The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
Turn out Ed. Ross. He has more than

If the taxpayers of this Corporation
don't look a little more out to their Off
Gals, they will wake up some day to a
shameful and reckless waste of public
funds.
A gentleman in an adjoining county
last week gave up the use of tobacco af-
ter sixty years addiction to the habit. It
was on his death bed, however, that he
did it.
A young city fellow bought a farm last
winter. He had fine orchard of about
two hundred apple trees, and a couple of
weeks ago he tapped every n of them
for cider.
The portly form of D. G. Balentine,
editor of the springfield TRANsoRIpT,
dropped into Eaton between trains last
Thursday evening. DAVE, why this mys-
FERROUS and selfish visit?
We notice by our exchanges that in
many parts of the State violations of the
liquor law subject the offenders to both
fine and imprisonment. The $50 fine
don't hurt much, but the JAIL part gem
orally closes up the business.
Wood-choppers inform us that they
find a great number of squirrels frozen
to death in their nests in the hollow
limbe of the trees. This has been a ter
rible winter for all kinds of wild game.
l@Ottowa Sentinel.
Five years ago over 100000 croquet
sets were sold in this country. This ac-
counts for the number of old maids and
old bachelors left to mou alone. Gro
quet will raise a rumpus quicker'n a pol
itical discussion.
Valentine day draws near, and any
young gentlemen who have been snub-
bed by the ladies can revenge their al
legged wrongs by sending to the snubber
a caricature Of herself with a nose a foot
long, astride Of which, a well developed
wart sits in calm serenity.
We thought certainly enough evils had
been predicted to fall upon the people
during the year 1881, but now Prof. Riley
of the chronological Commission, says
that both the thirteen and seventeen
lyear locusts are to make their appear
ance this year. It was ever thus, mis-
fortunes never come singly.
We will thank post-masters when
copies of the DEMocRAr addressed to par
ties at any P. o., and not lifted, to notify
us promptly. We do not propose to FORCE
our paper on any one, rs has been the
custom of some publishers, neither do
we want it to lay dead and of no account
in the post-offices.
Parents of girl skaters would do we'll
to heed the advice of the modern bard,
before going to the Rink:
"Fill her hustle full of sponges,
For she's going out to skate;
She will need their yielding softness
When she tries the figure g."
An experienced matron says: ga man
will eat soggy biscuits twice a week with
out a complaint when his girlinvites him
out to tea, but when the girl becomes his
wife, if there is the ~faintest suspicion of
salaratus in them the neighbors will
think the district school is out for recess
by the racket he makes"
Weacal the attention of all persons
wanting a piano or organ, to the adver-
tisement of Cornish & Co., in another
part of our paper. They will sell cheap
er and give better instruments thar any
other establishment in the United States.
Try them, and if you don't find it SO, call
on us for the difference.
The quality of the ssblizzards'' that
have seen fit to boom this winter is of a
kind to be borne in the memory OF biz
zard-collectors. They won't forget to tell
their children all about it. 1880. carries
us back to 1857; and perhaps 1900 will
remind posterity that its ancestors lived
in the year 1881, when ''blizzards" took
their rise.
Who is responsible for the conine-
ment of Ed. Ross in our jail for five
months, because he can't pay a fine of
$50? It is an outrage on humanity to
keep the poor devil there any longer.
He has two small children around whom
a fathers affections cling-the county
has ALREADY paid out over $50 for his in
generation and these should be sufficient
appeal to decency, Justice and HUMANE
lyto give him his liberty.
There can be no possible harm in a
good-natured laugh. Indeed, it is just
as truly a duty to look for the pleasant
side of life, and while looking to laugh
|, at the rollicking humor which it some
times displays, as it is to see its more Sc.
rious and sombre side. The man who
honestly believes that he is always walk,
ting through a vale of tears, either has
the dyspepsia or else has got hold of The
! wrong end of religious conviction.
: How many of our County officials at
tended the railroad meeting and showed
an interest in the enterprise by giving
aid and comfort to it2 How many OF oul
Corporation officials were present? Lee
the alive citizens of Eaton look at these
things and reflect. If they want the
town to grow and prosper, they must fill
; its official positions with alive and liber
T al men, instead of penurious stumps ant
: stick.in-the-muds, who look only at thei
own advancement.
The Whittier exercises by the Publ,
> Schools last Friday, were well and yer!
E creditably rendered. Among the recita
tons, Barbara Fritchie," by Lul,
a Spahr, was undoubtedly best delivered
s Thos. Campbell's essay on whittier
Life and Works." was of the bes
productions given by any member of GU
0 schools for some time. The music, con
sidering the fact that every grade sang
and music has been taught only one term