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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

"WHY, how d'y'do, Mrs. Careful-are
all your folks pretty wellf" asked one
neighbor of another, whom she met in
Hampstead a few days ago. ooh, yes,
pretty well, thank you-that is, about
as well as usual. Father hasn't been
quite well since he banked up the cellar
last fall, and overworked himself; thinks
he hurt his side. And mother has got
the rheumatism SO bad she hasn't been
able to get down stairs for a week;
Matilda Ann has a slight touch of the
diphtheria, 80 the doctor says; Jimmie
can't speak above a whisper, for a SORT
throat; Susie is just getting another
rising in her ear, and the baby has had
two more spells of Group. My husband
can hardly do any work on account of
his sore eyes, and 1 thought I'd die last
night with neuralgia in my head-but
we're all about as common. How'syour
folks? 2"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02


not go at the subject blindly. Study,
as well as you may, the requirements of
your land, and aim to supply its def
ciencies through artificial channels. If
you are not at all sure as to what your
land lacks, which, alasl is too often the
case, compel prejudice and custom to
yield a point, and do a little intelligent
experimenting. Try fertilizers of vari-
Gus constituent parts, but be sure you
know of what they are composed, and
are prepared to apply the experiences
gained to subsequent operations.
THERE is nothing SO plainly shows the
character of a housekeeper, writes Annie
L. Jack, as the care she gives to
small domestic saving. The woman
who allows all the grease Of the kitchen
to go into the swill pail, is guilty Of a
waste of which she may not be aware,
but it is a waste. The bone that would
make a Frenchman a dish of good soup
is often thrown to the dog with the best
part unconsumed, and the choicest part
of u potatoes are, in a like manner
wasted by thick peeling. When I hear
a housekeeper asking each member of a
family for apiece of string, l wonder why
no bag or spool is kept in which the pieces
coming from the store could be saved
and when in the March winds the clothes.
lines break and the clean clothes trail in
the dirt and have to be re-rinsed, Think
to myselfhow much less trouble it would
have been to take in the cord after
using, thus keeping it clean and prevent
ing rotting by winter rain and sun ex.
posure. Come back, I called to a little
four-year old, as he dropped part of 6
slice of good bread on the snow in hi
haste, and as I put the remnant away
told him that willful waste makes woefu
want, and he might have to say
o how I wish I had the bread
That once 1 threw away"
and as I gave the soiled bread to kit,
1 told the children that our Savio
taught economy in little .things even a
his feast; for after he fed the nultitud,
by a miracle, he gave his command
:" Gather up the fragments that nothing
he lost ~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

washlneten.

The House Committee on Appropriations
has completed the Indian appropriation
bill. The total amount of its items is about
$4,7O0,00O, being some $4,000 less than the
total in the bill last year. The present bill
is framed upon the same general basis. and
contains no new legislation of Importance.
The Treasury Department is in receipt of
information that the Canadian Government
has decided to exact a duty of seventeen
and a half per cent ad valorem upon all
importations of United States silver coin
shipped into that country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

WmHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIc OR FEVER
AND AGUE T~oNIC.-Thls Invaluable and
standard family medicine is now q house
hold werd and maintains its reputation UNI
impaired. It is Endorsed by the medical
profession, and prescribed daily in hospital
service. Why? Because after years Of trial
in the worst malarial districts Of the United
States, 1t has proved itself q positive anti
dote for all diseases caused by malarial
poisoning of the blood. Wheelock, Finlay
& Co, proprietors, New Orleans. For sale
by all druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

AFTER all, man is a generous being.
Not long ago one died in Massachusetts
who had been married only a year, and
received fortune of fifty thousand dol
lars from his wife. And what did he do
when he found death staring him in the
face? Not enrich his relatives as he
might have. done he willed it all back
to her again, on the simple condition
that she should not marry again. The
noble - Woman's Words.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02
THERE will be minstrel troupes two

THERE will be minstrel troupes two
hundred years hence, and one of the end
men will PROFOUND an entirely original
conundrum, as follows: "Say, MI.
Ferguson, can you tell me the difference
between the Prince of Wales, a bald
headed man, and a monkeys motherT p
And Mr.. Ferguson will "give itpp,"
although he may have heard the answer
every night for thirty years. "They all
do it"-and the only way we see to re-
tire the conundrum sine die is either to
shoot the Prince of Wales or murder all
the minstrel troupes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02
The West,

A Bismarck special transmits an account
of three distinct shocks of earthquake at
Glendove, on the Yellowstone, on the 18th.
They occurred at intervals of half an hour.
The ground opened for a distance of five
hundred yards, with q sitting smell Of. sui
phur. The crevice revealed a coal vein five
feet thick.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

MoTHERsi Mothersl Mothersi Don't fail
to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for all diseases incident to the period Of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and, by giving relief and health to the child,
~givesress to the mother. 1t is an old and
well-tried remedy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

A Mr.. SCULLY, from Ireland, is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Sullivan farm in Ford County, Illinois,
in a body. It is one of the largest farms
in that state. 1t originally contained
twenty-seyen Thousand acres.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

WORTH KNowING.-One t6irty-fve cent
bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will
effectually cure bronchitis, infammatory
sore throat, sore lungs, bleeding at the
5lnngs, chronic hoarseness, hacking cough,
whooping.cough, and lame stomach.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

"DO0ley's Yeast
Said a lady, has made itself indispensable
in our kitchen. Our biscuits, cake, wafaes,
mullins, and such like things, with its aid,
are always enjoyable and good. We would
not be without it in our family. We have
used it for over fifteen years, and it has
never disappointed us yet"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

How 70 MAKE MoNEY.-Twenty- five
cents worth of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders, fed out sparingly to a coop Of ff-
teen hens, will increase the product of eggs
more than one dollar in value in thirty days.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

NEVER buy an article you do not need,
simply because it is cheap, and the
mar who sells it will take it out in
trade.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

KATE CLAxToN's father was a-hard-
shell Baptist. The family seems to have
gone through fire and water.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

The Grestess Discovery OF the Age Is Dr.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Linimenfi soyears be-
fore the public, and warranted TO cure Diarrhea,
Dysentery, Collie, and Spasms, taken internally; and
Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Throats. Cuts,
Bruises. Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back,
and Chest, externally. 1t has never failed. No family
will ever be without 1t after once giving 1t fair trial.
Price, 40 cents. DE. TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE
EMINENT, in Pint Bottles. at One Dollar, is war
ranted superior to any other. or NO PAY, for the
cure of Collie, Cuts. Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold BY
all Druggists. Depot-l0 Park Place. New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-02

aAFarmer's Son or Daughter" See adv'g
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
n Ailing a

/ had such a pleasant companion on
my way home from Aurora. He got on
at Bristol and took dinner at the ''Cos-
mopolitan." He sat with me at dinner,
and didn't seem to have much appetite.
He %groaned when he took up the bill of
fare, and sighed as he looked across the
table at my order, and then shook his
head d~olefully and told the waiter to
bring him a little boiled trout, with egg
sauce; q bit of boiled mutton, with
caper sauce, some roast beef, a trifle
rare; just a taste of roast lamb, turkey
with cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes,
roast duck, some pork and beans, Boston
style, stewed tomatoes, corn, turnips,
squash, peas, a bit of cold tongue, some
sharp reIishes and a cup of coffee. Then
he ordered some assorted cake, cram
berry pie, Indian pudding and ice cream
for dessert, and said he felt u darn sight
more like dying than eating.
If he dies as well as he eats, just i'm
agine, just think what a glorious tri-
umphant death that man will die.
Shortly after dinner the poor man
came into the coach and sat down oppo-
site me.
"Ah," he said with a deep groan; az
don't know what l wouldn't give if |
could eat like YOU"
"Sirl |" / said in a fine burst Of indig-
nation, for | feared he was going to ac-
cuse me of swallowing my knife every
time | took a bite Of pie, and l just made
up my mind that l would cut his heart
out if he limited at such a thing.
"oh, it's a fact" he replied. 81
haven't enjoyed a meal for years."
"Was it possible ?" | asked In amaze
ment.
"Gndeed, yes;" he said, "I'm all out
Of fix. lve got no liver at all to speak
Of"
| didn't suppose one liver would be
of any account to him. rather thought
that if he could get a couple of gangs of
%livers, and work them by %reliefs, they
might be able to help him along, es.
pecially If he had them made Of tin.
But then, he was a stranger to me, so |
didn't feel justified In making the sug-
gestion.
mo-" he continued, "my liver is no
more account than a lump of lead. |
suppose" he said, plalntively, "It's as
big as four Of yours"
And he looked at me with an appeal
ing glance, rs though he expected me
to take my liver outand let him examine
it, as though 1t were an oroide watch
he wanted to trade for.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

Flowers, lace and fret-work are a fire.
quent decoration of groups, vases, and
ornamental pieces. Flowers are gener-
ally formed with a free hand, and it is
most interesting and curious to watch
the deXterous operation. Every little
leaf and stamen must be separately
fashioned, and afterward united. in
fact, almost all the fancy work is done
by hand, p%loddingly and painfully, and
often in a sitting atmosphere. A woman
sits at a table with a lump of kneaded
clay, very much like a piece of dough,
at her side. Near her are a few little
knives, a syringe for squirting a thread
of semi-llquid clay, and, perhaps, a
small form for cutting a given pattern
the implements being not unlike those
used by pastry cooks. BY The aid of
these simple tools, a series Of china
flowers, or fruits, or vines are slowly
formed, and tastefully disposed upon a
vase, for instance. China lace and wells
are also usually made by women. The
process is truly marvellous, requiring
no end of patience and the utmost
dellcacy Of touch. A pot of liquid clay
paste and a small steel stylus are all that
the woman needs for her work. With
these she %tediously spends her time,
dipping the stylus into the pot and let
ting a tiny drop fall upon a given spot,
then another, and so on, drop by drop,
each of which solidifes almost instant
ly in the dry, choking atmosphere of the
room, until the fine threads and minute
meshes Of the lace grow visible under
her patient operations. Wells are made
by covering fine tulle with the fluid
"mass," and dropping this, while it is
still moist, upon the figure.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
River Yarn,

When l was about fifteen, | made a
trip on a keelboat to Nashville. Walk,
ing back across the country with a crew
of five men with myself, n evening
we came to a dwelling just at dark, and
on requesting to be allowed to stay all
night, was told by the lady of the house
that it would be impossible for her to
accommodate us, as her husband had
just died that evening, and there was no
one but herself and two children there
Our Captain told her she need not put
herself to any trouble on our account.
as we had provisions, and all we asked
was shelter; Furthermore, that she
could retire, and we would take turns
in watching by the corpse. She finally
consented to let us stay, and as she had
lost considerable sleep, retired to an
adjoining room quite early. The men
were divided into three watches, plac-
ing on the middle or midnight watch a
young man that was very fond of prac-
teal joking, and another that was a
notorious braggart, and had frequently
said that he wasn't afraid of the devil
himself. He was also a regular sleepy
head, and within fifteen minutes after
going on watch, was snoring away like
a Pittsburgh towboat. Number m saw
a chance to play a joke, and of curse
could not resist the temptation. So
quietly raising up the dead man, who
was as stiff as a poker, he stood him up
against the wall, and to heighten the
effect placed a lighted stogie in his
mouth. Then taking a seat beside the
slumbering watcher he also pretended
to sleep, and would fall over and nudge
his comrade until he finally woke the
man, wlC, slowly Strengthened up,
opened his eyes and caught sight of the
shrouded dead. With his eyes staring
from their sockets he gave one yell, and
springing to his feet, went through the
window, making n necktie Of the sash.
His yell, of course, aroused everybody,
and the way they leaked out of the
house by the windows and door wasn't
slow now, you bet.
The widow, hearing the uproar,
came rushing out to see what was the
matter, She came, she saw, and with
n shrek she went through the door
like a creased streak of lightning.
Iawoke in time to see the remains of
her night-dress disappear in the dark
ness. Jumping to my feet, | took In
the situation at n glance, and the way J
picked 'em up and laid 'em down for
about two hundred yards would have
done credit to Goldsmith Maid. The
cause of all this disturbance, as soon MS
the house was vacated, slipped in and
placed the corpse as 1t was before, then,
calling his comrades, they searched for
and found the woman, and finally made
her believe it was an optical Illusion,
hut there was no more sleeping done IN
that house that night,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
A Suggestion to the Travelling Public.

Tourists, emigrants and mariners find that
Hostetter's Stomach Bltters is a medicinal
SAT guard against unhealtbful influences, upon
which they can implicitly rely, since it pre-
vents the effects that an unhealthy climate,
vitiated atmosphere, unaccustomed or I'M
wholesome diet, bad water, or other conditions
u~nfayorable to health would otherwise pro-
duce. On long voyages, or journeys by land
in ATTITUDES adjacent to the equator, it is es-
pecially useful as a preventive Of the febrile
complaints and disorders of the stomach, liver
and bowels, which are apt to attack natives Of
the temperate zones sojourning or travelling
in such regions, and it is an excellent protec-
lion aga INST the influence Of eItreme cold,
sudden changes of temperature, exposure to
damp or extreme fatigue. 1t not only pre-
vents intermittent and remittent fever, and
other diseases of a malarisl type, but ersdi-
Gates them, a fact which has been notorious
for years past in North and South America,
Mexico, the West Indies, Australia and other
countries.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
MelOdeOns and.RsIigion, -

Mark Twain mus discourses on the
Melodeon as a Religious motor: "There
is no doubt that the hand organ, badly
played, is a means Of grace, il It's dici-
pline be properly applied. But its In.
huence is very different from that Of the
cabinet organ, as the full.grown melo
deOn Is now called. This latter Is strict
ly a means OF evangellzation. 1t is only
manufactured for moral purposes, and
II any secular person thinks he can buy
one for his lager-beer saloon, let him
try 1t. These organs are sold only to
persons who can bring a certificate OF
good moral character and Of church.
membership. The melodeon is good
for nothing to dance by, except among
the Shakers and in those strictly church
sociables held In the soclLble end of the
church. 1t is not used at all for the
German, except in Boston, a place
where very little reverence is left.
There is something in its pathetic
drone that takes the life out of the waltz
and dismembers the polks redowa. In
the soirees ddnsdntes of the metropolis
its voice is almost un heard. There
is an impression, current especially in
the rural districts, that the melOdeon is
4 hilarious, conviVisl instrument, cal
culated to make youth giddy and old
age frivolous, This is not so, and the
notion cannot be too promptly met.
The melodeon was built on purpose to
promote moral and religious tendencies
in the minds of the young, and it is sold
only for that use. Any other use OF II
is an infringement of the patent. 1t is
one of the widest notions Of this SLAM
derous age Zone that we presume was
started in circulation by the piano
judges at the ~Centennial) that the melo-
deon is a source of depravity to'youth,
and that if you shut a young person In
aroom where the melodeon is persistent
ly played, he will become exhilarated
and profane. Nothing Ia further from
the truth. The melodeon w excites
anything except devotional emotions
no other instrument so inspires them,
not even the big organ or the harp,
We do not 90 so far as to say that, lei
us make the m~elodeons of a people and
we do not care who makes their morals,
but we do say that a people brought up
on the melodeon will not care much fol
the ACCORDION or any other sinful instru'
ment like that"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

APPARATUS o HARVESTING PoTA-
ToEs.-The implement we use is simply
an ordinary iron beam plough with the
mould. board taken off and the share
heightened out by putting on a piece
of steel about half an inch thick, two
inches wide and twenty inches long.
We attach two horses to this, and,
straddling the row, so adjust the draft
that the standard OF the plough will run
to the left of each hill in the row, and
the long steel cutter attached TO the
share will pass under and cut loose the
potatoes in each hill, leaving the hill
apparently undisturbed, but loosened
up completely, 81 that the digger, with
a four-tined fork, can throw the tuhers
out very fast, and with much less hard
work than without the use of this i'm
plement. In two days three men dug
eight hundred bushels, after this cutter
had been run under the hills, and with
nine and a half days. work n thou
sand and fifty bushels were thrown out
of the hills, or about one hundred and
twenty.seven bushels for each days
work.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
Choice OF Flowers.

Flowers lose their sentiment and
grace with their freedom. So let us
fill our baskets with a wealth Of dark,
spicy carnations, %lightened with some
yellow and those white ones, dashed
with roses, the most fascinating flower
nature makes in her odd moments.
Else take rose hyacinths and white ones
with Parma %yiolets, or cyclamens, aca-
cia and Isabella Sprunt buds and half
opened roses, making a rich mingling
Of color, or, if you will be choice, order
a basket Of violets. Defend us from
those people who order their flowers as
they do their dinner without looking ut
them. Don't, If you love yourself and
flowers, leave the matter to a fashion,
able florist, unless sure your taste is not
as his, or you will deserve the tame bas-
ket grounded in white carnations with
red rosebuds sticking up all over IL
skewer-w wise, red and yellow, pink and
white, like some culinary garnish, or
the swall cabbage Of Jaucquimonot
rosebuds which goes by the name of
bouquet. Doubtless it will require re-
solve and tact to get what you want, if
you have f%ancies, t%yrannical, or so SUI
perbly ignores any preference Of a us
toner, Us the fashionable florist.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
A Campaign SANDER.

When DR.. H. V Pierce was a candidate for
State Senator, his political opponents pub-
llshed Il pretended analysis Of his popular
medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the
people against him. His election by an over
whelming majority severely robuked his ira
ducers, who sought TO impeaoh his business
integrity. No notice would have been taken
OF these campaign lies we're 1t not that some
mau has h 8 full quota Of onvious rivals) are
republshing these bogus analyses. Numerous
and most absurd formulas have been pub
lished, purporting to come from high author
ity; and it is u significant TACT that no two
have been at all Extraordinarily proving
the dishonesty Of their authors.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

CORN PoNEs.-Have a pretty hot oven /;
put into a bread-pan "a pan in which
you bake loaves of wheat bread) a lump
of butter about the size of a large hens
egg; put it on the stove hearth, beside
an empty bread-pan, both of which are
intended for the pones; let it remain
there until you are ready for them; then
turn the pan in which the melted butter
is so that it will be well CREASED with
it; then pour it into the other pan and
do likewise; then pour it into the batter
which must be ready to go into the
pans. 1t takes about two pints of milk,
L think Il guess at it), to make two
pones, two w~ell-beaten eggs, a heaping
teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in half a
teacupful of sou milk or cream. Nearly
One-half of the milk used should be
sour-buttermilk is nicest-the remain.
der sweet. Sometimes l use all butter
milk, and think it makes them nicer.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

BEEF TEA.-Chop a pound of beef
quite fine. Do not leave a particle of
fat on it. Put it into a jar or bottle
without any water. Cork or cover very
tight, then set it in a kettle of cold
water and place on the back of the
range, where it will heat slowly, till it
begins TO boil. Let it then simmer
several hours; then drain off and strain
all the liquor, season and set aside to
cool. When cold remove all the fat.
When needed, warm to suit the taste of
the patient. This mode secures all of
the juice and leaves the meat white and
tasteless. If in haste, very excellent
beef tea can be made by chopping the
beef Zone pound lean) and pouring over
it one tumblerful of cold water. Let it
stand covered up an hour, then put it
into a saucepan, cover closely and boil
slowly ten minutes; strain and season.
This is very good, but not equal to the
first rule.