The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

[ the BATTLE FIELD, A COWARDLY OFFICER. InsUaee of Xnjcwtlce to a Soldier’* yn*aw. (n tlie little Tillage Of Henpock, War- ICounty, O., a lew yearn ego, lived widow o l Z&ehariab Reeder. She i old and poor and blind. Her hus- 1had been a soldier in the 79th Ohio atry and died in hospital a t Camp jjknnison, 0„ on the 4th of July, 1604, that insidious destroyer; chronic f^Urrhiea. The wile stood by his cot | JoltUnghis hand and ffelt the last pulse [teat and knew the soul had ebbed out, fjiponwhich she leaned. She returned to the humble home -fromwhich the soldier, three years be­ fore, strohg and brave, had gone to the front. In due time she was awarded the pension which the government then allowed soldiers' widows, eight dollars *month.. On this pittance shemanaged to eke out existence until the spring of 1884, when there occurred a new chapter in her sorrowful history! ’Zachariah Beeder had lived his uneventful life a t Henpock and knew little of the world, hut a designing woman/had managed to -get his name in some way, os well as that of, his company and regiment and fileda claim for a pension,alleging that shewas his widow—together with ,all the facts usually stated in a declaration for a pension. . -The usual call on the Adjutant-Gem 'end's office for 'the soldier’s military history developed the fact that in the late fall of 1666 Zachariah Reeder had been courtmarti&led for desertion and .sentenced to a forfeiture of all pay and allowances and to Sixmonths hard labor in the. military prison of Nashville, \ .. Tenn., and that he had died in. hospital ' at Camp Dennison, O., oh the 4th of July, 1S64, three months after the ex­ piration of his sentence. This record I- had been overlooked when th e rjg h tfu l s widow had obtained her pension, soon after the soldier’s d e a th / Under the then rulings of the Pension Office, such , a record would have deprived the sol- | . dier of a pension and consequently of any one claiming through him and the poor old blind widow of Henpeck was stricken from -thepension rolls and her allowance Suspended. Her miserable condition soon became \noised about the little village and a iStomn of protest went up to Washing ■ ingtori against this action of the Pen­ sion Office. The papers in the case were sent to a special examiner of the pension office then located a t ^Wilmington. O., with instructions to investigate and ascertain the true condition of affairs, in which two women .had claimed, to be th e widows of tile same soldier and the fol­ lowing curious history was unfolded: In "the fa ll of 1802, when all Kentucky and the North was in commotion by the in­ vasion of "Bragg’s army and the threat­ ened capture of Louisville, the 76th 'Ohio Infantry was ordered to move from a camp in th e central pa rt of the. State, a t which it had been sometime located.. Zachariah Reeder tfas sick, !»ick to march and as h li officers Vfht, m > near death’s door as to be of n6 fu rth e r use as a soldier. He was given a puss, told to go home, and th a t his discharge would be sent to him in »due time, This promised discharge was an assumption his company offi­ cers had no right to take, but the ignorant soldier knew no better and w en t home. He worried along in poor health for months, wondering why his -discharge never came. And the Officer Who had sent him home and marked him discharged on the company hook Was also worrying. The discharge for­ warded from the company to army headquarters for approval was lost or misplaced and never come back. Mean while the compapy commander, to cover up his own delinquency and assumption •of authority, carried the name of Zsch ariah Reeder on hi* oomptay roll and had Ir.in reported, as present for duty with nis company, when for months he knew he was a t home sick and that he had sent him there. This officer’s conduct seems to have been in* AueUccd more by his f#»r of superiors than by his duty to hi* soldier. Tn the summer of 1863 by the advice of a farmer in the neighborhood, to whom he had disclosed the oooditioa of affairs as to his coming from the army Reeder reported himself to the military author* itics a t Camp Dewrisoe, O., lest he might be arrested for desertion. But this did not save him, 2fo Sooner had he reported himself aad stated the cir­ cumstances of his absence from his regiment, than a man calling himself a deputy provost marshal and Who made his living by the cost* oat Of which he fleeced the Government in such cases, seized him as a deserter and took him to hi?; regiment, Back with his company Again, a ll went on Aa usual for some months when one day he was ordered for tria l before a court-martial, sitting in the vicinity of bis regiment. The Chargewas deser­ tion and the Offense constated in his go­ ing home on a pan* from hie Captain Witha promise th a t his discharge would hi sent hint. On tria l the poor fellow was too ignorant and too badly fright­ ened to explain i l l this, and no one was thereto speak for hint. Tbeoffloarvrho h*d been the cauae of all this trouble did *ot possess tree bravery in nuffictart de­ gree to step forward and acknowledge his own error ahd tints *svs ad innocent Him, llvnro the ronton#* o f the oourt that was the already sick man's death -te-es, Prinihrfcopltoof flmedugsittf * *k r, made between tit* dado of Reed-; tr‘* being sent homo ht MM end hkt /o* turn to the regiment la 166S, taken from the company books show him to have been noted discharged when sent home in 1S02. Several of those musty mem­ orials can be seen yet in the homes of ex-soldiers about Ilenpeok, J t is a pleasure to Btato th a t the facts brought out restored the rightful widow to her pension, bfit this story 1 b not told so much on that account or to reflect on the moral deliquency of an officer who would stand by and permit a great wrong to be done which he could hare prevented. I t is rather to illustrate by. facts, how, through bhmdering careless­ ness, and often worse papers weremade up in the hurry and commotion of war, th a t now hare the dignity of records to the wrong of many living and to th e scandal, of th e memory of many a brave soldier who Bleeps his last sleep andean onlylook to the living to defend his good name, I t also demonstrates that the Government can not be too liberal in legislation which aids in the clearingup of records so full of injustice.—Ameri­ can Tribune. A YANKEE TRICK. * The Queer Ammunition With Which a Battery \Va» Loaded. Soon after the battle of Stone River, in January, 1863, the Second Division of the- old Twentieth Army Corps was encamped about three miles south of Murfreesboro, Tenn., on the Franklin pike, and directly south of us. about four miles were stationed the rebel out­ posts, a t Guy’s Gap, on a chain known as the Coffee hills. The country lying between the two armies being rich and productive, was made to funiish forage for our animals, and became the scene of several brisk skirmishes, as it re­ quired a brigade of infantry, a squad­ ron of cavalry and a battery of artillery to hold the rebels in check while our wagons were being loaded with forage, by a detail of men furnished for tha t purpose. ' T he inclination of our boys to ste a l aw ay from th e ir regim ents to forage on th e ir own account fo r supplies fo r th e use of th e ir mess, became s o annoying to th e officers in command, th a t numer- jpis methods were resorted to in order to p reven t it; bu t w ith all th e ir w atchful­ ness, th e boys would succeed in g e tting in to camp w ith th e ir haversacks well filled w ith eatables. One of the precautionary measures used to break up this sort of straggling and pillage was to have a detail stations ed at-our picket line to examine each' soldier* as he passed through on his re­ turn to camp, and confiscate such artic­ les of plunder as they might find con­ cealed about his person. On one occasion, on February 7,1863, we were compelled to procure our for­ age in close proximity to the rebel lines, and consequently a brisk skir­ mish enstred. The Twenty-ninth In­ diana was placed in position to support the Twentieth Ohio (German) Battery, under command of Captain Smithnigbt, and while- they afforded all the neces­ sary protection to this noble battery, they did,not forget to gather,in a sup­ ply of chickens, ham, sweet potatoes, etc. After several hours our wagons were loaded with forage, and started on their return to camp. Aswan custom­ ary when our troops took up their liuo of march .to return to camp, the rebs would follow up and make a dash a t our rear guards. After we had fallen back about a mile we came to where the road passed through a hedge fence. Here our officers in command decided to play the “Johnnies" a Yankee trick, and accordingly our infantry was de­ ployed o n ' each side of the pike, and ambushed behind the hedge fence, while ou r cavalry was held back to en­ gage the enemy and draw them into a trap, Home distance to the rear was a hill, behind which our battery was stationed, ready to be brought forwardinto action 1st the proper time. We had no t waited long until we heard the clatter of hoofs upon the- pike, aud orders were given us to be ready. Our Cavalry came dashing by, closely pursued by the ‘Johnnies. The boys were getting excited, and our officers were laughing in their sleeves, ms they thought of the slick trick they wereput­ ting up on the Johnnies. But some how or other the battery boy* were slow a t getting into action, the drummers failed to beat the roll, and in the meantime the rebs caught on to our little game, mid beat * hasty retreat. The boys were disappointed, the Of­ ficers swore, and said there wm some thing about it they dM not understand, But it was alt made plain to them when we passed through the picket line. The battery halted and Unloaded their guns and limbered chests, which were filled With chickens, hams, sweet potatoes, etc., And our drummers took off their drum-heads and unloaded their con­ tents, All of which Were distributed among the boys, end the column moved ota. The officers in oommaud saw who played the “Yankee trick,"And they had nothing more to say,* bu t they “evened up" on u* before we got to camp. The 90th iudlsna and the 80th Ohio Battery marched Into camp with their, plunder, l«d by a brats band playing that humil­ iating Air, “The Rogue's March."-—J. P, Barton, in American Tribune. “Papo/when you were a little boy what did you say if you stubbed you* toe." “Itw e ra sM a i^ th lU g , Atysoo. 1 WM too flurshdly irabtod." “U a p e y hasn't broft w all trefausL «*i. say* Mam it! when ha stub* hit toe, he kmt stubbed my toe Alittia* OF GENERAL INTEREST? —The Knights of Pythias are so well drilled that they could put an .army of 60,000 men into the field a t two weeks' notice, —Mon is the universal animal. I t Is estiiiated that there is 1,250,000,000 of him on the globe. The sheep rank next with 500,000,000. —The skin of the wolf, according to an old superstition, was to be worn -either to cure hydrophobia or to prevent epilepsy, and the skin of the head was a safeguard against all malevolent' de­ mons. —The first water-mill ever built was erected on the river Tiber a t Rome, A. D. 50. Wind-mills were in original use in the twelfth century. Tide-mills were operated in Venice about 1708. Saw-mills are said to have been in use a t Augsberg, Germany, about 1882. —‘‘Boston cockles,” which are famous over a very large area of England,' are gathered from the Bauds, -parboiled, shelled and in this half-cooked condi­ tion are sent by railway in bags; chiefly to Bristol and the west of England a t large, where they are sold and consumed as delicacies by the masses. - —One sheep .raiser recently •sold a t Albuquerque, N. M., 200,000 pounds of merino wool’of. the finest texture. It was brought to market in sixty-three wagons, each drawn by four oxen. Be* fore it was taken from the wagons a street parade was made. The proces­ sion was nearly a mile long. —J t is Funny.—A big steamer, led by a tog, is passing down the starboard side of a .channel. A big steamer, led by a tug, is coming up the port side of a channel. There is no more need of & collision, than between two. men on a street 200 feet wide, and yet they toot* toot! confuse each other and smash t gether,—Detroit Free Press. —If a criminal act is ’committed by a family member in China, even distant relatives are condemned to bear a share of the punishment, forI t was, in some measure, their duty to see that the de­ linquent was brought up in a proper manncr; they should have.used their in­ fluence, or a t least prevented the act by all means at their command; not having done so, tjiey are rightly punished for culpable negligence. —The New York Tribune tells of a man who hasas a hobby an inordinate cu­ riosity ns to his remote ancestry. He studied the subject exhaustively and went to Boston to discover a missing link. There he learned that the fore­ father of whom he knew so little had! early in the last century, been com­ pelled to leave Boston because he bad been exhibiting two dancing, hears in t h e street The investigator'has lost much of. his Interest in genealogy, —In nn article on the danger of fire from steam pipes in a German paper it is said that after wood has remained a long time In contact with steam, hot water or hot air pipes the. surface be­ comes carbonized, and during warm weather the charcoal absorbs moisture; when again heated the moisture is driven off, leaving a vacuum into which the fresh air current, circulating arotind the pipes, rapidly penetrates and im­ parts oxygen to the charcoal, causing ja gradual heating and eventually combusZ tion —At Mannheim,-Germany, the follow­ ing method is employed in preparing feathers for the market. The bales o f feathers aa they come In are opened near a kind of gin o r breaker, whjcli shakes out the feathers and throw« them around, in a chamber through which a strong ala current is passing. Fipm this machine they pass to others, in which the long and heavy feathers are sepa­ rated by ventilators from the short and light; until the final grade of delicate down is blown into a large receiver. The cleaning Is effected by jets of steam, the d irt thus loosened being drawn off by currents of dry air. —Nowadays many kitchen stoves and ranges are constructed on scientific principles with a view to the attainment of the best possible results from the burning of the coal consumed. When cold weather comes, and, fo r th a t mat­ ter, in all seasons many persons try to make more heat by filling the stove oi range with coal to the lids. In most stores the best results are attained with a b righ t flre that ju st fills the firebox or th a t rises bu t very little above it. The fire should be well started and made to burn evenly, Mid then it should be fed with thin layers of coal spread with some care, SOth at if will burn readily and alt a t the same time.—N. Y. Bun, IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. A HOUSEHOLD LION. “What Shull We Have F o r Dinner To-Day?*’ The path of the housewife 1*often beset With obstacles many and grant; The manifold trials which fall to her lot Pertaining to household estate; However courageous her naturo may bo. One Lion there Is whom she trembles to see— ALion whodally confronts her to say; “Pray, what shall we have for our dinner to- day!” She girds up her soul for the houss’Cieaniog ■ tlino, The end of that toil she can asa; Hakes war upon insects with spirit sli brsve, And'knoys sbealialloonquerorbe; Full wnil to tho ways of her house she may look, Press on through the cares that her footsteps would brook; One Lion she meets makes her faint by'the way, ■ The Lion who asks; “What for dinner to-dayV 'Tie not that the animal roars very loud N Above other bessts that she meets, Nor Is It the size of His Majesty's mouth— Tho quantity dally he oats— But this tiresome speciesdpth dally demand New; food In variety fresh from her hand; No wonder the keeper with worry grows gray In trying to answer:. “What dinnerto-dayf” The Lion refuses, with lordly disdain, / To taste any“ warmed overtness;’* The high-sounding dishes all tempt him in vein— He knows their original dress. ■ “ Awaywith your scraps and your, remnants,*' he cries, • The housewife before him stands guilty—and flies. 'TIs not at all easy, this holding at bay A Lion demanding new dlnnors each day. ' Some day she'fl grow reckless end give up the fight— . i What then will the consequence bet Approaching him boldly the lady will say, “ There Is nothing now—pray tat nit! One bone please reserve—m the ground let it , . lie; Inscribe on my tomb; ‘Here’s a martyr’.—tell why— ■ Write: 'Hero lies a woman who’s fallen a prey ToaLto’n in search of new dinners eachday."* —Ella Lyle, in Good Housekeeping. What Olrta Hat* Four hundred and sixty-seven girls lunched in a large New York restaurant the other day. Thirteen orders con­ tained m eat-tw o of steaks, three lamb chops, five ham and-three mutton stew. Twenty-seven howls of soup, Chowder and broth were served; six damsels called for fish, one hundred and forty had an oyster stew, and sixty-seven took lobster a t chicken-salad, An even two hundred made Ameal on ioe cream and cake, with a .glass o f ico water. Forty- five had hot apple-dumpling; three hun­ dred cut* oi pis were consumed, with one hundred and two*ehark>tte taste , Seventy chocolate eclairs, thirty-nine oreant-puffe, and one senate yard of Washiagtod pie Out into sections of three inches each. One hundred and rorepteen drank tea, twenty celled for coffee; twenty-three for pop, ale and im A m * latiAiifA to — - -♦am. ..D v W f S 'wfvwtf JuNKa wMNrVMf JM fw VIHM pv SI vaMNp water, and the rest, on# hundred and Sixty-aeven in sU, filled themselveswith tee water.—San Frandroo Argonaut. THE TRUE HOME. Duties That Devolve- 'Upon the Wife to MakthU a Reality, How much is heard of strife and mis­ rule! Men and women wasting precious gifts, growing hard and wicked, slaves to the basest passions, going down to death, or worse than death with no. hand stretched out to save,1and all this for the lack of a true home! The roots of all pure love, of piety and honor, must spring from thishome. First, above all other honors, in woman’s ambition, should be to found such a shelter,where she may reign its queen. No honor can be higher than to know she has built such a home; no dignity greater than to know she can be recognized as its hon­ ored, undisputed mistress. To preside there with such skill ,that husband and children, will rise up and call her blessed, is nobler than to rule an em­ pire. But husband and wife, father and mother, must not be divided- I t must be a united kingdom. While the wife and mother finds her duties ehiefly in the home, and the husband and father finds his chiefly among the busy work­ ers outside, yet on both sides all should tend toward the common center—he largely producing the means by which she can Bucceed in making home most restful And attractive, and be herself supremely blessed, through his loving appreciation of her efforts. No doubt man often abuses his power, bringing sorrow to her 'who, trusting and loving him, should be the sole mis­ tress of his heart, the equal partner in all he possesses, in his joys as well as in his sorrows. But however true this may be is it not equally true that there are casesNwhcre “the woman Thou gavest me," has also abused the power with which marriage endowed her, de­ stroying the peace of home and making shipwreck of all that her husband held most predion*. The law has not secured to the wife such independence as will guard her against Injustice Mid abuse from, the hands of her husband.0 But what de­ fense has it provided to Shield the hus­ band from the hitter sorrow which a bad wife can bring to him? I t is well th a t this matter has, of late, been so widely agitatated. I t may tend to establish the rights of both man and woman on a .firmer fonndation; but if, before this is fully settled, an estimate should be made of the wrongs which each may bring upon the other, we fear i t Would prove nearly equal. Ah! if both Would remember that with them, as in all associations, “Union is Strength"; that united they stand, di­ vided they must fall; that together they should walk through life,together share the joys, together bear the burdens And crosses, what a happy world this would; be! As a united kingdom the wife ac­ cepts her share of the rough, as well as the smooth. Under her part of the ad­ ministration must come the vexation of spirit so common through the inefficient Servants of the present day—and this is not, by any means, a small burden— and all the other hindrances which so constantly arise to retard her efforts in securing the perfection of the home she isity ing to build. B u t a good wife, seeing and knowing what these tria ls are, w illnot give them such prominence as to disturb the peace of home. The knowledge of the pure and holy elements th a t must lie a t the foundation of home, will enable her to forget, or pu t out of sight- such trials; and the peace and joy which, through her unselfishness, she can bring to bar fatttiwnd and family, she will find an abundant reward. Meanwhile, the husband accepts his portion of oar* ia th is united kingdom. Are they uaually any; lighter, leas per* ploxing than the wife’s? Look a t them! The toil and strife-- the battling with the great world out­ side—in whatever capacity his talents or duties may cal! him by which he can I rovide necessities, luxuries, or honor for the dear ones he seeks to shelter in the sacred precincts of home. We have seen much of life and in al­ most all of its wonderfully changing aspects, and ore convinced that the joys and the sorrows, the crosses and the crowns in man-led life arc about equally divided between the husband and th* wife. We are confident that nothing wili right all the wrongs and bring order ou t, of the confusion arising from the many# disturbing questions tha t are constantly arising, as the shelter of the true home ruled over by husband and wife in all loving confi- ’ deuce and unitedly.—Mrs. Henry Ward Becclier. in Ladies’Home Jour­ nal. ______ ______ * ABOUT GLOVES AND BOOTS, Sensible Advice for Women/Who Would Have Their Hand* and 'Feet Neatljr end Frojierly Clothed. Well gloved and well booted alady can carry off a shabby dress with an a ir , that will leave the observer in doubt as to whether the latter is not merely the result of a caprice, and not the result of poverty. I t is said that the wolf a t the door takes first to worrying the' buttons off the gloves, nibbling holes in the tips, to eating the gloss off the boots, and thrusting his lean nose into them knd causing bulging and cracks, before he attacks anything else. Good gloves and well made, lasting hoots costmoney always, but no others are worth pur­ chasing at all, A cheap glove and boot, no matter how seductively the adver­ tisement of them reads, are a snare and a delusion, and the wise woman will have none of them, but will strain & point and hAve the very beBt, This is true economy, as fevery day they are worn will, convince the wearer.' But like fine animals, these fine articles de­ serve fine care. The dainty ldd will harden if exposed to the air, so when yon pull off your gloves, have ready a piece of tissue, or better still, a piece of chamois skin- or oiled silk, and wrap them carefully with a fold be­ tween each one, before putting away in- . a box with a close lid. When you re­ move your boots don’t throw them in with your muddy px’ershocs, or the pair you have cost aside, and which are be­ ginning to mold, for nothing is more infectious than the rot that attacks kid. A shoe b *g with fecveral compartments for the several pairs is very convenient and keeps the boots nice. In selecting gloves, it is well to avoid ' very delicate or unusually tinted kinds, except where purchased for evening wear, as these not only soil very easily, but will not bear cleansing as will the darker shadeB. Tight gloves are an ex­ travagance, as they break quickly and will not bear mending. As soon as pur­ chased the buttons should be sewed on, or you’ll find, them popping off just as you are starting to church, and late .at that,, or wheq your lord and master has just declared that he would not wait another minute for you, as you don’t deserve to hear the opera. In buying boots, consider three things: YoUr comfort, the natural shape of your foot, and the number of pairs jfeu can afford to have. If your foot is » short, broad one, don’t squeeze it into a long, narrow boot because the salesman tells you the latter is more' aristocratic; and wear neither too small.nor too .urgearize, f6v both equally .produce disease of some sort. To have several' pairs of both boots and gloves Will be found »* saving, for even articles of dress wear longor for am occasional rest. Every car used by a railroad isallowed a certain, period of idleness after a journey, as they last nearly twice as long as when used continually; and the same plan may be followed with advantage in boots and gloves.—Sti Louis Globe- Democrat. _______________ WOMAN’S WAYS. T hjsrc are 120 female physicians in New York City, T he widow of Senator Riddlebeiger has taken editorial charge of the Shen­ andoah Herald. ' Two hundred Hindu women are atddylng medicine in the medical schools of Iiidia. Miss C oombs , M, D., who reached China in 1873, 1 b the pioncer .of Women medical missionaries. A t public meetings in London, the presence of ladies a t the reporter’s table „ is rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception, N ixe youngRrish girls recently gradu­ ated from Dublin University with the degree of B. A, In the examination papers they ranked above the men, M bs . S arah W aterman , of Milwau­ kee, Wis., has invented the “Their- mometer Sad Iron." I t is hollow, and is heated by charcoal burning inside, and the proper degree of heat ia indi­ cated by a thermometer. M ost remarkable of all the inventions of .women is th at of Mrs. Mary B. Wal­ ton for deadening the aound of car wheel*. She lived near the elevated railroad in New York and was greatly annoyed by the aound of the roaring trains passing her house. The meat noted machinists and inventors of the country had given their attention to th e Mhjeot w ithout beiag ib lo to farttiah a solution, when lo, a woman’s brain did the work, aud her appliance, proving perfectly attOMMiftl, wanadopted by the elevated road* andaho ia now rtep lng the reward* of a happy thought. i I I