The Cedarville Herald, Volume 26, Numbers 1-26

1 BIO SALE AT I S P R I W G F I E L P , ..... O . ' STARKEY’S ARCADE SHOE HOUSE s p r i n g f i e l p , © . We are not Gelling at manufacturers, but at a small profit, We will not misrepresent the facts, but will give you, better goods for the money than any other dealer in the city, as you will see fron prices quoted below. We go into the largest markets of the world as jobbers, and buy for cash, a saving of one profit. We give you wholesale prices, which means about 25 cents less than other dealers. Ladies’ Shoes.,,............ 95c, $1.25, $1.35, $1,95. j Hanan & Son and Banister at $5; no better in Hand Welt Turus.............. ;$M 5 , $3-oo, $3.50 Men’s S h o e s , , , . 9 5 c , $1.25, $1,50, $1,95 .......... . , r ■ Hand Sewed..,,.,....... ......... $2,50, $3,00, $3.50 America, You are deceived when ypu are told these are worth $6 and $7, Infants’ Shoes, Moccasins...... ........J..5C to 25c Soft Soles........ ..................... ...............20cto 40c Leather Soles, 2 to 6................. ...25c to 75c Misses' i i £ to 2,...... ......... 75c, 95c, $1.25, $1.50 Hand Sewed.,.................... .,$1.95to $2.50 Little Gents’.......... ...................... ......75c to $2 Youths’,*,................................ ...... . ..,75c to $1.50 Boys’ 2‘i to ......................,85c to $1,95 Boys, Hand Sewed........ ..... ....... $2.25 to $3.00 Out Patrician for ladies, and Keith Konqueror for gentlemen for $3.50, strictly hand-sewed, have no equal in this country for the money. All our goods are marked in plain figures, price and size. You kn^w what you are getting—-no deception. FOUR PER GEJJT. GOjHPOEflD INTEREST. Statement of ’‘The Oldest Policy in America,” was .written by The Mutual Life Insurance Co,,' of New York. (The oldest company.) Policy No. ;3. Date, February 2 , J843. Amount 05,000. Kind, Life Anbual Premium, 8102. Original, Insurance.......... ..................... .........„ ......... . . . . . ...... ....... Additions o f Profits...... . ......................................................... Total of Claim paid........................... ............................. ........... : Total Premiums paid..... ,..................................... .......................... Amount.of Claim over all Premiums paid ................................. ..-,85,000 .... 9,086 . . .......... 814,686 .. . . ........ 4,998 Thus it wilt be seen that al, 1 ,the premiums wore returned, with four per cent, compound interest. This policy holder outlived more than thirty-six "thousand policy holders in this company: He pa id , more premiums than any man in it, rfnd contributed his share to the payment of each death claim that arose for forty-nine years. His policy and the results. of his insurance are 1 m altersp f rare interest to all who are in any way ’interested in the im­ portant subject of Life Insurance. He was a ' PERSISTENT POLICY-HOLDER. 7'.‘ / fr.': .v- •. ■ . * ; r \ ■ • ,.' • •v ' and his example in mninfaiug his policy after it became, self-sustaing, many 'years’ago, has been of excellent effect, as will be seen 1 by the foregoing years.. W . L . C l e i i ia n s , A g e n t , C e d a r v i l l e , O . , ■ -M a l le s . f iW f ■ I r iv k l id a . ffi'i- jg When the liver is torpid, the Hie enters the blood os Ivirulent pbison; then that train of Liver Ills and Tonie Pellets are the' tuiy Treatment that gives the liver‘just the right t -uch r.r.d starts Nature’s work in the right nanner, The Fill touches tbs fiver, tbs Felleta teas the system. ■ Sempslo ar»ct 3ools.fot Free* Complete Treatment t> *5 days 35 etc. >*. ■ Ve.h <vr .-5 rfSOIMINTSWANitL in each, town to fake orders for our new High Grade Guaranteed Bicycles. N ew 1303 MSottssfs “ S e llF c , Complete $ e * 7 G f * ® o & s a c k * f * Guaranteed 11130 Grade $ 1 0 . 7 5 a Beauty $ 1 2 * 7 8 Bead Racer $ '14*7 8 nr» better bicycle at any price. Any other make or model you want' at one-third mu&t prkA 'Chaleo of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee, ' m IW P ON APPROVAL a a D. to any one it a>cent deposit and AllowJO DAYG FR E E ** *icforo purchase in binding. ■ s o m t H a n d W h e e l s ^ < 1 | | Chleaco retail eloreg. It* Rpd E ib e r s o le P ia n o s A B S O L U T E L Y d u j r a b l e .' .*'•'!/« hou; tor a number of yaats used Bhsrsolc Banos in the ’. ‘j (j-u: ertaioty wiu'r. ■ Uji-y me coir.fmttly nubjccfccd to’the hard” im i i -t bird of tHe. We have found the jlhcfyolo to bo a goad, jfwi dirabla weV able to fitomithewear and tear of the music s r i « .,* * M w j (JtA lU TUutJ, Dlreettovw Liacionatl conservawiy d Haste c- , MAOUPAutUSflO m t i m M i x o n F l a n o C o # M '*na t £ O, Pom ttt StttuA, ‘ CI?4CfNNAt|, ’Ezra. 7 Simpkins’ .“Scoop” Had No Call to Leather, but Sailed High on Ink > From “Letters Froma 'Self Made Mer­ chant to Mis Son,'' On George Horace Larimer.. Mu yenutatoa of Small, May- ■ word &Co., Vubltshcrx, Moiton ' )3= O. Speaking of bull pups that turned out to bo terriers naturally calls to mind the ease of my old friend Jere­ miah Simpkins’ som There isn’t a sol- ider man In the Boston leather tradq. than Jeremiah, nor a bigger scamp that the law can’t .touch than his son Ezra. There isn’t an ounce of real meanness in Ezra’s whole- body, b u | he’s just naturally and unintentionally, a maverick. When he came out of col­ lege his father thought th a t a few years’ experience in the hide depart­ ment of Graham & Go. would bo a good thing for him before he tackled the leather business. So I wrote to-send him on and I -would give hint h Job, supposing of course that I was getting a yearling of the steady, old, reliable Simpkins strain, I was a little-uneasy when Ezra re­ ported, because he didn’t just look1aft if he. had had a call to leather, He was a tall, spare New Englander, with one of those lmobhy foreheads which has been pushed out by the overcrowding of the brain or bulged by the thicken­ ing.of the skull, according as you like or dislike the man. Hlsl manners were easy or familiar by’the same-standard. He told mo right a t the start that while lie didn’t know ju st what ho wanted to do.,he was dead sure th a t it wasn't the leather business. I t seemed that be had said the samo thing to his father and that the old man had an­ swered,' “Tut, tut,” and told him to forgot It and to learn hides, Simpkins learned all that lie wanted to know about tho packing.industry In thirty days, and I learned all that 1 wanted to know about Ezra in the samo time. Fork pneking seemed to bo the only thing th a t he wasn’t interested in. I got his resignation one dny. Just fivo minutes before tho ono which 1 wns having written out for him was ready, for I will do Simpkins tho jus­ tice to say th a t there was nothing slow about him. He and his father split up temporarily Over it, and of course it cost mo the old man’s trade and friend chip. I want to say right here that tbo easiest way In tho' world to make ene­ mies is to biro friends. I lost sight of Simpkins for awhile, and then ho turned up a t tho office one morning as friendly and familiar as ever. Said he was a reporter and want­ ed to interview me on the December wheat deal. Of course i wouldn’t talk oil that, but t gave 1dm n little father­ ly advice—told him lio would sleep in a hall bedroom all his life if he didn't quit his foolishness and go bade to his father, though I didn’t really believe It, He thanked me and went off and wrote a column about what I might have said about December wheat; and somehow gave the impression th a t I had said it.* The next I heard of Simpkins ho was dead. The Associated Tress dispatches announced It, tho Cuban Junta con­ firmed it and Inst of nil n long dispatch from Simpkins himself detailed the cir­ cumstances lending up to tho “atroc­ ity,” tho headlines In his paper called it. I got a long Wire from Ezra’s father asking me to see the managing eflltor and get a t tho |acls for him. It seemed that the paper had thought a heap of Bimpkim! find that he had been sent out to Cuba os a correspondent and sta­ tioned with the insurgent army. Simp­ kins in Cuba had evidently lived up to the reputation of Simpkins in Chicago. When there was any news he sent it, and when there wasn’t he Just ffiade news mid sent th a t along. The first word of his death had eomo In his own letter, brought across on n filibustering steamer and wired on from Jacksonville, it told, with eloso attention to detail -something ho had learned since' he left me—how he bad strayed away from the little band of insurgents w ith . which he had been .out scouting amt had blundered into the npanioh lines. Ho bad bo.en prompt­ ly made a pi-isouer, and, despite his pi- port proving Ids American citizenship t and tins nature of Ids Job and the red ' cross on lfir sleeve, lie had been tried | by drumhead 'court martial and sen-! tcm-i d to be shot a t dntvn,. Ail thW he had written ou t find then that hjs de- count nfight 'bb*complete be had gone on arid imagined his own execution. This was written hi a sort of pigeon, or perhaps you would call it black Spanish, English, and. let on to be the w o rk . of the eyewitness to' whom, Simpldna bad confided his letter. He had been' the sentry over the prisoner, and for a small bribe in band and. tbo promise of a larger one from the paper he bad turned bis back ou Simpkins while he wrote out the story, and .aft­ erward bad deserted and carried it to ■the,Cuban Hues. - The account ended. “Then, as the or­ der to fire was given'by the lieutenant, Senor Simpkins raised bis eyes toward heaven and cried, T protest in the name of my American oiiizensbipl’ ” At the end of the letter, and not'intended for publication, was scrawled: “This Is » bully scoop for you, boys, but it's pret­ ty tough an me. Qoodby. Simptdus.” The managing' editor dashed a tear from his eye when he vend tips to mo and gulped a little as he said: “I can’t help i t Me was such a d— d thought­ ful boy. Why, he even remembered -to inclose descriptions fpr the pictures!” Simpkins’ last story covered the Itvhole of the front page and three col umns of the second, and it Just nat­ urally sold cords of papers. His ed­ itor demanded that tho state depart­ ment take it up, though tho Spaniards denied the execution.or any'previous knowledge of any such person as this Senor Simpkins.. That made apother page In the paper, of course, and then they got up a memorial service, which was good for three columns. Ono Of those fellows th a t you can find in ev­ ery office, who goes around and makps the boys give up their'lunch money to buy flowers for the deceased aunt of the Cellar boss* wife, managed to col­ lect 020 among our clorks, and they sent a floral notebook with “Gone* to Press” done in blue immortelles on tho cover as tlielr “tribute.” I pu t on a plug hat and attended the service out of respect for his father. But I liad'hnrdly got back to. the office before I,received a wire from Jamaica reading: “Cable your correspondent here let me have hundred. ‘Notify fa­ ther all hunk, Keep i t dark from oth­ ers, Simpkins.” ' . I kept it dark, and Ezra came buck to Iffe by easy stages find In suclf a way ns not to attract any special atten­ tion to himself. He managed to get the impression arotlnd that he’d been snatched from the jaws of death by a rescue party a t the last moment. The last I heard of him ho was in New York and drawing ten thousand a year, which was more thnn ho could have worked up to In the leather business In a century. Choosing a Wife \ A Man Can't Pick His Mother# but He Can Pick His Son 's Mother From“Letters From a StJf MadeMer­ chant to Tim Son," !>;/ Gcorgi Horace Larimer. Huvermlialon of Smalt*May* nanl A Co., I’uhliisUtrs, Raton =« Of course JouTo In no position yet to think o f being-engaged even, and that’s why I'm a little afraid that you may be planning to get married. But a twelve dollar clerk who owes $32 for roses needs a keeper more than a wife. I want to stiy right here th a t there al­ ways comes a time to tho fellow who blows $52 at a lick on roses when he thinks how’ many staple groceries ho could have bought with the money. After all, there's iio fool like a young tool,' because hi the nature of things he’s got n long time to live. I suppose I'm fanning the air when 1 ask you to he guided by my judgment in this matter, because while a young fellow* will consult his father about buying a horse he’s cocksure of him­ self when it comes to picking a wife. Marriages may be made in heaven, but moot engagements are made In tbo back parlor, wltb the gas to low that a fellow doesn't really get a square look at what he’s talking, While' a mnb doesn’t see much of a girl’s family when he's courting he’s apt to see a i good deni of it when he's honsekeop-; lug, and while ho doesn’t marry his Wife’s fa rin ' there’s nothing in tho marri ’ ■«> h >* v to prevent tho old man from . “. ’owing money from him, and ’ you can bet If lift’s old Job Danlikam j he’ll do it. A i«an Can’t pick his own , mother, blit he can pick ills son*# moth­ er, and wren lio chooses a fatboMu-; law who ploys tho bufkotgUops lio UP-TO-DATE ROBBER TIRE BUGGIES \ , ‘ ' 4 R em em b e r W O L F O R D a p p lie s - i lia o w n R u b b e r T i r e s a n d g u a r a n te e s .them . R u b b e r T :jres app lied , on abo r t notice. ' The above represents li combination run-about top buggy, with naked thousand-mile axle and open head ftpriuj The wheels are 42-44'rubber tire while the.track is. 4 feet 8 inches. The body iB22 inches wide with 8 bow full leather top and hangs on the Bailey body loop. Tbq cloth trimmings are green. The body is black - While the gear is painted with the fashionable New York .r e d ., There is a full-length htrip b f velvet carpet. The shafts have the quick shifting shaft coupler. 7 ■,■- J . E L W O U F O R D , X e n ia A v e n u e . 5 Cedarville# O necah't do surprise# if ms own son plays the races. , Never marry a poor girl who’s been railed like a rich one. She’s simply traded the virtues of the poor for tho vices o the rich without going long on their good points. To marry for money or to marry without money is a crime. Tbere’s no real objection to marrying n woman with a fortune, but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman. While you are at it, there’s nothing like picking out a good looking wife, because even the handsomest woman looks homely sometimes, and so you get a little variety. But a homely one can only look worse than usual. Beau­ ty la only skin deep,- but that’s deep enough to satisfy any reasonable man, (I want to Bay right here that to get any sense out of a proverb I usually find that I have to turn it wrong side out.) Then, too, If ft fellow’s bound to marry a fool, find a lot of men have to if they’re going to hitch up into a well matched team, there’s nothing like picking a good looking one. I believe in short engagements and long marriages. I don’t see any sense in a fellow's sitting around on the mourner’s bench with the sinners after he’s really got religion. The time to size up the other side’s strength is before the engagement. Some fellows propose to a girl be­ fore they know whether her front and her back hair match and then holler th a t they’re stuck When they find th a t she’£ got a cork leg and a glass eye as Well, They start out on the principle th a t married people have only one meal a day and that of fried oysters and tu ttt frutti ice cream,nfter the theater. Nat­ urally' a girl’s got her. better nature and her beat complexion along under those circumstances. But th e really valuable thing to know is how she ap­ proaches ham and eggs a t 7 o’clock a, m. and whether she brings her com­ plexion with her to the breakfast ta­ ble. And these fellows make a girl be­ lieve that they're going to spend all tho time between g and i l o’olock m. for the rest'of their lives holding 140 pounds, live weight, Jfi their lap and saying that It feels like a feather, The thing to nod out is whether, ‘when one of them gets up to holding a ten pound baby In his arms for five min- utes, he’s going to carry on nS if it Weighed n ton, * ? Dull brass 1ms a t present the high hniut of popularity over tho brass with a highly shining surface. Most of the newest things are lustfcriess in finish# a tleohletl relief after the long reign of the bright and glaring things iii this line, EVERYONE WANTS NICE « SHOES FOR THIS SEASON OF THEYEAR. W e make a specialty offine footwear fo r men , women a n d children. The n e w e s t creations can always be seen at this store at prices to s u i t the buyer. W e call special at­ tention to our men’s and wom­ en’s Shoes, in all leathers, at $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3*50, Frazer’s * Shoe %Store East Main Street,Xenia, Ohio, HP _ - - - We do the entire work necessary for the production of Fine Catalogues, Folders, and all kinds o f Commercial Printing.