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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
How to Dress the Children.

The capacity of our ancestors to ac-
commodate themselves to every climate
depended not only on their physiological
faculty of adaptation, but also on their
skill in protecting themselves by artifi-
cial means from the inclemency of the
higher Iatitudes. Houses and clothes
are blessing if they answer this pur-
pose by close imitation of natures own
plan in sheltering her children from at
mospheric vicissitudes, but in degree as
they deviate from that plan their hygi-
enic disadvantages balance, or even out
weigh, the gain in other respects. A
swallows nest protects her brood from
cold and rain without debarring them
from the fresh air human domicile,
too, should combine comfort with the
advantage of perfect ventilation, and our
clothes, like the furrt a squirrel or the
feather-mantle of hawk, should keep
us warm and dry without interfering
with the cutaneous excretions and the
free movement of our limbs.
Measured by these standards, the win-
ter dress of an American schoofboy is
nearly the best, the summer dress of the
average American, French, and German
nursing about the worst that could be
devised. At an age when the rapid de-
velopment of the whole organism re-
quires the utmost freedom of movement,
our children are kept in the fetters of
garments that check the activity of the
body in every way; swaddling- clothes,
undershirts, overshirts, neck-wrappers,
trailing gowns, garnitures, founces and
shawls reduce the helpless homunculus
to bundle of dry goods, unable to move
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mating its uneasiness in any way save
by the use of its squealing apparatus,
and consequently squealing violently
from morning till night. Outdoors, in
the baby carriage, "cold draughts
have to be guarded against, and load
of extra wrappers completely counteract
the benefit of the fresh air !; faint with
nausea and suffocating heat, the little
dummy lies motionless on its back, re-
splendent in its white surplice, a fit
candidate for the honors of life whose
every movement of a natural impulse
will be suppressed as a revival of bar
barism, and an insurFeetien against the
statutes of an orthodox community.
Hence, in great degree, the dispropor-
tionate mortality in all northern coun-
tries of Christendom among infants
under years. In Spanish America,
where infantile diseases are as rare as in
Hindoostan, babies of all classes and
sizes toddle about naked, nearly the
year round; and the Indians of the
Tamaulipas, between Tampico and Mat
amoras, raise an astonishing number of
brown bantlings who are never troubled
with clothes till they are big enough to
carry garden-stuff to the city, where the
police enforces the apron regulation.
Popular Science Monthly for June.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Cobblers Who Went Beyond Their Last.

No one but a shoemaker could have
thought Coleridge serious in bis strange
saying that the shoemaker's bench had
produced more eminent men than any
other handicraft. The IMtoe and Leatt-
er Reporter. has, however, compiled a
"bill of particulars in the shape of a
list of famous cobblers, which seems to
act as an effectual estopel on all jealous
craftsmen. Hans Christian Andersen,
who needs no introduction, may head
the list, and Hans Sachs, of Nuremberg,
who, though he made shoes all his life,
yet also made 5000 poems, plays, farces
and rhyming fables, may be put next.
Sir Gloudesley Shovel was a shoemaker
until he enlisted in the navy, and so was
Sir Christopher Minns, another English
Admiral. John Hewson, one of Crom-
wells Colonels, and signer of Charles
Is death-warrant Samuel Bradburn,
the "Demosthenes of Methodism,'' as
well as a Bishop; James Lackinton,
whose catalogue Of publications reached
the total-enormous for that time-of
1000 volumes, in 1797-al these were
cobblers at first, if not at the last. Con-
tinuing the English list, William Gift
ford, whose memory is preserved by
complimentary allusion in Byron's En-
glish Bards and Scotch Reviewers" and
whose body is buried in Westminster
Abbey; George Fox, the arch Quaker;
William Carey, missionary famous
century ago, and who read the proofs of
! the Bible in twenty-seven' Oriental Ian
guages Samuel Drew, "the Locke of
the nineteenth century," whose expert
ence as an author led him to formulate
the sad truth that the man who makes
shoes is sure of his, wages, but the man
who makes books is never sure of any
thing" Thomas Holcroft, whose name
is not nearly so well known as that of a
single one of his plays, "The Road to
Rum" the Bloomfield brothers, whom
Byron thus apostrophized:
Ye tuneful cobblers still your notes prolong,
Compose at once slipper and song;
John Pounds, whom school-children
cried at beirg turned away from-all
these and lesser lights too numerous to
mention were English shoemakers.
Coming to our own country, Roger
Sherman, one of the "signers," leads
the list in time, but Vice President Hen
ry Wilson in rank. Beside these were
Congressman Shefey and Noah Worces-
ter, not the photographer, but the
founder of the Massachusetts Peace So
ciety. And ex-Govs. 81. P. Baldwin, of
Michigan, and William Clafin, of Mas
sachusetts, if they never made SHOES, at
least dealt in them largely enough to be
named here. Altogether, the list is suffi-
GENTLY imposing and convincing to justi-
fly verdict in favor of Coleridge's say
ing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
The Point Well Taken,

testimony" "Upon what ground?"
said the Judge. "My point is, your
Honor, that evidence from person oc-
cupying the professional position of the
understand the witness to say his occupa-
ton was?" asked the Judge. "Washington
correspondent of New York daily pa
per-" was the reply. "Ah |" said the
Judge, "the point is well taken; the
court sustains your objection, Mr.. Coke
stone"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16

Articles of consolidation of the Evansville
and Seymour and the Evansville, Seymour and
Bellefontaine railways have been filed in In
dianapohs. Directors Henry B. Hammond
and Charles W. Kohlsant, of New York; Mel
colin Peters, Philadelphia; 1. N. Bette, Chicago;
R. Pattison and A. W. Carpenter, Evansville;
E. G. Devore and G. B. Cole, Seymour, and H.
@. Kimble, Brookyille. Also, articles of asso-
ciation Of the Indiana and Michigan Railroad
Company have been filed capital stock, $780,
900. Directors: George G. Kimble, Henry 81.
Getty, Oliver P. Pillsbury, Andrew NJ. Nichols.
Hugh Park, John W. Chaplin, and Frederick
A. Minis. The line is to run from La Crosse to
the Michigan State line, a distance of about
FORTY miles.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16

Jonas Haywood, who, on the night Of April
18th last pummeled Thomas Forsythe with a
heavy revolver and finally shot and killed him
instantly, at Washington, Pennsylvania, was
arrested by the Sheriff of Cloude County,
Kansas, few days ago, and was brought back
to Washington and lodged in Jail. Haywood is
coal-miner by occupation: He says that he
killed man in Utah some time ago, but claims
that it was in self-defense. He has two wives,
one in Illinois and the other in Indiana. He
also has fair charmer in Republic County.
She is said to be q very respectable girl and
is now attending the Normal College at Con-
cordia. Haywood says, if he is cleared, he will
make his home in Kansas with her.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
An Enemy to Singing Birds.

The crow is exterminating the sing
ing birds of New England. Few are the
nests that escape his vigilant search,
and fewer still the young birds that do
not go to satisfy his ravenous appetite
and fill his capacious NAV. have
watched and cursed them for years. I
have seen them pounce upon the nest of
the lark and of the plover; I have seen
them leaving the nest of the robin with
the young in their beaks. For several
years watched the return of pair of
robins to an old apple tree near my
house, where they had built their nest
and reared their young. One morning
I heard the piercing cry of the old birds,
foreboding danger and distress. ran
to the window just in time to see crow
fly from the tree with a young robin in
his mouth. In less than five minutes
the crow returned, dived into the tree,
and this time the last of my half-grown
pet robins wes borne away.-Maaches-
ter Mirror.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
A ROOt.Rut,tOner.

"Please draw upon the blackboard an
interrogation point" said a teacher to
one of her pupils.
"Can't make good one, replied the
boy.
"Draw a boot-buttoner, said the
teacher; "that will answer"
The boy took the crayon and drew
hair-pin. Sharp rebuke by the teacher
Other pupils smile.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Dynamite Plot Fails.

Says Liverpool cablegram of the 10th: 'tAn
attempt was made last night to blow up the
Town Hall of this city, but only resulted in
breaking the windows of the hall, and in
Browns building on the opposite side of the
street. 1t is reported two men were arrested
with quantity Of dynamite and loaded re-
volyers in their possession. The persons cap
tured in the attempt have been identified as
Liverpool Iishmen; named McKevett and
Roberts. Both were well supplied with money.
Documents were found in their possession con-
Meeting them with Fenianism. Roberts has
been for some years in America. The prisoners
will be charged under the Malicious injuries
to property act" which provides that punish
ment may, under the circumstances which ap-
ply in this case, be life long imprisonment"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
nO~uNd Had.

A strange and deadly disease has made its
appearance among the dogs in the vicinity Of
Somerset, Kentucky, the last few days. When
the epidemic first takes hold the dog will run
and jump, and give vent to the most frightful
howls, and then drop down and die in convul-
sions. Science has been brought to bear upon
this new wonder, but as yet has failed to e1-
plain IL
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
The RaDid TelegraDh.

The capacity of single line of tele-
graph wire has always been limited by
the quickness of the operator. The
electricity passes from end to end of the
longest line without appreciable loss of
time.
A sender of average ability can trans
NIT twenty five words minute, or fifty
messages an hour. This being the limit
of single wire, many lines have be-
come necessary between large cities, to
provide for the constant increase in the
use of the telegraph by all classes.
A few years ago, Mr. Edison discov-
cred and applied the quadruplex sys-
tenn. By this invention, four messages
can be sent at one time over the same
wire, two each way. As its name implies,
it increased the carrying capacity of a
wire four-foId.
But the new system of the Rapid Tel
egraph Company Is oven more wonder
full. By this method the messages are
transferred to paper-tape which is per-
forated by machine with a keyboard,
operated like typewriter. Many per-
sons are kept busy at these machines
preparing these messages. When the
tape is ready it is wound on a wheel.
Now, instead of the operator making
each letter by successive clicks of the
telegraph key, he simply turns the
wheel, and steel points, like the nibs of
a pen, trace their way over the perforat-
ed tape, and wherever there are holes
the circuit is completed and the electric
current reports at the other end of the
line, in dots or dashes, long or short, as
the perforation may be.
The messages are then translated from
the telegraphic code and printed in full
by the aid of the typewriter, ready for
delivery.
By this invention, the capacity of a
wire is increased thirty-fold. In a min
: ute 1000 words may be sent, involving
500 pulsations second of the electric
current. All these improvements are in
the direction of cheap andefficient teleg-
raphy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
What Is Man?

This little life-boat of earth with its
noisy crew of .mahkind, and all their
troubled history, will one day have van
ished-faded like cloud-speck from the
azure of the sky. What, then, is man !?
He endures but for an hour, and is
crushed before the moth. Yet in the
beginning and in the working of faith
full man is there already Gas all faith
from the beginning gives assurance) a
something that pertains not unto this
death element of time; that triumphs
over time, and is, and will be, when
time shall be no more.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
A Murder I'm Kentucky.

murder was committed at Berlin, KY, last
week, a small place sixteen miles from Augusta,
among the hills. A Mr.. Mellow, a carpenter,
had contracted with a Mr.. Moore to build
small building for $500. He met Mr.. Moore
last week and stated that he wanted 5000 more
to finish the job (having been paid 5000 previ-
ously), and was given check on the Augusta
bank for the amount. During his stay in Au-
gusta he imbibed freely during the day, and in
the evening left for his home in company with
his brother-in-law, VIM. Sims, and bottle of
whisky. On arriving at Berlin, Mellow missed
his money, and accused Sims of having stolen
it and would listen to no argument nor make
any effort to find the money. Sims body was
found in the woods, about two miles from Ber
lin, with nine stabs. On getting sober Mellow
found his money on his person, and confessed
that he had done the killing. He was arrested
and lodged in Jail at Brooksville.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Ex.Confedernte SOLDIER.

An organization of e1-Confederate soldiers
has been effected at Chattanooga, Tenn. Col.
]. B. Cook; President; Hon. D. NJ. Key, and
Capt. J. A. Caldwell, Vice Presidents; Maj. G.
@. Conner, Secretary. The organization has
been effected for the purpose of rendering a
reception to the Army of Cumberland, which
has its reunion in that city next September
the first time the society meets in the South.
It is the programme of the e1-Confederate
soldiers to have present on the occasion the
most prominent Confederate Generals and
several thousand ex-Confederate soldiers, rep
resenting every State in the late rebellion.
The citizen soldiers of the South are to be in
vited, and many regiments will be there. A
formal reception will take place on the battle
fields at Chattanooga, or at the National Gene
terry in that city. The action of the ex-Con-
federate soldiers has caused much enthusiasm,
and their plans will be successfully carried out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
The Continued 5 Per Cents.

The amount of coupon 5per cent. bonds Of
pay received for continuance at 311 per cent
up to the close of business ON the 8th. inst. was
$50, ,352, 700. 1t is the opinion of Treasury Off
cials that nearly all the outstanding coupon 5s
will be received for continuance during this
month. There are upwards or $5,uUU,UuU OF
registered per cent. bonds now in the Treas
ury Department which were forwarded by the
holders previous to the 2Srd ult., the date fixed
for the receipt of bonds for continuance,
awaiting inspection by the Secretary. Thecause
of the retention of these bonds is attributed to
the fact that all the details connected with the
process of extension were not strictly adhered
to, and that consequently it remains for the
Secretary to determine what portion of them,
if any, shall be passed for continuance. 1t is
now certain that the excess of limit of 5 per
cents. converted into 81 per cents. will reach
0,OOO,O 900 or 1000, 600. The exact amount
can not be stated, however, until it is known
what disposition the Secretary will make Of
those now awaiting his action.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
AdulteratiOn in Vienna.

They have In Vienna an organization
for the preservation of the public health,
which watches closely the articles sold
for food, and from time to time has SAM
Piles chemically analyzed. lnvestiga-
tions of this character were conducted
on an extensive scale during the past
year. Of milk $50 specimens were an
alyzed. Most of it had been skinned
and diluted with water. Some had
come from diseased COWS, and some was
thickened with borax, soda and soap.
Butter was analyzed to the extent of 210
samples. ALI of it contained an exces-
sive proportion of water, and much of it
was adulterated with beef fat, lard or
stearine. Lard, coming from America
and Hungary, had borax and lime. OF
LOO specimens examined of Hungarian
and Austrian wine, fifty-two were of
artificial concoction. Artificial coloring
matter and excessive proportions of
water were found in many. Pilsener
beer contained soda and Vienna beer
glycerine. Of liquors, seventy-three
had traces of arsenic or copper, beside
injurious favoring and perfuming in
gradients. Ground coffee was mainly
roasted grain, acorns and chicory. Even
bread was badly adulterated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Negro Hanged.

Hayes White, who murdered Sheriff W. T.
Beattie, Of Crittenden County, Arkansas, April
81, was hanged at Marion last week, in the
presence Of 1000 persons, 1900 of whom were
colored. The condemned made a speech from
the gallows, confessing to the killing, but
denied the knowledge that it was Beattie whom
he shot until he afterward saw HIM lying dead.
The rope was cut at 2 o'clock, and White
launched into eternity. The fall, although six
feet, did not break his neck, and he died Of
strangulation. The body, after hanging eigh-
teen minutes, was cut down and delivered to
friends for burial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Camel Riding.

The complaints which have been made
of the difficulty of riding a camel-of
the headache and nausea it causes-pro-
ceed, in Gen. Colston's opinion, from
travellers who do not know how to ride
them. After the rider has once mas
tered the art of mounting and dismount-
ing, there is no further trouble, and any
one accustomed to horseback may, in
the Generals opinion, learn in a single
day to ride and manage the camel. "He
is the most docile and manageable of
all animals, excepting only the Egyptian
donkey" The simple art of easy camel
riding consists chiefly 10 not permitting
your camel to walk, except in deep sand
or over steep, rocky ground, where you
cannot help it. "There is not a more
back breaking, skin-abrading motion
than a camel's walk; but, if you press
him into a gentle pace, which is the
natural gait of dromedary, he moves
both legs on the same side together.
Thus he will go all day, with perfect
ease to you, and no fatigue to himself, at
the rate of about five miles an hour. In
that gait his motion feels exactly like
that of a very easy trotting horse. though,
of course, camels are like horses, some
moving easier than others. With every
increase of the rapidity of his gait, he
goes rougher." The higher speed of the
dromedary enables the traveller to ride
on in advance, and take two or three
rests in the course of day, in order to
allow the slower burden camels to come
up. But they all camp together at
night. Chambers Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Taste.

An extensively furnished room is not
always attractive. A lady of refined
instinct and training, by means of few
cheap but of their kind good pictures,
book engravings, cartoons, and such
like, bundle of strips and straws, some
pretty Japanese or Chinese decorations,
the judicious appliance and arrangement
of such pretty things as artistic taste
will suggest-will do more toward max
ing a little parlor charming, homelike
and artistic than thousands of dollars
spent on vulgar and inartistic arrange
ment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
mar to Immigr.tion.

Secretary Blaine, in reply to question by
Brereton, the Irish Emigrant Agent, at Dun
daIk, Us to whether the landing of able bodied
paupers in New York would be objected to,
has written that poverty is no bar to immi-
grants willing to work and obey the laws, but
that the immigration of dissolute paupers and
criminals Is certainly Objectionable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
nausaInaiana.

The United States Commissioners met In con-
sultation with the head chiefs Of the Ute tribe,
ct Los Pinos Agency, few days since, for the
purpose Of arranging for their speedy transfer
TO their new reservation, in obedience to treaty
stipulations entered into last fall. The Utes
were disposed to be ugly, but q large force Of
military being at the agency, it is likely they
viii 20 to their new reservation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Judpinp from Appearances.

"Mother, I shouldn't be surprised if
our Susan gets choked some day."
"Why, my son ?"
because, young Smith twisted his
arms around her neck the other night,
and if she had not kissed him to let her
go, he would have strangled her.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Chloride Of.Tiu.

Allison Spence, farmer living near Muir
dock, Ohio, and his family, we're quite seriously
poisoned few days ago, by eating canned
sausage, the action of the salt on the tin in
which the meat was put causing it to corrode,
thus forming chloride of tin. By the spe, ~
administration of antidotes their lives were
saved
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
KILLED ON the Rail.

County, while in state of intoxication, sat
down upon the track Of the c., s. @.
Railroad, near that place and went to sleep.
He was run over by an express train in the
night. His head, right arm and shoulder were
severed from the body.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
The Amhro.e Emberiezuent CO.

District Attorney Richards has written let
ter tothe Department at Washington recon-
mending the acceptance of the proposition to
compromise the Ambrose matter by the pay
ment Of $4,000. The chances are that his re-
commendation will be accepted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
man Ro.t. Aeon, n.,,.,..,

George W. Hubley, of Philadelphia, mail
route agent, convicted of stealing from the
mails, was refused new trial, and sentenced
TO pay fine of 300, the costs of prosecution,
and undergo an imprisonment Of one year in
the penitentiary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty.
aix DOlIars Obtained ON q FORGED Check.

NHEeB NHOtAsHuu r OuE Hhunureu Bhu + IEIys
six Dollars Obtained ON q Forged Cheek.
A forged check for the above amount, pur-
porting to have been drawn by the cashier Of
the Springfield National Bank, of Springfield.
Ill, has been passed at the Hartford Trust
Company, Hartford, Conn, by man who
called himself Albert B. Fischer. Hepretended
to be grain operator, and dealt considerably
in stocks through brokers. He was accompanied
by fashionably dressed woman, whom he
called his wife. He presented two genuine
checks with the forged one, and as Hartford
citizen, who had made his acquaintance accom-
panied him to the bank and introduced him,
the forged check was cashed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-16
Mrv Ahr,h.- Ta,.o,,

The condition Of Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the
ex-President, is such that her physicians have
given up all hopes Of her recovery.