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Poetry.
A Leap for Life.
by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Old IrOnsidcs mt anchor lay
In the harbor OF Mahon;
A dead calm rested on the bay
The waves to sleep had gone;
When little Hal, the captains son,
A lad both brave and good,
In sport, up shroud and rigging ran,
And on the main-truck stood!
A shudder shot through every vein,
All eyes were turned on high!
There stood the boy, with dizzy brain.
Between the sea and sky;
No hold had he above, below;
Alone he stood in air;
To that far height none dare TO go;
No aid could reach him there.
He gazed-but not man could speak.
With horror all aghast,
In groups, with pallid brow and cheek.
We watched the quivering mast.
The atmosphere grew thick and hot.
And OF liquid hue
As, riveted unto the spot.
Stood officers and crew.
The father came on deck-he gasped.
"Oh God! Thy will be DONE"
Then suddenly rife grasped,
And aimed II at his son:
Jump. far out, boy. into the wave.
Jump or fire." he said
That only chance your life can save.
Jump. jump. boy''-he obcyed.
He sunk--he rosc-hc lived-he moved
And for the ship struck out;
On board we hailed the lad beloved.
With many manly shout.
His father drew, in silent JOY,
Those wet arms round his neck
Then folded to his heart his boy.
And tainted on the deck.
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hE-->iSs
At the recent coronation of His Majesty
King kalakaua, this government was rep
resented both deplomatcally and BY the
formal visit of a vessel Of war. The ques-
ton Of terminating or modifying the exist
ing reciprocity treaty with Hawaii is now
before Congress. l am convinced that the
charges of abuse and frauds under that
treaty, have been exaggerated, and renew
the suggestion of last years message, that
the treaty be modified wherever ITS provis-
ions have proved onerous TO the legitimate
trade between the two countries, | am not
disposed to favor the entire cessation of
treaty relations which have fosteled good
will between tine countries, and contributed
toward the equality Of Hawaii in the family
of nations.
In pursuance of the policy declared by
this Government, Of extending our inter
course with the Eastern nations, legations
have, during the past year, been established
in Persia, Siam and Corea, and it is proba-
BILE that permanent missions of these coun-
tries will ere long be maintained in the
United States, and special embassy from
Siam is now on its way hlther. Treaty re-
lations with Corea were perfected bv the ex-
cuahSe NJ Ceoui oh tHe IStn OF May last, OF
the ratification Of the lately concluded con-
vention, and ENJOYS from the King Of Tah
Choshun, have visited this country and re-
ceived cordial welcome. Corea as yet un-
acquainted with the methods of Western
civilization, now invites the attention Of
those interested in the advancement of our
foreign trade, as it needs the implements
and products which the United States are
ready to supply. We seek no monopoly Of
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To the Congress Of the United States:
At the threshold of your deliberations, /
congratulate YOU upon the favorable aspect
of the
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
of this Government. Our relations with
other countries continue to be upon a
friendly footing with the Argentine Re-
public, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hayti,
Italy. Santo Domingo and Sweden and
Norway. No incident has occurred which
calls for special comment. The recent
opening of new lines Of telegraphic COM
munication with Central America and
Brazil, permitted the interchange Of mes
sages of friendship with the governments Of
those countries. During the year. there has
been perfected and proclaimed, consular
and commercial treaties with Servia and a
consular treaty with Romania, thus ex-
tending our interests with the Danubian
countries, while our Eastern relations have
been upon a wider basis Ly treaties with
Corea and Madagascar. The new bound
AIRY survey treaty with Mexico, a Trades
Mark Convention. and supplementary
treaty Of Extradition with Spain, and
conventions extending the duration Of the
Franco American Claims Commission have
also been proclaimed.
FISHERIES.
Notice Of the termination of the fisheries
articles Of the treaty Of Washington, was
duly given the British Government and
the reciprocity privileges and exemption
of the treaty will accordingly cease on
July |. lsSj. The fisheries industry
pursued by numerous class Of our citi-
zens on the northern coasts, both Of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are worthy of
the fostering care Of Congress. When
ever brough, into competition with the
like industries Of other countries. our fish
ermen as well as our manufacturers Of
fishing appliances and preparers Of fish
products, have maintained foremost place
! suggest that Congress create commits
sion TO consider the general question of our
rights in the fisheries and the means Of
opening to our citizens, under just and en-
during conditions, the recently stocked fish
ing waters and sealing grounds of British
North America.
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OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

The Coronation of the Gar at Moscow
offered to this Government an occasion for
testifying its continued friendship by send
ing special envoy and representative of
the Navy to attend the ceremony. While
there have arisen during the year no grave
questions affecting the status in the Rus
sian Empire Of American citizens or other
faith than that held by the national church, this
government remains firm in its convictions
that the rights ofits citizens abroad should be
in no way affected BY their religious belief.
II is understood that measures for the
removal Of the restrictions which now
burden our trade with Cuba and Porto
Rico are under consideration by the Span
ish Government. The proximity of Cuba
and the peculiar methods of adminstra-
ton which there prevail, necessitate con-
slant discussion and appeal on our part
from proceedings Of insular authorities.
regret to say that the just protests of this
government have not as yet produced salts
factory results. The commission appointed
to decide certain claims of our citizens
against the Spanish Government after the
recognition Of satisfactory rule as to the
validity and force Of naturalization i'm the
United States, has finally adjourned. Some
of its awards, though made more than two
years ago, have not yet been paid. Thus
speedy payment is expected. Claims to a
large amount which were held by the late
Congress to be without its Jurisdiction, have
been automatically presented to the Span
sh Government. As the action Of the
Colonial authorities which has given rise to
those claims was admitted to be illegal, full re-
paration for the injury sustained by our citi-
zens should he no longer delayed.
The case of the "Masonic" has not yet reach
ed settlement. The Manila Court has found
that proceedings Of which this Govern
ment has complained, were unauthorized.
and it is hoped that the Government Of
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IMPORTATION OF SWINE goDUCTs.

The legislation Of France against the
importation Of prepared SWINE products
from the United States has been repealed
That result has been due no less to the
friendly representations of this Government
than to growing conviction in France that
the restriction is not demanded BY anv real
danger TO health.
Germany still prohibits the introduction
of all swine products from America. | ex-
tended to the Imperial Government a friend
ly invitation TO send experts to the United
States to inquire whether the use of these
products was dangerous to health. This in
vitation:was declined. have believed il Of
such importance, however, that the exact
facts should be ascertained and promulgated
that have appointed competent commits
sion to make thorough investigation Of
the subject. Its members have shown their
public spirit by accepting their trust without
pledge of compensation, but | trust that
Congress will see in the national and inter-
national bearings of the matter, sufficient
motive of providing at least for reimburse
ment OF such expenses as they may neces-
sarily incur.
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Presidents Message.

To the Congress Of the United States:
At the threshold of your deliberations,
congratulate YOU upon the favorable aspect
of tho
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ASSISTED PArPERS.

No American question has arisen touch
ing the deportation to the United States
from the British Islands, bv Governmental
or municipal aid of persons unable to gain
living, and equally burden on the com
muni,y here. Such Of these persons as fell
under the pauper class, as defined by the
law, have been sent back in accordance with
the provisions Of our Statutes. Her Maj
esty's Government has insisted that precau-
tions have been taken before shipment, but
this has, however. in so many cases. proven
Intellectual and especially so in certain re-
cent instances of needy emigran,s reaching
our territory. through Canada, tina, re-
vision Of our legislation upon this subject
may be deemed advisable. spondence
relative TO the Clayton-Bulwer treaty has
been continued and will be laid before Con-
gress.
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The Postmaster General devotes much of
his report to the consideration of the various
aspects of the relations of the Government
to the telegraph. Such reflection as have
been able to give to the subject since nv
last annual message has not led me to
change the view which | there expressed in
dissension from the recommendation of the
then Postmaster General that the Govern
ment assume the same control over the tele-
graph which it has always exercised over the
mail.
Admitting that its authority in the prem
ises is AS ample as has ever been claimed
for it, it would not in my Judgment be
wise use of that authority to purchase, Of
assume the control Of the existing telegraph
lines, or to construct others with view of
entering into general competition with
private enterprise. The objections which
may be justly urged against either of these
projects, and indeed against any system
which would require an enormous increase
in the civil service list, do not. however, ap.
ply to some of the plans which have lately
provoked public comment and discussion.
1t has been claimed, for example, that Con-
gress might wisely authorize the Post
master General to contract with some private
persons or corporation for the transmission
Of messages at specified rates, and under
Government supervision.
lConcluded on Fourth Page.]
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CUSTOMS DISTRICTS.

The Secretary Of the Treasury advises a
consolidation Of certain Of the customs dis
tricts of the country, and suggests tha, the
President be vested with such power in
relation thereto as is now given him as to
collectors Of Internal Revenue BY section
3141 of the Revised Statutes. The sta
tistcs OH this subject which are contained
in his report, furnish of themselves a strong
argument in defence of his views. At the
adjournment of Congress the number of In
ternal Revenue collection districts was l26.
BY Executive order dated June %, 1888, |
directed that certain of these districts be
consolidated. The result has been reduc-
ton of one third their number, which ut
present is but eighty-three.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

Democracy was for fifty years the
party of equal rights and its one
fault was in excepting the slave
The Republican party gave freedom
TO the slave, and in doing so put
chains upon the great S when
it became the party of monopoly and
of associations of capital and concen-
trations of business into few hands.
That this temporary interruption of
the true tendencies of this Democrat.
ic country may have been Of some
such advantage as was conferred on
the world by the baronial system
may be true. What is now needed
is to correct this tendency, and to
give to every American citizen an
equal opportunity in life, to remove
all restrictions, and then let every
al stand or fall according to his
own merits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
PILES.

PILES are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some at
lection of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. At times, symptoms of indi-
gestion r. psesent, as flatulency, I'M
easiness of tho stomach, etc. A mois-
ture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, particular
ly at night after getting warm in bed,
is a very m attendant. Blind,
Bleeding and Itching Piles yield at
ono to the application of DR.. Bosan-
kos Pile Remedy, which acts directly
upon the parts affected, absorbing the
Tumors, allaying the intense itching,
and etfecting a permanent cure, where
all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the sys-
tenn produces permanent disability,
but try it and be cured. Price 80
cents. Sent prepaid OH receipt OF
price. Address, The DIR. Bosanko
Medicine Co., Piqua, Ohio. Sold by
Webb & Cocver, Eaton, O.
mor29.1y
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

Says the New York San: The Ii
cense question is still at issue in the
Legislature of Illinois, and the argu-
ment in favor of the high rates for
the legal permission to sell liquor is
presented with great force by the
Chicago Tribune. Missouri and Ne
braska have already adopted the
plan of high license. Ohio has fix
ed the rate of license at 5000. In
Michigan it is $500, and we are told
that Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin are all moving in the same
direction. At the rate now propos-
ed in Illinois, the city of Chicago
and the adjacent towns, which make
up Cook county, would derive q rev.
enue of q million and a half q year
instead of the paltry sun which they
now realize from the sale of liquor.
There is no doubt that the high Ii
cense system affords a relief to the
community whit h cannot be derived
frt m a system of absolute prohibit
ton; and we see no reason to doubt
that it will rapidly become general
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

Democrats have grumblsd much
and said much about the methods
by which Republicans carried Indi-
ana in 1880. In proof of what has
been said about the corrupting meth
DDS of Dorsey we have the following
statement from Republican sources.
Recently W. P. Fishback, one of In
diana's oldest Republicans-at one
time editor of the st. Louis Demo
crat, and at another time editor OF
the Indianapolis Observation-Disclosures
an open letter to Congressman Peele,
of the Indianapolis district, in re-
gard to some Republican party meas
ures. In this letter he says:
"Such laws put money in the peck.
cts of bankers and manufacturers
Bankers and manufacturers will con.
tribute of this money to the campaign
fund; and men like Dorsey will come
to Indiana again as they came in 1880
and disburse 100000 in the Dennisor
House parlors, to be used in buying
votes, hiring %repeaters, bribing cleo
ton returns. You know that there
are men high in Office because they
connived at such crimes, and it is nc
secret that other men honored by thu
party are so honored mainly because
they aided the escape of arrested fel
lows who were hired to come from
other States to violate the election
laws ofIndiana."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

Several of the heavy taxpayers of
Van Vert county have filed petit
tons to enjoin the Clerk Ct that
county from buying and collecting
the tax for the payment of the in
terest on the bonds issued for the aid
of the Cincinnati: Van Vert and
Michigan railroad. The vote on the
issuing of these bonds was twice de-
feated and vas finally carried by a
small majority. The bonds are in
the hands of Eastern capitalists
Down this way these fellows want
$4,000 per mile, the right of way and
depot grounds to finish the above
road to Cincinnati. Very liberal,
indeed!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

it is asserted that Mr.. Gould
owns as much of the World as ever
before; that Mr.. Pulitzer has simply
obtained what shares the previous
editor, Mr.. Hurlbert had, and that
the whole transaction is simply a
blind to disprove to the public at
large that Mr.. Gould had any inten-
ton of muzzling the country at large
by obtaining control of the Associ-
ated Press. give the story for what
it is worth, though my informants
profess to be speaking from what
they obtained reliable sources. AT
the same time Mr.. Pulitzer is doing
everything to disprove these state
ments. His attacks on Jay Gould
are so outspoken and SO vigort US as
to disarm almost every suspicion
At the same time, it must not be for
gotten that Wall Street methods. are
very devious. JOHN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
with o si,o,e fact added rem.rLs

With a single fact added, remarks
the New York Sun, the picture
drawn yesterday by the New York
Times of the fate of the Congress
men whom CAKES AMEs bribed is as
complete as it is striking:
cit was unquestionably true that
MI. AMEN was an ardent and sincere
patriot, and that the work of building
the transcontinental railway, in which
he was engaged, was one of great ma
tional importance. 1t was, neverthe-
less, true that members of Congress
were bribed by an allotment of Credit
Mobi!ier shares, to vote for the aug
mentation of the profits of those en-
gagged in that mighty undertaking.
The exposure Of that bribery ruined
many regulations before unspotted.
One gentleman, elegant, polished,
scholarly, and a conscientious and con-
sistent member of the Democratic
party, never lifted his head after the
exposure of the Credit Mobilier scan-
dial. He died of a broken heart. An
other, who had filled a high office in
the gift of the Republican party, and
who, at the end of q long term in 8
Federal Office, was about engaging in
an enterprise of pith and moment
was laid low by the bolt that fell, and
he disappeared while yet in the prime
of manhood) from the politics of his
country. Others were gaid to find il
the obscurity of private life that i'm
munity from criticism, that shelter
from derision, which they could no
ask or expect in the public service"
And one was elected President o
the United States oy the votes ofth'
Republican party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
Notice to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
- ceived at the office of the Clerk of
the Board of Education of the ElDorado
Village School Distri,t t, ElDorado, Pre-
BILE Co., o., until II O'Clock, noon, on
Friday. June sth, 1858,
for building an addition to the school
house in ElDorado, Preble Co., O., ac-
cording to the plans and specifications
which will be on file with the Clerk
on and after May 21st, 1888.
Each bid must contain the name of
every person interested in the same and
be accompanied by a sufficient guaran-
tee of some disinterested person, that
if the bid is accepted a contract will be
entered into and the performance of it
properly secured.
The bid for each kind of mater la
called for by the specifications must be
stated separat'l y, and the price of each
given, and the price of labor must also
be separately stated.
None but the lowest responsible bid
will be accepted, and the Board may
reject all bids.
By order of the Board of Education.
j. n. CAMPBELL,
may17-4 Clerk of Board.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

A little boy scarcely old enough
to walk was found recently alone un-
der a clump of bushes near Head
land, Henry county, Ala. The only
explanation thus far suggested is
that he was borne thitter on the
winds of the tempest which lately
swept over that region. Some of the
people who have sought in vain to
discover where and to whom he be-
longs are becoming credulous to &C
cept that or almost any other solu-
ton of the mystery.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

"People should eve publicly ex
press their opinions of other unless
they know them TO he formed on cor.
rect principles. "-Eaton Democrat.
Eminently correct, Bro. Gould.
Will you please put the same at the
head of your political column" for
the next six months.-Camden Ga
zette.
Not necessary to putt it at the head
of our political column or any other
column of u paper. 1t is a rule
we have strictly adhered to all our
live.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

The colored camp meeting ought
to flourish with more than usual Wig
or this season. The prospect for a
big melon crop is good. The melon
growers of Southern Georgia held a
convention in Jacksonville, Fla, on
the Sd inst, and it was estimated
that $500 carloads of melons would
be shipped North from that point
alone this season.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

The Scott law gauges the right to
keep a saloon by the wealth of the
keeper. No matter how low the dog
gerry, if it only has the means to pay
the tax, the Scott law steps in and
legalizes it. Though the place may
be regarded by the community as an
abominable nuisance-a den of vice
the Scott law protects it against
all molestations if it possesses the
requisite amount Of wealth to pay
the tax.