The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

TEMPERANCE NOTES. A GLORIOUS V ICTORY / lie wood wltb it foot ob th e threshold, ' And a cloud ou at* boyish face, ■ivnilo hts city oon»r«d« urged him To enter tho gorgeous place. '“There's nothing to fear, old fellow 1 It isn't r. lion’s don; Ucrc waits you a royal welcome fr o m lips of tho bravest men." ■Twus the old, old voice ot tho tem pter That sought in tho old. old way, To lure with a lying promise The Innocent toot astray. -•'you'd think it was Hluo-heard’s closet, To see how you stare and sh rin k ! I tell you there’s naught to harm you— It's only a game and a drink,I" * He heard tho words with a shudder— . It's only u game and a drink! - . And his lips made bold to answer: / .“rint what would my mother think?’* fti.PTae name th a t his heart held dearest i Had started a seeret spring, And forth from tho wily tempter; He bed like a huuted thing. . Away! till the glare of tho city Anil its gilded halls of sin Are shut from his sense and vision, Tho shadows of night within. Away ? till his feot have bounded O'er bolds where his ablldhood trodl Away!.in the name of virtue, And the 'strength of his mother's God 1 On the page where'the angel keepeth The record of deeds well done. That night was tho story written Of a glorious battle won. And lie stood by his home In the Starlight- All guiltless of sword and shield— A hraver and nobler victor Thau the hero of bloodiost bald. —At A. Maitland, in N. Y. Observer. DRINKING ON THE CONTINENT. Facts G leaned from O bservations in For- ■tilgn C ountries. The advocates o£ moderate drinking have always said that there was less drunkenness in the countries where wine and beer were freely used than , there was-in the United States and in Great Britain, where the people use stronger drinks. This is'doubtless true to-dav, as i t lias always been. .Amer­ icans who have- visited continental countries are imbued with - this idea. They come home saying that they saw no drunkenness in either Prance or Germany. I t is very common for peo­ ple -to say that they have spent weeks in Paris and have never seen a drunken man. This, however, only shows a lack of observation on their part. In ,the . business parts of Now York or in the better portions, of the city a drunken man is rarely met with. Ten or. fif­ teen years ago in Paris it was a very unusual thing to see a drunken man, but now an -observant person, familiar with Paris, will see them in more or • less numbers any day in any part of- the. city. 1 have no doubt that in the poorer sections of the city drunkenness may bo met with a t all hours of .the clay. I have just returned from Paris, having spent nearly a year there, and anf quite as fa.niljar with that city as I am with New York. A dozen years ■ago in Paris it was said that whisky, brandy and other strong, drinks ■wore kept a t the cafes only for foreign­ ers, who wore accustomed to use them a t home, and that the French people drank only light wines. If that was the case then, 1 question if it was. it is certainly not the case now ., -French people arc'drinking large quantities of fcrandy, chartreuse, absinthe and Viwpcr drink-,, which are very intoxi­ cating. It is not only common to see drunken "men in Paris, but one some- - times sees drunken women on the streets and drinking strong drinks in cafes. ■ I t is a frequent complaint that it is difll u’4 to decure a sober cabman. There arc fifteen thousand cabmen in Paris, and one luis but to look a t them, to sec that a largo majority are hard drinkers:' more particularly is this the ■case with tho middle-aged and elderly men. In a French family, with which I am quite familiar, the cook whs dis­ charged on^account of drunkenness, and this after patiently submitting to her sprees for nearly two years. The chambermaid, an Intelligent young French woman, was discharged for stealing wine and getting drunk. The man who waited ‘on the table was also discharged for drunkenness, This is the recent experience of but a single family. A French gentleman, with whom I am well acquainted, occupying a good position in society. I have seen a number of limes under the influence of drink, and two French gentlemen of my acquaintance a t a wedding re­ cently became drunk to the disgust of their families who were present. It is a fact that almost anyone conversant with French life will acknowledge that drunkenness is very largely on the in­ crease among the common people, and from iny knowledge of French life I am also sure that it is growing among ail classes. Brandy, chartreuse ami absinthe, arc served 'in good families after almost every dinner and a t al­ most every evening entertainment. ’ I t is supposed to be taken in small quan­ tities, but very often it is taken in quantities large enough to produce in­ toxication. The same state of things exists in (lemony. I have been as­ sured by German gentlemen of the highest position who are not by any means total abstainers, that drunken­ ness is increasing to an alarming ex­ tent, more particularly among the , working people, and quite often stu­ dents seriously discuss the temperance question over a quart pot of beer. The arguments of the advocates of wlfte and beer n?e being sw ept away, and while it. is still true that there is very much more drunkenness in America and Great Britain th in there is in con­ tinents! countries, yet how long that •may be.the.ease, one can hardly tell. The day is not fa r distant when tli» subject of temperance, which is now ridiculed in both France and Germany, will come to the front: the attention of thoughtful men in both countries is already being drawn to it,-—T, Iv, Crce, in Young Men’s Era. V A R IE S " BREVITIES. T he legislature of North Carolina has set aside a portion of the Western North Carolina hospital for the care and treatment of inebriates. M a in e ’ s new liquor law now in force is the most severe one which that cel­ ebrated prohibition state has ever en­ acted. Experience lias shown that in dealing with the liquor trulliu gentle­ ness is wasted. T he saloon is a very profitable busi­ ness—to the undertaker. I t is true he does not get much for burying.the vic­ tims of the liquor trallic, but he does a wholesale business and charges what the “traffic will hear.fi—Western Rural. J udge J am es J . K il b b e t d , of the -court of common sessions of New York city, says: “ My own judgment, based upon .my experiences a t the bar, is that excessive drinking and the use of liquor in some form or other, either di­ rectly or indirectly, is the cause of ninety per cent, of the crime, poverty and misery of the community.” • A lcohol has not any microbe; but the, grand total of its mortality will exceed the combined effect of all the bacteria that have ever passed the mi­ croscopic field or developed in the cul­ ture-tube of the bacteriologist. The subject is now, however, beginning to receive some of the attention it de­ serves.—Popular Science Monthly. “T he one chief reason for my be­ coming an abstainer,"says Archdeacon Farrar, “was because I saw on all sides 'the waste, the ruin, the misery, tho degradation, the disease, the wretched­ ness of homes, the destruction of hu­ man bodies, the- human faculties, and human souls; the national disgrace and calamity, the cruet extermination oi debasement of the weaker races ol mankind iii our colonies and depend­ encies, which are caused by drink.” lx “Darkest Africa,” the darkest c\ all the shadows is that caused by the sale o f intoxicants to the untutored na­ tives. Either license, or .light taxation, as the on ly restraint upon greedy .liquor traders, means- in effect whole­ sale. ruin for the natives. Prohibition alone will be adequate for their pres­ ervation. The Fifty-first congress ought not to ndjouVu .Without provid­ ing by. appropriate legislation for the prohibition of American exportation of intoxicating liquors- to Africa.—Na­ tional Temperance Advocate. F in la n d appears to ho tho most favored country in the world as re­ gards temperance legislation. Local option is an old established* reform, which country districts have so fur de­ rived benefit from that they are free of drink shops altogether. The tem­ perance societies appear to great ad­ vantage, when their methods of pro riding well-stocked libraries, properly lighted reading rooms and comfortable and enticing coffee houses for those they desire to wean from the public house arc compared with some others in different lands. A la dy who kept a record of the wife murders perpetrated by drunken husbands, which have been reported in the daily papers for a year, says that thr >e thousand und four cases have oc­ curred during that time. Now let somo One tell us how many sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and neighbors have been murdered by drunken men. Then let us find out liow many broken limbs and heads and fortunes and. hearts have resulted from the use of strong drink. When one be­ gins to esth ate the aggregate of mis­ chief wrought by rum, he is puzzled to comprehend the indifference of the peo­ ple to the presence of such a mighty en: gine of destruction. Many are pro­ foundly stirred on this subject, but few are fully awake to the peril that be­ sets us.—N. Y. Advocate. b e e r - d r T nk T n g s t a t i s t i c s . C om parative F ig u res fo r th e L ast Two Years. The following statement shows the quantities of beer sold in the United 8tat«3 by states and territories for the years ending April .10, 1800, and April 30, 1501. The total for the latter year was 30,001,079 barrels, against 20,830,- 933 for the year ended April 00,1800, an increase of 3,200.120 barrels. New York leads iti the sales of 1890*91. with a total of 9,OSS,100 barrels, which is near­ ly three times tho quantity sold in any other state, Pennsylvania bcing-ftedond, with 3,118,248 barrels, and then"follow in order: Ohio, 9,030,008 barrels; Illi­ nois, 2,CoS,910 barrels; Wisconsin, 2,403,040 barrels; Missouri, 2,038,398 barrels, and New Jersey, 1,009,030 bar­ rels. These are the only states in each of ivliieh more than 1,009,000 barrels were, sold, and the total in these seven rep­ resents more than three-fourths of the entire aggregate. Michigan stands tenth on the list, the sales in this state amounting to 004,337 barrels. There are only six states in which no sales are reported. These are Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi, North Car­ olina 'and Vermont, Tho figures indi­ cate the extent of tho brewing indus­ tries In tiie respective states and terri­ tories, but do not show the consutnp- tion of beer in each. The aggregate, however, shows tha t on the average throughout tho United States nearly halt a barret of beer per capita la con sumed—N, Y< Snau OF GENERAL INTEREST. —A mule in Anstell, Ga., is said to be so old that its age has been forgotten. It is put, however, a t about fifty years. It served in the rebnllion and in 1802, on account of advanced age, was turned out to die. —Owing to tho generosity of the Ca­ nadian government and the New York state legislature, Niagara fails can now be viewed without charge from the new suspension bridge to a point on both sides of the river half a mile above them. —A five-year-old boy fell into deep water from a bridge in Seattle, Wasji. , and it was twenty-five minutes before men brought him to the surface with grappling irons, lie was rolled over a barrel,'and at the end of two hours ■was pronounced out of danger. . —At Augusta, Ga., a negro aged 73, was bantered to butt down tho door .of a saloon for a drink. With two or three lunges he drove his head against the door like a steel hammer and tho panels were splintered, He then took his drink and walked off as, uncon­ cernedly as if nothing, had happened. —There is a 'tract in Levy county, Fla,, in which three holes have been dug thirty feet apart, and each excava­ tion has laid bare parts of the skeleton of a huge animal The diggers take it for granted that the bones all belonged to the same creature, and are wonder­ ing what sort of beast it was whose re­ mains underlie the county. —A stick of timber 111 feet long and four feet square has ju^t made a safe railway journey from the state of Washington to Chicago. It weighed nearly 00,000 pounds, and three flat cars, each thirty-four feet in length, were needed to carry it. The once fine tree will be put to the base uses of a beer counter at the world’s fair. * t - A hive of bees swarmed in a corset that had been hung out to air in North Atchison last week. Tho owner of tho corset tried to coax the bees off by beating a tin pan, but “they settled down to business, and she had to go without her corset until her husband catne home a t night und smoked the invaders off.—Atchison Globe. —The population of, Chinatown in San Francisco is said to have, fallen off nearlv five thousand’ in the last Six months. The streets once crowded have become deserted, and the many business firms located there have either retired from1 trade ot> have removed elsewhere. The Chinese attribute the change to diversion of trade to Seattle and Portland and the rigid enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act A further decline of the noted locality is antici­ pated. —In Bodiga, Cal., not long since, a man lassoed _a wild eow, he being tin horseback, when the animnl broke the lariat and made a dash for liberty. Not far off there \yas a large house, with the front door.wide 'open: She rushed through the door, up the front stairs, through a narrow hallway, into a bed­ room, out of tho window, on to tho roof of the porch, from which she leaped to tho ground, striking witli such violence _ns to break her neck.—.8an Francisco Chronicle. —The ocean tug Britannia engaged in a chase after a. Maine vessel that is floating on the ocean with twenty ^thousand dollars’ worth of mahogany in her hold. That vessel is1 the Wyer G. Surgeont, owned b y . William G. 'Goiver, of Sedgwick, and abandoned in a storm Inst March when about eighty- miles off IIattorns. -Since then she lias drifted over two thousand miles, cross­ ing the gulf stream three times. At one period of her wild cruise she went fivo hundred miles iu twenty-one days, When last sighted, June 19, a part at least of the cargo was yet on board. —A young lady gave the following reason, says a Chicago paper, for rising very early on a railroad train: “Well, you see there were three other women on tho car; I noticed that last night, and 1 knew if I didn't get up before they did I’d never bo able to get into the dressing room for hours and hours, and would probably miss my breakfast When one of them gets into a dressing room on a sleeper, she locks herself.in and just takes her time, no difference how many may be waiting. I’ve been (here before, and I just made up my mind to have the first chance a t it for once. My! but weren't two of ’em mad when I came out!". T lie Typical Modern City. Paris is the typical modern city. In' 'the work of transforming the laby­ rinthine tangle of narrow, dark and foul medieval alleys into broad modern thoroughfares, and of providing those appointments and conveniences that distinguish the well-ordered city of our day from the old-time cities which have grown up formless and organless by centnrics of accretion—in this brilliant nineteenth century task of reconstruct­ ing cities in Ihcir physical characters, dealing with them as organic entities, and endeavoring to give sack form to the visible body ns will best .iccornmo' date tlie expanding life within, l ’aris lias been tho unrivaled leader. Berlin and Vienna have accomplished magnif­ icent results in city-making, and great British towns—Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and i tliers—have In a less ambitious way wrought no less useful reforms; bn t Paris was the pioneer. French public authorities, architects and engineers were the first to conceive effectually the ideas of symmetry and spaciousness, of order and convenience, of wholcsomcness and Cleanliness, in n iton arrangements,—Century. THE FARMING WORLD. HORSES THAT SELL Vftlunblo H nrrm itloiu fo r F a rm e rs Kn- SHgcil in Ilo rsn R riipillnr. We often hear it said that there is a place for every, good horse at a fair price, but I find it is much easier to find a place for some good horses than for others. For instance, if one has a good-sized, nice-looking, sound and safe gentleman's driver th a t can trot in three or three und a half minutes, it is not a hard matter to find a place for him a t the price generally asked for that kind, say 8250 to §350. Or if one lias a trotter that can go three times in 2:30 and is a sire of race horses, it is not a hard matter to find a customer for him o r.her at a good, stiff price, say §1,000 to §2,000,. according to age, size, soundness; etc. But when one has. a.,horse that cun - trot ' about 2:40, and no faster, and' is valued at fropi §500 to §700, it is often quite a. 'hard mutter to find a place for him at whatever lie ought .to'bring, be he ever so good a horse individually. . When a limn buys a horse for speed he wants extreme speed, and nothing slower than 2:80 will do. A 2:40 horse is but little better than a three-minute horse for the roud. When a horse is fit and ready for the murket and -the owner is ready to sell, then let him sell for what some good customer will give uud then try again on another one. And if tho animal acts particu­ larly well and there is quite a stir about him, and you are offered all you ask, don’t get scared and. go up so high that no one will buy, bu t take the offer if it is a' fair one. If you don’t, ten chances to one the horse gets out of .fix in.some way before you have an­ other offer, and no one will buy at any price. Unless a horse is something ex­ traordinary in some, respects it is no use to put a fancy price on him and ex­ pect to sell for cash.—A. T. Maxim, in llorso and Stable. TRIANGULAR IN FORM. A P o u ltry House o f Unique Design .Suita­ ble for F llteoii Fowls. . The followingcommnnieation, which, with the illustration, is from the Poul­ try World, explains the construction of an original poultry house:' “The north side is to stand up straight, the other sides, fitting back edges to it and front edges to oneh other, come together at the top; The three corners- can be neatly fitted and covered with u board fti make it light. We suppose the building to be twelve foot at bottom on all three sides,, narrowing at the top. which is twelve feet high. A loft can- be put in, if desired. The glass in this shape of building a n d . position gives full force of limit all day in winter, and it is the best and cheapest house 1 could build. lt will accommodate twelve to eighteen fowls-enough to put together." IMPROVED HAY RACfC. , It* L’*c Will Prevent tlic Pnculrig of Hay III Mnllj-er*. To prevent the packing of hay in mangers, Mr. F. B. Lindsay lias, de­ ft signed a new i w J form of racks, (j , I o f which li e ! I sends us tho ae* FlG.g.l c om p a n y i tig ' I sk e tch e s : By I packing the bay I down into the =*=*=4 wedge-shaped rack, Fig. 1, it becomes wedged tighter and tighter until by use and continued putting in of fresh liny the horses wil turn from the refuse left by careless feeding; while, on the other hand, in the plan shown in Fig. 2. there is an inverted wedge, the slope not being sufficient to bike tip very much room in the stall. A slope of six inches from top to bottom will allow all the liny to slip down as the horse takes it out from .the lower part, and no matter how tight it is stuffed at first, as it is eaten out below the bay above, wilt slip of its own Weight down to tho bottom. The rack Is open a t the lower end, the hay being kept in by the sl&ts the same as a t tin? sides so that the racks become almost self cleaning. They are one ami one-half feet wide at the top. anil can be made as long as de­ sired.—American Agriculturist. ‘ How In Mulic Poultry Pny. Poultry when well citmUbr ivonc of the most profitable branches in farm­ ing, hut. they must J iuvo due attention.. Too many farmers suffer their fowlsto roost in trees or the wagon shed; with a little shelled corn giyen-tliem in the morning. Their combs freeze and they condemn them because they do not lay, Bee Hint your fowls have good, dry, unrin quarters where they can roost comfortably* until morning, do pot suffer damp in the house, or leaks in the roof; give them a variety of fond tttd then you will be rewarded with -ilenty of eggs.- Prairie Farmer, H,NTS f o r d a i r y m e n . A P ro fitab le M eth o d o f F eed in g c m While In M ilk. . There arc many methods >of feeding cows while in milk. Some of our writers of late have disapproved of using chopped I:ay and straw, but this principally depends upon the way of preparation. I fail to sec why some of them should state that their cows’ milk has become dried up. This is undoubt­ edly their own fault, and probably their cows had no access to any other than chopped food, I can fully recoin- , mend it as a proper method of feeding ipilch cows, Let it undergo the follow­ ing treatment and I can positively af­ firm that there will not be the slightest danger of such an occurrence: • Let the chaff consist of hay and wheat straw (the upper part only; in no case the butts, us they are .of too . woody a nature)- Then take either pulped mangels, cabbage or turnips (but tlie latter is often injurious to the butter), about one bushel of the pulps to every four of the chaff and mix well together, at least twelve hours before using; then cover well up with barley and it will be found that a quantity of perspiration ' lias accumulated which, if the ingredients are'of the best quali­ ty as they always ifcould be, it will bo found to be mostVjlppetizing. Adi to each bushel of tho mixture, when serv­ ing it, two pounds of wheat bran, and two pounds of-bran meal well mixed: three pecks of this.may be given twice each day besides-a quantity pf hay. This method will be found much more beneficial than the system adopted by many of giving the roots separate from ■ the meal and chaff especially for mileb cows. Another method inay be successfully tried for the production of milk in the shape of bran or middling mashes given at one feeding time (in place of roots) with a portion of chaff mixed with it, as sloppy food, not only pro­ duces but retains tlie supply of milk and this-may be used as a change of diet.—Ohio Farmer. TEMPERATURE OF CREAM. AVIiy I t SHoultl Ih> K ept Nuitluir Too H o t Xor Too t'olri. Milk kept so cold that it cannot soiq will still in time become bitter, says the Freamery Journal, and milk licatcd 'to sterilize it seems to acquire q bitter taste after cooling, ;beforo it becomes acid. In fact, the presence of bacteria -which attack the sugar and change it. to lactic aeiirseem, by their action', to check the bacteria which make it bitter, ileating milk to 140 or 150 kills the ac­ tive bacteria, but somo g —ms seem to resist this heat and in tiui. -('produce tlie bacteria.' -Three heatings--kill-all the germs and if none be allowed to get into tlie tnilk -from the outside it will not sour. The lino of safe action is narrowed down to controlling the temperature of cream so that it shall not be kept, so cold ns to favor bitter development, nor get so ho t'a s to in­ jure tlie texture of tlie cream, to intro­ duce the right kind of bacteria obtained from pure, clean, skiinmilk kept free' ■ from noxious surroundings; and mix it thoroughly and uniformly with the cream that it may multiply, equally in all portio»s--thnt is, “ripen” the cream uniformly, as every drop of properly- ■ ripened cream contains several hundred thousand separate • bacteria which double'’every hour or oftuncr. It is- easy to understand why particular caro is necessary to secure tlie right kind and right stage of ripening, for if not Stopped a t the proper time other bac­ teria cause decomposition, BASKET NAILING BENCH. A IH-vico' IVIdcli lln* More Thun SatliflcU II* Inventor. J find a bench, such as shown in ac­ companying sketch, quite convenient for - nailing berry boxes, Upon a standard «, which is ii piece of scant­ ling two and one-lialf feet long, another piece nine inches long b is mortised and bolted. An iron plate c, one-quarter inch thick, screwed upon b, serves a good purpose in clinching nails. The, seat d is two and three- quarter feet long, and made of two* C b a sk e t n a il in g b en ch . inch plank, a foot wide. This is mor­ tised and bolted to «, and has two legs a t the back end, which are eighteen and one-half Indies long. The holes through which they are inserted into the plank seat from below should lie bored nearly but not quite through, t'po» the. plank scat, next to the stand­ ard, is a' little tin box, made of an old oyster can, for receiving nails. I am well pleased with this device.— Popular Gardening. No d iffe u r n c e if a hog will cat al­ most everything placed before him, he should not have everything that his cor­ rupted appetite craves. Clean food will malm dean pork, and only clean food is healthy and will make perfectly healthy mCnt.-Uolinan’s Rural World. 0.vr.;: and dover sown together mako* one of the very best feeds for growing pigs or fattening hogs during the latter part of spring or early summer,*