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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
THE WANDERING JEW.
lLondon Timss.I

The legend of the Wandering Jew has
exercised strange fascination over the
European mind for many hundreds of
years. In the thirteenth century it was
not SO much fable as tradition, and
two monks of st. Alban's collected nu-
merous tales which had then long been
current respecting the Jews marvellous
adventures. Whether he was Ahas.
uerus, and had driven Christ with
curses from the stone before his door, or
whether his true name was Cartaphilus,
and he the porter in Pontius Pilates
palace, the various versions agreed that
his doom is to wander till the end of
the world. The harbinger always of
strife and confusion, he had been
seen at Antwerp in the thirteenth CEN
tury, again in the fifteenth, once more
in the sixteenth, and lastly at Brussels
in April, 1774. The myth, which has a
far-away ring of the beautiful legend of
Tithonus, was transformed and trans
planted by Southey for the purposes of
his Course of Kehama," and later was
made the groundwork of a novel,
Salathiel," now forgotten, but once as
popular as "Daniel Deronda." The
tradition has hardly been happy in the
uses it has been put to. 1t may not be
much to have inspired Salathiel," but
it is melancholy degeneracy even from
"Salathiel" to have been dragged
through the corruptions of Paris life by
the misused genius of Eugene Sue.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
Blue Breeches.
CDanbury News.J

1t was Monday morning, the first day
of school. He was on his way there with
a companion. He wore blue breeches.
A most startling blue they were-not
this navy blue so common to clothes but
a light dazzling blue, seen only in those
toys made up for the enjoyment of
young folks. These breeches fitted close
to his fat limbs. They were very beauti-
full, and added largely to the scenery of
White-street as he bounded along that
picturesque avenue. We never saw
such breeches as these in all our long
and active life. The color was so bright,
the fit SO snug, that to see them was to
soothe and nourish the mind. He and
his companion we're "chasing"-that is,
they were running without any par
ticular object in view. 1t was the
exuberance of youth that sent their legs
flying. He wore coat with tails, and
every time his legs flew up, the tails
flew up, and the blue fairly filled the
air. The beauty of the scene was almost
suffocating. 1t must have been great
Joy to the other boy to be with him.
Pretty soon they came upon party of
other boys somewhat younger than they,
and one of these, a very depraved
nature he must have had, derisively
yelled out
"Blue breeches! Oh, blue breeches
Ki vi! See blue breechesp
It was an awful blow. The owner OF
the cerculean garment lost the color in
his face, and it was only by mighty
effort that he summoned the strength to
appear Indifferent. 1t was no use.
"Ho, no, no! Look at the blue
breechesW again shouted the offender.
Like fash the wearer of the adorn
mentrushed upon him to crush him into
the earth. 1. was fatal move.
"Blue breeches, blue breechesp p
screamed another miscreant.
He turned upon the second offender.
1t was a feeling of mutual defense
that prompted another to take up the
cry, and then a fourth, and SO on.
He went at one only to be called tt
another, and the air fairly quivered with
the cry which now became roar. HI
was about wild with the din
"Blue breechesl blue breeches! blut
breechesp
1t was no use to fight them. They
were like wasps. The bombardment
was so terrible that he was glad to bea
an ignominious retreat, and the ono,
proud garment disappeared in humiliat
ing flight.
Poor boy! He may be obliged to weal
those breeches for months-to suffer day
by day torture worse than death. How
can parents be so cruel? How can they
when the spring has come, the tender
buds are opening and the songs of tn.
birds fill the air with sweet melody, pu
on the dye-kettle and color pair o.
breeches like that?
Tt is siraply internal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
MR.. COOKS MISTAKE.
New York Graphic. !


Some years ago Professor Huxley de-
clared that it was a great misfortune
that the orthodox and metaphysical
schools of the present day did not have
champion like Bishop Butler, for he
would make short work of very much
that was unhesitatingly accepted by the
world at large. And he held that the
presence of such champion on the
other side would react fayorably on the
scientific school, for it would prevent a
great deal of loose thinking and still
looser assertion. Rev. Cook, of Boston,
is by no means a Bishop Butler; but
there were grounds for hope that his
statement of scientific doctrine and his
criticism of the deductions from scien-
ti6c data would do good. 1t would
teach the orthodox the real strength of
the other side, and it would show the
scientific school some, at least, of the
weakness of its position. Some of Mr..
Cooks lectures certainly have had
that effect. But in his lecture on
marriage he committed himself to the
most pernicious doctrine of the day
elective affinities. Rev. Cook is SO
saturated with German literature and
thought, that he carries away their er-
rors and defects as we'll as their truths
and excellences. To place marriage on
affinity is to rush into the arms of free
love. The assertion that there is only
one person in the world for one of the
opposite sex to marry is untrue, practi.
cally and theoretically. Let man only
speak often enough, or write books
enough, and the public is sure to find
out his weakness. Mr.. Cook has spoken
twice too often and, if he is wise, he
will at the earliest opportunity take oc'
casion to revise his views on marriage
after studying the history of the race
without regard to Goethe's erotic ten
denotes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
A Piece of NOah's Ark-ProbabIy.

Mr.. Bryce did not find Noah's Ark on
the summit of Mount Ararat, nor the
angels who keep watch over that lofty
crest. But he found piece of wood on
the mountain, and, as he remarked at
a meeting of the Royal Geographical
Society, a fortnight ago, if he could not
prove it was piece of the ark, it was
perfectly impossible to prove it was not.
Ararat, he said, could not be identified
with any particular mountain mentioned
in the Bible, where the word is used as
a name for Armenia, or its northern
part. At the same time this mountain
was so much higher than any other
summit in Armenia that he could hardly
doubt that if the Biblical writer had
any mountain in his mind it must have
been Mount Ararat. AS st. Margaret's s
Church looked besides Westminster
Abbey, so Little Ararat looked when
compared with its greater neighbor.
Mr.. Bryce describes the view from the
summit more tanlely in his lecture than
in the glowing pages of his book. He
says it was extensive and wonderfully
grand, but in point of beauty it suffered
from being too high.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
VALENTINE BAKER PASHA.
New York Herald


There is the lately released convict
and more lately the mereenary of the
Porte, Baker Pasha. When this man
went to prison for gross assault on a
defenseless girl, it was by the personal
urgency of the Queen that he was
cashiered from the army and denied the
$25,000 or SO which was the selling
value of his commission. Her Majesty
properly desired to markher adherence
of his crime. But since he has sold his
sword to the Turk, and done good
service to his master, for the main
tenance of a system of government
under which defenseless girls are sub
jected to worse outrage than that for
which Baker suffered, he has regained
favor with his royal mistress. l say
nothing of the dinner given him by the
Duke of Sutherland, by which it was
intended and proclaimed that Baker
should be restored to his former social
position. 1t happened fortnight ago,
or more, and in measure answered its
purpose. A dinner has since been
given Baker at the Marlborough Club,
at which the Prince of Wales, with the
knowledge and approval of the Queen,
presided. And it is everywhere stated
that the Queen desires and intends to
reinstate Baker in the army, in which he
was, to do him all Justice, one of the
most capable and brilliant officers. But
the hints thrown out to this end have
met with a reception of kind surpris.
ing to their authors, There NAV not be
much opposition in society, where
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

THE future of ardent lovers is to be a
terrible one. The lady heretofore has
been compelled to base her hopes of a
successful breach of promise suit on let
ters received, but this plan has of late
become futile, owing to the cireumspec-
ton of the writer's. Science, however,
now steps in and makes matters worse.
The phonograph is the source of the
trouble. Conceal one in the wall back
of the sofa, primed and ready to begin
its nefarious work; let the loving youth,
innocent of suspicion and overfowing
with tenderness, enter; dim, religious
light from the turned-low burner serves
to increase his fascination. He takes
his place beside her and pours forth his
endearing words and promises, while the
relentless machine behind records faith
fully every tone. Then the time comes
when he would wish to seek other fields
and pastures new, but he is confronted
by the awful register, and with the
terrors of the courthouse over his
head, he meekly submits, and is led like
a lamb to the matrimonial altar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY.
lLondon spectator.l


Russian diplomatists, as a body, are
persistent, devoted, and keen, but they
are trained in the old way, they have a
difficulty in comprehending nations,
and they impede the success of them
selves a great deal too much for us to
credit them with magical farsightedness.
What is the value in our day of a
diplomatic service which gives an i'm
preston that it is not to be trusted? We
do not know that the Russian diploma
fists are a bit more tricky than all the
diplonatists of the Old World, the
diplomatists trained to deal with in
dividuals, always were. Napoleon's
diplomatists would say anything, and
Prince Bismarck has admitted over aud
over again, with cynical frankness, that
part of his business was to Jf,esse. Their
defect is that they do not see how their
age is going, and apply their notion of
management" in its old sense to ma
tions who are not Influenced like in
dividuals, but in totally different way.
The adroit chess-player is not wounded
because his adversary looks stolidly at
the section of the board where the mate
does not lie, but the half-ignorant on
locker thinks it deceit, and is ready in
his wrath to knock the chess-board over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
TWEED CONSIDERED.
ICincinnati Commercial.I


The saying that "the way of the
transgressor is hard" is impressively il
Illustrated in the career of this man, SO
brilliant and prosperous in its opening,
so dark and miserable in its ending.
Tweed at heart was no worse than a
thousand and one rascals who have
plundered the taxpayers Of nearly all
the municipalities in the country, or be-
trayed the trusts of high offices under
the Governments. II is doubtful whether
he has inflicted as much suffering on his
fellow creatures as the sleek rogues who
have absconded with the fundgof large
industrial establishments, or cheated
the small depositors out of their hard
earnings in savings banks. But his
opportunities were better, his capacity
greater, and his ambition as boundless
as his will was unscrupulous. He was
involved by the very logic of his position
in schemes he might have wished to
avoid, but from which his confederates
permitted no escape. Like man who
consents to assist in burglary, and finds
himself participant in murder, he was
constrained to make one plunge after
another, deeper and deeper into crime,
lest some one of his confederates should
turn upon and expose him.
Tweed was not without good traits. If
he was rich, he was also generous; if he
employed men in his designs, he also re-
warded them handsomely for their
service. He had undoubted ability and
great executive capacity. His personal
influence was great, and his strong will
carried men with him. Had he been
honest, he might have made himself an
honorable and lasting name and fame in
New York. He chose to be dishonest,
and there are now none to regret his
death or cherish his memory. Yet, i'm
pressive as the lesson of his life is, there
is no reason to fear it will not diminish
the number of those who will continue
to seek fortune and fame by dishonest
ways.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
DOMESTIC SERVICE.

baltimore Sun
An elaborate article in late number
of the New York Euening Post presents
some new points in the question of
female domestic service. A table of
wages paid in six selected average years
running back to 1868 shows a steady
rise in wages since the war, with slight
check, from which there has since been
a recovery in 1876. This is believed to
prove that the demand for female SER
wants more than equals the supply
otherwise, with the present general need
and determination to retrench domestic
expenses, there would have been a great
fall in wages. 1t is stated that the de-
mand is at present reduced below the
normal condition by the number of
women formerly employing two or more
servants who now take upon themselves
and members of their family part or
the whole of the domestic work. With
the increased prosperity of Ireland the
supply of white domestics has been
greatly diminished. German girls do
not take kindly 10 domestic occupation,
and French girls are few in number.
American girls have so much pride that
they generally do not want to serve any
but themselves in housework, though
occupations involving greater hardship,
if not humiliation, are readily engaged
in. There is one field where the market
is not overstocked, and the demand
promises to increase. In the South alone
the supply of domestic servants is
greater than the demand.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

Court influences are all powerful, but
in the country it is different. Bakers
crime was too odious, and the memory
of it is still too fresh among people who
do not hold their sympathies and antip-
athies at the caprice of fashion. /
heard a man say lately that Baker
could not be put back into the army
without a revolution. No doubt he
overrated the strength of the indigna-
tion against him, but it must be very
strong indeed before man of wide re-
lations and good judgment could esti-
mate its force so highly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
FACT. Lady going along street tothe

FACT. Lady going along street tothe
day, 'maciated boy pathetically accosted
her "Please, mum, won't yer gimme
penny to buy some bread? n amt
had nuthin' t eat all day. Mothers
sick and fathers dead. Please mum I'
"Have nothing for you" 'Maciated
boy trots feebly alongside, tearfully re-
peating his affecting story. Lady gets
tired, says, No, little boyl And don't
want you running after me-" Humph
Needn't be so d-n stiff about itp Lady
turns round, a4d sees 'maciated boy
standing on his Lead against WALL
| PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
have rAIrm m orr AxcrIlEn



Have faith in enc another,
And let justice be your guide;
Then will our life be cheerful
Whatever may betide.
Let kind words alone be spoken,
To cheer each sorrowing heart,
And the clouds that hover Ger them,
Like vision will depart.
Have faith In one another,
When ye pledge loves holy vow:
It will not be always summer,
Nor be always bright as now.
And when age comes stealing Ger ye,
II some kindred love ye share
And have faith In one another,
Ye shall never know despair.
Have faith In one another,
And respect q brothers name;
A careless word quite often leads
To ruin and to shame.
False friends may reign season,
Oil doubt not that they viii;
But have faith in one another,
And the right shall triumph still.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

AN Illinois genius has invented a novel
contrivance to prevent horses from run
ingaway. He places powerful electric
battery under the buggy seat, with con-
Meeting wire therefrom to the horses
bit and another to the crupper. If the
horse wants to run away the driver turns
on the electricity, which goes to the
crupper, traverses the spinal column to
the head, and instantly paralyzes the
horse, bringing him to dead halt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
1t is simply internal

IT may be interesting to boys to know
that stamping letters or figures upon
coins, or drilling holes in them, destroys
their legal tender quality. When thus
mutilated they are not money, but SIM
ply pieces Of metal. Such tampering
with coins is illegal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25
THE VOICE OF THE PRESS.

THIS department of our paper is intended to give
the comments of the most intelligent journals,
American and European, upon all questions Of pub
lie interest. The editor of this journal does not
indorse the sentiments expr ssed in every particu-
lar, but presents the topics quoted as worthy of
general attention.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

THE Chinaman believes that the soul
of his body takes flight through the
sole of his foot when he dies, and there
fore lies with his feet toward the door
in the hour Of dissolution, that his soul
may have free exit. Don't die In your
boots.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

SIR WILLIAM GULL, one of Queen
Victorias physicians, advises those fa-
tigued from overwork to eat raisins
rather than to drink wine or alcoholic
drinks.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

"Boys," said Jim, half rising to his
feet and holding out the open book
with both his trembling hands, "she's
left me Christmas present. SeeW