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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18

The appropriations from 1871 to 1876 inclusive
were made by the Republican Congresses, and
those of 1877 and 1875 by Democratic House.
The Republicans run up these expenditures
from Sl50, 100000 in 1872 to an average of
nearly $l7S, 600 600 for each of the four years
thereafter; while the Democrats reduced the
expenditures for the two last years of
the report to but little over $139, ,000, 600
per year, making an annual saving Of over
S38, ,OU0, ,0O0 1t is true that for 1879 the Demo-
Gratis increased those appropriations to $751;
O00,OO0, and for 1880 to $780, 000, 600; chief
part of which increase was claimed by the ad-
ministration to be necessary because the DEM
ocratic House had cut down too much of the
appropriations for the preceding years. But
take the whole average Of appropriations and
expenditures for the four years of Republican
rule, from 1878 to 1876 inclusive, and the result
is as follows: That the Republicans expended
. an average of SIT, ,74S 0C0 for the net ordinary
expenditures of the Government, while the
Democrats appropriated an average Of Sl49,
2Ol 600, being saving to the people by reason
of Democratic economy of $2S, ,547, 900 per
year, or s114, 19S. 600 in the four years.
Mr.. Sherman, in replying to my Lancaster
speech, asserts that, 80 far from this economy
being forced upon the administration by the
Democratic Congress, We actually appropriated
more than the departments asked for. Here
the Finance Minister of our Government is
equally at fault For the year 1877 the ad-
minIstration asked little over 500, 125 600 for
its ordinary expenditures; we gave it S145,
$4,000 For the year 1878 the administration
asked Sl76 226, 600; we gave it S157, 7,2l3, COO
For the year 1880 it asked Sl64, 1S1 600; and we
gave it Sl60, $4,000. So that the Democratic
Congress has in four years prevented the ad-
ministration from spending over $12O, ,OOO,O 600
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
Marriage as a Test.

How remarkable it is that whenever
an enthusiast in religion gets new light,
and adopts what he considers advanced
views" he almost invariably begins to
tamper with marriagel In this tam
pering he always betrays the charlatan,
and sufficiently warns all who are
tempted to follow him to beware Of
him. There is no better test of new
system or scheme of life than its rela-
ton to Christian marriage. If it tam
pers with that it is always bad, and can
by no possibility be good. The Shakers
form community built on this rotten
foundation. They destroy the family,
root and branch. They have no place
for love, and enter into determined
and organized fight with the God of
Nature, who, by the strongest passions
and impulses He has ever implanted IN
the human soul, has commanded them
to establish families and homes. Shak-
erism is good for nothing if it is not
good universally-if it ought not to be
adopted universally. But universal
adoption would be- the suicide of race,
and race has no more right to commit
suicide than man. Besides, the
damming of one of the most powerful
streams in human nature only sets the
water back to cover the banks it was
intended to nourish and to drain. tits
too late to talk about the superior sane.
tity of the celibate. We have no faith
in it whatever. The vow of chastity
simply emphasizes in the mind the pas
SION it is intended, for spiritual reasons,
to suppress, and fixes the attention
upon it. The Shaker, in denying love
to himself and all the hallowed inau-
ences that grew out of family and home,
gains nothing in holiness, if he do not
lose irretrievably. He is the victiE
of shocking mistake, and he disgraces
himself and his own father and mother
by his gross views of an institution be
fore whose purity and benefcence he
and his whole system stand condemned
Of course we do not need to allude te
the Mormon. His views of marriage
revealed, of course-are simply beastly
But these new schemes of life, religion
and philosophy are constantly spring
ing up. 1t is very difficult for any sys
tenn of socialism to establish itself with
out tampering with marriage, and ont
| of the best arguments against all sort
of communities and phalansteries an6
what-nots of that sort, is that the fam
ily, as a unit, is unmanageable within
them. They can take in and organize
miscellaneous mass of individuals, ant
provide some sort of dirty substitute
for marriage, but the family bother
them. 1t is government within gov
ernment, that they cannot get alonl
with. So the marriage test is a goo'
one in all cases of the kind.-ScribneI
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
Two Grangers Discuss.

Granger A.-aWell, was up in New
England last June and found them
planting-such late planting beets all
I ever seed-it narrowing fact, but
its SOW, all the same"
Granger B.-@Hay dayl I wouldn't
give a straw to farm in such slow
country-they ought to emigrate to
Texas and raise CAIN"
A.-@ThatT dew; don't rake up any
more yarns-you may get me all in a
maize. Lettuce have peas"
B.-You'd better take that ear corn
of yourn to millet will relieve your
mind"
A.-Oat is wheat to hear the early bird,
To listen to the lowing herd.
But neither is half as sweet as seeing a
fresh Yankee girl of radishing beauty
aud trying to cultiyator acquaintance
by singing hoe Emma, etc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
WIT AND HuMoR.

Is THE knot in a porkers tail pig
stye?
PRooroR, the astronomer, viii return
to this country next winter.
TuMBLERs that have milk in them
should never be put in hot water.
THERE are 815 physicians in Chicago,
of whom fifty-five are women.
TAKING medicine will make well
man sick much quicker than it will
make sick man well.
sOH,s she said, II think soda water is
is soda-licious.a He took the hint and
soda dime on the harvest field of love.
MISTRESS: Bridget, didn't you hear
me calf" Bridget: Yis, mum; but
you towld me the other day niver to
answer ye back and I didn't
@THRow him o rope,D is the proper
thing to say when you see friend of
yours over-bored. The effect is mag
ical
aIT's only spring opening, ma" ex-
claimed that awful boy, as he exhibited
his torn trousers after leap over a
picket fence.
To BE a first-rate archer, You must
have an arrow chest and be bowlegged.
And even then your aim won't be first
straight.
THAT one and ono make really two
Most people will acknowledge true;
Yet even to @this rule we find
Exception dear to lovers mind;
Thus, you and I, and and you.
Are one and one, and still auotn two:
Least SO to me the figures run,
For surely, darling, we are onei
AuNTY-aWeI, love, did Mr.. McSiI
ler propose?" Edith-"No, aunty, bu.
he was on the verge Of it when
Aunty-''W When what, darling?" Edith
sWhen the clock struck and reminded
him that there was only time to catch
the last cheap train, and he had a re
turn ticket"
A CLERGYMAN, preaching sermon on
death, concluded with the following OBJ
servation: @But even death, my breth-
rem, SO well deserved by mankind for
| their sins, the wisdom of Providence
has, in its paternal kindness, put at the
end of our existence; for only think
what life would be worth if death were
at the beginningi
STATE STATEMENT.
never In the State of Maine have ever taken tea,
| Yet all of its inhabitants very fond of Me-
About the 4old Bay stste' there's something far
For all who go to Boston are sure to go to Xdss "
The folks in sLittle Rho6yr may not be very dry
Yet every person seems to have fersent love for
In the Centennial Keystone Staten the women
and The men
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
The Old Songs.

Take back the sheart; as the man
said who drew one when he wanted a
diamond.
Gum, gum away to the pearly foun-
tain," was sung by the man who dropped
his store teeth into the creek.
"a loan in the world, was given with
great effect by the man who had to raise
$500 by Saturday noon.
Ais swell" was composed and sung
by the man who sat down on an oak
stump, using navy-blue wasp for
cushion.
@Bee ware" was the national song of
the honey merchants.
@Down by the sea-beat shore" was the
sad refrain of man whose summer
hotel was eat outen by tramps.
Dream, baby, dream was sung and
said very energetically by the man who
patroled the floor while the collie pa
troled his baby.
Goodbye, sweet tart, was chanted
by the dyspeptic man who couldn't eat
pie.
Somebody is waiting for me- was
walled out by the man who had been to
the Lodge, lost his night key, and could
see the shadow of his wife's mothers
night-capped head on the curtain of the
sitting-room.
"Larboard watch" is the favorite lay
of the recent idiot who wears two
watches Batrli,1g tom Ha,uk Eye.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
Killing Four. r.Hundred-Pound Ok with
a PistOl-Ball.

A gentleman of this county, last Sun
day afternoon, found an OK in his corn.
field. In driving him out, and for the
purpose of frightening him away from
his premises, he shot at him with a
common Smith s. Wesson repeater;
the distance was about seventy five
yards, yet he killed him almost instant
". The ball struck him just in rear of
the fore shoulder, broke rib, and
passed almost entirely through his body
in the region of the heart. The OK
weighed over 400.ponnds, aud belonged
to neighbor.-Americats {Ga.l Re-
corder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
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Business cards Of fve lines or less So pr annum.
Local notices. 10 ceats PER line each insertion.
Simple announcements OF marriages and deaths
I'D church and benevolent society no ices ins rted
FREE. Any additions to obituary notices viii be
cBargei five cents per line.
Favors must be banded in rs early a. Tuesday
morning to insure insss tion the SINE week.
Communicate ms upon subjects Of general or local
interest solicited
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18
PATHS Price.

When Nine. PATHS matrimonial af-
fairs became a trife mixed, the Gar
declared that she should not sing again
in st. Petersburg, and, hearing of the
imperial statement, the lady, with an
independence that is characteristic of
prima donne, accepted the situation and
declared she would not sing in the Rus
sian capital. In the course of time,
however, his Imperial Majesty became
less straight-laced. Mime. Patti is a
popular prima donna, and anything that
can divert the minds of Russians from
the state of Russia is sought for eagerly
and obtained at any cost. The lady
was invited to sing on liberal terms, and
declined; the terms were raised to 9SO0
night, and she declined again. Then
s1, 600 was offered, and the bait was too
tempting to be resisted. Signor Nico-
line is also engaged.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18

-AuBu6L VI
But there are two kinds of contraction, both
equally effective in shrinking values; one is by
actual reduction of the currency; the other by
the growth of business, the currency remaining
stationary. The demand of business for cur
rency may be assumed to increase approx
mately in proportion to increase Of population.
The actual currency in 1866, according to this
treasury statement of MIR. Sherman, was $2S
per capita, while the actual currency in 1878,
by thesame statement was but $17 IS por capi-
to, being reduction of over one-third.
Before the contraction of our currency our
people and our cities and our counties were
very little in debt, statistics and records and
experience attest. With the contraction which
followed up to 1873 came the expansion of
credits to maintain business. The enormous
grants by the Republican party of public lands
to promote the premature construction of rail-
ways combined with this expansion of credits
to bring on the collapse of 1878, from which
the country, as Mr.. Sherman stated in his
speech in the Senate in 1874, had in effect re-
covered, when the demonetjzation of silver and
forced resumption N gold set in motion the in
fuences which have shrunk prices, paralyzed
industry and confscated the property of debt
ors and taxpayers.
Mr.. Sherman asserts that not only had we
more currency in 1873 than at the close of the
war, but that we now have more than we ever
had. In this Treasury Department statement
Of the LIST of July last he gives the total circu-
lation at s743 S01 600 on the 1st of July, 1879,
wnich is about $l4S7 per capita, as against
sl7s5 per capita on the same day in 1873, and
$2S on the same day in 1865. This statement
of the currency now outstanding includes $74, :
0J0, ,000 greenbacks withdrawn from circulation
and boarded in the treasury, and s125, ,000, 600
which the Comptroller of the Currency in his
speech to the national bankers at Saratoga last
month says are boarded by the national banks.
Mr.. Sherman attempts to sustain his assertion
that the currency is greater now than ever by
adding to the volume now afiost all the coin in
the treasury held for redemption. lie might
inst as reasonably count the gold in the mount
aims. The coin will stay in the treasury until
! the greenbacks are surrendered to take it's
place, and then the greenbacks will stay in un-
til the coin comes back again. When one Is
circulating the other is boarded, and both can't
| be counted as part of the circulation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18

But the Republican party, by its Federal
Election law, has provided that two Federal
Supervisors may be appointed at each one of
these election precincts, with power to inspect
the ballots of electors and determine what
votes shall be received and what votes rejected;
and if any State election officer refuses to sub
NIT his Judgment to that of the Federal Su
pervisors, the Supervisors may seize such
election officer and drag him from the ballot
box to Federal prison, to be indicted and
tried for the felony of disobedience to these
Federal interlopers. II mans vote be shal-
lenged, and the State judges, in disobedience
to the State law, determine, on the facts pre-
sented, that he is entitled to vote, the Fed-
eral Supervisor may seize the elector before
his ballot is put in and drag him off to Fed
eral prison, although the power to define quail
ifications of electors, and, consequently, to
provide for method in which right to vote
may be determined, is, by the constitution Of
the United States, expressly reserved to the
States, absolutely and uuco nationally.
Now, believe there is not lawyer of fair
standing in Ohio who will risk his reputation
on an opinion that the Federal Government has
any power to thus prevent an elector from vot-
ing, or to in any manner supervise, control or
direct or meddle with the State election officers
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18

1878 was caused by an inflated and irredeema-
BILE currency. But here is his speech in the
United States Senate, made on the 18th of jan
uary, 1874, in which he says: Mr.. President,
the condition of our currency has no relation
whatever 20 the panic that has passed over the
country. 1 never have charged the
panic upon the currency. Indeed, I was the
first in the midst of the panic to declare that
the currency had no connection withit. Money
was secure. Men boarded it + These
panics are but the ebb and flow of great enter
prises No action of ours can prevent them"
He now asserts that all the business dis
tresses and blighted industries of the past four
years were due to that panic, but in this came
speech he declares that the effect Of the panic
was then past. quote his language: @Conf-
dence is restored, and every commodity is ad-
yauced to the price that it was before the
panic"
He now asserts that experience has shown
that the Resumption aSk has not produced any
distress;" but in his puDashed examination be-
fore the Finance Committee of the Senate last
year. which was carefully revised by him be-
fore it went to the Public Printer, he says:
We have now passed through all the agony
and struggle for resumption"
To crown the display of his characteristic
versatility of assertion, Mr. Sherman says:
"Suffice it to say that every step under the Re-
sumption act has had tendency to produce
easy times, restore confidence, reduce prices,
advance the values of our currencies, and to
lead us gently, slowly and surely to the specie
standard" Could human ingenuity combine in
one sentence a greater jumble Of contradic-
tions? It is perfectly true that every step
toward resumption has tended to reduce prices,
or, i'll other words, to advance the value or
purchasing power of money but the assertion
that reduction of prices causes or can be ac-
compared by easy times" contradicts all
human experience and all authority on the,
nature and office of money Falling prices have
everywhere inflicted, and must necessarily in
fict, industrial distress. There never has been
period in the history of this or any other
country of falling prices, or, what is the same
thing, rising value of money, which has not
been period of distress of industries and op-
preston of debtors and taxpayers. The reason
is obvious. When prices are falling the goods
Of the merchant shrink in value on his shelf !;
the stock of the trader is worth less when he
gets it to market than when he bought it; the
manufacturer when he turns out his goods finds
they have cost more for raw material and labor
than they will sell for the farmer must
pay debts and taxes in products con-
stantly shrinking in value. Money loaned in
productive enterprises Is, therefore, withdrawn
because the enterprises themselves become un-
prosperous and the loan hazardous; money
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-18

BRowN-@Can you break me $5
bill?" Jones-"I should like to break
it, but unfortunately I'm broke myself"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14

prevails in nearly all the cities of this
country. These charges are not based
upon the quantity Of water used but
upon the size of the house or the number
of rooms. The wasteful and careless
housekeeper pays no more than the
economical one. In fact the latter is re-
quired to pay his part for the careless
ness of the former. This same system of
charges prevails in nearly all European
countries, but the city of Liverpool has
adopted a just method by which any per-
son pays for the water used and no more.
A meter is placed in each house and
charge is made equal to about 1S cents
for each thousand gallons of water con-
sumed. This system is SO clearly the
right one that we see no good reason for
delaying its adoption here. Water rents
are too high, and we believe the only
remedy lies in making the extravagant
pay for the water wasted instead of di-
viding the cost of it among all con-
sumers.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14

proof Of his suffelings. There was qniet
bedside wedding, followed by three weeks
of watching and care, shared by mother and
wife, With what loving wilss Bertha be-
guiled the weary hours of convalescencei J
with what joy she watched August's restora-
ton to health and spirits No queen was
ever more proud. .pf her distinguished con-
sort than was Bertha OF the pour weak man
with feeble step and bandaged brow, who
leaned ON her arm as he walked for the frsi
time in the garden.
Mrs. Brevoort asked the old captain to
make her house his home, but he refused,
and stayed in his little house, with a ser.
want to keep it tidy. The evening of biz
life was blsssed with the love and care Of
his children. Many day they passed at
the little cottage, and sometimes the old
man, leaning on his cane, came up to the
Rrevoort mansion to romp with rosy Little
grandchild.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14
A Pat Reply.
[Roch ester Dem crot.

The warmth of the true Irish heart and
the quickness of the true Irish tongue
are proverbal, and feeble must be t.4e cry
of distress or brilliant the wit that does not
solicit a sympathetic response from the
genuine son or daughter of the Emerald
Isle. MOI very long ago little boy whose
parents died was sent to the orphan
asylum, but the place was so dstas eful
to him that he soon ran away, and back to
his own neighborhood. Living in the vi
cnity was an old Irish woman, whom we
will call Kate, and poor though she was,
with large family, she took the orphan in
and cared for him as her own. The other
day she was in the city making some pur-
chase and in one of the stores gentleman,
who was conversant with the facts in the
case, asked after he boy.
"Oh, an he's foine boy, sir, an glad I
am to have him with me-"
well, well, Kate, if there is a heaven in
the next world you will get to it."
AS quick as lightning came the reply,
with all the heartiness of the race. God
bless ye, Mr.. P, an sure if l do, I'll lave
the gate open for you."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14
A WOMAN'S DEVICE.

A few years ago, says an English paper,
when highway robberies were more frequent
than at present, the passengers of a stage
coach, on its way to town, began to talk
about robbers One gentleman expressing
much anxiety lest he should lose ten
guineas, was advised by lady who sat next
to him, to take it from his pocket and slip
it into his boot, which he did Immediately.
1t was not long before the coach was
stopped by highwayman who riding up
to the window on the ladys side, demanded
her money; she declared that she had none,
but if he would examine the gentleman's
boot, he would there find ten guineas The
gentleman submitted patiently, but when
the robber departed, he loaded his female
travelling companion with abuse, declaring
her to be in confederacy with the highway
man. She confessed that appearances were
against her, but said if the company in the
stage would sup with her the following
evening in town, she would explain o
conduct which appeared so mysterious.
After some debate, they all accepted her in.
vitation; and the next evening, in calling on
her, were ushered into magnificent room,
where very elegant supper was prepared.
When this was over, she produced pocket
book, and addressing the gentleman who
had been robbed, said: 'In this book, sir,
are bank notes to the amount of thousand
pounds. I thought it better for you to lose
ten guineas, than me this valuable property,
which / had with me last night. AS you
have been the means of saving it, entreat
acceptance of this bank bill Of one hundred
pounds.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14
HOW FORTUNES ARE LOST AND
WON.

A Colorado mine operator and a ranch
man discovered large deposit of carbonats
of lead and zinc blend, near the South Ar.
kansas river, about seventy miles south of
Leadville, A dispute arose between them,
and the ranchman agreed to sell out to his
partner for Sc, 500, if the whole amount of
money was paid within eight months. The
mine operator actually stinted himself and
family the common necessaries of life to get
the money, and paid $4,000 out of the
So, 500, but having large number of un.
patented mines to work out the annual as
sessment required by law, could not meet
the last payment in time. He went to st.
Louis, and tried for three months to raise
money by offering one-half of the mine 10
any good business man that would join him
and pay the $4,000 that the entire share
when fully paid would cost, but failed to
raise the money. On his return to Colorado
bis ranchman partner coolly told him that
his time was up, and it would take Just
100000 to get his share in the mine. Dur.
ing the miners absence in st. Louis the
ranchman had worked few feet further
into the mine and uncovered as great de-
posit of carbonatss Of lead with silver as
has yet been discovered. These gentlemen
now hold their property at the snug little
sum of half million of dollars.