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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
IN xACLouDnHr.
By LUCY LAscoN.

Upon our loftiest White Mountain peak,
Filled with the freshness of untainted air,
We sat, nor cared to listen or to speak
To one another, for the silence there
Uttered the winds In their unhindered sweep
Above us through the heavens. The gulf pro
found
Below us seethed with mists, sullen deep,
From thawless ice-caves Of vast rayine
Rolled sheeted clouds across the lands unseen.
How far away seemed all that we had known
IN homely levels of the earth beneath,
Where still our thoughts went wandering" TurI
theel" Blown
Apart before us, a dissolving wreath
OF cloud framed in picture on the air:
The hills and lakes Of 0ssipee; and there
Glimmers the seal Some pleasant, well-knowl
With every break to memory hastens back:
Monadxock-Win Winnepesaukee- -Merrimac.
On widening vistas broader riffs unfold:
Far off into the waters Of Champlain
Great sunset SUBMITS dip their flaming gold;
There winds the dim Connecticut, a vein
OF silver on aerial green and here,
The upland street of rural Bethlehem;
And there, the roofs OF Bethel. Azure-clear
Shimmers the Androscoggin; like gem
Umbagog glistens and Katahdin CLEANS
Uncertain a mountain seen in dreams.
Our own familiar world, not yet half known,
Nor loved enough, in tinfs Of Paradise
Lies there before us, now 60 lovely grown,
We wonder what strange film was on eur eyes
Ere we climbed hither. But again the cloud,
Descending shuts the beauieous vision out;
Between us the abysses spread their shroud:
We are to earth, as earth to US, q doubt.
Dear home folk, skyward seeking us, can see
No crest or crag where pilgrim feet may be.
Who whispered unto us of life and death
As silence closed upon our hearts once more?
On heights where angels sit perhaps breath
May clear the separating CULTS; door
May open sometimes betwixt earth and heaven,
And LIES most haunting mystery be shown
A fog-6rift of the mind. scattered and driven
Before the winds Of God; no vague unknown
Deaths dreaded path -only curtained stair;
And heaven but earth raised into purer air.
--HayPer's Mdgasiae for August.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
A Fire.Fighting Snake.

Unless the Brazilians are guilty of
very large storytelling, the snake they
call the surucucu is braver far than the
buffalo for it is averred that, if fire be
kindled in the woods, these creatures
glide out of their hiding places, dash
straight at the obnoxious thing, and
scatter its embers with their tails; per-
sisting, even though half roasted, until
the fire is utterly extinguished. If a
man carries torch near their haunts,
they pass and repass him, lashing his
legs until he drops it, when surucucu
Immediately coils itself about it and
puts out the flames. A diminutive ter
rier of our acquaintance used to act on
the same principal, although his hatred
of fire was limited one. He had no
objection to it in its proper place, and
would complacently contemplate the
parlor fire, let it blaze never so merrily,
without so much as a wink; but the
sight of lighted piece of paper reused
Tiny sire and set him barking erievously
and if the paper were thrown on the
floor, he went for it atonce, deftly contriv
ing to stamp out the fame without
burning his toes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
Absent from School.

There are hundreds of well-meaning
but thoughtless country people who re-
quire their children to work on the farm
when they ought to be in school, thus
robbing them of the inestimable bene-
fit of good education. Two boys of the
same age and ability start for school in
May. One attends every day, rain or
shine, during the term of four or five
months, and is supplied with books ac-
cording to his capabilities; the other
comes one day and stays away two or
three, and then possibly comes three or
four more, coming and going like an in
termittent fever. His excuses are often
amusing when we take into consideration
the age and size of the little man. He
has had to help plant" or " log off a
piece for potatoes" or help ma," or
pick berries" His schooling averages
about two days of the week. At the
close of the term there is an examin-
alton. The aforementioned lad has made
rapid progress in his studies. The foun-
dation stone is laid for an intelligent,
useful man. How is it with his COM
panion7 His advancement is scarcely
perceptible. Who is to blame? Not the
boy, and certainly not the teacher. Has
the little farmer earned enough to pay
for his lack of school culture? EN-
phatically no! He has suffered an in
calculable loss. Until child has we'll
entered his teens, he can be of little use
on the farm. During childhood, he
should be allowed to attend school dur
ring ten months of the year. At fifteen
the boy or girl is strong enough to be of
use. while at the same time they will be
capable of learning by practice and OBJ
servation what they have before learned
only in theory. And many a lad or lass
would lay up fund of useful knowledge
during the evenings and odd days when
otherwise unemployed, that would be a
perpetual fountain of usefulness during
all their lives. Whereas the child who
has an occasional day, or week, or month
at school, even from the time he is five
years until he is twenty-one, will have a
very limited amount of knowledge with
which to begin a business life. And
undoubtedly he will be obliged to knock
about the world doing the drudgery Of
his former companions; looked upon az
sort of ignoramus incapable of using his
best energies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
Controlling the Temperature.

lNew YORK Graphic,I
We live in an age of marvels. Man
has done wonders in the past and he is
doing wonders in the present to relieve
himself from the oppression of nature.
By electricity and steam we have
annihilated space. We send pulsatious
ending sounds from one end Of the globe
to the other in few minutes; our feet
steamers plow through the main at the
rate of twenty miles an hour, while our
railroads fly along steel rails at the rate
of almost mile minute. By artificial
means we have in certain sense re-
lieved ourselves from the oppsession of
the cold. By our appliances for heat
ing ourselves, the effect of the coolest
weather is warded against as long as
one can remain within doors. But we
have not been so fortunate in dealing
with heat. The building of large cities
has made summer heat more oppressive
than ever. And perhaps because the
attention has hitherto not been turned
that way we have done very little to
ward against the dangers of very hot
weather. But is it impossible to change
in any way the climatology of the globe
or of the American continent SO that
we will be free from the great alterna-
tions of heat and cold from which we
sufer-and this without in any way
acting injuriously on the productive
qualities of the soil? We know that
the climate of Europe is more equable
than that of either Asia or North
America, and one great reason is that
there is more water between Europe and
the frozen regions of the North than
there is between Asia or Northern
America and those regions. In the two
latter large extent of land runs into
the Arctic Circle, while in the former it
does not. Now, if there was any way
of effecting change in the geography
of these continents, any mode in which
the ice-locked land to the north of us
could be destroyed and its place sup
piled by water, any means by which the
ice could be melted down and the land
which sustains it distributed as sand to
all quarters of the world, there is no
doubt that our climate would become
more equable-not so cold in winter, be-
cause there would not be the same ex-
text of frozen land to generate cold
breezes-and not so warm in summer,
because there would be a much greater
extent of cold water to rush toward the
Equator and take the place of that
heated by the midsummer sun. But
can this be done? No one knows. Man
has done wonders, and he may in the
future be able to solve this geographical
problem, the solution of which would
appear now little less than miraculous.
But the hint is all that can be thrown
out. The object would be worthy one
to strive to effect, but it would be futile
to suggest the means ofaccomplishingit.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
Charles Reade and Charles Mathews.
Speaking of Charles Reade the Balti-

Speaking of Charles Reade the Balti-
more american says:
The English author has before now
made displays of his bad temper, and
this instance calls to mind wigging he
once received from the late Charles
James Mathews, the comedian. Mathews
was manager of the Drury Lane Theater,
and Reade had been stopped when at
tempting to enter the stage door. The
correspondence that ensued was very
amusing. The letters, which explain
themselves, were as follows:
GARRIcK CLUB. CovEsr GARDEN, Nov. 2s.
DEAR SIR-I was stopped the other night
at the stage door of Drury Lane Theater by
people whom remember to have seen at
The Lyceum during your reign. This is the
first time such an affront was ever put upon
me in any theater where have produced a
play, and is without precedent when an
affront was intended. As I never forgive
an affront 1 am not hasty to suppose one
intended. IL is very possible that this was
done inadvertently, and the present stage
list may have been made out without the
older claims being examined. Will you be
so kind as to let me know at once whether
this is so; and if the people who stopped
protect the author of "Gold," ETC, from
any repetition of such annoyances? l am,
dear sir, yours faithfully,
CHARLES READE.
To this demand Mr.. Reade received
next day the following answer:
TR., DRuRY LANE, Nov. 49,
DEAR SIR-f ignorance is bliss on gen
eral occasions, on the present occasion it
certainly would be folly to be wise. am,
therefore, happy to be able to inform you
that am ignorant of your having produced
play at this theater; that you are the
author of "Gold )" ignorant Of the merits
of that play; ignorant that your name has
been erased from the list at the stage door
ignorant that it had ever been on it; ignor-
ant that you had presented yourself for ad-
mittance; ignorant that it had been refused
ignorant that such refusal had been with.
out precedent; ignorant that in the man
who stopped you you recognized one of the
persons lately with me at Lyceum; ignorant
that the. doorkeeper was ever in that
theater; ignorant that you never forgive an
affront; ignorant that any had been offered
ignorant Of when, how, or by whom the
list was made cut and equally SO by whom
it was altered. Allow me to add that am
quite incapable of offering discourtesy to 8
gentleman I have barely the pleasure Of
knowing, and, moreover, have no power
whatever to interfere with Mr.. Smiths ar
rangements or disarrangements; and, with
this wholesale admission of ignorance, in
capacity and impotence, believe me,
Yours faithfully,
c. ]. MATHEWS.
Charles Reade, Esq.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08

WHEN Major Nepeau came home to
England from Madras and was about to
smoke in Mrs. Nepeau's boudoir, his
wife objected. "Ma," said her little
son, you used to let Mr.. Wolley smoke
here" The end of it was that the Major
got divorce, and Mr.. Wolley, as CO.
respondent, was mulcted in costs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08

"There is something peculiarly and
sutteringly suggestive iu the word boils," :"
is the way medical advertisement puts
it. Perhaps; but if you want to get at
the very essence of unadulterated mis-
cry, the boil itself is what you want.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
from her bosom small silken purse and
took therefrom sixpence,

The youth recognized it in an instant.
"Ohp he cried, as he strained the no
BILE girl to his bosom, "what can say
Mary, Mary, my own hearts truest love,
let my life in the years to come tell my
gratitude. Oh, my all of life is yours,
and my last breath shall bear your name
in gratitude to Godp
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
Spac,
Business card. d i've linss o. ls.s 8 pr snnum.

Business cards Of fvs linss Of less. % PER annum.
Local notices 10 cents Per line each insertion.
Simple announcements Of marriages and deaths
and church and bensvolsnt society notices inserted
free Any additions 70 obituary notices viii BE-
charged i've cents per line.
Favors must be handed in a. early ~ Tuesday.
morning to insure insertion the same weak.
Communications upon suhjscts of ssnGai or Iocaj
interest are solicited. q,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
WHOLE NUMBER 5Ss.
ce. Generally, however, the

than once. Generally, however, the
boys around here manage to keep me
stocked"
The recluse further went on to say
that, with the exception of very few peo-
pie, he is the only one who is to survive
the coming flood. There is chance for
a few scattered people who have de-
veloped a fondness for cats meat. But
in the main the earth and its people are
doomed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08

BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS has had to
knock under and crawl into a pair of
linen pants and duster.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
Beautiful Hair.

FROM j. A. TYNEs. A WELL KNOWN
CITIZEN OF WILSON, N, C,-My wife had
suffered for ten or twelve years with a
kind of dry letter, which kept the scalp
covered with dandruff, and caused her
hair to fall out and get very thin and
turned grey, but after using London
Hair Color Restorer," the letter was
cured and the grey hair restored to its
natural color, the hair stopped falling
out and is growing beautifully. BY
telling of the effect it had on the head
of my wife have induced a number
to try it, and [ want you to send me q
dozen bottles by express. l enclose
postoffice order for So to pay for it,
London Hair Color Restorer is sold at
rs cents bottle by all leading drug.
gists. DR.. Swayne& Son, Philadelphia
sole proprietors. Sold by John Beng
ston, Druggist, Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
a Great Saving.

Pubic weighers, and proprietors of
warehouses and gin houses have
found great saving, besides great
convenience in adopting the scales and
beams manufactured by the Chicago
Scales Company. Their ton scales is
so nicely adjusted that a wagon load of
cotton in bulk can be weighed in few
seconds as accurately as on the old
fashioned beam, where it must be
weighed few ponds at time. and
this scales is furnished for $50, about
one third former prices. And for
weighing bales, their Cotton Beam and
Frame is the most perfect of anything
ever made for the purpose-a nice
brass beam with sliding poise. doing
away with the heavy poise which is
all that a man can lift. No public
weigher or ware house should be
without one of these beams, whichRthe
Chicago Scales Company furnish at
$45, all complete with frame.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

We refer back to the Board for their
action the following bills, VIM. Fl. Gest's
md Il. I. McNeal :. We refer the bill
of Jeremiah Lequatt, for want of formal
ty. JAMES =. JOHNSON,
GEO. Q. WAKE
GEO. W. MCMURpHY.
Commute.
Supervisor Reid moved that the bill of
Il. !. McNeal, amounting to $l75, be al
lowed. Carried.
% motion the bill of w, Fl. Gest was
rejected.
The special committee, to whom was
referred the petition of James Nc Grath
Tor refund OF money on swamp land.
submitted the following report, which, on
motion, was received and adopted:
Your committee, to whom was referred
the petition of james McGrath asking the
Board OF Supervisors to refund the money
paid by him for swamp land and other
expenses, would beg to submit the follow
ing report: That they have been unable to
ascertain the true status of the matter
and receomend that the petition Law over
until the next session of the Board.
r. j. BELL,
ID, o. REID,
j. s. DALEY,
s.. Committee.
supervisor Sweeney offered the following
e'u'u.ion aud moved its adoption:
Ill De " heSotved, By the Board of Super
VlSoES' that they hereby express their en-.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
PAR ENTS

Delays are dangerous. The lives of our
little ones are dear to US, and it is the
wish and hope to see them look bright,
and cheerful and happy.
We advise you not to give them any
of the dangerous worm syrups or liquids
of any kind or name. They are not only
bad to use and really dangerous to take
but the stomach often rejects them and
are used with peril to those little ones
who look to us for care and protec-
ton. Van Deusen's Worm CONNECTIONS
are a pure white and are made from the
purest vegetable medicines. They are
the only safe and sure worm medicine
ever discovered. They have become q
household remedy, and are now sold IL
every store.
Van Deusens CONNECTIONS
Are sure protection.
They bring to terms
Intestine Worms;
Cures every child.
Are tasteless, mild.
Your pets may live,
II them you give.
Ask for Van Deusens Worm Confec
tons, Merchants can get them at whole
sale Drug Stores.
VAN DEUSEN BROTHERS,
KINGSTON, ULSTER Co., NY,
price 25 cents box. ~Esa
Sold at every store
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
Extracts from Various Letters

81 had no appetite; Holloway's Pills gave me
hearty one.'
"Your Pills are marvellous. -
II send forI another box, and keep them in the
house,
Or Holloway has cured my headache that was
chroDic.'
II gave one of your Pills to my babe for cholera
morbns. The dear little thing got well in day"
MY nausea of a morning is now cured
Your box of Holloway's Ointment cured me of
noises in the head. l rubbed some of your Olnt-
ment behind the ears, and the noise has left.''
"Send me boxes, l want one for poor family
Il enclose dollar your price is Is cents, but the
medicine to me is worth 9 dollar"
'Send me FIVE boxes of your Pills"
LET me have three boxes of your Pills by return
mail, for Chills and Fever
have over 200 such testimonials as these but
want of space compels me to conclude.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

tire confidence in Superintendent Bailey,
of the poor farm, in the efficient and eco.
nomical manner in which he has managed
the poor farm and the care of the inmates
under his custody. Carried.
Board adjourned until tomorrow morning
at Q O'Clock
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

For SALE.-The entire outfit of the
barber shop lately occupied by L. Smith,
consisting of two good chairs, stove, clock,
fine barber pole, razors, etc., first class
set of tools and furniture. Will be sold
cheap. Apply to Jos. Johnston, S, E.
corner Fourth Avenue and 18th street,
Rock Island. 12-dte
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

ew-Let the Suffering and diseased read the fol-
owing:
ey-Let all who have been given up by Doctors,
and spoken of as incurable, read the following.
gs Let all who can believe facts, and can have
faith in evidence, read the following.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That, on
this the twentieth day of June, the year of Our
Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty six,
personal y came Joseph Haydock 10 me known as
such, and being duly sworn deposed as follows
That he is the sole general agent for the United
States and dependencies thereof for preparations
or medicines known as DIR. Ho]loway'E Pills and
Ointment and that the following certificates are
yerbatum copies TO the best of his knowledge and
belief JAMES SMEITRE,
II,s1 Notary Public,
ID Wall street, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

The ARGUS JOB PRINTING ROOMS
turn out Cards, Circulars, Note Heads
Bill Heads, Law Briefs, and all othel
kinds of Printing, in the highest style of
the art, aDd on the most reasonable terms.
And THE ARGUS Book BINDERY is doing
all kinds of work in that line, neat, quick
and cheap. The friends of the paper and
the public generally are invited to give our
work trial dwt,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
Important Caution.

None are genuine unless the signature of 7
HAYDocK, as agent for the United States surround
each box OF Pills, and Ointment, handsome re-
ward viii be given to any one rendering such in.
formation as may lead to the detection of anv
party or parties eounterfeiting the medicines or
*s*Sold at the Mandatory of Professor Ho..
LowAY q Co., New York. and by all respecfabie
civilized world, in boxes at Is cents 6a Cent? and
81 each. --4
- There 10 considerable saying by taking the
larger Sizes
n, B. Directions for the guidance patients In
every disorder are affixed to each box.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
LIVER REGULATOR

If you feel drowsy, debilitated, have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite nd
tongue coated, You suffering from torpid liver
or "biliousness' and nothing will cure you so
speedily and permantly as to
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
Il. d. MOCREERY
SIMON HIRsCH,

committee.
The Committee on Public Expenditures
submitted the following report, which, on
motion, was received and adopted:
Your committee to whom was referred
the public expenditure bills, would report
that We have examined the same and
would recommend that the clerk be directed
to issue orders for the several amounts to
the several claimants.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

Jane 1st, 1866.
Dr. HoLLowAY:-I take my pen to write you OF
my great relief and that the awful pain in my eide
has left me at last thanks to you Pills. oh, Doc
tor, how thankful am that / can get some sleep.
/ can never write 1t enough. thank yoa again and
again. and am that you really the friend OF
I'll sufferers / could not help writing to you, and
hope you will not take 1t amiss.
JAMES MYERS, ZIG Ave. d.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

The following is an interesting case of man EN-
ployed in an Iron Foundry, who, in pouring melted
iron into q flask that was damp and wet caused an
explosion. The melted iron was thrown around
and on him in perfect shower, and he was burned
dreadfuly. The following certificate was given to
me, by him, about eight weeks after the accident:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

New YORK, Jan. II, 1886.
Ny name is Jacob Hardy; am an Iron Founder.
l was badly burned by hon iron in November last
my burns healed, but had running sore on my
leg that would not heal tried Holloway's Oint-
ment and it cured me in few weeks. This is all
true and anybody can scene at Jackson's Iron
Works I'd Avenue.
j. HARDY, 119 Goerch Street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

Alexander H. Ste
phens, of Georgia !;
Bishop Pierce of
Georgia; John Gill
Shorter,of Alabama
Gen. John B. Cor
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
1T HAS NO EQUAL
"a I44@9 1NO ~ III
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
~ LIVER DISEASE and In
A "a digestion prevail to great
CHkE NAEeJE or extent than probably
- vi mVNO any other malady, and
lief Is always anxiously

- INcgud Gu III It's action neat0 IL almost INVITA-
bly, secured Indigestion or want of action in the
Liver causes Headache, Constipation, Jaundice,
Pain in the Shoulder, Cough, Dizziness. Sour Stom-
ach, bad taste in thu mouth, bilious attacks paIpi-
tatiOn Of the heart depression Of spirits or the blues
and hundred other symptoms. Simmons Liver
Regulator Is the best remedy that has ever been
discovered for these ailments. 1t acts mildly, eff
iectually, and being simple vegetable compound.
can do no injury in any quantities that it may be
taken. 1t is harmless in every way; it has been
used for forty years and hundreds from all parts of
the country will voueh for its virtues, viz: Hon.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

DOM X. l.. Mott, of Columbus, Ga, among the
hundreds to whom we canrefer. Extract of letter
from Hon. Alexander ii. Stephens dated March 8,
1917: II occasionally when my condition re-
qnires 1t, Simmons Liver Regulotor, with good
effect. IL IL mild, and suits NE better than more
active medicine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08

This is to certify that was discharged from the
army with Chronic DiarrhGa, and have been cured
by DR.. Holloway's Pills. WILSON HARVEY,
New York, April z, 1866. u Pitt street.