The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

(I* THE BATTLE FIELD , g o in g d o w n t h e h il l . There »n» time* whan gloom and sadness yanisli mil the Joys ot lite; There ore times when love andgladness Cheer us in this world of strife. There nre times when'clouds above us Throw their shadows on our way; There are times When those who love us Help to drive ourcares away. But the cloudshave sllrer linings - That with patience are revoaled, < 'And our sorrows and reptniugs * * Are with love and kindness healed, 'Time's remorseless handhas taught ua That, disguise it as we will. We, aa well as they who fought'ua. Now, are going down the hill. Arms that once could awing the nahsr With Unerve of truest steel, Now soon weary while at labor iFrom infirmities they feel. Graceful forms of manly beauty 1Glowed with health andhonest prlds, Never faltering when duty V Led the way where heroes died. Overmountain, through the valley, ;Onwith;buoyant hearts they go, Sound the charge, advance or rally, All were welcome near tho foe. . Time-bits wrought a transformation. Changed them«a by artist’s skill, They whosave thia laud and nation, . Now, are going down tho HU1. Shiloh's field will bloom,swith roiest - In tho wilderness will grow' Oaisleswhere the dead reposes. - . . Daisies whlte as drlven snow, • Unknown, peacefully they slumber, ’ ; Unknownhere, but Known to .God; He can tell their namea and number _• Besting neaththe quiet sod.- Blessed thought] and fitly blended With another bright and fair, ■ * ’Ti*, that when, life's journey’s ended They a crown of lifo shall wear. Angel voices, swell the chorus,. “Peace on earth to men, good will” Soon we’ll join those gone before ua— - Just before ua, down the hllL With the currentsomo are drifting -• Down tfte sirenm.of life In peace. Others, heavy burdoni lifting, Wonder when their caretW.1Ucease. ■ „ Some are cheered by those that love them. Happy homes and bounteous store, 'Others mourn for thoso above them Waiting, on tho other shore. . father, in thy keeping,: take them; Guard themon life’s journey through; Do not leave them or forsake them. Many be their days, or few. Honor, fame, and martial glory, Never more their soulsshallthrill, - Time confirms the sad, sad story They are going, down the hill. —0. C. Hasslpr, in NationalTribuna. GENS. HALLECK AND CULLUM.. A B o n s n c e In th e L ives o f Those Dlstln- Knlsheil A rin y Officers. . Somewhere about the. year 1836 there were two cadets at West Point who, in * way which, w a s to again emphasize the axiom that truth is stranger than 'fiction.. were even in* their young man* ( hqod making history. It w a s not to be ‘ a cold, prosaic, datc-upou-date record o f events, but a strikingly interesting ro­ mance, with incidents of love, disap­ pointment, marriage, death, and heart­ burnings running through it, ending at last In a beautiful sequel to three hon­ orable anil useful characters. The persons who figured conspicuous­ ly in this romance were Gen, Henry Wager Ha)lcck, Gen. George W . Cnllnm, and a Miss Hamilton. O f Halieck’a boy-* liood it Is known that it began with a struggle, followed b y a manful contest for the achievement of a great career. General Culium’s early life w as not un­ like that o f his brother officer, afad the military achievements.of his lateryears were scarcely, less brilliant than those of the honored Halleck. Miss Hamil­ ton was a descendant o f Alexander Hamilton, the great federalist, and add­ ed to the beauty and harmony o f a pure domestic life the testimonial of intel­ lectual and generous charity by donat­ ing a large sum o f money toward the founding of the caneer hospital in this ■city. While Halleck and Cullum were busy with their studies, and warm in their friendships fo r eachpther at West Point, they discovered one day that they were both devotedly in love with the same young woman. She w as the Miss Ham­ ilton just referred to. Even the strong- 'est friendship of man has rarely been able to withstand the strain o f love fo r a beautiful woman, There are instances in plenty o f martyrdom fo r love in fic­ tion; bu t in plain fact, w ith authentic •record to sustain it, such occurrences areas rare as original masterpieces of •art in dime museums. Halleck' and Cnllum, If they did not actually quarrel—and there is no record obtainable that they ever proposed to settle their love affair b y resort to the Code—gradually became estranged. Both were equally loyal and devoted to Miss Hamilton, and upon her devolved, whether by mutual consent or other­ wise. is not material, the duty o f making a choice between h e r gallant admirers, or dismissing them both. She chose Halleck, and the tw o young men, hav­ ing previously graduated w ith honors, •drifted apart, ' Halleck’s life, from the time o f hia promotion to a captaincy and hia associ­ ation as secretaty o f the then hew state o t California under Mason aad Riley, is generally familiar- O f hia domestic life little is known beyond that It must have been b*bP7- Had It been other­ wise tbe story would have cropped up long ago. There never yet wee closet tight enough to Conceal a domestic skeleton in the,homes o f prominent people. As the years multipliedneither Gen. Halleck'* home life nor the activ­ ity of the life which he had as a lawyer, soldier end author so occupied hia mind that he forgot hia former comrade a t West Point. Indeed, he aeeme in have kept him well in mind, -end Sde confidence «p- pcarstohare laoressed fasthe futegrigy and msnlbtees of hi* jMHow-eedet ml timewenton andheir grew »#*#** $m&. tell-tale wrinkles came to mark the flight pf years. At all events, there came a time when these two comrades were to he brought again together and to renew the old friendship which even the estrangement caused by a youthful rivalry in love could not break, TVith the progress of the rebellion—< very early in it, in fact—Gen. Hulleek Was promoted, step by step, both be­ cause of meritorious services and the intei cession of Winfield Scott, then standing on the brink of the grave, but still the commander-in-chief of the union, forces, until he reached the grade of major-general. It was now that lie recalled the comrade of his young man­ hood, and Gen. Cullum was mode liis elitef-of-staff.. N o man was ever ' more worthy of the confidence'*thus reposed than was Cullum. He- stood hy his old friend manfully and unselfishly. The friendship of iorfaer years w a s renewed, and whatever tecoUectionre- mained of the cause p f their estrange­ ment in the long ago was never encour­ aged to appear above the still water fa r beneath the surface. Through and to the end o f the w a r they went togeth­ er, Halleck, returning tp the pleasant paths of peace and the enjoyments ot homeHfe, brought Cullum with him, and their friendship, in the presence o f Mrs. Halleck, and under her guiding in­ fluence, was increased. A t.lM t the summons cam'e/for Gen.. Halleck to penetrate the hitherto un-* lifted yell of the undiscovered country. He died, in the fullness of years and honors, his every want lovingly admin­ istered to by the devoted wife whOm he left a w idow to mourn the loss and re­ joice in the career of one o f the historic figures of the great civil war. In du e time, and after forty years o f friendship, during a long period of which she had been the wife o f Gen. Halleck, the widow again received Gen, Cullum as an old and valued friends and finally ..concluded that one who had been 16yal in his allegiance to the love of his youth for so long' a time was worthy of the hand which he again sought, She gave her assent, and they lived happily together until, the death of Airs. Cullum a few years ago. Gen. Cullum still resides in this city.—N . Y. Press. . . __ _________ ■ Good Luck fo r an Iow a n Soliller, When the federal troops mode one of their raids into the statedof Mississippi, in pursuit of Chaimer’s forces, one of the privates of the Seventh Iow a In­ fantry, while excavating the ruins of an old house, for tho purpose of fixing a bed for the night, suddenly struck upon a bottle, which on being brought to light and examined, was found to ex ’ hibit the refreshing spectacle of seventy I dollars in silver coin. Amazed c,t h ia! undreamed of good luck, ho determined to follow the “lead," which soon changed from silver into gold—for, upon further digging, he turnedup the glori­ ous sum of seven hundred and eighty dollars in massive gold, A large and precious haul indeed fo r a "hard up" soldier In the enemy’s land. It had probably been deposited there for safe keeping by some o f the "natives^” who ludicrously expected it could thus escape a "Yankee’s" scent.—Anecdotes of the Rebellion. SCRAPS FOR SOLDIERS.. S ince 1872 the Grand Army of the Republic has grown from 23,174 mem­ bers to 453,230 members, as reported in quarterly reports for the quarter ended June 30, 1890. G e n , J o s e p h E, J o h n s to n has been called a great soldier. It may .be doubted if, after Lee, the south ever produced a greater captain than he. He displayed masterly skill in his cam­ paign against Sherman, having a small army to resist- the march o f the great northern army. In a long private con­ versation of Gen. Grant in 1865 with this writer the only southern soldier he praised w as Gen. Too Johnston. His words Were: "Davis removed Johnston from command when conducting the campaign like a soldier." C h a u n c e t D s p ew once heard Gen. Sherman narrate a very striking battle incident. He had rallied his troops and led them to a charge which was everywhere successful. A s he rode into the enemy’s camp, he saw a soldier ly­ ing on a harrow and cn officer standing over him with an uplifted knife. He shouted to the officer not to strike, jm d spurred np to the group to discover that the men were both dead;" the only eola­ tion being that the officer, who was a surgeon, was in the act of performing an operation for the extraction o f a ballet upon the soldier when the con­ cussion o f a cannon-ball passing near them had killed them both, and they had stiffened in the attitude they oc­ cupied at the moment when their live* went ou t M bs , E l iz a b e t h B. C uster tells the follow ing interesting anecdote of Gen. fihehhBn: Last winter I saw a very marked example o f the simplicity and appreciation o f Gen. Sherman’s char­ acter. I chanced to he on a Sixth aye- a n * surface oar w ith him, and as We talked ou vsrious topics he said: " I ’m in debt to this line," aad In reply to my question how It happened toamnn who hhd such a horror o f indebtedness as he, he said: "H o t long ago I came id a oar and paid my fare. In * Urn moments the conductor came In me and handed back my five cent*. ‘Whet’s wrong, youageaaft?* 1 asked, a a d then he said: * £ n e U t didn’t k w ^ w s s yon when yon earn# in. JWm ? * * * • £ “ platform teM me. I f 1 had*** known I wm ldn ft hay* taken a thatit like- yew.** OF GENERAL INTEREST. —A Philadelphia lady, who has many boarders, was telling a friend in mar­ ket recently what troubles she had, " I had a pair chickens ready fo r the oven, hanging from the second stoiy hack, and somebody in the third story dropped a bottle of hair renewer on them; and how I’ll have to singe them a ll over again." —In a suit to recover damages for a crushed heart, i n ‘ a Concord, N. IT., court, the lady’s former lover put in as offsets all the candy lie.had bought, tho miles lie had walked, the rigs lie had hired, and the time he hud wasted, and when footed, up and allowed, the girl had only two dollars and fifty cents left out of her verdict for damages. —A large apartment house in which the “ Looking Backward’’ scheme of Air. Edward Bellamy is to be tried, is now being built at Omaha, Nebraska; The cooking w ill all he done in one kitchen, and it remains to be Seen whether the twenty-five families, wlio are to occupy the house,.w ill make a success of co­ operative housekeeping on so large a scale. ^ —The most densely populated state in the union is Massachusetts, .which lias an average of two hundred and eighty six persons to every square mile, Rhode Island, N ew Jersey and Connecticut stand next in order, while the southern and western states are very sparsely set­ tled by comparison, and e.ven Pennsyl­ vania lias only one hundred and four­ teen Inhabitants to the square mile. — H alf dimes were first coined in Oc­ tober, 1703, and continued at intervals -until 1806, then discontinued until 1828. The issue ceased in 1873. The three- cent silver coins, first issued in 1851, ceased in 1873. The flve-cent- nickel was authorized in 1866, and has been issued regularly to tho present time. In 1856 nickel three-ccnt pieces and a small number of nickel cents were coined. The two-cent bronze pieces were issued in 1864 and discontinued in 1873. The bronze cents issued in 1864 have been coined annually since. — A unique bill has been introduced in the Alaine legislature by Air. Shaw, of- Portland. It provides that should one or both eyes o f an infant become reddened or inflamed at any time after birth it shall he the duty of the mid­ wife, nurse, or person having charge of said infant to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally quali­ fied practitioner of medicine of the city, town or district in which the parents of the infant reside, and failure to comply with the provisions of the act shall he punishable by a fine not to exceed 2100 or imprisonment or both. —The report to congress of the com-: missloner of patents, Hon. 0. E. Alitcli- ell, for tho calendar year 1890, shows that total number of applications re­ ceived, including mechanical’ applica­ tions, designs and reissues, and exclud­ ing applications for the registration of trade-marks and labels, was 41,048; the total number of patents granted, in­ cluding mechanical patents, designs and reissues, was 20,292; the total number of registrations was 1,719; the total re­ ceipts were 21,840,373.00, and the total expenditures were **1,099,297.74, leaving a surplus of 3341,074.92 to be turned into the treasury of the United States, matt­ ing a total balance in the treasury to the credit of the patent fund of 23,872,- 745.14. —Unusual proceedings followed tho discovery o f a corpse in' a western town. A stern judge, while looking fo r docu­ ments that might lead to the man’s identification, discovered a pistol In his pocket He promptly fined the body thirty dollars for carrying a concealed weapon, and deliberately took the money from a roll of hills he met in an Inside pocket of the man’s vest. He saw that the eyes of tbe spectators were keenly contemplating his actions, and the honest judge, perhaps reluctantly* returned the rest of the money. The coroner, to whom the body was then formally turned over, seized what was left of the money, very shrewdly claim­ ing that the dead man might have stolen it • INFINITE LITTLENESS, JHInnte Grains of Hast Mounted In Fancy Figures B y Human Hands, There is a naturalist whose hobby consists in collecting the fine dust with which the wings o f moths and butter­ flies are covered, and forming it into the most artistic and picturesque de­ signs. He mounts each single grain o f dust seperatoly, so aa to make bouquets of flowers, fern leaves and butterflies hovering around. This he does in a space occupied hy the eighth of an inch. In another design he has a vase of passion flowers made of upward o f five hundred grains of dust; and again he has represented a pot o f fuchsias, with butterflies and birds, in three-sixteenths of a square inch. This' marvelous mounting in minia­ ture w ill be more readily understood when it is mentioned that there are *o many single grains ot dtist on a but­ terfly’s w ing that no man has succeeded in counting them* This earn* naturalist mounted a couple of hundred of the tiniest eggs of the smallest insects so a* t* make a perfect geometries! design, yet the whole did not Cover the space of a quarterof an inoh In diameter; whU# another ardentnatwellst selected and arrangedMM young oysters within a eiretealittteleM than three-eighths o! in fneh In diameter. — HlnetretM duntiTTtean, IN WOMAN'S BEHALIf. LET US BE LOYAL. Portions of tho AildreHM of Greeting Deliv­ ered l>yMm. fSHbul II, Floyd at tbo Bo­ redt Annual Itreukrast o f tlio Brooklyn llolgiitit Svndnary Uluft. Mt’jt. Prmdatt, Dear Old Schoolmate*, vnd .Jriew One*: 1 have but one thought to suggest to you to-day, and that is, .L et vs he i.ovAt. to e a ch other ! In tlio name of all my “out-of-town” sisters, whether here present in the body or in spirit, I give our “ in-tlio- ’city” members a cordial and most hearty hand-clasp! We are so glad to see you! "Changed a little?" Why, of course, some of us have not met for over a dozen years—that's to be ex­ pected. Curious, Isn’t it? What a halqj of silver mist the years east over the days tiiat are gone! v * * A group of schoolmates were talking over one that was absent One busy­ body declared that the absent one had been seen kissing a handsome young man on the corner of Henry and Pier- point streets. As she was too young to have a fiance, and as she was also known to have no brothers, this was considered in the last degree reprehen­ sible and unladylike; Several of the other girls exclaimed over -it: " I wouldn’t .have thought she would, do such a thing, would you?’’ when up spoke a dear friend of hers: *. . “I don't believe it! There's some good explanation -fpk it! I won’t believe that Jen did such a thing as that, until she tells me so herself.” . As they were speaking, in walked the "Jen” under discussion. She was told the story, and asked iff.it were true. Her eyes 'danced with mischief, she stood with her arm about the waist of her friend who had defended her, and i said: "That I kissed a gentleman on the ‘ comer of Henry and Plerpont streets yesterday morning, yes, it is .true—but that gentleman was—my handsome and. young-looking Father! Now you girls need not be setting your caps for him, I tell you—for he’s already spoken for!" Tito girls all laughed, except the one who had started the gossip, and she slunk out of the room. ■ . • • * * » • * A. former student at Brooklyn Heights seminary (let us call her Alice,) happi­ ly married to a man of means and leis­ ure. wtts one day riding down the Ave­ nue de l'Opera, In Paris. In the course of their way the crowd of vehicles caus­ ed their prancing horses to come to a standstill opposite a number of little ta­ bles on the sidewalk,just outside a well- known cafe. . Heated at one of the tables, dressed in a striking, showy "toilette," was a handsome womun, with beautiful large eyes and flaxen blonde lmir. Her com­ panions were three Frenchmen, dressed in tho height of fashion. Wine was m the glasses before them—-they were laugh-, ing and talking with much gaiety and enjoyment—and all four were smoking cigarettes. A second later, and our stu­ dent friend recognized Mamie X—— -, whom she* had often walked arm-in-arm with to school not so many years before. The recognition was' inutuul. Alice bowed in n slow, amazed fashion, wondering if she wer^ not in some Btrange dreatu. But Mamie’s wits were sharper. - The red flush of shame sprang to her fair face, her cigarette dropped from •her fingers, and starting suddenly, she knocked over one of the wine-glasses and it fell to the pavement with a crash. Simultaneously, the crowd o f vehicles moved oh a space, and chirruping to his horses, the driver of Alice’s carriage passed on quickly, and trotting down the smooth boulevard, ‘they were soon lost to sight, The next day, by some strange chance of Providence, they met again in the Magasin du Louvre. Each was alone shopping. Alice saw Mamie first. With­ out stopping to reflect, she walked right over to her old schoolmate and said; "Mamie, don’£ you know me?" Again the tide of crimson surged over the fair face. "Yes, of course I do, but I shouldn't think Ihatyoi/ would want to know vie." “Why not? Snrcly you can not have done much wrong, Mamie* You have only been foolish, that is all, I can not think very, badly of y ou " To her surprise, Aiamie burst into great sobs right then and there. She led her away to a quiet spo’t, and, little by little, soon knew all her sad story, She had married a Frenchman, a con­ firmed absinthenr, and that, as you are aware, brings many evils in its train* He had been a gambler and a scoundrel, and all her associations through him had been o f a debasing sort* She had never done any thing really evil herself, all her natural- instincts having been flood and true. It is too long a story to tell you a ll the details of it, but the re­ sult of this chance meeting was this: Mamie is now a teacher in one of our own American cities, loved and respect- ad by many. Would the ending of this "o 'e r trite talc" have been the same If the one schoolmate, prosperous, happy and safe, had ignored her weaker sis­ ter? No doubt youall can join withme in recallingmany suchincidents asthAse, for in the turning of thewheal of for­ tune marvelous changes in lives are wrought, *And they at* not all aad, thank God, Many a timid, silent girl, that m her school days show*dno signsof the gift within, hasdevelopedInto a strongand noble character, On* who stammered nervously over her lessons, laabrilliant conversationalist and a most charming hostess in her husband’s home to-day* Another—her paintings bring high prices, and she is known and praised of all men. Another, unmarried, who repudiates such a thing as a husband and children, has written poems of love and home, that have touched the heart of thou­ sands. Another is a physician with a large practice. Her sweet, clear eyes ever* see the best thing to be done, her kind heart ever does it tenderly, and her strong, firm hand ever does it well! But the majority of us, married or sin­ gle, live just quiet, plain home lives, with no pretense of helping along w ith the strbnger and harder things of the world. But that is no reason for feel­ ing that our lives are colorless and dulL Every one is of use and value in her own place, if she w ill but fill that place royally and true. And so, dear schoolmates, i f we speak of the days that are passed, and those that-lived then, let.us be loyal to. each other! I f we speak words in the pres­ ent, and of tlipse who live now, lot ua be loyal to each other! And in the <Jays to come, whether present or absent, whether “in the city" or “out of town!” in deed and in thought, let us he loyal to each other!—• Isabel Henderson Floyd. WHAT A WOMAN EATS. Th e Unhealthy D iet o t a L a r g e .M ajority o f the Women W h o Work. Of twenty women lunching at a pop­ ular restaurant a few days agC, five or­ dered ice-cream and cake; three a piece of pie and cup of coffee each; two had bread and butter, followed b y dark fruit cake, and the eight remaining women were divided between eclairs, cream cakes, jelly tarts and doughnuts, - with an occasional cup of coffee or tea, The one sensible woman had soup, a sandwich, and light salad, with a piece of sponge cake and a cup o f chocolate, I- lingered over my own luncheon, so that the twenty women all Changed daring my stay, but the proportion of cake-eaters remained the same. The majority of these lunchers were work­ ing women. They had probably, at the least calculation, been at work Bince 9 o'clock that morning, and had yet some four or five hours more o f la­ bor before them; during that time they expected to sustain life and nourish their body and brain upon one piece o f . pic and a pup of coffee. AjnoBg the harder -working class the same thing exists also, and women deliberately re­ fuse to avail themselves of cheap and nutritions food, preferring, instead, wortliless, harmful pastry. It is scarcely necessary to add that among the forty odd women who came and went during my luncheon, there w a s scarcely one with a clear, rosy complexion such as every woman should have, or who gave the impression ot perfect health. One saw instinctively they had no appetite, had headache and "nerves," ’ and were heiresses to a thousand n a tu r-' al hut unnecessary ills that the exer­ cise of a -little common sense would avert.—Ladles' Home Journal. NOTES FOR” \^M E n T r EADERS. T he only woman in America who is an operatic conductor is M ig^Emm a Hit. Entrit P kachv I’ iupson has been appointed a member of the senate o f the university o f Bombay. Miss N an c y C o iinemus , who gradu­ ated in 1888 from the Indian Industrial school at Carlisle, has received her di­ ploma from the Hartford training school. ' She is the first Indian woman to prepare herself scientifically for nursing. O ne of the most valuable workers for the ^Harvard Peabody museum of arelisoology and ethnology is Miss Alice^ C. Fletcher, who has recently been' specified as the first holder of a fellow ­ ship for women—that having been pre­ sented hy Mrs. Mary Copley Shaw. M b s . J o h n S h erw o o d answers Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells' question: "W h y more girls do not marry?" She thinks it is mainly because they do not get a good chance. Meanwhile, as the Bos- ' ton Transcript has already proved hy statistics of matrimony, the real answer to the question "W h y more girls do not marry?" is simply this: "They do ." Miss C yn th ia M. W kstover is Com­ missioner Beattie’s depnty in the street- cleaning department of N ew York city. She is thoroughly capable and posted (n the work of the office, and, though a frail-looking, pretty and polished lady, can boss a thousand laborers socleverly that the ordinary ganger forgets how to swear and the politician who wants pay without work finds that he has a bard road to travel. M rs . C. P. H untington is having a wealth of beautiful embroideries mad* for the Turkish hath, that is to he a feature ot her Fifth avenue castle. Among other things there w ill be trail­ ing bath robes ot Bulgarian work, towels o f Turkish loom aa big as sheets, embroidered with silver; mules embel­ lished w ith Oriental needlework, and high-heeled clogs made of *ha*dv3(pod and bejeweled, after those in the batlUgr*^ about Constantinople. S u san H e len H olm an , of H ew York, who la a womim o f vim and enterprise, is learning to he a locksmith. She amuses herself picking the locks of her neighbors’ front doors, trunks .a n d chests, and one of these days sxpsets fa h lrs an uptown basement afad M a k e * fortune in the business. She wears a salt o f brown homespuncopiously pook- eted fo rth * reesptkmof Her tools, aad from an old Dutoh girdle o f wrought iron studded with green stones hangs a ahateiainandksjraof iUftUe*. it m . 1