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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Style at Saratoga.
philadelphia Times.l ]


Of course the readers always want to
know something about the styles of
dress or whether or not it equals or
surpasses that of the years gone by.
Even Saratoga is affected by this prac-
tical age. 1t has come down from the
pedestal upon which all women once
stood to be admired. We may look
around for these pedestals, for we rather
liked the altitude and situation. Alas
for us all, of the pedestals have been
hewed into stocks, bonds, and politics.
The power of woman is broken by
"Bulis" and "Bears." Well, if the
man can stand it we can, and we are
fast drifting into pursuits which are
more elevating than the tiresome one OF
standing on pedestal to be admired,
We are becoming doctors, lawyers, writ
ers, lecturers, and storming the strong
holds of men. When we reach and
then overtake them in their careers, theI
we can dictate terms. They will find III
to be generous adversaries.
Now I must tell you who are the
women who are most conspicuous il
dress at Saratoga. They mostly belong
to the nouveauT riches-the wives an6
daughters of men who have amassed
wealth by the heavy tax they have laie
upon the necessities of life. Coal, ice
and other commodities have been con
verted into diamonds, laces and gar
ments. One lady purchased from ont
store nineteen costly parasols. She ha,
three different costly t0ilettes for eacf
day, with hat to match. All of tn,
hats are worn after the same fashion
screwed to the back hair and standing
straight up from the face like a pain
leaf fan. There is a greater variety il
dress than / ever saw before. Beautifu
summer materials are largely used
These are elegantly made and the effec
is exquisite. Styles vary as much a
materials. The Princess skirt and polo
naise, skirt overdress and basque, are al
equal favorites. White dresses are NOR
worn than ever before at Saratoga
These are costly dainties but essentia
! for nomfort
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Man and Woman.

Mrs. Roberts in the Washington
Capital very truthfully remarks: Mar
rying a man to reform him is like being
measured for an umbrella 1t may or
may not be satisfactory; but you might
as well try to make a politician honest
as to talk to woman who loves a man.
No matter how worthless he may be,
she will brave everything, risk every
thing, sacrifice everything, for him; and
i would not give snap for her if she
didn't. Not long since on the avenue I
saw man, respectable looking, in a
helpless state of intoxication, a police
man on each side of him taking him to
the station-house; behind him was his
wife, young, nice-looking, well-dressed
woman. She paid no attention to the
rabble following or the wondering looks
of the passers-by, but stuck by him, try.
ing to pacify and quiet him. could
not help thinking how little a man
would stand by woman. Man is Of
the nobler" sex and a superior being
but he will get woman in trouble, and
then leave her to get out of it the best
she can.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
He'd Rather Walk.

Apropos of the lately renewed and re-
generated lie by Mark Twain about his
father and the old Queen Anne musket,
comes one from the country of the same
style and calibre. The old man Smith,
of Richfeld, is self-sufficient sort of
old fellow, and prides himself upon his
riding abilities. One day he spied his
young hopeful leading a colt to water
rather gingerly, and remarked: "Why
on earth don't you ride that beast ?''
"T'm 'fraid to; 'fraid he'll throw mt" ."
Bring that hoss here" snapped the old
man. The colt was urged up to fence,
and braced on one side by the boy while
the old man climed on the colts back.
Then he was let go, and the old gentle
man rode proudly off. Paralyzed by fear
the colt went slowly for about twenty
rods without demonstration, then like
lightning his four legs punched together,
his back bowed like aviaduct arch, and
the old man shot up in the air, turned
seven separate distinct somersaults, and
lit on the small of his back in the mid
die of the road with both legs twisted
around his neck. fastening to him the
hopeful anxiously inquired: "Did i
hurt you, pa?" The old man ros,
slowly, shook out the knots in his legs
brushed the dust from his ears and hair
and rubbing his bruised elbows
growled: :" Well, it didn't do me dun
bit of good. You 60 homer
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Various Calllngs.

A young Oil citizen calls his sweet
heart Revenge, because she is sweet
Oil City Derrick. And the young mar
ried man on South Hill calls his mother
in-law Delay, because she is dangerous.
-Burlington Hawkeye. And a South
End man calls his wife Fact, because
she is stubborn thing Boston Globe.
And fourth wife of district attorney
calls him Necessity, because he knows
no law.-NeW Orleans Times. And a
Cincinnati man calls his coachman
Procrastination, because he stole his
watch.-BreakJast Table. And Syra-
cuse man names his wife Sluggard, be-
cause she gets mad and goes for her
aunt every time he stays out to the
lodge.-Syacuse Times. And White
hall shoemaker calls his wife Awl, be-
cause Awl is vanity WhitehaU Times.
A Yonkers man calls his. wife Fraiity.
because Shakespeare says, /" Frailty, thy
name is woman."- Nonkers Gazette. And
st. John woman calls her husband
You-cur, because he "orders her up"
every morning to light the 6res.-&
John Torch. And a New York man
calls his wife Honesty, because it is the
best policy.-New York Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Cost Of Diamond Digging.
iFrom Illustrated paper, by DR.. W. J. Morton,
Aupusf Scrihner

4 august oCI1Dntr.I
Diamond digging is expensive. VIZ
! will take, for example, the average dig
ger, vino owns quarter of a claim and
works his own ground. He can take
his choice, according to locality, of pay.
ing from 81, 900, to 80, 900 for his quar-.
ter claim. e., seven and half feet by
thirty-one feet. 1T pays best to buy
high-priced ground. His outfit of dig
cost say $1,000. His gang Of twenty
| Kafirs will cost him five dollars each
per week. or 800. One overseer be-
sides himself, twenty-five dollars per
week. Meat and tobacco for Kafirs,
five dollars per week extra. Then ex-
penss of carting and taxes will make his
total outlay at the least 5000 per week,
or over SO, 900 year, exclusive of his
own expenses Of living If one cannot
spend $500 per month, 1 IbelieYe it is of
no use to 60 to Kimberley to dig for dia-
monds To offset this expense is, of
course, good luck in finding" and
from the very beginning of operations
the digger often not only clears ex-
penses, but makes q handsome profit.
There is no doubt that diamond digging
pays twothirds of those who engage in
it, WELL. The fortunes made, as rule,
are small and numerous. Rarely has
any one cleared $50, 600 from any one
claim. Success seems to be very evenly
distributed, and chiefly attainable by
those who can begin with say from
$500 to $1,000. ,g.ssa, 81.
The amount of money paid for Kafir
labor alone is enormous. For instance,
there are Thousand wheels allowing
five Kafirs to each, we have five thou
sand laborers daily at the mine. These,
at five dollars each per week, are paid
$25, 1000, or 100000 per month, OF.
81 200, 900 per year, and this for five
thousand Kaffirs only. The assessment
of the Kimberley mine for the year
1877, simply for the purpose of distribhz
tion of rates or taxes, was $5. 15l, 500, or
about 81, ,000, ,000pif. We add third to.
i bring NO the Ya first AMOUNT ND to selling
ths 's digger ta n0are nsysh Tie 0GGsss Unstable
nature Of the whole Kimberley fabric.,
Immense sums of fmeney are invested in
and around the mine, and owners of
town lots, of houses, of public buildings,
and of claims, have settled into the
calmest feeling of security. But no
fear disturbs the digger of Kimberley.
His. belief in. the Immortality of the
mine is supreme. But there are infu-
ences at work which are crowding the
small capitalist from the fields. The
increasing depth, crumbling reef, in
flowing water are fast multiplying the
expenses of working. The great bug
bear of the digger is the word !" COM
pany," but even now small proprietor
ships are becoming merged in large ag-
gregations of claims, and the next phase
of mining operations must undoubtedly
be that Of several large and competing
companies, or perhaps single one con-
trolling the whole mine. Then the. in
dividual romance of diamond-hunting
will be over. But there is no danger
that the diamond will ever become COM
mon. Nature has placed in it lands diff
fcult of access, and it is likely to remain
royal gem, surrounded with the seclu-
sion of royalty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Swiss Guides.
,National Repository for August

National Repository for Augusta
A genuine Swiss guide must be born
to his calling. He is guide from his
earliest youth, and can scarcely recount
the number of times he has been on
many of the most dangerous peaks. His
home is perhaps lonely village, where
the snow may fall in midsummer, and
where poverty stood godfather by his
cradle. During the warmer season his
playground was the little spot of turf
that surrounded his native cabin, and in
the forest behind it there were continual
dangers threatening his boy life-the
wild rush of the mountain torrent, or
the sudden fall of rocks or earth
threatening to crush or overwhelm him.
But it is war and not peace that makes
heroes, and so all these dangers of his
youth insensibly reared him to be a
genuine son of the Alps, and shaped his
strength for the dangers to be en-
countered among them. His brother,
perhaps, may have been more successful,
for it is the ambition of the poor Swiss
family to have one member that may
have lived awhile in some neighboring
town and learned the secret of the
confectioner's art, for the Swiss are
skil6ul in the preparation of sweets and
pastry, and can make a delicate cup Of
coffee or of chocolate. But the noun.
tain boy never tastes these delicacies
but grows strong among the peaks
nourished only by the coarsest fare. His
ambition is to go wherever the chamoi:
can make its way, and in so doing he
forms supreme contempt for the great
est dangers. Among the precipices he
knows no such ideas as steep or rugged
or inaccessible. He is accustomed to
the grandeur and majesty of the Alpine
world, at which we gaze with awe ant
terror, so that where others tremble will
fear he is perfectly at home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
A Cent Blessing.


An eccentric young gentleman of
New York recently made an experiment
as an amateur beggar. He put on
his best coat, and, stationing himself on
Fifth Avenue, hat in hand, addressed
each lady passer-by in the following
manner:
Madam, l will bless you for cent"
He not only got great many cents,
but also quite number of tens, and
some twenty-fves, as most persons
glanced with surprise at the sight of
man with such genteel appearance being
reduced to the condition of asking aims,
gave him trife and generally passed
on. 1t happened, however, that an un-
occupied philanthropist passed that
way, and, seeing the unusual spectacle,
he paused, and proceeded to investigate
the circumstance.
"Poor man." said he. "How does it
happen that you find yourself reduced
to beggary?'
81 am not reduced to beggary," re-
piled the youth.
"I heard you begging" said the phi
lanthropist.
"No, you didn't" replied the young
man.
"Didn't you say to that lady, Il will
bless you for cent?"
eyes, you might have done so, for
that's just what said.''
"Don't you call that beggingW
No, don't. call that legitimate
business. l offered to bless the lady for
cent, and if my blessing isn't worth a
cent, it is not worth anything at ALL"
The latter seemed to be of the opin-
ion of the philanthropist, who called a
policeman, and had the practitioner of
blessing as legitimate business ar
rested and taken before a magistrate, on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses To the surprise of mag
istrate, officer and philanthropist, the
defendant waved a hearing, and entered
bail for his appearance at court. He
alleges that his object is to ascertain
whether a man may legally sell his
blessing or not, and, as he has engaged
eminent counsel, it is probable that the
question of liberty of conscience will be
thoroughly ventilated. The friends o1
the young man declare that he did NJ
more than is done in churches of all de
nominations, and that he wishes to tes
the validity of theological licenses. Tht
friends of the churches very much re
gret that the jealous philanthropis
should have taken such action as t,
raise question which they consider ir
relevant. But the philanthropist ex
cused his hasty action, on the grount
that he could not possibly know that
wealthy and .well-dressed gentleman
would be such lunatic. Efforts are be
ing made to hush the matter up, tn
philanthropist offering magnanimousl
not to appear against the culprit, but h
threatens, in that case, to have his ad
versary arraigned for procuring falls
arrest.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

WE have received poem by "Ophe-
liza" which places us in rather en-
barrassing position. "Ophelia says:
"Kiss no one but me, darling, Kiss no
one but me; And 1 vow as / live, Pll
kiss no one but thee" This PROPOSE
ton is fair enough, certainly. But we
have never seen "Ophelia." Her lines
are not accompanied by her photograph
as guarantee of good faith. She may
have red hair, celestial nose, and poor
teeth. We might be hugely sold if we
were to swear off indulging in oseulatory
exercises with the fair sex in general,
and kiss no one but "Ophelia." Be-
sides, we are married, and our wife
would probably not give her consent to
such an arrangement. "Ophelia had
better apply to some other shop.-Nor-
ristoua Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
PERSONAL TOPICS.

AT Pittsburg man cut loose from
his wife because she called him by such
pet names as grounding and skunk.
In Detroit the telegraph messenger
boys all ride three-wheeled velocipedes,
and thus save much time in their
rounds.
The Shah was so well pleased with
his reception in Europe that he will
send his eldest son to make tour OF the
continent nextye
BEACONsFIELD is to have a $3.50
silver brick from California. 1t will be
mounted on native wood, and adorned
with specimen quartz. Hf,
GEN. BUTLER says he is in favor of adj
vocating the passage OF an act of Con-
gress creating Gen. Grant field mar
sharl for life, with salary of $25, 900 a
year. =
SIR CowAsJDE JEHANGEE, one of the
Empress of India's subjects, died the
other day at Bombay. It is found that
his charities in that city have amounted
to 81 ,250,000. = ila. E7g
a THE President has appointed General
Vladimer Kozyzanowski Treasury
agent at the seal fisheries in Alaska. It
was happy thought to send such a
name out Of the country. a4ir-f.
Mr.. GEO. w. CHLDs gave dinner
at Sea Cliff Villa, Long Branch, re-,
Gently, to Governor HartIanft. Among
the guests were ex-Governors Tilden, OF
New York, and Bedle, of New jersey.
PRESIDENT JfFFERsoN's grave will
soon be marked by monument, the
Congressional appropriation forthe pur-
pose having been spent by Secretary
Evarts in the purchase of a neat stone.
JOHN WISE, aeronaut, offers to- i".cem-
pete with any man in the world for a
balloon contest, as to distance and hota-
tion, and to make a given point twelve
hundred miles east Of the place Of de-
parture." ''5a4aisea
TIE widow of Henry Timrod, the
confederate war poet" of South Car
olina, is very poor, and Gov. Hampton
has recommended her to Postmaster
General Key for an appointment in his
department. m ~
MR.. SNAIL, of Kentucky, was en-
gagged to young lady in 1843. They
separated-he married three times. she
married once-they met again a month
ago, made up and married each, other.
We should like to ask that good oldques-
tion What's in name 7" but the reader
has anticipated us, doubtless. F
THE Commercial Advertiser, on oc-
casion of the appointment of DR..
Brown-Sequard to the chair of physi-
ology in Paris, recently vacated by the
death of DIR. Claude Bernard, speaks of
the new pro fessor as an American. It
is true that DR.. Brown-Sequard is
naturalized citizen of this country, and.
what is more Important, he is a sincere
and genuine republican. He was born
in the. island of Mauritius, and his
father was an American citizen from
Philadelphia. He was educated as a
Frenchman, and still speaks English
with French accent. When he came
to active life he combined the name of
his mother with that of his father to
form his own cognomen-a practice by
no means infrequent in France. He is
man of genius, enjoying the highest
professional distinction in every civil
lied country.-New York San.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

The moral refinement cf Ancient
Greece was indicated by the resi- ect paid
to women and the freedom they e. joye |.
They might go where they ikeu and
might do as they pleased. Homer pictures
the young man and the maidens pluck
ing the vines together. They mingled
together at marriage feasts and at re-
ligious festivals. In fact there was free
and easy intercourse between the sexes.
They thus came to know each other
well, and as the daughters were greatly
beloved by their fathers, we cannot
doubt that their parents would consult
them as to the men they might wish for
husbands. Even after marriage they
Continued to have the same liberty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
How to Live.

Live for something. Do good, and
leave behind you monument of virtue
that the storm of time can never destroy.
Write your name in kindness, love and
mercy on the hearts of the thousands
you come in contact with year by year
you will never be forgotten. No, your
name, your Deeds viii be as legibfe on
the hearts you leavetbehind as the stars
on the brow of evening. Good deeds
will shine as the stars of heaven.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

WINTER is the best time to make love,
as most young men can't help but feel
the impropriety, not to say discom fort,
of quoting poetry and comparing her to
the angels. when he distinctly observes
her necessity of. using three handker-
chiefs, as well as her unengaged sleeve,
to head off the perspiration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

IT is said that during seasons of epi.
demic, the bite of insects is contagious
This is not sensation item.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

WHAT rifles a country postmistress is
to have postal card come to the of
flee written in French.-Puek.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

Br n 5. P.

She stood upon the towering sea-lashed cliffs
And looked upon the waters far below.
DARK, dark and cold" she muitered, "but the
world
Is darker, colder"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15

Then turned she TO her harp;
softly her fingers touched the trembling chords,
And then there doated on the moonnt air
And t'emblingly stole Ger the sea, q sound
Like autumn's mournful breeze, low signing through
The leafess branches of tree that marks
An unreniembered and forsaken grave.
Svifter the fingers ay aud louder grows
The strain, till, enc wild burst Of melody,
And then, high DER the roar Of raging sea,
And hieh above the wall Of shrieking winds
Rises that wondIous voice, that weird, sad strain.
Then, rudely DER those frsi chords sweep. the hand
And each is sevefed-one triumphast shriek-
But there was in II a lost spirits wall
hutter-still the awful storm ragged on. 81 81
~ r. X
IT'S said that when the foan-capped waves dash
high, 80
When the mad storm-ling rides the shrieking gale,
A woman's voice, and the music Of q harp .Vf'i
Wild AID sweet, mingle with the winds that sweep
Round the hnt OF the humble fisherman,
" y no shiveu as he hears, for well he knows
The sounds are not Of earth. y
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
Mst;on,sss .hs .tood

Motionless she stood
A moment, with her mournful gaze fixed on
The distaut line where met the sea and sky,
her long, dark hair around her wildly toss'd
In mad sport BY the reckless, boisterous wind;
Her hands tight clasped above her aching heart
That longed for rest
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-05

BGd licc;dent-A Ccincidence. .-icster-
day about o'clock Mr. y. Cary Gibbs, en-
rinccr OF the Stonc-train on the Richmond
and Danvilc railroad, was run over by Il
truck ut the Belle Isle connection and badly
injured. Mr.. Gibbs had his back to the
truck. and it >trnck him ncfore ne cou'd
Get out of the way. He sustained injuries
about tie back and one OF his legs. The in
iuries are painful, but not considered dam
eerous. Mr.. Gibbs was removed to his re-
sidencc, at the corner OF Tenth and Perry
streets. Last night he was doing very wen.
Fifteen wears ago yesterday the late W. G.
Freeman, at that time master machlnlSt OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was run
over in the Danvilc Railroad yards ana
conveyed 10 the same building, when was
at that time owned By bin. Mr. Freeman
died from the effect Of hi, injuries NoTenl:
Der Il, lS7G-ovcr thirteen years after the
arc;Icut
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-05
MANCHESTER AND VICINITY.

Grand and Petit Jurors Drdrn.-The
following grand Jury has been drawn for
the term OF the County Court OF Chester
field commencing Monday, September 9,
1873:
Manchester: Samuel A. Ford and Ben5a-
Bermuda: r. \. Willis and R. G.
Hatcher.
Dale William Benjamin Chalkey, Ben
iamin w. Gill, Joseph T. ChlldresS, John
It. Whitehead, and p. B. Win1ree.
Matoaca: S. w. Dugger, William >.
Eanes, John +. Archer, l.. &. Slmnonsoh'
and C. Tallcy.
clover Hill: c. C. Phillips, Joseph II. Viii,
kinscn, Artemus B. Clay, L. L. Lester, ana
T. r. Cbeatham.
Midlothian; Joseph D. Elicit, Junius A:
Clarke, I. Cory Winston, w. W. Pace, and
John 1. Wilkinson.
Petit jurors drawn for the term
Dale: NJ. G. Gill, Samuel r. Gary, Mel
Vile c.. Gill, Walter Hewlett. 3. r. Henry,
James H. Gill; and John 0. Horner.
Manchester: Thomas j. Elicit, F. p. El-
liueton. John Fortune, and Arthur Foster.
Midlothian Jacob Booch, Jumes d.
Brooks, Thomas J. Burton, and Michael
Block.
Bermuda: Edgar N. Perdue, William
Williams, Jr., L. Varnier, and David Stowe.
Clover Hill r. 4. Stratton. l.. A: SIMS
William Ira Robertson, and j. VI: Richard
son.
Matoaca: D. NJ. Francisco, Freeiand
Moody, William A. Flanagan, ben!amih
Ferguson, and j. Z. Fink.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-05

PERsoNAL.-J. V. Reddy has been elected
delegate from the G. B. S., OF this city, TO
attend the National Convention OF the Irish
Catholic Benevolent Union, which con-
yenes at Worcester, Mass, on the 25th in
slant. Hon. A. NJ. Kelley, OF this city, is
president of the Union.
Judge Joseph Christian, OF the Court OF
Appeals, returned to the city from the Buf-
falo Lithia Springs on yesterday.
Judge Christian, OF the Hastings Court,
is expected TO return to the city on Friday.
Among the visitors to the Tobacco En-
change yesterday were w. 2. Gillian,
Farmville; Thomas J. Lee, Danville; W.
r. Anderson, Augusta, Ca; j. w. Dowd,
Durham, n. c.; n. Daniel, Charlotte coun-
ty; William B. Apperson, Cumberland; J.
j. Estes, Lunenhurg: c. y. Glasccck, Hal
flax; Z. Carter, Nelson; II. Y. Booker,
Pamplin's, Va; and Blair Burwell, Jr.,
Powhatan.
Miss Rose Carroll desires it to be stated
that it was Rose Terrell, and not Rose
Carroll" who was arrested for fast driving
and running over the milHman On Broad
street few evenings ago.
DR.. EZell was called home unexpectedly
by the sudden death OF his brothcr.in-laW.
Mr.. James B. Rawlings, OF Greensvlllc, no.
ticed elsewhere.