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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

first twenty days fed them on shelled
corn, of which they ate eighty-three
bushels. During this period they gained
1877 pounds, or upwards of ten pounds to
the bushel of corn. He then fed the
same hogs for fourteen days on dry corn
meal during which time they consumed
forty-seven bushels and gained 535
pounds or III pounds to the bushel.
The same hogs, mex fed fourteen DAYS
on corn meal and water mixed, consumed
554 bushels of corn and gained 73l
pounds, or 1874 pounds of pork to the
bushel. He hen fed them fourteen DAYS
on corn meal cooked, and after con-
suming f~orty-ive bushels of the cooked
meal the hogs gained 100 pounds, or
very nearly fifteen pounds of pork to
the bushel of meal.
THE composition of buckwheat has
kbeen examined by NJ. G. Lechartier, with
the following published results: : The
proportion of mineral matter in the
straw increases with the weight. The
straw may become richer in phosph ORIG
acid than the grain, differing. thus COM
pletely from that of other cereals. The
straw of a crop of buckwheat may con-
ain more mineral matter than does the
grain. The sum of the principal fertil-
izers removed from the soil by an entire
crop is much more considerable than
that of a crop of wheat containing
the same quantity of grain. This is the
reason why buckwheat is such an excel
lent fertilizer when plowed under. In
fact, a crop of buckwheat plowed in i
equal to a large dressing of phosphate,
besides the other fertilizers which il
contains and the mechanical effectwhich
SO much vegetable matter produces.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
Can a Lady Be a Cook?

There are many varied opinions about
this question. We ourselves maintain
that every human being ought to be
properly Instructed "what to eat and
drink" and take an interest in this mat
ter. The higher the person, the more
they should know, and the more ration
ally should they live. Therefore, the
better educated a lady, the more should
she know how to order the dinner, how
to preside over her household, and not
have to fly to the caterer every time her
husband brings a few friends to take a
little dinner with him. If the art were
well understood, it is astonishing with
how little fuss a very nice dinner may
be provided. The lady who can afford
to keep a good cook need only to direct
her arrangements. But direct them she
must if she is to deserve the name of the
head of the house. The lady who can
only afford an ordinary servant, may
have to supervise the very preparations ;
but there is many a lady who has to do
it herself, because the keeping of a serv-
ant takes a part of her income she can
not afford to lose. With proper arrange
ments it is an easy thing to be a cook,
and prepare a family's dinner within an
LOu VI III hOu1 LIZ LoLA WhA1O O1o1S
destroying your hands nor your clothes,
not being overheated or put out of tenn
per. What a lady requires is such cook
ing arrangements and utensils as will
help her to prepare food clearly and ex-
peditiously, and such a knowledge of
the art of cooking that she will know
well how to use her materials. Natur-
ally she must take to her occupation
with a will, and be ready to do her best.
There is no necessity for dirt and smoke
and grease being about. Cooking can
be done without them in clearly utensils,
doing once for all away with all black
pots and pans, and establishing the rule
that nothing can be clean enough fol
cooking. American stoves fill up toe
much, and their wide openings are un.
necessary. That stove is best which
acts like a hot plate, and gives heat
through the top plate without blacken
ing the cooking utensils. There is NJ
necessity for smut and dirt. Our cook
ing utensils are not sufficiently looked
after, and we are satisfied to use then
when they are long beyond use. Clear
utensils are the first requisite of cooking
and we must learn that they have to b.
replaced every now and then, and tina
it must be done. Further, the choice o
our cooking utensils is a great question
and on this point there is much to b.
said.-Erchange.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
A Better Way.

The wasteful practice of burning OF.
otherwise destroying love letters has
been brought into disrepute by a young
lady in Iowa, who has had hers bound
in the form of an album, which she
turns out for the inspection and enter
tainment of her visitors when they have
wearied of praising her tides and finished
the family photographs.
The device, economical as it is-and in
that aspect praiseworthy-has its draw
backs. To visitors who have met-as
the phrase is-'.with disappointment"
the sight of such q collection would be
narrowing in the extreme. Then there
would be the additional danger that
some guest would find among the mis-
sives one from somebody to whom she
believed she had q special claim. The
sight, In such a case, of words of love
addressed to another might be provoca-
tive of unpleasantness-perhaps, even,
of tears or, worse still, of scratching and
hair-pulling.
These possibilities are to be dreaded.
Fortunately the can be avoided without
recurring to the old-fashioned and waste
full method of burning love letters. Such
missives contain-or are popularity held
to contain-a good deal of sweetness.
Some of them have been described, in
the glowing imagery of girlhood, as
"just too sweet for anothing," but this
is undoubtedly hyperbole. They ought,
however, to be sweet enough for glucose
if there is any semblance of sweetness
about them. Let the Iowa plan be
abandoned then and let the accumulated
love letters of the country be sent to the
| glucose factories. The residents in the
neighborhood of such factories nigh
object. But they do that now.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
A Comedy of Errors.

The talk of the town is an elopement
that proved to be q "Comedy OF Errors"
A rich old creole opposed the marriage
of his only daughter with a poor artist.
One evening there was q carriage drawn
cautiously up to the corner OF the grand
boulevard Esplanade. There was an air
of mystery in its movements. The driver
looked around and then apparently, from
some signal, fixed his eyes at the window
of a mansion very little distant from his
hating place. A female form, cloaked
and yelled, threw open the easement, at
the same moment bidding the driver adj
vance. He did SO, and when the carriage
stood Immediately at the door, beneath
the lighted window, a tall and handsome
man jumped out of the vehicle and
entered the house. Shortly after this
two cloaked figures passed hurriedly
down the steps of the main entrance and
hastily entered the carriage, closed the
door and requested the driver to "speed
like lightning" An old gentleman, the
proprietor of the mansion and the father
of the artists inamorata, was q spectator
of the whole affair, and, gliding softly
from q private door, mounted the rum
bic of the carriage and found himself
whirled on the road to Milneburg, the
lake port of the Mobile packet.
The old fellow had caught them. The
lovers were in the carriage, but he was
on the box. On ratified the carriage to
The steamboat landing. Down jumped
the father and opened the door. What
did he see? Could it bel Yes. it was
his own hostler and his daughters maid !
The affrighted servants descended from
the carriage, and in an agony which
was SO exquisitely comic that the disap-
pointed pater fansilias could not refrain
from smiling, fell on their knees and
begged forgiveness. The prevailing
mania for elopement had seized them.
Seeing a carriage before the door, and
being under orders from the millionaire
to watch the artists movements, they
thought to thwart the elopement of their
mistress by using the artists carriage for
their own. Meanwhile the artist and
the lady were being married at the house
of a friend.-New Orleans Letter in the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
Food Authorizations.

While good men are working for the
advancement of the human race, men,
tally, morally, and religiously, un-
scrupulous soundrels are seeking with
devilish ingenuity for new methods of
poisoning our bodies with villainous
compounds which we unsuspectingly
swallow in our daily su~stenance. In no
direction has the knowledge of evil
spread with greater rapidity than in
this.
In the long line of articles people use
for food, there is scarcely one which is
exempt from this infamous treatment.
If the ingredients used for the purpose
of adulteration were harmless, there
would be less objection to the practice,
rank poisons that gradually sap the
citadel of life, the evil is so great as to
call fer prompt suppression.
A writer in the Medical academy of
Sciences, speaking of the use of grape
sugar in making beer, says:
ga large piece of this grape sugar,
taken from the hands of a youth in this
city, who said his father manufactured
| quantity of sulphuric acid, enough to
oCol1OJ Jill Adl1-OOLCA Gus u tCcb1l.
As this sugar is largely used in adulter-
atlng cane sugar, candies, and numerous
other articles of luxury and necessity,
further comment is unnecessary"
This sugar has been In use only a
few years, but long enough to be tam
pered with. Our syrups are mostly
made now from glucose, which, if not
poisonous, produces an article vastly in
ferior to cane syrup. The same writer
says
"Yeast powders are made and sold
here which contain soluble salts of
aluminium. The use of tin in sugar,
of baryta in numerous articles of food
to increase their weight are barely con-
cealed. The agreeable odor of caramel
in the neghborhood of the coffee mills
tells its own tale, and to explain the
wonderful cheapness of the beautiful
jellies now, in such common use we
should have to go further than our ma
tutinal friend 'Rags-B Bones and pursue
through the wonderful transformations
worked by modern chemistry the bones
from our garbage box, favored and col.
ored by the waste products from the gas
works, back again to our tables as cur.
rant jelly for u famous anvas backs
and red heads, and perhaps meet in our
sugar bowls our old shirts transformed
into very palatable sugar"
And these are only a few examples Of
this growing evil which has already as.
sumed such gigantic proportions as to
be carried on in many cases with reck'
less impunity, having lost even the de-
cent veil of secrecy.
In China they punish adulterators o.
food with death. Here they are rewarded
with riches and honor. Is it not time
that severe laws were made and enforced
against this monstrous iniquity ?-Du
buoue Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
A Smile OF Satisfaction.

This from the Cleveland (Ohio) Penny
Press, carries its own suggestion Re-
Gently meeting Nh. H. G. Keffer, treas
urer OF the Cleveland Herald, repre-
sentative inquired of that gentleman, af-
ter stating his mission, if he personally
knew anything about the Great Ger
man Remedy, st. Jacobs Oil. A
smile played acrossed MI. Refers
expressive face and his eyes twinkled
merrily as he replied in the affirm
alive. I will not refuse to state my
experience with it, and you may use it as
you think best. -Four years ago I
sprained one of my ankles, an accident
which, as you are aware, entails much suf-
feringand sometimes leaves the limb in a
condition to remind. frequently of
the old hurt. Unfortunately this result
ensued. Whenever the weather became
damp or my system absorbed the slight
est cold my ankles painedm me. This went
on at intervals for over three years, and
T could not obtain relief. Last winter I
applied the st. Jacobs Oil, and it COM
pletely cured me. I have not since felt
q return of the pain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
WOman's Dress.

Under the heal of "Hints, Questions
and Experiences Beecher's Christian
Union remarks.
Few subjects have been more fire.
quently discussed than the healthful
dressing of women. Where the weight
of the clothes should come is at last de-
cided without question. But how few,
even of those who admit that the weight
of the clothing should come on the
shoulders, wear their clothing Of a pat
tern that makes it possible. Every
year witnesses greater improvements In
the undergarments made for women,
but few avail themselves of the relief
and comfort to be gained by their use.
Look at the young girls on our streets,
with waists SO compressed that no artist,
or any other person with a full realiza-
ton of the true beauty of the female
form, could behold without a feeling OF
impotence if not disgust. How many
of those girls when they compress their
waists i'll this unnatural manner know
that they entirely destroy their freedom
of walking; and that, while they appear
to themselves to have freedom of motion,
to others, who watch them, they present
a very comical combination of freedom
and stiffness? The upper part of the
body being In a vice Is perfectly stiff
from the waist up. The shoulders are
held in position far above where they
shoul6be, and the elbows are at sharp
angles two or three inches behind the
line of the shoulders. Loss of grace is
not the only penalty paid. Many girls
destroy good voices by this vicious man.
ner of dressing. The waist being SO
unnaturally compressed, it is impos-
sible to breathe from the right
place. To test this for yourself, place
your hand on your chest and take breath
from below the belt, and sing the sylla-
BILE, La. Then sing it breathing from
the chest, where you are compelled to
breathe if the clothes are worn tightly at
the belt, and note the difference in the
sound. Try, for a short time before
rising, to breathe from below the belt
without moving the chest. In short,
try all the time to breathe as low down
as possible, and watch how the hard,
disagreeable head tones-for which
American women are famous-wil dis
appear. You will sing without half the
effort, you will be able to walk without
"getting out of breath" and lose alto
gether the tired feeling from the chest
that so many complain of when walking.
This can be tried by all. It is not for
the young alone. Many of the fretful,
nervous women can hold their imperfect
breathing responsible for much of their
fretfulness and nervousness. Think of
it when sewing, and breathe below the
belt. At first, it will seem hard, but if
persisted in will finally become as it
should have been from the beginning,
nature itself. Watch your husband
and brother, and you will see their chests
make no perceptible movement when
breathing, because they breathe natur-
ally. They have not worn their clothing
so tightly belted that lungs and other
organs of the body have been deprived
of room for growth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
Surface Accomplishments.

That reading does not necessarily
make a cultivated person is a truth not
generally apparent, even to conscien-
tious readers who suppose themselves to
be going through a process of c~ultiva-
ton. There is comparatively small
pleasure in talking of book and subjects
connected with literature with an uncul-
tured person, however he may be in the
habit of reading; while in the presence
of cultivated men and women, almost
the first word reveals that the reading
has been assimilated and become a part
of their mental substance, so to speak,
and there is felt at once q common
ground to move upon, an unspoken un-
~derstanding of each others point of view.
Atlantic MONTHLY.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
A Remarkable Plant.

Anise grows wild in Egypt, in Syria,
Palestine and all parts of the Levant,
out the Romans considered the Egyptian
and Cretan anise to be the best, espec-
tally for medicinal purposes. The pro-
duct of Southern Europe is now looked
upon with favor. Among the a~ncients
anise seems to have been a common pot
herb in every garden. Although it is
less used in medicine by the moderns
than by the ancients, it still retains its
former reputation as an excellent stom-
achic, particularly for delicate women
and young children. The Romans
chewed it in order to keep up an agree
able moisture in the mouth, and to
sweeten the breath, while some Orien-
tails still do the same. Some of the Per-
sian poets have sung the agreeable quail
tiles of the anise, and q modern sweet
ballad of Rome compares the slender
grace of a young girl to the anise.
Anise is an annual plant growing to
the height of one foot, carries q white
flower, and blooms from June till Au-
gust. The seeds are imported and used
in large quantities on account of their
aromatic and carminative properties.
The distilled plant, when used In bios
som, yields a sweeter and more gratful
tincture than can be obtained from the
seeds. Anise is extensively employed
by the confectioner for the purpose OF
f~iavoring comfits and cordials. The anise
seed cordial of the shops is a. compound
of alcohol, anise seed and angelica. The
oil is obtained by distillation from the
seeds, and though habitually mixed with
a great many cattle medicines, and re
garded by the farmers of former genera
tions as one of the most potent drugs, j
performs scarcely any other office thar
the communicating of al agreeable fra
GRANGE. The chinese cultivate it for the
seasoning of dishes; and the Japanese
employ bundles and garlands of it in tn,
ceremonies of their heathenish supersti
ton. Its appearance, when out of flower
as well as when in bloom, is decided,
ornamental.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
Rev. whaugdoodle Baxter 1nsulted.

The Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter, an
Austin colored clergyman, wished to
hint to Uncle Mace, who is his near
neighbor, that a gift of a cord of fire.
wood would be very gratefully accept ed.
Uncle Mace by the way does not like
Whangdoodle much. Finally, says
Whangdoodle, insinuatingly, "Uncle
Mace, Use gwine ter be powerful hard
up for firewood dis winter. Can't yer
give me a load?
Uncle Mace looked all around as if he
was afraid of being overheard, and then
he said
"Parson, is you very ~pertickler
whar de wood comes from ?"
Parson Whangdoodle supposed this to
mean that Uncle Mace was going to give
him some stolen wood, so he replied :
"Uncle Mace, as long as I gets de
wood, I don't keer much where it comes
from"
"Den Parson you don't keer whose
wood you burns up"
"Hit's all de same ter me, Uncle
Mace"
"Well, I am gwine," said Mace.
"War is ye gwine?"
"Ter lock up my wood shed. "-Teras
Siftings,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
Pound Away.

A visitor called on President Lincoln
when the Union forces in Virginia were
apparently doing little but firing guns,
and asked him what he intended to do
towards putting an end to the war. He
replied in his characteristic manner: 30
we shall just keep pegging away until it
comes to an end"
It is the value of this constant pound
ing away upon the head rocks of life's
problems which we would like to impress
upon any of our readers who may need
il. Anything can be done that ought to
be done if we stick to it long enough,
and comply with the conditions of III
cess. Be sure you nave an object be-
fore you worthy of your effort, and then
sit down before it and go to work with
the determination to never give it up IN
til you have become the master.
If there is a business enterprise to be
carried through, a church or mission to
build, a debt to pay, a curse of study
to be completed, a reputation to be at
tanned, anything, Especially if people
say you can't do it, just stick to it in an
honorable, intelligent and p~raiseworthy
way, and you will witness the triumph of
your hopes at last. Don't mark out a
work ignoble and trifing, and to be
worth nothing when accomplished. Don't
be selfish in your efforts; show to the
world that the end of your labor is not
to be personal qualification; only be gen.
erous, be kind and polite, mindful of the
happiness of Others, persevere and you
will succeed. A good many people en-
ter upon enterprises in q half-hearted,
discouraged way and fail. OF course,
they arranged for a failure at the very
start. The CT can't" sort of people
never amount to anything and they never
will. We know men who have worked
through the hardest kind of financial
problems by the force of determined
will; others who have conquered bad
tempers and habits by the simple poweq7
and to-day they just rule over themselves
because they just would do it. Dom
give up. Pound away.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
First Reaper in the United States.

The first reaping machine in America
was patented in 1903 by Richard French
and John J. Hawkins, but it was not
successful. Prior to 1882 there were
granted in the United States only eight
patents for machines for cutting grain.
No inventor, however, succeeded in pro-
ducing machines that possessed sufficient
practical merit to be used otherwise than
experimentally, until we come to Bell,
Hussey, and Mccormick, whose ma
chimes have since become SO well known.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

MECCA, the resort of thousands of
Mohammedan pilgrims, has a well, by
them considered holy, and the water is
freely used for drinking and bathing.
The Royal College of Chemistry, Lon
don, has analysed this water and found
that it is sewage, seven times worse than
London W water, and Prot. Frank.
land writes: " 1t would scarcely be pos
sible to provide a more effective means
for the distribution of cholera poison
throughout Moham1nedan countries"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

extolled as q "'cure-all,' but admirably ful6lls
a singleness of purpose, being a most potent
specific in those chronic weaknesses peculiar to
women. Particulars in DR.. Pierce's pamphlet
treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Women, Sc
pages, sent for three stamps. Address WoRLD's
D1sPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostrat1on
and all forms Of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN'sP EPToNIzED BEEF Tonic. the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. It 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 4 Co., proprietors, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

THE Trenton On. J.) Gazette mentions
the case of John Wood, with the Ameri-
can Pottery Co., that city, who was
cured b ySt. Jacobs Oil of an attack of
rheumatism, which had confined him to
his bed for seventeen weeks. He praises
it unstintedly,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The King Of Denmark is truly a paternal
monarch. Finding that during the recent se-
we're weather the royal foot guards were suffer-
ing greatly from Colds and Coughs, this good
old gentleman ordered a supply of DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup for than and now the sentries
are happy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
On Thirty Day., Trial.

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send their Electro-Voltsic Belts and other
Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to
any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles, guarantee
ing complete restoration of vigor and manhood
Address as above without delay.
P. S.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
RE8CUED FROM DE tTH,
n.azhii. af Gan,ar-illa Maas

William J. coughlin, Of Somerville, Mass, says: 'fIn
the fall of 1876 I was taken with ~bleedings of the lungs,
followed by o severe cough. lost my appetite and
fesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was adj
mitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in
my lung a. big as half = dollar. At one time q report
went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but 4
friend told me Of De. WILLIAM Halls BAIsAM FOE THE
Luxos. I got . bottle, when, to my surprise, I COM
menced to feel better, and to-day 1 feel better than for
three years past. I write this hoping every one afflicted
with diseased lungs will take De- WnLIAN HALL's BAL
SAN, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN Br cUKED.
can positively say II has done more good than all tn
other medicines I have taken since nv sickness"