The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Out of eyerv LOCO people born into this

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Here is a problem that has puzzled
. some of the best arithmeticians: eff
man puts 800 in bank the day he is q
years of age, what sum must he add tc
+? it yearly to have $500 the day he is sc
years of ge, receiving 6 per cent. com
pound interest on his money PIX.
! The greatest problem would be, where
is the fellow to get the 800!
The ceremony of the decoration of the
graves of the soldiers buried in the Ea-
Y ton Cemetery, was performed on Satur.
day last by the G. A. R. The process.
ion of children hat spread the flowers
was quite large. No business houses were
closed on the occasion, and the partici-
pants outside of the G. A. R. and the
children, were much smaller than in
former years..
A sporting paper contains an article
entitled, GLOW to Prevent Accidents in
a Game of Base Ball." This difficulty
may be overcome by the substitution of
garden digging for base ball. A young
man who is digging garden never gets
injured by running the bases or the bat
flying out of another players hand !;
though when he gets through with the
game he may think he has exchanged
backs with a man 1917 years old.
The city Council at their meeting on
Monday night last had a h. o. t. and MIR.
%Schlenker rendered his resignation,
which was not acted upon. OUT Council
is getting to be a farce, and We consci-
entiously and religiously believe that the
taxpayers ought to take the matter in
hand and see if men could not be induc-
ed to serve who have the interests and
welfare of the whole town at heart.
The special election held last Monday
for two Councilmen to fill the vacancies
Of McCabe and Churchill, resigned, re-
suited in the choice of John Booker and
H. G. Hathaway. Very little interest
was manifested in the election and only
about one-third of the vote was cast.
Those who have axes to grind were the
only ones that worked it up. The cleo
ton was unnecessary. The vacancies
ought to have been filed by appoint
ment, which would have been the sensi-
BILE way.
The word "Hell" has been stricken
from the Christians vocabulary by the
revisors OF the Old and New Testament.
The recently completed new translation
of the Old Testament changes ''Hell'to
"Sheol." The wicked, however, will
stick to their old ~favorite as more eupho-
nistic and expressive. HSheol" will do
to express a mans feelings in a mild
way. Even then a slight change in it's
termination is better, but when a fellow
bumps his forehead against the sharp
corner of a bedstead in the dark, "Hell"
will get there ten times to ssSheol's" one.
For the National Encampment, Grand
Army of the Republic, to be held at
Portland, Me-, June 18th and 26th, 1885,
the G. H. & d. R'y, in connection with
the Michigan Central, Niagara Falls
route" will sell round trip tickets at
s23.40, limited to 30.days from date of
sale. with privilege Of stop wei on re-
turn trip. Purchasers of tickets to be
identified by G. A. R. badges. Rates
win apply to Woman Relief Corps
Have arranged for two grand pleasure
tours on June 18th and June 2Oth-special
trains. Tickets will be on sale from June
LIST to 22d; will be good on any regular
train as well as on the special. For fur
Their information in regard to route, &C.,
apply at G. H. & D. R'y office.
Domorest's illustrated Monthly Maya
zine for June contains a great deal that
will interest its readers. 1t opens with
an admirable article, "Bryn Mawr Col
lege," which is ~profusely illustrated, and
which fully describes this new college
fer women in Pennsylvania. "Old Ant
werp," which is also illustrated, is an
other readable article, and so is
Through Normandy by Diligence" The
serial, "a Strange Girl, - is concluded
and Jenny June contributes a paper on
TRAINED Nurses and Nursing" These
articles, with others of a miscellaneous
nature, poems, fashions, and various de-
partments make up a remarkably good
number of this admirable magazine. The
frontispiece is q fine oil picture, Butter
flies"
Nearly every boy who learns to use to-
bacco does sc in defiance of parental
commands and wishes; and yet boys do
learn to eli ew and smoke by mlultitrdes
every year. The prohibitory law of the
fathers and the pleading Of mothers seem
to have no effect. There must be a rea-
son for this enormous waste of effort
against the use of tobacco by the young.
The same amount of effort applied in any
other direction would have large. and
better results. The explanation lies near
er the surface than many would imagine.
The use of tobacco is usually represent
ed to the boy to be a misdemeanor if not
a crime. The whole force of this theory
of the offence is destroyed, four times
out of five, by the fact that the father,
or uncle, or elder brother uses tobacco
and is not held to be a criminal. The
force of example is greater than the force
of command, and the inhibition laid upon
the use of the weed merely stimulates
curiosity and leads to experiment. The
evil is not what it is represented to be
and the boy quickly detects the lie. But
the use of tobacco is an evil, for old and
young. 1t is in fact an appalling evil,