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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Las vegas and it's springs.

In our recent trip through Kansas,
Colorado and New Mexico, we pass
ed very many noted, beautiful and
interesting places that attracted our
attention and deserved more than a
passing notice, had time and oppor-
tunity permitted. One among these
is the town of Las Vegas, the county
seat of San Miguel, New Mexico,
and situated in the fertile valley Of
the Gallinas river, 6,452 feet above
the sea level. The place contains
about 5000 inhabitants and is grow
ing rapidly; new buildings spring
ing up on every side, which, unlike
most of the Improvements in towns
in New Mexico, are of a solid, sub
stantial character. Within o few
miles of this city are situated the
"Las Vegas Hot Springs" noted for
their wonderful healing and medical
properties aud will beyond doubt be-
come one of the most popular health
resorts In the country. The waters
are said to possess all the curative
power of the celebrated Arkansas
Hot Springs with the advantage of a
most delightful health climate.
These remarkable Springs, although
until within q few years comparative
ly unknown to the outside world,
havea local reputation which ante
dates the present century, and from
time immemorial have been q health
resort and sanitarian among the ma
tives of that region, and the recent
extension of the Atchison, Topeks
and Santa Fe Railroad into New
Mexico, and its construction TO Las
Vegas and the Hot Springs, is be
ginning to awaken an interestin wha'
must soon become one of the mos
. famous resorts in the United States
These Springs arc about 40 miles
south of the Colorado line, and abou'
$50 miles south of the famous Mani
tou and Colorado Springs, and hav'
| the same elevation and dry atmo
sphere which have made 'Colorad'
such a resort for those affected will
} pulmonary complaints, while tn
, character of the waters is similart
: that OF the famous Arkansas Hp
. Springs, and are of wonderful efica
cy in rheumatic and blood diseases
. These Springs will always posses
important advantages over the re
sorts of Colorado in the greatly ST.
perior medicinal character of thei
' waters, and in q climate less blea
and harsh in winter and equal
pleasant and bracing in summer. ]
is the invariable experience of thos
e who go to New Mexico from the heav
D and moist atmospheres of the Nit
;: tsissippi Valley and Atlantic c. as
o that they find a fascination and a
o inspiration in its unequaled climat'
e The ownership Of these Springs his
passed into the hands of a compan
q of gentlemen who are making ad,
q quate preparations to accommodate
the travelling public and health-seel
ing invalid. A fine hotel with a
modern improvements is being cree
e ed, commodious bath houses are b
: ing built, the grounds tastefully lai
! out and everything done for the con
fort and enjoyment Of visitors tn
the best talent can devise. There
l. no better point in the country for Il
!. full enjoyment Of q glorious climat
and q pleasant summer than the II
u Springs at Las Vegas, which are no
u so accessible by the Atchison, Top
ka and Santa Fe Railroad.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

From all parts of the County we
hear of disgust expressed over the
nomination of the Republican ticket.
Kick on, boys, this Is nm 'of year,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

Our neighbor ofthe Register man
aged to grind out half column of
nothing, yer an error of q single fig
r in one Of our correspondence,
the proof of which we never read.
His wind on small matters beats a
Kansas cyclone. 1t is a good thing
for this country that i. is confined on
paner.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Notice of Appointment.

Estate Of Lewis Wikle, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the I'M
IN dersigned has been duly appoint
ed and qualified as Executor Of the last
will and testament of Lewis Wikle, late
of Preble county, Ohio, deceased.
jun30-3 ALFRED WIKLE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

The Methodist preachers will not
give CHARLEY FOSTER a ''send off,
letter of endorsement this campaign,
rs they did when he ran two years
ago.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

CHARLEY FOSTER says he can be
elected without the aid ofthe boiling
twelve hundred Methodist preachers.
He is more hopeful than his friends.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

The intestine war now raging in
the Republican party, SO far as il
tends to its disorganization and final
dissolution, should be a gratifying
spectacle to all good citizens. The
old proverb that honest men get their
due when rogues fall out was never
so strongly confirmed as is being e1-
hibited by the discussions in the Re.
publican party at this time. Such q
food of light has not been thrown
upon the dark hooks of the depart.
ments for a long time. All the hid
ing places of corruption and rascali.
ty are gradually being brought to
view, as they only could be by those
who know where to find them. For.
tunately the good work is not con.
fined to the departments, and every
prominent leader of the Republican
party is coming in for his share OF
the exposure. 1t is all the work OF
conspirators who have now conspired
to ruin each other As they formerly
conspired to plumber the people.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

C,P. DAVIS. editor of the Wapa-
koueta Democrat, died at his home
on the 18th inst, of Consumption, in
the Ash year of hrs age.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
Qht ptmotrat,

From Present indications CHAR
LEY FOSTER will be beaten in PEBBLE
county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30
LEGAL NOTICE.

TULIA DAVIS. residing somewhere
y in the State of Kentucky, will take
notice that William Davis, of the coun-
ty Of Preble and State of Ohio, did, on
the Goth day of June, A. D. 1881, file
his petition in the Court of Common
Pleas, within and for the county of Pre-.
BILE, in said State of Ohio, against said
Julia Davis, charging her with willful
absence and asking that he might be
divorced from her. And the said Julia
Davis Is notified that she is required to
appear and answer said petition, on OF
before the third Saturday after the 2sth
day Of July next.
FRANK G. THOMPSON,
ju23-w6 Atty for pl'tff.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

The most garrulous old cussS in the
newspaper business is 81. P. c." Of
the Eaton Register.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-30

We have neither geography, tenn
perance, fanaticism, religion, social
ism, or o riders in our political creed.
u. p. c..
Correct, uncle John. We give you
credit for this honest confession. You
have entirely and completely boxed
the. political compass, even down to
the claim of teing a "Stalwart." A
man who can be Wing, Democrat,
Know-Nothing, Republican, Green
hacker, Communist, Prohibitionist
and anti-P rohibitionist by turns, is
surely honest when he says he has
"nothing in his political creed"
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japanese Carriage Runners.

THE Japanese shack" is large, two
wheeled baby-carriage drawn by q man.
1t is called jin.ri-ki.SAa, Chinese for
"man--power-carriage," or Kuruna,
Japanese for wheel or vehicle. 1t was
invented but few years ago, and al
ready there are nearly twenty-three
thousand in one city. Men make so
much more by drawing them than by
other kind of labor that thousands of
young men flock to the towns to let
themselves out as draught-animals.
Over level ground good runner can
trot forty miles day, at the rate of
about four miles an hour. The average
duration of runners life is only five
years, as he is liable to heart or lung
disease. Formerly the runners went al
most naked. But European ideas have
influenced the Government to decree
that they shall wear clothes, under pen
atty of severe punishment if found I'M
clothed. But when away from the
cities and towns, the runners return to
natures costume. A lady, while being
drawn in jin-ri-ki-sha through the
interior, met policeman. As soon as
her runner saw the officer, he fell down
on his face, so suddenly as nearly to
throw her out, and began wrigglipg into
a garment, which he had carried on the
cross-bar. The young men drawing
the two carriages behind crouched be-
hind her vehicle and tried to get into
their clothes. Her man groveled in the
dust, and every time the policeman
spoke raised his head a little, to bow it
more deeply. He knew that he was
liable to be punished for not having his
clothes on, and this was his method of
supplicating mercy. The lady's inter-
cession, and her plea that the day was
very hot, propitiated the policeman.
As soon as turn in the road took the
policeman out of sight, the two young
men, throwing their clothes in the air,
gamboled in the shafts and shrieked
with laughter. The old runner, how
ever, did not recover his spirits nor take
off his clothes. He felt that he had had
narrow escape from the clutches of
the law.-Youth' 8 Companion.
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Imagination.

THE following story is told by an old
physician of Worcester County, Massa-
chusetts.
was called into neighboring town to
visit patient. 1t being about the mid
die of the day, the old gentleman of the
house (over sixty years old) invited
me to stop and dine. At dinner he
says:
81 don't know as you like my din
ner."
"Why, yes" said I; 81 do; 1 like it
very well; it is very good"
81 guess you don't know what you are
eatingP"
"Why, yes do" said L; sit is some
new corned beef"
"Ah," said the old gentleman, sit is
horse beef"
81 don't believe it," I replied.
1t is" said he, 81 declare it is some
of my old mare"
was not much acquainted with him
at that time; looked at him, surprising
him to be joking, but could not discover
muscle of the face to alter or change.
had just taken another piece on my
plate and mouthful of the second slice
in my mouth, and in fact it was horse
meat sure enough could taste it as
plainly as my olfactory nerves would
discover the scent of an old horse. The
more l chewed it the more disagreeable
it tasted. continued picking and tast-
ing dlittle sauce which could swallow,
but the meat, as the negro said, would
not go. / at last gave swallow as 1
do with dose of physic. | thought
that would have thrown the contents
of my stomach up at the table. l after
ward tasted little sauce, but took care
not to put any more meat into my
mouth, and kept time with the family.
Glad was when dinner was over. 1t
being cool weather. the old gentleman
went to smoking and telling stories. At
last he says:
81 won't leave you in the dark about
your dinner. I told you we had horse
meat for dinner, and so it was. / told
you it was some of my old mare, and so
it was, for l snapped her away for
steer, and that was some of the beef"
/ have ever since been glad that the
old gentleman put the joke ON me, for l
never should otherwise have known
how far imagination could have carried
me-
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Rats Charmed to Their Death.

A MOST remarkable phenomenon was
witnessed in the Second Ward, this city,
on Friday afternoon of last week, being
no less than large numbers of rats being
enticed from their holes by the roll of
drums. A number of the small boys of
this city, hearing it said that rats could
be brought out of their holes by the
beating of drums, determined to try the
experiment. So, procuring a number
of these instruments of marshal music,
and half dozen dogs with q weakness
for rat flesh, they proceeded TO barn
near Pearson's Touring mill, in which
structure were known to dwell many
well-fed rodents, who subsisted on the
contents of the grain-bins near by. Sta
tioning part of their number with drums
in the hay-mow of the stable, and the
others at the doors with the dogs, every
body was eager for the fray. The
drummers brought their sticks down on
the taut calf-skin, and soon the building
shook to its very foundation with the
deafening roll. Several boys had been
stationed at various knot-holes in the
floor of the hay-mow, and these youths,
peering down into the semi-darkness
below, soon saw little twinkling eyes APP
pear at certain apertures all around the
apartment beneath. The drumming
was continued, and sharp-pointed noses
and then sleek bodies of rats came from
the holes. Soon the rapid rolling of the
drums seemed to excite the rodents to a
point beyond self-control. They began
to caper and whisk around the stable
floor as il intoxicated. They ran around
the feed-bins in a wild chase after each
other. So rapidly did they turn corners
that their tails snapped with report
like that Of bull-whacker's whip, and
making the fur fly from their caudal
appendages SO as to fill the apartment
with dust. Now was the time for action,
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of her enterprise. A Western admirer
of Miss Oliver pluck has presented her
with a live buffalo from the Kansas
plains. Shs has devised plan to make
it source of profit.
Miss divers bitterest disappoint-
ment was in the refusal of the
Bishops of the Church to ordain
her. She has appealed for this recog-
milton in vain, but she is met by the
answer that the law of the Church does
not authorize the ordination of women.
- have made almost every conceiv-
able sacrifice" she says, ''to do what
believe is God will Brought up in a
conservative circle in New York City,
that held it a disgrace for a woman to
work, surrounded with the comforts and
advantages of ample means, and trained
in the Episcopal Church, l gave up
home, friends and support, went coun-
ter to prejudices that had become Sec
ond nature to me, worked for several
years to constant exhaustion, and suf-
fered cold, hunger and loneliness. The
things hardest Tor me to bear were laid
upon me. For two months my own
mother did not speak to me. When
entered the house she turned and
walked away. When l sat at the table
she did not recognize me. / have
passed through tortures to which the
flames of martyrdom would be nothing,
for they would end in day."
Miss divers true name is Anna
Olivia Snowden. Her critics have often
referred to the fact that she breaches
under an alias. Out of respect to her
family. who at first thought that she
disgraced them by public speaking, she
dropped their name and altered hers to
Anna Oliver. Some years ago her fam
lily became reconciled to her. and even
proud of her, and then wished her to
use their name; but, having won her
way as Anna Oliver, she determined to
cling to that name, which, it is whis-
pered, she has several times refused to
change.-N y Sun.
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Gems OF Thought.

He that will believe only what he
can fully comprehend must have very
long head or very short creed
Cotton.
THE Christian life is progressive, and
never stationary, for if we move not
forward we are certainly sliding back.
ward.
TIE experience of every soul that
turns to God is convincing proof that
there is light somewhere, and that which
is bright and clear.
LET it not be thought that the life OF
a good Christian must necessarily be a
life of melancholy and gloominess, for
he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy
others infinitely better Pascal.
If thou neglectest thy love to thy
neighbor. in vain thou professest thy
love to God; for by thy love to God the
love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by
the love to thy neighbor thy love to
God is Observation-Disclosures Quarles.
To DIsBELIEvE ill of any one until
you have positive proof; to disbelieve
that the majority of men and women
are false; to disbelieve that honor, vir-
tue and integrity are losing their hold
in this world-such skepticism is a
Christian grace. 1t is pity there were
not more of it in the world. - Golden
Rule.
SOME peoples idea Of ''the higher
life" expresses itself in that style of
perfect trust which does nothing.
and lies down on ones Woodworking
brethren for support. We venture to
suggest that, high as that sort of life is,
it would bear lifting up a peg or two
more with entire safety. Congregation
diiSt.
AN active, working church never
fails to prove itself q power for good in
a community. Christian sacrifice and
service are sure to be recognized and
appreciated, and the chief reason for
the manifest lack of influence of some
churches is the fact that they are not
engaged in any good work. Let the
people see that religion is a practical
thing. having purpose and power in it.
and they will be made 70 respect it. -
Baptist Weekly.
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The BasutOs.

IT seems generally supposed, by En-
glish writers and speakers on the sub
ject, that the Basutos are an ancient
race of mountaineers long settled in
their present country, and for many gen.
erations past in the enjoyment of free
dom, and conspicuous for their loyalty
and attachment to the British Crown.
This, however, is far from being the
case. Under their present name, and in
their present position, the Basutoland
Basutos have no history beyond the
memory of many men still living. They
in fact owe their existence as a separate
community, their name and their posi-
ton, entirely to their old and able chief
Moshesh, who, less than twelve years
ago, handed himself and his people over
to the British Government to save them
from utter destruction and dispersion.
The Basutos have, in fact, only come to
what we now call Basutoland within the
last generation. Within living memory,
before Chaka created the military or
ganization of the Zulus, most of the clans
of Bechuanas now settled in Basutoland
lived in the open country north of the
Orange River, between the twenty-sec-
ond and twenty-eight degrees of south
latitude and the twenty second to twenty.
ninth degrees of east longitude. The
Bechuanas were more civilized and
peaceful than the Zulus and other Kafiir
tribes between the Drakensburg and the
sea, and Basutoland had then few hu.
man tenants save Bushmen.
Early in the century the growing
Zulu power disturbed tribes far inland
from the present Zulus. Among the
more civilized and peaceful Bechuana
tribes then inhabiting the Transvaal was
a small clan ruled by the widow of a
chief, who had for her counselor Mos
hesh, a natural statesman and general.
Moshesh first of all shared, and event.
ually superseded, the authority of his
chieftainess, made himself independent.
and attracted to his rule many of the
broken clans who had been ruined by
intestine wars, or who were flying be-
fore the advancing hordes of Mosela-
katie, the emigrant Zulu chief. On the
other side of the Bechuanas, advancing
from the southwest, were the forerun-
ners of the great Boer emigration from
the Cape Colony. Retiring before these
adverse forces, Moshesh sought refuge
in Basutoland, which was then inhabited
by few but the aboriginal Bushmen Of
the country. Here, in comparative
peace, he consolidated his power. his
people settled down in the deep valleys
and multiplied, drawing TO them many
fugitives from all quarters, and over
these Moshesh ruled with much wisdom
and sagacity.
When responsible government was
granted to the Cape Colony eight wears
ago, the Basutos, like all other inhabi.
tants of the colony, whether of Euro.
pean or native origin, came under the
authority of the colonial Ministers, re-
sponsible to the Cape Parliament
Contemporary Reciew.
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The boys with the dogs were signaled,
the doors opened, and the hungry Ca
mines let in on them. The unfortunate
rats seemed to be under spell, and
made no attempt to seek their holes.
For five minutes slaughter reigned
supreme, and when it had subsidized the
floor was covered with the bodies of forty
three rats. Again were the drums called
into requisition, and the same scene en-.
sued again. This time thirty eight rats
bit the dust. The boys continued their
operations with their drums and dogs all
the afternoon, and when evening came
there were piled up in front of the stable,
mangled, cut, and torn, the bodies OF
four hundred and seventy mine rats; in
fact, all the rodents which had lived and
thrived for years on the grain in the mill
had been totally exterminated.- Nesc-
castle (Pa.) Neeos.
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A Freak Of the Frost.

A STRIKING illustration of the force
exerted by water in the act of freezing
may be seen in st. Lawrence Cemetery.
The Werner monument, which stands
near the entrance, rests upon heavy
iron slab, which in turn is supported by
several large spherical iron globes, about
eight inches in diameter and about half
an inch thick. These hollow iron balls
have small openings at the top, and dur
ing the rain which preceded the very
cold spell one of them became filed
with water. The water then froze in
the ball, and in doing so burst it in two
and threw the fragments several yards
off into one Of the paths. A solid ball
of ice which fell out of the globe when
it burst was found near. one Of the frag-
ments.-ChdrlestOn Is. CO. NesOs and
Courier.
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