The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

The Cedarville Herald. W. *L MhuSh IHllHUhw. CEDARVILL®. t * OBHX STIMULUS TQ STUDENTS. T«n-Do]Ur B ill* H idden In th e I’. | e i a f Ileep and Dry Volumn*. An exclamation o f surprise bu rst from the lips of a young fellow who lmd been listlessly turning* over th e leaves of a ■ volume while standing; it) an aisle of a . vrell known library a, few days ago. ‘•What's, the matter?’* asked a cbm* panion who w as standing near by. “ You must have strucksomething rlph.” ‘‘Quito right,” returned th e former, “What do you th ink of this?” At the same time the speaker exhibited a crisp ten-dollar bill of th e moat recent vint­ age. “You may not believe it,” he re* marked, “b u t I ju s t found th is X be* tween the covers of this book.” / • A discussion of the lucky find fol­ lowed. One of the young men then suggested th a t search of the volume m ight bring Borne explanation of the peculiar discovery. The hook was. Sam- . uel §mile’6“‘‘Self-Help,” a series’of ad­ dresses th a t are qo t read as often as they Bhould be. Neatly folded in th e place where th e bill h ad hidden la y a note th a t had a t first escaped the atten ­ tion of the pair, I t was unfolded w ith tremulous fingers. W ritten in a quer­ ulous, unsteady hand were these sur­ prising words: >5 Tothe Finder—I place tht* note here In sup­ port of a fond ideaofmine that it will stimulate young raen. to read sod digest more frequently I have pursued this same method with other work*- ■i r ■ ■ The. singular discovery of the note, and the greenback had its apparent ef­ fe c t After recovering from their as* \ tonishment, the young men began rum­ maging among the books th a t they con- • eluded were heavy. ’Those iu the library itt the time and for several hours afte r­ ward, were curiously w a tc h in g a pair of young men running rapidly, bu t care­ fully. through the leaves of the musty books. At the end of a couple of hours two weary young fellows cat down and glared disgustingly a t each other.. “ I’m afraid w e are looking-'in the ■wrong place,” remarked the fortunate finder of the first greenback. “I guess th a t old codger has scattered these through the library. Let's giver it up to-night and have a good time on this money. I t will help us to be more cult­ ured!” For several days j afterward these . young fellows' searched assiduously through th e books. B u t their efforts m et with pathetic failure. Whether th e unknown philanthropist scattered th e greenbacks through the lib rary a t random will, perhaps not be known un­ til some other individual accidentally tu rn s another .Xi ;r Some of the" friends of the p a ir spoken of wero taken in to confidence on th e plan of . share and share alike. Since th e afternoon referred to there has been a remarkable interest taken by young men in books on mental advancement ' and other things of th a t sort. But they have skimmed through them with mar* veloux rapidity. The’story of .the unknown philanthro­ pist floated to the cars of a reporter yes­ terday and ftn excursion was a t once made to the library in question. But the search was unsuccessful in a mon­ etary way, although? ft discovery of an interesting sort was mode. In a volume of .lames Freeman Clark’s “Men- ta l Culture” waft th is inscription: “You nrc.on the righ t patU to a n en­ viable Intellectual state. Follbw it up studiously. You will profit thereby.” Perhaps it wns the -unknown bene­ factor again.—Philadelphia Call. HE NEVER DIED. Perennial Politician Who la D eath * Proof. “I t is your la st chance,” said- the agent- “You have been very sick, half a dozen doctors have given you up; take ou t a policy now and be prepared for th e worst,” “ I think not,” said the old man, wrap­ ping himself closer in the blankets. “Hut th ink of yonr wife and family.” “That Is true,” said the man shiver­ in g as though in the arms of death. “Our company is liberal; our policies ..take immediate effect; if you keep mum I will be able to w rite you up and no one w ill know the difference; there is • no other company in the United States, 1 believe, th a t will take the risk,” “T h at is perhaps true,” said the man, huskily. “According to your, own story you have a silver plate in you^liead, yonr vital: organs are shattered, your le ft leg is broken in three places, your liver is dead, your rig h t lung is all gone and yonr eyes are dosed.” “Every word true,” murmured the patient, coughing dismally, “Then you do ho t cate fo r a policy, «W ’ . “ 1 do not; n o t even ton thousand dol­ la rs for fifty cents; good day, kind sir.” “Well, this is such a strange case* perhaps you m ight tell mo exactly what your reasons arc; I may be able to over­ come them w ith logic, ‘ “ Because, sir, I never die.” “ What’s that?” “My harvest is hea r*at hand now, a fte r four long years o f’waiting. I am th e genuine character of whom you have often read who has deposited a b allo t for every president of the United States from Washington'* time down. Please hand me th a t paper there on the stan d as I w an t to read all the political news nnd keep in th« swim.”—N. Y. .Recorder. THE BATTLE FIELD. THE QUARTERMASTER'S STORY. H« Brake hp Quit* a Keller (lame and - (iilH it a Cheese. I t was a snowy day outside, almost • blizzard—consequently th e smoking room down in the basement of th e home was well patronized on ^ i s dismal De­ cember day. Billiards, pool, and th e card tables were surrounded by players snd spectators, .while over a ll hung a blue cloud of smoke from countless pipes Every pipe ever invented by a Yankee genius, or dreamed of by a jol­ ly Dutchman, wjm here represented—- stone, ifiuy, briar-root, .genuine and im itation meerschaum, down t o the celebrated Aptly'Jackson “corn Cob,” tlic favorite of all soldiers. As usual, there were to be seen in a cosy corner nex t the steam pipes, a goodly crowd of vets assembled, listened w ith the g re a t­ e st ; in terest to ’An ex-quartenpastey,. who related the following win? anec­ dote: “ 1 belonged to the Acorn (M) corps,- Blue Acorn division, commanded by Baird. We were named th e Acorn corps because we lived on roasted, acorns when ,we had nothing better to fill op on; th a t is, during acorn season!, y g u known. ..Well, I guetsypu allraobUeCt whey we Started o n th a t devil-may-catu sort of march, from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Washington, by way Of iRichmond, The war being over, we naturally felt kind of ^rambunctious;’ a ll wanting to get home? everybody laying all sorts of plans; some building castles in the pir, some being happy in the firm belief, th a t Sara Jane and Mol-. lie hadn’t ‘gone back’ o n ’em. “I waB «i jolly boy th en , nnd fu ll of pranks. Mother used to -say, ‘Hiram, you’ll ;ulway8..be a . boy i f yon live till you’re as old a s Methuselah!’ and I. reckon she was- rlg b t,f ° r I-am a boy yeti’ . “ I suppose you all remember when .we were a t James river! .opposite Rich­ mond, waiting to get over,, while Bi^Iy Sherman won jaw ing w ith old UnllcCk -about whether 1the ‘bumblers’ should wear white gloves on review before h im or not; for you well know th a t Sherman; lmd about ns little use for Gen. lTaileck' cs an Irishman hna for an nigger? ■“I was awful 'restless .one night, prid strayed out for a walk about t l o’clock- In rambling round the camp I accident­ ally came across the commissary’s Inrge tent, where a b righ t light, Con­ trary to all'orders was burning. ‘Vappmcntly,’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a ter­ rible gtiili Good thing he’s, not in fron t Of Hood,down on Peachtree crCek, or h^WOuldcatch the dickens, sure ’nough,’ CurfowAto know whut was a’goin’on in­ side, 1 drew near the canvass. Well," boys, as sure as I am sitting here, they were playing poker! Our major, the eonimlssary, the surgeon, and, by-Chris-, topher Columbus! our .chaplain wns Opening a jaek-pot on a pair of queens! I was so ustonished th a t I gave a loud whistle, forgetting all about where I was. “What do you think'happened next,’ boys? You'll never guess it! Out went the light, o u t'b u lg ed th e canvas, nnd out rolled something in th e shape of an old-fashioned wheel - barro w wheel, which knocked me out. Yes, as fiat as a pancuke. Beared as I was, I managed to scramble up in a g reat deal quicker time than you’ll bnagihe, and on c r im ­ ination found s Western Reserve chetAe, with the lidknocked off. I didn’t stop to inquire abou t how the game ended, o r who rolled the cheese ont, b u t rais­ ing my prize o u t of its shell, I started for our quarters on the double quick. I divided even up. and no questions wore ever asked the quarterm aster In regard to i t ”—Fred. Rogge, in Toledo Blade. AN ESCAPE FROM LIBBY. , A Onlou Soldier's Perilous tfndertnUlriK to , , *t)aln HI* I>ll>efty. The escape of Marion T. Anderson from Libby prison was a perilous risk to take for liberty. He told the story In an address before the Lincoln post the other evening. He had received a box of provisions from }iis fa the r in In­ diana th a t had been th ree months on the way. When he first entered the prison he had w ritten his father if he did send him any clothing to p u t a roll of greenback bills in th e waistband of the trousers, and sure enough he had. As soon as lie*got the money he feigned sickness in order to g e t. into the hos­ pital, for he knew th a t i t was from the basement lie must escape, if a t ail. ’ in the course a t a week or two be “improved sufficiently to walk, about, and in the kitchen fonnd the cook to be a union soldier, a prisoner, who had been detailed for th a t duty, lie took the cook into the details of his plan. The first and g reat purpose was to bribe the guard, who every n igh t from nine to eleven o’clock stood a t the big. double iron doors, th a t were barred and spiked from the inside. The guard a t first refused the bribe of fifty dollars, bu t being it northern m an by b irth, Capt. Anderson finally worked on his sympathies un til he consented, and in the course of two weeks the scheme for escape Was completed. The long iron spikes had been drawn one a t a time and then loosely dropped back in th eir places, as had also the rivets to the bars, and it took b u t the work of a few minutes to remove all b£ them. Capt. Anderson was to* chief engineer In tlds daring piece of Work, b u t he had a nervy assistant lit Lieut. Skelton, another hospital patient, who -hid. re­ solved to escape w ith him. A t ten o’clock of the n igh t they were to escape ;he big heavy door* were stealthily pulled ajar, and they were in tb* act of bounding out-lnto the street, but the bribed guard wared them back. The captain* of the guard was approaching. In breathless alienee they stood for a few minutes, and then the guard gave them the signal to come on. Out they walked, while on the opposite corners, no t one hundred yards away, under brightly burning gaslights, were as many as eight sentinels. The escaped prisoners passed down the center of the stree t w ithin a few yard* of them , bu t no notice was taken of the self-liberated prisoners of war, and °n they trudged through crowded streets ou t Of th e city limits, find by dawn th e gjext n a m in g had gained th e forests seversInd ies item the city. They frya- eled tyvo dhys kpd mights, neither ope having on any shoes and b u t thin and tattered clothing, through rain and mud, wading and swimming swollen streams, and .without food, before they reached the union lines. iAijif then their hardships were a t endt—Washington P o s t ‘ ‘ ’ ' FAMOUS BATTLEFIELDS. The Story o ra liattle That Was Wot Dow* In the III*torjr. ' fWtra to llu # th o u g h th e south obe of the. child mode* Of *lteY tiI»i»g the northcrit yj^tofcWho f<$$ the'" fite t time views the sdnthi^rn landloupers tVpoint out the various b attle grounds. At Diiattanooga .they wjll shqw the spot where the gallan t Gen. Hooker crawled stealthily cm hands and knees,"followed b y h is whole-regiment, through bush and-over rucks, up the steep incline of Lookout mountain, inthedCadof night, where they climbed a steep rock by a ladder, singly file, and dawn found them in line almost w ith in th e enemy’s Camp. Thcreithey fought and won the famous Battle of | the Clouds. And again a t Vicksburg’ they will show ydu how Gen. Grant bu ilt * dam ucrossj- the river to change; its current. They will show yon holes in th e sand banks where the terrified people "hid them- selves afte r the city was taken. All this is intensely interesting to those old enough to remember the events of the war, bu t to sthe younger traveler it ftavors too much of a lesson in history in which you? can remember very bad grades on account of inLxing*datos, gen­ erals, and parties, and It grows weari­ some, . ;{ A party consisting of $eveinl'Rportive young men, a ' fair young girl,- and an aged apd-patrlotic mpld^n lady had en­ joyed o r endured the foregoing 'descrip­ tions, each from l]iis own point of view. The boat bad passed Vicksburg and was nearing New Orleans when the following incident took 'place* ' The gentlemen were crowded to one-side of the deck discussing in an animated way where “ the battle was fou g h t” “ I t was up on th a t hill just back of the old. -frame cottage,” one of .the gentlemen Was saying. “It: wns a long and des­ perate figh t and well ju id ,bravely fought on both sides,” another was saying. The patriotic old lady, her face aglow, had crowded into their m idst eager to hear anything about the war. “But the ‘big.feilow’ was too much for Kilraiu, and Sullivan is the cham­ pion yet.” , A look Of bewilderment spread itself over the old. lady's face. She prided herself on her knowledge of history, and it-was with a look o f mortification that she turned to me pud said; “I cpn't remember my history as well as I used to, ray dear. I don’t quite remember this battle. I t was between Gen. Sulli­ van and G,en. Kilrain, the gentleman says, Which wns the northern force— wax i t Sullivan?” The w riter lmd forgotten history again. She couldn’t remember.—Chi­ cago Tribune. SCATTERING SCRAPS. Ax old soldier a t Wichita, Ran., re­ cently received from the government 8 cents which had been due him without his’ knowledge for more than thirty years. T iir age of th e “youngeBt confederate soldier” has now been reduced to eleven years, as I). B. Freeman, of Cartcrville, Ga., says th a t he enlisted in the Sixth Georgia cavalry, when he reached th a t “age, ■ *. Con. T homas E. Rose, of the Seventy- seventh Pennsylvania volunteers, who* is said to have designed the Libby prison tunnel, by which six hundred and nine prisoners escaped, is now a captain in the Sixteenth Regular infantry. O rganizations of old soldiers differ from all others 'in the fact thateWhat would be an evidence of weakness in ordinary' societies is au clement of strength w ith them. Increased member­ ship measures tlie vitality o f societies, bu t every year finds, more graves to decorate an ifa necessarily reduced num­ ber of living veterans. Instead of de* creased influence and gradually declin­ ing interest the day grows in import­ ance and w ith Its observance grows the real force, of the Surviving Soldiers.— Kansas City Times. W hims stationed a t Paducah, Ky., a mcinbc* of an Ohio regiment started ou t to g et Some milk in his coffee-pot. On his retu rn an officer suspcctcdshim Of having whisky in liis'coifee-pot, and ordered him to h a lt and le t him exam­ ine the pot. The soldier poured ou t . some of the milk before; the officer and went t o his quarters. T h a t night there was a general drunk in th a t soldiers company,- which ended in a fight- . I t was finally discovered th a t the Ohio bummer had p u t * little ndlk in the spout of his coffee-pot, after stopping the inside with bread, and then had filled the pot w ith whisky. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. SELF-SUPPORTING WOMENS They Are Free From * ComUtlee of Society That Ha* for Centuries* One o f the most interesting figures in New York life of to-day Is the self-sup­ porting woman—A figure to be found from tlie highest to the humblest society; a figure which is worthy of the deepest study of metropolitan life and manners. ' A litle while ago, th e self-supporting woman was a wonder and a novelty. She was a t once a heroine and an anomaly. Fo r th e poor girl of one or two generations back th ere were only two alternatives—grinding ami helpless poverty or marriage. She hud to marry th e first man who asked her, or consent 'to a .life of starved parsimony or be- grudged help. I f she became th a t deso­ la te of .all human creatures—an old inaid, dependent upon the charity of h e r relatives—she was made to regret the pride or delicacy th a t had induced her to refuse her suitor, and lmd signed and sealed her to the bleak, grim life of a poor relative. The penniless girl of to-day', with the experience of- her limp and brow-beaten maiden punts before her, has realized th e cruelty of her position and 1ms' taken a bold step for life and liberty. The modern iinuiarried woman of five- nnd-twenty, with a clear mind, an Independent spirit, a refined tompera- toent, and the experience of nineteen’ centuries behind her, would rather Scrub floors or sweep crossings for a living limn consent to the degradation pf what is commonly called “marrying f o r a home.” She 1ms seen her weaker sisters, too feeble to straggle band to •hand with life, resign themselves to a Joveloss marriage with spiritless acqui­ escence or sick.despondency, She 1ms po wish to follow in their footsteps.' She will marry, as she lierseif says,. “ if the right man conies.” But to marry for a roof over her head and butter to ljer bread—perish the thought! A great deal better take her chop and cup of coffee cooked over ah oil stove in a freezing lmll-bedroom. Here she is her own mistress, and no one can growl if the coffee is thick and the chop tastes of kerosene. ? So, year by year, the army of self-sup­ porting women grows apace. They are courageous, shrewd nnd independent, neither hard nor aggressive. They are ps far removed from that unattractive class of women who do not wash their hands, cut their lmir off short, and wear men’s hats, as they are from, the class Who spend their days reading French translations, changing their dresses and kissing their pet dogs. They are not self-supporting' for the sake of being talked about, and do not crave to see their beauty and their courage sung in the .Sunday papers. They have'taken up their roles not as women seeking notori­ ety and advertisement, bu t as women seeking freedom from a condition of so­ ciety th a t for centuries has crushed their pride and wounded their delicacy. Some o f these women have a more or less easy time of it. T h a t is to say, •their talents or abilities, in whatever a r t or profession they "direct them, re­ ceive quick recognition, and the woman,, bp she artist, writer, dressmaker, book­ keeper or sieknnrse, finds herself in re­ ceipt of an income on' which 'she can litre comfortably and maybe put away something, substantial ugainst tlie ul- wpys-to-be-looked-for rainy day. Al­ most ull tlie great dailies in New York employ.women a t good salaries. From tliem is expected the methodical regu­ larity, the mechanical precision in their work th a t a nmn would give. .Bu t they are serious women, earnestly trying to support themselves, not working mere­ ly until some man will bo so kind us to marry them, not on a chase for roman­ tic? adventures, or dime-novel love af-k fairs. They work conscientiously and. carefully, no t often discouraged and al­ ways painstaking and sincere. These successful ones, comfortable nnd hopeful, are among .the happiest of women. They have their lives laid ou t’ before them, busy with a pleasant toil in which their hopes and energies are centered.' They are free and independ­ ent. The carping cares of the house­ keeper are nqt theirs; If the domestic joys of the woman who marries happily arc,‘n e t for them,* a t least they .have none; of her intolerable anxieties and unceasing, petty trials—anxieties and tria ls th a t would be almost unbearable to .their more daring and independent natures. Their work is a joy to them, tlielr freedom a.perptetual source of self- government, I t most be, indeed, a grande passion which will induce a woman so placed .deliberately to take upon herself th e responsibilities, and cares of marriage,—San Francisco Ara g o n a a t.. .. ___ DRESS DESIGNERS. A Frailtable Occupation In Which Women Take tlie teait. One of the successful dress designers o f the city is a woman no t y et lliirty. She was telling nte some days ago how her work is done. She supplies a large number of the fashion sketches issued With the fashion sheet of a big pattern house, Snd she earns sixjy-flve dollars a week ftt her trade. “I t is something,” she began, “th a t only a few women lmd n o t half a dozen men can do. There arc the ladies’ tailors, of course, hut they repeat themselves in essentially the same design* Outside of tailor work, practically all the new dress de* signs gotten up in the city arc from eketche1 made by women. I t is very seldom th a t a man tries his hand a t it who does no t fa il For me, 1 often walk th e streets till 1 gee my Idea. In* an hour on Broadway o r F ifth avenue I catch a h in t from the draping of it sk irt th a t suggests something to me, or I see a combination ^gjf colors of a novel use of some fabrics th a t sets my mind working in a new diretion. Then I go home and make a wash draw­ ing, I t may h o t embody anything I have seen or it may tak e hinta from, twenty different costumes. To be fit for use as a pattern supplement i t must be original,, it must be up w ith the times, but not too far ahead of prevail­ ing ideas, and i t p u s t be practicable; th a t is, it m ust he fuch th a t an ordinary dressmaker or a woman with a knack for cutting her own gowns opn repro­ duce it without too much trouble. If V am sure I am on the rig h t tract and wapt to be certain of tu rn ing out some­ thing especially clever, I get the mate­ rial for such a dress as I am thinking of and get a girl of good figure ito try it upon. I stand her up in the middle of the floor and I stick In pins and pull ; ou t pins and try this effect and that ef- feet and some other effect for maybe, three hours a t a time. It’s tiresome work, bu t 1 always feel repaid lf.it ends* by. being a love of a gown. I've dressed, a thousand women. I say, when I get you done: “You duck of a pretty dear!” Sometimes it won’t come to suit me and, then I lay awake half the night and plan how I will compel it to be the con­ fection I want in the morning. When I get it I sketch it and color it and w rite , directions for cutting the pattern fo r i t ■ without a minute’s.delay. I've designed some hundreds of dresses,' and I've seen, them walking about on hundreds of women, I always feel bad if they don’t take good care of my dresses, too. . I_ want to run up to a shabby one or ft dusty one and say, “You poor thing,they don’t trea t you well, do they?’ I do flick a speck or two off or stroke a breadth sympathetically if I happen to sit next to one of my gowns, a mi$used one, on a street car.—N. Y. Advertiser. A tWMMi o f Mode**}';. Mrs. Martha J. Lamb,'in a delightful paper on “Columbus and His Times,” read- before the graduating class "of Gardner-school, expressed some facts concerning Queen Isabella from which the women to-day may draw a lesson of modesty. I t Is to be feaVed the pro­ gressive woman of to-day looks upon herself ns ra th e r tlie most progessive since Mother Eve, bu t Isabella’s “prog­ ress” was phenomenal considering her environment. “She had never studied Latin till afte r she became a queen,” says Mrs. Lamb, “but seeing its neces­ sity in diplomatic intercourse she up-, plied herself bravely to its acquisition. ■ Presently it became the fashion to study • tlie ancient tongues. Italian teachers were imported into Spain and there was great enthusiasm, not a few Spanish ’ women contributing to the brilliancy of this comparitively unenlightened^ period. I t is interesting to look back­ ward 400 years and find learned women as well as men attending academic ex­ aminations, taking part in the public exercises of the gymnasium, and lectur­ ing from the chairs of universities, bu t we shall not be likely to find i t in any . country except Spain, and to the. influ­ ence and example of Isabella the Credit . must be given.”—N. Y. Times. GOSSIP AND GLEANING& Tup largest tax-payer utAong the women of Rhode Island is Mrs. Eliza­ beth I!. Clitice. Titu republican paper of Osceola, Clark Co., Iowa,.is owned and edited by Miss Mary Osmond. Mns. A bigail S oott D uxiway is the editor of a new monthly magazine re­ cently started »n Portland, Grc., and called tlie Coming Century. Miss M aitd R ittejoioube , of Cairo, UL, Iras been awarded the prize of 81,000 offered by the Lyonvllle improve­ ment Co., for the. best story. M axaobb O scab H ammebstei N, of New York, has decided to have young women in the box office of the new Manhattan opera house. He says they will be better'able to understand ladies, Who will w a n t to purchase tickets, and will he polite, Now th a t woman has come what good can she do? Much, if she comes to im­ prove tlie quality of society. The only addition the world necds is the addition of goodness. The stream of society does not need greater volume, h u t ’ greater purity,—Rev. David Swing, D r . S abah A, C ole , formerly o f Lin­ coln, Kan., was recently elected health officer for Po rt Austin, Midi., by the council, w ithout her knowledge Or con­ sent. Only one member voted against her and th a t one liad pu t in nomination a man for the position, h u t failed to get a second. Dr. Cole lias been in <Ati6tiu three years, and her election is evidence of her succe.-s ns a physician. • VV y ' oming women are to vote for pres­ ident a t the next national election, and are seriously endeavoring to fit them­ selves for a tru s t which th ty believe to be important. The women of Cheyenne have organized a league clnb and pro­ pose to study, ta lk and listen to ad­ dresses nnd discussions bearing on top­ ics of national’interest which way' help them to vote honestly and intelligently. I n a recent address before Sorosis, Mrs. Cady Stanton said th a t if the Lord had intended women to be Weak, de­ pendent creatures, He would have pro­ vided fo r each mother’s daughter a stlong ’nrm to lean on instead of creat­ ing bo many more ‘Women than Wen th a t there were no t anywhere near enough arms to go round. She strong­ ly advocated the theory th a t self-devel­ opment’was a higher duty th a t self-sao* rificl. '