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CHICAGO.
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j reporter of TIE TRIBUNE last evening
met at the Grand Paclnc Hotel eol' H. u"
1ncersoll, who has just returned 1fenl Alaihe,
md piopounu;, p,..;ee, nut,nor ~ In ran,v he so;d.
rs 70 the po'l.4sa. ~. pas,,,,;o.rs v,itl carr,
afam sure that tno nepuoI'c"ns Wa @ 1a4ls
raine by from 5000 to Il, ooo ma]of3ty. lhere
ias1ns aa II, be no doubt Of it. can say that
seems s,s. ha,jeve that Garfield will be elected
firmly penees 10. III, ,.t the: votas of
without aueesuotf+ of +he te vsl;sT WIN s. men Who are
tEraelqu1 tha fret fine aiId thew will have
ss!laacl;FsS s!l m5 psS Yes, made three In Maine. I
Expect to speak heLs N ShGia i;e oInS1ow Ssnag7 ~
Indiana, alM posslttas w. e,.al in a. q. rel;gio,,s
Ign to Aactnrsan at;e,H,,s ~ I'll rirht and Ear.
Fathert1g: lhe elScLio1 !, al atR"'* eA1"
held will De eleeteu 7nnn1, 7,a
Grand P4ste 9 Hotel Is f9pRRsc df @ scs MT
faioia m Republican State Central Committee:
/ reporter of THE TRIBUNE called on MIN
Isst night and had long &alk regafamg
politics en the rae!S Is sieRe -rov .,a Ran,,b
Iran. It has only cast Democratic. MAORI
t;ss in 1867 and 1875, and then the questions
Tere Of local importance only; Inc Elect-
0IA IAht;no, hgso and see no reason
kepuo;;ltet',s ,shoi,ld mt be now, The
Eny Eyrosss ~ is being begun: tonight
- ssd ps plurality over the others, and we have
lost Nothing. OF course rs De.aoc[ads csalm tha
Caiforn1a nt as goes Iii Saet 1ts 81 Fecfnra
slope 4 ~ Garf;eids G The mint that occurs to
1o'f $ II that the people Of California are thor
o@nghIy @ and entirely allied 70 the Union sen
tiinent'of the country. When wade lamp
I'm vent into the Cincinnati Convention WIZ
soI nromise of l37 votes, it meant. a Solid
Sonih to the people Of California as well as
tn other people"
s"What is the situation in Nevada and Ore
enn?:'
evMat. reeards those States, can't believe
, 1880-09-12
iCIEVELAND.

CLEVELAND. Sept 1.-THE 2:40 postponed:race
was finished. to- dag. The seventh heat was a
dead hent between Jerome and Executor, but
Jerome won the race in tho eighth hent IN 2.22h,
Executor second money! and Mary third.
, 1880-09-12
CAMPAIGN: DOCUMENTS.

What tho Republican Congressional
committee Have 10 subn'lt~t the
-. spesta. Dt.paten to 1ns:' chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 16.-The Repub-
lican Congressional COMMITTEES has Issued
the: following circular, describing the :,new
documents that have been prepared "for .thfs
campaign: t:a - - = =
With a view to the tharough distribution Of
such documents as Will advise the: country OF
the. Republican Congressional Committee bus
decided to supply: committees and all other per.
sous With such: speeches land documents as II
at the following exceedingly low rates;' -
, 1880-09-12
Harvard School

Corner 1nd,ana-ay and Twenty-nrst.st] in rs1pen
Monday, Sept. la Thorough preparation Tor Ioue9es
the Scientific SCHOOL, and Business Lie Excenens
Primary Department. Large. Tell-llsntea, Eoons.
4aIns' Address J: j. BCHoBINGEK or L. GRANT.
ANsoT| 1>>AAA @~0 3Nt IndaQ4-A7s
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
school.boys and Headaches.

Prof. Treichler has delivered lecture
before the German Association of Natur-
alists and Physicians which contains
fact of some interest to teachers. He
says that headache in schools decidedly
increases, until in some schools, and
notably in Nuremberg, one-third of the
scholars suffer from it. He believes
that the cause is over intellectual ex-
ertion, caused partly by the adoption of
too many subjects, but principally by
the tendency to demand night-work.
The brain is then freshly taxed when its
cells are exhausted. We begin to hear
the same complaint in England, espe-
cially from London schools, and are
tempted to believe that in some of them
an imperceptlble but steady increase
in the amount of night-work demanded
has been going on, which is passing a
safe limit. It does not hurt the quick,
and it does not hurt the stupid, but it
does hurt the boys and girls who want
to fulfill all demands, and have not
quite the quickness to do it. The usual
quantity of Latin, for example, to be
learned at night has within the last
thirty years more than doubled, while
the pressure from parents upon the
children to learn it all has increased in
nearly the same proportion. The in
creased crowding of schools explains
much, but it does not explain this head
ache, which is not suffered by the boys
in proportion to their ll-health. The
| Spectator.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
LOOKING OUT INTO THE NIGHT.
sY A1SsErrA T. rAYon.

Blow, winds Of the summer, a gentle refrain,
Your tones have eorrowful cadence in flight
That chimes with the mood of my spirit might.
For Time struck the bell with mastery hand,
And the days dropped away like the swift gliding
Til childhood was left with its gloom and its glee,
Like a fast anchored isle In q composites sea-
And life lies before m.-and nearer and loud,
Come the Of its laborsthe crash Of its crowd,
Its restless ambitions, its struggles for fRme,
That leave at the last but scarce mentioned name.
and thou, heart Of mine In thy shrinking and fear
Hast an angury sure as II whispered in ear
That thou canst not gather the world to thy side,
Nor hnd in its thoroughfares pleasure or pride.
But nation hath voices that speak to the soul,
OF far reaching past and far distant goal,
OF dual existence unknown to the thronR,9 4
A realm of the mind for the children OF song.
And the tInts Of the sunset, the film of the blue,
That drapes all the woodlands when springtime is
new,
Awaken some chords In the mem'ry that seem
Like tale that Is told, a vanishing dream.
The reign Of the roses, the song Of the bird,
The rustic OF leaves that zephyr has stirred,
Call up fora moment haunting regret,
I'LL the forehead Is bowed and the eyelids are wet
The gleam Of dew drop, the glow Of q star, d .
The lisp Of brook that is wandering afar,
Seem parts Of some life that has faded from sight
As TIE meteon die on the shores of the night.
Blow winds of the summer gentle refrain,
10 tie sweep Of the trees and the rush of the rain;
For you speak to my heart in rythmical rhyme
VI soiourn awhile in an alien cline.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
90 So 400

go. You say that these figures were
made by Mr.. Garfield? A. Yes, sir.
80. That was his of idea what was
coming to him? A. Yes, sir.
All this, be it remembered, occurred
after the investigation had begun-after
James A. Garfield had sworn that he
'tnever owned, received, or agreed to re-
ceive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or
of the Union Pacific Railroad, nor any
dividends or profits arising from either
of them"
And after Garfield had sworn to this
falsehood, a Republican committee OF the
House of Representatives, made up OF
his own political and personal friends,
and with Judge Poland, of Vermont, as
its chairman, branded him forever as
bribe-taker and perjurer in these blast
"He (Garfeld) agreed with Mr.. Ame'
to take ten shares of Credit Mobl1el
stock, but did not pay for the same: Mr.;
Ames received the 80 per cent. dividend
in bonds, and sold them for 81 per cent,
and also received the sixty per cent.
cash, dividend, which, together with the
price of the stock and interest, left 9
balance of 1920. This sum was palo
over to Mr.. Garfield by check on the
serReant-at-armS."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
Albany in the Olden DAYS.

At reminiscent meeting at Albany,
N. Y, one of the Oldest inhabitants gave
very graphic picture of the old Dutch
town it used to be. He asserted also,
what is quite true, that it is one of the
few cities that have individuality. It
seems to have preserved in a great de-
gree the staid decorum of its Holland
bringing up. No one ever hears any
thing very sensational or loud from Al
bany. In the old time 1t seems, by fair
and profitable dealings in the fur trade,
to have kept ON the, sunny side of the
Indians; and its merchant waxed great
in purse as well as In person, and built
themselves typical Dutch houses with
the gable-end to the street. Brick fronts
they were, with the sides and rear of
wood People who complain of the lack
of picturesqueness in one street archi-
lecture would have been solaced by those
gables running up to the peak in series
gof crow-steps, the top-most angle invaria-
bly, surmounted by a wind-vane in the
form Of rooster. .. Wooden troughs
along the caves projected two or three
feet into the street, sending down del
uge on the passer-by In rainy weather,
until they were abolished in 1719. Then
there was the ample porch, where Mein
Herr NIT frou und girls, during the long
evenings, sat smoking and knitting re-
spectfully. Through door that was
divided into two, and upper and lower,
there was caught a glimpse of the quaint
!, interior" A hall twelve feet wide,
great Dutch clock on the stair landing,
the square parlor, with fre-places; stiff
straight-backed chairs, sofas without
springs; queer, crooked-legged tables,
and drawers and brass handles, and cab.
inets, with cut glass and Oriental china.
Evidently the taste of bric-a-brac is, moi
altogether modern. There was some sill.
yer, and once In while spinet Oh
harpsichord. The maple floor never had
its sincerity insulted by carpet In the
| spare bedroom was the great state bed
mahogany four poster, with lofty can
opies and valence down to its heels
and standing SO high that steps Were
necessary to mount up to it. In some
such fashion as this Albany lived in the
long-way-off days when her gorgeous
capital, with its historical-symbolica
decorative art, was not yet as tangible al
dream.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
What Has Been.

Our youthful illusions inger with us
still, to certain extent, world-worn
though we are. The friends of our
childhood stand forth boldly in our
memory. None other were half SO true,
SO kind, SO witty, SO clever. There was
that sweet young poet who might have
become second Tennyson, if only he
would have condescended to give his
music to the world, but who preferred
instead to inscribe his matchless gems
in albums and the Eke-how devoutly
we believed in him how profoundly
we admired him The other day we
turned up batch Of his lucubraGons,
and re-read them with the light of thirty
years in between. We found them sick
ly in tone, false in sentiment, halting in
their feet, and OF impure or femin inc
| rhymes. And we were foolish enough
to regret that the illusion Of years had
been shattered - What boundless
wealth with his 80, 600 year had the
Croesus of our modest village We
have since known men only tolerably
well off on $40, ,0O0-men who envied
their neighbors who had $40, 600, and
thought themselves poor by comparison.
The local beauty Of our young days
would, we are very sure, prove herself
to have been an fl-dressed, simpering,
milliner-ike young person, could we
but see her now, with our experience OF
what real, high-bred, Well-dressed
beauty is; the clever young lady who
used to talk in hexameters, who con-
fessed in Latin and was suspected of
| Greek, and whose learning we took to
be as deep as the sea, would turn out to
be only q voluble. young blue stocking,
who foundered boldly where she could
not swim. The Hebe of, our youth
would reveal herself as the hoyden OF
our age the seH-made local scientist
with.his discovery of perpetual motion,
his balloon that would not collapse, his
locomotive that was as safe as church
he was only poor dreamer; and the
village Hampden, whose arguments
were SO convincing, was purb1ind par.
tisan, who never saw more than half o.
any question he took up. But we see
nothing of all this. Memory has crys
ts'ized all these forms and characters
and wa see them by the light of youth
full i'm gination even now in the twilight
of our decay, and. seeing them as We
thought they were, we love them fol
what they never have been.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05

a
MowNa machines have come to be an
indispensable part of the machinery OF
the farm. It is serious loss of time
and money to get In any large crop of
hay without using them. Scythes may
be used around fence corners, trees, ETC.,
but in open fields they must give place
to the horse mowers, many kinds OF
which are SO near perfection that it is
hard to go astray in selecting one.
HAYNG.-Clover and timothy should
be cut when in full blossom; if allowed
to get ripe, the quality of hay is not so
good. By beginning early the work
need not be hurried. Use the mower
after the dew is off In the forenoon.
Cut only as much as can be well cared
for. It is often remarked that the aver
age quality of hay is not SO good as be-
fore the introduction of the moving ma
chimes, from the temptation to cut the
grass faster than it can be cured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05

Miss Lacey finally wrote the doctor a
spicy little note, telling him she believed
any more prescriptions would undo the
wonderful cure already accomplished
But of late the village gossips could
not fail to notice how continually the
young doctor called at Mrs. Lowelrs
house. a.. it5g Egs, E'.tiG ,.s
One morning as the elder doctor was
coming out of the house, he met Lawyer
Peckham, when the following character
istic colloquy ensued:
"Hil Good morning, doctor. Well,
I hear the young doctor is about to bring
a daughter for you to the family man
SION"
Eyes, yes"-very quickly. "Wel,
we'll, there's room enough in the house
and my heart for the precious girl, the
good Lord knows, and as for young
Blunt. NJ. D.-who actually presumes to
believe that he loves and appreciates her
better than I do-the renegade if she
can do anything toward reclaiming that
reckless case-ThereI forgotten my
gloves, true as the world must 60 back
for them. Morning, Peckham.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
knowledge Of the Aneients.

"A great many people entertain the idea
that the progress of mankind has been
invariably from barb arism to civilization.
In what follows, Chief Justice DAILY
shows in Popular Science Monthly that
people did know something four thous-
and years ago:
"From one of those books, compiled
after manner Of our modern encyclo-
p@dias, and the compilation of which is
shown to have been made more than
1000 years B. O., it has been acertained,
what has long been supposed, that Chal--
dea was the parent landof astronomy; for
it is found, from this compilation and
from other bricks, that the Babylonians
catalogued the stars, and distinguished
and named the consultations; that they
arranged the twelve consultations that
form our present zodiac to show the
course of the suns path in the heavens;
divided time into weeks, months, and
years; that they divided the week, as we
now have it, into seven days, six being
days of labor and the seventh day of
rest, to which we have derived our word
sabbath, and which day, as day of
rest from all labor. of every kind, they
observed as vigorously as the Jew or the
Puritan. The motion of the heavenly
bodies and the phenomena of the wealth.
er were noted down, and connection,
as I have before stated, detected, as NJ.
de Perville claims to have discovered,
between the weather and the changes of
the moon They invented the sun-dial
to mark the movements OF the heavenly
bodies the water-clock to measure time,
and they speak In this work of the
spots on the sun, q fact they only
could have known by the aid Of tele-
scopes, which it is supposed they possess
ed, from observations that they have noted
down of the rising Of Venus and the fact
that Layard found crystal lens in the
an account of the deluge, substantially
the same as the narrative in the Bible,
except that the names are different
They disclose that houses and land were
then sold, leased, or mortgaged, that
money was loaned at interest, and mar
ket-gardeners, to use an American phrase,
"worked on shares;" that the farmer,
when .plowing with his oxen, beguiled
his labor with short and homely songs,
two of which have been found; and, to
connect this very remote civilization
with the usages of to-day, I may In con-
clusion, refer to one of the bricks of this
library, in the form of notice, which is
to the effect that visitors are requested
to give to the librarian the number of the
book they wish to consult, and that ii
will be brought to them; at the perusal
of which one is disposed to fall back up
on the exclamation Of Solomon, that
there is nothing new under the sun"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
The Making Of Memories.

These present days, which we are IN
chned to think so vaguely modern, will
be the "good old times" when the
young people whom we daily meet shall
be men and women it is our fashions
of dress and speech which they will re-
member for their quaintness and ours
is not only the possibility but the abso-
lutte certainty of being made the repre-
sentative, in years to come, In some
ones mind, of the spirit and character
of time that is past. We know how
unwittingly men and women used to i'm
press and influence us. Instead, there
fore, of passing these memories lightly
by, or thinking that they are wholly a
thing of private Importance and con-
Germ, we should make them constant
reminder of our own duty in the line OF
influence. We can never tell, the long
and eyer-muliplying mischief which we
may work by some wickedness or care
lessness of speech or raction-something
forgotten by us as soon as done. but
treasured up In a little heart as pos
session for lifetime. And, on the
other hand. we should be far more anx
ious to multiply our wise words and our
kindly acts, if we realized more fully
how long they may survive in places
where we never think of looking for
them. The memory of single kindly
deed, or word, or look, quickly forgotten
by us, may be the one thing by which
some person shall longest remember us,
and by which he shall be chiefly in
huenced, SO far as any act of ours is con-
cerned. i351i +-- ['- IsiI tlEtIot5 ei..
The, making OF memories is not
thing In which we are responsible to
childhood alone. So long as the mental
faculties endure, of all those persons
with whom we have to do, they are
treasuring up permanent records of the
whole course of our words and ways.
Neither our good deeds nor our bad
ones die with their performance, nor
does their effect end with us. What
right have we, in great things or small,
to curse mems years to come by adding
to their burden the memory of our
wicked act or our hateful or improper
word? We are responsible for the men,
ories which men, women and children
have of us and our belongings and this
performance of bad deeds, but the do
ing Of good ones. Day by day and min
ute by minute we are making memories
which can never change hereafter. is
there anything more bitter than the
thought that our own evil memories of
ourselves are, through our fault, shared
by others? And is there anything
sweeter than the thought that the treas
ured remembrance of kind acts and fit
words is lasting memorial of ourselves,
which we can increase every day of our
lives I? How we are to be remembered
is question whose answer-at least so
far as the rest of our lives are concerned
lis in our own hand. Sunday Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
The Credit Mobiler exposure shattered
Q good many regulations, but it left no
characters worse damaged than those of
Schuyler Colfax and James A Garfield.
Ne,p York SIN.
Political Assessments.

The old way OF raising campaign funds
is still in vogue. All the officers and en-
ployes in the Departments arctic be as
sessed, and the amount demanded is no
trihe.b Mr.. MCPHERSON, in behalf of the
Congressional Campaign Committee, has
issued mandate calling on the clerks,
messengers. etc., to put up per cent.
of their salaries. This amounts to S24 for
those who get 800 month, and pro
rata for all others. 5s'}
tits said-and we shall hear it re-
peated Thousand times-that this is not
are not compelled to contribute any
offer their voluntary contributions - to
the cause IN which they are supposed to
be deeply interested. ~
But this is false. There is compulsion
of the worst kind. The man who de-
clines to pass in the cash called for will
understand that his tenure of place will
be seriously ieopardzed by such refusal
Bulldozing collectors will gothic rounds
of the Departments. They will carefully
note what is said, and viii keep list Of
all who show disinclination to meet the
call. From this blacklist selections for
discharge viii be made, regardless of all
other considerations. Gt9 etsF.
Of course; all this is an insolent and
contemptuous violation of Mr.. Hayes,
civil service order and policy But Mr..
Hayes submitted tocthis insult last year
and the year before, and he, will do SO
again. The bulldozers will meet With
some success. Yet the general feeling
that Garfield election is an impossible
ity, will tend to. check the flow of cash
into the Mcpherson vault There will
be many refusals to invest in hopeless
cause Washington Post. f..,i. t,o.is,,.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-05
SCHUYLER Colfax and James A. Garfield.

In the summer of 1872, when the San
first made public the testimony of Col.
Henry s. McComb, in the Credit Mobil-
lier suit, Schuyler Colfax and James A.
Garfield were both conspicuous leaders
of the Republican party. Mr.. Colfax
was Vice President of the United States;
General Garfield was Chairman of the
House Committee on Appropriations.
Writing to Colonel McComb in 1868 in
regard to Credit Mobilier stock set apart
for the purpose of corrupting Legislators,
Oakes Ames had said: 81 have used this
where it will produce most good to us, ]
think" Penciled on the back of the
same letter was Oakes Ames' memoran-
dunn list of Senators and Congressman
bribed. There were thirteen names in
all. Here are two of them:
s Colfax, Speaker. 81, ,0Ot
Garneld, Ohio. ........,.-,,.......".. ZoVt