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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

l OOOhLldhO1o IL JuoO give any OuuS dU oil
about the horse; they don't know his name
yit, evenW
And SO on, and so on, till, after an hours
talk, I was as completely persuaded as any
one could wish, and yielded myself up
| entirely to the fever of which O'Hooligan
he was thoroughly in earnest himself, and
it was not long before I was as mad on the
subject as he.' I saw that 1 had got a
means, at last, for relieving myself of my
difficulties, providing myself with actual
capital, and for making my marriage with
Lucy an immediate possibility.
"Sell livery blessed stick! Sweep out the
whole bag o. tricks! Pawn the coat aft
yer back! AM crack the bilin' on to the
Makeshift Colt! !" was Jimmy's advice.
1 found on inquiry that 1 had, %curiously
enough, drawn ''the field" in a big sweep.
stakes at the Brush and Palette. AS the
Makeshift Colt was a name unknown to
the lists, it had not been put among those
drawn, and consequently it belonged to me
as holder of "the field" ticket.
That's yours, thin, anyway" said Jim.
my, referring to the sweep. l accepted
this drawing, for my own part, as an omer
of success. 1 was thoroughly with Jimmy
now.
sold or pawned every available article thai
l owned, ever going so far as to raise
money upon the few bits of furniture and
studio effects that l had. l made up &
purse of about forty sovereigns, which
really represented every stick or rag in my
possession, except what. 1 stood upright in
Then my Irish monitor and myself pro
ceeded to visit certain bookmakers. A re
mark that the first of them made to us wa.
substantially repeated by the rest.
"Never heard of your fancy till thi,
morning. Gave a hundred against him tt
one or two parties that came to get on him
Had to look up the Guide to see if there
was such a horse at all. But can't give
quite the long price again. Make it eightie:
to one for you."
1 put on thirty pounds at these odds, anG
I also "placed" the colt at fifteen to one
putting on seven pounds in that way
Jimmy was e~nraptured; for if the colt car.
ried off the event / should win 2500I.-e
mint of money in our eyes. He himself
had put IN all he could raise-how much
exactly 1 do not know.
"It's a foine time we'll be havin' present
ly," he said. "Won't the boys open theil
eyes when you IN me shows our pile? An
see what a base of operations wen have
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
The Confederate Salt Works.

a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger gives an interesting account of
Saltville, near the Clinch mountains, in
West Tennessee, where the southern
people obtained their salt during the
rebellion. The locality is a basin in
closing about six hundred. acres, the
bed of former lake, forming one of
those rich bluegrass bottoms that are
worth fortune to the cattle-raiser,
and underlying it is a salt rock. Here
is made the salt that supplies Georgia
and Alabama. In 1858 George w.
Palmer, a New York salt-maker from
Syracuse, came to the region and went
into the salt-making industry in
small way. Wells were sunk, piercing
the salt rock, the water beneath it was
raised to the surface, boiled in pans,
and the salt thus obtained. The in
dustry was in moderate operation when
the rebellion began, and it then extend
ed in an amazing way. The blockade
of the southern ports cut off all the
outside supply of salt, and here almost
the entire confederacy had to come for
it. The manufacture was made ma
tional one, each southern state estab
lished its agency, paying royalty for
the salt produced, and Col. Palmer, ex-
tending his business, took in Gen.
Stuart as partner. They are now
probably the two wealthiest men in
Virginia During the war federal
troops destroyed the works, but after
they left the manufacture was resumed
1t was enormously profitable for the
owners, who turned out as much az
ten million bushels year. The re-
ceipts of confederate money were al
times so heavy that they had not thu
opportunity to count it, but bundled il
up, taking the account as sent them.
AS gold appreciated and the paper ac-
cumulated they bought land. In this
way Stuart got seventy thousand acres
and Palmer bought out all the region
surrounding Salt Lick, thus getting
magnificent estate of twelve thousand
acres, ON which he now lives with his
brother, and breeds many thousands of
sheep and hundreds of fine cattle. The
salt industry by this process often pro-
duced them an acre of land for bushel
of salt in the high war prices, but the
production has now fallen off, about
100000 bushels being turned out annu-
ally.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
The Sparrow Classified.

This journal has distinctly demon
strated in several editorial papers dur
ing the past two or three years where
the sparrow stands in ornithological
ella ssifcation, and that his place is not,
and never has been, among insect
feeding birds He is finch, and there
fore essentially grain-feeding bird.
Mr.. Jonesby says he believes spar
row would eat an insect provided you
could convince him that some other
bird wanted it; and, in confirmation
of this assertion, he says he once saw
bluebird about to appropriate Il worm,
but he was driven off by two sparrows.
who greedily and heedlessly seized a
short string instead of the worm, and,
after a stubborn conflict, one of them
secured it and Immediately swallowed
it, the worm in the meantime making
its exit into the ground. Lancaster
Farmer.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
Earth's March Through the Heavens

1t is difficult to comprehend that, in
addition to the earth's motion around
the sun, the latter is also moving
through space at the rate of 100000
600 miles year. The astronomers of
the last century discovered that our
solar system was flying through space
in the direction of the constellation
Hercules; in other words, if the spec
tator were to take a stationary point
in the heavens, he would see our sun
with its attending planets passing
through the space at the rate of 450,-
600 miles per day. Six thousand years
ago, it is computed, our solar
system was million millions of
miles farther from the stars of Hercu.
les than it is to-day. The region in
which we are entering is more thick
ly studded with stars, that is. with
suns of other solar systems, than the
heavenly regions we have left behind
us. w HdI llldrNelOuS uIlNerSc Wo
live in! When we travel on a railway
car at the rate of fifty miles an hour, it
makes our heads swim; but when we
call to mind that the earth revolves on
its axis once in twenty-four hours and
around the sun, 100000 miles dis
tant, in 365 days, and that sun is fly
ing through space 160000,000 miles in
year, human consciousness cannot
comprehend the mad whirl of worlds
by which we are surrounded. What
fairy tale or Arabian Nights story is
half so marvellous as the simplest and
most ordinary facts in astronomy
DemoTest'S.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
Soap and SQUAD. .

Some curious demonstrations of the
effect on the color and figures in soap
bubbles were given at the Franklin in
stitute in Philadelphia the other even
ing. A film of soap was placed across
the end of phoneidoscope. To bring
the sound in direct contact with the
soap a tube was used. A reflection of
the film was thrown on a canvas screen,
where it first assumed a bluish-gray
appearance. An information of the
voice, with the lips close to the mouth
of the tube, caused number of black
spots to appear on the reflection.
When these passed away beautiful
light-green, intermingled with pink,
remained. These two appeared to be
the principal colors caused by sound.
1t was noticeable, however, that while
a certain tone would cause Che Same
figure to reappear. it had no control
over the color. A tone which, for in
stance, caused one solid color to APP
pear, would bring out, perhaps, a dark
blue at one time and yellow at an
other. No difference was noticeable
in the effect of the male and female
voices.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
How Barnum Emptied a Show.

A story is told Of how Barnum once
succeeded in emptying his big show at
time when it was densely crowded
and thousands were waiting outside to
obtain admission. He knew that a
start was all that was needed to effect
this purpose, but how to manage that
was the rub. AT length a bright idea
occurred to him. Paintingup in large
letters ON piece of calico, "This way
to Egress, he hung it up at conve-
nient angle of his show Some of the
people thinking regreas" was some
strange new animal just added to the
collection, passed through the slit in
the curtain, and to their amazement
found themselves outside the show.
The thing was done. Everybody saw
every other body making for the cor
ner where the new animal was on ex-
hibition, and in few minutes the show
was emptied, the outgoing stream be-
ing SO great that it was quite impos-
sible to turn when once caught in its
eddy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
Labor and Food.

The human body never ceases to
work. Even in the most profound
slumber some of the functions of life
are going on, as, for instance, breathing,
the circulation of the blood, digestion,
when there is food in the stomach; and
it follows that some part of the ner-
vous system is therefore awake and at
tending to business all day and night
long. In the act of living, some of the
substance of the body is being con-
stantly consumed The amount of
work done by the heart in one day in
propelling the blood is now estimated
as equal to the work of steam engine
in raising 125 tons one foot high, or
one ton l25 feet high. We lose in
weight by working Weigh a man
after several hours hard labor, and he
will be found two or three, and, in
extreme cases, several pounds lighter.
If we do not wish to become bankrupt,
we must replace by food the amount
we have lost in labor. Hunger and
thirst are the instincts which prompt
us to do this. They are like automat-
ic alarm clocks, which stop the engine
at various points to take on fuel and
water. In a healthy man as much is
taken in as is required to maintain the
weight of the body against loss
Nature keeps the account. On one
side is so much food spent in work; on
the other, so much received into the
stomach for digestion. They should
balance like the accounts of an honest
bookkeeper, In an unhealthy person
the instinct of hunger becomes disor-
dered and does not sound the alarm,
and so the person goes on working
without eating until he becomes
pauperized; or the instinct works too
frequently, and he eats too much and
clogs the vital machinery. A calcula-
tion of the business done in the body
reveals the fact that for a hard work
ing person about eight and one-half
pounds of food and drink are used up
daily; some bodies use more and some
ess, but this is the average. The
profit which the body gets on this tran
saction has been calculated, and may
| interest our readers. The energy
stored up in the eight and one-half
pounds of food ought to raise 3400
tons one foot high. Most of this ener-
| gy, however, is eNperitiet'',
the body warm and it's functions active.
About one-tenth can be spent in our
bodily movements or in work. The
profit, then, on the process is about ten
per cent. This is enough to raise $40
tons one foot high each day. A profit
which is quite enough for earning a
good living if rightly expended, and it
is probably more than most make; but
all ought to strive to reach this point
if possible. e.-Scientifc american.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A piece of steel is good deal like a
man-when you get it red-hot it loses
its temper.
1t is pleasant to know that the big
bridge between New York and Brook
lyn is a suspension and not a failure.
The most afflicted part of the house
is the window. 1t is always full Of
panes, and who has not seen more
than one window-blind?
"Thank Heaven!' exclaimed fond
rather, as he paced the floor at mid
night with his bowling heir; "thank
Heaven, you are not twinsl'
Fruitful of trouble-Green apples,
A man may be ever so absent mind
ed, and yet he never forgets his first
wrestle with carpet tack.
None but the most inhuman would
think of pulling down the blind.
"A company has been formed in Vi
emma to undertake the general husi-
ness of washing windows, scrubbing,
cleaning pavements, etc. The origi.
natOr Of the idea is supposed to have
been at one time Philadelphia SER
vant-girl.
A vigilant sentinel is posted at the
door of picture gallery, with strict
orders OF the customary character. A
zir.'t- ~, hal,rore-si-s sr s,a,l q rr..s-A,t
ly halted. ''Here, sir, you must leave
your cane at the door!" "But, my
friend, l haven't got any camel" "Then
go back and get one! No one is al
lowed to pass in here unless he leaves
his cane at the door. Orders is or.
ders!
"Don't you forget" exclaimed a
man, arising during discussion, "that
l lay over the deck.' "Do you mean
that you can whip me?" replied a long
haired Arkansaw man, also arising.
mo, SIR said the first speaker.
"Then what do you mean when you
say you lay over the deck?" 81 mean
that am steamboat man and sleep
in the pilot-house."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14

II men cared less for wealth and fame,
And less for battlefield and glory;
If writ in human hearts name
Seems better than song and story;
II men, instead of nursing Pride,
Would leard to hate and abhor it;
If more relied ON Love to guile,
The world would be the better for it.
II men dealt less in stocks and lands,
And more in bonds and deeds fraternal;
If Loves work had more willing hands
blink this world to the supernal;
u men stored up Loves oil and wine,
And on bruised human souls would pour it;
III "Iours" and 'mino" would once combine,
The world would be the better for it.
# moro would act the play of Life,
And fewer spoil it IN rehearsal;
If Bigotry would sheath its knife
Till good became more univcrsal
II Custom, gray with ages grown,
Had fewer blind men 10 adore il:
If Talent shone for Truth alone,
The world would be better ior it.
II men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in all their dealings;
II hearts had fewer rusted strings
To Isolate their kindly feelings;
Ii mon, when Wrong beats down the Right,
Would strive together and restore it;
If Right made Might in every fight,
The world would be better for it.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
Just rs lie Said IT.

An excited gentleman, who took ex
ception to a personal notice made of
him in the paper, called at the Office
the other day to demand a correction.
He said that he did not take any stock
in newspaper apologies; that they
were generally an aggravation of the
original offense, and to guard against
any such possibility he insisted that
Just what he would dictate should be
printed in contradiction and precisely
us he uttered it, g6
Perhaps the gentleman did not con
slider that. as he had very bad cold in
the head, his caution to print his re-
marks "pr ecisely as he uttered them"
would involve his name somewhat
ridiculous, for he was especially EN-
phatic in saying that he "did dot wadt
'.dy dodseds about it," but having
agreed to his demand, we feel in honor
und to abide by our promise, and
the following is what he said and just
as he said it:
aid lass weeks dubber of this dews-
saper ad iteb appe".~ed statidg that
Blister Johd Dicolas spedt Sudday id
Colubbus. AS this was dot id accord
adce with the facts add codnicts with
the geddlebad's stadebedt to his fabily
add friedds that he was id Greed
Towdshib cd Sudday, the correctiod is
cheerfully bade that Blister Dicolas did
sped Sudday id Green Towdshib add
dod i'd Col, bbus, as errodeously do
! ticed." ."-CincinnaH Saturday Night.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14

| friendship tnaC Sn6 would not let her
self think that the feeling toward
Hugh Lambert ewas anything else;
and, although she knew he disbelieved
in her theory in the abstract-for they
had argued the subject very warmly
still she thought that his senti-
ments were well defined in her case.
Hugh Lambert felt as if something
very bright had come into his life since
he had known Dorothy. She was so
quaint and naive in speech, new and
fresh with her ideas and theories, SO
free and unaffected in manner, and yet
so womanly withal, that during those
few days they had spent together she
had completely won his heart. But he
was not likely to act on the spur of the
moment; he was so much older than
she; how could he ever expect that
bright little body to regard him as
anything but steady-going friend?
But still, day after day, he would
ride over to see her at Priarton, and
when he returned would sit and think
of how she used to look in the rooms
that now seemed so desolate. How he
longed in the evening for the sound Of
her voice singing to him "The Land
o the Leal" or "Auld Robin Grayl"
And Dorothy began to watch for his
coming, and, if, by chance, something
detained him at home, how long the
day seemed and how uninteresting
everything was! AT first. she justified
it to herself by the thought of her
friendship to him-a friendship which
had ripened quickly in the peculiar cir.
cumstances OF their meeting; but little
by little, as time passed, and she had
been at Priarton nearly three months.
it dawned upon the girl that the feel
ing she entertained for Hugh Lambert
was something more than mere friend
ship. She fought against herself with
all the strength of her nature; she
could not bear to prove false to her
own theories, and traitor to her favorite
cause; but finally she felt the struggle
was hopeless, and made up her mind to
keep her secret securely locked in her
own bosom.
While gathering primroses one sweet
spring afternoon, Dorothy heard
step crushing the dead leaves, and saw
Hugh coming toward her
81 want to speak to yon," he said,
"Will you walk with me a little?"
Presently he turned sharply and
took both her hands, and looking more
in earnest than she had ever seen him
look.
81 can't stand this any longer!' he
cried out. II must know my fate one
way or the other. 1t is true that I
am years older, but no one will ever
care for you better than 1 do. If you
cannot love me in return, / will go
away and never worry you any more.
l give you my word. Am 1 to 60,
Dorothy?"
go! oh, no! she gasped out, hardly
able to realize what he was saying,
only feeling as if she could not breathe.
Not long afterward there was
happy wedding at the dear old home;
asd then Dorothy came back TO
brighten up the old house at Leyton
Hugh Lambert would have been
less or more than man il he could
have resisted triumphing over her a
little; and, as they went into the
library, where he and she had often
argued together, and she had bravely
defended her theories, he turned and
said:
"By-the-by, Dorothy, who was right
after all, about Platonic friendships" ?"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-14
VOL. H---NO. 81.
A Wife to Her Husband.

VIII W uuoUunus
One of us, dear
But one
Will sit by a bed with marvellous fear,
And clasp hand
Growing cold as it feels for the spirit land
Darling, which one?
One of us, dear!
But one
Will stand by the others coffin bier,
And look and weep,
While those marble lips strange silence keep,
Darling which one2
One of us, dear
But one!
By an open grave will drop tear,
And homeward go,
The anguish of an upshared grief to know
Darling, which one?
One of US, darling, it must be;
1t may be you will slip from me;
Or perhaps my life may just be DONE
Which one?
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-03
AN EJECTMENr CASE.
A Woman and Her Family Set

A Woman and Her Family Set Out.
A good deal of excitement was created
among residents in North Water between
Walnut and Lemon streets yesterday af-
ternoon by the .ejecsment Of Mrs Jacob
Shirk. her five children and her old
mother from the small tenement in which
they lived. The poor family sat with their
few household goods on the pavement,
during the greater part of the afternoon,
and to keep themselves warm built fire
in stove in the street. When evening
came Mr.. Colo, coal dealer, Invited
them into his office and gave them per-
mission to remain there during the night.
This morning new home for them was
found at the corner of Lemon and Null
berry streets, where they are now COM
Portable. Jacob Shirk, the husband and
father, deserted his family some time ago,
and is, we believe, under bonds, by order
of court, to assist in their support. There
was good deal of animadversiOn, among
people who witnessed the ejectmont
against the owners Of the property from
which the family was elected, but they do
not appear to be to blame. Mrs. Shirk
had given up the house and it was rented
to another family almost as poor as her
own, and who would themselves have been
homeless had not the owner of the house
they rented given them possession of it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-03

THE refusal of some of the Methodist
congregations to receive the appointees
of the conference sent to minister over
them, even for the brief tenure of a sim
gle years trial, and the manifest dispo
sition of the bishop and his council to
temporize with the situation pressed
upon them, are only few of the signs
that sooner or later the church must
meet the issue ola struggle over the itin-
Grant system of clerical tenures and the
present lodgment of the appointing
power. Practically it is we'll understood
that certain congregations are able to
make their own selections, while others,
as in the case of the West Park Avenue
church. Philadelphia, disappointed in the
answer to their appeals, can, without sub
jecting themselves to church discipline,
make vain the assignment of the bishop
bydisrupting the congregation which fails
to get its choice. While such modifica-
tions or defiance of the itinerant system
are possible there is no limit to the de-
moralization wbicR may ensue; and
sooner or later, there will be engrafted
upon the law Of the church, as there is
now recognized in the practice of it
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-03
A Watch Missing.

Ralph May, a young man from Colum-
bia, came to this city yesterday to see the
crowd. He fell in with quite number of
men and made some new acquaintances.
Among them was William Brotherve, who
is also known as English Billy" Some
of the party were drinking considerably,
and about S o'clock young May, who was
perfectly sober, met Officer Herr on the
square and told him that he had his watch
stolen from his pocket; the chain was still
hanging loosely down but there was moth
ing on the end. He said be suspected Billy
of having taken it and wanted to have
him arrested, some parties having told
him that he was the guilty party. Billy
was arrested and locked up while very
drunk. When asked for the watch, which
was all young May wanted, as he did not
desire to prosecute. he replied that he
gave it to Dutchman. This morning
he denied everything and said he
had nothing to do with the watch. He
will be held before Alderman Spurrier.
The watch has not yet turned up.