The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

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A young man called at the police head
quarters late in the evening, and stated that
after the fight Walker was laid on a table in
the ring, and every one deserted him that
he hailed q party in a boat about to- put of,
and got them to assist him in placing Walker
on board. Walker was insensible at the
time, and remained SO up to the time OF ms
death, which occurred when half way up to
the city.
Report oL 9 Mar .oh s.d KeP gsta Mouse
the Country.
New York Ers.l
Ny wife has gone away for the sum-
mer, and left me in full charge of the
house. 1 like it; haven't had such a run
of liberty since we were married. l hope
she's having a good time, for ! can now
exercise my rights as the head of the
family. Can't do it when she's at home;
she'll not stand it. She has rules. and
makes everybody about her toe the
mark. But I've got her now, and am
having things my own way.
This morning / came home quite
early. It was 2 a. M; I'd been to the
club and got caught in the rain. For
half an hour l couldn't find the key
hole, which must have got misled. /.
felt for it everywhere, and even got
down in the yard and examined every
brick, but couldn't find it. 1 was in the
act of calling one of my neighbors, and
asking him who had carried off my
front door, when 1 happened to find it
and got into the house.
In the dark / kicked over a spittoon,
but luckily didn't get any of the tobacco
juice on my boots. hung my o~vercoat
and umbrella on a prong of the chande-
lier, let them drip on the parlor carpet,
went up stairs, and turned in with my
boots on. 1 thought it wasn't worth
while to pull them Of, asl would have
to get up in eight or ten hours anyhow.
If my wife had been at home, she'd have
had me looking an hour for the boot
jack, and 1 would have lost that amount
of rest, which my system so much
needed. Besides, she'd have made me
give a full account of myself, which l
dom. like to do. / never did believe in
praising myself. It's better to let Others
speak of ones virtues. I can now wear
a shirt a week, and it's nobody's
business. 1 don't see how 1 ever did get
along with that woman. The idea OF
having to put on a clean shirt, black my
boots and brush up my clothes every
morning, is simply ridiculous. 1t is q
miracle to me how l ever did it and at
tend to my other affairs. / now read the
morning paper without being forced to
see an impatient woman standing with
) one hand looking very miserable, and
finally telling me she is going down town
and wants that paper. Any one, 'tc
look at the house now, would know
there's no woman ABOUT, everything is sc
/. quiet and comfortable, and handy. If
/. want to do a little figuring, / don't have
to hunt for a pencil, or pen and ink, but
. lust sit down to one Of the tables ant
. do it with my finger, and there's nobody
: to be eternally welding a busting brush
. around my bed and telling me to get our
of the way until the house is cleaned up
, These are considerations that every mar
ried man should ponder over. But wheI
: we do ponder and resolve, what goot
does it dor That's the question which
is now ~agitating the American people
What good does it do7 Not a bit. /
/ these women can't have everything jus
their own way, they o of into hys
terics. As a consequence, we have t
pay a fifty dollar doctors bill, and sta,
It in the house all day, tanning them ant
$ promising in the end that /" we may b
happy yet" before they show any dispc
: %sition to compromise. Our wives ar
!. petted too much. And this reminds m
that mine won't yield to any other treaI
ment. 1 undertook to prescribe a NOR
y stringent remedy forsher n day, but
threw her intoa fit more like. jimjam
e than anything 1 knew of. She brok
. every plate in the house over my hea6
and then I had to kiss her before sh
{ would promise not to do it again. That
what makes me say she is set in he
ways.
n There, too, are the piano and guitar
n which she kept going from morning unit
midnight, filing the whole neighborhoo
q with discordant music. Both are q
! mute as the bird-cage which was vacate
a last week by a strategic movement of III
cat.
y The two hundred pots of flowers sh
left me to cultivate. | don't think wi
produce much of a crop They're nearl
i all ripe now. and there's no sign of
q flower yet. I have watered them-twic
\ since she left, but it did no good.
reckon they miss her and are pinin
away because she amt here. In this ri
s. spsct they do not resemble me to an
h alarming extent.
The stove and pipe have assumed
beautiful red tint, and thepots are bring
ing forth a fine crop of ~whitelookin
! vegetable mold, which | haven't learne
the name Of, but she'll know it when sh
comes. The dishes don't look quite a
bright and clean a they might, but tn
flies are bad this year, and if 1 were t
wash them every two weeks the
wouldn't present a respectable appear
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