The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

The CedarvilleHerald. THEBATTLEFIBLIX CEDARVILLE, W. B. BLAUC, PaMUlur, r ~ " ; « OKIO, THE PARENT'S CONSENT. U tile .Senteiiee*ThatMake JByeryi.-rlvlleg* Twice •tayauu to the Children. 1 think there are parapts who might pay “yes” to thpjr ,&ItdMnmuch;mpre frequently than they 4o. ft is tfery. touching to see a family of ch inch who are planning fortnemselves somi little treat or pleasure,, select the youngest because he is the pet or the one whom they suppose to bo for some reason the most in favor, to go. and ask papa or mamma, as the case may be, for the coveted permission; us if papa And mamma were two dread tyrants who must he upproached with the ut­ most tact and discretion, and taken in a genial mood, or the little petitioners ' would not attain the desired boon. Many a time I myself have been ap­ proached by some small friend and re- quested to ask mamma for me; she will do it for you, 1 know, but she would say “ no” right away to me. And I, feeling that this would probably be the case, have exercised whatever talk 1possessed, with the mother, and when I have won the, coveted; permission I have gone with the happy sentence, “ Yes, mamma says you can do it,” to gladden the heart of the little petitioner waiting without. Surely this is all wrong. It is true that awise mqther is obliged duringthe course of a day to {refuse more than she is able to grant, hut eveiy eliild ought to have an assuredConfidence that these refus;ils;u.re the result of no tyranny or caprice, but that they are All given in a spirit of perfect kindness and truest love. Often a busy raother/hasf no time to explain her reasons for a refusal, sometimes it is best not to explain,' in cither cose the child must accept the „ decision, and he will do it cheerfully if he is absolutely siirC that mother would gladly say “ Yes” if she'could. That is just the trouble. Why should . Polly wear the blue frock, insteadpf the garnet one? Why must Jack's new hflt be a derby when he wants a soft felt?* Why will you make gingersnaps when the children prefer cookies?. Why can­ not their tastes, ideas and preferences be suited when it would do no harfn? Many people seem to think that the ■proper way to bring up a child is to cross it &■ much as possible. 4: Sometimes it is an excellent plan to .allow a child to have its own.way even when you know the result will not be in accord, with the best judgment. A young girl of my acquaintance >vcnt once with her-mother to purchase u .pair of gloves, Site selected a pair which were of a delicate pearl color, .while her mother thought It best'•that she should have brawn. “Mamma," said the girl, “ A da want the pearl-colored ones very much.” “ I t is true,” answered thd mother, “ that they are prettier, but they will not be so durable.” ; “Mamma, do you say that I mu»t get the brown?’* “ 0, no,” replied tbo mother, “ I wish yon to ubo your own judgment, only re­ memberif you buyOle pearl-coloredones ,that they will soil easily, and yet you must wear them as long os you would if they were brown, for I cannot offord to get yon ad extra paih” “Mamma,” said the girl, “ t will be very careful of them, and they urc so very pretty that I think I must have them.” So they were bought, and the happy girl went homo1with her treas­ ure, but of course they soon grew soiled and shabby; still Bertha Wore them un­ til they were worn out, . . . “Mamma,” said she, when ht last she had another pair, “you were right and 1was wrong about those old .pearl-col­ ored things. YoUr judgment was bet­ ter than mine, and you were so sweet about it. You did not scoldme a bit, or say *1 told you so* once, but I have learned my lesson. I never will be so silly again.” ' >v! “ That is all IWant, my child,* an­ swered her mother, amiling as her daughter gave her a kiss and ran gayly but o f the room. Sometime* parent* say “ yaa” in such a rude ana grudging way that the granted pleasure is tooth than half spoiled. “ Yes; take it and be satisfied/ • “ Yes; go if you want to;” “ Yes; go along.- lam glad to be rid of you.” > “Yes; take yourself off, do, and 1TI hate a little peace *h& quiet f at a time,” !- „ Have riotthesea familiar sounds Ah, fathers and mothers my “yes1’ when* ever you consist*ntly mm- The day w ill surely comewhen It will be out of your power to Blake yoxr ahlldren hap­ py any more; and whenyon do Say “ yes,” say it cordially with nil your heart “ Yes; you may go, and I hope yon wilt have a beautiful time.” “Yes; you may take one; doesn’t it tastegood?” “ Yes; you may liaVc that. Mamma loves to give it toyou.” . . Such little sentences as these make every privilege twice joyout They sweeten the cake, make the now dress still prattler, and the party more de­ lightful than it could be otherwise to the loving, sensitive, childish heart, and It 1* just such little things as these which turn ihd tide for good or evil la many an Impetuous child nature.— Christian at Work. SLEEPING STANDING UP, AHoldlsr’a Kouick Kxprrleiiee an m Kalny MKht. Soldiers who-saw service at the front have no difficulty in bringing to mind recollectionso f long,weary marches and 9 f sleepless nights, but from among them nil there arc many which we can recollect as being worse and more try­ ing than others. The night of May 4, 48o2, impresses itself upon my memory I (a* being about as bad as any 1 saw. May is supposed to be a warm"month in the south, but after marching all day in a steady rain, and being, drenched to the skin, T found the temperature un­ comfortable. McClellan’s army was then close ito Williamsburg. The eon*' federates had halted, and the next day a .battle was fought. I t was of eoUrso out of the questionto think of the army going into camp. Consequently we had to stand around; artillery horses re­ mained hitched to the guns, and the drivers were hitched to the horses, or had to be on hand so close that the bu­ gle would call us to mount in a mo­ ment. My rank at that time was lead driver on the second gun. Ourbuttery was standing in line in an open field. We.could not unroll our blankets or put bp our tents, andbad no opportunity to make coffee because of the lack of fuel, and nof one dared to go far enough away-td find it for fear we would be ordered to mbvc, and let me say.that it still rained as it had been doing for thirty-six hours, and it whs no Michi­ gan or Indianan rain, either. I t was the genuine old Virginia rain that soaked through your clothing, through your fiesh. and into the marrow of your bones. Boys, you have been there— many of you who read this around your comfortable fires- It is hard to realize it, hut it is a fact just the same. No other rain ever felt as wet to me s.s the article they gave ’ us in' Virginia, but I started to tell you of the rest I -got on that rainy night of May I. I'got along very well and kept awake by walking until perhaps twelve o’clock With all my wits at work I had not yet found any way or place to sleep except by standing up, A nail or a peg to hang myself up on was not at han<L The ground was too wet. After exhausting every idea and finding ho relief, it oc­ curred,to me that by standing between my horses, and throwing an arm over the neck of. each, that with the support thus affordedl would be able to remain in an upright position, and if I did fall asleep I would not fall over in the mud and get-my new clothes all soiled. Well, tried my plan and it worked, but I found that for one to sleep, while being living up by the arms, was not the. most comfortable way, but -I slept and hung on, too. 1got tired, woke up, got the numbnesA out of my arms and slept again; and in that wuy 1 passed the night. It rained continually, and in the morning I pulled off my boots and emptied the rain water tlmt had filtered through my' clothes into them. To the present generation this may seem like- an old sol­ dier's “yarn,” but to those of us who were there, it .Wns but the experience of thousands of other men, and is mild in comparison to many they had. Why the memories of .that night shouldcling, to me so closely I can’t-say, unless be­ cause they were among the first 1 had had of the kind, and more strongly im­ pressed my mind, I often ask myself the question—“ Would you do it all over again under the same circumstances?” And I usually answer, “ I guess I would,” We get. wild wuno times because we think our services arc not fully appre­ ciated. hut we can appreciate them our­ selves and the satisfaction of knowing we did our duty affords us solid com­ fort, even though we arc obllzcd to me­ ander,down the shady side of the jour­ ney of life upon a wooden leg.—C. 11. Gates, in National Tribune, A BIT OF WAR HISTORY. Lieut, f,ilnu<7’i Luck/ T'Ulior. Shot at fort *To the surviving soldiers and sailors whijfbok partIn the/eduction ■of Fort Fisher, in January, 1605, it will be par­ ticularly interesting, to read, perhaps for the' first time, that a lucky shot from the then famous ironclad New Ironsides, turned the* tile of buttle in favor of the northern forces and short­ ened the time o f the capitulation of the fort by at least one day. if not more. To the late Homy II. Ramsey, then a naval lifcutenAht of Fort Wayne, Ind., belongs the honor of giving the order which landed an eVven-inrh shell in the center of the traverse occupied by the confederate--, scattering and de­ moralizing them so th,:t mu* troops rushed in and took’ possession Of the hotly*cdnte«ted point, which about an hour and a half of stubborn hand-to- hand fighting had failed to give us. The circumstances were these: Our troops had reached, I think, the fifth traverse, where the rebels hail made a determined stand, and it Seemed Impos­ sible to dislodge them. Commodore Radford remarked that if they could hold their position a little longer it would bp dark and he was afraid our troops would be obliged to “ retire.” The Ironsides was ordered by Admiral Porter to keep up a slow bombardment to Harass the enemy ab much as possi­ ble during the land assault*the remain­ der of the fleet keeping silent. Admi­ ral l’ortcr, with his flagship Malvern, was on our port quarter watching our firing. Seeing where our Bhclls were falling, lie telegraphed and asked Gen. Terry “ I f our fire was not endanger­ ing our own people,” to which the re­ ply «aaa, “ No!” 11*. *pk »§d- Keep it up.” Wo wero i# n g Ut iStetton at interval* of ahffwti * * » AMgPf o fit” * mending at No* l gun iinwgNo. » gun was reached, no the effect of each shell could be noticed. ' Lieut- Rurnsey, who was in charge ol the Second- Divfstytt. (Nos. f i,and * guns,) came to our executive officer, Lieut-Com. Robert L. Phythian, (now captain*) and aahed-hfaw if b*» (Rum*ey} could not direct King, captain No. 3 gun, to put a shell into the traverse the rebels were holding so desperately. King waBan excellent marksman; hence his request* Phythian had not time to .answer, as our commodore beckoned him away, and Rurnsey returned to his division and ordered King to put a shell into the traverse. Overhearing the con­ versation I watoked. ;to°m: No. 7 port Bnd- saw^the shpllUfrom-No- 8 2 fht,cx- ptode in.fhe very center Of $ie tSwrer80 with the tremendous^ effect before re­ lated. Onr troops then steadily ad­ vanced and gained possessiono f the fort late that evening. - 5' When we were celebrating.the victory in the ward room, Lieujb, Ramsey was often congratulated for hls lucky ishot, and when next day all hands \Vere mus­ tered. to hear Admiral Foij?to$seulogistic letterhead by tair commbdbre firbehalf pf himself, hi8 oflieers, andCi‘ew for the prominent part takbn T.thjsuglit if Ad­ miral Porter- nad only known the im­ portant part played by Lieut Rurnsey he would have had special mention. jJf course the chances were one'out of a hundred that it would.not have demor­ alized our own troops. Still, in this in­ stance it won, and it is hard to estimate the result of suspendingoperations over night . Lieut Rumsey’s lucky shot probably saved many lives by reducing the time of -the conflict The downfall of this last stronghold' wns most disheartening to our erring brothers, and hastened the ’day when they were all gathered'once more into- the happy household of Uncle Sam. The crowning- act o f Lieut Rumsey’s heroism occurred li few years ago. After safely getting out of a burning hotel in the northern part of this state; he gallantly went back through the fire and smoke in answer‘to the cry of a child, which ho saved, but. at the cost of his own life.—N. Y. Times. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF, WOMAN’S ECONOMIC PROGRESS. An Indication of ProgrmM That S h o a lfl Da Taken a* Glorloa* Dew*. I said that a* teachers; woman bad reached the apex o f lier industrial effort.- I t Is not to be supposed that this implies that every woman must become teacher o f the tbree R’s. Thera Is a wide field open to them in every quarter, from paring potatoes up, if you will, to the trades, professions, arts and sciences. To be * teacher, no mat*, ter of what division of labor; requires* high order of intelligence, Even in' the. paring of potatoes it is not only the ability to do the same skillfully that is necessary. The BuccesB of a teacher depends upon the power of imparting knowledge. This necessitatesthe study o f tlx* human character, and the denser the minds to enlighten, the more this power will be found necessary. So let the many women who are unemployed waiting for an opportunity to teach the three R’s, turn their attention to other departments of teaching, intro­ ducing along with other training, some­ thing pleasant and agreeable to think of, the one being done better by being done automatically, the other making it agreeable to do it; and thus step by step, traversing two worlds at once, or nt this point discerning the first step in the social world. Some have been keen enough to discern this fatit and have established cooking schools, teaching cooking as a science. This in its en­ tirety, of course, reaches a different class. This school, however, is a new integration created by-woman. It will soon differentiate and departments will be -established to accommodate those whose intelligence can not as yet grasp it as' a science Look where you will, you will find specialized labor among women as yon Then JehMitf a long-drawn sigh of wondering eoaetepapt bom the group; the one ne*re»fcA* door bow* depracaV Jwgly to theethapB, slip* into the dress­ ing room, spend* her shrunken minutes best she may, and emerges with wetted sponge and open bag, to stand in a corner of the passage and finish the process of making herselflunnotiee- able. i Referring to such incidents an indig. nant woman remarked: “ I believe that any flagrant infraction of the rights of individuals on the part a woman is gen- - etollv-to be raferjjed to inexperience or ipidfanttk She fi*d» lierself in a totally A w ^ ^ i o n —ttalb'ia, in possession of a ' dressfog room?wlfich belongs to her only by courtesy, and for a very limited tirhd. 'Tfsheisyoungor dull or totally without the discipline of constantly clianging circumstances, her mind fails to recognize the tenure, and ,in conse­ quence she sins in an unforgivableman­ ner against the laws of courtesy. Un-. less she is very, very dull, she scarcely commits this sin a second time; but if shedoefepuhishmentShould be invented, for surely none exists, equal to the aw­ ful exasperation of her crime. I leave the suggestion to the many who have suffered at the'hands of this sort of woman, and commend her to the class whose tender mercies are characterized in the Bible as “ cruel.”—N. Y.Sun. INTOLERANT MOTHERS. THE FIRST GUN. or Efc-WItncMM of the Bombardment Fart Sumter. Thirty-one years ago the first gun of the civil war was turned upon Fort Sumter. Of the band, of ten officers, who with the gallant’Maj, Anderson held out so long nnd bravely against the outbreak of rebellion, but two are left to tell the story less than the third of a century after. ■ They are Maj.-Gen. Samuel W. Craw­ ford, of Pennsylvania; and Gen. Abner Doubleday, of Mendhim, N. J. Gen. Crawford lias but lately returned from Europe, where he has been under the treatment of prominent physicians fora wound rccicved at Antietam, and Gen. Doubleday is nn invalid at his home. In his room at the army arid navy club Gen. Crawford spqkeof that bombard­ ment, small as an engagement but far- reaching in its results. lie was a broad-shouldered man with gray side whiskers, fall, ruddy face, large, fearless eyes and a military hear­ ing despite the wound which lias some­ what crippled his movements. He is the only man who saw the first and the last gun of the war fired, having been witli Anderson at Sumter and Grant at Appomattox, t n Gen, Crawford was a soldier at the breaking outpf the war. Hqhad joined the service in 16(11 and served for five years in the Eighth infantrywith Long- street and Pickett. <A t Sumter lie took command of the battery which opened fire on Fort Moultrie. President Lin­ coln had* a warm place in his heart fdr the men wht> had served at Sumter, and soon heoffered Gen. Crawford (then surgeon) his choice between a commis* slon as*lieutenant-colonel and major The latter was accepted and the com* mission was for Gen. Sherman’s old regiment, thcThirtcenth. It was while in commandtif the First division on the famous cornfield at Antietam, oop­ posite the Dunkard church, that the wound was received which ra- Crawfordfrom active n few months, and of which he has been abroad for two years and a half. Jnst liefore the northern movement, which received its cheek atGettysburg. he was on duty, in Washington, on iieeount of wounds, but through the Influence of .Senator Cameron and A. K. McClure, and regardless of his physician, he wns placed in command of the Pennsylva­ nia reserves, and did w(dhranu*inhered service at Gettysburg. After service *11 through the Rapidan up to the last gun at Appomattox, he remained in the army until 18T3, when ho was retired with the? rank of brigadier-general. His friendship with Stonewall Jackson is a passage of his life which the gen­ eral loVes to recall. Of Into years ho haBbeen aprolific writer on topics per- tailing to the civil war, and at present Gen, Crawford I* engaged uponmemoirs o f' the campaigns Which ho witnessed and took part in.—Chicago Mail. —Doctor (to tdw-headod urchin)— 'How is your mother, my little man? Tow-headed u-eliin—She's getting ro­ mantic iff her right knee, sir,—Wasp. —Jagson says it is no proof tlmt love is permanently blind simply because a bridal trip to Niagara Falls doesn’t re* move th.* cat; iract—Elmira Gazette, tired Gen. service for on account will among men. In the laundry,which is a comparatively new industry, the wushers do not iron, the ironcrs.of shirts do not iron collars, and so on. In the dressmaking establishment, where the labor has become specialized as. in the factory, the sutne ’system prevails. In these establishments women no long­ er make a whole dress, but the labor is so divided that one mukes. a skirt; an­ other a waist, another a sleeve.. The under garment industry for both men andWomen,every class of garment and every division of the garment,' is made by special laborers, nnd so on, through every industry in which women are en­ gaged. Thus we will find it in every employment created by women. This is not confined to what woman alone consume, but you will see that all theso employments are.equally necessary to man, from the furnishing of food up, just us every industry conducted by man is necessary for woman—for man builds the house and woman builds the home; The error is here. Women fail to see that.they are a necessary inter­ dependent factor in the industrial world. When they recognize this fact much of the confusion will be obviated. Women will no longer desire to become practical carpenters and bricklayers. The busy whirr of the factory is grad­ ually gathering into its system the slaughters of isolation; and by reason of this fact wc are no longer tibhvto find efficient servants willing to live nn isolated existence with nn ignorant dis­ orderly mistress, ami seldom with a scientific housekeeper who thinks she can evolve comfort from low priced' labor. This is why even the “ green horn” is becoming scarce for like pluces. I f she assumes the aggressive to the de­ gree of impertinence, we should con­ sider that all things in a statu of transi­ tion are restive, and it is only human beings who can give expression to their unrest Women! Even theso poor ^laughters of the soil have newly awak­ ened desires and thus give expression to thd strength of their demands. ThiBis an indication of progress whicli we should herald as glorious news, for this solves the servant-girl question—and whatever solves that solves the woman question; for that is the Ix'ginning, apd when the lowest have pushed on a pace, those, at the other end must have ad* vanecd too—for woman is woman all along the line.—Social Economist. in th E^ sleep I ng car . „ The Woman Who Forgot: Other Traveler* Caused llefleclloiM and Soggeotlonii, Given a sleeping ear on a long ronte and ten women in the various compart­ ments who have been notified by the porter promptly At seven that the train will stop at Charleston, or Chicago, or Denver at eight for breakfast. Each Immediately rouses herself, rescues her different belongings from the gulf and creases into which they have fallen, fastens them with difficulty at levels which are strange to tliem, seizes her dressing bag, and goes to the dressing room to find eight other women gath­ ered outsidesnd the doorlocked, barred, bolted between them and the tenth one —the woman who forgot others. Five minutes Is the limit allowed by just division and law o f equity to each of these women in which to wash, brush, and put up her back hair. They wait patiently for five minutes, grum­ bling for ten, Impatiently for fifteen, indignantly for twenty and furiously for twenty-five. Then there is an eye conference, thbn a series of knocks which take on the character of violent remonstrance. Thirty minutes- fovty —forty-fivej—tho bolt is heard to slide back, and some one emerges—combed, curled, brushed, powdered, and but­ toned—a self-satisfied creature who smiles innocently in thecindery faces which confront her. Many Who Will. Not Share In the Progress About Them. “One of the signs of the age,” says an observing woman, Vis the difficulty grown daughters find in adapting their ideas to the intolerance of the mothers who will not share in the progress about them.' This is especially true where the daughtersdo not marry early, '. and either remain at home or-go out to pursue some of the many occupations ■ now open to women. In either of the latter cases the home cords are not much loosened—not nearly so much as when the daughter establishes herself by marriage in aii independent house­ hold. “ The gap between the inother edu­ cated twenty-five ' yeare' ago and the MaffghterAbreast of-these glowing times is wider than it'ever will be again, and it is a trying one to the filial child, whose Widening reach of things only, increases her sense o f what is due to her mother and eagerness to bring the weil-loved parent within the scope of the falling blessings. To many women motherhood’brings an Autocracy that is neverwholly relinquished; for years her lightest wish has been the daughter’s law, and, if what Thackeray calls ‘the tyranny of parents' is modified in many instances, in.equally as many others it painfully exists. “ 1 have in. mind at this moment a wise, calm, filial woman of thirty-five, whose capable work in a library gives her widowed and otherwise childless mother a‘ pleasant home, in which, alas! its provider has no home feeling. All herplaUA and,ambitions are thwarted, or, if perforce accepted, it is with Boant grace; her Iriends are not welcome, her' liobbjes are not tolerated, her theories and principles are not respected, She is merely to the mother a big edition of the little girl whom she told to putwon her school frock to-day and to-morrow her church gown, and whose ungrudg­ ing hospitality she accepts with no smallest sense of obligations.”—N. Y. Times, ' SPICY GLEANINGS. Mns. M ixmk K kk I j EHG oad , a young todmiin lawyer -of Appleton City, Mo., has lately been admitted to the bar. Qv the jjfty women who are engaged in active newspaper Work in the state of Michigan, five publish their Own newspapers, ,independent of any as­ sociate. Tn>: post of house surgeon in the largest hospital in Adelaide, Australia, has Iieen given to Dr. Laura Fowler. This lias been a pretty healthy year for women in several of the professions. Miss A lick R ideout , of San Fran­ cisco, has been awarded the contract for-sculptural work On the Woman's building at the World's fair. She pre­ pared the designs some time ago. She will receive 96.200. Miss E sther C. Fnvx has taught a private school for children in Belfast, Me., for thirty years. Her little school- house is described as a quaint, cosy,* old-fashioned pluco, with the stars and stripes floating over it. T he tnoitey order department of the Pittsburgh post office is exclusively in charge of Mbs Mary fUeele, and the re­ ceipts, almost 82,.>00.000Ihst year, mark it ns probably the largest tm&incss handled by any woman in America. Mts3 LAthtA Roeoftn lias been elected OOnnty school superintendent in Keith county* Neb., against two oppos­ ing men candidates; and Mrs. J. F. Rus­ sell, of Topeka, Kan., has succeeded her husband, recently deceased, as superin­ tendent of the county alms-house. T he : Writers club, which has been formally opened in London, comes the nearest to the ideal of any of the wom­ en’s organizations. I t provides a place where women engaged in literary, or journalistic work can write in silence, dine, see tlie newspapers, and meet their friends. P rincess F rederick C rari . es , who has accepted the presidency of the German' Women's department of the Chicago fair, is the widow of the fam­ ous cavalry general who played a prom­ inent part in the wars of 1804,1880 and 1870, and was known as the “ Red Prince” oil account of the warlet hussar uniforms he always wore