The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
PENuIL AND SCISSORS.

PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
WHY is F like cows tail? 1t is at
the end of beef.
LOWELL Courier: Doesn't man con-
tract debt when he-pays part of it2
VALUE the friendship of him who
stands by you in storm: swarms of n
sects will surround yop in sunshine.
THERE is not SO agon1zing feeling in
the whole catalogue of human suffering
as the first conviction that the heart of
the being whom we most tenderly love
is estranged from us.
LIFE.
The past is not-the hues in which tits dressed,
Fond memory supplies;
The future is not-hope born in the breast
It's fancied joys arise;
The present is nGt-like the lightnstgs gleam
@ Its brief Illusions seem;
This is the life allotted unto man,
A memory-a hope-a ieeting moments span.
From the Ralidn.
"IsAY, ma" exclaimed a little mink
of thirteen, :" do you know what the
pyrotechnical remedy is for crying in
fant?" "Gracious goodness me, no;
never heard of such thing p Well,
ma, it's rocket"
A VENERABLE young gentleman, four
years old, recently threw his maternal
relative into a fit of admiration by the
following speech: like most all kinds
of cake-pound cake, sponge cake. and
jelly cake-but I don't like stomach
ache"
A YOUNG person thinks it enough to
do right. As he grows older, he finds it
necessary to satisfy others that he has
done SO. Much of the time that might
be spent in doing well must be used in
securing evidence that we have not
done i'll.
IMAGINAsHUN, tew much indulged in,
soon is tortured into reality; this is one
way that good hoss thieves are made;
man leans over a fence all day, and
imagines the hoss belongs to him, and
sure enuff, the fust dark right the hoss
does.
THE sunshine of life is made up of
very little beams that are bright all the
time. In the nursery, on the play
ground, and in the school-room, there is
room all the time for little acts Of kind
ness, that cost nothing, but are worth
more than gold or silver.
A SUFFERING Vermonter was asked
the way to Waterbury. With great
politeness he strove to say it was ahead,
but in vain the more he tried the more
he couldn't. At last, red in the face,
and furious with exertion, he burst forth
with, "Gug-g'long! hang you; you'll
g-g-get there afore II can t-t-ten your
Coop nature is the best feature in the
finest face-wit may raise admiration,
Judgment may command respect, and
acknowledge attention. Beauty may IN
fame the heart with love, but good ma
ture has more powerful .efect-it ADDS
a thousand attractions to the charms OF
beauty, and gives an air of benefcence
to the most homely face.
TRUANT SUMMER.
Sudden missed the Summer. Swift
| ran and called, 80 Bird o Beel yi 51-f
which way went Summer? Did yeu see?
| Red rose, thy silent petals lift,
| And by gesture point to me g i
| Which way went truant Summer free!
| Her work undone, her promise broken,
Oh, tickle Summer, of false tokenW
E'en while spoke the bee fell dead,
Frozen to death; and vanishing
In southern sky, on pauseless wing,
1 saw the swallow as he fed.
| Close to my feet sank shiyering
The rose, all white with suffering.
And, as turned, the skies were snowings f
And icy whistling winds were blowing.
ABOVE all earthly gifts good mother
stands pre-eminent; she is worth her
weight in gold-more than an army OF
acquaintance. Those who have played
round the same door step, basked in the
same mothers smiles, in whose veins
the, same blood flows, are bound by a
sacred tie that can never be broken.
Distances may separate, quarrels may
occur, but those who have capacity to
love anything must have at times bub-
bling up of fond recollections, and a
yearning after the joys of by-gone days,
Every woman has nilsson on earth.
There is something to do" ior every
one-a houshold to put in order, child
to attend to, some class Of unfortunates
degraded or homeless humanity to be
friend. That soul is poor indeed that
leaves the world without having exerted
an influence that will be felt for good af
ter she has passed away.
OVER six thousand people perished in
these United States last year, victims O
kerosene oil accidents. 1t is not easy tt
realize the extent and the significance o
this reliable statement. An average o
one hundred and fifteen deaths for ont
year, when scattered over great extent
of territory, does not impress the aver
age individual like single catastroph
where half hundred lives are sacrifices
by criminal neglect or murderous parsi
mony. A boiler explosion, railroa'
: collision, or an Indian massacre thrill
4 the public heart and stirs the bloc
within us but it is only the statistical
or the humanitarian who realizes th
mental and bodily anguish, the appallin
disasters, the agonizing death,bed scens
that are represented by this army of 81
thousand kerosene victims. The use {
kerosene has now become so common
y the household, the store, the river, an
is the rail that it seems almost a work
l. supererogation to add anything to viii
has heen 40 often and 30 ably said.