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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
An Oriental Sunday Among the Mer.
chants in Bombay.

An Indian correspondent of the Wash
ington Republican writes: The Sabbath
in Bombay is, as it is on the Continent,
a busy day. The natives find that the
labor of six days does not render them
revenue enough, and therefore continue.
their traffic on the seventh. The Euro
peans remain quietly at home, but this
does not prevent them from being visited
by the merchants and their wares. They
enter the hotels and boarding houses and
strew the floor with their goods, and very
beautiful they are, too. Cashmere shawls,
embroidered Persian garments in silver
and gold, cunningly wrought iewelry,
sandal-wood fans and boxes. The Gus
toms and manners of the merchants are
unique and not just what we are accus-
toned to in civilized land. His goods
are transported by coolie who remains
outside. The merchant who is bare
legged and not over-dressed, squats on
the floor while he displays his merchan-
disc and glibly tells of the superior quail
tiles of the articles. He names at first
an astonishingly high price. He expects
to be beaten down; and, as you express
disapproval, gradually lowers the price,
until, if you purchase, it has been low
cred nearly two thirds. The Jews, who
have always carried off the palm for this
particular mode of trade, would find
themselves in nearly every instance put
to shame by native Indian trader.
There is no necessity for ladies to go out
shopping in Bombay, for all kinds of
apparel and fancy articles are brought to
the houses and bungalows for them to
choose from. ALI of the native shops
are open ON Sunday. and mechanics go
to their daily labor as matter of course,
the large cotton-mills and manufactures
rumble on regardless of the holy day.
The natives have different days for their
religious worship throughout the month.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
Country Boys in New York.

While foreign emigrants are landed
here in daily crowds, there is also vast
rush to this city from all parts of the
Union. A large element in this is COM
posed of country boys, some of whom
are seeking employment, while others
have run away from home and come
hither to spend their money. It is esti-
mated that the number of these run
aways averages 800 per week. Theatri-
cal mongers are continually beset with
applications from this class, many of
whom are stage struck as soon as they
attend such places of amusement A
few days ago, for instance, a youth was
arrested while trying to make an engage
ment. He was only fifteen, and had alb
seconded after robbing his parents, who
live in the West. Such youth generally
go to ruin with fearful rapidity. They
become the pals of pickpockets and other
thieves, who "give them away" in order
to save themselves, and this explains the
great proportion of youth among our
criminal classes New York is at best a
poor place for young people, but under
such circumstances the dangers of the
city are fearfully increased. York
Letter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
The Star Roufa Ring.

The Star Route swindling operations, which
seem to be of a character so conclusive as to
dissipate all cavil, have become the chief topic
of interest both at Washington and through
out the States. Another account than that
already given, of an explanatory nature, is
perhaps necessary. The Star Route Ring was
really composed of two principal rings, that
operated through smaller ones, or. through
individuals, who dealt directly with the con-
tract office, and acted as blind for their prin-
cipals. The largest operators were Gilmer,
Salisbury & Co., who had more than twenty
agents or straw bidders, whose names appear
in the list as contractors. This concern is
known to have received nearly $4,000 IN
excess of their original contracts. Tho other
combination consisted of J. w. Dorsey, J.
NJ. Peck and J. r. Miner. J. W., is brother
of Stephen W. Dorsey. J. NJ. Peck is Stephen
Dorseys brother-in-law, and Miner is his
partner. The Dorsey combination got over
S400,000 in excess of original contracts.
Department direct on their own ac-
count we're B. H. Peterson and j. R. Price,
star route contractors for Louisiana. Peter
son formerly resided in Louisiana, but removed
| to Washington, where he could more readily
pursue his operations with the Postofice De-
partment. He has a contract for carrying the
mails from Red River Landing to Shreveport,
eral Brady, was originally let at $12, 900 per
| annum, and in a short time increased to $52,-
900 per annum. Peterson also bad valuable
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05

steamboat contracts on tributaries of the Mis-
sissippi, and was recognized as having power
fulinhuence with Brady, partly through certain
Congressman. The New York Times corre-
spondent says that DIR. Peterson, who secured
an excess of $4,000 on the 261 miles from
Red River Landing to Shreveport, was former
ly a member of the Warmoth ring in Louisiana,
but now lives in Washington. Chase Andrews,
who received on two routes, each twenty miles
long, an excess of r&12,257, isa Washington
man. He was formerly clerk in the Postofhce
Department, but was removed by Post
master General Jewell. John A. Walsh,
who secured an increase of $685.
475 on the route from Prescott to
Santa Fe, Arizona, for which he originally con-
tracted for $1S, 500, is a native Of Louisiana.
When the war broke out he joined the Con-
federate army, but after the reconstruction Of
Louisiana he Joined the Warmoth ring. he
was indicted in New Orleans for making Illicit
whisky, and was saved from imprisonment by
official Influences, j. B. Price has contracts
from New iberia to Orange, and from Monroe
to Shreveport, which were increased to $14, 500
beyond original contract price, He also has a
contract from San Antonio to Corpus Christi,
Tex, and others in the Territories. He was
one of the favorites, and all of his contracts
were swelled largely beyond the contract price.
It is said that upon two routes he received pay
ut the rate of S27 900 and $25 900, respectively,
per anntfm, without having performed any ser
vice, and that the matter was forced upon
Brady in such way that he discontinued the
rnf1kaa
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
Please Don't Fret.

There is one sin which seems to me is
everywhere and by everybody under
estimated, and quite too much overlooked
in valuations of character. 1t Is the sin
Of fretting. It is as common as air, as
speech; so common that unless it rises
above its usual monotone we do not even
observe it, Watch an ordinary coming
together of people, and see how many
minutes it will be before somebody frets
that is, making q more or less COM
planning statement of something or other,
which, most probably, every one in the
room or the stage, or the street car, or
the street corner, as it may be, knew
before, and which, most probably,
nobody can help. Why say anything
about it? 1t is cold, it is wet, it is dry;
somebody has broken an appointment,
ill-cooked meal; stupidity or bad faith
somewhere has resulted in discomfort.
There are always plenty of things to fret
about. 1t is simply astonishing how
annoyance and discomfort may be found
in the course of every days living, even
at the simplest, if one only keeps sharp
eye out on that side of things. But
even to the sparks flying upward, in the
BLACKLIST of smoke, there is blue sky
above, and the less time they waste on
the road the sooner they will reach it.
Fretting all time wasted on the road
Helen Hunt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
A Leadyille Minister.

The following remarkable report of
Protestant Episcopal life in Leadville was
made by the Rev. T. j. Mackay, mis-
sionary in charge of that church, on a
recent Sabbath In one of the large
churches of that denomination CDR. New
ton's), in Philadelphia. After stating
that when he went to Leadville, he found,
instead of hamlet, thriving town, with
churches of every denomination, five
banks, five daily newspapers, etc., he
said:
''My first vestryman could drink more
whisky than any manin thetown. Shortly
after made my appearance In the town
my parishioners invited me to q church
sociable, and upon going I was astonished
to see the worthy people waltzing and
dancing in the most scandalous manner.
To add to this there are two streets whose
entire length were made up of low dance
houses. How was I to overcome such a
gigantic evil? / secured hall, had the
floor waxed, and after engaging band
of music, I sent out invitations to all
the young men of the place to come
down and have dance. I instructed my
floor manager-who, by the way, made
lots of money and skipped-not to allow
any waltzing. The result was, after en-,
joying square dances until IL o'clock
the participants quietly dispersed. Some
few said: "Wait until the preacher
goes, then well have waltz, but wa.
too smart for them-I carried the key O
the hall in my pocket, and did not leave
until all had departed. Every othel
week I gave such sociable, and the
results are remarkably good. This char
acter of mission would not do in Phila
delphia or Boston, but it will do in Lead
vile. It may seem ungodly to practic;
such course, but it is the only way tc
reach these people. When first wen
out there the congregation used to ap
plaud me when I was preaching, but
finally got them out of such an unholJ
habit. No matter who dies, the process
sion is headed by brass band. When
buried Texas Jack, the partner of Buf
falo Bill, the cortege was headed by 9
brass band of forty-two pieces. Lead
vile is also great place for titles
Everybody has title. Captain is pretty
good but to command attention one mus
be Colonel or General. am sort
of General I belong to five military
companies, and in my capacity as {
militiaman I watch over my congrega
tiOn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
StOnewan jackson and the Wagon
Tongues.

Mr.. Howell, one of the proprietors of
the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution, says OF
Stonewan jackson:
''His genius lay in two things-the
thoroughness of discipline and his devo-
ton. I do not think he was a man of
great natural ability. He could not talk
at all. He was not an entertaining per-
son. He was rigid military man; edu-
Gated at West Point, he had learned his
lesson well, and applied it unfinchingly.
I remember a single order which he
always enforced, which, in my mind, ac-
counted for a good deal of his success.
1t was that, whenever we stopped on a
march the wagons must go to the side of
the road, and be unhitched with their
tongues pointing to the road, SO they
could be driven either up the road or
down. Now that would seem to be a
simple thing, but it accounts for the re-
markable celerity of Jackson's marches.
Suppose man would stop and his
wagon tongue would point the wrong
way, and at a certain hour in the morn
ing he would begin the march, and that
the wagon would block up the road? If
there were many such wagons the march
would be delayed certain time to let
them get ship-shape. jackson rode up
and down his lines every day, morning
and evening, to see if such orders as
these were strictly carried out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
Roller Skating at the Capital.

So it happens, writes Washington
correspondent, that Washington has
more profcients on roller skates to the
square acre than any other city in the
world, and that certain classes of her
population have mannerisms as peculiar
to roller skaters as are the unconscious
mechanical movements of blacksmith
characteristic and typical with all his
guild. Wherever there is declivity, as
on Capitol Hill, roller skaters most do
congregate. They go up the incline in
shoals, as it were, every individual girl
or boy, or man or women, bending to his
or her work with patient, cheerful
alacrity. Coming down they pool their
issues. and form in line behind leader,
who, with his coat-tail in firm grasp of
the boy behind him, civ IS momentum to
the whole column, every yindividualstapd
ing stiff and prim on the rollers. After
getting the line in motion the leader
eases up, and standing like the others,
all go whizzing down the hill. Once
fairly started, there is letting go of
coat-tails or apron strings or hands and
each skater moves rs an Independent, de-
tached fragment of the line. Here comes
in the delusive or deceptive feature of
the scheme, and the unconscious me-
chanical movement that has grown into
mannerism. If all goes well, that skim
down Capitol Hill is worth weeks fun
to any 10y or girl who has the spirit of
adventure. Those who enjoy coasting
will understand this. But in this substi-
tute for coasting it is rarely that all does
go we'll. If the leader tumbles. all tum-
Bile, or if any one down the line tumbles,
all behind him tumble. Every skater
seems to understand this. and they are
80 confident in their expectations of hav-
ing to sitdownin the face of a catastrophe,
that they seem always in the act of get
ting ready to sit down. When the
catastrophe comes, or rather on the in
slant it threatens, every boy or girl sits
down promptly, but easily, with move
ment that reminds one of the mechanism
of the conventional stage fall. The ma
jority remain in sitting posture until
some boy who has good command OF his
legs reaches an upright position and pro-
ceeds to assist the others. Then they
glide in a subdued way to the bottom of
the hill, scattering as the spirit moves
them. Often some tyro on roller skates
is left to regain his footing himself, or
some boy with bloody nose, or a
| sprained ankle, or bruised hand, is left
! stranded and disconsolate on the curb
| stone. Nineteen times in every twenty
these combination movements end in dis.
appointments, but hour after hour, and
day after day, the roller skaters, shutting
their eyes to all disappointments, CON.
tinue to take the risks.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
True tO the Last.

Daisy Shoemaker, the pretty daughter
of q farmer living near Richmond, Va,
had agreed to elope with Westland Pierce,
but when the critical moment arrived
she feared to transgress her parents
wishes, and would not go to the rendez-
vous. Her sister Jane, two years her
senior, begged her to keep her trust with
her lover, but all in vain. "Well, if you
don't keep your word with West Pierce,
I'll do it for you," she said, and indig-
nantly leaving her sister, 81 she got into
the screams of her sister. Miss Jane
reached the waiting place; explanations
were made; she said she was willing to
take her sisters place. The lover,
touched by her pluck and captivated by
her determination not to let the plan fall
through, did actually marry her-so the
story goes,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
YoUNe men may be too fresh, but egg


YOUNG men may be too fresh, but eggs
never.
WE have no objection to mans bor-
rowing trouble; but we want him to keep
1t to himself after he has borrowed 1t. =
BuBato Courier.
"WoSIEN are either thinking about
nothing or else thinking about something
else. Tins passes for wisdom because it
was said by Dumas. &.
SINCE 1866 nine thousand divorces
have been granted in Italy, Milan being
set down for no less than three thousand.
Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred.
AN exchange remarks that gout, which
is becoming quite fashionable, will never
affect the editorial profession, as cracker
and beer lunches never produce 30 high
toned disease.
WHEN Philadelphians see A man with
a black eve. bloody nose. and GENERALLY
El,rYupped appearances. 1tHey point 10 him
and whisper: aHes Statesman .
Boston Post
A cH1rRcH never snl;ts on aocount of
its numerical strength II is onlv when
two deacons can't Seci5a which ono ;s 70
boss the SEXTON that naad'is fonnd 70,
another building and minister Detroit
Free Press. !.
AcooRn,Se 70 professor sw;n, .th.
coming man will he temnerata .bo sta I
mercifnl inst penerons c5ar;tabIe' ;'
largo beertsd s,voetN Nto,,,,,o,od CL,.;.t;a,,'
a good neighbor and faithful citizen y
What nice time the coming woman will
have. \. =
A wp,rpp in tho I.ondo,, 1,.,,,1 sovs
tbot tl,a .sGftaa,, ,,,.l,n ~. 49, 1ay 20
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
WHOLE NUMBER 73l.
The Rich Men.

Jay Gould is estimated at $40, O00, 900.
He makes now on an average $6,000,-
600 year, and hence will soon become
a leading capitalist Russell Sage,
though old enough to be Gould's father,
is only rated at $50, 100000 He began
life a poor boy, and WAS clerk for some
years in Troy grocery house, where he
afterward became partner. He made
money by industry and economy, and
soon was able to enter the wider field of
railway speculation. This gave him a
sufficient capital to remove to Wall
street, where he has been leading
gambler in stock privileges. He sells
''puts, calls and straddles" to the fools
who are addicted to this practice, and
has made an immense fortune out of the
money they throw away. ID. O. Mills,
who is reckoned at s., 900, 900, accumu-
! lated the largest part of his wealth in
California, but has also been highly
successful in Wall street. Samuel j.
/ Tlden Is estimated at from %, ,0o0, 900 to
$12, ,000, 900, most of which he has made
in Speculation. He began this practice
when young man, and his intimate
I acquaintance with Wall street men gave
him On unusual advantage. This has
been admirably improved, until Tilden
may now be considered the richest bach
elor in America. Moses Taylor, with
So, 600, 600, is the richest of our bank
Presidents. III. G.. Marquand rates
about the same as Jim Keene. William
II, Vanderbilt and his two sons (Corne-
Illus and William) are worth 500, 600, :
600. Cornelius K. Garrison is rarely
mentioned now, as he seldom appears in
business transactions, but he is good for
dozen millions.
Robert L. Stuart, the survivor of the
sugar manufacturing brothers, is esti-
mated at $1,000, 600. Judge Hilton is
of equal wealth. He got all this through
merchant prince, who made him heir to
81, 900, 900. The Judge then made an
exchange with Mrs. Stewart which was
immensely in his favor. Robert l..
Kennedy, nephew of James Lennox, is
| Ogden Goelet, who are the heirs of the
| $40, ,000, 900. The Astors are worth more
than $1OO, 100000, and are CAREFUL,
boarding their wealth. Miss Harrie
Lenox, who is the heir of her brothel
| James, is probably worth 81, 900, 900
the interest of which she gives away il
the manner formerly practiced by he
phiianthropic brother. Miss Lenox i
no doubt dispensing larger amount il
America. Peter Cooper is the oldest @
our capitalists, and also the most philan
thropic. He is now in his ninety frs
year, but notwithstanding his advances
age is still in possession of all his facul
| III Il =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
The Man in the Moon.

The disk of the moon, as is very ap-
parent. is not of uniform brightness, but
is diversified by dark areas here and
there These dark areas are SO arranged
as to represent the eyes, nose, and
mouth of human being, and the whole
disk represents passably well human
face. Not all people, however, can see
this resemblance. Some who can not
see the face can see man and q woman
carving between them bucket of
water. The man stands on the left side
of the disk, the woman on the right. To
some the dark spaces appear to have the
same shape as North and South America,
as if the Western Continent was re-
fected in the moon.
The Tartars see none of these, but
their 'tman in the moon" is a wood
cutter, bearing on his back huge bum
die of wood and supporting himself with
staff The Japanese see the form of q
rabbit in q sitting posture. His long
ears stand erect, and before him is a
large mortar. In his forepaws he holds
pestle, with which he is grinding rice
after the manner of the Japanese.
The Emperor Rodolph, who often OBJ
served the moon with the Astronomer,
Kepler, saw upon it the image of Italy
The ancients recognized the resemblance
of the moon to the human face, for the
historian Plutarch wrote treatise con-
tradicting the vulgar idea. "Great
FOOLS" said he, fare they who think
that they see face on the moon. That
which they think they see is an illusion.
It is caused by fatigue of the eye. which
makes light and shade where there is
only uniformity"
How greatly he was mistaken was
shown afterwards, when the telescope
was invented. Under the powerful eye
| of this instrument the surface of the
moon exhibits anything but uniformity.
| 1t equals In roughness the toughest por-
| ton of the earth's surface. Huge noun
tain craters are scattered over the disk,
and within many of these are smaller
mountains. Deep chasms and high
ridges are abundant From some of the
mountains long rays extend In every
direction like streams of lava.
! The telescope dispels all those resem-
blances which are so apparent to the
/ naked eye, but even with this aid not all
people see alike. One hkens the moon
to green cheese, while another thinks
it resembles body of water frozen over
with the rifles on its surface, and the
craters are air-holes in the ice. An
other simile, perhaps the most ridiculous
of all, is that of pot of boiling mush
the craters being the bubbles of air as
they come up and burst on the surface
Some see only a cold, desolate, deai
planet, incapable Of supporting life o
any kind, while others see valleys
| streams, canals and other characteristic
of mother earth. = Cincinnati. CONNER
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05

Mrs. DoDDY-" Why, Mrs. Make
sure, you're not looking well of late. /"
Mrs. M" No (sighing deeply, Inever
look well after I've been buying butter"
Mrs. D.-"After buying butter? How
does that happen~ Mrs. M.-"Well,
you see I have to taste all the butter
before buying, and as I have to taste
fifteen or twenty kinds before getting
suited, and swallow good-sized lump
every time for fear the grocery keeper
will be mad if I spit it out, and as two
thirds of it is mixed with lard, and the
other third with tallow, you can just i'm
agine the state of my stomach. Louis
nile Gourier-,J Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
A Nebra.lKa Horror.

Christian Koch, an engine wiper on rail-
road in Nebraska, upon returning to his home
at st. Paul, in that State, the other morning,
was horrifed to find that his wife had cut the
throats of their three small children and then
cut her own throat. The weapon used was a
razor. The three children were lying upon
!he bed, and she on the floor. She only left
The words goodbye" written on piece of
paper to explain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
The Mormons.

The steamship Wyoming, on the 9th OF
April, among other immigrants, landed 1877
new Mormon converts at Castle Garden, New
York, who were forwarded on the Pennsylvania
Railroad to Salt Lake City. They were in
charge of Elders VIM. W. jackson, Dunbar,
Turner, Owens, and James, who spoke very
hopefully of the efforts now making "to prose-
lyte all Europe, and to bring the converts all
to Utah." The new converts are mostly from
England, a few, however, being Germans and
Scandanayians. Many of them are the wives
of those who preceded them to their new
homes nearly year ago."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05
AnEv,et,ou that Failed.

A dispatch from Limerick says an attempt to
evict tenants at New Pallas failed. Five hun
dred military and police were present, but
mob of five thousand hooted and groaned and
stoned the Sheriff and assistant. The police
charged the mob several times, but the bailiffi
life being threatened, he refused to point out
the houses of defaulting tenants. It is stated
two hundred of the mob were armed with re-
volvers. Another attemptto eyict will be made
shortly
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-05

On the 25th of April Whitelaw Reid, of the
New York Tribune, sent his eleventh party of
homeless people and children to Western
homes, The party consisted Of sixty-five peo-
ple-thirty-six boys, six girls, and four fami-
lies. They were divided into two sets-going
to Page County, and O'Brien County, Iowa.
The marriage of Mr.. Reid to the millionaire
daughter of Mr.. Mills; we are now almost sure
Is merited by the able editor