The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

THEBAT LEFIELD. THE FLAG AT SHENANDOAH. T t» touted Hold wore a wrinkled Irown, i And the emptiod oliuroh from the field looked > down On the emptied road and the emptied town, That summer Sunday morning. And .here w u the blue, and there wa» the - gray; And a wide green valley rolled away Betwoen where the battling armlei lay, That sacrod Sunday morning. t And Queter eat, with impatient will, 1 • HI* restless steed, 'mid hie trobpsr**tlll As he watched with gloss trout the oak-set hill, That sllfcnt Sundtiy nioynttig, . Then last he began to obate and tret; . ‘Thore’a a.battle fiag on a bayonet Too olose to my pwn true soldiers set For peaee this Sunday mornlngl" “Ride ovor, some one," he haughtily said. ( “And bring it to me 1 Why,' in bars blood rad AndIn stars I will stain it, and overhead Will flaunt it this Sunday morningI" Thon a West-horn lad, pale-faced and slim, Rode out, and touohlng his cap to him, - Swopt'down, as awlft at the swallows swim, That anxious Sunday morning. On, on throogh the valley! up, up, anywhere! That palo-fucod lad like a bird through the * air Kept on till ho climbed,to the banner there That bravest Sunday mornlngl And he caught up the flag, and around his waist He wound it tight, and he turned In haste. And swift his perilous route retraced That daring Sunday morning. , All honor and pralso to the trusty steed! Ah! boy. and banner, and all God speed! God's pity for you In your hour ot need This deadly Sunday morning. O, deadly shot! and O, shower pf lead 1 O. iron vain on the brave, bare head l Why, even the loaves from the tree fall dead Thla dreadful Sunday morning! . But he gains the oaks! Men oheer in their . might! Brave Ciiater is weeping in his delight! Why, he is embracing the boy outright This glorious Sunday mornlngl But soft! Not a word has the pale boy aald. . Ho unwltida the flag. It is starred, striped, red With bis heart's best blood; and he falls down dead. ' In God’s still Sunday morning. So, wrap his flag to his soldier's breast; Into stars and stripes it is stained and blest; ' And under tbo oaks let him rest and rest Till God'Bgreat Sunday morning. —Joaquin Miller, in Classte Shades. THE STORY OF “OUR TOM.” . How a Famous Field F lece o f th e War Was Recaptured From th e Enemy. Our brigade battery had one field piece which the hoys came to know as “Our Tom.” If you aslt me why they :gave it th a t title I shall ask you in re­ turn how it was th a t almost every thing connected w ith the troops At .the front oh either side hod a title o f‘game sort. For instance, ourllrigadier-Uenerai was knownvfls “Old Lemons;'* our Colonel was referred to as ‘b lu rry Up," and our Captain was known as “L ittle Jim .” AVe had a company dog who was called “Longitude,” a. certain mule known as “Vesuvius,” and our company baggage wagon was referred to as- “The Ark.” “Our Tom'* was no handsomer than , any of th e o ther guns, b u t he had a soar h received in battle, and th is distinguish­ ed and exalted him above the other five. AVe were raw troops when “Our Tom” came to us, aud we looked upon 1»1 b scar ju st ns we would have looked upon one curried by a veteran soldier, AVe came to know where he got it, how Well he fought th a t day, and whose life­ blood it was which spurted over the spokes of Ills' right wheel and dyed them so red th a t they had to he washed in the waters o f the creek. The battery boys were rather proud that we of the cavalry should “ adopt” pne of their guns, and when we would cheer “Our Tom” .as he passed us on the highway the artllleryists would re­ turn the Compliment. Our first battle after he joined us was Brandy Station, and he was put In the battery and got to work a quarter of an honr before we did. A thousand men had their eyes on “Our Tom” as ho began pitching shells across a broad plain into the woods on the far side. Every other gun was do­ ing just as good work, h u t we hsd praise for only one. We cheered him ah we saw a shell blow fragments of men and horses into the'air, arid when the Colonel rode along the line and indig­ nantly ordered “sUenc# in th arabk s!” more than a hundred voice# growled in reply: , “We’ll cheer 'Our ’tom ' and liehanged to you!” That yvas a hot fight a t Brandy, ano at a certain stage of the game the gal­ lant enemy moved a heavy squadron down upon the battery, which had been left almost unsupported for the moment. Our regiment was half a m ils away, having it hot and heavy, but when some one raised the cry that the boys in gray were after “Our Tom,” there was a rush to save him.' I don't know whether it was orderedor made without orders, but I do know that five com­ panies broke off w ith a le ft wheel, leaped their horses over a wide ditch, and fell npon the gray squadron like a thunderbolt. We were all among the guns, and right at “Our Tom's” wheel I saw a brave Confederate trooper ge down with hiahead split wide open from a saber stroke, We fought over him end aroundhim, had wa saved the bat­ tery, and when We came to examine “Our Tom” and found two fresh sears on him we swung our hats and cheered. At fibepardstown, white we were hastening forward towards Gettysburg, two pieces o f our battery were cut off .and captured, It was a soup oh the part ot a dashing squadron, and they tad gone with the guns bsfore we knew t i “Our Tom” was one of the pair, and when the news spread there was cursing and lamentation. A thousand men solemnly vowed to have th a t gun back if they had to leave a leg or an arm on the field of battle. AVe had no show for it un til the two armies con­ fronted each other a t Gettysburg. Then, os onr brigade was skirmishing to feel Lee's wagon trains, a buttery opened On US, At the first report of. the first gun a hundred men stood up in their stir­ rups and shouted: “Hurrah! hoys—that’s ‘OnrTom’ call­ ing to us!" Half an hour later we were massed for a charge, and the query with every man was: “AVill it prove to ho our gun?" AVe got the command and away we went with a yell, and five minutes later we were a t the guns, The Confederates sought to haul them off, and we were charged i n turn, hu t when some one called out through the smoke-cloud th a t “Our Tom" was one of the guns, we’d have held our ground if Longstreet had Hung his. whole corps a t us. Our gun was there and with bullets flying and sa­ bers flashing, it was drawn off by hand and was well away before the bugles blew th e recall. Every spoke in every wheel bore; the marks of bullets, and the gun itself had been struck half a dozen times. AVe gathered around it and cheered and cheered again, though the capture had cost u s fifty lives.' “Our Torn” was with us in the AVilder- ness, a t Petersburg and clear around to Sailor’s Creek, and the last shell fired from his muzzle sent four or five men' to their death. AVe had -him with-us at the grand review, hut the next day he was missing. They said he had broken down and been hauled away for repairs. AVe hunted hither and yon, sent out committees with power to buy him of Uncle Sam if he could he found, but when too late wo learned that he had been condemned and sold*with the other metal to he melted up perhaps into plowshares.—Detroit Free Press. iv THE LAST BUGLE CALL. Affoctlug Memories Called Dp By th e Death o f an Old Comrade. With martial tread und muffled drums a small band of gray and grizzled veter­ ans bear away to the last camp ground, all th a t is mortal of a dead comrade. No band o f b rillian t, uniform, no pro­ cession in bright regalia leads the way to the grave, bu t an escort of old sol­ diers, who hear upon their bronzed faces the insignia of w ar andupon their bent forms the' scars of battle. AVho can fathom the thought of this little band of men as they march beside the bier with slow and measured tread. A thousand memories must come to theiu of the dark days long ago—of the long, long inarches over the mountains, through the marshes. In the burning sun, in the blinding storm, the cheer­ less camp ground in the chill twilight, the shrill bugle call in the gray of early morning, tlie sharp command, the charge, the rattle of musketry, the sul­ len roar of canuon, the clash of arms, the pallid faces of the dead, the groans ofThe dying, and black smoke of battle hanging over all like a pall of death. No secret order that, holds men to­ gether in any brotherhood can compare w ith the tie th a t hinds the soldier to sol­ dier. No initiation however startling ean equal th a t through which the soldier has passed. II is ordeal takes him across the field of carnage* into the jaws of death, and every degreo ho takes is sealed in human blood. Lower the dead hero into his last rest­ ing plAce with gentle hands and let the cold elods fall softly on the bosom that once was bared to the enemy’s bullets in defense of his country. PlAntan ever­ green on his grave, an emblem of im­ mortality and place a stone a t his head with an inscription th a t in the great hereafter will outweigh the epitaph of kings:—He was a Soldier.—J . H. Akert, in American Tribune. - * SCRAPS FOR SOLDIERS. KENTCCKVjhas 165 posts, with a total membership of 0,800. Of this number eight posts, with 753 members, are lo­ cated in the city of Louisville. A t the close, of the fiscal year 1800 Ohio had 07,087 pensioners? New York, Mi,*06; Pennsylvania, 49,076; Indiana, 47,798; Illinois, 39,948; Michigan, 96,858: Missouri, 33,749; town, 33,189; Kansas, 99,331; Massachusetts, 31,397; Wiscon­ sin, 13,788} Maine, 15,934, and Kentncky, 15,909, The number in noqfe of the rest of th e S tates come up to five’figures. T he Commissioner of Pensions in his annual report recently issued, gives some interesting statistics of the Pension Bureau. The number of sol­ diers who enlisted is given a s 8,913,365. The number killed in battle and died of disease to Ju ly 1,1865 was 364,116. The number surviving Ju ly 1, 1890 was 1,346,099, and of this number 144,000 are now sixty-two years of sge o r upward. A most interesting relic o f the late war was exhumed a few days ago at Belmont, Mo., which confirms an old story as to the methods o f warfare adopted by the Confederates In their operations on the Mississippi. Captain Burlingame, superintendent Of the Bel­ mont, Mo., grain elevator, after con­ siderable time and trouble, pulled out o f a sand bar near the elevator over 106 feet of chain, which proved to be a portion of that used by the Confeder­ ates In spanning the river between Columbus, Ky., and Belmont, in an at­ tempt to blockade the river against the passage of boat#. The original chain was over 1,560 fea t long.-AVashlngtoc P o s t OF GENERAL INTEREST. —Four aching molars were recently the lot of Mr. Smith Williams, a colored resident of Lexington, ICy.- He refused to have thurn extracted, saying th a t he preferred to die with loss pain. He afterward wont out to ids barn and hanged himself with a log elmin. —A huge squid or cuttlefish strqndcd itself ou the beach a t Island Cove, New­ foundland, a few days ago. Its ex­ treme length was 33 feet, the tentacles alone measuring 31 feet; the body was mueh longer thun th a t of an ordinary •horse, and the pelt three inches in thickness., I t was out up before being removed. '.. ■ • ” —Although nearly every European Government has grabbed a slice of Africa, th a t continent is so large th a t every nation on earth can gobble a chunk of territory as large as the State of Texas, and there will then be le f t plenty of land to support, a negro popu­ lation of 100,000,009. No fear of any one taking too.jmuch. of tho dark conti­ n e n t—Detroit Free Press. —In digging a cellar in Montville Center, six miles southwest of Norwich, Conn., a few days ago, David A. and S. M. Johnson unearthed, a solid hall of snakes five feet beneath the surface of' tho ground. They killed the serpents as the ball slowly unwound itself. They got forty-three black and two milk snakes, whose bodies ju st filled a bushel basket The snakes were from three to six feet long. —AVhat AVill Prevent Bunions.—Easy shoes with wide soles and low heels will he found the most effectual pre­ ventive of bunions on. the fe e t Where they e x is t they can he palliated by spreading thickly with cold cream or some healing salve, upon going to .bed. A round piece of court-plaster over the unguent will, keep it in place and save soiling the bed-clothes,— Ladies’ Home Journal. • ■ —A curious padlock, probably the most ingenious ever made, was con­ structed in England the twentieth year of-Queen Elizabeth’s reigri, by a black­ smith named Mark Scarliot. It con­ sisted of eleven pieces of iron, steel and brass, all of which, together with the key and chain,to which it was attached, weighed less than one grain and a half. The gold chain which fastened lock and key together had forty-three links, and when complete, Scarliot put tho chain about the neck of a common flea, and the little itmect drew it over a silver plate with perfect ease. —The'Hungarian Government is a be­ liever in the kindergarten system as one remedy for existing social evils. A bill drawn [up by the Minister of Edu­ cation is now before the Hungarian Parliam ent I t provides far the estab­ lishment of kindergartens in every on e ' of the 13,000 communities. It makes attendance between the' ages of three and six compulsory, unless private gov­ ernesses are employed. The compul­ sory feature is explained by the great mortality of the children in Hungary which is said $o result from want of su­ pervision, because the parents work in factories. —A simple and novel treatment for the cure of dyspepsia and cancer of the stomach 'has lately been practiced by many prominent physicians. Tiiis con­ sists In washing out the stomach. A long flexible pipe is passed down' the throat until .one end is in the stomuch. The uppor end has a funnel attached, into which hot water is poured until tho stomach is filled. The funnel end of the pipe is the? turned down until it Is lower than tho bottom of the stomucli, which is thus emptied as through a siphon. The hot water closes tho blood vessels and reduces inflammation, and the relief is immediate. —The llnsstan secret police in AVest- ern Europe lias four divisions with headquarters a t London, Berlin, Paris and Zurich respectively. The ciiief of all is the Russian Consul-General in Berlin. Each of the four cities men­ tioned, however, has its assistant chief, who lias charge of some twenty-five or thirty spies. Although, of course, all fou r divisions are in constant and close communication w ith each other, they are otherwise almost Independent of each other. In view of this organiza­ tion, the Paris dailies deny conclusive­ ly the tru th of the report th a t four de­ tective* were sent from St, Petersburg to Paris to look for Padlewski. The .Russian police in Paris were intrusted with the mission. —To destroy aii evidences of her wealth, a Vienna baroness, a widow, permitted herself to be controlled by a strange whim. By her husband's will, his children, the offspring of a previous marriage, were to inherit his money after the death of his second wife. The money amounted to 1,000,000 of gulden (about 6420,009). The baroness, just before her fatal illness, not over a month ago, threw1into the fire docu­ ments representing most of her proper­ ty, Ju s t afte r the funeral the heirs tried to discover the missing documents, bu t in vain. At last they sent circulars to a ll the hanks in Austria, Germany, France and England and thus learned th a t 600,600 gulden were on deposit in' the baroness’ name in various hanks of England and France, hut no trace what­ ever has been found of tlie remaining 400,000 gulden. Didn't Read Deeply. Briggs—I’m astounded th a t Clara Van de Milk doesn't find out tjhe char­ acter of th a t dissolute foreigner she's about to marry. AVhy, th a t girl used to be able to read a man like a hook. Dohbs l'rohahly she's satisfied in this cate to read only th e title.—Detroit Free 1’r m IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. s "ABOUT DOMESTIC' SERVICE. Tho> Responsibility o f Mistress slid the Duties o f Servants, I will say a t the outset th a t I find, on th e ' whole, little to complain of in re­ calling my experience regarding house­ hold service, i began my married life, as many young women do, In an unfor­ tunate ignorance of the details of house­ keeping und of the spirit which should guide it. This was not because I had no t had ample opportunities of learn ­ ing, hu t because' my mind was strongly attracted in other directions, and its leading bent toward literary endeavor was allowed full scope by those intrust- 'ed with my bringing up. At my start in practical life I did not know enough of its rules to he aware of my own de­ ficiencies, and soon found myself a slow and awkward learner where I ough ito have been proficient. - So much of per­ sonality appears to me essential to t)ie showing of what 1 have learned regard­ ing household work and those who per­ form it. Perhaps I can not better commend my lesson, such as it is,' than by re­ marking upon the mistaken kindness which, in a well-to-do family, often re­ lieves the young girls from all partici­ pation in domestic cares. Even if they do not, a t a later day, pass out of the atmosphere of ease'' and affluence to which they have become accustomed, they sustain a positive loss in not know­ ing how a household should he mounted and governed.' In many cases the occa­ sion for this knowledge begins with the very beginning of married life. I t often comes ulso through the vicissitudes of '’fortune which are common in most com­ munities. At any rate whether in easy or in narrow circumstances, no family cqn have its due share of com­ fort and enjoyment without tho care and attention of some woman of heart and intelligence. I have learned to consider the position of a loved and hon­ ored guardian of a household a happier and higher one thnn that o f a, leader of fashion, or a phenomenon of talent and accomplishment. It is indeed true that the domestic virtues may he combined with charms and graces which most em­ bellish life, hu t where the la tte r are ex­ clusively sought, and the former neg­ lected, the result will h e ' in no sense' admirable. I would have every young girl per­ form as much of household labor as is necessary for tho right-understanding of its various tasks. How ean she' or-” dcr liny thing rightly done if she has never done it? I would have her work until she dias learned • to respect the work'of others, and not to speak with ungentle contempt of any department of douiestic service. AVould it not he well if to this end u semi or post collegi­ ate course should lie instituted us an adjunct to the higher education, and a degree conferred upon its successful graduates? 1 can suggest two of these. Those of the first year might bo termed Il.opcful Neophytes—H. N.; those of the later, 11. E.—Household Experts. Home thorough instruction in house­ keeping might do much to mitigate tlie fierce dislike of service which koeps American girls out of our kitchens and nurseries, and gives them over to the care of aliens. To be blindly ordered by an ignorant mistress who does not know enough of what you have to do to explain what she commands, in case you should not understand it—this would certainly he a relation of discom­ fort to both parties. To be trained to skilled labor, on tho other hand, by one who herself understands and appreci­ ates it, would involve no lowering o f ' self-respect, no superfluous discomfort and fatigue. AVhen I sec, as 1 often do, our American girls deteriorating in health, and not unsoldom in character, through the experience of the shop and the factory, I feci a deep regret a t tho thought of the refined and well-ordered homes in whose comforts and good in­ fluences they might so easily be sharers, their service being to the right-minded an occasion of respect and gratitude, not of supercilious patronage or fault­ finding. I do not know whether we can hope th a t this order of things may change, bu t I aln sure that, whether in regard to foreigners or natives, b etter mistresses will make better servants, and a'generous and just disposition on the one side will do much to insure a willing and able response on the other, 1 think, then, th a t the defective train­ ing received in the first place by the housewife la the originating cause of much th a t is Complained of in the con­ duct of domestics. The results of thin imperfect education are two-fold, viz,, the want of adequate understanding of w ha t is to he done and ordered, and the w an t of consideration for those who are to do It, growing out of ignorance con­ cerning the extent and valnoof their labors. On the other hand, it must ha confessed th a t the faults of domestics arc often very trying. From my own experience I should say th a t grave of­ fenses'Among them are much less com­ mon in these days than they were twenty yearn ago. I mean by these, in­ temperance, dishonesty, and disreputa­ ble connections. I rsmenjiber, in my own early housekeeping, to have been mnch disturbed more than once a t find­ ing my cook drunk and disorderly. This trouble, I think, la rarely experi­ enced to-day. Tlie temperance reform has made progress among Catholics as well as among Protestants, and Its ben­ efits have become appreciable in the tank s of household help, instances of glaring dishonesty are, I think, rare among Frisk servants, and equally so Among Gorman* of respectable belong­ ings. A w an t of concern for the Inter-' eats of their employers and a w an t of; reasonable care of their property, wilt! still be found to be common tra its among those who serve in families. And this leads me to say th a t the price of peace and good order in the home a s well as in the State is “eternal vigi­ lance/” The’constant need of oversight so much complained of in domestics isles* the result of any evil intention on their( p a rt than of .a w ant of moral' energy and resolution. The spirit ofl zeal and of faithfulness In them should' he kept alive-, by considerable watchful­ ness qn the part of those who appoint and direct their task. The carelessness of those who serve often reflects the carelessness of those who are served, and will be sure to' diminish in the pres­ ence of a sound and sympathetic man- ’ agement. Ideas and principles, after all, govern the world. The good or had tone of oar household will depend very much upon our own idea of what it should be. If we ex.aet from1ourselves a conscien­ tious attention to details we may reasonably exact it from those who serve us. And as we ourselves are human, wo’should show in all our re la ­ tions with them the recognition of our common humanity,with a compassionate - charity for its infirmities. We shall he j wise, moreover, if we learn to consider the work of servants as a supplemen­ tary to our own, not as opposed to it. The well-being of the household is a m atter of so much moment that any right-minded mistress might be glad to fulfill all its varied offices.- The limits of human strength and the complex de­ mands of life and o f society will not al­ low this. Our servants in this view be­ come.our alter ego. They do what we should be glad to do if -we could do everything th a t is to he done. AVe should honor them us our aids and deputies, and any slight which we may show.' them really reacts against our own worth and dignity.—Ju lia AVard Howe, in Chautauquan. Professional Women Nurses. - Many women are entering the profes- ' sion ot nursing whose sense of honor is no t high, and whose appreciation of the dignity of. labor is not great, but who sees in nursing either the means Of gaining a-livelihood or a way to escape from the rather dull and petty routine jot a single girl's lifo a t home. They like the eclat of doing a np ble work and the independence which is essential to it, hiit arc unwilling to do more work than - they can help to attain their desire. There are, however, other women, who, in taking up nursing, often os n means - of livelihood, do so with the highest motives, and who* in rendering them­ selves independent, have a t the samo time tlie great pleasure of helping ' others in their struggle through life. From this class, says* Murray's Maga­ zine, come ail dur best matrons, sisters, and nurses, and to them is due the high position nursing holds us a profession. for women. . REMARKABLE WOMEN. Miss A manda /C ornell , manager of the shoe department a t Mncy's in New York, receives a salary of $5,300 yearly., M rs . T ube , an American lady, pres­ ident of a Japanese girls' school, is planning to establish a sanitarium for the poor in Tokio, Japan. She intends to build a training school for nurses ad­ joining it. tlie pupils of which will look after the Inmates. M u x LqviHE OAVTiKit, a young woman who was bora deaf and dumb, hut tnughtby theGrosselin system, was- able to go through successfully all tlie examinations—both written and oral— of the National School of Fine Arts, at Paris, has been appointed teacher of design in that institution. T he University a t Geneva has just made an M. D. of the young Polish Countess AV’anda von Szcawinska. Her graduation thesis was a remarkably learned paper concerning the eyes of crustaceous animals and th e ' effect of ligh t and darkness upon them. The Countess Wanda will practice in Po­ land. AV omen are rapidly proving their ability in the printing and publishing business. Miss May F. Seymour, of New York, a competent stenographer, publishes and edits the “Business Wom­ an’s Journal.” Recently she has taken four other women into company with her; they own the stock and intend th a t it shall he purely a woman’s enterprise; th a t no man shall hold a dollar’s worth of the stock. M rs . M ay F rench S heldon , of Lon­ don, is about to conduct an exploring party to Africa to learn the customs, legends, and folk-lore of the natives, and presere them in a hook. She will take a stenographer, hu t will ho the only white woman in the party, and she expects to reach Mount Kilima- Njaro, three hundred miles from the coast, where no white footsteps have been heard. The exploration will occu­ py three months. Miss J. G race A lexander was re­ elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Security Savings Bank of Winchester, N. II., at its recent annual meeting. She has served .In this capacity for twenty years or more, and is believed to have been the first woman to occupy this responsible position. Miss Alex­ ander is also assistant eashier of the AVlnchester National hank, in the same building, and she has been connected with this bank even longer than with tha other. She surely shows womau’a capacity for hanking business.