The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-12

An exchange wants 10 KNOW VIVA
is pleasanter than getting up and tax
ing a walk of four or five miles befor,
breakfast. Nothing that we can thinl
of-except perhaps lying in bed ant
thinking about it.
The attention of the farmers ofPre,
BILE county is called to the advertise
ment of the Double Rotary Harrow
and Centennial Farm Gate. They arr
articles every farmer in the county
should have, and the low price o,
them gives all an opportunity to get
them.
A fashion item says "lace mittenl
reaching to the elbow are now worm
When a tender hearted young mar
parts his hair in the middle and wear:
a standing collar as high as a paling
fence receives a mitten from his girI
he can exclaim that it is as long as il
is broad. Oh, what handsl
Preserve your papers, and when
you have read them lay them away in
a secure place; after the lapse of q
year, more or less, it will afford you
great entertainment to review them.
A file of newspapers is. very valuable
for reference in seeking for corrobo-
rative dates and various items of in
formation.
Now that the annual cleaning time
has come, housekeepers will do we'll
to see that their cellars r thorough
ly cleansed. Look out for the dark
corners and holes where decayed mat
ter may have accumulated. A dirty
cellar is the cause of much sickness in
the household during the warn mug
gy days. of early Spring.
The credulous blue glas disciples
are trying the new cure-all and gen.
eral stimulator for tomato and cab
bage plants. The seed springs upand
spreads with the rapidity of Jonah's
gourd, and if this thing don't stop,
there will be no use for garden spades
or rakes, plows Or harrows-blue
glass will do all the work of produc-
ing food for lazy mankind.
Everybody should have a garden.
No matter how small q place you
plant, plant something. 1t may be a
little too early as yet to put in seed,
but you can get your beds ready, and
as soon as possible putin your plants.
The garden work is the healthiest and
most pleasant ip the world, and you
cannot buy garden truck which will
taste like that you raise yourself.
If your neighbor has a little patch
of ground which he intends to con-
vert into a garden this Spring it is
your duty, as a free born American
citizen, TO purchase, a dozen or two of
chickens, if you do not already have
them, and let them run at large alter
he gets all his seeds in. Nothing
lends so much excitement, healthful
exercises and earnest profanity to
garden makers as driving out their
neighbours chickens.
When you see a poor man trying to
pay. his debts these hard times and
keep his family, you try and aid him
by every means in your power from
succeeding, but if you see a gentle
man, Banker or Merchant who has
taken the benefit of the bankruptlaw,
be sure he has your aid and sympathy
and sincerest hopes that he saved
%"plenty of money" from his wrecked
fortune and his swindled creditors, to
keep him from working and his fam
lily in good style. This is the way of
the world!
Billings definition of an editor:
An editor is a male being whose biz
ness IL to navigate a luz paper. He
writes editorials, grinds out poetry,
inserts deths and weddings. sorts out
maneskrips, keeps q waists basket
blows the "devil," steals; matter, ftes
other peoples. battles, sells hiz paper
for a dollar and fifty cents a year,
takes white beans and apple sass for
pay, when he a get it, raizes a large
family, works 10 hours out Nv every
"a, knows no Sunday, gets damned
by everybody, and once in a while
whipt. by sumbody, lives poor, dies
middle-aged and often broken-heart-
ed, leaves NJ money, IL rewarded for
a life Nv toll with a short but free obit-
uary puff in the nuze papers.