The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

lolcci collec- icate mosaic*, ro old china, awer library, built ,into the io« of books in the niches “ lluth” and “Apolio l)el» n is furnished styio, witUa in oak, filled- en china a n d l' 3x \ tit f „Vdescription,V statuary are iu wall —Chl- s lovely sunnj; y, filled wl l GES. award, Think* is Lowell in* onr President- sity, spoke o£ on’s colleges, pening of the xes. President l!osu>n Her* en's colleges ual to colleges ft, They have together, the, oUeotipns and operly trained ghly-ed ucated ach in men's ; . is President ' The corps o f r college..for .th a t ho can (. oueeding Ward- to this eason to ho "oung women f"young men, > •r salaries are * of tone the o thoroughly partments of y larg i sal- ‘ated men, as ? represented : “Tne fate itntry is not more popn- e cast, where- imen seemed ident’s mein- a bit of bis- was made for' ^unities for dleges in. the opened their cast most of selfishly and Imit women,, renee would of choice,— lican. iiflr, ’ful -ranchers ow, slight in nn<j fair of er con versa- ■ 'r tastes aiul .vliieh she (In­ secure after ate she man- DAY. omen piano 0 m \ . ■ . examination y"'{ icut is Miss been arimit- oilicc of tile graduate of i twenty-one a laud-office Society' of Gladstone, 100 , 000 , ami ven larger, alre a keen f Okolona, librarian of ssippi leg/s* n Russell e librarian ■arc. '•v«>* Scn- o'.vcd live lips for s-ty, the ded t,y th 0 o o.jinpeli- . particularly citnoss and taste. This i and table ta.iunenfs, coast has d flourish- s is years, .of tiie first u'nhe office J) made a board, a iarly fitted aching the t. Helena, ed by the tn t of the Iy to hold* e the pro- tasting a *re to be not to be s was the n\s Hotel, machines e money* orbSdderr, d on the boardiny* iy er* to tem per a n c e n o t e s . for t h r e e g e n e r a t i o n s , a story Illustrating th e Truth o f th e t Proverb. "Charlie! Charlie/ Oh, Charlie-boyJ mamma wants h e r little man,” ' This fond; motherly eall was wafted into my room through open door and windows, near the close of. a bright Juno afternoon, as 1 sat a t my desk If;oring over an array of papers which /•semblcd chaos, hub represented. -K/daily bread.” ' I. j Presently there came a light tap, atad *us I raised my head I saw framed in the doorway' the .graceful figure of young His. Preston, our good doctor’s wife, with its shapely, well-poised head, her'-sweet face harmonizing: ' with the voice whoso musical tones still rang in my ears. j “Miss Helen,” she asked, “have you ' seeamy-littie-lad^-my-Ctiarlie?—I-cah’r j think where he can. be! I left him to amuse baby Paul while I laid down. I had been up with the dear little fellow most of the night before, and was so weary. I did not mean to lose myself, hut it seems I,fell asleep; and when,I . awoke after a long, long nap, I found baby sleeping sweetly, but Charlie gone. I t is so strange,” she added, after a slight pause, “for although such a little, boy lie is so trustworthy; he. never before has left his brother when, I have put him in liis charge.” Together we hunted through yard and garden, down the long, green lane which led to the broad- macadamized road, that in its turn led to the great city near which we lived, hu t all to no purpose. Then turning back we : searched carefully both of our roomy, rambling houses, though with faint hope.of finding the qbject of .our quest. Just as we were about to give up, being at our wits’ ends, happening, to ,• push against the open door of his fa­ ther’s now empty office, I felt some ob­ stacle which prevented- its swinging entirely back. Mechanically looking behind it tosee what was the hindrance, I saw the dimpled darling lying in a little heap. . , \“Here.he is, safe and sound, fast asleep in Morpheus’ arms!” I exclaimed, joyfully. But with a look of "horror his mother waved me aside, and, quickly stooping, picked up an empty medicine bottle, evidently from his father’s saddle bags, which were lying a t his side, where ho had drugged.them—and a t the same instant lifted the child’s limp form • from the floorAvith the anguished cry: “Oh, my God! has it come a t last?" 1 remained silent, as by this time I, too, recognized the fact th a t blue-eyed, golden-haired Charlie, only three years old, was dead drunk! Ah! happy mothers, whose innocent little prattlers Are playing safely a t your knees, you can hardly Credit this as annetual occurrence, can you? Shall 1 tell you the whole sad story as it fell from the blanched lips of my friend, confirmed by the neighbors’ tes­ timony and what I myself hod seen and heard. It appears that, long years before, the grandsire of this child,.then in the mother country, bad been a hard drinker. But God in His mercy found and saved him, body and soul, and subsequently he became, not merely a [T'-teetotaler, bu t’an earnest minister of f v’the Gospel. , 1 myself have often heard ' him preach and sat spell-bound be­ neath his impassioned eloquence. The old man never broke his pledge of total abstinence, but deeply rooted in the nature of his only child, a son, although born after his reform, was an inherited love of spirituous liquor. Possessed of a brilliant intellect, ana many graces of mind and person, he passed through school and college, and ultimately graduated with high honors from a medical university, soon be- ame prominent as a practitioner, as well as a church member, in the com­ munity in which ho lived. From his inmost soul he abhorred the vice of intemperance, y e t a t intervals, sometimes of months, and even of years, he would be seized with a crav­ ing lor intoxicating drink which he seemed utterly powerless to resist. Loathing, yet *longing for it, he would struggle along, fighting the ground inch by inch as lie yielded it, unable to overcome, y e t unwilling to give up—a t length stealthily swallow­ ing his medical tinctures for the alco­ hol they contained and finally sac* combing helplessly to the inherited ap­ petite, and drinking like a sot for three*or four days. Then, as he grad­ ually sobered, his remorse would be pitiful. Again and again I have seen the strong mam weep like a child in the private meetings of the church, tecusing himself, confessing his fault and beseeching his fellow-Christians to pray for him and give him one more trial before casting him off. This was repeatedly granted, for he was universally beloved for his gener­ osity, kindness and genuine goodness of heart, yet, sooner or later* he would *gain be overcome and fall before temptation, In the third generation the tendency developed in wee Charlie, who, when still in arms, quivered ,with eager long­ ing when the faintest Whiff of spirits reached him; and as h* began to toddle about he had to be constantly watched lest he might get hold of h(s father’d tincture* for the aleohol they con- .tained, lint never until the day which ended so sadly, did the little fellow ao* t«*Uy succeed. Fortunately for hha the medicine was otherwise harmless for he drained the viat to th£ drags. The ensuing August th* precious h*be who had come with the s e r if .... _ 1 — w u uw bird* of spring fell Seriously ill, and after a long, hard struggle, breathed Its last on my lap, just as the sun rose over the hilitop<i. and a now day dawned after .that weary night of anx­ ious watching. 'Vith white, drawn face the mother saw? mo press gently shut the- br,*'vn- fringed eyelids, “He : h a t rest, now,” 1 said, tenuor- ly, “and never will know pain again," . “I am glad, glad ho is dead!” she cried, passionately; and then snatching him to her breast, raised her hot, dry eyes to Heaven, and said, solemnly; “0 God! l l/utak Thee that one child, at least, is safe!” And the poor father hack zfr the shadows bowed his head and soO'jwd convulsively, • r ' .1 hail intended adding :t few line, to point the moral of this tale, but word* fail me, and I cun only quote from th* inspired writers who assure us that tlie-slns—of--the—fa ther- -will-be-yisited “ upon the children, unto the third and- fourth generation;" and who- bid us: “Hook hot upon the wine when It is red,” for ‘hit the las* it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” —Helen A. Steinliaucr, in Union Signal, • D r u n k e n n e s s a n d i n e b r ie t y . The Weaknesses, Inherited b y e Drunkard’* Child. Mr,. James Stewart, an English. sur-° geon, described in a. recent lecture the (difference between drunkenness and inebriety. The drunkard, he .said, was a person who drank when he found an opportunity of drinking; the inebrinto, was a pennon who, in most cases, was horn with an unsound brain, and might even bo a man who.had never tasted alcoholic drink in his life. Dr. Joseph Parrish had said that inebriety might descend as inebriety, but it was-just as likely to change the form of its appear­ ance into insanity or other allied man­ ifestations. Bearing this in mind, it Was important that the child of an in­ ebriate should be kept free -from any­ thing that might upset the nervous equilibrium, care being taken especial­ ly that the surroundings during the early years should be bright and calcu­ lated to develop thb higher and nobler characteristics. It was'the duty of thq wife of an inebriate to. warn her chil­ dren of their inheritance. The lec­ turer gave the following conclusions: 1 . -Drunkenness is a vice, inebriety a disease; the two terms must not be confounded. - 2 . The disease of in­ ebriety -once,, established may be trans­ mitted to the patient’s offspring, either in the form of the alcoholic diathesis, epilepsy, chorea, insanity or even ten­ dency to crime, ,3. The child of an in­ ebriate bora after the functional or structural lesion has been established is sure to inherit some nervous dia­ thesis. 4. The only security against this diathesis developing os inebriety is lifelong total abstinence on the part of the child. 5. Even the adoption of this precaution will not absolutely make certain that there will be. no transmission of the cachexia by tho child to his or her offspring, 0. To pre­ vent the development of the alcoholic neurosis in other directions—such as epilepsy,—sudden excitement of the emotions and sensibilities, such as might be produced by corporal punish­ ment by strangers, should in all cases be guarded against, 7. In tho prophyl­ axis of inebriety the principle to be acted on with regard to children’s train*, ing is, that if wo accentuate the good we attenuate evil, 3. The marriage of tho child or even grandchild of an in­ ebriate to a first cousin should be abso­ lutely interdicted.—Illustrated Amer­ ican. _ ___________ ' GENERAL G L EANINGS, T ub Ynlo faculty has prohibited tho editors of all the college periodicals from publishing tho advertisements of saloon keepers and liquor dealers. Both the editors and tho liquor deal­ ers show resentment. I n Norway public houses have been practically abolished in the rural dis­ tricts, and greatly diminished in num­ bers in the towns. Bergen, with a population of sixty thousand, has only fourteen licensed houses. A TAT.BSTED temperance lecturer was asked: “What-shall we do with the grain now required for distilling?” The prompt reply was: “Feed the drunkards' wives with it; they have gone hungry long enough.” Sow whisky and you'll reap drunk­ ards, and what do yOu want with them? There ain 't a saioonkeeper who will have a drunkard for 4 clerk, not a mer­ chant wants a drunkard for an em­ ploye, Tile only available use for a drunkard is to send him to the legisla­ ture or to congress—Sam Jones, I nebriety should never he regarded as the result of any single isolated cause, bu t a combination of physical, mental and social forces acting in fa­ vorable environment To this is often added an organic predisposition to seek relief in substances which will quiet the nervous irritation.-“Journal of In­ ebriety. H ere is the way one illicit dealer in beer managed a t South Cove, The po­ lite had long been, puzzled, but one of them a t last opened the door of a tall clock amt found a faucet When It was turned beer flowed, I t seems, how- «y*j* that iio one but the keeper of the plac* knew of this arrangement He was accustomed privately to draw enough for immediate use .from the And Btli i t frbA ft tollk*cih* If thare was an alarm of polise he simply emptied th# can down-the sink and atond investigation, —Hartford Cour- nnfc OF GENERAL INTEREST. —The travel by water In Maine foe the year 1801 amounted to over 2 , 000 ,* 000 persons. Of this the Casco Bay Steamboat Co, carried 400,507, or about one-fifth of a l l . This shows the extent of pleasure travel iu and about Port­ land harbor. —The modern names of sizes of books are derived from the folding of paper. When the sheet is not folded it is called a folio—and this size was very iushionablo throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The folio sheet doubled ■ becomes a quarto; an­ other double constitutes the octave of eight leaves or sixteen pages. —Judge Gilmore, of Columbus, O., lias a very flue watch. It is known as the.Eclectic, and is the only watch of' that name over made. Everything about tho watch is hundrtnado and full jeweled. The timepiece wus made ip -Bwitrzerlnnd--by- 8 pecia-l-order—and-cost- six hundred dollars. The judge has carried it twenty-five years and it never varies. , —The question of tho removal of wrecks are dangerous to navigation off the coast of Germany has just been set­ tled by an understanding between the governments of the .states on the littor­ al. Each'state will provide the means for removing wrecks lyingoff the coast within its own jurisdiction, and when they lie beyond this narrow limit, the imperial navy will do the work. —“Hurricane” is the old Spanish name for a WestJndia cyclone;, but it is now used to designate a long-contin­ ued wind of extreme, violence. In Beaufort’s scale one . rises through “light," “gentle,” **frosh”;and “strong breezes,” “fresh,” “strong" and “whole gales,” and “storm” to “hurricane,” by which the mariner understands “a ve­ locity of ninety miles or more an hour.'” —'The ories of none Of the animals approach more closely that of the hu­ man voice-'than that ,of seals when la­ menting the loss or' capture of their yuung. ■ They emit a wailing and af­ fecting cry, similar,to tha t of a woman in deep grief. The cry of a wounded hare resembles that of a child. in dis­ tress. Its piercing shriek can, on a still night, be plainly heard a t a dis­ tance of more than a mile. —A few old toll bridges down-east bear signs that perpetuate the memory of a curious law. These signs proclaim that all persons, Bave “paupers, In­ dians and clergymen," must pay toll in crossing the bridge. The indulgence shown to paupers and clergymen is easily understood from the practice elsewhere, but why the, Indians were exempted is riot so clear, unless, in- them deed, it was a . recognition of the aboriginal right to tho freedom of the region. —Tho exposition, authorities have tendered to the shoo and leather man­ ufacturers a site for their desired -building in which to make, a united ex­ hibit of the leather Industry. A sito was selected twice' before, but had to be withdrawn owing to changes in construction plana Tho site now of­ fered is near the lake shore, not. far from tho dairy building. There is lit­ tle doubt that the leather men will ac­ cept the site and, if they do, they will put up a building 150x000 feet, Costing 8100,000. < v —The committee on ceremonies of the world’s fair have made tlieir appor­ tionment of the troops that are to bo present a t tho dedication next October. | The following are the states and the j number of men ench has been allowed: [ Indiana, 1,000; Ohio, 1,000; Michigan, 1 500; Wisconsin, 1 , 200 ; Minnesota, 1.200; j Missouri, 1,200, and lows, 1,200. This I docs not include any apportionment [ for Illinois, but that state will make up j whatever is'lacking of ten thousanc ; that are to be p resen t—National ' Guardsman. THE FARMING WORLD. SUPERS AND FRAMES. Two Devious Which Heein to .l’osivas Nu­ merous Advantages, There are many different kinds of supers or devices for holding sections, and nearly every, beekeeper hasa.cer- taln kind which lie prefers above all others. It may be adapted to using separators, or a single crate to hold the sections together, or wide frames which keep the sections nice and clean. -A very simple super, atul one that any fanner who keeps bees cau make, is shown in Fig. l. The crossbars for the sections to rest, on, are let into the lower edge of th e . sideboards. The super is made Of Jtf-inch poplar lumber. If tine standard.section, inches square is used, the super must be 4 inches deep, and as long and wide as is most convenient to suit the sections and, tho size of hive. The crossbars are H inch,thick by 1 inch wide. It is important that the crossbar be the proper thickness. If combs between the super and brood frames. The latter should have thick top bars and spaced properly in the hive. If more convenient, the cross bars can be run lengthwise of super. I prefer to have tho sections parallel with the brood frames, but if more convenient .for them to be cross- j wise, 1 should, not hesitute to have . them that way. It is a difficult job to make a super the proper size to hold a certain nunlber of sections, and have them fit as tight as they should. To overcome th is ' difficulty 1 use the “follower,’.’ which is a board just as wide as the sections are deep, and the proper length, to fit insido of the super nicely. I t is placed against the side of the sections, and a wedge driven be-, tween it and the side of the super. This keys tho sections together tightly rind’prevents the bees from propolizlng so much. All the material for this super is found in the farmer’s workshop, and it is easily made. Fig. 2 is a wide frame, and is an ex- cclent arrangement to keep the.outside surface of sections ‘clean. It is also very convenient for using separators, as they can be tacked on tho side, and they are always permanent, and are not 1 likely to be getting lo^t I t is also convenient for contracting the supers, WHEN THE MIND TAKES A NAP. ‘Moment* Th»t Are Erronron*Ijr Believed to He Spent In Thought. In private conversation one day late­ ly one of ChiAgo’s oldest and most learned physicians gave utterance to the following: “Why is it that when we see a per­ son gazing fixedly for several moments a t a certain point on tbe floor or iu the street we say he or she is thinking hard about something? Nine times in tea a person thus engaged—of rather disen­ gaged—Is thlnhing of nothing. At such moments, if you only knew It, the mind is napping and' there is no thought Probably one of the oldest fads—and it seems to be nothing more —consists of persons when a t such times they are asked what they’re do­ ing, saying ‘thinking hard!’ “In th* large majority ot cases when a person is thinking hard or intently the eye roams from one object to an­ other, and the hands and feet are moving more or less, “The busiest, hardest-working brain lit the country Insists on taking mo­ mentary naps several times a day. Just before ‘dropping off’ into one of these naps the mind Commands the eye to fix itself upon some one object and stay, thus usually insuring the holding of the head and probably every part of the body quiet Then the mind catches its little nap. These little mind-naps or flashes of rest may never be tnore than twenty seconds long, yet they hare been discovered to do the mind a wonderful amount of good. They never e*me to the derange*! towards the end of the season, when it is not profitable to put on a full'crate of sections, and honey can be taken from the hive as fast as capped with­ out much trouble. It is made of half­ inch lumber; should be just as wide as the sections, and is made to hang loosely in a erale. The bottom strip is made with the bee-space the same as in sections. As many frames can he used in a crate as desired. I t is an excellent way to have honey put up in a first- class shape, but is much more trouble to make them than the crate. Be sure to have all lumber thoroughly dry for crates, or much trouble will result from shrinkage.—E. S. Mead, in Ohio Farmer, FARM AND ORCHARD. A n old, rail fence with a nice lo i of dry soft grass makes a splendid home for mice and rabbits, and if near a young orchard they will have a sweet feast this winter arid you a sorry-look* ing orchard next spring. Clean out the fence comers in the fall, or, better still, have no fence corners or as few a* possible. l r milk cannot be sold profitably, try selling fresh, delicious articles made from i t A Massachusetts man has been Selling his milk for fourteen years from his wagon to private cus­ tomers in two-ounce creamery cheeses. Any person tasting one invariably wants more, and it pays to supply them. This is legitimate and progres­ sive. T he peach and plum are nearly enough related so th a t one can be suc­ cessfully budded on the'o ther. Peach stocks have no advantage worth not­ ing, bu t the prevalence of yellows may make it advisable to bud tbe peach or plum stocks, This is especially recom­ mended for places where the soil is too heavy for successful, growing of the peach on its o" n roots. j I efoke transplanting young trees cut away all the limbs but a few, a t the top, fitot catting back the head. Peach trees are usually trimmed close, having the appearance of a straight stick, in* — - —, . ■■. , ... ~ jured roots Will also require cutting, mind, and it has also been discovered , jjse o0 n)Bnnre, but a few weeks after that the supposedly stitltid mind which, young shoots begin to appear apply does riot ia l» them JtaDn the Vcrg* of R light covering of wood ashes on the Insanity.”—Chicago Tribune. I „ ground around the trees, EQUALIZING FOODS. Some Things Which Many pou ltry Keep* ers Do Not Vnderatand. When a variety of food is given, the quantity should not be increased to a greater umount than when grain is given, Those who feed grain make the mistake of not diminishing the grain in proportion to the clover or meat added, For a laying hen tha t is pro­ ducing eggs regularly, tho estimate of food allowed per day is four ounces, but it does not require any explanation from ns to convince those who keep poultry tliat four ounces of grain is a very different thing from four ounces of cabbage or potatoes, as the one Is a concentrated food, while tho others consist largely of water. A gill of corn is about three ounces, and by using the gill as a mode of measure­ ment the feeding may be easily regu­ lated. No quantity of grain, 'whether of wheat or corn, given to a fowl sh'ould'e'xceed" one- igill- a doy. amFthis- also depends upon the breed to a great extent, and ev.en upon individual liens of the breeds, as some eat more, and require more than others. Finely-cut, fresh bone (with adher­ ing meat) is also a concentrated food—- more so than grain—hence, in feeding the hens 'one ounce of bone and meat daily (which is ample), the gill of grain must bo reduced to one-half, as the bone and' meat compensate for the grain. It would be expensive feeding if this equalization of foods was not -given attention, and the hens would soon become overfat and worthless, Allowing four ounces of food per day (three of grain and one of bulky food), atul estimating •a gill os three ounces, the gill should be reduced in accord-' ance with the quality of the food. -.If an ounce of tho bone and meat is given, it should equal one and a half ounces of ■ grain. If finely-cut clover is given, one ounce of the clover should equal only half an ounce of grain, because the grain is more concentrated than the clover. We do not claim that these proportions are correct, but they en­ able the ponltryman to roughly esti­ mate how to feed. The heu that does not lay should be fed only one-half us much as the laying hen. owing to the fact that one is' a producer und the other n o t—Farm and Fireside. THE CORN WEEVIL. IIo w « T w m Farm er K illed the Ueatrne- tlve Inaecl*. For many yearS in succession I have had my corn in the bin more or less ruined by, the weevils. From my-own experience in this line I should judge tha t there is an annual loss of over m million of dollars from Weevils in Texas alone. Could the weevil bo readily, destroyed and exterminated wq could export a large surplus of corn; U it is now, there is a great deal of truth in the saying that Kansas feeds Tex**, both man and beast '* . I have experimented with different' insecticides to prevent the ravages of this insect, but us it is hard to kill my experiments failed until last year. Last fall in putting up my corn I placed two open bottles of bisulphret carbon, 'four feet apart, on the floor of the bln. The mouths of these bottles were covered with a layer of cheeso cloth, and each bottle covered with on old broken box. The. corn was thrown on these boxes, and the bin filled to Its utmost capacity. The result of this experiment was highly successful; what weevils were admitted from the field were destroyed and none further appeared. Tlius, a t a cost of fifty cents, with very llttla trouble, I effectually protected about five hundred bushels of corn against weevils. Another feature about till* experiment is that I have noticed neither mouse nor rat in the bin, nor any traces of. them, which was not tho case before, for in previous years they, too, had done great damage to the corn. Let me recommend to farmers tho trial of my remedy, for I feel assured it will be with gratifying results.— Austin (Tex.) Statesman. A SUCCESSFUL TRAP. Ilow to Catch Weasel*, Rat* and Other Chicken Thieve*, This trap I have used with great suc­ cess iu trapping weasels, skunks, rats and minks in their raids after poultry. It gets them every - time. »Makc a box by using two boards 3 feet long and-1 foot wide, and two boards 3 feet long and 1 foot wide. Use the two longer boards for the sides and the two aborter ones for the top and bottom, Close the end a t A, and make a door, B« of lath and wire netting (inch mesh), hinged a t Cwith leather hinges. Tits slot D admits through it a small wire staple fastened in the bottom board. A nail will secure the door shu t Exca­ vate a couple .of inches of dirt in the open space, E, for one or more- stefel traps. Before fixing -the trap in place put a couple ot live chickens in it and shut them in. I caught a weasel the first night and a skunk the second. In the one case I covered the trap with light dirt, in the other with chaff. The entrance a t E may be narrowed if wished by a small Stake a t each aide,— John E, Marsh, in Farm and Home. S mart , fru its are a necessity oU the faYm, as they are not only promotlvo of health bnt also, are delicacies not easily procured outside ot the large Cities unless grown for family use.