The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

r-^l The Cedarjille Herald. W H. BLAIR, PubUUw. CEDARVILLB, J ; i OHKX FIRST USE OF T HE- POTATO. Kune Hy WlUvU lit W m M *A i F epuU r— ,t- Orlidn of Other FooiUtafTi. There is much curious amusement to he had in tracing where the foodstuffs tvc use and the domestic animalswe cat or use originally came from. Prof. Max Muller, reasoning through bis sci­ ence of words, finds that the goose was domesticated very early, or at least some bird like it . Goose in Englise, gans in German, dropping the “ g” according to the laws of language, the word becomes anser in Latin and correspondingly in Greek, with the aspirate that marks the dig- amnia dropped, and so back to ansa in the Sanscrit. Our prehistoric Sanscrit ancestors of the Indian fable lands bad geese, Prof, Mailer therefore concludes, or birds resembling them closely.. Through thousands of years ,the name has remained, varry’ing only according to the known laws of the change of pronunciation, and probably the thing stood throughout behind the name;' Such is the antiquity of geese. It is since Queen Elizabeth’s time, only four and a half centuries ago, that tobacco, sugar and potatoes have been used, Sir Waltcr-Raleigh being instru­ mental in establishing the use of all these in England. The circumnavigator, Francis Drake, has the credit of introducing the .pota­ to in .Europe, hut the Spaniards had brought it with the tomato from the Andes some while before, and it .’ was 'established there and in Italy, where they culled it tartufoli, long before Sir Walter- Kaleigh shipped his cargo, in KWf), from Virginia to En­ gland. According to Humboldt it has been cultivated in England since 10S4, in Saxony since 1728, and since 1738 in Prussia , There was much difficulty in intro­ ducing the potato in France. It was only toward the end o f the reign of Louis XIV. that it began to be' used, The learned had opposed its introduc­ tion systematically, saying it produced leprosy, and the common people Re­ fused to. test it even on their live stock. A trick at lost established it Fields were planted all over France with po­ tatoes and carefully guarded till the tubers were ripe,, it being given out that these fields were growing a now thing especially for the king, and that trespassers would be prosecuted. Now, the laws at that time were very severe. A man might be hung when lie hunted in the wild lorest for the game was the seigneur’s, almost each one of whom kept his private gallows. • Trespass against the king implied, therefore, terrible punishment. The danger of the punishment proved itself an alluring bait. As the con­ triver, wise in human nature, had fore­ seen, the fields that were purposely left unguarded were pillaged right and lrfft, the potatoes eaten, some kept and planted, and the tuber at last effective­ l y introduced into France.—N, Y. Sun. THE COYOTE AND THE CROWS. A Talk-Story of the Tee-WnUn, or Pueblo Indians. Once on a time many crows lived in the edge o f some woods. A little out into the plain stood a very large tree, with much sand under it. One day a coyote was passing, and heard the croWs singing and dancing under this tree, and came up to watch them. They wore dancing in a circle, and each crow had upon his back a large bag. "Crow-friends, what are yon doing?” asked the coyote, who was much in­ terested. • "Oh, we are dancing with our mouth­ ers,” said the crows. “ How pretty! And will you let me danoe, too?” asked the coyote of the too-whiMah-widdeh crow (captain of the dance). "Oh, y ea " replied the crow. "Go and put your mother in a bag and come to the dance. ” The coyote went running home. There bis old mother was sitting in the corner o f the fire-place. The stupid coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her. The crows were dancing merrily, and singings "Ai nana, quc-ce-rab, qnc-ce-rah.” ("Alas, mamma! yon are shaking, you are shaking!") The coyote joined the dance, with the bag on his back, and sang as the crows did: "Al, hano, que-efe-rah, que-ec-rah.” (Ai nana is an exclamation always used by mourners. 1 But at las! the crows burst on ! laugh­ ing, and said, "What do you bring in your hag?" "My mother, as you told me,’’.replied the coyote, showing them. Thou the crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but aand, and flew up into the tree, laughing. The coyote then saw that they had played him a trick and started home, crying “ Ai nani!" When he got home he took his mother from the bag and tried to set her up in the chimney cor­ ner, always crying "At nana, why -don’t you sit up as before?” Bnt she -could not, for she was dead, When he found out that She could not sit up any more he vowed to follow the crows and cat them all the rest o f his life! and from that day to this he has been hunt­ ing them, and they are.always at War. —C. 1>\ Lmntms, In til. Nicholas. THEBATTLEFIELD. GOD'S UNKNOWN, The follawiag poem obtained the first prize of fto which wm offend by Geo. II. (Ihouse poet, of Has Traacleoo, Cal., fp by read at Hie memorial entertainment, held in the Grand opera hours tn that city laat Memorial day: Where prayers are few, no tear-dropa abed Above the lonely, nameless dead, Mysweat-at built are atrown; I weave my rosee in a crown And lay tbe fragrant blossoms down Where sleep the brave unknown. For on some distant battle-Oeld, Under Uip (lug, Ills life-blood sealed, My brave boy tents alone: But angel sentinels will koop •Their vigils o'er his dreamless sleep ■ Though marked his grave, ''Unknown.” I know not If my loved one fell ■ Whcn loud tho shots ot vict'ry swell And hushed Illsdying moan; 1 Or, if In clouds of dark dufent. When even coming death seemed swcot, He joined the great unknown. Bright birds—swift harbingers of spring; A message from the South land bring . On eager pinions flown; Where woodland choruses resound, j Have ye not spied u grass grown mound That bears the nuinc ' Unknown? ’ In murky swamp or open glade Or'nemh tho moss-draped forest shado Where sunset arrows shone: Stvlft to the mark they softly sped And fprmed a halo round’ tho dead That rest and sleep unknown. O, south wind, waft your fragrant sighs. Born 'neiilh the cloudless summer skies; Where orange buds are blown; And swing the pure nmgnpliu bloom, A gleaming censer of perfume, Above the graves unknown. When flow and rain and smiling Bun . " Tlidlr round of duty each hath run, A.fnther’s love was shone; First Decoration Day of Go-1. When spring’s bright blossom Kissed the sod That covered the unknown. A gsrlnnd twfnea of rarest Bowers, Whoso petals, fall in rosr showers; .■* . Let friendship's chain bo thrown Around our laud 'till east and west Shall decorate their place of rest— Remember the unknown. Uproot the bluer hate and strife lmplunted wlth i-ach liurled life; I.st seeds of love be sown, And blossoms of sweet peace and trust ; Shill ttourisb o'or the sacred dust Of those wo call, "Unknown." I pray when comes the Grand Review', Anil each true soldier—gray and blue— Shall stand before tho throno; . When sounds the roll call loud and clear, That every soul shall nnswor, “Here.'* Be counted with tho known. —Mrs.' C. C. Bateman, BURNSIDE AND EKIN. An Illustration of: the. .Manliness of One end tlie Courtesy of the Other. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and Gen. ,James A. Ekin are both claimed its Indiantans. The former was an indian- ian by birth, as ho was born in this state at the town of Liberty, while (Jon. Ekin, now living' at Louisville, Ky., closely connected himself With this state both by residence and service during1and utter the war. "I once saw these men come together in an episode that will be forever impressed on my memory,” said C'apt W, H. Hay, of the custom office, "They are very unlike each other, yet both truly great men. The incident took place during the war in the 'Chain Building,' on Eighth street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, in Washington, opposite what is now Dr, Bartlett’s church, but was formerly the residence and headquar­ ters' o f Gen. Winfield Scott At the time of which I speak it was occupied by Gen. Ekin, then assistant quarter­ master, with the rank of lieutenant- colonel, as headquarters o f the cavalry bureau, with the duty of supplying the army with cavalry horses, and I was then chief clerk. The supply was ob­ tained by detail of officers sen! to Col. Ekin, who assigned them as inspectors at different places of purchase over the country. When Gen. Burnside organ­ ized his independent corps of thirty thousand men he obtained permission from the war department to detail his own officers for the purchase and in­ spection of horses for the cavalry arm of his corps, and they went out to pur­ chase horses exclusively for their corps. * It seems tiiat as time went on the sup­ ply sent in by these special offices was exceedingly limited, while CoL Ekin's officers were obtaining a full supply. One day I heard a heavy step, as of a boot shod with anger thundering up the stairs, and then a wrathful fusiiade of blows upon the door. The next mo­ ment Gen, Burnside surged in. ‘Where’s Ekin?’ he demanded in a gust of passion, I pointed to the next room. The door was left open and I soon heard an atagry roar, succeeded by a mild, suave answer. I concluded I had bet­ ter see as well as hear, what was going on, and went into the room, As every one knows, Gen. Ekin always was the ■ courtly gentleman, suave and polite/ never losing his temper. Gen. Burn­ side was demanding the reason why he Was not receiving more horses fromthe bureau; and the quartermaster was re­ sponding that he was sending all that Burnside's special detail of officers was buying. Finally, In a burst of passion, Burnsida exclaimed: ‘This bureau is conducted with either gross Incapacity nr devilish unfairness. Grant- is receiv­ ing ail the horses while I am receiving none, 1 shall report tills state of affairs to the secretary of war and the quarter* master-general. Tho only indication of anger on the part- o f Ekin was his Under lip, which quivered as he responded calmly in his sauve and measured tones, 'I hope you will, sir; I hope jo b w ill I w m brougbtto this place from Indianapolis because o f supposed fitness for the posi­ tion.' If I am not conducting this bnreau properly it is your duty, sir, as a geperal officer, to report me. J hope you will do it* T will, sir; rest assured I will,' thundered Burnside as he went out ’ The next day,” continued Capt Hay, after a pause, "I heard a light step up­ on the stairB, accompanied by a cheery whistle. It was a bright air from *11 Travatore,’ and was followed by amild tap on the door. When the door opened Maj.-Gen, Ambrose E. Burnside en­ tered. ds Col, Ekin inT he asked in a pleasant voice, like a drummer want­ ing to sell goods. .The day before it was ‘Ekin’ without the title. 1 told him. yes, and he entered the quarter­ master’s room. Then I heard the voice of the visitor, ‘Good morning, colonel, good morning, 1 have come to apol­ ogize, sir. I did you a great injustice yesterday. I have been deceived, sir; instead of making any suggestion as to your removul, I have heard from Sec­ retary Stanton regarding, this bureau and tlie efficient way in which it is con­ ducted that suggested, that 1 had better attend to my own business, and now I think I had.’ ."This was something decidedly novel; a “major-general of the United States army apologizing in this manner to an inferior in rank. I don’t think there is another ease of the kind on record, but it exhibited the greatness of the man-- an Indianian of -whom, We should bo proud., It was a benediction to see the way in which Ekin received it. He is a gentleman after the Sir Philip' Sidney pattern, lie bowed, and was, if possi­ ble, more suave and polite than ever before.. ‘And. now, general, -if you want horses for yoqr corps, call your officers in and I'll supply you rapidly,’ Burnside did so. and the horses were soon forthcoming:—Indianapolis Jour­ nal. HE BEATTHE BULLET. A Maine Han’, Itemarkttlile Kuce With a I'unbilrrutt) at Gettysburg. It was in a well-known hotel In Ban­ gor. A party of gentlemen were con­ versing on one subject and another. 'During a lull in the conversation one gentleman noticed a scar on the hand of another, and interrogated him as to the cause. The other answered that lie received it in a very curious way, and told the following story in regard to it: ' I got that wound in the battle of Get­ tysburg. I had been fighting all day and felt very tired, and so sat down on a rock and shot from there. I was just loading up my. gun when a long, lean, lank fellow darted by inc, making for thq woods like a streak of greased lightning. I up with my gun and let drive at him, but he didn't drop, and, as I had shot just nine hundred and ninety-nine and didn’t want to lose the thousandth I' started' after him. I never saw a man run so fast in all roy adventurous life, and I could see that I was gaining upon him, but every once in a while I lost sight of him be­ hind a tree or rock. I qoticcd a lull in the fight, and glancing aside I saw that both urmies had stopped fighting, and were strain­ ing their eyes to see the race. Tlmt raised my courage,.and I forgot all about being tired Just then I mqde a spurt of speed, and as 1 did so I felt something strike, my hand, which spread out like the fan of a windmill. Well, to make a long story short, I caught up. with him nnd was about to collar him when he turned about and tried to stab me. I dodged his blow, and just then something hit him and he fell over dead, I sat down beside him to rest, and as I did so noticed blood trickling down my hand. On closer in­ vestigation I found that there was a bullet hole In ray palm. The dead man had a bullet in his breast, and I am positive In my belief that both wounds were made by the same bullet, and that it was the same ballet that I had fired at the confeder­ ate. The race was so hot that I caught up with and passed it at some time during my chase. That Is why I now wear that scar.—Bangor News. A Good S icim . With the immortal Stonewall Jack- son, straggling, especially during a for­ ward march, was an unpardonable o f­ fense; but there was one instance *in which it was promptly condoned. Dur­ ing one of the forced marches, along in the summer o f ’03, through the pine and ’siramon regions, he stopped to consult with some general officers till the wlible command had passed some distance. Biding forward to the front he discov­ ered a private of his old brigade up a ’simmon tree. * "What are you doing so far in the rear?" cried the general, I’m eating ’simmons,” said t)ie sol­ dier, "Why* they’ re not ripe," said the general* with some sarcasm. 1 know it,” said the soldier. W want ’em green." Why do you’ eat green’simmons?" sahl old Blue Light “ To draw my stomach up to fit my rations,’’ said old Web Foot, Enough! The hero drew the old slouch cap down over his eyes and rode on abashed and subdued into sileno*.— Alabama Soldier, —A Brahmin bull has been presented to the Washington zoological gardens by lion. John H. Starfn, o f New York city. Mr. Starin WM much inter­ ested while in congress in promot­ ing the "?po” and ether local improve* menta IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WOMEN THE EXPERTS- The Value o f Tltelr . Services In the * Treasury .Department. At a meeting held here in honor of the late Gen. Francis E. Spinner, for­ merly treasurer o f the United States, says a Washington correspondent of-the Boston Journal. Secretary Foster paid tribute to him that was well deserved. Attention ’was especially called to the fact that Gen. Spinner was one o f the first to recognize the merits of women as department clerks and to give them positions in the service. From Gen. Spinner’s day the employment of wom­ en in the departments has become gen­ eral. In many branches o f the treasury service women have arisen to the pro­ ficiency of experts.. This is especially true as to the office o f the treasurer o f the United States, whore ;ho most ex­ pert, rapid and accurate counters of multilated currency and detectors of counterfeit money are women. A wom­ an detected ’ the ■* first counterfeit 8100 bill of a very dangerous issue. When called upon to explain why she thought it was counterfeit her answex’ was: “ I knew it was.” It took a day or two for the engravers and cashiers to make a detailed explanation so that bank officials could understand the reason. . However it was discovered that these same cashiers and bank officials had received a good many of the bills, while the Woman had detect-' ed that they were counterfeit. Gen. Spinner, when treasurer o f‘'the United States, once said; “ A man will examine a-note systematically and adduce log­ ically from the imperfect engraving, blurred »vignette, or indistinct signa­ ture that it is counterfeit, and lie will be wrong four .cases out of ten. A woman picks up a note, looks at it in an apparently careless manner, after her own fashion, and says: ‘That is counterfeit.’ ’Why?'' the division chief will aslc, and she w ill be sure to an­ swer. ‘Because it is,* and she is right eleven cases out of twelve." It would be wrong'to say that these discoveries are the result of chance. They come from a keen perception, fine eyesight, delicate touch and longacquaintance with the work. There is in one of the bureaus to-day a woman whose divis­ ion chief says that her daily average of work is nearly . three times that .of a man who has been assigned to the same duty, and who sits in the siting room,’ yet the man gets twice, the pay. The most skillful person to identify the notes and. bonds which were de­ faced anil charred in the great Chicago fire were women. There was one mass of charred paper from the Chicago fire amounting to ^8105,000, consisting o f ' legal tenders^ national bank and frac- tional“notes, bonds and coupons. They were so charred that they would crum­ ble at the touch. This black mass was given to six ladies for identification, and in the course o f timo they accom­ plished ttieir task. Other like amounts from that city were in like manner suc­ cessfully identified. A year later eighty-three cases of money, similarly charred, came from the, great Boston fire, One case was found by these sutnc six ladies to contain 980,000. ' Six months were required to identify the money saved from these two fires. Some of the women are employed on wlmt are known as "affidavit cases’’— cases where money is too badly injured to bo redeemed in the usual manner. One of these expert women clerks saved the government 8180,000 once. This money was lost ina.jciaymastei which’ wzs'suhk at the bottom o f the Mississippi river, lay there for many months, and was almost a mass of pulp when it arrived at the treasury. 'The express company, which was responsi­ ble for this money, presented the clerk with 9500.___ _____________ WOMEN PROFESSORS. foibles o f feminine tinman nature <u« woman understands them, and to ex. peel him to remedy and cure them, without this knowledge would be to expect the performance of the impo*. sible. But, not only is the influence of & woman in such a‘ position beneficial, so far as the women students are con­ cerned, but it is quite as helpful to the young men. It must be confessed that in many colleges from which women are excluded altogether there is more or less rowdyism. Hazing flourishes, and practices take root which are seldom heard of, and are hot tolerated at all in mixed schools. The presence of girls as pupils accounts for this, and if is in-. variably strengthened when a part el the recitations- must be conducted by women professors. !! Whatever a young man may be he will behave himself with decency and propriety in the pres- ■ once of-women, be they fellow students or teachers. And while they may in­ dulge in rough, practical jokes with a teacher of their own sex, they look up to the woman teacher with respect and reverence. .She holds them in check; she appeals to their manliness and their self-respect, and never appeals in vain. There was one woman of this sort in l)c Pamv university at Greencastle, ImT., and to this day her name is revered by every young man who came within her influence;’ while to the young wom­ en she was the ideal of womanly dig­ nity and culture. Then there are occasions, too, in fac­ ulty meetings, where the learned pro­ fessors themselves .would be benefitted and aided by a woman’s quick percep­ tion, and her gift for utilizing means which men are apt to undervalue or overlook. There is little doubt but that within the next ten years there will not be a state university in the country where women will notserve both as trustees and pro­ fessors.—Inter Ocean. the i BETTER LIVE ALONE Than Marry Any of the Masculine Failures With Which Society Is Surfeited. I applaud the celibacy of a multitude of women who, rather than make unfit selection, have made none at all. It has not been a lock of opportunity for marital contract on their part, but their own culture and refinement, and’ their exalted ideas as to what a husband ought to be, have .caused their declina­ ture. There have been so many wom­ en .who married imbeciles, or ruffians, or lifetime incapables, or magnificent nothings, orfmeu who before marriage were angelic and afterwards diabolic, that other women have been alarmed and stood back. They saw so many boats go into the maelstrom that they steered into o th c waters. Better for & woman to live ainne, though she lives for a hundred yca/s, than to be annexed to one of these masculine failures with which society is .surfeited. The patron saint of almost every family circle is some such unmarried woman, and amongall the .families of cousins she moves around, and her coming in each bouse is the morning and her going away is the night.—Talmage, in N. Y. Observer. ___________, ■ ' ; FRESH AND INTERESTING. Thslr Peculiar Province and Influence In the Co.Edacatloasl Institutions, There has been a growing demand of late that women be represented in the facnlty of cd-educational institutions. In many of these colleges women have held such positions for years, and have done their work satisfactorily and successfully. Butter university, in In­ dianapolis, was one of the first to open its doors to women, receiving them on the same footing with men, and con- fering upon them all the honors award­ ed their brother graduates. Among the earliest atiimnso was Demia Butler, daughter of Ovid Butler* a prominent and wealthy citizen* and one of the oldest residents of Indians. She mar­ ried shortly after her graduation and lived but a few years. Her father, a man of extreme liberality upon all questions pertaining to tho educational and political rights o f women* paid a beautiful tribute to her memory by en­ dowing a chair in the university* known m the Demia llutlc" Chair of English Literature aqd Belle L'ettrca When the fund was given It was with the ex­ press stipulation that the position should perpetually be filled by a woman —a rale which, of course, hto been strictly sdhered to, Women ate peculiarity adapted to reach the moral and spiritual nature of the young as no man, however sympa­ thetic, is abloto do. There are manj^ -the medical officers will be Women, crisis in the college life o f A yonng girl where she needs the counsel and aid of a wise nnd judicious Woman. She Can and will talk more frankly to a woman than a man, and a woman can talk to her unreservedly where a man Would be necessarily restrained. Nor oan araan understand the faults and A prize o f fifty dollars for the best original design by a woman o f an arti­ cle of furniture has been won by Miss Gertrude, E. Fonda, o f Vermont. A bookcase in form of a book was tho shape she gave her design. R ev . L yd *^ firr~/‘’ li 1 n r " bora ow Jersey ,ln 1789, still preaches in various parts of the West' She predicts that she will live until 1900, thus ex­ tending her life into three centuries. Her memory is excellent and her right remarkably good. M rs . C orxkm a J ames , professor of English at the Commercial academy at Finnic, has the doable honor o f being the only woman In the Austrian em­ pire to bold a professorship in the public schoofs for boys, and the only woman presented to the Austrian em­ peror at the levee at Flume.' T iie young women of Hamraonton, N. J., are competitors in raising chick­ ens, and the town has more poultry than any other in* the .state. Under a single roof a prominent breeder has had as many as 8,090 broilers at once as well as 2,000 hens. In one season Ham- monton has sent 00,000 birds to market A co - operative home for single women is to be started in Vienna. Each will have a share in the housekeeping on certain days. One hundred persons are wanted at the start, and an income o f from five to seven dollars a month from each one is expected to pay ex­ penses and accumulate a land which will pay for the home. T he French government has just conferred upon Miss lletham Edwards the rank of "officier de l’instrnction publique," in recognition o f her works upon rural France. Hhe is now busy upon a book which is to give a survey of the political, rural, and social condi­ tion of France a century after the rev­ olution, She has drawn her conclu­ sions from personal observation. S till the female doctor continues to flourish like the proverbial bay tree. In Bosnia there is to be erected soon a hospital for female patients where all On the British medical register there are upward of one hundred women engag­ ed in active work, Eight separate hos­ pital appointments Are held by women, and the question o f giving to women medical charge o f all’ communities of girls and women in factories, shops* schools, etc,, Is now being agitated. SMOOTH «U » ™ . la ier.i Perhaps some *ifch wire fence i useful- I began year ago, so the • Joe the effect of t vp make a good s A i t needful that aud 'braced, forms of end bra one that l belie ? effectiveness cam . patent contrivam •r Let the post b 4x6. Jl should bi or spike across t piece :>feet long, across the plane o teep. Set post in ward—I mean so strain the post th< the ground eilL J or plank 2 or 3 im I)—should be 8 fe< and is not necessa put four or five sti wire around basi brace; cross them ffiem until quite t post leaning a lit from fence. The must not be buttec Isolid—it is free 1< strained by the wi j at Gmust be stroir j pail of the fence [through the brace j the post through t |not competent to Ion the wires at C, [over 50 per cent, o- ierted by the main lever, wire is clien Istrands can be put lop in a very few m If your post has llittle when the b; Ipoll of the fence w pud no power app] ction can uproot breaka I use a vire fence, matle ithat it will not 1 pot pull up* or give the hole is not fi Iis set, providing viU.not bend or In : l iiiave built the ’ [Itdoes very well— FIO. 2, ihe cri stay o f No. |[own through. ' attened, and the eked together s |lilmed that the ovlde against ex Wby heat and a ne, though I be! nee wonld ‘be 1 rsimilar device, hot j As to the expens '1 pound lots, de pound—1 pox dies nearly 2( nts per rod, 24 c< ots per pound, 4 ents per pound, nt; total, 05 cent I find tiiii Inee. A man ant »to 40 rods per c apart I ha ■top strand in floircs a specie eo, the “ crimpe j E. Wing, in Gou How to V |A, Ncwlantl wr Farmer: I) nnd deep enmi; Ihe below the sti K wide enough t IWves. Set the 1 [‘king the txvo ro *A the tops a rijhigs to keep poets across the boards, Ida fither end of tin r than the oti »by Railing fe ’ should be fit bn the board >throw up dirt ‘ topit. The P the honey req f * tihptotected [therefore you j swarms, Th * « plan X ha I* per cent, I haVe "without Ilf