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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
MY LITTLE YMA

I am a grandsire, t%ourneying close
On threescore years and ten;
And when my daily tasks are done,
And laid aside my pen,
l call my little playmate in,
Now passing on to three,
For / ave need as much of her
As she has need of me.
She draws me from the world of fact
With all its selfish strife,
She breaks the prosy lines of thought
That make up common life;
ShG lures me to her little world,
Where airy creatures dwell.
Where all things dance in Joy and light
Beneath some magic spell.
She wakes again those dreamy songs
That never yet were sung;
Which thrill through happy little hearts,
But not through human tongue;
81 carols like a morning lark
To usher in the day,
And bring back memories from a land
b lieth far away.
Her roundelays and jingles make
Such music in my ear,
With all her tricksy words and ways,
I cannotc choose but hear;
We leave all other verse aside
Fol- that small classic lore
Which Mother Goose has garnered up
In her undying store.
The naughty ways of Johnny Green,
The virtuOus Johnny Stout;
The boy in blue who lay asleep
When cow and sheep were out;
The robin sitting in the barn,
With head beneath his wing,
Because the snow Is on the ground,
And he is cold, poor thing.
The accident to Jack and Jill,
tn hurrying little Jane,
The man who scratched out both his eyes
AND scratched them in again;
III active COW that jumped the moon,
The bull that tolled the bell,
These are a few-but many more
Too numerous to tell.
And then we play at coop and seek;
The mystery is small;
We hide behind the nearest chair,
Or In the open hall;
And every time that search is made
Within this same small round,
The happy shout of Joy goes up
Because the lost is pun
o, let me never grow toe old
To join in merry glee
With any bright and laughing child
climbs upon my knee;
Let me still keep the sportive mind
Until my dying day,
For what Is life, in all its length,
Without the children's play?
Youths Companion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Years sso. ! ws; sts:slsd !, 1Is1 The The n sns
Extending to the end of my toes and 70
my brainI
(which made me delirious!
"From agony.
"It took three men to hold me on my bed
ut timesI
1.-THE doctors tried in vain to relieve me.
But to no purpose
morphine and other opiates
"Had no effectl
"After two months 1 was given up to del
When my wife
heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters had
| done for her, she at once got and gave me
some. The first dose eased my brain and
seemed to go hunting through my system
for the pain.
THE second dose eased me 80 much that
| I slept two hours, something / had not done
| for two months. Before / had u5ed i've
bottles, I was well and at work, as hard -
any man could, for over three weeks; but /
worked too hard for my strength, and TAX
ing a hard cold, I was taken with the most
acute and painful rheumatism all through
ny system that was ever known. j called
the doctors again, and after several weeks,
they left me a cripple on clutches for life,
as they said. I met a friend n told him
my case, and he said Hop Bitters had cured
him and would cure me. / poohed at him,
but he was 80 earnest I was induced to use
them again. In less than four weezs l
threw away my crutches and went to work
lightly and kept on using the bitters for i've
weeks, until I became as well as any man
living, and lave been so for six years since
1t also cured my wife, who had been so for
years; and has kept her and my children
wall orl hoo rHy with frx,tn two IN fhrom
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
ssxen Wis. Men Bamed.

The N. Y. Morning Journal says that
Mrs. r. G. Kellogg, 80 E. seth St., was par
TALLY paralyzed, and lay for seven days in
commissions. Physicians were engaged and
discharged until seven had failed to help
or cure her. She was unable to a her
bed, and was as helpless as a child After
using all sorts of salves, ointments, lotions
and plasters, her case was given up as
hopeless. She was induced to try st.
Jacobs Oil as a last chance. She began to
improve from the time the first application
was made, and by its continued use, she
has completely recovered
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
w.,,u, Lear H.i- restore,

Is entirely different from all others. Il Is
as clear as water, and, as its name indicates,
is q perfect Vegetable Hair Rsstorer. 1t
will Immediately free the head from dan
druff, restore gray hair to its natural color,
and produce q new growth whore 1t has
fallen OF. Il does not in any manner at.
feet the health, which Sulphur, Sugar Of
Lead and Nitrate Of Silver preparations
have done. It will change light or faded
hair in q few days to s beautiful glossy
brown. Ask your druggist for 1t. Each
bottle Is warranted. JOHN d. PARK &
Sons, Wholesale Agents, Cincinnati, Ohio,
and @. N. CRrTTKNToN, N. Y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
The Kind Of Potatoes for Seed.

The time is arriving when the peril
odical questions which are not and
never will be settled come up for annu-
al discussion. One of these is i'm
portant Just now-that is, what is the
best kind of potatoes for seed. Some
think large ones are the best, some
believe small mes are as good a any.
and others fancy the medium size are
to be preferred. No doubt all are
right, for as a small cion grows to be a
large and vigorous tree as quickly as a
large one. and a small bud makes as
good a branch as a large one, so a
small potato, which is really a small
branch or a small bud, is as likely to
grow as vigorously and produce as
well as a large one. A skillful garden
er once grew more than a thousand
pounds of potatoes from one tuber.
He sprouted it in a hot-bed in the win
ter, pulled off the sprouts and ported
them as fast as they grew and were re-
newed'from the eyes, and as the young
plants became large enough, they were
made into cuttings and these ported,
and 10 on until the season for planting
potatoes was over. Several hundred
plants were set out in all, and the prod
not was the largest ever grown from
one potato. If potatoes can thus be
grown, and as a matter of fact they can,
why canno a very small cutting, or
even the eye itself be planted and pro-
duce a crop? If this, then, can be
done, it certainly seems a waste of time
to dispute about the kind of seed that
is best to be used for planting. But it
is best to be safe, and it is. entirely
safe to choose the very best and sound
est of the medium-sized tubers for
seed; keep them cool and dry, so that
they will not be weakened by sprout-
ing; and then, when the time comes,
plant them in good soil, give them the
cleanest cultivation, and protect them
from the Colorado beetle.-N. Y. Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
An Eccentric Funeral.

An old woman named Mary Robin
son who is said to have been well
known throughout London as ''the
Queen of the costermongers," was
buried yesterday in Finchley Cemetery.
She at one time used to have a stall in
Somerstown, and of late years had been
a vendor of cats meat 1t is stated
that she amassed a fortune of EGO, 900.
1t was her custom olend costermongers
money on Fridays and Saturdays to 90
to market with, they paying her for the
loan a shilling in the pound. She was
a most eccentric woman. She paid,
twenty years ago. to Mr.. Sharman, of
Caledonian road, Ego for her funeral
expenses. Owing to the rumor that the
deceased in her will had ordered that
her remains should be carried to the
grave by four men wearing white
smocks, and that t~wenty-four young
women should follow wearing violet or
purple dresses, Paisley shawls, hats
with white feathers in them and whiie
aprons; hat some money was to l.
spent in drink for costermongers at
certain public houses she named, and
that there was 10 be a band of music in
attendance, some thousands of persons
SohS SoIOu III IL WI oUICOG, "hClO
she lived, along the Caledonian road,
and along the route to Finchley Gene
terry. The ]concourse of people blocked
the streets for a time, and in some cases
persons paid for windows to see the
procession. The coffin, which was of
handsome polished oak, bore a brass
plate with the inscription, '.Mary
Robinson, aged II, died January l,
1884" 1t was reported that the corpse
was shrouded in white satin, and that
round the head was a white wreath.
The funeral-car was covered with ex-
pensive wreaths and crosses. There
were in the procession, besides the rela-
lives and friends of the deceased, a
great number of pony-carts, donkey
barrows and cabs, all being overfilled
with costermongers. The deceased, it
was said, left a sum of f10 to be spent
in drinks and ten shillings for pipes
and tobacco after the funeral.-St.
James Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Ask for Wells, Richardson & Co.'s I'm
proved Butter Color, and take no other.
Beware Of all limitations, and of all other
oil c%olors, for every other one is liable to
become rancid and spoil the butter into
which it is put. If you can not get it write
to us at Burlington, VT, to know where and
how to get it without extra expense. Thou
sands of tests have been made, and they
always prove it the best.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

William Brettell, aged twenty, son
of an ironfounder at West Bromwich,
England, committed suicide recently by
jumping down a cupola in which iron
was being melted. The iron was at
white heat at the time, and death must
rave been instantaneous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Wells Trough on Corns." 15c. Ask for It.
Complete, permanent cure. Corns, bunions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

IT'S mighty ~aggravating to a prisoner to
heal the jailer whistling: "Mother keeps
the gate locked now.D-Boston Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Hale's Honey of and Tar
Cures coughs, bronchitis and consumption.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

sBloating headaches, nervous pr~ostration
and spinal weakness cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

REDDING's Russia Salve is ~unequaled for chill
blains, chapped hands, frost bites, etc. Try 1t.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewern
restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

A woman who desires a clear COM
plexion must give up having a small
waist, unless she has it without lacine.
Tight lacing gives one a red nose.
And who would not rather have a large
waist and a white nose Than a small
waist and a red nose? Tight lacing
also prevents regular circulation, in
lucing chills, heartburn, and a scorp of
diseases which are far worse, and moro
iisfiguring than q large waist.- Chtc0
10 later Ocean.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRooHEs, are ex
cellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore
Throat. They are exceedingly effective.
Sold only in bores. Price % cents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Rev. Mr.. GREENFIELD, of Knoxville
Tenn, says: Samaritan Neruine cured
my SON of epileptic fits"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
A Messenger of Health.

Sent free to sufferers from nervous,
chronic and blood diseases, brain n heart
affections, nervous debility, etc. 1t tells Of
wonderful cures effected by DR.. Scott's Coca,
Beef and Iron, with Phosphorus. Sold by
druggists; 81. DIR. Scott, Kansas City, Mo.
No MEDICINE has ever been known so ef-
fectual in the cure of all those diseases
arising from an impure condition of the
blood as ScovILL'S S~AISAPARILLA Or
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP.
MY father had an eating cancer for sew
eral years, which had eaten away his under
lip and the inside of his cheek, down to the
bottom of his gums. We got some Of
Swift's Specific and gave him, and the
effect has been Observation-Disclosures miracu.
lous. Tit sores are all healed, and he is
perfectly well. Every one here said it was
only a question of time about his death,
and his cure has created the greatest ex-
citement in this part of the country.
WIN. B. LATHRoP.
South Easton, Mass, Jan. Z. 1884
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Don't Die in the House. Trough on Rats"
clears out rats. mice. flies, reaches, bed-bugs. 15c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

A charming resolvent, a matchless laxa-
tive, an infallible nerve oonqueror, IL
Samaritan Nerrine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Flies, reaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice,
crows, cleared out by Trough OF Rats. "15c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

DR.. WILLIAMS Indian Pile Ointment,
Warranted to cure any case of blind, bleed
ing or itching piles. At druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Singing, irritation, all Kidney and Blad'
der Complaints, cured by "Buchu-Paiba 81.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

FROM Colonel G. H. Mackey, 32nd Iowa
Infantry: Ihave derived more benefit from
Ely's Cream Balm than anything else 1
have ever tried. 1 have now been using it
for three months and am experiencing no
trouble from Catarrh whatever. I have
been a sufferer for twenty years. c. 81.
MAcKEY, Sigourney, Iowa, Feb. %, 1882.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

BEWARE of the incipient stages of Con-
sumption. Take Piso's Cure in time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

AN Oregon man wants to trade a mule
for a wife. Some men never know when
they are we'll of.-Chicdgo Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
At the city iail in Portland, O

At the city jail in Portland, Ore,
upon the inside floor a prisoner has
written, by rubbing the whitewash of the
iron plating with his finger: "God bless
our home" .All people who enter
here leave hope behind" welcome"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28

Among the emigrants at Castle
Garden the other day were five chubby
children, ranging from four to twelve
years, who had come from Ireland I'M
attended. Each OF the quartet was
labeled ITO be left till called for"
Their parents, who came to this country
a year ago. called for them the moment
they arrived.-NeU York Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-28
A Dangerous case.

- RoouxsrER. June l.. 1ss2-s Ton
Intense and deathly pains in my back and
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
Henry Claws Heroic Son.

"Do you know what killed Henry
Clay9" my genial kentucky story-teller
asked me the other. If not, | will tell
you. He died of a broken heart, not be-
cause he lost the Presidency, but his son,
Henry Clay, Jr., was his fathers idol.
He was sent to West Point, where he
graduated second in his class. After
four months in the army he resigned,
and began practising law in Lexington,
living with his father at Ashland. Not
young man in Kentucky promised bet
ter things than he did. When the Mex
lean war broke out he was determined
to go. His father made no objection,
and he went out as lieutenant-colonelo of
the first Kentucky regiment. At the
battle of Buena Vista, Santa Anna, with
30, 900 troops, nearly overwhelmed Gen
cral Taylor, with about one-eighth that
number. Clay fought hard, but, as his
regiment was falling back, shot went
through both legs He was not MORALLY
wounded, and three men picked him up
to convey him off the field. 1t soon be-
came evident that the Mexicans would
overtake them. Save yourselves,
boys" he said, and taking the pistol
which his father had given him, he
handed it to one Of the men with the
words, "Take this, and return it to my
father. Tell him have no further use
for it," With that they dropped him
and ran after the retreating troops. The
last they say of Clay he was lying on his
back, fighting squad of Mexicans with
his sword. Next morning his body was
found, hacked to pieces and mutilated
by the towards who had killed him.
The pistol came to his father, then a
Senator, and, though he lived several
years after, am convinced that he died
from the blow Cincinnati NeUS-J0urnak.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

Mr.. Alan Cole, an expert in lace max.
ing, has been travelling through Ireland,
under the auspices of the South Kens
ington authorities, lecturing on Irish lace
and giving instructions in the method of
imparting artistic design to this beauti-
full fabric.
The Astronomer Royal of Ireland, Pro
SCISSOR Ball, after reviewing all the differ
cnt methods of calculating the distance
between the earth and the sun, saws tho
most probable distance seems to be 90
700, 600 miles, with probable error of
300, 600 miles.
Behring'S for salt in Northern Germany
have revealed the existence of immense
deposits of the mineral in some of the
most neglected and forlorn localities.
One of these drills reached salt at a depth
of about 1, 100 feet from the surface, and
at 800 feet it had not yet penetrated
the deposit, giving it the immense thick
ness of more than 400 feet
A preparation of artificial cork is pat
ented in Germany, by Grunzwaig and
Hartman, of Ludwigshaftcn- on-the-
Rhine, and is made by incorporating
siXty-threc parts of ground or powdered
cork chips with $50 parts of boiling
starch paste. The result is a plastic
mass which is pressed into forms. and
after being removed dried by means of
heat.
Some English scientists have been try
ing to explain why it is that persons who
become lost in fog, or who are for any
reason, unable to see their way, usually
walk in a circle instead of following a
straight line. Mr.. w. Lardcn thinks that
the cause may be found in the strength
of the legs, the stronger of the two out
walking the other when not controlled
by the will. In confirmation of this
view, Mr.. G. II. Darwin recounts some
experiments in which several school BOYS
were blind folded and told to walk
straight ahead, when the ''right-legged"
ones circled to the left, and the left
legged" ones to the right, exactly as they
should do if the theory is correct, while
one boy who seemed to be neither right
legged nor lcft-lcgged, but to use the
two limbs with about equal facility,
walked irrcgularly, but dcviated much
less from straight course than any of
the others. Another writer, Mr.. Thomas
Hawllsley, supposes that few persons
have both legs of equal length, in which
case the longer limb must have a ten
dcncy to outstrip the other in walking.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
Some Fashions in Names,

A New York letter to the Cleveland
Herald says: 1t would seem that fash
ions in signing ones name would be SUI
Penthouse that if one had q name, that
was the thing to sign, that and nothing
but that. But alas! ones simple name
is not sufficient. Some time ago certain
young men of social aspirations started
the fashion of representing their first
names merely by an initial letter, while
the middle names, often improved upon
or invented for the purpose, were spelled
out in full. The novelty of this has
worn off somewhat, and we are not un-
duly impressed by card bearing the
name of 81. Fortescue Browne" or rs.
de Smythe Jones'" But now that women
have come to using the same fashion we
are little surprised. That it is not
simply a ripple upon the sea of fashion
is shown in the fact that several wedding
invitations have gone out with the brides
name similarly engraved, both in this
city and Philadelphia.
A later custom than this is being in
troduced at present, that of signing the
entire name in full, and also that of join
ing two names as Il surname. The first
comes from England from whence we
are getting so many of our fashions now
adays. English women or men sign
Mary Elizabeth Jones, or Herbert Lionel
Brown, as a mere matter of course, and if
he or she were given as many more
names, would use them all, for, why are
names given them if not for use ? And
do not three or four names look more i'm
portant than one with initials
The second, that of joining two names
as a surname, comes from France, where
it is customary to use the name of the
wife as well as the husband. There is
much more reason for this latter custom
than the former This usage makes it an
easy matter to give a woman her proper
place among her own or her husbands
family. Mrs. Jones is very indefinite.
There are so many Mrs. Joneses that we
can not tell, unless we know her well,
which Mrs. Jones it is we know. But
Mrs. John Hamilton Jones tells us at once
that a Miss Hamilton married Mr.. John
Jones, and that Mr.. John Jones married
one of the Hamilton girls.
In the case of a widow who has mar
ried again it is quite customary to see
cards engraved. "NIrs. J. Frances-Eng-
fish," Frances being the first husband's
name. This custom obtains more gen
orally among women who have attained
something of a reputation, socially, ar
tistically, or otherwise, which they do
not wish to lose by hiding their identity
under a new name.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02

With the improved machinery now
used, ten hands will make about four
thousand lead pencils of the cheaper
grade day. The cedar comes chiefly
from Florida. and it is received in slabs
of pencil length, one for the lead to 90
in and the other to cover it, as may be
seen by examining the end of any lead
pencil. Four little grooves are sawed in
the thicker slabs, for the leads, which
are kept in hot glue and taken one by
one and inserted in the grooves. Then
the thin slab is glued to the loaded slab,
and, thus united, they are run through a
molding machine, four pencils coming
from each slab. After the ends are
rasped they are run between grooved
wheels at considerable pressure for the
only finish they get. This Furnishes
them, and they are tied in dozens and
boxed for sale, mostly in pluin wood,
and of three degrees of hardness. The
graphite used comes in fine black pow
der, and is mixed with german white
clay, about half and half, and then
ground with moisture forming a paste.
This is pressed in dies into lengths of
four leads, which are cut and then baked
at very high temperature. These sell
at So cents, $3.50 and So per gross, and
are very good articles, writing smoothly
and evenly. The manufacturer makes
about one hundred per cent, selling the
pencils at eighty-tive cents a gross, and
the retailer makes good thing selling
them at a cent piece. The graphite
costs about twenty-five cents pound,
and the clay little more than the freight.
The more clay is used in the leads the
harder they will be. The cedar is cut
mostly from fallen trees in Florida
swamps. Geyer'S iStatiOner.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTBRS
WHAT rs 1T i?

Wv xA114 40 4 L
A strictly vegetable prepara-
ton, composed of a choice and
skillful combination of Ma
lures best remedies. The dis
coverer does not claim it a cure
for all the ills, but boldly war;
rants it cures every form of
disease arising from a torpid
liver, impure blood, disordered
kidneys, and where there is a
broken down condition of the
Syste m, requiring a prompt
and permanent tonic, it never
fails to restore the sufferer.
Such is BURDOCK BLOOD
BITTERS. Sold by all drug
gists, who are authorized by
the manufacturers to refund
the price to any purchaser who
is not benefited by their use.
FOSTER, klLBUHN & CO.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02

Hindu heavens, Sakra and india, came
out to bid us goodnight and receive
compliments on the interesting demons
provided in their universe, for they were
all demons-no devil was among them,
for devils do not repel but allure; they
are not ugly, but fascinating. A coolie
performed somersaults and contortions
suggestive of bonelessness, and then the
tom-toms ceased-for the first time. The
torches were extinguished. The dusky
crowd dispersed among the palms and
mangoes. Our revels were ended.