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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

The House chaplain at Washing
ton prays for deliverance from the
power of robbers and gamblers. He
might have added congressional
funerals to his list, for it is about
time that the people call a halt in
this expensive business. There have
been four deaths this session. The
funerals cost about $4,000, $4,000,
$1,000 and $4,000; total, $4,000.
The printed eulogies cost about $4,-
600 each total, $4,000. Eulogies
in Congressional Record, $1,000.
The time consumedin eulogies and
adjournment out of respect was
about eight days, at $4,000 per day,
of $12S,000. Grand total, $165,OO0
for four funerals. They come too
high for even the United States
Congress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

The demand for open executive
sessions of the Senate is increasing,
and the ancient abuse of secret ses-
sion will not be able to resist much
longer the pressure of public senti-
ment on this question. A good
many Republican Senators recog-
nize how false is their position in
insisting that the President shall
have no secrets from the public in
regard to appointments to Office,
and in maintaining at the same
time the secrecy of executiveA ses-
sions for considering official ap-
pointments. When the Senate aban-
dons it's secret session it will be
able to claim with some show of
consistency that the Senate has a
right to all papers and documents
relating to removals from office.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

The Commissioners of Stark
county have been looking up par
ties who have managed to escape
taxation. The result has been the
adding of $780, 700 to the tax dupli-
cate. One capitalism Canton had
failed to list $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

Ohio courts are bringing insur-
ance companies to time who won't
pay what they promise to. When
the fire occurs and a loss of any
size results, they begin to bubble
and fool around and try to evade,
and in many cases swindle the in
sured out of what they agreed to
pay them, and the insured, rather
than have any trouble" will settle
on one-half, and in many cases for
a mere song, is they cannot afford
TIC go into courtand await the laws
delay. The law should interfere
and bring these swindling insur-
ance companies to time. Many of
them are dead beats and nothing
more or less than original swind-
ling concerns. 1t is about time
that law was made to protect hon
est men instead of rogues.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

1t is said that Judge Alexander f.
Hume will be urged by his friends
to shy his castor into the congress
sional ring.-Butler Co. Democrat.
Judge Hume would be a very ac-
ceptable candidate up this way, pro-
vided the District remains the same.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
Thursday. April =. s--o.

President epew, ofthe New York
Central railroad, a corporation that
employsabout &c, 0o0men, isquoted
as saying that he believed the best
interests of both capital and labor
were served by strong organization
on both sides,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

A contribution of $500, intended
for the conscience fund, Enclosed
in a letter postmarked Grafton,
w. Va, was received at the U. S.
treasury department. The writer
states that he was in the commits
sary department ofthe Union army
during the war. He returns the
money, which he considers belongs
to the United States, because "when
1 die I want to go to heaven, and /
fear the $500 might bar me out"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
The following is a good illustra-


The following is a good illustra-
ton of "civil service REFORM" as
practiced by the Republican party.
1t also serves e~xcellently well to
show how dearly the Republican
party loves the union soldier:
"Fifteen minutes after Foraker
was inaugurated Governor, Peter
Faulkner, visitors guide in the
State House rotunda, was discharg-
ed. Faulkner is a crippled soldier.
He was discharged because he was
a Democrat. These facts are cited
to prove the doctrine we have al
ways maintained, that in the eye of
the Republican party the test of a
soldiers devotion to his country is
not that he was riddled with bullets
defending the American flag, but
that he walks up to the ballot-box
on election day and votes the Re-
publican ticket, Mr.. Faulkner, the
crippled soldier bounced by the
Foraker administration, has been
appointed to a position in the Treas
ury Department at Washington"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

The extent of railroad business
in the United States is something
wonderful. Carefully prepared sta
tistics show that they give employ
ment to 100000 people, and trans
port 100000 900 tons of freight an
nually, one-half of which is food
and fuel; and furthermore, it is
proved that the freight rates are so
low that the eastern mechanics can
have a years supply of food hauled
from a distance of 1000 miles for
the proceeds of one days labor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

After the Spanish riots of 1851 in
New Orleans and Key West, when
many Spanish residents were killed,
Congress, having had its attention
directed thereto by a message from
Mr.. Fillmore, passeda joint resolu-
ton ordering an investigation and
directing the payment for damages
found to be done. Under this $780,
1853 were paid out of the Treasury.
This is cited as ~aprecedent forpay-
ing the losses of the Chinese who
have been driven out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

Gov. Foster, who is well inform
ed on the subject, saysthe Ohio Re
publican Committee got $105,000
from the National Committee in
1884, and raised $4,000 beside: In
addition to all this there were large
expenditures by local committees
The Governor says cit was easy to
raise money for Blaine" There is
no doubt of that. Corporations,
capitalists and spectators were all
wonderfully willing to cast an an
Choir to windward.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

This is a fair specimen of the
Poorman arithmetic by which Har-
Ian was counted in and seated.
The pretended figures in the report,
when analysed as any .school-boy
would analyze them, show that
Butterfield had an undoubted ma
.jority even after the whole vote in
Precinct A of the Fourth ward was
thrown out.
When the Democratic members
began to expose this. false .arithme-
tic, Poorman and the rest of them
did not dare to contradict nor ex-
plain things. They simply jumped
up and demanded the previous
question and forced a vote before
the Republicans could weaken.
One Republican member said to
me after the vote was taken that he
was disguised with his own work
and that if Harlan had not been a
"nigger"-I use his own express
sion-he would not have been seat
ed, but that it was a party necessi-
ty to seat him in spite of the real
figures.
That is the fullest and best ex-
PLANTATION that can be given of the
matter, and expresses the true rea-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08


The affairs of ex-sheriff John
Hoyt, of Trum5ull county, who re-
went out ofoffice, are ina con-
dition that will probably result in
his bondsmen having to put up
nearly $1,000. Hoyt was last seen
in Cleveland, where he met two of
his bondsmen and agreed to return
home with them and settle matters,
but he disappeared and no clue has
been obtained. The bondsmen have
issued attachments against all his
property hat can be found. Trum-
bull gave 5000 votes for Cleveland,
and $500 for Blaine. How is that
for the honesty of the average oe
Republicans?"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

The Kenton Democrat says: The
Republicans who are now in charge
of the State, have already shown
their incapacity or indisposition to
manage the State affairs in an eco
nomicalmanner. They propose that
the State must borrow nearly one
million of dollars, in addition to the
regular State revenues, to meet the
proposed appropriations for the en-
suing year. The Democratic admin
istration managed to meet all de-
mands from theproper revenue and
at the same time reduced the tax
rule. 1t is high time the taxpayers
were opening their eyes to Republi-
can corruption and mismanagement
and turning the party permanently
out of power.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

Senator Payne says hat he is
not in any way concerned regard
ing the statement from Columbus
that the Legislature would within
the next fortnight furnish proof
that his election had been gained
by corruption and fraud. He said
q did not spend a dollar to insure
my election, I did not authorize
any one else to do so. If members
of the Legislature were bribed to
vote for me it was not done with
my knowledge or consent. My con-
science is perfectly clear. on that
point, and no one can be more in
different to the result of the inves-
tigation than l." But his son
Oliver can't conscientiously make
the same declaration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
BENZ. HUBBARD.

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND N
N TARY PUBLIC.-Prompt attic
ticn given to business intrusted
him. Office-Harbaugh's corner, nor.
Barron street, opposite the Post oAice
Eaton, Ohio.
July %, 1878.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

Z 1t is observed that Republican
and assistant Republican journals
are making a great ado over Attor.
ney General Garland's ownership
of telephone stock, but are silent
regarding the acts of two Republi-
can Senators which have a striking
ly improper appearance. They are
Edmunds and Eyarts, members of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
which has reported a bill ~favorably
to the Central Pacific Railroad Co.,
and for which corporation these
two Senators recently appeared as
counsel before the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08

Another millionaire comes to the
United States senate in the person
of Geo. Hearst, appointed by Gov.
.Stoneman, of California, to the
place made vacant by the death of
Senator Miller. We aretold that Mr..
Hearsti is considered the mostexpert
prospector on the Pacific coast,
and his judgement in regard to a
mine has meyer yet been at fault;
that he is a very wealthy man, and
among his real estate owns 10000
acres of the finest lands in the state.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
=. LYING

The unseating of Representative
Butterfield of Hamilton County,
and putting the niger Bob Har-
Ian in his place by the Republican
Legislature, vas the most glazing
party outrage ever perpetrated in
any State. The Columbus cores
pondent of the Dayton Democrat
thus pictures it out:
Let us see how the thing was
done, just for amusement, and in
doing so 1 shall quote from the
committees report upon it's find
ings inregard to Precinct A,,Fourth
ward. The committee assumed
that there was a forgery of 200 tai
lies, and this was thrown out. Adj
hitting that it was a forgery, and
the 200 votes were properly thrown
out, it only remained to properly
account for the remaining votes.
The way the committee handled
the remaining figures is peculiar.
I quote from page 8 of the report
"a. Y. Reed testified that when
all the votes were out and counted,
the vote stood 716 Democratic, 181
Republican, % Prohibitionist,
Democratic plurality 1892"
Upon the plurality SO alleged in
this precinct, and others by the
same mathematical process, in 9TH
er parts of the report, Harlan's 643
majority was figured up. Now let
us put the matter into a couple of
mathematical propositions, the
first according to Poorman, and
the second according to the COM
mon rules of arithmetic, and see
how they agree with each other:
PooRMAN's METHOD OF SUBTRACTION.
Democratic vote 716
Republican and Prohibitionvote
1S1 plus % 203
Democratic majority 332
THE COMMON METHOD.
Democratic vote ZIG
Republican and Prohibition vote
1S1 plus % :. 2O3
Democratic majority 513
Here the figures were made to lie
in the most astonishing and unac-
countaRle manner with a view of
counting Butterfield out by false
subtraction.
In the very next paragraph the
committee try to account for their
finding, and still further manipu-
late the figures and say:
"a sworn poll of the precinct
shows 667 electors and II who have
removed since the October election,
total 679, who claim to have voted.
Give Republicans sworn vote of
1873, Prohibition %, equal to 100,
would show a majority of $751;"
This so-called sworn poll was not
an election at all, but the commit
tee solemnly assume that it is, and
to help themselves to some hun
dreds of votes again made a false
subtraction. Let us illustrate it as
we did the previous statement.
Daon,rI VIC zrrrrroH
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
WIT AND WISDOM.

1t is the struggle and not the attain
ment that measures character.
Teacher Hans, name three beasts
OF prey. Hans-Two lions and tiger
Never buy any tn ng you don
need because it's cheap. This includes
beer. Puck.
There is a report around, Jinks,
that YOU have inherited landed es-
tate.' lit is groundless, my dear fel-
low
The easiest and best way to expand
the chest is to have good large heart
in it. 1t saves the cost of gymnastics
chicago Standard.
If YOU would be pungent, be brief,
for il is with words as W tn Sunbeams,
the more they are condensed the deep
or they burn.-Aibany Journal.
Patrick, you told me you needed
the alcohol to clean the mirror with,
and here l find you drinking it,"
Faith mum, it's drinkin' it and
0rathing ON the glass Dim dom. y
Life.
A little girl who is just at the age
when her table manners are beginning
TO be looked after, called out at supper
recently: Give me some cake" GLOW
do YOU askpN said mamma, corrective
ly. please give me some cake" re-
turned the little miss, and added, UNI
MhaShed: 81 don't forget, was saving
it up. ~ Prairie Farmer.
"A barrister, noticing that the court
had gone TO sleep, stopped short in the
middle Of his speech. The sudden ST.
lence awolle the Judges, and the lawyer
gravely resumed: LAS | remarked yes
terday, my lords "-- The puzzled
Judges stared, as though they half be-
lieyed they had been asleep since the
previous day.
Dom Pedro's venerable aunt, the
esteemed and beautiful Princess Isabella
Maria Conception Jane Charlotte Gaul-
berta Anna Francis of Assist Xaviera
Paula d'Alcantera V AntOinetta Rapha-
Ella Michaela Gabrielle JOachina Coma
ga-ch?-wherc were we9- what was
it? oh, yes, lis dead Washington
Post.
Mamma said a st. Paul urchin,
Il think all little children should be very
happy tonight yes, dear, of course,
but they should be all the time but
tonight especially, mamma" "Why,
darling?' Because l heard papa read
from the newspaper that big Single
mill had burned down in Wisconsin. p
s.. Paul Globe,
He had left his saddle with Bar
Harbor saddler to be repaired, and the
saddler sent his man with it, when the
Job was completed, to Mr.. Padelford' s
cottage. As Mr.. Pdddleford in?" asked
the fellow of the gentlcman's valet, &C.
centng the first syllable. "Mr. Padcl.
ford is at home, returned the man
emphasizing the accent on the second
syllable. well, them added the sad.
dler's apprentice, will you tell Mr.
Padel'ord that l have a saddel here FOL
him? '-ToiCH Topics.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
Cigars and Coffee,

"a cigar tastes best when accom-
panied by cup Of aromatic coffee after
luxurious rePast" most smokers will
say Speaking in the abstract, the
coffee does not enhance the cigar, nor
vice versa, but the fact is that nature
gives a hint how to counterfeit injurious
effects upon the gustatory nerves. 1t is
the demonstration of the homeopathic
"Similia similibus curantur' mar
cotic poison destroying another. The
stimulating potency of the caffeine over
comes, or at least paralyzes, the pros
trating power of nicotine, and it is the
fight between these two powerful agen-
cies which imparts TO the observer in
whose system the battle is raging that
degree of contemplative comfort which
is the desideratum of every smoker
ChicGgO NctOS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
VERY CONSlDERATE.

A Suicide who Respected the Property OF
His Friend and Partner.
If Colonel Bluford is more precise
about one thing than another it is his
razor. He is so particular about it that
he has almost come to the conclusion
not to allow himself even to use it on
his own chin on Sundays. Bluford
went off fishing a few weeks ago, and
while he was gone, his partner, who
was also his room mate, committed sui
eide. The Colonel was asked by tele-
graph to return. He came back as fast
as he could. Meeting friend at the
depot, he asked in voice husky with
emotion:
lis it fact that my partner has COM
mitted suicide?'
YES; he was buried this morning. "
The blanched face of Bluford be-
came paler than ever, and his voice
sounded unnatural as he whispered
hoarSely:
"How did he do it?"
morphine"
THANK Heaven!" cried Bluford, fer
vently, my razor is safe; but l NIGH
have known it would be, foz George wa
one of the most considerable of men.
shall always revere his memory, -
TerGS SJtingS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
HOW TO BE CHEERFUL.


Come, children, and listen awhile to my song
on the brewing of cheerfulness, pure and
strong;
For not every method is sure to succeed,
And this one, you'll find, will yield just what
Recipe. ...a
First look to your heart, and be sure you take
To wash all the selfishness out that is there;
An ounce of Indulgence then take in your
hand,
And Of patience, well tried, what amount you
command
pense),
And Stir them we'll round with an ounce Of
good sense.
A drop, too, of lethe now add to the three,
For it sets you from pain and old grievances
free
A dash of good humor then fling in the bowl,
And touch of fine wit to give taste to the
whole.
Add touch Of self-confdence now, and be
sure
To remember a little cool blood to procure,
An ounce OF quiet courage, and perhaps
To add a good handful of hope to the rest.
Mix well, so that smoothness and sweetness
you gain,
And then with a pure heart the cup you must
drain.
And should it sdll throb while for peace you
still sigh,
Glance upward to Heaven then, with plead
ing eye.
soon, soon you will find that your courage
will rise.
And the world will be changed to your bright
ening eyes;
Your tears will be dried and your lips will
smile,
And others will see It and wonder the while.
From Inc German, IN Chdtt6rb0C
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

eat between meals, anyway, or you
would have eaten this bread. will
cure you of two bad habits at once; eat
ing between meals, and eating the jam
off the top. 1t will be killing two birds
with one stone, you see"
And so Renie got cured. She could
not help being cured, could she, with no
Jam to eat off from the bread, and no
bread to eat the jam off from? But
think she was lucky girl that she had
a mamma to cure her of her habits, for
Pm really afraid she never would have
cured herself. - HOratia Cdrlin, hs
Youths Companion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

-Lcligh University has Mustard
and Cheese Dramatic Club. "--Fhlla
delpbi0 Press.
"A sailors chapel is to be bulls in
New York by money left by W. H. Van
derbilt for that purpose.
Herr Heider, noted tailor Of Der
lin, who died recently, left $4,000 marks
to the Catholic Church.
The Presbytery of Boston now COM
prises twenty-seyen churches and forty
five minister's Boston Journal.
Two teachers at Ratbon, Germany
were fined one hundred marks each fol
teaching Polish chants to the childreE
under their charge.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton of Charleston, S. c., has lately es'
tablished several free night schools in
various parts of the city.
The number of deadly sins has been
reduced to five by preacher of Liver.
pool, Eng, and this is his new catalo;
que Theater-going, card-playing,
noyel-roading, dancing, drinking.
The Canadian Booksellers Asso-
citation has, by vote, requested all
city governments of Canada to prohibit
the sale of American Sunday papers en-
account Of their pernicious influence,
Hon. George A. Pillsbury, one Of
the flour manufacturers of MinneaO-
oils, and an eX-mayor Of Concord, r.
H.. has built dormtory to be known
as Plllsbury Hall, at OwatOnna, MIMI,
and given it to the Baptist school at tina
place
Ground has been broken for q new
building for the Carleton College Oh
Scryatory at Mortified, MINI. 1t is tt
be 100 by 50 feet in dimens ons, and b
thoroughly fitted for astronomical pur
poses, rs to library class rooms and ap
paratus.
The first Provincial Council of tn,
Romish Church which has been held il
Scotland since the Reformation met ~
Gently in the Benedict ne Monastry, For
Augustus. A code Of canons or rule
for the better organization and govern
ment Of their church in Scotland ha
Deen adjusted.
At the recent meeting of the OLE
Catholics at Vienna, Prof. Logger pro
posed the immediate introduction of tn
Bible in all Old Catholic families, an,
expressed the hope that the British ant
Foreign Bible Society would aid them 5,
that every school-child might have
copy OF the Book of books.
A Biblein State Schools League ha
been formed in Australia to secure til
daily reading and study of the Word G
God, which Is strongly desired by pal
cnts there. Public OPP onion is resistin
the present "evil policy" as lead n
news aper styles it, (which is rearin
a generation of practical pagans in
pyolessc4Iy Christian land. y
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18
The Birthplace OF Abraham.

Not far from Aleppo is situated the
little town of Orfah (the ancient Ur OF
Chaldces), which is of great his
tor,cal interest, it having been the
birthplace of the patriarch Abra-
ham. There are few Jews in the
place, but the Arabs still point out a
small building lying outside the town
which they declare to be the house
wherein Abraham first saw the light,
and which they therefore term Belt ell
Chalil (the house of the friend of GoD.
1t is most improbable that the actual
house should have stood for thousands
of years but the building in question
is of great antiquity. BY its present
owner, an Arab peasant, as well as by
the Arabs generally, it is held in the
utmost veneration-the more so since
it is feared that within a few years it will
fall to the ground. -JeCiSb Chronicle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

--Alnr three or folr different people
had been killed in feud Oyer a line
fence on Kentucky farm a. surveyor
was called upon to settle tbs case, and
he found that the rAan who ella med it
by two feet was not entitled to il by a
rod and half. Then, as a matter of
course a fusilads was opened on the
surveyor, and he felt himself lucky to
escape with ballet in the leg,-Leiroit
F9ee Press
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

1T would seem that with age people
outgrow the tendency to commit crime.
Mr.. L. r. Brockaway, in the Forum,
points out that of fifteen thousand pris-
oners in New York State ten thousand
of them are not more than thirty years
of age, while probably eight thousand
are under twenty-five years.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

-Paterfamilas - 1t is remarkable
what a large number of doctors claim
that diseases are transferred by kissing,
and Miss Ethel-What kind of doc
tors, pa? ''Why, the allopathic doc
tors. " But, pa, you know we'rS
homeopaths. - Chicago Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

Witty mon sometimes get into bad
places. Judge Gould, of the Portland
(Me.) police court, recently said to a
criminal: 'Iook QUA that no more liquoE
is found in your back yard" 81 will.
your honor" was the reply. "Tll only
keep rats in my back yard after this. "a
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-18

The Emperor of Austria, who is
great smoker, has been ordered by the
doctors to give up the frsgant weed.
They attribute his neura gia to it. His
Majesty was in the habit 0l smoking
twenty cigars daily,