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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Fencing.

Fencing is fallen very far from the
high estate it held in the time of the
great italian and French masters, who
brought it to a degree of perfection
scarcely conceivable by those who have
not read their elaborate treatises and
studied the almost-endless variety of
beautiful drawings by which their pre-
cepts are illustrated. Fencing is now
recommended, not only because it is the
best method of giving grace and agility
to the body, but because it supplies
resource which at any moment may be-
come of value, SO that its claims nre
still strong to hold place in the pro-
gramme for the education of the finished
gentleman. Beside these motives fenc-
ing possesses historic interest, and that
eye must be unappreciative, indeed,
which cannot see a high degree of
haantF in za-e.scvurtcr between two ac-
complshed fencers. France can to-day
claim the best. There are many rea-
SONS for this fact. Some attribute it to
the agility and acknowledged power of
rapid physical action possessed by this
nation; others to their natural vivacity
and natural nimbleness and still 9TH
ers to their almost romantic love for
physical training. Fhc French were
made to be good swordsmen. The ma
tional standard (about five feet seven
inches) is the height best calculated to
contain all the elements of strength
without superfluous weight. With them
every regiment had its fencing
and of SO much importance was the
proper teaching of this art considered
that Louis XIV. granted ]etters-patent
% of l.
alone were permitted to teach in Paris.
When a vacancy occurred neither infu-
ence nor favor could suffice to obtain
this privilege. The applicant was
obliged to fence in public with six chosen
teachers, and if by any of them he was
beaten by two more than majority of
hits he was rejected as unqualified to
teach in the capital. The most eminent
European physicians have earnestly
recommended fencing to oil men between
the ages of II and 40 years. It is ap,
parent that the attitudes and exertions
Of fencing are conducive to the most
symmetrical physical development Sir
Everard Home says of this beautiful
art: "Of all the different modes in
which the body can be exercised, there
is none in my Judgment that is capable
of giving strength and elasticity, as well
as precision, to the action of all the vol
untary muscles of the body in an equal
degree as the practice of fencing, and
none more conducive to bodily health. ~
Many simils- extracts from letters OF
able physicians might be given, but il
is sufficient to know that they all speak
highly of it. Morning or evening is the
best time for fencing for exercise. In
England we may find in at least hall
of the houses of professional men foils
and masks. Of late years fencing has
begun to regain its old position. The
man feels better, works better and has
clearer brain who takes this exercise
Broad shoulders, expanded chest and
an erect carriage are certain results o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Native Dances.

The most graceful meke of all Fiiian
dances was one which represents the
breaking of the waves on coral-reef, q
poetic idea, admirably rendered Years
ago remember the delight with which
we hailed an exquisite statuette in Sir
Noel Paton's studio, representing the
curling of wave by beautiful female
figure, supposed to be floating thereon;
but never dreamed that we should find
the same idea so perfectly carried out by
a race we have been won't to think Of
only as ruthless savages. The idea to be
conveyed Is that of the tide gradually
rising on the reef, till at length there
remains only little coral isle, round
which the angry breakers rage, finging
their white foam on every side. At first
the dancers form in long lines and ap-
proach silently, to represent the quiet
advance of the waves. After while the
lines break up into smaller companies,
which advance with outspread hands and
bodies bent forward, to represent the rip
pling wavelets, the tiniest waves being
represented by children. Quicker and
quicker they come on, now advancing,
now retreating, yet, like true waves,
steadily progressing, and gradually
closing on every side of the imaginary
islet, round which they play or battle,
after the manner of brokers, springing
high in mid-air, and finging their arms
high above their heads, to represent the
action of spray. AS they leap and toss
their heads, the soft white naasi, or
native cloth (Which for greater effect
they wear as a turban, with long
streamers, and also wind round the
waist, whence it floats in long scarf like
ends), trembles and flutters in The
breeze. The whole effect is most artistic,
and the orchestra do their part in
initiating the roar of the surf on the reef
"a sound which to them has a never
ceasing lullaby from the hour of their
birth. At Home in FIT Gordon
Cumming.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28

DIR. BEARD explains the marvellous
powers exhibited at times by subjects in
a mesmeric or trance condition by the
exaltation of some single faculty-as of
calculation or music-with the suppress
sion of all other faculties to greater or
less degree, occurs sometimes in the
cases of idiots, whose brain power ap-
pears confined to one line of effort. In
such cases any improvement in general
ability or intelligence is attended by
lessening of the force of the exalted fac
ulty. The attention of the Medico-
Surgical Society, of st. Petersburg, has
lately been called to remarkable case,
illustrating this principle in the inverse
order. The subject, Russian of twenty
seven, was in youth distinguished for
brilliant abilities. Disease, brought on
by dissipation, caused the loss of all his
mental faculties except memory and tho
power of mathematical calculation.
Those increased proportonally as his
power of logical thinking and under
standing vanished. He is now living
phonograph and calculating apparatus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Trencher.Mates,

In six weeks 1 was as much at home
as if had been a Mohammedan all my
life. I formed friends, had little tifs
and jealousies with my companions in
the household all having the same
interests-and even eating out of the
same plates, without offering to bite,
though the disposition to do SO is so
strong as to be barely under control.
Darwinites may safely take my word for
this fact, and are at liberty to make use
of it as a startling analogy. Ny tren-
cher-mates were blind Moulvi doctor
of Divinity anda gentleman with only
two fingers on his right hand, the only
one with which a Mohammedan may
take food. 1 had, with infinite pains.
worked this myself, thinking I would
stand better chance but the first time
sat down found I had immensely un-
derrated my friends abilities, for nev-
er saw two men with such an alarming
capacity for curry and rice, or who
showed such extraordinary skill at put
ting it away. At first was little fas-
tidious, and had rather prejudice in
favor of not seeing greasy black hand
scratching merrily among my food. I
did not seem to enjoy it as much as I
OuSup, hOnOFOA, ~ y" 90 Jill PiOiuehOO
which I had to overcome. I began by
imagining lines drawn over the dish,
separating a corner of it to myself, and
operating inside these bounds. This
sort of thing did not last long the two
fingered gentleman's two long fingers
would come angling along through my
rice wall before 1 had got my third fist
full swallowed, or the Moulvi's skinny
hand would wave like mesmeric pass
over the dish, scatter grains of rice that
had stuck to his fingers from the last
mouthful over it, and then alight on my
most meaty morsel, piece had per-
haps had my eye on from the first; but
it would have shown greedy haste on my
part to have taken it SO early in the
play. No, hadn't chance with these
two thieves, for they got away fve-sixths
of the mess every meal, and with such
grace, too. "Bless you," they would
say, chow little you eat, Mohammed
Amin /" as they shared the last mouth
full between them.-"A Visit to Mecca, y
KeQ7le
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

THE Modocs are on the war path in New
Mexico.
The first Georgia cotton has been received at
Macon.
The Ohio Greenbackers refuse to fuse with
the Prohibitionists.
THE New York Legislature has adjourned
sine die, thank heaven.
| SWITZERLAND and Eastern France have been
considerably shaken by an earthquake.
THE Pennsylvania Commissioners are certain
that William Penn's remains can be identified,
SIS they were buried in a lead coffin.
THOMAS HALL. Hans Alison and August Saline,
werc killed in the West End Mine at Ham,
mondsvilc, Pennsylvania, by falling ore.
| The sequel to one of those marriages cele-
brated at Inwood Park, Cincinnati in the
midst of bacchanalian picnic some years ago
occurred in the murder of Sophie McHugh by
her brutal husband last week. He was jealous
of her, and stabbed her in Sixth-street market
where he happened to meet her, without word
| of warning.
THE news from Washington, on the 23d of
July, was alarming, and although an improve
ment was afterward noted in the condition of
| the President-or rather an arrest of the dis
couraging symptoms-there has been scarcelya
| foothold of enthusiastic hope. The doctors
| have reached a conclusion to the chills which
| afflicted the President upon that day. The
wound ceased to suppurate, and pus cavity
| formed below it. An incision was made, and
| the flow of pus was resumed. The doctors now
| give ont hopeful bulletins, but they can hardly
| be said to be encouraging. When asked
whether the operation performed overcame the
danger, DIR. Bliss said, 81 think sos but
| added that there would always be more or less
| danger as long as the bullet remained in the
Presidents body. There is much reservation
i'll these outgivings. They read though the
| physicians desired to keep up hope as long as
there is the least justification, but do not feel
| enthusiastic themselves. That there is hope is
about the best that be said now. Taking
into consideration all the circumstances-the
lack of knowledge concerning the location of the
bullet the uncertainty even as to whether tho
liver was perforated, the sudden and apparently
unforeseen change, and the loss of strength,
the hope is not much more than faint ouc.
There Is at least no prospect of relief, for
days or weeks to come, from the deep anxiety
which has pervaded the country for three
weeks. After the relapse people will not be
iattered by favorable reports, official or other
wise, till the President is able to be up. The
Importance which DR.. Agnew attaches to the
| slightest chance to remove the bullet gives the
| lainspring of the situation. As long as the
outlet remains in its hiding place there is
anger. Added to the periis Immediately fol-
lowing the shooting, there are malarial dam
| gers surrounding the White House. The Pres
| ident ought to be removed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
WHOLE NUMBER 743.
himself He exclaimed: "Miss Edliffe,
your conduct has been unwomanlyl

himself. He exclaimed: "Miss Edliffe,
your conduct has been unwomanIyl
You encouraged me-"
"Why did I encourage you?" she
asked, quietly interrupting him. "For
your own good-to teach you lesson.
Mr.. Surridge, your conduct has been
mort unmanlyl You Tilted Miss Lottie
solely for my money; you would have
married me with lie on your lipsl All,
you both look surprised; you wonder who
revealed your secret? Mr.. Clahaugh
was my informant"
81 was not" Mr. Clabaugh retorted.
eyes, you were. I was an uunoiced
listener to part of your conversation at
the Peagood Hotel, and your dilatori-
ness, MIR. Surridge, gave me the one
days start needed to come home and
instruct my mother and Hubert as to
my plan. Perhaps You remember that
the walters at that hotel were all young
ladies; several of us schoolteachers
needed both money and change of air,
so we engaged ourselves during the va
cation as walters at the Peagood Hotel,
and gained some money, plenty Of exer-
else, mountain air and little fun. In
addition, I gained material for parlor
comedy, in which you, Mr.. Surridge,
have admirably performed the part of
first villain. Ring down the curtain"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
THE LOVE OF LONG Ago.
BY ELLA WHEELER.
bered

When the nights werc long, and the earth was cum
bered
With drift on drift of cold, white snow,
with thousand beautiful things that slumbered.
There slept the love of long ago;
The summer ways Of my heart forsaken,
1t lay in silent and calm repose-
In sleep that seemingly knew no waking
With leaf and blossom and tree and rose.
But now, when the wanton earth Is bareing
To the sun's warm kiss with throbbing breast,
And the shameless skies smile on, uncaring,
The old love stirs with vague unrest.
In the sweet, dusk nights when the rain is falling
Quietly over vale and hill,
heard it's low voice calling-calling-
And my heart responds with nameless thrill.
The ice, and the SNOW, and the eetdeparted
And left the blossoms to wake and grow;
But strongest and hest Of the germs that started
Was the dear old love of the long ago.
What tho my reason and pride forbade it
Tho tread the earth down over its tomb
1t pushes the sods from the grave that hid Ii,
And rises newly to bud and bloom.
Ever and alway Its sad leaves turning
Toward a sun that has long since set
TO hud and bloom into passionate yearnfng,
Useless sorrow and vain regret
} dead old love, why have you risen
Out OF the grave tnat was dug for your
Go back, go back, to your silent prison,
And let me and my heart find something new.
Chicago Tribwne.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Health Food.

1t is no economy to use inferior food.
1t is a saving of money and time and
health to give ahigh price for what we eat,
if it be fresh and perfect, than to obtain
u for less on account OF its being wilt
I d or old or partially decayed. Some
people prefer their meat tender by
tion is taking place in palmer phrase,
it is rotting. Such meats require less
chewing and may appear very tender,
but it is a physiological fact that they
hre not digested as easily or as quickly
rs solid fresh meat. When a vegetable
begins to wilt it is no longer that vege.
table, because a change of particles has
taken place, and in such proportion it is
unnatural-it is dead-and to eat it
tends TO death. One of the most horri-
BILE forms of disease is caused by eating
sausages which have been kept long
time; more common in Germany than
elsewhere. Srarcely anything saddens
us SO much in passing through some Of
the by-streets and the more obscure av-
enues as the sight of the long kept meats
and shriveled vegetables which are sold
to the unfortunate poor at the corner
Dutch groceries. But the poverty
stricken are not the only sufferers the
richest men come in for their share, for
themselves and for their families, in pro-
portion as the mistresses of their splendid
mansions are incompetent or inattentive
to those household duties, the proper
performance or neglect of which makes
all the difference between a true wife
and contemptibi, doll. With all the
high-sounding advantages of pretentious
young Ladies' Boarding Schools" and
institutes" and alb that, with all the
twaddle about learning French and Ger
man, and music and aesthetics, how
many of these paint like girls are any
more fit to take charge of a mans house.
hold that to navigate a ship or calculate
an eclipse
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Another Comet.

Comets are getting plentiful, the fourth hav-
ing been discovered since the first of May.
The last was discovered by Michigan man,
and as yet can only be seen by telescope. It is
moving northwest, and can be found near
Capella. DR.. Swift, of the Warren Observatory,
thinks if it had passed around the sun the fact
would have been noted by Southern Hemisphere
observers, IF not by Northern. If it is coming
toward us it will grow brighter, and may be
visible to the naked eye
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
An Easy Death.

John Smith, notoriously bad negro and ex-
Penitentiary convict, in Laurens County,
Georgia, attempted the outrage of Mrs. R. T..
Downing, in the night, during the absence
of the husband. She screamed frantioally and
without accomplishing his purpose, frightened,
he fled, carrying his shoes and clothing in his
hand. The next day mob gathered and in
pursuit of the negro, came upon him while he
was in heavy sleep. Without awakening him
his body was completed riddled with bullets.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28

At Greenlief, near Fort Gibson, in the
Cherokee Nation, the Greeks and Oherokees
were having barbecue preparatory to nominat-
ing their candidates for the ensuing election
next month. Whisky flowed as freely as milk
and honey in the promised land. Two full
blood Indians, Bill Lovett and Deer Track, be-
came fighting drunk, and In their drunken
frenzy made an onslaught on some Of the
party. Seven men were killed and mortally
wounded. Two men, Jim Satterwait and his
father, were first shot and had their heads
completely severed from their bodies by the
crazed demons. The murderers are at large.
No efforts are being made to arrest them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Arkausas As.a..inatioua.

Assassinations in Arkansas are painfully fire.
quent. In Perry County Judge Harris and j.
T. W. Matthews, editor of the Fouche Valley
Times, were notified by select band Of OUT
laws to leave the country. They failed to COM
ply, and Matthews last week was riddled with
bullets at nine o'clock in the evening, in front
of his Office door. Judge Harris has received
another notice. Near Arkansas City, Robert
Costello shot and killed man named Gather
ing, who was plowing in a field. They had had
some trouble about some hogs. Costello shot
Gathering from q fence corner, where he had
secreted himself
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28

MORE than 1000 cakes of toilet soap
were stolen from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
last year by lady guests, and 2, 800 towels
went after the soap. Who's thief p
Free Press. What kind of guests did
YOU say? Persons who "lave not
wisely, but towel" are not ladies. If
the Fifth Avenue people were wider
awake, we should not heal of such soap
herrifc proceedings. None but guests
of the lowest caste-steal soap. The
Windsor ought to be the favorite for
soap thieves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Stnrted for Heaven

Henry s. Smith, who killed James Burt, his
tramp companion, near Burnsville, Miss, in
April, 1880, was hanged at Corinth, Miss, on
the 18th inst. Before starting on his long
journey he read several chapters aloud from
the Bible, and then gazing down upon the
audience, said: Goodbye hope to meet
you all in heaven" The Sheriff said: "God
have mercy on your SOUL" and cut the rope,
letting the fellow fall so hard it broke his neck.
The murder Of which he was guilty is said to
have been entirely unprovoked.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28

Portions Of Indiana are suffering from the
ravages of army worms. In Benton County
MIR. Moses Fowler, who has sixteen hundred
acres of oats. says that four hundred of it will
be worthless. Other farmers fare even worse.
In the vicinity of Des Moines, Iowa, a worm
said not to be the army worm, but resembling
it, is destroying everything green before it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Wu,,.m Penu,. Remain..

The London Times, speaking of William
Penn's remains editorially, says It's little
better than mockery to think of doing honor
to such man as Penn by the grotesque pro-
posal to disturb his remains. The thing is
happily impossible, as the Trustees Of the
burial place state that they are not GER
tain of the exact spot where the remains are
inferred. But even if it were possible it would
surely be instantly forbidden by the instructive
and irresistible sentiment of the two great
Nafiona -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Indignant Texnus.

The people of Texas, indignant at the con-
duct of Governor Roberts, respecting the set-
ting apart of day for the celebration of the
recovery of President Garfield, have met in
mass meeting and passed resolutions averring
their determination to celebrate the day set
apart by other States, and the press of the
State is severely criticising the Governor for
his Indifference in the matter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
E1.sennfor ConkIin.,. suc.e..o,..

The New York Legislature in JOINT convention
on the 22d inst, elected Eldridge G. Lapham
United States Senator uice Roscoe Conkling,
resigned. The vote stood: Senate-Lapham,
q; Potter, s. Assembly 70 Potter,
SO. Total-Lapham 90 Potter, A necessary
to choice, g. The Chair announced the cleo
ton of Eldridge G. Lapham.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
HnnGed bY n Mob.

Houston Turner, a copper-colored negro
aged nineteen years, who outraged Miss Mary
ONeal, prominent white girl, near Murfrees-
boro, July 8, was hanged to q tree in the Muir
freesboro jail yard by mob. The Sheriff had
started for Nashville with Turner in buggy,
but was overtaken by the mob and made to re.
turn to Murfreesboro.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
ARer.lon. r-an

A man named Beaumont arrived at Kilrusb.
Hland, from Norway, one day last week, in a
n4lf-detked boat thirty feet long, and sailed
ASAip for America, where he expects to arrive
inrAfty days. He carried eight days provisions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28

the bullet probably did not enter the great
cavity Of the body at all. Our experience with
the drainage tube confirms our previously ex-
pressed judgment that the ball did enter the
abdominal cavity and pierced the liver. be-
ieve it passed through that organ and is
lodged in the anterior wall Of the abdomen"
In conclusion, DR.. Bliss said there was moth
ing in the Presidents symptoms to indicate
that he is not progressingas favorably as could
be expected.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
The New Comet.

The new comet will be In perfhelion about
August 10. This comet is supposed to be that
discovered in China in 1887, its orbit seeming
10 be about the same. It Is now 150, ,00O, ,0Oo
miles from the earth and rapidly approaching
Ms. Its estimated distance from US, in perihe-
Hon, will be four-tenths that Of the sun, or
o6, ,000, 900 miles.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Guifeau,s Troubles.

Solitary confinement is very disagreeable to
Guiteau, and he is complaining seriously about
it. It is too bad, of course, and the heart Of
the Nation is bleeding for him,-to get at him.
He will never know how the country loves him
until, poor man, he is permitted few minutes
liberty, and then he might possibly find out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
LerisIatIng the Banana Peel.

The banana peel has become so powerful in
Its lubricity that the authorities Of New York
have begun legislating against 1t. They object
to its flip. And the man, woman or child who
puts one where it can do any Tipping will here
after be liable to fine and imprisonment, and
hence, summersaults on the sidewalk will be
dnna ayrav with
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
Struck OIL.

niacksmitn, AZ 1ytusvlle, Penn, digging
o hole In his garden-we don't know what for
struck oil at the depth Of four feet that
flows, on an average, two barrels of oil an
hour. The blacksmith was awfully surprised,
and had to go and dig another hole another
place.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
The Car in Peril.

The Nihilists Of Russia have resolved to give
the ozar one more warning. We suppose this
means that II he refuses to step down and out
and turn things over to them, they will blow
him into eternity. II that Is what they mean,
the chances are the Gear viii get blown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-28
me Pree,aent,. Humor.

Every morning Mrs. Garfield reads the head
ings Of important telegraphic news to the Pres
Ment, and by so doing, the other morning
read, "sitting Bull starvingl' "well, send
him my dish Of oatmeal, /" said the President.
II have no use for it,