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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The Seeds of Disease.

Most people think bad smells prolific
OF infection, and carrion and decaying
matter generally to be breeders of dis
8 Some are quite satisfied when
the foul air is ~deodorized, quite Unaware
that the infective particles may re-
main the same. But we must not mis-
take here. Our success in battling with
epidemics will depend on our getting at
the exact truth in the case. Liberia
soon becomes the grave of every white
man that goes there to stay; but the
keenest scent detects nothing of malaria
In the atmosphere. All may be fra
GRANGE and beauty where yellow fever is
~decimating the population. 1t was the
finest partso o. Chicago that were ravaged
by scarlet fever, while the other parts
were almost exempt. Diphtheria has of
late years had proportionately more VIC
Tins in the mountainous regions of Mas
sachusetts than in Boston and our larger
cities.
The fact Is, infectious diseases come
of germs just as truly as the products of
our fields come of the seed sown. These
germs are almost infinitely small, but
their mature plants-they are strictly
vegetable-have the power to multiply
at an almost infinite rate. Each disease
has it own germ. Smallpox cannot
come from typhoid germs /; nor measles
from scarlatina; mol yellow fever from
cholera-and SO universally. They must
come each from its own seed, as much
SO as wheat, corn, the apple, elm or
oak. They cannot come without seed,
for science knows of no spontaneous
generation. But the seeds of higher
order require good soil, and other favor
able conditions. It is equally SO with
the seeds of disease. Their choicest soil
is filth, and there is no favoring condi-
ton equal to a depressed state of ones
physical system-whether depressed by
bad food. impure air, sensual indu1-
gence, long-continued anxiety, fear,
watching. or undue fasting.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
A Pretty Picture.

A leafy background, two beautiful
trees, a hammock swinging beneath, and
she on!whom your heart is fixed. lazily
swinging in the same, is a very pretty
picture, young man, very pretty and
we don't blame you tor being attracted
by a magnet of such wondrous power.
Even the Boomerang reporter was forced
to acknowledge that your evident infatu-
alton was ~pardonable. But consider if
your meal will enable you to keep
that picture all your days, or whether in
the coming time it will not be supplanted
by a chrome or wornout, jaded woman,
frying doughnuts over a hot fire in the
middle of a hot summer day. The two
pictures are intimately connected.-BAl
Nye's Boomerang.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The Greatest City in the World.

The last English census shows that
London has been gaining rapidly in
population during the last ten years.
It now contains 3,S14, 571 inhabitants,
or $780, Bill more than 1871. Its in
crease was only a little over II per
cent, and yet SO vast wa its popula-
ton in 1871 that, during the ten years
it has added more to that total in actual
numbers more people than our thriv-
ing city of Chicago now contains, and
nearly as many as are included in
Brooklyn, the thiSd city of the Union in
size.
During the period from 1870 to 1880,
New York increased % per cent. /; but it
gained only 264, 285 inhabitants, not half
SO many as were added to London be-
tween 1871 and 1881 and its population
last year was considered less than a
third of that of the English capital. If
our proportionate increase continues to
be SO much larger than that of London,
of course we will in due time catch up
with the older city, and put it in the
second place as to size ; but that day is
still far off, and as New York grows
more populous it may show a smaller
rate of increase. The remarkable thing
about London is that a city of such un-
paralleled magnitude, in the midst of an
old civilization, has been growing at a
rate which, if continued, will give it
double its present population less than
a century hence. Since 1861 it has
gained over 80 per cent. If it keeps on
increasing In that proportion, by the
end of the first quarter of the twentieth
century it will contain about 1000, 600
of people.
But such estimates of what will hap
pen in the future have only a curious
interest. Many cause may contribute
to make the growth of London much
less proportionately during the next fifty
years than it has been during the twen-
ty just passed. It is an impressive fact,
however, that SO vast a capitSl, already
far ahead of any other city in the world
in population, should have increased
one-third in twenty years, and that it
should be now three times as large as it
vas sixty years ago.
The population of London was 1873
600 in 1921. Il has, therefore, gained
nearly 2, 800, 0OO inhabitants since then.
The population of New York was 123,-
FOG in 1910, and in 1880 it was nearly
years from 1860 to 1880 it gained about
One-nal1 against tne increase OF one
third in London between 1861 and 1881.
1t is safe to estimate that at the begin
ming of the next century we shall have
made another gain that would give us
1880, 600. Even then, therefore, New
York would contain less than half the
present population of London and, il
that city added q third during the TWEEN.
ty years, it would still contain nearly
three times as many people as New
York,-NeU York Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
Mortimer Collins Little Friend.

Collins loved to notice and make
friends with the birds and "smal deer
that lived around him, and often a pleas
ant intercourse was carried on between
them. Like Thoreau, though in alesser
degree, he knew how to make friends
with the feathered folk that built their
nests in his trees; and the intimacy
seems to have proved agreeable on both
sides. Here is o bit of cheerful gossip
about a winter guest:
81 have made a very pleasant acquain-
tance-a young and vfvacious person,
musical and garrulous, grateful for small
k~indnesses, and never a bore. He Is, to
avoid the mysterious, a robin red-breast
"a young cock, whose waistcoat has not
yet attained its fullest scarlet nor his
song its complete music. There are lots
of them on my lawn, In various stages
of adolescence; but this little beauty got
into my book room one morning, and
few in q fright against the window
when I entered, and fell on the floor half
stunned. took him up, and got him to
drink O little water, and put him on the
grass. He o recovered, and now he
follows me all over the place. Tie waits
to welcome me the first thing in the
morning. He perches on my knee as I
sit writing on the lawn, and twitters out
a sweet low song. He is very inqui-i-
tive about every thing new that comes
out when we encamp under the trees, ex-
amining work baskets, writing-baskets,
straw hats, with an evident thirst for
knowledge. He comes on my writing
table to pick up crumbs; then suddenly
darts away in a hurry to seize something
more entieing-a fat spider, or a daddy
longlegs, or o butterfly. There is m
thing curious in the friendship of this
feathered atom born outNof gratitude"
Mrs. Collins adds in q note: "He
continued to be friendly until the spring
of the following year, and spent the
greater part of the winter in the house,
thereby causing great jealousy to two
other robins, who were great favorites,
who used to watch for him to come out
of the house and attack him.-Ihe
Spectator.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William j. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass, says: "1n
the fall of 1876 I was taken with BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS,
followed by a severe cough. 1 lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was adj
mitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in
my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time q report
went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a
friend told me Of DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM
FOR H LUNGS. Igot a bottle, when, to my surprise,
1 commenced to feel better, and to-day 1 feel better than
for three years past. I write this hoping every one af-
ficted with Diseased Lungs will take DR..
HALLS BALSAM, and be convinced that CONSUMP-
TON CAN BE CURED. can positively say it has done
more good than all the other medicines I have taken
ince my sickness"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

TIE spot where StonewaIl jackson
fell is marked by a rough block of white
flint quarried in the Wilderness. 1t
stands 8 feet 8 inches high and is 2 feet
10 inches in breadth. Its surface shows
dents and scars, where the pilgrims have
scaled bits of it as relics !; and all around
are smaller pieces of hard rock that
have been used as hammers with which
tn crack il.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
Truth and Honor.

Query: = What is the best family medicine
in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the
blood, remove costiveness and biiousness, aid
digestion and tone up the whole system. Truth
and honor compels us to answer, Hop Bitters,
being pure, perfect and harmless. See another
column.-TOledo Bldd>
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

MRS. BE1vA A. LOCKWOOD, h pms
LAWYER of Washington, is said to ride a
tricycle. and to make long excursions
about the city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

FORTY per cent. of English gold is SO
light as to be no longer a legal tender.
The Bank of England sends gold coin to
the mint for recoinage at the rate of
81, 600, 900 sterling a year. The last call
ing in of gold coin was in 1912.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

ExcAvAr1oNsin Yorkshire have brought
to light skeletons proved to be those of
Britons of a time previous to the landing
of Caesar. One of the skeletons pre-
sents signs that the man was a martyr
to rheumatism.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

We are 30 thankfulto say that our baby was
permanently cured of a dangerous and pro-
tracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of
Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same
The Parents, Rochester, N. Y. See another
column.-BpDdlo Express,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

PURE Con LIVER On made from selected
livers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet.
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it superior to
any of the other oils in market.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

THE vineyards in Gabriel valley,
Los Angeles county, CAL, some of the
vines of which are nearly 100 years old,
are yet very prolific bearers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

NEVER interrupt any conversation with q
hacking Cough it creates q bad impression.
Better invest a quarter of q dollar in a bottle of
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup and cure it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

ABOUT twice every month I take a dose of
"Sellers' Liver Pills." and I always enjoy ex-
cellent health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

DoN'T keep taking drastic ~pills-they do more
harm than good. Kidney-Wort cures constipa-
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

ga LADY had the flesh eaten off her arm by
s~crofula. Could see the sinews working.
'Lindsey's Blood Searcher' cured her." ].
Ralston, Elderton, Pa.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

THE orange tree was brought from
Oh nab by tbs P 3a SSo h about u f6 a1sDv In
and lemons were imported into Great
Britain. yielding to the customs es1, 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

esRough ON Rats"
Ask Druggists for it. 1t clears out rats, mice,
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, vermin, insects. f5c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

The Best Preof Of Merit
is uniform success, and on this basis Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is without doubt
one of the greatest remedies In the land.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

: THERE are $1,000 oyste1men in Viz.
ginia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

SITUATION, free from malaria, splsn-
IA did buildings, elegant appointments, unequsled facili-
ties, skilfful physicians. Al chronic diseases successfully
treated. Moderaterates. sANTrARfur, Battle Greek. Mich.
WEEK. sI2 a day at home easily made. Costly
en A Z0ut6t frao- Addross Tpur b 70 Anouata Mo
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

III IdVOr OI The ylelu Oh III dcTc VI mclOuS
treated by this pinching process may
easily amount to 100 barrels"
OvRRwoRKED FARMERS. We once
heard a good farmer say that when he
got behind with his work so that it
seemed as though he could not catch up
again, he made it a practice to leave
everything for q couple of days and
take a recreation. When he returned
again, he said, work seemed less per-
picking, and it progressed seemingly
much faster than before. The plan
would perhaps seem ridiculous to many,
and certain to occasion loss if not entire
failure, yet from experience we are in
clined to credit the plan with favor.
What is true of farmers In respect to
overwork is also true of persons in other
fields Of labor. Nearly all of us remem-
Der with what renewed energy and
strength we began our work on Monday
morning after our Sabbath's rest, which
proves the value Of needed recreation.
We would advise farmers who can pos
sibly do 30 to devote q day or two to
recreation of some sort before beginning
the heavy work of spring, summer and
fall. Take a jaunt to some relatives or
friends in another locality, or make a
short tour of observation to some large
city, or some thriving farming district
and thereby learn some valuable lessons
and experiences.-ElmirG Free Press.
TIE FARM KrToHEN.-The farm kitch-
en- should be the pivotal part of the
house. The farmer desiring q conven-
lent dwelling should first plan out the
kitchen and then add the rest Of the
house to it. It should be roomy the
ceiling should be high; the windows
long and narrow rather than short and
broad, because the high window is the
best ventilator and will furnish an es-
cape for the heated air and the odors
from the cooking stove or range. while
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

&0OShM9M!H..aeENIs W%AEJEp-so best
P0fVc Address DAY Bronson, betroit Mich
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-07
General Lees Sword.

RrCHMoND, VA, March 10.
The Dispatch, of this city, will publish
tomorrow the following correspondence
in reference to controversy as TO the
authenticity OF of,filestafemantin "Holmes'
SchoglZ History" that General Giant
declined tosF6ccis5 General Lees sword"
at the surrender at Appomattox
BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, Va,
March IL, 1881.
Gen. u $. -G1Gnf, Ney York.
In Q friendly Discussion between
sovel". gentlemen Of Northern and
Southern proclivities as to the truth Of
history question arose whether General
Lee at the surrender actually rendered
and you received his sword. It waa mu-
tually agreed that you should be written
10 for O decision. There is no idle
curiosity or desire for notoriety in regard
TO this request, and reply from you
would be highly appreciated.
Very respectfully,
j. ID. JEFFREss.
General Grant replied as follows on
the bottom of the same sheet Of paper:
General Badeau's book, now In the
hands of the printer, will g.1e the exact
truth OF The matter referred 10 I'm this
letter. There WAS no demand made for
General Lees sword and no tender of It
offered. u. GRANT.
In reference to the above the following
conversation between Generals Lee, Ear.
ly and others, reported in the Rev. Will
liam Jones Book, entitled "Reminis-
cences Of Lee" may be of special interest,
and agrees with General Badeau's forth.
coming account, and thus settles tho dis
puted point:
General Lee said that when lie met
General Grant they exchanged polite
salutations, and he stated to him n. once
that he desired n conference in reference
70 hosubject matter of their cosrespon-
dence. General Grant returned your
sword did he not, General? (? one of the
company asked. The old hero, straight
ening himself up, replied in most en-
phatic tones d Mo- sir, he did not He
had no opportunity Of doing 'so.' was
determined that the side arms Of officers
should be exempt by the terms of sur
render, and of course l did not offer
inihe. All that. was. said about swords
was that General Grant apologized to me
for not wearing his own sword, saying
that ii had gone Off in his baggage and
he had been unable to get it in time.
General Leo stated in his conversation
tthaG be .wasr accompanied whec ao mot
tGeheral tGranteonly by ColoHel Charles
Marshal, Of his personal staG, who went
with one Of General Grants staff to find
suitable room in which to hold the
conference; that they were first shown to
q vacant house, and declining tc use that
wore conducted by Major hfcClesn to his
house and shown into his parlor. Lee
| then briefly stated tho terms upon which
he would be willing to surrender. Grant
expressed himself al satisfied with tber,,
and Lee requested that lie would formally
reduce the proposition to writing, which
was done"
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A RIDE ON A WILD BULL.
No Scene, Ia 6Rsin 1szes Hag 50, Exciting
tSthe sD6efatdfeI

H.I-
A year or so since thore was "rodeo"
out OH Lost River, in Lake county.
Ranchmen had gathered for circuit Of
seventy-five miles TO claim ard brand
their young cattle;and when a GORDON of
mon had surroundeda large band, among
which was Spanish bull, q dispute arose
about "maIlet head" or calf that had
escaped the spring branding. The dis.
cussion grew warm, none of the stock
owners being able to set up valid claim
or establish an undoubted title. At last,
In spirit Of bravado, o Tancher proposed
that Yhoeger would ride the bull without
saddle or halter should be owner of the
calf. There was G yell OF approval, but
not general stampede Of volunteers, for
taurus was IN i'll humor and his foaming
mouth and blood-shot eyes gave token
that whoever rode him would have ride
as wild as Mazeppa's and one that might
not end 30 we'll. At last 9vaquero"
Damed Fritz accepted the challenge and
the wild bull was Immediately fassoed
and held by laria. round horn and foot.
DismountiDg from bis horse the yaquero
fastened his long rowled spurs securely,
tied handkerchief round bis head, up.
preached the infiiriated animal and
grasping the tail in his hands aprang
lightlY0n it. Ting The spurs a5tply in
its fanks ns he Settled secdrelyiu his
seat. The lariats were siackened, tho
bull gave roa, Of rage and terror and
flung his head TO the ground, but the
rider had his back to the horns and
firm grip on the tail and kept his seat.
Another roar that shook the ground, a
Wild plunge, and the now maddened bull
shot out across the sage plain with light
ming speed, his plucky rider, twisting the
tail that to him was sheet.anchor until
the bellowings were lost in the distance.
For over a. milo and half the race con-
tinued, amid tho excited cheer of the
v4quero's comrades. Occasionally the
| bull gave a desperate plunge
through a heavy clump of sage in
| tho vain attempt TO rid himself
| of his tormentor, but the long rowels only
clung more firmly to his fanks. Some.
| times the animal and rider were hidden
by undulations in the ground, and bets
were even made that Fritz would be
thrown and gored but at last the bull,
exhausted from sheer fright, fell and the
plucky vaquero, stepping lightly, off, re.
turned to claim his prize, which was.
unanimously awnrdcd. sTha, .occurrence
| 10 rclated by prominent cattle man in
Lake County, who ventures the opinion
that no scene in Spanish .bull- ring"
was ever hnlf so wild or exciting.
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The Governments Loose Change.

Senator Sherman, before he was super.
seded rs Secretary of tho Treasury, ar.
ranged for the exchange for new money
of all minor coins except the copper and
nickle three cent and i've cent piecea aud
the one cent.coip Of copper; tin ,apd zinc.
The uiiII0F 0OiTis thus gu1et5eieti, "a.
cording to the Revised Statutes, are the
big copper cent, issued prior to 1857
nickle copper cents-the thick, small,
light colored ones, bearing the figure OF
an. eagle wEere theEIndian's head now 10
which were issued between 1857 and
1864; the bronze two cent pieces that arc
mistaken for quarter dollars In ofie'B
pocket iii the darK the copper AND
nickle three cent pieces Of the old stau.
dard weight, and the copper and nickel
Eve cent pieces Of the old weight.
The law declares thht the minor coins
of the United States elInll be ~ fye cent
piece, a. three cent pieeo and "a QUE cent
piece. The alloy of tho FIVE and three
cent pieces shall be OF copper and nickie,
to be composed of three-fourths copper
ard one.fourth nickle. The alloy Of tho
one cent piece shall be So per centdm OF
copper and centnIn Of tin and zirc. Ia
such proportions as shall be determined
by the Director of The Mint. The weight
of the piece OF Eve cents shalt bez6il5.
100 groirs troy; of the three cent pieCcs,
thirty grains, and of the one cent pieces,
fortg:eight grains.
Old coing to be exchanged fcr nesr
must be- sent TO the Superintendent OF
the Miut in Philadelphia, III sums Ofnot
less than $50, and the superintendent
viii return atfansfes check 20 the Sub
Treasurer IN New York, Philadelphia,
New Orleans, of San Francisco,
10 seon may direct. Tho old coins
must Ia b fair condition. TIE trans.
fer s. ill be cashed ia the new
sGpsn.
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MRs. spRAuas's prr,rroN prp,,se,

MRs. SPRAUaE's PETITION REFUSED.
AT Kingston, r. l., yesterday, in tho
Spragua divorce cssa, cnnnsnI 70? Mrs
katherine Chase.S .Sprague presented n
lpetition fora bill of particn az her
alleged crime 81 adultery. Mra Sptague's
counsel argued that Mrs. Sprague
was entitled to what she asked for to
protect her from being compromised by
testimony which ahe would then have no
opportunity 10 refnte. The counsel. on
the other side -afguod that it would be
an unfair disclosure of the Governors
defence against his. wifas petition.F If
there Ras any napger-of what her. conn.
sci feared, the Court could and would
protect her interests at the time of trial.
Tho Court decided against the petition,
and stated that If divorce should be
gfants1 f0n noh-support az desefki6u, all
the charges ofadultery would DO elimi-
mated, 80 as not to stand as q part of the
record to reflect on the one against whom
the case should be decided. An order for
c0ramissi Iona telIe dap1Sitions in New
York State and the District of Columbia
in support of Kate Chase.Sprague,s peti-
ton was then Issued by the court. The
Goyegnoy's counsel -said they. would take
d6posilione In Baden, Baden, Paris, Cali
fofna, New Jersey, New York State, mi.
noiss4 Missouyis and Massachusetts,. The
trial will tske place In May.
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TINE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
CoENTY OF EANDERSON

COURT OF COEiBlON PLEAS.
Eli5abcth Major, Plaintiff, against Maggie
Z. Shirley, ct al, Defeniants.-Co -Compiafnf
TO Sell Land to pay Debts. Relief DC.
PY virtue of an order of his Honor
AD Judge Ker3haw. all persons having
demands against the Estate of L. ]. Major
deceased, are notified to present and prove
them before me on or by the Sth of April
next. Failing to do so. they will be barred
q my benelie IN the decree to he made in
the above stated case
w. w. HUMPHREYS, -
I vsMastAr% ~
March L. 1881 80 - - - g.