The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

The Cedarville Herald. w . H, BLAIR, Publisher, CEDAEV ILLE .) 1 omo. A GAMBLER'S DIAMONDS. •Tim Very In teresting H istory o r » P a ir of Earrings. ,, “ I have had sorae peculiar customers,” Baid an old Broadway jeweler recently,' *‘hut there was one case whiffli I believe no one can duplicate, 1 have a large patronage from the men abou t town— the gamblers' and the racing people, They are very liberal buyers of jewelry when,fortune foyers them and they se- . lcct first cloths pjpods, and In most in- ' stances appear to*be excellent judges of quality. , “The individual of whom I was about to tell you is a man who first came to my store about four years ago. Hewas a very shabby looking young fellow, whom I watched cautiously when I passed him a pair of cheap solitaire ear- /rings in compliance with his request lie hardly glanced a t them, and asked forsogieJJjjpg better, und 1 took the first {pair and brought out n pair tha t were a shade higher in price.. These he pushed aside' SlBfl and asked for finer goods, until I had phown him everything in my stock except a pair of earrings worth nine hundred dollars, which I did not care to permit him to handle. ' “1 was a little out of patience with the fellow, and pointing to the ear- . rings in the showcase I ■ told him the price, and he imraediatly asked to see them. Thinking that he might make aw effort to grab them and nm away, I lifted them from' their velvet case and walked around the counter, holding . them up to the light as if my change of position was actuated by a desire to show the stones to the best advantage. ‘•He examined both stones very close­ ly and, almost took away my breath when: he said he would take .them, and a t the same time pulled out a large roll of bunk notes from his pocket. He counted out nine hundred dollars, and after 1had wrapped the earrings he bade me good night and hurried aivay. I was nonplussed. The man was a mys­ tery to me, and I often thought of him, until one night about a! month later when, he came again. “ lie wore a shiny silk hat and his shabby t it h in g had been replaced by neat, hut-very expensive garments. . 11c saw that I recognized him, and after a few words about the- weather drew from his pocket the earrings I had sold him. and said that his wife disliked the -settings ami Ihtti h«T desired new ones’. I showed him several other styles and he soon selected one. “Then he told me that he had expected a large amount of money, but had been disappointed, and finally in a very frank, business-like manner asked mu if 1.would lend liim fivehundred dollars until the earrings would be reset. I t looked a little like pawnbroking, but 1 belt«ved tha t the man wus in close, quarters financially, and after critically examining the stones to see th a t they had not been changed 1 gave him the monqy. “At tlio time when 1 had told liim the earrings would be ready he came, paid me the amount borrowed and twenty dollars for the settings, but insisted that, no allowance should be allowed for _tho old- settings. He thanked me for the favor und went away. “A week later he came again for new settings and five hundred dollar loan, and lie continued having those stones reset a t irregular intervals nearly four years, each time asking for the money and nbyays paying it a t the time ap- pointcd'for the delivery of the earrings. “During our long acquaintance I learned tha t ho was an inveterate gambler who played high stakes, and th a t the diamond earrings hod origin­ ally been bought as a nest egg for days when luck was against him. lie feared th a t a pawnbroker might change the stones, so instead of raising money on the earrings in the usual way he adopted the novel scheme in which he involved me. “Who wore the earrings? Nobody. He carried them around in a chamois bag. Did 1 find it troublesome to-havc him borrowing and returning money so frequently? No; I liked the fellow’, and, aside from that, it paid me lmnd- somely. His last visit here was a cou­ ple of months ago, when he left the earrings after picking out their twenty- second setting and took away with him five hundred dollars. “The night they were to be finished I received a request from the man to call a t his rooms. I found him alone in a cheerless little hall bedroom, dying of pneumonia. He was very grateful to me for having been Ills banker, as he put it, and asked,me to see that he was de­ cently burted, after telling mo to keep the PaMWMHKtlie money advanced and f<r^wwlHi)Slh*xpenses. *T complied W f t f h is request. Have 1 the diamonds yet? No; I sold them last Christmas for fl,300, and they are now worn by one of the most fashion­ able wotaen in the city.”—Jeweler’s Weekly. . —No Idle Theorist—Mr.Plgg—*4What kept you up so late?” Tommy—"Fire drill.” “Fire drilll” “M’htn. We per* tend like the house was afire and then march ,ont like soldiers. Mc’n Johnny Briggs is goto’ to set the house truly afire Some time and then we’ll see how i t works. I ’ll hot some o* them dnde kids 'll jist fall all over themselves, don’tyou, paw?”—Indianapolis Journal. BRINGING UP CHILDREN. A Wiw Mother's Opinion on B ales s a l Theories. ‘ Every young mother starts on her natural carcerwith a full set of theories She wears them like armor and i t often fairly clanks as she- moves, and i t armor of proof—th a t it is proof Against every weapon save the keen tance of experience. One twenty-year-old wiseacre has theory that babies are over-fed (so they are, more than half the time), and she allows her poor little lamb only five minutes for its meals and wonders that it does not grow fat like Mrs. Smith’s baby. Another has a theory th a t the little bodies are kept too warm and her baby shivers under a thin blanket, with its poor little pink toes all cnrled up and turning purple with the cold; third believes tha t warmth is the one thing needful, an d ' her child swelters in.heavy flannels through the hottest weather. I never shall forget how a certain very famous physiciau came' to see me one very hot day in August and found my baby wearing n flannel petticoat, and, moreover, wrapped in a flannel blanket. . , “What have you got this child so swathed up for?” demanded Dr. William of the nrn-se. “Flannel on a- day like this? The child should .have nothin on but a slip. I wish I-had nothing on but a slip!” I started in'mother-life with as fine a set of theories as most people and have been shedding them ever since: When I look a t my eldest daughter and remember the things I did to her marvel th a t she is alive and well. How the “sweet little cherub that sits up aloft” must have shuddered when he saw that poor baby taking her noon­ tide nap out of doors in her carriage all winter long! All my friends stood round in a tti­ tudes of horror and dejection, hut I pur­ sued m,v way with the intrepid imbe­ cility of youth. Wrapped in a great quilt with just enough space left for the pure, air to enter, sheltered from the wind by a thick hedge, that little carriage stood out day by day, from Oc­ tober till Slay, with Brownie, the faith­ ful Sb .Bernard, lying beside it. Brownie never said -what -he thought, hut he probably felt that I was not to he trusted with the child- When it •stormed of course the carriage was brought in and trundled, in the house, which the .house being small and many cornered, was n o t convenient. And well the child lived, and it would per­ haps bo hard to find a inure healthy girl than, she is to-day, hut whenever she has a touch of the neuralgia, which js her one aihaent,-! think of the little carriage-behind,the hedge and beat my breast and say: * ‘ Sijrun rtwe micait/" By the time my second baby came 1 had learned a little more; by the time the third appeared I knew enough to regard , the first as a brand -snatched from the burning, and to become restive when any one broached a new theory. When ray seventh lathy smiled in my face site found me with hardly a theory left, but ready to give-my whole self to the lovely work of keeping ■her well and happy.' 1 did not take her up when­ ever she cried: neither did 1 let her cry herself and me Into-fits, because 1 hud a ' theory that babies must not I k : taken up. I fed her when she was hungry, even if—oh, treason! it was fifteen min­ utes before the proper time. I did not weigh, her every week or every month; in fact,. 1 did not care invtho least what she weighed so long us her flesh was firm and hard and her color good, took her out in godd weather and kept her a t homo when I thought the wind too sharp. And she is ns robust and rosy-cheeked us her eldest sister, and I do not believe she will have neuralgia when she grows up.—Laura IC. Itioh ards, in Chicago News. FASHIONS AND FANCIES. Thing* Ilare and Antique T h at Are H ighly Valued. Flat wall vases and fan forms in royal Berlin ware arc among the new import­ ations. A new white faience in dishes, card receivers, candelabra and lamps is or­ namented With orchids, the cotelyea being the variety chosen. White lilacs, snowballs and hyacinths in relief with green foliage arc intro­ duced in a new ware. Ornamental fruit dishes have the spreading legs arranged with arbor wire and underneath is a sprawling or peeping enpid. The demand for pieces of faience, fancy bronzes and bric-a-brac knows no abatement, drown men and women bending over and seriously considering and buying what, except for their ex­ pense, would I mj children's toys, are among the Sights of the town. Snow-drop glass it is called. I t is of a beautiful green tin t With modeled de­ signs of white snow-drops with pale green calyxes as ornaments. The tall, flaring cylindrical vases are particular­ ly handsome. This design is found, however, in a number of forms. Quaint niul old-fashioned are ■pot­ pourri ja rs with perforated lids for per­ fuming drawing-rooms and boudoirs. A delicious potpourri is that with the odor of the wild rose, delicate and sub­ tle. Among the daintiest of boudoir writing table ornaments arc the minia­ ture Dresden china lamps.—Jewelers’ Circular. _______________ ’’ —Mr. Feeder—“Tills vest wants to he a little larger around the Waist, Schnei­ der.” Schneider—“But it fits yon per fcctly now, sir.” Mr. Feeder—“I know it fits all right new, hu t I am ordering th is suit to wenr a t dinners!” LOVEFOR HUMANITY A. Strong Desire for theHighest Good juid Best Welfare of the World. THEGREATWORDSOFGREAT1EH. A Most Hemarkable Array of Out­ spoken Statements from Hon of Hark in Both Con­ tinent#. INTERESTING FACTS AND FACES. The orator before the. Senate called this “an, eg# of progress.” He was -wrong. “Progress” does not half express it; it is an age of revolu­ tion. Revolutions carried on, not by armies, but by discoverers, inventors and brain-work­ ers. .It is a marvelous age, an age when the o» dinnry will not be accepted, when the best Is WILLIAM EDWARD ROBESON, M.R.C.S.I., L. If. Q. C. I. Late of the Royal Navy of England. speaks to-day and the entire world reads Ms words to-morrow morning, There are but twenty-four hours la the day, but forty-eight hours sre crowded Into it. They were bled, they were cupped, they were. Icoobed, they were subjected to every dertes whtreby their vitality could bo reduced ang. their Jives endangered, i t is almost a wondtr th at the race survived. There has-been an absolute revolution la tbs practice of medicine and in tbe treatment of human ills. Instead of undermining the vital forces by cupping and bleeding, tbe vitality is now sustained in every possible manner. iS stead of tearing down we seek to build pp. 3 , Stead of increasing misery we seek to create- happiness. But the greatest advancement In medical science has been made by discovery. Harvey could afford to endure the ridicule or the world for revealing to it the grand discovery of tite circulation of the blood. Jenncr might be estrm sized, but millions Iwve benefited by his dig. PROP. DR. KOCH, BERLIN. We-all know bow we have advanced material­ ly. Do we realize how we have advanced scien­ tifically? More than In any other manner. In­ deed, It has been the advancement in science which lias caused the advancement in material tilings Tho discovery of steam permitted tho railroad and tho steamboat.—The development - of electricity made possible tho telegraph and DR BEYER OP WURZBURG, GERMANY. demanded. Osir grandfathers were content to travel in stage couches, to live in cabins and re­ ceive a mail onco a week. Wo demand palaco cars, tasteful homes and dally communication with tbe world. It Is the rapid-transit age; .tho age of the telegraph and the telephone. A man DR R A, GUNN, Dean o* the United States Medical College, New York, and Editor of tho Medical Tribune. tho telephone, so that .the development of the sciences has been the real causa of all modern advancement. Wo will take, for example, one department of science, but tho most important department. One which affects our very lives and happiness. Formerly tho treatment of human ills was made a matter of superstition, of incantation, tho same as it is by tho mcdloino men of tho In­ dians to-day. Gradually emerging from such blindness, it was still a matter of bigotry, of folly. What people must have suffered in those days can acarcely bo Imagined. covery of vaccination. Pasteur lived in a more enlightened ago and escaped ridicule, while tbe world received the benefit which his discoveries Lave brought. Kodh, although forced to reveal his discovery before, its perfection, will bo ro- vered by future generations. . The discoveries of these groat men have beca of uptold benefit to the world, and yet they wero not .In tho lino of the world’s greatest need. Mankind bus been suffering, enduring, dyingfrom a cause far greater titan small-pox, more terrible than hydrophobia and more subtlo' than consumption; The habits of modern life, the very inventions which have made civiliza­ tion so great, have drained tho vital forces of life and undermined tho organs that sustain life. Ten years ago this great truth was realized by a gentleman whoso own life was in sore jeopardy, and the discovery which he bus given to the world has .dono and.is doing more to­ day to strengthen tho vitality, lessen suffer* TngrpresefTC tho hOSUh and lengthen lifo than any of tho discoveries of -the other great men above mentioned. Tho dlscovcrjfa^tetetcad to DR DIO LEWIS* *CUJL> was made by Mr. H. H. Warner, of •Rochester, N. Y., and J b known in Europe, in America, and throughout the world-as Warner’s Safe Cure, ltm a y perhaps be thought that tho above as­ sertion is an extravagant one, nnd so it would- be were not tbe unquestionable proofs present to verily it. Within the past few years tho claims made more than ten year* ago have been admitted by the highest scientific authorities, both in Europe ami America, and i t is with pleasure that we present herewith some re­ markable reproduced statements, together with the faces of the men who made them. Kidney troubles, resulting far too often in Bright’s disease, are the great evil o fmodern life. They frequently come silently and unan­ nounced,' Their presence fsr too often is not realized until their treacherous fangs have been fixed upon the vital portion of life. Nothing can he more deceptive, for their symptoms are varied in hcarly every instance. Thousands of persons have been their victims without realiz­ ing or knowing what It Is that afflicted them. Thousands are suffering te-day who do not know the cause. The discovery made by MV, H. H. Warner has been acknowledged throughout both hem­ ispheres to be the only discovery for ibis great mod«rn evil now known to the world. Llko all great discoveries, i t has had Its enemies and met with opposition, but lie marvelous popu­ larity with the pubilo has been phenomenal ar.d Ita complete acknowledgment by scientists ana the professions has been deserved. It stands, as it deserves to s ta n d , upon a planeof its own, pre-eminent among all prominent dis­ coveries for tbe relief of humanity and the pr> motion of happiness. i A A A K A A F ir. Wltl harm*-, who t< would ever st Still, 1; profan But j army <« with ri< most c differei touted how or place it that mi tor wli fight o aalvatu holatim W th it