The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

mjmppK rntmm . tem perance n o te s . a u n t MAG‘S e x p e r i e n c e . glM Won’t / ‘ Tone Vp" on llw li nad jtyo brjtladelra wnd Beer. “Biel you want me to go aussln’, Tfit'am'l "Tin glad I’m not needed in that line, as I've my bands lu ll hero a t home- A young follow was hu rt by a bank cavin’ Ha on him while diggin’ Ohaside hill, and they brought him to mo, knowin’.I’m alius glad to bo able to aim an. honest penny an* stay a t home. The comp’ny pays all his bills. •“ Do I, give him tonics, an’ somethin’ Strengthenin'1?’ Yes'ra, l does. m You’ve hoord roclc an* ryo was a great strengthoner—mn—yes, Not a drop of the ryo has th a t pore boy tasted serice he has be’n in my hands; but Uo kinhave all the rook ho wants, an* if he •baa a sweet tooth, .that’ll bo. considera­ ble. The doctors an’, me have scrim­ maged over the rye, b u t I beat ’om an’ they bad to hold their wrath, • “Jes’ listen! an’ I ’ll"tell you why I’m -So down oh rook an’ rye, I hain’t alius boon pore an’ lived in a little house, havin’ to work lively for daily bread, as onno I had a good husband an1' four promisin’ sons, who kept me rdal com­ fortable, ■ “Consumption took ’Off jnayjhusband, . an’ John,, the oldest boy, soon followed ■him. an’ you.'wouldn’t blame me for tryin’ .any an’ every remedy I eyer hoerd of when Willie an’ Eddy took a cough. Good.old port, with a'rawogg beaten in it, we had for Willie; then another sort o’ wine with raw \ beet chopped in it, come /next, an’, ma’am, T was so foolish as to think the rod flush on his cheek meant the' honest red be­ longing to returnin’ health,, so I kept givln1 it to him,,koepin’ the poor boy half drunk w ith wine. I had to give him up. Oh, those were bitter, timesl, 1 folt that my God bad forsaken .me in my-darkest hours. Past experience hadn’t taught me to-throw away such deceivin’ medicine, so I began to dose Eddy with brandy an’ loaf sugar, takin’ great pains to get apple or peach brandy o f‘great age and purity* (?) which cost more than I wai able to pay. One thing comforts trio, Eddy- neverv learned to like it. All ‘through ,his sickness ho hated it, never hunted it up of his own accord, as did John an’ IVillic. ‘‘You- can. guess what a sore heart I carried when I was. forced to see Eddy, just turned- seventeen, fadin’ away. 'Every day ho grew a little weaker; an’ thinner, but was always patient an’ lovin’. The priceless (?) brandy didn't save him; an’ one winter morning there was a fourth grave dug under the row Of cedars th a t my mothers hands-had planted long ago, in-, old Mount .Zion church-yard! • i “I made an idol of Gilbert, the last one left. No, it wasn’t right, but I-did it, feelin’ rebellious when the thought would coma; ‘He’ll go the same way the others, have;’ I watched him carefully,. thankful that he seemed strong in body. Mis’ limbs wore straight, and he had a handsome face. My Gllbort, the baby, was a winnin’ lad. " Oh, the pity, the pity!" and the large, almost masculine figure for the momont swayed with' emo­ tion. .. Wo looked about us and saw th a t hare and poor as tho small room was, i t Vvas very; very neat and clean, though Aunt Mag hadn’t an over-supply of time to spare from h e r “washin', ironin' and scrubbin’” engagements, to spend in looking after her. own home. “Gilbert,” she resumed, “loarned fast, and got to be a telegraph operator, and his ofiico w as. in the littlo depot, just across the way; you can soo it from the east window. B u t'h is work-was night ‘work, an’ it’s woarln’ on a young boy to ho up all the night. He was lookin’ get the day job. When ho began tergev peaked an’ thih-faced, I flxed Vp the most temptin’ lunches I knew now to get up, hut ho kep t loalh’ appetitKan* flesh, an* ono mornln' Ho fell faintin’ at- my feet. Somobody said; *001 him rock and rye; th a t is tho very best med­ icine ' prepared for debilitated folks. The rye will brace them up, tho glycer­ ine and rock candy is soothin’ to tho cough.* I got tho rook and ryo. Gilbert liked it. I had no trouble to got him to swallow his medicine. “ ‘It's doing me good, mother; I can lie, and I began to hope th a t there wouldn’t be a fifth grave soon, dug under tho cedars, That bottle had to here-filled rig h t away; we hadn’t the money to g et it a$ often Gilbert wanted it, and thou he was angry With mo for being so stingy. I was frightened when j t was too late, but my pleadln’s Were iif vain, and one day ho came in a t tho door discharged from his position. ‘Tor what, son?* I asked, and a thrill of pain shot through my h e a rt as I read in tho superintendent’s le tte r th a t somo­ body had complained: ‘He was no longer to bo trusted, an* telegraph operators should bo Sober and trustworthy.’. “After that ho wasn’t long irt failin’ to tho lowest notch. Howfast ho went, and I couldn’t stay his course ono little moment though my heart was broakinV Soon ho became known as that ’good- for-nothing Gilbert Wade,* ready to do any thing for a-drink of liquor. One mornln’ there was an unusual crowd gathered at tho depot waitin’for an ex­ cursion train, and I oat at the window watchln* Gilbert, with a great fear In tny heart; he was just drunk enough to be insultin' and abusive, and there were others there, who were not themselves. Some one said something Gilbert did not like, and be struck out his clenched band, and there before my eye*, oh— ma'am, I can’t tell you.” . ’’Don’t try,” said we, trying to soothe thepoor soul, who won wiped away the blinding tears, and managed to t i ll ns hor “boy was murdered while »Ue sat there," “ Its not only the misery of havin’ the boy die. in such—such—Oh—Its—my— own wickedness—in puttin’—the cup— to his—lips—that’s troublin’ mo. Say, • —am—J—the murderer—of my. poor, bey?” she wailed; and we could not com­ fort her. , “I ’m tryin’ to ho a good woman, an’ lookup, not-down, but, ma’am, on stormy nights when tho winds sweet) through the branches of those pines and cedars, they sound like dirges. Their anisic, even on Silnny days, is so sad, sayiff to mo over and over, ■ ‘the past is beyond recall,’ but I know there is yet time with ray Master to agree. “Now, do you wonder that I moan .to die flghtin’ old port a n d ' raw oggs, Madeira an’ hoof, apple brandy an’ loaf sugar, whisky an’pock candy, an’ to see to It thp t I don’t help death overtake other bright young m.en? I ’ve set out to try to be a so rt’of a mother for, several home­ less young fellers, th a t brings -washin’ to mo.: I watch ’em, an’ lecture ’em, but th fy seem to like plain old aunt Mag, for a ll o’ t h a t ”-—Ella Guernsey, in Union Signal. JOHN BURNS’ LE TJER . TIi® -English Labor Lender Says T h at Short Hoars' llrln e Temperance. , Samuol Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, one day last month addressed the National Tern-, porance .Congress in Now York City on tho “Attitude of. tlie Working-men on the Liquor Traffic.” In his speech he claimed th a t the movement fo.r Shorter hourso 0 f labor was a Tomporan'co move­ ment.” : Leandor Thompson contradict­ ed tho statement and claimed that the Chancellor of tho English Exchequer, Mr-„ Goschen, had said that the reduc­ tion of the 'hours of labor in England had only tended to1increase the ^drink­ ing habits of the workmen. Mr.,.Gomp­ ers immediately wrote‘to Mr. Gdsohen and'John Burns.' Ho asked the former If he had boon correctly quotod, and the latter if tho statement was true. Their roplios have just been received. Mr. Goscheh denies having used any such expression: John Burns made'amore extonded re­ ply, as follows: 1 No. 108 L avba ’ pk b H il l , BA tteusea , L o s - don : Juno SS. 18U0.—Dear. Sir: Tho Chsncollor ot tho Exchequer did not say that the increase in wages and reduction of -hours ot labor ot the dock laborers or London had merely tended to increase their drunkenness and largely contrib­ uted to an increase In tho Treasury from the liquor traffic. ■ His statement that tti'e lneronso of 3,000,000was due to the fact that the people had bcon toasting the prosperity of trade in the country, .Ho had no reference to any class, but did'Kuy. that there had been a great Increase in the duty from rum, I attended a meeting last night of 4,000- dock labofors, and usltcd those who ought to knot? what was tho effect of higher wages and better conditions, and the universal opinion was that the workers of London who.havo received bet­ ter wages are moro sober than over they woro. As an abstainer myself,; l am delighted at tho conduct of the dockers, and moro than pleased at tho diminution, not only of drinking,.but of betting among thorn, due in no small meonuro to tho fact that their leaders, Messrs. Mann, TUlett and others, ore Tomperanco men. The greatest enemies I have in London are tho bettingmen uud publicans. Their enmity is ,a ’testimony to this .fact, that ns wo ask for reduction of hours for more leisure and .educa­ tion wo urge tho mcftsto spend their higher wages in home comforts. In twenty years the amount spent on liquor per head of population has decreased 30 per cent., while the aggregate has Increased through growth ot population. In England, ns elsewhere, tho short hours’. movement has always tended to sobriety and Increased the intelligence of th e workers. In my own trade, twelve or. fourteen years ago, secretaries of unions wero bribed to transfer tho meeting place from the “Pig and Whistle" to tho “Brown Hear," so' th at tho publican might have tho protll' from drink consumed. So great has bcon tho change that the proprl- tor of tho “Brown Bcar"’wlU almost give yon £90 to take tho meeting away, as tho drink consumed docs not pay him"to have tho moot­ ing there, At boat races, bean feasts, holiday gather ings, otc., tho change in tho drinking habits is •most marked. Side by grido with tho demand for shorter hours Is also the demand for free libraries, parks and open spaces, gymnasia, cricket and foot-ball grounds. Leisure-tadsy docs not mean drinking, but tho opportunltes for thought, education and truo thrift, which Is lmpcsslblo to monwheso long hours make them animals and content wit* a brutal existence. Tho rich man who drinks does so because ho has nothing better to dot This nitons that tho poor man who provides him with tho means for drinking has to work longer hours than hb should, and, os » consequence, often heals, tho monotony of his toll by bouts of drinking, the canco nf which the eight hour ,.».•>!** frt li niAVA nv riiualmitaq the labor i f 5rku>th& a i y man * iu have something to take an Interest In, while tho previously overworked slave will hava leisure, without which manhood and Its best characteristics aro impossible. Yours truly, THE FARMINGWORLD: SEEDLING PO TA TO PLANT. How Nfew Varieties are Originated—Hast Method of Handllug. Tho origination otjnow varieties In vegetables, as well as in fruits must al­ ways offer cojisifierablo attraction to the enthusiastic horticulturist. IVhoth- or wo get an effective) law for tho pro­ tection of originators or not, tlib slight prospect that one or the other of the now varieties may prove to bo espec­ ially valuable, will always ho tho most palatable seasoning to t^Q. undertaking. Of course, we have again raised our patch of now seedling potatoes., Tho seeds germinate so freely in the'loose soil of frames under glass protection, ‘ that-wo tried, them also in open air, sowing them like lettuce or radish seeds. But heavy rains paokod. the soil hard soon afterwards, .and the young plants wero .not strong' enough to break the crust Undoubtedly the safer and hot-, ter way is to sotf tho seed in-frames', and transplant to open gre ;nd after­ wards. * * 'We here illustrate one of our seedling plants as it appeared when taken from the frame in the eighth week from soed,. Jons BnnsS. ITEM IZED FACTS. W eslet called tho money received In exchange for drink “blood money.” EVERY Atnorican woman in tho min­ ing town of Bisboe,'Arizona, weare tho white ribbon; W hey tho father takes in beer arid the mother takes in washing, tho children aro apt to take In tho gutter, tho poor- house and tho prison. T he world is full of mon who do moto for tho saloon-keeper’s family than they do for tholr own children, Are you ono of them?—Barn’s Horn, A b u g trying to run its head into a gaslight Is about as wise as tho man who'thinks now and then a drink won’t h u rt him.'—Barn’s Horn. A lauge percentage, of persons af­ flicted with sun-strokes are those ad­ dicted to tho use of liquor. Drinking mon aro very liable to be prostrated by the heat, 8m H t e v e x s B la c kw o o d said lately th a t during the fifteen years of secre­ taryship to the B ritish post-office, he knew of 1,000 officials Of th a t depart­ ment who had bsen actually ruined by strong drink, $EEDLING I'OTA to EIGHT WEEKS FKOM SOWING, 1 - and transplanted once before. It will bo seon that the young tubers arc a l­ ready started. Dlants of this age, if well hardened' off before removal to open ground, are also hardy enough to stand poisonous applications. Wifdustod slug shot over them pretty freely, but while this did not seem to do injury to tho plants, some of these were eaten off by bugs. The majority, howevor. and among them the thriftiest in the lot,'escaped, and are now growing rapidly, and pretty much out of danger. Wo find, our bottomless flower pots (five-inch size), or short pieces of tile of that size; when placed : one over each p lan t a reasonably sure protection against bugs and cold dur­ ing the most critical period of tho plant's life, and much cheaper than .gauze tents built over tho rows. Among our last year’s seedlings wo have sonto with remarkably thrifty foliage, and if over wo find a real good variety among them,, wo shall attempt, to preserve its original vigor and pro­ ductiveness by continued planting of whole tubers undor high cultivation. It ,appears to us very likoly thatorJgnatorS, in their desire.to multiply their stock at the most rapid .rate, resort to a method of close cutting which‘»must greatly injure tho original vitality of tho now seedling. Wo would ateqr cloar of such a serious mistake.—Popular Gardening._____ / _____ Management-of Sheep: Compared with the English farmer wo have much to le a r n . in the man­ agement of sheop. Prof. Wrightson, a well-known English authority, rln a recent article on summer feeding of Bheep, says: “A.lamb on tho Hampshire, Wilkshlro or Berkshire' Downs rises to partako of vetches and sliced mangels, and afterward enjoys a varied d ie t of dried food-—rape leaves and white cabbago. He is next allbwcd to roam ovor clover heads and returns to his lair on tho votohes.” Under tho im­ pression th a t any thing is good enough for sheep, the* usual’courso with us la a short pasturago ‘until after harvest, when-tho flock is turned into stubble- fields to,'got what they may, b.ut es­ pecially to clean out fence corners and restrain weeds, We aro now entering an era (hat promises enormous develop­ ment Of the mutton breeds of sheep; if ' V,V' tr." r‘ll I practices similar or equal, in merit to the English system^ which has made these sheep what they aro, Many will doubtless start out with the idea that if good blood Is purchased all is well, and th a t good returns will follow indue time under almost any systom ot man­ agement Such reasoning is fallacious and failure the certain end. Lambs to grow rapidly must ho-furnished with a variety of feed and kept constantly gaining. Our American aystohi of farm-) ing provides but a limited variety of crops, and we do not easily expand our ideas when new demands are made. He who. proposes to build up a.trade with early lambs and choice mutton must build on the foundation ot feed as well as breed,*—Breeders* Gazette. . M il M eehan , In an address before the American Association of Nursery­ men, referred to tho erroneous belief which prevails that trees with fibrous foots are of more value than trees with­ out thorn. Such roots he said were of very little permanent use. Like the leaves of a tree, they performed their function for a year, and then died. When a tree Was transplanted from a nursery, the lost of the fibrous roots which were left behind pffocted it very, little, and it was In just such things as these, Mr. Meehan said, that nursery­ men did n o t advance and learn the true value of things, HORSE BREEDING, Selection o f Brood H arei — Tlie Meet Profitable Stylo o f H on es to Balse, Perhaps no branch of live-stock breed­ ing is receiving more attention at tho present time than tho breeding of Horses. The farmer, to make a success of breeding any kind of live-stook, must stri ve to produce the best, and in no branch of breeding must ho be more in earnest or use bettor judgment than in that of raising horses. To begin with, .if wo wish to succeed wo must like to work with horses; we must.havo control of our temper; we can not teach a horse to havik a good disposition and ho tho faithful Jfend trusty Bervant that we .would have him to bo, by giving him a kick and lick over the head with a club or the first thing wo can lay our hands on. If wo are handy with the reins, so much the better; wo can do our own driving. In selecting our brood mares groat care,arid good judgment should bo used. Wo should ta k e . no animal that hasn’t good feet, good pasterns and good bone, ’ a well-shaped body, good eyes, and last but not least, a . good disposltlc -v and good action. ' Some/farmers are too care­ less ’>about' the ‘ disposition of their breeding stock, Don’t use for breeding purposes a mare th a t has any vices. 1 remomber a balky. mayo my father, owned, and from which he raised a' number of colts. Thri result was that, the most of those seemed’to know how to balk from .the time -they could stand up. One of ' thqm, in particular, wo never could" break thoroughly, Don’t brood a mare that is not perfectly sound. - I t matters not what tfie defect is, don’t breed her;-to do so would bo one of the worst mistakes you could make, .How--often do wo see aDcolt foaled with a -"irb, spavin or. a crooked foot? -If we will only take tho pains to inquire into the matter we will surely find that either the colt’s sire or dam,, or some of its ancestors not very far hack, was blemished. ; In selecting a stallion equally g reat care should be ox- eroised. There are several styles of horses that sell well at' present, in the raising of which farmers, under favorable circum* stances, may engage with a fair pros- poct-of success. • F irst in the scale of prices come ^tho vory fast trotters sinil runners. The next.is tho large, stylish, high-stopping carriage horse. Horses of this style may bo bred to a good degree of certainty by coupling large, stout mares with a good- sized, high-stepping, trotting-hred stal­ lion, or a large, stylish thoroughbred. Another class produces tho blooky com­ pact, low. but quick-stepping and active draught horse. • The price for this clan's witi increase in proportion to", his size, from 1,100 pounds to 1,700 pounds. I think tho general farmer will bo moro successful if ' he will confine himself to tho brooding of tho last two classes. I can not .soo any thing In tlio fu­ ture to discourage tho breeders of first-class stock.— Tho difference in valuo botweon a “scrub" and a well- bred borsii is gradually growing larger; and at no time lias this boon demon­ strated moro than in (660. Besides tho ordinary •markot rates, somo extraor­ dinary prices have been obtained for horses of suporior e'xcollonce and brood­ ing.—G. 13. Davis, in Rural Now Yorker. UnlicMlIliy for Hawk*. One of tho great drawbacks.in poul- iry raising is tho loss of young chick- ons by hawks and owls. This is the way I prevent it: A polo, about three inches in /tmm eter and six feet high' may bo set in a hole In the earth. Have it sawed square at the top, where a small steel trap Is spread, so that ivhatever alights on it will ho held fast. The trap should not be fastened solidly, but the chain should be tied around the pole so it will riot slide down, but so it will suspend the bird in the air.. In this way ho is held from the ground and has but a slight chance of breaking away, oven though hut a single toe be caught, T hero is little risk* of catching small birds oruirows, as they seem to realiza there is danger, but tho hawk and tho owl aro achiistomed to ligh t on dead atuba to .watch for prey, and are easily --- ■ .~ 4 -~* ».- - ------ 7..-*- V-.r-.-—» the use of the shotgun and rifle, hut after several years’ experience I have found that a trap which is always watchful and ready is much moro ef* fectual than (tie gun. , * I’otfttoei on Clover S o il' A third point which I am convinced of, writes Waldo F. Ijrown, in Ohio Farmer, is that i t will pay to pla'nt potatoes on clover sod. Four acres of mine this year are on clover' sod, hub pbotit ten rods of the rows extend across a piece of land on which for three years past 1 have grown tru ck -sw ee t corn, sweel potatoes, etc., and I find five times tho amount of weeds here that there is on the clover sod, and the land is packed much harder by tho heavy rains- In fact, wo only went once across tho field with our hoes, as we found so little to do on tho clover sod and so much on the old ground that we thought best to turn and not go through the clever with ths hoes at all, The season has been a most uncomfortable ono to keep crops clean, as we have had a succession of heavy rains to pick the land and start tha weeds, but in an ordinary season, by the use of the Breed’s waeder, 1 can on clover sod grow a crop of potatoes with little if any use of the hoe. Now notice what the “ tater side of my head” saysi 1» P it your seed Instead ot wintering it in the cellar, 2. 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