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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
A Porky Story,

son this day seventeen years ago."
remarked a New Yorker the other day,
ST shipped 1000 barrels of pork to
Washington. I was an army contractor
then, and wherever I heard of a barrel
of pork I went for it and bought it at
some price. I remember this particular
shipment because a serious mistake was
made"
"How?"
"WeIl, I counted the barrels at the
depot myself, and there were only 800,
when there should have been an even
thousand. Men were ready to roll the
barrels into the freight cars, and to
make my number good I took ten bar
rels of lard from a stock ready to
ship to Baltimore. They mixed in
all right, and, OF course, I expected to
pay for 'em. A whole day went by be-
fore I saw the owner. These were stir
ring times, you remember. He had
found himself short, and he cribbed ten
barrels of beef to make good his num-
Der of barrels, and hustled the shipment
away"
"And who did the beef man crib
from?"
"Well, his beef was for the soldiers,
and he made himself good by buying
three barrels of vinegar, two of crack.
ers, and stealing five barrels of apples
from a lot in the depot"
"And did it go any further ?"
"Yes. The most curious thing of all
was that the man ] took the lard from
sued the a who stole the apples, and
got Judgment against him for the worth
of the lard, and one of the rest of US
were out q cent Wall Street DAILY
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
A Missing Railroad.

When Cheyenne was at the zenith of
its glory, a sign of General offices of
the Cheyenne, Pacific Slope and Sand
wich Islands railroad was hung out
without creating the least surprise. If
one person had asked another where the
depot of said railroad was, there might
have been some hesitation about answer-
ing, but it was some time after the sign
was out before any special inquiries be-
gan to be made. Then an Eastern man.
walked in one day, carpet-bag IN hand,
and said:
"Isuppose you connect at San Fran
cisco with the regular steamers +? +"
"Well, yes I suppose we shall" was
the hesitating reply.
"Shall I? Isn't your road through yet ?"
"Well, not quite"
"Do you take in Salt Lake?"
"Salt Lake?. Yes; I think we do"
"How much for a ticket ?"
"Well, I can't say exactly, as we have
none on sale just yet"
"Can I get one at the depot?"
"Well, I think not /; We haven't any
depot yet"
"CanI pay on the train ?"
"WeH, you see. we have no trains
1T suppose I IAN walk on the track >
persisted the stranger.
swell, I-should have no objection if
we had a track"
"No depot, no tickets, no trains, no
tracks, What sort of a railroad have
you got anyhow" adH
Well, you see it's only on paper
thus far, but as soon as we can sell s.
600, 900 worth of stock we shall begin
grading and rush business right along.
If you happen to be along when we get
to going we will put you through as low
as any other responsible route" !
The stranger stucF his hands in his
pockets, stared hard, whistled softly,
and then walked out on tip-toe without
another word.- Wall Street Doilu Neacs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

over my reason, and I tried to make you
understand, tried to buy you, but you
would not hear me. You said you told
gold by its glitter. Very well. I re-
solved to let your motto work its own re-
suit. I banished myself to Europe for
four years, and then returned to find you
still unmarried, to win what little heart
you have, to become your affianced hus-
band. Was not the finger of fate In all
that?f You had not forgotten completely
the miserable man whom you had
crushed
"Ah, Christine Cannell, my nature is
an evil one. 1 am q true lover and a
hard hater, and I hate you bitterly for
the insult you put upon my manhood;
I detest you so thoroughly for your false,
heartless character; I despise you COR
daily for your lack OF all that is womanly,
that / wonder how I could have the pa
tience to perfect and carry out this just
retribution-for I know that you love
me, know that for the first time
your cold heart has felt the nearest APP
proach to the divine passion of which it
is capable; and 1 glory in the thought
that I am the instrument of Furnishing
you for the scores of manly hearts you
have broken by your abominable siren
ways and manners"
The poor woman sat huddled in her
chair, limp, almost inanimate, the moon
shedding its cold rays full upon her
white, despairing face. From time to
time she moaned, almost ~inarticulately.
ttCarl, you are killing me, killing mer'
Chapman laughed hoarsely.
chilling you'll" he exclaimed. "Did
you ever think of how you killed, muir
dered the best and purest of my pas
sions-my love? Did you ever think OF
how you emptied my heart of its warm
est feelings and filled it with black, Bit
ter, misanthropical hate? And You talk
of my killing you'll Christine CAMEL,
men may say that 1 have worked out only
my revenge upon; they may say that it
t i 9RIf e 95ar isss t h Ra aa%san You sH fn SSs
only too well, that you are but receiving
justice. You know that you have wrecked
my life as. completely as you have done
the lives of others.
"Do you see this?" he continued,
drawing q glove from his pocket; ''you
once wore this. and the last time it left
your hand was upon a beautiful Septem-
Der day six summers ago. You threw it
from you with these words:
81 cast you from my mind as I do
this glove, and will forget you as soon.'
"Ah, you remember it now. Well,
Madame, as I have said, I sail for
Europe. There is a little Christian
charity in my composition, nothing but
poor, weak human nature, and before I
go I think it my duty to return your
glove and with it your own words:
"1 cast you from my mind as I do
this glove, and will forget you as soon.
He threw the glove at her feet, and
without. another word, without a back
ward glance, strobe from her presence.
Half an hour later O merry couple
passing the rustic summer-house noticed
a white heap lying motionless on the
floor. 1t was Christine Cannell in a dead
faint.
And society wondered what had hap
lipened.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
a Thruline sketeh.

One warm day in August, upon the
bank of the muddy Colorado, we chill
dren were lazily sitting about on the
ground. One sister vas stringing beads
taken from an old moccasin, and most
of the men were sleeping under the
wagons through the heat of the after
moor There was a great stiffness upon
everything, a for the children's chat
ter, and a heat rose from the ground
that smote the eyes. Suddenly there
was a dreadful scream, echoed, re-
echoed, multiplied; then another, and
another, as when one strikes the hand
upon the mouth, till in one second of
time the air seemed rent and torn with
yells. In Just that second the close
chapparal had become black with Indi-
ans, who had crawled, serpent-like, on
hands and knees, till, right upon us, in
concert they could leap into sight. They
wore cloths upon their loins, and had
some feathers wound in their hair, with
hideous paint glowing on face and
breast. / gazed In dumb amazement,
benumbed with surprise, and then [
think / awoke to the excitement of the
occasion. The women and children,
through an air thick with flying arrows,
were marshaled into one covered wagon,
and there my mother wrapped us all
round with feather beds, blankets and
comforters. Edo not thinkI was fright
ened, not because of any precocity of
courage, but because of q wild excite
| ment that filed me. - I half leaned upon
the knee of my sister. She said she was
conscious of no pain, she felt no sudden
pang, but something warm seemed
running down her side, and, looking
down, she saw an arrow which had
| pierced her flesh and protruded its fihty
head from the wound. Smother" she
exclaimed, ST am shot," and tainted.
| My mother, the woman whose spirit
never failed her in this or the dreadful
trials which succeeded this disastrous
fight, put forth her hand and drew the
arrow backward through the wound. It
was while thus supporting the head of
the girl she supposed dying, it somehow
became known to her that her husband
was lying quite dead and filed with ar
rows under the great cottonwood tree
under which the camp vas made. It was
but a few moments more till one of the
men spoke from the front of the wagon.
Saidhe: "Our ammunition is giving out
and we do not know but it may come to
q h~and-to-hand fight. Get out the knives
you have in the bed of the wagon"
Through the backward march which fol-
lowed it was ever the women who rose
superior to suffering and to danger. The
men lost courage, hope and spirit, but
the women never. Afew moments after
the demand for the knives. a Methodist
preacher, who had seized my fathers
rifle, aimed at the chief. with the dinner
bell depending from his belt, and saw
him fall. In five minutes not an Indian
was to be seen, the living dragging with
them the deadas they went. In the mean
time, under cover of the fight, our great
herd of cattle had been made to swim
the river, and were safely corraled in the
Mojave villages.-Kate Heath, in Jana
arg Californian.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
How to Treat Frost Bites.

The american Agriculturist says:
"If any part of the body gets frozen the
very worst thing to do is to apply heat
directly. Keep away from the fire. Use
snow if you can get it if not, use-the
coolest possible water. Last winter our
little boy of 8 years froze his feet while
out coasting at considerable distance
from the house. He cried all the way
home, and the case seemed pretty bad.
I brought a big pailful of snow and put
his feet into it, rubbing them with the
snow. But my hands could not stand
the cold. was alarmed to see himkeep
his feet in the snow SO long, but he could
not bear them out of it. It was half an
hour before he would take them ont and
then the pain was all gone, and when I
had wiped them dry and rubbed them q
little he was entirely comfortable, put
on his stockings and shoes and went to
play. He never afterward had any
trouble with his feet ON account of this
freezing. His sister got her feet ex-
tremely cold, and put them at once to
the fire. Her case at first was not so
bad as her brothers, and the result was
much worse. Her feet were very tender
all winter. and she suffered from chill
blains. Her feet had a swollen, purple
look, and she had to take a larger size Of
ohaao
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
Picking Children.

An English author, writing Of Oriental
matters, among other curious Arab prac-
tees, says GA strange domestic prac-
tice prevails among the Bedouips, not
those in villages, but those of HE wan
dering class /; they pickle their infants,
after three days old, in strong brine. I
learned that it was a habit cOnsecrated
to them, by a long antiquity, and it is
based upon the notion that the process,
which extends over several hours, i'm
parts a hardness to the tender skin. The
immersion is said to be fatal to delicate
babies. Be the effect of the picking
what it may, however, no labor is wasted
on the children in the way Of washing
them afterward. They are suffered to
grow up in utter ignorance of the cleans
ing virtue of water, the superstition be
ing that the Evil Eye might be at
tracted to their loneliness. According
", I have seen them with regular crusts
thick deposits-of dirt on the tops of
their heads. and their eyes full of flies"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
A Anecdote.

An incident of camp-meeting life, de-
tailed by a clergyman on a Baltimore
steamboat, is thus reported in Forest
and Stream:
An old couple had supplied themselves
with a bottle of pennyroyal oil with
which to keep off the mosquitoes. They
extinguished their light and retired,
forgetting the antidote.
The mosquitoes were very bad, and,
after standing it as long as they could,
the old lady got up and got a well-flled
ink-bottle instead of the oil, and gave
the old gentleman a thorough lubricat-
ing with the fluid, face, hands and feet /;
she then anointed herself in a like man
ner.
They again assayed to court the
drowsy god, but could only get an occa-
sional nap. Finally the old lady got up
and struck a light. Giving a glance at
the bed she had just left, she behold, to
her horror, a colored person, as she sup
posed, stretched in the place of her
spouse. o.. .-
She quietly got the poker, and beat
the old fellow over the head before dis
covering her mistake. Later on in the
night, we found the old couple on board
the boat with us, he with his head near
ly as big as a bale of hay, and she caring
for him with the greatest selicitude.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
Not Hommse.Like.

els this a bar-room 2" asked q strap
ping fellow In a coon-skin cap and a
butternut suit, as he eyed the piles OF
glasses and glittering bottles.
Certainly, sir; whatn you have,
sir p answered and inquired the white
aproned attendant.
81 reckon not" responded the oon
skin, glancing around suspiciously.
" Where's the barrels you sit on?"
I'VE keep the barrels in the cellar ?"
where's the gang sittin' around the
the stove and ready to waltz up at the
sight of coin ?"
I'VE don't allow any sitting around
here. When a gentleman drinks he
goes out"
"Where's the man with his eyes
gouged out? ?" demanded the coon-skin
In a whisper.
"We don't have such parties here.
Can I do anything for you?
"Ain't ye got any odd noses some
where 2" asked the visitor, with a wor-
ried expression.
"No, we haven't, responded the bar
keeper, firmly.
evil the man who tomahawks stran-
gers be in directly" Intercepted COON
skin, after a short pause.
"Don't know any such man If you
want anything, ask for it."
But the fellow that shoots the glass
out of your mouth without spillin' the
p'ison where might he be ?"
"Perhaps you had better go away
from here. I think you had better get
out"
"Say them words again, pardner.
That sounds like it. That's natural"
"Get out, or I'll throw you out"
"Oh, now you're whisperin', stranger!
Sing it over to me. Club me once or
twice. Put a bullet through this nigh
lung. Put a skewer through that left
kidney of mine. You're a shoutin'
nowf Gimme some Judgment sunrise.
Talk to me again. Why didn't you de-
clare yourself at first, pardner? Why
did you hold back? Throw me the tan
bark"
And he poured out an allopathic dose
and downed it, paid for it and walked
of. oa 81 a Z
A Montana man can't enjoy his whis-
ky in a bar-room that doesn't some way
remind him of home.-AI6dny argus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
letting a Husband.

Near Paris q peasant girl was deserted
by her lover, who had promised to mar
ry her. Some time afterward he called
and found her washing clothes in the
6 .uden, near a wall. They had been
chatting a while. when suddenly the girl,
as if by accident, dropped cloth in the
well, and exhibited great grief over thu
loss of it. Her companion volunteered
to lean over in the well and fish the gar
ment out; but while he was SO engage
the girl caught him by the legs anG
threw him in. In reply to his cries, she
told him that if he would promise to
marry her she would pull him out. He
promised; but no sooner was he out than
lie brought suit against her for trying to
murder him. Then at last he withdrew
it and married her
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
LOVES uoCxxrx

When she was dead they heaped her pulsslsss
with loving weight Of flowers; and they pressed
with sweetest buds her d~eath-unwilling hand
As snougn cold clay did Loves gift understand-
And the awed silence Of the room was rent
BY passionate speech, and by hot kisses, spent
On stern-set brow and mouth; alaal 30 stern
FOR speech or kss OF love they win not turnl
But she-her soul beside its robe of elay
Gun lingering, as 'twere 10th to 90 away
sue only said, slow davning In her eyes,
Deato.purei = sweet yet sadly cold surprise,
, % al these gifts ye heap upon Deaths shrine,
Had but one bud, one kiss in life been mine.
o ye, my loving friends" land then It seemed she
sighedl
"Could this have been, my friend, I had not diedl,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

We do not often speak of any proprietary
medicine, but from what we have read and
heard of Aliens Lung Balsam, we shall take
the liberty of saying to those h are troubled
with a Cold, Cough, or any Throat or Lung Af-
lection, that from the testimony afforded, We
have such confidence in this article, that were
we afflicted in that way, we would make a trial
of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequent
ces of neglecting this timely warning. Now,
before it is too late, use Aliens Lung Balsam,
which will cure the disease. Every druggist in
he land sells it..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
An Old Letter.

q. Raymond, of Clarksburg, West
Va, sends to the Cincinnati Commercial
the following copy of a letter written by
Col. Lewis Cass, while with the army in
Canada, during the war of 1872, and adj
dressed to Governor Meigs, of Ohio, of
which the original is in possession of the
jackson family, of Clarksburg:
SANDWICH, UPPER CANADA,
July %, 1872,
His Exceiiency, Governor Meigs, Pieque:
DEAR SIR-The capture of Michlimac-
kinac, the complete command which the
British possess of the Lakes, the GER
tainty that the Northern Indians are col
lecting in force, the reduction in number
occasioned by our debility, and other cir
cumstances which al be explained to
you by the gentlemen sent on for that
purpose, have rendered it necessary that
a large force. should be collected for Of
fensive warfare.
The General has determined on re-
questing the Governors of Ohio and Ken
lucky to send on an additional force of
1000 men. The commanding officers
of regiments from our State have agreed
to request you to issue the necessary or
ders for raising 900 men in the First,
Second and Third Divisions to be at
tached respectively to the First, Second
and Third Regiments. .s So
In our situation I presume it will be
useless to endeavor to collect volunteers
for one year. Time is precious and is OF
the utmost Importance. Every moment
is adding to the strength of our enemy.
Unless men are already organized, ]
think it would be much the better way
to cali out the rifle companies generally.
The men from our country had better
rendezvous at Coshocton or Mt. Vernon,
and move on by the way of Sandusky.
They must bring their arms with them,
for there is not one spare n here. A
| contract had better be made by some
person to furnish them with provisions.
| They will be compelled to move with
their blankets only. I would suggest tc
you the expediency of leaving the details
of the business from the Third Division
to the Adjutant General. He is upor
the spot and can do it. But it is NJ
time to be endeavoring to equalize the
business exactly among the respective
| brigades, regiments, battalions, compa
MES, &c. It is one of those cases con
templated by the law, where it is proper
| to raise the whole from any one portion
In the event of your committing tx
| the Adiutant General the details of thu
business in the Third Division, 1 hav,
written him respecting the call upon m.
own brigade.
Very respectfully, I am, sir, you
| obedient servant. LEW. CAss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
The Tidy Housewife.

The careful, tidy housewife, when she is Civ
ing her house its spring cleaning, should bear
in mind that the dear inmates of her house are
more precious than houses, and that their sys-
TENS need cleansing by purifying the blood,
regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent
and cure the diseases arising from spring mala-
ria and miasma, and she ~shouldknow that there
is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely
as Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medi-
cines. See other column.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

THE subjoined opinion, we perceiye, is
by J. A. Daniels, Esq, of Messrs. Stog-
dill G. Daniels, attorneys, La Crosse,
Wis, and appears in the La Crosse Gron-
Scle: Sometime since was attacked with
pain in and below one of my knee joints.
A few applications of st. Jacobs Oil
quieted the pain, and relieved the infam-
nation. 1 regard it as a valuable medi-
cine.-Ezqin. IM.l Daily Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
sprAKrNa of Governors suggests IL

SPEAKING of Governors suggests the
mention of an item we received from MI.
Henry A. Knight, Foreman at Chas.
Waters & Co.'s Governor and Valve
Works, Boston, Mass: have used st.
Jacobs Oil among u employees and find
that it never fails to cure. The men are
delighted with the wonderful effects of
the Oil, as it has cured them Of bruises,
burns, etc.-New Albany Ledger
Standard.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Before you begin your heavy spring work
after a winter of relaxation, your system needs
cleansing and Strengthening to prevent an at
tack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or some
other Spring sickness that will unfit you for a
seasons work. You will save time, much sick
ness and great expense if you will use one bottle
Of Hop Bitters IN your family this month.
Don't wait, See other column,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent f~evers, the FERRo
~spHoR ELIXIR OF CALIsAYA BARK. made
by Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., New York, and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness it
has no equal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

A YOUNG fellow in Iowa City objected
to pa, ing a Justice So as a marriage fee,
and walked off with his girl to find some
body who would perform the ceremony
for 81. so. That chap had what DIR.
Collyer would call ssclear grit"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

QUALITY and efficacy considered, DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup is without exception the best
Cough preparation in the market. Price 70
cents q bottle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

THERE is or European city that Is
naughty, and its Nice. - Crse'a'at'
Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Does not always belong to an inebriate. Kid
new troubles will cause bloat, but Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has never failed to.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

n.,fno Pies! Address, with stamp, DR.. Meers. Aid, o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

,F JOU PNSouhCo4uOtJ Pun III!
Ali, you do remember now, I see you
do"
"Oh, CARL spare me, spare mel" she
moaned in agony.
''Spare you; did you spare me then,
madam? When I was on my Bonded
knees before you, when I begged you to
listen to an explanation from me; when
1 promised you a name, riches, love,
everything a man holds dear, did you
spare me?"
so my God, my God, he has no mer-
cy! Carl, you will kill me. I shall go
raving mad if you continue"
""Ah" he sneered, SIT is my turn now,
madam. You did not know the poor
laborer vas a man of wealth working
quietly, patiently, day after day, in
search of that greatest of boons, good
health. You would not listen to my ex-
PLANTATION then; by heavens you shall
hear me nowp"
He looked at her for a moment with
out saying a word. as. if gloating over his
present triumph, while she shivered be-
meath his gaze as if stricken with augue.
Then she murmured with trembling
lips:
"Why did you not tell me your true
position at first? Why did you leave me
in ignorance of your station?"
"Simply, madam" he replied bitterly,
''because I wished to win your heart and
not your hand. You saw fit to make a
plaything of me and cast me off. Even
! then my poor deceived love triumphed
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-08-13

CarbOniferous measures estimated by DR..
Stafford, the State Geologist, at from three
to four thousand feet.
These sunken beds, moreover, do not
Except in one Valley see the light again
till fifty or sixty miles further west, where
they rise from beneath the western Coal
measure escarpment of the Cumberland
Tableland, and spread in broad undulating
benches over the plains of Middle Ten
neSSee.
TO be continued.