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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
80 wenri.ome Condition of Humanity. ~

80 WeartsOme Condition OF Humanity"
How many wretched homes in our land?
How many heart-broken invalids? Life
with many signifies a mere onerous exist.
ence. All are subject to disease, but when
health is removed the hope is nearly gone
out. Sickness is usually incurred through
exposure or carelessness. Especially is this
true with those diseases peculiar to women.
Through her own imprudence and folly she
is made to drag out a miserable existence
a source of annoyance and anxiety to her
friends, and anything but a comfort and
pleasure to herself. Exposure to the cold at
times when she should be most prudent, and
overtaxing her body with labolious employ
ment, are both fruitful causes of many of
the maladies from which she suffers. Grad
ually the bloom leaves her cheeks, her lips
grow ashy white, her vivacity departs, she
continually experiences a feeling of weari-
ness, and general ~langour, and altogether
presents a ghostly appearance. What does
she need? Should she take some stimulat-
ing drug, which will for the time make her
"yteel better" or does her entire system de-
mand reparation? She requires something
which not only will restore to health the dis.
eased organs, but will toni and invigorate the
system. DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
will do this. 1t imparts strength to the dis
eased parts, brings back the glow of health,
and restores comfort where previously there
was only suffering.
Every invalid lady should send fo- "The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser
in which over fifty pages are devoted to the
consideration of those diseases peculiar to
women. 1t will be sent, postpaid, to any
address, for S1.50. Address, R. V. Pierce
NJ. D., Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo. N. Y
Agents wanted to sell this valuable work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
Nuggets of Gold.

Many people use their reinements as
a spider his web, to catch the weak upon,
that they may be mercilessly devoured.
The rays of happiness, like those of
light, are colorless when u%nbroken.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army
of letters, stationed at the corners of
newspapers and reviews, to challenge
every new author.
In character, in manners, in style, and
in things, the supreme excellency is
simplicity.
Many readers judge the power of a
book by the shock it gives their feelings
as some savage tribes determine the
power of muskets by their recoil; that
being considered the best which fairly
prostrates the purchaser.
Men of genius are frequently dull and
inert in society; as the blazing meteor,
when it descends to the earth, is only 8
stone.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
French Duels.

There are many reasons why duels
rarely end fatally. All the gunsmiths
keep pistols warranted not to hit a barn
door at ten PAGES. They are grooved all
sorts of ways; they are made so light
that the least load of powder sends them
to the skies; the trigger is made so hard
the hand pulls the pistol higher than
even the skies; the hammer is weighted,
and has such a powerful spring the bar
rel is knocked down. Moreover, the
seconds always take care to overload,
that the pistol, no matter how carefully
aimed, may bounce over the object.
Lastly, but by no means leastly, there is
the emotion inseparable from a maiden
appearance in the part Of target for an
enemy's loaded pistol. 1t is incredible
how fast eyelids will snap under these
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
Night with q Crocodile.

A TRAVELLER in Central America had
the following experience with a croco-
die:
"One morning a crocodile was brought
to me alive; it was three yards in
length, and had been captured in the
lake. The fishermen had caught it with
a hook baited with the heart of a bull
lock. l had fastened it by a line with
which it had been caught, at a reasona-
Bile and safe distance from my hammock.
During the day it gave great signs of ir-
ritation, springing forward suddenly to
the full extent of the cord which con-
fined it, then springing back with its
jaws wide open, in a state of perfect
quiet. Toward evening l administered
to him a strong dose of arsenical soap,
and hoped to find him dead in the morn
ing, when l proposed to prepare him to
prevent decomposition, which takes
place rapidly under the tropics. The
agonies occasioned by the poison 1 had
administered redoubled his fury; with
ing in all directions, and giving out
strangely agoDizing sounds, for a long
time, he prevented Us from sleeping.
"Morin finally dozed off, and, after a
while, l succeeded in following his cx-
ample; but my sleep was early inter
rupted by a strange noise close to my
bed, accompanied by a suffocating musky
odor. l started up in my hammock, and
struck a match, by the dim light of
which l discovered that the horrible
reptile had broken from his fastenings,
and taken up a position directly under
my hammock. By a sudden and des-
perate effort, for l was still feeble, 1
managed to climb up to the cross beams
of the house from which my hammock
was suspended, whence l shouted vigor-
ously to NORM. As usual, he slept
soundly, and was not a little surprised at
hearing a voice from aloft.
During that day 1 had been despond-
ent, and had talked of death, and had
gone to sleep full of the gloomiest fore
bodings. Morin's first impression on
waking, therefore, was that he heard the
call of a departed spirit on its way to the
clouds. l soon convinced him of my
actual existence, and that 1 was only
temporarily sojourning on high. Reas.
sured, he leaped up, and, Selling a
Ratchet which was close at hand, moved
r~esolutely across the room and opened
the solitary window of our apartment,
admitting a faint flush of light, by the
aid of which we ascertained the position
of our unhappy monster. He was then
entirely m%otionless, except now and then
when he opened his bronzed jaws, and
gave out a cry of agony.
"My position was by no mean a com
Portable one, and I felt greatly relieved
when, after some difficulty, Norm sue,
ceeded in getting a moose around the
neck of the expiring reptile, by means
of which we suspended him to the cross
beam on which 1 was perched. He
struggled but little, for the poison had
nearly done its work, and in an hour he
was dead.
~ carried the skin to Paris, where il
was stuffed, and now figures, in all it:
native ugliness, in the museum of that
city"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

sCHENcK's PULMoyIc SYRUP, SEA WEED ToNIc
AND MASDRAKE PILLs.-These dcscryedly celebrated
and popular medicines have effected a revolution in
the healing art, and proved the fallacy OF several
maxims which have for many ' ears INSTRUCTED the
progress Of medical science. The false supposition
that Consumption is incurable" deferred phys.
icians from attempting to find r medies ior thai
disease, and patients afflicted with 1t Teconciled
themselves to dea.h without making an efiOrt 10 es-
caps from q doom which they supposed ts De una.
voidable. 1t is now proved, however, that Constihp'
fiOH caH be cured. and that it has been cured IN q very
great number of cases Csome of them apparently oes-
perate ones) by Scnenck's Pulmonic. syrup alone;
and in other eases by ths same medicine N conhec-
ton with Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic and MANDRAKE
Pills, one or both, according to the requirements oil
the case.
DR.. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, was supposed
at one time to be at the very gate OF death, ms
physicians having pronounced his ca e hopeless, and
abandoned him 10 his fate. He was cured by the
aforesaid medicines and, since his r"covery, many
thousands similarly affected have used DR.. Schenck's
prrparations with the same remarkable success.
Fnll directions acc company each, makingit not ao'
%solutely necessary to personally see DR.. Schenck un.
less n ,tieuts wish their lungs examined, ana LOT
this purpose he il professionally Mt his principal Of
Il @. corner Sixth and Arch Streets, philadelphia
every Monday, where all letters for advice must y
addressed. Schenek's medicines are sold by 81
druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
GAIL HAMILTON has a mack of saving

GAIL HAMILTON has a mack of saying
things, and here is one of her latest say
ings: "No prettier sight a be shown
to the Prince of Wales than a music hall
full of w~hite-robed, f~ag-bearing school
children; and a class of boys and girls
at the black board, frisking through
Euclid's hardest problems, as if it were
a game of fox and geese, is a sight cal
culated to inspire the minds of adults
with mingled W and humility. But
three hundred idle, well-dressed, we'll
educated young men applying for n
Insignificant clerkship; fifty clergymen
crowding one ecclesiastical brokers' shop
on Saturday afternoon; ahundred young
ladies answering an advertisement for
one copyist; throng of intelligent, re-
fined, and healthy persons in the youth
and prime of their years blocking the
doorway of every supposed e~asy-going
routine office in the country, is not an
inspiring sight"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

shops. The lockout recommended by the
Executive Committee, will not be resorted
to at present, as such lockout would throw
out of employment seventy thousand men.
Lamley & Simpsons cotton mill at Ashley,
England, nave been destroyed by fire. Dam
ago Gao, 1000. Two hundred operatives are
thrown out of employment.
Delworth & Sons cotton mills at Manches-
ter, have been destroyed by fire. The lossis
estimated at 100000.
A Paris dispatch says that the Conserva-
tives have elected the majority of the
Senatorial delegates in the Department of
Loire Maine ct Loire Inferieuse, Indse and
Gironde. Returns from forty departments
show Conservatives have carried thirty, Re-
publicans four, six doubtful.
A thousand more GOLFERS have struckin
North Wales, owing to the reduction of
wages.
Six Turkish battalions were routed, JAN
uary Is, between Ragusa and Trebinje, by
the insurgents under General Peko. The
Turks had three hundred killed, and many
wounded. The insurgent loss was only
thirty killed, but many wounded.
The Paris Moniteur gives the following
estimate of the result of the elections for
Senatorial delegates: Seventeen depart
ments are doubtful, thirty-three decidedly
Conservative, six ~Bonapartist, and sixteen
Republicans of all shades. NJ. Bullets cleo
ton in Vosges appears to be certain. The
Militant Bonapartists will probably obtain
thirty seats in the Senate,
The Paris correspondent of the London
Metus says the Republicans claim that they
will certainly elect their candidates for the
Senate in twenty-nine departments.
A special dispatch from Rome says the
Italian Government has closed the Episcopal
Seminary at Como for its refusal to admit
the Government Inspector. This is a most
important act, being the strongest step yet
taken in the States dealings with the
church, and will doubtless produce great
results.
The London Times, speaking of the prop
osition of Senator Sherman, for a common
unit for money and accounts for the United
States and Great Britain, says: The idea
finds no favor here it might suit the Amer
leans, as most of their gold is locked up in
som treasures, while the English sovereign
circulates in millions throughout the world.
The disturbance arising from the change
would be indescribable, particularly in the
absence of specie payments in America.
The Dominion Board of Trade. in session
at Ottawa, resolved that a treaty of recip
rocity with the United States is desirable, il
a comprehensive, liberal and fair basis
should be obtained, but initiative steps
thereto ought to come from the United
States Government. 1t was resolved tina
the Dominion Government be memorialize(
to secure the right of Canadian vesse
owners respecting the use of American
canals.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
Household Helms.

EGG MINCE PIEs.-Boil six eggs hard,
beel and shred them small; shred double
the quantity of suet put to them one
pound of currents, the peel of n lemon
cut very fine and the juice, six spoonfuls
of sweet wine, mace and nutmeg, one
fourth pound sugar, a little salt, one
ounce each candied oranges and citron.
Make a nice light paste ofthem.
MINCE MEAT.-Take a roast of boiled
beef, chopped fine, n pound; chopped
suet, one-half pound r%aisins, stoned and
chopped, one pound; c%urrants, one and a
half pounds; apples, chopped very fine,
one pound; moist sugar, one pound
candied peel, shred fine %citron, half a
pound; orange, quarter ola pound; lemon,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
RAILWAYS
R EADY R ELIEF
prnpD rSSTaNT EASE.
WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE

INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS,
INFLAMMATION OF H BLADDER,
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS,
CONGESTION OF II LUNGS,
SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT
PALPITATI0N OF THE A
MYSTERIES, GROUP, DIPHTHERlA,
CATARRH, INFLUENZA,
HEADACHE, T~OOTHACHE, MUMPS,
NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM,
COLD CHILLS, AGUE CHILLS.
The application of the READY RELIEF to the
part or parts where the pain or difficulty exists will
afford ease and comfort.
few moments. cure CRAMPS, SPASMsa SOUR
STOMACH, HEARTBuRNs SICK
THE BOWELS, and all INTERNAL Palms..
Travellers should always carry a bottle OF RAD-
WAYS RELIEF with them. A few drops in water
will prevent sickness or pains from change OF water;
IT Is BETTER THAN FRENCH BRANDY Oh
BITTERS AS A
Price so Cents. Sold by Druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

A HOT quarrel between Landers and
Smith in a ranch in Pine Nut Valley,
Nevada, apparently subsidized into good
will, and they went to bed in hunks one
over the other. In the night Landers,
who was on the lower shelf, awoke to find
Smiths face and a pistol hanging down
in sight from the upper shelf. "Pve
made up my mind to kill you," said
Smith; and then he fired, leaving Lam
ders barely time before death to give this
account of the murder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
DR.. RAILWAYS
PILLS.

tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum.
purge, regulate, purify. cleanse and strengthen.
PILLS, for the cure of all disorders
of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder
ness, Indigestion. Dyspepsia Biliousness, Biliogs
Derangements OF the Internal Viscera. Warranted
to effect a positive cure. Purely Vegetable, contain
ing no mercury, minerals, or deleteriousd drugs.
RB-Observe the following symptoms resulting from
Disorders of the Digestive Organs: =.
Constipation, Inward Piles, FuIlness Of the Blood
in the Head. Acidity Of the Stomach, Nausea, Heart
burn, Disgust of Food, Fullness or Weight in the
Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Fluttering
at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head,
Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the
Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in q
Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs be.
fore the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, De;
feiency of Respiration, Yellowness of the skin and
Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, and Sudden
Flushes OF Heat, Burning in the Flesh.
A few doses of PILLS viii free the
system from all the above named disorders: frfce
25 Cents per Box. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS,
Read FALSE AND TRUE"
Send one Ietter-stamr to RAILWAY d CO., No.
81 Warren Street, New York. Information
worth thousands will be sent you.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

PIMPLEs on the face, rough skin, chapped
hands, saltrheum, and all cutaneous affec'
lions cured, the skin made soft and smooth,
by the use of Juniper Tar Soap. That made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, is the
only kind that can be relied on, as there are
many limitations, made from common tar
which are worthless.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

IF every one of our readers would try
Dobbins' Electric Soap, (Cragin & Co.,
Philadelphia they would, like us, be-
come firm believers in its wonderful
merit. Have your grocer order it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

PIMPLEs AND HUMoRs ON THE FACE.-In
this condition of the skin, the Vegetine is
the great remedy, as i facts directly upon the
cause. 1t cleanses and purifies the blood,
thereby causing humors of all kinds to dis
aDpear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
Useml Information.

WHAT is a car load? Nominally u car
load is 10000 pounds. 1t is also 20 bar
rels of salt, 70 of lime, 80 of -four, 60 of
whisky, 200 sacks of -four, 6 cords of soft
wood, IS to 20 head of cattle, so to 80
head of hogs, 700 to 100 head of sheep,
5000 feet of solid boards, Ii, 1000 feet of
siding, 10 900 feet of flooring, 10000
shingles, one,half less of hard lumber, one
tenth less of joists,~ scantling and all other
large timbers, $40 bushels of wheat, 800
of corn, $50 of oats, 400 of barley, $50 of
faxseed, $50 of apples, 430 of Irish pota-
toes, $50 of sweet potatoes, and 1000 of
bran.
THE Rev. G. Gnachtrip, of the German
Methodist Episcopal Church says that
he tried and found the following a pre-
ventive and cure for small pox: Take
one grain sulphate of zinc and one grain
digitalis Tor foxglove). Put this in a
half tumbler of water and place in a
pint bottle. Leave it stand twenty-four
hours. Then put in a tablespoonful of
Orleans sugar. Shake well and then fill
up with rain water. A tablespoonful of
this taken every morning will prevent
the disease, even though exposed to it.
When the symptoms of small pox, such
as headache, pain in the back and fever
comes on a tablespoonful for an adult and
a t%easpoonful for children every half
hour will prevent the disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

quarter of a pound; ground ginger, half
an ounce; allspice, half an ounce; salt,
quarter of an ounce; the juice and peel
(grated) of two large lemons; n nut
meg one-half pint syrup. This is an
excellent recipe.
A CEMENT for covering the joints of
ovens that has been found excellent in
practice and does not crack, but becomes
very hard, may be made by mixing equal
quantities of finely sifted wood ashes and
crushed and sifted clay, and adding some
salt and sufficient water to form it into
a dough, with which the cracks are coated
when the oven is cold. If this cement is
employed instead of clay in setting new
ovens, they will be almost indestructible
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

ne EDITORS, PUBLISHERS, ga
And others having Railroad Tickets on Roads lead
ing out of Chicago, will find a purchaser by address,
ing II. Il. MANTZ, 50 Dearborn ST., Chicago.
mFRailroad Tickets Bought and Sold. ia
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

Mrs. GRANT wears black silk and
velvet, and Mrs. Fred Grant wears opal
silk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27

1t is said that in order that any English
or Irish University may accept the invita-
ton of the International College boat race in
America, it is indispensable that the day for
the event be fixed considerably later than
that proposed, July 10, 1t is highly prob
able that the English will be represented
by two or three crews besides the Universe
ties at the International Regatta at Philadel.
phia, at the end of August,
Six hundred weavers of Lower Heyes
Mills, at Macclesfeld, England, have been
locked out in consequence of a disagree
ment between the proprietor and the Secre-
tary of the Weaver's Union.
A portion of the North Wales Galleries,
have again struck for higher wages. The
Iron-makers' Employers Association have
voted to resist any attempt of the men or
their societies to resist the piece work in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-24

WEDGEwooD ware derives its name
from Josiah Wedgewood, of Stafford
shire, England, who produced fine
species of pottery and porcelain in 1762.
The cornerstone of the National mon
ument to Washington (still unfinished)
was laid in Washington, on July 4, 1S4S.
The Grafton was delivered by Hon. Rob-
ert @. Winthrop.
The British realm was named the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, on the union with Ireland, Jan.
/, 1901. A new imperial standard was
then hoisted on the Tower of London
and Castle of Dublin.
HE earthquake at Lisbon happened
on the LIST of November, 1855. On the
same day the river Tagus rose to an ex-
traordinary hight, and did great damage,
and in the evening great fire ragged. 1t
is computed that over $4,000 people
persisted on this sad occasion.
TENNESSEE was originally included in
the charter of North Carolina by Charles
H., 1864. The first settlement was on
Wetanga River, 1857. The territory
was coded by North Carolina to the
United States in 1870. 1t was admitted
into the Union as State in 1876.
LITTLE does the shallow-pated lover
who holds the shank" of wool for his
lady to wind, know the definition of that
word. The first man who did what he
supposes he is doing for the first time In
history was Flemish weaver, Hanke.
mus de Brabant, who settled in York,
England, in 1878, and gave his name tc
the skein.
VERMONT was not admitted into the
Confederacy during the revolution OF
account of conflicting claims upon it
but it performed its part in that struggle
nevertheless. Both New Hampshire
and New York had claims on the Terri
tory, which were not settled till 1870
when New York was paid $4,000. Yer
mont was admitted into the Union il
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-24

Every New Hampshire man who is
living in other States, and who has the
slightest pretext for asserting that his
home is still here, is brought back at the
expense of the State committee of his
party. About 1000 men came back in
this way last year. One journeyed all
the way from Colorado. If young man
goes to Boston, New York, or Chicago
to live, he has only to leave an old trunk
or an old hat where he last stayed in
New Hampshire to enjoy free trip back
every spring for ten years to come.
There is q landlord in one of the close
towns who has dozen empty trunks
stored in the garnet of his tavern, and
every trunk represents vote. AS reg
ularly as March comes around the own
ers turn up from all parts of the country
to vote on the strength of the personal
property they left as evidences of their
continued residence. The sick, the halt,
the lame, and the blind, are all brought
to the polls. Nothing but the actual
presence of death excuses man from
party service. When funeral process
sion goes by just before election, people
ask which ticket the dead man would
have voted had he lived, and the mem
bers of the party that has thus lost vote
appear to feel an in-will toward the de.
ceased for choosing such an inopportunt
time to die. Nashua { ~. h Cor. Neu
| York Tribune.