The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

The Cedarville Herald W. H. BLAIR, PuWUhtr. CEDARVILLE. : : : raff COULDN'T PE A MASHftR. K M f a Han X ikM a DoakMt o f life «*•« B j Trying; to Uo G»y. The temptation to flirt with women tackled aboutmine men out of ten and downs them. Bnt It by no means fol­ lows that a man will flirt even after he has humiliated himself by consenting' to do so. I t really takes more nerve than is to be met with in every man. Be will scan each woman he passes, view her swiftly,oyer from top to. toe, making a mental- nftte as’t o h e r face and form, her dress and complexion, try to catch her eye, and feel terribly puffed up if she favorp. him'with a glance in passing, But he wouldn’t know what to do if she smiled. He wouldn’t have the countenance to meet a single ad­ vance on her part. It may be a Surpris­ ing statement, but it in a true one. The other evening a fellow was wait­ ing for the aubnrbOn gate at the North­ western depot tp open. H® was a re ­ spectable married man; from Irving Park;, but he had always prided him­ self on his eye for female beauty. He wouldn’t have anything to do with reaUy fast,women, and always thought of them with a species of disgust But here, a t the the side Of the baggage- room door, was a'demuir«| little woman; pretty, na a peach and with a form fair­ ly gloftcftui.*-' He h id missed his regular trainjm^ .would have, nearly half an hou r ‘to *w a tt'' At another time he would $fcve gaffe away;ffhd transacted1 THE BATTLE FIELD. g r a n t a n d t h e c h i l d . AJvBfcfWCST NEAR APPOMATTOX. wm* w i t „ He walked ^past her two or three timbs > and1 ^Obnvineed himself she■.•jf-rMa ^willing' - to r'-p ic k --'np a flirtation. Ashe walked pa sth e r one time hi* fcMwtgaWVifreat thump, f o r he thought ab?-panto ju tH o rth e .point • f speaking tohlm. Next time he came alongh i: stopped a trifle1behind her and said, low so th a t the. baggageman oouldn’t hCarr - r ■- “Evening, little oae.T < His head was i n a whirL He bad in­ sulted hrianj a woman with his’ eyes, bnt here was the Erst time he had a t­ tempted to complete the outrage. She turned abdut slowly, met his eyes without a. tremor and waited. He didn’t know what to do. The muscles of his face refused to manufacture a smile. He was conscious of a twitch­ ing, an embarrassed look, a guilty blush. ' He struggled a moment under the cool challenge of that superb being, and then he started' to tu rn away, for a group of tpen and women had eOme clattering and laughing down the iron stairs, and'be recognized some Irving Park and Dos Plaines people. But he hod'no time to escape. The pretty girl caught him and held him, and nailed his shame upon him, and she did it without for an instant appearing any­ thing other than the lady she must have been: “Hereafter when yon don’t want any­ thing, don’t say anything. Married ,mi"i sometimes think themselves irre­ sistible because they once fooled one gO"d woman.’’ , The clattering, -laughing group stopped ..a t the foot of the irpn stair­ way, caug)it thft tableau, almost pitied lifm in the painful confusion, and then permitted him to escape from the de­ pot. He waited for the last train home that night and, never again attempted to pick up* an acquaintance with a handsome woman.--Chicago Herald. ABOUT MAPLE SUGAR, The I>lflvrcnce,X|atWMn the Real and the , -.u vSpBr|0liill ' In selecting a cake of maple sugar to eat shun the small, square, hard bricks that look as though they were com­ posed at coarse sand and pounded glass, mud choose from the larger cakes th a t have a line smooth grain and a delicate golden brown tin t To* be ffesh and pure it should cut almost as easily as cheese, and melt in your mouth with­ out leaving any unpleasant taste. Some people have ankle a that the dark, wet, soggy cakes are the purest and more like the old-fashioned sugar made by their fathers. This k so t so. I t is not natural for maple sugar to be black any more than for it to be white, and while the dark sugar shows’thepfes* enca of dirt and leaves and smoke from the boiling place, and the addition of the cheapest cane sugar, so the almost white, glistening, UMtrse-'graitaed maple sugar shows that i t was made by melt­ ing over sopie of last year’s stock and adding to it the common coffee sugar of the store., - Maple sirup, to be ptfre and just right to eat, should weigh about eleven andpne-hatf pounds to the gallon. AVhCnpoured but in a glais! it should be clear and ataber.hued With­ out containing dark streaks.. If, after it has,stood In'{ho dish a few hours, a dark sedtaienf Is found in the bottom i t is not pure maple sirup, oven though the m»nwjtopta<lp,i& should out down the tree from Which the'sap was drawn and lupil it to your,door inprei clnlib/—UtTcif (id*, T. ) Observer. (N-™ if• —liecant investigations go to show that the Forte has no'enir formusic, and only a slight understanding of titnehnd military signals. The popular impres­ sion that a trained horse can ,waltz in time to ntiifii&i# fidtappdried bv experi­ ence, as in such discs the music is al­ ways played in suit, the stop of the horse, which is regulated by signs Iron the Imiflcr. The leader of our snr.leh rjodc Act has Hie Southern pl*in, ArouaRfcm gt&fl pt benrOod Hen P iyHfffl with iingathered reln. -tBefwiftjitai lied M gkrokS* toes, Behind bis columns throng. Full near the hour of victory shows Their hearts have wsued long. Beneath a mansion’s vine-wreathed porch His chanter’* step be swy-d, , To a sk s goblet frorn the spring, A moment in tbo shade. A .little child, with eyes of blue, Came shyly to his knee. *‘My papa Is a soldier, too, And wears a sword," said be. . -‘He has bright buttons on his coat, He looks almost like yon. Only my papa’s coat is gray, And yours, mamma calls blue. “1 wish you’d find my papai sir. And send him right away; And If you’ll say / told you to I’m sure ho’will obey." The soldier raised the childish form tip to his martial breast, * ■ • And on the rosy, pleading face A tear-wet kiss he pressed. Ha saw bis own far Western homo,' Where wife and babies dwelt', : More stern than his must be the heart Such vision would not melt. “Perhaps, my child," he slowly said, •i. “Your fattier I may see, And may God grunt me my desire To send him safe to thee.’’ O , soldiers of the Blue, the Gray, Whom hostile weapons part, The pleading of th at little child Made one each father's heart. And never will the simple tale From memory’s pages cease. And hearts shall melt us words recall The soldier’s ltiss pr peace. —Isaac F. Baton, io N. Y, Mail and Express. , captivity (she was sent south and, was Isent by our governor on a secret mU* | bion to Eurcpe. Taking passage on a blockade runner, the vessel was capt­ ured and with it llelle Boyd. A Lieut Harding; of the captors, was very kind to Belle in her captivity, and they were afterwards married. He dying, not long after, Belle married some one else, and was> divorced and again married—the last time marrying an actor. Since the last marriage they have been playing with indifferent and varied success, and a t last became “strapped" in some northern city, where their trouble about their children commenced, and which, as stated, is not yet ended.—Atlanta Constitution.'- A FAMOUS STONE WALL. BELLE .BOYD, THE SPY. Another Chapter in the History of the Osr- ingr Cflrl* Manyof Washington county’s veter­ ans, who followed the; feathers of Stone­ wall Jackson and Ewell in the cele­ brated Banks campaign in the -valley of Virginia, remember well the subject of this short sketch—Belle Boyd, .the Confederate spy and scout, .the pet- of Jackson’s “foot cavalry”—and many will be the regrets expressed when they learn from this that she has been in serious trouble in the north. The na­ ture of this trouble is poverty and ina­ bility to support her children; and they were about to be taken from her, ptid the matter is still pending in the Courts. In the spring of 1862 a Georgia .regi­ ment was .marching at the head of Ewell’s division down the Luray valley.. We had passed through the town of Lu- ray, and were nearing Fort Royal, go­ ing—we knew not where-~on one of Jackson's secret marches. Suddenly from a settlement road there appeared at a full run a most magnificent horse, and with a rider—a most beautiful young lady—who sat tlio horse os if born to the saddle. I never saw a love­ lier sight. Halting in front of our reg­ iment she inquired for .1aekson. One at our officers knew her and gave her the desired information, and then off she went to our rear, riding like the celebrated John Gilpin. “That is Belle Boyd," said the, officer who had directed her, “and you may just as well get ready for a fight, for it won’t he long before you will see her and Jackson pass to the front, and then you may look ou t" Sure enough; very spon here they came, and as they passed ns the command was passed up the line to load and then to “double quick." We were soon a t Fort Royal, where we surprised and captured the troops sta­ tioned there. I t afterwards was told that Bello Boyd had been in and around Fort Royal for a day or two, and liav-. ing found out everything necessary for Jackson to know that she had started out to End him and give the informa­ tion which enabled him to swoop down, on them and take them in. From Fort Royal to Winchester we saw her a few times on the march, either riding with Jackson or some of his staff. After the capture of Win­ chester we pushed on to Martinsburg, twenty-two miles toward the Potomac. L ..^ nrir.. .i . .. Wo missed her when we left Winches­ ter. Arriving a t Martinsburg we form­ ed a line of battle and threw out skir­ mishers and were gradually closing in on the place, A slight skirmish fight was going on when we heard an utiusual commotion in the direction of the town, and soort we caught Bight of a lady on horseback, coming like A cyclone to­ wards us. A lot of Yankee Cavalry Were pursuing her, and the bullets from their Carbines made music in the air, Wc expected every minute to See her shot off her hofsc, but she never halted or slacked hCr Speed. Asjrtte neared us we recognized her as Belle Boyd, and directing our fire on her pur­ suers we'caused them to turnback. Again site inquired for Jnclcsoh, but Maj, Harry Douglas, of Jackson’s prpof o fh is ^ ta ff, had already seen her, and togeth­ e r. they went to the rear. I suppose fiho must lisivc told Jackson that the Yankee force was too stronglfbr Us to attack, for Jackson immediately withdrew all of Ills forces anil left the town, going in the direction of Ifar- per'fi Ferry. Belle was never seen in our army again, Aftegwe left the val­ ley she trotiteUcd'.fb |i«r hotpf|$ ^ Jd $ trr tintihurg and shortly after she was captured by the Yankees and carried a p risoner ta' Washington. A lte r a lofig How I t W ss Ilnllt W ith l ’MCfftil in ten t, and n ow It Figured in » Great Hattie. ' . Rev. Benjamin L. Agnew, pastor of the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, corner Broad and Diamond streets, re­ cently mentioned a fact which’gmay be known to few, and will be of interest to many. “Fifty years before the war," he said, “my father. Smith Agnew, lived with his stepfather, Rev. Dr. Dobbins, in the stone house on the Baltimore pike, a short distance below Gettys­ burg. At that time he was a lad -of seventeen years. He took entire charge of the farm,which in some sections was very stony. One day the thought struck him that, these .stones could be utilized by gathering them and building with them a stone’ wall. He enlisted the services of a negro who resided in the vicinity, and together they hauled the stone to the place selected and built the celebrated stone wall whose name will exist while history lasts." Young Agnew built his wall with great care, using large flat stones as binders and filling in ,with smaller ones! little dreaming a t that time what an important place tha t wall would oc­ cupy in the greatest battle of modem times. I t was here that Gen. Pickett’B division, beaded by his. valiant Vir­ ginians, made its memorable charge, and although it was thrown into con­ fusion by the flanking fire of Standard's Vermonters and Doubleday's division, still pressed forward and at last suc­ ceeded in planting a confederate flag on this wall; only, however, to be driv­ en back with the loss of nearly three- quarters of its number by the Sixty- ninth, Seventy-first and Seventy-second Pennsylvania volunteers under Gen. Hancock. After poactr had been proclaimed, Mr. Agnew visited the old homestead and found the old stone wall standing in almost as good condition as when it had been b u ilt—Philadelphia Press. WAIFS FOR OLD WARRIORS. T here are eighty-two national ceme­ teries in the United States, and they have 827,179 graves, about one-half of which arc marked “ unknown.” O f tlie 2,778,301 men enlisted in the Union army and navy, less than '500 were recognized under the act of con­ gress July 12, 1862, for distinguished bravery. A. Al. H enry owns a farm upon which the first battle of Bull Run was fought, and owned it at tlio time of the fight, lie was away from home at the time, hut his mother was killed in her bed by a shell from a federal battery. G en . I saac B urrell , who served in the civil war as a member of the FoF- ty-second Massachusetts regiment, was forced to yield Ills sword to the confed­ erates a t Galveston, Tex., in 1862. He has recently received word from a southerner'that present possessor of the sword would like to return it to him. C harles I). R oiikrtbon the seaman who saved many lives ffj throwing a hissing confederate shell overboard from tlic'gun-dcck of the Hartford in April, 1862, now lives in Baltimore. For this act of bravery Admiral Farragut made special mention of him In his report and congress voted him a medal. The med­ al is the size of a 520gold piece and Mr. Robertsbn is proud of i t Gov. .S im ojf B olivar B uckner , of Kentucky, is a well preserved specimen of the southern general, is tall and straight, and carries his sixty-eight • years lightly. He was the command­ ing officer who surrendered Fort Donel- son to Gen. Grant in February, 1802, his superiors, Floyd and Pillow, mak­ ing their escape before their capitula­ tion. I t was to Gen. Buckner that Gen. Grant directed his famous dispatch call­ ing for the Unconditional surrender of the big fort. G f , n . B utler ' s wife was- with him most of tlie time during the war, And he says: “Thus I bad the advantage over most of my brother commanding, gen­ erals in the field in having an advisor, faithfnl and true, clear-headed, .consci­ entious and conservative, whose conclu­ sions could always be trusted. . In the mere, military movements, although she took full note, she never interfered by a suggestion, for in regard to them I relied upon tlie opinions of ray valued, accomplished and efficient staff. * G en . L osopteet says that on ope of the long night marches in Virginia the only way lie eouhl g*t rtfet was to lie liown on the ground while the -column Was passing and sleep for an hour or so. lie woke up just as the stragglers were coming along tile rear, and air old Georgia cracker was soliloquizing about the situation. “I lovfe my coun­ try and I’ll fight for it, and I’lld ic for it, and i’ll go naked and barefooted for bet-, bnt when this war is over I'll be cursed if I will ever love another coun­ try." IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. THE NEW WOMAN. Circumstances That Jlavsi and Made lle r WfMftt !■* ■ * The new woman, like most Itaw things, is a product of circumstance**. She has been evolved from w ha t .was formerly known in f‘ecoApmteal ncfUteti as the superfluous female. - Undoubtedly the woman who had no helpful relation •to the bread-winning peculiar to itself, is amenable to the laws which control other forms of in. dmifcry, sn dw h e n citizens are willing * mbitM MjMp^astAppoR these lawi appne<L to their households, ai wqU as to departments of labor outside tbpTbome, an Important step vHi. have taken toward remedying existing is one of the estrongest argu- plants forthe higher education of »'<». enl Domestic questions must lie studied, and in order to understand the princi- man of the day, who was neither wife j pies underlying the subject a trained ' mind is required. The knowledge that evils exist is not sufficient, but a way • qutsof the, difficulties must* be found. The fact that a girl fresh from the ,shores of a foreign country may come ovqr here, step into and dominate the home life, is a reproach upon the intcLs ligence of the women of the time, a knowledge of what is required in the labor employed, is of no great import-, ance, for a woman may be able to do all the various , branches o f work in­ volved in the a rt of housekeeping, and have the highest ideals as to the stand­ ard of her household, and yet •be sub­ jected,to the same annoying conditions th a t embarrass hpr less ,intelligent neighbor. In the present condition of affairs housekeepers are a t the mercy of servants, and those women are hap­ piest who live in a way to require the least service. The great'..question for .women to study is how homes may be.retained without the friction and waste of ma­ terial and nerve force that attends housekeeping at th e present time. Of course advocates of co-operative house­ keeping claim that scheme as a panacea fbr present difficulties. No system has yet been advanced in tha t line that does hot eliminate tlie distinctive pleasures ■of the home life. Dinners brought in from a central kitchen Will never be equal to those prepared in &private ' kitchen. Each family has its own tastes and fancies, and it is the indulgence ot these, that gives the home cooking the advantage oyer any other. Housekeep­ ing must be reduced to n science; and the laws governing other branches of industry applied, and it is th«vcollege >vomen who .will' take up the work,- study cause and effect, and lead the way to a method tha t shall remove the reproach now cast upon women, that .before they enter -the professions here­ tofore monopolized by men, they would better find a way to more successfully conduct'affairs belonging to their own peculiar province.—Springfield (Alass.) Republican. of the producer' nor mother or care­ taker of the future man, was a super­ fluity in the economy of nations. Wom­ en have always been painfnlly* con­ scious of the statistics, which are gath­ ered with such painstaking industry, showing liow many more girls than boys are born Into the pre-empted earth, and how many women-there are in excess of men In certain towns, states and countries, and of how in­ evitably this fact, in the minds of sta­ tisticians and political economists, points to polygamy. Women can hardly fail to be guiltily cqnscious of their superfluity. The one girl in the family .who failed, through some lack of personal attraction, or fastidiousness of taste, to find Her mate in the other sex, was a source of anxi­ ety and reproach even to the mother who bore her. To be an old-maid was next in disagreeabieness to being a mother-in-law,-and, unfortunately, no woman but' a childless wife could‘es­ cape the fate of being one or the other. I t is one of the curious reversals of to­ day that the old maid,may stand beside the mother of boys and not be ashamed;, no consciousness of a foiled destiny op­ presses her; her-work speaks for her in the world, and she does not, fear to be weighed by it and found wanting.. The work which tlie new woman is doing is as valuable and necessary as the work of men, and is (indeed a parts of it. We find her everywhere. No office could dispense with the inevitable' woman, who performs some part of its work with peculiar skill and fitness, There is no center of intellectual labor or skilled manipulation where . the woman docs not find her, work waiting for her. The editor sees that she ap­ peals to an audience which is interested in the chicanery of polities or the sta­ tistics of crime. The architect knows that there are details of interior con­ struction, dear to his clientele, of which no man could possibly be aware, and the lawyer and merchant find their stenographers, and the doctor his most earnest students and faithful nurses, among, them. The women who fill these new fields of labor come into them from widely different motives. Those who opened, and many of those who are now suc­ cessfully occupying them, are women whose lives began quite differently. They are of a class with whom the wealthy women of New York should lie in ardent sympathy, because in many cases they were closely associated in childhood. They grew up together in neighboring and wealthy homes,studied together in fashionable schools, some of them -were married in. fashionable churches; all their associations, before they ivere overtaken by poverty, were with the fortunate and wealthy class. When, bv some of the strange chances and changes of life, the means of lux­ ury failed, and’ they ended the short and ineffectual struggle/’ which they hoped might enable thorn to continue -amortg their old friends and associa­ tions, they crossed tlie gulf which lies between the ease of idleness and earn­ est, exhaustive nnd continual effort, and stood alone, without friends or homes or money, except that which un­ accustomed hands ‘could carp. These are the women who have won a place for oilier educated women in the active industries of the world, and have made a field for the activity of thousands of young, ambitious and able minds. The girls who have grown up into these fields of labor have had the ad­ vantage of special education, as well as natural aptitude. They are wide-eyed, earnest women, who note the changes which have been and are taking place in the customs and needs of the world —who recognize new conditions, and have determinedly fitted, themselves for them. They have made themselves ready to step in wherever a Woman’s column or a page devoted to “things interesting” is warited, and there are enough of them and they are well enough trained to edit a daily, paper which shall be a s unobjectionable as is the religious weekly newspaper, and which shall answer a. daily family w an t There are enough of them to tld fa r more than this, and they are doing more andLdoing it wfell.—Candace Wheeler, in Christian Gnion. D o m e s t i c ^ s c i e n c e . The Two ffi&itlflcant Moves Mndc the Fast Tear iff thiet WeHtl o f W o a sn 't Work,, In the world of woman's work two significant' inbVCs have been made In title past yaar. Wellesley College has established a coarse in domestic science, anil Vassar college has sent out one,, of its' able professors. Miss Ltwy M. Sal­ mon, to lecture upon the same subject. Aiticii has been written and said to show the incojmpcteney, impertinence nnd tyranny of Servants, and the reasons why girls prefer shop and faetory'Hfe tb'domestic service. Miss Faltnon lias made use at la d s ' gathered during the past three or four years, which have been class&cdf to pror* th a t dbfrtestk’ service is arranged on,a purely peraotte al basis, without any regard to econom­ ic laws, Blie says that nevertheless, domestic labor, while having features A L im e Girl’s Heroic Effort*. . In the Schofield -Normal and.Indus­ tria l school at Aiken, S, C., there is a lame girl trying to prepare herself for a teacher, whose efforts to earn an ed­ ucation have been really heroic. She has regularly walked to the field on both crutches, and then rested on one while she picked a hundred and thirty pounds of cotton a day. Even her holi­ days do not bring' her much rest though she seems to enjoy them. When she returned to the school after the last Christmas vacation, she said: “ I am glad I went home (thirty-six miles), for I cut and made six coats for my six lit­ tle brothers.’’"Woman’s Journal. NOTES FOR WOMEN READERS. O ctave T iianf . t . the novelist, is Al­ ice French in private life. She is an Iowa girl; 'R ev . A da 0. B owles says th a t among qualccrs there are 850 female' m inisters more than in any other denomination. -.M rs . ’H elen C asipuell , so well known as a cliumpion of working-wom­ en, luis a pretty summer cottage1a t Or­ ange, N. J|. M i S s AI attib W a ns worth , a young lady living near Augusta, Ale., has a collection of 200 insects, collected by herself in the last three or four years. T he queen of Saxony maintains three physicians, whose sole duty is to attend the ailments of the suffering poor. The queen pays the physicians out of her own private purse. T he graduating class of the Philadel­ phia school of design for women num­ bered 13 this year, A new department, that of architecture, is to be added next year, with Miss Aiinerva Parker hs in­ structor. I n London the number of women on school boards increases, and this year twelve women haVo been elected in eleven different districts. In three of these the women elected are themselves school mistresses. Alias H elen C loak , a full-blooded Indian of the Iilackfoot tribe, has been appointed by Secretary Noble special allottingagent, and has begun her work tn allotting lands to tlio Tonkawas, oh the Nez Pereas reservation, M rs . G eoroianna W hetsel , a col­ ored wornah’ of B t John, New BrunS- Wick, controls the ice trade of that city, employing fifty or sixty men, and toh liorsea fthe serves her customers so’well th a t she has gained universal respect, . , R ev . A nna S haw thinks th a t the chief eause of dofnestic unhappiness is the financial servitude Which most wom­ en endare; nfld she believes th a t tlie mental, political and Industrial emanci­ pation of women will increase tlie num­ ber'd! happy fiiktriagcA A movement , supported by the young (Crown Princess Sophie, ’Is now off foot ataong the Grecian women for estab­ lishing public technical schools 1for wemftu iff order to enable them to oafn their own bread. A (petition to that effect has been presented to King George signed by about three thousand ladies,