The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

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The days now begin lengthening.-
Right after New Year the "clerk of the
weather. shifts the machinery so as to
lengthen the days at the rate of about
seventy-five seconds, until We reach the
summer solstice, on the 21st of June,
when the day is the longest of the year.
Now that the holidays are over, the
hard work done, and plenty of leisure is
on hand the gentle parental reader has
time to visit the public school and see
how his children are getting along and
how their teacher is exerting himself.
An i~ncalculable amount of good can be
done in that way.
Vennor writes that the storm period Of
the sth to the 18th of March (the time
when Wiggin predicts the severest storm
ever known sis likely to be a cold and
wintry blast but, in my opinion, nothing
very much out of the way. This is not
a prophecy but a probability based up
on a very probable recurrence"
Col. Wallingsford, of Indiana, used to
say, when appealing to the people to sub
scribe for a certain paper, that if they
would take it, read it n year, and read
a chapter in the Bible every day, then
if they were not converted to his views
he would give them a mule. We can't
quite go the mule but if each one of our
present readers will send one new yearly
subscriber, and that new subscriber is
MT satisfied with the paper, W. will send
it free the next year. Try it.
The course that a few men around
here show a disposition to pursue, for
the sake of a few dollars gain, in regard
to a portion of the losses of the Mussel-
man fire, is not a very healthy one for
our city. Instead of trying to stir up liti-
cation and trouble, the reverse course
should be pursued and the young men
encouraged to go on and rebuild and open
out again. Every citizen that is not cal
loused against everything that does not
add to his Golfers, will at least tender
them words OF cheer. We need them in
Eaton-the farmers of the surrounding
country need them.
A stroll through ''Mound Cemetery
just west of town, discloses the fact that
the relentless monster Death, is doing
his destructive work with unfiagging
zeal. The Cemetery is filling up rapid
ly, also, too rapidly. During the year
just closed many of u citizens have
been laid therein to await the signal at
the resurrection norm. There are many
beautiful monuments already in this
s'city of the dead" which from the emil
hence of the site are plainly visible from
many of our doors, constantly remind
ing us as we cast our eyes westward,
that those who sleep beneath the majes-
tic piles of granite marble will soon have
for "silent partners many who are now
buoyant with the prospect of many years.
There are sins, so an Apostle says, that
ought not to be mentioned by decent
lips. There are also incidents and oc-
currences that a local paper should not
expose or detail to the possible scandal
of the family circle of town and country.
We endeavor to eschew all these. They
do not belong to the ~public-only to
scandal mongers. The acts of a public
servant are public property, and belong
to the public-he gives a warrantee deed
for them when he accepts the trust, and
whether evil or good, the privilege tc
speak of them in public. In this con:
nection, it is our opinion that the mos
sensible thing Judge Gilmore can now
do, is to RESIGN There is a poiut a
which "forbearance ceases to be a vir
tue," and it does seem as if the Judgo
had reached it, nay, gone far beyond
and forever disgraced the high and hon
| orable position conferred upon him, b,
/ his oft repeated and continued debauch
t cry in the past few months. His friend
have coaxed, begged, plead, and forgiv
en- Seventy and seventy times,"-com
munity have spread the broad mantle O
charity again and again over his omis
sions, in the hope that he would do bet
r ter and reform, but it seems that al
kindness for him is only as "pearl cast be
fore swine, !" and all pleadings but as tn
2 idle wind, and that he is determined t
n go to the devil, without even the benef
= of a clergy, and we repeat again, til
best thing he can do is to resign his pC
sition. 1t is unpleasant and painful fl
US to write thus concerning a warm frien
g and a neighbor; one of intelligenc,
h brightness and splendid talent, and ont
I, too, for whom we have always NANTES
e ed a deep interest to see reach the pil
nacle of honor and fame. But a sem
re of justice for the dignity and honor
Of the Judicial ermine of Preble county al
f. this s~ub-Judicial District, demands III
m we should speak publicly and plainly
n the outrage.
The insurance on the Musselman
Id Co.'S. grain elevator, dwelling and graf
Id burned last week, is as follows:
ly H. H. Farr, Agent-Cooper, of Da
= ton, on dwelling, $1,000; Dayton, Da
IL ton, o., warehouse and machinery, S,
$50; K%enton, KY, warehouse buildi
us and machinery, $3.50.
a Hubbard q Peters, Agents-Teutoni
n of Dayton, on warehouse, $ 1000; NJ
~ waukee, Mich, Mutual, on grain, S
OF 900; Phoenix, of Brooklyn, on grain, S
700; Columbia, of Dayton, on graf
tn 5000; Fire Assurance: of England,