The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-11


BY all e let US have a genuine,
old time, rip roaring Fourth of July
celebration. The Centennial comes
but once in a hundred years.
The streets have been well scraped
and present a clean and healthy ap-
pearance. There arc a lot of back
yards in Eaton that need the atten-
ton of the Marshal or Board of
Health, before The hot weather comes
upon us if the health of the city wants
10 be preserved. Let this be attend
ed to promptly, before fevers spread
their deadly effects among us.
1t is surprising to see ladies of ap-
parent extreme modesty and cuItivat-
ed taste attempting to follow absurd
aud ridiculous fashions in dress. A
gorgeous, fashionable attire is not on
" an expression of vanity, but an ex-
preston cfcharscter. D etwiths.and-
LNaErL
ing that the above is o ,andid view
of fashions freaks, we admire al at
tractiye dress, but dislike very mu,h
10 e a lady dressed in the latest
agony use her little finger when wip-
ing her nose on the side of a meeting
house.
The interchangeable organ grinders,
about this time of year, like the flies,
revive and strike out from the cities
and plod through the country. The
first one came to town last Thursday,
and he turned out music of the latest
cut and gathered inSthe pennies, nick
els, and an occasional small piece of
our beautiful and deprecated silver.
He grosnd away and reminded us of
green fields, flowers in bloom and the
thermometer at ninety in the shade,
and looked as if he had been lying
dormant in some out of the way place
during the winter, and had been
Matched out by the warm rays of the
sun. For soul-inspiring music, we
commend the organ grinder.
There is a fashion of abusing wit
nesses INDUCED in at every session of
court by a class of mediocre lawyers,
that should be abolished. Because a
person is SO unfortunate as to be call
ed upon the witness stand to give tes-
Itimony in a case whereof he may
know something, and tells in an hon
est, straightforward manner what he
may know of the matter, there is no
reason why the opposition lawyer
should be allowed to bully, badger
aud abuse such witness, or in his adj
dress to the jury hold him up to ridi-
cule or make disparaging assertions
~effecting his honesty, or insulting re-
Elections upon his veracity. The bet
ter class Of lawyers do not descendto
this unfairness. II is the second-rate
fellows; the chaps who know very
little of law and have to rely upon
this dirty way of working for their
clients to make an argument at all be-
fore a jury. Having never been be-
yond the smoke of their own Chin
neys or associated with those who are
far above them in legal requirements,
they think II ''smart thing' TO de-
fame and belittle their neighbors. and
earn their fees by making everybody
else out villains and blockheads. We
hope soon to hear of reform in this
matter. The Court should clip the
wings of these carton birds when they
get to soaring too high or undertake
to air their prejudices in the court
room. It requires no "expert" to see
the injustice these ~blatherskite block
heads do their feilow-men. Such
men may also be known from their
disposition to never speak a good or
kind word ofanybody N themsclves.
1t is interesting to look over an old
paper occasionally. We have before
us a copy of the Eaton REGISTER Of
1874, published by S. Sc w. B. Tizzard,
which was handed us by a friend
the other day. BY this old issue
we find that at that time Col. Geo.
D. Hendricks was Sheriff, but who
the other County officers were the
paper does not say. Judge J. v,
Campbell was P. NJ; J. S. & A. j
Hawkins, Felix Marsh, Hiram Jones
G. w. Thompson and W. r. Coch-
ran were the Attorneys advertised, O
course there were more. The Nation
al Hotel was kept by John DeGroot
the Central by Horton s. Morgan, ant
the Eagle by H. Monfort. c. Van
Ausdal and Gray s. Hubbcll were tn,
Dry Goods merchants; Minor 8
Denny, Druggists Krug & Longncck
err and R. NJ. Stannah, bakers; Auto
s. GIincs, merchant t~ailors; Thomai
Holmes, cabinet maker; VIM. Ross
man, saddler; Jas. s. Horatio Gard
ner, manufacturers of hats &c, sc,
and SO on. Reading this old pape
naturally led US into a series o
thoughts. Where are the most 0
those who figured at the time it wa
printed, and where will we be, read
er, thirty-two years hence? The sen
Tor proprietor OF the paper has lon'
ago been ~gatheredt to his fathers, ant
also a majority of those whose name
appear upon its faded pages. Thirty
two years is a long time, and few o
us who are now in middle life vii
read this article when it shall becom
that old. And yetthe years will 500