The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

to keep letters even days before send
ing them to the dead letter Office. Here
tofore the law compelled them to keep
such letters thirty days.
Miss Alice Stannah, heretofore in the
Mammoth Cheap Store, will now be
found in the dry goods house of Messrs.
Walker & Nugent, opposite the Court
House, where she will be pleased to meet
all her old friends and customers and
wait on them.
A fellow by the name of Focht, who
goes around all the time with a "chip on
his shoulder" had it knocked off last
Monday and his features badly demon
allied. Calkins, the horse trainer, did
it with his little fist. Unanimous YER
dict-served him right.
Urbana ministers do not approve of
the opera, and the editor of the Urbana
DEMOCRAT gives it as his opinion that the
opera is as profitable as the fan drills,
broom drills, church fairs and other ques-
tionable ways of raising church funds,
and he is correct.
Judge Meeker returns to the practice
of law in Greenville, after serving fifteen
consecutive years on the Common Pleas
Bench. He was q popular Judge and
leaves the Bench enjoying the respect
and good opinion of the people of this
Judicial District. We wish him success
and long life.
We learn through an exchange that a
law was passed in 1881 making it a felo-
ny for an Administrator, Executor or
Guardian to appropriate the funds of the
estates they control to their own use.-
This act is considered larceny and the
offence is punishable by from one to seven
years in the ~penitentiary.
We regret to that our old
friend Jos. A. DuSang. Cashier of the
First National Bank of Eaton, was strick-
en- with paralysis on Tuesday evening
last about 4 o'clock, while at work bal
ancing his books for the day, and is still
unconscious this "wednesday morning,
with but faint hopes of his recovery.
The dude is said to be a very slight
consumer of spirituous liquors, and no
genuine dude has ever been known to be
drunk. Whether or not this is due to
the fact hat the dude has no brains to
be fuddled is not reported, but this may
have something to do with his abstem-
biouspess.
An observing editor says: cit is queer
how some people are inclined to take
hints never intended for them, while
those who are really aimed at never feel
hit in the least. Newspaper publishers
particularly find this true. When a dun
Imprinted it is taken by those who al
ways pay promptly, while the delin-
quents never think it means them"
Bro. Harkrider, of the Germantown
Press, intimates that he knows the route
the Mackinaw road will be u out of
Greenville. 1t is our opinion hat what
he "ion't know is the most, because if
the proposition Mr.. Marble made at
G%reenville was sincere, it proves conclu-
sively that the route is not settled, but up
to be knocked off to the highest bid
der!
The Town Council of fredericksburg
has passed an ordinance prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors within her
corporate limits, in compliance with the
Met onnellsville feature of the Scott law.
The new law goes into effect after the
21st inst. The Eaton Council might sus-
pend the unnecessary cutting down of
streets long enough to try its strength on
the same question.
The wife of DIR. I. N. Welsh, of Eaton,
while passing down the stairway leading
to the basement of their residence, on
Friday last, slipped and fell on her right
leg, cracking the knee-cap and making a
very serious and painful wound. Her
physicians think there will be no neces-
sity of amputation, and the many friends
of the estimable lady hope they will not
be mistaken.
There are comparatively few men in
Eaton who know the pleasures of early
rising. This is the period of the year to
tenjoy a surprise in getting up in time to
see the sun rise and turn his genial face
beamingly toward the just and the un'
just. 1t seems as if three-fourths of oul
population are addicted to late hours
Early hours for retiring transforms the
majority into well-braced, spirited, heal
thy human beings. The mind is clearel
in the early morning hours, the muscl,
is firmer, and the nerve is stronger, ant
that is why the world remembers Poo
Richards "early to bed and early t.
RISE"
Pomeroy's DEMOCRAT says that n,
young man deliberately goes out upoI
the highway of sin and ruin. It is be
gun in an idle, thoughtless moment, an,
ere the telling can recover he is slip
ping with lightning rapidity down tn
hill Of prosperity and honor. The min
of the most pure and well meaning youn
| man will sometimes go astray from tn
plain path of virtue as the world pre-
sents too many seductive pleasures fo
r all to Withstand. You seldom see tn
industrious young man or woman G
astray, as their employment occupie
their minds so that they have no time t
look about them for something to do
= It's the idle moments that create sue
havoc to the lives of our youths. Wor
is the great preventative, and work it
that defends from evil and builds up a
honorable manhood and womanhood.-
Young man, young woman, strive mol
to be useful than ornamental.
u Messrs. Palliser, Palliser & Co.,