The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

WE'LL- POP SOME "CORN. How the north wind whistles Down tho valley white! John, no get tho popper; We'll pop some corn to night; ' ‘ Tho coals. are all aglowinif, J’ lurop eUealts ttusli In the light, John, co get thq popper; Wo'U pop some corn to-night. It's,just tho night for laughter, it'Hjnot tho night for fan; « W?) will outroar old Boreas, i«'or tve are flvo to one. feme, Bess, help with the shelling, Nell, get a basin In-ight, Aud John, come, shake the popper; ■, AVo’il pop some corn to-night. Tho giddy corn is dancing Aud jumping all about; Be careful, John, be carotid, Ur it will all hop out. And burn to crisp,unless you .Shake with all your might; -Bo shako the popper lively, While wo pop tho corn to-night. -Fersfa’E. Darrow, In Good Housekeeping. RACING WITH-A. TIGER. A B icyclist’s D e sp e ra te B id e for L ife iu India. 1 \ us always very fond of bicycling1, anil, from the time when I was a small ■ boy, and labored for hours with a bone­ shaker, to the days when I became the proud possessor of one of the first bicy­ cles over manufactured, I reveled in the enchanting pastime, spending hours which should have been otherwise oc­ cupied on the back of my iron horse, thus putting my physical powers along way ahead of my mental. In fact, I hated the sight of a book, and was never happy unless scouring the.coun-. try on my bicycle. My father was a doctor iu a little Kentish village, and, having a large family, lie was thankful indeed when, at the age of nineteen, a commission was obtained for mo by a wealtuy friend in a regiment about to sail for India'. A grand new bicycle was my father’s parting present to me, aud great was my delight at finding that" another young “ sub” in my regiment was also a bicyclist. In' these days when the ‘ •iron wheel" has so many votaries this may seem nothing strange, but to real­ ize my surprise aud pleasure you-must reuiernber that a bicycle was then a comparative curiosity and a bicyclist a person, to be stared , at and admired or otherwise. Our' bicycles; were. I be­ lieve, the first over seen in India, and as we rode together into.itown some days after our arrival one would have ^thought it was the ‘ riumphal entry of some eastern potentate. > I could fill a book with the curious incidents and accidents which befell us ingoing -'/up country.” Our regiment was'always on the move, and panics of one kiiid or other were very frequent on our bicycling excursions. One evening after mess Fred and drew up and signed articles to ride ten-mile race. . There was a grand native road within a.short distance of our camp running away for ten miles as flat as a draw­ ing board, It lay through the open plain, and then a deserted' track was reached, becoming wilder as the road proceeded, and finally swallowing it up in an impenetrable jungle. Bent had found a circular path around some na­ tive huts a short why, from the station, measuring kbout six laps to the mile, and there lie- prepared jiimself for the Coming struggle. Aften a week o f such training as would make a modern athlete’s hair stand on end—meat almost raw, Chopped very finely; little drinks of neat brandy, etc.-—we considered our­ selves tit for the contest; and the ad­ venture 1 am about to relate occurred the evening before the eventful day. I was just starting fora last ride over my favorite course* when an officer stopped me and sa . “ Have you heard of the tiger, Har- vie1.'"* . “ No.” I answered. ‘ •The natives have just brought word that a large tiger is marked down in the jungle about.ten miles from here; so don’t go too far this evening.” ‘ All right,” 1 laughed. “ I think a tiger would find it a difficult, matter to catch m.‘ --my training would tell on him." f iia ! not seen any large wild beasts as y ! and my notion of a tiger was a tlur?. ir,-looking anhnai, us I had o:i- •:. an a traveling menagerie. Awav i rode, my comrade's caution forgo** t. before I had gone a mile. I started at a good pace, but not raring at I intended to do all I knew coining home. In about an hour I’ reached my usual hnlting-plnce, ten inii ‘s frmn ti.eeamp; but this being {Jp last night of my training, I made ud my mind to ride another couple of mi.es, arm then do tho whole distance bai l; at my best pace. - 1rude on, and in another ten minutes found myself in the jungle. Now for (he race home. Dismounting, I oiled my machine, tightened up every screw, and then sat down on a bowlder to rest nnd enjoy the prospect. A beautiful scene it was, too! Above me rose the grand mountains* their snowy tbps blushing crimson in tin- f ttisig rn,m, here a waterfall, like a thread of gold and silver, washing down the mountain side, and twining in ami out among the masses of trees ami rocks; there a glimpse of fairyland through a jungle viata. A post, or ‘ ‘tank,” as they arc called, surrounded by dense foiiage, festooned by parasitical climbirtfef plants, glow­ ing with flowers o f every Imaginable hue; humming birds, like fiery gems, flashed hithet and thither, dart­ ing in and out among the trees. On the ‘'tank" floated wate; fowl of every kind, and the banks were alive with gorgeous birds, their plumage rivaling the flowers in brilliancy and variety of coloring. But now tho shadows were deepening, the crimson on the moun­ tain tops had disappeared, and cold snow began to look gray anil ghostly. A flying fox went rustling past, me, and I hastily prepared to mount; for there is scarcely any twilight in In­ dia, and I knew it would soon bo dark. As I rose my eye encountered some­ thing which made me start and nearly drop my bicycle. There, not forty yards off, was a tiger, I knew the animal well chough; but how different he looked/ from the lean, half-starved little beast 1 had seen|athome. He had just come into tho open space from a dense jungle-break, and sat there washing his .face -and- purring in a contented sort of way, like a huge oat. Was I frightened? Not an atom; I had my bicycle and a start of forty yards, so if £ could not beat him it was a pity. He bad not seen me yet, and I -stood for another minute admiring the hand­ some creature and then quietly mount­ ed (the tiger was directly on my right, while the road stretched straight away in front of me). The noise .1' made I’oused him; he looked up, and then, after deliberately stretching himself,, came leaping with long, graceful bounds over the rank grass and rocks which separated him from the road. He did not seem a bit angry, but evi­ dently wished to get a nearer, view’ of such an extraordinary object. • Forty yard s, however, I thoughtwas quite near enough for safety. . .The tiger was in the roud behind me no.w; so I pulled myself together and began to quicken my pace. Would he stop disgusted after the first hundred yards, and give up the chase, or would he stick to it? I quite, hoped he would follow ine, and al­ ready pictured in mv mind'the graphic description d would write home of my. race with a tiger. Little did I think what a terrible race it was going to be. I looked be­ hind me. By Jove! 'he was “ sticking to- i t ” I could not judge the1 distance; but at aDy rate I was no furtlierfrom him than when we- started. Now for a spurt! I rode the next half mile as hard as I could, but on again looking round found I had not gained a yard. The tiger'was on my track, moving with a long, swinging trot, and going qujte as quickly as I was. ; For the first time I'began to feel anxious nnd thought uneasily of the ten long miles which separated me' from safety. However, it was no good thinking now; it Was my muscle and iron steed against the brute. I could only do my best and trust in Providence. . Now there was no doubt about the tiger's intention; his blood was up, and on lie came, occasionally giving vent to a roar which made the ground trem­ ble. -Auother mile linil been traversed and the tiger was slowly but surely dosing up. I dashed my pouch to the ground, hoping it would stop him for a few sec­ onds; but he kept steadily on, and I felt it was theri grim earnest. I caleula'ed we must be about seven miles from camp now, and before, I could ride another, four my pursuer, I knew, must reach me. Oh, 'the agony of those minutes, which seemed to me like long hours. , ' Another mile passed, then another, I could hear him behind me now—pad, pad. pud, .quicker and quicker, louder and louder.. I turned in my saddle for a moment, and saw there were •not twenty yards’ separating us! How enormous the brute looked, and bow terrible! His huge tongue liung out, aud the only sound-he made was a con­ tinued hoarse growl of rage, while his eyes seemed to literally flash fire. It was like some awful nightmare, and with a shudder I bent down over file handles and flew on. As I now sit quietly in my chair writing, I find it hard to analyze the crowd of memories that went crushing through my brain during that fearful ride. I saw long-forgotten events m which I had taken part rise up distinct­ ly before me: and, while every muscle was racked with my terrible exertiou. mV mind was clear, and my life seemed to pass before me like orie long pan­ orama. On, on, on; the slightest slip, I knew, would be fatal; a sudden jolt, a screw giving, and I should be hurled to in­ stant death. Human strength would not stand much more; the prolonged strain had told upon me, aud I felt it would soon jpet over. My breath came ’ in thick :lobs, a mist gathered before my eyes— »j was stopping; my legs refused to move, and a thousand fiends seemed to life flitting about me, bolding me back, back; n weight like lead was on my chest; I was choking; I was dying. Then a few moments, which seemed a lifetime, and then—crasli—with a roar like thunder the tiger was on me, and t was crushed to tlie ground, Then I heard shots fired, a babel of iUen’s voices, and all was blank. « » 4 * • # * * # After many days of unconsciousness and raging fever reason gradually re­ turned and I learned the particulars of my deliverance. A party of officers had started with a shikaree (or native hunter) to a trap which-had been prepared for the tiger. A goat was tethcrad on the outskirts of the jungle, and the sportsmen had started to take up positions in the trees near to wait for their game, which the bleat of the goat, in the stillness of the night, would .speedily have attracted. They were talking of our coming bi­ cycle race as they went along, and ex­ pected every moment to meet me on my return journey. As they passed a clump of bushes I came iu sight, about a quarter of a mile in front of .them, whirling along in a cloud of dust which hid my terrible' pursuer. They soon, however, saw my awful danger. The huge brute, mad with rage, hurled itself upon ine just as we reached them. My friends stood almost petrified with terror and did not dare to fire; but the shikaree, a man of iron-nerve, and accustomed to face sudden danger of all kinds in the hunting field, sprang quickly to within a yard of the tiger, and, putting his -riflo almost to the animal’s car. fired twieo and blew its brains out, just in time to save, my life. I was drawn from the palpitating body of my dead enemy, everyone present Relieving it was all-up with me. Making a litter of boughs they car­ ried me into the camp, where I lay for many weeks lingering between life aud death.—Cfiicago Journal. THE TYROLER. A People Til at H im Not Iteen C'auerlvt by the Protreulre Spirit o f the Age. Slow and almost imperceptible is the general progress of civilization, verify­ ing the saying that "a Tyroler first knows what he is about when he is forty.” He is active in his fields, plow­ ing, mowing,1sowing, hoeing, reaping and sluicing his meadows with tho bounteous, never-failing waters from tlie hills. There, however, his activity ceases; all tlie rest is a charming stag­ nation, for he does not much hoe oi plow the soil of his intellect, so it re1 mains fallow ground. lie seems to have neither mundane ideas nor vie,ws; and one is apt to doubt whether he thinks at ail, but simply moves. ou mechanically in the old grooves. lie plows with the same rude wooden plow, iise.s a harrow with wooden teeth, thrashes-by band instead of by machinery, and as to steam!—it may. employed by railroad companics, in­ vade the chief arteries of tlie land, but j not his barn. He sows and plants by | hand. Youmay assure him that drills | would. save half his seed corn and! three times his labor. He listens ad- ! iniringly, but lie sows by baud- all the i same. i | Drills, scufflers, mowing or reaping j machines are left to the more go-ahead’! .nations who live, he says,.on fiat lands. ! He mows and reaps as his father’did, i and who, he supposes, knew what he t was about His rotatory crops are pro- | eisciy itho same as iiis grCat-graiulfathei j used and sowed. Rye, tlie chief crop, a j little wheat, n good deal of buckwheat, grown in England on.ly for the pheas­ ants, popplos-—not for opium, but for their seed as a condiment to Tyrolese •■ pastry—and a plot of maize. These ! figure as tlie indispensable growths I llis bread he seasons witii his beloved | hummel-—that is, eumininseed—• which > ho gathers out of his meadows before his hay is cut He- eats tlie I same dishes as his progenitors did a j thousand years ago. --Hood Words. ; ' A Iiut ’* TrliMin. j Some time ago a druggist of Putnam, i Conn., threw a lot of empty bottles into i the buck yard of his store and recently, j while he was strolling there, he heard , one bottle clinking agaiust the rest in . a peculiar way, The bottle rolled about as if it were bewitched. The druggist flicked up tlie locomotive bot- , tie and'was astonished to see a rat gal- ' livanting inside it. He was a big gray .• fellow, while the bottle nozzle is scarcely big enough to let a man thrust his finger into it. The rat’s body is more than three times larger than the orifice and the mystery is how did the rat get in the bottle. The druggist placed the imprisoned rat on the coun­ ter iu his store and scores of people in­ spect it daily. It is the conjecture of a ; scientific Putnam citizen, who is famil- . iar witii the habits of rats', that it crawled in the bottle when young, and, since it is known that rats help each , other in tribulation, that the animal's mother has visited the bottle daily and contrived to thrust food into it. The rat appears to be in excellent health and apparently is nappy ami contented. - -San Francisco Chronicle. 4 Scarecrow*. Scarecrows are a misnomer, for they don’t-senre crows.. A dead crow hung • up by.the feet will scare some, crows —, no doubt feuiales, of a superstitious ; turn of mind -but it-won’ t keep off the ' canny agnostics among them. A farm­ er once had a shepherd dog who, at the. i command to go down and keep the : crows out of the corn field, would take charge of the field nnd keep out every bird of them effectually. Dogs, es­ pecially collie-, might be trained easily to perform this duty; though oc­ casionally, no doubt, tho crows would divide their forces nnd give tho dog more work than ho could do, Few of our farmers, by tho Way, realize the amount of help in their work that they can got out of a good dog.—Boston Transcript, —Lived in Boston, of Course. —liicka -— ‘They toll me that Brown’s wife is quite lltornry.” Wicks—“ Decidedly. She’s writing letters from morning to night, and when she- buys a new article of furniture slie makes sure that it cor­ responds with everything else in the house."—Boston Transcript, TEMPERANCENOTES. ALbOHOL AND MORALS. A Habit Tlmt Never Add* Anything to Character. Dr., T. L. Wright, iu considering the influence of alcohol on the moral con­ stitution of man, remarks: ’ “ The influence of alcohol on mor'als is immediate, it is perceptible to ob­ servation quickly after ulcohol is taken into tho. system; but it varies greatly, both in kind, and intensity, with the stage of drinking. “ In general terms it may be said that no instance has been recorded where tlie influence of alcohol upon a good man, when carried to its full ex­ tent, lias failed to’ taint his morul na­ ture. Nor has any' instance ever been known of a character' so base, so bestial ami inhuman, that alcohol could not sink it still lower. It seems, in fact, true, as far as the world’s ex­ perience, extends, that the depth of de­ pravity into which alcohol may plunge the human soul lias never yet been sounded. In its position as a Wrecker of good, morals, alcohol stands ‘proud­ ly eminent.’ Fenv things are so bad as to have no good in them; but, aside from certain properties available in therapeutics, alcohol seems in its im­ pressions on the human organism to be singularly bad. In all its long aud dreary history it lias never been known to-add anything whatever to n man's real character for piety, or. sympathy, or love to his family, or kindness to his fellow-ihau. ' •- “ Alcohol deadens tlie* conscience of anyone who partakes of it, let iris mo­ tives in drinking be what they may. The casual drinker often partakes of alcohol without any clearly defined purpose, certainly without the slightest intent of committing an unlawful act.' Yet the poison affects him as it does others: it paralyzes his conscience’, the acuteness of his sensibilities is blunted, and lie is peculiarly liable to lie led into improper and unlawful conduct. The drinker is deprived of intellectual soundness as well as of moral capacity; and yet tlie law says: ‘Drunkenness Ls no excuse for crime.’ “ Shakespeare knew the deadly spell that alcohol casts on-morality: •‘ ‘ If I can fasten but one cup upon him With that which .lie has drunlt to-night al­ ready. He'll be as full of quarrel ami offense As my young mistress' dog,’ saith ‘honest Iago.' “ It appears to.be a potential quality of drunkenness to depress the moriil capacities and thus foster the assaults of temptation, whether it conies in the guise of folly or of criminality. The corruption of the moral system may be observed in the smalt v.ices of drunk­ enness as well as in the surprising tur­ pitude of its conspicuous outrages. Tim crimes of drunkenness are not com­ monly the outcome of premeditation and brooding malevolence. The nat­ ural defense against their exhibition and activity, the nervous basis of tlie moral constitution, is disabled. While this nerve defect in drunkenness may to some extent be inconsistent with premeditation and malice in the. com­ mission.of crime, yet the'very defect is tlie more-dangerous to society from the fact that it is withdrawn from the su­ pervision of the rational mind, “ A person intoxicated will commit offenses in thought, in speech and in conduct which in his sober moods he would view witii abhorrence. The ten- i ucy of drunkenness is inevitably to­ wards crime. —Hemmv.st’s Magazine. D THE ACTION OF~ALCOHOL. First Come* KxultiUlnn Tlien Dill Ine** Mini llrspiilr. Although tlie effeets of alcohol are fniniliur, it is well to recall them when we,would measure tlie strength of tlie tendency of excessive indulgence to be­ come a habit. The action of this stimulant on the .average human being <s first to fill him with n serene and de­ lightful self-complneeitey. His feelings and his faculties are for the moment exalted into a state of great activity and buoyancy, so that his language be­ comes enthusiastic and his conversa­ tion vivacious if not brilliant. Grad­ ually. however, if the indulgence be continued, the senses become dulled, a soft humming seems to fill the pauses >f the conversation and to modify the tones of tile speaker, a filmy haze ob­ scures the vision, the head seems lighter than usual, and tlie equilibrium is disturbed. By and by object, ap­ pear double, or flit confusedly before the eyes; .the exercise of judgment is suspended, the power of reticence is annihilated, and tlie victim of drink throws forth all that is within him in unrestrained communicativeness: lie leeomes boisterous, ridiculous, and sinks at length into a mere animat. Every person and everything around him. the houses, trees, even (lie earth itself, seem drunken anil unstable, while in his own eyes lie alone seems sober, .till at last the final stage is reached, and lie falls on the ground in­ sensible—(lead drunk, as it is called— an apoplectic state from which, after profound slumber, lie at last emerges exhausted, feverish, sick and giddy, with ringing ears and a violent head­ ache. It lias been discovered that tho toxic action of alcohol in large doses primar­ ily affects the cerebro lobes, after which tin* other pai’tfi o fth e cerebro­ spinal system are consecutively in­ volved, till in tlie stage of dead drunk­ enness the only parts not invaded by the benumbing paralysis are those au­ tomatic centers in tlie medulla oblon­ gata, which regulate, and maintain the circulation and rcspiratjgth these centers are not wholly unaffort* ed; the paralysis of thetfe, as of tha other sections of the cerebrospinal system, varies in He incompleteness and- at times becomw complete, til*, coma of drunkenness terminating in. death. More usually the Intoxicant i» gradually eliniinated and the Individ*’ ual is restored to consciousness — » . consciousness disturbed, however, by the secondary results of the agent ha lias abused. In every case the stomacifc suffers directly or indirectly through the nervous system. ' Nutrition, con- sequently, is interfered with by the do* fectire ingestion of food as well as by tlie mal-assimilation of that which in ingested. To this cause, as well as t* the peculiar local action of the poison^ lire due the various, organic degenera­ tion's vvliicli, in most instances, shorten the drunkard's days.—Once a Week. rum "T n svv I t z I rland . Efforts or tlmC.ovt-rninent to Mitigate thtf Drink Evil. It is uhvays interesting to note tha progress of experiments in mitigation of the drink evil. The lamentable re* salts following tlie unrestricted traffig in intoxicating drinks are acknowledged by all, and there is hardly a government! in tlie civilized world which has not/ attempted by some means to remedy on mitigate them. In 1887 intemperance in Switzerland had reached the magni* tude of a. natioual evil, and the govern* ment had created a monopoly of tha liquor business with a view to its miti­ gation. The results of this action are now for . tho first time given publicity in an official report to the British govern­ ment by her majesty's consul at {Switz­ erland. Three tilings were aimed at by tlu* (Swiss federal legislation of J887. ’The first, U> provide additional revenue for tlie Swiss government; sec- ' oud, to diminish the consumption of alcoholic liquors; and third, to insure that whatever liquors were sold within the country should be absolutely free from any adulteration. • t ■---fAll three of these objects have been! accomplished, and the consul sums up ‘tire general results in these words; ‘‘The success of the alcohol monopoly may now be said to be fairly-cstab* tished. It has done its best to insure the purity of the spirit ‘consumed throughout ■the country; it has dimin­ ished tiie consumption in a remarkable degree, and •it distributes yearly among tiie cantons a sum which is al­ ready very considerable and which will • increase.”. There is a temperance feature in tha Swiss .law .-which must not be over­ looked. It provides that one-tenth o f the money which accrues to the can- , tons must be expended in combating tlie causes and effects of drunkenness. Leaving it to tlie wisdom of. thoir legis­ lative bodies as to the manner in which this may best be done. While one of the. objects of tiie legislation, was to produce additional revenue, the most satisfactory result, to the friends o f temperance, lias been the decrease in the consumption of liquors, la tlia year 1883; tlie average consumption ,o f spirits in Switzerland per capita of pop­ u lation was 10.'it! liters, while in 1800, under-a' little over two years of tha new law, it had been reduced to 8.87 liters. The liter is about quarts of our,measure. This diminution cannot but be grati­ fying to every friend of the temperance cause. Tlie creation of a government monopoly lias put a stop entirely to the contraband trade in intoxicants which was curried on before to a very great extent, and tlie rigid governmental in­ spection has insured the purity of all liquors sold. These results arc cer- tuinly important, especially when we remember tlu* condition of Switzerland a few years ago, when the increase o f driinkenucss was so alarming as to spur the government, in thb face of strong opposition, to take hold of tha problem.—Toledo Blade. GLEANED HERE AND THERE. W k have a great horror of arsenic, and fifty other things; the fact is, all these things are a mere bagatelle in re­ lation to the most direct, absolute, im­ mediate and certain poisonings' which are caused by alcohol. ■ Wiiv do bartenders seek to shield their, patrons from tlie public gaze, by e-ecting screens, nnd why do rum drinkers, shelter themselves behind such barriers? It is not for privacy’s sake alone, because if such were the the ease the same seclusion would be required at the soda-water fountain. Am, but nine states out of the forty- four in tlie I'nitcd States now make” scientific temperance education compul­ sory in their common schools. Thera arc between twelve *and thirteen mil­ lion children in America of whom tha law says that they shall lie taught tho truth against strong drink and kindred narcotics. In the majority of theso states no teacher who has not passed a satisfactory examination in the subject is granted a certificate or authorized to teach. T ub beer-drinking capacity of some men seems almost beyond comprehen­ sion. The New York World has been investigating the subject, and says: Men who work in breweries are credited with being tho largest dally consumers of beer. At Evorard’s from fifteen to eighteen quarters arc drank every day by the employes, blit “ .loo,” who stands behind tlie free bar, said that thirty or forty glasses was a good individual average. One man said ho thought he could drink one hundred glasses a day if there were anything in It, but ho didn’t believe his ordinary consumpi % j .