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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
Useless Expenditure.

While every girl and m should
Justly take a pride in her own adorn-
ment and that of the home, she should
use her own judgment and not buy just
because a thing is cheap. Get what you
need, and before buying. think whether
you really need the article. 1t is prob
ably a pretty trif1e in dress, in furniture i;
but what solid benefit will it be to you?
Or it is some luxury for the table, that
you can as well do without. Think,
therefore, before you spend your money.
Or you need a new carpet, new sofa, new
chairs, new bedstead, or new dress !; you
are tempted to buy something a little
handsomer than you had intended, and
while you hesitate the dealer says to
you, "Its only a trife more, and see
how far prettier it is" But before you
purchase, stop to think. Will you be
the better q year hence, much less in old
age, for having s~quandered your money?
Is it not wiser to clay by something for
a rainy day 2" All these luxuries crafty
you only for the moment ; you soon tire
of them, and their only permanent effect
is to consume your means.
It is by such little extravagances, not
much separately, but ruinous in the ag-
gregate, that the great majority of
families are kept comparatively poor.
The first lesson TO learn is to deny your
self useless expenses /; and the first step
toward learning this lesson is to think
before you Decentralization at Work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
The Development Of Taste.

In the natural growth of the world,
taste has been rapidly developed, and
the people of all nations are now produc-
ing each its own peculiar and wonderful
treasures. Who can remember or de-
scribe them? Who can tell the extent
OF the riches or the beautyo of the golden,
jeweled ornaments now admired and
worn by a Thousand million people?
What pen can describe all that is seen
in cultivated gardens and parks adorned
with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers ?
Where can we learn, in books or else
where, the m of all hat is beautiful
that blossoms from the whole earth /; all
that is beautiful that the brush produces
on canvas all that the weaver's shuttle
and loom produce; all that the skilled
hands of the carver on wood, stone, and
marble produce /; all that the combined
colors Of the rainbow have produced, as
shown in fabrics, of. silk and satin, and
cotton and wool ; all that is beautiful in
architecture, and in the adornments of
the worlds most renowned cathedrals,
and beautiful in all its famous kingly
palaces? But life is too short to search
out and see all that is beautiful. We
can only get a glimpse, now and then,
at some of the worlds greatest treasures.
The most favored season for such sight
seeing is Christmas.-Ihe Independent
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
The Law Of Lost Property.

What ought the finder Of a lost article
to do? Most people will give a ready
answer. He should do his best to dis.
cover the owner and restore the lost
property to him. But this standard of
moral duty being imperfectly recognized
by the law, it will be interesting to
review the decisions on this subject.
/. The finder need not take charge OF
the lost property. There is no legal
duty on him to do it but If he does
take it into his possession, he then be-
comes a depository, and is bound to keep
it for the owner and restore it to him
when known. How long he must keep
it, or what efforts he should make to find
the owner, have not been laid down.
2. If the finder does not restore the
property upon discovering the owner,
does he commit theft ? This depends on
whether ne knew, or had reasonable
mea of knowing, who the owner was
at the time of finding. It has been held
that the finder of a p~ocketbook, having
the owners name legibly written on it,
Is a thief if he conceals and appropriates
the money but if there is nothing to
indicate the owner, he does not become
a thief in law by so doing.
3. The owner may at any time reclaim
his property, and if the finder refuses to
give it up, car recover it or the value Of
it from him. But as against any one but
the owner the finders title is good.
4. When is a thing to be considered
as lost? It has been said in several cases
that money or other property laid down
and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense
of the word. The proprietor of the shop.
or bank, or place where it is left is the
proper person to take charge of it, and
those who pick up the property have nc
right to keep it. On the other hand, il
has been held that where a conductor
found money in a railway car, whose
owner could not be ascertained, he had
q good title to the money.
5. Is the finder entitled to be paid fol
his trouble and expense? He need no
take charge of it, and it seems that if hi
does so he must look only to the graf
itude and good feeling of the owner fo'
reward.
6. What if a reward be offered? Their
is no doubt that any one who, seeing tn,
offer, sets to work to find the property
will, if he succeed, be entitled to tn
reward, and may even retain the prop
erty till it be paid. But if he alread,
| has the missing article in his possession
when the reward is offered, or has with
held the property in the expectation
that a reward would be offered, the rul
is the opposite.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
CARLYLE a Mathematician.

Among Carlyle's Edinburgh connec-
tions in those Kirkcaldy days, one
comes to us in q book form. It was in
1917 that Professor Leslie, not yet Sir
John Leslie, brought out the third CHI
ton of his elements of Geometry and
Plane Trigonometry, being an improve
ment and enlargement of the two pre-
vious editions of 1909 and 1911. The
geometrical portion of the volume con-
sists of six books, intended to supersede
the traditional first six books of Euclid;
and containing many propositions not to
be found there. The seventeenth prop
osition of the sixth book is the problem:
"To divide a straight line, whether
internally or externally, SC that the
rectangle under its segments shall be
equivalent to a given ~rectangle." The
solution, with diagrams, occupies a
page, and there is an additional page of
"scholium," pointing out in what cir
cumstances the problem is impossible,
and calling attention to the value of the
proposition in the construction OF
quadratic equations. So much for the
text of the proposition at pages 176-177,
but when we turn to the "Notes and
Illustrations" appended to the volume
we find at page $40 this note by Leslie;
"The solution of thus important problem
now inserted in the text was suggested
to me by Thomas Carlyle, an ingenious
young mathematician, formerly my
pupil. But I here subioin likewise the
original construction given of Pappus,
which, though rather more complex,
has yet some peculiar advantages. y
Leslie then proceeds to give the solution
of Pappus in about two pages, and to ado
about three pages of further remarks OF
the application of the problem to the
construction of quadratics. The mention
of Carlyle by Leslie in this volume o.
1877 is, I believe, the first mention o.
Carlyle by name in print, and it was ne
small compliment to prefer for text pur
poses young Carlyle's solution of an i'm.
portant problem to the old one that hat
come down from the famous Greel
geometrician. Evidently Carlyle'smathe
NAUTICAL reputation was still kept ur
about the Edinburgh University, anc
Leslie was anxious to do his favoritt
pupil a good turn.-MdcmiUan's.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
Why Some Farmers Do Not Succeed.
They are not active and industrious.
They are slothful In everything.
Thew do not keen mn with improye-

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They are not active and industrious.
They are slothful In everything.
They do not keep up with improve
They are welded to old methods.
They give no attention to details.
They think small things no important.
They take no pleasure in their work.
They regard labor as a misfortune.
They weigh and measure stingily.
They are wasteful and improvident.
They are fretful and impatient.
They ruin stock by low fencing.
They let their gates sag and fall down.
They will not make compost.
They let their fowls roost in the trees.
They have no shelter for stock.
They do not curry their horses.
They leave their plows in the field.
They hang their harness in the dust.
They put off greasing the wagon.
They starve the calf and milk the COW.
They go to town without business
They are penny wise and pound foolish.
They don't know the best is the
cheapest.
They have no method or system.
They go out too often to "see a man"
They see 10 good in a new thing.
They never use paint on the farm.
They plant very late in the spring.
They stack fodder in the field.
They prop the barn door with a rail.
They let the clothes dry on the fence.
They let the hoops fall from the tub.
They neglect to trim up the trees.
They have no shelter for wood.
They milk the COWS late in the day.
They have no time to do things well.
They have no garden in the fall.
They see no use in variety.
They see no difference in seeds
Southern Farmers Monthly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
True Loves Sore Trials.

The proverbial william, whether intro
duced to the public in the pages of the
society novel, or, with hating and uncer-
tain strides, challenging attention before
the footlights of the stage, only attains
the zenith of infamy when the brutal
betrayal of a trusting heart is fastened
upon him. In the catalogue of his
crimes there may have been written
arson, burglary and murder, but these
offenses are dwarfed in the more absorb
ing infamy involved in the betrayal of
the trusting heart that was lured by the
subtle influences of fair speech or the
attractive exterior of a rich and costly
habit. The female counterpart of the
william is pronounced whimsical, tickle
and underserving, but the poor man
whose heart palpitates in unison with
her queer humors is regarded as a dolt
for his devotion.
A story comes from Altoona which
will serve a good purpose if it directs
attention to the palpable partiality of
this public sentiment. A young nan
resident of that mountain city has been
in the habit of testifying his devotion to
the idol of his heart by conducting her
regularly to the door of the church she
patronized and then waiting the con-
clusion of the exercises to escort her
back to her home. These attentions
seemed satisfactory to the lady. But in
the spirit of reform the City Council
enacted an ordinance making standing
at the church door a misdemeanor char
acterized as t'loaing," and instructed
the officers of the law to arrest and com
init any offender against the statute. On
the succeeding Sunday night the young
man in question took his accustomed
station. The minion of municipal
authority warned him away, but, with
an earnestness worthy a better girl, he
refused to desert his post. For this he
was arrested, committed and compelled
to spend the night In the calaboose.
Upon his release he fastened to the
side of the charmer for whose sake ht
suffered the indignity, but she vowed
the disgrace of his incarceration hai
wiped out the love his constancy ough
to have magnifed. Then his aunt, from
whom he expected a rich inheritance
took a similar view of the affair, and an
nounced her determination to cut hin
out of her affections and her will. Thu
the young man has been completed,
crushed by the whimsical maiden upol
whom his affections centered, unless tn,
suit against the city-whjchh he threaten
to institute-should reach a favorabl
ssue.-PbaLGdeLphiG Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26

A GENTLEMAN contributes to Nature
the following account of his experience
in India bearing upon the question
whether ants produce sounds or not:
Whilst lying awake early one morning
before the servants were stirring, when
camped in-the Deccan, at the present
small station of Chota or Chick-Soogo +,
on the G. 1. P. Railway, during the win
ter 1S6S-69, I heard a sound repeated at
intervals of about a second. It sounded
as though the wall of the tent was being
struck by a light fringe along one side;
but noticing that the air was perfectly
still, I listened for some minutes wonder
ing what it was and trying to fix the 10
cality. I got out of bed cautiously and
looked out; the whole of n side of the
tent, for a height of two feet, was covered
with white ants sothickiy, hat at the first
glance I thought the wall was covered
with a gray-reddish mud to this height
The noise ceased suddenly as soon as the
ants seemed to become aware of the
writer's presence, and in a few minutes
they had all disappeared. The impress
sion produced was that they had all beer
striking the tent wall at the same time
with their heads.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
In THE reports on American and foreign


IN THE reports on American and foreign
patents relating to chemistry, published
in the Proceedings of the American
Chemical Society, we find the following
inventions mentioned: A method of
making articles from waste amber by
treating the pieces with solvents and sub
jecting them to pressure; a process of
obtaining the perfumes of natural flow
ers by absorption, the flowers being
STEPPED in vaseline which takes up the
essential oils and is thus transformed
into a perfume; a newfuel consisting of
coal-dust ground with lime and formed
while moist into masses of convenient
size and shape; an Illuminating oil made
up of petroleum and a small portion of
chloroform; and q plastic mass called
tripolith, which lisa substitute for plaster
of Paris and is said to have advantages
over that substance, presumably for the
use of sculptors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

ASPIRING beggary is wretchedness it
self.
VENERATE an honest obliquity OF UNI
derstanding.
THE beggar is the only free maniin
the universe.
D1sPRopoRTIoNED friendships ever ter
inmate in disgust.
LET us draw upon content for the de-
ficiencies of fortune.
Coop counsel rejected returns to en-
rich the giver's bosom.
MARRIAGE, is by its best title, a monop-
oily, and of the most invidious sort.
RICHES in general are in every coun-
try another name for freedom.
THAT virtue which requires to be ever
| guarded Is scarcely worth the sentinel
CHKERFULNEss was never yet pro-
duced by effort which is itself painful.
E~P1sTo1ARY matter usually compriseth
three topics: News, sentiment and puns.
The first fault is the child of simplic-
ity, but every other the offspring Of it.
MAN little knows what calamities are
beyond his patience to bear till he tries
them.
MAN is not q creation of pure reason,
he must nave his senses delightfully."- ap-
pealed to.
In THIS life, it appears that we cannot
be entirely blest, but yet We may be
completely miserable.
The human species is composed OF
two distinct races, the men who borrow
and the men who lend.
I'll - IsLz-l Ls-oao1 -
not to be DESTROYS of subjecting the will
of some individuals in society to his
own.
That single effort by which we stop
short in the down hill path to perdition
is itself a greater exertion of virtue than
a hundred acts of justice.
The honest man, who marries and
brings up a large family, does more
service han he who continues single
and only talks of population.
AFTER men have travelled through q
few stages in vice, shame forsakes them,
and returns back to wait upon the few
virtues they have still remaining.
NOTHING is more distasteful than that
entire complacency and satisfaction
which beam in the countenance of 6
newly married couple-in that of the
lady particularly.
WHAT a woman should demand of /.
man in courtship, or after it, is first
respect for her, as she is a woman; ant
next to that-to be respected by hin
above all other ome
THE possessor of accumulated wealth
: when furnished with the necessaries ant
pleasures of life, has no other method t.
employ the superhuity of his fortune
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
PeriheIion and Aphelion.

The earth reaches her perihelion OF
nearest point to the sun the LIST Of
January. She is then three million
miles nearer the sun than when in aphe-
lion, or her most distant point from the
sun on the LIST of July. As the earth
moves in an elliptical orbit, and the sun
is situated in one of the foci OF the
ellipse, she must some times be nearer
him than at others. Her nearest point
is called perihelion, from two Greek
words meaning near the sun. Her most
distant point is called aphelion, from
two Greeks words meaning from the
sun. Though much nearer to the sun
than in July, the increased proximity is
not even perceived by far the greater
portion of the myriads of human beings
on whom the sun shines. And yet the
three million miles hat measures the
earth's increased n%earness, is a distance
of which we a form little conception.
By measuring the suns diameter from
day to day throughout the year, we have
the means of determining the relative
distances of the sun from the earth. In
this way the shape of the earth's orbit
was found out. The earth moves fastest
at perihelion, for the suns attraction is
then strongest, and the greater his at
traction the faster she moves. This is
proved by measuring the suns apparent
movement through the ecliptic. Thus,
on the LIST of January he move through
sixty-one minutes of the ecliptic, on the
LIST of July, he moves through about
ffty-seven minutes, giving four minutes
of q degree in increased velocity, which
means countlesss miles in the earth's
actual speed.
An interesting question connected with
s~erihelion is the reason why we do not
ave our hottest weather when we are
nearest the sun. 1t is because it occurs
in the northern winter when the suns
rays fall obliquely upon the earth and
give comparatively little heat, though it
is probable that the severity of mid
winter is tempered by the benignant in
fuence. The reverse takes place in the
Southern hemisphere, where doubtless,
the occurrence of perihelion increases
| the midsummer heat. This theory ac-
counts for the fact that in Australia and
| Southern Africa the temperature in
winter is higher than In corresponding
latitudes north of the equator. The
earth's perihelion is, therefore, an in
teresting topic for study to those whc
would understand the play of some of the
great forces that rule the worlds II
space, for the same laws control tht
movements of the smallest planet ant
the largest sun.-Prouidence Journal
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
What a Woman Can Do.

As a wife and mother, woman can
make the fortune and happiness of her
husband and children; and, if she did
nothing else, surely this would be sufi-
cient destiny. By her thrift, prudence,
and tact, she can secure to her partner
and to herself a competence in old age,
no matter how small their beginning, o.
how adverse a fate may be theirs. By
her cheerfulness she can restore her hus-
bands spirit, shaken by the anxiety OF
business. By her tender care she can
often restore him to health, If disease
has overtasked his powers. By her
counsel and love she can win him from
bad company, if temptation in an evil
hour has led him astray. By her exam
pie, her precepts, and hel sex's insight
into character, she car mould her child
rem, however adverse their dispositions,
into noble men and women. And, by
leading in all thing a true and beautiful
life, she can refine, elevate, and spiritu-
al1ze all who come within reach |; SO that,
with others of her sex emulating and as
sisting her, she can do more to regener-
ate the world than all the statesmen Oh
reformers that ever legislated.
She can do much, alas perhaps more,
to degrade man if she chooses to do it.
Who can estimate the evils that woman
has the power to do? As a wife can she
ruin herself by extravaganza, folly, or
want of affection. She can make q de-
mon or an outcast of q man who might
otherwise become a good member of So
ciety. She can bring pickering, strife,
and discord into what has been q happy
home. She can change the innocent
babes into vile men and even into vile
women. She can lower the moral tone
of society itself, and thus pollute legis-
lation at the spring head. She can, in
fine, become an instrument of evil in
stead of an angel of good.
Instead of making flowers of truth,
purity, beauty and spirituality spring up
in her footsteps, till the earth smiles
with a loneliness that is almost celestial
she can transform it to a black and arid
desert, covered with the scorn of all evil
passion and swept by the bitter blast Of
everlasting death. This is what woman
can do for the wrong as we'll as for the
right. Is her mission a little one? Has
she no worthy work, as has become tn,
cry of late? Man may have q hardel
task to perform. a rougherroad to travel
but he has none loftier or more inhuen
tial than woman's.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William ]. Coughlin, of somerville, Mass, says: ''In
the fall of 1876 1 was taken with BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS,
followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 1 was ad-
mitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in
my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a report
went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a
friend told me Of D R WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM
FOR THE LUNGS. Igot a bottle, when, to my surprise,
I commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better than
for three years past. I write this hoping every one af-
ficted with Diseased Lungs will take DIR. WILLIAM
HALLS BALSAM, and be convinced that CONSUME
TIoN CAN BE CURED. 1 can positively say it has done
more good than all the other medicines I have taken
nee NV sickness sH
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
I. Made New Again.

Mrs. WIN. D. RYoKMAN, st. GATHERINGS, Ont,
says "R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y: 1 have
used your 'Favorite Prescription Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative
Pellets for the. last three months and find
are the only words that express 1t. I was re-
duced to q skeleton, conld not walk across the
floor without fainting, could keep nothing in
the shape of food on my stomach. Myself and
friends had given up all hope, my immediate
death seemed certain. / now live Ito the sur
prise Of everybody and am able to do my own
-orl - -"| IS .
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26

THE witty Dr.. South, when preaching
before Charles IL, saw that the King
and his attendants were disposing them
selves to sleep, when, pausing in his
sermon, he said "Lord Lauderdale,
let me entreat you to rouse yourself /;
you snore 80 loud that you will awake
the King"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26

BAD manner disgraced the King of
Sweden. cat supper" says Miss
Knight, ''his Majesty was seen to scratch
his head with his fork, and also with his
knife and afterwards go on eating with
them" But there is this to say: A real
blue-blooded King would never rake his
head with his forefinger, and a nine-carat
diamond.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26

For dyspepsia, fndigeEtTdn, depression OF
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against foyer and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the FERRc
P~HosPHoRATED ELIXIR OF OAIIsAYA BARK, made
by Casweu. Hazard Il Co., New York, and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic ; and for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness
1t has no equal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26
On thirty pnx.. rrInl.

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send their Electro-Voltaic 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. $40 risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-26

AFTER all the arguments about cheapness
and quality it appears that DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup is the best remedy for the cure of Coughs
and Colds ever offered to the public. The price
is only Is cents a bottle and every druggist In
the land sells and recommends 1t.