The Cedarville Herald, Volume 31, Numbers 1-26

m m MAJESTIC! MAGNIFICENT! MflRVROUSI XENIA ’S GreatAMUSEMENTFESTIVAL Under the Auspices of the Xenia Military Band G & M B & s & a t s • Monday, June 1st. ATTRACTIONS FURNISHED BY THE FAM OU S ROBINSON SHOW S ■Embracing in Their Entirety 12 Moral Shows 12 , 5 Daring Free Acts 5 ‘ * With„a Band of 2 0 UNEXCELLED MUSICIANS - 2 0 W ITH . THE WORLD ... .‘.FAMED 10 LA THE WOMAN WHO SINGS___ Who will present to tlie citizens of Xenia and vicinity an Amusement Festival tliat will far surpass in Elegance,, Morality andlSplendonr any previous entertainment ever in our city. OPEN DAT AND NIGHT JUNE 1ST TO JUNE 6TH. In a New Country , The Pacific Coast extertsipa of the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Patil Railway nowUnder construe ’ tlon, opens, to the settler thousands Ofacresnf-excellent agricultural land. Theaewepantry hrAdamsf Hettinger, and Bowman Counties,. North Dakota, and Butte County, South Dakota, is now reached by the new track. The soil is a dark loam with clay subsoil, and produces in abundance wheat,' oats, barley, spelz, flax, corn and potatoes. Theland is well adapted to farming, good water is found ' at a depth of from twenty to fifty feet, and the whole country is underlaid with lignite coal that out­ crops along the streams, and in most.cases can bo had for the digging. • The climate is healthful, the air J s dry and invigorating, and the percentage of sunshiny days is high. Outdoor work can be done almost every day in the year. Rainfall Is amply sufih , dent to raise the*’crops. Regular mail service has been established, the roads are good, rural telephone line3 traverse the country,, and automobiles are in common use. The deeded land in this • district sells for- from $10 .to $18 per acre. There are many instances this year where the crop equalled in value the cost of theland. . ■’ In Butte County, South Dakota, there is considerable government land open for homestead entry. Government land offices are maintained at Lemmon, Hettinger and Bowman, where filings and final - proofs may be made. All of these towns are on the new lino of the ; Chicago Railway In Montana, theTneuCrailroad traverses good farming land, It’lias been demonstrated that big crops of grain maybe raised. Along theYellowstone and Mtisscllshell rivers, the water is used for irrigation, and phenomenal yieldsof alfalfa, sugar beets, and grain, arc always certain. In the Judith Basin hear Lewiatown, Montana, is one of the most remarkable sections to be found on the new line. Under naturaf rainfall, the famous bench lands produced this year an average of 35 bushels of hard wheat to the aero, and the price was 04cents per bushel. The basin contains about 1500 square miles and is sparselysettled, Some government land still remains open for settlement, Agovernment land officoismaintained at Lewistown. In Fergus County, outside the Judith Basin, is one of the greatest stock countries in the world, and good ranches can be purchased at a reasonable figure. Tlie Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. ha3 established art Immigration department for the purpose of assisting in the settlement and development of the new lands now being opened. Pamphlets descriptive of its tesourcesAvill bo forwarded free on request. F. A, MILLER 6 t o e r a l P a s s e n g e r A g e n t) CHICAGO GEO. B. HAYNES Imm igration Agent) 95 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO =**"4 Before and After. The Came man who pretends that ho likes to row a girl for three hours hi a hot sun When, they, are engaged w ill be found lying in a shady ham­ mock after they are married, while Clio la getting him something good to eat in a boiling hot kitchen.' MertumSht to Kenton.- A monument to the memory of S i­ mon Kenton, pioneer Indian lighter, was unveiled at Old Ttfivu, 12 tailed nest pf Springfield, o .,iu the presence of a large crowd. The monument is balit of lingo boulders suitably cm gjAved and marks the spot where Ken­ ton ran the famous Sadism gantlet. ptnwhwis « 0 a |2 ’m u . khi wd pu«qenq Jt>?( oanq aatiPM .pittoft imito.w oHMOAt oqj, ’*• ** eiJpWft . - Hfa Pyenlaas, I t was. wordy a single eyeglass that the yottftg 'swell wore, and Fnele Hayrick had never seen one before, * . “Jag’ look at that!” he exclaimed to hi3 wife under his breath. . What’s the weanin’ on it, do you •think?” she inquired. “I d’sm-—onk-to, mayhe, he's buy- in’ hio Bpeetadea oa the installment plan.”—-lfoaison’s Weekly, A Mean Suggestion. A famous London physician was ,Tilted out for some rhootin/?. But, though he tried several times, he c-otdd not hit a single rabbit, " It’s awful!” he exclaimed. '/I’ve killed nothing fill day.” “Mevcr mind” Laid lua host. “Write the rabbit''. ,<mo qf your pfe- fieriptioiwA- -London Answers, SonVe Queer Shoe*. We are all familiar with the wooden shoe of the Chinese, with its dark cloth top, (The Portuguese shoe has a wooden sole and heel, with a vamp made of leather, fanci­ fully showing the flesh side of the skin. Idle Persian wears a high shoe made of light wood richly in­ laid, with a strap extending over the instep. The Muscovite shoe is hand woven, on a wooden frame, and but little attention is paid to the shape of the foot. Leather is sometimes used, but the sandal is generally made of silk cordage and woolen cloth, The Biameso shoo has the form of an ancient canoe, with a gondola hew and an open tee. xhe sole ia made of wood, the upper of inlaid .wiood and cloth, and tlu« exterior is elaborately ornamented in colors with gold and silver. IM..BjWwnrii|i,WgWM PASSING TO * 5 R 52 Waa 2 S TK! LEFT. Ar» English Custsw WW*b PvuulH Wh*ij M«t In Cm*4s, When you go «brand you expect to hud things different from at home, and you t;-v jto take every- Lung as n matter course. So in Lnghmd^ when jot*. .aura that rail­ road trains pars to the left and not *to° ^ 3 ht, as with vs, end when ycii find that the same rule of the road applies in city streets and country highways and byways, you may bo inconvenienced, but you try to remember and get along some­ how. » But when you go to Canada and find this left handed state of things existing you are bewildered. There Ims peen no ocean trip to prepare you. You pass from Yankee soil to Canadian soil without knowing when, and somehow you expect to find the ordinary affairs of life mov-’ TH# gjseUlip.-qf th ) Brocken J5#*n an Mcunt Washington, Seldom aeon In -this country, the specter.of the Brocken is of eome- what common occurrence in the Ran? mountains, Germany,' whe-neo It takes its- name, There -Hie sum­ mit of Blocksberg, rising to aLeight of more than 3,300 feet, Is almost continually enveloped In mist, on which the parallel rays of the sun, low down on the western horizon, tjhrow strange and uncanny shadows of men, animals and other objects, i s the screen of mist on which these shadow? are projected changes its position in the varying eurrents of air the weird sun silhouettes seem to be endowed with motion, Increasing and diminishing in size ns- the mist curtain recedes from and approaches the object casting - - Some years ago the writer was one of a party of five to crossMount MMM x r s a s s a s a ^ a s r r t ' SON SILHOUETTES. One day you are in Portland, He,, the next day in St. John, H. B. You face the direction in which,you wish to go and stand beside the right hand trolley track waiting for a trolley car. The car comes, hut it is going fho wrong way-—for you. Thu* you *>Ui£t to the left. *> • But the next day when you are out in the country you have forgot­ ten the, trolley ear episode, You go driving. Another team ap­ proaches, You tug gently on the right hand rein, expecting Bobbin or Maude or whatever the beastie’s name is to turn out, 1 • But you get no response. On the contrary. The argument is not con­ cluded when the horses stand face to face and the one -you are driv­ ing says unkind things about you to his brother of the shafts. By that time you have remem­ bered, and dfter an, apology you proceed. . " . r The matter fe especially puzzling, Since the driver’s ■ seat Is on the righ t But the Canadians find this handy, There the men do most of the talking,* and when two teams are passing the horses urn pfiecked and the men find them§elve3 closer together. ' ■ ' . KWith us in like cose the Women have the preferred positions from a conversational ' standpoint. - And that’s how it*should be, ‘ - ■ Kailroad trains don’t pass to the left in Canada. , Jfn fact, they don’t pass at all except a t sidings. "There is only one trunk*1— Washington Tost, y , • Dbr««ii’* Quick Wit, Benjamin'.Disraeli when eontestr .fog the borough of Shrewsbury oh ’making Ids first appearance before 1the electors of that most corrupt old-borough wsb , onaccountTdf'Tiis Hebrew origin, .received with many jeers, etc., a number of men hoist- a bit of bacon, sir,” «fo. Waiting until the excited mob had cooled down, the future prime minister, equal to any occasion, addressed them, saying, "Ladies and gentie- -men, T new feet sure of befog-your accepted candidate, for as I look to the right or the left or look be­ fore- me 1 see offers Of hospitality: on every side.’^ Heedless to say, be was returned with a great majority. —Exchange, "Crossing ih» Bar.” This is the story of how Tenny­ son came to write his beautiful "Crossing the Bar.” He had beep very ill, end one day when he way .convalescent he wa? sitting grum­ bling. .Suddenly his nurse said to him, "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Tennyson; you ought to be expressing your gratitude fox your recovery.from n very bad ill­ ness by giving us something, by gi'v- -fognt to the world.1* lie went out and straightway Wrote “Crossing ’the Bar” ana brought it to tlie nurse a 3 a peace -London Hews. offering,- Th* Ritdf Cross. The honor of conceiving the ideas out of which the Bed Cross society grew belongs to Henri Dunant, a I’rench humanitarian. The first practical inception of Dunant’s pur­ pose was made by the Geneva So­ ciety of Public Utility. ' They inter­ ested the officials of the Swiss gov­ ernment, and, with General Dufour of the Swif-a army as its leader, a committee was appointed Feb. 9, 1863, to give impetus to the move­ ment. The result was the Geneva conference of 1861 and the Bed Cross society,—^»ew York Amer- ieati, , -.._ • Austria-Hungary. By the results' of the war o f 1848 Hungary became virtually an Aus­ trian province, but it wrt3 hot until fho yehr 1867 that the dualisfic sys­ tem of the Austro-Hungarian gov­ ernment was established. On Feb. 20 of that year a responsible, minis­ try was formed under the pfesi- dimey of Amlrassy, and in the fol­ lowing June tho Austrian emperor and empress were crowned king and queen of Hungary a t Budapest, ShsrprtM* of Lunatics, Having an appointment to preach at an insane asylum for tho first time, a clergyman asked the medical dim,tor for some points. Hoyeam the most important thing was to avoid any attempt ou the part of the preacher to accommodate hum self to his audience as if they were different from other people. Ho said, “ f t y o n attempt to .adopt yourself to their condition, they will 'instantly discover it, and they will hate you.” Washington, Hew ’Hampshire, and. was so fortunate as to witness this specter in all its weird distinctness. We had left Mount Washington be­ hind and were following the bridle path ov^r Mount Monroe just as* the sun was Teaching tho level of the western hills. At.our .left a, dense, shifting ban".; of mist swayed backward and forward, at times al­ most enveloping us in its moist em­ brace and again swirling away so far as to disclose faint outlines of crag and summit to the eastward. .Suddenly emerging from "behind a ridge, we came into the full glaye of the setting, sun, and one after "another each member >of.the party saw his figure silhouetted distinctly on the semitransparent veil of mist. Trudgfog as we were in single file, ouch shadow wds projected separate­ ly and framed in a brilliant circle of.prismatic colors. The head, feet and finger tips of each person when the arms were extended at full length touched the inner edge of the rainbow circle. Every peculiar­ ity of outline was faithfully dupli­ cated, even to knapsacks and, long staffs^ carried by the party, and as the light air moved tho mist bank farther away tho silhouettes grew in size from that of nearly normal to heroic stature. Always the halo of prismatic light encircled us, but became less brilliant as its size in­ creased. ’ , As the party came together their shadows merged into one, encircled by a single rainbow frame. The unusual phenomenon lasted many minutes, disappearing suddenly as the sun spnk.-—W. J . Scandlin in Boston Post. Origin of the- Maypots, '‘May day ceremonies were not in origin u mere, sign of rejoicing that the leaves were on, the frees again and the flowers' blooming once il says J , Ernest J f y m n x m his “Trees in Mature, .Myth and Art.” . “They were religious observ­ ances, believed to secure the bless­ ings the spirit could' bestow* The spirit tha t inhabited the tree In­ habited also the Maypole taken from the tree, and the dance round the Maypole was a religious ceremony. The May queen and Jack-in-the- green were in origin hitman forms of the tree spirit. The belief that the Maypole insures fertility ia not yet extinct in Europe, and in some parts of Germany oh May dayrthe peasants set up May trees a t the doors of stablo and cowbyre, a tree for each horse and cow, to insure fertility and that tho cows will give plenty of milk” , An Ancient Drinking Game. Drinking bouts have been accom­ panied among all peoples by curious diversions. Cottabus is the most classical, haring been, in .vogue,nver^ mo3t parts of tho ancient world. The player lay on a couch and with­ out moving his position attempted to throw from his goblet a few drops of wine at a mark iif a high curve without spilling any of the liquor. The maifc consisted gener­ ally of a little imago of Herme3, placed on a bronze saucer, which sometimes floated on water, so that until i t was filled by a sufficient quantity of wine to sink it the game continued. To play cottabus well was a mark of good breeding in Athens.—Harper’s. Evicting Corpses. “I t is had enough to evict live people, but to evict corpses does seem hard” “They never evict corpses.” “Don’t they? You wouldn’t say that if you knew Forto Rico. In tho native cemeteries of Fofto Rico i t is a commdn occurrence to see a hard hearted landlord evict with a shovel a corpse Whose rent has not been paid. “You s6e, they don’t sell lots in those cemeteries. They only rent them, and they who don’t come down With their annual rental promptly are apt to suffer the mor­ tification and grief of seeing their dead turned out.” — New Orleans Times-Demoerat. Simply Rat. An ounce o! pluck is worlli a ton of luck, which, heinc Inior&rotea, means, that importunity, rather than oppor­ tunity, is \vhat.~-Puck. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind You Ua» Always Bought Heara the Signature Of msTiustmNc w tro T ro u “Pittsburgh Perfect* Fences Fo r some time we have been Investigating n New Idea- In Wire Fencing. After * most careful examination we have been, convinced that we have f und the beat field fence manufactured., “ Pittsburgh Perfect” is made o f a ll galvanized steel wire*. I t I* the only fence vetoed by electricity. livery rod is guaranteed perfect. -AH large wires, the stays befog the same size as line wires. I t has no wraps to hold moisture and cause ru st. r ~ r ( _ AW**: m it* s*-:2 sr r I X 2S2L 47 m J 32m 2< ik 20m i : (\ . If yon Are Looking for a Fence That vriJl stand HARD OSAGE; * That will not SAC DOWN or CURL OVER, on tb* top; That has stays that WILL NOT SLIP? That witt CONFORMTO UNEVEN GROUND; That has no SLACKWIRES; That does not require on EXPERT TO ERECT; That is LOW IN PRICE-p ^ Then Read Whet We Qtianmtee The itsys aw ELECTRICALLY WELLED to strands, tormina * perfect an amalgamation with the strands not found in any other fence. ’ 2. No wraps to act loose, or hold moisture and cause rust. 3. No projections to injure stoolc,or tear wool' from sheep, 4. Stronger at tho joints than any other fenoe; -welded together by elsctrieitr*, 5. Gaaranteed that the trirois not injured at the joints. 6. Guaranteed adjustable to qnoYon ground. • 7. Guaranteed that stays will not separate from strands, 8. Guaranteed all rich* in oTery particular. • 9. Undo by tho most inodorn process and on the latest impsored machinery. KX. Host of the woak points in other fences are on account of the way the stays are fast­ ened. Our stays are amalgamated with the strands by means o f electricity and the strength of the fence 'increased a hundred fold over the (strength of a fence where the Stay* are wrapped or clamped on the strands. J ,If by this time yon are interested, come and see this fence and get in your order, If yon are skeptical come and be cpnvinced. We add onr personal guarantee tb everything claimed for it and would be pleased to submit prices. ' ^ Don’t fail to see us-before buying your fencing. Don’t put it off until you are ready to use it, but place your order in advance, as wetannot carry all sizes in stock. Crouse & Crawford. YO UR APPET ITE I f your appetite is poor, eat meat. To tempt your appetite and . nourish the system our choice meats ate not excelled by anything. The weak and the strong, the small and the hearty eater a likeen joy them ._ G C WHMER, When The Winds Doth Blow The mau w ith the comfortable overcoat don’t mind i t a bit. Gome m and look a t our new stook of imported and domes- tio wooleha for Spring over­ coats an I suits and leave your order surly and y«pu will", have them when yeu want them most, KANY , The Tailor, XErNIA, OHIO. Corn Cultivators Oh io R id in g Corn P low J o h n D ee re C om P l o w , .............. B u c k e y e Corn P l o w . . . 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