The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

fllfS BATTLEFIELD. TfiRRIBI,* SUSPENSE, .1'cslliiKs «* » SoialMWilUAsmUlnc orders to Enter Hfttttfr the *u® enme up -this morning1 -have been marching nod counter iiwhiotr. forming * bfcUjU^-fronfc four nilet J obs . It i» now ten o'clock. We '* »* «sdy hero on tho le ft win? before I y j were on the right, hat all ere . weyto ■ no.We . ■ ■ Melons as we were moving there was Mioetbing to distract attention, hat jgff comes the test o f waiting—o f .^foinse. Away over there we can jtttim columns o f the- enemy wheel* toy into position—-banners rippling*-* i ixtlliery moving with horses under the There is going to he a fierce ,irspplc hero. These- scattered trees ; will he rent and rlven*-these acres of gnea grass torn up—that hahbllng , fcfookchanga the color o f its waters he- -for the sun passes its zenith. jfen draw a long breath to fill their Jgjjgs before putting forth all their strength in one great effort. Armies do the same. This is the long breath ' before the clnslh comes. ( : Watch the ,horses as the field-pieces , tamo galloping up! They ore looking across the volley at the enemy, their dyes blazing and their ears working. Every one is in a tremble as the teams >#te unhitched and led away to the shel- . ter of tho ravine, They know what is 1coming, and the waiting unnerves them. There is “ Old John," as the . boys call ■him. He has. been in half a dozen fights and ho has three or four -battle scars, but he is just as nervous osif he bad never heard a gun fired, geehow his nostrils quiver! Watch- the . blaze of his eyes! What a painting he •wohld make as he stands there with head and tail erect and every nerve s-quiver. The officers’ voices grate harshly as they jerk out their cojnmahdB of “ Dress more to the rightt”— “ Front there!’’— “pease that talking!” They are officers, :. hot they are men, The exploding shells and the zipping bullets are meant fo r them as well as us, and they are also fighting against the terror o f suspense. : .Our- colonel rides along the line in front. That is well, but it is a bluff for all that. He’s moving to keep his nerve under control. Watch -the men! There are old vet­ erans here—men who have fought in every great battle from first Bull Bun to Gettysburg—aftd therd* are recruits who reached us only three days ago from the far-away farms and villages, You see a difference, but it is affected. The old veteran jokes with the men right and left, sharpens* his jack-knife on the rock in front o f him, whistles a few bars from a rollickingair, to make you believe that he never fe lt more se­ rene in his life. It's- mens sham, bat it helps to brace up the pale-faced men . who are to receive their baptism- , “Why don’ t we move?" .—^ * This state o f suspense is disorganiz­ ing. Men look wildly to .the right and left—to the rear. There are no cowards here, but .it would take very little to - start a, panic and a rush. Men Btill laugh, but it is mockery. They jest, hut they scarcely hear their own words. Look at that recruit! He’s a sturdy young farmer who was sharpening his scythe in the ■hay-field three weeks ago. .He has the strengtho f an ox, and * no man ever lookhd in his face and put Mm down as faint-hearted,. Twenty ,minutes ago ho would have swept for- ^ward with us to charge a battery and hurrahed with excitement. Suspense has snapped his courage and unnerved him, See him tremble! Mote his pale­ ness! Now there comes a look o f ter­ ror and desperation to his eyas, and be­ fore any one conld stop him — ! What! He has sent a bullet into his head from his own musket—killed him­ self through sheer terror o f waiting to be killed by the enemy! We saw it whenever we waited. “We rose from bivouac many a morning in the pres­ ence of the enemy to stumble against the corpses o f comrades hanging to limbs—driven to suicide because their nerves broke down under the strain of suspense.-—M, Quad, in N. Y , World. KNOWLES' REMINISCENCES. i t TTa* lie Who lashed Farrsgat to the Biasing'at Mobile, Among the group o f sailors stationed -atthe United States Naval pcademy fo r the instruction o f the cadets in splic­ ing, knotting and the various forms o f marine-spike seamanship is a weather­ beaten, bronzed-faced old fellow with a record, His name is Richard Knowles, or, as he is better known to the fledg­ ling officers, plain Dick, Dick holds the rate o f signal quarter­ master in the navy, and this rate he got while serving with no less personage than the great Farragut himself. When tho tattle o f Mobile Bay opened on that bright August morning In 1884 Dick was serving aboard the flagship Hartford, and to him fe ll the honor o f lashing the great admiral in the rig­ ging. Dick was a smart man-of-war's man in those days, A t least such o f the old tars who ate now living say so, for they have been heard to declare that Dick Knowles was on* o f the “liveliest chaps aloft," they ever “ clap- t«d eyes oft." To use the old sailor's mode of putting It, “ Dick Knowles conldstart from a sheer pole and reach the main r'yal before the best o f the -lubbers were over the rim o f the top." On the day o f the famous battle Far* tagut’s flag ship, the Hartford, steamed into the fight with the Metoeomefc lash* *d on her port side, fa order to see better the admiral climbed up on the port main rail in order to have a view o f the Ml'tooomet’s deck as well as him own, A t the outset a fresh breeze ac* ctmipanied the ships into the fight, which »*>on changed, however, as is usual on the occasion o f heavy firing, to a dead calm. . Farragut found the smoke o f the guns obscuring his view o f Fort Morgan, and unconsciously climbed, little by little, one ratline after, another, up the main riggingnutil he wasobsenred byhis staff to be close under the futlock shrouds Captain Drayton, the captain of* the Hartford, and Farragut*s chief o f ataff, becoming fearful that some shot might carry away a shroud and hurl the ad­ miral to the deqk, turned to Knowles, wlio was .then actfng as signal quarter­ master, and ordered him to take a piece of “ small stuff” and “ jump up there and lash the admiral," Knowles picked up a piece o f ratline line lying under his feet, and in the twinkle o f an eye had skipped up the main rigging and was tying tho old ad­ miral hard and fast when -Farragut gruffly demanded what .he meant. “ Making yon fast sir," said Dick. * “ And >vho told you 'to do so?" said Farragut. “ The captain, sir,” said Dick. "Qh, a ll rig h t," said Farrafrut, •“ And with that,”-said Dick, “ the old man took a hitch' with the ratline stuff himself, while I ffiade fast abaft him.” During the whole of the fight, Dick says, the admiral talked with the pilot who was stationed in the main top. Every once in a while, though, ho would shout something down to Capt. Drayton, who was always close under­ neath. - , ' * ■ ■ “ Dick” is an. old man now, and if it were any other man than “Dick" Kpowles he would have been railroaded long ago to the sailors’ home. But “ Dick” prefers to bo on active duty, as be considers it; and what with teaching the middies how to splice and growling at all the new-fangled things of to-day, “ Pick” doeB do a considerable work. The old fellow is a thorough representa­ tive o f that class o f splendid seamen .now so rapidly passing away. ■ In build he is small of stature, and his face is covered with a great busby brpwn beard, which leaves little else to show than, a pair of small, twinkling blue eyes. He is never so happy as when spinning a yarn to some middy, but the old chap can never be gotten to talk unless engaged ,in some work at the same time. Get him settled down in a snug corner, and engaged, say in ♦‘stropping a block,” and ho is in a fair way to be wound up. The middies know this, and they have very little trouble -in getting the old fellow start­ ed on a twister. - ,■ Dick has been a man-of-war's man all his life, and says that ho asks fo r noth­ ing better when ho dies than to be .wrapped up in the Union Jack and bo buried* with his rating badges and medals all rightly in place. To “ Diclc," as to hundreds of the old men-of-war’s men, Farragut Was little short of an idol. Old as he is, Dick still scowls i f any one even mentions to him the name o f Commodore Foote. He will tell you, even now, how tho tars on the old Hartford and all tho rest o f the ships nearly mutinied when Foote’s regulation came stopping the grog ra­ tions to the men. “ Dick” claims that Farragut was as mad.at the regulations as the blue­ jackets and ho would give one the impression that the men felt that “ Farragut and the seamon” wore being ill-treated instead o f the seamen alone. Apropos o f the Mobile battle. Limit Watson, who was on Farragut's staff, quotes the admiral as saying: “ How curiously some trifling* incident catches i the popular fancy. My boing in the main rigging was mere.accident owing to the fact that I was driven aloft by the smoke. -The lashing was tho result of your own fears, (Capt Drayton's) for my safety.” A t the close o f the war Farragut yielded to the solicitations o f Mr. Page to stand for a historical portrait in the position in which ho was first lashed.— N. Y. Times. COLLECTED SCRAPS. M innesota in 1800 had a population of 172,023 and of -that number 25,053 served in tho civil war. S heriff M c L endon , o f Memphis, says that the day before the battle of Shiloh he paid 8000 for a pair of boots and in the fight had a leg shot oft* | Generals Fitzhftgh Lee. Wade Hamp­ ton, Bradley T. Johnson, William H. Payne, Thomas L. Rosser, Thomas T, Ilftnford and Thomas P. Garnett, were among the ex-confederates present at the Richmond meeting called .for the purpose of raising funds for the erec­ tion o f a monument to the memory of Cavalry General .T. E. B. Stuart. TBS sooth furnished a much larger number o f troops to the federal govern­ ment than is generally supposed, and thereby weakened the confederacy. I t claims, In fact, that nearly as many men enlisted in the federal army from the southern states as comprised the whole southern army. Missouri gave tho largest number, 108,000} Kentucky came next, with 78,000; Maryland, 49,- 600; West Virginia, .84,000; Tennessee, 60,000; and the District o f Columbia, 10,000, exclusive o f north Alabama and north. Georgia, besides which there were 180,000 negro troops; tusking an aggregate o f 001,001 troops drawn from the south. I t is probable that there Is some mistake about these figures.-*N a Tim «s-I>smocrat. HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —A new and delicious dainty is pre­ pared by taking tbe stones either from dates or prunes and substituting a b it of the kernel o f an English walnut —Newspaper racks in wickerwork are prettily-decorated with two ribbons in contrasting tints, on which are painted daisies, buttercups, etc. Wider ribbons, similarly decorated, serve for sachets, curtain-holders, etc. -*-N,-, Y . World. * —Fried Bread Crumbs —Lay some finely grated bread crumbs in a bak­ ing dish in the oven, with a goodly lump o f butter. Stir them occasionally and serve -when the butter is allab* sorbed and the crumbs crisped and a golden brown.—Harper’s Bazar.* —To make a very superior article of cologne, take one gallon of ninety per cent alcohol, and add to it one ounce o f the oil o f bergamot, one ounce o f the oil o f orange, two drachms of the oil of cedrat, one drachm of tho oil-of Neroli, and one drachm of the oil .of rosemary. Mix well and it is ready for use, —The Making o f Maple Creams.— Take one half as much water as maple sugar, cook without stirring, and when almost done put in a small piece of but-- ter. When it begins to harden take it off the fire, and stir rapidly until it be­ comes a waxen substance. Then di­ vide it into balls and inclose each ball between two halves of English wal­ nuts, and put on a greased plate to cooL—Ladies’ Home Journal. • —Salmi of Wild Duck.—Half roast two ducks and cut them up; put a cup of gravy, six shallots chopped fine, the juice of a'Seville orange or a lemon, a little Balt and cayenne pepper into a chafing dish, and set it near a spirit lamp until it boils; then put in the wild duck, put on the cover, heat it thoroughly and send to the table in the dish. I f you have not a chafing dish, stew it in a stowpan and serve it on a hot dish, and pour over it a sauce made thus: -.One teaspoonful of sauce a la russe, one of ketchup, one o f lemon juice, one slice'bf lemon peel, one large slice of shallot, four grains of cayenne popper.—Boston Herald. " , —This matter o f having gravy ready when wanted is a very important part of the household economy, and many a dish which otherwise might be “ fiat, stale aud unprofitable,” is made nutritious and palatable by the addition of half a cup of strong gravy. Mako your cook keep all the scrapings of gravy from the beefsteaks, or any made gravy; season well with salt and pepper, and. keep in the refrigerator. It will be wanted in the next day's cooking. If you .have no gravy ready when you want it, you can make it by taking some bones o f cooked meat, cracking them and putting them in a sauce-pan with any bits of meat and gristle. Cover with cold water atid stew slowly for two hours and you w ill have a cupful o f good gravy. This should bo done daily with tho bits o f meat “ leftover."—N. Y. Tribune. v i i .... ...... nf nimi, ■ .......... , m AUTUMN GOWNS. New and Attractive Ureases .For Street Wear: , I f very light gray was the fashion last spring, dark gray is the fashion now. If the gray is so dark and so blue in tint that it seems almost like steel color, so much the more fashionable does it become. Fancy yoursolf pressed in a gown like this: ' A long plain habit skirt o f dark gray, brocaded in steel color, sot so closely about your figure that you aro walking os i f a ‘portierre were drawn about you. The back of tho skirt is very full and is trained jdst sufficiently to sweep slightly upon tho ground. The skirt is lined with silk and rustles as you walk. For a waist, you have a long-tailed, coat-like bodice of the same, brocaded with a jabot effect'upon tho lapels The vest is dark gary velvet of the color of the groundwork o f the coat, and there is a tall standing collar with a steel clasp upon i t Steel buttons are used upon the front o f the vest. Your hat is very dark felt, with a puffing of black velvet around it and black velvet strings. Gray bows and gray dove wings are used for trim­ mings. Gray .gloves, stitched with black, are worn also. Is not that a pretty gown, and is it not becoming to you, no. matter what your style may be? Perhaps yon may not care for the brocade. Many ladies do not, especially if they are inclined to stoutness. In that case you will-get plain, gray doth, and trim the cuffs, collar and lapels with steel passementerie, allowing a band or two of the satfte around the foot of the skirt, Such garments as these are complete in themselves and do not require the long foshiondblo feather boa, and, in deed, such a dress looks better without one. The boa is worn only for orna­ ment, and it hangs down in a long, useless way, which, though pretty, be­ coming and graceful, is not serviceable when Warmth is considered. There­ fore, one should consider the complete­ ness of one's toilet before adding the feather ornament and should decide whether qr not the gown is more fash­ ionable in effect without it* The plain, tailor-made gowns, tight fitting at the waist, withont ruffle* or flounces upon the bodice, and un< trimmed save by passementerie, galoon or braiding, are the ones which call for the bon, which has then a remarkably pretty effect drawn about the neck and hanging down the front, giving the appearance o f a feather-trimmed gown. --Chicago Timex JN WOMAN’S BEHALF, WOMAN. Olnry toiler forever!~ Glory iiud loveline,*! Till we from earth diMevcr, Angel I* to biea*I The lait ere deaib defeat* us, , To yield a helping bund: ' Tbe lirst that clasp* und greet* us In yonder morning land: The Joy* and hope* of heaved Her smile* and bletslng* give Full o( tho loves that letkvea The lives of painWe live.’ 6he slilne* in tongnnd story, And still (air a* of old, She standa enrobed |nglory, *- Turning the clouds to gold! Mother! What nnme is dearer? Woman, thou art divine l All heaven thou brlngest uourerI My soul i* ever thine! —Bulus J. Childress, InGood Housekeeping. WOMAN’S GENIUS. The Many Inventions That Testify to Hor Ability ns an Inventor. While those who decry women use as one of their chief arguments the state­ ment'that -women have no inventive . faculty, women, it seem'*,-from the ■ actual official returns, go straight on in­ venting. Not to speak o f Catharine Greene, the wife of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who undoubtedly invented the cotton gin, and whoso second husband induced her to abate her fear of ridicule and claim an interest in it, or o f Mrs. Walton’s achievements with noise- deadening, with smolte-burninp, and with similar experiments, there are many other inventions by women of equal importance. One woman lias in­ vented a method of converting a barrel of oil into ten thousand cubic feet of gas; another has invented a Bewing- machine that needs n o . threading; others have invented the ruffling and quilting attachments to such machines, and arrangements for sewing duck and leather. One such attachment made a fortune for Miss Helen Blanchford; and a new baby-carriage brought to its in­ ventor. a woman, the sum of a hundred and fifty thousand - dollars. Another woman has invented -a superior street- sweeper; another, a spinning-wheel carrying as many as forty threads.; another,. a plan, for heating cars; another, a ' screw-crank, for steam­ ships; and a chain elevator, a horse­ shoe machine, a reaper and mower, a danger signal, and so on without end,*1 owe their existence to the brains of women. It-was Miss Knight who in­ vented a complicated machine for mak­ ing the square-bottomed -paper bag, and refused fifty thousand dollars for the patent,* and who also invented an­ other machine that does the work of thirty pairs of bands in folding these* bags. It is Mrs. Armstrong who has invented a machine for feeding cattle bn trains; it is Josephine Davis who has invented an arrangement of lamps and rubber cloth for a hot vapor bath at .home; Airs. Beastly, a machine for turning out complete barrels by the hundred; Anna Conolly, a practical fire-escape; Mr a Bailoy, an attachment to beds by means of which the patient can raise and lower, liimself. And among all these inventions none is per­ haps of a more pleasing and grateful character than that o f Mrs. Nancy Johnson, who invented the -first ice­ cream freezer, but who, not so -wise as some of her sisters, sold her patent for fifteen hundred dollars, all ice-creams previous to her crank having been made by a slow and laborious stirring.- And this is* merely skimming over the surface and selecting a few in­ stances that most easily strike the eye, leaving the multitude uumentloned. Nor are these inventions confined, it is evident, to the walks in life most fa­ miliar to women, as, among others, the grain-elevator, tho screw-crank for steamships, and the barrel-maker tes­ tify. And while the existence of nil these patents and their results ought to confound the careless speaker who thinks so lightly of feminine capability, it does something far more important in showing how greatly enriched the whole world will be when the feminine mind as well as the masculine is fully brought to the work.—Harper’s Bazar, YOUNG WOMEN IN THE SOUTH. They A re Securing An Education for Self- Support and Xqt for Social Culture Only. The fact that so large a proportion of the young women now attending south­ ern colleges are securing an education not for ornament but for use, not for social culture merely but in prepara­ tion for self-support, lias lmd the very natural effect of making them more earnest and diligent in the prosecution o f their studies. A much larger pro­ portion of college girls comesnow from the middle and poorer classes than for­ merly. Many of the’ poor girls o f the south to-day are the daughters of edu­ cated parents whose property was swept away during the war, their cul­ ture surviving the loss o f home and property. And what w ill fen educated and refined mother nob do, what sacri­ fices w ill she not make, in order that her daughter may have the benefits of an education? I f poor she w ill prac­ tice the most rigid economy and sub­ mit to tbe severest personal self-de­ nial if thereby her daughter is enabled to enjby the advantages o f an educa­ tion; and many are the southern moth­ ers who since the war have done this, and more, to give their children an ed­ ucation. And there are many noble in­ stances in which an elder daughter, having been thpa educated through the labor and economy o f her parents, has seatMMMI generously requite^ their loving self- denial in her leh a lf by going-to 'work herself and helping each of her young­ er sisters to obtain the education which their parents were anxious but unable to give them. It is Victor Uugo who has called this “ the century o f woman," It is certainly an age that has witnessed great ehaiufesin the life, education and labor of women everywhere; and these changes have all been in the direction o f enlarging the spltero o f woman’s ac­ tivities, increasing her liberties and opening up possibilities to her life hitherto restricted to man, It Is a movement limited to no land.nnd to1ho race. So far as this movement may have any tendency to take woman out of -her true place in the home, to give her man's work to do and to develop masculine qualities in her, it finds no sympathy in the south. The southern woman loves the retirement, o f home, and shrinks from everything that would tend to bring her into the public gaze. The higher education o f woman, which has : been so widely discussed o f late years, and-, to encourage and promote which such noble schools for women as Wellesley, Vussar. Smith and Bryn Mawr have been foqnded, and so many great male universities In the .north and in England thrown, open to them, is duly recognized ana felt among the young women of tho Bouth, This wide­ spread aspiration of southorn young women for broader culture finds expres­ sion in tbe eagerness with which they are seeking admission into the best of tho higher institutions provided for males, and this not because co-education finds . favor in the south—for it is, perhaps, less encour­ aged here than In any other part'd! the United States—but only because there is no higher institution of learning for women which provides for them the -extensive facilities and broad culture furnished bv at least a few institutions for young men. Many feel that the greatest educational needs o f the south to-day is an institution that will pro­ vide for young women as thorough an education and as broad a culture as is provided for young men at the Univer­ sity of Virginia, the Vanderbilt, or Johns Hopkins—an institution that will not be in competition with any existing female college in* the south, but will hold itself above them all by establish­ ing and rigidly maintaining high condi­ tion of entrance as well as graduation, and whose pride will be the high qual­ ity of the work it does, not-the number of pupils it enrolls, though numbers would also come in 1due course of time. The active, earnest, vigorous young womanhood of the south is demanding such an institution. Surely a demand so just and a need so widely and . seriously felt can. not go long unmet* Where is the philanthropist who w ill bless his own and succeeding genera­ tions', and make himself immortal in the good ho will do, by giving the young women of the south a Smith college, or a Wellesley,' or a Vassar? Is it possible that a million dollars could bo spent in any way where it would accomplish more good than in founding such an institution for tho daughters o f those noble women of whom we have written.—W, F, Fillott, in The Century. ■, A Woman Civil Servant. 1 Miss Creswcll the postmistress of Gibraltar, is an official who has a very important-part to ^>lay in tho regular ,business o f tho colony. She is the su­ perintendent o f the government tele­ graph office, and for tho last five years has had sole control o f the post office, with a large staff under her, and branches at Tangier, Magzagan and other towns of Morocco. Miss Creswell gets $2,800 a year and occupies tho unique position o f being a female .civil servant. - ' DOINGS OF WOMEN. _. . A young lady, tho daughter of a min­ ister, has recently been appointed a “ pastor's aid” at St. Paul's Church, Chicago. A young Mohammedan woman, Dr. Razai-Koulairof, from the Crimea, has just passed her examination as doctor and surgeon in Odessa. M artha J. L amb , the writer and edi­ tor, is a member of twenty-six learned societies, _some o f which have never before admitted a woman! - D il M ary C, Lower,!., a graduate o f the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons, lias accepted the chair o f physiology at Mount Holyoke college, A union o f a benevolent and protec­ tive character is contemplated by the Waiter girls of Chicago. There are about five thousand girls serving as waiters in the hotels and restaurants in that city. M rs . O wens , tenement-house inspect­ or in Chicago, has reported to the chief inspector that the proprietors o f the “ Boston” store, in .response* to her re­ quest,'have fitted up a new and well- appointed lunch-rdom for their women employes at an expense o f several thousand dollars. T here are two very expert and pop­ ular women mechanical engineers near Parkersburg, W. Va, tine o f them, Addie F, Johnson, 19 years old, live* bear Tallyha She has had entire charge for three year* o f an engine which runs a grist and planitag-mllL She has a natural talent for machinery* and can take down and put together an engine as quickly and as deftly as any experienced male engineer in this part Of the country. The other woman en­ gineer is IdaNewettt o f Cairo, 111., who has been a practical locomotive engi­ neer for several years* Both are un­ married.