The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-01
1t has been something of a consola.

that a man who hold a 5000 pew sits
down just as finely on the side wall
as a fellow who occupies n of TIT
free seats back by the door without
any cushion in it.
Mr.. PETER MILES, living a short
distance west of Eaton, shot himsel,
on last Wednesday while fooling will
a loaded pistol. The ball passed into
the fleshy part of his leg and was ex.
tracted by DR.. CANS. Nothing seri
Gus, but another warning to children
and fools, not to play with loaded in.
struments.
1t is refreshing illustration o
economy in these hard times to see
man sitting four quarts OF coal asheI
with a ten cent cigar in his mouth
He is a fitting parallel to the geniu.
who will smoke up q years subscrip'
ton to the DEMOCRAT in a fortnight
and bore his neighbor to death by
borrowing the paper every week.
And now the silver-tongued patent
right vender MARBLES his seductive
notes to the e~ntranced granger anG
gets him to just write his nnme on
little piece of paper, SO he won't for.
get it, you know. The h. g. finds hi,
signature at the bank in thirty days
at the bottom of q note for two OF
three hundred dollars. SIGH is life.
We don't know of another Rail
Road in this broad country where the
managers refuse to pay for the Time
Table oftheir trains along their lines,
except the c., Fl. & D. No wonder
the stock of the road under the super
vision of such "penny wise and pound
foolish" men, peters down to the lit
tie end of nothing. The stockholders
should demand a change.
When you observe a well dressed
lady, fashionable miss or even one of
the masculine gender measuring the
icy pavement at fill length, don't
laugh. Bite your lip, stuffyour glove
into your mouth, render assistance,
commisserate, do anything else but
laugh. The modification of being
laughed at is frequently more intense
than the actual injury sustained.
Great efforts all over the country
are now being made by the good and
pious people, to reform the morals of
their hayward brethren, and turn
them into the pleasant paths of peace
and prayers. Eaton, of course, has
her sanctiied, who, m a year about
this season, feel a godIy interest in
their fellow. creatures welfare, and go
to work for their reformation. That
is all right. The DEMOCRAT is not a
~sectarian journal, and has no COM
mcnt to offer with reference to the
doctrinal points of any sect, but it
takes a lively interest in whatever
proposes to better the condition and
improve the morals of the people. We
have no admiration for dogmatism-
our sympatliies are with those who
counsel in a spirit of tolerance, and
who are more anxious to instruct the
people in their duties and responsible
tiles than in tie mere support and ad-
vocacy of peculiar tenets of theology.
In a broadly religious sense, there is
wide field for work. Society has
numerous pharisees and %prstenders,
shams and shirkers, trimmers and
time-servers, grabbers and gamblers.
There are hucksters in trade and pol
itics, hypocrites in Church and State,
which need the attention ofthe teach
ers of righteousness. A genuine
christian revival, that would uncover
the thin veneering of the pretenders
and give prominence to the example
of the founder of Christianity, is what
we want. Ills was not a snowy, mo-
ney making, velvet religious, a geor-
geous temple array, or a mere Sun
day-face assuming piety, like the quail
ity now practiced, although not
preached. The kind furnished now
does not prove efficacious-itis mere
ly shifting, as it were, the incense of
religious ceremonies only, and ans
wers but for the workers in it to con-
graduate themselves that they have
made an effort to do their duty, and
draw their salaries. That is about all,
it dies out in a few weeks, and those
who through excitement and fright,
are brought to,tle "mourner's bench,''
every winter, again drop into their
old paths of ungodliness and vice
and the world wags on.
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