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The New York herald., 1878-12-16
WHY SHOULD NOT THE COUNT WHO ALARMED
US AS KING RICHARD DELIGHT THE BULGARs

KING
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
How is it that you cannot name the proper person
for the Bulgarian crown? / am sure that mul-
titude of politicians would be only too anxious To
receive the nomination. Apparently you have not
called for the right man yet. Grant thinks he is
wanted for another crown; Ely must attend to other
duties; Foley knows how indispensable he is to the
committee of municipal rcformers; Green IL rom
mated, would be defeated, because he would be
green in Bulgaria. and. besides. king Andrew Is
don't sound royal enough in that climate Talmage
would evidently talk his subjects to death before the
interpreter could get chance to explain his wise
words. Ohio is too of: the Bulgarians could not
afford TO transport king from that region. Charles
Francis Adams would not agree with the climate.
Bulgaria. still. must not despair.
If they want mobiles there,
I'm sure the only plan is
To send the Count Johannes. L. r. b *
The New York herald., 1878-12-16

Total .$173.674, 10 SO
Add to this the deficiency appropria-
tions for fiscal year 1877. ......... 2OO3 1851 81
And then add amount to pay approved
bills. ................... ............. 3217 73s 76
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
difference in the quality of glass sub
mitted by the Amer can bidders.
THE PEOPLES SAVINGS.
New York Express.I

Poor Richards old maxim-a penny
saved is penny earned-is as true now
as ever it was. And the wealth of a peo-
pie, like that of an individual, depends
largely upon saving what is earned, and
SO investing it as to make it yield sure,
accumulating interest. 1t is, therefore,
a pity that there is so much truth as
there is in the recent description by Mr..
Viyien, Member of Parliament, of the
inferiority of the provisions in the
United States to those in England for the
encouragement of habits of saving. Saw
ings banks are, in theory at least, the
best contrivances for encouraging and
enabling the working classes and persons
of comparatively small means to put
their surplus earnings into a productive
fund, to be drawn upon in sickness, in
old sge, or in any time of need. But so
maiiy, savings banks in this country
have been hopelessly wrecked within the
past few years, that almost all confidence
is lost. in them. Many private organi-
zations, such as the Masonic order, the
Order of Oddfellows, and some trades
unions, are also, to degree, savings in
stitutions. There is no reason to doubt
that this feature of such societies has
proved advantageous. Complaint is
rarely, if ever, made of their financial
management, which is usually intrusted
to the most honest and intelligent of
their members. But the publ C, of
course, can know but little on this point,
anything approaching even the ex-
tremely light pressure of the British
Government upon the Friendly and
Benevolent Societies of England being
wholly absent in this country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
Litigation Extraordinary.

A Norway (Herkimer County, CORES
pondent of the Ilion Citizen says: Gone
of our farmers in embarrassed circum-
stances gave chattle mortgage last May
on his growing grass and grain. Later
in the season. he gave another creditor
a like mortgage on the hay and grain in
his barns. Last week both mortgagers
advertised the property for sale; but
previous to the day of sale one removed
the hay to his premises, and day or
two later the cows, also mortgaged, were
divided into several lots and driven of
in the night by the mortgager's friends.
A search warrant and several constables
found the COWS during the next two
days; part in the town of Salisbury,
the balance at different places in our
town. Considerable litigation will grow
out of the affair. 1t is unfortunate busi-
ness for all parties except the officers and
lawyers"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
WHO FEEDS ENGLAND9
New York Commercial.

The question of war or peace is not a
purely political, but also an economical
one for Great Britain, which is depend
ent on foreign countries for its food, and
this Is the principal motive which the
Liberals put forward in order to support
their policy of absolute neutrality. They
say that although Russia, notwithstand-
ing her war with Turkey, has sent last
year to England 10,83S, 900 cwt. of
wheat, the value being f6,6 ',616, still
it will be impossible for her to renew
that effort if war is prolonged through
this year. The Conservatives answer
that the main support of England is the
United States, which from the Atlantic
and Pacific ports shipped in 1877, 2l,-
308, ,667 cwt. of wheat, the cost of which
to the British consumer was ELS, ,535, ,204.
British India also came to the rescue,
and after it the next largest contr butor
to English wants was Germany. In
fact, the whole expenditure of England
for wheat alone amounted to f32, ,s20,o84
during last year, and it is seen that the
United States alone furnished very
nearly half of the whole amount of
wheat needed by Great Britain. To the
above figure of our expectations 10
England must be added wheat -four to
a value of 81 ,549, ,aaSl, which makes for
the United States a grand total of ff-
teen million pounds sterling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
THE TRAMP QUESTION.


On the subject of yagrancy generally
a good deal of valuable information may
Be derived from the annual Report of
the Chief Detective of Massachusetts,
recently published. Two amateur tramps
were sent out by him last summer to-
study by intimate association and CO.
operation the ways of the real tramp.
Tney spent three weeks in travelling
about the State in company with va
grants, numbering from single one up
as high as twenty. One day they met a
gang of thirty-three, who informed them
that as many as four hundred were con-
cealed in the woods, in anticipation Of
an opportunity to join in strike on the
Boston and Albany Railroad. All these
tramps subsisted principally and almost
wholly by theft. Of the entire number
encountered by these two amateurs in
their travels, only two manifested any
desire or even willingness to earn an
honest living by work.
Assuming the tramps whom these two
detectives fell in with to indicate the
general character of the class, it would
seem that, instead of an increase of
rickety and unsafe work houses, what is
required is an increase of officers, de-
tectives and others, to arrest and prose-
cute criminals, and a discretionary
power, at least, to punish in the State
prison for Petty larceny. These mer
were found, almost without exception,
depraved, willful, deliberate criminals.
They had adopted life of crime from
choice. The State prison is the appro-
pirate place for such criminals. Under
the improved system of management of
these prisons they may be made self
supporting. 1t would be much better to
send the thieving tramps to such an in
stitution rather than to county work
house. These workhouses would prove
most expensive nuisances to the neigh
borhoods of their location. The disci-
pline of workhouses is comparatively
loose. Tramps would be constantly es-
Gaping, and when discharged at the end
of ninety days confinement, as many of
them would be, they. would not travel
ten miles before they would begin to
steal again.
Tramps convicted of larceny and i'm
prisoned in a State prison, should. be
taught some trade, and should be in
structed intellectually and morally. If
released at the end.o five years, after
having enjoyed these privileges, some of
them would become law-abiding, indus
trious citizens. Those who do not,
should be sent back fer longer term.
The community has a right efectually
to protect itself against crime.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
THE LITERATURE OF CRIME.
ISchool and Home.l

America presents most prolific field
for cheap q. e. low grade) literature;
and as our boys and girls are essentially
reading class, and the demand for this
literature is large, the bookstores and
news stands are stocked with it. An
unnatural development of sentiment, at
the expense of judgment, leads the
young of both sexes to patronize that
species of romances, startling fiction nr
even coarse vulgarity, that is so unspar-
ingly meted out to them in the novels
and story papers that have attained i'm
mense circulation in the land. They
devour with avidity the account of i'm
aginary adventures, and fo low with all
the interest of reality, through the
pages of these highly wrought literary
productions, the wavering fortunes of
some feticious hero or equally mythical
heroine. And the same irresist BILE PEN
chant for these sensational romances
thathas enthralled the intellectsof much
of our adult population, has become
kind of second nature with our rising
generation. 1t has become woven with
their very being, so. that it would appear
to be necessary adjunct to their exist
ence. They neglect the performances
of their ordinary occupations and shirk
the responsibilities of position or duty
to indulge their propensities for such
reading. 1tappears to carry with it a
fascination, that imperceptibly steals
over the senses of its votaries and chains
their intellect 10 its dominion.
We advise parents to exclude from
their homes the filthy story papers which
constitute "the literature of crime"
and we would warn them that when
once youth has yielded his unde-
veloped intellect to the subtitle and
poisonous influence, he endangers the
safety of his Intellectual aspirations.
No more will he aspire to true and sub.
stantial literature; no more will his
ambition prompt him to covet intellect.
ual study; no more will he seek to make
everything subseryient to the increase
of his intelligence and the proper cul
ture of his genius and talents; solid
literature will no longer have any
charms for him, as his tastes become sub
merged in the yawning gulf of debase
| ment.
Many a young man of the brightest
talents, whose career at school wa!
honorable and successful, has thwarteo
his high anticipations by the habit Of
reading "the literature of crime" Il
is, then, the solemn duty of parents anc
guardians to see that their sons anC
daughters do not read this intellectual
poison which is daily poured from the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
A Thousand Pounds with a Moral.

Mrs. Margery B., my great aunt, had
thousand pounds to her portion, which
our family were desirous of keeping
among themselves, and so used all possi-
BILE means to turn her thoughts from
marriage. The method they took was,
in any time of danger, to throw a new
gown or petticoat in her way.
When she was twenty-five years Of
age, she fell in love with man of agree
able temper, and would have married
him had not my grandfather dressed her
in suit of fowered satin, which dis
PEELED the ardor of the lover.
In the fortieth year of her age she
was again smitten, but was prevented
by tippet, which was presented by an
other related in the plot. This, with a
white sarsanet hood, kept her in the
family till fifty.
About sixty my aunt would certainly
have eloped had not her brother advised
her tn wear cherry-colored ribbons, which
was the last expedient to preserve the
thousand pounds in our family.
Moral-If ladies dress to please men,
there is nothing more touching than q
beautiful woman in q plain Dress"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
PLUCK AND SCIENCE.

For the union of courage, fortitude,
and physical strength, there is still
much. to be accomplished that will give
man name in this nineteenth century
of ours. Neither Livingstone nor STAN
ley wa, ever markable for the posses
sion OF extraordinary intellectual power,
but their journeys in Africa will make
them memorable as long as pluck and
geographical science are held in honor.
They, and notably the latter, did what
no other white man had eyer done be-
fore, but they did it in the service of
humanity. Through their efforts in the
not very distant future the energies of
the great nations of the world will find
fresh vents, and they will have achieved
much in the grand work of retaining
and civilizing Africa. There is the
North Pole. No man now living can
tell what discoveries in science and geog-
raphy vet remain to be made there, and
when the great work is done at last, the
very humbfest associates in the enter
prise will share in the glory and renown
Of the leaders. When they return,
however humble their homes may be,
they will be the heroes of the whole
country, reckoned among the benefactors
of rhe world, as men who have added to
the great storehouse of knowledge. There
are mountains in Afr ca never yet trod-
den by the foot of white man, and
many valuable discoveries in botany and
hundred other things await the men
who first ascend their slopes and climb
their cliffs. There are Alpine peaks
still to be conquered. The true secrets
of the geography and the resources Of
enormous tracts of land in South Amer.
lea have never been fully unraveled.
Four-ffths of Australia has never been
traversed, and in fact nearly half over
the earth there are abundant chances
for being the first man to do what has
never been done before, without going
to sea with ones wife.for sole compan.
ion in the shell of a twenty-foot cork.
boat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
Breakfast Table Crumbs.
WE still have Chicago left.

THE boy who grows up with an over
whelming fear of dogs will not develope
in a book agent in after lille.
THE corner grocerman can't palm of
any stale mackerel in Japan. The law
over there requires fish to be sold alive.
The telegraph tariff between France
and Germany is four cents word.
Germany gets the most for the money
in bulk.
There may not be any fail" in the
bright lexicon, etc., but business circles
seem to have all they care to- handle in
that line just now.
IT is ten times easier for man to
thread a needle than for young lady,
with high heels and false hair, to become
student in Quaker college.
IT looks now as though marvels would
never cease. A New Hampshire genius
has gone into the manufacture of canned
hash, and is actually making money at it.
The unrelenting wiseacre who plays
sad havoc with the fruit crop every year,
is little behind time this season in
sending his report to the press that the
buds are all killed.
WHEN Lycurgus ordered the Spartan
mint to make three-cent piece as big
and heavy as grindstone, he was de-
termined to keep county treasurers from
yearning to travel abroad.
A WOMAN will face frowning world
and cling to the man she loves through
the most bitter adversity, buts she
wouldn't wear hat three weeks behind
the style so save the government.
THERE may be an eternal fitness in
all things, but it's mighty hard for an un-
shackled mind to make out why asoap-fat
man should have voice as plaintive and
full of woe as camp-meeting exhorter.
DID you ever read a patent medicine
advertisement without thinking it would
have made Solomon feel as though he
hadn't got much farther along than the
halfway house on the road to wisdom
WHENEVER man begs a chew of the
weed, he is doing little something to-
ward keeping the wolf from somebody q
door. The tobacco interest in this
country gives employment to more than
a million persons.
THE discovery has been made that
the world does not revolye with the
same momentum it did thousand years
ago, but it still swings around fast
enough to satisfy the man with heavy
note coming due.
AN exchange publishes a column of
things that Washington didn't know.
1t neglects to mention the fact that he
did know how to tell the truth-a
variety of knowledge about as scarce as
shinplasters in present times.
A TO DTH-PICK can sometimes give
more consolation than a whole volume
of proverbs; but the tobacco-chewer,
with a mouthful of hollow teeth,
will always feel that the "cud of
contentment" is hard thing to masti.
cate.
THE tel phone may get to be as COM
mon after awhile as broken-bladed jack.
knives, but the English language will
never stand on the top rung of perfection
until it contains genteel, hightoned
word that will mean all that horn
swoggle" " implies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
Fashion Gossip.

Tom Thumb fringe is again very stylish.
In Paris the care of fingers is a trade.
The decadence of clinging skirts is an
nounced.
White fur robes are used by ladies in their
carriages.
Drapery caught up to present square out
lines is very pretty.
Newest furs for the neck are Carrick
capes, instead of boas.
Good news for brunettes: Spanish styles
are coming in this spring.
Round-faced ladies should wear long,
dangling sorts of jewelry.
The custom of wearing wedding rings
originated with the Romans.
Roses covered with dew-drops are the
new trimmings for ball dresses.
Pearls, unless constantly worn or aired,
change color or crumble to pieces.
Yokes and full gathered waists are to be
worn in the spring for wash materials.
Wedding dresses are mostly in the prin-
cesse style, made plain, with very little
trimmings.
The latest style OF coiffure is high on the
top, of the head and dropping low in the
neck behind.
Dominoes trimmed with swans down and
feather trimming are the most worn by ball
masque goers.
New artificial roses are closed as buds,
and by q spring open as full-blown roses
while being worn.
Floral tea-kettles are now popular pieces,
well suited for kettledrums. Three were
made by leading florist.
Cascade bows Of narrow satin ribbon of
three colors, such as pale blue, and moss
green with rose, are worn at the throat.
| Tiny kid steam-covers, or T" fingers" for
small nosegays, have been introduced.
these are da ntier than glaring tin foil.
Silver collars of links or flagree chain
are fashionable for ladies, and are ex.
tremeA becoming to those with "swan.
like" throats.
Japanese fans, wide spread, of high
colored tints, appear in bric-s.brac shops
which are intended to be fastened ovel
doors on the wall, to give rich effects.
1t is not in good taste at o gentlemen't
dinner party to have roses among the flowers
decorating the table. There are flowers il
is appropriate to exclude with ladies.
Satin is now the most elegant and fash
ionable trimming for costumes of wooler
material or silk. Nothing could be more
simple and tasteful than satin pipings. i
is in the trimming line the exponent O.
the phrase, "neat but not gaudy."
Cigarette smoking is a fashionable amuse
ment with young 1sdies, who are ignoran
or regardless of its deleteriou effects upoI
the complexion, which they can easily Sc,
illustrated on the thumb and iore6nger witt
which they hold the paper-cevered weed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
AMERICAN GLASS.
ICincinpati Gazette.


1t is gratifying to the average Ameri-
can to discover anythi G in this country
which excels foreign production. Es-
pecially does the patriot rejoice when
an article of foreign production, which
has been recognized as one that could
not be made in America, is suddenly
cast in the shade by better product of
this great and glorious country. 1t
gives evidence of skill, pluck, and be-
hind all an intelligent ingenuity which
is being recognized more and more as an
outgrowth Of American institutions
Take the article of plate glass, for in
stance. 1t is no longer necessary to go
to France to obtain it. In fact, one of
the heaviest purchases of glass made in
this city for long time, for building
which is the most massive in Cincinnati,
the new Shillito building, ON Seventh
and Race, shows that the United States
can successfully compete in plate glass
with England, France, and Belgium.
Mr.. Shillito invited bids for the quantity
needed in his new building, and received
propose s from large number of manu-
facturers from England, Belgium,
Iduce, ana Iue OulCeQ CCdCeS. Inc
first thing that struck his attention upon
opening them was that the United States
bids were lower than the foreign ones,
the difference between the extremes be-
ing nearly 500. Next he made care
full examination of the quality, and to
his astonishmenthefo found the superiority
on the side of the American glass. Even
the agents of foreign manufactures be.
came interested enough to visit the
works in this country, and they admitted
that the sand used here was superior
not requiring the chemical treatment
that is given to the sand in France. Be
sides, the American glass is free from the
green and yellow tints that ere to be
found in the foreign article. The bids
of the American manufacturers were
very close, and the contract was awarded
TO St. Louis manufacturer, at a mere
trife less than was bid by another com.
petitor. There is scarcely perceptible
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-14
A Terrible Liar.

He was The orfulest liar ever seen,"
said Cooley O'Leary, as we returned
from his friends funeral. "Why, he
told me once that he lived on small
island in the Pacific Ocean, on which
there was a volcano. And he said that
there was on active demand out in that
the bu iness of raising them. And he
said one year his whole crop failed ex-
cept one melon, and that kept on grow
ing at such fearful rate that it crowded
him off the low land and up on the side
of the volcano, which generated steam
and caused an explosion which blew up
the whole concern to atoms, and shot
him four hundred miles out to sea, where
he was picked up by whaler. He used
to tell that the one great mistake of his
life was that he couldn't drive plug in
the crater of the volcano SO as to make it
water-tight, and then slice upon the wa
termelon and come sailing home on the
half-shell. ...--
"He would lie. He said that once he
was cast on an iceberg, with no bag
gage but a pair of skates and a fishing
pole. But he skated around until he
came across a dead whale, frozen into
the ice. So he took off his shirt-it was
night for six months that year up there
tore it iEto strips for wick, run the
strips through the bamboo fishing rod,
stuck the rod into the fat of the whale,
and lit the other end. He said it burned
splendidly, and the iceberg reflected the
light SO strongly that it was bright as
day for forty miles around, and one yes.
sci ran into the iceberg, thinking it was
lighthouse. He said he sold the ice
berg to the Captain for fifteen thousand
dollars, and the Captain split it up and
took it home and made two hundred pei
cent. profit disposing of it to ice com
panies.
Lie? well, sir, he best any man
ever came across. Told me that once
out in Nevada, a mountain lion attacked
him, with his mouth wide upon. HI
had the presence of mind enough tc
grab it by the tongue and pull. The
lion roared with pain, but he did hi
level best pulling, and pretty soon the
tongue began to give and the tail t
shorten, and directly out they came, tht
tongue and the tail in one continuous
string. He said he had 'em at home
and he showed 'em to me, but my belle
is they were only three or four COW
hides and bulls tail dovetailed to
gether.
"He was astonishing as a truth
crusher. Said he served on a gunboa
during the war which was very small
and light, while the mortar on the decl
was very large and heavy, and he saic
the first time they tried to fire fifteen
inch shell, the shell remained station
ary, while the recoil was so great it f.e,
the gunboat four miles up stream ant
landed it in q tree. He was a liar
but now that he's dead l reckon he'll
ketch it."
There was no donbt about it; MI
O'Leary's friend was very successful a
constructor of energetic works o
fiction.