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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Fighting Among the Clouds.

In marching from Alexandropol to
the passes of the Soughanlu Range,
where Mukhtar Pasha's army was posted,
the main column of the Russian army
advanced about one hundred and five
miles in two. months. Alexandropol lies
at an elevation of 5,079 feet above the
sea, and Kars, forty-four miles distant,
is about one thousand feet higher.
Erzeroum lies one hundred and twenty
nine miles southwest of Kars, at an
elevation of 6,400 feet above the sea.
Half way between Kars and Erzeroum
are the crests of the Soughanlu, rising to
a height of $500 feet. The district be-
tween Bardess and levin, where the two
armies were encamped, is between $500
and $500 feet above the sea. These
mountain defles defended the best road
in Armenia; for beyond levin and
Khorasan the Russians could have
pressed forward without difficulty. They
could not capture those impregnable
passes; their hope wasthatthe left wing,
by advancing from Toprak-Kel toward
the Koprikoi, would compel Mukhtar
Pasha to retire and leave the road open
for the Russian center.
Toprak-Kaleh, where the Russian left
wing halted before the recent engage
ments, is $500 feet above the sea. Be
tween this point and the river Aras are
the spurs of the Araratrange, over 1000
feet higher than the Soughanlu Noun,
tains. The mountains near Zeidekan,
where the first battle was fought, rise to
to a height of l 1925 feet. At Delibaba,
where the Turks achieved their sue.
cesses, the mountain passes are 9,400 feet
high. The road on these mountains j:
impossible for two-wheeled carts. From
Toprak-Kaleh there is a tolerable road
leading across mountains $500 feet high
to Kaghisman and thence to Ardost and
Kars. This wa the only road by which
the Russians could send reinforcement
to the left wing when it was attacked by
the Turks in strong force, and it is the
only road by which this column can re
treat if its Communications with BayaziC
are cut off.
The Russian right wing, which cap
tured Arabian and advanced to Olti
did not cooperate effectively with tn
central column. The explanation is yer,
simple: The road is scarcely more thai
a bridle-path, and not available for mil
itary operations. The same may be salt
of the road from Batoum to Erzeroum
along the Chowk-Su,' and also of tn,
southern or Meschingerd branch of tn
road between Kars and Khorasan
Meschingerd is $3.50 feet above the sea
and Geshevan is stillhigher, 1880 feet
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

factory are the usual ways of disposing
of a broom that the inventive Yankee
has taken up the matter, and patented
broom-holders are offered for sale to
housekeepers. But one need not wait
for the vender of the Patent Broom
holder" to come along; just put two
wooden pins into the wall about two
inches apart, to admit the handle be-
tween and allow the broom part to rest
upon them, and you will not need tc
buy, as you have as good a broom-holdel
as can be invented,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
TOPICS FOR THE FARM.

Cisterns for Cider.-I noticed some
time since, says a correspondent of the
Country Gentleman, an inquiry as to the
feasibility of using a cement vat or els
tern for holding cider. 1 will give my
experience: 1 built a vat in my cellar of
Rosendale cement and stone, using the
cellar wall for three sides of the vat the
fourth side was solid stone and cement
ten inches thick, with repeated coats of
strong cement over all the inside. This
was allowed to remain two years before
using, and was as hard as cement could
be. The cider was put in, several bar
rels at a time sweet from the press, until
the vat was full. Fermentation con-
tinued while 1 kept adding fresh cider;
then it seemed to cease entirely, and the
cider very soon became fiat, acquiring a
disagreeable taste. 1t also began to set
tie away, and the wet earth at the bot
tom next the outside wall showed that
it was working through the cement. 1t
even oozed through the ten-inch wall of
solid cement and cobble stone. | re-
moved all but abouta barrelof the cider,
putting it into wooden casks, where it
has undergone a second fermentation
and is in a fair way to make vinegar.
The cider that was left. in the vat has
been growing lower and blacker all the
while. The cement on the sides that
was once hard can now be scraped of
with ease. | am satisfied that the acid
in the cider, and the lime in the cement
counteract each other. Each destroys
the life of the other. Cement will not
hold cider, and if it did it would spoil it.
Soap Making.-A lady says in the
Western Farm Journal The task of
soap-making may be very much light
ened by dispensing with the boiling of
soap, and 1 think the soap much whittier
and nicer made cold. To make it, take
three-fourths of a pound of clear grease
to one gallon of I've. Heat the grease
and I've separate. Pour the grease into
the barrel, then the I've, stirring well.
Set the barrel in the sun. Stir several
times through the day. Cover at night.
The I've should be strong enough to bear
a common sized egg to the surface-not
out or above it.
The heating of the lye and grease may
be omitted, but it takes longer to make
and is not so easily stirred.
To those who live in coal-burning
regions, and who cannot get wood ashes,
1 will say that 1 have used white potash
in the same way with good success. One
year 1 had more grease than l could
make with what ashes l had, and having
a small quantity of strong I've when my
barrel was filled, left unused, l boiled
the balance of my grease init justenough
to eat it; then made it up with concen'
trated I've according to directions OF
packages. The result was excellent soft
soap, which 1 afterward made into {
prime article of hard white soap, by stir
ring salt into the warm soap until the
I've and soap separated, then cutting int
blocks and drying. 1 had before uset
the concentrated I've alone, but with
poor, curdling soap as the result.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
~COnsumptives Cured.
New York SUM-

law" ANA HNJ
A little million of sparrows chirped
and fitted to and fro among the iron
girders of the roof of the Thirty-fourth
Street Market, the other day, as the re-
porter walked through it searching for
the abattoir and the blood-dIinkers that
are said to frequent it. Frank Houston,
a butcher employed by Phil. Dolan,
rested from slaughtering, and the re-
porter asked him whether people ever
came to the market to drink blood.
"To be sure they do" the butcher re-
piled. every many men and women
drink blood for their health. L haven't
seen any here for three or four weeks;
but last fall and last winter we had
many, and they came regularly every
morning. They were mainly con-
sumptives. 1 saw more in the slaughter
house in Forty-sixth Street where l
worked last than 1 have seen here.
They were all consumptives. l don't
know whether it's the blood or their
imagination that does them good, but
whichever it is, they certainly get bet
ter. I don't know any of those who
come here, but many of them are
wealthy people who come in their car
riages. I knew one fellow who got
cured. He had not been doing anything
for two years-he was so bad with con-
sumption; but he got better and better
drinking blood, and finally he was able
to go to work again"
"Was it hard work that he went att
the reporter asked.
"N-n-no," the butcher replied, limo
Gently; she went to tending bar"
"These drinkers always come in the
morning." the butcher continued, "and
they always bring their own tumblers
Does blood taste bad? Well, 1 CUES:
not. It's like fresh, warm milk, only
sweeter and warmer. We butcher,
often drink it. I drink it myself and
imagine it does me good"
A butcher employed by William Fitcl
told the reporter of a young man named
| Garvey who had consumption, anddranl
blood for it until he was cured. Thu
butcher knew only one other blood
drinker by name Mrs. CourtlanC
Palmer, widow of the late owner of tn,
great market. She was benefited by it
The reporter was shown a little CIR
who had been stripped of her clothin!
and was standing in a barrel filled to he
chin with the partially digested content
of the stomachs of newly-killed cattle
The butchers said she was suffering from
a scrofulous sore on her back, and tn
cure lay in the medical properties of tn
gastric juice in the fodder.
"Men, women and children ofteI
come here" a butcher said, "to cur
rheumatism, sores, and even palsy, b
putting their hands and arms or feet 0
legs into the stomachs of fresh-kille
cows"
One butcher told of the custom tina
Italians have of wrapping the melt of
cows stomach next to their skin fC
the cure of internal injuries, rheum;
tism or consumption.
awe don't take any money from an
one," said one of the butchers, for fes
it will spoil the cure"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
THE H~UsBANDMAN.

Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree is more than all.
For he who blesses most is blest,
And God and man shall own his worth
Who tolls to leave at his bequest
An added beauty to the earth.
And, soon or late, to all that sow
The time of harvest shall be given;
The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall grow,
If not on earth, at last in heaven?
John G. Whittier,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Sheep Dip.-Rural New Yorker: We
receive many letters during the year ask
ing for information in regard to destroy
ing ticks and scab on sheep. These pests
are very injurious and no flock can long
remain profitable if infested with such
vermin, as every shepherd knows to his
cost. Tobacco has been the great remedy
for many years, but lately the great in
secticides carbolic and cresylic acids
have come into almostgeneral use, being
both safe and in a form for immediate
use, which cannot be said of the old
kinds of sheep-dip, especially those in
which very caustic liquids were used,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

PHILADELPHIA Press: The Channel
tunnel, which is to connect France with
England, may have a rival. NJ. st.
Hume, a French constructor, proposes to
bridge the English channel. The space
from shore to shore is t~wenty-one miles,
reckoning from Cape Grisnez to Folke-
stone. Midway between is a solid bank
of chalk and gravel, on which, it is
claimed, the engineers a firmly build
not only the piers of their bridge, but
even a harbor of refuge for ships in dis.
tress. The scheme is regarded with
favor in france, but ridiculed in Eng.
land, and, comparing the cost, there is
said to be a difference of many millions
in favor of the open-air or daylight
route from London to Paris.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
1877. NEW YORK. 1877.

The Sun continues to be the strenuous advocate of
reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution
of ~statesmanship, wisdom, and integrity for hollow
pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the administra-
ton of public affairs. 1t contends for the govern
ment of the people ~ the people and for the people,
as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot
box and in the counting Of votes, enforced by mill
tary violence. 1t endeavors to supply its readers
a body now not far from a million o fsouls-with the
most careful, complete, and Trustworthy accounts
Of current events, and employs for this purpose q
numerous and carefully selected stat ofreporter and
Correspondents. Its reports from Washington, ,es
pecially, are full, accurate, and fearles5; and II
doubtless continues to deserve and enjoy the hatred
Of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury OF
by usurping what the law does not give them. while
it endeayors to merit the confidence of the public by
defending the rights of the people against the en-
croachments of unjustifed power.
The price of the daily SUN is IS cents a month, OF
$3.50 a year, postpaid CT, with the Sunday edi'
tion, 67.7O a year.
The Sunday. edition alone, eight pages, sI.20 q
year, postpaid.
The WEEKLY SUN, eight pages of S broad columns
Is furnished at 81 q year, postpaid.
SPECIAL NorIcE.-In order to introduce THE Sun
more widely to the public, we will send TIKI
WEEKLY edition for the remainder of the year, Il
January 1, 1878, postpaid, for Half q Dollar. Try it
Address, THE SUN, New York City.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
GLEAN1NGs FROM THE MUSE.
LOVE AND DEATH

"Now, who can take from us what we have
known
We that have looked into each others eyes?
Though lowering night should blacken all the
skies,
The day is ours, and what the day has shown.
What we have seen and been, hath this not grown
Part of our very selves? We, made love-wise,
What power shall slay our steadfast memories,
And who shall take from US what is our own?"
So when a shade of the last parting fell,
This thought gave peace, as one deep comfort
hath,
Who, thfrsting, drinks cool waters from q well.
But, sudden, l saw that spirit without breath,
That body bOdiless, that invisible
Maker Of visible woe; l looked on Death!
We know not where they tarry who have died.
The gate wherein they entered is made last:
No living mortal hath seen one who passed
Hither, from out that darkness deep and wide.
We build on faith; and some less bold have cried,
behold the butterfyi-the seed that's cast!"
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!
What man can look on Death unterrifed?
Who love can never diel They are a part
With the worlds living soul their souls are one:
Nor shall they in wide nature be undone
And lost in the general life. Each separate hear
Shall live, and find its own, and never die.
The Old Cabinet" SertoHer for July.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

THE old gentleman who spent a for
tune in e~ndeavoring to hatch colts from
horse-chestnuts is now %cultivating the
eggplant with a view of raising chickens
from it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many eadingphysicians acknowledge
that the G~RAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the most popular remedy ofthe dayton
b~iliousness, headache, liver complaint and
ssnd foe OF s d1gss'asa' s s1lS DB aag a' !co!ss Ss~
York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
BEST
SWEET NAVY CHEWING TOBACCO!

Was awarded the highest prize at Centennial I-
position for its fine chewing qualities, the excel
leuce and lasting character of its sweetening and
favoring. Ifyou want the best tobacco ever made
ask your grocer for this, and see that each plIg
sons Best 70 on it.. Sold wholesale BY all 1obbers-
Send for sample to G. A. 1ACKSON d o MAN
nf~aefurerH. RefRrHburX. X8.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

NEW YORK LETTER: Our ladies are
very gay this season. The bobtail coat
of the Seventh seems to be the model for
sacks; the sun umbrella chained to the
side answers for a sword; broad gold
stripes adorn the shoulders and bosom.
Altogether the appearance is glaring and
loud.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Trouble I'm the Household.

We would advise every one interested not
to buy Yeast or Baking Powders, loose or
in bulk. They are usually made by unskill.
full persons, and have frequently proven
totally unfit for use. There is no guarantee
or responsibility attached to loose powder.
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is always put up
in cans, warranted full weight, and abso.
lutely pure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Maize Flour Toilet Soap
Maize Flour Toilet Soap
Maize Flour Toilet Soap

A great discovery IA new SOAP compoundI II
soothes, ~softens, and whitens the skin, has WONDER
full healing and superior, washing properties. anai
toilet. It is Delightfully."- perfumed, and sold every.
where at a moderate price; REGISTERED IN n, M
Office, 1876, by the manufacturers. MchEon1-
VAN A 4 CO., philadelphia, Pa. -
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES one ouality,,the best.
IL Keeps Patent rartly-msde DRESS Slitssb;f
Can be finished as easily as hemminy q hanokercniei.
the very best, six for 81.
Keeps Custom shirts-madet to measure
The very best, six for So.
An elegant set Of genuine Gold plate Cellar ang
Sleeve buttons given with each halfdoz-heep sonras
Keep's Shirts are delivered Free on receipt OF price
In any part of the Union-no express charges 70 pay
Samples with full directions Tor eli,m sHared ~e
Deal directly with the Menufacturer and gel % "
| Price.. ken Manufacturing Co. l69 Mercer ~, ~. :.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

In order to live justly and be re-
spected, we must refrain from doing
what we blame in others.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

WHITING To ADVERTISERS.
w please ssy that you saw b advsrtie1s
Aaenffa thii paper
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MATCHLEss"
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago.

PONDS EXTRACT for over twenty-five
years has been recognized in medical writ
ings as the great specific for Pain, Conges
tiOns, Piles or any Soreness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Dyspepsia.
Faintness at the Stomach

II yEGETISE is taken regularly, according to direc
tons, a certain and speedy cure will follow its use.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Female Weakness.

yEaErIsE is not a stimulating bitters which creates
natnre 10 rcstore the stomach to a healthy action.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
General Debility.

VEGETIyE acts directly upon the causes OF these
complaints. 1t invigOrates and strengthens the whole
system, acts upon the ~secretiye organs and allays in
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

IToC.
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beef Cattle-Best cattle
s6.10@6 rs per 100 lbs. medium to good, S. 50@6i
as 20 per 100 lbs; Philadelphia hogs, S Soa5 50
.Sheep-Sheep were selling at from s4@5 80 per 10
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

In this complaint the good effects OF the VEGErryE
are realized Immediately after commencing to take
it; as debility denotes deficiency of the blood, and
VEGETINEa acts directly upon the blood.
The Osceola times., 1877-07-14
The Lords OF Creation

A correspondent of the Pittsbure
Chronicle reads the following lecture to
the husband Of the day
Why don't somebody tell the husband
of the day that he must come home to
his wife with a smile instead of the in,
evitable scowl upon his face? That il
he will be about half as polite to his
wife after as before marriage, she will be
grateful and astonished. That he must
not be too tired to do little thing for
her if she asks him pleasantly. That it
would not hurt him or his dignity to
take the baby in his strong arms for a
time while his wife rests her weak and
weary ones. That he must spend less
money in the purchase of cigars and
chewing tobacco and-something else,
so that there may be more saved, or ex-
pended upon home comforts. That if
the mutton chops happen to be not quite
to his liking, he might consider that his
wife was probably so busy with some
thing equally, or more important, as to
have been unable to attend to the chops,
and if he would pleasantly say, My
dear, | suppose you were too busy to look
after the supper--I know it is all right
when you are not" they will be all right
next time, if such a thing is possible.
That he must learn to eject tobacco juice
beyond instead Of upon his shirt front.
That moustache dripping with cream or
coffee is not the most artistically beauti'
full sight in the world. That he must
once in a WHILE say twice year, or three
don want to startle all the
men into apoplexy--offer his
wife reasonable amount of money for
personal expenses. That when an
amiabe man loses his amiability over a
cruet.stand, or key, or shirt, or
table.cloth, or a mustard-pot, he ought to
be-well there Who ever saw an
" amiable husband ?'
The Osceola times., 1877-07-14
GarrotIng q Woman in Spain.

Prudencia Saint Vera. woman of
Sacedon, Spain, was lately garroted in
Barcelona for numbering her child. On
the day previous to her execution she
was singing joyously in her cell at an
early hour when the sheriff entered. She
listened with tranquility to the reading
of the first part Of her sentence, but
trembled nervously as he proceeded, and
as he closed she tainted. Sisters oi
Charity restored her, and she was con
Quoted to the chapel of the prison. She
struggled violently, protested her inno-
cence, screamed, and rolled upon the
ground in convulsions. The night was
passed in the chapel with similar mani
festations, but toward morning she slept
through exhaustion. On waking SHE
listened to the mass with haggard eyes
confessed Internationally to priest, and
mechanically took the communion
Prudencia was then tied in a wagon, and
followed by gloomy procession of peni
tents and monks, she reached the scaffold
Being lifted into the fatal chair by the
executioner's assistants, a few seconds
sHfficed for the fatal collar to choke her
For the rest of the day, according to law
the corpse, with the tongue blackened
and projecting, sat exposed in its blacl
robe of execution.