his de-
parture.
Four years passed away.