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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
Westward HO!
TScribner for September.l

There is scarcely hamlet in all En-
gland which has not been invaded by
the emissaries of one of the great steam
ship lines. Eitherin the tavern, the read
ing-room, or the apothecary's shop, a
bold red and black placard is displayed,
bearing the names of half dozen YES
sells and the dates of their sailings.
Honest Giles, sitting of an evening in
his accustomed place by the fireside of
the village inn, has it constantly before
him, and makes it the text of many
long chats with his neighbors about the
wonderful land in the West. 1t is loosely
tackled to the edge of shelf, and rustles
and ripples in the breeze every time the
doeri is opened to admit newcomer.
The farrier's son is in America, and the
glowing accounts he sends to his father
of his new home are invariably read
aloud to the assembled company. The
general opinion of the villagers is
favorable to " the States" but the sexton
"a bluff, hectoring fellow with pro
nounced views in favor of church and
state-bears no love for this land of
liberty and law. Sometimes a queer
paragraph appears in the newspaper re-
fating an instance of lynch-law in Ar
kansas, or of party politics in Louisiana,
and the sexton cries out against Amerl-
cans as boastful and corrupt people.
He succeeds in turning the current
against them for few days, but when
next weeks paper comes, Giles reads the
eloquent words of praise spoken by
Mr.. Froude, Mr.. Forster, Professor Hulk
ley or Professor Tyndall, and is re-estab-
lished to the old faith.
Some oil the old villagers who formerly
sat around the fire and drowsed away all
the evenings of the year are settled in
Australia, Canada or the United States.
Letters often come to the village from
them, with small amounts of money or
photographs which represent the writer's
as bright-looking and in better dress
than they ever appeared at home. The
most encouraging accounts Of all
come from "the States" and when
honest Giles is sorely pressed with
difficulties, and Mrs. Giles is fading
for want of proper nutriment,
and her boys are running to
waste, after long deliberation and many
regrets Giles resolves to sell his little
ali and embark for New York. When
he announces his resolution to his
cronies at "The Kings Arms" the
hostelry is stirred by ripple of excite
ment such as it seldom experiences, but
as the evening advances Giles is left to
himself, and, contemplating the steam
ship placard through the clouds of his
tobacco smoke, the gaudy printing re-
veals series of dissolving views of hap
piness and prosperity awaiting himacross
tho Sea
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
A Yankee Hotel Trick.

A high-collared, eye-glassed, mutton
chop-whiskered, snobbish-looking Eng
lishman up at the Glen House, the other
day, was gazing at the big patch of snow
on Mount Jefferson with an immense
amount of wonder. Finally he turned
to a native and inquired: az say, mis-
taw, can-ah-you tell me if that is
snow see up yondaw?" "No, sir,
it is not" was the reply. "But, sill"
exclaimed the Englishman, "Pam told
it-ah-isa snow-bank, and you know"
I" know" said the American, "that
they say it is snow, but" he added
confdentially-"I don't mind telling
you how it is. You see, few of us
went over there to-day and we found it
is nothing but big ledge which our
friend Milliken here has had white
washed so as to make his guests think they
are looking at snow-bank. L tell you,
my friend, there is nothing these Yam
kee hotel men won't do to get custom"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
A AHoUsEKEEpFR's TRAGEDY.

One day, rs wandered, heard complaining,
And saw poor woman, the picture Of gloom;
She glared at the mud on her doorstep ctwas rain
ing),
40! life is toll and love is trouble,
And beauty will fade and riches will fee;
And pleasures they dwindle, and prices they double
And nothing is what could wish 1t to be.
There's too much of ironing goes to shirt;
There's nothing that pays for the time you waste
on it;
.There's nothing that lasts but trouble and dirt
"In March ii is mud; it's slush in December;
The midsummer breezes are loaded with dust;
In fall the leaves litter; in muggy September
The Wallpaper rots and the candlesticks rust.
"There are worms in the cherries and slugs in the
roses,
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pies;
The rubbish Of spiders no mortal supposes,
And rayaging reaches and damaging flies.
ats sweeping at six, and busting at seven;
It's victuals at eight, and dishes at nine;
1tEpotting and panning from ten to eleven;
We scarce break our fast ere we plan how to dine.
"with grease and with CRIME, from corner to
center,
Forever at war and forever alert,
No rest for day, lest the enemy enter
spend my whole life in struggle with dirt.
F" Last night, in my dreams, was stationed forever
On bare little isle in the midst Of the sea-
Ny one chance Of life was a ceaseess endeayOr
To sweep of the waves ere they swept over me.
+, " Alas, twas no dreaml Again behold It'll
1 yield: am helpless my fate to avert!'
She rolled down her sleeves, her apron she folded,
Then laid down and died, and was buried in dirtl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
Who Osman Pasha Is-NOne Other
Than the Famous Marshal
Razaine

The Army and Nary Journal publishes
the following: 1t is confidently asserted
in England from private information
that Osman Pasha is none other than
that celebrated fugitive from French
prisons, Marshal Francois Ochilre
Bazaine. This intelligence is by no
means improbable. Bazaine was always
an active and stirring man, and the
circumstances of his public trial in
France was such as to shut him out from
career in any army of Christian
Europe. Like most French officers of
rank, he had served in Algeria, and in
so doing gacquired considerable knowledge
of Arabic and of the Arabs. Besides
this, he served in the Crimean war in
command of the Foreign Legion, and
afterward as French Governor of Sevas-
topol. During that period he naturally
made many Turkish acquaintances, and
therefore there is nothing more natural
than that he should go to Turkey in the
hour of his need. 1t is no secret that his
treason to France in the interest of the
ate Emperor is indulgently looked on
by the Imperial Government.
In Turkey, where Bazaine's master
was the best friend of the Sultan,
Bazaine would be received with open
arms by those of his friends, who knew
his value in any capacity of trained
soldier That he should have concealed
his identity with the utmost care is
equally natural, and had not war come
it is possible he might have concealed
it till his death, but war with Russia,
l. ,st af fxra
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
An Actors Enthusiasm.

Kean was great admirer of Cooke,
and when he was in New York visited
his grave. Finding it without a me-
morial-stone, he had the body taken up,
removed to another place, and hand
some monument placed over it. In the
transition from one grave to another he
contrived to abstract one Of the toe
bones, and this he brought back with
him to London, as a precious relic. Upon
his arrival in London, Elliston and sew
eral of the Drury Lane company went
as far as Barnet to meet him. When he
arrived at the hotel where they were to
breakfast, he stopped all their meetings
with, Before you say word, behold |!
Fall down and kiss this relic! This is
the toe-bone of the greatest creature that
ever walked the earth-of George Fred
erick Cooke. Come, down with you all,
and kiss the bone" Elliston to humor
him, dropped upon his knees and kissed
the relic, and the others followed his
example. Arriving home, Kean's first
words to his wife were, az have brought
Charles fortune. I have something
that the Directors of the British Museum
would give 100000 for; but they shan't
have it. Here it is, the toe-bone of the
greatest man that ever ived-George
Frederick Cooke. Now, observe; l put this
on the mantel-piece, but let no one dare
touch it. You may all look at it, at a
distance, but be sure no one presumes to
handle it"
Here it lay for months, an object of
pride to the possessor, who never failed
to point it out to his visitors. But Mrs.
Kean, far from sharing her husbands
satisfaction, held the relic in disgust.
One day, resolved to no longer endure
its sight, she caught hold of it with a
piece of paper, and threw it over the
wall into the next garden. That night
Kean returned, as was his wont, very
inebriated. He missed the bone. He
stormed, raved, summoned the servants
out of their beds, and searched every
likely and unlikely spot. At last the
conviction was forced upon him that il
was gone. Sinking into a chair, he ex-
claimed, with drunken lachrymoseness,
Mary, your son has lost fortune. He
was worth 910, 1000; now he is beggar!''
1t may be remarked that if Kean con.
trived to extract toe-bone, how was il
that he did not discover the corpse to be
headless? Mr.. Proctor, however, vouches
for the truth of the story, but considers
it doubtful whether the body exhumed
was really that of Cooke.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
Fashion Trifes.

Short underskirtS are seen only with
street dresses.
Everything symmetrical is now con-
sidered as common.
Demi-train skirts are worn with the
simplest house toilet.
In addition to the porte-bonheur,
bracelets are to be worn.
The carelessly-draped polonaise is one
of the greatest novelties.
All dresses are now made with demi-
trains, short costumes having entirely
disappeared.
There is no change in the style of cut
ting walking-skirts, but the modes of
trimming are infinite.
A very pretty finish for walking
skirt is laced-edged flounce, with a row
of insertion below cluster of tucks.
A great addition to the white woolen
suit is vest embroidered in the color of
the velvet, and corresponding revers and
cuffs.
White dresses, which are made in
many different woolen fabrics, are
trimmed with colored velvets, such as
plum, brown, and bronze. The bands,
vest, and sleeves are of velvet.
At some fashionable Partisan enter
tainments dresses have been seen with
plain skirts, pointed waists, and fat
sleeves. The style of dress, made of
light faille, with scarf of the same ma
terial, is very elegant.
The newest garter is the " "Jarretiere
hygienique." 1t can hardly be called a
garter, as it is merely a strap, with a
clasp at one extremity and button-hole
at the other; the clasp pulls the stocking
above the knee, and the button-hole is
fixed to button on the stays.
1t can with perfect safety be pre-
dicted that the handsome woolen fall
suits will be trimmed but sparingly. The
style of trimming of more expensive and
dressy suits remains about the same.
The breton vest is heavily trimmed,
and is a great addition to drap dete
suits.
Boys in Paris wear white suits almost
exclusively. Between the ages of twelve
and fourteen the full suit, consisting OF
coat. vest, and trousers, is worn. A row
of buttons closes the coat down the
front. A red cravat with long ends is
generally worn to relieve the monotony
of this pure white suit.
The breton costume is rapidly meeting
with the fate of all such popular fashions
and becoming common. 1t is likely to
be succeeded by the costume "serbe, u
with a tight-ftting waist, and an apron
in front, and cut up on the sides about
four inches high. The back of the skirt
is very finely shirred.
"Guimpes" are worn over all waists
These articles and chemisettes have
been brought into use by the waists be-
ing cut open in breton style. The chem
isettes are of cOlored silk, and the
guimpes, which close. in the back, are
made in all ways. Some of them are
wholly of lace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
EVERYDAY sPICERIEs.

EhOWNS DilSub yOuuS Cnllulcu do
frosty nights blight young plants.
UNLESS we can speak well of fellow
creature, we had not better mention his
name.
New ORLEANS Pioayune: 1t is said
real good men are very scarce at water
ing places this season. Come to think
of it, there is no place oyercrowded by
men of that sort.
WHAT is the name of your cat, Will
liam? ?' inquired visitor. His name
was William" said the host, "until he
had fits, and since then we have called
him Fitz William"
LONDON Fun: Home Thrust: Doc
tor" Now. tell me, Colonel, how do you
feel when you have killed a man?'
Colonel-"O, very well, thank you,
Doctor. How do you feel?'
TUBAL-CA1N invented music, but he
was honest about it. He never dreamed
that woman would sing through her
nose or a young man drive whole
neighborhoOd distracted with fiddle.
NEW YORK Herald: He was from
the country back of Newburg, and he
came to town for the first time. As he
looked at the telegraph wires he said:
"Why do you make your wire fences so
hight f'
WAR RUMoRs.- Artful Assistant
Yes, mum, these are real Turkish tow
els; can't get any more when these are
sold, mum. All the towel makers have
been called out now to fight the Rus
| sians."
"NEvER do anything you would not
like to see others do" remarks the New
York Herald. Well, now, that's the
worst yet. If we wanted to marry
girl, for instance, we wouldn't like to
see some other fellow marry her.
"'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's
honest bark" sang Byron; but then
Byron probably never tossed upon his
sleepless couch half the night praying
| for a shotgun of large calibre to take
the sweetness out Of that bark.
A STIR AMONG THE DAISIES.
PRETTY LII of Iittleton sauntered through the
grassi
Inc Tery s Olros anu Ou''eriieS S'Opeu 70 see n''
All the daisies nodded to the maiden coming by,
And leaned across the pathway lett behind Fsh ner
s laughed, m Not No IT, II 'A@- '''''' -'' say
We bowed too low; but really we don't mind
To see hep eo fair maiden mass has really quite un
p str strung n4s;sh.., Isi and rs,dv hs who, ne,t
DN' "" she m comes among 81 u.s.
Mary Napes Dodge, in s. Nicholas
WORCESTER Press: Let us not dwell
upon the future in store for the trades
man who impregnates dozen peaches
with ipecac and gives one to each small
boy who will engage in foot race ten
times around the block.
NoRR1srowN Herald: A Russian war
CORRESPONDENTS speaks of "these sturdy
cavaliers with their stout horses and
carbines hanging at their backs"
| Soyorol hundred cavaliers with stout
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
A Tramp's View of Idleness.

lfuck.
He came in slowly and laboriously, as
if five tons of weariness were weighing
down his spirits.
He dropped heavily into chair,
sighed several four-foot signs, and then
bombarded us with the following conun-
drum:
"What is idleness? What does it
consist Off"
"Don't know. Never experienced it.
"Now, some people would call doing
nothing idleness, wouldn't theyw
al suppose they would.'
eyes; and that's where some people
make mistake. There is no such thing
as idleness. No man is ever wholly
idle; if his body isn't busy, his brain is.
l know that if man sits around and
shows disinclination to work, folks will
call him tramp and cucumber of
the ground as Shakespeare says; but it
don't make any difference. 1t isn't so,
and can produce plenty of proof to
sustain the position l take in the matter.
Now, for instance, who ever heard of
Napoleon getting up at five o'clock in
the morning and starting out to the
field with hoe over his shoulder, or
chasing a sidehill plow around field
fourteen hours day? Did Napoleon
ever do thatF'
"Never heard that he did"
"No, sir; he labored with his intel
lect, and when he had any real work to
perform, thousands of men were ready to
do his bidding. That's the sort of man
Napoleon was. He never sawed cord
of wood or did a hard days work in his
life; and yet he was never arrested for
vagrancy, and no interfering policeman
ever came nosing around and told him to
move along or the hand of the law would
snatch him to the Jug.
y" Then look at Diogenes! What sort
of man was he? On the unbalanced
ledger of history do we find on the credit
side any entry of this kind:
"Diogenes, Cr.
"By one days 90?
Nothing of the sort. Diogenes was
a man who took the world easy. The
only thing that he ever did that we have
| any record of was roaming around the
streets of Syracuse with an old tin Ian
tern in his hand. He pretended to be
looking for an honest man. Morelikely
ne was mapping out Tree lunch route.
So much for Diogenes.
NOW turn over anotner page ana
glance at the portrait OF olr Isaac New,
Ton. WASH ne thoroughbred tramp
All ne dlo was 70 sit out In ms garden
unaer an apple-tree, smoke ms oid Gay
pipe, ana Duiia ,e eassles @ IN tne ar. one
gay an apple Iell on tne Tree ana a. struck
DIR Isaac square IN the eye. Inc cir,
Gumstance made MN famous. why
because ne was genuine, pnilosoPnlcal PM
tramp, ana tooK tnlngs cooliy. When
the apple nit hlm ne dldn t get mad and
throw three-cornered Greek words
around through the atmosphere: or any
thing OF the sort; he SIMPLY picked the
apple up, looked 1T over carefully tor
worm-holes, and sllppeGd, 1t in his pocket
to eat after supper. Then ne began to
wonder why the apple didn't go up In,
stead OF falling down to the ground
You see, before that ne never had Pald
any attention to the matter, and ne
didn't know whether 1t was the usual
and correct thing for fruit to fly of at
tangent from the earth when 1t became
detached from the tree, or to come down,
like Col. Crocketts coon. He deter,
/ mi IN n n n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

The gifts of Pilgrims to the Pope
during the celebration of his jubilee
amounted to 1926, ,276.2O, of which
S1,s1S,OOO was in gold.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
WHOLE NUMBER $40.
Edible Nuts.

Nuts are true seeds, and differ from
fruits in having hard shells without any
soft or pulpy inclosure. From the
earliest times nuts, especially acorns and
chestnuts, have been used for food, and
and at the present day in Southern
Europe chestnuts forma large portion of
the food of the laboring classes, who be-
sides eating them raw and roasted, make
puddings of them and polenta for pastry.
The chestnut is the most farinaceous
and the least oily of all the nuts, and
therefore it is the most easy of digestion,
but it requires boiling or roasting to
burst the starch cells and render it diges-
tible. The chestnuts of Southern
Europe, are far superior in size and per-
lection to those that grow in colder eli
mates. Though little used on our tables,
they make delicious desserts.
The walnut is a native of Persia, and
its fruit is much used in the green state
as pickle. This nut is very oily, and
on the Continent its oil, when fresh, is
used in cooking as substitute for olive
oil. In Switzerland the poor people use
the refuse matter after the oil is ex-
tracted, for bread. Walnuts and hickory
nuts are often used nv fancy cooks for
shorten;no and Havor;no caie. the ad-
dition of these nnts makes a delicious
but verv indipestible article.
Acorns from remote antionitv have
been used rs food for man and animals
The ancient Rr;tons lived. mostly on
acorns; so, says Galen, did the Arcadians.
boiled and roasted. dried and ground and
made into bread. At present thew are
chiefly used for fattening hogs. deer and
poultry. Though in Norway and Sweden
they are boiled and mixed with cornmeal
to make bread.
Hazel-nuts and filberts are the fruit of
the same tree, the former in its wild and
the latter in its cultivated state. These
nuts are quite free from oil. At dessert
they are eaten with salt.
Fresh roasted peanuts are very agree
able in their flavor and quite nutritious.
Instead of being munched between meals
in all sorts of places, if they were eaten
at the table as part of the meal and
thoroughly masticated, they would prove
more wholesome.
The cocoanut is product of one of
the palms, and grows abundantly in all
tropical regions. The kernel, in its fresh
state, is very nutritive, and when grated
makes excellent cakes or fritters. The
milk of the cocoanut forms delicious
beverage in its native country; a large
nut when fresh will give half pint OF
milk. When 1t is very young the pulp
is so soft that it may be eaten with a
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

ROME Sentinel: A prudent Liberty
Street man was observed last week on
the roof of his house, tanning the light
ning-rod to keep it from melting.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

A LITTLE boy went to his father cry
ing the other day, and told him that he
had kicked a bee that had splinter in
its tail.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

WHEN each hotel is provided with
rope ladders, what traveller, unless he
is fat man, will settle his bills at the
office?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
THE SILVER BRIDGE.

The sunset fades along the shore,
And faints behind yon rosy reach of sea.
Night falls again, but ah, no more,
No more, no more
My love returns to me.
The lonely moon builds soft and slow
Her silver bridge across the main,
But him who sleeps the wave below,
Love mourns in vain;
All no, ah no,
He never comes again
But when some night, beside the sea,
watch, when sunsets red has ceased 10 burn,
That silver path, and sigh, "Ahme,
All me, ab me,
He never will return"
If on that bridge of rippling light
His homeward feet should find their way,
should not wonder at the sight,
But only say,
{" All love, my love,
l knew you would not stay!"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

A MANS temper is the most valuable
to himself, and he should keep it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

SETH GREEN is credited with the
assertion that fish never sleep. How can
he tell when he is asleep himself?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

Business cards Of five lines or less 50 per annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements Of marriages and deaths,
and church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices will be
charged five cents per line.
Fayors must be handed in as early rs Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week.
Communications upon subjects Of general or local
interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

NEW YORK Commercial: Up country
papers mention the death of Mr.. Briefly.
So-Briety's dead, is he?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

There was little old woman in yell
low gown stepping quickly about a farm
house kitchen. The yellow gown was
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
A Cave Containing Millions of Bats.

A San Antonio (Texas) correspondent
writes Our objective point was the
great bat cave some ten miles northeast
of the little town of Selma, place sell
dom visited by northern tourists. When
within less than a mile of the cave,
which is situated on the crest of high
bluff that may called an irregular table
land, General Ord directed my attention
to an immense dark shadow in the hori-
zon, extending from the ground line
high up into the heavens. 1t had all the
appearance of strong volume of smoke
issuing from the funnel of gigantic
ocean steamer. SIT looks like smoke" !"
said the general, "but it is simply a
cloud of bats issuing from the cave" On
approaching nearer 1 could distinctly
make out the flying vermin which were,
truly, thicker than the densest swarm OF
bees / have ever seen, and there ap-
peared to be no end OF them. We soon
reached the cave, which dips into
brambly gorge, and from the capacious
mouth, shaped like the half -choked arch
OF bridge, we could see the bats flying