The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

The CedarvilleHerald- W M. BLAIR. gjAlUhaf. • CEDARVILLE. 4 1 : OHIO, AN OLD MAN’S REMINISCENCE. Onthathappy, happymornln’, in tbo leafy montho' June, -"Whenthe skyspreadblue’n’ smilin', ’N’ theriver sungatoon, .’Weaot kinder etUl *n*silent, ., , DidElliar-Jane ’a’ we, ’’Ith assorterioytoosolium Forexpression, doyouaeef ^ Tpr we’dMxtJretaisroimhqwrtsd,* i Well, we’TeSad’embothInpUnty, IN’ Ellmr’s gonebefore, ’N*Xfeel togrowmore lonesome As Xnear tbe'ehaddery shore. When tbernight ladnrk’n’ silent, Oft I wakeup’Itha start,. ' An11seemter hear therumblin’ 1 O’ the leetlotwo-wheeledcart, ’ N‘ the ripplin’ o’ the river . E* we.rede uponour way, , ■ , Fifty scarago thissummer, Uponourweddlu’-day, .’-EdithM, Norris, In YankeeBlade, A CIRCUS REHEARSAL. W ith a Shanghai Booster and Billy Goat.as Performers. ‘ T WAS a beauti­ ful Saturday, late in October. An- tumn, foremost of !Nature's soenio f artists,hod paint* r, edthe woodswith 'll ainaryeiotisprod­ igality of color. A brooding huab was over all the landscape, wbiob filled the bosom :of Mickey Finn’s Billy goat- with endnote as be Stood on’ the sunny slope-of Stumpy Field and beard the rusfclo.of the dried oorn leaves and; watched the pale green beauty fade irorn the mullein stalks and jimBon weeds as they were smitten hy.tbe cold breath of annual decay. Thegrass, too, the Billy noticed with signs of uneasiness, was getting dry and tasteless. Bo looked off toward the Finn cabbage patch. The large heads still stood unpluekod on their stalks. Great tears ran down the goat’s cheeks as he realized that the feast of cab* hages was not.for him. He was routed from his painful reverie by a belated bluebird, which lit on the fence and sang him a parting serenade ere the musical bunch of feathers flow south­ ward to the orange groves in the land of tropical delights, A chipmunk whisked by him on the stone wall, nodded with tantalising freedom to the goat, and disappeared. A loud* cawing overhead dcoponed tho bitterness In the heart of the goat as he rcaliiod that he only was tied with the olothos-line. These reflections had reduced the four-footed captird to a condition of mute, despair, when on tho brooding hush above alluded to there broke, a; cheery whistle. The Billy turned tail on the saddening scenery, and was about to seek surcease of sorrow in sleep in his burrow, but when that familiar whistle smote upon his ear he stopped nhort, like "Grandfather’s Clock,” and listened. Tho whistle sounded nearer, and uncertainty changed to assurance In tho goat’s eloquent eyes as a small boy leaped over -the fenoo and oame to- -ward him. -Those who have been con­ fined In a gloomy cell know what joy there is in bearing the key of deliver­ ance grate in the lock. 8 uoh joy the goat felt. Ills doltverer had come. I f the goat could have sung, his happiness would undoubtedly have found expres­ sion la the words: “He’s afterme, afterme; I’mtheladlvidasl bsrequire*.” Little Mike loosened the gslUng clothes-line from the neck ol the goat, and together they strolled leisurely up the Old Point reed, the goat stopping now and then to pick up s stray pleoe of brown paper and on occasional bit of old corset whalebone. Little Mike loved the goat tenderly, Indeed, his affection rivaled that of Mary for bar lamb. Be would no doubt have taken the goat to school with him but for the fact that tbs teacher might have acted rudely to the animal. In that event the teacher would no doubt have tried to put the goat out of the school-house, when—but let us return to the boy and the goat, Mickey whispered to the Billy as they wset along that his mother had gone down to Ponokhookle to buy his father a new pair of overall#; that ha bad been left alone in the shanty, and that as he was lonesome he hodoome to get the Billy to Cheer him up. The Billy wagged the ahort joy barometer at the southeast end of hie body, and seemed to understand every word hie companion said. And so, like twoboeou friends as they were, they wandered up the read and into the shanty. I t most he understood that Mickey bed a deeper motive than tbatofmerely amusing himself when he brought the f at in to the kitchen. It was not ba­ ns* the goat wee, not good oompany. -Oh, not On the contrary, the Bitty wee Always a fellow o i humor, resource, and wonts* jest in the hour of ennui. But this time it was with s special object In view that he had asked the goat to join him during bis mother’s absence. To relist* the harrowing Suspense of the reader, it may as well he said that Mickey was going to open a olrou* in Doolsn's barn. Tbp Idea bad been In his mind alopg time, butdufing the past week it had assumed a tangible shape, and he ks4begun thecollectionof curiosities for the manager!*, whlob is always the inseparable adjunct of a cir­ cus, Be had even progressed, so for in the preparations as to have drafted out a rude, programme on the smooth side of a shingle. This programme bad oaused Mickey a good deal of thought, hut when oompletefi It was a thing.of beauty as well as expressive-brevity. This Is a sample oopy slightly revised: .A-SfK * ejiv*»».gqa>eea4nL*n*,'e*wt,**a **•*?«** ■ • from Arabia! iCotneSeeMrs, |f aloney'aDetok Layan Egg I : :A trained BlUy Goat Wld Whiskers w u : : Ate Hay andPerformotherWon- : derful Thrickst *: :Mickeyman’scrowWill AteWonHundred: : CockroachesI ; :The BiggestBulWg^mOoOneyIslandWill: I* A FightDetuneTwo ( 8 |Shanghai Boos- »: :....... ■ ■ ten) ■ : : 8 TwoSnappingTurtle*fromBrown's : : • Pondwill Fight aPool19: :No Peekln Allowed. All the Ores Inthe: : HamhasBeenStoppedUpWith : : Spithaus. ' : ; 86 c Twenty-flvecents totheBoyor Girl 85c: : asRidestheBillyGoatThree (8) : Times Around theBarn) ; ’.Five olats (orBoysandGirlsandTin Ctnta: :.___ forMothersandFathersl : :CF“No Free Tickets only to the Boy as: : •, Feeds theGontjd • 1: But little Mike had not'announcedall of the wonders upon the bill. He bad reserved what promised to be the most interesting part of the performance for a surprise to those who attended the show. In this surprise Mlakey in­ tended the gost to be the chief figure. In order to prepare the goat for the re­ hearsal whloh was- about to take place, he fed the animal heartily on a big ruta baga turnip, patted his head, stroked his book, and by gentle caresses did what he could to subdue the naturally lively disposition of the animal. To there evidences of affection the Billy took graaefully, especially as regarded the ruta baga turnip. When Mickey had) got the goat into a snffloiently tractable state be said “Now, Billy, you move yourself aisy in the kitchen hero till I go out and got the Shanghai rooster. When 1 bring him in ye’ U see what ye’ll have to da” ' Taking a handful of corn, llttlo Mike went into the yard with a fish-line in his hand.- Making a noose in the end of the lino, he placed the loop upon tho ground and then cried: “ Kip, kip, kip!” ‘ Throoi waddling ducks and a tall, bony Shanghai rooster on stilts oame running down the yard. The rooster was the first to arrive Mickey had tied one end of the fish-line to the end of a elothes-polo, and as the Shanghai stooped to gather In the oorn ho jerked tho lino upward and gathered in the bird by tho nook. He had some diffi­ culty.in landing him, however, as the rooster flopped around at a lively rate, but at last ho secured him, and, enter­ ing tho shanty, dropped him upon tho floor. Tho goat made one or two ef­ forts to pluok tho rooster’s tail feathers, but was gently restrained by Mickey. Then tho rehearsal began. Mickey went into tho front room and came back with a large mirror whlob hla mother bad won at a raffia Be sot this down upon tho floor carefully with its face to tho wall and then, for safety, tied the. goat to the table. “Mow, you kape quiet and ye’ll ue somo fun,” said ho to tbo goat, with an admonitory gesture of his forefinger he took up the looking-glass and faster and tutor, until attar three min­ ute* the rooster began to tlre and ap­ parently to besom* filled with astrang* wonder that ht bad not been hit by tho bird wblohso daringly eonfronted him. In Us perplexity the Shanghai even •topped aside and looked behind the mirror to find hi* enemy, Motuntil the Shanghai was completely exhausted did little Mike release end .turn him into the yard again. Then, u be untied the gost, be said: “Mow, Bitty, ibis is what I want yon to do, Jeattosbtand on ysr bind legs and make believe buck atyer plotur in the frame. But mind ye, don’t break it, or I ’ll break yer bondwld the spade,” i TUngoat listened gravelyand walkdd toward’ ’the mirror- Me **er;* gray -5 bearded, ugly-lopkieg .Bitty appyoaota- ing faim, and he quickened his pace. jElo backed ftp a fow feet to get agood head­ way, and started for the mirror on a run. Little Mike realised what he had A ? to BX JXHXKD THE U n UPWARD. turned it so that ,its back was toward the wall. Tho rooster had been on a little foraging expedition, looking for crumbs under the table and around the stove. Bach time a morsel wu secured It seetried to Mickey that the rooster would torn a somersault, so tall wm the bird and so eagerly did it swing Its head between its legs. Gradually the rooster worked bis way around towhere tbs looking-glass stood. The boy had; cunningly placed a trail of oorn across the kitchen which ended just In frontof the looking-glass, The rooster was following this trail whCn its eye caught the reflection of a big bony Shanghai in lhe glass: The rooster stopped and gased at bis adver­ sary. The feathers on bis neok aroseIn hostility. The Shanghai elevated him* aSlf on bis toes and crowed deflanos. Then, with lowered head, he approached the mirror and looked into his owneyes, glaring defianoe from the quicksilver. With lightning rapidity the right foot was lifted from the floor and shot across tbs face of the mirror. Then cams a cross-counter with tbs left foot Ths to* touched tbs foes of ths mirror with­ out injuring to By this time the anger of ths rooster was fairly aroused. The bird was In ths Sir half to* time, and tbs strokes heroic the mirror free flew THERE WAS A RUSH THROUGH THE AIH. done and made a rush to grab the Billy around the neok. But It was -too late. There was a rush of horns, hide and ‘hoofs through tho air, an awful crash of glass, and the goat’s head was thrust through the back of the mirror, and he .was testing out of the kitchen. with the. frame around his neok.. As he ran bo uttered plaintive “M-a-a-a-st” which broke on the brooding hush twioe be­ fore alluded to like the moaning _ot a lost soul. , The rehearsal was over.—-N. Y. Sun. THE POPULAR MAN. Why Ha Is a Never-Falling Winner la the Straggles .of JLtfe. The min who succeeds Is the popular man—the person who has hosts of.ac-’ quaintances, and who does not hesltato to ask a favor, any more than be does to do on*. He cultivates his.acquaintances and blossoms out before each one. He is always glsd to see them, and always has a smile and a pleasant word. Be­ yond a certain point ho is intimate with none, knowing that a man with strong friendship la sure to have some decided enomies, and an Snmity often Is most inconvenient The popular man knows all the prominent members of the club; but he never neglects those who fill tho ranks of mediocraey. He Is especially thoughtful of his elder*. Everything that comes to his mill Is grist There is nothing hypooritloal in aU this. The popular man Is what he soemstoha He wishes well-to every one, himself ineluded, and ho would.do no one an ill turn. He wishes no/one to do him harm. Hia desire Is to make things pleasant to others that others may make things pleasant unto him. Ho does not neglect the harder work of Ufa If he is In a profession,.ho studies diligently for somo hours each day, when there Is no opportunity to enlti- vote the social part of his nature, or to render hia relations with others more friendly. I f he is In trade, he does not neglect tolearn his business thoroughly from the bottom up What he does he does well, no matter how small It to Suoh a man is sure to command suc­ cess. He is thorough and can bode-- dended upon in purely business rela­ tions, and In his social life he ohsrms and attracts his acquaintances, so that every one wants to help him. Jibe Isa young lawyer, the eldoyly men, to whom be lsf always deferential in manner, think of him first when a legal business comes In their way that would pay him well but is too small for them. Hs gets the job i f he is a young bro­ ker, speculators remember that he Is a good fellow, and, knowing that he is boaett and capable, give him thetwoora- miuion, even in preference, perhaps, to a more repellent acquaintance who is more conveniently at hand. I f a social gathering Is lacking in on* member, he is always thought of as the one to fill the vacant place. Women smile on him, and his chanoes of marrying well are tenfold bettor, even if he is poor, than a more sedate and quiet man of possibly much greater fores of character.— Christian at Work. —Mr*. Bamachoot (relating experi­ ences itl India)—“ And I wu alone there In the bnngatow, and the tiger wu wan­ dering around the veranda,endeaVoring to make his Way In.” Mrs. Bohinson -—“ And weren’t yon afraid?” Mr a Barn- soboot—“Ob, not Captain Barnschoot had told me that It wm a man-eating tiger, so, of course, 1 wm not In the least alarmed.” - —An Apt PupiL — Doctor—“ The matter with you is that you don’ t take enough exercise. Take more.” Blinks —“ Thanks. How muchdo 1 owe you?” Doctor—“ Two dollars, Here is your ohango. Much obliged. Heighoi I don’t feel very well myself.” Blinks-* “ You take to? m»:b SxrrcWe. doctor. Take less. Two dollars, please.”— Good Mews. HABITS OF BAtlfttAMS, Stow AUicaton aaiiM Ssnsse CrflaaSWw — Hafir * N * r AypaSH*, -j Turning to ths character and kaHta Of tbsss'larg* saurlans, w* find that in- ; formation (Concerning them Is at. ones j large In quantity, oobtradietory in ton* i or, and very lnoocnfilnts.Thfi, manner in which accounts present Iheipsplvea to tbs reader of hooks of travel arid de­ scriptive soology is this: Alligators do not sat men or the large animals, but crocodiles da They are both man-eat­ ers ooosslonally. When crocodiles wish to indulge In anthropophagy, their methodIs to lie in wait under a bank, andsweep some one into the stream. by * blow‘from the‘ tail They do nothing ’of the sort It Is their custom 1 to' coil* coal theraoelvos In holes near a ford’ or bathing-place, and-make a rush at 'any unfortnnate who comes within reach. There is no truth whatever in either of the former statements, as witness ,a number of persons who have disported themselves in waters swarming With tho biggest and ugliest of. aauriana An with regard to these particulars so with res'peot to all, The animals, or one of them at least, has been doifiod and em­ balmed, but-the writer is not aWare.tbat any one has systematically observed their habits. So far, .however, as at­ tacking men goes, the author is person­ ally cognizant of two oasoB In Which the cayman destroyed human beings, and, on this account sees no reason to doubt those stories of Inglis, Drummopd, eta. In which the destructivenmn of Astatio and Afrloan Crooodilia is displayed. Every one knows that large saurlans lie on the mud and sun themselves, and thatunless shot dead, which la difficult to accomplish, not from any impenetra­ bility of their skin defenses, whloh a rifle-ball will pierce easily,"but beoause they have great tenaoity of life and small brains, they Invariably manage to reach the water and die there. Equally general is the knowledge that they bury’ their eggs and leave them to be hatched- by solar heat Also that th* trochylna (or Charadrlus oegyptiaiia Sa It is now called) attends the crocodile like other birds do' the elephant buffala rhi­ noceros, eta, for the sake of their para­ sites; upon which they feed, and that these animals are often" warned of tfie hunter's approach by their Cries Every man’s hand is against such reptiles, and numbers of enemies destroy their eggs and young alao, so that sa in some places—as, for example, the waters of the Gulf Stages—their numbers, have sensibly diminished. Fish, and small aquatic or semi- aquatic animals, or any creature they can kill, is oaten by crooodiles or alli­ gators, and there seema to be llttlo doubt that'they are carrion-eaters by preference,' Reliable observation-shows that dead bodies floatingon the streams they inhabit, or contiguous to them are constantly consumed, and it seemsto bo certain that prey killed by themselves Is commonly kept until It putriflos and the body thus becomes more easily dis­ membered. The whole character of the digestive tract indicates that,their food is bolted, and on many occasions the contents of a dead crocodile's stomach has been found to be as Incongruous as those of sharks. Like all other ani­ mals, tho saurians in question become restless and oxoited in the pairing sea­ son, hollowing muchat this period, and frequently threatening attack. It ia by no means unusual to witness such demonstrations, but there is no record, so far as ths writer’sknowledge goes, of tboir having prooeeaed to extremities; ekthor against armed men on.shoreor in boats.—Dr. J. H. Porter, in Mationpl Tribuna - WATER IN CORPULENCY. I t BadMM Flesh More Rapidly Thaa Any Other Agent. The nssofhot water tends to facili­ tate the consumption of osrbonsoeocs material, and contrary to old fashioned pr^ndioes, the fleshy person should have plenty of water. In fact ths free use of water is necessary to the health of every one. The old ways of reduc­ ing flesh washy making people poor by making them sick. This is true of the anti-fat remedies, and is also true of an exclusive nitrogenous diet like meat, whloh Is sometimes employed. It has been shown that only about three onnoes of dry nitrogenous material— say three ounoes of Water free meat- can be disposed of by .the system in a day, and a person living exclusively uponmeat probably sals three times as much* This superfluous amount of nitrogenous material must all be dis­ posed of as waste and this greatly in­ creases tbs work of the liver in prepar­ ing It for elimination. Toasslst In this eliminative prooess, it Is necessary that we shonld have a large amount of water and if the-water supply is deficient, the liver becomes worn oat after a time and then of QOtttse the Individual will be thin, for one can not be fat In the natnre of things without having a good liver. The liver is the oornmissary of the fat-making material of the body. From its storehouse the carbonaceous materials are doled out for use as re­ quired. A person may bo dropsical or have a large amount of flabby tissue having the appearance of fat when h i has a had livsr but good healthy adi­ pose tisane always goes with a good liver.—From a Lecture by J. H, Kel­ logg, M. IX, Battle Creek, Mich. —Mr. Gladstone, although a very rich man, la not fond of extravagautex- peUdituke. Both ho and Mrs. Glad­ stone are eoohomieal almost to pehur.- ousnsss In personal matters, Theltt home costumes are often dowdy, and worn almost threadbare, though they ire hoepitible to an Unneualdogres. *. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL —William L of Garmaay served jg tbo army as fall private before be hsft attained his seventeenth year. . At seventeen he was In action. —A society has been started by wo-n an /qf, bigg, social position in Ksw York, it Is Mld./’for the advancement • of propriety and frugality in'dresa” A * black list, made by the pastor of the f Church in which th* society originated, '* includes as articles to.be avoided the decollete dress and sleeveless bodice, lorgnettes and useless trimmings —Like other people of literary em­ inence, Pr. holmes is pe*tered by auto­ graph hunters and with .requests to' have.manuscripts examined find passed Upon. ( With the letter he rarely com-' plies, although' he -.generally writes the desired autographs His eyesight is- failing him so that be has to employ an amanuensis to read ^nd aqBwor the- most pf hia letters *A beggar applied for relief to a pompous philanthropist. One of the grounds on which be based his claim was that be had a large family of yqung children. To this the gentleman, who was sanctimoniously inclined, replied: “ The Lord never sendsmouths but he sends bread to fill tbem^'r “ True,” said the beggar, “ but he has-sent the mouths to my house and the bread to yours.’’ —Records show that violence or capt­ ure waa.a necessary feature of a mar­ riage in nearly every land at one time or another, and even at the present d&y among many races the custom, is pre­ served Ins modified form; '^Perhaps the Bedouin Arabs of Mount Sinai conduct their matrimonial arrangements in. the strangest fashion, for when a man de­ sires to marry he goes to the maiden's father and makes a bid, which may or may not be aocepted. —Lafcadio Hearn, journeying ' for Harper’s to Japan, writes in that mag- ' sine the following prophecy of a quick trip around the world: ‘ . ■ /■■.-■'■■' . ■ ■. ■ Day$. Baun, ■' tendon tc Mvorpool. by rail....... u 5 Liverpool to Qcetioc, by fast ’steamer . ........................ 6 0 ■■ Quebec to VanooaTer, by rail, at SOMimile* an h o u r . S 0 Vancouver toVt <• Ivnetock, by fast ateUmer, making 18knot*.........19 18 Vladivoatnck to 8 i, UeturstiurK, by rail, at 36miles anboor............11 II tt. Petersburg to London.,..'....... 4 30 ■.’to ~6 ■‘ —rPaol Kruger, the President of the Transvaal, receives a salary of £81000a • year, but is not much on style. A vis- itor who wished tomako a call in proper style upon him wasatonco ushered into a room where the President Bat calmly washing his feet in true Dutch fashion. Some fashionable ladles who desired to do the correct thing and to leave cards - for Mrs. Kruger, found the hall door open and the President’s wife ini,the passage eating anorange with great rel- iah. One arm wasimmediately placed akimbo, the orange carefully balanced, . while the free hand was stretched out for the cards, which she minutely ex­ amined as tho visitors stood waiting. “ A LITTLE NONSENSE.” —Woman m a Reformer.—“ I wonder why Perkins always carries a canp since he’s boon married?” “Ob, that’s his w fe’s scheme, to.oure, him from putting his bands in his pockets.” -Fuck. » —Able Editor—“Young man, this is a bad break. You say that Mr. MoWhack will build a 89,000house tocost 910,000.” Careful Reporter—“That is a,ll right He is going to have the work done by the day.” —“ I tell you, Bill,” said tramp num­ ber one, “ you ate a daisy.” “ No; Tim,” returned Bill, “ Pm a lily, for I toil not i. neither do I spin, nor was ever Solomon in all his glory olad as you see me now. I ’m a lily. Tim„a lily.’’—N. Y. Herald. —Poorer Results.—First Tramp—“A watch case manufacturer in Brooklyn hos saved 81,000by collecting the water in which the help wuh their bends. What do you think we would get by such a v u b up?”—Second Tramp— “Mud.”—Jeweler's Weekly. —Miss Rowena—“ Think of a wisby* washy, phlegmatic girl like her being named Stellal” Mr. Parham—“ 'Stella* means a star. Perhaps they celled her that not because they thought her bright but beoatse she was beautiful in the dark.”—Harper's Bazar. —Expecting Too Much.—Mistress— “ Sakes alive! You bate cooked that turkey that I got for Thanksgiving, in­ stead of the roast the butcher Sent” Servant—“Sure, Ol didn’t know itwax th’ mate ye wanted fur today.” Mis­ tress—“ You might have known that I wanted the turkey saved for Thanks­ giving without my toiling you.” Ser­ vant—“Moight 01 , indade? Didyes ex­ pect tor get a moind reader for free dollars a wake?”—N. Y, Weekly. —Kncallna bealde her »inld a kneeling throng In the dim twit Ighi of the chaprl, where A tew sweet flower*, eotnt-laflen, nil tiro .: air Wllhn sweet aroma, andthe solemn song, Low ch>n£bil, flo tedthr. u^h the hallowed place— I wntehed lhecurtainsof hermelting eyre Fall iheirsoft glancni and o’er that fairy fees Stole reverent stillness tie, with gen is . sighs, (Ins from her silent heart1he meldcon­ fessed (Ah, Inl et! rafat, were all atns but ae thinel) then, lit lag her forehead fromIt* pillowed rest, ■ ■ Tarfln* her fac■,•> pare Withtho«*hie fdviae, ILs murmured, healing toward* areas I tort— ‘ ■Tom, A’lee Hrown still wean her od Strawhotl” —Boston Traveller.