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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27

A STRANGER asked resident in Mil
ford, Del, @Are you always troubled
with mosquitoes hereP" " "Mosquitoesl )"
was the answer, "swing pint measure
around and you'll catch q quart OF
them"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27

IT is q mean man who would foel a
fish by wearing q white choker and
clerical coat when stroIling along the
banks of brook on Sunday.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27

THE family brandy bottle was left
within reach of a little girl in Albany
and she very nearly died of the eifects
of The drink she took.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
Woman. Past and Present.


In a readable article in the Nisse
teenth Century, DR.. Donaldson pub
lished an able article on The Position
of Women in Ancient Athens" in which
is clearly portrayed the limited life
which was the only one possible to
women at that period. A fine contrast
could be afforded by placing in juxta-
position an account of 'The Position OF
Women in Modern America" Not to
touch 30 comprehensive a subject IN
detail, there is yet room, in noting the
progress of even the last decade, to note
marvellous changes. Now in just that
proportion as q woman demonstrates
her ability to perform any work the
gates are thrown open to her. The fire
of her own inspiration burns all bar
riers away. There is no barrier to prog
ress, except incapacity. No line OF
work is impossible for woman to take,
if she takes it in womanly way.
Whatever place she goes in, Whatever
facilities she employs, if in the line OF
her legitimate work, and quietly as.
sumed in an unobtrusive but effectuai
manner, it will be as quietly granted,
and there is no friction or trial about
it. When women fully believe that
true refinement and delicacy are NOT
incompatible with Independence and
strength, then will the type of the inter
esting invalid, the fragile, chnging
creature who is $50 timid," die out, and
W.T. shall have truly womanly women.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27

OHIO papers complain that the forests
are disappearing in that State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
Hint to Uneraceful walkers,

An English lady, an acquaintance OF
M. Ingres, the well-hown French
writer, had most awkward gait. The
gentleman recommended her daily to
take long walk, balancing meanwhile
on her head pitcher Of water. This,
he said, would give the true poise to
the figure and necessitate the upright
carriage of the head and smooth, firm
step. An eminent French actor who
prepares young girls for the stage
has taken M. Ingres' hint, and his
pupils every day at a certain time have
to walk about with vessels of water on
their heads.-San Francisco Call Lon
flo,, letter i
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
Women as Physicians.

No observant person can fail to ad-
init that all the larger cities of America
contain many female practitioners, who,
despite their general lack OF attainments
and proper qualifications for the pro-
fession Of medicine, are on the average
as well patronized as those of the other
sex. We have reached that absurd
stage-and the sooner we recognize it
the better-when the burning question
is no longer, "Shall women be allowed
to practice medicinea" They are prac-
ticing it, not by ones or twos, but by
hundreds; and the only problem now
is, Shall we give them opportunities for
studying medicine before they avail
themselves of tine already-acquired
right of practicing it? It is clearly the
interest Of the community to give to
women the fullest instruction in &C.
cordance with the most-approved sys-
TENS and under the most eminent
teachers and also that their proficiency
should be tested by the most rigid or
deals before they finally receive certif-
Gates. By q recognition Of these GER
tifcates and their comparative values
the community would be able to pro-
tect itself from the impositions OF igno-
rant or fraudulent pretenders to medi-
cal knowledge.-Janaes Il. Chadautck
i'm International Reuietu.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
The Mysterious Glove.

A woman's glove is. to her what vest
pocket is to man. But it is more ca
pacious, and in ninety y-nine instances out
of 100 it is much better regulated. A man
will carry 5000 worth of small change,
four matches, half dozen toothpicks,
short pencil, and yet not be able to
find nickel or o match or toothpick
or pencil or card when he wants it.
Not SO with q woman. She has the
least bit of a glove, and in that glove
she carries the tiniest hand and wad
Of bills and the memoranda of her in
tended purchase of dry goods and car
tickets and matinee checks and maybe
diminutive powder-bag. We have no
idea how she does it-how she manages
to squeeze those 1.001 things into
that wee space. But she does it
every time, and the glove never looks
the least discomposed or plethoric or
rufaed. And when woman wants any
article concealed about that glove she
doesn't seem to have the least trouble
in the world getting at it. All that is
required is q simple turn of the wrist,
the disappearance of two fairy fingers,
and the desired article is brought to
light. It is wonder that no savant can
ernlain tL,.H tsfs ~ Z 5@5t 81
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
Repairing Done Promptly, and Warranted to Give
Satisfaction.
@ q. 5CHLENEkE7

49, Commercial Block, Eaton, Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27

money :" -0'" " Morieaged Negotiated.
obtained Of US in sum
II r dtoanm
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-27
FINE GOLD WATCHES AND CHAINS,

Which will sell lower than
s~ Prices before purchasing elsewhere
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
WHY Gold Changes Color.

Iii is well known that the human body
contain humors and acids, similar in &C
ton to, and having Il like tendency
towards. baser metals, as nitric and sui7
plluric have. namely. to tarnish or dis.
solve them. varying in quantity to differ
emit persons; Of this theory we have
abundant proof in the effects which the
wearing ofiewelry produces on different
persons. Thousands wear continually,
without any i'll effect, the cheaper class
of iewelry with brass ear wires, while II
others wore the am article for q few
days they would be troubled with sore
ears, or. in other words. the acids cor
tanned in the system would so act on the
brass as to produce i'll results: Instances
have occurred in which articles OF jew
elry of any grade below eighteen carat
have been furnished in few days.
merely from the above named cause.
True, these instances are not very ire
quent; nevertheless it is rs we'll to know
them; every Ease is not the fault OF the
goods not wearing well-as it is gener-
ally called-but the result Of the partic-
ular constitution by which they are
worn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24

In most Of the papers may be seen an an
nouncement Of a new rubber boot, made by
the Candee Rubber Co., of New Haven, CT.
This notable boot marks a new era in the
manufacture OF rubber goods. The boot is
called the &" 95 Per Cent? Sterling" to denote
its high quality, and is covered by no less
than seven patents, all owned by the Candee
Co.! One Of the boots split to show its exact
character, is on exhibition at the stores, and
shows an article Of genuine service, that is
seemingly indestructable. The company war
rants these boots three months, although
there is abundant testimony that the boots
will stand six months hard wear every day
The "Candee" is the largest rubber goods
company in the world, and its warrant is
equal to q bond. One Of the patents referred
to covers a binding for the top OF the log, in
which are engraved spaces for every day and
month in the year, so that the storekeeper
can punch out the date OF sale. and so fix be.
yond dispute the duration OF the three months
warrant. Altogether, it is the most wonder
full boot that has set appeared. J
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
The Harvest in England.

The London Times contains an ex.
haustive article. covering three of its
wide and closely printed columns. upon
the present harvest of grain in Great
Britain, from which it appears that the
wheat crop just harvested is the worst
on record since 1916. The average yield
per acre in the last fourteen years, leav'
ing out the crop of 1875. has been twenty
six and one-half bushels to the acre
The over-average yields were thirty.fonr
bushels in 1868, ,t~hirty-two bushels in
1870, thirty-one in 1874, and thirty
bushels, barely exceeding the average,
in 1878. For 1879 the Investigations oil
the Times show the meager production
of only eighteen bushels, net, which be-
cause of its inferior quality, a only be
regarded as only a little ore than
three-ffths of an average crop. From
these figures the Times estimates
that, to supply the actual needs of the
people for food, Great Britain must i'm
port wheat. or its equivalent in flour,
during the harvest year, from September
l, 1879, to September l, 1880, 144,000. 900
bushels. or Is, 0OO, coo bushels more than
list year, and this would be equivalent
to the importation of as many bushels rs
the whole United Kingdom produced in
the presentyear. Comparing the unfavor-
able results of the last six years with the
$50 per acre made on an average of the
five years ending in 1871, when tn
wheat yielded good crops, and the price
was a shilling a bushel better than at
present, the Times perceives Zone of the
great causes of agricultural depression,
and is not at all surprised that both land
owners and tenants are disheartened in
view of their immediate needs and
future prospects.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
The San FrUdciscO Mint.

A le,ter from San Francisco says
Every one who knows anything about
it is aware that the San Francisco mint
is the largest in the country, if not in
the world. Its capacity is unlimited.
Itcan coin in one month over 1900, 900
standard dollars-tlle minimum amount
required by law-and not allow this to
interfere with its other work. 1t has
held ct one time over $40, 900, 900 in coin
and certificates, and receives about
tkree-quarters of all the gold and silver
found on the Pacific coast. It is Il very
curious sight to observe the characters
of the persons who fetch gold dust to the
mint. About one-sixth of the dust is
broughtin by Chinese. These Celestials
work for themselves; work where a
white man wouldn't put his foot. They
work ND abandoned mines. sometimes
with astonishing success. The Chinese
miners have their Chinese agents in
town, and to the latter the metal is con-
signed in the care of some trusty COM
panion. They rely on no express COM
panies, no "Melican man." but on
themselves and their own ace. l was
in the receiving oom at the mint the
other day, and during a stay Of ten
minutes four Cinnamon appeared with
gold dust. They carried it in canvas
sacks, strongly sewed together, and
tightly tied. The hours for receiving
metals are from nine to twelve. The
dust is weighed when it is brought in
fresh from the mines, q receipt is given
to the depositor, and the dust is Mt once
sent to the melting DOM. where it
undergoes the process of refining. 1t is
then weighed. returned to the receiving
DOM, and to the depositor, all within a
ew hours from its reception into the
mint.
Cinnamon as 4 rule do mot convert
their bullion into American money.
That is not their game. They think too
much of the great tea and rice country
far across the broad ocean. AS soon as
heir bullion is returned to them they
arrange 10 send it to China by the very
first ship.-san Francisco letter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
Talmaee on Wall Street.

Rev. DR.. Talmage made the following
remarks during the course Of q recent
sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
the dangers of Wall street:
Money is golden-breasted bird with
q silver beak. 1t lights on the ottice-desk
or on the parlor center-table, and men
and women stand and admire it. They
don't notice that the little bird has
wings larger than either q raven, a
tlamingo OF an e. gle. And behold (tlle
right hand of the preacher, which with
fingers doubled up had rested birdlike
on the back of his left hand, suddenly
flew with oscllating fingers off to the
length of his arm)--the bird is gone, my
text says as an eagle toward heaven.
though sometimes | think it goes in tile
other direction. The bird has recently
reminded a good many foolish peopleof
its power to fly. Stocks have been up.
They were run up by spectators from
point to point, while the outside pubiic
with almost childlike simplicity fol-
lowed them. The crash came, thank
God, soon enough to save q good many
people who from rural homes were
hurry ing to the Wall street vortex. But
who shall count the number of young
men whose hard-earned savings have
gone into the pit. 1t is high time for
the ministers of the gospel to speak out
boldly. Stocks are rising. By-and-bye
they will fall. Then they will rise
again, and once more tumble, and in the
dance thousands of men will be ruined.
My advice to you, countrymen, if there
are any within the SOUND of my voice,
is to invest what surplus money you
may have in first mortgages and govern
ment bonds and to keep clear of Wall
street. What q compliment it is, how
ever, to the commercial and financial
condition of ME country that the recent
disasters in Wall street lave not hurt
the trade of the nation. l thank God
that Wall streets capacity to blast the
country is no more.
"Wall street is 4 narrow lane. but
with the exception of Lombard, in Lon
don, it is the brightest street on the
planet. There Washington held his
ievee; there Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Knox
and other brilliant women of the Revol-
ution exhibited their charms; there
Alexander Hamilton was chided for not
putt,ng God in the constitution of the
United States. The history Of Wall
street is the history of n large portion Of
the history of Americas greatness.
There are to-day in Wall street the best
men Of the country, and the worst.
There is in Wall street every grade from
heave-born charity to bloodless Shy
lockism.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
I'm the Sidewalk.

Here the publican walks with the sinner
proud
And the priest in his gloomy cowl,
And Dives walks in the motley crowd
With Lazarus, cheek by jowl,
And the daughter OF toll, with heriresh young
heart,
AS pure as her spotless fame,
Keeps step with the woman who makes hes
mart
. In the haunts of sin and shame.
How lightly trips the country lass
In the midst OF the city's ills,
AS freshly pure as the daisied grass
That grows on her native hills!
Andthe beggar, too, with his hungry eye,
And his lean, wan face and crutoh,
Gives a blessing the same to the passer-by
AS he gives him little or much.
Then time has beaten the worlds tattoo,
And in dusky srmor Digit,
Is treading with echoless footsteps through
The gloom OF the silent night,
How many OF these shall be daintily fed
Ands shall sink p slumber sweet,
While many will 60 to a sleepless bed,
And never q crumb to eat!
All me! when the hours 20 ioytulby,
How little we stop to heed
Our brothers and sisters despairing cry
In their woe and their bitter need!
Yet such a world as the angels sought
This world of ours we'd call,
Ii the brotherly love that the Father taught
Was felt by each for all.
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Historical Position Of Palestine.

The position of Palestine on the map
of the world has fitted it and its sue
cesseve peoples for Il remarkable place
in history. Here is q little country.
with only 8 1000 square miles, or2,0n0 less
than our State of Vermont. which, il
we measure it by the scope Of its history,
the remote antiquity Gifts literature. and
the great forces it has started into ire
sistible movement. we must place among
the foremost in the ancient family of
nations. 1t is practically the meeting
place of three continentS-Africa, Asia,
and Europe. If Belgium is the ''cock-
pit of Europe" where many of the chief
battles ofmodern times have been fought.
Palestine holds the same relation to the
ancient world. Her plain of Esdraelon
has been the battle-ground OF nations
auC civilizations from 'Abraham's day
to Napoleon B%onaparte's. This little
country was the pathway of the nations
on land, while on the sea it was her
Phpnicia which planted colonies all
around the shores of the Mediterranean,
created Carthage. rival Of Rome. and
dared to send her ships as far north as
Britain. There is something, too, akin
to magnetism in this wonderful little
land. 1t gave y certain measure of his
torical Importance. and, indeed. OF IN
mortality TO every people and land it
touched. Take from our knowledge of
Egyptian history all we have learned
from the Mosaic narrative, and there
will be a marvellous diminution OF the
fund. 1t is only where Assyria in an
early day came into relations with Syria
that we get something Of h definite
knowledge OF that great Oriental power.
We find Rawlinson. in his Five Mon
arcbies," and Wilkinson, in his MAN
ners and Customs of the Egyptians"
constantly appealing, to and leaning on
the scripture history. in order to treat
the subject in hand in consecutive form.
1t is Palestine that brings all great an
cient countries within u vision. 1t is
our best telescope for y view Of the re.
mote past. We. read the fortunes of
other peoples through her. Ofright she
did not possess the Greek language. 1t
was foisted upon her through Alexan-
der's conquest, and yet SO carefully
did she learn the new tongue that it be-
came the receptacle for the new faith
from Him of Nazareth, and the medium
of its communication to the remotcst
shores known to men. Palestine long
resisted Rome, and finally suffered de;
structi IN through Titus. Her acres and
faith were bartered like a piece Of mer-
cbandise, and were in turned owned by
Canaanite, Jew, Assyrian, Greek! Syrian.
Maccabaan and Roman. But in three
centuries we find Bethlehem supplant-
ing Rome. Christianity held the scepter
on the Seven Hills, and pnganism be-
came a thing of tie country village, or
iquS.-Hasper's Magazine.
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her husband, the Prince Censor, she willap-
pear il public, at agrand ball to be given IN

her husband, the Prince Censor, she willap-
pear in public, at agrand ball to be given IN
London.
Michael Wrayton, aged ssyenty-one years,
Lowell Wrayton, nineteen, and Cassie Wray.
ton, seventeen, OF Halifax, Ms, were drown.
ed at that place by the capsizing OF a boat.
A shocking case OF neglect has come to
light in Hull, Ontario. A. youth Of seventeen
years of age was taken Gown with smallpox
and his family deserted him. The neighbors,
hearing of it, went to the house where he was
stopping, with a bow of soup. On entering
the room they found the youth covered with
blood and almost at the point Of death. The
soup being placed to his lips, he ~ravenously
swallowed it. An examination showed that
he had eaten flesh from one OF his arms in his
agony OF hunger. He died q few minutes after
the arrival OF the n%eighbors.
DR.. E. Welt has been elected president OF
the Swiss confederation for 1850.
Great excitement prevails in St. Petersburg
on account of the recent attempt to assas-
sinate the car, and the police forces have
been largely increased. The revolutionary
committee have issued q proclamation, which
is being distributed daily, and in which they
WOW that the late attempt on the cars Life
was made by their order, and, though the at
tempt tailed, they are not disheartened, but
are ready to try again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
A Curiosity Of Crime

A man has been sent four times to the
Wisconsin State prison for stealing q
cow. Being asked why he did not steal
a. horse, he said that would send him
up longer than he wanted to 60 at any
one time. The statute puts the maxi
mum for which sentence can be passed
for stealing anything of less value than
800 at n year. He says there is no
telling how high up men will swear the
value of a horse, but there is no danger
of their swearing an old COW up to
$780," He says he a get the prizes Of
a COW, bis own keeping for a year, a
suit, of clothes and S5, for one years
work in prison, and he thinks that is
doing well for him. The abolition of
term sentences would relieve society of
that kind Of criminal prank. Good
Company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24

Scientists say that a man whose speci.
fc gravity is one hundred pounds on this
globe would. if he were transported to
Jupiter, weigh twelve hundred pounds.
Imagine the New York fit mems asso.
citation holding n clam bake inhJupiter!
They would bust the bottom out Of the
planet.-Moyyislo1n Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
Rouse Op

oAo
The liver.i if it is dormant, and avoid q train OF
evils which must otherwise ensue. Among
anti.bilious medicines none rank so high as
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t speedily ban
ishcs those pains in the region of the affected
organ, the yellowness of the skin, nausea,
vertigo and sick headache, which attends a
bilious attack. A bilious subject, after a brief
course OF this capital liver stimulant and in
vigorant, finds that his tongue is no longer
turred In the morning, his breath Is grown
sweeter, a hundred inexplicable sensations no
longer make his lite miserable, his bowels
have acquired the sleadiness of a well regu-
lated piece ofmechanism, and he can eat with
a hearty appetite and good digestion. 1t is
because the Bitters assists nature in her
efforts to bring back the disordered liver and
bowels to their normal condition, that ii ac-
con,plishes such remarkable cures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
To Veternp Soldiers

The Mirror and Farmer, a large news,
family and farming paper of forty-eight col
umns, having a larger circulation than any
other weekly of its class published in New
England, outside OF Boston, will nave each
week the coming year q department specially
devoted to "reminiscences, sketches and army
experiences OF New Hampshire and Vermont
soldiers in the rebellion war. Price, $l.0l
a year; to soldiers only seventy.fve cents
q year. Sample copies free. Address Johr
q Clarke. Manchester. m. H.
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The appetite is generally the bes
guide to food that isneededtob build up
the wastes Of the body. a morbid or
unnatural appetite can usually be dis
tinguished from q normal one. -Ur.
Foote,s Health Monthly. b
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HDied In Eur0pe,"
NEW YORK

"died in Denver" and so on is the
news received by friends at home daily.
when in most cases an early use of Hop
Bitters would have saved the occasion
for such sad news. See other column.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
DON'T Get the ChilIs.

If you are subjectto the ague yot must
be sure to keep your liver, bowels and
kidneys in good free condition. When
so, YOU will be safe from all attacks.
The remedy to use is Kidney-Wort. 1t
is the best presentation of all malarial
diseases that you ear take. See large
advertisement,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24

An ARTICLE OF TRUE MERIT.-"Brown's
Bronchial Troches" are the most popular ar
tiole in this country or Europe for throat dis.
eases and coughs, and this popularity is based
nnon real merit. 25 cents a box.
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For one cent purchase a postal card and
send your address to DR.. Sanford, l62 Broad
way, New York, and receive pamphlets by
return mail, from which you can learn whether
yonr liver is out OF order, and il out of order,
or is my way diseased, what is the best thing
in the world to take Tor it.