The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

t em p e r a n c e no tes .. i n t e m p e r a n c e i n c o l l e g e s . Hunger* Which Menace Our In«tltutlon« ofL earn ing. , I t )-. turn* tha t some plain and strong ward* were spoken concerning the drinkmgvustomB prevalent among col­ lege students and the sentiment which prevails concerning these customs in many college circles. I t is our convic­ tion'that the colleges o f .the country as a wiio’e are not exerting the influ­ ence which they should exert in the matter of intemperance. In their atti­ tude on the drink question they are . not abreast of the best and most en­ lightened public sentiment of the day. We have observed with regret that the wine cup and the punch bowl still flg- f te quite as conspicuously as ever at Class dinners, alumni meetings and other convivial gatherings of college men. In these gatherings are cher­ ished and perpetuated in song and cus­ tom much of the false sentiment of those romantic associations, clustering around the wine cup, which have done more than anything else to lure im­ pressionable and enthusiastic young . men into tfi"e terrible, folds of the drink habit. It was only a year ago, accord­ ing to bur recollection, that the presi­ dent of one of our oldest and most famous .colleges stood up in his place a t a college banquet . and dedicated a ‘Moving cup” by drinking it full of wine. To some, such an act as this might seem a trivial thing to call up for censure, but in this critical day of the temperance struggle, when so many thousands of our noblest men and women are giving up their lives to the warfare -against the liquor traffic, and when every word and deed tha t may count on this side or that in the contest is eagerly caught up' and treasured, we count it not a . little, but a monstrous thing that the president of a great and honorable uni­ versity, a .leader and counselor of American youth, should publicly and ostentatiously set the seal of his ap­ proval-upon the custom of social-drink­ ing. I t is surely not an example of 'i strained reasoning which ' finds some connection betweenjthis act of the col­ lege president and the disgraceful dis­ closures .which have recently been made concerning the drinking habits and drunken escapades of a number of students in the institution over which he presides. A man who does special ' honor to the wine-cup a t a public ban­ quet is hardly in a position to adminis­ ter an effective rebuke to' the young • men under bis charge who sustain pri­ vate drinking clubs and occasionally en­ gage in drunken pranks inpublicplaces. We are' far frOm a disposition to hold college authorities accountable* for all i the improper habits and Indulgences to be found among the young men un­ der their charge. Neither are we mak­ ing any plea at present for a specific line of teaching in the matter of the use and abuse of alcoholic stimulants. All tha t we ask is tha t by1example at all times and by precept a t every sea­ sonable opportunity, the practice of drinking intoxicants shall be discour­ aged and condemned, and an atmos­ phere of thought and feeling Anally ft. created that shall make i t impossible - for any college student to Join a drink­ ing club or to engage in an occasional baclmnalian revel without the certain­ ty of disgrace and punishment. In such an atmosphere we would not find students singing in one of their class songs, as they did a t commencement not long ago in a college not a hundred miles from New York, tha t “We won’t get drunk any more." In respectable society outside of the -colleges young men do not even sing about getting drunk. Drunkenness and drunken 'orgies should be regarded in precisely the same light in the classic shades of Princeton or under the elms of Yale, as they-would be if they occurred in a country barroom or a city dive. In these momentous' and critical days of the conflict with the liquor power the Christian public has a right to expect that our great institutions of learning, gathering within their walls, as they do, the flower of. our American youth, Bhall not throw a part bn t the whole of their influence on the side of truth and righteousness; tha t they shall not assume a passive or indif­ ferent attitude on the temperance question, but place themselves square­ ly and strongly in antagonism to the liquor curse in all its forms. They cannot do less than this and bo re­ garded as wise and safe leaders in molding thought ’ and character for the coming generations,—Christian 1st Work. _ _ _____ _ AN ANTI-SALOON TOWN* The Wonderful Prosperity or Harrlmnn, th e C ity o r Prohibitionists. No better object lesson of the suc­ cess of temperance and prohibition can be seen than in the town of Harriman, Tcnn. The East Tennessee Land Com­ pany was formed a little more than a year ago. The late Qen. Fisk was its president and nearly all of its officers and the members of the directory and executive committee were temperance men and prohibitionists. The town of Ifarriman was established by this com­ pany founded on prohibition. The first sale of town Jots was held last Feb­ ruary. .A t that time ttje only build­ ings there were one or two old build­ ings used as farmhouses, and few tem­ porary shanties erected especially to accommodate the people attending the sale since that time, only about nine months, Miles of streets have been made, long rows of substantial pressed brick front stores and business houses, and more than two hundred dwelling house!, now stand where only a few months ago were cornHolds and primeval forests. There are several large manufactories,, some of them in active operation and others nearly ready-to start up. The city is the proud possessor of electric lights, schools, hotels, churches and three thousand Inhabitants. There is not a saloon in the towu. No ‘‘blind pigs,” no place where Intoxicating drink can be had, and no more intelli­ gent, prosperous and happy people can be found anywhere than is found there to-day. Business is prosperous be­ cause the wage worker is prosperous, because he does not spend his money for drink. Instead of spending their money for that for which they get no return, they buy food and clothing for their families and invest their remain­ ing money in homes. ’ Gen. Fisk said at the •opening sale that “this would be a city of refuge.” That prophecy has proved true. Peo­ ple from all parts of the United States are flocking there to be free from the curse of the liquor traffic,■ The.com­ pany. have laid out and are selling and renting small farms to' northern men who are introducing northern methods of farming and gardening, and they will soon make the desert, “blossom as the rose." -A visitor to that place now will be astonished to see the.numerous buildings and hear the buzz of the. saw and the sound of the hammer. Every­ where ore evidences of thrift and pros­ perity.—The Lever. , - LIQUORS IN FRANCE. The Use of Alcoholic Ueverngcn Constant-, l j ou the ihcresudi. The receipts from the tax upon dis­ tilled liquors in France indicate that the use of intoxicating beverages con­ taining a large percentage of alee liol is constantly on the Increase. There was a time, not many years ago, when the ■ French pe.ople confined tlietnselvci very largely to the use of light wines, and when the traveler in France rarely encountered' an intoxicated person.. Indeed, the statement used frequently to be made ' by writers in this country that, judging by experiences in France, it was safe to say that the effect of the use of light wines and .beer was to drive ont heavy alcoholic liquors, and that to acquire the taste for these mild beverages was tantamount' to acquir­ ing a dislike for more potent intox­ icants. But later experiences tend to disprove conclusions based upun the foregoing' line of rensotiing, for within the last few years'. not only the. French, but the .Swiss peo­ ple have shown a marked and grow­ ing disposition to indulge to excess in distilled drinks -having a high per^ centage of alcohol, and in certain parts of both countries the amount of drunk­ enness is increasing with terrible rapid­ ity, Various reasons have been given for this change, the most plausible.of which is that the cheap processes of dis­ tillation and improved methods of transportation have provided oppor­ tunities that did not previously'exist, and that, it was lack of opportunity rather than any distaste that in previous years prevented the use of strong alco­ holic beverages, so, n&w that the con­ ditions are changed, there is nothing to prevent a large consumption. While temperance societies have never made much headway in France, it is not im­ probable that, in view of the new peril* that threaten the people, movements of this kind.wlll be begun. The consump­ tion of liquors in France is still far be­ low the average of some other Euro­ pean Countries; but, w ith the rate ol increase of the last three or four years, It will not take long to bring the French people up, or perhaps down, to this undesirable level. Already the danger is exciting attention from soma of the leading public men, and befora the century is ont it is not improbable that a blue ribbon crusade may bo un­ dertaken in this great center of tho wine-producing industry.—N. Y. Her­ ald. _______ • LATELY LEARNED. In connection with the British Womefl’s Temperance' association, a temperance homo for women has been established. E very fourth English peer is a deal­ er in beer. One hundred and fifty-two of these noble lords, of whom owe at least w a lord spiritual, receive the in­ come fromjpne thousand five hundred and thlrty-mne drinking place& What a fate a* prohibitory measure would have in the upper bouse! TnB soldiers’ hotrfo in Washington, With eight hundred men inside its walls, has hardly an inmate m the guard-house once a month. There is n o canteen permitted within a mile of the grounds, and earnest temperance efforts arc made to help the men keep to a high standard of daily living. D r Monro -VM anning , who has made an extensive study ol insanity among the aborigines of .Australia, reports th a t the disease is, with these poor people, due almost wholly to the use of liquor. All tho cases of melancholia originate in Jail, where tho poor victims have been confined as the result of their intemperate habits.-“Good Health. T he amcfnnt of beer consumed by each person la the beer-drinking coun­ tries of tlic world is between forty-two and forty-three quarts annually, lit Germany, however, the allowance to every titan, woman and child in the empire is more than twice that quanti­ ty, Ifl Bavaria the allowance Is two hundred and ten quarts, and In Munich flva hundred And sixty-five quarts. v.. .. ._RAL IN l i , I 7—An iron last was made’ at i-pem-e. Bagjfs & I'o.’h foundry at Martin’s Fer­ ry for John Farnlionse, of CUanottc, N. C. The last was M ilinches long and ".’■j inches wide. The colored preacher who owns the big foot is fl’feet U)inches high and weighs 110 pounds. —It is said that tbe torpedo boat Bathurst, that recently made a mean speed of 24 45 knot-, per hour, repre­ sents the last refinement ol mechanical engineering, and that it hardly seems possible to improve upon her as long as steel remains the chief material of con­ struction. —There arc eighteen counties in Penn­ sylvania that have no debt They are Lehigh, Beaver. Cameron, Center, Co-- lambic, Erie, Foster, Franklin, Green, Lawrence, Mercer, Montour, Perry, Pike. Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming ■ and York, The combined debt of all other counties is $538,979,973. —John Anderson, of llastain, Mo., recently removed- three hard, flinty stones from a gathering back of the lower jaw of a fine mare which ho pur­ chased in Kansas last spring. The largest of the stones measures one and one-half by three-fourth inches, and the others about one-half that size. ' The gathering commenced two years ago. —Recently J. C. Richardson cut down a bee tree at Hartwell. The honey was located in a limb that had two hollows that were fifty feet from the ground, the tree being three feet in diameter. When lie went to get the honey from one hollow a large ehickenrsnake ran its head out of ;the other hollow. The snake was promptly" killed and meas­ ured six feet long, t —A blush is defined by Dr. T. 0. Minor as a'temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of.the physiognomy, aetiologized by the perceptiveness of the censorium when in a predicament of uncquihbrity from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating a paresis of the vasometer capillaries, whereby, being divested of .their elas­ ticity, they are Buffused with radiant aeroted, compound nutritive circulat­ ing liquid, emanating from an intimid­ ated praecordia. - —The total number of insane persons treated in both' public and private in­ stitutions during the year 1889, as given in census bulletin .No. 02, was 97,535, while during the year 1881 there were 50,205 treated, showing an increase in the nine years of 41,380, or 73.53 per cent. This percentage of increase, when compared with the percentage of increase of population in the last de­ cade, namely, 24.80, does not indicate an’increase in the proportion of insane persons to population, but rather a. great increase in'the amount of asylum accommodation provided. —A lawyer tells a story showing bow easy it is, with slight changes of sound, - for tho whole meaning of language to be altered.1 He dictated to his stenog­ rapher the phrase, “And deponent verily believes, ” She took it down in shorthand, omitting the vowels. When it was printed Nffie. phrase appeared: “And it would-not verily place.” If yo.u are familiar with phonographic signs, and know how nearly alike they are for similar sounds, you will not wonder, how the correct notes should be translated so far' away from their original meaning.. “Grimm’s Law” is still at work on language. —After a young woman in Philadel­ phia had made a purchase and had gone the druggist remarked: “That’s the first time in five years I’ve hod a call for dragon’s blood; 'Whatin.it? Well, it's a vegetable substance, obtained j from the fruits of severat small palms in the East Indies. Many years ago it was. in great demand among women who wished to win back their recreanl lovers, they burning a small lump of .If with a certain form of incantation. *t was also used as an astringent That girl lias probably heard of it from her | grandmother, and has determined t o , test its virtues. Which one? Well, j that I can’t say." —A clock that bespoke the hour to! John Knox, of Scotland, three centuries j ago has come into view in the town of j Huntington, Fa., where it remains the property of a lineal descendant of the Scotch reformer. The .clock was built ! iri 1500 for Knox in Paisley, Scotland, j and it was handed down from genera­ tion to generation for 150 years before it finally came into the possession of John Witherspoon. John Witherspoon No. 4 took the old relic .to America when he accepted the presidency of Princeton college. This signer of the Declaration of Independence stipulated that the clock should always go to tho first born of each succeeding genera­ tion, which accounts for the present ownership of John Knox’s eight-foot timepiece. _______ ____ An Anecdote of Emmet. A story is told of Robert Emmet, which proved his secretive power and resolution. He was fond of studying chemistry, and one night late, after the family had gone to bed, he swallowed a largo quantity of'corrosive sublimate in mistake for some acid cooling powder. He immediately discovered his mistake and knew that death must shortly ensue unless he instantly swal­ lowed the only antidote, chalk. Timid men would have torn a t the bell, roused all the family and sent for a stomach- pump, Emmet called no one, mude no noise, but, stealing down stairs amt un­ locking the front door, went Into the stable, scraped some chnlk which he kne*” ♦-> be. there nml took sufficient doses of It to neutralize the poison.—N. Y, World. THE FARMING WORLD. CHEAP AND CONVENIENT. A H um T h a t Can lit, flu llt fo r T ivn o r Tlir.-i. IIiiinlrt.il D ollars. I send plan of a cheupAarn, combined witlI sheep and cattle shed, with base­ ment omitted. The barn proper is 28 by 40 feet, posts 20feet, which gives me ample room for’storing away hay, etc. Tho lower barn floor is raised 2 14 feet above the floor of tlie horse stable. There is no partition between the main barn and the horse stalls. Tho horses face the center of barn, with feed boxes and mangers placed conveniently for giving them feed and water. A double door on bangers opens into the main burn, arranged so that a wagon can be driven into the barn; An open manure shed on the south side next to the horse barn is 12 by 40 feet; the manure from horse barn is thrown. Into it through windows conveniently placed. A largo corn crib occupies the space in north* west corner of main barn. A'double granary, with bins for bran, etc., joeem pies the northeast corner. The space between, corn crib .and granary is used for storing reaper, drill, horse-rake, plows, etc. Tho upper floor extends the entire length and width of the barn. Hay, etc., is thrown down through an opening left for that purpose. In the subjoined plan, clear openings are doors, openings with one line across are windows. . NORTH. G round P lan —A, oow-stalls; 77. sheepsited; G, corn crib; f), tools; R, granary; R, main floor; <?, cowhouse; U, manure shoil; I, horse stalls. A door from main' barn opens into •the sheep shed. The latter is 13 by 40 feet, is open-on the south (this,opening- ing is covered by extension of manure shed), with large double doors taking up tho entire north end, so that a wagon can be driven t .rough, to put com into crib and remove manure. The cattle shed adjoins the sheep shed, and is 12 by 40 feet, fitted with stalls, feed boxes, mangers and stanchions for fourteen cattle. Five openings or win­ dows and one door, between sheep and cattle sheds, are arranged so as to en­ able ub to get feed to cuttle from main barn. The jvindows in the cattle shed are placed at convenient distances for throwing out tho manure. 'Hie space left by extension of manure shed is utilized by building a cow house that will accommodate two cows and calves. . This barn I built three years ago at a cost of about 8250, exclusive of cattle shed and cow . hoUHe; the latter I built "myself,-with help of a farm hand, out of material taken from an .old barn which we tore down, except the stanchions,' which I paid a carpenter $5 for making. The barn is made through­ out of hard wood (unplaned), princi­ pally beech. It has proved convenient, aud meets the requirements of 4 to 0 horses, 25 to 50 sheep and 10 cattle; -It also is not too exacting on a slender purse.—Country Gentleman. THE VALUE OF WHEY. When Sweet I t Makes a Wholesome and (excellent fopd . Whether or not wliey is. worth any­ thing as a stock-food is a question often asked. When fed’soar, there can be but one answer, it is worthless or worse. With sweet whey it is quite a different matter. Prof. Henry, of the Wisconsin experiment station, has published In bulletin No. 27an interest­ ing record, of which the following is a brief summary: Four trials were conducted at this station during the fall and winter of 1890-91, for the purpose of ascertaining the value of sweet whey for pig feed­ ing. The results of these trials show: 1. Wo were not successful in main­ taining pigs on whey alone. 2. Pigs fed on corn meal and shorts with water required 552 pounds of the mixture for 100 pounds of the gain. 8. When whey was added to the com meal and shorts mixture, it produced a marked saving in the amount of grain required for good gains. This was true for mixtures varying from two pounds of whey to one of grain, up to ten pounds of Whey to one of grain. 4. It was found when using whey as a partial substitute for grain, that 700 pounds of whey effected a saving of loo pounds of corn meal and shorts mix­ ture. 5. Using these figures, if corn meal and shorts are valued a t SI2 per ton, then whey is worth eight cents per •hundred pounds; at 815 per ton for corn meal and shorts, whoy would he Worth ten cents per hundred weight. li. Shorts, pea meal and oil meal, or like feeds should he mixed with wltcy for growing animals. Some corn may he fed a t nil times, the proportion in­ creasing iw the animal approaches ina- tvrity. VETERINARY DENTISTRY. It* lutrorfiicflon H im Proved of O vm 4 'Ilem-lll- to Horno Owner*. Within .comparatively few year* % new profession lias sprung into exist­ ence—th a t of veterinary dentistry. Un­ til a few years ago all the dental \york deemed necessary was to take a ham­ mer and tenpenuy nail and knock off “wolf teeth” to keep the horse from going blind, but now teeth are extract­ ed, not -to. keep the horse from going blind, because they do not affeei the animal’s-eyes more than does any other tooth, but to keep a bit from pulling and loosening them, causing the horse to have a sore mouth. As far as simi­ larity of structure and kind of food ex­ tend horses' teeth are subjeet to the same deteriorating influences as the teeth of man. They may decay aud expose the nerve enough to cause tooth­ ache, as is sometimes sceu when a horse takes a drink of cold water, caus­ ing him to throw up his head Or hold it sideways until the pain is over. Some­ times a tooth becomes ulcerated, the accumulated pus often causing the jaw­ bones to bulge ofit or it may break and discharge either through the nostril or upon the outside, forming a disagreea­ ble running sore. A horse’s tooth is not covered on the outside with enamel like a man’s tooth, hut the enamel is folded through the substance (dentine) or the teeth. The enamel, being hard­ er than dentine, is. not worn away as rapidly and presents a roughened grinding surface necessary properly to masticate coarse food. These rough-' iened surfaces should not be filed off l unless upon the edge of the tooth when liable to cut the tougue. or Cheek. As horses’ teeth are worn away by contact with opposite teeth, they grad­ ually grow out of the jaw bone until, in old horses, the teeth may simply rest upon the jaw, being held in place by the gmns. If one tooth, should be broken out,, the ■opposite tooth is very liable to gro>v ..until it becomes long enough to strike the jaw opposite and produce a very sore mouth, making it difficult to e a t The result^ of diseased teeth are often serious and always im­ portant They are sometimes the cause of indigestion .and colic, because the food is not properly masticated. Some­ times mastication is so painful that a horse will scarcely eat a t all and be­ comes gradually emaciated. ' When the teeth are diseased.the saliva usually has a very disagreeable odor. Diseased or abnormal teeth are often the cause of horses pulling on the bit, or upon one line, or carrying the head side- .wise and of other faults which can be remedied or remove I by a good vet­ erinary dentist. Dental work, proper­ ly done, does not deceive anyone regarding a horse's age, “bishoping” work done by unprincipled men with a view to deceive being easily detected. Colts, until five years old, should have tlicir teeth examined quite often. After their teeth are all sited, a t five years old, every year or two is usually suf­ ficient. After a nice job of dental work that adds to tho health, comfort and usefulness o f. the animal, it would be permissible, or be gratifying, a t least, to “look a gift horse in the mouth.”—Kansas Industrialist. LAND MEASURER. A ' Simple Device Which Any Intelligent Farmer Can Make. This is a Biinpie device which may be conveniently used to measure land. Take two pieces, A A , four feet long, one, G, five and one half feet, and nail them together as shown in the draw­ ing, keeping the distance' between the points, five and one half feet. Nail HANDY LAND MEASURER two pieces. B B, one foot long, to A nnd.O as shown, so that they are per­ pendicular to (7and parallel. Sharpen the ends. The material may be all half-inch stuff, or A and B of lath. Three laps equal one’3rod.—Orange Judd Farmer. Etiu in tlng the Soil. When grass is allowed to . produce seed it exhausts tho soil more than when a crop of hey is cut before the seed is permitted to appear. When seed heads form the plant has fulfilled its mission, and bus stored in the seeds a larger proportion of the mineral ele­ ments than remains in the stalks of the plants, in many coses, as the green plants, when cut down early, consist largely of water. A grain crop and a crop of seed from grass deprive the soil of a proportion of all the fertilizing substances existing therein.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. ____________,___ Working Sod Ground. Heavy sod ground is not easily re­ duced, but if corn is planted on such land the keeping dowu of tlie grass will cause the soil to rot, and when the next crop is planted less work will be required, One of the best fertilizers, and the cheapest, is time. When lime is freely used and applied every year tlie soil becomes more easily worked, the available proportion of plant food is increased and the manure mere quickly decomposed. I f well managed, poultry can bo made to supply a fair proportion of the meat needed for family use. ,