The Cedarville Herald, Volume 25, Numbers 1-26

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Address, i"*liiiiy Knnedy Compituy, ( 'iskn^O, 1 THECOWARDl Ho -was.the inaa who t-wta las.: to stun-as 'seaman, oljoanl the Warrior as she lav in the harbor, a tine two masted schooner svfta the veesd, and Captain. Seqdder wns properly proud of her as she lay alongside the wharf receiving cargo and pas­ sengers, She was to. sail with, twen­ ty souls upon her—seventeen men, two women tmd- a lady’s maid. At the-last moment the captain decid­ ed to augment his crew by one man mole, lyre he made, a move to en­ gage one he heard a man’s voice sav- inmj V ‘Please tell me where the captain . -He turned and -faced the speaker, who was. a tall, gaunt fellow of thir­ ty yeai$ or thereabout, with such diffidence of manner as required- some- courage in him to look the captain, squarely in the face when 'the latiur gruffiv said: “I’m the eaptain,w„ ' - “J£ you please, may I w*rk my passage out . •The .captain studied the appli­ cant’s appearance in detail, A homely fellow he was, with an -un­ healthy brown hue to Jris akin, a forehead pnto, which, ecixno lines of- sorrow had been wrought, roving eyes tha t met one’s glance with a slightly startled look, a haggard face without whiskers, a receding chin, bent shoulders and -a graceless way of wearing his faded and frayed at­ tire, Red*hands and long wrists pro­ truded from the two short sleeves of his vornout blouse. 1 - - ‘“What do you know about sail­ ing?” asked the captain in a tonfe of ridicule. " • -' “Not much, sir. I’ve. worked with fishermen, and I know a little about- handling a smack/’ . - • “I reckon we don’t need you. Ever “been on ?i Schooner before at all?” . ' “Often as a passenger, sir. I knOw Ilm not a seaman,' but I ’ll do*any­ thing. T want to get back to my people/’ , , , . tcirou look -strong enough. , But why do you liang 'yoftT head like ■that? Onb would think you were a coward.” -. “I am,’’ said the matt- in .a ,low voice. , 7" “What! And you admit it?” “Yes. Why not? I ’ve fought hard against it, but I'can 't help it. I make -up my mind to be ..brave' enough, hut when the time comes for it I’m afraid.” , The captain had never mot .such a Character as this 'before/and- he was interested. A few other'lohng- .ers on the wharf stopped' to over­ hear the conversation, their atten­ tion first being attracted by the, great height, of the-man. • / “Afraid -of what ?” asked ’the cap­ tain.’ , v “I don’t know—of death, I sup­ pose. This is how it is r I came from homo with a comrade! 1 go hack along. One day when.we were out in a little sloop h storm came up, and iq n sudden lurch Of the boat my partner was knocked overboard by the boom.. In half a minute the 1boat was several fathoms away from him. He couldn’t swim/'.. “Why didn’t yon throw him a line?” asked a bystander. .“Because I was afraid for my own coward’s life! J didn’t dare to let go the tiller for a moment. 1 stood, .there stupid with fear, afraid to leave the filler for an instant, afraid of death. I. folk like a man. para­ lyzed. As the boat rose and fell on tliewavcs I wntched my friend strug­ gle in the sen. I sow him throw up his arms, I saw his face white with terror. I heard him cry out, ‘Save me J’ and then he must have read what was in my scared face, for he shouted, ‘Coward!’ end scut me ft look of hate as the waters covered him up, I don’t know how 1 made land, but I got in safe after six hours, of tossing, when the gale fell. l*d give my life, if 1 only could, to know that I wasn’t a coward, but when the time conies to show it t haven’t the power. You don’t know tho shame of it, sir, hut you would if you could see that look on my comrade’s face, and if his last cry rang in your ears day and night. Cowardice is upon me like a eurSe. I t ’s tho blight of my life, sir.” _ Such evident shame and grief were upon the man’s face that all who heard, including the Captain, were moved to some pity of his state, and so much curiosity had he excit­ ed in the captain’s mind that he was employed for the voyage. When the Warrior hoisted sail an hour later, elm had twenty-one souls aboard. The captain-classified them thus: Seventeen men, two ladies, a maid and n coward. ■ • . . The Warrior had good winds at tho start of her voyage, hut onh night a wind tom, and at daylight there was a heavy gale, Wlntecaps danced wildly upon the waters of. the sound. The perturbation of thO sea was becoming frightful. Tho vessel was driving straight on to rocky coast. The passengers, pain With dread of the coming ( ^ s t r o ­ phe, lashed themselves to the deck or clung to the rigging.. Capwm. Scuddef shouted the warning of the doom of the Warrior above .the sound, of the sea: *' , • “Nothing under heaven ran change her course l” , „ , _ Yet he and his crew'drove n^er* Hides* to the lad . Every one on hoard knew that the vessel was dr ft* inse rapid!v: that soon she must i?rikeandhedashedtof ^ The *ea twept her dock and hrokf over hep masts,- fteveu wen nung to the rigging for life. They looked ashore, Only t;50 yards away stood a group of islander*, a* helples* to succor those -in peril as the latter were to jave themeehea, Now the position of the vessel waa this: Where Bandy point drops beneath the sea it does not end, but it is prolonged under the water, making thus a perilous sand bar. ’ Out w on this bar was the Warrior. I ho island tides from the east and from the west meet be.-e. There ia no more terrihle place in a gale than that where two sea*, collide. The Storm grew, Bueh .was th e . work of wind and sea that times wpre when the sand bar irom the shore to the vessel .was swept naked. But its nudity' was speedily buried under heavier sens, . Passengers and' crew, fatigued with labor and loss of sleep, assailed by a biting wind, at last succumbed to chill,ahd numbness and made no more effort. Then arose one of their number, a tall, gaunt fellow, whom the cap­ tain hau called a coward in harbor, and he proceeded to belabor them and to keep them active, that they might not perish from the cold. “There’s* hope ye t!” he cried. “Keep alive, men 1”’ * .p- And one after another, did he awaken by rude shaking and warm by his rough qhafings." , Some caught his-spirit, and by the labors of their weiiry muscles they set their‘frozen blood in quick­ er motion, . “But what use ?” cried one. ‘‘The end must come.” - “Aye, 'but there’s one chancel” shouted the coward! who now loom­ ed up large and resolute. “Lookl The sea has rolled ]back and left the -bar. uncovered. A man ' cpffid . run ashore on that, maybe, while the Sea held back.” , .j ’ Two men laughed madly. 1 “Aye, maybe! "Look now!” said one. lvith savage sarcasm. The coward looked. The sea had swelled up and hidden the bar far beneath i,ts foaming waters'. “Yet one may try!” cried the cow­ ard.' “Try you then!” shouted the oth­ er, . Now, it is hard to meet death half Way. I t is against man’s nature to ' walk to destruction, Even though he knows it be coming he has the hope or the cowitrdice to shrink from it to the last. - Therefore no' sailor of them would leap into that sea or dare the. deed suggested by the-coward. 4 •, , ■ ' • “If I succeed; will, you follow at the next fall of the sea ?” he asked. “What one man can do another can,” .was the reply. The coward looked ashdre,.. Sul­ lenly the waters rolled apart. The sand bar was .naked- The msm jump- Y<dfrom the gunwale and ran'. • The people-on the vessel watched him with waking hope and cessation • of hrenth. The hundreds of island­ ers on shore stood silent, thrilled, eager. No word was said; only the sea spoke, * ‘ • Tho man ran -shoreward, with shoulders and head bent, forward and eyes set.' The .son rose on b'oth- sides of him. The huge waves wall­ ed his roadway. The. roadway began to narrpwl A .turbulent high sea moved in .pur­ suit, of him. He lengthened and quickened his steps'. I t was a race • between ao small a thing aa a mart and so great -a thing as the storm impelled-ocean. . . . The ocean Won. With a great roar it came down upon the man. But he would not be taken in flank, With his back to his -enemy. He turned and faced the sea.- Ho leap­ ed into it headforemost. , After-' ward his body was cast upon the beach. Tho ocean had toyed with it and had then thrown it hack t6 its own kind, ' , Those~ on the island saw that * when the man turned to meet death- a smile was on his face. He had discovered he was hot,afraid to die. To Cure o Cold in One Day, Pike Lixutive Brmno Quinine Tab p K All druggists refund tin* money f it fails to cote, E. W. Grove’i signature is on each box. 25c. Makes children eat, sleep ahd grow; M.-ikcs mother strum: and vigorous Makes « healthy family. That’* what Horky Mntint.do Tort does. 85 ets Wk your* dtiiggist. * Heller’s Testimony, - Albert Hellr, living at l l l 4 Faro «on Bt„ Oin finii wiya; “ I have tried •met everything ih.nl is used as a pre eniive tir cure for headache,hut noth •tu did me so much good as Krause’s li<;id«ehe Capsules. Others who have •Hed them say the same thing” .Price 25c. Bold by O, M. Rklgway. BESTFORTHE BOWELS GANDY CATHARTIC JltVWOWWHIib^ , , ' t A T mm \ m YOUR BLOOD CLEM that Made From Finely Ground Floor 8*lcf‘to 0* Best, It. ii« the general theory among; the majority of people tha t graham bread la far more digestible than that made of flour thoroughly “holt -1 ed” or separated from the bran a; id middlings, Such does not appear to bo the fact, however, if we arc to credit experiments, of tho depart­ ment of agriculture. Digestion experiments! were care­ fully carried out with bread from; each of the several kinds of flour ■ and the-proportions of protein as-! similated and rejected by the Bys-. tern carefully determined. The • whole wheat flours -may afford a greater proportion of the mineral nutritions, however, as this phase pf the subject was not studied, hut a* far as the available protein fats, carbohydrates and energy arc con­ cerned the patent roller flours are preferable. According to the chem­ ical analysis of grahain, entire wheat and. standard patent flours.milled: from th e ’same lot of hard Scotch: Eife spring wheat the graham flour contained the highest and the pat­ ent flour the lowest percentage of total protein, 'The results o f 'the digestion experiments with those flours showed that they were inval-, uable in the reverse order—that is, the standard patent roller flour^af; forded the greatest-amount of as­ similable protein, while the graham and whole wheat afforded lesser amounts. ’ ' ’ ' This paradox, that the flour con­ taining the smallest proportion of protein should afford the greatest -proportion available for digestion, is explained by the coarseness of the particles of the whole wheat va­ rieties, The hran-and germ of these flours resist the action of the diges- -ijye juices to a great degree and com "lequenlly.. pass through ’the system unaltered. On the other hand, the finely ground condition of the pat­ ent flour improves its digestibility. I t was also shown that the addi­ tion: of wheat starch to flour did not improve its broadmaking qualities, or the size of the loaf. The most desirable flour for hreadmaking ap- •pears to he one produced by blend­ ing hard and soft wheat flours, hi which tile undesirable properties of the-gluten of-each are counterbal­ anced,—Bakers’ Revieiy.- 1 Metat3 That Cost. One of the most' curious of the rare metals is 'vanadium, which melts at 2,006 degrees P; and is hot attacked by either, muriatic acid or nitric acid. I t increases the ductil­ ity of' copper and iron anti would he very .valuable-to electro metal­ lurgists on account of the properties named if the prke of it wore not so high, $592 a pound. Its chief use at present is for coloring glass. Uranium is likewise employed in the making of glass and porcelain, though It-is expensive, being worth "$86n pound. - Iridium is valued today at $780 a f ound and is the' ■ hardest metal nown. I t is Used for tips of gold pens. Palladium costs $182 a pound and is employed-for astronomical instruments. Li ‘.um, which is quoted at $1,- 100 a pound, is prescribed by doc­ tors for rheumatism—its salts, that is.to say—hut no use has been found fori it outside of medicine. » Too Bravo to Bo Killed, , The first white person who made •a permanent settlement in tho coun­ ty of Onondaga, N; Y^was Ephra­ im Webster. Ho traded with the Indians, became familiar with their language and customs and was for many years. Indian agent and inter­ preter for the Onondagas. I t some­ times happened that the Indians, Oh recount of fancied Qt real wrongs, became offended with him, More than once they threatened his life. At one time the Indians tied him to a tree and amused themselves by throwing tomahawks to see how neiar they could come to his head and not hit it. Sometimes the whis­ tling'missile grazed his hair. The sport was kept up for more than an hour, during which time Webster did not flinch. Ilis coolness excited the admiration of his tormentors, Making It Clear, An old lady is said to have been asked how to tell good indigo. “Powder' the indigo,” said she, “sprinkle it upon cold water, and if it is good it will cither iSink or swim, I have forgotten which.” ' ' I t was the same with Aunt Cliar- ity’-s eggs, “Jest take a dozen of ’em—no, a half a dozen of ’em—no, it’s a -doz­ en—well, raaly I can’t say, but it’s either a dozen, or a half dozen—and you put ’em in a pailful—no, a half pailful—part full—no, it’s a pailful —no—well,' Well, it’s cithern pailful , qr a half pailful of water—and the; !good eggs Will swim on top—no, the 1*k. ..it- •..•-'IV I- AA XL A. It m ! S ' , 'd. UVJ * V4V.Wt4.faV> * MW ~ raaly know, hut, anyway, the good eggs will either sink or swim,” How. Chameleon* Climb, Chameleons always creep upward Wherever they may be. In a window they manage to ding l« the frame between the panes of glass and. by B t perseverance gel higher and er, never looking, but always feeling for foothold and extending in turn each searching foot, which moves cautiously and feels its way until it manages to effect a grasp, and till* With m e h patience and perseverance, the woodwork of a wtadb* not being to AU OVER.THE HOUSE, ■ The Many U««s That May-as Made of Paper In tho Kltdkon, A housekeeper in ThovNational Sl'oekmkft' siiygcst^-many' way'.: to use paper in tho kitchen/ SheVays: One can hardly miii.m until trial is made what a saving there may ho by using paper instead of the dish-’ cloth for wiping greasy pans and dishes, J fold a soft newspaper so I can with a knife run through many folds at once and cutrinto’ epuven-,. ient rizo, make a hole through tho corners of many-thicknesses a t ones with tho. large moat fork or shears ■points^Jhang the whole hunch with­ in reach of the place in which I stand at dishwashing. I t is easy to take a piece.to wipe away anytiling •that ought not to go into the dish­ water. When tho outside of the milk pail has sonic extra soiling on it, take a piece of paper, dip into water, wipe the milk pail and put the paper in the. “burning bucket,” as we call; the trash bucket, Of course we.do not want the outside even of the milk pails to got so dirty, hut on th# ordinary hum. they sometimes do, and I try to( do the next best ■ tiling to keeping them clean—that is,’ cleaning them in the easiest way. In dressing a tnrkey or even cliick- ens I lay some thicknesses of paper on the table, and when done I- can take up the whole mess and throw what the cats .and living chickens will eat to them and. the paper to he burned, saving the soiling of-.any­ thing that .has to he washed, , ° Downfall of China. As almost all-cooks have' a “china record” that is lamentable, the con-.' dition of the china closet in the average household,is a cause' qf .Con­ stant annoyance to the housewife, The final sorting of table furnish­ ings after the festivities arc over is always accompanied Vitli forebod­ ings on the part of the mistress who has learned by experience that every dinner or luncheon marks the fall of some fragile, piece of pottery. Many.ii hostess lias been forced to* limit her guest list to the number' of available cups and plates, and' the less vigilant in household matters: have, qften been horrified to behold the,most important or critical guest surrounded by a 'collection of china that looked liked nothing so much as the odds and ends to bo found on a bargain1counter. Dealers in fine china are making prices .just now. that might be found more than in­ teresting to those.ivith. whom the replenishing'process is always in Or­ der, and man/ a rare bit of ware that'would serve'nicely as a dining Todin decoration can be picked up at one-half" tho usual cost.—Bitts- burg Dispatch. . .Lined Covers.-. Anything Needed Cam be.-supplied from McMillan's furniture house where you have a good line from which .* to-select, “ • H o o l i i u ’r i C o u c h e s C e n t o i * fj r n b l e 8 S i d e b o a r d s -O-■.rt ■ * .« ' ' ' - . r e s s e s - ^ . H p r i u g w " W a ^ h B t a n d n 3 D i ’' e s i s i n j e f Inspect our carpets and compare our prices with other houses. • • • m J. H. iTcMillan-, Cedarville, Q, Funeral Director * ' Furniture Dealer, 'S/2, iers1 This wonder- 5 n 'Moth ! ful remedywill saveyour child’s lifewhenattacked by Croup. It always .cures Whooping .and MeasleCough. Forabad, stubborncoldinthehead* chest, throat or lungs, it is invaluable-' ‘Doses are small. Children like it. one effect around which is appliqued a very. heavy border of white, the width of the border being about as much as the diameter of the center. The edges are all frayed out, the color and tho while1 intermixing in a very effective manner: The white mate-1 rial at both edges is frequently em­ broidered, the. embroidery thriving it on to the under piece of the mate-; rial. The whole is decidedly strik­ ing, novel and effective. ' ' ' Another idea in fancy table linen shows embroidery of silk and drawn- work both worked up in the same desigh on. a piece of'linen. The drawmvork is mndc to fit in most neatly and forms.a part of the de­ sign and is not, as is frequently the case, a separate adornment. . A Chinese Punioljnient That Downed Strong Man Qsndow. One of the Chinese modes of pun-. lehmcnt, especially when it is de­ sired to extort a confession from a criminal, is to place him where a drop of water nil! fall on one cer­ tain spot of liis shaven crown for hotira, Some measure of the tor­ ture this Inflicted was once experi­ enced by Sandora the “strong man,” says The World’s Events. When Sandow was in Vienna: some years ago, a schoolmaster, made a wager with him that lie would not he able to let a half liter of water drop on his hand until the measure Was exhausted. Sandow' laughed a t .the idea. The measure was procured and a hole drilled in the bottom suffieiunt to let the water escape drop by drop. The experiment began. Sandow chatted gayl y at first. The' school­ master stood by and counted the drops as they fell. At the two hun­ dredth Sandow became less jovial; then he became sober, and an ex­ pression of pain crossed his face. A t the three hundredth his hand began th swell and grow red. The pam increased fend at length became excruciating. Then the skin burst. Emailv at the four hundred and twentieth drop Randow acknowl­ edged his defeat. ' —Frtit .H unt —Heat ofi'tc room in Oedftrvilje—over Hitchcock’s Hillard: room* .1,1\ Chew, fir; B. It. Madden, Practice Him ibid to EVE* EAH* NOSE AND THROAT, Classes Accurately Adk tilled. Allen lUuMm/, Xenia, f>.< - -*Oftke K«. ft &s D f * Stops the Cough And Works oil tho Cold. Laxative HrotnorQdinlhfl Tshhiisfeure a oold in mm day. HwCure, Xo l \ v , Price 25 cents. Biibscribe for the Herald. An Extraordinary Duel.' ' .. One of the most remarkable duels ever- fought, perhaps, topk place in 1803 between two Frenchmen. Of course the quarrel' arose about a. lady, a certain Mile. Tirevet, who, it appears, was unable to decide on which of the two she preferred. She finally found a way out of the diffi­ culty by"promising to marry which, ever ,oi them worried the other. They thought over tho. matter in a calm anti judicial spirit for a month and at the eml derided to fight a duel in the' air. Accordingly two balloons were made .exactly alike, and upon the appointed day,each soared aloft, 'accompanied by his second. They were each armed With a blunderbuss, the agreement, being that they were-to fire not at each other, hut at the balloons. They arose to the .height of half a mile, and' then tho preconcerted. signal was given. Quo fired and missed. The other, followed suit with more disastrous effect. Ho hit his oppo­ nent’s balloon, which instantly col­ lapsed,-with the result that the oc­ cupants' of the car were dashed to the earth With' frightful rapidity and instantly killed.- ' ; Yoiir'-Torigue ' If jt’s coated, -your stomach is bad, your liVer‘ is-out of. order. Ayer’s Pills will clean * your tongue, euro your dys­ pepsia, make your liver tight. Easy, to take, easy to operate. 25c. All 4i«SSl5ts._________ iiit juiii u: i -.1 ii "i " in jc I’.Lrlfi.I ■brown or Ucfil*1n,c3t>/ !'!:• ji liso B M » ? S B Y £ vvpieUsrs ed k<a*of J The Laugh V/as on Johnny/ The Boy; “Sick him, Tigel” The Dog: “lie’s.my meatl” .His Secret of Happiness. , . ' The famous,Professor Bkckicwas - .once waiting for a certain, train and was marching up and down the . platform whistling -gayly .and for fell the world like a schoolboy en route home for his holidays. A gen-- tleman near by, ttt once recognizing the picturesque figure and wishing to enter into conversation with him,; went up to him and asked him; -• “Professor, may I ask the secret !' of your happiness ?” The genial professor smiled and answered; , ■’ “Well,'here is the secret of my -happiness'; I have no -vain regrets ■* for the past/ I look" forward with hope to the future and I always^ strive to do my duty. There,” lie'7" ended emphatically, “you have it/' And lie straightway set‘to andpvalk- - ed up and do.wn‘..again, whistling as before.—‘London. Tit-Bits. A Whistling Language. • ■ y The aborigine's of tho Malabar is- «. lands employ a perfect whistling language by means of which they can communicate with each other 1 over. long, distances. A stranger ■ wandering over .the islands is fre­ quently surprised to hear from, a hilltop the sound,of loud whistling, which is quickly repeated on the next hill and so is carried from sum­ mit to summit until it dies away in. the distance. But .perhaps the most curious means of communication in the world is the drum language of a Kongo tribe. These queer people can talk to each other with large drums’made of bamboo hoops, over which the skin of some animal is stretched. The drum, however, is used only on importan! occasions. Paying * Debt. The celebrated French poet Saint- Fobs, who in spite’of his largo in­ come was always in debt, sat one day in a bather’s shop waiting to bo shaved. He was lathered when the door opened and a tradesman enter­ ed who happened to he one of the poet’s largest creditors, ■No sooner did this man see Saint-Foix than he angrily demanded his money. The poet composedly begged him not to make a scene. “Won’t you wait for the money uhtil 1 am shaved?” • „ “Certainly,” said- the other, pleas­ ed at tho prospect, Baint-Foix then made Hk barber ; ■awitness’d the agreement end im­ mediately took a towel, wiped tha lather from .his face and left tho shop. Ho Wore a heard to the1fend' of his days. A fieri ’Lose. A gentleman who knew Bronson Howard when ho wea a hoy in De­ troit mpt him in New York one dsy and asked him if it wire true, a* iie had heard, that William Winter had been n very hitter critic of hi* early plays, hut that the sting had been extruded from hi? pen by ft dinner at which some of their mu­ tual friends had managed to bring them 'iogcihtt. ' ‘ „ ' **Yes/’ Mid M a m tii, “lit •wm th# ' only.’enemy I ever had, i lost hiss.*1 * f k » k T i « « c , . - ■ fu \