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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-01-15

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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-01-15
their alleged rights.

That Hayes was indicted into
Office by fraud is now a familiar fact
to some. millions of people in this
country; and it now appears that he
WAS nominated through trickery.
The Philadelphia Press which is
edited by Edward Mcpherson, the
Chairman of the Cincinnati conyen-
ton of 1876, talks plainly about the
contriyances by which the Cincin
natl politicians prevented the nom
ination of Blaine. After Bob Inger-
soils speech putting that gentleman
in nomination there was every pros
pect of his success; and to delay
action his OPP ponents resorted to the
curious maneuver of preventing a
night session by having the man
ager of the hall to. shat-e&4he-light,
on the pretense that there was dan
ger of fire. This is the way the
Chairman's newspaper puts the
case: "Every species of influence
was used to overawe the convention
and control it's deliberations. The
action respecting the lighting of the
hall was a piece with the rest. 1t
may, of course, be true that fear of
fire was the controlling motive in the
matter. But it was reported to the
President of the convention the next
day after the event that the party
on whose representation the conven-
ton decided not to hold a night ses-
sion ehuckled over the result, and
claimed credit for the shrewdness
with which he had played his game.
The names of persons are not now
remembered, but the clear impress
sion was made at the time that a
dirty trick had been played, and
for a mean motive.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-01-15
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-01-15

The Maine Republicans are a very
honest set of ment 81
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-01-15

Money to Lo an on Libera al Terms. interest Paid on Tin
Deposi1s.L Mortgaged Papers Ne gotiated. :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
Mark Twain's Cook Rook

Recipe for New England Pie.-To
make this excellent breakfast dish pro-
ceed as follows: Take sufficiency of
water and srlfficiency of flour, and con-
stluct butter proof dough. Work this
into the form Of disk, with the edges
turned up some three-fourths of an inch.
Tougher and kiln-dry it a couple of
days in mild but unvarying tempera-
ture. Constructs cover for this redoubt
in the same way and of the same mate
rial. Fill with stewed dried apples; az
gravate with cloves, lemon peel and
slabs of citron; add two portions of New
Orleans sugar; then solder on the lid and
set in place till it petrifes Serve cold
at breakfast and invite our enemy.
Recipe for German Coffee. a
barrel Of water and bring it to boil; rub
the chicory berry against a coffee berry;
then convey the former into the water.
Continue the boiling and evaporation
until the intensity of the flavor and
aroma Of the coffee and chicory has been
diminished to a proper degree, then set
aside to cool. Now unharness the re-
mains of a once COW from the pillow, ill.,
sert them in hydraulic press, and when
you shall have acquired teaspoonful of
that pale blue juice which German
superstition regards as milk, modify the
malgnity of it's strength in bucket of
tepid water, and ring up the breakfast.
Mix the beverage in cold cup, partakc
with moderation, and keep wet rag
around your head to guard against ex-
element.
To Carve Fowls in the German FASH
ion.-Use club and avoid the joints.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
Crystal Ice.
From Natl1re.1

A new skating surface called "crystal
ice has been invented by DR.. Calanta-
rients of Scarborough. Considering that
after all ice is merely crystalline sub
stance, and that there is no lack Of sub
stances which are crystallic at ordinary
temperatures, DR.. Calantarients expert
mented with variety Of salts, and after
time succeed in making mixture con-
sisting mainly of carbonate and sulphate
of soda, which, when laid as floor by
his plan, can be skated on with the ordi-
nary ice skates; the resistance to surface
is just equal to that of ice; it looks like
ice, and, indeed, when it has been
skated on got "cut up little, the de-
ception is quite astonishing. A small
experimental floor has been laid in the
skating rink at Princes, and has proved
so successful that no doubt a large floor
will be laid there or at some other con-
venient place in the autumn. This floor
will obviously have great advantages both
over artificial ice floors, which are very
expensive, indeed, and over floors for
roller skating. The surface can at any
time be made smooth again by steaming
with an apparatus for Che purpose, and
the floor itself when once laid will last
for many years. It is interesting to OBJ
serve that the mixture of salts used con-
tains about go per cent. Of water Of crys-
talization, 50 that after all the floor con-
sists chiefly of solicited water. '''''i' .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
=" Mr.. Henry! -

AS an illustration of how the simple
are used by politicians, the following
anecdote is interesting:
At political meeting, the speakers
and audience were very much disturbed
by man who constantly called for Mr..
Henry. Whenever a new speaker came
on the stand, this man bawled OUT
for I'M" M H Henry; Henry Henry! I call
After several Interruptions of this kind
at each speech, a young man assembled
the platform, and was soon airing his
eloquence in magnificent style, when the
same man as before was heard bawling
out at the top of his voice.
"Mr. Henry! Henry! Henry! I call
for Mr.. Henry to make speech!"
The chairman arose and remarked
that it would oblige the audience if the
gentleman would refrain from further
calling for Mr.. Henry, as that gentleman
was now speaking.
els that Mr.. Henry?'' said the dis
turber of the meeting. "That can't be
Mr.: Henry! Why, that's the little fellow
that told me to hOller."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
the skvLARk.

Hark to the dropping melody
Ambitious traveller for earth too proud,
Wouldst join the angels psalmody?
Or 10 the steadfast sun the magnet bright
That ever to the sky attracts thy fight7
Sing on, thou joyous reveler!
Pouring tumultuous from thy reedy throat
Torrents of sound; who needless hears thy note,
Is dull, or senseless drivellerl
,Iwoold seem thou hadst indeed heard heavens song,
For strains like thine could ne'er from earth have
sprung.
Here, on the cool grass lazily
Q Out listen to thy happy noe
Watching thy form, that lazily
Shows through slow-moving vapors high above,
As up in duttering spirals thou doet move.
So once my soul awakening
From thoughtless sumber, sprang to greet the morn
And from its depth q merry lay was born:
Hope stood before me, reckoning,
And led me forth along golden way,
where sunlight never ceased to beam and play.
Would that all We, here wandering
About this earth, could sing away our days,
And ne'er in discomfort our voices raise,
Short life in SORROW squanderng;
And would that we to toll as bithely bent,
As thou ascendest through the armament,
The nightngales sweet sorrowing
Luis US with fantasy and idle dreams,
Til all the world to our charmed vision seems
From solemn music borrowing
Soft msgic-a fair place of pleasant pain,
Wherein to dream, and sigh, and dream again.
Thy song is bright and vigorous,
Seeming to summon men to active lives,
Boldly proclaiming he who boldly strives
'Gsinst evils that beleagner US,
And faces manfully his worldly work,
Shall prosper wen-they i'll who duty shirk.
When twilight shades CROSS drearily
The sinking day, and all a1ield is still,
Save the ve1ed murmur of the restless rill,
Like stone thou fallest, YEARLY,
TO earth, and, STEPPING in the dew thy breast,
Secretly creepest to thy hidden nest.
Chambers Journal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

= BosTQN bakes 200 barrels of heaps
weekly. :. 80. - go s 's.-'-.'5'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
For restoring Gray Hair to
its natural Vitality and Color.

A d re s S i n 9
which is at once
agre e a b | e,
healthy, and eff.
fectual for pre-
S erv wing the
hair. Faded or
gray hair IS soon
restored to Its
IL
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
orty Years In Bed.

Newport Cor. Boston Journal.]
Cynthia Taggart and Elizabeth
commonly known as Betsy Taggart
are the names of two very extraordinary
women, one deceased, the other on the
brink of the grave. Their father was
Deacon William Taggart, who formerly
owned or kept the old ferry at Middle
town, in this county, where Betsy still
resides. They belong to most respect
able family, and these two women have
been visited by thousands of people who
were anxious to learn something of the
cause which brought them into notorietv.
Cynthia was bedridden for nearly forty
years before she died, and Betsy has
been in the same condition for thirty
nine years. It is stated by those who
have known them well that patient en-
durance Of great suffering was marked
feature Of their existance. Asked by the
writer, a day or two since, what their
illness was, a relative replied that he
could not tell; in fact, no one knew. It
was simply lack of vitality; the olnfor-
tunate women appeared to lose all
power after arriving at a certain age.
OF late Years but few visitors have been
admitted to the sick chamber of the sur
viving sister, but in the first years of
their extraordinary illness they were
called upon by strangers from far and
near, especially during the summer
time. Cynthia, after taking to her bed,
found much comfort with a Tyre, it is
said, and i'll her uncultured way would
compose poetry She once wrote an
"Ode to Health" Her death appeared
to affiict her sister Betsy to a great de-
gree. and at times she was inconsolable.
Her mind would wander at times, but
the name of Sister Cynthia was seldom
off her tongue. Her nephew, q well
known business man here, was one of the
first to go to the wal, and by courageous
conduct rose from the rank of private to
that of colonel. That was nearly twenty
years ago, and the Colonel says that
even then his friends used to write him
"Aunt Betsy is failing FAST" Yet she
is still alive. But perhaps the most ex-
traordinary fact in her whole case is
that now nearly for seven weeks moth
ing but water has passed her lips; not
one particle Of solid food or nourishment.
Her mind has been completely blank
for long time now. As may be imagin-
ed, she is reduced to mere skeleton.
These two are perhaps the most remark
able of the sort ever heard Of. There is
not a particle of imagination or sensa-
ton connected with them. The family
is one of the most respectable on the
island, and any statement they make can
be implicitly relied on. 1t is not pos
sible for poor old Betsy to survive many
days, seeing that she takes no nourish-
ing food whatever.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

DR.. PRATT, of Albany, has a horse
with all inordinate appetite for confec-
tionary. Every morning he is driven to
the banking house of Henry r. Pierson,
and after disposing of his master ne
turns his eye northward to see if the
road lis clear. If he finds no obstacle in
the way he walks across the street and
pays his addresses to the old lady who
keeps a street stand on the museum cor
ner. From her he obtains stick of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
Twenty-Eight Years From Home.

John r. Davidson left Norwich Conn.
twenty eight years ago and went to sea
He landed in New York last week, and a
once directed his steps to his old home in
Connecticut, from which he had received
no news since he left it. In the house
where his parents had once lived he
found an oyster counter, and near by his
fathers signboard, .tW. P. Davidson,
shoemaker" He entered the shop,
found his father, bargained for pair Of
boots, and talked about the old mans
son, whom he pretended to have known
in Australia. i, The old gentleman was
delighted to meet. q man who had seen
his boy, and talked vivaciously Of him,
and when the Imiddle-aged man declared
himself to be the son, the father was not
at first ready to believe it, but the proof
was positive. The son, had prospered in
Australia and had returned "a rich man.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

e~AAN SOAA
having emptied couple of bottles of
champagne, of which the old general had
always small supply in his cellar, both
retired to rest. On entering his bed
room, where his old orderly Matveitch,
awaited him, the general remembered
the letter, and drawing the lamp nearer
to where he stood, broke open the seal.
He first read the signature: canton
Podbielsky." His brows contracted as
If a painful recollection had cast
shadow over them.
"What business has that man to write
to me?" he muttered. Podbielsky was
Polish nobleman who had formerly
been the generals schoolmate. AS a
very young man he had been implicated
in the great Polish instruction of 1880
and had purchased his pardon from the
Russian government by betraying some
of his associates. Since that time Gen.
eral Savelieff, who hated all traitors,
even if they had rendered service to the
good cause, had broken off all relations
with Podbielsky, while the latter, rising
rapidly, soon reached prominent and
influential position in the newly formed
t.Third Section" or secret police. Now
he was chief of the chancery of that
dreaded institution, and moreover
specially intrusted with the investiga-
ton of the Winter Palace explosion.
That man wrote as follows:
"DEAR GENERAL: Remembering our former
relations, allow me to address word of earnest
warning to you. Your son has been found to be
implicated in the case Of the dynamite explosion
am now investigating" ~ 10. ..,..-@ ~
The old man read no further. With q
terrible oath, his face purple with indig-
nation, he sprang up and threw the let
ter to the ground.
80 "A Lie, an infamous lie! he exclaimed.
6 Your Excellency, whispered the ter
rified Matveitch, what is the matter 2"
=. . Nothing. Leave me. -
The old servant went out, shaking his
head sorrowfully.
On remaining alone the Generals first
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

A GOOD and wholesome harvest drink
is prepared by mixing oatmeal in water,
in proportion of three or four ounces of
the meal to gallon of water. Oatmeal
possesses peculiar aroma and acts as a
stimulant, and is Strengthening to the
system. Water alone often induces adj
ditional perspiration, passing through
thepores as through the colander. Very
cold water should not be drank except
very moderately when the body is very
warm
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

candy, and after eating it, stays there
until the doctor comes for him and pays
the old lady a cent for her candy. This
is of daily occurrence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15

Two little girls in Illinois raised money
for stone at their grandmother's grave
by raising chickens and selling eggs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11

A PLEASANT SEARCI.-The Comtesse
du Cayla was one of the last of the
favorites of Louis XVIII. She chance Il
one day to be turning over the leaves
OF magnificent illustrated edition OF
tho Bible, while Louis was signing
some state papers. When the king
had finished, he asked the fair reader
what she had been doing.
II was making new acquaintance,
SIRE"
with whom?
"With the Bible"
"With the Bible Well, Comtesse
you must not stay at mere acquaint.
anco."
The Comtesse had forgotten the in
cident, when she returned to her room
few hours afterward, and found on
the table of her salon the Bible which
she had so much admired in the king e
cabinet. She opened it, and what was
her surprise to find that each engrav-
ing was covered with new bank-uote
of thousand francs. There we're one
hundred and fifty engravings in Louis
the Eighteenth's Bible. This was an
original way Of encouraging the read
ing of the Bible.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
The New Word.

Boom lis the latest slang word, and
it is used on all possible occasions.
Boom" is windy and blatant, bat
seems to find admittance and honor
among all classes. He is set down in
the winning race of the coming presi-
Dental election. He has many back
srs, who feel confident that he hiss 'bot-
tom" and wind enough to distance all
rivals. We observe he is gradually
gaining place in religious circles. We
may expect q popularity greater even
than culture" won. We shall expect
to see in our religious papers the notice
that Rev. DR.. Mush has had boom"
from the Race-street Church. Instead
or saying there is revival in Can
non.street Church, it will be, there
is great boom. Elections at our
associations and State conventions will
be called booms. The derivation of
the word is simple enough. Miners in
the far West have practice of conduct
ing explorations by means which they
call booming" 1t consists in dam
ming up some gorge on y mountain side
and allowing the water from melting
snow to accumulate till an immense
reservoir has been formed. When the
pond is full, an outlet is made, and the
water PUSHES down with irresistible
force, overwhelming everything in its
path. Rocks, trees and boulders are
hustled along, the top soil is carried
away and huge ravines are cut in the
mountain side. Sometimes gullies of
seventy five or hundred feet wide are
formed, extending to the foot of the
mountain. Rich veins and deposits OF
ore are often uncovered by this process,
and the word booming" describing il
is seen to have some real significance.
1t is singular that the word boomer
is used among TIE native Australians to
signify anything great or wonderful. A
large animal OF any kind is called q
"boomer," though moro frequently the
word is used by the settlers to indicate
the male kangaroo. The term is seen
again in boomerang" and many other
native words.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
Rob Roy.

When boy at school, Rob Roy was
Of very quiet and studious character,
and as he grew up his love of nature in
creased with his years. Ho took great
delight in studying ancient history and
reciting the poetry OF that country he
loved so we'll. His education was not
liberal, but was considered sufficient
for the rural, sequestered life it was in
tended for him to pursue. As he grew
older his love OF solitude became much
marked, and. when q mere youth, he
would wander from home and spend
days viewing natures glories as they
lay scattered round his native Glengyle.
Nothing delighted him more than to
climb the rugged mountains, whose
SUBMITS were often hid among the
clouds which foated round them, or
wander in the dark valleys encircled
by their wooded eminences. The bold
omontory opposed to the surging
waves of the ocean, the still bosom of
the lake that reflected back the sur
rounding glories, the dashing noun
tain cataract, or the grim, deathlike
silence of the cavern, were objects that
greatly Influenced his youthful feelings,
and disposed his mind to the cultiva
ton OF manly and generous sentiments.
Imagination glowed with the fervor Of
youth, were never effaced. They con-
tinued to bias his temper and to give
his disposition cast of romantic chiv-
airy, which he exempiified in many of
his future actions. His parents be-
lcnged to the Presbyterian church, and
along with the rest of the family he was
reared in that faith, but although pos
sessed of more strength of mind than
many of his compeers, he was never
wholly freed from the superstitious feel.
ing which pervaded the country.
During his time the use of the
broadsword was the first and almost the
only art which young men of his class
were taught, and young Macgregor,
from his great strength and stature,
and the extreme length of his arms,
soon could WELD the national weapon
| with the dexterity which few or none
| could equal. He was possessed of very
considerable natural endowments, and
his knowledge of human nature was
acute and varied. His manner was
complacent when unrutflel by passion,
but when reused by opposition he was
fierce and determined.
When young man, he rented o
tract of land in Balquhidder for the
purpose of pursuing the trade of a
grazier and cattle-dealer. the favorite
occupation ofyoung gentlemen at that
time, and for some years he pursued O
u prosperous business. For the pro-
lection of his stock from hordes of ban
ditti from the northern counties, who
ever and anon invaded the district, he
was compelled to maintain strong
party of men, and this first led him in
to warlike habits.
Rob Roy assisted his father in all his
concerns, especially that of collecting
his fees of protection, and after his
death he took upon himself the con-
tracts entered into by his father.
These engagements he fulfilled with
more determination and effect than had
ever formerly been experienced, aud it
was in the fuifillment Of these contracts
that he first gave proof of his great
courage and activity.