The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

NeXtS Sunday, sept. 4th, John McCord
will positively run his last excursion from
Eaton to Richmond. Everybody should
avail themselves of this last opportunity
to go to Richmond and back for the small
sum Of so cents.
If our Town Council would order iron
cast-grating to put over the several cross
ings on Barron and Main streets, it would
be an improvement that no sensible citi-
zen would object to. Think about it,
gentlemen.
Beeswax and salt will make your rusty
fiat-irons as clean and smooth as glass.
Tie a lump Of wax In a rag, and keep it
for that purpose. When the irons are
hot, rub them first with the wax rag,
then scour them with a paper or cloth
sprinkled with salt.
Hoops are bound to be all the rage
shortly. If the ladies only knew how
prettily they looked in the nice walking
skirts, they would not countenance this
contemplated innovation in dress. But
then ''you might as well be out of the
world as out of the fashion,"
There ought to be an ordinance severe
ly Furnishing a man for allowing his team
to stand upon the street unhitched. The
carclessness of such drivers not only en-
dangers their own property, but that of
others, as well as the lives of persons
who may not be able to get out Of the
way of running teams. Will our city
dads please consider the matter?
Every farmer should visit his neigh
bors occasionally to see how they man
age their work. Good farmers will go
home better pleased with their own
methods, and poor and inexperienced
ones will learn a good deal if they visit
in,the right spirit. The time it requires
is not wasted, but, on the other hand, is
well improved.
A window light in the front door of
Edison & Young's grocery house was
broken out on Thursday night last, en-
tered and the drawer robbed of four or
five dollars in change. This kind of
small pilfering is a little too frequent in
our town, and the young burglars engag-
ed in it had better be q little careful or
they may get sprinkled with shot. Sus-
picions are loud.
\ Dust, dust, nothing but dust, binding
the wicked as well as the just; dust in
your eyes and dust in your nose, dust in
your mouth and dust in your hair and
your clothes; dust in the house and dust
in the street, making unacceptable all
whom you meet. 1t is dusty and that's
a fact. Phewl "Dust thou art and to
dust thou shalt RETURN" sayeth the unre-
Used Book. and if that be true, has the
time about arrived when we all are to be
transmographied into villainous dust2
A young hummer by the name of Rob-
bins, of Lewisburg, and another party
by the name of Locke, were out on a
bum last Sunday night. Locke got left
somewhere on the road and Robbins
drove to the toll-gate near the burg, got
out and committed a villainous assault
uponsthe old widow lady who keeps the
gate. The Lewisburg Justice fined him
$40, and if the citizens had then assem-
bled together and given him a public
horse-whipping to boot, it would have
been no more than he richly deserved.
Watermelons contain about 95 per
cent. of the purest water, and a trace of
the purest sugar, and yet nothing hasyet
been discovered that furnishes so perfect
and speedy a cure for summer complaint
as watermelon and nothing else. Even
when diarrhea has been kept up by con-
tinued eating of ordinary food until the
disease has become chronic, this delicious
beverage-for it is little more-water-
melon, taken freely two or three times a
day, has again and again been known to
work wonders, and to cure where all the
usual remedies have failed.
Our smart city dads a month or SO ago
paid out of the peoples money $3.50 for
a bell to adorn the cupola of the Opera
House, and then in their wisdom passed
a resolution that the bell should not be
rang only in cas- of firel Who ever
heard of such supreme dalnphoolery I
The fellow who offered such a resolu.
ton, and each member that voted for it,
should be presented with a leather me.
dial. There has been no occasion to ring
a fire alarm for several years now, and
in that length of time the bellmay not be
used more than a half dozen times a
most. Now what the devil is the bel
for? We move a recinding of that fool
ish resolution, that the bell may be used
for public meetings in the Hall.
If GU friends in the country should b.
approached by a good taIker, who ha,
some new machine for the sale of which
he desires to make the farmer an agent
it would be just as well to decline tn,
honor. Oftener than otherwise it bring
trouble. A band of such swindlers hav
been thoroughly working Ohio. The,
have patent rakes, pitchforks, pumps
corn huskers, etc. They appoint ricl
farmers agents, supply them with ma
chimes without any trouble, and only as
them to sign a note payable at the neal
est bank for $50 when they have sol
! 1925 worth of the implements. This cor
tract is SO written that the end is torn o
and leaves a good straight note for $685.
, payable at the bank, at 6 per cent. int,
est. A large number of farmers hay
. walked up and paid over the amount an
charged it up to experience, profit an
loss.