The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

w / >4 A t Cedarrille BAtTLB FjEMX V. fit VuMMi^tt i i i u i ' T " * * o n m W- [iif &>.. ■ W ' •OLD TO OATOH GOLD. JOMMMseCMhHMfr e* the VWanew* facto* «en* “Do yon know,” mo n esked, “that • t i ia one Million doll*™’ Worth ot fold on the signs and window# of Chl- mUm?" The other man did not know, but ho h l ^ i r i n of a saunter of daoor* land le tte rtn and oowetotbaeon- n that th# fi*M man had unde?* riod tt. Tanse. l» on# million o*worth P* gold pasted and pis** terftd in oanspienouft plaeeain Chicago ■—and there 1* more. The cigar mer- abaut and the ohnrch trustees, the Wan milliner and the ginahop man tty to *t- traetgold by displaying gold. It is tho old story of throwing a sprat to catch a herring. The most careless waylay** la oanght by the anreatc glitter of well displayed gold-leaf, I t telle every time. ’There’* a fellow,’* you say, "who meet he doing well” Andyon always want to trade a t the shop o f the fellow who la doing well, Seyoe take the gold-leaf on his win­ dow* in lien of his hank account. Tradesmen have tracked down this illogical trait of their customers and do n e t “spar* the sprate** There imno way of ascertaining how 'square inches of beaten gold are ' up and down the streets ot Chicago, nor pf telling howmuch gold fa stacked away in the teeth of Chica­ goans. One man puti t this way: “Now, I’m la th e business. There’s a window— •JBrown and Jones, Decorators and, Writers’—if you count ’em you'll find th a t there ere thirty-three letters in til. Well, there's fifteen dollars’worth of gold there—pretty nearly fifty cents a tetter. To be sure the writing it Mg>. Whenever this mantalks of “writers'* he mesas the fellow who pastes up gold-leaf, and “big writing” is some­ thing after the order of a “display heed.**: “Take the lettering throughout Chi­ cago and I think i t would be a fair average.” he went on, “to pu t each let- ter down aa worth twenty cents in gold. Doom and count the letters and figure i t oat for yourself.” The msa he talked to didn’t do it—he laofcsenterprise atoyway. Thlseobati- tttttettsl timidity of Ids la probably due to a had habit he has fallen into of lashing money. There is only one reo Oguiaed enrer for this, carrying con­ stantly a few hundred dollars in th* left waistcoat pocket. This remedy is warranted to ears the worst case of timidity in existeaoe. The green “wad” drawn It—Rh like the akin of » goose's neck on a carbuncle. Bnt the timid man didn't go round •ad count the letters and request the tenfium i tt who owned the letter* to figure up the oost. fluttering general- Itts* are good enough now end again. Over a million dollars*worth, then— and just think what a godsend that would he to some struggling young a m like Jay Gould;, or, if it were a million dollars' worth of brass instead ef geld, think what a godsend it would be to Jerry Simpson. And speaking of Jerry Simpson reminds one that all is Mat goM that glitter*. Equally true tha t all gold tetters are notgold. There has a base alloy crept into the trade and It giitters like gold-leaf and costa about as much aa a yellow dog. So eeea omltel folk have taken to using I t “Gold-leaf is going out of use,” a Wa­ bash avenue decorator remarked, “as timeebetUnte answers every purpoee •m ile cheaper. I t lasts as long and hetdtite'body* every whit as well aa thereat. This is the age of imitations, anyway. Ton ressember the only joke Marir Twain he# made in fir* years? ytegreesive dags,* he re- •wfi* Is made out of every- grapes.* Well, it’s the •wee whh goM-leat “A* a matter of fact, we had to come to the laritatioe- If* too hard to get the veal artWe.” That's all right. Bet ft makes one tired to think of tha t million pasted np on the plate- gteea ef Chicago. Thiak of all the f eed ft might do—need as bichloride of g*ML—Chicago Tribune, ■eme-Mad* ttemiiar*. Homs male furniture Is rarely sue- eeaefel and more rarely economical, Oesaekmally a husband or wife has * gift a t carpentry, andean do wonders, If the yeang husband can build furni­ ture so well that he would not hesitate to offer to mil it, with a fair likelihood e f gateleg a purchaser, let him build alt ha aau far his home* I t will be good, ef as math eomfart to the house- ithe daiety needlework his wife amy have the skill to fashion, lint let the ordinary wielder of the hammer, mw and plene beware. The materia?* " will uensliy emt baht eaough or ito buy the finished article s ta r e - After the fnrnttare is done, r , time and strength have been devoted to it, what is the ostial resultf A “teggled-np” article that is vnmly esmfertaMe, generally cumber- eense. and will eento to pieces within a peer. A ehalr made out of a barrel is Mwnya a haerel, even though entered wtth twweltk and adornedwith velours Far better an honest «ane> 1metier than eneh * hypOfritieui ' makeshift, -H a rp e rs Varar. •&H WAR REOOUJfCTKtN*. Saw ftsy r l esses OeSehtee CraUs-TM .-captefa's MNeteur* The a s r d i - from Williamsburg toward Richmond in lift, was uninter­ rupted by any confederate opposition, Our daily marches were short and our rest a t night was not disturbed. The beautiful month of may, rations abund­ ant and evgiy went supplied, the'moral of the army was never bettor. Every man felt confident that he should go into Richmond and to me, it seemed like a grand festival. Our first general camp after leaving Williamsburg was at West Point upon the York river. When the army got settled in camp I think it was the moat beautiful sight I ever saw. This tented field was proba­ bly aa near perfect as aijy ever made. Spread outover the large ‘plantation of Fits Hugh Lee, extending, from the York river back to a range of hills al­ most encircling the eamp, there were hundreds of acres of level ground al­ most as sniootb as a well kept lawn. Nature bad donned her brightest.tints. The bills in the back ground were cov­ ered with tress just putting forth their leaves Upemtthe velvety award be­ tween them sna the river, a mile away, were thoneenda of snow-white tents and It all made up a picture that quick­ ened the puise and swelled the heart with pride and its memory will be as lasting as life. The recollections of this camp are al­ ways pleasant My first experience at crab fishing mag have something to do with the pleasant recollections, for it was there I esughtmy first crab, not after the manner of. many men who have caught crabs after the crab had canght them, hut I caught the crab and the way in which it was done was so novel to me that it offered much amuse­ ment. Getting upon the deck of a schooner ont in the river with a stout cord and a chunk of salt pork attached to it, we cast i t over and the crabcatch­ ing hold of the pork with his claws Would hang on until be had been pulled a foot or two ont of the water, whenlte let go, to fall comfortably back into it nose bag, a basket or pail, which being attached to a long pole was held uudeg him. Then we .cooked him. Italwayj seemed cruel to cast a live crab into kettle of boiling water. I t did n seem to me to be the proper thing, bui that waa the way we cooked crabs !i old Virginia. When he was done thi shell was broken and, Ye gods! it wi a feast fit for a king. This was om first and last experience a t crab fishing! Along in Angnst when we came back that way we did not have time to tarry. Oar next general camp was in the vi­ cinity of Fair Oaks and Gaines’ Mills,, within three or three and one-halfi miles from Richmond, where the church' bells could be,plainly heard. Listening to them, on bright Sabbath mornings, my mind would go back to myoldhome where i was a t liberty to anawer their call, and it made me homesick. Our camp was upon the plantation of Dr, Gaines and two things about this esmp I recollect distinctly; one was a peach orchard ol ten or more acres. Tho trees were loaded with fruit, hut being hard as rocks were of no earthly use to n s I used to look a t them and wish we had Hot come that way quite so soon, There were few things a soldier could not util­ ize In some manner, hut a half grown peach defiedeven Yankee ingenuity and we had to leave them to ripen to tickle the palate of others more lncky than ourselves, A tthiscsmponeof onr men accidentally shot his big toe off, on pur­ pose. I t was our first experience of what afterwards was quite common. Our captain ordered him under guard and brought to his tent wherehe blessed him. In fact he heaped blessing after blessing upon him until he got ont of wind, than took a rest and blessed him some mure. Oldsoldier* know what an army blessing Is, I t always mada m# facias if I was knowing a fill, I will wager a big apple that thisman remem­ bers that blessing to this hoar. From this camp we crossed the Chickahominy river and went into eamp at Fort David­ son where we remained until the grand skeddsdle began.—C, II. Gales, in Amer­ ican Tribune, aavsby- When within thru# handle* yards of tha M nn M t I md*s« !» my •Simps and yritei to th# squadron Ip fallow '■>* I axnastsd to haar each cavalryman yet), ha* to * J diemsy all was silent, Itnrnad myhaadto look, when, horror upeahorror! the squadron was over a mile from m# ia a swift re­ treat! I had bean riding across the field alone, thinking they ware right behind me. They had evidently seen the thousands waiting to ponr a storm of shot into ns and had retreated, hat I did not sea them, a s l am near sighted., Of eourse’I saw them when I yelled. A. gleam of bayonets extended for miles right in front of me. My hors# trem­ bled. I held my breath expecting to bemoweddoWn in a second. Taming my horse I rode leisurely back pmdnot a Shot was fired at me. My hors# died with nervous prostration half an hour after I got back. Why didn’t the fed­ eral army fire on me? I learned,after­ ward that they were ordered to fire, but no soldier was pusillanimous enough to shoot one man who had the courage to charge twenty thousand men. Gentle­ men, 1 believe in human nature and the nobility of the volunteer soldier sine* that event,*'—Boston Herald. THE SOLDIERS' NOBILITY. AN OLD FRIEND. Seldlsrs* The gortiuwte Kseomry of a War-time Musket. One of the happiestmen who returned from the Gettysburgmemorial encamp­ ment is C. W. Bishing, of Harvey’s Lake. Pa. He waa a private in Capt Rice's company, Fifty-third Pennsyl­ vania volunteers, Bishing wsf shot twice at Gettysburg, one bullet shatter­ ing an arm and another entering-near his right thigh. This occurred near the bloody angle, and no tfar from the spot on which the regimental monument stands. . , . As aoon as he received the wonnda he set to work to buiy his musket lie fell near a big rock, and, though suffering great pain and bleeding profusely, ho managed to scoop out enough dirt at the base of the bowlder to slip hia mus­ ket into the excavation. Afterward he carefully covered it, an* wondered whether he should ever see it again. Bishing accompanied the surviving members of his old regiment to Gettys­ burg on. the occasion of the dedication of their monument. While there, ac­ companied hy several old comrades, he started oUt to look for the musket he had buried over twenty-six years ago. The bloody anghf was easily found, and he soon distinguished the huge .boulder at whose base he had fallen and where he had bidden the gun I t took but a few moments todigtbe earth up, when, to his joy, he struck the old musket, and quickly resurrected i t I t had the appearance of Rip Van Winkle's fowling-piece. The stock had fallbn apart bnt waa stillln a good state of preservation The barrel was bound about with a thick cost of rust, and the lock and other portions were In the same condition Bishing lifted the old musket tender­ ly, and ns the recollection of the past filled liis mind, he kissed it with the enthusiasm of a father who has found a long-lost child, He says he is poor, but no money will buy the musket— Philadelphia Ledger. VARIOUS NOTES. Ochiltree Face* TwentyThonssnd streeg Ales*, Bat MUMorse Hied, The world-famous raconteur, Thomas P. Ochiltree, is never a t a loss to adorn an otherwise commonplace conversation with a story of thrilling adventure, nar­ row escape or humorous incident. Re­ cently at the Hoffman house a number of men were telling of narrow escapes, when the colonel told of a close place he got into as follows: “Gentlemen, I was with Gen. Dick Taylor when he operated against Gen. Banks in the transmlssSsslppi depart­ ment It was shortly after the battle of Pleasant Hill, and Banks was re­ treating to Grand Ecore, One day we got near Gen, Hanks’ army and Gen, Taylor asked me to head a squadron of cavalry and charge, I was mounted Ota s coal black horse, and when I rode out to take command of the squadron X never thought to come back from the charge alive, We had to charge across an open field, a distance of one and one- half miles, I drew my sword, pnt •purs to my horse’* sides and dashed forward, ordering the cavalry to fol­ low. Home twenty thonsand of Banks’ infantry were drawn np in line just on :the edge of the field awaitingait attack, Of course whew t started I didnotknow thettwenty thonsand men werewafting to gtvn n warmweleemeto a handfni of Tnn first bloodshed in the civil war was on April IS, 1801, a t Baltimore, Md., when Luther C. Ladd and A. O. Whitney, of Lowell, Mass., were shot- C ongressman Cowt.es, of North Car­ olina, Is having a handsome monument erected to the memory of John Allen Smith, a private in the FirstNorth Car­ olina cavalry, who saved his life on the battlefield. M b . li. E. W itts , of Imiay City. Mich., who enlisted in a Michigan regi­ ment and waa captured during the war, has not shaved since he left Anderson* ville prison, His beard is now five feet nine inches in length. A n Irishman served in the United tttates army in Texas, and belonging to the infantry was In the bsbit of stand­ ing with his toes imitating inward, to, remedy which the sergeant continually addressed him while on parade with “Stick ont yonr toes, Patrick." I t took Patrick years to acquire the habit of atickiag his toes out, Just abont the time he had succeeded he was trans­ ferred to the cavalry, where his habit of sticking out his toes interferred much with his usefulness as a horse­ man, The sergeant was continually calling to him: “Stick In those toes, Patrick," much to his disgust, and he exclsimed with some emphasis: “Divll take such a service. For fire year* it was nothing b u t‘Stick out your toes, Patrick' There is no plazin’ the black­ guards." C apt . R obert M, Woons, adjutant of tho Sixty-fourth Illinois, was th# first adjutant-general of the Grand Army, of the Republic. “Little Red­ headed Bob” signed every paper dis­ charging the men of the Fourth divis­ ion, Seventeenth corps, when they were mustered out a t Louisville, Ky., in July, 190.1, He was a popular men In the Seventeenth Corps, and his genial qualities were known to the rank and file of every regimenffin the corps,who used to joke him upon his red head whenever he passed the inarching col­ umn, He always took these pleasan­ tries as they were meant by the buy*, and had a wit*; answer to all their joke*. His name should, and wdl, g* down to posterity with that of Dr. fitavenorm's and when the National en eampmemteomesto Washington “Bob' should be camof the farmed ftt-ala National Tribune. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WORKINQ a m t .'* CLUM . T h e ir Jia|»l« t i r e w t h a w r MS* a * s d T h e y A t * Malay I* th* I «**• t'ltlss. One of the u*o«t intoteaUng a*} sug­ gestive leetures delivered at Chautau­ qua during the season was that of Misr Grace E. Dodge, on the subject tfft “Some Heroic Lives." Hiss Dodge baa been the leader for the establishment of working girls’ clnbe, organization* designed to help this class in physical, moral and spiritual ways In her lec­ ture Mias Dodge referred specially to the working girls of NewYork,whoare doingsomuch for themselvesin tbeway ofeduoation and improvement. After introductory remarks, Miss Dodge said that she came to present some heroic lives rarely noticed, and yet deserving of honor—via, the working girls of onr great cities, those who during the day are employed, a t shops end factories while they were workers, earning on an average f8.24 a week. Coming from crumped surrounding# they lived grand, noble livea No one can speak. too strongly of their bravery, truth, hon­ esty, faithfulness, self-sacrifice or per­ severance. Take, for example, 8. H., who refused to go away to oaveher own health, for if she went two girls would have.to stop work and lose their pay; or M- W., who at seven years of Sge be- gan to support her famUy, and a t eigh­ teen could not read or write. She form­ ed a olnb of one hundred girls, secured teachers, organized classes where she learned to write, andwhile still remain­ ing a factory girl, became a force out­ side. Five nights a week she gave to the clnb, superintending its work; one night to correspondence with prominent people, and on Sunday played the organ a t church and visited with girls a hos­ pital. As an example of economy, take an­ other, who out of 85 a week had saved in five years 8350, and in this time she paid loans dressed wel^ had money for ontisgs, etc. These girlaare independ­ ent, and one honors their independence, hut they are glad to receive from a sis­ ter friend co-operative interest in de­ veloping themselves. As one means, the working girls*societies have sprang up. They started seven years ago from a little gronp of girl friends who came from differentsurroundings—some from factories, some from shops, and two fromhomes where the danghtersdid not have to work. ’Within a year the gronp had grown to one thousand, meeting in different club-rooms. Now there are clubs all Overthe country.—Christian at Work. ' ___________ _____ EVER FAITHFUL. AN MORAL REFORMERS. «*» rime Wtm m Are twh —m*>uHgrs*t Mefasmsatsettfce Pay. I t is not many years since the direct •std personal participation of a woman Many public enterprise waa looked* •pon as unseemly, aa annexing her, ac- aerdingtotbe cent of the time. The great temperance and other moral re­ form movements of the first half of this century proceededwithout the help of women as active agents Women contributed to them their prayers and their influence in domestic life, but they were listeners and not speakers at the meetings. Nowadays all that has changed, and the change has come with surprising rapidity, In every employment where rede strength la not requisite, women have appeared as the competitors and assistants of men. Theyare not black­ smiths, masons and stonecutters, the . drivers of drays, stevedores, hod car­ riers, brakemen and locomotive engi­ neers, but any work, manual or intel­ lectual, is deemed suitable for them if they can perform i t The appearance of women ms speakers on public plat­ forms and as organizers and directors of public entorprizcz is taken as a matter of course. ’ Ladies of social distinction will serve on commit­ tees of the Chicago World’s fair. Women commissioners to that exhibi­ tion ate appointed by the governors of states Clubs and societies af women discuss questions of public reform in all parts of the union. 'Women are acting as school officers. The churches are coming to the conclusion that not to employ their activity and consult their judgment is to waste, a tremendous force available for the service of re­ ligion. The present temperance move­ ment ia largely, it not chiefly in the hands of women, the Woman’s Chris­ tian Temperance Union being foremost, in the good work. The meeting of the women's council and its cognate asso­ ciations filled Washington with an en­ thusiastic crowd like tha tin attendance on a national political convention. At political meetings seats are set apart for ladies concerned as to public ques­ tions, and there is hardly a movement, secular o r religious, which starts or proceeds without calling in the aid of feminine energy.—Cbautauquau. : i A F l e u i n t W om a n W rite r. > Mrs, L, B. Walfore, the novelist, is described as $ fair-skinned, blue-eyed, brown-haired woman, with a brilliant smile, whose appearance is more youth­ ful than one would expect In the moth* er o f seven children. Her home, Cran*< brOoke Hall, near London, is a charm­ ing old place, dating back SODyears, but improved and enlarged of late years. Thomas Day, the author of “Sandford and Merton," and*Anne and Jane Taylor, formerly lived in this neighborhood. M». WalforA inherited her literary tastes, although she began novel-writing only after her marriage. Her father was a well-known author, and her aunt. Catherine Sinclair,' wrote Holiday House, Notwithstanding her literary work Mrs. Watford finds time to do a little spinning and ipueh em­ broidery. Women A*Hattie Boaters. A western cattle rancher say* i t is ho* coming an every-day occurrence to see women out west dealing in cattle nnd liorseB, The loneliness and hardships of the great prairies do not seem to deter energetic women from the pur­ pose of conducting* profitable business, A few days ago a cattle queen from Idaho sold two carloads of fine horses a t Omaha a t a much better figure than any man could have obtained. .... . .... t WOMEN AMD THEIR *WORK. I t is believed that there are eighteen hundred professional women painters, sculptor* and engravers hi Paris, be­ sides those who live by paiatiagmenus, fan* etc ' T h * New York women have been granted more patents than their sisters in any other state. Titer women of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana and Wis- eonain rank next ia order. D*. Lot’iss A, Ci'iNKT, Brooklyn's .one woman dentist, Is * well-built, puree, they regarded it as a greatdosa l resolute, capable little woman, who to remain away. I t is related of one t pets her two little pug dogs and attends vice regent Iron! one of the cotton ?to her patients with equal enthusiasm, states, who has long sines passed away. { Mise Ct ikon , of the Toronto unlver* thatshfl was obliged once to sell a i alty, has been acting ms assistant public finger ring to make up the sum ehe \ analyst since her graduation InlSSL needed to come up to the councIL She | and a t the same time pursuing her did not think any thing o t it, either, f studies a t the Toronto Woman’s Medi­ an her enthusiasm in her work was >cal college, greater than any sense of loss she amid I Mis# S csan M. DrjtKh** h** re­ feel for her trinkets, j signed the tressnrersliip of the Newton I t In Jast the same absorbing earn- {Blass,) bank, a position which ehe astnem in her work that ha* prevented ffilled for seventeen year* without once Mr* Laughton from taking her usual j having to justify herself before the summer trips to Europe the psat six j board of errors, yearn, as she felt that her direction j Ox* of the most prominent preachers would be useful ami the trust reposed \ fn North Dakota Is Miss Carrie J. Bari* In her not fnlfllled entirely to her satis-«fett, a young woman who stepped from faction if ahe went out of the country, the newspaper offie* Into the pulpit, As iasatsace Agent*. At a lumh given in connection with the ceremonies contingent to the lay. Ing of the corner stone of a large insurance building in Dts Moines, two lady agents were present,'Miss MnrgawteGey, of ties Motes*, and Mias tb s Xlestaat tromsa Who Has Chsrga ef ASMr*at the Mowt Verses JSstste. The present satisfactory condition of all that concerns Monnt Vernon la largely due to the consummate ability hy which Mrs. Macallester Laughton, the regent, has directed its affair* She waa appointed the vice regent for Penn­ sylvania in her sixteenth year. $he in­ herited a veneration and love for the memory of Washington from her dis­ tinguished father, Charles Mscallestor, who was among the first to aid in the purchase of tho estate and later ha gave the largest individual sum toward the endowment fSnd. Air*. Laughton, while inheriting large wealth, was judiciously trained from her youth in the management of it, and it waa this ability which so eminently fitted her for the responsible posItUm she has so* long held in the regency. Every month she receives the reports of the superintendent and in everythisg going on at Mount Vernon ahe ha*j a practical knowledge, Few better than she can appreciate the zealous labors,of her colleagues in the council nor under- stand better the sacrifices they were obliged to make in the days gone hy to keep up their interest in Mount Ver­ non. One of the oldest of the southernvice regents has said, speaking of the prea- sent prosperous condition of the estate, that now it did not make so much dif- ferenee if a member should absent her­ self from council, bnt in year* gone by, when each vice regent had to pay her traveling expenses ont of her own She bi said to be suecessfal in her new* field and is popular with her large con­ gregation, Mis* B i & a L. knowrxs, of Helens, life }who became a member of the Montana Is,, j b sr two years ago, h a s not only made a success of her profession, hut hss €*.*.r- titer Invaded m n b domain by bect»m- Mamie Hhsffar, of Malvern, The i ing secretary «nd teeassrer of a lumber ladle* were given an honorary place a t the vsble with the other agents, sad the orator of the nssaiton, who was a l­ so the viespresident ef the eempany, nlHsAed to them In very eemptimentary Snd *sMhe shonld enggeet to hi* IPfsJW fHUTI to aeenre isdlea for agents In the fstore. company Anornxn ease goes on record ef an honor whteh a woman has been able to to te over the headsof wen competitors, Mies Jervis haa^won the Gilchrist pitta farheteay s tv tte Mrhteek institute, This Is the first time t t e t the Gil* Christ prise hn* teen token by * wow-