The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

The Cedarvilie Herald. W. H. BLAIR, PubUshar. CEDARVILI.E. : : : OHIO. LOCKED IN A VAULT. Tbe Unpleasant B u n lt of * t o u r Hwue band's Vanity. In Chicago some years ago an actor and actress—husband add wife—who had grown tired of hotel living, and who were booked for a stay of several weeks in that city, resolved to take a suite of furnished rooms and get their meals when and where their inclinar tions might direct. They arrived in Chicago on a Sunday, and, after some tiresome searching, found on Dearborn street what they sought. , ; Evidently the- building .had been in­ tended originally for office uses, as in the bedroom was a large safe or vault of the most massive construction. In- ,stead of being used to hold securities oi priceless value, it was devoted to the humbler duty of receiving clothing. The heavy steel door, some five inches thick, was supplied with a combination lock. This was a novelty to the wife, who as soon as she hatl bestowed of her wraps in the.Bafe, began a'superficial study of tbe mechanism. Shecouldnot, of course, make out much about it, and her lord and master offered, in his su­ perior wisdom, to explain it “All you have to do,” he said, “is to think ,of a word, shut the door, then spell the word on this dial; turn the handle, and thenno one can open it who doesn’t know the combination. Now, step in for a moment; 1 will lock you in on the word ’open* and Ictyououtagain in an instant.” ' The wife, who. had not been married long enough to discover that’ her hus­ band was not as clever as be thought, gayly stepped into the vault, “It will be awfully dark and stuffy in here with the door dosed,” she ex­ claimed. “Don't be afraid dear; DU let yon out again before you have time to think.” He turned the handle, worked the combination to “open,” worked It back again, pulled at the door, but there was no sign of its yielding. Frantically ho again ran the indicator over the letters making the word, but still the door would not budge. He shouted encour­ agingly tohis wife, but it was evident that she could not hear him. . “Was she already dead for want of air?” was the first awful thought, but he remembered that the vault was at least b I x feet square, and even if per­ fectly air tight, must.contain enough air to support Ufe for some little time. But for how long? It was Sunday, It '.might bo hours before he could find a locksmith and even then it might take more hours to open that.dreadful door. His darling might be dead! He would | « her slayer! Perhaps the law would call it murder! These thoughts flashed through his min'din less time than it takes to read them.' After shouting some reassuring words he rushed up to the landlady's room on the floor above, and breath­ lessly and almost unintelligibly told something of the trouble. “You’re the seoond fool who’s got in­ to a mess meddlingwith that safe,” was the old woman's comforting comment. “Jfover mind that!” he cried. “Can you get her out before she dies?” “Yes. I can, I doffit have things •bout 1don't understand; and if I did find them I wouldn’t meddle with them.” *• ‘iNfevermind that, my ^ood woman; only come and open the door.*’ “it’s easy to see yon. ain't been long married,” wa* har grumbling comment, aa she waddled after him down the stairs. Bhe gave a few turns to the handle and threw the door open. The wife was discovered in a dead faint, hut evidently still alive. A goodmany dollars spent in doctors’ fees and a present to the landlady to some extent repaired the damages of the husband’s experiment, but nothing could repair his eternally damaged rep­ utation for knowing Stall. A day or two after tbe occurrence he said to the landlady: “How is it the door wouldn’t open on the combination I used?” “Because,” she answered, “you must release the lock from one combination before you can set it on another. You men don'tknow everything,-though you generally think you do."—N. Y. Romance.________________ —A practical joker secretly intro­ duced a phonograph in the kitchen of the house where he boarded, And it re­ corded the orders of the landlady to her cook. On the following Sunday he placed the machine on the dining-table, in (he presence of the guests assembled at dinner, told the lady that it was a new-fangled music- box, and asked her to turn the crank. She innooently did so, and this is the speech that came from the phonograph* “Mary, you don’t want to pay over eight cents a pound for meat, anyhow; it is good enongh for them, and yoncan get it on Mulberry street for that You are giving too big pieces of steals 1no­ tice, too. Let 'em eat more vegetables. Yesterday yon bought fresh pie. How often have I told yon to aave five cents on ’em by getting them staleandwarm­ ing them up. Here on this bill is twenty-five cents a pound for coffee; fifteen oentswill dohereafter. I’vegot Mowgh trouble without feeding fibre* ' * « * *t five dollar* • weds on porter TEMPERANCE NOTES. REFORMED BY A SNAKE. m i D rw id ta l A p p a ritio n W h ic h R e ­ fo rm e d a D runkard. Harvey dames, of near Crawfords- vllle, IncL, owes his redemption from intemperance to as peculiar a temper­ ance lecture as any ever delivered in the country. The lecturer was a snake and the rostrum from which he spake had much to do with the impression- made, writes a Crawfordsville (Ind.) correspondent -Up to August lest dames was one of the hardest drinkers in Montgomery county, but-since ar-to him—memorable day in that month ho has not tasted a wop. He had been following a thrashing -machine as a hand, andupon a warm afternoon the last stack was finished, and Harvey started for home with sixteen hard- earned dollars In bis pocket As chance would have it, his Way led through the little village of Darlington.. celebrated for two thriving saloons. Harvey here met several old cronies, and the upshot of the whole matter was that about an hour after be again started home down the dusty road with a pretty good load on board. To make a short cut he left the hot anil glartng.roadside and start­ ed across a large pasture lot, well cov­ ered with huge bowlders and bushes. He had gotten no more than half across the field when he noticea at the side of the unfrequented path a delightful lit­ tle grotto formed by leafy bushesgrow­ ing close to a large rock, and carpeted with the freshest of blue*grass. Tired snd dusty, beside being confused a lit­ tle in regard to things in general, Har­ vey lay down for a minute to rest in this charming retreat. “Whea t woke up.” said he, when telling the story afterward, “the sun had swung clear around and was blazing down, on me. A little bird was chirping away on the bush overhead and I reckon that woke me for my head was still sizzingaway lively. And I couldn’t recollect for a minute where I was. Things all seemed strange and I felt powerful uncomfort? able. Pretty soon I- began to realize that there was something else in one of my boots beside ths leg of my thin over­ all, which was the only trousers I wore that hot weather. Still only half awak­ ened, my eyes gradually fell down in that direction, and then! reckon I gave a yell to raise-the dead. Cuddled up in my loose hoot' leg out of the sun was tiie most venomous looking rattle­ snake I ever saw, His head was toward me, and he mast hava tamed clear round in my boot while l was asleep. When I yelled .his wicked old neck arched np and his rattles worked away lively way down about my ankle somewhere. 1guess he was warning me to keep still, and you bet­ ter believe I did, I was almost too scared to breathe, and actually grew sick at my stomach. I drew my eyes away from the rattler and shut them tight, expecting every moment to feel his fangs fastening into my leg. I thonght my lime had come sure, and after a little thought of my wife and children and began to wonder what they would do without me; then I thought they would do asthey haddone of late years—take care of themselves. I soon began to pray like a good fellow to be spared, and resolved one thousand times in half as many seconds to quit drinking if I should be. All the time the old snake was twisting around to make his sermon emphatic, I reckon, and by the time he grew quiet again his discourse didn't need gestures. I didn't dare look at the thing, bat just- keptstill and thought It seemed like I hadffieen lying there a week, when all at once I heard some one whistling down the path, and in a minute the bushes parted and I saw Bill Potter. He jumped back with a yell like be bad seen a ghost. * I thought he had seen the snake, but he hadn’t, as he gave a sort of A sheepish grin and said: “Why, you dura brute, you was so still I thought you was dead.” 1 was afraid to speak at first for fear of getting bit, but I knew tbat if Bill fooled around I’d get bit anyhow, so I said as easy as ! could: “Bill, a big rattler has crawled Inmy bootleg while I was Asleep. Get a big club and kill it first crack, if yon break my leg doing.it” Bill stared at me Amoment,then squatting down, he squinted his eye and looked down my boot leg. Then he gave a mostprovok­ ing grin and said: “He have flown away; come along and go home.” I thought at first he was lying, as it seemed that I conld still feel the snake resting againstmy leg. When I screwed np courage, though, And looked dojvn he was gone, sure enough. 1 don’t know how or when he went I only know that he was gone and that I got np considerable faster than I expect to rise at the resurrection, and I calculate that Won’t he slow. Not a word did Bill or I say until we parted, and then he said: "Harve, yon'd better swear off.” You’d better believe that atin$d pe np, and 1 read the riot act to him in great style. The mean cuss only laughed, and going down to the store told all the hoys that he foundme lying In the road suffering from a dose of the jim-jams. It was a dirty, mean trick, too, asitwss a teal live rattler that was in my hoot that afternoon, and Pll take oath to it before any squire in Montgomery county. What’s more, I ’ve kept my resolve and haven’t touched a drop of liquor since that afternoon that Bill Potter and his gang *ay t “saw snake*.”—S t Louis Globe- IMiieayat,- ^ ■ - who osa drtaic whisky m whole lifetime without being hurt by ** ** ***?, kP*.to*et I ns much neeouat fhwanythiagelM,-*Bani*e Boris ENGLISH LIQUOR LORDS. JEngllah Liquor Shops L a rg e ly Owned by Noblemen, Plutocrats and Syndicates. An important public document was lamed recently, says a London corre­ spondent, giving a moat startling rev­ elation op to the gigantic proportions of the liquor interest and its connec­ tion with landlordism. It will he re­ membered that Mr. Goschen brought in lastyear a foolish and ill-advised meas­ ure which granted conqipensation to liquor dealers on the extinction of their licenses; and that this measure roused such vigorous opposition that its au­ thors were compelled to withdraw it. We were then treated to piteous tales of the poor, but honest publican who was to be deprived of his living and turned out into the cold world, and voters were asked by enormous, pla­ cards posted everywhere if they would he consenting parties to such gross in­ justice. Apparently British voterswere quite willing to consent to it, and the document/ just issued is the justifica­ tion of their hostility to that compen­ sation scheme. -For it is now proved’ beyond .doubt (what the opponents, of Mr.' Gosehen's bill hadall alongasserted) that the compensation would not' go to the poor publican; but to the wealthy brewer. The government re­ turn, in short, proves that the liquor business is a gigantic monopoly in the control of a handful of persons who wield enormous power, and that a good proportion of these are peers of the realm. I ' In London alone 10,000 liquor.shops are owned by monopolists, companies, syndicates and wealthy individuals, the nominal tenant .being a mere bar­ tender, who bos no interest whatever in the business. In Manchester there are 9,054 houses in the hands o f absen­ tee landlords; in Liverpool, 3,008; in Sheffield, 1,102; in Bristol, 80S; in Ports­ mouth, 806; In Norwich, 605; in Salford, 567; in Nottingham; 541; in Hull, 460; ill Leicester,! 409. One single firm, that of Greenall, Whitley & C a , the head o f which was made a baronet for services to the tory party, owns 584 drink shops in three counties; another firm owns 957 in Bristol alone; one man owns 159 in Birmingham, and another firm 148 in Liverpool. Tw o brewers own 500 such places in the county o l Norfolk. In short, the brew ing and distilling trades are now in the hands of great wealthy bodies, which spread their tentacles in the form o f licensed houses a ll’over the land. It la peculiarly interesting to note the close connection between the drink interest and the ihouse of lord* In­ deed. it is quite usual now tospeak of the peerage humorously as the “beer- age.” You may be surprised to learn that tbe prime minister is a drink- seller. Lord ‘ Salisbury owns four drink shops on (lie Strand, and it in neediest to say that, if the co' nty coun­ cil had extinguished these under Mr. Gosehen’s scheme, Lord Salisbury would have received a big sum os com­ pensation—a striking comment jn the absolute lack of moral feeling which is, perhaps.' Lord Salisbury’s chief char­ acteristic. Lord Derby owns seventy- two drink shops, the dnke of Bedford fifty. In one small Derbyshire town the dnke of Rutland owns twenty and the duke of Devonshire twelve. Lord Hartlngton, ths - pseudo-philanthropic duke of Westminster, Lord Sefton, the duke of Portland, that young rip and gambler Lord Dudley, Lord l’ortman, Lord Fitzwllliam. and manyother peers are all drink-sellers. Bailway com­ panies and ecclesiastical trusts also figure largely as owners of this class of property.—N, Y. Commercial Adver- tiser. __________________ INTERESTING BREVITIES. W it h five hundred physicians, total abstainers, who are members of the British Medical Temperance associa­ tion, it is claimed that Great Britain now leads the world in organized effort to effect medical temperance reform. T h e r e was spent for liquors of vari­ ous kinds in Great Britain last year a sum representing one-twelfth of tbe in­ come of the inhabitants o f the king­ dom, or about fourteen times as much as was contributed for the purpose of sending Bibles to the heathen. T he saloon is a very profitable busi­ ness—to thf undertaker. It is true he does not get much for burying the vic­ tims of the liquor traffic, but he does* wholesale business and charges what the “trafficwill bear."—Western RuraL T he circulation is through two setl of blood vessels—arteries and veins— both obtaining theirmotive powerfront the h<sart acting as a force pump. Alco­ hol increases the pulsations, and, asthe blood is sent from the heart to the ex­ tremities faster than the veins can take it up again to return it, congestion re­ sults, and the nose, being a remote por­ tion of the circulation, reddens and finally becomes diseased. This, how­ ever, is not different from other Organs of the body; all are congested and Simi­ larly diseased by the use of alcohol.— 8L Louis Republic. Yotrxo men are learning the every­ day commercial value of temperance. The “good-fellow” man Is he who stays at the ladder’s foot, and his comrades profit by that object lesson. In no walk of life are the higher paths open As they were, not so very long ago, to the man Who drinks. Business men, professional men, look upon an em­ ploye’s convivial habits as a menace to themselves! What once found read $ exeaserftowMfgsr* ttotfWf* fsfefltioK.: Thai Is the plain lesson of the times. And that ie the reason eoasinon m m ie every day forwarding the eanse of prae- i deal temperance.— Kauaea City Tune*. —Chappie—Is Mias Hand in? Brid­ get—Now, sor r. Chappie—WcB, P ll leave my card so tbat she’ll know Who has called: Bridget—Faithyez naden’t. She saw yez through the windy when yez worr cornin’ up the steps.—Harper’s Bazar. .. _____ . —“There is one thing I don’t like about the attaches of the Russian lega­ tion-something I don’t think is con­ sistent with good breeding.” "What is that?” • “They are forever calling one another bard names.”—Kate field’s Washington. 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