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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
That Dollar.
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A stranger who was yesterday having
his boots blacked by one of the post
office brigade, asked the lad what he
would do if some one should hand him
apd give half OF it to theheathen,
and spend the reston the Fourth 5-was
the reply.
aThat's right-you are al good boy"
continued the man. 81 like to- give
money to such a lad as you. =
When his boots were finished he
handed the boy d nickel and walked of,
never referring to the dollar, which the
boy had been al lnost certain Of. He had
gone about half block when the lad
overlook him and asked:
"Did you intend to give me a
dollarf, &c sis = s.
sOh, no, no. no. Isimply wanted to
see what you would do with it. "
.WelI, I've been thinking it all
over" said the black, " and I'll tell ye
what I'd do. I'd take it and hire some
one to pare INV feet down so ] could get
on No. 'levens without springing my
jints out of linep
The stranger looked from his feet to
the boy and back, then across the street
| at a policeman, and as he turned to go
he muttered:
a.Well, rve found ont what he'd do
with it, but I don't know as I feel any
the better for it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
Self Control.

Many parents think they are giving
their children good education by send
ing them to school. They do not realize
that the most important part of child's
education is what it gets at home The
most valuable teaching that boy can
have is that which gives him self control.
Far more important that he should learn
to keep his passions in subjection, than
to be able to solve quadratic equation
Most children are brought up without
any teaching in regard to those passions
which wreck many one upon the rocks
of sensuality and vice. knowledge is
not education. Education is training,
the growth and cultivation OF the vari-
GUS faculties of the mind. The moral
training of children is of the first i'm
portance; the acquisition of knowledge
should be entirely secondary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
Our Girls.

The girls in the principal cities in
this country are noted as follows:
Boston, the handsomest.
Baltimore, the most intellectual.
New York, the gayest and most ex-
peusive in dress.
Washington, the most airy and super
fetal. ee-
Philadelphia, the most refined and
ladylike.
Chicago, the fastest and most dissi-
pated.
Toledo, the biggest feet, R M
st. Louis, most reckless.
New Orleans, the most truthful.
Cincinnati, the gayest flirts
Louisville, the prou lest
Maysville, the most amiable dispc-
sitiop.
Detroit, the widest.
Cleveland, the most graceful and en-
tertaining in conversation.
San Francisco, the most indifferent.
Mobile, the most liberal entertainers.
Hartford, the best musicians.
Buffalo, the dullest. -
Rochester, the longest hair.
Kansas City, the most anxious to be
loved.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
The Tragic End of an American
Diver.

A still more appalling leap than
taken success ully in 1929 by Sam Patch
has lately been made by Canadian
named Harmon Peer from one of the
two suspension bridges which span the
gulf into which Niagara River falls.
At the same time it is impossible to
deny that other American divers had
heretofore prepared us for the possibility
of descending with safety into the water
from great heights, and there are many
still living in the metropolis who can
remember the feats performed in 184l
by an American swimmer named Sam.
uel Scott, who was in the habit of diving
from the top of Waterloo Bridge into
the Thames, a fall of about forty feet.
The un ortunate man had accustomed
himself to go through many fantastic
tricks before throwing himself into the
river, and for this purpose he had
caused scaffolding to be erected i'm.
mediately over the second arch of Water.
loo Bridge, on the Somerset House side
In order to increase the sensational fea.
lures of his exhibition, Samuel Scott
was in the habit of thrusting his neck
into the moose of swinging rope, and
suspending himself after the manner Of
a man who is being hanged by the neck
Upon the l1th of January, 1841, he as
cended the scafold as usual, and seizine
the rope placed it round bis neck, ex
claiming at the top of his voice, Now
I'll show you once more how to dance
upon the air before l dive" With hi,
head in the running moose he let him
self down to the extremity of the ropt
and hung there for three or four min
utes. One of the spectators, who was in
innate with the exhibitor, shouted ou
that his friend had hanged himself il
reality, and a cry of "Cut him down,
ascended from the crowd. Some mo
ments elapsed before knife was forth
coming, and when the unhappy man wa
rescued it was found that animation wa
suspended. He was carried with al
possible speed to Charing Cross Hos
| pital, and though life was not entirel,
extinguished, the utmost efforts of thu
surgeon in attendance were unable II
save him. The jugular vein was opened
and he was placed in warm bath, bu
before many minutes passed it was dis
covered that he was dead. Since tina
day Londoners have seen others throw
themselves safely from the bridges o
our metropolitan river, and off the mast
heads of vessels moored in the stream
but no such leaps as those taken a
Niagara by Sam Patch and Harmon
Peer have ever been attempted in thi
| rountrv
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY. JULY II, 1877

shooter and put out. When l got out
of doors they seemed to me about one
hundred yards ahead in the darkness,
and one hundred yards ahead they kept
for two miles, nor could I get any nearer
to them. So l travelled, and they trav-
eled, out of the camp all that distance,
until all at once they seemed to make q
straight scoot off the road, and heard
next talking on Graveyard-hilL Then
1 saw it all, and said /, "Snakes,
by, and l turned about and came
home" Then there was DIR. D., of the
same camp. He knew for years that he
was drinking himself to death. He was
treating cases of jim-jams all over the
country, yet he knew histurn must come.
He feared it, too. For years before the
real horrors got hold of him he never
saw a rat or heard cats squal! in the
dark but he'd inquire Of those about
them if they heard them, too, in order
to find out whether they we're real rats
and cats or jim-jam rats and cats. The
boys detected this dread at last, and
used to frighten the doctor by asserting
they heard nothing, while the cats were
singing their highest notes. At last the
real article got hold of him. Not in the
Men with clubs and pistol. Be got a
club himself and ran down the main
street screaming and beating the air
with half the camp after him. An in
eident in his case shows how, in these
fits, man may be both in and out of his
sober senses at the same time. Among
those trying to soothe him after he was
stopped was one Dave Horton, an ignor-
ant but consequential person, and not at
any time a particular favorite of the
doctors. There is nothing after you,
doctor, nothing at ALL" said Horton,
much in the tone e<Would use toward a
frightened child, when all at once the
doctor hit him q lively rap on the hesd
with his club. At this Horizons be-
neyolonce turned all to gall and bitter
ness, and he wanted to fight the mad
physician. Well, d. recovered from
this fit, and friend, at his request, told
him how how he had raved and acted.
But when he alluded to Horton the
doctor remarked, with a curious express
sion: ooh, yes; I recollect that part Of
it. The fool annoyed me, and l wanted
to get rid of him." As was his wont,
the doctor kept strictly sober some
months, and then he went at it, and
kept himself deluged with whisky fol-
weeks, until the men with clubs and
pistols got after him again. That time
they settled him, and the doctor knew
it, for in one of his quiet spells he
turned to his intimate friend and said
cts no use; salt can't save me. know
my case thoroughly, and the quicker
go the better Pm suited"
Are not these good temperance lee
lures?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17


@Whe'a men uote, and aohe,l their
chosen officers meet to conduct the
affairs of their political Govern
n,ents, no soldiers can interfere.
This limit to their asatagonisms no
political party can safely pass. ?
So said William M. Evarts; at mass
meeting of the people of New York, |.
dozen years ago, when. as yet he had
never dreamed of linking his political
fortunes with those Of the then unknown
man Hayes.
an armed force in The neiqkbor-
hood of the polls is almost of aaeces-
sity a menace to the uoters aud an
Interference l0ith their freedom and
i7sdepeadence.p
So said Geo. w. McCrary, in his
book on elections, before he had lent
himself to Hayes. -
CiuJ liberty and a standing army
for the purposes OF ciuu police hare
seuer yet stood together, and neuer
can stand fogethe7!!'' s sa
So said William b. Seward, speaking
with the same wholesome adherence Of
military interference with the rights of
the citizen which led the founders of
our Government to. subscribe within
the narrowest limits both the size and
the functions of the regular army.
But we now see Hayes, in his vetoes,
marching beyond that limit in party
maneuvers which Mr.. Eyarts once de-
clared unsafe to pass; insisting on that
right of using troops at the polls which
Mr.. McCrary declared to be menace
to the independence-of voters; and in
tending to make the use Of standing
army as q police which Mr.. Seward de-
clared to be incompatible with the con-
tinuance of liberty = Neao York Sum.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
4 SONNET TO oRDEa.
sr Il. Q. BuxsER.

A sonnet would you have? Know you, my pet,
For sonnets fourteen lines are necessary
All, aecessary rhymes, by luck, to Iairy--
Iu call you one and the first quatrain get.
This meets halfway the second halfway met,
One meets an obstacle in manner airy.
But here. though 1t is not your name, as Mary
I'll set you down, settling the second set
Nov, you'll admit, sonnet without Love,
Without the SAVIOR Of woman In It,
We're PROCLAMATION of poetic art.
Love, above ali thingsI So tits writ above.
Nor there alone. Your soonetteer, I'd hint,
Gives you this sonnet here with all his heart
ea --Scri6ner's I" Bric-a-Brac.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17

This is what Robert G. Ingersoll says
of the women: ! tell you women are
more prudent than men. 1 tell you, as
rule, women are more truthful than
men-ten times as faithful as men.
never saw man pursue his wife into
the very ditch and dust of degradation
and take her in his arms. / never saw
man stand at the shore where she had
been morally wrecked, waiting for the
waves to bring back even her corpse to
his arms, but | have seen women do it.
| have seen woman with her white arms
lift man from the mire of degradation,
and hold him to her bosom as though he
were an angel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
Thoughts Of Great Men.

We ask advice, but we mean approba-
tion.-Colton.
A mans life is like an appendix to his
heart.-South.
Unbidden guests are often welcomest
when they are gone.-Shakspeare.
A judicious silence is better than truth
spoken without charity.-DeSales.
No one will dare maintain that it is
better to do justice than to bear it.
aristotle.
Annihilate not the mercies Of God by
thesoblivion of gratitude.-S;r Thomas
.Browne.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
A SingularlH.decorated Snake

The Charlottesville (Ga.) Democrat
says: We do not like to tell snake
stories; they are dangerous applications
10 ones reputation. But Mr.. James In
gram, of this county, sends us speci-
men of sfake- kind we never saw
before-so peculiar that we are COM
PEELED to take notice of it. The snake
is thirty-one and three-quarter inches in
length, of a trim, slim shape, and is
strangely marked, having all the letters
of the alphabet in plain characters up
on its back in large capitals No one to
whom it has been shown knows any
name for it or ever saw one like it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
You'll NEVER aUEsv.
sr saEDralUK LAseBx1Dor.


know two eyes, two soft, brown eyes,
Two eyes as sweet and dear
As ever danced with gay surprise,
Or melted with tear;
In whose fair rays heart may bask--
Their shadowed rays serene--
Bot, little maid, you must not ask
Whose gentle eyes mean.
know q voice Of fairy tone,
Like brooklet In the June,
That sings. TO please itself alone,
A little old-world tune;
. Wno,e music haunts the listeners ear,
And viii not leave 1t free;
But shall never tell you, dear,
Whose accents they may be.
know golden-hearted maid
For whom built a shrine,
A leafy nook Of murmurous shade,
Deep In this heart Of mine;
And in that calm and cool recess
To make her home she came--
But, Oh! you'd never, never guess
That little fiaiden's name.
49, s. ~ = --Good Words.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
swrsBunsE sings, |" I hid INV head

SwINBURNE sings, hid my head in
. nest of roses. Did you, Algernon;
did you? That was wise in you to hide
it among the roses. Now, if you had
covered it up in nest of cabbages,
when you came to pick it cut again you
could not have told, for the life Of sou,
which head was yours. Stick to the
roses, old boy, every time = Bvsxineton
Hascksge.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17

GREAT souls hold firmly to heaven
and let the earth roll on beneath them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17

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FOREIGN NOTES.

LONDON. July 27, 1879.
It has been proposed in the French Chamber OF Dep
niles to vote 100000 for the sufferers by tho
floods.
The committee on the subject has unanimously APP
proved Deputy Prousts proposal for the demolition Of
the ruins Of the Tueries.
All the great powers will be represented on the inter
national commission OF inquiry into the finances of
Egypt but allowances win be made Tor the preponder-
ami interests of England and France.
In Pars the OF the Lanerfe tnewspaper) has
been sentenced TO four months imprisonment and 70
pay fine OF $500 for publishing false news aud 0eng
public fuDctionaftes
The report OF the AngloAmerican Cable Company
says The policy 10 be pursued In view OF the approach
No completion of the French cable Ia con stantly
occupying the attention Of the directors 1t has been
dete rnined to lay cable next year to facilitate
the transmission OF the increased number OF messages
which may be expected from lower tariff
The Paris Municipal Council has renamed 6 number OF
streets including the Boulevards Haussnann.
The Greek Chamber Of Deputies and the spanish Con
gress have been prorogued.
II stated officially that 1901 free occurred IN Rus
STA during the month OF June. causing damage to the
amount Of about 100000 or this plumber sos hres
were Of ncendiary gin. theatre In the Kremn at
Moscow was recently burned by Nihilists.
Nearly 300 engineers who on strike at Bradford
prepared 10 emrate to the United States and Cam
ada In accordance with invitations received from
various branches Of the Anal Ramsted Engineers 30
ciety In the principal engineering centres
Major CavagDari and the members OF the British Mis-
sion arrived ut Cabul the oath inst They were
ceived with brilliant military honors and sAiutes
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WATCHFULNEss IN BROOKLYN.

Sanitary Superintendent Raymond on Saturday
called the attention of the Board of City Works to
the fact that the streets in the vicinity of No. 4S
Columbia-pace where Dennis Manning, fireman of
the City of Merida died on Tuesday, had not
been cleaned recently, although thorough clean
ing had been ordered on Wednesday. 1t appears
thet the Board Of City Works directed the con-
tractor Tor that portion Of the city to do the work.
but he dsregarded the order.
4 communication was received on Saturday by
Acting Mayor Ray. of Brooklyn. from the Board
of Health. asking permission 10 spend an amount
not exceeding 81 800 for disinfectng apparatus
and place TO care for persons sick with contagious
diseases and for receiving the dead The reason for
this Is that no place Is now provided, and IN sud
den emergency results Of disastrous character
'John Roper, with four children and his nephew,
James Roper together with Susan Mccarthy, relu-
gees from Memphis. arrived in Brooklyn Oh July d.
and are LIVING az No. 106 Huntington-st
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INCIDENTS AT WASHINGTON.

hR. CASEY YoUKG's DIsISPgCTASTs-THE VoLUN-
TERRISG OF TWO sURGEoNs-So CONFERENCE
WITH Mr. LAMAR--A LETTER TO Mr.. EyARTs.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEi
WASHINGTON, July 27.-Representative Casey
Young, who, it will be remembered, spent the entire
season Of the plague last year in his own district
working to stay the plague and in ministering to
The relief Of the sufferers and who by that expert
tnce alone is entitled to respectful hearing by the
National Board of Health. called few days ago
al the rooms of the Board and left two or three
samples Of disnfectants which last years experience
1au proved TO be serviceable. he suggested that
.ney De examined by the Board. A day or two ago,
nc called later than usual and 1t is said that no at
.osuOn had been given to the matter. and that the
PERSONS In charge could not at first even find the
samples
Su iOung, who is still here expresses the opin-
~ % mat the president and members Of the
S0ara should be here, and not leave the whole
y. OfK at such time to the management OF
ne secretary. however efficient he may DO.
~ s9ups believes that the sc0prge In Memphis
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busy for such social life London leads during the
season. The reports of her illness at the beginning
of the season this year true but the illness
had nothing to do with throat or lungs She was
disabled for three weeks by rheumatism. Her
glorious voice is what IL always was.
The Albert Hall, which holds 1 forget how
many thousands of people, was filled TINS
afternoon for her farewell. l don't remem-
Der to have seen it full OF any other occa-
sion since the day of its opening and of its sol
emn dedication by the Queen and the rest OF the
royal family to the memory of Prince Albert and to
musical uses. 1t answers better as a monument
than for music 1t is too big for most voices and for
most audiences. Two or three thousand people are
lost in the far-reaching spaces of its vast amphi-
theatre and balconies and galleries, and endless
rows of seats. But to-day II full for once.
There were people enough to cover It's benches and
Madame Nelson's voice has seldom had better OPP
portunity to prove its power. Her comrades,
Madame Gerster Miss Kellogg and the rest, came on
the stage In snowy costumes. Madame Nilsson was
dressed in plain black, the quiet elegant gown and
bonnet setting off her blonde beauty as we'll as
richer toilet. With all her success with world
at her feet these fifteen years past there Is stu
something of the Swedish peasant-girl about her, IN
the truth the naturaness the purity of her charac-
ter and bearing. She sang the bel raggo from Sem
iramide," duet with Nine. Trebeli from " Mefs-
tofele," and two Swedish melodies When recalled
for the last time she gave Home Sweet Home"
"Why does she sing that haclIneyed thing y
queried q critical lady next whom | sat. But when
Madame Nilsson had finished, the same
critical lady remarked, In rather choked
Tone that she had never heard It before. In truth.
Madame Nilsson sang the familiar strains with as
much distinction as power. The mass and volume
of applause that rolled through the hall was itself
O thing to hear. Even in jaded London audience
near the end of July touch of sentiment remains,
and with the enthusiasm which marked the fare
well to Madame Nilsson a note of melancholy
mingled. G.w.s.
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FUMIGATING THE MAILS.

Colonel Emmons Clark, secretary of the Board
of Health on Saturday acknowledged the receipt
of Postmaster James's communication 10 Professor
Chandler in reference to the fqmigatlon of mails
from the infected districts Colonel Clark assured
the Postmaster that the request would be promptly
attended to. As result Of the VISIT South OF
Superintendent Jackson, of the Railway Mail Ser
vice where lie held conference with Supernten-
dents Terrell and Hunt, the following order has
been issuedi
During the continuance OF yellow fever Memphis,
Tenn. will make up direct pouches and sacks Of mails
for Texas and label " Texas from Memphis" These
mails Will be forwarded via ST. Louis sedia and Deni-
SON. and employees receiving such Will open them,
but take through intact TO quarantine station at Red
River aud deliver to quarantine authorities TO be fpi-
gated after which they will be semitic Denison TO be
properly forwarded. Employees laying off at Denison
will assist in the distributing OF such mails at Denson.
In order that no unnecessary delays may follow.
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LONDON, Monday, July 2s, 1875
The Hon. John Welsh. of Philadelphia
d FALL RIVER SPECULATION.

EXCITEMENT OVER THE LOSSES OF MR.. GEORGE b.
DURFEE AND HIS RELATIONS TO ONE OF THE
MILLS.
FALL RIVER, Mass, July 27.-Business cir
cles here greatly excited over rumored irregular
transactions by Mr. George Durree the treasurer OF
the Mechanics MILL The treasurer became involved by
unfortunate speouatons in cotton, and used the money
OF the mill to meet drafts coming DUE An
amount Of property sufficient to cover the losses and
secure the mill Is said to been turned by the
relatives OF the treasurer and the affair has been set
tied The amount of margin lost; for which It Is SAID
that Mr. Durfee borrowed the mills money, Ia reported
to DO $4,000 It 10 also reported that
hs total loss In speculation was about
100000. although no only put $4,000 as margin
The directors Of the mill are very recent and decline
give any Information ut present. although they admit
the fact of trregularity.