The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

SO .11* ja TRUE, Ilfri;’.; r» wbo stays that sorrow j C ow . cj to-flayor coihes t/s-mOii'ow, Krro'o u Ion? iiKfr.tco is moauingl TcUhimAc-aik pi Ur away LetidisUUKO veep-und pray; «i'?5 not grip!, ths Kbosvtbrrr, groaning, Wlio would cloud the Jocund (lay; Ai>, tU-y say that anguish round them, Mon cut .down with battle round them— (Hear din boys there, gayty singlngl) In some region far uwayJ * What taro wo who laugh to-day? Milas no tears, whato’er you’re bringing; Honor to the jocund dayi .What’s that sound that cools out; laughter? ' Wlutt’s that form that follows after? Funtral,music sadly sounded— OneWore man is turned to ejay. Hct dull ago go weep and pray; ■ , Youth by donth was ne’er confounded. Long shall shine our jocund day! Oh,tny detfr one, to,my weeping Marble silence sternly .beeping, Hying there in breathless blindness— Heath in never far away, liven youth can weep utid prayI . l'dps that loved huvo lost their kindness; Hoad they are, this bitter duyi . -Hose Hawthorn Hathrop, in Scribner's Maga­ zine. A BKAVE EIGHT. H ow a W om an Resisted a Pack o f W o lves. -MONG the citi­ zens of P o r t Worth, Tex., ife a 1 i t t i e old woman whose h i s t o r y h a s b e e n a . most eventful o n e , a n d 'w h o has passed through s c e n e s t h a t would try tlio courage and an* d u r a n c e of a strong m a n . She c am e to Texas, a young married; worn-' an, in 1889, set­ tling first in San Augustine,' and about, ten years, later moved with her hus­ band into Parker county, some miles west of where Weatherford i$s now, She is living with a married daughter, and is still bright and cheerful, not­ withstanding her age and the trials she lias passed. “ Oh, I-felt at. home in San Augus­ tine,’ ' she said to thd Globe-Democrat correspondent, “ but I didn’t want to move to Parker county. It was so far 'from every place—just like going*clear {to the* edge of - the world and then jumping off, . But i t was the only place that would suit John, and so we came and stopped our two wagons, right where you could hear wolves howling.' and built a little hut there and moved in. The house was built of logs, with the ends notched together, and the floor was made of puncheons, smoothed ofE by an adze, and the door was of puncheons, too, thiek and heavy < ■ugh for a jail door. Wo didn’t have any window in the house, and so John left ono of the puncheons out of the door, as ’ twos summer time, so that we could, get a little light. And having got that far, John went to clearing land and fixing for his crop. “ Oh, the times we had while wo lived in that house I Once I remember John' and our nearest neighbor, who lived ten miles away, agreed to go to mill together. They had to go clear to Balias, and it was a ten or twelve days’ trip. The neighbor came by early in the morning, and lie brought with him a deer that he had killed on this way, because it ran so close that ho couldn’t resist the temptation. And lie and1 John drove away and the chil­ dren and 1 were left alone. ^’ “ I bad lived in Texas a long.time, and hadn’t thought of being afrai’d. I wasn’t of the scary kind, you sec. So Aa d had apt a bear killed our largest to drive them further away, and then, tr* *?V hog only a few nights before and dragged the body away? I still think that I was not much afraid, hut turned our little table down before that open place in the door. Then I looked all around the room until niy eyes fell upon a little patch of coiling about six feet square, where John had laid some loose puncheons over the joists and made a. kind of shelf to store things on. I'm sure you never would guess how we got to it. We had no ladder we climbed up by means of a row of stout. pegs, driven into holes bored in tho wall,. Weil, I said to Jennie, my oldest child: ’Jennie, if anything hap­ pens to-night Pro going to put all three of you children up yonder, and you must take care of Boh and the baby.” And then 1 put the children to bed. “ I had been sitting there sewing about half aa hour, I suppose, when suddenly our cut came flying through, the opening in the d6or, every hair standing on end, and ' without a mo­ ment’s hesitation it went up the wail like a flash,' climbed upon the little piece of ceiling' and did nothing but growl, with its fiery eyes shining like tfvo coals. I knew something was the matter, but I hated to. rouse the chil­ dren up without some better reason than the mere fright o f a cat. I stood there ia the middle’ of the room, look­ ing at the darkness that pressed against that gaunt opening in the door; and I’ll toll you for a moment I did feel desolate, and a lonesome homesickness came over me for the old home and the old friends. And then, while I stood there, came a sound that I knew—'the howling of wolves, hundreds of them, one would have thought from their voices. I aroused the sleeping children and assisted them to climb up into, the loft I have described; then, arming myself with the ax, I took my stand- at the hole that sorved as a door, and awaited attack. But the wolves were .devoting their attention to the hogs, which were inclosed in an open pen near by, as could he told by the terrible commo­ tion that came to my ears. This lasted for some time, hut finally the chorus of squeals and snarls calmed down, and Anally ceased. I began to think ' the wolves hud become satiated after de­ dropping my ax, sprang for my peg ladder. Hera they came like a whirl­ wind, their mouths open, their eyes ablaze. Two o f them ac tually caught the skirt of my dress, hut I tore myself loose and climbed out of their reach, and present­ ly pulled myself up beside the chil­ dren, so unnerved that I was compelled to lie down, When I had recovered suf­ ficiently to peep over the edge of the lit' ,tie shelf on which wo were all perched, there Mio gaunt creatures were, leap ing high in tlie" air to get at us, and falling down and being trampled upon by others... In the midst of the confu­ sion some of .them knocked over the little stand on which the candle was sitting and it went out, leaving us in darkness, but tlio howling and raging wont on for hours—-I don’ t know how long. Wo spent the‘night on that littlp shelf, When day began tp dawn the wolves .skulked away gradually, and before I could see anything in tho room tlio last one had gone. It was sunrise before I ventured to come down—and, oh, such a sight as that house and yard were. Tho remains of four wolves wore scattered; about the yard, and the whole place looked like a slaughter pen; , ' “ And we stayed alone a whole week after that, never looking upon a human face. But I managed to fasten the missing puncheon into the door, and though the wolves came and howled around the -house on the two nights following that eventful one, they did not get in. And then they disappeared and were seen no more in that neigh­ borhood—at least in such numbers. We always supposed that the drought had diven- them from their old haunts and they were pressed by hunger, but I never will forget that horrible night I spent fighting a gang of hungry wolves.”—Fort Worth (Tex.) Cor. St Louis Globe-Democrat , ■A WOI.lf A T TUB DOOR. , I went singing about my work and finished tip a lot o f sowing I had on hand, and as fresh meat was rare with us, 1 fixed tip all Xcould o f it for dry­ ing. And as evening came on I got a pile of dry splinters ready for kindling and brought the a* in the house. Not that I was afraid, yon know, hut it suddenly occurred to me that I was sorry John had gone. I had never been alone before, except when there were near neighbors, and I acknowl­ edged to myselt that the sensation wasn’t a pleasant one. There were In­ dians in the country, 1 knew. Some o f theta were savage, for one o f the ma­ rauding hands had killed several peo­ ple only a few xmVntha before. A# for wild animals 1 had ho need to be told about them. Had I not heard the wolves howling, night after night? I SI’ HANO FOR THE T.ADDKK, I . vouving the hogs and had gone back to tho tangled brakes of the bottom. But before that idea made any very Ann lodgment in my mind I felt, rather than heard, a stealthy step that passed near the door and paused and went on again. Then directly it came hack, and tlio huge gray head of a wolf was tlfrust in at the door above tho table. Ijt startled me, after all, long as I laid been expecting it, and I almost dropped tho ax. But then, remembering my-i self,.Ist’ruck with all my strength, Tlio blood flew and the head disap­ peared. I think I must have stunned the wolf at least, foripcering out into the darkness I saw it lie there strug­ gling for a moment, and then it was fallen upon by first one anu then half a dozed gaunt figures and torn liinh from limb. The sickening spectacle almost made me faint, but all at once it.', oc­ curred to me that they had been at­ tracted to tho house by the smell of the fresh venison. Perhaps if they* had it all they would be satisfied and go away. With this faint hope*driving me I ran and began gathering it up and throwing it out. Instantly the clamor increased to sncli howling and raging as I had never heard. Every'moment they fought and struggled more sav­ agely. Before I had thrown out the -last piece the. entire gang were surging hack and forth around our door. YVhat was coming next I didn’t know, hut I Stood beside the door with my ax raised. Before a minute I had need of it. A Wolf sprang up with his fore feet on the edge of the table, and was just about to jump into the room when the ax struck his faco and lie folk But before he’ was fairly out of the way two more appeared, and though I struck at them and knocked one of them hack, the other leaped into the room, Then they came in crowds. The room was full of them, snapping, snarling, Springing at my throat and I had to fight for my life.. By keeping the ax swinging I managed to protect myself a little, hut 1 was gradually edging around the wall toward our ladder of Wooden pegs. I knew very well that I Couldn't keep up tho fight milch longer. My strength Was already giving out, The wolves were pressing nearer, and 1 would soon be pulled down and torn to pieces, right there in tho. sight of poor little Jennie and the sleeping babies. And so 1 watched my oppor­ tunity, gava my weapon a longer swing S u I c W m In liuropeun Arm ies. IFappears from a paper prepared by Dr. Longuet, of „„]’y.ris, upon, the pro­ portionate number of suicides in tiie principal armies of Europe, that the. Austrian army holds the .unenviable preeminence, with an average of 181 suicides per 100,000 men for .tho last five years. The suicides were equal''to a fifth of the total’ mortality of the army during this period, and xnoro deaths were due to this than to typhoid fever, pneumonia or- consumption, Next comes the. Germau army, with .an .average,of'07.pqr lOty.OUO inert; then the Italian army, with tlO; and the French army with 47, it being a noteworthy fact that tlio suicides in the French! army are nearly double •what they- wore ten years ago. The suicide*, in the Belgian army averaged 514 per 100,- ,00U for the last live years;,while the avorago was 28 for the English. 20 for ■tiie Russian and■only. 14 for..the Span­ ish army. 1n all the armies there were, proportionately more deaths; among tho non-commissioned officers than among the men, and fewer 'suicides among tlio engineers than tlio cavalry, (filicide was rare among the men who had been sentenced to different terms of imprisonment, hut’ frequent among tiie men awaiting trial by court mar­ tial.—London Telegraph. . TEMPERANCE NOTES, THE «•MODERATE’ Can A lcohol DOSE. ’ A lter f-iii’!llnjr School. Youths gathered about the. door.ehaf- ling each other, holding t.>oir places against much shoving this way and that, As the. crowd filed 'lowly out, girls would see un elbow projected into ■that narrow lane by some Darby who hoped that this, his Joan, might be kind to-night. i “ Can 1 see you safe home?'* Month-old derision sprang from his refusal, and a nest of mad rogues pro­ claimed , his scorn. But some were fortunate. A fair girl with boon and tippet, framing a face of guilelc .sue.*a and health, would drop a baud upon that awkward arm and hurry through the door before the peal of ribaldry could coinc; hurry into the highway, theu wail: more slowly home, pausing at tiie doorway, giving good-by agam and again, then living in ecstasy till the silent winter night erased all Wake­ fulness and poured a flood of dreams about her bed. —Le Roy Armstrong, in “ An Indiana Man,” A Hunting Yarn, Twp hunting parties were cainpdd a little distance apart in the North Woods. One party carried into thu .woods bag filled with filberts, almonds and other nuts. The man who had charge of the provisions hung up the bag where he thought it would he safe, and the next day visited his friends in tho other camp, being absent from his owri camp two or three days. When he returned ho took a friend with him, ani on the way spoke of the treat in store for the visitor in tiie shape of nuts. Upon reaching the camp, however, a hole was found in the bag and every nut gone. It was supposed that the squirrels had carried them oft to their homes in tiie woods, and nothing more was thought of the theft Until next day, when the hunter went to put on a pair of rubber boots hanging up in another part of the camp, and in these boots were all tho nuts, nicely stored away by the squirrels for winter use.—Golden Days. —Mm de Tone—“ And ivbat did you thipk of Rome?” Mrs. .Startup -“ Oh. they have such miserable shops there1 Would you lwlieve it? I went to every shop in Rome without finding some buttons I want to match!*'---Once a; Week, v Bo Safely Taken in Any JJimutlty? . The following is a part of the ad­ dress on “ Some of the Effects of Alco­ hol on the' Brain,” delivered by Axel Gustafson, at the recent Medical con­ gress at Prohibition park: ‘ •Alcohol as a brain poison is admit­ ted by all who see its results in the irresponsible crimes of alcoholists and drunkards,* aud when suicide, insanity, idiocy and all sorts of moral manias are found to be* directly traceable to alcoholic drink, “ Concerning wliat is termed moder;- atiou in alcoholic liquors, evou author­ ities differ widely. Great physicians, while commending' moderation, con­ fess ignorance of what it is, and bid*, the qtill moro ignorant to discover it .for themselves. They all agree, how­ ever—from the physician’s point of view—in deprecating the" taking of doses sufficient to produce signs of brain-poisoning; “ Now what is the minimum' 'poison­ ous-dose, below *which, of course, the safe dietetic dose must .be found? By the dietetic dose I mean a daily quan­ tum of liquor or liquors, of any kind, containing, some say, not more than three fluid ounces o f alcohol, others not more than two; others, again, draw the line at ono and a half, and still others—for example, Dr. Prosser James ■—allow but one ounce per day. Even here, then, the doctors disagree. The English surgeon, the late Dr. F. B. Ans.tic,the generally accepted authority on the dietetic dose, fixes its quantum at from one to one and a half ounces' for men and half that quantity for women. In other w6rds, from, four’ to six tablespoonfuIs of brandy or whisky, two to three wine glasses- of port, or slierry, or from four to six wine glasses of claret or champagne. . How many moderate.drinkers limit.themselves to that amount? And is it'snfe? Does it- produce’ no harmful effects on tiie brain?" In his ‘Stimulants and Narcot­ ics,’ Dr. Anstie tells us the results of his experiment on himself.. He did not try the dietetic dose, ■ however, but only the half of it, the woman’s dose, with the result, he says, that ‘the poisonous effects were fully developed. The'face felt hot and was vis­ ibly flushed, pulse eighty-two, full and bounding, .perspiration on tho brow.’ If half of the dietetic close was found to be thus poisonous, what' then of the full close? But threc-qijarters o f a fluid ounce of alcohol is not the minimum poisonous dose, as many ex­ periments have shown. I shall only refer to throe or four of the* host known, and first to those made by Drs. Nicol and Mqssopof Edinburgh. Those , gentlemen, after taking small doses of various poisons, examined each other’s eyes, with the ophthalmoscope, in order to note the least, results. Hav­ ing (taken two drachms of rectified spirits, !, c,, less than a quarter of an ounce, of.alcohol, they found the blood­ vessels congested and the vision ren­ dered hazy, indicating, as they state, ‘paralysis in the nerves controlling the delicate blood-vessels of the retina;’ ; And as the optic nerves, proceed di- reetly from the brain.-tUeroTnimb have existed in the brain itself a condition i corresponding to that noted on the j retina To refer to v me more recent j cv-pcnmcnt <, Pr, Ridge, of Enfield, Ei),:’.. a* v.'dotl by several prominent; practitioners, ntiule n series pf severe I experiments on both drinkers and ab- j staitters, the doses being, as in the .ex- I pei'iinentsof the Edinburgh physicians. . two drachm:. Tiie tests .were applied not only to vision, but also'to the senses of touch and weight. Iu every' ease the sense tested showed signs of ■ deterioration; the sight was less d is-! linct and sharp, the touch less delicate t and accurate, and the sense of weight; blunted and-confused, after the inges-: tion of the alcoholic (lose, although in ' many instances the subjects wore nn- ■ conscious of these impairment':. Dr. « Scrougal, of New Mill, Eng., repeated j the Ridge experiments and confirmed * them in every particular, proving also ! by experiments of his own that the ‘ sense of hearing is equally blunted in : its delicacy by these minute quanti- j ties of alcohol. Th *s> minute doses, , therefore, produced plain symptoms of . incipient anaesthesia! ; “ In view, then, of our present knmvl-! edge of the nature of the, brain and of I the effects of alcohol—in particular in r its affinity for the braid—what must be 1 highest functions are the first to d if­ fer injury from alcohol. Hence our faith in God, oqr aspirations, reverence for goodness, ioreandpurity; endeavor in humility, modesty, patience, con­ sistency, fortitude; self-surrender, eta. —these are the first qualities likely to be assailed, weakened or destroyed by the injurious action of alcohol on the' cerebrum. The above cited ovperi- meats with but a quarter of a .bifid ounce of alcohol demonstrated i V solutely poisonous effects outlie brai'A, of a narco-paralyzing nature? and a*v tho highest functions, their tissues be­ ing finest, are, as *vo have eeero, the first to suffer, it follows that, poisonous effects being proved at all, the highest functions are sure to be suffering; and as tho cited experiments indicated : mental impairment, what must be tho inference as to the spiritual injury re­ ceived? If such be the results of from it fourth to a sixth of the dietetic dose, what, must, be the result of the full dietetic dose? “ Let us, however, for sake of argu­ ment, grant that tiie dietetic dose is all- that has been claimed for it— ’cui hono?’ Of course we will all agree that it would be unsafe ' for those afflicted with tho alcoholic taint; for a single, drop of liquor lias been known to start such a one on the road to per­ dition. But who arc these? Who- knows and can point them out? In order to- find out whether the dietetic dose is safe, they must try it, and if, being tried, it finds the alcoholic taint in them, the trial means their ruin. “ Again,^suppose that‘all who believe they can safely indulge w e re to com­ mence with the dietetic dose, how many would or could keep to it to tho end? How many possessing Will and character enough to persist, could oven know whether or hot they were doing so, when the amount of alcohol found in given quantities of alcoholic liquors varies so greatly?" ’ • . THE WAY OF SIN. Dl*- A DoYrmrnril |{»<iu . Loailn to grace? ttftfl iiuln. Sin.comes to a young man and says: ‘ Take this glass, it won’t hurt you. It lias a very fine flavor. Take a glass in the morning; it will be ah appetizer. Take a glass at'noon; it will aid diges­ tion. Take a'giass at night; it will make you .sleep well.” Yon are in a glow, while others are chilly, llow bright it makes -the eye, how clastic it makes, the step! One day you meet him and yon'say: “ IVhat are you doing here at noon? I- thought you wore at business,” “Oh, I lost my place.” “ Lost your place!" God have mercy upon tho young man when, through misdemean­ ors, lie loses his place. Every tempta­ tion takes after him. Iloppled and handcuffed at thirty years of age by evil habit: Have that young man; he. Is on the express train that stops not till it tumbles over the embankment of perdition.1“ The way of trangrcssor.s is hard." Sin comes to a young man and says': “ Take a dollar out Of your em­ ployer’s drawer; ho \von;t miss it; you can put it back after awliile. Tako another! Take another! Don't you see how easy it’ is? Hundreds of dollars added to ,your .salary in a year!” One day the police knock at the door and say: ‘ ‘I want you.” “ Wliat?." “ 1 want you." Discovery has come: disgrace, imprisonment, loss of tho soul. “ Tho way of transgressors is hard,"—Tat- mage, in N. Y. Observer. v NOTES BY THE WAY. tho conclusions as to the safety of the [ so-called dietetic dose? and what its j probable effects on the individual and j tho race? “ The cerebrum.' with its innumera­ ble, complex activities is finer in its J fiber than the automatic portions of | tho brain. It is a well-grounded oh- j servntitn in cerehrology that the higher j tho function the finer its organic tis­ sue. And the cerebrum, "being the j organ of intelligence and volition, and the field, as it were, of om* constantly- changing experiences, is itself (con­ stantly undergoing change, and it ap­ pears to he, a law of life that changing and growing matter is even more deli­ cate in function and substance than the. same matter fully developed anil | matured, and further, that the delicacy j and liability to Injury ia in the. degree ‘ of immaturity and undovclopmeitt. “ ltow, then, is the cerebrum prob­ ably affected by tho dietetic and minor doses of alcoholic poison? Our spir­ itual and mental functions being tlio highest, arc also tlio most delicate, and arc as yet in a constantly iniinnttnv. and groping state. Therefore, our IXTKMi'nr.A.Ncf; fosters and aggra­ vates nearly every disease that flesh' is heir to, and sharpens the power and sting of every sin, lx.'.omh Australia the government provides n pledge book for every state school, ami tenchers are instructed to draw the children's attention to it. Scientific temperance instruction Is given in all the. state selioo’S. Sohkti women are preferred to drunken men in business avocations. And why not? Railroad managers iq Holland have found it impossible to man the switches with men who can he depended upon to let liquor alone, aud so have substituted women. M kx dream of hiding their sins froa* their fellow men. It is- impossible.. Transgression sets its mark upon tho forehead df the transgressor. Intern-- perance, impurity, impatience and aU the rest leave their traces on the coun­ tenance, and thus reveal the secret things of the life.—Tiie Workman. I n the Hawaiian islands there- aro about fifty native temperance societies, with a membership of over two thou­ sand. Their pledge includes opium and , Awa as well as alcohol. Awa is-an in­ toxicant manufactured by the natives, and said to he more disastrous iu its effects upon the human system than even tho imported liquors. AmmiAM.r. work among inebriate -women is being done at the Browns* laud temperance home for women, 1'cobleshirc, under the, auspices of the .Scottish Christian union. Women who ■ have fallen Into habits of intemperance atul who desire to reform and aro will­ ing to enter ouch a hiVmo are received and in a large number of cases the bes;t results have followed their' residence there. * Tltia drinking, chewing and smoking population of tlio United States spend $l,500,0uf),<K!O in liquors and tobacco each year; there is one rum salooji to every 10“ voters oast of the Missis­ sippi' river, and one to every 43 voters west of tiie Mississippi; and ;’.‘,3,<)0J saloons in these, states and terntovw.S o f tin* union waste enough of bar.’ tub- stance to feed, clothe and' pa\- the house rent of every family 1n Um Hutted Slates. i