The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

*. J 1 Impiiiiw|iwy»n^ p g i l l i i i m m m .■ .1 The Cedarville Herald. W. K. BLAin, FuMUhsr. CEDARVILLE. OHIO. CONCERNING THE TEETH- Their Formation and Growth and How to Take CHre of Tbaui, In a recent lecture on dentistry a noted lady dentist of this city set forth the following facts concerning the tooth: She said most truthfully that perfect tee th contributed mu$h to .the beauty of tho face. , They set oft the features, and when white and perfect are most ' attractive, But the mere question of beauty is. of little consequence com­ pared to the care of the teeth In con­ nection with the health. The incisors act like scissors, cutting the food; the pointed eye-teeth tear it, While the bi­ cuspids and molars finish the work, like the grinding of millstones. It Is through’ the joint action of all tbe teeth, she resumed, that the food is ground up, ready to bo attacked by the digestive organs. If swallowed in largo pieces it leads to tbe breaking down of tbe digestion. Dyspepsia can be avoid­ ed' by properly chewing the food. . Tho tooth consists of the root, and Crown. The crown only Is visible, the root being buried in tbe jaw. She pointed to;a print of an incisor} giving the front and side view, that she might be clearly understood. Then she went on to explain that tbe crown is com­ posed of a substance called dentine, welch resembles bone, and this Is cov­ ered with enamel as a protection.- The cavity is filled with nerve pulp and when the enamel is thin or decayed It is exposed, causing the old familiar pain called toothache. « At birth the teeth exist undeveloped, In thd jaw. The eruption—she did -not, say outing—of the first or temporary set occur a t the age of 6 or 6 months, tho teeth appearing in. pairs. 'When the eruption takes place in Ju ly or August it is usually attended by a disturbance of the health. But it is a mistake to attribute all a child’s ailments a t the ■“time to cutting teeth; it might have cold or bad food might have upset the . stomach. Cutting teeth alone, is not a cause of disease, and it is .bad policy to lot a child go, attributing its illness to this one cause. Tbe temporary teotb do not last long, but should be cared I for carofully from tbe time they appear. Tho child’s mouth should be carefully washed, and as soon as be Is old enough to care for bis teeth he should bo taught to clean them himself with a soft brush and somewimple dentifroe, and they should be examined regularly by a dentist, A great deal of mischief is done by permitting them to be re­ moved too soon, or to remain in too long.- I t causes deformity in the per­ manent teoth, whioh, come in behind or in front of tbo arch of the jaw if they afe crowded out of plaeo by the tompo- rr.i'.f teoth. . In the permanent teeth two sources of disease are tartar and decay. Tartar is a substance which collects around the tooth noar the gums, whioh then become sensitive and spongy. In sggravated cases it causes ulceration a t the root* which necessitates tho removal of the tooth. Tartar can be remedied by kcepitig the mouth scrupulously clean. Decay is caused by particles of food lodging between the tooth, or In tbe -pits and fissures of the motors. This decays, forming an acid whioh destroys the enamel, and betare are developed, which oat deeper and deeper into the •cavity. In oases of this sort filling wss prcecr.bod. Dead teeth cause disease of tho bone end affect disun t organs like the eye andwar. - Constant care, constant cleansing and occasional visits to the dentist ere the best remedies for all tooth troubles, tha ■ best means of Improving teeth that are Imperfect and kaeplng them in good , condition where nature baa been gen­ erous In supplying those th a t may be accepted as models—Chicago Inter Ocean. . _______ * A ifoval Bar— . The most unique screen of the day (and screens of-all sites and shapes are In vogue) is the one that has the cob­ web ornamentation. Slender, pliable twigs are lightly painted white and are curved over a silken surlaoe In the form of a great cobweb, the twigs lessening to mere threads in the center. Papier- mache spiders are seen through the meshes, and the conceit Is odd and pro­ nouncedly artistic. Apropos of screens, an ingenious housewife has made the somewhat curious discovery that a Jap­ anese bamboo screen, with panels ot Japanese leather paper, acts as a per­ fect barometer. I t has stood all sum­ mer in a window exposure, and she found, that, when the weather was clear and likely to continue so, the pan­ els were stretched drum-tight lb the frames! just before a rain a slight cr.nkle would be observable in them, and during a storm, aa ah* expressed it, tbe leather paper surface presented a positively tempestuous appears?- a.— Table Talk. —Hoy (who Is about to be punished by bis teacher)—“If yon whip me, sir, i t ’s yon who will be the sufferer, and n o t I.” . Teacher—“flow so?” Boyr- "ISecsuM yon are no t a Strongman, aha i f yon exert yourself whipping me, .you’ll g a tes weak as a c a t” - —II* Didn't Appear One.—“He says 1 am no gentleman.” “Welt, Deed, ap­ pearances are deceitful, bu t I lo t One know you are a gentleman.”—Yankea B lade/ THE BATTLE FIELD. WHY JOHNSTON FELL. BACK. How Two l’lckst Gum Botirflil * Whole Army. The rebol army was lying along the south bank of tho Potomac! in the winter of 1881-62, threatening the city of Wash­ ington by extending ila right down the river about forty miles and building its blockade batteries on tbe south bank, cutting' off all navigation by the river, and thus forming a complete blockade of navigation. At thotimoGonoral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of the rebel army and General McClellan was in command of tho Army of tbe Po­ tomac. Tho capital of tbe nation ,was threatened and its water communica­ tions out oil. General Hookor was sta­ tioned on tho north, or Maryland bank, of™ the river, opposite tbo blockade bat­ teries, with a division of •about 8,000 men, to watch tho movements of John­ ston’s army at that point. The,threa tening atti tudo' of Johnston’s army, both as against Washington and in crossing the Potomao river during the entire winter, had put tbo Government into unpleasant straits. Foreign repre­ sentatives at Washington urged tho Government that i f it could not get the enemy away from its own capital and keep open itsg lines of communication, then their Governments had no alterna­ tive except t o , recognize tho Confed­ eracyr and give it the same standing among-nations that thoy gave tho United States. . . The President and, Secretary of War urged McClellan to attack and push Johnston’s army back and thus rolipvo this pressure both from foreign powers and from home influences. McClel­ lan would not move. Ilia viows were tha t the State Department should take care of. the foreign relations, tbo Presi­ dent ot home affairs, and he would take care of the army in the manner be thought best As a whole, matters were in bad shape for tbo Government; in­ deed, about as bad as they could well bo/for at that time, in a military sense, the Confederacy was decidedly ahead of the United. States in nearly every par­ ticular. Tbo First Regiment of New York Light Artillery was in the camp of in­ struction at Washington during tho win­ ter. Thero wore in the rogimont twelve light batteries *As each battery was thought to bo sufficiently drilled to take .the field it was sent to the front Homo went to one part o t the army and others to.other parts. March 3, 1862, battery D was sent to General Ilooker.opposlto the rebel blockade battorlos. I t rc^chod its camp on tho 4th; on tho 6th It was or­ dered to send one section of two guns to do picket duty on the banks of tho river facing the heavy mounted torts on the south side. The river wss just one mile, broad. Tho officers and men of tho bat­ tery wore as green as new officers and men can well be in all things whioh ap­ pertain to active sotvice in the field- that i f whilo tho officers and mon had learned to drill and tako caroof their battery they had not yot learned that no demonstration should bo mado against the enemy without direct ordors from the commanding general. This was Sunday, a beautiful and clear spring day. No hostile demonstra­ tions •‘woro being made on either Side, and with the field-glasses the rebel of­ ficers and mon could he soon by the yoking artillery officers walking about on tbe parapets of their heavy forts purely for amusement The artillery officers, with their two llttlo ^tbroo- inoh rifled field pieces, concluded to wake up the rebs by seeing how accur­ ately they could throw shells into the blockade forts. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon one of tbe little guns threw a shell across the river. I t fell a little short Another was fired with a little more elevation and It went over. A third was fired a t a medium elevation and went square Into one of the forts and exploded among the men. Imagination can- hardly ploture tbe effects that shell produced in those forts. The lines of blockade batteries stretch­ ing a half mile along tbe bank of the river wore heavily mounted with siege guns of from 6 to 13 Inch caliber, and in about a mini)to tbe whole lo t of them Opened on those two little field pieces. These Immense shells tumbled around exploded about the field guns for some time a t tbo rata of about two a minute. It wss what might be oalled emphatical­ ly hot tor the men of Battery D. For­ tunately not a man a t the two gnus was lost, but there was some mighty olose shaving done. While this firing was going on a staff officer from General Hooker daahed into the battery and or­ dered the firing stopped. Now as to the result of the foolish es- espade. The next day Johnston aban­ doned tbe blockade batteries and his en­ tire position in front of Washington, and tbe Confederate army fell back be­ hind tbe Rappahannock river. McClel­ lan moved out with bis army ot 100,00* men to occupy theoountry Johnston had occupied all winter, the Potomac river was opened to navigation, and the for­ eign nations gave in that the United States had gained * bloodless but sub­ stantial victory, But noauthority outside of General Hooker knew of the little af­ fair a t Posey's Landing on the lower Potomac. Indeed It was not thought worth Mentioning, but McClellan get greet glory- < No one In the North kite# or suspect­ ed why Johnston fell hack until he on the lower Potomac, or, in his own words, showed ‘‘great activity." That be a t onco reached the conclusion that McClellan’s army had gone to that point by the Maryland bank of the Potomac to cross there and turn his right flank. That he at once gave orders to his army to withdraw to tho south bank of the Rappahannock river. , As Hooker's camp was absolutely quiet tbat.day, excepting the firing of -the two field piocos-vnot even a musket being- discharged-—tho demonstrations ho alludes to was that firing by the pick­ e t guns and nothing else. Fortunately, on account of the bat­ tery officers being now—L e., fresh— Hooker paid no attention to the affair, Had the same thing'occurred two months lator Battery D officers would have been court-martialed and cashiered. But on tho whole, no trifle or blunder during the war added such results for tho Nation for its credit as that, unau­ thorized and boyish freak of Battery D. —N. Y. Times. WERE WILLING TO GO. Volunteers Were W anted b u t th e Boys Were Motilet. I t sometimes occurred in army life that a person’s modesty, or sensitive­ ness, was more potent than their fear of danger, or of injury. An incident illus­ trating this occurred in my own com­ pany in Juno, 1864, at Dallas Woods, or Burnt Hickory. Our brigade was re­ quired to advance tbe lines under a gall­ ing picket fire; I t was a kind of left wheel, the right advancing several hun­ dred yards, while tho loft advanced but a few steps. After gotting into positiop a short distance to the rear of our piokot line a detail from each company, about one-third of the whole, was called for to go out and strengthen the pickets so as to check a charge, if one should be made before a line of works could be thrown up. Lieutenant Edginton, who commanded the company, stated the case . and called for volun­ teers, being unwilling to detail men in. such an emergency, although tho danger was oven less, perhaps, than to remain and work at fortifying. Now, I suppose thero was not a man in tho company hut was ready and wilting to go out in front; but to bo- tbe first one of the lot to volunteer to say: “I’ll go for one,” was a distinction no one coveted, and wo stood looking from one to tbo other in a helpless, foolish way, not often soen among bravo soldiers. Meanwhile tho Lieutenant was gotting impatient and begging tor volunteers, or he must needs detail, which be was unwilling to do. All tho while the builots kept singing past us, and tho suspense was bopoming painful, though probably loss than half a minute bad passed, wlion I said, (and very sheepish I felt, too): “I’ll go, for one;" *Tll go for another," Instantly spoke up Dan Malone; “I'll go, for another,” came the rosponso from a dozen voices a t . onoo, and the Lieuten­ an t bad to call a bait vory soon, to’keep onongh of the company to throw up breastworks. We wore ordored to get a; little to tho rear of the rifle pits and sholter ourselves tho host wo could be­ hind troes or inequalities in tho ground, but not to firo oxcopt a charge was a t­ tempted by the enemy, which order was pretty striotly obeyed; but noxt to me, a tow feet to my loft, was Peter Lawler, an impetuous Irishman, whocould never resist the temptation to shOot whonovor he conld see a hoad to shoot a t Ho commenced firing right away, and after a few minntos arose and run up toward the front, half b en t and disappeared. In about half an hour wo were called In, hut Peter failed to respond* and when some parties went out be was found, shot through the hea rt and gave his last, gasp as he was brought over tho breast­ works. But tbe men a t work on the’ fortifica­ tions were . not left uninjured. Three men of Company A-were wounded, with the same bu llet two' members of Com­ pany G were wounded with another one, and a number of others were b i t bu t I think none were aeriossly injured. Col­ onel Caen took right hold of the work, hut soon found that bis sbouldtr straps made him a target for sharpshooters, so he exchanged hisoost for a private's blouse. General Ward—commending the brigade a t the time—had his head­ quarters in a log bouse near the left of the brigade, and n rebel shell crushed through just before he moved out and name down by a big tree a t the left of our regiment We remained In that place two days, under pretty hot fire, but did no t get Into an engagement though several men were wounded and incapacitated for duty.-—R. Springer, in Toledo Blade. 'the F se em army oommenoea aeasen- latnritoMegaliitotfceMeekade batteries RANDOM S HOTS, A t the last annual muster of the De­ partment of New York; G. A. R., there were found In good standing 40,688 vet­ erans. Six hoys of one Augusta (Me.) family dre# their pension the other day, they all having served through the late oivil war, being now grey-haired old men. I t is estimated that the average age ot the Union veteran is how fifty-two years. The average life o t the Union veteran is fitty-sevah years; so the old heroes have only an average of five years to remain oa earth. T n four drafts during the rebellion were; Totel number drawn, 776.M0; to­ tal who personally served, 46,607; total who failed to report (ran away), 161,344; total exempted, 816,600; total tarnish­ ing substits tes, *8,607; total discharged for eaaea, 08 , 80 *; total who paid Mate mutation, 88,734; totel amount of eom- Mntatienpaid, §M»66Mtt. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WOMEN AS FINANCIERS. Their Peculiar and Excellent Qualifies* tlon» for This Particular Work. Tbo ability to make much .of little will be an inestimable advantage to women wbon they come to take that plaeo in the larger affairs of the world, to which they shall be ultimately oalled, Thoy have been accustomed, with few exceptions, to earn small wages, and to live on small salaries—those, who sup­ port themselves. I t requires immense patience and in­ genuity, and success hero is as much a triumph as when gonius discovers some now application of force destinod to mit­ igate the drudgery of daily toil. The woman clerk receiving 810 a week lives decently and oven comfortably, and, in the end. probably :gots more, solid and permanent good outvof life than her masculine co-laborer who earns twice as muoh. I t is an advantuge, to begin with, that she has no fancy for expen­ sive indulgence, like smoking and drinking and card-playing, and if she is foroed-to do her own molding and wash­ ing, after business hours, her independ­ ence, integrity .and her moral oloanli- noss aro a source of consolation and self- respect. She may do her own market­ ing, (preparo her own meals, and though the expenditure be trifling, yethordaily food is appetizing and dainty beyond any: thing possible to the habitue of the restaurant or the second-rate boarding­ house. Sho hascultlvatod, with this knowledge of living, a faculty for keeping herself respectably clad upon tbe small income by tbe exercise of taste in selection and the ability to' perceive and avail herself of what sho.knows is “a bargain." ' Then she knows howto keep what she gets In good order by a little doftrepair- ing and making over, whioh^a man can never do, ho'wovor skillful he may be. When the mechanic’s coat begins to fray out along the edges and the lining drops into boles ho is a helpless victim to wear and tear. Ho sees himself grow­ ing shabbier day by day, and-knows pf no remedy. But tbo clever little stenog­ rapher or milliner whips out her noedlo .and thimble, and in half an hour makes tbe old gown just as presentable as ever. The penny thus earned is dropped into tbo savings bank, and helps to swell,the sura accumulated by similar means. Many women—-oldor sisters or widows with children, have educated families, bought and paid tor homes, and have provided a competence tor old ago by jnst such means. Women who have married mon with small incomes havo proved thornselves equal to even greater emergencies. Thousands of men admit that all they have and all that fhoy are they owe to tho careful, provident, economizing wife, who enables him to havo comforts unknown to his bachelor­ hood, and who, a t the same timo, sees that there is a balance at tbe bank, aqd that the payments on the homo aro reg­ ularly met until the last dollar is paid. This genius for economy, which is econ­ omy allied to comfort and respectability, is tbo peculiar gift of women. Men do not possess it. They must have an im­ mense amount of material with which to carry out their plans and ieavo a margin for wasto and experiment I t is this faculty which tho woman citizen will apply to those departments of tho government whioh in time will bo Wholly turned over to her. In that day superfluous omployos will not be appointed to places they are in- capablo of filling for political ends. Thero will be a goneral weeding out of the incompetent and unnecessary. In that millonlum, Which will dawn in tho next quarter of a century, wo will have clean streets, propor drainage, penal and benevolent institutions taken out of politlos, the cost of maintaing them cut down oae-thlrd, and the work done, and properly done, for whioh public em­ ployes are paid. All this will result be­ cause, taking their training Into con­ sideration, women can manage in no other way. This is not mere assertion. There are thousands of illustrations to be bad everywhere today. I t is only necessary to look a t the institutions over which women have unhampered control. There are never any official investigation with sustained charges of corruption and incompetoncy. The money women raise and expend annually in church work and club work affords another Illustration. It will ag gregato millions of dollars, all accumu­ lated by the needle, by cooking, by dec oration work, and other small meins, so unprofitable, considered in the abstract, th a t men would regard them wholly un*, practicable. Yet the funds so slowly and persevsrlngly increased grow amaz­ ingly and are expended In a manner Cor­ respondingly careful and thoroughly* welloonsidered. And here particularly la wiisre Women have bad tho training that has given them comprehension of tbe real value of money and It la here that they have cultivated their wisdom and forethought in the graver matter of expenditure.*—Chicago Inter-Ocsan. BY old-established statute postmis­ tresses in France were practically de barred from marriage. Husbands ot Women employed In the postal service were prohibited from exercising trades or professions, lest such employment* would offer temptations to the husband to Samper with the mails. But the Gov Ornment hat finally done tardy justice to the spinsters, and abolished all re ttrlntlons In the eboioe of husbands by mstmistresees, with one exception—the lusbnnd must not a e m in the ospaelty #( pellet offleiaL WHAT SHOULD SHEDO? Bom* Sound Adrian to a Young L»'I; Who - Find* I t Necowary to IV<>»,,. I print verbatim the letter of a girl whoso sentiments, I jtoar, express those of inany other young women, says the editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, 'I am nineteen years of age. By the death of father, mamma is left with throe children, of which I am the old­ e s t I should help to support the fam- ily, yet it is a severo trial to go out into business and incur the criticism ot all tho wealthy girl friends with whom1 associated when papa was alive. What shall I do? Can I not got some private employment which would bring me tho revenuo hat not the unpleasant taunts and remarks of the girls I know?1’ My’correspondent in thiscaso will ox- cuse mo i t I speak to hoc plainly and frankly. What shall you do? First of all, my ' girl, learn that nobody but a fool or * coward over made unpleasant romarks about tbo girl who honestly and honor- ably earns her living, Believe me, those who would taunt and criticise you are unworthy either of your or any good girl's friendship. What shall you do? Get over .tho un­ womanly cowardice which makes . you want to hide from tho world at large tho fact that i t is your duty to help in the household that lost its protector.. .The world has grown in these years, and the self-respecting, self-supporting woman . receives her meed of respect and ap- . ’ : plause. The woman who works-is a , ! power In tho land—if she does her work well. - The woman who wants to sit at home and do her work, secretly, because she feels she can not face her friends (what poor friends they must be)r is not apt to do good work and is not apt to get good pay. You may do some fancy-work that your friends, for sweet charity’s sake, will buy for a while, but this isn't work­ ing; and if you are young, healthy, and V have ability, as you say, you don't want to bo an object of charity. What shall you do? Go out into the / world, my girl, let the sunshine of hon­ est work clear away, tho clouds in your brain. Do whatsoever your hand find , for you to do with all your heart and all, your strength, ,and. as surely as you and I are liying you will succeed. There, is always in this world a place tor a good worker; there is always prop­ er payment, for good work; hut for poor i work, lor shiftless .labor, for work about which sq little pride is felt that any­ body wants to bido it from tho public view, tbore is nothing but contempt, Tho woman who works noed never be - any th ing but womanly, but she must bo as exact us aman. She must recog- ; nize tho value of punctuality, and, above all else, if she does nothing more than sweep an office, she must conclude to : sweep that, office so Well that she will get bettor wages for. It than any one ever got before, and in th is way make ’ her first stop toward success. Success must bo sought; it doesn't come uninvited nowadays. The leave you get to work, which Eiizbetb Barret Browning says is tbo best you can got; is yours. Having it, keep always going ahead, each day making your work bet­ tor and hotter; not only because your employer has a right to demand it, but for your own honor’s sako. You will learn to like it because you do it well, and when the day comos around that your wages are handed to you. there will be a great throb of thank­ fulness in your heart, not only because you are helping thoso a t home, but be­ cause you can stand in tbe sight of your God and feel tha t “ tha laborer is worthy of his hire." That is what yon should da Be hon­ est, be good, bo courageous, and you will make of yourself a 'woman in the truest sense of the word. WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Miss MA bt C oddixgto W, of New York City, has given $40,000 for building and endowing a boy’s club-house lor the poor boys ol tbe city. Tux latest organization for women artists in Paris is tho “Union des Femme Peintres e t Sculptcurs,” and a journal devoted to Its interests will soon be started. A MCunrn of energetic Psrlsian laches have formed a league for the emancipa­ tion of women from the different kinds of social thralldom under which thoy live, M rs . IfxNiiV W ard B eechicr , in the book she bas lust published, still advo­ cates the idea th a t a woman's best place of all is a t home, and that i t is no dis­ grace t o ' be a good mother and good housekeeper. M rs . V ickew , a member of an En­ glish woman's bicycle club, has won a road race against a teim of men riders in a race of nineteen miles, which she accomplished in one hour and forty minutes. Another wonderful English rider, Miss Fordham, has ridden a Safety 1,000 miles, a t a rate of 76miles a day, during the season, and hopes to accomplish 2,000 miles before the season closes. A very practical and much needed enterprise has been recently started in Washington by two ladies. I t is a nur­ sery where mothers of every nstlon and rank are taught how to feed and bathe their .babies scientifically aa well a s . sensibly, and how to put their trouble­ some charges to sleep Samples of food ere shown, and the best method o f pre­ paring them taught, and after the lec­ tor# the prepared food Is given to the baby most la need e t i t ■t