The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

The CedurviDe IJmM, THEBATTLEFIELD, W* U. i4„rtl|h RoWuuvr, OBDAHVfM.l?. **IIt*L VOICE CULTURE, •erlot:* o*r«*ta Da? Be WfceUr uy o***rei yyMitwt—*» Every one » * y not be blasted by tt*> turc with a pleasant voice; bat almost every one *:an by endeavor attain some* thing like It—the inspiration, the respir­ ation, the modulation, the pitch, Some may bo condemnedeven in the cradle to the toner, whichmake yon wish to clap your hands to your ears; but a vast number, if. taken in time, can be made, to say the very least, not unpleasant, if not exactly delightful. I t needs early training and constant care, to bring about the metamorphosis. From the beginning the child should be allowed to produce no raucous tones, to indulge in no thick enunciation, to utter no slovenly slur of sound; the elders should soften their own voices when within the child’* bearing, if at M other time, should open their own most flute- like stop, and should speak with slow gentleness and a precision not precise enough for affectation, but quite .enough so for thorough distinctness and accuracy, and for every sound to be given its full value. A servant of rude tones should never be allowed about a child, nor anyone else of a disagreeable habit of voice. Even the nightingales and canaries are taught by another bird of perfect throat; and if the bird leirna thus by naturally taking the sound it hea.s, the child will do the same, A child once attuned by the hearing and neighborhood of sweet voices to take an agreeable pitch, and while the tone- producing organs are still flexible, can be corrected u any deviation from pur­ ity and pleasantness, till the deviation becomes all bat impossible. This cer­ tainly 1 b not achieved by a simple effort; it is to be dona only by unremitting observation and unceasing correction. A harsh tone should be modified upon the spot, a course cry abandoned, a sharp one softened; modulations should be taught, giving the speaker a gamut on which to play and prevent monot­ ony, for we all know how unendurable is either reading orspeakingin one dnll, unvarying drone. It la often desirable, especially in the case of children who have lmd throat trouble! and recurring catarrhal colds, to have them taught enunciation by a professional elocution­ ist; that, is, tha producing and managing of tone, There is no young voice that cannot, he improved by advice and training at' the hands o f one capable of giving both; this is eminaatly true during the first dozen years of life; but it is true, also, until doBe upon the thirtieth year. ,In the matter of singing voioes, bari­ tones have made for themselves tenor voices by slow determination and prac­ tice; sopranos have closed a lower and opened a higher register; and if such miraculous work as that has been done with the delicate and difficult singing voice, surely’hll that eon be required of the speaking voice is possible every day, nnd 1all that is requir d is much less than anything of this sort. Many of the great: orators of antiquity are known to have overcome serious dofeots of speech, either in delivery of the voice, as in Tully’s ease, or in articula­ tion, as in the case of Demosthenes, and that when they were no longer chil­ dren.-r-IIurper’a Bazar. THE SHAH AS A POET. “ TAPS." TiiasM«*, osdths v«t*iau», privet* andeht«r. At post or oncampaumt, is uuwOort grow tMn; Urlia Death. the berth «ap*r, unaoodlag oar artel, Tbrmi* forth hi* keen ilekle and gather* them In; » Bis tbruetln* and reaping no mortalcan •Wjr, And swiftlyour comrade* ere pm ting away. He strikes, end bis striking unerring and deff, Field and vnlley be sweepslb, nor mlssM a soul; And thus he will mow on tbo right and tbs left, Till all tbs denr comrades are dropped from the roll; As gallant a bead as earth over know, Tbs bravo and undaunted old heroes In blue. Ays, frequent nnd solemn, with low muffled' drum. Tbs march with furledbanner In draping* of Bight, For again and anon tbs awlft messengers come, And tear tbs old soldier* away from onr sight; Here absent at roll-call—no answer Instead At tbs grander encampment of nil the brave dead. Beloved were the brave ia the raiment of blue, When Drat with the musket they fell Into line, When life is so genial and manhoodso new To tbs young volunteer la the warfare di­ vine; Sweet memory thrills us, while sad iseach heart, At yearly anddaily tbs bsrosa depart. /dmlrsifoa sad lovs for tbs hopeful and brave Grew stronger end warmer when homeward they turned*, Aad loud and prolonged were the ebeera the friends gave » To tbs victors and banners with laurels well earned; Ah! tbst banner's defenders now veterans nruy, Freedom's Nation will honor lo it* utter­ most day. • Tattoo la now beating-through nil tha land heard— ‘ .$And tups will be next for tha host onoe so m strotlg; A t *, "lights out," the order obeyed to tbs - word. Will sound for the last of tbo. heroes ers long; And camp'flres extinguished and camp in ■till rest, , - .There’ll be peace for thee, soldier, In the land of the blest. —Henry Hitchcock. In Inter Ocean. STORIES OF THE WAR. Ilia llarsh Treatment of s Certain Candid Critic. It is not generally known that the present shah of Persia is not only a prose writer of considerable merit, but has.also some pretensions to tke char­ acter of a poet. Like the German* king, who, according to-Carlyle; de­ clared himself to be above grammar, so does tho Persianmonarch consider him- Nilf above criticism; yet, like all poets, ;>.eis glad to lend an ear to it when it is favorable. One day,i; however, haying completed a poem Which particularly delighted him, he deigned to read It to one of the most prominent men of-let­ ters attached to his Household, “What do you think of it?" lie asked, afterread­ ing the verses aloud. “ I do not alto* gcthcr'like the.;poemv’f was the ,candid reply. “ iVhat on.ass ydu aro to sj»y sol” . exclaimed the offended sovereign, and there was certainly muchwisdom in the royal words, for the misguided critic .was forthwith ordered to the stables to be flogged. A few days later the shah, -liavi ng written another poem, once more desired to hear the opinion pf the learned scribe whom he had consulted before. Hardly had he read a few lines of his latest elucubration when the learned man-turned-abruptly dytagr and prepared to run out of- the rpoiR. “ Where are you- going?" thundered hla inajestv.' “ Back to the stablesl’^oried ties critic iff desperation. So aamaed was the king of kings by this repartee that lie forgave the delinquent andfore- hove to have him flogged a second time. —Chicago Times. • - This Is Essential.—Eggie DoVote—- '''•Vlieti a follah ia engaged he should fiv e the gihl pwiesents, shouldn’t he? Wcally, now, whawt does the young i-.reachaw I ’m,: betwothed to Mad be­ sides the ring?" Sfcvere Did Wan—“A .decent spcelmsitt of humanity to pre­ sent it,"-“-3eWftew<Weekly* - . . ■-* —A Stickler For Form.---Gentleman —“ And why don’t you go to work?" Trump—“ ’Cause I ain’t never been ia> tit d '•—American Grttaier. ' “Off I)aya" Which Every llrave Man Ilaa Experience)] at Time*. Not long since, at a social gathering at which a number o f middle-aged and elderly men were present, a party com­ posed of some four or five, gathered in a convenient corner of the room, andbe­ gan the discussion of the physical cour­ age of some of Kentncky’s prominent men of the early part Of this century, brought about by a narrative which had been read in their hearing. Among this party were to be’found more than one man who hud perrcual knowledge of the lata war, and all were more or less interested in the.subject One a distin­ guished soldier, and probably as brave uman in action as could be found in the confederate army, nnd 'whose experi­ ences and opportunities for observation were numerous, embracing some of tlie most dashing and arduous cavalry serv­ ice ever performed by nny body of mounted troops, took occasion to ex­ press himself in about these words: “ In my experience with men I have seen many things tending to convince mo that every man, no matter how brave, has his’off day, I mean by that tlmt there arc times when the best men— men whom you know to be absolutely fearless as a rule—will quail in the presence of danger." This expression of opinion from one so:well qualified to judge, and whose personal courage was undaunted, nat­ urally caused his listeners to assume an expectant attitude, as they were as­ sured that he would follow his remark with an illustration. This he did. Corn tinuing, he told of an incident -which came under his own observation, lie gave no names, although *he did men­ tion the places at which the events he narrated bad occurred. These will not be located, as it is not wished to. identi­ fy the unfortunate victim of “ a day off" in any manner. “ I remember the circumstances per­ fectly-well,” said the veteran. “My command1had been fighting a superior force for some time,'and the fellows on the Other side Were making it very hot for us. I think my regiment lost about 185 men in -a short time. While the fight was going On, 1 had occasion to pass a short distance to the rear, and found, to my astonishment, a young lieutenant who 'had le ft his' post and sought shelter behind n tree. 1had my pistol ip my hand and raised it and potato,d it at" him. ordering wm at the Battle time to go to bis post. 'He obeyed without, a word, and during that re- malhder of the fight fee was all right? 1knew be bad alwaysbeen trustworthy? andcouhl not aecoutit for his conduct, except on the idea I have just given— -that every man liashisoff day. But this was not all of it. I did not want tohave the man cashiered; I Jcnew that would ruin him forever; but 1was at a losA as to what to do. I could not, howevor, pass it over. T* reported the case to Gen. Breckinridge a few days later, without givlng the lieutenant*!name, arid!*iced what 1 ought to do about it. Tit* general was pretty cross that morning and at once said: 'Have bin cathieteeb' Well, I went back to m f command, but I still hesitated to prefer charges. In the meantimewe were seat off to another place and engaged tb* •assay at a point’ near where there wa* a long covered bridge, across which we supposed they hodretreated, but of that we were pot sure. It was necessary to find out, and I took somemen and went down the bonk o f the stream-under the bank, which washigh ami kept on until we got beneath the bridge. All was still. We conltl tell nothing about the situation. Col. the lieutenant and a number of othcia were with me. J consulted with the colonel, who agreed with me that It would not he right to order any man to go into the bridge on an errand which was sure to result In his death, I did not know what to do. I certainly did not want to go into that bridge myself, and 1did not feel that I ought to sacrifice any man’s life by sending him. "A t last I went to tbo lieutenant and asked him what he would do if he were court-martialed and cashiered, telling him what I had been ordered to do, He said; ’I f I am cashiered I will blow my brains out. 1 will never go back to Kentucky with that disgrace hanging over me,’ I then spoke to him of the necessity of knowing what the enemy was about, and toldhim that if he would obtain the information the chart-mar* tial would be forgotten, remindinghim, at the same time, of the terrible risk he ran. He fully understood it, and as he was in dead earnest in his declaration, and said he would rather die in the bridge than be cashiered, 1told him to go. When Col. ------- found wbat I bad done, he said: ‘You are surely not go­ ing to let that man go?’ I explained the position, but it was a hard case, any way. "Well, he started. We heard'him climbing up the bank as stealthily as possible, toward the entrance to the bridge. We remained quiet, and soon we could detect his footfalls on the floor of the bridge above. It was an anxious moment. We soon knew tbst the en­ emy was not at our end of the bridge, but the lieutenant kept on. Suddenly; at the far end, we heard: 'Halt! Halt!' in quick succession and a volley of shots, and we also heard our man’s fleeing foosteps. In a very few moments ho was among us, and as he came up, he said: ‘General, they’re there,* as coolly as possible. Well, I was never so much relieved'in iny life, lie proved by that act the truth of my thorny and nobly redeemed his tarnished charac­ ter. "—Louisville Courier-Journal. GRANT'S ’ EARLY''LIFE. Interesting llemlnUcencea Ilelated fey tien. O. « . Howard. At a society meeting in New York city, the other evening, -Gen. ‘O. O. Howard road a paper on O.on. Grant- lie gave a sketch of the early life and career of the great soldier and states­ man, and paid a high tribute to his bearing in his every-day| intercourse with his associates and'in his domestic relations. Gen. Howard related many characteristic anecdotes about Gen. Grant. One anecdote told of Grant by President Lincoln showed the principle which guided Grant to success and honor. A traveling circus visited the town in which Grant' lived as a boy, and one of the attractions of the show was a mule warranted to .unseat any person who tried to ride him around the ring. A dollar was offered to the person who would ride him, and young Grant tried, but was thrown, Picking him­ self up, he said he would like to try again. He did, mounting the beast with his face toward its tail, which he grabbed, and so he succeeded in get-, ting around the ring.- Lincoln, after telling his story, added: “ That’s what he’ll do with Lee,” andtwo weeks after-, ward Lee capitulated. In closing Gen, Howard said:' “ Tried by any standard, human or divine, Grant’s was a re­ markable career, andhad a fitting close. He made a supreme effort to leave his family provided for, and then resigned himself to meet his Creator. His was a noble life, nobly ended”—Washington Critic. - . RECENT REPORT. G en . S herman once declined an offer o f$10,000a year to contribute regularly to a grand army paper. . I t 1 b a.remurkable fact that the three greatest generals o fthe rebellion, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, were born with­ in a radius of 100miles in the southern. part of Ohio. ■ ■ Con. W i LL iam H, Mono an ofShep- herdsto.wn, W. Va., claims that the last shot at Appotaattox was fired by the Maryland brigade ,(confederate) and that this was some time after Gen. Lee: httcLsurrcndeted. He was informed Of the surrender by the union troops them­ selves under a flag of truce. Jomr W. ^J anuary , Of Minonk, 111., draws a pension of fluid" a month. Mr- January is known all over the country as the man who cut off.liis own feet in Alkkotsonvillc prison. Thu confederate surgeon had told hlm that he tousfc dip, MS Sibil feet were partly? eaterf away by gangrene. The surgeon refused to urn- p&titethc Injured parts, when January' performed the operation himself with an old knife. He retains the knife as a most valuable relic." D r . H a i A, has quijtea curiosity in the shape bf an old rusty relic o f the! late war, says the Amcricus (Ga.) Recorder. It is one of the old pikes known as the Joe Brown pike, which were used by the confederates at the beginning and by soma of the troop* all through the war. Df. Hall wa«T living near Grls- wbldvillS, and after’ the ef^agetaent there he found the one lib has. It con­ sists of an Iron shaft about a foot lung and a head shaped like a spear- To the ahilt. unto fastened a long ,wooden ba&dkii bat this part of It was lost IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. A SHAMEFUL INJUSTICE. W»mum ia tha Department* Who Da Bet­ ter WorkHut |tosolve Ess#Fay Tfeanthe Den, Women are never aa well paid asmen, even when they do an equivalent amount of work; this rule holds true even In the departments of public jus­ tice where women are employed. The fact is that tha Injustice done t«r women in paying them women’s wages for men’s work lias prevailed ever since Salmon P.Chasefirst putwomen atdesks ' In the treasury. For example, there are no clerks entered on the rolls at |80Q, J Up to that grade they are merely copy­ ists; yet fully one-half the women set { down in the blue bookand official regis­ ter as copyists are really clerks, and sit |side by side doing exactly the same work done by men clerks at $1,000and -fl.SOO. Custom has established an un­ just law by which a woman going into a public office in Washington is assign­ ed to a grade below that which a man doing tho same work would command. . Thus a man on a $1,200 salary does the j same work that is -given tho woman ’ who sits next him for $900. When the woman is promoted to $1,200 the j man is promoted to $1,500. ; Indeed, one of the greatestdrawbacks l to putting young men in these govem- ! ment offices is, that the work being so ; simple they learn nothing, and as the l human mind either advances or retro- ! grades, these young men generally go *down hill from the start. Extravagant 'i pay for infantile work, with abundance ‘ of leisure and every temptation to j toadyism, is generally enough to ruin I the best material. The men hold the executive positions, such aschiefs of di­ visions, chief clerks, etc., and It is em­ inently proper that they should; but apart from that, the women share equally ta the difficulty of the labor performed—which is simple, however, to the last degree. In the counting and handlingof paper currency women have almost super­ seded men. They count better and faster, and in the detection of counter­ feits are unequaled. Notes which cir­ culate freely through every bank in the the preliminary education required foe tha awtrenea axwalBattaa tetheualyer- slty- As yet the state would ndt open to them tha doors o f a single gym­ nasium, Th® soul o f tha new move­ ment was Eliska Krssnohorska, the most popular author in Bohemia. This little woman, full of enthusiasm, said; "Le t us start a gymnasiumof our Own!” This would he an easy task ta America, but not so under the despotic govern­ ment o f Austria. Merely to obtain per­ mission to organize such a school meant an endless amount - o f labor. Miss Krasnohorska, however, was equal to the task. 8he reasoned, pleaded, coax­ ed, sent letters ta all directions until she not only obtained the consent o f the authorities tor starting is gymm sium, but won to her side almost the leading journals of Prague. The hardest task of all waa yet to come, and that was to raise the neces­ sary funds. The enemies of the under­ taking now laughed and rejoiced. They knew the money could never he raised, and the fact that tho women attempted it was prima facie evidence that they were unfit for higher education—no one of ordinary intelligence would attempt such a hopeless task! - But they laugh best who laugh last. The money was raised, and the school opened with fifty-three pupils, that be­ ing a far larger number than the most sanguine friends of tiro cause had ex­ pected. "And what pupils!” writes Miss Krasnorhorska, "Such enthusi­ asm, such diligence. Why, in Latin and Greek they will accomplish in ona year what the boys do ta twol" Now the people of Prague are proud of tha school. Now they rejoice that in all northwestern Europe, or rather among the Germanic states, their little king-, dom of Bohemia was the first to raise the standard’ of higher education for women.—Frances Gregor, in Chicago Inter Ocean. Home Florida Women. Some public-spirited women ta a win­ ter resort in Florida have formed them* selvcR into a society which they call the Village Improvement association, and have assumed the duty of keeping the streets clean. They employ a man to pick every scrap of refuse which litters country aro readily detected thc.instant [the pavement or gutter, and, as this they come into the hands of the women) operators ta the treasury. A counter­ feit of the last issue Of $5 bills was known to be ta circulation some time ago;-the treasury sent out the alarm, but the official, judging from experi­ ence, knew that it would*probably not be detected until one reached tlie treas­ ury in a package of money from one of the bunks. At last it came in a bundle from a big New York bank. The young woman counting the bills in the treas­ ury bureau picked it out instantly. The note was traced and’found to have pass­ ed through half the banks in Now York without suspicion, to bo detected at the first glance by this young woman, who, it is said, lias never yet passed a coun­ terfeit. Not one single cent 1ms ever been stolen by women since their em­ ployment in the treasury. 'When the work was done solely by men, dis­ charges for small thefts were frequent. Superficial observers mention, as an instance of the Inferiority o f women’s work, that only one woman in Wash­ ington receives sohigh a salary as 61,- 800, and not more than a dozen receive $1,500. Go into the dead-letter office of the post office department and there will be seen a woman who lias sat for eleven years at an 81,800 desk, drawing $000 a year in all that time. In the old days she had no Influence to have her­ self promoted. Now she would have to stand a civil-service examination, and Bhe is too timid to attempt it. The wis­ est among the women employes up to the inauguration of the civil-service rule were e'xtrcmely careful not to get too high a salary, as theminute a yeom­ an steps over the $1,200 limit her place was demanded for some political-place hunter who wanted it. Thus many women; who might have urged with good effect the fact that they did the work of high-salaried clerks, were afraid to ask for proportionate compen­ sation, as it jeopardized them instantly and fatally. A case ta point is that of a very accomplished woman' employed in the state department. She did for years the work of a 81,500 clerk on a 81,000 salary. An injudicious friend in Congress got her pay raised somewhat in proportion to her work, in less than a month her head rolled, into the) bas­ ket—-slic had been guillotined in favor of a man. Next she was appointed librarian to a certain department, and the same friend offered"to use his ef­ forts to get her salary raised there. She begged him to do no such indjscreet thing; consequently she still retains her place.—Deinorests’ Monthly. , TH E WOMEN OF BON EMIA. . Thpy Have hy Xobl« Effort Bfttal>Ii«h*d a p.Gyinnha))um or ,Preparatory School for •’ Olrl* IA Fragile^ t After a hard battle against ignorance and'prejxidicc tlie women bf Bohemia* have succeeded so far as to open a gym­ nasium, or preparatory school, for girls in 1’raguc. Last summer when the question of admitttag women to tlie university was raised, it awakened a storm of ridicule and opposition. But tho women .re­ fused to ho alarmed or discouraged, They drew up a petition and presented it to the reichsratb, yrherc it was, so favorably received th$t there Was nb longer any doubt about their admit-1 tance to the university upon the same factotum is practically ta the employ and.under the authority of every wom­ an ta town, whose vigilance is unceas­ ing, his work is thoroughly and. ef­ ficiently accomplished. A t intervals along the pavement theyhave caused to be placed neatly-painted barrels, with a bit of verse begging the passer-by to utilize them by tossing into them the bit of paper, cigar stump or fruit skin which would otherwise be throwndown untidily. They have alsoorganized tha children into a society pledged not to throw any kind of jitter into the pub­ lic ways. That town is a model of Utopian cleanliness, and suggests the idea that "city mothers" instead of fathers might be aucuessful.—Philadel­ phia Inquirer. WOMEN AND THEIR WORK. M me uk S taei , said that what she was most proud of was thefact that she had acquired seventeen trades, by any one of which she couldmake a liveli­ hood. v: A new industry for women is putting lisle-thread feet in the legs of silk stock­ ings, and a New York girl, a consignor at the Woman's Exchange, makes $15a, week at it W omen are beginning to excel m handicrafts. Three dosses of art work stood out prominently at tlie exhibition in London recently—these were tlie em­ broideries, wood carvings and leather' work, Ir is stated that there are over 9,50Q women physicians now, earning a good living by their practice ta this country. In ’ thirteen, states women physicians have been employed in insane asylums, reformatories and other public institu­ tions of which women are inmates. T here are‘ 200,000 factory girls ta London. The needs of theBe working- women have, been but faintly recog­ nized by the benevolent agencies. It lias been estimated that for every shilling contributed toward the amelior­ ation of the social and moral condition of workingwomcn a.poundis subscribed. ’ for the benefit of men. While 83,750,- 000has been .given by government for ? technical education of men and boys nothing 118!?been done toward the tech­ nical education of women. A c o n t e m p o r a r y suggests as a nc\*i pursuit, for .women, that they should learn the use of the turning lathe. It says it is a. pleasant and profitable em­ ployment, as lathes‘can be secured that require very little bodily exertion. It also suggests as nn avenug now open; tlie making of the picture frames which are now made to harmonize as much as possible with tlie picture. .For in­ stance,the picture of ecclesiastically architectural outline with' a top in a pointed arch. But anything, from chessmen to bread-boards can be turned qa a lathe, T he average wages of 150,000ill-fated working girls of New York Is sixty 1 cents a day, and tliht includes the in­ come bf the stylish cashiers who get two dollars a clay, as well as the un­ fortunate girls who receive thirty cents a day in cast side factories and shops. The lot of the average saleswoman who has. not the help and shelter tlint par­ ents or a married brother or sister could share is hard indred. One has only to look Into the pale, pinched faces of these poor girls to know that thousands ierms asthe men. ------------ „ ........— - ------ ------—— So much gained; the next question 1of them are actually starving to death, grass as to how tha girls were to gain ) And that, too in New York