The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

............. The Cedarville Herald. W H . BLAIR, PuNI»b*r, CEDARVILLE. i^.CHHX ?5!-S3B5?5S5?55?, the INTELLECTUAL 44 FE. . ABwlm of Fare f l i g h t Above tfce Com. moti WorM. r Theideal life is the proper life of an inteUectw l being; although of course as yet only comparatively few are either disposed or-able to lead such a life. Later along, the pure pleasure of high thinking, of knowledge for its own sake, •will undoubtedly be pa’rticl- . pated in by the multitude a t large. The passion of the miser for his gold, is as water to wine, when?ipatched .with the ■ passion fo r '.truth? whioh th e earnest student and thinker feela Such per­ sons will tofpgo wealth and political •. and'social distinction'for the sake of leading a life of reflective though t I t is impossibleto exaggerate the fasclna- ' tiou of ideas over th eir’devoteea -Ideas ate now broadcast and sown; as it were, upon the winds. The means .of ’ popularizing and disseminating them' a re becoming more and more effective, so that'unfurnished brains are. becom­ ing rarer and ra re r.. Indeed, hardly a human b e a d le the midst of such a con­ tinual snowfall, as itw cre , of ideas, can avoid becoming "the- nidus of one or more of th e winged spiritual seeds .of thought with which tjie moral atrao- . sphere is Ailed: ' Reflective persons are' indeed getting to he numerous. All the current ideas which are now so rapid­ ly disintegrating. the old social, political, and ecclesiastical #order of things, and transfiguring society in the iightof tru th only three or four genera­ tions ago were la te n t ip a few large minds? The sources, of all the great rivers which fructify and beautify the ■ lowlands fop thousands of miles along the currents," before they enter the great oceanic -reservoir of a ll inland waters, are to be sought in cloudy up­ lands, remote-forest-girdled lakes and bidden springs. So i t is with ideas. They have th e ir origin in definite form, in-the lofty souls th a t dwell aloof and apart in a seclusion of intense medita­ tio n .’ Such -souls are seldom fully known or appreciated by their .immedi­ ate contemporaries. Rut the g reat rev*. olutionury tru th s and ideas to which they give: birth gradually descend like mountain rivulets and streams, from their original elevation and seclusion to the plain of ordinary Ufa A single great revolutionary thinker, like Kant for ipstUncc, requires-a host of popnlar- izers and interpreters of; his thought .to follow in his wake, and retail his ideas in a diluted form to the multitude. The busiucss of the ablest writers and lec­ turers of to-day 1* the Interpreting to the masses the thoughts of a' few orig­ inal thinkers, who have kindled in their disciples and followers an irrepressible, intellectual fire and enthusiasm. A century ago or more, Kant demon­ strated th a t the pare reason of every sane enlightened person is the.native scat und highest tribunal of tru th and right, add as such superior to all Insti­ tuted authority, however venerable. Here was an affirmation of the dignity, and sanctity even, of human nature in every1man and woman, of its superior­ ity to a ll institutions of whatever . standing, .which has transformed and- is* transforming under our eyes society over the whole a rea pf civtlltetion..JH* > who makes ideas the pursuit o f his life may not acquire wealth or political distinction of any sort, h u t he is Certain­ ly fitting h lm so lffb r the high destihy which atvaUa him. Carlyle, in his la t­ te r days, was a little peevish over! the fa c t of the, mnltitudlnousaeks of writers and tidnkeirs inithese times,add in ope i( th e reported conversations he con­ temptuously styled them “literary canaille,” a s if they were inconveni­ ently numerous and so diminished the tonsplououtnees of sdeh exceptional geniuses a s himself. Snob a jealousy waa unworthy of the g re a t ioonoclast, and was probably the offspring o f the fretfulriesff of age- The sphere of ideas is no royalty or imperialism, bu t a dem­ ocratic domain, free and open to all.— Saturday Evening Herald* Fancy Woolen*. Costumes of fancy woOlens with Very light grounds, cream, ecru, dove-gray, mastic, etc., Interwoven with rough lines or figuring*, the unified mixture? of color and white, in checks, stripes, and blnrrcd, detached' patterns, are made up in most fanciful styles. Home have bodices cut on the cross and shaped to the figure withdut darts, some with corselets, the high nnder-bodicc covered w ith ereatn-crtldred gidpurd lace,*some w ith passementerie jack e t fronts, the long square basques reaching further hack than the side seams of the bodl-c, and losing themselves among the folds of the sk irt behind; some, also, with sleeveless overjaefeets to match the Color of the bright design, and some with foil plastrons of surah in rose, yellow, maize, or vio let When the bodice is trimmed with laee, there is often ipbroad hand- of the same on the bottom of the fron t breadth of the skirt, the lace used being in all bases a good imitation of old mellow Venetian p o in t—N. Y, Post. —“They say it Cost* f 17.(59 a week to feed ah elephant, Mrs. Irons,” said the hoarder a t the foot of the table; reach­ ing fo r another bnisenit, “ IIow would you like to board one * t regular rates?’’ “An elephant, Mr, McGinnis,” replied the landlady coldly, “wouldn’t be throwing hints all the time thiT h a wm gutting tired of prunes-” THE BATTLE FIELD. INSIDE WAR HISTORY. The Story of a IU ih M o Itumu-randSev- j ■(■x.. «-r*l MUntiiK MJIlioSa. In Bw’cmbar, 1094, a Very swift and light blockade rupner was captured off * lVilmtegton, N. C. I t had been built for th e purpose «f running drugs apd meditshtes in to the confederacy,- and , bad made a g reat many successful trips, when by a concatenation of eircum- ] stances and accidents one foggy morn -1 ing in December she found herself a j Jong wayoutsideof her intended course, and within three, hundred yards of the j1 I'nitcd States cruisers, who immediate:- i ly. captured her w ithout a struggle pr any injury to the beautiful prize. One of tire officers yvlio was present a t her capture declared th a t he had never seen in.any ship such a combination of grace and swiftness. She was condemned and sold in New York on or about the 10th day of February, 1805. Four men became h e r owners’,three of -whom are dead and one is living. They had her machinery very carefully overhauled, every­ thing put in thoroughly good conditioitr and selected a captain who was known to them all as not only a thorough sea­ man but a man who could and ■would ■keep a still tongue. lie was directed to coal lift, proceed to Halifax, and there await orders. When he received a dis­ puted, lur said it meant that he was to sta rt • for Liverpool and' go as . fast as steam and wind cold ’.take him, aud it was es­ timated th a t he would make the run in about three and a quarter days. He was given sealed orders ,aud "told th a t he would be instructed by telegraph when to open them. He sailed for Hali­ fax Feb*'Jury IS, 18155. The confederacy was then in its death- throes. Hood’s army had been driven out of 'Tennessee witli great loss of- life. Its destitution was something no man can understand who did not see i t Men were absolutely- starving and dying for want of food and clothing; Generals of brigades were half clad and wearing boots aud shoes taken from dead Union soldiers’ feet. How they lived, who did live through It all, is only known to God and them. It was a time which those who participated in it can never forget Their comrades’ faces were g a u n t and haggard with privations and fa;ninc, and men had in their eyes the look of those whom hunger lias nearly made mad. The few horses th a t were left were like skeletons, Vet how- these men fought Franklin and Duck River will bear'witness. There was no word of surrender amid uU this starvation and death. . They preferred to fight, for in the tents of their enemies they found food and clothing, warmth and the breath of life, and they attacked where they could with the courage of trained soldiers and the fearlessness of men almost mad. Never was there seen on North American soil such- splendid con­ tempt for death. Lee’s arpiy was in a l­ most as destitute a condition, and any day might see the odd of the confeder­ acy. Time went on, February passed away, then March, and the waiting Captain got no Word. He kept liis^ fires banked and his men on board* as he had been told. April came, and a t 4:30 an the «tl\ Capt lilutch received a telegram containing these words; “Go and cyteeule the orders given you in the sealed writing. Open them one day be­ fore you arrive in Liverpool.” This Was alL At 7 p. in. lie steamed out of Hali­ fax harbor, and in three days and twelve hours he was dropping anchor in the Mersey off Liverpool, When lie arrived a t F astnet Light, the first light seen on the Irish coast, he opened his orders. They simply directed him to de­ liver two packages of papers inclosed to the addresses oh them as soon ns he landed, a t day or night, and then to re­ po rt to a -well-known firm of ship brokers for fu rther orders, meanwhile to ta lk with nobody. He obeyed them strictly. The end Of the confederacy had come. Two g reat London and Liverpool liouses sold confederate bonds short till they had out over th irty million dollars of shorts. At th a t time there were in Liv­ erpool, London and Manchester nine thousand bales i of cotton belonging to the confederate government. A week after the arrival of this swift .ship the matt steamers brought the news of the surrender of Lee’s and JoJinston’s armies, the final collapse of the con­ federate slates government, and the flight of Mr. Davis and ills cabinet. Confederate bonds fell, from thirty-five to forty cents to nothing. The Ameri­ can minister in London, Mr. d ia rie s Francis Adams, immediately directed th e United .States consuls a t Liverpool, Manchester and in London to seize all th e confederate cotton in those cities and hold i t till further order*. Rut wiien thescofficials attempted to exe­ cute these orders not a hale could be found. Three million six hundred thou­ sand dollars’ worth of cotton had dis­ appeared, and from th a t hour to this the United States goverliment has never been able to find a dollar’s worth of it. Four persons who owned a Swift ship th a t sailed from Halifax the evening of April 9, 1805, could tell where it went to if they were disposed to do so, and were all alive. Rut all four who plan­ ned this mighty coup are dead bu t one, who is an old man now in a northern city and rich. Among the four wore two men who were noted in those days for their wealth and devotion to the union, and two southern men. Ode of them held a high confidential position a t tlio confederate capital and the oth­ e r was a prominent confidential Euro­ pean agent of the confederate govern- [ rnent, They made on the short sate of j bonds n o t less than twelve million drtl- Ilars, and on the cotton about three | million six hundred thousand more. In other words, the four “landed” about four million doilaxi %piece, hpsa the ejtr pepse, which was,noil over twenty thou­ sand dollars each fo r the four. Sut-h is one of the c a rto n inside incidents of the g reat w a r ,- Washington Rout A LETTER l^EITINQ ARMY. How ti.e .Soldier, lloy*""HnnuiilM-red flirt Folk* a t Home. I t is n o t an easy thing to go into an i encampment and not find men busy, shard a t 'work, and you would always (Ssee a number of them writing. There never was such a letter-writing army On the face of God’s earth; Yon never: could go into catnp w ithout finding the men writing letters, on the ground, against the side of trees, from which .they had torn the bark, on th eir knees; and never did we women -at home In preparing for the sanitary commission fix tip Comfort bags, in which vve did not pu t sheets of paper, postage stamps, envelopes and the inevitable plug of to­ bacco. i t ' I remember very distinctly when-the, army came back from the relief of Burnside .at Knoxville. •Neve.r was there such a tatterdemalion looking set of men in the world. They started out in summer blouses; they came back with their feet bouu'd up in rags, so th a t as they walked they looked like the most veritable scarecrows th a t you ever saw in a*cornfield. One came out of the hospital more ragged than the others, more thoroughly demoralized in his personal appearance. One of the physicians said to him: “Well, my boy, If you don’t need clothes. I don’t know who does.” And the happy fel­ low, looking a t liim said: ' “Well, now, ■I a.in’t a hankering for clothes, you bet your life, but I am ju st dead clean heartbroken for a diamond breast-pin.” The army wasn’t a good place to go to ta lk the bluea I t wasn’t a very good thing to undertake to indulge in morbid sentiments. You were taken off yourfeet in no time; you Were compelled to know that these men had a high sense, of hu­ mor about them. Said one fellow, com- , tog out one morning when the reveille was sounded altogether too early for his comArt: “When this cruel war is over and I get home in my own house I am going to hire a fellow to come and sound reveille every morning under my: window, simply th a t I may have the, pleasure of opening the window and throwing the contents of the washbowl: on him.’’- •: They did not even die gloomily.. Again and again 1 have heard men say; “Chaplain, the doetoris mistaken about my case. I am going to die. and not live,” and turn their faces 't o the wall and die." And when one man tvas not so very siek, b u t who thought he was, and was becoming a hypochondriac and giving vent to his anguish, which w&s purely imaginary, while talking with him I saw two-thirds of the men in the beds about slip themselves into clothes that would make them a little more re­ spectable, andm areh about the room, one of them pretending to play the banjo, another the violin, another the flute, another the elarinet,:*not^i>r thc double base atom . T here Was "not' "fib instrument there, and it was all done in pantominfc, but tlM?mimicry was srt per feet, and they went through the move inents of playing the various instnr- rnents so well' th a t they stopped the gloomy outpourings of the hypochon­ driacs, who were compelled to join in the laugh. I When I, was in Switzerland I was one day standing n t the door of a railway station, and a t the opposite side of the station I saw a railway porter wearing an urtiHcial leg. As I looked at him carefully 1 thought he was wearing the badge of the grand army* I stepped back to tell my husband abou t it. “Oh,” said my- husband, “of course you know it can not be the badge of the grand army, I t is probably some foreign decoration.” Bat the man crossed over toward me, and I saw i t was a badge of the grand army. I immediately forgot all con­ ventionalities and hurried to him, and In the very best French I could muster l asked him how it came about th a t he, a Swiss railway porter, was wearing the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic of America? He. said, speaking perfect English: "Madam, I enlisted in the service in your country in June, 1801, and I was mustered out in October, 1805.” [Ap­ plause. ] “Where did you lose yonr leg." “ ‘At Gettysburg, and I still remained In the sendee, as I wanted to Sec the end, Ho I got myself pu t into the in­ valid corps, th a t 1 m ight do duty in th e hospital, and I was not mustered out until October, 1805.’ “ ‘Then,* said I, 'if you "have lost your leg a t the battle of Gettysburg and fought under my country’s flag for four years, you are my brother, and I must shake hands w ith you.' “Said he: ‘Madame, your America and my America is a good nation to live for, to fight for, to die for. lly and by, when the old father and mother pass away, I am going back to my America. My brothers arc there with their fam­ ilies. I have no family, and I am here to take care of the old father and toother. I receive a pension from the United States government I am one of Us people, a naturalized citizen, one of you not by birth hu t by adoption, nnu I am going hack some time. Re­ lieve me, America i» to be the Messiah of nations,* Before God, I had thought th a t myself, bn t I bed never dated say It.”—Mrs. M. A. Livermore. TV UVYV fAX TC D C U A I 17 I college-trained women to-day, to recom* 1 A W U A Ju i.ii u D L l l . A L i • j mend th a t education to th e average ---------------- ] mother? I f we are open to criticism ■ ROTH SIDES, j because of deficient social grace and Bom* or till- <ii>j,<tioH*~Halved to C o llie ; tact, th e cause will suffer, for a> How, Traininx for tori*. > j*Us tells zu« “I t is pertain th a t our ' The world seem# o f la te touched w ith ; m annersand customs count for more in the mania of gathering information by life th an onr qualities.' —Emily F. ‘ ” « ................ means of questions o n f£l manner of topics addressed to a ll manner of peo­ ple- As a way of reaching average opinion the postal-eXaMpination system has merits, though so many addressed h a re no opinions, or-no time to w rite them, th a t it is, afte r all, only a minor­ ity report which is thus made up. But a recent tria l Of i t has proved in­ Whceler, in Cbautauqnan, THE IMPROVED WOMAN. Her Physical Condition Has in t)i« Past Few Y«-»r* Improved Wonderfully. I t may be ungallan t to suppose that there is. or has been, any room for ini- i provement in woman, b u t it is undoubt­ edly true th a t in the ’ la s t years there has been teresting as showing the average o h -< jections to college training for gjris. bettering o£ .the physical con- Vo the sweet girl graduate of high. ] dition of A f r i c a n women. Whether normal and private schools m a large ■it i* th e result o f gymnastics or the traveling bf ‘many* rtf our girls in for- eastern city fo u r' questions were ad­ dressed, They were asked » jg ig iiU n d ^ w W i h c y h a v i l i ^ a a n p . )jke to go to college,, ipo rtun ity of admiring the superior.phys „ ,, l°. V ? ’/• n0tUW ^ i<al qualities of English and German finally whiW objections they had heard 1 would meant liti f li , . . . . . t. , , wom#nf-or th e g en eral discussion of the urged again st such traimng. beventy- M bject^ 1 d o # o t know . Perhaps the ueven answered and of these, sixteen fa c t th a t so m of those i6 jn a l‘ s who had i,4o desire to go. sixteen m e an t to | ided them selves on th e ir be witching go an d the. re st would like to, b u t could l htDKUore and fashiopaM e iuva]idi8to no t chiefly fo r la ck of money. A fe w j having been passed by when ou r voung w ere unw illing to postpone so I jneT1 carn^ Make Seieclion of lifenime to e ir en trance in to society; and one a j partners*may- Ravo h elp ed to ern e the ton-teal graduate, was Of opip.on th a t £o„ i t lias been found th a t doll-ba- th o u g h sh e m ight know ipore a fte r fou r j l)i(is npe o f b u t l i tUe worth in thcstriig - years a t college, she would be no b e tte r }R,e of lifCi and capacity on th e p a rt of A , . j a woman to sweep out a drawing-robm Rut it.is the answers to the last que--1 %vithout fainti „ g ,U d to make a loaf of tiou which, are most instructive, a s , bread no t.# u r nor soggy, is of more showing the prejudices still ruling the j imporlanCP than the satto in the cheek, average mind. The chief’ objections j wMo)l the fin of diphtheriamav un- urgedare: “College training is honce -: j or tbe <.oloi. of the hair which essaryt women need to learn,only hovme- one’stronfcr ; of fever raav ull ont hold drt.es. i hey soon forget all they ! Thcre Ls ca^stt iox w n g ra tulat:on in the learn, have no use for i t m a fte rlife , do f fact tb a t woman.a physical condition is not remain single ong enough to profit . risin b ut there is room yet fo r higher by it. r t is usefu only to, those who | ^ of proffress. A race of weak have to support themselves or who I Wl£,cn wfu makc a raco o£ punv Jnen> enter a profession I t makes women , j ambitious for Amazon*, but masculine, causes loss of pretty, lady- f(jJ. <ml;and.o u t Christian women, wj.o like wavs; makes them strong-minded. onJoy wbat r f ^ t s they^ have and sup- yafn independent disagreeable, d.ssat- ; p0^ gPliat sau*is in_st/ onfr b o d i e s - l i - isfied with home l.fc, injures the health,.; dicg. ,Iomc JpnrnaL. u n t iK flu tm tn hi» oi»nnrim ipfi wtvi'.m ru>. 1 . 1 ■ unfits the to he econo ical ives, de­ stroys the maternal instinct, and hin­ ders them from marrying. B o n a P a y iiig F itrm . . Mrs. Daniels and her daughter, two .Now it may be useful to note how en- ^Georgia ladies living not far from Mill- irelv the. finei.il fallaev nnderliei mr,«1 j are gaid to have made re- j markable success as farmers. Three f years ago they were almost destitute, f A gCntletoan offered theto -the Ytfee rtf 1several 'acres of land a t a fairly easy t y soc a , cy u li s ost of these objections. Substitute “men” for “women'’ in them and more than half of them become absu rd But is education one thing fo r men and another for women? Precisely; answers society, A man’s education is for- his individual profit in knowledge and? character, society gaining in trim from his gains. A woman's training is for the good of the homo; she can not be cotisidered apart from her special mis­ sion as mother and home-maker. In that case, our homes arc s till,. jii the main, “dolls’ houses.” There are, of course, numbers of people who think a college, training a mistake; who oppose it equally for boys and girls, urging, with slight variations, these same objections.- Tliis is a t least consistency if it is not good sense. Rut the people who be­ liev e 'in it for the average boy, should show* cause why tlie average girl may' not equally profit hy it: why only Un­ exceptional girl who means to,teach or take a profession, slionhl bo given it. The question indeed, resolve.** itself' in­ to this: Hus a woman a right to life on her own account? ■ If so, then the good of society will give toiler, as to her brother, the broadest development, and tru st to profit indirectly by her culture as it does by liis: no more, no less. . A' late writer in a magazine, like these objectors! lays the blame of de­ clining marriage on college training and the “selfish ambitions” it fosters. •And, always with the good of society in view, lie recommends,, as a cure, ear­ lier marriages. Let the girl he trained in household arts so th a t the youth can afford to marry, and then le t her lie- given home nnd children to absorb her? energies and the “ selfish ambitions,’’ which it is so wrong for her to cherish, will wither. Rut it is precisely the best mothers of to-day, tlie most intelligent and conscientious, * who mourn over their intellectual deficiencies, th eir im- nerfect^ old-time training, because they fcol these deficiencies w ith their chil­ dren. 'They form classes and literary clubs, because—*'I w an t to know some­ thing for iny boy’s sak e—my girls.” , if the younger women w an t knowledge for their own sakes, it is,' perhaps, be­ cause this reason hasjnot y et come into th e ir lives. ' . * f*et us be rid of the idea th a t a col­ lege training is only fo r teachers. The boy goes, not because he Is to bo teach­ e r or lawyer, bu t because i t is the best education of a gcntlefcwn. Until Bis sister goes for like reason, because it is the best culture of a lady,.We are still in the backwoods; Let US be rid, too, of tlie fancy th a t th e higherteducatiou is, in some vague way, inimical to m ar­ riage and th e common lot. If there’is comfort in Statistics, they show th a t college-bred women marry like their sisters, only n little later. Htatlstics Jong Since disproved the “Injury to liefiltli” objection. As for the moralists who cry th a t women’s extravagance and love of dress hinder marriage, they must surely see th a t a society life fos­ ters these passions, while an in tel­ lectual one such as college training should develop, controls them by sub­ stitu ting nobler ambitions. Meantime college women a te warned by these objections not to be vnin, dis­ agreeable, independent or “anxious to occupy positions more suited to men,’’ There is, indeed, a certain vagueness about this last, and we nil know vain and disagreeable women who are hot college-bred. Rut behind th e criticism rent, to be paid a t the year’s end. He trusted to their honesty fo r the pay- Went, as they had no security to offer. The two women set to work with en­ ergy. The mother took charge of the house and the daughter of the farm. “Miss Daniel took an ax and went in­ to the woods and made a plow-stock from a sassafras tree, broke a little bull th a t was thrown in with the land, and planted and raised the best ten acres of cotton and corn th a t w ere raised in Baldwin county.” They paid th eir rent promptly the first year.- Last year they pdid for the land, and had money over; and the prospect is they-will grow rich, —Woman’s Journal. W o m e n L aw G ra d u a te s. The woman’s law .class connected with hu t not actually belonging to the university of the city of New York re­ cently held its graduation exercises when fourteen women received ccrtifi-' cutes. The subjects of some of the es­ says were: “Why I Study Law,’’ with valedictory addresses by Mrs. Theodore Sutro; and “Tlie Origin of Our Law,” hy Miss Htanlietia Titus and "The Con­ sideration in Contracts,” hy Airs. Hood. Doctor Emily Kernpin, the lecturer of the class, was presented with a hand­ some gold bracelet in which was set a tiny watch. -The graduates profess th a t they do not as a rule intend t o practice law b u t only to understand how and why the laws' of our country are made and administered. PROGRESSIVE WOMEN. i* it tratlu I t is*part of 'the mission of 1tunin' D«, , S araii S tockton ; of Indian­ apolis, has been appointed physician at the Indiana state reformatory fo r girls • and prison for women. Mus. G kouoia K endiiick , wife of the late Rev.- Dr. Kendrick, has been elected to the lady prineipalshipof Vav .sar college and has accepted. Miss M ary K. M ontgomery , who lias ju s t taken the highest honors a t the University of London, is twenty- two, and the daughter of a Unitarian clergyman, * H arriet H osmer has one of th e most wonderful inventions rtf the century, th a t o f 'producing marble from lime­ stone, closely resembling th a t rtf the fipcst antique quarries. T hree young Englishwomen, the Misses Hhenatt. Selby and Johns, were awarded the degrees of M." A:; With honor, a t tlie recent commencement of the University of London. They dis­ tanced all their male competitors for the degrees. Mlw, F low Eft, who has been honored hy an election to the Chicago school board, is a Brooklyn woman, and a sis­ ter to Dr. Elliot Coues, the theosopldst. She was educated a t the P a ck e t‘Insti­ tute in Brooklyn, and tau g h t for sever­ al years in the schools of Madison, Wls. Miss H arriet H osmer w rite s from Rome th a t the model fo r her statue of Queen Isabelle fqr the Woman’s Pavil­ ion a t the World's fair Is completed* The queen is represented in the act of stopping down from her throne, and of­ fering h e r jewels to Columbus. Miss Hosmer expects to leave Rome soon, and make a abort btay in England, re­ tu rning to America early in the mi- t