The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

EA m o n s t e r s a n d their do­ ings are occa­ sionally given m e n t i o n in newspaper; par­ agraphs, a n d .most of such accounts am vouched for hy this or that scientific man. - When Victor Hugo wrote in “The Toilers of the Sea” about the frightful monster which clasped its clammy arms around the direr every one thought that the tiling was a mere fabrication. But it ' was no t The monster described was almost identical witli the octopus or giant squid. So, too, men relate how, living in the deep and silent caves of the sea, is a huge lobster, resembling the smaller fish in strncture, but being very vora­ cious. It is said that lie seldom-comes near the shore, if ever, but that enor­ mous- lobster shells are sometimes thrown up omland after a violent storm. Northern fishermen have heard of the monster, and I have seen them shiver in the cuddies of tlieir fishing smacks us some one described the size and ap­ pearance of the fish. Ifow far tiic gen­ era! impression is correct I do .not know, but le t me relate a story told to me by a diver: “When the Anglo Saxon, a ship laden with costly merchandise, ran into Chance cove, on the Newfoundland coast, and sunk by striking a hidden reef, the government at once took steps to have all that the unlucky ship contained removed. There were over a hundred persons on board, hut not so much as one, if my memory serves me, escaped. When the ship was lifted by a heavy swell upon the sharp ledge she 'hung’ there, as sailors say. but with the rise of the tide she was lifted off the ledge and went down, head first, into the deep water lying inside. There was a passage from outside leading to this deep water, so that fishes or sea beasts might go in or out in quest of prey. There was no behch or strand, but upright, naked cliffs in the form of .a semicircle rose, around to a height of -about three hundred feet. Giving hack a little on the top was <a light­ house. “As soon as possible divers were brought to the spot, but it was difficult to find it smooth enough to go down. The first day we got below' we could •do little hut lay out our plan of opera­ tions. The ship was pn her side, the stumps of the masts turned toward land. 1 hod never gone down’ before in water so far north, and the place was so wild that I was timid. Lines were attached to Our bodies and the ends fastened to the skiff above, so th a t if any diver pulled his line be was a t once drawn to the surface, We walked about the bottom and around the ship with «ur foot weighted to keep us from rising. * “The water was a pale green, and I could notice objects quite plainly, for many yards distant. There was a huge break in the bottom of the ship, her stem was stove in, so was her stern. Already the fishes had discovered that there was feasting inside, for as I was' about to enter by the hole in the bow a number of Spanish mackerel, cod, ocuipins and dogfish began to Bounder about inside. I moved back, for 1 did not know hut there might he a shark there. “There were, as you know, over a hundred bodies in the ship, so I was anxious that they should be saved from the desecration of these fishes. Worst of all to get among the bodies of the drowned are Spanish mackerel and cod. 1 had charge, so we all went to the top and made arrangements for getting the dead. I shall not give yon the details, but after extremely bard work two day* saw our ghastly task -completed, “Then came the raising of the costly merchandise. I t was mostly silk* and -cashmere Shawls. One afternoon while my two men remained above repair­ ing their diving apparatus I went down alone. We were now removing the hales from the after compartment of the ship and had only one way to -enter or leave this compartment— namely, hy the break in the -stern. The method of raising the goods was to lower down heavy hooks which •could be fastened Into the bales after they were pushed outside. Some of these bates or cases would float and •some would rest lightly on the bottom. I liad selected a large case, which I was about to move, when, happening to turn my eyes, I saw outside a huge •creature moving toward the vessel. 1 had never seen anything like it be­ fore. It* body was four to five feet high and about twice that length, and it had bn each side an enormous arm. There seemed to be an unlimited num­ ber of legs attached to the hideous f" -ire. It* color was a dun brown, i d over with dark stops. Two rut...... black, shining eyes Were In it* forehead, and two aupple horns, each resembling an enormous whip, like­ wise came out of it* head. All this t nui.cvd with one glance. A numb ter­ ror seized me, and I moved for the out­ let from the ship. “But as if knowing what 1 Intended this brute, looking straight at me with Its frightful eyeB, walked, or rather crawled, directly toward me. I hurried in. the hope of being able to seize the hanging hook, now my only meanB of signaling the skiff; but it hurried, too, and 1 had barely put my foot upon a rock outside when the two writhing horns of the detestable creature were twining about roe and again untwin­ ing. Then he would touch me with these and sweep them up and down, as if feeling wlmt description of prey I Was. The round, frightful eyes.seemed to burn through and through me. In my band 1 ' held the crowbar which I used to loosen the cargo; in my belt I carried a heavy sheath knife These Were my only weapons. “Suddenly and without any warning the monster threw out one of iits armB and seized me below the -shoulder. I felt as if my bones were being crushed and that my arm would soon be sev­ ered from my body. No sooner bad he done this' than he turned and began to drag me into a deeper corner of the nook. The more I resisted .the more terrible was the pain, so I had to go, turning over in my mind what I should do. I still had the crowbar in my right hand, but it was of no use to me. So I let it drop. m “But the horror of that timel Well, I knew why the awful thing was drag­ ging me to this quiet place. He was going to devour me. “His arm terminated in a clawwhich opened and shut This horrible mouth- lilre thing had two rows- of shining white tee’tli.. Several of these were piercing my arm' to the hone. Some distance above this mouthlike hand I observed a joint, and then I drew my knife. But alas! the heavy shell so overlapped the fleshy tissue that I could not injure lhy captor. Still ho dragged me on, on till a t last the deep­ est part of the sea nook was reached. There he stopped and turned those ter­ rifying eyes again upon me. The whip­ like arms began .to move and curl about my body, and a hideous motion seemed to run through the body of the terrible ^sh. What this meant I knew. “His head was only about a foot dis­ tan t from my body, and drawing my knife again I plunged it into the eye Nearest me, turning the blade round and round. I saw that 1 had destroyed the eye, for an inky fluid issued out of the socket, darkening the water about its bead. This checked the aggressive movements of the thing, hut did not seem to hurt i t I waited, waited for many seconds, I think, and then its head turned, so I supposed, that it might be enabled to see its 1 prey. This was what I wanted, and with a sure, swift thrust I sent my knife into his other eye, down to the heft This time it must have touched the brain, for the beast reeled, and the grip on my arm slightly relaxed. Bnt though totally .blind my captor had no idea of releas­ ing me. “The agony of my arm soon grew un­ bearable and the waters around me IX THE CLUTCHES, seemed to be Ailing with greenish smoke. A strange sound began to buzz in my ears and( my pain seemed to disappear, I thought, too, t h a t l saw other figures moving about the ship; then the light went out of my eyes and £ remembered nothing more. *“When I recovered my senses I was in the skiff and learned how the divers, alarmed a t my long silence be­ low, had come down. They saw my plight and after a time succeeded in severing the arm from the body of the fish, which they both declared was the awful deep sea lobster. ’V & Y. World Cracl Mao. She came in daintily and laid a manu­ script tied with a blue ribbon on the editor’s desk. He looked up at her questioning!/.. . She was quite pretty and he continued to look. “ I write poetry sometimes,’*she said, tremulously, hut with a hope grown upon his kindly look. “I beg your pardon,’’ he said, canting his head over to one side, as if his off ear were out of repair, “I write poetry sometimes, sir,’’ she repeated, softly and insinuatingly, as she pushed the blue ribbon; a little nearer bis hand, She was just as pretty and as sweet as ever, but his face grew hard, “You do?” he said, coldly. “Yes, air;” and she trembled again. “Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Good morning;” aad the Cold brutality of everyday life Was on top again.—Detroit Free l’rea*. '* P E R S O N A L A ND IM P E R SO N A L . —Princess Victoria Mary of Teclc, the betrothed of the.lata Prince “Collars and Cuffs,” is a good musician and vocalist. She is the best looking young woman in the British royal family and is twen­ ty-two years old. —A Brazilian senator lias proposed that the legislature of the new repub­ lic dispense with the services of the shorthand reporters and use Edison’s, phonograph to record and report the speeches of the members. —Mrs. Ann Walter Thomas, an En­ glish lady otherwise noted as a linguist, has tile credit of being the best Welsh scholar living. The uninitiated who have seen a sentence or two of that language in print will not be disposed to limit the credit. —The interesting fact has leaked out that within the space of five years A. J. Drexel and other members of the family have given away over 95,000,000 for charitable purposes. The Drexels seem to have an abiding sense of the responsibility the possession of wealth conveys. —James E. Cooper, the old circus man who died in' Philadelphia a few days ago, left a fortune of $3,000,000 earned in the business. It’ was Mr. Cooper who in 1805 engaged Dan. Bice, the famous clown, at a salary of $ 1,000 a week and all his expenses, that, being .the largest salary ever paid to any single performer. —The divorce contagion has reached Kaffirland. Not long ago a chief in­ voked the assistance of the law 'to en­ able him to dispense with a wife on the following complaints: “Wife talk too much with neighbors; too much .paint, face and eyebrows; too mueli Snore in sleep; to° much loss, and too much no good,*’ And yet the Kaffir cannot ac­ quire the graces of civilization —Bartholdi, the sculptor, is said to .be greatly troubled over the threatened loss of his house, on account of the new Boulevard Baspail, which in order to run from the Boulevard St. Germain to th e . observatory, must go directly through the residence in which the greater part of the sculptor's work has been done. Bartholdi has .begged the municipal council to have this change postponed until ho has completed the work upon which he is now engaged. —The sale by Mme. Jndic at public auction of ail her valuable possessions, composing.jewels, pictures, tapcBtries and.silverware, brings out the fact that this most popular prima donna of French opera bouffe has lost nearly all her powers of. attraction. Her inimita­ ble diction remains, bnt her voice, beauty and grace have all departed. Her figtiro has become unwieldy bo- cause of an excess of embonpoint, while her arms are painfully-thin. It is some years since she appeared on the Paris­ ian stage. '_____. ••A L IT T L E N O N S E N S E /* —Good looks go a long way, but fin­ ally the paint wears off and there you are.'~rGalveston News. —When, a drunkard gets lost his friends don’t worry. They know lio will boob “turn up.”—Columbus, Post . —First Irishman—“Pore Flanagbn has jlst been drowned.*’ Second Irish­ man—“He’s a lucky bhoy. Oi always thought he’d be hanged.”—Comic. —Life is made of compensations. By the time a man is old enough to realize what a lot he does not know he is too old to worry over it,—Indianapolis Journal. —Ayoung Main street merchant has a queer paper weight. It is the first biscuit his wife ever made after taking a dozen lessons in a cooking school.— Bolivar Breeze. —lie—“Well, how is Mr. Jones get­ ting cn since his accident?” She— 'They say he doesn't seem like him­ self.” He—“Well, that must bo a com­ fort to his wife.”—Boston Beacon. —Old gentleman (stepping ont on car platform as car stops a t a Way station, and sniffing the fresh air)—“Isn’t this invigorating?” Brakeman (shifting hi* quid)—"Na Peekskill.”—Drake’s Mag­ azine. —Another Lio Naitcd.—“I have a horse that has run a mile in one* twenty.” “Is his tail bobbed?” “No; why?” “Because it is best for a horse- tale like that to be cut sho rt”—Kale Field’s Washington. —Mrs. Oldgirl—“ Yes, I am a grand­ mother, Only think of itl A grand­ mother at fortvl How does It strike you?” Mrs. Planetung—“It strikes me that a woman’s age is one of those things which can never bo definitely determined save by an intimate ac­ quaintance with the family register in the domestic Bible.”—Boston fTran­ script —Physician—“Well, my friend, what ails you?” Patient—“I cannot sleep, doctor." Physlelan—"What are you doing during the day?” Patient— “Well, I work like a horse, eat like a wolf, and am as tired as a dog when 1 come home, and still can't get any sleep” Physician—“Sorry I cannot help you. Yon will have to consult a veterinarian.” * —The English language is full of pitfalls for the foreign student of its intricacies. The Boston Comnaqn* wealth tells that a private tutor re­ cently showed a.young German pupil** rendering of the familiar lines: "Tell menot Inmournful numbers Life is but«nempty dream.” His pupil had bent all his energies to the work of translation, and this was the result: "Tell me not In ssilful poetrv IMo Is tbe larger*tul ot avals iuMt.luo / 1 TEMPERANCE NOTES. TH E C A S E OF JOHN SM IT H . A Statem ent In Fnlt o f tb e Coet o f One Man’s Urlnlc.1 John Smith lias a wife and . three beautiful children. He is a butcher hy trade, and, as he thoroughly under­ stands the work, lie might command a salary of at least 900 per month the year round. Naturally John Smith is an affection­ ate husband, a kind father, a good pro­ vider and a diligent' workman; He ought to he the head of a happy, com­ fortable home, But John Smith has one very bad fault; he drinks intoxi­ cating liquate and -has become a drunkard. His wife is known as the wife of a drunkard, and when the play­ mates of his children get angry they taunt them with: “Your pa’s a drunk­ ard.” Let 1 us make a statement of the case of John Smith, the butcher, and learn, as near as we can, what has been the actual oost of his liquor bill. John Smith is now forty-five years old. At the age of twenty-five he was discharged from a position that com­ manded a salary of $ 00 .a month, solely on account of dr&nkenness, and .from that time to this he has hod no steady employment lie works at his trade between sprees for butchers, who, knowing his failing and taking advan­ tage of i t pay. him small wages and treat him os they would not dare to if be was a sober man.. From the time of his first discharge until the present day he has not averaged earning over $30 per month. He might have had at least $00 a month. i Item 1.—$30 each month for twenty years, from loss of employment and salary. Total, $7, 260 . ■ What liquor John Smith has drunk he has had. to. pay for. On an (average his drinks have cost .him twenty-five cents a day (not a high estimate) for each day of the twenty-five years; or $7.50 per month. Item 3.—57.50 each month for twen­ ty-five years paid for liquor. Total, 91.800. Add item one to item, two'and we have 90,000 as the price John Smith, the butcher, pays in hard cash for tbe privilege ' of being a drunkard during twanty-five years of his working life. John Smith at the age of twenty-five was a strong, healthy. Intelligent man, with a constitution like iron. Now, when barely past the meridian of life, he is a trembling, bloated wreck, a mental and physical' ruin, and stands with one foot on the brink of a -grave more awful in its rayless hideousness than the black depths of the bottom' less pit. Item A—Health and intelligence John. Smith, the butcher, once had the love of his faithful wife, the affec­ tions of his beautiful children and the friendship and esteem of his neigh­ bors. Now his wifo lives with him from a sense of duty, cherishing, it may be, a loving remembrance of the dead manhood of his youth, but not loving him—no good woman could; his chil­ dren fear, miy, almost hate him, be­ cause he has brought suffering and shame to the dear mother, and woes Enumerable and disgrace almost un­ bearable iuto their youog lives; his neighbors look Upon him as a drunken sot, a hopelessly ruined man, os one better in the grave than out of it. Item 4.—Love of wife and children and the friendship and respect of neighbors. Once John Smith held his head up proudly and was not afraid to look any man in the eye. Now he shambles along the street, with head bowed and bleared eyes bent upon the ground. He has lost his pride in self. Item 5.—-Self-respect. John Smith was, naturally, a domes­ tic man. He loved his wife and chil­ dren, had a pleasant, comfortable home and was always well clothed and well fed. Now, he has lost his love for Mary and the little ones, lives in a tum­ bled down shanty, cares not how he looks, has little to eat and goes about a Jiving synonym of wretchedness. Item 5.—Home's blessings and com­ forts. Let us summarize: .Itemized account of the cost of tho drink bill of John Smith, the butcher: Item I.—To cash by loss of em* • ployment and salary for twenty years, - $7,200 Item 3.-—To cash paid for liquor during twenty years, - - * - 1,800 Grand total caslt cost of bill for twenty years, Itemo a — To twenty years’ ) constant use o f intoxi- [• eating liquors, * * - ) liquor - * $9,000 Health atld i n t e l l i ­ gence.' The love of wife and children and th e friendship and respect of neighbors. Item 4.—-To the bru talizing influence of liquor on the mind and body by twenty years’ use, Jtem 5.—To loss of pride in self by twenty years’ use of liquor, - * * - Self-respect. Item To poverty and 1 the degeneration of I Home's bless- home and home influ- ) lugs and com* enccs by twenty years’ J fort*, use of liquor, - » - j In return for all this, John Smith, the butcher, will live a wretched life, die on a pauper's lied, and sleep in a drunkard's grave —Alvin Jovenil, in Union Bignal. A LCO HO L ~FOR CH ILDREN , The Destructive Effect* o f Liquor on the Drain, Very many people, and among them not the least well educated, think that alcohol is a cure for different sick- busses and indispositions, and in such cases even children are frequently com* palled to make use of i t ' If it is still a question as to whether the use of al­ cohol produces the wlshed-for and ex­ pected resnlts in tho. case of men who feel indisposed there is not the slight­ est doubt that for children alcohol is a poison in every case, whose after effects may be inexpressibly far-reaching. Prof. Demme cites a noteworthy case of the injurious effects of alcohol on a boy, which should serve os. a warning. For the purpose of “strengthening” his ten-year-bid son, who was very intelli­ gent but physically weak, an anxious father administered daily a t first a glass, then several glasses of strong M.laga wine. After some weeks the parents noticed that the memory of the. boy was steadily declining. Finally by order of the physician the supply was discontinued, and in the course of six or eight weeks the boy recovered. Ilia mental powers had become so .weak that at times he did not know his own name, failed to recognize his relatives and could scarcely point out the simplest objects in daily use. But, ■ as is often the case with fathers who believe in using alcohol, this one could not allow himself to be convinced of its injurious effects. He, could not bear to withhold this supposed strengthening article, and he again staked his son's healtli on this belief. This time he experimented with beer and gave the boy a wincgloasful every noon and evening. In a few weeks h* observed the same, significant decline -of memory and the same dwindling of his son’s mental powers, which were ' again recovered when the use of alco­ hol was at last forever ended. Reason­ able thinkers can scarcely understand how iyell informed people arc able to deny this and similar effects of alcohol. This destructive influence upon thought and the mental powers is self-evident, and everyone whodoes brain work will be a proof of this if. he allows himself to be led to use alcohol. That this ef­ fect will become greater by continued use need not be mentioned. And now the same result has been found in the delicate unused faculties of a child. It is inexcusable for any parent to allow his children to have even a taste of al- cohoL How many sicknesses for which one has vainly sought an explanation would be understood if the carelessness of parents in this respect were known; A child should he taught to fear alcohol as it dread* the fire. It is sad that this is so seldom the case. There a r e ' frivolous fathers who give their chil­ dren stroug drink for a “ joke” instead qf becoming acquainted with the spec­ tacle afforded by the play of the child’s natural' inclinations.—Public Opinion. N O T E S H ER E AN D THERE. A youno Norwegian in Minnesota fell heir to a baronetcy and fortune in Morway, and tho good news so elated him that he proceeded to get drunk and-was frozen to death in a barn. .■ o - Tine ancient Gauls, who were a very brave, strong and hardy raoe, lived very ' abstemiously. Their food w a s - milk, berries and herbs. They made bread from nuts. They had a very pe­ culiar fashion of wearing a metal ring around the' body, the size of which was regulated by act of parliament Any man who outgrew in circumfer­ ence his metal ring* was looked upon as a lazy glutton, and consequently was disgraced.—Good Health. A wuiTE-ninnoNER tells an incident illustrative of the power of our badge. Taking dinner at a home where alto had never been before, and where she did not suppose her principles hero , kno n, the girl in waiting on the table silently offered her water only, when cider was passed, and served her sauce for the pudding in a dainty little individual pitcher without the brandy which was in the rest It was both a tactful and a significant act. C ardixal M asking was quite ab­ stemious in his habits. When a guest at the most splendid banquets he would dine off a potato, a hit of meat and a glass of water. Wine he never drank. He was greatly interested in the temperance cause, and said spirit* did more to destroy homes of the poor­ er classes than alt else combined. “The Englishman drinks from brutal­ ity, the Irishman from joviality, and it is much easier to reform an Irish drunkard than an English,” said the cardinal. The Decrease In Drinking. I believe that one cause of the un­ questioned diminution of th* nso of wine at the table is that the most fre­ quent and most acceptable toast— “Woman” — has so unanimously, through the Women's Christian Tem­ perance union, declared herself in favor of cold water. And it seems un­ reasonable to drink her health in red wine when she herself prefers the sparkling crystal. Another reason for this decrease is the stringency in. the money market. While financial pan­ ics will generally drive one or twopeo­ ple to drink themselves into drunk­ ard’s graves, yet their usual effect is to reduce the consumption of luxuries; and the use of wines, except in the cases of the aged and nick, is not a ne­ cessity of life. Neither should wines be considered luxurious when all the headaches, redness of tho eyes and dis­ integration of the vital organs whicli they produce are considered. 1 am seriously inclined to think that neither as many kinds of wine, nor in the ag­ gregate as large a quantity of Mine, are used socially in the city of N«w York, at least a t this time, in propor­ tion to the population, a* five year* ago,—Elliot F. Shepard, in Ladies* Home Journal.