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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
A Prosecuted Man.

The indianapolis Herald tells of the
t~ribulations of a farmer who came to
town recently. When about two miles
from home the wind blew off his hat-a
new and stylish plug, which he had pur-
chased a few days previously, thinking
he would make his first appear
ance in the city, looking respectable,
at least as to head-gear. Both wheels
of the heavy wagon passed directly over
it, crushing the tile into a thoroughly
shapeless mass. He was obliged to
cover his caput with q bandanna until
his arrival in town, where they gener-
ally keep all sorts of h~ead-covering for
sale. A little further on, n wheel came
off, and he was unceremoniously pitched
out into the road, and considerably
bruised. A stranger assisted him in
again getting on the pin, but in the act
of driving in the linchpin, the helpful
stranger happened to strike one of the
unfortunate fellows thumb a terrible
blow, completely dislodging the nail.
About this time the man had serious
ideas of retracing his way homeward,
but finally screwed his courage up to the
sticking place, and decided to come on
and defy fate. He wrapped up the mutt
lated thumb as well as possible, and
proceeded. He had gone but a short
distance further, when an Internal old
dog jumped at one of his horses, causing
the animal to spring SO suddenly as to
break his headstall and throw it off,
when the horse, more stepid than
vicious, turned square around, and
wedged himself, his mate and the wagon
and contents in a fence corner. Help
fortunately came to his rescue, the team
was finally ~extricated, and the man pro-
ceeded. He had brought a little t'snack"
from home and feeling slightly hungry,
thought he would eat a bit. In taking
it out of his pocket with his well hand,
which happened to be the left one, he
dropped it overheard, and before he
could spring out to get it, a couple of
selfish, ll-mannered hogs gobbled it up
TO the last morsel, not even leaving him
q "leettle bit O. cheese" When he
finally arrived in town, he found that
each of horses was minus shoe, and
a pair of substantial blankets, intended
for the animals in case of need, had
"gone glimmering through the dream
of things that were" He is q perfectly
temperate individual, but desires that
his name shall not be mentioned, con-
Guiding that if it should become public
that such a succession of little tribula-
tions attended his progress here, he
couldn't get credit at any store in town
to the amount of fifty cents-provided
he should ever be compelled to ask for it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
The Parasite of Malaria.

Prot. Laverau, of the Medical School
of Valde-Grase, has published q work
describing what he considers to be a
new parasite which he has found in the
blood of persons affected with malarial
fever. A notice of his discovery was
communicated to the Academy of Medi-
cine SO long ago as November, 1880, but
it seemed to have attracted little atten-
ton, being thought to be simply one of
the numerous announcements made of
late years, of the discovery of the cause
of malaria, which prove in the end to
have no foundation. The organism de-
scribed by Prof. Laverau is a minute
cell, in general appearance somewhat
like a white blood ~corpuscle, and hav-
ing, like it, ameboid movements. He
considers it to be animal rather than
vegetable in character, but for this there
seem to be no sufficient grounds.-San-
itary Engineer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Possibilities of Cotton Production.

It may be we'll to remark at the out
set that the production of cotton in the
South is practically without limit. It
was 1880 before the American crop
reached 1000, 900 bales, and the highest
point ever reached in the days of slav-
cry was a trife over 1900, 900 bales.
The crop of 1SS0-S1 is about 1000, 600
in excess of this, and there are those
who believe that a crop of 5000, 900
bales is among the <~certainties of the
next few years. The heavy increase in
the cotton crop is due entirely to the
increase of cotton acreage brought
about by the use of fertilizers. Mill
ions of acres of land, formerly thought
to be beyond the possible limit of the
cotton belt, have been made the best of
cotton lands by being ~artifcially en-
riched. In North Carolina alone the
limit of cotton production has been
moved twenty miles northward and
twenty miles westward, and the half of
Georgia on which no cotton was grown
twenty years ago now produces fully
half the crop of the State. The "area
of low production" as the Atlantic
States are brought to the front by arti-
fetal stimulation is moving westward,
and is now central in Alabama and
Florida. But the increase in acreage, as
large as it is, will be but a small factor
in the increase of production, compared
to the intensifying of the land now in
use. Under the present loose system of
planting. the average yie.d is only one
bale to three acres. This could be east
ly increased to a bale an acre. In
Georgia FIVE bales have been raised on
one acre, and a yield of three bales to
the acre is credited to several localities.
President Morehead, of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters Association,
says that the entire cotton crop of the
present year might have been easily
raised in fourteen counties along the
Mississippi river. 1t will be seen,
therefore, hat the capacity of the
South to produce cotton is practically
limitless, and, when we consider the
enormous demand for cotton goods now
opening up from new chimes and peo-
Piles, we may conclude that the near
future will see crops compared to which
the crop of the past year, worth $780,
000, 600, will seem small.-Henry W.
Grady, in Harper's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
why Uncle Pheasant married.

Uncle Pleasant Batkins is go and his
wife 70. The other day a friend said:
"Uncle Pleasant, why in the mischief
enough to be your mother? ?" "You see,
boy" he replied, with a sigh, ct was
wurkin' for Long John Freemon, in Han
over, when I was Jest IL, and Sarah Ann
Russ, old Mrs. Russ only daughter, was
80 if she wur a day. At every quiltin'
she used to chuse me for q partner, and
everybody said it 'peared like she wur a
courtin' me. She gimme four pair cot
ton socks and a heap of things but still
I didn't have no notion of her. Well,
n Christmas ave I went to the old
womaR's and had hardly sat down before
Sarah Ann brought me some sweet-po-
tato pie, which she knowed I was mon
strous fond of. While I was eatin' it i
heard the old woman up stairs account
in silver dollars. Now, thar was no
plaster to the ceilin', and the upstairs
foo had cracks in it as wide as my fin
ger. So, you see, I could her the jingle
of the money jest as we'll as if I had
been up thar myself. When she had
counted 906, I drawed up to Sary Ann
and popped the question. In course
she said she'd have me, and the next
Thursday we was married. Now. whit
do you think I found out the next day a
Why that the old womandidn't have but
80 Mexican dollars, and that she counted
them over and owe jest to fool me.
Don't marry for money, boy, specially
for silver dollars. "-Richnnond Ernreaa
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Farming in Japan.

Milton s. Vail, a missionary in Japan,
gives the following account of Japanese
farming:
The farmers in Japan seem to operate
on a small scale. All the land belongs
to government, and all have to pay a
good rent. Wheat, barley, rye, and
buckwheat are grown in rows, the weeds
being kept out by hoeing. It seems
strange to see all their grain growing in
rows, but no doubt good crops are thus
produced. Rice is the chief product of
Japan. The earth nearly everywhere is
black, and the black soil of the valleys,
when well cultivated and made to hold
the water from the neighboring hills,
makes good rice fields. The soil Is
broken by manual labor. Men go in to
the mud up to their knees, and with a
l~ong-bladed hoe turn the earth over.
Horses are used to harrow it down, and
when ready, the rice plants are set out
by hand. The rice of Japan is very fine,
and the Japanese know how to cook it.
With them it is the principal article of
food-a little rice, with pickles and tea,
often constitutes the meal. The people
do not know how to make bread, but
seem to be very fond of it when they can
get it of foreigners. They have flour
which they use in various ways in the
simplest kind of cookery. 1 noticed in
coming to this place Hakone, a mount
ain town forty-five miles from Yokohama
that at some of the inns, instead of tea,
they gave US a drink made of pounded
wheat. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, egg
plants, corn, melons, cabbages, onions,
and turnips are also grown, and Other
vegetables, the names of which I do not
know, and never saw in America.
think all the vegetables grown in New
York can be cultivated here. OF fruits,
we have peaches, plums, oranges, straw.
berries, pears, and p~ersimmons, also
figs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Sahara Not Rslom Sea Level.

The curious co~smographic error has
has long prevailed that the surface of the
great Desert of Sahara, in Africa, was
depressed below the ocean level. Some
have seriously suggested that a clnal be
cut from the Atlantic or the Mediterran-
can, by which the desert might be filled
with water, a new sea formed, inter-
communication facilitated, and COM
merce increased with the interior. DR..
LEM has recently lectured in Paris on
his journey from Morocco to Timbuctoo.
He says the great desert is actually a
plateau about 1000 feet above, the level
of the ocean, and that nowhere is there
such a depression as formerly imagined.
The fossils found are fresh water kinds,
so that the Sahara is not the bottom of a
dried up sea. The tiInid who have APP
pretended that the revolving earth
might be thrown out of balance by the
placing of a broad, deep sea on the sur
face of the great desert, may calm their
fears.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
uea,uer

When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select the
smallest cloud you see. Keep your eye
upon it, and if it decreases and disap-
pears it shows a state of the air which
is sure to be followed by fine weather;
but if it increases in size, take your
great coat with YOU if you are going
from home, for falling weather is not far
of. The reason is this When the air
is becoming charged with electricity You
will see every cloud attracting all lesser
ones toward it, until it gathers into
a shower; and, on the contrary, when
the, fluid is passing off, or diffusing it
self, then a large cloud. will be seen
breaking into pieces and dissolving.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20

and decorations. The saloon proper is
frescoed and gilded in Eastlake style, and
the flooringis covered with Turkish carpet
The furniture, in raw silk and walnut, of
the Queen Anne pattern; like that of the.
dining-han, and rich curtains of damask
complete the impression ola veritable float
ing palace. The four state-rooms, contain
ing two berths each, are also carpeted with
Brussels and handsomely furnished. The
boat belongs to and was built under the
directions of Messrs A. Vogeler & Co.,
Baltimore, Md, for their own exclusive use
upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other West
ern rivers, and is u by q picked crew of
officers and men in their employ. The
object of this little steamer is to carry
neither freight nor passengers. She was
built for the firm above named, to be used
exclusively by them for distributing their
printed matter in the river towns for ST.
JACOBS OIL, the Great German Remedy
for rheumatism and other painful ailments.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Northless Patents.

"The Perfection Window Cleaner"
was In. substance a rubber mounted on
q long handle convenient for reaching
up to clean lofty windows and the like /;
the popularity of the device consisting
in the way in which a cushion for rub
bling was adjusted, SO that 1t could be
pressed against the surface to be cleaned.
The court said that there was nothing
new in this; the implement was only q
mop or scrubbing brush made of india
rubber.
"Improved Kindling Wood" was pat
ented, consisting of wood tied up IN
small bundles, each containing q lump
of eombustible matter which would take
fire from a common match. The court
said that there was no more invention
in this than there would be In selling a
sherry-cobbler glass with q straw in it,
or a can of food with a fork. As at first
devised, the "Fare-box" used In city
omnibuses and street-cars was inefficient
for want of an opportunity to b driver
to see whether the proper fare been
put in. Some one obtained q patent
for the improvements of fitting q second
window and O reflector, In such q man.
ner that the driver might, either by day
or night. see the coin which had been
deposited. With these changes the
fare-box became o success. But the
court said that there was no invention
in inserting an additional window, OF
in putting in q reflector near a lamp.
To relieve drivers from the necessity
of buying q new whip because the tip
end has become frayed or broken, while
the stock remained good, an inventor
contrived Whip Tips" with sockets
SO that a worn one might be unscrewed
and a new n screwed on in its place,
The court said that he might sustain al
exclusive right to his screw, but tina
the important feature of the device
making independent tips to be substi
tuted for worn ones-was not new /; thu
is the principle upon which fshing-rod
in,sections have been made for man,
years.
"The Rubber-tip Pencil" has had a
extensive sale ; but, when the patent TO
it was contested, the court said tina
there was no invention; the device wa
nothing but <'a piece of rubber with
hole in it." Not many years ago apai
emit wal questioned for an article Gale
"Comminuted Glue" The device cor
sisted in breaking glue into small part
cles of uniform size, to facilitate dis
solving it for use. The court said tbs
nothing was here involved other tina
grinding glue fine, and grinding cannc
be called q new invention.-POputo
Science Monthly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
A FAIRY AFLoAT.

The following description of the fairy
vessel represented on this page is from the
Cincinnati Commereial The hull is of the
finest selected white oak, braced, bolted
and riveted in the most skillful and work.
manlke manner, and is "a feet in length,
IA feet breadth of beam, 81 feet depth of
hold, and draws twenty inches of water.
She carries atubular boil er, andtwo beauti-
full little engines, made expressly for her,
by the Ohio Machine Co, Middleport, o.
boiler and engine rooms, and is artistically
grained, with frescoed ceiling. 1t is fur
nished in the Queen Anne style, and the
silver, china and table linen are of the finest
character. The pilot-house, cabin, main
salon and Captains Office are on the saloon
deck and are luxurious in their furnishing
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
HISTORICAL.

FuMaAT1oN with birthstone is of Ro-
man origin.
THE Gauls loved to decorate their he'll
NETS, swords and buckles with coral.
A CROWN of red-hot iron was an an.
cient punishment for rebels and reg.
cides.
AT PoMPEu, combs have been founo
exactly like the modern fine tooth
kind.
THE Saxon groat-great coin was SC
called because it was the largest English
coin then known.
The elephant was put upon the coins
of Caesar because that animal was called
Cpzar in Mauritauria.
The first establishment for the manu-
facture of straw bonnets was started IN
Somers, Conn, in 1880.
THE most common measure of capacity
among the Romans was the Amphora,
nearly nine English gallons.
TIE coffin of Lambert, the celebrated
s'great man." was four feet and a hall
wide and two feet and a halt deep.
THE fist town on the Aroostook,
Maine, was Maysonville, settled in 1926
by a few men from New Brunswick.
By THE Saxon avs twelve years of age
was fixed as the earliest possible deveh
opment of the legal understanding.
THE original use to which Boston
Common was put was for a pasture fol
cattle and parade ground. 1t wa called
Gentry Field.
The Greek word for horseshoe first
occurs 10 the ninth century Horses
were then only shod in time OF frost OF
for especial occasions.
HUTs, instead of tents, were used by
the ancient English soldiers, as the
modes Of warfare consisted chiefly in
sieges and standing camps.
CoATs Of arms and heraldry were in.
troduced into England In HOO. The
arms of England and France were first
quartered by Edward III. in 1858.
In ELIzABETH's time repeater "
watches were SO rare that some rustics
took one that they heard for the devil.
and threw it out of the window with the
tongs.
THE first silver money coined in Rome
was A. u. G. 4S4. The mint was in the
temple Of Juno Moneta, which circum-
stance occasioned the origin of our word
money.
A CIRCULATING library in the Middle
Ages may seem surprising. In 1342 a
law was framed in Paris compelling all
public booksellers to keep books to lend
out on hire.
BULL work, the process of inlaying by
use of the saw, derives its name from a
French workman, Boule, who invented
and carried it on during the reign OF
Louis XIV.
AUGUSTUS used a memorandum book,
in which he made notes of what
he wished to say, but he punished, as a
spy, one Pinarius, for taking notes at
public oyations.
UNDER the early laws of the Athenians
a false witness was to be thrown head.
long from the capitol. Treading down
another's cornield at night was punish
able by death.
The term Quaker was first applied to
the sectin derision. When George Fox,
the founder, was brought before the
magistrate he told him to quake before
the word of the Lord.
BoMBARDs were large ale barrels, and
the vessels used to carry beer to soldiers
on duty, from whence came lombard
man, for n who carried about provi.
sions, corrupted by the sailors into bum.
boat.
DURING a storm in Vermont, in 1870
the lightning struck a horse in pasture,
burning off his hair, or pulling it out,
cutting a hole two inches long in his
head and throwing off his shoes. The
horse recovered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Educated for Servants.

Norwegian girls make excellent SER
wants. In their own country they are
thoroughly trained at schools specially
instituted for the purpose, and they only
receive a diploma or authority to work
when they have completed their course.
Many of them come to this country, and
certainly those in search of competent
servants-and who isnot ?-would do well
to consider the expediency of inquiring
about them. Scotch servants, too, have
such a good name in England that many
people send to Glasgow for them and en-
gage them without even seeing them.
There is a good deal of similarity in the
characters of the two nations, both are
thrifty, industrious, and generally relig-
ious, in addition to which they are ex-
tremely clearly in their habits.-New
York Mail.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Then.


Then the summer mornings were full
of singing birds, always waiting outside
u windows to help us begin the day
with happiness. Then flowers were born
as if to accompany the birds in their be-
nevolent mission. Then all our dreams
we're pleasant imaginings, Arabian
Nights Entertainments. frolic visions of
untroubled JOY. Then June was the
longest and loveliest month in the cal
endar. Then We were never depressed
by bad weather. Then headache had
no Judgement nearer than our neighbor's
brain. Then personal rheumatism is
unknown to us. Then insomnia had
not been invented, and we were not
obliged to draw upon the epothecary for
walls of sleep. Then we could walk
twenty miles a day without fatigue.
Then all was gold that glistened. Then
We were young.-Janaes Z. Fields, in
Harder's MAGAZINE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
A Wise Deacon.

deacon Wilder, 1 want you to tell me how
you kept yourself and family we'll the past sea-
son, when all the rest of us have been sick so
much, and have had the doctors visiting us so
often"
"Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy. 1
used Hop Bitters in time, kept my family well
and saved the doctor bills. Three dollars worth
of it kept us we'll and able to work all the time.
I'll warrant it has cost you and the neighbors
one to two hundred dollars a piece to keep sick
the same time"
deacon, I'll use your medicine hereafter"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
Frontier Criticism.

The editor of q mining camp news
paper went to Denver to hea Emma Alb
bolt sing, and in a lengthy review of the
opera, says GAS a singer she can Just
wallop the hose off anything that ever
wagged a jaw on the boards. From her
clear, bird-like upper notes she would
counter away down on the bass racket
and then cushion back to sort OFF spirit
ual treble which made every man In the
audience imagine every hair on his head
was the golden string ef a celestial harp
over which angelic fingers were sweeping
in the inspiring old tune of .fSaIly put
the kettle on Hire she would r, st
awhile, trilling like an enchanted bird,
and then hop in among the upper notes
again with a git-up-and git vivacity that
jingled the glass pendants on the chande-
Tiers and elected a whoop of pleasure
from every galoot in the mob. In the
last act she made a neat play and worked
in that famous kiss of hers or Caste. he
had her in his arms, with her head ~
ing on his shoulder and her eyes shoot
ing red-hot streakes of galvanized love
right into his. All at once her lips be-
gan to twitch coaxingIy and get into po-
sition, and when he tumbled to her
racket he drew her up easy like, shut his
eyes, and then her ripe, luscious lips
glued themselves to his and a thrill OF
pleasure nabbed hold of him and shook
him to till the audience could almost
hear his toe nails grind against his boots;
Then she shut her eyes and pushed
harder and-oh, Moley Hoses the
smack that followed the stitching IN
every masculine heart in the house. She's
a thoroughbred right from the start, and
the fellow that takes in her kisses IS more
to be envied than the haughtiest mon
arch that ever squatted down on a gold
plated throne"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20

WE DO not often speak of any proprietary
medicine, but from what We have read and
heard of Aliens Lung Bals,m, we shall take the
liberty of saying to those who are troubled with
q cold, cough, or any throat or lung affection,
that from the testimony afforded, we have such
confidence in this article, that were We afflicted
in that way, We would make q trial of its vir-
tines. Beware of the fatal consequences of
neglecting this timely warning. New, before it
is too late, use Aliens Lung Balsam, which will
cure the disease. Every druggist in the land
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20
..non,t Knou HalfTheir Value,

"They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and
Kidney Complaint, as recommended. I had a
half bottle left, which I used for my two little
girls, who the doctors and ~neighbors said could
not be cured. I would have lost both of them
one night if I had not given them Hop Bitters.
They did them SO much good l continued their
use until they we're cured. That is why I say
you do not know half the value of Hop Bitters,
and do not recommend them high enough
B., Rochester, N. Y. See other co1umn-AmeT-
lean Rural Home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20

YouNeH b usekeeper-'aThe oystersyou
sent yesterday, Mr.. Mollusk, were
dreadful ~ Fishmonger-sHow did ye
cook EN-, mum?" Young Housekeeper-
seThey were not cooked at all, sir; we
served them raw" Fismonger pity
inely)HsLor bless you, mum, them
warnt eating oysters; they war cooking
oysters !"-Boston Commercial BuHe-
tin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-20

FoR dyspepsia, indigestion, depression Of
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as q preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the FERRo
PHospHoRATED ELIXIR OF CALIsAYA BARK, made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic and for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness
it has no equal.