The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

T H E B A T T FOOLED e The Cedarville Herald w , B . BLAIR, PubUahw. C E P A R V IT X E . • * ' H lffr MEMORY A TES t OF AGE.. WltyScene* sad Inel^wti o f Childhood B*> came Vivid In the Cloalnt Year*. Memory is often a good test of ego. When a person begins to find the recol­ lection of current and recent work fatt­ ing, and. when he finds the recolleotion of events of the early part o f hts life acutely perceptible, and by a kind of spontaneity recurrent, the evidence l* certain that the mind o f that person la aging. The fact is still further em­ phasized if, with the remembrance o f past days, there is a sympathetic re­ sponse calling forth a sentimental feel­ ing either of pleasure or o f pain. There probably is a physiological reason for these phenomena. In earlylife certain centers o f the brain are filled with Im­ pressions and images which have be­ come fixed, and for a time qniescenfc. They sleep. While they sleep other parts of the brain are charged with new impressions, which, remain in activity, provoking the physical body into new and continued actions, and constituting the life of the individual as it is seen at work, nay, as it really is. But time goes on, and under the active life the; brain centers receiving the later impressions tire, wear out, and for working purposes suspend func­ tion and die. Their suspension is. not, however, the suspension of the whole o f the cerebral organism. The parts first impressed and imprinted—the parts that carry the latent impres­ sions—remain intact, and no long­ er oppressed and obscured by that which has accumulated upon thorn; begin . once more to live and display their activities. So aged people who forget the names of those who are staring them in the face, who forget the details of the last ride, or walk, or work, and who forget engage­ ments,, letters and hours of meals, re­ member with the freshness of youth the friends o f their youth; the places, habits, conversations, events that have Jong since passed^ and have been so long in oblivion. The study of .memory in relation to age is full of practical os well as phil- osophlcal importance! It bears on the value of evidence of observed facts and phenomena at different stages of life. There ore thousands of persons who could. give no evidence worthy of credence respecting sayings and events of to-day, who conld still give the most accurate and reliable evidence about sayings and events of fifty years ago; and, if sympathies change with memo­ ries, there is an explanation, clear enough, why with age likes ami dis­ likes should undergo the astonishing modifications we so often witness. I was called once to 'see n dying man who was advanced in, life. lie was muttering something strangely. , “ What is it he says?” I Asked. “ I do not know, sir,” replied the nnrso, "but it's all Monday, and see how curiously the moves his hands.” I listened at­ tentively, and soon caught the words, repeated many times: "Off Jcsu, Agnus Dei, qultollia peccatamundl Miscere nobis.” I observed thereupon to my medical .brother, whom I hod been called to meet in consultation, "he,” the patient, "is saying part of a litany. He is a Roman Catholic.” "Impossible! I have known him for thirty years, and he has been a man of the freest . thought, good in every way, hut allied to no creed whatever, and opposed to the Roman Catholic faith.” "Thatmay he, bat in his early life, I warrant you, he was brought up in that faith and learned its services” On inquiry my conjectures proved correct In the first five years of life he was trained in the Catholic ceremonial, stnoo which age he had come under influences that had changed the whole tenor of his thoughts. The pointl wish to make inconcluding this ojfasculum is, in the strictest sense, practical and medical. Whenever a patient Who has passed the fifties, or is fairly into them, reports that Current memory is fading and past memory is reviving, and when he reports aiso that his sympathies are running with his memories, his current sympathies de­ clining, his old ones re-awakening, he is in an indifferent condition. He re­ quires immediate mental rest o f those faculties that are .becoming impaired, and Is in want of pursuits and scenes that will bring new faculties into play. Fortunately we never use up a tithe of onr brain surface. Thera is always ample uncharged surface to work upon even late in life, and if the brain be not physically diseased, new memories may he called forth Which open up new activities and, cover in the old. Wil­ liam Ilatvey, in his latter days took to mathematics, and for the first time fal­ lowed them with ease, much to his .quiet. I knew an aged man who took Under the same circumstances to music, arid became quite a fair violinist; from all of which comes a lesson— In second chlldlshhe-s child life revive, Learn something new each day, anil so re- fives, —Dr. B. W. Richardson, in Asclepiad. TEMPERANCE NOTES. A FATAL GAME. IA temperance lecture derived from a visit to ' the Tombs police court.1 Behold the creaturepassing there With tattered clothes, disheveled heir-- , Ho shuftkurca with footstep* slew— „ , . Trembling andweek, his head haw'd low. - - Ah me t I knowhis story well, How from hts grand estate he-fell I knew him ss a bright-eyed boy, . His father’s pride, bis mother’s joy; ' in manhood, wealth at his command, High snumgmen he took blS'Stamj, When lol the wily tempter earns And barred the gate that led to fame— - You see him now apt abject slave— ■, Until he fills a pauper’s grave—to rum. Another victim totters by . With bloated featurea watery eye, And even now for liquor begs. From misery's cup she's drained the dregs, - In polios station passed the night. , ’•What brings her to this soqry plight 1" They say she ones waa young and fair, With laughing eye and glossy hair; She's been—you'd soaree believe it true— 1 A happy'brido, a mother, too. Her child, then husband, utrloken down She sought the glass, her grlef to drown! Downward she went, they seldom pause— One simple word explains the.eause—'tls rum. Approaches now a man of wealth, His face aglow with life.and health. . A diamond from his breast does flash; They eay his clothes are lined with cash. Who is this person great and grand Who meets bis friends on every hand? . A legislator great U he In this, the land of liberty.1 .• A chosen one to .make our laws, Ho also owns live liquor stores. ■. . Tt e stuff that made of others tramps Procured for him hath power and stamps, In truth;'tls but a fatal game. The losers have themselves to blame—and rum. —Ed Gardenler, In Brooklyn Eagla ' A lcohol arraigned . Circumstances Alter Prices. Genteel Customer—I want a pair of bracelets. Jeweler—John, bring those plain gold bracelets. For your wife? Customer—N—no; for linytypewriter. JeWeler—Jfever mind, John. Bring toe those fine diamond goods.-Jewel- mat Weekly* Facts Which Should tie Weighed by Drinking Men. . During the year 1800, the people of the United States -consumed 80,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits, 40,000,000 gallons o f wines and 800,000,000 gallons of malt liquors, making a total of 420, - 000,000.of alcoholic beverages. This cost the consumers, at the very lowest estimate, 3800.000,000, or about 813 per capita for the total population of the country, men women and children. In estimating the nation's drink bill, howeveg, we must add to this enor­ mous total the time lost from work, and that lost because of sickness and crimes due to drinking. . . It is estimated by Dr, N. S. Davis, of Chicago, that this cost at least as much more, hence the total drink bill of the nation^for the year 1800, ran up to the enormous total of 81,000,000. It must be remembered, too, that the consumers of ' liquor got absolutely nothing of value to themselves for this enormous expenditure of money. Rum does not add to a man’s health, nor to his strength. It answers no purpose of clothing, nor of food. In negative results, look at the wasted fortunes, ruined lives and homos. Men who do not indulge in drink can do better work, and can.work more steadily, than those whq indulge. Why then docs anyone drink? ■ A large number of people begin drinking, at least, because of erroneous ideas us to tlio nature of alcoholie bev­ erages and their effects upon the human body.. Bofore chemistry an­ alyzed rum, it was supposed to bo stimulating, wanning, soothing nhd restorative. All these, in the clear light of scicnke, are now seen to be fal­ lacies. Yet the belief is strongly rooted in the minds o f thousands that indulge in liquors for this purpose; es­ pecially fallacious is the idea that any alcoholic beverage contains nutriment in any marked degree. A five-pound loaf of bread contains as much actual food as a man would obtain in a year if he drank from eight to ten quarts of beer daily. -At that-rata-of drinking, by the end of the year a man would have swallowed a barrel of alcohol, Beer contains about four per cent, of alcohol,- wines about fifteen per cent, and distilled liquors from fifty to sixty per cent The question then presents itself: "What is the effect of this al­ cohol upon the physical system?” The answer of soience is that alcohol is a poison* pure and simple. A slow poison* if you will, but one whose ef­ fects arc directly proportioned to the amount taken, and to the rapidity with which itis imbibed. Because it does not kill instantly, men think that there is no foundation for its classifica­ tion ns a poison. Its effects, when steadily taken, are detrimental to all tlic great bodily organs. It causes permanent structural changes In the liver; the kidneys, the stomach, the blood-vessels and in the nervous tissue. In the liver and kidneys it pro­ duces two incurable diseases—cirrhosis and Bright's disease. It injures the brain by hardening it, and consequent­ ly injures the mental powers o f those who imbibe it, and It is tho testimony of the highest medical authorities that the habitual use o f ’alcoholic drinks lessens the natural duration of life from ten to fifteen years. That is to say, a man who would, did h« remain temperate, live to he seventy years old, will, aa a moderate drinker, die some- wliera between fifty-five and sixty years old, Besides its effect upon the brain, al­ cohol baa a very deleterious power over the minds atad morals of the vic­ tims, Prof, Axel Gustafson declares that aloohol holds a preeminent place as a blood poison, and that suicide, in- IrttrfWiO# anil ^wawt/\Ma Irlnilsa sanity, idiocy and 'various kinds of moral mania are directly traoeahle to its influence on the brain. More than this, the habit o f moderate drinking greatly increases the danger to any pa­ tient who may ha attacked by disease. This is because alcohol reduoe* the vi­ tality o f the system and Its power of yeatetanoe. . . . ' - . , . . These, are facta whick sbould be brought home to everyvhmn* and especially to every young man,^in the United States Every mother sbquld knpw, them, and teach them to her children. . Every father should, not only he able to warn his sons of jthese evils, but should set them a personal example of abstinence* The' crying need o f the times is for the.disseiuina- PERSONAL AND' IMPERSONAL. Alon o f just such scientific knowledge among the masses of the people. There la no polities in it. It is simply making known the facts which science declares to be tone. The temperance reform, to he permanent, must begin with the individual.—Toledo Blade. ' A POTENT MEANS. Poor Pood and Overwork as Incentive* to ■ . . Drink, • ■ . The prevention of alcoholism Is a physiological life. The. cure of alco­ holism is a return to a physiological life. The ways by which either the prevention or cure of alcoholism are to be attained are as multiform as the in­ dividuals involved and the varieties of human existence. At another time we have called attention to the part that good food, well cooked, jbo us to be easily digested, plays in the prevention or cure of this disorder. We know of no such potent means for preventing alcoholism as tho presence upon every table,; a tev ery meal, of such food. Labors toward this end should be en­ couraged by all who desire to see alco­ holism wiped out- of the community. Another means of preventing alcohol­ ism is the avoidance of exhaustion. The. overworked literary, scientific or business individual- must get rid of worry and fatigue, as he feels that he must continue the race though he knows the penalty. A. hopeful outlook for the future, is the greater attention given to this matter. It is needful to urge the laborer to avoid exertion be­ yond ids strength and thus avoid the nervous exhaustion that entices to the consumption of alcohol, etc. We have no faith in uny specific for drunken­ ness,—Dr. Connor, in Lancet VARIOUS NOTES. I n the Bible Christian denomination there are between two hundred and three hundred ministers, every one of whom'is a pledged total abstainer. T he way to enre yourself o f the drinking habit is to stop. The dumbest brute in creation knows when he has enough.—Chicago Inter Ocean. R icui . and , N. J., rejoices in being free .from the saloon curse.' One was recently opened there, but the church people rose en masse and protested so effectually that it was Soon closed. K ino K ama , a south African chief, is said to be very enlightened and tries to prevent the sale o f ardent , spirits to his subjects. He besought the Eng­ lish government to prohibit the liquor traffic among his subjects, but all in vum, N kvku D hink .—I love liquor and I love the fellowship involved in drink­ ing. My safety lias been that I never drink at all. It is much easier not to drink at all than to drink a Utile. If I had to attribute what I have done in life to any one thing 1 should attribute it to tlio fact that 1 ain a teetotaler. As sure tisyou are born, it isHie pleas­ antest, the easiest and the safest way. —Henry W, Grady. 1 Mu. G. B laoki . ock says: "The female market Is overcrowded, and wages thereby reduced, largely through the drinking habits o f men,” Mr. Charles Booth said: "Factory girls are fre­ quently the daughters of drunkards.” In a workshop in London where twelvo women were employed, four of the number were fonnd to bo wage-earners because of drunken husbands. A gen­ tleman employing seven hundred wom­ en and girls in London said: "I can state for a fact that a large number of our female employes have to seek work be­ cause of tlie intemperance of their male relatives.” Aw American physician calls atten­ tion to the fact that the free use of apples is an excellent means of pre­ venting the appetite for liquor. For a number of yean he has treated patients suffering from dipsomania by requir­ ing them to eat apples freely at meals and to take an apple whenever the ap­ petite for liquor was experienced. He claims that this free use o f apples Is a complete antidote for the appetite for alcoholic drinks. On principle we do hot approve of substitutes; neverthe­ less* no objection could be offered to the use of so harmless a substitute as ripe, sub-acid apples. —Journal of In­ ebriety, . , T emperance laws in Norway aro unique. A correspondent describes the regulations observed in the cities. A syndicate may bo formed to* sett licenses conditioned on the giving up o f all profits beyond five per cent on the paid-up stock to benevolent ob­ jects which depend on voluntary con­ tributions for Support In Bergen, a city o f 60,000 inhabitants, the syndicate has a capital of 820,000, divided into 400 shares, which are owned by 150 stock­ holders. Shares are at a premium and the profits are fully 125 per cent Since the year 1875. 8880,775 have been dis­ tributed In charity. Beats are not al­ lowed in conntry barrooms, neither is lounging permitted, Prioe* of liquors are posted in the saloons and each day's sales are reported at night to the agent for the Syndicate, Drinking and crime have steadily decreased since tho introduction o f these stringent lews,— Cougregationallsi —A North Carolina clergyman has under bis charge thirteen churches, is president o f two ootton'raills, secretary and treasurer of another, secretary and treasurer o f a knitting mill, end secre­ tary and treasurer of a building and loan association, ■_ —Frank tfiddalis, the prominent soap manufacturer, was once asked why lie did riewdpaper advertising altogether, and did not follow in the footsteps of -other mhnfactnrers. putting up sign­ boards, etc. He* replied that in his ex­ perience he found that ther man that does not read the newspapers never uses soap. ' ‘ . —A new competitor has appeared in the. cloak trade in the parson of a young saleswoman who goes from place to . place among the smaller retailers. She : is a pretty, block-haired young woman, and evidently o f Polish extraction. Sue ' has one great advantage over men in being able to try her SanypleB on a plump figure. , : —A wealthy Georgia farmer has had >bad luck la his matrimonial ventures. About twenty years ago he was en­ gaged to the daughter of a neighbor. The day before the date set. fop the wedding the girl decided she did not wish to marry and the engagement was broken. Four or five yearsngohemor- ried the daughter of his old flame, and ’ recently she eloped with the farmer’* hired man, - • ......... —Bernhardt affects a profound .con­ tempt for money. In an interview with u western reporter she said: "My earnings during my career! Nothing. Nothing, I say. It comes it goes. 1 keep no. account. Could I not spend tho money I would not earn it ■Money is to spend. I detest accounts. I don’t j bother. I have enough. I-never cal, culute. I can't calculate; Oil, bother l the money.” ■■■ 1 —A Vermont man went out hunting on Sunday and.hurt himself. He held an accident policy, but the company contested a demand for indemnity un­ der the terms of the . policy, and the court decided that the man was not en­ titled to recover, as he was violating the law of the state in hunting on Sun­ day. Which means that a person to receive the protection of the law must observe the law. . ■ , —John H. Parnell, a brother of. the Irish leader* says he thinks the “ un- oro'Wned king” left a considerable es­ tate, though much of it may have been consumed in the litigution forced ,upon him- in his lost years. At the time .of his greatest affluence lie was worth £160,000. He had an estate in County Wicklow, some stone quarries, copper mines and mills, but. it is unknown whether thoy were mortgaged. —While Arthur Nikisch, the con­ ductor of tho Boston Symphony society, was at Bnireuth a few weeks ago, the table waiters dvere all too few at one of the overerowded restaurants where ho and some friends were dining. Finally, in his desperation he rushed out into the kitchen, and in a few minutes was back again loaded down with plates of roast beef and potatoes, which he served as if he were a veteran in the business. ’ “ A LITTLE NONSENSE. —Teachor—"What was Herod’s idea in killing off all the children?” Colum­ bus Lenox—"Ho had flats to ren t” —"How is it you havo remained a bach­ elor all you* life. Mr. Tupton?” "Oil, I was born so,*” returned Tnpton.— Domorest’s Magazine. —An Industrious Boy.—His Father— "Johnny, have yon cleaned up the back yard?” The Terror—"Yes, pa, I wiped It up with Tommy Tucker.”—Epoch. —"What are the great parallels of tho earth?” asked the geography teacher. And the boy, whose father is a locomo­ tive engineer, answered: "The railway tracks.”—Washington Btar* ' —Visitor—**Ah, Johnny* I am pleased to see that you gave your little sister the .large share o f the apple.” John­ ny—"I bad to. If I hadn't she’d have told on me for hooking the apple” —Accommodating.—Anxious Travel­ er (to baggage-smasher)—"Look here, my man, will you break my trunk? It is rather heavy." Baggage-smasher— "Can't promise yon, but I’ll try—look, sharp!”—Epoch* * —ASad Case.—‘ TIello.Brown, you’re looking badly this morning. ” "There’s nothing strange in that; I’ve just been unconscious for eight hours.” "Great HeavenSi man* what was the matter?” " I was asleep.”—Harper’s Weekly. —“ Of course it hurts, JosiAh,” said Mrs. Chugwater* as she applied the link mentand rubbed it vigorously. "Rheu­ matism always hurts. You must grin and bear i t ” '"I'm witting to bear it, Samanthy, but I’m not going to grin.’ —A lady who issummering in a quaint backwoods village mot anative one day, and, in the course o f a little talk, asked him why all the village children went barefooted. "Why,” he exclaimed in surprise, "that’s the way they were born." • —Give Him Time.—Melton—"Look here, uncle, that handkerchief you have 'tied Around your neck looks mighty familiar,” Uncta Ebony—“ Yes, sab. But you won’t know it in a week, Ash* it. will be dat black,’ 1—Clothier and Furnisher. —InconstancyCondemned.—MrsDo- good (to her stableman)—"Wouldn’t you like * little oold lobster, Fat?” Patrick O’Gormau—“Not any, mum, thankee; no spalpeen that starts ont gr&nehudturns redtheminutehegets into hot wether, for yo;vs thraly."— N* Y. Herald* . * - OCYRIC.HT IS9I ’ , ‘ Stick to it! Sometimes you may have to wait Tho troubles that have been years in gathering can’t always bo cleared away in a day. For all tho diseases and disorders peculiar to woman­ hood,, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pro­ scription is the surest and speediest remedy. You can depend upon that —but if your case is obstinate, give it reasonable time. v It’s an invigorating, restorative tonic, a soothing ana strengthen­ ing nervine, and a positive specific for female weaknesses and ailments. All functional disturbances, painful irregularities and derangements arc correctedand cured by it, Alt unnat­ ural discharges, bearing-down sensa­ tions, -weak back, accompanied with faint spells and kindred symptoms, are corrected. In every ease for which it’s recommended,“ Favorite Prescription,” is guaranteed to give satisfaction, or the money is re­ funded. No other medicine for women is sold on such terms. That proves that nothing else offered the dealer can be “ just as m " All she lacks of beat is a little plumpness.” This is a frequentthought, anda wholesome one. All of a baby's beauty is due to fat, and nearly all ofa woman’s— we know it as. curves anddimples. What plumpness has to do with health is told in a little book on careful living ; sent free. . Would you rather be healthy or beautiful? "Both” is the proper answer. ^ ChtmUl*,tja South 5 thAvenue. MewYork* Yourdruggistkeeps Scott's EauUioctof ccd.Um Ou—all druggut*everywhere do. |s» . : a* > I ,2^*WII.U 5, k (.'-ft kSHY \ [ ] i T : l R5 RELIEVES all StomachDUtrc*c- REMOVES rfaiuea, Bctuo of Fullacn; C okoution , PAIN. REVIVESP aiuno ENERGY. . RESTORES Normal ClrcttUtioo, Bad W axxb to Toe Tim. M. HARTCMMKBICINCCO*.SLLoali,MW Of your Water Proof V V / l 1 YXktTB bohm .waterInArt altera holding lht\ .L endflafetM bemahewnor anywhereel*e\ whereU>ere1«a m n , and* « Ifitlawatertight I TlieraareeocfUlhthemarketthath«tkrcrynice I bat arm leak. <tt arenr aeaaa. We warrant Tpwari* IMPROVED Plab Mraud SlteKtr to be water tightatevery team and 1 everyieA«r* eUe/ aho not U petl er ttUk, mri authorizeour dealera tomake (rod anySlicker thatfalls Inritherpoint, W a ifla 4Hrt ft* the, 4*1 Werian Cotter and A m flranrf TraitMark. A* J* TOWIIk AYfr., fcaston, Maui Or. Mi's CM# SjripSiVrM" g t a Ska- CuaMam . puMw ord and “ T h e m an w ith prer met,” said Col WAShr* rewinis “ was Col* John J3. f was a high prirat when that place -Stonewall’ Jacksc •Wilting for some tit eve were ordered do ■ - - > House, Va., where out for Mosby. "One cold, clear 1808,1 WSu» (itt picki rentoo road. I ha walking my poat o’ quick* trying to k Beard a troop of ca ..'the Warrenton roa They were stopped one all right andt toy post ’ "When they came I halted them. "Friends with the the answer to my cl " ‘One man disn . with' tho counters! command. "A well dressed and advanced to tbe net and gave tlie maica.’ j " ’Countersign -d ‘Pass on.’ . “ There were aboij them; a motly crewl .they were a jolly and laughing* The dne time I was relie sound asleep. j “ Early the nextm o f the guard roused I was wanted at charge o f an orderly got there, the man one was ahead of m into the presence . Hayes, our comma when he came out 1 “ ‘You had post t demanded the generl T had, sir.’’ " Tell me about ti that passed your po: “ I told him what " ‘Well.’ ho said, the deuce,’ and he d: " I discovered pr men I had passed mand with Mosby at "had (ridden' througlj taken the tent of officers, mounted hi escaped with -him lines. . "IIow did he get tl found out* that aft the outposts was tin raw German. Whil -duty a man dressed form with the I officer of the day aci preached him. He officer responded, - “ *061000 of the da] sign*’ “ ‘Advance and gv "The officer adv word which was not “ That’s not right; •*andyou can’fpass.’ t "After consideral officer insisted that exclaimed angril you got?’ The man of the guard gave r ca,’ and nobody can lk“ The officer was: jself. He had siting for night, £ and made the fiuccc "For cool nervi ever heard of,”—N. STORY o f Itsm lnlacencea B ttm a Hi "Did you hear tl after a moment one on the street "Boots and Sadd wasn’ t well done, of the old familial make the blood le “ I couldn’t hel said the saber, aa "It’s a quarter of heard those notes, back to me in a fii mands ‘Prepare and once more I of a trooper’ s leg. "Do you remeni I asked* "Of course I the kitchen of Brandy Station, me for two silver soon after the to rust. Yon ca A,” belt-plates reckon?” "They are ve story?” "That o f » You’ ve lidard of as our boysnsei had the honor ride around M him. That was I belonged to an and he knew hi You remember i well, on that da by three trooper A victory. The he made out one bers slick in 1 ■point* it w u i t’ gbM think o f it] poi I