The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

» THEBATTLEFIELD. THE MAROHOP COMPANYH» «F w » m A,states i” mm Nte < asm a *m $boul oatcftas tiiMow Into tS« * 1 * 0 . Akua4r*4 m h tkM asorsd m aw ; 0 «Vof ths dswnlaf talc tfc 9 4 * 7 . Af litUWMl*Olewsat CM puy A. ■M sm M b *sloestotil*(M<tetro#«’ *' } Bjrgmty mssdows M w toad r*» tS«W|K BysprlnglSXoornflslds H d orchards m , Forwurd, fsrwsrd want Company A. And ISs pink nod 'white of ten nppte t n u , railing f*s*on the fitful brosio, Scattered its dewy, soostodsprsy Straight in tea teen* ot Company A. AbtaaihUka, nnigh ran through tho raoka Treadlog thoaa odorous blossom-banks, S ^ S f f l P W P ' * - -i! ■Forward, nfra*!>^M ten drMsp waasptd; Outa( tea ptaawoad itrateht iaaad Clattered a troop <tfteg anuthani gray . ; raoe te taoa wite Oewiaay £ - Forte wite* «a*h la tkanodthem aun Ahundred bayonet* laapad Uka one. Suddendrum-beat and bugle-play Sounded tee charge for Company a . Halt! What ie Herat A slumbering child, . Routed by the biaat otthe bugle wild. Between tba make of tea blue and gray, • Right in the path of Company A. Nothing knowing ol north' hr south, - Berdlmpied Anger within her noutth Bargathered apron with blossoms gay. She glaredat tha guns of Company A. Straightway set for a atgnof truoo Whitely a hondlterohief fluttered loosa, A*under the eteel of the southern gray . Galloped the captain of Company A. To hia saddle-bow ho awung tbe child, ' With a kiss on the baby lips that smiled, ■Whitethe boya in blue end the boya in gray Cheered for the captain of Company A. Forth from the ranlcs.othUhaltad men. White the wild hurrahs rang out again. The southern leader spurred hi* way Tomeet the captain of Company A. ■Out o! the arms that held her safe * Hatook with a smite the little Wait Agrip ot the hand-’twlxt blue and gray. And back rode the captain of Company A. ITptherei in tea distant oottaga door, Amothar, clasping bar child ouoe mora, Shuddered at tight of smoke-cloud gray Shrouding the path of Company A. .Alittle later, and all waa done~ .The battle over. the victory won. Nothing left of the pitiless fray Thatswepttha rank* of CompanyA, Nothing left—ssre tho bloody stain Parksalngtha orchard** rpsynda. Dead th* chief of tho southern gray, Anddsad the captain ofOompaay A. Tslten tegether the gray and blue, t Gone to the Anal rendezvous. Agrace to cover, a prayer to say, And—Forward, march l went Company A. —Kate PutnamOsgood, in Oantnry. ••ROUSSEAU OR A RABBIT.” . Gen. Rosecrans' Stwrjr or the Orlgtm of a One* I k a o u Remark. Gen* William S. Roaecmnn, the regis­ ter of tho treasury and brigadier-gen­ eral oo the retired list a t the regular army, has fully recovered from hia re­ cent severe wrestle with the grip and has resumedhis official labors. When you want a good atory get hold of the former commander of the Army of the Cumberland whenhe la in a reminis- cent mood. Every one has heard the, story o f a commotion in camp as being either “Oen Rousseau or a rabbit,” and most readers who ,know of the story have heard It charged to Gen. Rosecrana. He was asked the other day bow he cable to make.the remark and he said: "The fact is I never made the remark, butthe saying came about one evening s t my headquarters. “We were at Murfreesboro, jn quar­ ters, an‘d one evening a glee elnb of splendid aingera came over from Sheri­ dan's division and gavo ns a serenade. 1 hustled my staff and servants around and got np a pretty nice lunch in the big dining-room of the barracks, aad most of a y division and brigade ,eom- mender* were there tte my guests. “All of my di vision commanders then were very popular with their men—Mc­ Cook, Crittenden, Sheridan, Stanley, Rousseau, and Negiey; bu t moat of all was Rousseau. Whenever Gen. Rous­ seau rode through the oampe, whether of his own or other divisions, he was sheered to the skis* by the men,,and would almost invariably make these a happy speech tha t raised more cheers. “That n igh t of the serenade and lunch, Gen. Jeff. C. Davit—dead now— sat a t my table almost opposite Rous­ seau—he is gone too. Davis spoka np sad Said: ‘Rousseau, I've got a devilish good Joke on. you,but I won't tell i t un­ less yon will promise bcforeliand not to go off the huiedle; yon know yon are apt to do that on abort order.* “Amid the laughter of the sally, Da* vis went on: ‘A day o r two Ago I was In a y quarters busy on a report, when I heard aa awful row among th* troops camped near. I t was so prolonged th a t I fancied a lot of prisoners had been captured and brought in, Bad sen t Capt, Haris, my aid-tte-camp, e u ttoM * what the commotion Waa about.’ “Pretty soon he returned and report­ ed that he couldn't And out what i t Waa Ml about. The troops were wild over somethin#, and It must h e either Gen. Rousseau or a r a b b it' “Any old soldier who has ever wit­ nessed the commotion in camp Occa­ sioned by,the disoovety of a rubbH will understand the situation and the Joke, We all laughed heartily, and RouestoU as well as the r e s t “That is the way the Ronseeau and rabbit story originated, hut in some it haa fastened to me ai “Reueeeau heard from tha t atory af- 1 fw M ii* w a y « f c f tb e o a * a hlsioric- ■* Thar* waa a representative in ~ " ItWrifnameaf'‘“ ivedftan Inten ----^auJhriBwhohw. —- tc -* "Kouaeelu and rabbit’ story, without understanding It, “These two were in congress together lit IMA, and <me dny in a bitter partisan a&wwett&ti Gen. Rousseau as the man hat soldiers in the Held could never distinguish from a rabbit “That .was; twisting things around w ith' such a Vengeance that Gen. Rous- aeau, who waa of hurculean build, and deeply imbued with the Kentucky idea th a t a man of fragile physique had an equal Show Ks*5 the field of ,honor with another of larger build, took ^occasion to : Overhaul Mji ,Gfbmell Just a t the eastdoor of the rotunda and pinched hia ear, remarking a t the same time that th e gentleman from Iowa knew th* address of th e gentlemen from Ken­ tucky. “Mr, Grinnell did not allign his life on the rules of the code of honor, hut went back'to the house of represents. riven still in session, aad laid tho facts of the assault and the reason therefor— words spoken in debate—before his con?, frerea. • * “Gen. Rousscaupromptiy telegraphed the governor of Kentucky hia resigna­ tion as representative in congress from Louisville district, andnotified Speaker Colfax of the fac t I t waathe first time; the telegraph had been used in such a case, and the question was raised the next morning when the resolution to expel came up, but Mr. Colfax held that Gen. Rousseau was no longer a'mem­ ber .of the; house and the resolution waa out of order. “And a ll this came about from Gen. Daria’ story of Rousseau or a rab b it''—* Washington Post TWO GALLANT GENERALS. How Yossg BBS Caster E n l n i f t i Con- N pilmoBta. Gens, Young and Custer, of Georgia, were classmates and devoted frignds a t West Po in t During the war they were major-generals of cavalry on opposing sides One day Gen.. Young was, in­ vited to breakfast a t the Hunter man­ sion in Virginia. The general was seated at the table, about to partake of a smoking breakfast made doubly pal­ atable by tho reason that i t had been prepared by the fair, hands of the young ladies of the mansion. Suddenly there was a sound o t breaking glass, causing aU present to glance in, the direction of the hay window in the. front of the dining-room. In an Instant more a shell lay dose a t the feet of the gallant general. ■■ -:v.~ Taking another hasty glance through the wlndow Young beheld Gen. Custer charging toward the house a t th e head of his staff. Z have termed Young, a gallant general, and in tru th he was such, but a t this moment be realized th e fact that flight was. hia only salva­ tion. Out of * rear window, went Young, calling to the young ladies, “Tell Custer I leave this breakfast for him." Custer and his staff entered the mansion and were invited to th e break­ fast so hastily left by Young. Custer enjoyed i t heartily, and looked forward with pleasure to the dinner in the distance. In the meantime, Young, feeling deeply chagrined over the lose of hia breakfast and his hasty'retreat, drove the federal line back, and ere the ann had passed the meridian, was again in sight of the Hunter mansion. O u te r beheld him approaching jnst as he was seating himself a t the dinner tabic, “I might have known,” said he, "tha t Pierce Young would not have left me here in peace. Here is my picture; give It to him, and tell htmhls olddass- mate leaves his love with this excellent dinner.” And out of the window he wehtr while the Georgian general walked in and sat down to dinner.-' Mrs. M. E.‘Willard, in The Home. BITS FOB TH E VETS. R obt . E. L xk , when in the United States army, over fifty -years ago, pre­ pared river improvement charts which are still In use In SL Louis. R kab A dmesai . C abtxb , who died a few days ago, Is said to he the only navel officer of his rank who had pre­ viously has* a major general In the United States army. Two soldiers w e n retired from the army lately, who have pegged along for forty-three and forty-four yeara respectively, and yet, because o t the desperately alow rate o f promotion, are ho more than colonels. They are Dodge, of the Elerent infantry; and Gibson, of the Third artillery. C apt , M. B. H vorrs , o f the Ninth cavalry, has a curious relic of the late Gen. Crook. I t Is a little wooden doll baby that the old Indian fighter carved out of an old army wagon tongue with * pen knife while -on the Apache cam­ paign in Arizona. Crook was univers­ ally known among the Indians a s the •Whittling medicine man.4* G un . W agkr S wavxe , of New York, whole the law partner of Ex-Judge John f t Dillon, lost a leg while leading a division of Sherman’* army in front of Atlanta- This, however, does not prevent the general from being one of the busiest men, socially and profes­ sionally, in New York city. Ho and his cratch a r e a familiar sight around Wall street,Whefvhe is known as coun­ sel for dozen Or so Mg railroad coipor*- tions. ' PIR80NAL AND IMPERSONAL* —According to the researches of a dancing women to one man is; In Vi- TEMPERANCENOTES. , DR iNKm tr R w a f i - r S A Y . • witzeriand, 107;" Portugal mark, 100; Russia ISO; Norway and Sweden, 311; Turkey, 9,000. —Mr. Maxim, inventor of the famous .Iput^krjnirlhhi 'hame, is now interest-' ed ln SeriaL navigation, and recently went to the Smithsonian institution to see Prof. Langley. Mr. Maxim's ex­ periments, conducted a t his place in England, bb he described them to per­ sons who conversed with him, have been exceedingly practical In character. —The king ot Dahomey Is the proud possessor ot a brass helmet ...with a. ,fPrizqr gi^nm pfpmew h ic b b io oM ^ p l of more cajuequence to his dimfRy? thab •troops,of guards o r; * p * k i t-dfr- tuiery. When he mounts It onh lsm e* ' isivebrowand dens Ida court uqlform-^ • .paper collar ancLarpair of braces-—his subjectslook admiringly a t him through smoked glasses. . —The Seneca, Indians had a supersti­ tion. When » maiden died they im­ prisoned a young bird until it first he* gan to sing, then loading it with mes­ sages and caresses they liberated it over ber grave, -with the belief that It would, not cease its flight or close its eyes' un­ til it had flown to the Bplrlt land and delivered its precious burden of affec­ tion to the loved and lo st —Maj. Wilhelm von Moltke and Maj. Helmuth vdn Moltke, the nephews of the dead field-marshal, have been the objects of much interest reoently in Germany. Maj, Helmuth, who was named .after his uncle, -acted as his per­ sonal adjutant and lived; together with his family, in the house o t tiie general staff. Maj. Wilhelm, however. Is the heir to the estate o t Kreisau and the title of count He is a t present a mem­ ber of the gsrde-du-corp* in Potedam. —We are apt to say that jokes made by foreigners are heavy and slow, but i t is not always the case. One of the actors who has been playing in a little theater was showing the theater to a German friend the other day. “Why," said the visitor, “how small, how very small the theater isl There should be Germans enough here to support a larger theater than this.” “Ah, my friend,” the actor replied, 'you- do not dream how immensely empty this little theater can be.”—N. Y. Sun. —A citizen of Stamford, Conn., has been driven insane by his young lady neighbor practicing on the piano, and his. mania took a very queer form. When it seized him he went to •all the piano dealers in town and ordered them to send costly instruments to the young lady’s house a t intervals of half an hour. Aa he was rich his add orders were complied w itiv iukd the yoiing woman, despite her Objections, had ton instruments blocking thd strsetin front of her house, besides two in the parlor and one in the hall, Finally the mad­ man was captured and the pianos re­ turned, hu t the,young lady bs* ceased practice. ■. .■■ * “ A L ITTLE NONSENSE.” —“Briggs a comedian? Yon surprise me.. He neverdid a funny thing in all his life.” “Did yon ever hear him sing a pathetic ballad?”—<N. Y. Recorder. —Sweet Simplicity.—Mother—“ Are you not afraid of staying in the house all alone with ntirae?” Young Hopeful —“Not a hit; there’s a sergeant always comes to protect us,”—-Wiener Figaro. —She—“Oh, yes, we. have a national hymn,- too.” He—“Ah, yes, it eea • peautiful thing, I haf heard if so often. My bonnet lies ofer zee ocean, or vere did you get zat hat?”—Harvard Lam­ poon. —Mamma Was Mistaken.—Mamma (severely)—“I am sure I heard Mr. Sweteoner kissing you last evening.” Daughter—“Impossible, mamma, I am positive that my voice, telling him to stop, drowned all sound of i t ”—Yankee Blade. —Too Enticing.—Judge—“How camo you to enter the house?” “But just think, your honorI Two o’clock a t night; no policeman within a half a mile; an open window on the first story! Why, you would have climbed in yourselfI”— FIlegend* Blatter, -Popular Science.—"Oh! mamma, 111 never disobey yon again.” Mamma —“Why, Susie, what have you done!” Susie—“Well, I drank my milk a t lunch and then I Ate a—pickle; and the milk said to pickle; 'get o u t’ and the pickle said, 'I won't,’ and they ars hav­ ing an awful time.”—Talisman. ‘ —Precocious.—“What would you ever do, Johnnie, if you had no nice grand­ ma to mend your clothes when yon tear them so?” “1 guess pop ud have to send me down to the furniture shop.” “To the furniture shp; why so?” “ ’Cause that’s where they mend caued seats.” —Browning, King A Co.*s Monthly, —The celebrated Scotch preacher, in his subversive sermon on the ark, men­ tioned the taunts of boys as amongst the severest trials of the patriarch Noah, when engaged on a ship-bnlldlng enterprise for which there seemed no Immediate occasion. “My brethren, there’s naethlug -sae evil as a human hoy. If ye have a Bair, place in your heart, he’ll just put hfs finger oh it. And so, when Noah was leaving his bit ysirdie in the evening, the hoys would jnst look Over the, palitig and cry, •Noah, ma’man, bod’s the alrk getting on and whan’s I,he flood?*”—London Daily N e t's ' ‘Prof.' Simon N, Patton,' of the Whar­ ton school of the university of Penn- kylvanita handled _f» fashipn a well-worto. topic In q paper before the American acadeipy of .poHtteal and So­ cial science the other night. The gist of the professor's argument was that, whatever may be the morals of intem­ perance,, the conditions at Ilf* in tiite country have grown to be such th a t drinking habfto are partfoulArly disas­ trous,, and that the prohibition 'mover tnent/epresents the efforts of * race to aCcbtnmodsto' itsSlf to its environment And first the speaker argued th a t man’s appetite baa been reduced through the consumption of many In­ stead hf a few dishes. “If • person lives upon >iee or potatoes alone he must have a much larger quantity of food than if several articles are a part of his daily d iet Every increase in the variety of food reduces the appetite of the consumer! This evident fact lies a t tho base of the change in our drink­ ing habits. / A century ago some one drink satisfied the w'snto of each na­ tion.. -Ityvas In everybouse and used as freely as tea and cqffee. now are. But when the love of a given drink is reduced there are tw.o ways In which to get s recompense. Either, by an in­ crease in the variety of /drinks or through t h e u s e of. stronger liquor. But either loads to intoxication, since whisky or mixed drinks are equally unsettling. In this way the reduction in our appetites tends to intensify the evils of drinking, “The reduction of the appetite is not, however, the only active economic cause forcing the temperance issue upon the American people, There are many clitnatic and social conditions, peculiar to America, which aggravate the evils of alcoholism.” And<Jthe speaker here called attention to she fact that rapid changes in the climate lead one to drink in warm weather to keep cool, and in cool weather to*keep warm. Germany has a much steadier climate, and there is, therefore, little overdrinking; and Germany has not either the treating hab it In Amerios “each spell of hot or of oeld weather sends an increasing host of .customers to every saloon la th e land.” And further, “treating is' eo univers­ al that a parson la looking upon iaa mean who will drink without asking his friends to drink with him. By the time *■group of half a dozen friends have each, treated, as many different kinds of liquor a re .mixed together in their stomachs.” Prof, Patten then went on to say that conditions are so different la this, country that emigrants do not under­ stand the prohibition movement “Even now, however, the action against drinking can be plqinly seen among th e second generation of the; German and' Irish.” The fact was added tha t distillation is • thing of modern times, so that strong drinks are more easily made than ever before. In gathering up the threads of hia a r­ gument Prof. Patten urged that elfc- matin and social conditions force prohi­ bition upon the American people, and that that part of tho people which Is tem­ perate must be the party to survive and grow powerfuL He added the further fact that “live temperance people can be supported on the land needed to sat­ isfy the coarse tastes of one”—owing to tho consumption of cbm, rye or what­ ever it may he—and for tha t reason the economic advantage of abststners is great “If our appetites are diminishing, if our climate makes moderate drinking especially difficult, If not impossible, and if the crops from which our liquors are made waste the productive powers of the land, we bare the best reasons for believing that the present dissatis­ faction with drinking will continue andT increase till every saloon and distillery is closed.’’—Pittsburgh Labor Tribune. BARNUM‘8 S ERMON. Tks Great Showawa'a Views oa the LI*- •or QUitlm. Mr. Barnnm, the showman, had one excellent quality rare in showmen— ha was a temperance man. We copy a speech of his: “Those who have not suffered from the use of liquor, direct­ ly or indirectly,” began the great show­ man, stopping to the foot-lights, “hold up your right hand* Vary well,” he oonttnued, after the laughter which folloivcd this opening, “since there are no hands np I ocmcluds that every­ body has an interest In this subject. 1 am qualified to talk about intemper­ ance because I hnv& been on both sides of the fence. I t is the better part of mankind which become drunkards. Misers are in no danger. I t is the whole-souled, big-hearted fellows, who make up the army of fifty , thousand that annually march to drunkard’s graves. Six hundred million dollars are spent here in liquor every year. If that amount was Invested in real or personal property in twenty-two years it would buy np the entire union. -“There is no such thing aa moderate drinking any more than there is mod­ erate murder or moderate forgery. Smoking is just as bad as drinking. Boys are now employed to collect old clgai; stumps, which ate boiled down and the nicotine secured. This is sold to farmers up my way in Connecticut who trea t cabbage leaves with It, and these are made into fifteen-cent cigars. Drinking is a habit that grows. Last winter two of my elephants began shaking with chills one morning, The keeper* ra#doff* to th e vfltogiWnddN* six gallons of whisky. Baatuy rater** is*; te ra egalkxMNrara g tvm rto ‘ W S p ‘ * ................. auperihmictJ^ - Ney t morning' th« keeper earn* to tlwsuhs fowai both •you erawetie*o«fhtodayv*r*»Ath*y stepped shaking,—The Golden Vote*. EVILS p F INTEMPERANCE. A Touk lar llloitrstlas *t th« TsirlMS Power of Drlsk. What evil may be wrought by the mh Philadelphia, in a speesh a t th e ia te an- nl^ersary of tho )ayv a a i svder society* in Philadelphia. Dr. MhIMosh soldi “I waa wriking south of Chestnut,, on Twenty-first street, one Saturday after-, noon, when I saw a little child, ton or twelve years of age, sitting on the stops of a saloon. 1 spoke to her. She a t onoe addressed me by name. I said: •How do yon know my name?* She re ­ plied: ‘Youesme and-spoka down a t our mission school.’ I said: *Why sue yon here?’ She said: *1am waiting foe father, who is in the saloon.’ Present­ ly the man came out. I -went oh the opposite side of the street, keeping my eye on them. He walked unsteadily, partly supported by the little child. Presently, they came.to another: sa­ loon. 7 saw th a t the child was plead* ing With elm. But. he went in, and aha again sat flown on the steps.' I said: '1 will go into the saloon and ask them not to sell anything to your father.' She said: *Ok,no! That will only make it worse; anfl when he goes home be will abuse mother.’ ‘Well, I will wait till be comes (flat, and urge 1dm to go home without drinking any more.’ She said: 'No, that would be still worse.' I followed them-from the other aids of the street He went into one saloon- after another until he had gone into thirteen and had to be almost carried home. Imagine what that home is.”— Philadelphia Presbyterian. SELEOT SHORT NOTES. T hkbk are four free church minis­ ters in Glasgow who will not admit drink sellers to chnrch membership— Messrs. Boss, of -Cowcaddens, Msckay, of Trinity, Andrew, of the White Memorial, and Dobbie. of Blochsirn.' Mas. C hablottk Woonauav, superin­ tendent for the national Demorestasedal contests, is doing a grand work in aid* vahclng the cause of temperance. Air' most every state has a superintendent who is vigorously pushing the work. Tho anions everywhere are holding these contests, crowded audiences at- > testing to the Interest taken ’in the speeches mads by the children, who are contestants for the silver, gold;and diamondmedals offered as prizes for the best declamation on the temper­ ance question. J hmk S B ochabd , a noted student of hygiene, gives these figures for tha loss, direct and indirect, entailed by the consumption of alcohol in Franoa: Value of alcohol consumed (exclusive of duty paid), 139,898,884 francs; loss of labor, 1,84(^174,800 francs; medical treatment and stoppage of work, 70,* 849,000 francs; cost of maintenance of insane, 3,083,919 francs; suicides anfl deaths from sooidents, 1,939,000 francs; cost of repression of crime due to al« cohol, 8,894,600 francs; total, expressed in dollars, 8Sll,15L489. The corre­ sponding loss in England la estimated a t •884,430,015. T hat there is good ground to object to ministerial beer drinking, aa well aa to beer drinking -by others,may he seen ip the announcement of the arraign­ ment of the pastor of the German Lutheran church in Hoboken, who was reoently before the North Bergen class!*, charged with drunkenness. Al­ cohol is no respecter of persons, and the minister who indulges in Its, use sa a beverage is quite as certain to bo over­ come and demoralized by it as anybody. The true ground for the minister and the chnrch member alike is total absti­ nence on all occasions from all Intox­ icating liquors.—National Temperance Advocate. Miss A ckermaxn visited a school be­ longing to a Japanese, who formerly carried on a large brewery, bu t some­ where heard the Gospel. One of hia neighbors had also heard about the Gospel, and they studied the Bible to­ gether. They became convinced that it was the trae religion and embraced Christianity. After a time the brewer turned the brewery into a school. In the back part ike school and chapel were established, the latter seating about six hundred or seven hundred persons. They had no altar or seats for the chapel, hut a missionary sug­ gested that the veto should be made into seats and the wine press wsfl eon- verted Into an altar.—Union Signal. Prepare for Battle. I t seems to me It is about time for the seventeen million professors ot re­ ligion in America to take sides. I t is going to be an out-and-out battle be­ tween drunkenness and sobriety, be­ tween heaven and hfeli, between God and the devil. Take sides before there is any further national decadence; take sides before your sons arc sacrificed ' and the new homo of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an Cnbruted husband. Take aides while your voice, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have an influence in arresting the despoliation of thisnatibn. If the seventeen million professdrAof religion Should take sides on this subject It would not be long before the destiny of this nation would bo decided In tha right direction.—'Talmaics,