The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

GOOD ENOUGH FER >/lE. They miy J missed my callin'; 1 wight, have been u Hugo If l'il a gone ter college When twenty years of ago. They say uiy glftwuc lungwidge; Without a workln' much f* I might a been quite fluent. In Hebrew, French an’ Dutchi I own ’tls very flatt’rln’, 1 But answer’em: >"You boo The Inngwldge Shakvupoaro writ In Wuz good enough for me." . I used tor read his play books When jest a little lad: Though hard to understand, ylt. I lilted tho ring they hud. Then what’s tho sense In lcnrnln* The things I’d never use, ■ For though I’m glib at talkin’, I wouldn’t have exouso Ter chat InDutch er Latin With Llbu, Joint an’ Zelce, A setiln* on the doorsteps, i ’Cause Yankee's all thoy apeak. , * There may bo Jtingtvldgo finer, An’ thorn more soft an’ clear; The one I courtod fame In ’3 the one I like tor hear. , I toll my teamIn English Ter "git up," "haw" and "gee," ’N’ tho langwldge SUaltespoare writ in Is good enough s?er me. —Helen Cbaftce, In Dptrpit Free Press. ,MONOthe num­ berless stran­ gers- hanging _ a r o u n d th e saloons and the “ blind tigers” in Ta­ coma, Wash., not long since, were two men who attracted considerable atten­ tion from the habitues of these places, though apparently inclined to avoid it. They were two rather handsome but weather-beaten men Who had just re­ turned train Alaska, where they had been employed by a syndicate of capi­ talists on a prospecting tour o f some sort. Tho larger one, who was consid­ erably over, six feet, and would weigh, two. hundred and fifty pounds, was of a retiring, almost sullen disposition, but wild and. reckless when drinking, while, tho smaller one was more in­ clined to'be communicative in his cups. They were both college graduates, ap­ parently, but seemed to be “ black sheep.” One night a . crowd of young fellows had been drinking some, and the two ' men mentioned having been pres­ ent were invited to join thpm, The smaller one, known as Johnny, did, hut tho one called Thomson declined and Walked out. In the course of the evening a good many stories were Chid, and when one of tlio boys wound up on asmall bear story, it got Johnny started, “ People as a rifle know very little of the real characteristics'of tho hoar," . said he._ “ Some are almost harmless, while some are simply terrible, .I have hunted tho-brown hear in Europe and the black tear in this country, but I never saw one of either killed in my life that wasn’t u coward.” “ The grizzly certainly isn’t a cow­ ard,” remarked ono of the boys present, “ No,” was the response, “ but while the grjzzly is a terrible brute, it will not hunt up a human being for the mere pleasure o t fighting and killing him. The* most terrible animal of the tribe and the only one I regard as the genuine ursus ferox, is the long- necked polar bear of tho north. Nearly all other hears are primarily vegetari­ ans, although omnivorous. Thoy love vegetables when they can get them. Tut a polar bear loves only meat, and meat he will have. To see the glutton­ ous creatures hunting and eating fish, from the freshest to the most offensive find decayed carrion, is enough to give an idea of what they are. “ One stinging cold day last winter at car furthest northern point, we were waiting to be taken back to a camp, some hundred miles o r mote south, of as. The Esquimaux tire httd engaged had not arrived, so while we were wait­ ing for them with their dogs and sledges* we were killing time in a little improvised snow hut. Thomsonhadbeen growing more Impatient every minute, and had been drinking more brandy than I thought desir&ble. And I began to fear he would punish tbe Esquimaux and eause some trouble When they ar­ rived, Presently, just outside of our hut, there came an immense white behr nosing around. As long as We chose to stay in the hut we were perfectly safe, hut Thomson’s anger now turned itself loose upon the bear, As often ft* we went out there stood the repulsive creature, and, after each tour o f inspec­ tion, Thomson would take another •Irinkhud curse the bear. At last he swore he was not going to stand it any longer, but would go out there and Wring its neck. With this he grasped ld'ilong-bladbd bowie knife andwalked ovt. I called to him and begged him to stop, l»ut 1 might as Well have been tasking to tbe .wind, “ 1 hurriedly put on my wrt the time 1 got out, he was do to tho bear. lYou know whd nidcent specimen ofsphysical |xhi ).e is. Well, you ought to have seen him then. Every muscle was like a bar of steel, and stimulated l>y the brandy ho hud been drinking, ho was at*the summit of physical manhood, Boeing mo approaeliing with my rifle ho warned mo to keep ‘bauds off,’ as this was to be a duel and no unfair ad­ vantage should 1)3 taken.. I knew him too well to cross him, and besides, I might hit him if I shot, so I simply waited pud watched the duel. “ Thomson tried in every way to get arpum! behind the bear, but tlie bear would turn and face him, no matter how quick bo was. •lie saw this would tire him out, so he changed hie plan. Walking up in front of his enttwy ha would taunt him, and then,.springing. away, avoid liis . stroke. When the hear would, drop on all fours to lontio, at him Thomson would jump to one side to dose in, and then up the bear would go on-his hind feet again. In a spirit of recklessness Thomson stopped this dilatory play by walking right into the bear's arms: and cutting a ter­ rible gash in his abdomen. Buck a howl of rage I never heard, and. of course, all the claws on each of tho hoar's paws sank into’ Thomson’s hack and tore out-ward- IIis -.flesh, as well as his clothing, seemecl to be furrowed ns if with razors where the claws came through, but as soon as this occurred Thomson darted like a flash under the left foreleg or arm of the animal, got at tlve bear’s back, and then, for tho first time, 1 realized, what he had been trying to accomplish. Before the boar coukl turn or drop on ‘all fours’ Thom­ son had his left arm like a bar of .steel under the bear’s chin or lower jaw, and its long, ugly neolt was stretched backward till it seemed as if it would snap. Tho terrible claws would come up. and reach for that enemy.who ap­ peared to be just at the back of his neck, but only a few strips of flesh and clothing could he bring; and the bowio knife was doing its deadly work on hia neck, stretched ,to its utmost tension* Dropping to its haunches* the bear tried to throw himself forward on ’all fours, ’ and then it was that I saw; the most magnificent exhibition of the mus­ cular powers of .the human frame 1 ever saw in my life. “ Seeing the beast’s intentions, Thom­ son braced himself against its hips and .back; and actually held tho animal up with that viselike grip under its jaw, when, a few more strokes of tlie keen knife, a moan and gurgle, were followed by a snap of the vertebra, and it was all over, “ Dropping tho completely severed head at my feet, he staggered, covered with blood, into the hut, with the re­ quest that I cut the bear up before it froze. In a short time he cumo out as fresh as ever, his clothing all sewed up, himself washed clean, and npt a drop ot blood about him perceptible. It is pos­ sible that he was covered with’ tho bear’s tylood instead of his own; it is also possible that liis clothing was sa thick that the claws didn’t go into him as deep as I had thought. At any rata THIS Kmir. WAS POISO its d e a d l y w on *. ho never seemed to show tho slightest injury, and to this day I have never been able to find out how badly ho was hurt. “ The Esquimaux came up before I began cutting the hear up, and, crowd­ ing around, examined it very thorough­ ly. They saw there was no bullet-hole, and when I made them realize that Thomson had done the work alone with simply a knife, and then they saw him appear in a few minutes apparently un­ touched, thetr amazement know no bounds. It Is needless to say they were Very faithful and obedient Esquimaux on our trip." Just as Johnny finished, Thomson w,alkcd in and beckoned to him, and the two men must have left Tacoma that night, for they were never seen there afterwards.—Detroit Free Press. flood Ham for WtilMe. If some one were to strike a piano key at random, could you tell from the sound, nod without looking, what key was struck? A Harvard professor’s son, who was ill, called his father to his bedsido to complain of an early spring offender: “Papa, there is a mosquito humming about my head in a tone between B and B flat. I could stand it If lie would hum in either B u r l) flat, but when his pitch is between th« two, it drives mo wild,’’—Harper’s Young People. you ever try the advice, ‘Think before Jyou speak?’ ” asked tho young wbrnan who wants to do good Intlio world: “ Yes,” replied Willie Washing* “And how did it work?" “ I for­ going" to sa^."-~Wash* PERSONAL, AND IMPERSONAL. —Tho new hunting lodge of theGerman emperor at Potsdam is to he a Norwegian Villa. It is to bo constructed of timbers Imported from^Norwuy and put up by workmen imported from Norway—a cir­ cumstance which naturally fails to please the unemployed workmen of Ber­ lin. —The greatest fear about the proposed marriage of Prince George of Wales and the Princess .Mary of Teck is that the young man’s health is not sufficiently, good to build up much hope of his"being a robust successor to liis dead brother’s honors and the affections of his prom­ ised bride. —A young, woman in Blaine, Me., whose father, died in Andersonville prison1, draws a government pension on that account, and she needs it. She is only ffS-years old, but her chc.it'measuro is 03 inches, waist 01' inches, aud she weighs 413 pounds. She is unable to stand longer than a minute or two. —The late Gov. Ilurtnmft. of Penn­ sylvania, had a genealogical hobby, and nothing pleased him so much as finding a new link that connected him with liis ancestor. Crisper Schwenlcfeld. the Sile­ sian nobleman, who settled *in Mont­ gomery county, I*a,, in't734. In a prom­ inent place in' the governor's library there hung an elaborately framed fam­ ily tree. —A Frenchman undertook some time ago to write a bool* upon his travels through the land of G-oethe. This is tho way he began: “ Germany is a coun­ try inhabited by a people called Mul­ ler.” Now it turns out. according to official figures, that the empire of William II. has 029,937 Mullers within its borders, that is to .say. one Muller for every seventy-three Germ,ms. ' —A,farmer in Manchester, Me., is re­ flecting • sorrowfully upon the maxim that “ Honesty is the best policy.” Sev­ eral years ago, in order to avoid paying, some .debts, he convoyed his farm, worth, $4,01)0,-. to his wile- Tho wife died recently, and, according to law, the property goes to her tluve ehildren, the widower’s right of dower excepted. The children refuse to reconvey the farm to their father. —There were over 52,090,000 be­ queathed to the different charitable in­ stitutes of Philadelphia by Mrs. Anna II, Witstach.. In giving her own art collection she. -added over $ 1 , 000,000 in money to-enable the city to build and keep up a suitable building to contain it. About 31 , 000,000 was given her relatives, and so many separate be­ quests were madfe that the will proved, to be the longest on record. . —Playing jokes on newly-married couples is a favorite pastime with bu: colic Ridgeflclders. When a young pair from that town loft the train at South Norwalk, Conn., recently, they- were horrified to.tind several white rib-1 bon bows attached to the top of their trunk, an old shoe on each handle, and across one end a placard on which w:>s painted two hearts transfixed with a, skewer, and tho legend: “ Wo are one.” The bride cried auil the groom swore. “ A LITTLE NONSENSE." —For the town clock to be Wrong, Is the same as spoiling a great many watches.—Barn’s Horn. —-““ I’m frlnd to hear you playing somo new pieces this year." “No; they’re the same ones 1played last year, only I’ve had my piano tuned,”—Harvard Lampoon. —“ I’ve.notieed one thing in regard to children,” said Mr, Shallow. “ In all the families with which 1 have ac­ quaintance, the first son Is invariably a boj\”—Vermont Watchman. —One Symptom Missing.—Doctor— “ Did you have much of a chill?” Fair Patient—“ It seemed so.” Doctor—“Did your teeth chatter?” Fair Patient—“ No; they .were in my dressing ease!" —“ Mamma,” said little Ethel, who has been vainly trying to make the pre­ liminary preparation with a needle nud thread, “ I do believe this needle is cross-eyed—Good Housekeeping* —She ion tjoard the yacht)—“ What are they doing, Lieutenant-Uoldbraid?” lie—“ They are weighing tlie anchor.” She—-“ Oil, are they? Would you mind asking how much it weighs? I am so interested in everything of a nautical nature. —A Bottle of Ink.— "A drop ot ink* May make a million think;” - Ant) so one doubts it's true Then, ns U'a so. Wo alt would like to know, What could a bottle do? ■ —Detroit Free Press, —Mrs. Stronglovc—“ Poor, darling Fido, my heart just aches for him; he looks so sad with that dreadful black bow round his neck.” Lady Caller— “ Whydo yon make him wear it?” Mrs. S,—“ You see, my linsband died n few weeks ago, and I was determined that no one should have any occasion to talk about lack of respect to his memory.”— Inter Ocean. —A Country of Bings,—The young fellow had been criming’ to see her for half a year, and he talked politics and economics and and such stuff. “ Just think,” lie said the last time he called, “ how many rings there are in this coun­ try,” “ Yes," she twittered, for some­ thing better to say. “ There are real rotate rings, and silver rings, ami oil rings, and wheat rings, and political rings, and municipal rings, and)-” .She was catching onbeautifully. “ Engage­ ment rings,” She interrupted, and that is why the conversation hero i oferred to took place during tlie Inst call he made.—Detroit Free Press. TEMPERANCE NOTES. DRINKERS ALL KNOW IT. Amuuwhodrinks whisky Will feel awhile trinity, And paint the town hrIUhimly rod; But Hot,u In the gutter W ith misery utter— He’ll wish with u curse lie was dead. A muu who drinks brandy Will (ml like u 11111111/ A m loqg us the smell's on his breath, hut soon in tho ’tremens Snakes, bogles und demons W ill eliuso hint and scare him to dcatlb A muu who drinks wlno ' W ill feel very line And play funr.y unties awl shout; . B at fur ll he'd pay With heudnehea next day. And die when he's young from the gout A man who drinks gin With piensure-will grin And have whin ho cnlls tvgood time, 'Till with tvred nose And dirty old clothes, ■ He, homeless, will beg for u illmo. A mun who drinks rum Will thin): It's ymn-yum, For, maybe, mi hour or so, 'Till, poisoned his blood Aw l brains tvirned'to.imid, • He dies In sad spusms of woe. A mint who drinks beer Feels good for a year, And thinks it don't hurt him a bit, Till bloated utul red And hog-lllto In head, Ho fulls ou tho street In a lit. • An apple Jack drinker Feels gay as a tinker ‘ Until the bad fcollup comes on; Then, nerves In a'quiver, ' .•Me jumps la the river, Or blows oil his head with a gun. A man who drinks water, < - A s everyone ought 'tori Enjoys to the utmost his life: , He's happy and healthy, . Respected and wealthy. And loved by his children umV.wifo. . ■■ — H. C. Dodge, in GoodoU’s Sun. A POISONOUS DRINK. l'h o Principal Ingredient o f the B ew il­ dering flu id In W ormw ood. * On my return from Switzerland I was detained a few hours at tlie little frontier town of Pontarlier, in the northwest part of the Jura, writes a correspondent. I was told' that fhe people of the de­ partment (Dons) for a radius -of-thirty miles of Pontarlier, including neces­ sarily a portion of .Switzerland, depend almost*entirely for their support on the making of cheese and the cultivation and sale of wormwood. The raising of wormwood, a bitter weed of American fields and gardens-used by old women' as a febrifuge ait^ vermifuge, seems a curious industry, but all that can be produced finds a ready sale to* the dis­ tillers of absiutlie at Pontarlier. which is the center of this extensive industry.- Absinthe, it should be remembered,- is the French for wormwood. Absiutlie is made of wormwood, with the addition of other aromatic herbs that give the green color and renders the taste more agreeable. When it is distilled with care (Says a special, plea by the distillers) and consumed in rea­ sonable quantities it is a -beverage tonic and refreshing. But too much of it should not be taken, even when .it is good, for it contains a high percentage of alcohol. Many distillers simply macerate tho wormwood and other herbs, and steep them cold in- alcohol made of beets or of grain, by which means the poisonous oils -are extracted from the herbs, Those poisonous qualities and the bad alcohol necessarily have a bad effect and produce that rapid and dangerous state of intoxication (hut drinkers of abisinthc have often noticed in regard to themselves. A beverage that oper­ ates oh the nerves in such a manner us to produce instantaneous intoxication must necessarily be dangerous, first to the health and ultimately to the reason' This effect itself shows that Hie liquor is o f bad’quality and should lie condemned. A French physician says of wormwood: “ Its bitterness Is its principal merit. It is a tonic, stimulating, febrifuge and vermifuge. It is par excellence the herb of pale and feeble women. It is the quinine of the poor. A slight pinch is sufficient in a liter of boiling water,” etc. It Is evident to the in'ost ordinary apprehension that a liquor made with a good alcohol from aa herb tliut 1ms been in use the world over as a common do­ mestic remedy, and has formed a part the pharmacopoeia from time im­ memorial, cannot be harmful if used in moderation. Two kinds ot absinthe, or worm­ wood, are used in making the liquor at Pontarlier—tho great and the small, the first for its hitter qualities, and the- lnst, whidi is gathered immature, chiefly to act In giving; the delicate green color. Tlie other plants employed id distillation are balm, caraway, anise and hyssop. Balm is classed medicinally as anti nervous, an important nntidote in a liquor considered as acting too forcibly od the nervous system. The qualities of caraway and anise are familiar to everyone. Tlie last is great­ ly used in medicine and in many other ways for Its flavor and perfume. The caraway used at Pontarlier comes from the Boutli of France; the best anise from southwestern France and Andalu­ sia, In Spain. The flowers of hyssop arc regarded as stimulating and expec­ torant All the plants used in the mak­ ing of absinthe, it will be seen, have recognized medical qualities, and all, probably, as tea or coffee, have apoison- ousessence that should not be extracted in the process ot distillation, and so be­ come a part o f the liquor. As to its history, abklntlie, though it lids not been fashionable till within a few years past, was invented some one hundred and fifty years ago at Couvet, a little city of Switzerland a few miles below Pontarlier. The Inventor could( have never anticipated the fame it would nehisve. After having passed through various hands it was purchased by tho ancestor of - the principal distil­ lery of Pontarlier, to which place tho industry wnA transferred near the close of the lust century, since which epoch the use of the liquor has been gradually extended. The principal distillery of Pontarlier, which has its patent from the inventor, is an immense establishment, covering several acres, admirably appointed in every respect, kept with extraordinary neatness, and, for the convenience of transportation, connected with the rail­ road station, some three-quarters of a mile distant, by a track of its own. Some questions .regarding tho habits of the workmen were answered with a certain, freedom. I desired to know how they were treated, and if from daily contact with'a liquor reported so dangerous they did not acquire. the habit of using it too often. My guide said that happened sometimes, but not as often as it happened in distilleries, making no matter what kind of liquor. As a general thing tile workmen were satisfied with the odor with which the place whs impregnated, and which new­ comers found somewhat intoxicating. Every employe was given a glass ot absinthe every morning, with a half- bottle of red wine, and they were all generally temperate and contented.— San Francisco Chronicle. THE INHERITED ^PPETITE. Children Blasted Iiy the. Sins o f Their ■ J’nrent«. There was a hard-drinking man al­ ways able, to attend to business. But lie transmitted to liis children such vitiated^Bonstitutions that all died early of disease except one, whom I knew.- lie had chronic dyspepsia. The appe­ tite for liquor descended on the second generation with terrible' power. His daughter early died with consnmptiou. One'son committed suicide for fear of a second attack of the delirium tremens. • The second son walked right on in the same path till he was placed where I 10 could get no liquor. He lives in, that confinement yet, Intoxicating drinks not only blunt all the fiiier feelings, cloud the intel- '' leet and ruindhe' health of the drinker, but descend with fearful power ou suc­ ceeding generations. The very men who take every pains to Improve the . breed of their horses, cows and hogs, are so living ns to' deteriorate the race of their own children. They care moro for the pure blood of their cattle 'than the pure blood of their children. Tho worst of this sin,is that-it is self -perpet­ uating and extending. •If it would use up the present-drinkers only, it would not be so bad. But it is the horrid Minotaur that constantly demands hecatombs of our children.' It —-' "Gropes,In’yet unblostcd regions'for Its nilsera- tileprey; Shull we guide its gory lingers wliyro our help­ less children pluy?" Bishop 11. IV. VVarreu, D, D, NOTES. BY THE WAY. T hkiie are thirty-two thousand fami­ lies homeless in Loudon through intem­ perance. I , Tim United States government has signed tlie treaty for the suppression of the slave trade with Africa, and tho limitation (why not the prohibition?) of the importation of rum. This agree­ ment protects a population of one hun­ dred and twenty-five million. T ub new government regulations re­ quiring distilled spirits to be weighed instead of ganged for taxation purposes are squeezing the whisky trust. Tho internal revenue department officials have gathered somo statistics on .tlio subject nttd tho figures show that in tho Chicago and 1’coria districts the daily increase in receipts of taxes from spirits . is over S3,000. This is due, it is sold, - wholly to the change to the weighing system, Which is absolutely accurate, whereas under the old plan from one to two gallons of spirits in each barrel es­ caped taxation. W k chanced to overhear the talk late­ ly between two men comparative strangers to ourselves and wholly strangers to cacli other. The one was speaking to tlie other of his, tlie speak- 1 er’s, brother. "Like all railroad men,” lie said, “ he would go on an occasional spree,” “ My dear sir,” was tlie instant reply of thb second, himself an official o f one of onr great railway systems, “ you are talking of a day that is gone by* A man known todrink or frequent saloons even occasionally could not get a place upon any part of our line cover­ ing many thousands of miles.” Young men will do well to remember that. The day is not far distant when the drinking man everywhere, even though lie never drink to excess, will find him­ self one of the army of “ out-of-works*” —Interior. A t a certain prominent place in Cin­ cinnati a new saloon 1ms been opened, after fixing tlie place up in the most elaborate manner. The recess door in front is all that art can make it, fin­ ished with stained glass; on cither sido of the door arc largo show windows. In oncisaneuscl holding a horseshoe of the most delicate roses, nicely imbed­ ded with ferns, and in tlio other win* - dow Is an elaborate decoration of crim­ son nnd white roses with fern leaves for the background. On the day of the opening a man in passing by was heard to say after gazing intently for some minutes on tlio display: “ They ought to put on the windows 'please omit flowers.*" Another one added:’ “ This is our funeral;” and so it is, but moth* era and widows will be called on to abed tewa.—CMdatian Worker.