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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30
Herr Flip-Flap played. and played and

played,
As If he'd never stop.
The sweetest airs that Herr Strauss made
We're played within that shop.
Finally he stopped, and cried,
With inspiration crazed;
"1H giff five hundret dollars ride
Away for thisf" Amazed,
My uncle clutched the counter,
So surprised he nearly fell
Then: IF, my friendt, you're boun'ter
Have the violin-why-well-
You call aroundt on Monday
With sic hundred dollars, and
No-to-morrow is my Sunday
1 will place it in your hand"
Monday came, and with it Cox,
My uncle hesitated
When Cox asked for his iddle-box,
And sort of meditated.
He bid for it, ten dollars first;
Cox didn't care to sell;
"Fifty, hen as if he'd burst;
"0nei two hundredI" with a yell.
My uncle plead, and plead, and plead,
As If his heart would break,
"What for it DiI you takel"
'Seven hundred dollarsl Mosesl OF
Who ever heard such talkl
] gin you four?' "WeI, 1 don't know.
All right! hand out the chalk"
Ny uncle counted out the chalk,
With gasps. and signs. and groans
Then HungryICOx he too a walk
From my uncle's shop of loans.
Monday went, SO did June,
Herr Won Snuther never came;
MY uncle's souls been out of tune
Since he learned the bunko game.
John e. M'Cdnn, in N. 2. SIR
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30
latest charge against Cover

TITO IaIesI c1Iarg5 agaInsG G0Ver-
nor Cleveland is that he never paid
more than $3.50 county taxes. How
much did Abraham Lincoln pay before
he was elected President? How much
did General GrantP Cleveland has not
been 'stwenty years in Congress-" Of
fering his friends National banks; job
bling among his friends railroad stocks
whose value has depended upon his de-
cisions as Speaker; nor trying not to be
s.indelicate'' by showing how a Speaker
of the House need not be a dead-h head
if he is admitted to the bedrock" of
an enterprise.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30

In a letter from Hon. Mrs. Perry, Castle
Grey, Limerick, Ireland, BRowN's BRoN-
CHIAL TRoCHEs are thus referred to: "Hav.
ing brought your Bronchial Troches' with
me when Icame to reside here, ! found
that after I had given them away to those
I considered required them, the poor PEG
pie will walk for miles to get a few" Fol
Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases they
have no equal. Sold only in bozes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30
Mr.. Blaine is now at pains |

Mr.. Blaine is now at pains to
deny that he ever advocated the doc
trine that foreigners should be required
to reside in this country twenGy-one
years before voting. He never advo,
Gated that. But Mr.. Blaine belonged
to the party in Maine which was in
favor of the exclusion of foreigners
from office-in fact, in favor of exclud-
ing them from the country altogether.
He edited a newspaper which carried at
its masthead the motto: "Put None but
Americans on Guard."-M. 7. World
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

Ny Uncle Solomon's three balls hang
Out on Third aveuue;
They're golden as a certain bang
Der certain eyes of blue.
A shrewd old man, my uncle; we
Have heard him called a scamp
Perhaps you'd like to know how he
Was taken into camp?
Twas three o'clock, and Monday;
Ny uncle's soul was put OF tune
No loans he'd m~ade-since Sunday.
He gloomy sat-was musing DER
Hard times that poor men crushed
When suddenly swung to his door,
And in a stranger rushed.
Beneath his arm the stranger held
A rosewood f1ddle-bOX:
81 catch this train" he almost yelled,
My name is Hungry-Coxl
Keep this in Some place safe and dry
I'm going out of town;
It contains a violin-good-bye,"
Then he laid an eagle down..
Before he left he said: 'sNext week
I'll call forit," then few
Out of the store just like a streak
OF lightning from mes view.
My uncle rubbed his hands. and said:
"a gentiemani A liner
Inever meti Why, bless my headl"
Then he pocketed the skinner"
The days passed on till Friday came,
And with it came another
Gentleman, who CAV the name
OF Herr Flip-Flap Won Snuther.
a violin he wished to buy
That would vibrate in a fine way;
For, on Monday night, he was to try
A masterpiece in Steinway.
He tried every one my uncle had,
With more or less disgust;
N usel 10 usei Too bad too badls
He muttercd. Then: 81 must
Procure a violin to-day
If it cost five hundred dollari"
.Hold On, my friendt-just right away
I'll got you enc may hollerl"
And then he got a key, and he
Got out the strangers fiddle;
Herr F1ip-Flap simpered, pityingly:
your language, sir, g a riddle;"
But still, he took the violin
Twas anything but new
And, with a ~patronizing grin,
The bow across it drew.
Perhaps you've heard the night winds sing
Through a tall seolean pine:
Perhaps you've heard the night birds ring
Out anthems half divine;
Perhaps you've heard a brook run down
A mountain TO the sea.
But you've never, in a wicked town,
Heard such a melody
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30

A R peculiarity-.hat OF the
clock,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30

THx only bar that tramps are unfamiliar
Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30

1920 WAN $4,000 sA"s IN "SAS Nv 1"SA
things as ghosts, that a voice vas bound
to come from a live person, because a
| specter couldn't possibly have lungs,
those organs being of a perishable ma
ture, and then sent him forward, but
no easier in his mind, lsuspect, than l
was. Anyhow 1 was glad when eight
| bells were struck and it was my turn to
go below. But, as l have said, nothing
much came of this, at least nothing that
reached my ears. But not many nights
following the ship lay observation-disclosures
wasn't a breath of air, and the sea lay
had the middle watch again. l was
walking quietly up and down the poop,
IN the lookout for a deeper shadow up
on the sea to indicate the approach of
wind, when a man came up the ladder
and said: There's some one a-talking
to the ship under the bows Are you
awaken said I. Heaven help me, as l
stand here, SIR exclaimed the fellow,
solemnly, if hat there voice which
talked in the hold t'other day amt now
over the side. l ran forward and found
most of the watch huddled together
near the starboard cathead. l peered
over, and there was a dead silence.
What are you looking over that side
forp I'm here!' said a thin, faint voice
that seemed more in the air than in the
sea. 'There!' exclaimed one of the sea-
men, in a hoarse whisper. That's the
third time. Whichever side we look,
he's on the:.other.' But there must be
some n in the water said another
man. Anybody see his houtline? Cuss
me if I couldn't swear l see a chap
swimmin' just now No, no. answered
some one grufiy, nothing butphospho.
rus, Joe, and the right sort O. stuff too,
for if this amt Old Nick You're
a liar. Sam!' came the voice clear and,
as one could swear, plain from over the
side. There was a general ~recoil, and
q sort of groan ran among the men. AT
the same moment l collared q figure
standing near me and slowed him round
to bring his face fair to the starlight,
] clear Of the staysail. Come you along
with me, Master Dick said 1, and ]
marched him off the forecastle, along
the main deck. and up on to the poop.
so you're the ghost, eh?' said 1. why,
to have kept your secret you should
have given my elbow a wider berth,
No wonder the voice only makes OBJ
servations in my watch. You're toe
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

--Soap-suds are valuable fertilizer
for small fruits, and in the fruit garden
will never be wasted. Albany Journal.
The first agricultural necessity is
manure; the second is tillage, TO place
the fertility within reach of the plants.
- Cincinnati Times.
The american Cultirdior says that
however valuable cotton-seed meal may
be for feeding farm stock, it is beyond
doubt that its use affects the butter
product injuriously, making it soft, oily
and "olf flavor"
An exchange says that if the pretty
pink ginghams now 50 much worn by
children, are dipped in water with
enough vinegar in it to give it a sour
taste, the pink will be brighter than if
rinsed in water alone.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says that COW which at
home will test up to a fourteen pounds
of butter week standard, if taken to a
strange place, among strange cattle,
and MIXED by cross man, will not
make half that quantity.
Lace curtains should never be
ironed Wash and starch them, using
in the rinsing water tablespoonful Of
powdered borax; this makes them very
stiff; when wet, spread on a sheet,
either on bed or on the floor, and pin
down every two or three inches. Let
them dry two or three days and they
will look very nice. The Caterer.
DR.. Stuart, in the Ohio Farmer,
says soft, sloppy or succulent food pre-
inn ion, nj nh. rft,,r
while dry grain with bulky food, with
out the necessary liquid, causes fer
mentation in the rumen, which also
prevents ruminaton. This points to q
union of the two kinds of food as essen
tial TO preserve the COW in good health.
The great scarcity of. good seed
corn this year leads correspondent OF
the NeD England Farmer to suggest
that plot OF ground be devoted on ev-
cry farm to seed-corn growing, and al
the right time, before the tassels fertil-
ize the silks, every imperfect stock
should be removed, and no stock be
lett standing that does not promise &c
produce at least two ears. If this course
is kept up every year, using only this
seed for field crops, the farmer will be
using seed of increasing vitality and
productiveness.
Nut Cake, Two eggs; one-half cup
of butter; one cup of sugar; One-hali
cup of cod water; one and one-half cup
of prepared flour; one cupful of nut
kernels freed from bits OF shell and
rolled in flour. If almonds are used
blanch them, let them get cold and cut
small with a sharp knife. White OF
English walnuts must be cut each into
several pieces. Mix rs with cup cake
the water taking the place of milk and
the nuts going in last. Bake in small
tins or in one loaf in a steady oven. =
Chicago Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
WIT AND WISDOM.

Try never to borrow. and you will
be less likely to be asked to lend.
One OF the heaviest things in this
world is the test of truth" There is
so much that won't bear it.
"A counter-irritant--T woman
who offers ten cents yard for forty
cent goods. -NOrriStOW Herald.
1t ain whut man knows er bout
hisse'f dat makes him feel proud. It's
whut he 'magines udder people thinks
O. him. 1raUellcr.
Twill the youngest girl in the
room please rise, " said school super
intendent in rural school. Every
female stood up, including the teacher.
Burlington Free Press.
49," Never look at your boy when he
is speaking" writes father 1t en-
harnesses him when ne is explaining
how he happened to be in school and
out playing ball at the same time
BuJaL0 EIpreSS
-" Can you tell me, sir" asked a
young lady at bookstore, 'n what
order Thackeray wrote his books?'
"No, lady" replied the gentlemanly
sales gentleman; "but, don't yer know,
1 guess, it was in order to make
money. - Chicago Herald.
Little Emma came running into the
parlor yesterday morning, where her
mother was entertaining young Mr..
Duder until Miss Mary would complete
her toilet and come downstairs, and
cried out: "Oh, mamma! johnny is
dot Marys teef, and won't give 'em TO
her. "--KeRtucky State J0urndi
Only One Family Jewel
Said the lobber, No family Jewels money"
None" said the fearless lady, but one
A carbunce-the setting fortune cost;
But tbs well secured and can not be lost"
Quick hand me the jewel, or else you shall
die!"
Said the robber with iercely flashing eye.
a. can't" sand the lady, with smiling repose.
1.-THE carbuncies fast-on my eusband $
nose
"A pol 'ceman leaned over the area
railing, and addressing Bridget, who
was Mt that moment engaged in shifting
an ash barrel, observed: - Bridget, my
darlint, the loight av yer Dyes makes
the dawn same loike darkness -
'Thim's the very wurruds that yer
sapayrlor, the Sar9int, sphoke to me- |
suppoaz it's a part of the discipline of
the fource. - Chicago Tribune.
-Englshman - "You Americans
come over 10 Europe with your little
hammers and whack away at every old
ruin. getting specimens until there is
scarcely anything left" American
swell, why don't you retaliate?" En-
glishman-"Re how? You have
nothing in this country to hack at. "
American-"Oh, yes we have" En-
glishman ''Whatp" American-"You
can come over to this county and take
hack at Niagara Falls. "--h.iladetphla
Cal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
Undertaking.

There has been a great deal lately
written about the relation of the
underdrains of the Middle States,
and the foods of the Ohio Val
ley, endeavoring to prove that the
great increase in volume of water was
due to this cause. BY the latest esti-
mates there are less than 100000 miles
of under-drains doing duty in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois. And the great floods
are opposite Ohio; and it stoo much to
say that there are IS, 600 miles of drains
in this State, and if the volume of this
claimed extra, or more rapidly dis
charged water, was liberated at once,
it would not raise the Ohio River over
six inches, nor even then would the
drains account for the surplus OF water
above Marietta. There need be no
scare about underdrainage to those who
need to employ it, on that score. The
value of drainage to large districts of
our territory can not be overestimated.
There is no other way to reclaim the
swamps, Dogs, lowlands and semi
marshes. As a country we are fast APP
preaching the time when all this now
waste land will be demanded for cult
walton, and when properly drained the
testimony is that no better land can
possibly exist. There are also other
objections being raised against drain
age, that the great subterranean flow
OF water will rapidly exhaust the soil oil
its humus and disolvable mineral mat
ter, by percolation into these drains.
This also rests upon no better support
than the submerged theory A
long series of tests in this country
and in England show that the loss from
this source is exceedingly small. This
retention of fertility by the soil is eX-
planned by affinity of one element for
another, that chemists so well under
stand in the liberation of chemicals. II
the drains are put down deep, as they
should be, the soil will absorb all fer
tility or nearly so, before it reaches the
drain, and the plant and cover roots
will again return them to the surface.
On very sandy lands and soils resting
upon coarse gravel sub-strata the
teaching OF fertility may cause serious
loss in fertility, but such lands do not
need underdrainage,s so the argument
has no application to the most solid
water containing and retaining clay
| soils.
Surplus water must be carried of
from the soil in two ways, by drains or
by evaporation. The last is very slow
and requires great deal of heat and
look at it in any light we may, the in
crease in the temperature of the soil,
and consequent rapid growth of the
plant, would overbalance any loss OF
fertility by undertakings. Let the
good work of drainage 90 on. 1t is
possible that some field might be under
drained to an extreme point. and one OF
actual in Jury to it, but, in the main,
thousands of acres of our lower lands
might be rendered exceedingly valuai
bic where now they are of no profit
whatever - Cleveland Herald.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

-Bugologists, says the Sacramento
Bee, can ha considerable enjoyment
in Sacramento in making collections Of
the huge bugs or beetles that are at
tracted by the electric light cry even
ing. In some localities they fail upon
the sidewalk in such numbers that la
flies find it disagreeable to pass by, and
men occasionally discover them to be as
slippery as piece of orange peel. As
they are about two inches long, when
one flies into persons face or endeav-
ors to GO an exploring expedition down
the back of his neck, the sensation is
not the most pleasant imaginable.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

An old and skilled New York ply
sician, when interviewed on the hot
water craze, said alt has long been
used. 1t Is an internal wash. nothing
more or less. AS such it is excellent.
An old trainer of pri e-fgbters used to
tell me about it before had even heard
of it elsewhere. He said he had cured
everything from toothache to rheuma-
tism with it. My lady patients often
beg me to prescribe it tor them, and
very often do So sometimes because l
think it likely to do good, and some
times because don think it will do
any harm. IN. Y. Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total number of Indians at
tached to agencies is now 246, O0O.-M
y. san.
"A business dispatch from Philadel-
phia went to London and brought back
an answer in fifty-five minutes.
oil speculation has gained such
magnitude that the sales in the differ
ent exchanges aggregate 50,OO0,0OO
daily, and there are $4,000, 900 pipe
line certificates outstanding. Chicago
Herdtd.
For each 100 miles of railroad in
the United States there are rs. II miles
of second track, sidings, ETC.; 49,. % loco
motives, 1894 passcnger-cars, 4.76
baggage and mail cars, and 62l.4
freight cars.
The first cotton exported from
America was a lot of eight bags sent to
Liverpool Just one hundred years ago,
and the customs authorities detained it
awhile because it was reckoned mpos-
sible that so much could have been
raised here. The crop last yesr
amounted to 6,949,756 bales, of which
4.766,597 were eXported.-N Y. Her.
oil.
making trade. She has nearly 1000
factories, and turns out 1000, 600, 00)
cigars year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois rank after New York. There
were made in this country last year
3,177, S50,952 cigars, about forty for
every pound of tobacco used. How
many importedP About $4,000, 600, a
total of about 3, 100, 900, 900, or sixty Tor
every man, woman and child in the
United States. and $50 for every man
over twenty-one years of age.-N y.
NeUS
The United States Government
owes the State of New Jersey seventy
three cents, with interest thereon, since
1861, the State having paid an excess
of the amount assessed upon it for di-
rect taxes to carry on the war in 1861.
The interest amounts to 81 cents and
six mills, and ut tie present time the
sum of S1.070.6 stands to the credit of
the State on this account on the books
of the Treasury. An act of Congress
would be necessary, however, in order
to have the debt paid of. NeaOark
Register.
Besides the United States, the CHIEF
countries for the production of cotton
are the East Indies, Egypt, Brazil, the
West Indies and Guiana. India con.
tributes supply of cotton next in i'm.
portance to that of the United States.
Their total production was estimated a:
far back as 1858 at 6,500,00 bales OF
375 pounds each. Ceylon, Borneo and
other islands OF the Indian archipelago
have long produced cotton. Japan
produces it. A portion of Australia is
well adapted to IL, but no country,
either in the Old or New World. is prob
ably to be compared to America for the
adaptation of its soil and climate to this
cultivation. The principal cotton-pro-
ducing district OF Africa is Egypt,
where its culture was introduced in
1901
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

NERVOUS, dyspeptic individuals, whose
distress OF miad and body make life mis-
cradle, if your sufferings have been pre-
longed and increased by the use of bitters
and pretended cures u kidney and liver
diseases, throw all such nostrums aside
and find health, strength and vigor in that
simple remedy known as DIR. Guysott's
Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. 1t purifies
the blood, strengthens the urinary and di-
gestivs organs, and infuses new life into
all parts of the body. No other remedy
equals it. Have your druggist get it for you.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

CATARRH AND HAY FEvER.-For twenty
years l was sufferer from Cstarrh of the
head and throat in a very aggravated
form, and during the summer with Hay
Fever. l procured a bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and after a few applications received
decided bsnefit-was cured by one bottle.
Have had no return of the complaint.
CHARLOTTE PARKER, Waverly, N. Y.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
WIN. R OSBORN.
CRoToN LANDING, New York,
Jan. ~. lSS4.

This will certify that BRANDRETH's PILLS
and ALLcocK's Porous PLAsTERs cured me
of a very severe attack of sciatica. was
taken with this severe pain on January 4,
1881, and, having tried various remedies
without benefit, bethoughs me of the
above named medicines. / took two pills
every nigat at bedtime, and put five ALL
COCKS Porous PLAsrERs on my limbs. l
had not used them over three days before
l felt great relief, and in thirty days l was
completely cured. They took all the rheu-
matism out of my system. Thanking God
first, and you secondly, 1 am truly yours,
ETC., E. CHASE,
Principal Public School, Croton Landing.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

THE best test of human life is the
amount of good it has been and done to
o hers. Mrs. Lydia f. Pinkham may be
given a seat of honor among those who
have helped to change sickness into health,
aud to transform the darkness of suffering
into the sunshine of rest and bona.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
CURES OF RHEUMATISM AND SCI
ATICA

PEEKsKIIL, N. Y, March 8, 1884,
/ am bost-builter living at Peekskill,
New York. 1 have been greatly troubled
during the post winter with rheumatism
in my back and shoulder. l have used
ALLcocK's PLAsrERs and they always re-
lievo tho pain. 1 have used other plasters
ecomnended by friends, but 1 find ALL
COCKS decidedly tho rest. We have used
them in the family for some years, and
would not be without them.
VIM r OSRopN
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
Herrers Of Mineral Poisoning.

have been poisoned with Mercury and
Potash!" is tue tale of thousands who
write our physicians in regard to treat
ment of Blood and Skin diseases, and il
would seem that what they say must he
true, for it is with one accord" II you
have been poisoned in this way or have
any blood or skin disease or cancer, send
to us for Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases which will be mailed free. Tue
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

Mrs. ANN LACoUR, of New Orleans, La,
writes: 81 have son who has been sick for
two years he has Heen attended by our lead.
ing physicians, but ell to no purpose. We
had in The house bottle of DIR. VIM. HALLS
BkLsAM FOR THE LUNGS. We admins.
tered it and he was Instantly relieved"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

WE take pleasure in informing the pub.
lie of the merits of Papillon Catarrh Cure.
1t will cure Chronic Catarrh, Cold in the
Head, Rose-cold, and for Hay Fever no
remedy is as effective. 1t has cured hun
dreds of cases. Sold by druggists.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

THOSE COMPLAINING of Sore Throat or
Hoarseness should use BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs. The effect is extraordinary.
Singers and speakers use them for clearing
tho voice. Sold Onlv in 6oJeS. % cts.