The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

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Independent, i 11 .......... •> *■" i j i mi '1 # *•.£t*v " , a’tom* totetetetetettoflswriftot, rutSht*ot the dream teams twlnJcis and MBA BMDB. < Three Lively Railroad Raoes tor a Farmer’e Daughter, Along the line o f the Santee railroad no trainmen were better known than Billy Perkins and Jaqk Smith, the only passenger conductors the road found it necessary to emptoy. Every man and boy along the route watched for the fn- miliar trains, and when the maikpaased east in themoruingeschstatlon lounger was ready to shout “ Hello, Billy,’"while they never missed greeting Jack in the same manneranhouror two (ater, when .he.pasted in the opposite direction. In the evening when the trains returned the genial ticket-punchers again re- -eeived ovations at each stopping place. Sven the passengers Were apparently all acquainted with the conductors, for ns they went their rounds each traveler would have some remark to make or some sly Inquiry about Bob Yocum’s Bailie, which would bring color to the cheeks of the officials. To a Northern stranger it sounded ludicrous to hear the uniformed youths (neither was more than twenty-three) addressed.as 'Captain Billy or Captain Jack, even though accustomed to the universal Southern,habit o f adding that title to ■conductor*’ name*. 1 The total length of the Santee rail­ road ws* only forty miles, but the .natives regarded the conductors with that awe and admirationwhich country folk aiways feel forrailroad men, --Bid not Billy nut. every day to Carthage, the junction of the main line, and know all the prominent officials o f the • ,grestthrottgh route o f which the San- -1- ' ^ road w*s a brahohl’ No telegraph line ran Along, the brfijagk, pnd.the trains tvare run u tin good bid why upon tha single track! . tluit U, sidings were placed * few miles apart, and when a train scheduled to psuteanother at a given point did not ■find the other at the switch it simply walled until the belated traindid ootne, •orAfter anhour or two started on its .journey:at. a anail’a pace, a flagman ruauinginfront. In the morning tha trains passed at -a lonely riding in the woods, but fastha afternoon the meetingpOlnt was direct- ' ly in front o f Bob Ycxmm’s plantation, and as the farm-house, with Its shady porch, stood near the railroad, the trainmen h id long ago struck up an ac­ quaintance with the owner and dally resorted to the tool garden to while tawagr the time until the opposing train arrived. Sometime* one train reached ,fhe point first, sometimes the other , would be in ahead. The engineers had * no signals to hold them back, and vary , -often the farm would 1 m reached half an hour ahead o f time. The schedule Was flow even for tha old-styleengines, -and unless there was something un­ usual to detain themOr the wood was very wet the crews could generally manage to spend about twenty minutes - at Yocum’s, tranquillysmokingorromp­ ing with Srille, tha planter’s daughter. Note It was this same SaiUewhoCaused . so much disturbance in the breasts of Billy and Jack. Each strovo to cut a favorable figure In her sight, and *rite was the loadstone whichdrew them dally to th# garden- Luckily lor them aaeh had an engineer as wild and reck­ less asthe most ardent lOvm’ ooutd de­ sire, andwhen fee conductor* told the man St the lever to “ let her go,” he did let her go tmtil some faint-hearted pee- f senger protested at being bumped into jelly, Only a reckless man would dare to ride one of the rattle-trap old engines rover the uneven road at the rate of forty miles an hour, which speed teas occasionally reached In sudden bursts. Forty mile* an hour over old-style *‘U" rails, laid on rotten ties five feet : apart and joined with fish-plate* 1$ <equal to sixty raHes an hour on a -smooth track, to fir as sensation goes. To the observer the Santee railroad <*wrn m m m It seemed to be laid upon tha ground without any prepara­ tory grading. Up hill, down hill, tilt­ ing to the right, tilting to the left, It pwwited Its devious way, and tbashak- lag sad creakifig o f teataa and track teere enough to alarm any mm- not £ * * ™™%* . to regain ***** 1 wood, . and when terifitoreesm blcd tMmaoea la .aetiva iS p iiii, u rim readerh*s ever traveSMTMriad ana of vtimte fitry maohinee he wtilrememher1 lug order, vivid recollnctlao o f the long and fre- qaentstoppages whenallhands heaved oordwood Into the tender until It .oould hold so more. These were the charac­ teristics oh tha Mae over whichBilly sad Jackmade daily trip*, , Therewere wood stationson each side of Yocum’s, and the trains in the afternoon were required to get a supply of fuel before reaching the passing siding. The conductor* Messed ttwdrnrit with the fair Sallle for manya day, hut while each felt that the other had no advantage neither oould malm any headway. At last the two friends de- ciddd topttt matters to Ktetocand to* gather they sought s ^ trium , fiaffa**. plaining theirdcslrs*askedthat he and Sallle choose which, If either; shouldbe the favored suitor- Bailie with blushing face declared she could not decide, al­ though the felt she couldbe happywith either. With that’ keen instinot for: gamingwhichcharacterisesSoutherners her father at once suggested that they Settletha questionby racingtheir trains forthe next three days, the onagettihg. to the switchtwioeahead of theother to' he Ifce'Vinner. Th*fproposition was eagerly grasped by the conductors and acceded to by Sallle. All agreed upon secrecy, except that the conductors should make confidants of their engi­ neers, , - Anxiously the father and daughter awaited the coming o f the trains the next afternoon.' Fully twenty minutes before schedule time the familiar whistle rang out, and Billy’s engine came to a standstill just as Jack’s brain came around'the bend. Bifly was ex­ ultantlyhappy. The next day, however, Jack wassitting upon the porch talking serenely to the prise when Billy’s^en- gine came Into view. ? The following day would decide it, and the morrow found foureager hearts Wondering what the result would be. About ten o’clock, however, a steady rain set In, which apparently settled the question o f fast time being made that day. As Billy passed down the line andsaw the soaking woodpiles ha felt exceedingly blue, bntwhile ponder­ ing a great thought came into bis brain, and his countenance cleared fanan In­ stant When he gotto the end of the run he took the engineer aside and ex­ plained something, which caused broad grin to overspread the features o f that worthy. Billy was next seen in a provision store, and ere the train de­ parted an odd-looking barrel marked “ Sugar Cured" was put aboard the en­ gine. His trainmadeglorious time that afternoon,' and when the passengers asked how the engineer managed to keep up steam Billy smiled, but said nothing.' He felt no forebodings of de­ feat now .; Poor old Jack must be a doxen miles down the road, and right around the curve was Yocum’s. “ Hur­ rah," Billy .said to himself. “Hur—^ he did not finish. From the : car plat­ form ha saw something that made him rub his eyes in astonishment. Was it Jack’s train-lying there so qntetlyon ttukriding, or had his senses deserted him? A wild screech o f triumph from tha writing engine made him realise it waslndeed true. His rivalhadwon the third heat. Jack, taking warning from his de­ feat the first day, had wisely bargained with the wood-station man for a spe­ cial Simply o f dry pine-knots, and these were mpplemented on tha rainy day with a barrel o f phi* tar: Billy danced at the wedding, bnt the right of a ham has filled him with dis­ gust ever since.—Chicago Journal. A CURIOUS CLIMBER. Howsu tu Grow* from VThMi iXndtnv Is Mad*. Every on* knows the pretty, light and graceful chairs and other articles o f furniture made from rattan, but every one does not know that the ex­ tremely tough and flexible wood called rattan Is that o f a climbing palm-tree. This curious dimber (which 1*more of a vine than a tree) is one o f the singu­ lar characteristics eof forest growth in the Celebes and oilier Malayan coun­ tries Starting with a trunk as thick as a man’s leg, it winds through the forest, now wrapping a tall tree in its folds, like soihe gigantic snake, and then descending again to earth and trailing along In snake-like curves un­ til it can find some other stately tree to fasten and climb upon in Us pursuit of light and air, The forest Is so thick and jungle-like that it seems impossible to follow the course o f any one of these serpent climbers; but there is little doubt that at list the successful aspirant, which stooped and cringed so long be­ low, will he found shooting up like a flag-stall a doadn feet or .more abovo the tree which has helped it rise. A use of the rattan, which Is un­ known to those who have hot seen It in Its native forest, Is a water Carrier. The thirsty traveler has at all times a tumblerful of cool refreshing water at hi#command by outting off six or eight 'feet ot rattan ,«Ad .fnttiilg, one of tha several ends to his mouth, or holdlng.it over a dish to catch the water.—Tha Hbnaehold, n. steww#titeeee*eea#*h«i*iW w 6o 6i* 8s#d«# MsttawtMMto Chi**ft*< "Whoopi Hoorayi“ yelled the Chica­ go man. “ What’s v,Pr queried his eom- pealou, “ Niagara Falls' tear* la our direction, la the coarse o f time tiWeego H have ’em* Hooray! Woof- 'aateooopeel^-Maaieya Weekly* , , w toto^iwsgar-:,? *«H|MaMto BsstrUetirsassa 1 -i f ilihee* were law* under #bUh .tile qaeU, per? tridgea, turkeys, geese and other wild fcml aito birds, oould be aheriutriy pro­ tected for the space of: twenty-five years tha United States oould gain 1*0,- 000,000 fn the inertia* o f crop*. —A-min who haft' been sanoyed for yean by the feet that ous side o f hl# mustache grows about twloe as f**t ss the other side, Claim* to have found aa explanation In the circumstance that heritsaUl day at hit desk with one ride at his face turned to a window, the light fromwhich stimulates the growth o f thehair op that aide.' —B id Dexter, * Northern Pacific, engineer who wna .killed' at Tacoma'» feurdaya agb,dled alterriedeath; *Hto' train became unmanageable^on a down; grade and ran away. All o f the crew Jumped and escaped Injury, but h# re­ mained with his engine, blowing a warning whistle to keep’the track clear until the crash seme, and hewent down to death in the wreck. —Agrees with Baker,—Sir Samuel Baker, the great hunter and explorer,' says it is the most foolish thing in the World .to look .asavage animal in the eye, and * New Jersey1' tramp' agrees' with him- He says he has tried it time after time with dogs, and in every case waa bitten.. The beast reasons that he will be attacked If he doesn’t attack, whereas, if .pot gazed at, he will nearly alwaya retreat- . —"No Repairs.”—There is one par­ ticular tenementhouseInLondonwhich has been owned by one family for 130 yean.. During that timenotone penny’s worth of repair* has' come .out of the owners ' In one window three pines o f glass were broken and remained so for thlriy-one yean before a tenant re­ stored them at his own expense. The catch on a door remained out o f repair for over twenty years,—Detroit Free Press. ' —It was notnntU June 14, 1777,that a distinctive flag to represent the United States was decided upon. - The Conti­ nental Congress was then In session in the east room o f the main building o f .Independence Hall, and General Wash­ ington was in Philadelphia on a visit; and to receive instructions and give in­ formation to Congress. It was upon this oocariontbat.it wasdecided to have a National ensign which should be dis­ tinctive o f the American people as a whole, and be recognized as sUoh by foreign nations. . —One of themostbrilliant enterprises of the revolutionary war waa the capt­ ure o f Stony Point on the Hudson. Gen­ eral Wayne led a force o f Americansby defiles in the .mountains to wltbin one and a half miles of the fort, on the evening of July 15, 1771k To prevent discovery all the dogs on the road were killed. At midnight .the Americans moved on the fort The advancedguard carried empty gnn*with fixed bayonets* and thus faced the fir* of the defenders as they rushed over the. works, and made th* British garrison prisoners. —A pleasant interchange of civilities was recently witnessed InPhiladelphia. A well-dressed Frenchman stopped at the corner o f Walnut and Broad streets to wait for mi street car. An organ grinder with a monkey started to play the “Marseillaise." The monkey tripped •cross tothe Frenchgentleman andheld up his paw. Tho foreigner plaoedthere­ in a coin, and the monkey took off his little red cap. Without a thought, the polite Frenchman immediately raised his ow i silk hat in return to the salute, and the monkey ran to hlamaster chat­ tering with delight, ft broad grin spread­ ing over bis little brown face. 8TRANQE SYRIAN PETS. A Lady’s Only CMBfaftfM*Were a Hyena andatom. The author o f “ Tha Inner Life of Syria” gives an interesting account of the success with which wild beasts hftva been tamed ia that country. The writer, belftfr u lady, and having some singular pete of her own, was better prepared to appreciate what the na­ tives had accomplishedinthatdirection. At one time she visited the wife o f a Hungarian officer. She was living quite contentedly in ft mud hut, and her only companions were a hyena and a lynx, which slept on her bedlUcfttwo lapdogs. The hyena received me at the gate, and though I was not prepared for it, I innocently did the right thing, as she afterward in­ formed me. The animri came and sniffed at my hands, and then jumped Up andput Its forepaws on my shoulders and smelt IByfAC6« “Oh,” 1thought, “if it takes a bit out of my check, what shall I do?” But 1 stood is still as a statue, and tried not to breathe, looking at it Stead­ ily in the eyes all the while. At last it made up its mind to befriend me, jumped down and ran before m* like a dog into the house, where I found the lymt on the divan. FefcN©. t sprang at mS, m*wed and lsritadhte tail till hte mistifeas came in. She told me that when people began to scream or to drive the hyena away it took a pleasure;in worrying and fright­ ening them, 1 went afterward to the husband’s re- *epti«* rcrimOHi .bad fio»* fa t h»r s shaftwhite- The hftena had fidtlh, tend 1Mimd my hutimtidtthe RusdkmOou sul mid a French gentleman all sitting OHthe divanwith their legswall tacked the Oouat called lb I hsdagood laugh at them,as thehyenasad I wareairealy •u friendly tem s.-N . Y. JouraaL temperance kqtbs , PHYSICIANS AND TEMPCftANOf. laflatoee'' the'vKMUeii'' #»ep*AleU jif T«a*erw»*»,Aftonw- j - Upon no on* does responsibility for thecontirmauoeofthe wldely-prevrieht, ’ injurious social drihking nsages rest moie heavilythah-uponthe membeiu of theTmedioal profession. Medielne, in the true sense, Is pMventire as well as ' remedial. Among tha agenda* pro­ ductive o f disease, physical and moral, Intoxicating liquors are pre-eminent. The attitude which phyuicbnsas a class assume toward the use o f intoujoetiag pewop*»T hr, thcrefora iuyolvff,vh*y liv e ly , fbr good or ill, the lntereat* o f the temper* Aho# reform. ;*-*’A T'^ ! ■' There hare bibn from the M a r iu fi: Sinoe tits time of Dr, Benjamin Rush, and ar* .now, a few eminent American physicians who 'hake done much to en­ courage, by both example fthd precept, the. cause o f temperance., Bnt. they have been and continue to be a small minority of the profession aa a whole. A very large majority o f physicians up­ on social and festive occasions, at their, banquets, etc., dp not' hesitate to pro-' vide freely end to partake/ Of Intoxi­ cants. The international medical con­ gress, held last year in Berlin, appears to have, been a striking end mpst un* seemly object-lesson o f titis kind. A Berlin correspondent o f the Philadel­ phia Medical and. Surgical Reporter writes; ,“ The disgraceful scenes at the banquet given by the city of ‘Berlin to the medical congress were recently the topio o l discussion in Council. A coun­ cilman called it ‘the medical scheutcen- fest,’ and emphasized the. waste of money.. He was not altogether wrong. The money- spent by the city for the Rathhausbanquetwas reallyenormous, and the result was the total intoxica­ tion ef most o f the Chining lights o f the profession,” This correspondent, whomweassume to he a physician, and from the high professional standing o f the journal in which the letter is -published, also to be trustworthy, gives additional details of tbe great medical drinking-bout in the German capital as follows: “ I re­ gret to say that the bigger the man the more he was inebriated. Oh a pro­ fessor whose name Is a household word all over the medical world artificial respiration was practiced for almost an hour; And another professor whohas revolutionized one o f the most Impor­ tant of medical branchea had a bad cut in his head, the result o f a falL A French physician who has made his name renowned by fighting intemper­ ance through exposure of-the injury inflicted upon the organism by alcohol, was unable to spell his own name. By a queer coincidence I also saw two men huggingeach other who are known aa irreconcilable antagonist* In science, one a leader of German bacteriolo­ gists, and the other a well-known Paris professor who does not heliove in ba­ cilli.’’ Such disgraceful alcoholic excesses on the part of eminent medical men, If not thus well-attested, would seem well-nigh incredible, We may hopq that they would not, at least,’ in gross- nets and want o f common decency, be equaled at any kindred gathering in this country. Yet wc remember that the.liquor supply for the late Interna­ tional medical congress, held in Wash­ ington, as reported in the journals, was very large. Great Britain leads the world at thft present time in intelligent, organized medical temperance propsgandism. The British medical temperance aaa elation, with Dr. Benjamin Ward Rich­ ardson, of London, as its distinguished president, and upwards of five hundred abstaining physicians in different parts of the united kingdom as members, fills a very huge place of usefulness. Its Organ, the Medical Temperance Journal, published quarterly,*W a most valuable periodical, which phpsldans everywhere might read to great ad­ vantage. The need In this country of the counterpart among American phy­ sicians of the British medical temper­ ance association is most urgent. The education which medical stu­ dents receive iq our colleges, either concerning the use o f alcohol as a cura­ tive agent In the treatment o f disease, or with reference to its beverage use in the sphere of preventive medicine, is very incomplete and superficial. There ought to be some provision for the sup­ plementary training o f yonng phy­ sicians especially in-titis direction, The London temperance hospital is demon­ strating conclusively the practicability o f the successful non-alcoholic treat­ ment of all the diseases common to general hospital practice. Bnt few physicians on this side o f the Atlantic know, however, o f ita important and eminently successful mission. While physicians continue indiscriminate and nC'/Hess alcoholic prescriptiohs for ibfeir pat'. Ats, and themselves indulge moderately or Immoderately in the use o f alcoholic beverages, their influence mustneeds be greatly harmful among the masses by whom they ara looked to as teachers and guides, especially in matters involving physical health. There is a moral side to the physician’s profession, which, with miry, o f ita members, needs greatly to be cultivated and emphasized, and especially as re- taSsd to the popular beaeragd ass o f in- to.tirants,-*»Nationai TMspertuiea-Ad- •scat*. -,./,V - ■ ,. ' T n Union Senes of Physiologies, ■ which tells ti*» truth uhout stimuteata aodnareotiss, ha* just bean adopted by the FhUadeiphls hoardot education fir ' tho public sohooUof that city. ,, BY AjWOMAN’* HAND. - v 9 AWitiW** Yaasam »*w iir» t**jr ma su»«*d fr#M th« Ol«ira. A small crowd assembled the other 'day on' North Clark steset, near Erls, when a drunken man came staggering Oldo f •‘ iqtiimm'wsdi-afteg ftrfewgyrse tions, fell pronemi *he sidewalk, “ Get np, won’t yea,'dare's a copper a-oomia’,Msaid* loafer to the afflicted ope, bnt hte word* o f counsel were un­ heeded. Two or three benevolent indl- ‘ridusls eudeatoredUto ritifft tbe pro*- trata form* and finally succeeded in get­ ting the maq to hla feet, only to see him collspee Into a helpless heapwhen their Support was withdrawn. A. tough ad­ vanced, lifted lum up, shook him and applied a term wmch evoked from .the inebriated one straight from the Shoul­ der; the tough responded by knocking him down in the mud. There be lay andhiccoughed ou tsa t; . “ 1 won’ go h-home, -leave me Tone; f'm gemmnn, an* I’m All ri’»” Throat* persnaslons and force were all useless; he would not budgie an inch. A lady, richly dreesed, happened .along on her homeward way, having concluded her afternoon’s shopping, Taking the aitu- ation in at a glance rite, stepped into the middle of the crowd, which now had' 'assumed large proportions, but. which made vroy instinctively for her. Walking up to where the dirty, miry and besotted,wretch lay; kicking ont in all directions: “Won’t you come home?” she said. ’“Tell me where- you live and I ’ll takeyou there.” “ Yee’em,” said the man. “ If you’re lady’n I’ll do wha’ yon shay.” And supported on her arm he walked away. “Well,” saidabystander, “ a.lady who has pluck enough to walk Into a street row and keep that drunken man from the police.station is a better man than any man here."—Chicago Globe, intoxication among W omen . Their Number Said to B* Kapldlf In- . mMMtng. ' •| Careful investigation o f the subject by Dr, Lucy M. Hall, ft prominent tem­ perance worker, has convinced her that intemperance te alarmingly on the in­ crease among the tvomen Of thte-cojjn* try. This celebrated physician, In a recent lecture at Cooper union, New York, gate some o f the resnlte o f her researches upon the subject, tendency to depetid upon stimulants, when once indulged in, te doubtless moremarked among women than men. By resson of their more delicate organ- ‘ Ism they are subject to a thousand ills that men are not; and Upon ascertain- ' lng that stimulants will bring the desired relief there is a steady growth o f the appetite , that soon reaches a point where the will Is subservient to the Indulgence of- decoctions, and makes them mentally and physically a wreck. Had Dr. Hall pursued the in­ vestigation in another channel, donht- less She would have ascertained that other arils, involving great danger, in most instances precede this alcoholie indulgence. On every side are displayed tonics and sedatives, their alleged vir­ tues portrayed in a manner to attract attention, and induoe indulgence to as­ certain their effect. Nothwithstand- ing the views expressed by Dr. Hall, specialists assert that the general health o f women ‘ias improved; and that the gentler bcx te deteriorating te not founded upon fact. Education Should be in the direction of the avoid­ ance o f stimulanto, and strict attention to the laws o f health.—Yonngstowu Telegram. ■ ________ SHORT 8PECIAL8. Tax brewers declare that the beer they make Is pure and wholesome, yet they were very much opposed to the bill introduced into congress which pro­ hibits with severe penalties any adul­ teration o f beer. - * < Bna-Duzmaxe in Germany has grown to so enormous extent An English magazine estimates, from re­ cently-published statistics, the annual consumption to each inliatrttaat o f Mu­ nich,—man, woman and child—to bo two hundred and thirty-six gallons. “ Such swilling," adds this paper, “ even if notattended with intoxication (which of course it is), is as disgusting as the rice o f gluttony." D bdxkrmxbss in Edinburgh is not a punishable offense. Persons found in this state are arrested for their own. protection and released on recovery. In this country the punishment of inebriates as criminate is thought to be deterring force to check inebriety. The practical result is that the Inebriate is educated into a criminal, and becomes a dead weight on tha ootamuhl^.— Journal of Inebriety. O xk o f our Chicago school principals was accused of looking upfchildren in a dark basementroom for punishment. The charge looked pretty bad on the, face o f it, but cleared up Considerable when the fact became known that the accused was an active opponent to the liquor traffic, and it was tha saloon— which puts hundreds and thousands in dungeons—which Was tha practical ac­ cuser.—Western Rural. The Cincinnati Tlmea-8tar gives the following Instance of a saloon closed by knitting: “ ‘Nisyer had hut cue aa- kxm in our town, and ilia ladies knit that one out,’ said a gentleman who lives in Moor’s Hill, Ind. ‘Whair eidfihiiMritIte&sttetietewddeiefste; ‘knit it ofift?* ‘ Y«q when tha aotoon was atartad* tha ustesenfdnued 'ha inlays, and want andtook their katttiag totiia t o t a lf Ol «outna timt kaarisad ftos- teaMhlghar than a kite. It was, not tear fcftfoe* teat aatoon had to ba rioted, aadriuM that H um m tuauihaa ararlmd t t o a ^ to start aaothar.” ’ 1 • !* Vs