The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

•w* -r&twr 1 n T h e Cedarville Herald. W H. BLAIR, PubUihar, CEDARVILLE, OHIO. OVERHEARD WHISPERS. HOW They Spoiled a. Schemer's Well-Laid. P lana ' A certain number of days ago my a t­ tention was directed toward a young man of not altogether prepossessing ap­ pearance, who appeared to be waiting nearly opposite to my window for the coming of some other person. His countenance was expressive of vacant insipidity, his' gait irregular and .his manner confused.. His, dress was non­ descript, very effective, no doubt, but quite inappropriate either to business occupation or to the pursuit of legiti­ mate pleasure. He paced backward and forward, from corner to corner, with’an a ir of self-sat- • infection ludicrous to behold. Some­ times he stroked the comers'of a very pale mustache, a t others he bit the fin­ gers of his curiously-tinted gloves, and . after waiting some time, 1 policed that his step quickened, a sickly smile passed over his face, and he advanced with an extended hand toward a young lady who was approaching quietly. A sweet little creature she was, too, Her innocent face wore a pleased ex- . pression, and she blushed a little as she recognized the man. She was by no means beautiful; bu t she was tastefully appareled. Her quiet dress contrasted strangely with his dandy gaudiness, and there was quiet attractiveness in hex bearing generally, which interested me very much. She could not have been more than sixteen, I think; and 1 looked from her to her companion. Were they lovers? If so, I pitied her exceedingly. She gave him her hand w ith a confiding .smile—a dainty little hand it was. He raised it to his lips. This act of gallantry convinced me of itse,11th at there was something wrong. . No gentleman would have attempted such a breach of etiquette in the public streets They passed from my sight together, and 1 could not resist the notion that their meeting was a secret one-f-that her friends knew nothing of her ac quaintance with th is Adonis, toward whose face her eyes turned lovingly, was sorry for her and wondered hour it would all end. Would she discover her error, or did she love him despite dll ob­ stacles? And was it in bis power to make her happy? \ A few horns later they passed my window again. The same quiet confl dence seemed to exist, between them He had evidently exerted his utmost power of fascination. Her hand rested upon his nrm, and she was listening in­ tently to his conversation. They parted a t the spot where they had met, and his la st words were uttered in th a t peculiar wlilsper which is so much more easily beard than an ordinary tone of voice, cataght the following words: “Remem­ ber, darling, Wednesday a t eleven. The — Southeastern station.” Was it an elopement he was plan­ ning? I thought so. She was con­ fused, b u t I saw th a t she assented to his desire and was loath to p a rt from him then; but a t last she tore herself away and walked thoughtfully down the Btreet, turning once round and blushing very much when she saw th a t he was watching her retreating foot­ steps. Wednesday a t 11! This was Monday evening. Hut a fte r all, why Bbould the assignation interest me? What had to do.with it, except th a t-I _had much sympathy with the girl when 1 noticed the gratified, selfish satisfaction with which he passed rapidly in the opposite direction. There is a strange fatality about coin eidence. The next momingbeisgTues- day I had an appointment a t Holloway; ' and, as I usually do on such occasions, I took the tramway. Having business on hand 1 had quite forgotten, for the first time, my interest in the couple I had seen the day before. My thoughts, In fact, were very wan­ dering ones. They always are during these short journeys, for the number of strange people, the variety of individual taste expressed in their apparel, and the curious remarks and snatches of broken conversation (which all rthe passengers must overhear), help to create a sort of chaos in my blind and send jne dozing physically and mentally. Upon entering the car I was followed by two ladies, who seated themselves opposite to me and*thus attracted my attention. One of these ladies was past the mid die age, a *widow, apparently. 'Die other was some years her junior, bu t her face wore a patient a ir of resigna­ tion and Composure which led me to judge th a t she had lost her husband sev­ eral years. Her face seemed to be strangely famil­ ia r to me. Yet, to the best of my knowl­ edge* we hud never m et before. Where could I have seen th a t face? She whispered something to her friend I did no t overhear; a fragment of con­ versation th a t had been Interrupted by ciitering.tbe car, probably. Then she was silent a moment^ and afterward (still addressing her friend) she made a remark, and I heard these words quite plainly: “Uneasy about E thel—frequently—in the evening.” The words made no impression on me j ft* th -3 moment, but they occurred to n » I a short time afterwards, 'i think the words impressed themselves upon my mind a t the instan t of ray recognition of the lady's features. There was a strong resemblance be­ tween th is lady and the young girl I had scrutinized the evening previously. This lady was her mother; possibly. Could the child indeed be Ethel upon whose account anxiety was expressed? In th a t possibility was it my duty to interfere? The next words made me more cer­ tain th a t Ethel and my heroine were the same person. ‘•She wUl leave for the country to ­ morrow. I hope the change will do her good. Her aunt has promised to take charge of her for a few weeks." 1 felt th a t I m ust speak then. I t oc­ curred to me th a t if f bad a daughter who had formed* secret attachment to a main like the one 1 had seen last night 1 should look upon the information as an act of great kihdnesa. I might be wrong. 1 must use great caution, then there could be no harm resulting1from word of mine. “Pardon me,” I said, ♦‘is your daugh­ te r a young lady of about sixteen years, and does she sometimes wear—” Here I described the dress of the young girl. The lady, looked a t .me a moment ip blank astonishment; and, being appar­ ently satisfied w ith her scrutiny, she answered: / ‘Yes." “She .w ill leave London- from the Southeastern station?" The lady answered “Yes,” again. “Pardon me. I have good reason for asking these q u e s tio n s ,I continued. “Was the date and time of her depart­ ure fixed by yourself o r by the young lady?". The person addressed evidently thought me insane; but she answered my question, and her answcjr gave me the clew ! needed. “My daughter remarked last evening th at she would like to visit her aunt to­ morrow, and that, with my permission, she would leave by the morning train. .The invitation had been standing some time. I.was to have accompanied rtiy daughter. Unfortunately, I am called to Canterbury upon business th is after­ noon.” “I think 1 shall induce you to post­ pone your journey,” I remarked. “Will you mind answering,me one more ques­ tion? Hus the young lady any male friend? 1 mean, is there any young gen­ tleman she meets by an appointment, having your permission to do so?” “Certainly not,” said the lady, indig. nantly. “My daughter ,Is much too young to accept any attentions from gen­ tlemen.” Then I described to her the meeting I had witnessed w ith the languid uttd gorgeously gotten up Adonis. I spoke o f his manner toward the young lady and of the appointment he hod made w ith her. “You arc mistaken,” said the matron, frigidly. “The young lady was. not Ethel." I had partly expected this, and yet I was morally certain th at previous to our conversation the lady had said to her friend: “I am growing quite uneusy about Ethel. Ho you know she fre­ quently leaves home upon all muntter of. excuses in the evening!” And she had admitted to me that this same Ethel would leave town alone on the Wednesday morning train from tho Southeastern station, and th a t my de­ scription of her was the correct one. Hood-breeding should have prompted me to apologize' for the interruption and make no further remark what­ ever, but I was. so convinced th at the young lady had no intention of visiting her aunt, bu t that she did intend to clopa with the cavalier of yesterday th a t! sac­ rificed the point of etiquette and re­ turned to the attack. Suffice it to say th a t I induced my traveling companion to postpone her journey until the next day (but to leave her home as a t present arranged and re­ main a t her friend's house); further, I obtained her promise to be a t the South­ eastern station a t the hour fixed for her daughter's departure, and I promised to arrange for some place where she could see without herself being seen. 1 succeeded in doing this, and, of course, the reader knows the sequel. The languid Adonis, in the extraordi­ nary costume, was standing on the platform. Presently the young lady joined him and he took charge of the little baggage she carried with her. She burst into tears, but he quickly re­ assured her, After a time he would have handed hc>r into the train, but the now nearly distracted mother rushed from her concealment and the girl fell fain ting 'in toher arms. The youth disappeared promptly, but he, was unearthed a few days after- wards. He was one of a worthless, dis­ sipated set. Ho “intended to marry tho g irl," he said, and then to “come upon her friends" for a new s ta it in life Happily, his designs were frustrated by the coincidence attending two whispers, Ethel, poor child, was inconsolable a t the loss of her “own true love,” bu t she will leant wisdom in time, and when she finds her true love in reality she w ill thank me for my window scrutiny and for what followed it. * She will teach her children to avoid incautiously formed acquaintanceships, and relate to them how narrowly she escaped falling into the toils of a schem­ er, whose self-introduction, in the fiifet place, was an impertinent insult, and Whose flattery was vile.—N. Y. World. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —The plate of W, H. VanderhiMrbr stored in a room adjoining the. dining room, in which two rows of safes are bu ilt in to the walls, the upper row being reached by steps and an inside balcony. —Mrs, Plumb, the wife of Senator Plumb, of Kansas, ha* ,been a$ invalid for several years, and during the ab­ sence of the Senator found much com­ fo rt in the company of her eon, a young man of exceptional promise. ' —New Yoriels filled with adventurers, with rascals great and small, w ith men bo industrious in uncanny lines as to cause one to admire the persistent pluck with which they energetically go ahead to- their own. ruin, employing faculties fpr th e ir own destruction whiebt rig h tfu l^ utilized, might make them not only solid’an^ respectable, but' b rillian t and impressive. —Our forefathers had fewer indoor oc­ cupations than ourselves and more •en­ forced idleness!; ' They saw less of soci­ ety; they depended more on home re­ sources for amusement. Hence the pil­ grim w ith his licensed exaggeration, (he m instrels and the whole army’of jesters, japers, disours jong leurs, gleemen, ri­ balds and goliards—all the tribe of those whotn, Pier Plowman calls “Satan’s chil­ dren” Were welcomed in th e baronial hall. —Henry Gibbs, of Jellico, Tenn„ within the last two years lias been shot.scven times and cut w ith a knife fifteen times and carries the scars to. prove it. He now has four bullets and an unknown number o f buckshot in his body. He does not seem any the worse for his wounds, and 'ta lk s in a joking manner about his many shooting and cutting affrays. While lying in an un­ conscious condition he says he was made to realize the great difference be­ tween Heaven and hell, and th at in the future he will be a good man and li$p a Christian life, —The fashionable handshake of the season is described as follows: The ele­ vated shake, or, in other words, tjhe stylish method used by the u ltra fash­ ionable nowadays, greeting each Other by a handshake th a t is not considered properly done unless the hands are raised to a t least the height of the chin, has received another addition, and be­ fore it is complete every one who cares to do just .the right thing a t the right time should, after .the hands arc clasped a t the height of, the chin, wave them awhile together ‘from right to left in a slow and deliberate manner. —In a shopwindow on Broadway, New Y’o rk ,' can be seen a daintily enam­ eled and jeweled opium pipe. I t has a small gold bowl, and the mouthpiece is of highly polished amber. I t seems hardly possible th at there can be a de­ mand for opium pipes from the fashion­ able women who patronize this house. A short time ago it was a fashionable fad to collect the various kinds of pipes used in Chinatown, but now it is ru­ mored that certain fair maidens want to know . what opium smoking is lik e - ju st for the fun of tho thing, you know —and so orders are given for the dainty but deadly pipe. -“ “Charming little pink-tipped, shell* like ears yon have, Miss Lottie, Did yon ever have them pierced?" “No, bu t I have had them bored.” .“ A LITTLE NONSENSE.” '—“.Sliouter seems to be very much interested in labor ngltation." “Yes; 1 don’t know of any tiling th at seems to ugitate him more, than the mere thought of labor.”—Washington Post —He Put His Hands In Ills Pocket.— “Abe he wah kid gloves all wintah to ter keep his lians wahm, but his brutl- der Ike didn't war nufiin but a ole pah pants on his linn’s ter keep uin wahm." —Harper's Bazar. —At tho Skating Pond.—“The en­ trance is th irty pennies, “my ltoy, and you have given me only fifteen.” “Oh, yes, I know, but th a t is all 1 have and I have brought only one of ray skates.”— Fliegendc Blatter. —A Comforting Thought— Though tliu glory of the ancients Makes us envious of their way, Let us think had we enjoyed It Wo should all he dead to-day. —Washington Post. —Offley Softman—“Ah, Miss Ethel, do you know I—aw—mean to give th at fellah a piece of my mind?" Ethel Sharp—“Good gracious, Mr. Softman, don’t! He wouldn't even recognize the g ift and it would kill you.”—American Grocer, —Mr. Figg—“What time did that young fellow leave la st night?" Laura —“lie started home a t half-past ten, papa." Mr. Figg—“I didn't ask yon when he started. I wont to know when, you let him get away.”—Indianapolis Journal. —Mr. Schnore.i'—“I feel very much out of sorts this morning: my sleep was very much broken last night." Mr. Noxtroora—“Yes, I heard it. .Makes a funny noise when it breaks, don't it? Ju st like the snort of a buzz-saw."— Boston Courier. —Myrtle—“Florence, is th a t Fred Burnley's handwriting?” Florence— “Yes, dcitrl I ’m engaged to him, you know.” Myrtle—“YeS, 1 know it. I was engaged to him la st summer.” Florence—“The dear boy! 1 wonder who will marry him eventually?”—Lon­ don Punch. * —“ I should like to observe, madam,* said the patient boarder, “that while 1 am very fond of the neck of the fowl yon are carving, I shall deny myself this year and beg for a large, white chunk of the breast. With t his view 1 have had1 toy trunk packed, and a dray­ man is now Waiting a t the doer for an answer. E r—is it breast or neck?”— American Um ar. P«ll|MHOHtB«CWW - by local applications, as thayoaa mot read: vtM diseased portion of the #sr, Thera is •ply on*way to our* Deafness, and that Is by’ constitutional remedies. D*afa**s is canted byan taOsmedconditio* of th* mu- nous lining *CtlwJfc»staohia*Tube. When this tube gets taf sound or impen; entirely closed L ^ . . .„ unless the lnfiammsitXon can be taken out and this tube restored to im.normal condi­ tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused bycatarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will giveOneHundredDollarsfor any case of Deafness {caused by Catarrh) that we can not cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free; _ . , . P, J. C hsxzt * Co., Toledo, (X Boldby Druggist*, 76o, z7 T n weight that has-been hanging on.the front gat* all summer ytm now be trano- forrtd to the sofa In the paricy.—Maryland .Wine don't yon try Csztar’s Little Liver Pills) They ere a positive' cure for sick headache, and all the ills .produced by dis­ ordered liver. Only one pill a dosa Con liver oil it now offered a t nineteen cents a pint bottle, but we fear it will never become a pojmlur beverage even a t that prioe.- iCourier. A cocoa, cold , or soni throit should not bo neglected. B rown ’ s B ronchial T roches are a simple remedy, and give prompt relief. 25eta. a box. “D on ’ t be shy. fish' “1can’t hel,. am - naturally backward Post . i r." said the paternaLci up It,” was tbe reply, is ." —Washin, ■craw- . ‘I gton B est , easiest to use and cheapest. Plso’s Remedyfor Catarrh. By druggists. 35c. A rational proceeding—feeding tbe army.—Yenowine’a News. Rheumatism Isof twokinds, sente end chronic. The former Is accomssnled by high fever, and In the swollen Jointsthere Isinterne pain, which often suddenly changes from on* part of the body to another. Chronic rheumatism Is without fovor and not so severe, bnt more continuous, end. liable Socome on at ' every storm or after slight exposure. Rheumatism Is known to' lie t disease of the bloodand Hood's Sarsaparilla has had great suc­ cess la curing It. This medicine possesses qualities which naturalise acidity, end purity, enrich endvitalise the blood. , Hood’s Sarsaparilla Boldbyall drngglste. Si: six for M. Prepared by C.I.HOOUftCO..Apothecaries. Lowell. Hess. 100 Doses One Dollar D r BU LL ’S ( qugh J^ rup THiz.i'ton i. - I' imtoy P'M' i S a lv a t io n O i l w?11"1*1 -ISTNXUIMM ... AUeet’gTMZ*, r fy tn o s ly M s . IT ISWEBbyClflL- N IK 'S CHlLlSIIEN. Thseissls af yseagsite aad stsawe .la tke U S . A. ewe thO,MatesadMwtrkleUheag Ui*trksprlMM teIU4r*'>Vo«4 tk-OAsiiyAM(w-lwltavy _ an*ChlldbeedS«*i»«e*wi A w llM ii'iJM , By DnidsM m i tz a sm u w . w mil. rich ■* At CO, Palaeer, JMaaa. CES “German H erefcgom eth ing from Mr.Frank A . Hole, prop rieto r o f the De Witt H om e , Lewiston, a n d the Tontine Hotel, Brunsw ick, Me. Hotel «mK m eet th e world as i t comes and g a g and a re no t slow in sizing people and th ing s u p for what they ate worth. H e .says th a t h e has lost a father and several brothers and sis. ters from Pu lmonary Consumption, and l i h im self frequently troubled w ith colds, and he H s r s d l t a r y often coughs enough _ ... to m ake him sick a t C o n s u m p tlo n h is stomach. When- ever h e has taken a cold o f th is k in d h e uses Boschee's German Sy rup , and i t cures him every time. Here is a man who knows th e full dange r o f lung trou­ bles, a n d would therefore be most pa rticu la r a s to th e medicine he used. W h a t is h is opinion ? Listen i .“ I use no th ing b u t Boschee's German Sy rup , and have advised, 1 presume, more th an a hund red different per­ sons to take it. They agree with’ me th a t i t is th e best cough syrup in th e m arke t.” <p GOLDMEDAL, PASIB, 11978, W. 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Soyouth, an’ roses an’w They tellme Polly is fine i Ip toughten roaeBnn' bo in ’ themaster, Justthe bi ' ■Wle, ^ ^mlkWAxwfwlcf k E B & v , m >**»-— , f - y - j slMfefw tni Whenwe were gins. »*, -Oh. the winter-time,1full o *foeW li< •in io summerdays when r , BrxMurxtiu The meetin’-house. an' tht Z Across the aisle when tl iwithstxrcb, j Fifty years sinoowo twov But it ail comes bade curls— • l( eabux d The Joy an’ hope, an’ love, nyxdxptxd Ife — ....------ - - gpxrxamin hi icers evwry When wo were girls. • - i v r x r * wr= ircho ttcr. THE HUMAN — An Old Showman Man o f Ni NFORTIN TINS ONt why he had preserve S o » S BTATIOBAX OXXX 6 XX l.lcd 1' mi T n Eftnoana lar.oftenaC •AMPI.WFA' AEOZO, « %VJ6jf MV•••-y— g?- meat, he told the about to repeat. “I‘a t Lancy was ■employed hy the first talonged to, aad his hui ^lerin tcnd the ereetioi the scats. But Pat "become a performer, i w ent Into training, bi ^ in making his compel repeated failures. H in life to train his m^ com p lem en t of. di ) l r V | though I iib tried turn t ^< m 3 B I ing, turning, and th a t he could think only lameness, whicl lim idle for a few < disappointments Pi idea, and, providli a dozen dagger- busted himself in a t a wooden target distant. He bad dif a t last, for the sucer • practice was really tonished even bints able to plant the kn ta rg e t a t about the h it, he drew the foi MOMCN »RO asmonr prh kMtfWIX nm ■ iw i y fN hinla. M; k»! / xvlxhaxrx,w4 11 rincJi xh«ar*i lowgr««M I tw»t_ Hjrfc* AA>.1U .W I 1ST ^ 'B t .i t |w*wNf M l FAT THM5W K| and took delight [ oovtld ©bme. to lb o u t touching it. k ep t tip the pi could follow thfl b risU tag knives- peered, for P a t f anee would he c had a living tat ta r g e t and ru n t and he could fl«l w illing to play •eOneidetable or Jay. agreed to i