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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Negro aristocrats.

{, In q /, ttstudyo of an old Southern bor-
ough" In the Atlantic Monthly we find
the f%ollowing; SIN the newer towns and
the larger cities the negroes have by this
time forgotten their old masters and their
old homes, or do not care for them. But
in an old borough there are always some
who have passed their whole lives there.
There they were slaves. and there they
have lived since their emancipation.
Their old masters they always address as
'old maser' and his sons as Mars James,
or Mars Thomas or whatever their
Christian name may be. At their old
home they feel they enjoy no slight priv
ilege, and even that they have q sort Of
right to see that everything about the
household goes on well. These old ne
groes have q sort of contempt for those
who have no such old attachment. It is
a common phrase among them, in speak
ing of negro who did not belong to an
aristocratic family, dat Niger amt got
no menners, neber had no raisin'-pool
folks niger Sometimes these old ne
gro men preserve the lordly manner oi
their masters. Their negro dialect does
not seem to detract from their gentility,
and they are noticeable as men Of par
ticularly fine manners.
ga Virginia lady in Louisville had
employed a genteel old negro man te
nurse her son, who was suffering with :
broken limb. She noticed at once the
dignifed bearing of the negro; and one
day she asked him: Uncle Ned wher'
were you reared?
"Tn old yirginny, madam with
polite bow. 80
I'll am a vitginian myself she con
tinued.
"sFrom what part of de State
madam {?
".From Fairfax. Uncle Ned. M.
maiden name was Morson.'
"t1 knowed dat we was related
madam. b1onged to old Mars Hugl
Morson. I knowed dat we was re
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Ho, Ye men of sorrowful mienl Would you

Ho! Ye men of sorrowful mienl Would you
be happy, blithe, and gay? Then send for the
common sense : profanity saving -thumb-nail-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the LIGHT
MING CUFF FASTENER, an effective little
missionary that goes about doing good every
day in the week. Cuffs can be put on and
taken off in the twinkling of an eye. No more
Indebtedness at the toilet. No more broken
finger nails. A great saving in laundry bills
and wear and tear ofcuffs. Every woman who
wants to see her husband always wear a smile
as sweet as new milk, will see that he has a
pair of the Lightning Fasteners on his sleeves
before next Sunday morning. Every man who
wants to see the sun shine every day in the
year, will sit right down and order a pair at
once. Sent anywhere for thirty cents in three
cent stamps. Clergymen half price. Address
BROWN Bros, 2O51S Race St., Cincinnati, o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
An Editors Debt.

In the years agone, when De Witt,
Clinton Co., was the county seat and a
right smart village in the woods. or on
the way to be, the editor of its weekly
paper had some subscribers who paid in
wood, others in produce, others in fur,
and others yet who didn't pay at all.
One of these latter class was named
Lemon, but to squeeze anything out of
him was next to impossible. He had ex-
cuses at his tongues end for not paying,
and the longer the debt stood the more
reasonable his excuses seemed to his
creditors. One day the editor met him
on the street, and after a general greet
ing began on him with:
FMr. Lemon, you have been owing me
for two years."
Eyes, but I had bad luck in my sugar
bush"
~But you might have brought wood"
$50 I should, but I broke two new
axes and couldn't buy another"
81 offered to take it out in turnips and
corn"
81 know but the crows ate my corn up
and the Injuns stole all my turnips."
"Wel, how are you getting along
now ?" asked the editor.
First-rate."
Have you good run of sugarl'
eyes"
"Corn doing well ?"
fSplendid."
wheat all right ?"
"Yes, all right"
fWell, if corn, wheat, potatoes and
turnips turn out good, and you keep well,
and you have no losses, will you pay me
in the fall ?"
The farmer scratched his head and
took a full minute to think it over before
he replied:
''That's an honest debt and orter be
paid, but 1 won't positively agree to
square up this fall until L know what
sort of a corn season we are to have!"
1t is needless to say that he never paid.
I-DetroSt Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

POETRY makes hope a formation, grief
makes it a ~solace, and desolation makes it
the brightest flower that adorns earthly
creation, while even disappointment and
delusion whisper darkness out of the sky
of to-day into the sunshine of tomorrow.
Sobbing sorrow may crush and cripple
the soul, but hope gives it new elasticity.
Nay, it may be Inundated in the dust,
but hope will raise it up again. Hope is
mans birthright, which, after all his
Establishments, decisions and mockeries,
never maketh him ashamed to hope on,
hope ever. Airy fancies may allure him,
and smiling faces beguile him into
treachery, but hope fits eternal. round
the human head and breast and hangs
the rainbow on the blacklist cloud on all
the chaste sparklings Of an angel from
immortal light.
They are to be pitied the most who
have nothing to do. They are happy
who must needs keep moving in the
groove of duty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
LITTLE FOLKS.


Summer said to the Spring, "what . wonderful
thing
1 am sure that to you my blossoms are due,
And l fell am taking your place.
81 never can blush but I think Of your dush,
Aud the eyes Of the flowers at evening are wet;
There was something 20 fair in your innocent air
That your going We can but regret"
"You beautiful Conner, - said Spring to the Summer,
81 lived out my life but to brighten your way;
/ heard the buds swelling, and could not help telling,
For I knew you would see then some day.
at was only my duty to bring you the beauty,
And to help one another is lesson for all;
And perhaps you'll be willing, your mission fulfill
ing,
To leave something to brighten the Fall"
I. C. Wilton. sFrTRMaE, H@r@ s.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
..You DON'T Know heir yaIue.n

''They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and Kid
ney Complaint, as recommended. l had a half
bottle left, which 1 used for my two little girls,
whom the doctors and neighbors said could not
be cured. 1 am confident 1 should have lost
both of them one night if I had not had the
Hop Bitters in my house to use. 1 found they
did them SO much good 1 continued with them,
and they are now we'll. That is why l say you
do not recommend them highly enough."-B.,
Rochester; N. Y,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

Borrowing and loaning stocks-When
a party has sold stock short and not
bought it in by the time delivery must
be made, he "borrows" the stock for
the purpose Of making a delivery, pay
ing the owner the market price at the
time, and agreeing to return it at the
same price on demand or at fixed time,
the lender of the stock paying the Dor
rover an agreed rate Of interest on the
money, or the borrower paying the lend
er an agreed premium for the use of the
stock, as the case may be.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostratlon
n all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEPToNIzED BEEF Tonic. the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
~tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
If resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

very respectable "haul."
But at this moment the garrison-boat
is seen putting off from the shore, with
of the Pasha's officers in the stern
sheets. At sight of the well-known Off
cial flag, our water-babies scatter like
wild-fowl, and the next moment all the
little black-heads are seen bobbing over
the shining ripples on their way back to
the shore.-Dauid Ker, in Wide Quake.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

NJ. BLoNDEAU gives the following re-
clpe for purifying and bleaching sponges:
The sponges are first washed in teped
water, and then in hydrochloric acid,
which frees the pores from the carbonate
OF lime. To bleach them they are i'm
mersed for twenty-four hours in a solu-
ton composed of five parts of hydro
chloric acid to 100 parts of water, with
the addition of six pints of hyposulphate
of soda. In this way sponges may be
bleached more effectually and rapidly
than with sulphurous acid.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
A Constant Lover.

Jeremy Bentham, the victim of a life
long attachment to a lady. of the Fox
family, is q figure that takes us a little
by surprise. In his eightieth year
he wrote to her, reminding her of a
flower which she had given him on the
lawn at Bowood. "From that day not q
single one has passed (not to mention:
nights in which you have not engrossed
more of my thoughts than you could
have wished" Sir John Bowring says
that the old man was much mortified by
the GOODNESS of the answer which he
received
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

The eminent author, Prof. A. G. Kendrick, D.
D., LII. D., who is professor Of Hebrew, Latin
and Greek in the University Of Rochester, and
was one of the ~revisers of the New Testament,
in general conversation with a number of gen.
tlemen, . short time since, said: IT have re-
ceived from the use of Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure very marked benefit, and I can
most cordially recommend it to Others"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
NPHer Refurn.

1t is said that one out of every four real in
valids who go to Denver, Col, to recover health
corpse. The undertakers next to the hotel
keepers, have the most profitable business.
This excessive mortality may be prevented and
patients served and cured under the care of
friends and loved ones at home, if they will but
use Hop Bitters in time. This we know. See
other column,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

Two crows have built a nest in one OF
the two fine plane-trees in the center Of
the City of London, inside the archway
in st. Paul's c~hurchyard. The plane
trees in question are remarkable as the
home each night of from five thousand
to six thousand of the London sparrows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
A Gard.
GnEN's FALLS. n. Y, Dec. 1

GIEN's FALLS, N. Y, Dec. IA, 1880.
REV. MI. L. N. ST. ONCE:
Dear Sir-Wil you please state below
what satisfaction st. Jacobs Oil gives you,
which you got of us some time ago, and
oblige LEGGETT d. BUSH.
Very effective. l.. N. ST. ONCE.
-Glen's Falls IN. " Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

THE theory that a, submerged body
can be raised by firing cannon over it
was recently proved in Chicago. A
plumber named Leonard had jumped
off the wharf and drowned himself, and
his friendsgot out the artillery and raised
him by firing over the spot where he
had gone down. He thought it was a
water pipe bursting.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

CARBo11NE, deodorized extracto Of petroleum,
cures badness. This is q positive fact, attest
eddy thousands. No other hair preparation In
the world will really dc this. Besides, as now
improved it is q delightful dressing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

BEAcoNsFIEID is quoted as saying:
''The first duty of a public man is to
despise popularity. He also quoted
the saying of Roger Bacon, ..'That which
is approved by the vulgar is necessarily
false" But both sayings are false doc
trine In d free country.-Bu6aIo Es-
press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
aOW1O SECURE EALTB.

It is strange any one will suffer from arrangements
brought on by impure blood, when sCoVILL's sARSA-
PARILLA N S~TILLINGIA, or BLOOD AND LIVER
SYRUP will restore health TO the physical organic ton.
III STRENGTHENING syrup, pleasant to take, andthe BEST
BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing Scrofuia,
Syphifitic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, ErYsipe-
las, Malaria, Nervous disorders, Debility, Bilious COM
plants and Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys,
Stomach, Skin, etc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Standing ON His Dignity.

A prohibitionist went into a saloon,
under the influence of liquor, and asked
a prominent politician to treat.
"You can't be thirsty again. You
have just had a drink"
''Of coursh (hic) I'm not thirsthy,"
was the indignant response. ''H I don't
drinksh schepton when L ish thirsthy,
what advantage have I got over a beasht
of the field?"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

WOMEN that have been bed-ridden for years
have been completely cured by the use OF LYDIA
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

GUARD against fever and all malarial diseases
by using Kidney-Wort.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
LIVE STOCK.
Eiea and Mosauitoe.

FIeB and MosqultOe8
15c. box sRough on Rats" keeps a house free
from flies, bed-bugs, reaches, rats, mice, DC.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

DIR. G WORM SYRUP instantly destroys
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

BAKERS PAIN PGNAcEA cure, pain in Man and
Beast,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
A Famliy OF chronic Laughers.

A preposterous story originates in
FrenchtOwn, New jersey, of farm
er and his family of sons and daugh-
tiers who live near by, They are
chronic laughers, and when the fit
is on them, can no more restrain
their cachinnation than a well-reg-
ulated clock can keep from ticking.
This unfortunate and groteSque
malady attacked the father first
about ten years ago, and since then
all the other members of the family
have SUCCESSFULLY seen the joke and
began to laugh. These spells occur
twice day, and leave the family
little exhausted, possibly, but in
no other respect the worse for wear.
The neighbOrs have become accus-
toned to the thing, and think moth
of seeing their old friends going
about their daily avOcations in a
roar of laughter. Charles, the eld-
est son, who had held out against
the infection for years, and enter
tanned reasonable hopes that he
alone should escape, had the morti-
fication to undergo his first attack
while he was in the very act of pro-
posing for the hand of Harrisburg
girl. He had succeeded in convey
ing to the young lady an idea of the
state of his heart, but had not arriv-
ed at the point where even smiles
were in order when he burst into
immOderate laughing, which so
frightened the object of his devotion
that she fled from the room. She
subsequently, listened to an eXplana-
ton, however, and is now a menu
Der of the family circle. Several
grandchildren are now in existence,
all of whom with single exception
inherit the malady.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
ralr play out West.


They give man "a chance out
West. In Dead, Custer, or any Of
those new Western towns, the spirit
of fair play crops to the surface ev-
en- in judicial proceedings. In
March last, a Michigan man who
keeps an eating-house at Gunnison,
was over-particular about taking q
counterfeit half-doIlar, and in the
row which, resulted he was consider
ably battered. He therefore called
upon the Justice of the Peace and
stated his case and asked for a war
rant.
81 guess 1 wouldn't make fuss
over it." replied the official.
ssBut he meant to kill me.n
= Yes, i presume so, but he'll leave
town and that will end it."
nBut he is dangerous man. I"
Yes, they say so; but no one is
afraid of him." A
"Judge, do you know what he
said about you when 1 told him I'd
have him arrested ?''
"NO.n
"Well, he said you were a blamed
grashopper eater !"
ssYes, but he didn't mean it,"
"And he called you a reptile"
"Well he was mad, | suppose"
'1Yes, and he was mad when he
said you didn't know enough 10
write your own name, and therefore
couldn't issue a warrant.!n
''Did he say that 20
stue did,"
ttrrt,r,, T,It ;e,e,,o ~, hin, I;I1e, n for,
ton avalanche on yaller mule! The
man who Sneezes at my larnin'
must have Il contempt for the judicl'
ary." ~
The warrant was issued, the par
ty arrested and tried, and the YER
dict OF the court was.
s'Gunnison William, the verdict
ofthe court is that you are guilty,
and the sentence is a fine of $50 in
cash. This court can't get over the
fact that you vilified its mental cal
ibre. 1t is also aware Of the fact
that you haven't a red to pay your
fine with. Now, then, if you will
meet this court back of this building
on the level it will either get away
with you in six and a half minutes
or remit the fine. / want to prove
to the citizens of GunnfsOn that in
electing me to the judiciary they
have cast their votes for man who
can spit ON his hands insix different
languages and git away with hog
pen full of roughs without having
an ear scratched. Prisoner at the
bar, have you anything to say ?''
The prisoner had. He said he'd
rather go to. Jail, and to Jail he
went. ~
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
Temperance.


The salOOn-keepers of Chicago
khave taken to Bible-study, and are
publishing on thousands of slips of
paper and cards, the passages in
which they think they find sane
ton for their business.
The "four-mile law" is better
advertisement for Tennessee than a
million spent in migration
schemes. Let every legislator who
loves his state and race stand by
that law.
1t is said that the information
which enables Government officials
to break up the illict-distilleries of
| the South often comes from women
whose husbands and fathers are
victims of incompetence. The
North Carolina Baptist Convention
adopted the following: Resolved,
that the Board of Missions petition
the Legislation of North Carolina
to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of spurious liquors. A Wis
cOnsin woman, who brought suit
against eight saloon keepers for
making her husband a drunkard,
and reducing the family to power
ty, has beaten the only one who re-
fuses to settle, giving some remu-
neratiOn aud has obtained from him
$12, 900 damages. a5. 81. +.
A liquor-dealor in Norwich Conn.
on being prosecuted for selling
liquor illegally, said to the prOsecu
ting agent; "YOu did not send
your officers to my place any too
quick. 1t is a miserable business.
1 am obliged to you; you came
just in time to save One." The peO-
pie of North Carolina are getting to
be in terrible earnest in the deter
mination to put down the liquor
traffic. Look out for victory. The
North CarOlinians, when once
aroused, are hard to stop. The
neutrals will have to take sides
soon in the fight against whisky.
Their cOnscienceS are right now; all
they lack is the courage of their
convictions, some of these, when
they do start in ON the right side
will do good work. In the pend
ing conflict between the liquor traf-
fic and society, some christians will
have to determine between illegiti-
mate individual interests on the
one side and the preservation of
public morals on the other. Let no
woman hesitate. Give, a dozen
whisky saloons in a town and
dozen men in each with loaded pis-
tolls in their hip-pockets, and you
have everything ready for bloOdshed
and murder. ~
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
The Queen of Home.

Honor the dear old mother. Time
has scattered snowy flakes on her
brows, plowed deep burrows on her
cheeks, but Is she not sweet and
beautiful now? The lips are thin
and shrunken, but those are the lips
which have kissed many Il hot tear
from the childish checks, and they
are the sweetest lips in the world /;
the eye Is dim, yet : it CLOVIS with
the soft radiance that can never
fade. All, yes, she is a dear old
mother. The sands of life are near
ly run out, but, feeble as she is, she
will go further and reach down
lower for you than any other person
on earth. You cannot enter a
prison whose bars can keep her out!
You cannot mount a scaffold too
high for her to reach that she may
kiss and bless you in evidence of
her deathless love when the world
shall despise and forsake you; when
it leaves you by the wayside to per-
ish unnoticed, the dear old mother
will gather you in her. arms and
carry you home and tell you of all
your virtues until you almost forget
your soul is disfigured by vices.
Love her tenderly, and cheer the
declining years with holy devotion.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
Long Balloon Trip.
Philadelphia Record.

In order to demonstrate the fea-
sibility of keeping Il balloon intla-
ted for a period of time sufficient to
cross the Atlantic, Professor King,
the well known eronaut, is contem-
plating an air voyage from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic coast.
The Minnesota Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, under whose
auspices the biggest fair of the
West is annually held, have offered
to contribute the sum of 81 200 to-
ward the expenses of the trip, and
also furnish the gas, provided the
start is made from their fair
grounds in Minneapolis on Septem-
Der z. The balloon to be used in
the trip will have a capacity of
100000 feet of gas, and will be
made of different thickneSses of ma
teriaI and interlined with rubber.
The idea is to keep i'm the air when
the winds are favorable, and to
come down when they are contrary.
In crossing the prairies a drag rope
will be kept out.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
Wan n Laughing Machine.

Man is said to be the only ami
nal that can cry, and yet he is not
really a crying creature. He is a
laughing and smiling creature. The
hours which bring tears do not come
very often. Some firesides see ten
or twenty years inwhich no one has
cause fOrweeping. Many hundreds
and thousands meet with no sorrow
for quarter n century. The days
on which man cries are few COM
pared with all the days of his life.
Man is an animal that can cry, but
he is most perfectly creature that
laughs. Not many days pass that
bring no pleasant smiles to the ma
iOrity. There is a column of laugh
ter in the daily newspaper. The
light dreams of a pure and ingeni-
Gus quality draw large audiences,
while painful tragedy is less popu-
lar, becauseall mankind would rath-
er laugh than cry. 1t ought to be
AN a DriOri argument in favor of
life's intrinsic sweetness and worth
that man comes up into il with his
face beaning with smiles, and this
smile widens out as years pass, and
the dear old father laughs and plays
with children, and one merriment
like one electricity thrills the heart
of infant and Of patriarch. Fr4
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-25
WOULD AND OrouLDNOr.
is1 W 5. FKAzIER
Toledo Blade.

1 would not roll IN luxury
Above my fellow man,
nor SIT upon wesllthis pinnacle
Grim want beneath 10 scan.
1 would not WELD the scepter
OF unbOunded power,
Nor holo one soul ia terror
For single hour.
I would not mount the battlement
To hurl destruction down,
Nor grin through deeds OF violence
A bloody high renown-
i would not court the smiling
OF wan Fashions queen,
Nor toll beneath that Durden,-
Ornamental sheen.
1 would not SIT in fdleness
Through ali the fieeting years,
Nor see the gloomy bitterness
or unnvailing tears.
l would not ride IN grandeur
And crash the poor beneath
The wheels OF rolling splendor
Upon the common heath.
Still, 1 would have competence
OF worldly goods in store:
And, OF the saffron mineral,
Sufiiciency-n0 more.
I'd win from all my neighbOs
A deep respect and love.
Instead of hollow praises
The gem of truth above.
And would turn in tenderness
The erring from their way,
And tell them.of tile lOvelfness-
OF Heavens fairer day.
I'd have them tread the pathway
Their loving Savior tr0d,
And look Tor peace and snccor
To Abrams faithful God.
I'D be n humble instrument
In His almighty hand,
10 lead men TO the heavenly
And consecrated band.
And l would cheer the weeping
With tender words of love,
And gain beyond Deaths portals
a blessed Home above.