The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

THE BATTLE FIELD. A CATTLE WITHIN A BATTLE . riio CharjWro of Two Ownl Soldier*Take tip TReir MatHer*' t'aiwe. • Our battery Usd»l>een doing nplendid service. From pur position on the right wo I'oivhl seo tho shells drop in the woods* and break up tho formation of the eon* federate cavalry .every time tlioy left f coyer. ‘ * We knew where they were. Job fitnart’a old troopers were there. Wade Hampton’s dragoons wore there, fritz Lee’s hard fighters wore there—Tin- boden. liosscr, Mosby—every confeder­ ate cavalry command we had fought In ^.Virginia was making ready in the sliel- H er of the woods to charge on our left ■■■ > dank. ‘ ■ ' ■ v .. “ Boom!'.fcooroj bOoml’’ The gunners knew what was at stake. The orders were to die at tho guns if the position could not be held. For half an ,‘h.our their bursting shells kept the front clear, and We o f the cavalry cheered them. ' “ What’s that!” Out from the-cover of tho forest at half a dozen places gallop the gay troopers by hundreds. They 'wheel to the-right and left, form in two lines, take their distance^, close up with a tremblipg motion, and now there will tie a grand-charge. Tho .shells burst in front of them, over them, among them, but discipline Tnstronger than the fear of deatli. Less than three hundred of us—all cavalry—to support the battery! If that mob of gray riders ever, reaches •the foot of the slope we shall be picked up and .sent whirling like dry leaves in a hurricane. The fire of the six guns becomes more rapid—it is truly terrific; but-in their haste tbe^ gunners do less execution/ “ Left wheel — forward— half-right ' dress!"------ . • •Tu$ttwo hundred- and seventy-eight d £ us by actual' count as ■we dress in two ranks. What are we going to do? "Draw sabers—forward—trot—gallop —charge!’’ - - They are driving us down at that body of men—tenr times our ' niiTnbor—to . break and cncck the charge. I f we can stop them for ton minutes the battery . •will be saved by the infantry, We ob­ lique to the left as we go to close up. We are a living wedge, driving down to enter a living mass and split it in twain. ■■■■■■.*.■ Afraid? No! There is an exultation —a sort o f drunkenness—about it which drowns all fear. . It ’s taking awful chances—odds o f a hundred to one—but there comes a. species Of insane-delight . when-one figures such desperate odds. They -arc coming at a gallop—w,e are charging at full speed. ‘ Every carbine is slung to its owner’s back; the subre is to settle this. They are yelling os : they come; we "y i! yi! yi” in reply. Can the wedge enter? Is the impetus strong enough to break a way into the solid wall o f living men and horses? 1 look along their line as the distance decreases with fearful rapidity, and ! realized that tho shock w ill be tre­ mendous. 1 Here it comes! Brace, for it! Shut " "■your teeth hard—grip with yourknees— , mind your stirrups! Crash—smash— •whirl—dust—smoke! v The wedge- ontors! The wedge drives . ahead oyer fallen horses and dismount­ ed* riders—yelling, sloshing, catting— keeping its pace. A trooper slashes at me—a horse goes down in front o f mine. 1 feel myself ffdling with my horse, apd then ;.T.utp o fito f, thh fight fo r a moment. , » The darkness which enshrouded things passes away after a bit, And I find my horse lying across myfeet,Witli the saddle flap so holding them that his dead body mast bo lifted up to get me clear, The.charge o fth e gray troopers was broken. That wedge drove right through tbff masa and turned to qttack them in rear. Swirling about incittles like the vultures o f war, the mas* pf men edges away until the field around me is clear of all but dead and wound­ ed, I ’ve got a saber-cut on the shoulder, and cab feel the Warm blood bathing lay arm, but I know I could walk i f I •could get my feet clear- I am working to extricate them, when I hear boot- _ beats -behind me,' and next moment a riderless horse dashes up and comes to a halt Ah! but how tho glory o f battle ex­ cites a horse! Bee how red his nostrils —how high his head—the glare in his eyes—the tail held out like a, plume— the ears working and the legs dancing! lie has not beeh h it but he lias le ft his rider dead hack there in the stubble— a federal captain. The horse stands pawing anil snort-, ing, when out from the whirl of death, half a mile away, breaks a chestnut charger and comes galloping down upon us. There is blood on tho saddle- flaps—drops o f blood on hit shiny flanks. It is pot his blood, but that of tho confederate major who rodo him, and who lias been cut down ,by the stroke o f a sabre. It is gray vs. chestnut—federal vs. confederate. The ntewcomcr is still a hundred feet away, wlicrt the gray horse rushes at him with ears laid back and mouth open, and as Xwatch them I forget that shells are screaming, bttl- ' lets whistling And the sabio doing bloody work within sound Of my voice. As this two liotsOS come together they rear up, neigh defiance at each other, nnda fight begins—a .battle within a .battle. Kaoh scorns imbued with a deadly hatred for the otbar, aud to b « determined to destroy his antagonist , Now they rear up and strik# viciously at each other. ■Mow they wheel as ono and kick and utter shrill screams,'’ Now they beano.fi! to tho left—now to the right—-now crash together and strike and bite us if possessed o f the Spirit o f furies. Of * sudden I realize that they are close upon in'e.' In their mad fury they seo neither dead nor wounded—hear not the shot and shout of battle,' The •gray kicks a dead man aside as lie backs up fo r a. fresh effort; , the. chest­ nut tramples the <>Iifo out o f * iwounded * man pa he*dunces about . They wfll be over 'me if . I do'not stop them! ■-•The heels o f the gray are throwing dirt into my face ns' I unsling my carbine and resjt |t acVpts my dead horse for a -shot. 1 fire at the grny, as he'is nearest and the greatest menace, bat tlie bullet misses tho target A t that moment they begin to work to the left, and in the. next they are passing me, leaping' oyer dead. horses . ;jnd trampling on dead men as they scream and bite and kick. Above the roar, of battle I hear a rifle-shell coming. It gives out a growl­ ing* complaining sound5which no man ever hoars ..without a chiiL The sound grows louder —nearer — crasli! Tho horsefe were fifty feet away, and it must have struck one of them. Thero was a cloud pf smoke—a whizzing of ragged fragments, and when I could seo again both horses were down—torn and mangled and almost blotted off the-face o f the earth by the awful-force of the explosion.—M.’’Quad, in N. Y. World, “ I-et Jt'mn* Go,” .A simple argument stated in simple language, with sincere feeling behind it, is often more effective than anything which orators practice under the name of eloquence. A good example is fur­ nished in the memoirs of Jefferson Davis., A.young woman wrote to liim: "Dear Mr. President—I want you to let Jecms C. of company onetli, fifth South Carolina regiment come home and get married. Jecms is willin’. I is willin', his mammy says she is willin’, but deems’ captain be ain’t willin’. Now.when we arc all w illin ’ ’ceptin* deems* captain, I think you might let UP and let deems come. I 'll make him go straight back when he’s done got married and' fight just ax' hard ns ever.” Mr. Davis wrote 6n the letter: “ Lei. deems go.” • . • Jecms went home, married tho- affec­ tionate correspondent o f Mr. Davis', re­ turned to his regiment, and did fight as well as ever.—Youth’s.Companion. A B O U T O L D SOLDIERS. H enry W. S locum . of the famous old Twelfth Corps, is said to stand near the head of tho roster of surviving war gen­ erals of the army, . J oseph P atton , who lives hear Clif- ton lliil, in Randolph county. Mo... still has the pony he rode in the confederate army. I t id no,ta 'thirty-six years old and os fat os a mole, not haying been used any, or very little, for some years. - W illiam R anbosi was a private in Company G, Ninety-ninth Illinois in­ fantry, and according to evidence in tho possession o f. the government, was killed a t Vicksburg cn August 19, 18113. Somebody has been drawing n pension in tho name of this same Ransom since Augnst 11, 1868. and has lately secured an increaso and something over one thousand dollars backpenston. T he number' of war veterans in the employ Of the Various departments of the city government o f Now York is 197, divided as follows: bureau of chief engineer, 38; burcanof water purveyor, 79; bureau o f sewers, 39; bureau of street* aiid roads, 17; bureau o f repairs and supplies, 83; bureau of lamps and gas, 1; bureau of street improvements, 3; bureau of water register, 32, Tho above does not include laborers and mechanics, o f whom there arc many employed. Gov. B uckner , o f Kentucky, he who held Port Donclson against Grant aftci Pillow and Floyd had skedaddled, lia* been at West Point enjoying the ole scenes and telling stories, He was at the academy with Grant for three years, and says o f film; "Grant was the most fearless rider I ever saw at West Point, He rode a horse named Rocket. And I 'h ire seen him lake a six-foot hurdle in the basement o f the old acsdemical building, when nearly every one pres­ ent expected that he would have his brains dashed out against the low ceil­ ing or his leg or back broken by coming in collision with the posts that are dis­ tributed throughout the hall.”—Indian­ apolis'Journal. CAMP. d. B;'WtLt,IAMR, o f Alabama, is in a peculiar position. He was a sol­ dier in the confederate army. In May, 1865, he was captured and released on parole, "Now ,” lie Said, "the strange fnbt is, I have never been released from that parole. And, of course, until I am discharged i am simply a United States prisoner on parole. I have never taken the oath o f allegiance, on that Ac­ count But there need be no fear of my taking tip awns against the govern­ ment, The politicians may go ahead and do o f say wlial they please. I ’ll do nb fighting against this country's government. But if nny ono o f those foreign people get into tt fight.with tis then’s when I’ll come out, get my dis­ charge and go Into the service.” The parole Ssyellow with ago and almost worn Hut at the folds, tt is dated at Maridan, and is signed by CoL \V. 11, Miles fo r the confederate states, and b* * UoJi Henry Bertram, o f the Twentieth .Wisconsin, for the federal gworamofit. QF GENERAL INTEREST. —•History says the ancient Greeks need olive leaves for ballots, and the Australian voting system is a revival of the practice in Rome 3,000 years ago, History repeats itself. Modern im­ provements are often the revival of an undent voguo of some sort —Blizzard is English after'all, Re* cent storms in England have stirred up its use there and a correspondent gives this information; "The word ‘blizzard* is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. ( have known tho word audits kin fully thirty years." —The Medical Record erroneously er*di,ts a Boston poet with the honor of having, christened tho lobster "the car­ dinal of the sea.” The phrase belongs to a distinguished Frenchman. A Bos­ ton gentleman first called the clam “ the strawberry of the sea,” however, and his vname is Charles*Levi Woodbury- It is rather the happier thought-—Bos­ ton Herald. . —Not far1front Columbia, in Boone county, Mo., is a little church in tho middle, o f a graveyard. A few years ago, afterba severe storm, a man was found dead in the churchyard, directly tymeath one of the windows. On a pane in the window was as accurate a photograph of the dead man’s free as an artisf could have taken. The pict­ ure seemed to be permanently fixed in the glass, —Two men in a canoe had an excit­ ing race with a bear on Lake Wahnapi- taeping, Canada, a few days ago. They met the bear in a narrow channel. Ono of the men struck the bear on the head with an ax, and dropped the ax over­ board.in.doing so.. Then the- bear at­ tacked the- banoe. The men paddled for their lives, and fought off the bear with their paddles as best they could until he gave up the chase. —A Milwaukee physician reports the' biptli of a child having a true tail—that is, about three inches prolongation of the vertebral column. Most of the cau, dal: appendages observed as extras to specimens of the human race have been ■ pseudo-tails, or mere boneless flesh. It is fnrther:roportcd of this case of "the missing link” that surgoons fear to. "dock” it What nature has joined to­ gether let not mao put asunder. ' 1—A new invention for the purpose of remedying projecting cars in a child has-recently appeared. I t is an open cap made in the form o f a light skele-. ton o f elastic tapes, -which converge j over the ears. I t is worn at night and presses the ears gently down. Being tied under the chin it is said also to prevent the habit of sleeping with the' mouth open, which produces that son­ orous breathing inelegantly termed snoring. : —An immense shark pursued a school of fish at Port Tampa, F la . and wafj rapidly gaining on them when they sought shoal water by darting up a narrow channel that leads inland. The shark soon stranded itself, and amused several Interested spectators by madly snapping its jaws and tossing up tbe' sand, ’ Its writhings became so violent that it finally worked itie lf into deep water again, and quickly disappeared from sight . —One of the Now York -Sun’s report-; ere wound up his eight-day clock thd other day, but was chagrined to find that for-some reason or other the dock stopped striking. Suddenly one night about midnight tho block began strik­ ing. It was a deep, resonant gong like a fire belL Tt struck on and on,' with* no signs of stopping. And it continued to strike the hours for the whole eight days at once, including tho half hours; to the Consternation o f tho household, making just 1,440 consecutive strokes. —A new outdoor game is “ Aneletto.” It is played with ' rings. They are raised abput aix or seven feet from tho ground, by means o f slight iron rods, and the game consists in sending light ball* through a series o f thorn, Thhf is done by using a racquet, and re* quires considerable skill, as the diame­ ter of the rings is only about teq inches, while the balls are of tbe ordin­ ary tennis size, and the player is ex­ pected to stand some thirteen feet front the ring. It was invented by the vida^ of Old Buckcnham, Norfolk. —A singular f?eak of nature has many itested itself at Saratoga Mrs. Mary Francis originally had very black eyeif and a beautiful head of very black hair. She is about seventy years oh) now, in good health, and a rich widow. When she was about fifty her hair he* gan to turn white-and in a few yearn the whole of it was white ns snow, and so remained until about a year ago, When it began to turn black again, and has now, without the use o f ahy artifi­ cial means and purely as a freak o f na­ ture, almost wholly returned to it* original color, and is as long and silky as when she was a young woman. Tn T ell lim e by Your Mcaril. ( " I never carried a watch in my life,” said a New Yorker of fifty. "A watch is a habit, not a necessary article. No man who carries a watch can be nny. more regular in Tils habits than I niti. I can get up at a certain minute,and do so every morning. I can tell the time of day by fooling my face. The hoaru grows exactly so much, and yon can come within a reasonable time o f the hour by. passing the hand over your chin. Not that it is often necessary, because regular habits soon become second nature, anil yon never think of wondering ubout the hour, Of Course, the nmn who lives on trains and boats a good deal has to wear n fchnepiue* and lime-tabic”—'N1. Y, Herald, IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. A WOMAN 'S ANSWER, You a*U my band to-duy, and, Fending near. Your eye* meet mini: ! bear yourword* that burn, But with my band foe* all I hold mo*t dear; What have you, then, to oner in return? You asy you love ino. .Mon bitro lotrisd before, But not like you? Ah I you are not the brat. Shall it be "yok” or "nrf?” I’ll think ito’or, For by tbat word our live* 'are biesied or . cursed. You oner bonds and title*, gold and lands, Whisper of alt they buy of friend* and fume; 'Tl* Intuit I- Higher thing! my life demand* Beroro I share the honor of your muno. Say you my talk i* idle—heart is chill? Stop, atop, my friend, turn not nobold away, . Bear with mo for umoment, if yon will, * And briefly lmnr tho words I'huvo to »ay. Like mint wed like or life die out in pain; By mutual growth our natures must expand. 7 cun not choose tho hill.and you the plain, Wo two must go together, hand tuhand, I can not da nrf my mind, my soul aspires, ‘' 1 could not stay and in the valley sing, To yon far heights win ro glow celestial fires, You, too, must soar and match mo wing for Wing. A ' t> This Is my-unswer; read it. plain and straight . OBor no word of lovo, no mute caress; If your soul,claims >uo as its kindred mate, -Close to your heart I ’ll rapturous whisper; '. •“Yes!” - But if it docs not, come not to my side: But heed my words, my friend, and turn and gO. ' •■■■■ ; Lest touched my scorn and roused by woman- pride,. There's but one answer to your ctuesiion: ' “ NO!” —Harriet M. Spalding, In Chicago Herald, ENGLISH WORKING WOMEN.. Brier Report o f tho Recent Meeting o f tile Trade Union Association in London. A report of a public' meeting of the Women's Trade Union association, re­ cently held at St- James Hall, London, w ill'be interesting to American women, as showing tho interest taken by En­ glish women in one of tho vital ques­ tions o f the day. The first speaker was Mrs. Wynford Phillips, who insisted upon the necessity of union between working, women, “ inhere arc,” she said, "300,000 women" in England en­ gaged fn noble toiL whose condition is bad, and with all their work they can scarcely keep themselves from starva­ tion. The way to help these women is by teaching them to help themselves, tho only sure defense. Wages can be raised only by union. Some of the con­ ditions under which the workers live are due -to themselves: and in that fact there Is hope, for they are able to remedy them, .They undersell one an­ other, and till .this is put an end to nothing can. bo done for them. Those who arc- not-working women can help by demanding political enfranchise­ ment for women, for they alone can understand their own and their chil­ dren's needs. , Knowledge is greatly wanted among the women, and that can be obtuined .by trade-unionism. With more knowledge and sympathy and moral courage the world may be regenerated.” The secretary of the East London- ropemaker’s union was the next, speak­ er. The first necessity, -she thought, is for wo;nen to realize that they we're born witli the same rights us mem To niuintain this natural equality they must combine. Miss Clementina Black, secretary* of tho association, said that the work was not going' on us fast as could lie desired, 8he then appealed for ladies with leisure to go among tho working women and tell them of the advantages of trade-unionism. The only reward for such work would- be tlmt they would know that they were staying the great terror of England— pauperism. In conclusion Miss Black urged all not to tak |0 low wages, think­ ing that it would, only affect thura- selves. It lowered both women’s and men’s wages. Rev. Mr. Price Hughes wns the last speaker, and said that the work they were there to advocate would never be accomplished until the sympathy of all women wns enlisted. He believed with Paul that "the husbandman that labor- ctli must be tlie first to partake of the first fruits" of labor. The first neces­ sity was that the workers should be fed, that they should have enough to live in health and in reasonable com­ fort, Scripture, humanity and God were against the sweating o f the la* borer. Public opinion must be manu­ factured that would make such a thing impossible. The facts of the ease are not known, and lie urged the associa­ tion to print and publish them broad­ cast. An increase In wages did not of necessity increase prices, and. even if it did in certain cases xlo So, consumers must be’ prepared to pay those, in­ creased prices. To sacrifice the liddicft and souls of men to tho craze for cheap­ ness was 'abominable. He hoped that Christian women would respond to Miss Black's appeal, and do their ut­ most to spread information about the advantage of trade-unionism. It was by helping the least o f these iiis breth­ ren that we eould best please Jesus Christ. 1 The report states that Lady Henry Somerset was on tlie platform and of­ fered the opening prayer, and tlmt tlie. audience, was very large. A MAN who,knows sflyfl that owing to the increasing South American trade there is a great demand for stenograph­ ers with it kfiowiedg,* o f Spanish. Not only eould a bright Woman command a choice of situations, hut at a much bet­ ter salary limb iu an ,oflic.' where Eng- litdt only is required, *> A SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION. Woman as Ticket Heller* on New York £ l*v *t«d Road*. When the idea was advanced, months ago, o f placing women In the stations o f the Kings County Elevated root as ticket-sellers it was considered to be a doubtful experiment To-day it is an assured success: The experiment started by placing one woman at the Boerum Place sta­ tion. Now there are sixteen women occupying such positions, with ,hun­ dreds of applicants awuiting vacancies, A t Boorum Place there arc two women. A t Elm' Place there is one. When the Flatbush station is reached there w ill be seen in the office o f the ticket-seller a neat, business-like woman at every stopping-place on the downtown side between that and Roekaway avenue, “ We feel here,” said Superintendent Langford recently, “ that wo have done a masterstroke in this business. I quite pride myself upon the move, for I took, tlie entire responsibility'upon my­ self at first I made a study o f this thing. I went to the old Staten Island road, where 'they employ women only. Then when I was abroad Hooked care­ fully into the subject of .women’s work there. I fe lt convinced .from what I saw thp,t .we could employ women here to our own advantage. I have in no wise been disappointed in the trial we have made.” "Do women fill the positions you , give them as well as men?’’ was asked. "Better. That is they are easier to manage. They come quietly to their work every day, and . they stay there­ until their duties are over. Men are al­ ways wanting to be- off for a ball game or a horse race, or they have trouble among themselves or something, of that - kind,” "I)o the women seem satisfied with their positions?” “Perfectly so. They are w ell p ro tected.- The offices arc pleasant; the work is not hard, ami they are quite re-- tired. Few have time to stare at.them in the hurry of buying a ticket. Wo allow no one to stop and.talk to them.' Really the position is a most desirable one. Some of the ladies at the differ­ ent stations are highly educated wom­ en—women of the gauntest refinement. They command tho respect -of every ' one.”—N. Y. World. ONE SIDE OF THE SITUATION. Some of the Reasons Why Young Women Prefer the Shop to Uomestle Service. Mrs. Helen .Campbell has collected a large number of testimonials from working girls in seeking for reasons why young women prefer shops to do­ mestic-service, aud finds these counts against mistresses: 1. Tlmt mistresses do not know what a day's work means and will seldom if ever guarantee any -payment for over time or give any portion of tho day ab­ solutely free to .the worker, especially in tho position of child's nurse. 3. That a comfortably warm and de­ cently furnished room with separate beds if two must occupy it. is almost unknown, and decent appointments for meals equally so. . !!. That even where the servant is willing to take less wages, the mistress is seldom willing to have the heaviest work arranged for; this meaning car­ rying coal up many flights of stairs, scrubbing pavements, washing, etc. 4. That often a livery is required, thus setting the Bcrvant apart and forcing her to take a social -position which most -regard as degrading. 5. That thero is seldom any place but the kitchen for receiving visitors nor any securing from espionage, whether they nro male or female. 0. The servant is often treated by tho mistress as if her place and work were contemptible and children aru allowed to take the same attitude. FOR THE FEMININE READER. T he wage* of shop girls in London rango from 835• to 840 a year in the poorest kind o f shops, to 8350 to 8400 a year in the aristocratic establishments. T he contract for mail mfessenger service in Toledo has been given to a woman. It requires eight wagons. She had the same route last year, and did the work satisfactorily. M hs . M arie H iggins , of Washing­ ton, 1). C., lias been selected as super­ intendent of the schools for girls in Coy* ion, under the woman’s educational so­ ciety, founded by 2,000 native women o f the island. W omen barbers are a pronounced success in London. They are less loquacious, more rapid tn tlicir move­ ments and more careful than men, Aft association o f women barbers lias been founded in that city. T here are two young women stu­ dents in the law dcprultncnt of the Na­ tional university of Chili at Santiago, but as such independence and progres- sivoncss in Women are looked upon With disfavor there tlie position of tins senoritns is liot entirely enviable: T here are now four female physi­ cians resident in New,, York State hos­ pitals for the insane. Hr, Evelyn Val­ entine is at the Monroe county insane nsyUiin, .Or, Caroline S. Pease is at Poughkeepsie, Dr. Eleanor McAllister is at Buffalo and l)r. E. 11, Irwin is at Binghamton. Dn. L ot ' i a IttiTii I rwin , who was ns* sMant to the professor o f opttiahnOlo- gy in the female wards of the hospital in Ann Arbor, during Ids senior year at the medical department o f tlie univer­ sity o f Michigan, it now iwsaolated with her father at Columbus, In 1„ making a specialty o ! disease.; o f the eye,