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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
Lack of Improvements in Locomotives,

In what direction has there been any
improvementin locomotives, or has there
been none in the past ten years? Con-
sidering that the cost of running and
maintaining locomotives is about twenty
per cent. of the whole expense of operat-
ing railroads, and that their efficiency has
a direct influence on nearl y all the train
expenses, it must be regretted that there
has been so little improvement, that To-
comotive engineers have been so barren
of invention and so Indifferent to all re-
form. Since the adoption of the link mo-
tion-if we except perhaps the use OF in
iectors, the value of which is only now
beginning to receive tardy recognition
in this country" there has been no i'm
provement in those features of plan and
construction which involve broad prin-
ciples of science, or even the science OF
mechanics" An improvement, it is true
has been steadily going on in the design
and construction of the details; better
proportions and more convenient arrange
ments have been adopted; but generally
these improvements have reference only
to the convenience of handling, either in
working or repairing the engine, to the
appearance or to the cost of manufacture.
As it is so happily expressed in the quo
tation above in the science of me-
chanics" there are very few indications
of any improvements which are the re-
suit of deductions either from a high
order of purely theoretical or from
empirical Investigations. The details Of
locomotives are made "about So" be-
cause they have always been made that
way, and "have given no trouble;" OF
are made ga little heavier" because a
some time they have been found to be to'
weak.
1t is, of course, impossible for any per
son, unless he be a prophet, to anticipate
the inventions which will be made il
the future to improve locomotives. Al
T entirely new departure may be at hand
but at present it is not apparent. Th
indications are that the improvement
will be simply in the proportions of tn
parts and organs, and that this will o
can be brought about by careful stud
, and the application of scientific investi
CATION to the design of the parts of thes
: machines.-RailrOad Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
Gas Much Alike as Ants in a Hill.''

1 don't know what the lady was talk
ing about. l merely heard the above
remark as she was passing through my
woods. Ha! ha! thought l to myself,
why, there is as much difference between
ants as between people! Pll tell you
how know it: The little schoolma'am
has turn for experiments, and I've seen
her make one or two on this very point.
One day she picked up several ants from
one ant-hill and carried them to another
ant-hill, where there appeared to be thou
sands of inhabitants all looking just like
the newcomers. But it seems the ants
could see the difference, for the unfor-
tunate strangers were recognized as in
truders, and were instantly set upon and
killed.
Another time the little lady took some
ants from a large hill, and shut them uf
in bottle with some very ill-smelling
stuff called asafetida. The next day she
returned, bringing the bottle with the
imprisoned ants, Of course the poo
things smelled very strongly of thu
asafetida, and their nearest relation
could hardly be blamed for refusing t.
know them. So l felt quite frightened
for their sakes when the schoolma'am re
turned them to their home. But nc
Though they were first threatened b,
their fellows they were soon recognize
and allowed to pass. Blood was stronge
than asafetida. =" Jdck-in the-pulpit," S
Nicholas,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
Female Society.

All men who avoid female society (says
Thackeray) have dull perceptions, and
are stupid, and have gross tastes, and re-
volt against what is pure. Your club
swaggerers who are sucking the butts of
billiard cues all night, call female society
insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a
yokel; beauty has no charms for blind
man; music does not please poor beast,
who does not know one tune from
another; but, as true epicure is hardly
ever tired of water, sauce and brown
bread and butter, / can sit for whole
night talking to well-regulated kindly
woman about her daughter Fanny or
her boy Frank, and liking the evenings
entertainment. One of the greatest ben
efits man can derive from woman's
society is that he is bound to be respect
full to her. The habit is of great good tC
your morals, men, depend upon it. Oul
education makes us the most eminently
selfish men in the world, and the greatest
benefit that can come to man from {
woman's society is that he has to think
of somebody to whom he is bound to bt
constantly attentive and respectful.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

piece in the sitting room was frame,
and under the glass, in large gold letters,
were these words:
"NoT DROP MORE, DANIEL"
Mary, on reading these words, said,
go, friend Edgerton, if Daniel could
have said these words and stuck to them,
this beautiful place might have still been
his"
"Then thee don't know where Daniel
is?" asked the Quaker.
"No, 1 have not heard anything Of
him for more than three years."
"Thee would like to see him, would
thee notT
"Oyes, indeed l should"
"Let us walk up stairs"
As they went up the front stairs
Daniel slipped down the back ones and
took his stand in the front room. When
they returned, Mrs. Akin noticed a stall
wart man standing in the room with his
back to the door, and started back fol
an instant. The Quaker said:
"It is a friend, Mary.
Daniel turned around; but in the man
with the heavy beard and mustache
Mary did not recognize her husband
Daniel advanced to the step where Mary
was standing and, in voice tremulou:
with emotion, exclaimed:
"Don't you know me, Mary?"
We leave the reader to imagine what
the meeting was. Friend Edgerton sale
he must go and see Amy, and, addressing
himself to Mary, said:
MARY, this house and farm are thine
Daniel has got the papers and will give
them to thee. Thee can stay as long a
thee likes; thee will live happily one,
more, for that-peinting to the franz
over the mantel-piece g Not drop more
Daniel is his motto now, and will be a
long as he lives"
Daniel and his wife fell on their knee
before the Lord. Their prayers wer
mingled with many tears; but in thei
future lives those prayers were found t,
be answered.
Several years have passed away sine
the above events occurred, and DAME
Akin, now an earnest Christian man
still sticks to his motto, "Not a dro]
more, Danielp
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
Sadie, She's the Boss.

In Sunday school in this city re-
Gently, a friend of the cause from
Bladensburg was introduced, who, after
losing his way several times in the exor-
dium of his few remarks, rose on his
toes, closed his eyes and proceeded to
address the children as follows: "Once
on time, my little lambs, there were
two little girls, one named Sadie and one
named Mollie, and Mollie was a very
good little girl who used to save up all
her pennies for the Sunday school, and
learned plenty of verses, and never
mussed her dress, and was such a COM
fort to her mother as you can't think.
And Sadie was careless little girl; she
never wept for the heather, and she
yawned in church and usedn't to care
where she was going to when she died..
Dear children, you ought always to re-
member that. So one day their great
uncle Peter, after whom they were both
named, came too see them, and gave them
each new fifty cent shinplaster. So
Mollie took her fifty cents to the Sunday
school and put it in the box to buy
tracts for the little heather children that
couldn't read. And so it happened that
the wicked heather caught and killed a
missionary and were about to roast him,
and when the heather chiefly went to light
the fire in the cooking stove, he took one
of these very tracts to do it with, and
read the contents, and he and all the
tribe were converted. So you see how
much good you can sometimes do with a
very little money. But Sadie went out
by herself, and took her fifty cents and
bought with it-what do you think she
bought with it? Well, l will tell you.
She bought some oranges, and some ap-
pies, and some figs, and some molasses
candy, with some great, big, split al.
monds in it (here an unregenerated fat
boy in Miss warren's class hugged him
self in rapture and passed his tongue
around his ears), and doll whose eyes
would open and shut, and transparent
slate, and a picture book, and prize
package; and she went home and locked
herself up in back parlor, and ate them
all up. Now, dear children, which Of
these two lite girls do you think spent
their money best?" The dear children
with voice as the sounding of many
waters, Justify shouted: "Sadie! She's
| the boss !"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
PROUD COLUMBIA.
BY WALLACE R. sTRUBLE.

Where the chilling snow of winter
Covers with its ghostly white
All the leaflets in their weakness,
All the mountains in their might;
Where among the rocky fastnesS
Roams the grizzly bear at will,
There, in blushing, maiden beauty,
Young Columbia's waters rill.
From its fountain
In the mountain,
Leaps the water into sight,
Flowing, darkling,
Anon, sparkling
Like diamond in the light.
Down the mountain canyon rushing,
Leaping Ger the beetling rocks,
Gaining strength at every turning,
All impediments she mocks;
PausiDg now to kiss the branchlet
Hanging o'er her impid face
Starting off again in wildness
On her maniacal race.
Noble river,
Time has never
Left sorrow in thy breast;
Full Of gladness,
How can sadness
Ever mar thy wild unrest?
Through the valley now she wanders,
Shaded by the lofty pine,
Nourishing the grassy meadows,
Freshening the thirsty kline;
Bearing On her bosom vessels
Children Of her mother-pride-
Rolling ever to the ocean,
Mighty, pauseless, noble tide.
OF thy gladness,
And thy madness,
OF thy maniacal glee;
OF thy power,
And thy dover,
Proud Columbia, proud are we.
Where the blue Pacific's surges
Thunder in their rhythmic spleen,
Where the occidental sunbeams
Cast their glories on the scene,
There, amid old natures grandeur,
There, amid the grand sublime,
Proud Columbia joins her music
With the oceans ceaseless rhyme.
Grand old river,
Rolling ever
Onward to the ocean wide,
Time may sever,
But we never
Shall forget thy mighty tide.
The Ore1Ouidu
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
TRADITION OF CONQUEST.
BY MRS. S, NJ. B. PIATT.

His Grace of Marlborough, legends say,
Though battle-llghtnings proved his worth,
Was scathed like Others in his day,
By fercer fires at his own hearth.
The patient chief, thus sadly tried
Madam the Duchess was so fair
In Blenheim's honors felt less pride
Than in the lady's lovely hair.
Once (shorn she had coiled it there to wound
Her lord when be should pass, tits said)
Shining across bis path he found
The glory OF the woman's head.
No sudden word, no sullen look,
In all his after days, confessed
He missed the charm whose absence took
A scars pale shape within his breast.
think she longed to have him blame,
And soothe him with imperious tears
AS If her beauty were the same,
He praised her through her courteous years.
But when the soldiers arm was dust,
Among the dead mans treasures, where
He laid 1t as from moth and rust,
They found his waywsrd wifes sweet hair.
The GALAXY
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

ONE of the young men employed in
Danbury hat factory discovered brass
collar-button in piece of mince pie he
was masticating the other day. He is
looking for new boarding place. lie
saws what he wants are the comforts OF
home, and not the excitements and
confusion of dollar store.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

A YOUNG woman in Chicago put her
false teeth in a glass of water at night,
and in the morning found them imbedded
in chunk of solid ice. She was late at
breakfast, the process of thawing out the
teeth with bonfire of matches having
been slow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

Geghan law to, stand. Messrs. Kerr, Reese
and Andrews spoke in opposition to the
bill. The bill was then passed.........
HouSe-Mr. Fehrenbach's bill to compel
pawn and iunk-shop keepers to keepa record
of all articles bought and sold by them and
the addresses of the parties selling them,
was passed. The bill to reorganize the Pen
tentiary was read the third time, and was
referred to Mr.. Rowland as select COM
mittee of one, with instructions to amend
by striking out the amendment adopted on
Thursday in relation to religious ministra-
tration to convicts. The bill was reported
back so amended, and passed by party
vote--yeas, 62; nays, Al.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

MOODY and Sankey commenced their
services in the city of New York, on
Sunday, January 80. 1t is expected that
the meetings will continue two or three
months, if the interest shall warrant it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03
Space.

Business cards Of hve lines less, So per annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages and deaths
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices will be
charged cents per line.
Favors MUST he handed in early as Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects Of general or 20
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-03

THE primary cause of the physical de-
terioration of the people of the United
States lies in the fact that they do not
live upon oatmeal and crushed wheat,
but persist in running their stomachs
with eggs, butter, sugar, meat, fish and
other poisonous articles. Such is the
opinion of an American lady who has
been medically educated abroad" and
who cannot, therefore, be mistaken.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
SCHENcK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, FOR TH;
CURE OF CONSUMPTION, Coughs


SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, FOR The
CURE OF CONSUMPTION, COUGHS
AND COLDS.
The great virtue of this medicine Is
that it ripens the matter and throws it
out of the system, purities the blood,
and thus effects cure
ScHENcK's SEA WEED Tonic, FOR THE
CURE OF DYsPEPsIA, INDIGESTION,
&c.
The Tonic produces a healthy action
of the stomach, creating an appetite,
forming chyle, and curing the most OBJ
stinate cases of Indigestion.
ScHENcK's MANDRAKE Pills, FOR THE
CURE OF LIVER COMPLAINT &c.
These Pills are Alternative, and produce
a healthy action of the liver, without
the least danger, as they are free from
calomel, and vet more etficacious in re-
storing a healthy action of the liver.
These remedies are certain cure for
Consumption, as the Pulmonic Syrup
ripens the matter and purifies the blood.
The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver,
create a healthy bile, and remove all
diseases of the liver, often a cause OF
Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic
gives tone and strength to the stomach,
makes good digestion, and enables the
organs to form good blood; and thus
creates healthy circulation of healthy
blood. The combined action of these
medicines, as thus explained, will cure
every case of Consumption, if taken in
time, and the use of the medicines per-
severed in.
DIR. Schenck is professionally at his
principe office, corner SIXTH and ARCH
STs., Philadelphia, every Monday, where
all letters for advice must be addressed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
A Permanent Home.

To have ahome which man has him.
self reared or purchased-a home which
he has improved or beautified-a home
indeed. which, with honest pride and
natural love, he calls his owns an
additional security for any mans vir-
tue. Such home he leaves with re-
gret, to it he gladly returns. There he
finds innocent and satisfying pleasures.
There his wife and little ones are happy
and safe; and there all his best affec-
tions take root and grow. To such a
pair, as time advances, the abode of their
early and middle life, whence they have,
perhaps, all departed. becomes constant
ly more dear; for it is now a scene of
precious memories-the undisturbed re-
fuge for his declining years! And say
what lapse of time, what varied
experience of prosperity, or sorrow,
can ever efface the good impression
made by such home on the
tender heart of childhoodl to the
tempted youth, to the wanderer from
virtue, to the sad victim of misfortune,
such remembrance has often proved a
strengthening monitor, or healing
balm. Nor can this kindly influence
wholly fail so long as the dear objects
of that familiar scene retain a place in
memory, connected as they inseparably
are, with thoughts of a fathers eoun-
sells, mothers tenderness, a sisters
purity, and brothers love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
Obscure Passages.

A good story, no doubt mythical, is
told of Jacob BOehme, the cobbler, IA
nous for his profound philosophical
works. On his death bed his disciples
came to him, eager to obtain explana-
tions of obscure passages in his writ
ings before he ives taken away. He
relieved their difficulties with single
exception. One passage puzzled him,
and he said (: MY children when 1
wrote this l understood the meaning,
and no doubt the Omniscient God did.
He may still remember it, but | have
forgotten" A similar incident is told
of the German poet, klopstock, which
has the advantage of being true. Some
of his admirers made journey from
Gottingen to Hamburg to see him in
his old age, and to ask him to explain
a difficult passage in his works. They
were young students and running over
with enthusiasm. klOpstock received
them graciOusly, read the passage and
then said 81 cannot reeOllect what |
meant when / wrote it: but | remember
it was the finest thing | ever wrote,
and you cannot do better than devote
your lives to the discovery of its mean
ln0'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
The Faithful Indian.

A touching story is now told for the
first time which shows the better Indian
character. Back in lS4l, party of
hunters in a Wisconsin forest came
upon solitary grave over which floated
the tattered remnants of an American
flag. They soon met band of friendly
Indians, of whom they inquired the
meaning of the strange sight. The
reply was that it was the grave of an
Indian chief who was a Sbrave ally OF
the Americans in the battle of Tippe-
canoe. After the fight Gen. Harrison
presented him with a silk flag in token
of his appreciation of his services, which
the chief preserved as more valuable
than life, and commanded that his body
be buried in the wilderness, and the
flag presented by Gen. Harrison be un-
furled above his grave, there TO flutter
in the breeze unmolested so leng as a
thread remained. This command was
religiously obeyed by the Indians who
frequently visited the grave to see that
the flag was undisturbed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15

A correspondent of the London Spec
tator states that the cultivation of the
mulberry tree, which is the first con-
dition of new production Of silk, pro-
ceeds rapidly in Australia. The tree
was very early impaired from the Cape;
she herself imported 1000 plants from
Shanghai of the celebrated STU" va
riety, and 12O white Veronese mulber-
ries, and there are now at least ,OOO,-
600 mulberry trees growing in Austria
liza. She also succeeded after great ef-
fort and expense in importing healthy
European grain from Switzerland, and
the quality of the Australian silk has
obtained the highest testimonials from
CT ntinental experts, and-whieh is the
highest testimonial of all-offers of one
hundred francs per kilo. for the reeled
Australian silk. This is most satisfac-
tory to Australians. and ought to be
equally so to Europeans. as silk threat
ems to a price like that it fetched in
Queen Elizabeth's reign. The world
can live without silk, but it is pity to
lose anything at once beautiful and
useful, especially when one woman S
brains can do so much to preserve it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
F.. r. kUnkel's Bitter s9ine OF
Iron.

This truly valuable tonic has been so tho
roughly tested by all classes of the cOmmu-
nity that it is now deemed indispensable as
a Ionic medicine. 1t costs but little, puri
ies the blood and gives tone TO the stomach,
reuovates the system and prolongs life
Everybody should have it.
For the cure of Weak Stomachs, General
Debility, Indigestion, Diseases OF the Stom-
ach, and for all cases requiring tonic.
This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we pOssess-Citrate
Il Magnetic Oxide, combined with the most
energetic of vegetable tonics-IellOw Peru
vian Bark.
Do you want something to strengther
youi
Do you want a good appetite.
Do you want to get rid of nervousness
Do you want energy,
Do you want to sleep well?
Do you want to build up your eOnstitu-
ton?
Do you want to feel well9
Do you want brisk and vigorous feeling,
II you do, try kUNkEL'S BITTER WINE
OF IRON.
only ask a trial of this valuable tonic.
Beware of counterfeits, as Kunkeps Bit
ter Wine of Iron is the only sure and effee-
tual remedy in the known world for the per
manent cure of dyspepsia and Debility, AMI
as there are a number of limitations offered
to the public, | would caution the commu-
nifty to purchase none but the genuine srti
Gle, manufactured by L. F. kunkel, AMI
having his stamp on the cork of every bot
tie. The very fact that others are attempt
ing to initiate this valuable remedy, proves
its worth, and speaks volumes in its favor
Get the genuine. E f. kunkePs.
Sold only in 81 bottles Sold by Drug
gists and dealers everywhere Z. F. Ku =
kel, Proprietor, 259 North Ninth Street
Philadelphia, Pa.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
Remedies for Sea-Stckuess

Preventive measures may be all very
well in short trips, but in long voyages
i do not believe in suppressing sea-sick-
ness. As L have already remarked, a
good, downright Outburst generally re-
lieves that squeamishness and seediness
which, in people opposed to sea-sick-
ness, cannot, believe, be suppressed
by any means. | consider narcotics,
chloral and chloroform, particularly out
of place for that purpose. Instead of
suppressing sickness they often have a
direct nauseant effect, and at any rate,
after their effects on the brain are over,
leave the sufferer in a state of increased
squeamisbness, and altogether only
protract the attack. which without them
might have been very short one.
Starting on one hand from that theory
of sea-sickness according TO which it is
i yasomotor neurosis, and on the other,
remembering the fact that nitrate OF
amyl has most remarkable action on
the blood-vessels of the head and brain
antagOnistic to that spasmOdic contract
ton the supposed cause af sea-sickness,
l Thought that it might, not to say must,
prove an excellent remedy for sea-sick-
ness, consequently took good stock
with me. But it signally failed. Cen
orally its inhalation was Immediately
followed by vomiting; but without the
usual flushing in the face. Palpitations
of the heart were complained of in sew
eral cases. Once with nervous female
its administration was followed by a
slight fainting fit-a not unusual occur
renee.
The best remedy for sea-sickness,
particularly squeamishness. was, in my
experience, oxalate of cerium, which 1
gave in two grain pills. Only if the
vomiting continues To an alarming ex-
tent, find opiates, chloroform or chic
raj, required. Opium deserves the
preference over morphia. The diet
during the period of vomiting had best
consist of slOps and claret or brandy
with iced water. The patient, who, as a
rule, is unwilling to move at all, should
be taken on deck and made TO stay in
the open air for at least some hours in
the day. Ladies are especially apt TO
neglect this prescription, and believe
the greater length and more weakening
effect of their sickness TO be partly due
10 this circumstance.