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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
A Brakeman,s Experience.

A brakeman on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford road relates the fol-
lowing incident of his experiences:
"Another bad fright I had was n
dreadful dark night, when we. had Just
got below Milford. We were rushing
along at forty-fve miles an hour-it was
q passenger train this time-when all of
asudden I felt the air brakes working and
she came to a standstill. There had been
three men killed within as many weeks
just before on our division, and I said at
nee to myself, We've hit another man.
just then the conductor ordered me to
run back and flag the train behind us.
Off I put in the darkness. I fell into
two cattle guards and then went plump
over a body that lay on the track. I
picked myself up and found Twas covered
with blood. 1 tell you it sent a cold
chill up my back. Then I turned my
lantern on the body, and you may be-
heve it took a great load off me to find it
was only a low. I resumed my run
along the track, and in o minute or two
I heard a noise as. if some one was fol-
lowing me. I looked back and could
see nothing. I started on and the noise
began again, sounding just like several
persons running along after me on the
ties. I began to get discouraged, and
taking off two of the torpedoes I had
fastened to my lantern, I twisted them
on to- the rails, thinking that if anything
happened to me or my lantern the ex-
plosions would warn the engineer of the
coming train before he ran into the COW
or into our train, which had been stop
ped to fix something about the engine
that had been broken when we hit the
cow. The torpedoes laid, I started on
once more. Again I heard the steps,
this time ahead of me on the track. I
followed on and soon the train Iwas flag
ging came around a curve. By the glare
from the headlight L could see that the
patter on the ties that l had heard was
caused by several cows and they were
right ahead of me on the track. I made
a rush for them, swinging my lantern
and shouting, and drove them into the
ditch. I kept swinging the lantern till
the train stopped, and got into the en-
CINE and told what was up. I hate now
to think of COWS on the track. How is
it COWS and drunken men always put for
the railroad track when they get loose?'
-NeU Haven Register.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
Il MARKETS.

CINCINNATL,-FLouR- Fancy, IS 2565 IS:
Family, "a S5@5 10; spring family, SIS O095 40. Rye
-four, 81 90g5 Is. Buckwheat ~four-Prine to
choice, 81 25@4 so per brl, and 81 5000 IS per 100
lbs; Wheat-No. 2 amber, 81 O5h@1 O6,
ana No z req, 81 70; mee5uerranean req, 81 10.
corn, 45a46c., on track. Oats No. 2 ! white, asa
3s%c.; No. q mixed, 5%as6 Rye-No.2 2, csc.
Barley-Fall, SS@9lc. SIS OO6i6 90.
nh packing, SIS sOa6 %. Provisions
Mes pork. sis so: family mess, s14 80. Lard. loo,
Cotton Good middIing, 11Mc.
NEW ~YORK-Flon, Good tn cboice Western
and State, 81 6Oa6 Is: common 10 choice Ohio en-.
ira family, 81 40as IS; Minnesota patent process
double-extra, Sc 50@S rs. Grain = Wheat I'm.
graded winter red, 81 O9@1 20; No. 2 winter red
81 17A@ 10; No. 1 winter red, 81 25@l ISL; I'M.
graded white, 81 1891 l5M Corn-Ungraded, SIG
5S1%c.; new No. 2. 565l957%c. ~Oats-WhiteW West.
ern, 44@4S%c. Groceries-Cofee-Rio. in cargoes
1O%@13Lc. Sugar-Faif to good refining, 7A@7Ac
Mess pork, SIS 00915 Is; new mess, SIG 00@16 20
steam, 10.42H@10Hc.
LOUISVILLE Cotton-The market is quiet al
11Hc. Flour-Extra, So 25@3 so; extra family
So 1894 Is; A No. /, IS logs Is; choice fancy, S. II
@6 rs. Wheat, 81 90. CoFn-No. 2 white, 44Lc
No. 2 mixed, 4Sc. Olts-No. 2 white, s7Hc.; No.
mixed, Sec Rye-No. =, CSC. Hay, ZIG O091S SO
Mess pork, SIG 90. Lard Prime steam, 9Ae. Bull
Meats.Shouiders, 51as.; clear RIB sides, s.1Oc cleai
sides, szac. baconGSnoui9ers, &c: clear r6 sides
ScSVc.; Clear sides, &c. amsmsngat-cure lug
to12cI hogs-Are !" anu prices range rom 70 ~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
Where CATTLE PIagues Begin.

The great plaques that from time to
time have devastated the stables and pas
lures of Europe, sparing neither cattle
good or bad, have all had definite start
ing places, and these on investigation,
have proved that the diseases found their
origin in filth. Such plaques are always
to be feared. Bad food ~impoverishes the
blood of the stock, while the poisonous
emanations of the filth, which also has an
injurious effect when absorbed by the
physiques continually in contact with it,
complete the work, and the general dele
FERROUS influences finally ~localize them
selves in some organ of the animals that
survive at all. The causes of cattle
plaques are exactly analogous to those of
cholera and other human scourges, and
their effects, when they attain to conta:
gion or infection, are similarly unsparing
of all with whom they come in contact.
Severer laws and more alert officers are
necessary to the prevention of a cattle
plague in this country.-Mew York
Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24


THE following recipe is said to be much
used in Europe for producing artificial
black walnut. By its use, it is claimed,
ordinary white woods have impaired to
them the appearance of the most beauti-
full specimens of walnut, and are adapted
to the finest cabinet work. The process
is as follows: The wood, first, thor
opghly dried and warmed, is coated once
or twice with a strong aqueous solution
of extract of walnut peel. When half
dried, the wood thus treated is brushed
with a solution compound of one part (by
weight) of bichromate of potassa in five
parts Of boiling water; and, after drying
thoroughly, is rubbed and polished. By
this treatment the color is said to be
fixed in the wood to the depth of one
twelfth to one-sixth of an inch, and in
the majority Of cases the walnut appear.
|. ance is declared 10 be very perfectly
initiated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
A Frugal BRIDEGROOM.

A New Hampshire man, who had been
q widower four or five years, concluded
he would take another helpmate, and,
instead of making his selection from the
manageable girls of his W. neighbour
hood, he gave out that he was going
down to Boston to get him a wife. He
left home for that purpose, amid the jeers
of his neighbors, who predicted ali sorts
of misfortunes that would befall him.
Arriving in that city, he made his way
to q well-known intelligence Office, and
impaired the object of his visit to the
matron in attendance. After considers
BILE questioning to satisfy herself of the
honesty of the farmers intentions, she
went into a room where there were a
dozen or more young women waiting for
situations. She stated to them that a
man was in the office who had come to
Boston to get him a wife. Were there
any present who were willing to marry
an honest New Hampshire farmer with
out any co~urtship? He said he was will
ing to give her q good outfit of clothes at
once. Ayoung, plump-looking Irish girl
said she'd like to see the party. After a
/ few minutes conversation with the Wild
over she consented to marry him, and
they sought a store to buy the wedding
outfit. The farmer took into his conf
dence one OF the saleswomen, who joy
fully went into the matter. After assist
ing them in their selection of the various
necessary articles of a minor nature, they
went up to the dress department to buy
the wedding gown. The variety shown
the young girl quite bewildered hen, but
she finally set her heart on a dress that
exactly suited her. Unfortunately the
price was SIS more than the man was
willing to pay. The girl coaxed and
pleaded with him; the saleswoman used
all her arguments to make the sale, but
the widower was infexible. Thirty
dollars was an ALFRED lot of money te
pay for a gown" Finally the girl de-
clared that nothing else would satisfy
her, and began to cry in real earnest
Matters looked serious; several otheI
saleswomen took sides with the girl ant
pleaded for the coveted dress, but with
out success. Then the girl got her spin
up and told him that he was q mea oil
fellow, and she wouldn't marry him
he'd give her the best dress in the store
and marched out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
: A SANDER on David Davis.

David Davis is a man whom no one,
to look at his frank, open countenance,
would suspect Of having bubbles about
little nothings, and yet he is probably
the worst Of them all in this respect.
He would scream outright if he was tc
see the new moon over his right shout
der instead of his left, or should wiring
out his dish-cloth before he had wiped
the pie tins, for all the world like a
romantic and dizzy school girl But try
a hard as he can, he can not get these
notions out of his head. By Watching
himself closely, he is able to keep from
exhibiting any signs of the singular
weakness, though on several occasions
he has astonished the Senate by appear
ing with spit curls on. his forehead, and
eating slate pencils, On having his at
tention called to it he would blush, SIM
per a few thanks, and reach for some
candy in his reticule. He buys HIS
stockings in Chicago and st. Louis,
using the st. Louis foot and the Chicago
calf and throwing the rest away.-Peck's
Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
Tw1Cn ASLEEP.
N xuerxr >. HALr.

A child lies sleeping In calm repose,
As sweet and fair - . dewy rose.
Her little white hands are laid at rest
Peacefully over her heaving breast
While sunny smiles on her red lips play
Linger q moment and pass away.
Faces and fancies Of earth and air
Fit through her mind while she slumbers there
Amid the misty and mellow skies,
Their white wings dazzle her dreaming eye,
Until she wakes in mute dismay
To see her fairy-land fade away.
With folded hands, In her last reposs
She sleeps again. Like . withered rose
Her life has faded, and, come what viii,
Her loving heart Is forever still.
Her voice Is silent, her cheeks are gray
No smile win gladden. her lips Of clay
And over her forehead, cold and fair,
Ripple her tresses Of golden hair.
Her griefs are ended, her dreams are through,
How sweet to hope that they al came.true
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

and stimulate the trituration of the CON
tents of the stomach. For handwriting
horses, I am convinced hay and straw
are less useful for their .nutritive than
for their mechanical properties, and as
such should be given in small quantity,
from twelve to eighteen pounds per
diem, according to the size Of the horse,
and not in that lavish way too often OBJ
served in the stables of even experienced
farmers and breeders.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

THERE is a sort of impulsiveness which
often gets people into serious trouble,
We are fretted and vexed by the acts OF
somebody efse, and we do not wait to
think, but say out our irritation, and
deeply wound some sensitive spirit. We
are angry, and we let passion instead OF
calm reflection rule us. The impulsive
person who cannot control his temper Is
like one who carries fire near gun
powder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
~InflammatOry Information.

The Louisville Courier Journal, which
is an authority on matches of all kinds,
says: at has been developed that 3d.
613, DOC, 600 are consumed every year in
the United States, or 700 for every man,
woman, child, and baby" Adding tc
these the number of all that are made
between the hard and soft sexes it is APP
parent the inflammable business is gen.
orally pretty brisk in the nation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

WE do not often speak of any proprietary
medicine, but from what we have read and
heard of Aliens Lung Balsam, we shall take
the liberty of saying to those who are troubled
with a Cold; Cough, or any Throat or Lung At
lection, that from the testimony afforded, we
have such confidence in this article, that were
afflicted in that way, We would make a trial
ST its virtues. Beware Of the fatal consequent
'ces Of neglecting this timely warming. Now,
before it is too late, use Aliens Lung Balsam,
which will cure the disease. Every druggist in
the land sells it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
From the Housahold.l

From the HOUSEHOLD
PIE CRUsT.-Two cups lard, one cup
of water, salt.
F1IrTERs.-One cup new milk, three
eggs, a pinch of salt, -four to make q
stiff batter.
POP OvERs.-One egg, N cup sweet
milk, n cup -four, a pinch of salt; bake
same as gems.
SIMPLE CURE FOR A CoUaH.-Half cup
of honey and and a tablespoonful of lin.
seed oil; mix.
To REMOVE CHmBLAINs.-Soak the
feet in hot potato water; this is also said
to ease rheumatic govt.
SoFT-STIRRED BIsoUTT.3One quart OF
sour milk, 1 ~teaspoonful soda; add flour
to make a thick batter ard bake on pie
tins.
The quickest and best way to boil
milk is to put it into a tin dish and. set
that into a kettle of boiling water. Thus
scorching is avoided.
TEA B1scurT.-One pint thick our
cream, 1 t~easpoonful soda, l teaspoonful
cream tarter. Flour sufficient to roll out,
and bake in a quick oven.
To STAIN FLooRs.-To strong lye of
wood ashes add enough copperas for the
required oak shade; put this on with a
mop, and yarnish afterwards.
SODA BIsoUIT.-One quart of flour, 1
tablespoonful of lard, l t~easpoonful of
soda, 2 ~teaspoonfuls of cream tarter.
Put both In the flour and wet with sweet
milk.
RUsKs.-Three eggs, n and a half
cups of brown sugar, half cup of butter,
half cup of lard. Mix slowly with boil
ing water, one quart new milk, one cup
yeast, a pinch of salt. .
Corn BREAD.-Make the sponge the
same way with scalded Indian meal; add
salt and syrup, but thicken' withN Fl. 9
wheat -four altogether. Let it rise, ana
steam and bake as above directed.
BAKED INDIAN BREAD.-One cup mo-
lasses, three cups -four, two cups sour
milk, four cups sweet milk, five cups
meal, one tablespoonful of salt, one
tablespoonful of soda; bake two hours.
RAILROAD YEAsr.-One tablespoonful
of ginger, tablespoonful of soda, one
pint of boiling water; thicken with. coarse
-four or middlings; let it rise and set in q
cool place. Use q t~easpoonful in q bakin
of salt-rising bread.
COUGH DRoPs.-Linseed, half cup;
olive oil, half cup; molasses o. honey,
nan PM; oalsam OF mr., nan ounce; e&'
tract Oh ncorlce, one-iourtn ounces NIX
simmer, n take from ten TO twenty
drops three tmes a Gay.
STEAMED BREAD.-Brown bread OF an.
y ookeo IN steamer ana nnisheo
WIN twenty minutes OF browning In 6
moaern oven, Is an improvement on tf'
ordinary Way of baking. Stuffed meats
vegetable OF all KINDS, apple dumpllng'
n also rice, may De cooked oy steam
n make a pleasant change from bak
ing.
To VARN1sH STAw OR CHIP HAT
BnAcK.-Best alcohol, four ounces; pull
verified black sealing wax, n ounce
put them into a vial and place in a warn
place, stirring or shaking occasionally
until the wax is dissolved; aapplylt whel
warm by means OF a soft brush befor
" L " Ii w ouAs LIZ SiNCc ooAAAuCo
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
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CONVERsATION between two schOO
boys: First boy-"1 have been down
to have my head felt of by a ~phrenolo-
gist." Second boy-"What did he say?'
First boy-"Oh, he said I had a great
brain, but my body wasn't equal to it,
and he told my Guv'nor he'd orter take
me out O school for a year, and just let
me playt to rest and develop my physique,
and Guv'nor's going to do it." Second
boy is now Fostering his father to take
him to the phrenologist's.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

FRANK o. HERRING, ESQ, of the Cham
pion Safe Works, 251 and 252 Broadway,
New York, reports the use of st. Jacobs
Oil for a stiffness and soreness of the
shoulder, with most pleasant and efica-
cious effects.-LouisviUe Home and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

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
patients recovering from fever or other sick
ness it has no equal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

WESTERN correspondent says a herd
of a hundred Texas COWS and forty short:
horn bulls, which can be bought for
S15, 900, would increase to 5000 in num-
Der and to $40, 600 in value in five years,
on the grazing grounds of Wyoming.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
MalariaI Fever.

Malarial Fevers, constipation, torpidity of
ness and neuralgia ailments yield readily to this
great disease conqueror, Hop Bitters. 1t re-
pairs the ravages of disease by converting the
food into rich blood, and it gives new life and
vigor to the aged and infirm always. See
Proverbs in other column.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

The main cause Of nervousness is indiges-
ton, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nerves and
good health without using Hop Bitters to
strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and
keep the liver and Kidneys active; to carry off
all the poisonous and waste matter Of the sys-
tenn. See other column.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
cont Of Work.

and nick with my kidneys for years." wrote Mr..
Alexander Ferris, of Chenango Forks, N. Y,
recently. He used Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure. Now he says: 81 cheerfuliy re-
commend it to all persons suffering in the same
way"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

THKATER-GoERs, club visitors, late supper
takers and patrons Of the horse railroad owl
trains, should all certainly have a bottle of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup convenient. Gentlemen,
you will need it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

To write of heroic sacrifices, and tc
make them, are two different things.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

HE who puts a bad construction on Q
good act, reveals his own wickedness Of
heart.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

TIE Baltinorean says: ga painted
woman is only a picture of health"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
A CLEVER COUNTESS.

Her griefs are ended, her dreams are through,
How sweet to hope that they AL came.true !
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

For all Diseases OF tle Throat. Lungs and
lm0na Organs, 1t VIII be found n
most excellent kemeay.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24

DR.. ]. B. TURNER, Brownsville. Aia;, . .~prseticing
physician of twenty-five years, writes: "lt is the besi
preparation for Consumption in the WORLD"
The sun., 1881-01-30
Mr.. Jame. MeCrsery.. R..,d.ne. on Fire.

A slight FIRE occurred in the residence OF Mr..
James McCreery, the dry goods merchant at Inwood
Friday night which but for its timely discovery might
have done great damage Shortly after midnight as Mr.
and Mrs McCreery were retiring. the latter smellod
smoke The butler aroused and ordered to examine
the house. Doing down stairs 10 the dining room he
found the room filed almost to suocaton with smoke.
He ran down % the furnace ROOM and saw the tmoers
OF the ceiling blazing eTcey near the furnace pipe One
Of the sons was sent 10 the railroad station TO give
alarm while the butler played on the flames from below
with garden hose. Mr.. McCroery, with the coAchman
and gardener who had been nnoned from the stable.
tore away the floor OF the dining room and water
thrown the flames within threequarters IT an hour
the hre was completely oxtngusled. The damage was
slight being confined to the costly inHid floor OF the
dining and the injury to the furniture by the smoke
The oyerheatcd furnace.
The building is large three structure OF wood
with tension and stable adjoining. IL is the
trcme elevation OF Iuwood Hill The high wind which
blowing the point would have
the flames the many elegant residences close prox
unity If the nre had not been put The Of the
FIRE DcpHrme NJ were not IN working order aud
distance vul have been received from vi at
The sun., 1881-01-30
SOME WASHINGTON TOPICS.
SENATOR DAVIs IN A EIDGET OYER A
PET CHICA0O bill

Calling on Senators ConkiiBe and Thurman
for Aid-OpDosition TO Judge Biilings's
Connrn,ation-The Electoral Count Bili.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Davis Of
Illinois has been trying to get bill through
the Senate to confirm the title OF the city Of
Chicago to public grounds in the Dearborn res
ervation. Government rights are protected In
this bill. and 1t is merely OF local interest but
out OF Its consideration arose rather exciting
scene In the Senate to-day. The bill went along
with difficulty until Senator Edmunds arose.
In his exasperating conversational tones, and
his slyly innocent manner. he began to pick
flaws. or rather suggest defects In the bill. Mr..
Davis grew very nervous. Mr.. Edmunds
wanted 1t expressly stated that no adverse pri-
vate rights would be affected by the bill but as his
most plausible amendments are always looked
upon with suspicion. Mr.. Davis went with ex-
traordinary agility over to Senator Conkling's
seat and evidently asked Conkling to help him.
Conkling stopped his writing. and began to
fortified Mr. Davis rapidly propeed Ye Sis s9Ts Srent
weight over to Judge Thurman. and evidently
bes0ught his help. Judge Thurman, snuff box
Thus recruited. Mr.. Davis In the most nervous
manner trotted back and forth between his seat
munds saying that the only secP sPflM Of MT i9 Ed a
munds's amendment was to float claim into
snfssnt mdhsn bSIoysncy for i to be used to get
insinuations In q par liamentary way, Mr.. Conk-
ling intimated that the Edmunds amendment
gave somebody q chance to levy black mail. He
added that such an amendment was dog In
the maneer one. Judge Thurmsn also said
been slyly laughing He does not laugh with
his face. but when he is amused there is a
vibration OF his wastcoat. He was evidently
amused at the worry he had put Mr.. Davis to.
But when he heard that term dog in the man
ger. he denied that he had acted in any suchway.
claimed any intention OF accusing Edmunds OF
80 acting. The distinguished Senator from
Illinois and the still more distinguished Sem
not think feel hurt" and he went on IN a self
deprecatory, way, claiming that his influence
was too slight in the Senate to enable him to
act like dog In the manager. 1t was evident
that the imperturbabe Senator from Vermont
had been o lit 9 nettled. for his waistcoat no
longer vibrated. while Conkling and Judge
Thurman began to laugh.