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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13
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GLENs FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 1, 80.
DIR. LINDLEY-I rejoice to be able
to state that our little daughter has
entirely recovered, and is, we hope:
permanently well. She has required
no other medicine than your Fit Cure.
and has had 10 attacks now for thir
leen months. Yours respectfully,
MARGARITE e WALKER.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. II, 'S2.
DIR. LINDLER-Your Fit Cure has
done u boy a great deal of good
He has not had a fit oil spasm since he
began taking your medicine. Re
spectfully,
JANE MERCHANT, 535 W. Fifth St
NEW BURLINGTON, O.,
March 80. 1883.
FRIEND DIR. LINDLEY-I will say
to thee tina: my son has moi had any
attacks since he began using thy med
icine that we know of. Thy friend,
Amos HAWKINS.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 2, 81.
|. DIR. LINDLEY-* Oar little daugh.
ter Is, we think, entirely well, fol-
which you have our kind thanks and
gratefuIness. 1t has lifted a burden
from our hearts.
KATE HAMER, 165 Calhoun St.
The above cases and hundreds OF
others of bad cases of fits, spasms and
commissions have been cured by "Dr
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13
Dr.j.c Aver &Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
Money to Loan.

Money to loan in sums to suit, allow.
est current rates of interest, on II to
five years time. A number Of valua
BILE farms for sale. Also, town proper
ty in Eaton.
Office in Schlenker's building.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13

One hundred Philadelphia Demo
Gratis have organized the first Tilden
club for 1884.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13

general impression is that Benjamin
will not get q very satisfactory COM
mittee position since his real position
on this question is known"
The Washington city Critic also
refers to the gentleman as follows:
From some small whisperings
around the capital one would be led
to the conclusion that the great
granger statesman from Ohio, Gen,
eral Lefever had stumped his toe
against too many promises prior te
the late democratic caucus"
"There IS trouble among the dem
ocratic members from Ohio. lkt
Hill is to be deputy sergeant at arms
it is said. Ben. Lefevre has a brothe
who wants it," b
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13
Thursday, Dec. III. 1858

Total number of national banks in
operation 1892.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13

Through tickets on sale for all points East OF
West. For information in regard TO ticket rates
&C, inquire ofagents at PRINCIPAL ticket ofices OF
address G.. w. Smith, General Passenger Agent
r. Il. WALpRoN. GenrManager.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
What Whisky Is Made OF.

Do you know what whisky is made Off
There has been stir as to the Govern
ment demand for returns of all the in
gradients of beer, and it seems that the
public is not, after all, to have full in
formation on the subject. But l can
tell you what saw put into whisky. I
visited pawn-shop in Division street,
east of the Bowery, in a neighborhood
of squalor and vice. 1t was in an old
fashioned house, once occupied by some
well-to-do Knickerbocker family. A
high counter stood where piano may
once have ornamented the parlor, and
behind it was big safe for holding
small valuable articles left as pledges.
Shelves filled three sides of the room
from floor to ceiling, and were packed
full of articles wrapped in cotton cloths.
Each bundle had ticket describing
the contents and giving the name of the
owner and the amount of the loan. My
companion in the visit was Health
Board Inspector, and we were, there
fore. enabled to see more than would
otherwise have been opened to us.
Going to the rear of the shop we found
an apartment completely filled, except
for a passageway, with things that
could not easily be wrapped up, such
as banjos, accordions, exercising APP
paratus and all sorts of household uten-
sis. The whole house was devoted
to 'pawnbrokerage. One room up
stairs held solid masses of over
coats, which their owners may soon
be presumed to require another
was fully stocked with undercoats and
trousers, and considerable space was
occupied by women's apparel. In the
attic was an extraordinary collection of
odds and ends. from hats to PRAYER
books, on which money in sums as small
as ten cents had been loaned. saw no
ticket in the house calling for more
than five dollars, and the average was
probably under one, even counting in
the watches and jewelry. The proprie-
tor told us that he had about seventy
| five thousand articles in the building.
As he charges thirty per cent. interest
on the loans, his yearly profit can not
be less than twenty thousand dollars,
and probably amounts to more through
the forfeiture and sale of far the greater
portion of the goods. But the reader
asks, what has this to do with the man
ufacture of whisky? The pawnbroker
was blunt old chap and not disposed
to conceal the wretchedness which af-
forded him a prosperous business.
"What is all tbs money that you adj
vance to poor people spent for?" in
CURED.
whisky" he answered, without hes
itation; "nine-tenths of it for whisky"
So very large share of New York
whisky may be said to be made of old
clothes, watches, musical instruments
and other portable objects. These
things, distilled with an abundance OF
misery and crime, produce the popular
beverage as consumed in the metropolis.
-Nea0 York Cor. albany Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
Cosmopolitan Cranks.

Long-haired men wearing broad
brimmed hats and high-topped boots,
who occasionally appear in this part of
the country, are invariably set down as
wild Westerners or bad men from
Texas, but, according to the Laramie
Boomerang, the same sort of individual
creates sensation there. One of these
men got off a west-bound train at that
city, the other day, and attracted at
tention because of his long hair,
swarthy complexion, and the wearing
of earrings and bracelets. On being
interviewed this eccentric person proved
to be a citizen of Connecticut, which
has not been considered a Western
State for some years. He was on his
way to Montana, where he expects to
take the headwaters OF the Yellowstone
for starting point and go down to
New Orleans, trip over 5000 miles.
He will use a small flat-bottomed skiff,
provided with rudder and sail, and cook
and sleep on beard, tying up at night
when too dark to navigate with safety.
Cranks, it is thus seen, even those with
long hair, are not confined to one mar
row section Of country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
Temperance Items.

If MAN becomes Incorporate at
twenty years of age he will only live
fifteen and half years, instead of forty
four years. If a man becomes in
temperate at thirty years of age he will
only live thirteen and half years,
instead of thirty-six.-Dr. B. W. RIch-
GrdSOn.
TEMPERANCE puts coal on the fire,
meal in the barrel, flour in the tub,
money in the purse, credit in the coun-
try, contentment in the house, clothes
on the children, vigor in the body, in
telligence in the brain, and spirits
in the whole constitution -Benjan
Franklin.
GOVERNOR FOSTER says that il costs
Ohio So, 100000 year to support its
poor, and that S2,500,000 of that is
directly chargeable to the liquor traffic.
The entire saloon interest in the State
pays less than $500, 900 in taxes, leav-
ing the rest of the taxpayers to foot
the balance of the cost of free trade in
intoXicants.
AMONG THOSE exposed to cholera in
the East, it was repeatedly observed
the use of liquor, even in a moderate
degree, were the first to be attacked,
and the surest to die. Of the many in
this country who have committed
suicide during the summer, a surpris-
ingly large number have heen found to
be men and women of drinking habits.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC can be sup
pressed, as has been abundantly proved
by the results of efforts in that di-
rection in many hundreds of localities
where it has been entirely swept away
by law or has been greatly diminished
in volume. These localities are to be
found in Canada, in almost every one
of our States, and in hundreds of To-
calities in the United Kingdom. -Er-
change.
ROYALTY is coming to an acknowl-
edgement of its duty to assist in cheek
ing the spread of intemperance. The
King of Sweden, addressing a Good
Templar Assembly recently, said: "You
can rest assured that shall do all that
! can for your Order and its cause" The
Prince of Montenegro, short time
since, issued an order closing all the
drinking-places in his dominions; the
Emperor of Japan has appointed COM
mission to consider methods of achiev-
ing the same result; and the Prince of
Wales, in his official capacity of Grand
Master of the Free Masons, has consent
ed to issue warrant for a Total Alb
stainers' lodge in London.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
Tine African siarn Trnle.

An officer on board the sailing
schooner Undine, Lieutenant and Com
mander Henry McA. Cut6eld, employed
in suppressing the slave trade in Mo
zambique Channel, writing under date
July IL, says:
We are having lively time, can
assure you. with 1913 poor, miserable,
half-starved wretches on board, eighty
of them women and children, and for
the most part children from eighteen
months to ten years old, and one only
four days old. The dhow that they
came to Johanna in was sixty three
tons, so they were packed like sardines
She was caught by our boat that was
left behind for ninety-six days, and |
am sorry to say one of our poor fellows
died OF fever in her. These slaves were
kidnapped about two hundred miles
south of Mozambique, brought down to
the coast, and shipped off to Johanna
as speculation, as the sugar crop is
just coming on. Some of the children
have been taken care of by the women.
Two little chaps the men look after are
housed in biscuit box. and they cry
Justify if taken out of it. They eat all
day and nearly all night. One old
woman became insane after she was
taken out of the dhow, and she has a
baby with her. The poor old woman is
tied down to prevent her going over
board in a fit, of which she has had
several. Every morning all are stripped
and the tire-hose played on them indis-
criminately, and don't they want it!
The smell is something too bad to be
talked about. Luckily we have beau
tiful weather this trip, and strong,
fair wind. Some would be certain to
die if we had spell of bad weather, as
we hare only the upper deck for them
to lie on. The night we took them on
on boam they were so cramped and
weak that only about twenty could
walk The rest were passed in one
after the other, and then slowed in
rows for he night. One hundred and
twenty ponds of rice, treacle and sweet
potatoes were cooked at once. When
they saw itthey went hands and feet
into it, andiought and bit, and each did
everything tat could be done to get a
little more than another. 1t was really
a most distressing sight. We should.
l think, capture three times as many if
we had some more boats and steam
cutter, as there is not a shadow of
doubt that large numbers are run here
every year, AMI especially about this
time Pail Nal Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
A Mountain Alligator.

William Blackheath, who has Just re-
turned from six-monts' soiourn in
Arizona, has brought to the Comstock
the skin of what he, for want of a bet
ter name, calls ella monster, but
which is evidently that of saurian of
different species. The skin now
measures seven feet from tip to tip, and
it has evidently shrunk some inches in
drying. Though about the color of an
ordinary ella monster, the reptile is
evidently kind of inland crocodile, or
more properly, cayman, as it had not
the webbed feet of the crocodile.
The strange saurian was found in a
small valley in the "Theatstone Noun
tains. When alive it stood two feet high,
and its body, just back of its fore-legs,
was over three feet in circumference. The
creature was as savage as a bulldog,
and as full of fight as viper 1t was
found by the dogs of Mr.. Blackheath
and partner. When the men arrived at
the haunt of the reptile-to which they
were attracted by the fierce and pecul-
lar barking of their dogs, three in num-
ber-they found that one dog had al
ready been killed and the others were
badly cut up and covered with blood.
The creature displayed such activity
and was so diabolically vicious that the
two prospectors feared to 90 near it,
being armed with nothing better than a
prospecting pick and shovel with a
short handle.
Finally the thing got one of the dogs
by the foreleg, and finding that it held
on like terrier, with no sign of loosing
its hold, Mr.. Blackheath ran forward
and struck his pick into its head. Even
then the reptile held on, and it was not
until it had been struck several blows
with the pole of the pick that its jaws
relaxed and it gave up the ghost.
When the dog was released it was
found that his foreleg had been broken
at point about two inches above the
knee.
Mr.. Blackheath says he has met with
several of the creatures known as ella
monsters that were two feet and two
and half feet in length, butnever before
or since saw, or even suspected the eX-
istence of one so large as that whose
skin he possesses. 1t was a surprise to
all the white men in that section, but
some of the Indians asserted that far
south in the Sierra Madre Mountains
they had seen some that were as large
or larger
Unfortunately, in flaying the saurian.
Mr.. Blackheath's only idea was to have
the hide tanned and made into boots
and CATERS, therefore he did not pre-
serve the feet, otherwise the skin might
be stuffed and mounted by taxiderm-
ist. He says the teeth of the creature
were over an inch in length, were sharp
as needles, and in shape resembled the
teeth of shark. - Virginia city (Nev.)
Enterprise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
A Temperance Sermon.

President Hagan, of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Association, lectured
last evening before fair-sized audience
at st. Patrick's Church, corner Des-
PLANES and Adams streets, on the sub
ject of Temperance. The reverend
lecturer, after acknowledging the graft
fication it afforded him to meet
Catholic audience on such occasions,
spoke somewhat more briefly than was
expected, although very forcibly, on the
subject in hand. Rev. Hagan is most
convincing talker, and was listened to
throughout with the greatest attention.
He thought few Catholics of Chicago
were fully acquainted with the extent
of the liquor traffic in the city, and the
great harm it was working among all
classes. He had had considerable OPP
portunity to observe the effects of the
destroying element, and he had found
that wherever it entered it degraded
and debased all who came into contact
with it. Poverty and vice formed its
retinue, and all forms of misery were
its allies. 1t was worse than all the
plaques that had swept the earth, for it
transmitted its baleful germs beyond
Il
it, mothers hearts were broken, the Joy
of the wedding morning was turned to
misery and distress, and waits clothed
in rags were scattered by it all over the
world. There were many forms of
liquor devoured by drinkers, but the
material producing and feeding the
evil which came from them all was al
cohol. 1t was generally conceded that
the sin consisted not in the use but in
the abuse of alcohol, but the line be-
tween these was very shadowy, and
where the one ceased and the other be-
gan was merely amatter of speculation.
Drunkenness might result from the first
drink man took if it had the effect of
creating an appetite. No matter in
what form it was used, alcohol always
poured oil ON the flame of passion, and
was liable to make the usually quiet
man an Infatuated wild beast Hands
that were open and charitable were
made by it to grasp weapons OF de-
struction, and mouths which emitted no
impure word were made to vomit forth
the vilest of oaths. Alcohol had been
justly described as the poison of pois-
onS.
The speaker then touched upon the
extent of the liquor traffic, and gave
figures showing that during the last
month more money had been expended
for strong drink than was invested in
church property of all kinds. There
was one saloon in Chicago for every
one hundred and thirty inhabitants, and
one for every twenty-five probable con-
sumers, and the traffic seemed to be on
the increase.
He spoke eloquently of the degrading
influence of strong drink, and gave sew
eral instances that had come under his
notice of the results of drunkenness. In
conclusion he appealed to his country
men who were prone to indulge in
strong drink at weddings, christenings,
funerals, ETC., to forsake the error of
their way and do all in their power to
further the Temperance work.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
1t Gives Us Y.

There is a story at his own expense,
which the late Prof Moses Stuart
Phelps used to tell with great glee In
the days when he was a graduate stu
dent at New Haven, he took walk
one morning with Prof. Newton, a
man who lives in the world of
mathematics and simply exists in
the common world of ordinary
things. Prof. Newton, as is his habit,
started off on the discussion of an alb
struse problem. As the professor went
deeper and deeper, Mr.. Phelps mind
wandered farther and farther from
what was being said. At last Mr..
Phelps attention was called back to his
companion by the professors winding
up with: (Which, you see, gives us * t"
"Does it?" asked Mr.. Phelps, thinking
that in politeness he ought to reply
something. ''Why, doesn't it?' ex-
citedly exclaimed the professor,
alarmed at the possibility that a flaw
had been detected in his calculations.
Quickly his mind ran back over the
work. There had indeed been a mis-
take. You are right, Mr.. Phelps, you
are right, " almost shouted the Profess
scr. 1T doesn't give us *, it gives
us ~ And from that hour Prof.
Newton looked upon Mr.. Phelps as a
mathematical prodigy. He was the
first man who had ever caught the pro-
fessor tripping. "And so, Mr.. Phelps
used often to add, with his own pecu-
liar smile in telling the story, ~
achieved reputation for knowing a
thing l hate. It's the way many repu-
tations are made in this superficial
world
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
'SHE DOES NOT KNOW CHICKEN
From TURKEY.n*

Helene is the handsomest girl of her race:
She's an elegant form and an exquisite face;
And she dresses with perfectly consummate
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She knows many languages, living and dead !;
In science and fiction is very well read,
But she cannot cook meat, and she cannot
make bread,
And she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She can play a Fantasia" or 'Nocturne" with
skill,
Can sing up to BIAS wonderful trill;
Can write good story or sonnet but still
She doesn't know chicken from turkey
She's been up the Tiber, the Rhine and the
Nile;
She's a painter in every popular style
Can decorate china, a plaque or tile
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
A critic, both just and correct, as a rule,
And knows every stitch of the Kensington
School,
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She can work design by Lensing or Burt;
But she cannot cut out for her children a
skirt,
Or make for her husband a wel-fting shirt
She doesn't know chicken from turkey.
I'm willing a girl should read Latin and
Greek;
Should German and French and Italian speak;
And be up" i'm the latest esthetical freak,
II she only knows chicken from turkey.
I'd like her in music and song to take part;
Read poetry, science, and cultivate art,
If husband and children were first in her
heart,
And if she knew chicken from turkey
Knew barley from rice, knew a tart from a
pie;
A boil from a stew, broil from fry;
And if she went into the market to buy,
Knew very well chicken from turkey.
For, to make home happy, all knowledge
must blend;
Art science and saryioa tbeir benehts lend.
Then, ladies so clever and wiSe condescend
To know about chicken and turkey.
Lille f.. Barr, in The Continent.
An old sax,innr for q nnnr hnusawifa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06

EVERY HOME and every inmate Of
every home is in danger from the
dram-shop 1t is at war with every
man, woman and child of the COM
munity. Its purpose is to blister, blast
and blight every good thing in man
kind to fill the land with blasphemy,
plague, leprosy, vice and misery and,
infinitely more cruel than the knife and
hludgeon murderer, it both kills tho
body and sends the soul to perdition,--
San Francisco Rescue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06

"A few hours before the bankruptcy
of the Southeastern Railroad of Yer
mont was announced a willy creditor
paid sixty dollars for ride from sta
ton in Canada to Newport, just across
the line, where deputy sheriff was
waiting with an attachment for the To-
connective. The trick availed nothing,
for some employees of the road shortly
appeared with another engine. beat off
the guard placed by the sheriff, and
hauled the captive locomotive swiftly
over the border. $500 Rutland Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
A Young Jay Gould.

A fond and doting mother had two
cakes which she proposed to divide be-
tween her two sons. Fond as she was,
the mother, however, was fonder of one
of her boys than the other, so she said
to the favored one:
Here, take these cakes, my SON and
give your big brother the smaller one
of the two"
The boy took the cakes, and was APP
parently in much doubt concerning
which was the smaller, so he took a
bite out of one, and again compared
them. Still he was undecided which
was the smaller, and accordingly took
another bite and then another, and
finally turned over a very small piece
to his brother, saying:
"There now, Tommy, | have made
one piece smaller than the other, so
you will have no trouble in getting
what is coming to YOU"
The application of this well-worn an
ecdote applies directly to the relative
positions of England and France.
Egypt represents the cake which is to
be divided between them. England is to
have the larger portion, France the
smaller. but by the time England gets
through biting off bits at time the por.
ton coming to France is liable to be
but small crumb.- Teas SittinqS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06

Stock to be perfectly healthy
must have an opportunity of mingling
with other living things of various
kinds. The old idea of the healthy
effect goats have upon stable horses is
only one phase of great truth, that it
takes the emanations of all active life
toperfect every other life. Cattle should
be pastured near or in conjunction with
hogs and horses. The action of one
upon the other is always beneficial;
and the young, playful and sociable
always make friends with each other in
such way that much inconvenience
may be spared the owner Put sheep
and young cattle together and each
will grow in strength one-third faster.
A cat is the only thing which loves no
other animal.-Ndtiona5 Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06

Bill Hickman, one of the "Aveng-
ing Angels or Danites. died recently
in Utah. He confessed to having com
mitted nineteen murders by order of
the ''church."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
M. H. Dement,, of Chicago, is en-.

M. H. Dement,, of Chicago, is en-
gagged on a machine which is to do
away with the services of compositors
on newspapers. When one of his
machines strikes town dead broke,
and handouts are scarce, it will under
stand the magnitude of the task under
taken. And when it goes out with the
boys on Saturday night, and wakes up
Sunday morning with head extending
to the tree tops, how it will howl for
sub. No man with such name will
ever invent a machine that will take the
place of the printer. r. Chicago Inter-
Oceun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-06
HANGED FOUR TIMES.

= An old saying for poor housewife.