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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Social circles in Washington are
Mortified over rumor that President
elect Cleveland actually eats with his
knife. The Lords and Marquises
and Dukes of the Diplomatic Corps
and all the dudes and snobs that 60
to make up the court" that the ele
giant Mr.. Arthur aas gathered there
will never be able to stand this. The
report says:
1t was at a dinner party given re-
Gently to the President elect that the
Democratic lady who reports the
fact was Mortified to see the cold
steel disappear, actually disappear,
within-but why dwell on the pic
ture? OF course, the woman confid
ed the dreadful discovery to another
woman.
"To think of itr!' exclaimed the
latter.
"It's perfectly awful! I've always
been a Democrat, and have inst pray
ed for a Democratic President, but |
didn't think it would come to this
pass. And the worst OF it is, Cleve-
land is not young. His habits are fix
| ed, and there will be no use trying
to put a fork in his hand. It's a
hopeless case; and then the tremen
dous contrast, you know, following
on Mr.. Arthur's elegant n and
perfectly appointed entertainment.
"Oh," she groaned, 'have We waited
twenty-five years for a President who
eats with his kniiet'
Thomas Jeff,rsoa md Old Hickory
both used knives, and as Mr.. Cleve
land intends to run a regular old
fashioned jefferson and jackson ad
ministration there is no chance for q
change now, Notwithstanding it will
be severe Oh the nobs and dudes that
dead beat their grub at the Presi
dents table.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Some seven or eight years ago,
one Turner. colored, Minister from
the Republic of Liberia to the Uni
ted States, t~elegraphed from Wash
ircton to the Astor House, New
York, for 4 suite of rooms. They
were saved for him, but when, on his
arrival it was discovered that he was
a black man. he was refused accom-
modations. The minister brough,
suit under the civil rights law, and
recently the case was dismissed I'M
der the decision of the United State:
Supreme Court, declaring the Law
unconstitutional.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

y few weeks since, q colored law
yer in Boston brought a suit against
the manager of a skating rink in that
city, because he was excluded there
from on account of his race and color,
in violation of a statute of Massa
chusetts, which provides as follows
"Whoever makes any distinction,
determination, or restriction, Ga ac-
count of color or race, or except for
cause, in respect to the admission of
any person to, or his treatment in, a
public conveyance, public place of
amusement, public conveyance, pub
lie meeting, or license inn, shall be
punished BY a fine not exceeding
fifty dollars"
The suit in this case was brought
before the Boston Municipal Court;
and the court, upon proof showing
the exclusion complained Of, held
that the statute gives to coiored PEG.
pie the same right to skate in public
Kinks that is enjoyed by white PEG.
pie, and imposed upon the manager
of the Boston rink the full penalty OF
law.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Reports from differ ent parts of the
country show a decrease of from
twenty to forty per ceLt. in the acre
age of wheat. This can, in a large
measure, be laid to the low price of
the cereal for the last six months, for
farmers can not afford to raise wheat
for seventy:fve and eighty cents
where land sells for over a hundred
dollars an acre. This decrease in
acreage and the unfavorable winter,
it is generally believed, will have the
effect of putting up the price of the
wheat yet unmarketed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The boundaries of the region
known as the West was perpetualiy
shifting. Within the lifetime of old
folks it commenced along the foot
hills Of the Alleghanies. A few
years later the limit stood for a while
on the banks of the Mississippi. To-
day the boundary lies on the bluffs
Of the Missouri, in the neighborhood
Of Kansas City. Beyond the point
lies the region of tradition, prophecy,
adventure. discovery, enterprise, he
| roism-the West.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

1t is now expected that the Cana
dian Pacific railway will be opened
next August. This will open up a
vast area of tillab,e land, which will
be likely to attract immigration aad
expand the commerce of the provin
e through which it passes. The
grant to the company itself was %
O00,O 900 acres, and much Of this will
be likely to be put upon the market.
This prospect makes it more than
ever important that everything poss-
ible shall be bone by business men
of the United States to enlarge the
flood Of traffic across the continent
oyer our own roads.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, is to
be impeached for his course in regard
to the election frauds in that city.
If more persons were ~impeacbed and
prosecuted for fraud and corruption
at our elections the ballot would be
less tempered with. AS it is, in
many parts of our country, elections
are becoming bald farces.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The vote at the last Presidential
election, compared with the census
of 1880, shows that there are 1911,
900 males in the United States over
the age of twenty-one years that did
not vote at the election, or about one
in every five and three-fourths voters
in the Northern States and one in ev-
cry three and two thirds in the South
who are above the voting age who dio
not exercise that right. In the States
of Rhode Island and Massachusetts,
as well as some of the Southern
States, there are certain restrictions
upon voting, such rs property quail
ifications or failure to pay poll tex.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The State Legislature of Georgia
has passed q law which, in effect,
breaks up the carrying of concealed
weapons in that State. A tax of $IOO
is levied upon every place of business
where they are sold, and, rather than
pay it, the merchants give up keep
ing them, 80 that the places where
arms can be purchased are only linn
tied, and the replenishing of cart
ridges are exceedingly difficult.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The New York Clearing House
has accepted silver certificates in
settlement Of balances to the sub
treasury. Now no bank in the U. S.
refuses to accept silver certificates
on a par with gold certificates. This
is as it should be. The New York
Herald very properly says:
The position o: the treasury is de-
scrihed in our Washington dispatch
es this morning, and Tie action of
the Gearing house is detailed in an
other place. 1t would he foolish to
deny the Importance of this step to
wa:d a silver basis for II currency,
and it would also be foolish to mag
Nifty it into a calamity. The ques
ton involved is not settled. and the
expedient adopted WI be only tenn
porary in it's effects. The city banks
are in very strong position, and they
hold large specie reserves, chiefly 10
gold. Being at the financial centre
of tue country, they are Of necessity
compelled to jea!ously quad against
any impairment OF the policy which
experience and theory have pointed
out to be the safest. The payment
to them of silver certificates by the
treasury is an innovation upon that
policy, but it is safe to say that the
banks know what is best for til m to
do, and that in accepting settlements
in his form of currency they are not
acting blindly Or under threats OF
4 verse legislation. The results of
the innovation promise, however, are
TO be OF very great Importance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19


A bill has been introduced in the
House by Mr.. Ogden providing for
the raising of the scalps OF CANNES
of the State. Its provisions are that
where dogs are entered for tax
which the owner fails to pay, the de-
putty collector shall kill the dog, and
upon presentation of the animals
scalp to the county auditor he shall
receive n dollar therefor; and max
ing it a misdemeanor for the owner
to conceal the dog from the collector
or obstruct him in the performance
of his duty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Bellefontaine Examiner says
that Mr.. Foraker, of gunny sack-trou-
sers notoriety, who went into the
gubernatorial fray nearly two years
ago and was buried meath an over
whelming Democratic majority, new
peeps up out of his political grave
and wants to know if the Democrats
can't bury him over again next fall.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

While so much is said about the
hunger and thirst for office of the
Democratic party, it may not be i'm
proper to say that within a few weeks,
President Arthur has has seven hun
dred applications for single life office,
now vacant, and to which Republi-
cans think they have a peculiar claim.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Philadelphia Press, one ofthe
papers which persisted in saying that
the country would 90 to the ever
lasting bow-wows if Mr.. Cleveland
should be elected President, now re
ports "encouraging news from man
ufactories which gives hope, if not a
positive promise, of the future"
Sheet and rail mills and one of the
blast furnaces at Bethlehem are
starting up on new orders, and sew
eral mills at Cleveland are preparing
to resume operations at an early day
The Press concludes that "these evi
dences of returning confidence can
not fail to have a good effect upon
others aud inspire a hopeful feeling
in ALL" The common sense of the
country assures it that q government
of the people is safe in the aands of
any majority of the people.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
Won Can Have II.

"My dear, what would give to have
your hair?'' is often said by middle
aged ladies to young ones. Madam,
you may have juss such hair. Parker's
Hair Baisam will give it to you. 1t
will stop your hair from falling off, re-
store the original color and make it
long, thick. soft and glossy. Yon need
not stand helplessly envying the girls.
The Balsam is not oily, not a dye, but
is an elegant dressing, and is especial
lv recommended for it's cleanliness and
nurity. Tfeb5-1m
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Minneapolis and St. Paul are hav
ing a lively discussion over the for
nation ola State fair ground and
State park half way between the two
cities, each to contain 200 acres, and
the latter to embrace the famous
falls of Minnehaha. Ten years age
the cities were fifteen miles apart
Now the park, if formed, will be the
only neutral ground between them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Columbus Journal has gath
cred Gubernatorial preferences from
Republicans in &c counties. Foraker
leads in twenty three counties, with
fifteen for Kennedy. John Sherman
is the choice of only three.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Judge Black, being once taken to
task for defending Belknap, said in
excuse that there were only tive ways
of making a living in. Washington.
One was by stealing: the other by de
Tending thieves OF these he pre-
ferred the mo e honorable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Warren county has now a Demo.
cratic Common Pleas Judge! The
Lebanon Patriot and the Democrats
generally of that region, will soon be-
gin to put on dude ish airs!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Harper's Weekly regards the cleo
ton of Hon. VIM. M. Evarts to the
United States Senate by the Republi-
cans of the New York Legislature as
''the triumph of the better sentiment
of the Republican party over mere
machine influence"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Washington correspondent of
the New York World, speaking of
the coming campaign in Ohio, says:
"The two issues to be presented by
the republican party are the protec
tive tariff policy and the question
of Southern supremacy. You can
whet your journalistic pen for these
two subjects. They will be the prin-
cipal ones for tie coming year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Pennsylvania Legislature, af-
ter four weeks of painful session,
passed one bill. It was sent to the
Governor and he promptly vetoed it.
Such is life in law making circles.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Elk Governor Seymour has great
expectations for the incoming Dem
ocratic administration. The venera-
BILE ex governor is not alone in this
matter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Assembly ofDakota Territory
has passed the Woman's suffrage bill,
by a vote of 80 to Is. 1t is pretty GER
tain to pass the Council and become
a law.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

A bill has been introduced into
the Ohio Legislature securing to
women the right to vote at school,
city. town, and other municipal cleo.
tions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Ohio Legislature is in favor
of building a Governors residence at
a cost of $4,000. One fourth would
be sufficient.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

No men do more hard work for the
Democratic party, than the Democra-
tic editors throughout the country;
and it Is generally the case when
they ask for a slice of the part,'s
cake some other fellow less worthy,
steps up and gobbles it.--Mt. Yer
non Banner,
To which the GAINESVILLE Signal re.
spends: "But the other unworthy
fellow never fails to come to the edi
tor for an endorsement. He a SCI
with half an eye that the party organ
is the power that all the politicians
fear. But the editor must not have
any thing. He rejoices in the bless
ed privilege of being abused by the
party hacks and dead beats, as his
compensation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Presidente elect Cleveland expresses
his intentions and desires regarding
his administration in the following
language, which we think has TIL,
rue democratic ring to it and can
heartily endorse:
at is my intention to make cabinet
officers responsible for all appoint
ments in their departments, within
certain plain rules which | shall Law
down. One thing shall be assisted on,
that appointments shall not be made
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

Gov. Hoadly don't want to be a
candidate for reelection. May be
the people want him to be.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Democratic Legislative eau
u has agreed to support a resolu-
ton submitting a license amendment
to a vote of the people.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

An $11 a year post office in q
neighboring county has seventeen
applicants.-Ea.
Must be in a Republican "dees.
trict.".
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
WHICH PARTY PAYS REBEL
CLAIMS?
Ssne Hundred Million Dollars OF
SOcasscei ssebel Claims AL
ready Paid by tFse He
publican Party up 10
Es7S.
a Republican ROorback Beau.
tifully Laid Out.

The most prominent feature of the
Democratic party throughout its
whole history is its earnest purpose
to lesson the public debts, and thus
reduce the burden of the people. who,
by taxation, tariffs and excise duties
have to pay all that the officers of
the Government collect and expend.
1t is no purpose of the Democracy
to make the people pay d dollar
more than the Republican party has
incurred and rendered the people
liable for. The Republican charge
that the Democrats if successful in
the late election, would pay the Rebel
debt or the Rebel claims. is n of
the barest and most impudent fa sc
hoods. 1t is one of those shams and
humhugs that the Republican leaders
are so fertile in getting up during q
political campaign, in orderto divert
the attention of the people from the
real questions in issue.
The Republican U. S. Senator
from this State, John Sherman, no.
seriously one of the most crafty,
tricky, mercenar and INSCRIPTIONS
OF the Republican leaders, began the
howl on Rebel claims, as o charge
against the Democratic party, ir, his
speech at Marietta on the 18th OF
August, 1876.
But in that same speech, as report
ed in the Cincinnati Commercial,
Columbus Journal, and other Re
publican paper. as a campaign docu-
ment, Senator Sherman unwittingly
made the following unlucky state,
ment for his party, which shows the
true nature. of the only socalled
"Rebei claims that can be allowed
and paid, which are in truth and in
fact loyal claims-no clainsof Rebels
and no claims for damages by ex,
rebels being Ut all allowed, for they
are expressly excluded by a consti.
tutional amendment. Says Q. S. Sen.
ator Sherman:
"When the war closed, inrumer-
able claims against the United States
were made for the lately rebel States
and Congress, in the most liberal
spirit, made privision for the pay.
ment Of all that, by the we'll settled
rules of civilized war, could be prop
erly against the United States. The
officers of the Departments, the Su
preme Court, Inc Court Of Claims
and the Southern Claim Commission
were authorized to adjust and pay
different classes of claims, and Con
gress (Republ;can) passed many acts
for equitable relief, so it may with
safety he said that more than $780,
600, 900 was paid after the war to citi
zens Of the South Ter losses caused
by the rebellion"
Ohe hundred million dollars Of so
called rebel claims paid prior to 1916
by Republican Congresses and
Courts. Let Republicans read and
ponder this in answer. to the dena
gogical charges of their organs and
stumpers. The late Democratic Con
gress did not appropriate a dollar
for "rebel claims except such as
had been allowed and alluded By
Republican Courts organized to de-
eide upon them. Fewer claims, o
most any sort, will pass under
Democratic administration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
Feb. 40, 1855

In two weeks the Democratic ball
will commence to rtll over this coun-
try.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

L. G.. Gould, editor of the Eaton
Democrat, is very favorably spoken
of as a candidate for the Collector
ship of the 9th district of Ohio. To
the victors belong the spoils, and
Mr.. Gould is a spoil Democrat.
GreenUiUe Courier.
You bet Bro. CGiderwood we are.
We believe Mr.. Cleveland should
hedge in his administration with his
friends, just as all the late Republi.
can Presidents have done.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
JOHN V. CAMPBELL. EDMOND S. DYE
& DYE,

A TTORNEYS and Councillors at
n Law and Notaries Public. Attic
old stand on Barron street, Eaton, O.
JAMS, 'S5-ly
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19

The Wayne County Democrat has
reached its 59th year, and is as good
as it is old. Long may it live.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
Money to Loan.

Money to loan in Sums to suit, allow.
est current rates of interest. on one to
five wears time. A number of valua
BILE farms for SALE. Also, town proper.
ty in Eaton.
Office in Schlenker's building.
aug26-tf[ M. l.. HoI"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
4 DEADLY RINK.
DANGEROUS TO THE EEHNEs
AND Body.
Universal Condemnation Of the
Exercise by Eastern Rhysi-
misunderstanding; From an
Eminent GynecOiOs-
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From h Cincinnati Enquirer.
Unless speedily checked roller-skat-
ing, which has already commenced its
inroads, will bring moral and physi-
cal disaster to hundreds upon hum
dreds of innocent young girls, as well
as upon wives, who, startling in
brightly for a little recreation, are be-
ing brought within the tolls of liber-
tines who throng the Kinks. The
wealthy and poor, the sound and dis
eased, Christian and infidel, and the
virtuous and depraved are on a COM
mon plane when it ONE to paying
for admission to the rink. Profess
siols that immoral characters are cS-
cluded arc not worth the breath taken
to utter them, and the jingle of good
American coin goes q long ways to-
ward binding the eyes of the man at
the door and of the managers on the
inside. Skaters mingle promiscuous-
ly on the floor. Collisions are inevi-
table but they should not occur with
the frequency which distinguishes the
Kinks. 1t is the duty of men at such
times to grasp the girl and prevent
the fall. The decent man cal do this
in al %inoffensive way the ghoul does
otherwise.
The innocent victim excuse it as
the action of emergency, and in meet
ing or passing again during the even
ing a look of reception recalls the
mishap. Before the night closes there
may probably be a grand march, and
opportunities are offered for cross
armed work and hand-clasping that
is of a tightness supposed to be a nee
essary safeguard against falls. Un-
der these conditions conversation
comes without introduction. Suisse
quent visits increase the lengths OF
the chats and lessen Formally.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
DANGEROUS TO 4 L


In the East the skating craze has
had a long run, and its evil results are
seer on every handin the broken do wn
physiques Of young girls who frequent
the Kinks. The press and the medical
profession OF the metropolis are wag-
ing hot war on the institutions. Act
ing upon the advice the better class OF
people have withdrawn their patron
age, and the other are fast following
snit. 1t has been demonstrated that
the dangers 10 the female sex from ali
day use of the sewing machine are in
significant in comparison with the
hazards of roller skating.
A reporter sent last night to utter
view DR.. Thad. A. Reamy met him
emerging from his Office ON the way
TO a medical meeting in Lancet Hall:
ON Seventeenth street. During the
hurried walk with him to this place
the conversation was short but meaty.
There ia probably no better authority
in the United States Oh the disease OF
women. For years he has been pro-
fessor of obstetrics in the Medical
College of Ohio. His word is law in
the American Society Of Gynecolo-
gists, and he is an eminent member OF
a similar society in London. Connec-
ting his answers to the questions they
were as follows:
THE injurious effects arisingto wn-
men who use the sewing machine are
not due to the posture assumed, nor
yet to the muscles employed in its
use, but to the prolonged mainten-
ance OF the posture, the prolonged use
OF a certain set of muscles to the ex-
clusion of others, and to the lack OF
opportunity for proper exercise in the
open air. The moderate use of the
sewing machine, as in the family, is
not injurious. ROller-skating is quite
another thing. 1t may possibly be
INDUCED in to a moderate degree by
young women without serious injury.
but l have no hesitaney in the un-
qualified statement that it is al exer-
else for which women are anatomi.
cally and physiologically untitled
To indulge in this exercise violently
(and they do not seem to do it in
moderation)-I say that to indulge in
it violently, and for many hours in
succession, under excitement and
stimulation, as at skating Kinks. mus
infict lasting and irremediable injury
upon a large proportion who are par
Elephants. OF course, the damage tc
some must be much greater than tc
others. Little girls, as well as those
approaching womanhood, should bt
positively forbidden such exercise"