The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

THE BATTLE FIELD.- A RELIC. O r tts wall atom tit*jasatri TU ms ' s aa sncisntw«sponkuao TsmlshsO, dusty, old pad rusty. Spriofflsld psttsrn, slxty-pne; And tU* spldsrs, all uaoatvuilou* or It* pswsr. ape* It»r*wl, ' Andbars wstbed it. breach andmussls, Wb*r* ith»m* upontit* wall. Couldit ipesk *twouldtall • story That wouldstsrtlsyounf andold> . TalesoMong andwosry tasrelwa Could tbat we'upontrue unfold, Tales o? battle. tale* of oarsag* ■ , Tbat would blanoh tho brareit chseR, ' FromHulls Kuu to Appomatox, Could tbat ancientweaponapeak. Dear indeed Istbat oldmusket. It bad aura voice Ions ago. Not u friend so true and trusty ' On the fieldtomset tbo foe. Then It spoke and toa purpose.' Fiery was the tule It told. . Leaden was the fearful message. .Fromtbat weapon grimand old. .And I love It—who can blame me? It artfl I were closest chums, Old and rusty, tried and trusty, IteStof nil your tnukeor guns. Comradesdead and comrades living, H reminds me of you all; Dhows ,ouc‘!i whene'er I view it As it bangs upon the wall. Brings again your kindly faces Fromthat distant lone ago; tVlieuwe faced the stormof battle 1 On the field tomeet the foe. - ■■ On the wall above tbo mantel There’s an ancient weapon hung. Tariifsh -d, dusty, worn andrusty, SpclngHoltl pattern, slsty-one. ~-J. IV. Kenyon, in Detroit Free Press, TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE. Tha Kntlvenlng Effect of Clearing Weather Upon New Soldier*. During’ ■tho winter of 1802*03 the Eleventh Michigan infantry, a regiment which was among the first to go into commission from the wolverine state and which became badly cut to pieces in the service,was being re-organized by Col. P. H. Keegan, It was some time in February that the complement of men was made up and the regiment was1 sent .south. New soldiers were, in those-days, called “fresh fish,” and the new material sent down to stop, south­ ern bullets was about as fresh a lot of suckers as ever enlisted. Chattanooga was the point to which the recruits were sent, there, to join the old frag? ments of . “Stoughton’s . Fighting Eleventh.” >We'knew the “fresh fish” were coming, and of course we were anxious to see what they were like, and we wanted to greet them and make them feel at home. They were expect­ ed on a certain Saturday, hut the day went by and night came, but no “fresh fish." What did come, was, however, nothing nearly so pleasant. It was a coil’., dreary, latter-part of February storm; bowling wind and driving rain, ami we were only too glad to crawl into our little dog tents and find such shel­ ter as they afforded. Along about mid­ night. though, there was a commotion .and we became aware that the boys bail come, but it was still pouring rain and with, very few exceptions the old veterans were not hospitable enough to turn out .and say “howdy.” We had only been- there a day or two our.selves, and were not greatly taken with the site, selected for our encamp­ ment. It was a side hill of clay, nasty, blue, sticky clay. There was not a tree to be seen, and even had it been mid-shuiraer it would not have - been possible for appear of grass to grow cm such soil; a drearier sight never met mortal eye. No, that is wrong; a drear­ ier sight did meet mortal eye; it was the morning following the arrival of tlic “fresh fish.” At the foot of the aide hill, upon which we were , en­ camped, was a valley separating ua from Lookout mountain, which loomed up darkly and frowning in the south. To the west was a solid, granite wall, and on a ledge, some thirty feet wide, lay the railroad track, which curved around into, the town of Chattanooga. For two hundred feet down below this ledge there was the ragged, irregular face of the rock until it was hidden by the swiftly flowing waters of the Ten­ nessee river. Above the ledge for hun­ dreds of feet arose the same solid wall of stone, as rough and jagged as that below, The dawn of the morning displayed a scene that was enought to make angels weep for pity; wliUc even tough old vets, scarred with wounds and hardened With rough campaigning, could hardly help groaning in despair; such a picture of desolation can scarcely be imagined. The new soldiers hail had no experi­ ence in pitching tents, and even if they had, the stoim of the night before would put it to a severe test, Of all the four hundred little white dog tents which the boys had set up as best they could in the darkness and with their 'ignorance how to do it, not a half dozen remained. The rest Jay flat in the mud stretched out down toward tho valley, as they had been washed by the flood, and were only saved from being carried away completely by the ropes and pins driven in the ground. All down the muddy incline were scattered parts and portions of the soldiers outfit, while In the muddy lake which had formed in the valley Iwlow were more of the same traps, caps and canteens being the most conspicuous floating about on the dirty water, This was desolate enough, to be sure, hut the dreary picture waa made more dreary by the appearance of the poor fellows who were getting «o early in their military career a taste o f unufttkl hardship. One by One they began to rirawt totheir feet, For many this was a'diffieult thing to do, Th*y had lain foil hours in a bed of soggy mud, wallowing like so many pigs, and their bones were chilled and their flesh was numb. Soma with energy and tha w ill to fight hard fate were tramping np and down a muddy beach to keep up a circulation of blood; others were taring to collect their scattered effects in the hope that they could build a pile on which to sit and keep out of the wa­ ter; others still there were who, over­ come by the scene of deeolation andtha hopelessness of relief from distress, had flung themselves down again upon their tents and gave tbemselvee np to despair, The rain had ceased, bat tbe dull, leaden clouds still hovered overhead, Lookout mountain stood there, showing its dark and gloomy front, while the granite' wall above the railroad track was as cold, dreary-and forbidding as anything could be. Tho morning wore, and the discomfort of the poor, young soldiers was rather being increased than lessened. At a few minutes past six o'clock a change came.. A party stood looking at the gray pile o f stone watching a freight train puffing slowly along the ledge. As they looked, the clouds suddenly broke, and the sun, brilliant and glorious, shone forth. As Its rays struck upon that granite wall it was reflected back by the myriad jets of water which spurted from its sides. It made a scene simply glorious, in its effect simply dazzling; it was as if a million electric sparks had suddenly burst into life or that a million dia­ monds had caught the rays of the sun’ and sent them •hack . to that band of comfortless and disheartened men. The : sight was one to cheer, and distressed j as every one felt, they could not help it, j they gave one loud and long hut rah. for the glorious sunlight—'Jack Fuller, in j Arkansaw Traveler. 0 By the Left Flunk, March! “Do you see those two soldiers com ingup the street” asked amilitary man of a Tribune reporter, recently. “Yea” “Those fellows belong to the regular army, and if you will observe me close­ ly, I ’ll give yon a good illustration of the force of habit and the result of strict discipline. ' You notice that they keep perfect step and walk erect as though in tho ranks. Now watch them.” . When the two soldiers arrived oppo­ site the speaker, he suddenly said, in a j brisk, sharp tone; . “By the left flank, march!” In an instant the two men turned to the left and had taken several steps toward the gutter.before they were aware of it A ;loud laugh resulted, and the two confused looking defenders of the nation increased their pace with­ out looking back.—Chicago Tribune. The Chaplain Ouve Hack the Card*. “I had rather a remarkable experi­ ence while I was chaplain of thoarmy, ” remarked one of the ministers at a pas­ tor's union. “What was it?” “ I had been working and talking to the hoys about gambling, and they finally turned all the cards in the camp over to me. The next day they were paid off.1The following day I was passing out and saw a blanket spread ont with two lumps of sugar on the corner, and about half tho money in the camp spread ou t” “What .wero they doing?” “They were betting on which lump of sugar a fly would first light, and all the money » on ' the blanket changed hands on the result” “What did you 'say to the boys?” “I said: ’Here, boys, come get your cards. " —Columbus Dispatch. STRAY SHOTS. A t the head of a 6; A. R. post in Brooklyn's Memorial day parade was a small, dirty and well worn flag. It floated at the masthead of the revenue cutter Harriet Lane in 1861, and was the flag that was endangered when the cutter's commander, telegraphing Sec­ retary Dlx, of Now York, received this famous answer; “ If any one at­ tempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” The flag is owned by the Dix family. A x authentic Incident in the career of Gen. Robert K. Lee is told as an evi­ dence of his sweetness of disposition and natural kindliness. One day he was inspecting the batteries over the lines below the city of Richmond, and the soldiers had gathered in a group to welcome him. This action drew upon them the fire of the union gun- "he general faced abont and adv, ( 4 :?<> men to go under shelter. But . Ik* not do this himself. Walking on, al­ though in apparent danger, lie picked up and replaced an unfledged sparrow which had fallen frohi its nest near by. The act was instinctive, brtt perhaps indicates a really higher endowment than abilltj to conduct notable cam­ paigns,—Youth's Companion, Junor. G i . k . vxi W. Kcortr,r,n was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. A Warren county private, having knocked down his captain, was tried, Convicted and sentenced to the Dry Tortuga*. IIis friends’ urged Scofield to have him released, so he went to see the president and told his story. Listen* Ing attentively, Lincoln replied: “I tell you, judge, you go right down to the Capitol and get congress to pass an act authorizing a private soldier to knock down his captain. Then come hack here and I will pardon your man,” The judge says that there Was such an air oi quizzical earnestness and desire to servo him about the president’s manner that they both brokemit in an outburst Of laughter. The judge did not press the case further.—Harrisburg Tele­ graph. HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —Muffins.—One quart of flour, one cupful of sugar, one pint o f milk, but­ ter tha size of an egg, two teaapoonfula of yeast powder. Brice in pans or gem- pass. —Good Honsodeeplng. —Succotash.—One .quart green corn, one pint butter-beans, one-half cupful butter, phpper and salt Cook slowly for an hour and a half. There should be. no liquor in the pot when it is done,— Housekeeper. —A simple remedy for neuralgia la to apply grated horse-radish to the temple, when the face or head is affected, or to the wrist; when the pain is in the arm or shoulder. Prepare the horse-radish in the same manner as for table use. —Molasses Cake.—■Ingredients; One- half cup of molasses, one-half cup of ■agar, one-half cup of either sweet inilk or water, two cups of flour, two tablespoonfula of butter or lard, one tahlespoonful of vinegar. Bake in two round pie tins. A good recipe to use when eggs are scarce.—Detroit Free .Press, ■ / ' —Corn Flour Cheese Cakes.—To one pint of milk and one ounce of corn flour add four well beaten eggs and a quar­ ter of a pound of sugar. Put these in an enameled ■saucepan on the fire, and bring it up to boiling point. Flavor with essence of lemon., -Line some patty pans with puff paste,' pour in the above custard, dust sugar over them, and bake.—Boston Budget. —Riband Wafers.—To one pound of fine sugar add a quarter of a pound of flour and the peel of two lemons; beat the eggs well, then add the Other in­ gredients to them, grease some tin sheets or shallow pans -with melted butter, and roll out the paste very thin; when the wafers are half done roll them round your finger and return them to the oven again to crisp.—Bos­ ton Herald. —Delicious Waffles for Dessert—One? half pound of fine white flour, sifted three times; a teaspoonful of baking powder, four eggs, whites and. yolks beaten separately to the utmost; four lumps of sugar and a little salt enough sweet cream to make a smooth batter for waffles. Bake in ’small round or square waffle irons and when all are baked spread them with apricot jam ,1 pile in a pyramid and serve hot—N. Y . , World. • — Cornucopias.—Three eggs, one cup­ ful of sugar, one cupful of flour, twe tablespooufuls of cold water,- one teaspoouful of baking powder; beat thoroughly. Drop one teblespoonfn! on a round tin and bake in a moder-: ate oven. When a delicate brown j take out and while hot lap the edges j together in- form of a cornucopia and , hold in shape until cool. Fill them, when cold with whipped cream: This receipt.makes twelve.—Ladies’ Home Journal. ' ■ , . j —Stewed Chicken.—Early in the! morning pick 'and cut up a tender chicken Drop the pieces in cold salted , water. At 10 o’clock put them in a pot with a spoonful of fresh butter and a ; slice of fresh, fat bacon. In an hour j roll out a pastry made of one pint of ■ flour, one spoonful of lard, one-half tea- i spoonful of soda, butter-milk to make, a stiff dough, and a pinch of salt. Roll very thin and let it stand for five min­ utes. Remove the cliiaken from the pot. Cut tho pustry in small diamonds. Put it in the pot between layers of the chicken. Cook slowly, adding two ta- blespoonfuls of butter when nearly done.—Housekeeper. Neat Sommer Dresses. Many dresses of summer cloth and other wool materials in self colors, are worn with Louis coats of rich Pompa­ dour satin or Marie Antoinette brocade, a black ground scattered with colored bouquets, of small Bize preferably. The basque of the majority of new gown? are tabbed variously, some narrow, others wide. And the long skirts, L e., the lower hatf of the fashionable coat, are not invariably of the same fabric as the upper part. A gown of gray and reseda shot silk is cut long at the back, but from each hip the basque is sup­ plied by a wide flounce of twine-colored guipure. The cross-folds of the vest show a hand of the guipure going from neck to waist obliquely. The wide cuffs are also of the guipure. Another coat in Louis XV, form Is of mignon­ ette-green cloth with the basque cut in moderately deep tabs. Between the slashings is inserted a handsome pat­ tern. in bcigc-colored guipure, which barely shows, yet gives a stylish and uncommon effect to the coat. The vest is trimmed to correspond.—X. Y. Post. A Sponge Case, Ho many people like to carry their own sponge with thorn when traveling, greatly preferring it to a wash-cloth, that a sponge ease h a very useful and acceptable gift. A very pretty one is made as follows: Use a piece of oiled silk, eighteen indies long and nine inches wide. Double it so as to form a bag with open ends, and paiht on one side a little design of daisies and fine grasses, a glimpse of the sea, or what­ ever else your individual taste may suggest, Next take a piece of pretty colored surah or China silk, ten Inches wide and eight deep, and sew one tin inch edge to the top of one side of the oiled silk hag. Double the silk, and sdw the other ten inch edge to the top of the other side of the oiled silk. Then stiteli across on each side just above the joining, so a* to make n place in which a ribbon may he run, ‘A 1th those rib­ bons the top is drawn up a little, and a pretty bow tied; or they may be used simply for haitgingup tha ease.—Atner- Agriculturist. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WHAT GIRLS MOST HEED, • ms * Advise to Mother* f/nm th* Trela- taf *T T|udr D ssilittn -Tk* Seaay At- ROiShiM the Home fiheoid FuriUsh, Girls, like rosea, grow beat for those who love them. Love, warmth is as necessary for the budding soul as the opening rose, and whoever watches the .girl-soul with eyes of love will see therein a responsive growth, a deepen- ed coloring, a tender unfolding of the many-petaled heart No crime can be surer of God’s con­ demnation than that of bringing into this world an unwelcome life and then abandoning it to the slow, torture of soul starvation. The tender plantlet that finds the skies of April and May drear and chill may cling to life even though ,it« young leaves are frost-bit­ ten, but all its life w ill bo weakened and its symmetry and beauty lessened by that early blight. A little girl of 5 or 0 years came up the aisle of a Northwestern train tho other day,, and the old little face with the lines of pain and anxious thought already beginning to mar its young beauty made one feel sad, as ,if one were looking upon a blighted flower. But the cause of it a l l .was only too evident as we glanced up into the out- of-tune, falsetto face Df the woman who jerked her into a seat, and whom tho little one miscalled by the tender name “Mamma.” Maternity and mother­ hood may be terms widely different in meaning. Thj£ maternal parent of a child may have no right to the holy name of mother. The girl's first supreme need is home' sunshine—that is, mother sunshine. You might as well expect a rose to grow and bloom in perfect beauty un­ der the lowering gloom of a perpetual thunderstorm as to expect girls to blossom out into a bright, lovely girl­ hood in a cold, chilling atmosphere of constant censure and fault-finding, To be welcomed into' an atmosphere full of soul sunshine is the divine right of every young soul To. have that at­ mosphere kept warm and sunny during all tho early years of growth is a debt owed by parents to their children—a debt for which .wo can not but believe they will be held accountable. if the atmosphere of the home is warm and sunny and pure the young girl soul may be left to develop in its own sweet way, and it will be found budding and blossoming at every happy nod. For it seems to be a law of na­ ture that children born of strong, pure and loving parents, with such a sun­ ny home atmosphere, instinctively choose tho best elements for their spirit­ ual growth. In the early years of soul growth there is. often too much well- meant but ill-timed solicitude on the part of parents and teachers. I remem­ ber, one springtime, to have hod my soul sorely vexed by a precious young botanist of three years who insisted upon pulling up my tender plantlets " t o see how the woots go." Home well- intentioned people are perpetually pull­ ing girls tip by the roots, to see how they are growing. To such soul-in­ quisitors we feel like saying: “Do let your girls alone." There is a divine mystery of growth in every soul, which even the nearest and dearest, the moth­ er, may not penetrate. It is something too sacred for any other being to know, save God alone, and this is the reason, It may/ be, that in His wis­ dom it is forever hidden from any eye but his.. And your duty as mother seems to be to keep the home in which “they live and move and have their being” wariq, sunny and whole­ some, so thut theymay reflect your soul light and absorb its warmth and quick­ ening power, juat as the planets reflect the sunshine and are quickened into life and beauty by their mother sun. And this home sunshine, this mother annshlne, means that home most be the brightest and Bunniest spot upon.earth. It means that all the spites; and envies, and meanness of the world shall be kept out of the home as sedulously as you would keep poisonous weeds out of your garden. It means that there the young girl always feels the better, no­ bler side of her nature expanding. It means that there the natural language of her heart is love, and song, and prayer. It means that the whole wide world can hold no place for lier comparable to that home, however simple and lowt ly, which is warmed and lighted by her mother’s smile. It means that for her girl-soul, mother, comfort, peace, sun­ shine, and soul rest arc synonymous terms. It means that she can only think of heaven as a longer and brighter dream of home.—Chicago Tribune. SELF-SUPPORTING. Suggestive Remarks am) an Illustrative Incident for the Benefit of Women Headers. It is pleasant and hopeful to note that so many of the young women of Amer­ ica are learning to value, the mental powers and the education that will make it possible for them to support themselves if the necessity for doing so should arise. The daughters of com­ paratively wealthy men are not infre­ quently found assisting their fathers in the office or counting-room as type­ writers or accountants. Many so-called fashionable ladies make their own dresses and hats, wc are told, having gone through a regu­ lar course of instruction in the art of millinery and° dressmaking. An in­ stance recently came to the notice of the writer that has in it a lesson for women who give no thought to the stats oi dependence to which they would be raduoed if ihsir parent* or husbands should died, leaving them un­ provided for. A lady who had * beaatifol home and throe little children, and whose hus­ band was supposed to he comparatively wealthy, one day found herself a wid­ ow and almost penniless, her husband having been engaged in unfortunate speculations just before his death The lady’s friends were profuse in their offers of sympathy, while wonder­ ing “what in the world she would do now.” She knew just what she would da Within a month she had opened a mil­ linery establishment that at once be­ came very popular and profitable, for the -bonnets she had worn in the past had been such models of elegance that her fashionable friends were glad to take advantage of her go id taste. They never dreamed that' she had mftte those bonnets herself, nor did tljky know that she had privately given her­ self a very good business education) She was successful from the first, and the. praises she received for her clever­ ness and good-sense would have turned the head of a Jess sensible woman.— Youth’s Companion. ; A BOLD TRAVELER. Miss Dowie, the Young Woman Who, En­ tirely Unaccompanied, Has Traveled . Through the Carpathians, It is not every day that a young woman starts out alone to travel in the unfrequented' paths of Europe among strange people in ignorance of tlieir language, as Miss Dowie, the author of “A Girl in the Carpathians,'’ -has re­ cently traveled. As she traveled on mountain ponies, through difficult bridle paths, she cut down her luggage and traveled in a removable skirt, mas­ culine knickerbockers, and native san­ dals. She carried a revolver, which she did not use, and a cigarette ease, to which she had frequent recourse as an antidote to the poisonous atmosphere of the cottage interiors which she vis­ ited. She found shelter wherever night overtook her, in n peasant’s cottage or a fragrant couch of hay or bivouacked in an open courtyard, and slept soundly until disturbed by the cattle,in the morning. The surest specific to the hot Winds, which blew continually,.was to conform to the custom of the country and give up bathing to harden the skin. Miss Dowie iB a most, scientific traveler, and her dominant ,dca was t o . take things leisurely, which is the secret of pleasurable journeying. The trip net­ ted her both profit and pleasure,-but notwithstanding her delightful descrip­ tions of the scenery and peculiar people in the Carpathians, she is likely to have a monopoly of the route she so heroic­ ally traveled from all other tourists.— N. Y. Hun. Won Fame us an Artist. ' Miss •Jane Htevens, of Washington. D, C., who had spent the best years of her life in plodding office-work in one of’ the government departments, was thrown out of employment through a change of administration. The neces­ sity of seeking a subsistence elsewhere led to the awakening, of a latent genius for art Miss Htevcn’s work is remark; able, and has received Unusual recogni­ tion. Out of one thousand picUures sent from all sections of tlie countrji to an art committee .in New York. ajHy twenty were selected as representatives of art in the United States for the last exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters at Piccadilly, London. Three of this number were the work of Miss Stevens. One of tlio three, a large de­ sign of purple clematis, received a dip­ loma and a prize, one-eighth of the fifty prizes of money awarded. An­ other, a pair of doo- panels decorated with an original design from “Midsum­ mer Night’s Dream,” received a dip-' lorna. It is phenomenal that * self- taught artist, who knew nothing of conventional methods, and who took up the study when no longer young, should win international honor*— Woman’s Journal. ENTERTAINING NOTES, In ten counties in South Dakota wom­ en are county school superintendents, some of them for the second and third terms. Miss N evinb , a Brooklyn girl,„ earns her living by. giving lessons in photog­ raphy to men and women who wish to understand and use cameras for amateur or professional purposes. Miss I sabel H apoood . whose excel­ lent translations of Tolstoi and other Russian novelists have won her well-' deserved fame, is a tall, fine-looking woman, with gray hair and a winning smile. Her voice and manner in con­ versation arc delightful, and make her a great favorite in the social circles of New York, which is her home, Miss K uit . v D ickinson , whose poems have been published only since her death, is said to have left 800 manu­ scripts of complete poems and frag­ ments of nearly as many more. Her shyness amounted almost to a mania and her later years were spent entirely in her own home, hutshe loved children and had a habit of lowering gifts to them from her windows. “Miss M oi , u b E. Cnuncii, a colored graduate of Oberlin and now a teacher in the public schools of Washington, has been tendered the position of reg­ istrar of her Alma Mater. It is said that if she accepts she will bo the first colored graduate of any leading college to become a member of its faculty. ” Oberlin is the place for the experi­ ment. I t was the first to open the doors of education to the colored youth, .