The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

NATURE'S NOBLEMAN- A million lor a matt WkoiMiMul you ow^aol bujri Wlio«e be*n i* true ** uteoj, Th* man who oannot lie. A man who is your friend In triumph or retreat; Komatter whatbotido - L He never know* defeat. Who h*tt)e» to the eb<t _ 1 The right against the wrong, And conquer* though he die, Then sings the victor'* soug. Amanwiw'nJiWtaneltrue *, For seven days In * week, * And when he knows he’s right, In not afraid to apeak. * A man who speaks * cheering won! To him who to oppressed, By wolves who"go about In white sheep clothing dressed. > . ■***» ■ A man who’s not natrtyo the fence Where acme folks always are; A man whfthah'gootf cqtmnoa aeo^e,'' ’Whose Words above par. —Willto 8 , Wood, in Christian Inquirer, .Experience* o t n iwtT Indom itab le ♦ ■ j .44y»npe; Ag0b^>^ H ow nt> Unfortunate Company o f Actor* ' S truggled w ith Adversity—Uncertain, ties T h at Unset th e T ravel. s , lug Troupe. When th e bent of one’s Impulse is ir ­ resistibly stageward it is- a waste of time and eloquence to warn th a t p e r­ son against the heart-breaking uncer­ tainties of a stage career. I t Is 'not as­ serted that, grief and disaster are inevi­ table results of* theatrical undertak­ ings, b u t they most assuredly are the lo t of a large majority of traveling companies. The following unembel­ lished narrative of actual experience shows what difficulties.are encountered .by%'fi#'pe3rl|ia;fdtle'a,ctoi'; Two Seasons ago, a fte r a^prolongec struggle fo r existence, a- well-krtotvn repertoire company, took a blind header south in the hope of retrieving their fortunes and playing the seasonout. I t •was, however, bu t a case of but o f'th e f ilin g p a n ’into th e fire, as the third week found them a t Little Rock practi­ cally strapped. Money and credit were exhausted and all advertising material was used up, In this extrem ity the ' agent was given carte .blanche to go aheadand d ow b a th e eo u ld to kebp the company , moving! Arkansas wad a. stranger to him and lie proceeded to in ­ terview, hi rapid succession, fhe thea­ te r managers, ra ilro a dm e n ,h o te l pro­ prietors, bill posters, attaches o f thea­ ters and* so on, in the fa in t hope of dig­ ging up a mascot, i He fin allyg avq it up and aettled.on th e very ancient town of Arkadelphia, where to ' move , the company from L ittle Rock. The management secured enough money to get him there.’ ' Thu nex t point was to obtain paper' to bill with. An interview w ith the . litlio- grapher.and general factotum of the Gapitoltkeater disclosed the fa c t th a t he bad to t years been in the hab it of saving a dozen o r more lithographs of every sta r who played in the theater. Mr. Agent's, persuasive tongue easily won him to giyc.‘pp;tW ce lithographs of eacli'kind, 'm ak in g a total of about three hundred. Gleefully returning to h is abode th e 'a g e n t trimmed off all printed matter, bo th ' top and bottom, from the lithographs and, •with the blessings und prayers ’of the well-nigh stranded players, proceeded on liis Way to Arkadelphia. With the assistance o f a few stray ' and apparently lost inhabitants of the place, he finally located the "opera house,” It Was a sight! A very plain, cheap wooden structure wfhen Jbmilt— probably th irty years beforer-time had dealt hardly with it. Covered with moss, it leaned towards the g re a t west and somehow suggested by its general appearance th a t i t w as holding its ■breath in a la st rally not to give up the ship and collapse entirely, Tlie little, narrow en tran ce.door leading to the steep and primitive steps was looked, and the agent.rushed into the thick of the town and finally located th e marshal. He Was informed th a t Mrs. lllank owned the "opera house" and lived out of town about two miles. After jollying the marshal and promis­ ing him sevcrAl "comps” for* his in­ fluence and ass •tftnee in negotiating for the "opera house” they started On foot to seek the owner—a vehicle being out of the question, as money was now to the agent b a t a meippry. Arriving a t the house the colored attendan t ushered them into the parlor, where, after almost an hour's wait, the lady appeared. A three-cornered ta lk now -ensued, as the lady would not do busi­ ness directly, bu t through the marshal. Tim ngerit talked to the. marshal, th e marshal to the lady, and ho on back to the agent. After an hour's confab the opera house was secured on the follow-* log extremely liberal terms—fo r the. -owner: Rent, including light, heat and ono stage assistant, twenty dollars, payabjo to the marshal before the curtain rose. This was exclusive of all licenses,which amounted—state, county and town, including collection fees—to ■eighteen dollars and- twenty-five Cents, also payable before the curtain went vp. A little leg-weary, the agent returned to town and dashed into th e one printing office where, to his fu rther hindrance -and dismay, he found the editor and his •entire staff, consisting of one person— the devil—busily engaged in working the hand-press running off the weekly ■edition. The promise of three dollars, payable before the curtain rose, stopped the pres* and the editor, thp devil, and th e ag en t go t th eir heads together i n . jdeyising a ;stunniUg date-line which* after m*nyJ trials, they succeeded In •ettiug up and running,-off, I t an*, pounced a grand production of "Oiir Boys,” by the same company o f twenty artists playing th a t week a t the Capi­ to l theater. Little Rock, 4 half-column local followed from the agent's pen, tho editor obliglugly setting it up and, lifting a paten tm od iclu e ad. ou t of th e form on th e pres*,' li* fcjipjrted it ipu its stead and ra n it irt the remainder .of the edition. His date-lines secured,, the agent hustled to his hotel afiA ' w ith the ukl of a borrowed bottle of mucilage, a t­ tached the dCtls SBthborap’ and then, suphlpt&mw cliSwm ii stfc ing in front of the curtain and fliplo- piphtoflilly cxjda&ing how -it happened th a t twenty artists were billed and but fig h t would appear.. A fter thoroughly mystifying-apd muddling the audience ha. retired* mads up and., “p u r Rpya” was presented.' . t :3"’- A rriv ing -at the hotel aftey the per­ formance a council of war was held. Their to ta l cash? CopHifctqdof n o t quite seven dollars—this total b&lng made up from their slight pocket change and the few dollars remaining of the door re­ ceipts of th e night. They had, after breakfast next morning, when- they hoped to leave for Little Rock, an eight dollar board bill to meet. Then came t|si- difficulty of, 'railroad, tores. Hot much, to .bo sure, but they had it not. M f t »«*»*• « ® ^ nr % ipjf4>vn^«dyt , darted from th e room and. shortly re turned bringing With .him-the marshal -Arkadelphia - been so. «stensiYeiy...og, richly billed. Tfie main street looked like g. raiubow-^-h Jrather straight'ruin- bow-—b a t still about the only thing it resembled. Darkfiess had 'now set in, and tli* very tired agent .sought bis Couch, At seven o’clock, next ..mprning.Jie. was again a t work, as he still lmd a dozen three-sheets und four big stands' of paper in his possession and, as it was roo t hog or die in Arkadelphia .with Jm attraction, he determined to p u t ft a ll up.- By the issuing of two more ‘comps’ he secured,one side of the leading drug­ store—the side ‘ being built of clap­ boards, very old and warped. No bill-? poster was to be had and the agent, .after much explanation,.made a bar­ gain with the one restaurant man of the town to mnke flour paste a t the.rate of two bits per pail payable In tickets a t their full value.’ No suitable brush was to be .found and an old broom was ’finally pressed ’into service. Next two small boys were hired on' a promise of a ticket apiece and, mounting s step- ladder, the indefatigable agent •bespat­ tered himself from head to foot ;in put­ ting up the paper. I t was, hard work, -and, before night, his back was nearly broken, lie had the doubtful honor, however, of being followed about by pearly the entire colored population of the town,'who gaped in admiring won­ der a t the gaudily-colored, papdr and th e agent's ingenuity in utilizing the old broom. The paper np, the reserved seat sale was arranged and the town "dodgered” .w ith small bills. This brought on another night. The next morning was passed by the agent in bed, as he was almost paralyzed -with weariness. Aris­ ing a t noon he proceeded to ta lk shop— the only method now le ft him to fu rther excite the populace, fie talked a ll afternoon, rapidly and incessantly, to anyone and everyone who would ■ listen to hint, until, A t night, he ran across the; leader qf t|ro town band, w ith whom he made a dicker to have the band play in front of the ope­ r a house in consideration of their be­ ing-admitted free and one oxtra ticket apiece. The following day a t boon tlie company was due, and a t eleven o’clock tlioagent reached the depot, a mile ont of 'town, and, seated in the midst of a wil­ derness of cotton bales* waited, lly the 'time the train ’wasduohSs thouglitowere suicidal, as, after mentally summing up the company’s expenses in the town and comparing the sum with the prob­ able business, lie could see nothing but overwhelming disaster for the doomed players, On the other hand rose the uncertainty of their coming, as lm had left them playing to very small houses and tlie chances were th a t they could not raise money enough to leave Little Rook. However, to his unspeakable relief, the train finally pulled in with two members of thu Organization sa­ luting him through tho windows. Ills doleful misgivings were partly realized when but eight moinbers <of the com­ pany stepped off the train. They ex­ plained th a t "Our lloys” could he done w ith eight people and, as a clincher, they added th a t no more of the compa­ ny could have come, anyway, as getting the eight there had heed a pinch. Pro­ ceeding up to und striking the main street the company were greeted by the extensive and gaudy hilling—the most novel their eyes ever rested upon. Mau- tell, Davenport, liarrctt, Rose Coghlnn, McCullough, "Alvin Joslln,” J u lia Mar­ lowe, fkrthern, Annie Ward Tiffany, Scanlan, Alary Anderson', O'Neill, Keene, Robson, Rhea, Sully, and a host of others equally well known, stared them in the face from every point of vantage—all to appear in "Out Boys” th a t evening. The sale a t seven o'clock amounted to six dollars and a half with prices a t fifty cents and one dollar. Proceeding, a fte r att early supper, to the temple of.loot resort, the company arranged (thc stage and assisted the Pooh-Bah of the theater to light up. - This w a s* aifnple affair, as fcxxt-Hghts, side-ligbis slid all o ther light* consisted of tallow candles. The manager and ngeui took their stand a t the head of the ancient stairway, and awaited the public's pieksurc. TWO rickety chairs and an old dry-goods box comprised the box office. The discordant tooting of the band w ithout distracted any sad or apprehensive thoughts they m ight have> entertained os to tlie immediate future, and a t 8:15 p. in. forty-four dollars had accumulated— ju st about enough, to square all debts of the-agent's contract­ ing in the town outside of board hills and re tu rn trip to L ittle Rock. As th e y were obliged to go ahead the manager disappeared brick upon the Stage and preceded the entertainment by appear-. ers,.tacks qnd a small hammer,, he prp- Ceedddfto lfthograph; thte to\Vii "Out Of sight.” Never. evcn whcn Rarnum m)- tq whpm, in tlie pvesepce of tlie entire yertised ■thfe’jplape fo r •L ittle ' Rock! had Company,? lie Appealed in a -long arid af- feqtyng...speech relating to their pecu­ niary stan d in g ... The marshal never weakened until the agent pathetically' referred to the ladies of flic ’company,.three in number; when h e produced one-half of the rent money—ten dollars—and gave it to the agent on behalf, of the company, good- naturedly undertaking to see the matter explained to the owner, Next morning, a t about 10:30 o’clock the company, after paying all indebtedness, departed for Little. Rock, where their tale o f woe’ w a s soon told to- the remainder of the now stranded players. A week passed and the town knew -them no more. ‘‘Inside pockets" were delved into, and this took away the ladiesand about one- third of the men the first, day—some going home and others to the various dramatic' agencies in New York and Chicago.’ A half dozen more kept the wires hot iii appeals to friends and rel­ atives, and in a:couple of days one-half the others had disappeared, fly pawn­ ing jewelry all but three o f the com­ pany managed to get away. What be­ came of the three? They may be there yet.—-Detroit Free Dress. * SHARKS HATE TO OIE. They Have lleen Known to I.lve Hour* After-Being Decapitated. Like most -sluggish creatures, sharks .are extremely tenacious of life, Tor­ toises of several species will live fo r hours after being beheaded, hu t show the effects of the operation by pitting, almost petfectly still or Blowly moving their forelegs as if trying to Ward.off an unseen foe.’ Decapitated sharks, on the other hand, will continue to use their tail muscles with destructive force, and in the w a te r have been known to swim about as if nothing un» usual hud happened, till their vitality becomes exhausted by loss of blood. Sir Emerson Tenneot described a rather iphuman experiment o f th a t Sort in the offing of TriabCraale, Ceylon, where * crew of enraged sailors lashed * white shark to the gunwales, amputated {its head and flung it overboard. The water was perfectly clear and not very deep, and the headless sinner, was seen to swim slowly about for nearly two hours, when its movements gradually became Imperceptible, and it settled on the gruvetly bottom, its tail limp or stirred only by the rolling of the break­ ers. 9 A largo shark can snap off the leg of a horse as easily as a carrot, its biting apparatus being entirely different from th a t of a wolf or a crocodile. The while shark of the Indiau ocean, for instance, has six rows of tooth In tho upper jaw and five in the lower, each tooth about two inches wide a t the base atul jugged along the edges like a triangular saw. Resides being ns flexible as the- best steel, these teeth are always sharp, for the same reason th a t a cat’s claws are sharper thun those of a dog.—San F ran­ cisco Chronicle. BuHlnnM-T.ike Bnatinea. Tlie boatmen of Rio tie .Janeiro drive &roaring trade a t all seasons, and It is one of their humors to land passengers for a moderate sum and then refuse jo tak e them hack until the helpless trav­ elers have, in effect, transferred to them a chattel mortgage of nil tho worldly goods of which they stand at th a t moment possessed. The boatmen b a re the best of It every time, being in league with one another, especially when their victims have acted os pas­ sengers generally do, and stayed on shore until the very last minute, before tho ship is to sail. The common price each way Is 2,000 reis (100 rcis equal to 11 cents), though two passengers are often carried on tho one fare* The law requires all boats to be numbered and registered, as arc all the public vehi­ cles, nnd enrrcgadoi'CB (porters) in the city,—N. Y. Ledger. drink of / H eard in th e Might* "Mamma, picft&e gimme i Water, I’m so thirsty.” “No; you are n o t th irsty. Turn over and go to sleep.” (A pause.) ./‘Mamma, won’t you please gimme a drink? I ’m so thirsty!” " If you don’t tu rn over and go to sleep I ’ll got ttpand spank you!” (Another pause?) "Mamina, won’t you please gimme a drink when you get up to spank me?”—Shoo and Leather Review, —Reciprocity.—Mrs. Uppcrson Walk- cr—"Do go and see Hr. I ’ulficr nnd tell him all about your case. What’s tho use of having a doctor if yon can’t tru st him?” Mr. Uppcrson Walker—1"Ah, th a t isn’t jthe trouble. I ’m afraid lie won’t tru st mol”—N. Y. Truth, TEMPERANCE NOTES. A BAD AMERICAN HABIT. A MUUksa -Id ea »r HoiyM autr That la Working JSvIl. Philadelphia finds a topic of Interest­ ing discussion in the. formation of an ‘•Anti-Treating league” ‘among a pollu­ tion of. the; members pt the Union League, clufi of th a t city-rone of the strOAghstclplA la the Quaker pity* and’ one of the best-known organizations in the United-States. • The secretary of the new Auti-Treating league, Mr*William B. Huey, in explaining to a newspaper man the origin of the movement, says: ••Hke siivspmses et- ti>0system are SBparect’ i f sitiRniH talkliiBio hlB friends hole»afeet a little thlraly without making everybody elBO' fed sA Before'! when one of us would hup- jtyd te igojila upon (Chamber of men ahattlng together he would'naturally feel a little d* trop, and thinking be) mtjat square himself by order­ ing something -a!l> around... How? ho Ha a t bid, ease anywhere. The plan originated with some :ot the member! of the. 61ub who Ste actuate^ by the true spirit of independence.” ‘ No thinking tnan will dispute- the fact, whose- tru th Is confirmed by daily observation, th a t .a large share of the intemperance which is such * curse jo American society is'not on)y promoted .but was largely originated by the pure­ ly American habit of "treating.” The ' habit'is' founded on the false idea of hos­ pitality. If a man- is hungry he goes in to .a restaur ant for ’lunch, and does no t feel, the necessity of inviting any friend, or party of friends, to join him in satisfying his hunger. .Why should he, if lie feels thirsty, deem it any more incumbent 'upon him to Call his friends in to share his potations? ’ The false idea th a t it is necessary, to " trea t” on any and all occasions is in­ stanced in the reply to a-newspaper man’s request for his .opinion of the m atter by the president of the Union League club, ex-Mayor Edwin II. F it­ ter. He is opposed to the anti-treatirig idea. Said he; •'I pemtnly believe in treating. What would a club be without the privilege of a member ex­ tending whntover hospitalities he eho.se to hi* friends? gor my part I shall always do sa The Union League will not make any rules on the subject, even if the anti-treating movement should extend." ' Mr. F itter evidently has not thought .deeply upon the subject. He fails to remember th a t every man has a degree of responsibility for all other men with whom he associates.' -No 'doubt ho would reject with horror.tlie infamous proposition th a t it would be perfectly proper for a man to tempt a woman into dishonor, if he so chose, and th a t no re­ sponsibility should attach to him if she fell Into shame and degradation. But is there hny reason a man should con­ sider it perfectly proper for him to tempt a fellow man into the beginning of intemperance, which in so many cases ruins his career, ends his usefulness and brings him to shame and dishonor? The treating habit is. the cause of the downfall of thousands of.young men every year. Man is a gregarious ani­ mal; he seeks the association of his fel­ low-man. This is especially marked .among thp young. In their hours of recreation young men flock together- One, through the mistaken Idea of hos­ pitality, invites the others to s^rinlt. Each of the others deems it necessary to do tlie same to avoid the Imputation of lack of hospitality. All drink ihora than is good for them. This sort of thing is repeated again and again, un­ til the habit of drinking is firmly fast­ ened upon a t least * portion of them* Not one of them started ont w ith any idea o f becoming a drunkard, or with any dc- ire to do so; yet th a t dire result follows as -the legitimate consequence o t "treating ." . This peculiarly American idea of treating is u hab it th a t will die hard. Law will not cure it, for a t least two states have tried "anti-treating" laws, which proved to be nullities. But the fo ination of anti-treating leagues seems to be a feasible means of com­ bating the habit, and of gradually root­ ing out. the mistaken idea of hospitality, which is its root and origin—a t least among thinking men. Among the un­ educated. it will have to be uprooted by a process of education. -^The crea­ tion of a sentiment against treating, among men who do indtilge ill drink, is a work of praetieal temperance, and a step in tlie progress of the effort to pul­ verize the rnm power.-—Toledo Blade, _ J s u g g e s t iv e " f IGlTRES. Statistics show ing th e Knormlty of th* Drink Traffic. Large figures sometimes tell startling stories. Let those who are fond of working over statistics see what they make of this: In the yea r ended June SO, 1891, a tax was paid to the United Stales on more than eighty-eight million gallons of dis­ tilled spirits made in the country, and a duty was paid on a million gallons more imported from abroad. In the same year Internal revenue tax was paid on eight hundred and sev­ enty-four million gallons of malt liquor apd import duty on threo million gal­ lons more, Not fa r from six quarts of fiery spir­ its for every man, woman and child in the United States, Fourteen gallons—almost half a bar­ rel—of beer for every inhabitant of the country! What did it cost? I t paid the govern­ ment in taxes more than one hundred and Seventeen million dollars. I t prob­ ably coat the people who drank it twice as much. That is, twice as much in money. How much it cost them in physical add moral degradation, In loss of self-re­ spect and tlie respect of others, figures do no t tell. Statistics are not gathered to cover th a t point, Nor do we know how much it co*t those who did not d rlnk ' tt—in tho pov­ erty of families whose head was m drunkard; in the support of paupers ruined, by drink; in a hundred o ther ways. 1 Does th e magnitude of the national drink bill suggest anything to you?-* Yodth’s Companion. VARIOUS NOTES, T hk Illinois Gospel Temperanc* league are working to g e t a temperance hand in eyqry church apd society in tli* state. J 'i>- ‘ ‘ R ight measures relating to te n r perancc have been introduced into th* Brljish parliament dueing;the present 'se&iidn. ■' Ax excellent scientific to/nperanc* education law has just been passed b y the legislature of Novia Scotia. This is the first one for-Canada. ’ ' T hk anti-treating society of Philadel phia is making progress. I t has a large membership of prominent club men und the Be'nseleSrf hud mischief working system oj! treatiqg.promi&es to become Unpopular.,. * ■ t:. . * T hk population of the United State* is - about 62,000,000.' Of this number about 240,000 are re ta il liquor dealers, or one person out of every 258. ' The gross income of the business is over $1,100,000,000 each year, an average to each dealer of .nearly $5,000, the best part of which represents clear profit. A meihcan women are well known en­ thusiasts in the cause of' temperance. One of the most zealous workers de­ votes an immense vineyard, her mind and means to the production of an un­ fermented wine, which she uses her in­ fluence to have accepted fo r the com­ munion table in place o f' alcoholio liquor. T hebk is, indeed, a high pressure in many ways in modern life, but we have uo doubt th a t the brain power o f many of the increased number of victims o f insanity has been lessened, by the de­ teriorating influence of alcoholic indul­ gence, cither on their own part or th a t of their ancestors. One of the hereditary legacies of alcoholic brain-poisoning is insanity.—Standard/ T hk man who wants a d e a r head has: need to be especially careful in select­ ing food for his/mid-day meal, and fox this, plain satips, cold chicken, milk, cresses, lettifce, rice, or rico pudding, sandwiches made of beef or lamb, bread and butter, or plain cake are foods th a t are nutritious, and easily assim ilated., Alcohol in any form is not on the list, and pastry, fancy cakes, and ice cream are mentioned as foods to be avoided. Fo r tho late dinner a man may, as a rule, eat what he wants, only talcing' care not to overload the stomach, aud to have h is food varied and abundant, and so nicely served. th a t eating i* pleasurable.—N* Y. Post. • Tint liquor traffic costs the people o f this country over a billion dollars * year, which largely comes out of tb s pockets of the workingmen. T h ish il- . lion dollars is worse th a n wasted, for i t brings nothing but woe, crime, misery; pauperism and death. Every dollar of the billion goes to support tho most gi­ gantic monopoly which ever cursed a nation. This billion of dollars, if spent for food und clothing, and other neces­ saries of life, would do away w ith three-fourths of the poverty, crime and misery which now desolate the land.— Nashville Issue. tVlilsky Drinking In Englnnd- One of the curiosities of an English table a t tlie table d’hote dinner is the number and prominence of tho whisky bottles. To an American it is extreme­ ly curious to See half a dozen gentle- - men and ladies sitting down a t the ta ­ ble with a pint decanter full of whisky before each, and yet the sight -is sa common in England as to excite no re­ mark. When it guest arrives a t air English hotel he orders a decanter to be filled with whisky of his favorite brand I t is then charged to him, and a b it of paper marked with the number of liis room is pasted on the flagon. If is brought out a t dinner and placed a t liis plate, he drinks what he pleases, and the rest is saved for tho next occa­ sion. The array of" flagons on the din­ ner table is often very portentous, and a stranger unaware, of the manner hi which tiie liquor is used is apt- to won­ der whether or not he has got into a nest of drunkards, and the suspicion is not allayed by seeing tlie stout old lady opposite to him pour a quarter of a glassful to bdgin with. But he need have no fear. She dilutes it with wa­ te r and sips i t as she eats, to promote digestion. Ho do all the rest; and th a t is all the drinking th a t most of them do.—St. Louis Republic. „ Banquets Without IVine. At most banquets wines of sotho Sort are, in more or less profusion, pro­ vided. The Chicago Tribune report* one given in th a t city where there was no “champagne but plenty of w it.” It was the second annual banquet of tho Illinois Woman’s IV cbs -association. There were two hundred guests pres­ ent, nnd many speeches which were heartily applauded. The banquet com­ menced a t eight O’clock, atul it waa after m idnight when the last address was finished. I t appears to have been in every respect a highly successful af­ fair. I t demonstrates th a t it is possi­ ble to have the social, festive and intel­ lectual occasions w ithout recourse to the wine hup. I t trill be a great gain to the cause of to ta l abstinence genet- ally wluen the intelligent, cultivated people supposed to be'rep resen ted on these occasions are willing to ‘forego intoxicants altogether,—National-Tem­ perance Advocate.