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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Why He STAYED Seven DAYS.

Years ago, at Cape May, I met a very
good, though a very foppish fellow who
offered me a share of his room, the hotel
being crowded. eff you were to stop
until after tomorrow" he said, "you
could have the room all to yourself, for
l am off for Newport" He had pre-
viously told me that he had been there
but a week. He had plenty of money,
seemed to be enjoying himself, and was
a general fayorite. So this rapid flight
rather surprised me. "Why this hur-
ry?" 1 asked "you look as if you had
nothing to do but have a pleasant time,
as if you could afford to crafty your
every whim why do you rush away ?"
"Mydear fellow, The answered, 81 never
stay anywhere more than q week. I
have just seven suits of clothes, not
counting my dress suit, and arig-out for
boating, fishing and that sort of thing.
[ never wear the same suit twice at any
n place, and SO you see L have reached
the end of my tether here. I could
buy more, of course, yet while dress is
just as important to a man of fashion as
it is to a woman of fashion, he cannot
go about with a CARLOAD of trunks like
a woman. Inever go to the length of
changing my dress two or three times a
day, as some chaps do. That'snonsense,
but 1 do have a fresh get-up for every
morning, which lasts very well until din
ner, then always, of course, the full
dress. Ny plan has other advantages.
You say I am a favorite with the young
ladies. I am, and I propose to remain
SO if I can, SO 1 never let them weary OF
ne. They are always glad to see me,
and I have SaUoir taire sufficient not to
let them get tired of me inside of q
week. Then I away to charm and be
charmed by others" This 1 beg the
reader will not consider a fairy tale. II
was an actual occurrence .-Progre8s.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Dizziness Of knowledge,

The fact is, the world is accumulating
too many materials for knowledge. We
do not recognize for rubbish what is
really rubbish. As each generation
leaves its fragments and postherds be-
hind it, such will finally be the desper-
ate conclusion of the learned.-Hdu-
horne.
This sentiment was arrived at by
Hawthorne thirty years ago just after
he had taken an excursion through the
British Museum. He came out of the
marvellous place bewildered and de-
pressed. His quick mind had taken in at
q glance the countless objects of knowl-
edge spread out before it In this museum.
He could see the vast range, but knew
that he could not compass it.
There it was that he felt sslife is short
and art is long" When he went to his
room after the ramble he wrote in his
Note Book: cit is a hopeless, and to
me, generally, a depressing business, to
go through an immense, m~ultifarious
show like this, glancing at a thousand
things, and conscious Of some little it'll
lation of mind from them, but really
taking in nothing" There are minds
n often comes in contact with which
r spacious museums of knowledge.
We say they know everything. Their
minds are of the e~ncyclopedean order.
Every Granny of their mental storehouse
is stuffed with facts. Their memory is a
scroll which eve gets done unrolling.
On and on it comes. We know these
tiresome people who know everything,
and escape them when we can. Who
cares always to be in the society of per-
sons who are perpetually exuding &C
quired information? It is usually the
character of these human knowledge
boxes that they possess little or no orig
inality. They must tell us many facts
we did not know, but they are given out
in such a dry, cheerless manner, that one
hears them without receiving them.
Here is where Jul system of education
has SO far been a partial failure. 1t has
been conducted mainly on the examining
process. Only as it has broken away
from this has it been successful.
The mind which has learned to think
will, as Lord Bacon said, always find
plenty of "stuf" on which to exercise
its powers. Very few who know every
thing can do anything well. They can
accomplish a feat mechanically but
they can give it no originality. What
ever they do will be in imitation. Charles
Sumner is said to have known SO many
things that the immensely of his knowl-
edge was a burden upon him. When he
came to speak he hardly knew what to
omit from his great storehouse. He was
a man of genius, and could light up his
words. Webster knew much less than
Sumner, but his mind was alive and
touched every subject with originality
and new life. A free, active mind that
has been taught to think for itself will
create, but the mind that is dull with toe
much knowledge will model and initiate.
Indianapolis Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
THE MARKETS.

CINCINNATI-FLouR- Family, IS 1896 10;
fancy, s. 4o@7 Is: GRAIN.Wheat-No; 2 winter
No; white, 5e1e:; No, linked, SOC Rye.No;
timothy, SIS SoaIe So. Psiov1sGoNsNIes pork,
gl2c: sagar,eaTed hams, Is1zsi41ls;; picked
man miilet,. q 2s@2 50; timothy, g 25@2 50 per
bush; clover 5Sz9 Sc per TO- WhiI FSriv 81 lo se.
from store, 81 3o@1 40 per BUSH, and So 70 per
bril- burbanks, 81 so per bush. peachblow, 81 10
al 30; new potatoes, 81 oO95 90 per bril- Straw
3 se q per- S 81 G0e Sn &c per q 4 c Ses5t 60 pei apBBl 1l. Z go GSs
toes, 4o95oc. per peck crate. Peas, 81 6o@l 70 per
bush.
NEW YoRK-wheat-No. 2 spring, 81 80; No.
Corn-No. 2, s4l@S5c. No. 2 white, 9o4@slc.;
No; 2 mixed, ssc. Oats-Mixed Western, 60@6Ic.;
white Western, eses5c: GROCERIES Coffee. 10
@71ac. Molasses New Orleans, 56@72c.; Porto
Rico, 42a55c. Rice.Carolina and Louisiana, .6@
&c: Mess PORK, SIS 1913 90. Lard = Prime
CHICAGO Wheat No. 2 Chicago spring,
7594c. oats-No. 2 mixed, 6sA@5sHc. Rye-No.
P foPEinfs inc; s ssr ssI5ais ea Z s R%ardsP r NC; st @sn,
11.371a@11 40c. Whisky, 81 IA
LOUISVILLE-Flour-A No: l., So 75d6 %.
SOC. Mess pork, $40 So. Bulk Meats-shoulders,
&c.; clear rib sides, 10000; clear sides, 11l7c.; su-
gar-cured hams, l4g14Rc.
NEW Observation-Disclosures, Sc O0@
6 25. Corn Mixed. &c; yellow, &c.; choice
white, CSC. @s1 90. ~Oats-Prime, 66c. Mess pork,
81 O5@1 20.
BALTIMORE.-Wheat-No. 2 winter red, 81 40
al Az Corn Western mixed, $500. Oats =
Western white, 62@63c. Mess pork, SIS 1913 rs.
Lard, 12s1c.
INDIANAPOLIS-Wheat-Is steady at 81 $50
l 35Ha. Corn, 73Ea974Hc. Oats, 52H@55c.
LIVE STOCK.
CINCINNATI.-CATTLE-Common, 50 i593 10;
good to choice butchers grades, s5 50G6 %; fair
to good shippers, SIS soar rs; stockers, SO 25G4 so.
HoGs-Fair to good packers, 81 15@7 Is; common,
SIS 1895 so; stock hogs, SIS 25@6 90. SHEEP-Fair
unshorn, 3N@412c.; good to choice, 4Iad5Lc.;
clipped, 3@4ac. Spring lambs, good to choice, 81
@6%c. per lb. gross.
CHICAGo.-Cattle- Good to choice shipping,
Sc 9597 20; common to fair, SIS 1896 20. Hogs
Common to good mixed packing, Sc 9O@7 40;
heavy shipping and packing, 81 5Og7 95.
NEW YORK.-Cattle, 13@13Hc. per lb. Sheep
Unshorn, So OO97 90; clipped, 81 o0a6 90. Spring
lambs, IS 0O9s %. Hogs-Good live, 81 2Oe7 70
per 100 lbs.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS light and ba-
con, IS 9O@7 so; heavy packing and shipping, 81 &C
O. so.
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Hogs Philadelphias
81 75@s 90 per 100 lbs Workers, 81 3o97 so
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

out airing, and brought them home with
their hands full of wild flowers, some of
which have received curious names.
One, a yellow, daisy-like flower, Julie
said was called the Mormon biscuit"
because when the first Mormons who
came into Salt Lake Valley ran out of
provisions while waiting for their first
crop, they were obliged for a while to
live on the roots of this weed in lieu of
bread.
The children went one Sunday after
noon to the Mormon Tabernacle with
Julie. The communion consisted of
broken bread and water, and was dis
tributed Unfortunately among the peo-
pie assembled, both to Mormons and
strangers. Little babes received it.
When they came home from church.
little Paul provoked the good tempered
Julie by innocently asking if the women
sat on one side of the aisle and the men
on the other, so the several wives of
each man would not quarrel about which
n would sit next to the husband.
Julie seemed very anxious to prose-
lyte and make us converts to Mormon
ism. She said to my wife, one day. in
a burst Of gratitude after receiving some
slight favor from her. ooh, ma'am, you
are too good and kind to be a GENTLE"
Her mistress suggested that she would
not like to divide her husband among
several more wives; but Julie answered,
shaking her head sorrowfully-
ooh, GENTLE ladies are so jealous.
Don't you know the more wives a man
takes, the higher up he goes in Eternal
Glory, and carries them up with him?
II a man has but one wife, when they
die they only go to the moon, but each
plural wife will take him to q higher
star in Glory"
This argument may indicate a belief
that the more a man suffers on earth, the
greater will be his reward hereafter.
Julie, however, saw that my wife cared
to go nc further than the moon, and
ceased trying to move her from her
lunacy.
1t is a common saying among Gentiles
that Mormons are taught it is no harm
to steal from Gentiles ; that rather it is
good to punish their "heresy" by
worrying them in every possible way,
and that to steal from them is praise
worthy; but we found little Julie per-
fectly honest, and she only left us to be-
come the fourth wife of an old bishop,
who wal already married to a widow and
her twin daughters.-K. d. FOrgeron
in Youths Companion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
HISTORICAL.

STErHEN DAY wa the printer Of the
first almanac published In America, in
1889.
A LIFE of Gen. Grant has been printed
in Japan. It was seven volumes in
length.
BENEDICT, an italian, born in 480,
was the founder Of the order of Bene-
dictine monks.
TIE ~colonists of Ireland among whom
Cromwell portioned out the conquered
territory are still called ~Cromwellians.
LOUIS XII. was the most famous King
of France since the days of Saint Louis,
and acquired the title of "Father of his
people,"
TIE oldest brick building in England,
except those built by the Romans, Is said
to be q castle in Sussex, built by De
Flennes, treasurer of Henry vi.
AN INTERESTING Archaeological Con-
gress has recently been held at Tifis,
which was attended by about eight
hundred persons, nearly all from Russia
and Caucasus.
In THE time of Alexander the Great
interest in natural curiosities was so far
developed that he used to send backfrom
his expeditions such objects to his
teacher Aristotle.
JUsTINIAN raised Theodoria, a the
atrical performer, to the throne of the
Roman Empire. IF Gibbons account
of her be true, she was in many respects
her husbands superior.
An IMPORTANT classical discovery is re-
ported from Athens. 1t is a manuscript
of Homer, dating from the 11Tth Olym.
| piad, 30S B. @. It was found by Prof
| Rokos, in an Athenian monastry.
JOHN AYLMER says of Queen Eliza
beth that "when all the ladies went with
| their hair frounced, curled and doubly
curled, she altered nothing, but kept he
old maidenly shamefacedness."
SUCH was the public feeling agains
Roman Catholics during the reign o
| Charles II. that members of Parliamen
were required to make a declaration
against transubstantiation, which ex
cluded Roman Catholics from their seats
The publication of a new tale b,
Tourgenieff is an event in the world G
Russian letters for the reader know
beforehand hat in it will be found tn
statement and examination of som
burning problem of contemporary Rus
sian life and politics.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Who to Marry.

If you can not find q gentleman to
marry, girls, do not marry at all By
that term we do not mean a man who is
above the need of work he may be any
thing but a gentleman, but a man who
knows how to work, who has self-respect
enough to keep him from low habits
both of speech and action; who is courte-
GUS and honorable; who is not afraid of
soiling his hands; the farmer, the black
smith, the carpenter, any man may be a
gentleman under dust and SCOT and
chips, but if he is not, girls, don't marry
himl There is enough trouble in life
without increasing it in any way. Do
not subject yourself to the modification
that would be sure to come with a hus-
band who would continually cause you
to blush for his coarseness and rough
ness !; for his slippery dealings or hypo-
critical polish. It is not sufficient that a
man looks well and dresses well; but he
must act and live well besides.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
A Lesson from Immigrants.

Apatient waiting for results througha
long series of years is not CHARACTERISTIC
Of Americans. "Quick sales and small
profits" is the motto not of the enter
prising country store-keeper alone; 1t
appears in one form or another over al
most every business announcement
throughout the country. To its being
acted upon, however, is undoubtedly due
the irrepressible push which dis
tinguishes the American from all man.
kind.
To it Is undoubtedly due the rapid
substitution of machinery for hand
labor; the interminable divisions of
labor in every branch of industry; to it
is due the "manufacture" of farm pro-
ducts, and to it is due the striking dis
inclination, manifest everywhere, OF the
average American to enter upon q gen.
eral plan for money making, which in
wolves patient waiting through a series
of years.
The rapid destruction of available
forests has for some time attracted the
serious attention of the Government and
of individuals interested in forestry, and
many inducements have been held out
to any one who would undertake the
growing of useful trees. But thus far
not many of the natives have been at
tracted by the offers, and it has re-
manned for the sober, industrious, and
patient emigrants, Germans, Swedes,
and Norwegians, to set us q wise ex-
ample.
The Federal Government offers to give
every man who is the head of q family
one hundred and sixty acres Of land, If
he will plant twenty acres of it In forest
trees. Can a young man afford to ac-
cept this offer aud wait for his trees to
grow? There Is no doubt of it-but
will he? The Bulletin recently alluded
to the remarkable scarcity of black wal.
nut. This tree fourishes in many oil
the Western States, especially in Iowa,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On fifty
acres of such land as could be obtained
here, 5000 trees could be planted
when twenty years old they would b,
worth S. a tree, or $50, 600; when thirt,
years old they would be worth $40 a tree
or 1920, 600. It is said that every year
after the trees are ten years old, the nut
would be worth as much as a wheat GRO
from the same number of acres.
While the trees are growing any in
} dustrious farmer could obtain o hand
some living from the remaining IL
acres. Surely, all this is a great induce
ment; at any rate, hundreds of fal
sighted immigrants think SO, and man
young men out West are beginning I
think so, too. While it is probable tbs
: the figures given above are r~ose-coloret
it is certainly true that there is nor
the Government offer than most poop
are aware of, and thoughtful young me
in the East who see but little chance fl
rapid accumulation here may well CO..
slider it.-New York Bulletin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Human Bodies Floating.

A Paris paper publishes these alleged
statements of a Partisan river spiresman
concerning human bodies floating in the
river 81 always know beforehand If it
is a man OF woman If the body has
the face upward it is a woman If 1T
floats on its belly, with its nose in the
water, it is a man. I have remarked
that a mar who has been thrown into
the water after being assassinated reap
pears on the surface much earlier than
one who has fallen in by accident or has
drowned himself. The time the body
remains beneath the waters shows
whether it is a case of suicide or muir
der. This curious information is yalu-
able in proportion to its truth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
The Telephone in Germany and France.

So far back as November, 1877 (ac-
cording to a recent statement by Herr
Unger), did the German postal and tele-
graph authorities begin the use of the
telephone in small places and there
are now 1880 such telephone offices in
the country. The public was slow to
adopt the telephone for local traffic in
large towns. Muhlhausen was the first
last year, telephone traffic was begun in
Berlin with eighty-seven subscribers.
The number of conversations by tele-
phone in Berlin is now increasing by
about 5000 a month. Telephone sys-
TENS are now at work in Hamburg,
Frankfort, Breslau, Cologne, and Mann
helm and in Altoona, Barmen, Elber-
field, Hanover, Leipsic, Magdeburg,
Stettin, Strasburg, Bremen and Dresden
they are contemplated. In the first
seven towns the telephone wires have
reached a total length of {, LAT kilometers
(say 1866 miles). Berlin comes first
with 1854 kilometers, then come Ham,
burg with oil kilometers ; Breslau, with
200 kilometers Frankfort and Mann
helm each with 1853 kilometers; Null
hansen, with 81 kilometers and Cologne
with SO kilometers. The total number
of applicants in these seven towns in the
end of December was 1854, and the
number increases every week. lab
had been put in communication ; Berlin
had 66S aud Hamburg 623 applicants.
There are three central stations in
Berlin, in Franzosische, Mauer, and
Oranienburger streets respectively.
From data in the first three weeks in
December, it appears that, on an aver
age, 1850 connections were made daily
ION the Sunday 100, $40, and 1881. From
IL to l is the busiest time; during that
hour $50 connections on an average were
made in the office in Franzosische
s~trasse, or five every two minutes.
From 8 to 8 there is a little rest, and
from 5 to Z fresh activity. The tele-
phone chambers in the Exchange have
double walls, with ashes, clay or saw
dust between the inner walls have in
tervening a layer of thick paste-board,
then cot~ton-covered felt on frames, and
on this the paper. These chambers
answer very we'll and are much fire.
quented. There are again public tele-
phone rooms Cat present two in Berlin
and n in Hamburg,) into which one
may enter and on payment of 80 pfennig
(say 5d), have five minutes talk by
telephone with any one whose home or
office is in the system. Turning to
France, we learn that the number of
lines supplied by the Societe Generate
des Telephone on the 31st of January
was 1,411, instead of 626 at the end Of
the corresponding week in 1881 ; and
the communications in the last week OF
January this year amounted to 80, 534.
In Lyons the number of lines has in
creased from 81 in January, 1881, to
2S5 in January, 1882 in Marseilles,
from 80 to 153 ; in Nantes, from IA to
70; Bordeaux has continued with 1872
Havre with 100 ; Lille with 5.-London
Times. =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

THERE is nothing in this world SO pure
and indebted as the love of a lawyer for
his client. A recent case in this city
proves this. The lawyers won a big
case for their client and got him a pile
of money, and, with a generosity never
before heard of, they have insisted upon
not keeping above half Of what they re-
covered, for their own use, and have
compelled their client to take the other
half. Never again let it be said that it is
better to lose all than to go to law and re-
cover everything.-FdU River Advance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

CIVIL you give me a check for our
account this morning?" asked a collec-
tor of a Newark merchant. The mer-
chant said: "Just sit down and wait for
August" august /" screamed the
collector. "August ! No. stree, I won't.
I've waited three months now, and if
that bill amt paid to-day it will be put
to suit" just hen August, the cashier,
came in and drew a check, which paci-
fed the irrate man and turned his rage
into laughter at the Misrepresentation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

ACCORDING to official statistics the
total population of the German empire,
as given by the last census, was AZ, 234,-
O61, of whom A, 958, 205 were natives
and 275, 856 foreigners. OF males there
were %, 1s5, 433, and Of females %, 04S,-
628. Prussia contributes 13,414, 1856,
the next most populous states being
Bavaria, $500, 600, and Saxony (the
most populous of all for its area), with
100000. The greatest number of
suicides ccurs in Saxony, Leipsic alone
recording more self-mdrders than any of
the other great European capitals.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Might Learn From the Mound Builders.

Everywhere in the Mississippi delta
are to be found traces of engineer.
ing skill of the mysterious race vaguely
called "mound builders" Artificial ele-
v~ations, miles of canals and long
stretches of low-protecting levees are to
be seen in nearly every county border
leans. Would not modern engineers do
well to study carefully the system which
these ancient people no doubt found to
be an efficient remedy for devastating
floods ?-Menphis Avalanche.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

THE report of the French Minister of
Public Works shows that in 1886 1872
9S3 men were employed on the French
railroads, of whom 1915 were engaged in
Office work, 81, $50 in station work, {, 1SO
as conductors and brakemen, As, 83S as en-
ginemen, fremen and in the shops, and
81, $40 in maintenance of road. The
average number of employees per mile of
railroad is about 1872. The number on
the Massachusetts roads is IA per mile.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Authors Who are Business Men.

Authors who do lay-work for a living,
and pursue their art in hours which are
the breathing-time of other men, are
permitted few of the common pleasures
for which they needs must crave. Their
manuscripts are written in their blood,
and the ink grows pale apace. Even the
delight of reading, that at once stimulates
and draws upon the brain, is forbidden
to one who is harnessed in the van of a
professional career.-Century.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
4 Judre.. Experiencc.

Judge J. 7. Bossier, of st. Tammany
parish, La, and of the State Legislature,
thus expressed his opinion to n of our
representatives 81 have found st. Ja-
cobs Oil to be very efficacious in sprains
aud bruises. In my opinion there is no
oil o liniment equal to it."-NesO Or
leans (La.) Times Democrat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
..Ecfoy Your 4

Is good philosophy. but to do so you must have
health. If bilious and constipated, or blood is
out of order, use DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
gative Pellets, - which are mild, yet certain In
their operation. OF all druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

THE result of my use of st. Jacobs
Oil for rheumatism is II have been
recommending it ever since, says the
Mayor of Chicago, Hon. Carter FL. Har-
rison. in the Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

If YOU experience bad taste in mouth, sallow-
ness or yellow color of skin, feel stupid and
drowsy, appetite unsteady, frequent headache
or dizziness, you are "bilious," and nothing
will arouse your liver to sction and strengthen
up your system equal to DIR. Pierce's I" Golden
Medical DiscoYery.' By druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
His Gratitude.

nth AND POPLAR STREETS,
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, March II, 1881.
q. d. WARNER & Co.: Srs-For twelve years
suffered from kidney troubles until your Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure wrought a wonderful
restoration of health. JOHN NJ. WARD.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
On Thirty Daxs, Trial.

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
Address as above without delay.
?. S.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial ia allowed
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

HAVING used DIR Bulls Cough Syrup for the
asst few days, to my qualification I find it did
me q great deal Of good. I had q very severe
sold which it cured in q very few days. G. c.
ROBERTSON, 139 Main Street, Lynchburg, Va.