The Cedarville Herald, Volume 13, Numbers 1-21

The Cedarville Herald. BATTLE FIELD. W H. BLAIR, FubUshsr. CP.DAKyiLLE. OHIO. DOGS IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ! TAKEN HOME TO DIE. A 8md Incident from tho Keeollectloos of on Army Nur««. Samuel Colvin was the oldest child in the family, a nice boy about twenty years old. his father was in poor health and not able for service, so the parents They Were Washed. Shaved. Rouged and •consepted to let their dearly loved son I’etted in Various tVay*. go into service. “ Sam my" wur a vnnd In Egypt the dog was a friend and soldier, ever ready for faithful servant He lived in the houfce with his master, followed him in his walks, attended the public ceremonies, sometimes free, at other times held in leash by a slave or child, or in princely families by a favorite dwarf. At his meals he had his place marked under the benches of the guests. A b in Greece and Rome, he)was there to dispose of bones, the fragments of meat and the pieces of bread that were thrown.down, and in a general way to keep the din­ ing room clean. These were certainly not very refined fashions, and if our house dogs had to satisfy themselves in this way they would be likely to die of hunger. The ancients did not feel the delicate taste and disgusts in such matters that we experience; their life presented ex­ cessive refinements and rude features of which wo have no idea, side by side. The house dog in Egypt was' a domes­ tic, working at his trade, only his trade was one in which we have ceased to cinplov him; it may not have been a great thing that he was lost, but it is in the kitchen or his keunol that ho finishes up his master's dessert The house-dog' was shaved, combed and washed.' He wns sometimes tinted .withhenna, as if he were a woman. He wore fine collars. on his neck, fur­ nished sometimes with an earthenware clasp in the shape of a bell or flower. Children played with him', became at­ tached to him, and the hero of one sto­ ry, to ddiom Ins tates had predicted at his birth that he would die of the bite o f s dog, willingly confronted tho threatened danger rather than bo sepa­ rated from the dog he had raised. \He, of course, had .a name, to which he an­ swered. Sl-togai, the ferreter; Khaoub- sen, the lamp or star; Souboti, the strong, and Nahsi. the black. He is seen with kings as with com­ mon persons. Raineses II., during the earlier years of his reign, was always escorted by. a female dog, which was called Anaitiennaktou, or brave as the goddess Anaitis A petty king of the eleventh dynasty, about 3300 It, C., bad five dogs, which he so loved that be. • carved their names and engraved their portraits on his tomU They were in? deed, blooded animals, whoso names revealed their foreign origin. The finest of them was called Abaikarou, a faithful transcription of the word abal- kour, by which the hunting dog Is des­ ignated in many of the Berber districts. . The shepherds had dogs of medium size, with pointed ears, like those which guard the flocks of upper Egypt. Hunt­ ers sought out two or three different kinds of hounds, some having straight ears and short tails and some drooping ears and a long tail, like tho slouguis of the modern Berbers. They arc to be seen in many of the tombs, Spring­ ing in. pursuitof gazelles and antelopes, or running down tbo hare and the os­ trich. A few pugs, heavy and grotesque like ouri, are represent- - , . , - cd occasionally, rather as house : ®ut to meet their loved one whom they dogB than hunters. Those an i-' hnd »?ivcn UP 10 die strangers mals were in considerable number, i and and made the ancient Egyptian villages as dangerous at night as modern villages are. An officer relegated! to one of the delta bergs a few years ‘ after the death of Rntncsos II. com­ plained bitterly of their boldness in a letter addressed to one of the chiefs. *Pfty* "hen their prayers of thanksgiv- “ When sometimes," he says, “ the ‘ I"* and Praiso ^ «ed that their son people of the country meet to drink h’ld been returnedto-them, awakened Ciiician beer, and go out to open the “ F m\nd to th* fact of. ho" «?rcat waB bottles—there arc two hundred large' tho Pr,ce we were Paymg- for the pro- as goo duty, well thought of by his officers, and beloved by his comrades.- In February, 1803, he. with several others! was severely exposed to cold by the roof of the bar­ racks caving in with a heavy fall of snow. The soldiers suffered consider able exposure before other quarters could be provided. Soon after, Samuel Colvin was brought to tho hospital very sick with pneumonia, lie grew worse, and in a few weeks the surgeon pro­ nounced it quick consumption. About that time the father came to visit his son and to take him home, if possible. But the captain of his company being away, the father had to leave his boy. I never witnessed a sadder or more touching scene. The son begged so piteously td be taken home fearing ho should, die, the father, so anxious to take him, or will­ ing to stay in'the boy’s place, if he could only bo sent homo to his mother, that she might see her boy again. But it could not be, so the boy was left, and grew rapidly worse, and each day would say to me, “ I believe I could get well if I could see mother." I tried to fill a mother’s place as far as possl- sible, but could plainly see that if he could be gotten home, it would be bet­ ter than all else we could do for him. Therefore I proposed to the surgeon that they allow me to take the boy home to his parents. His answer was that,' “ He would die before we were half way there." 1 then said: “ In that case I’ll take his remains to his parenta" At ten o’clock that night I started for Mogadore, O., his home. The thought of going home,revived him consider­ ably at first, then as the journey ex­ hausted him, it- required great care to keep him from sinking. :But ho stood the trip better .than could be expecteu. The ladies o f the sanitary commission met us at- the, train and he was made very comfortable' until somewhat rest­ ed. The following day at noon wo reached his home, having to ride by c&rriago from Cuyahoga Falls to Moga­ dore, O., a distance of about twelve raileu I procured an easy carriage, had a comfortable bed made for him, and in that way neared the longed for home. As we rode along, he would often ask, “Have we got where you can see .the house yet?” and remarked, “ What will they say?’' and “ IIow good o f you to bring mo home." At last the dear old home appeared insight. Home, the word to most of us possesses a deep significance. With what reverence do wo look back to the home of our childhood, with tbo dear father and mother and all. its loved as­ sociations Bat to this sick and dying boy no word can express the feeling of homesick heart or the unspeakable joy that seemed to pervade his whole be­ ing to such an extent that he seemed to regain his strength in a moment’s time. As the carriage stopped and the sur­ prised and overjoyed parents rushed the boy rose np to meet them. I shall ever remember the impressions made upon my mind then, as I witness­ ed that meeting and heard their words to tlieir boy and their heartfelt thanks to me for caring for and bringing him to them and securing for him his back mastiffs and three hundred wolf dogs waiting all day at the door of my house every time I go out at nightfall to take part iu the feast 1 am kept out if I have not with me the little wolf dog of Nahilon, the royal scribe, who lodges with me. He saves me from the other dog3. At whatever time I go he ’ goes with me on the street, and when ’ he backs I run, swinging my clubs and ; -whips. It is, in fact, onlv a pack of mangy, high-tailed wolf tlogs prowling around the cattle pens. When they { have made their round, the largest for the tcction of our union, and tho freedom of our country, and how much suffer­ ing and anguish endured, and sacrifices made in s homes all known to destinies of the Guard. y quiet, unpretending c north, that arc only ho watchcth over tho iona—E. E. Ellis, in CHARGING A GUN, Haw a (Snflrint (Vimpuny Core red Itself With (llory. Our brigade is being held in reserve and is protected by the lay of the ground ones in front ^Tna compact mass u lfin ff01” *he enon,y 's flrf- Shell and round a hunch, one would say that it was tho shot have screamed and whizzed over enchantment of some god, a flame ®ur heads, and the ping, of bullets which had fixed itself out and would. has been as constant as if bees were not let go.” I swarming about ns. Here and there a Roving dogs are less numerous and ! raan has *one down or bcen touchcd Jn less ferocious now, but they become,at times terrible to strangers. It lias often happened to me, when casually passing through a village of Upper Egypt about midnight, to be reminded’ when 1 met them of the bulldog in one of Dickens’ novels, “a biter of man and a killer of chickens for sport, which usually lived on the right side of the street, but also hid himself on the left side, no as to be ready to jump upon the passerby.” As It is to-day, so it was in the time t o f Harasses II., and the experience of the present day enables us to under­ stand exactly what our scribe meant in the passage I have just quoted.— Nature. i ,, . —Rough on the Collector.—Merchant —“ Did yon present that bill to Mr. Houlihan?” Collector—“ Ye«, sir, and lie squared off at me." Merchant— “ I’m afraid that aa long As he squares off he will never square up,“—Brook­ lyn Eagle, a way to make him scream out, but the loss has been trifling. The real fight­ ing is all on our right Those men down there in the flame and smoke are nearer death than we are, but they have the excitement of action to make them reckless of the fact Here we stand in lihes waiting—faces growing a little paler all the time—men trying to jest and joke to conceal their real feel­ ing “ Scrcaml Shriek! Crash!" It’s a rifle shell bursting just beyond us, and it comes from a new direction. The enemy had quietly planted a gun on the bush-covered ridge in a way to enfilade the right of our brigade. “Doom! Shriek! Deatht” That shot was better—better for the enemy, because fragments of the shell wounded three men. The brigadier- general and his staff are alive to the situation. An order comes to our col­ onel A minute later We got the order from our captain! "Attention, company Gl Right dressl Shoulder—arms! Left face! Forward —marchl" What have we been detached from the regiment for? ‘We move out by the flank along the line of an old fence for a few rods and come to a “halt!" and "right face!” We can now see tho gun on the ridge. It has fired again and again, and every shell is striking men down. “ Ci'enpany G, we are going to charge that gun and take ill’’ shouts our little captain from the head of the line. There are fifty-six men o f us all told —-a little better than half a company. The captain does not call for volunteers; he does not announce that cowards can step three paces to the reap He would not insult men who were with, him at Williamsburg,' Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill and elsewhere. How far is it to the gun? Not over half a mile—perhaps not that far. It is doivqa rough slope—across a' swale— up a second slope, .in which rocks out­ crop arid-bushes grow here and there. “ Scream! Scream! Scream!" They are working' the gun as if its fire Was to decide the fate of the-battle. Those wc have left behind arc watch­ ing us, and .will be our critics, If we succeed, those who return alive will bo her'oes-until' some other forlorn, hope eclipses our record. If we fail——1 “ Forward—guide right!” We are making an easy start. We step out at “common time. ” every el­ bow touching the man on the riglit,and there is a tremendous cheer from the brigade 'as we go down the slope. I am looking straight ahead. I doubt if any man in that line even glimpsed to the j right or left. I am wondering when that gun will be turned upon us; so, j doubtless, is every other idan. j Our alignment is perfect until we J reach the swale. Then it is broken as i we meet the tall, dry grass and weeds j and the scrubby bushes. > “ Halt! Right dress."’ j It’s our little captain 'reforming the I line,as if for parade. Three thousand j men are watching us—cheering and ap- ■ plauding. Wo shall lose him. He. will I be made a major for this “ Forward—guide center!’’ We are ascending a slope. Our line vvas never more steady oh the parade ground. The man'on my right chuckles to himself; the one on my left ia strug­ gling to repress the cheer rising in his thought Exultation has replaced all other feeling. “ O-o-o-o! Scream! Shriek! Swishl" The artillery men have caught Bight of us at lost and that shell just cleared our heads and exploded on the other slope. “ Double-quick—guide center-charge!” shouts our little captain,, and now we cheer And cheer and charge Another shell—hut it missed us. Bullets from revolvers sing about us—a mighty cheer comes to our ears from the brigade left behind—and now we drive into the smoke around the gun. It had infantry support—perhaps a company—and the gunners fought iis hand to hand. There was hurrahing— cursing-—yells of pain and screams of agony—blows with the saber and thrusts with the bayonet, and when we awoke from the night-mare the gun was ours and a regiment was moving up to hold the position wc had won. I did hot look bock as we moveddown past the support to rejoin our own regi­ ment in reserve. There was no need to. I know the sight which would have greeted my eyes. 1waited for tho roll- call after we had returned. Nineteen dead and wounded out of fifty-six! Over a third of our command left on that spot! But wo Were cheered—hundred! shook our hands—Company “ G” had won for itself a page in the records of war.—M. Quad, in Detroit Free Press. A LIGHTNING DECISION. . The Clever Escape of a t’nlon Gunboat's Crew. The ironclad Merrimnc which har­ assed the union fleet, and was herself finally disabled by the Monitor, made during her first unquestionable tri­ umphs a victim of the frigate Congress. After the fight had continued for some time, the Merrimac was so fortunate as to take such a position relative to her enemy that the destruction of the Con­ gress became only a question of mo­ ments. Her commander was slain, she had bcen repeadiy set on fire, and her decks were covered with dead and wounded. She was accordingly ran ashore, and there hoisted the white flag. The Mcrrit^ac now sent alongside two tugs, to take possession, and re­ move the prisoners, but these were driven back by a sharp firing from the shore. Gen. Mansfield had directed the Twentieth Indiana to 'deploy along the head), behind a sand ridge, and two guns were wheeled into position to prevent the enemy’s making way witli its prize. Capt Reed, who was as good a law­ yer as soldier, raised a question of military law. “Since tho ship has surrendered,” said he, “ has not the enemy the right to take possession of her?” Then Gen, Mansfield uttered one of the shortest and most conclusive opln- ons on record. “ 1know the old ship has surrender­ ed,” said he, “ out we haven’t,'’ That settled it Unable to take pos­ session of its prize, the Merrimac open­ ed upon her with incendiary fire, and then withdrew. The remnant of the Union crew were brought on shore,and that night, when the fire reached her magazine, the Congress blew up. That lightning decision had at least saved her crew.—'Youth’s Companion. * A Supply o f Reinsure. Too many people fall to keep* proper supply of scissors in the household. It ia false economy to allow one pair to do a)} the work. The work basket should be furnished with long, slender shears for general cutting, short button-hole, scissors to do their own work and a pair o f small scissors for general use. There should be a special pair of scis­ sors to clip papers, if any of the family keep a -scrap book, as nothing injures scissors so quickly as using them to cut paper and cloth indiscriminately. In the country you. want scissors, to cut flowers. There should always be a pair of scissors in the -kitchen for trim­ ming lamps and for various other Uses there. Neither scissors, knives nor any other steel instruments should he heat* ,ed, because in doing so you run the risk of taking the "tempet” out of the in­ strument, and if pnee out, it can never be restored. The fact that the “ tem­ per” is gone is shown by the steel turn­ ing blue. An experienced cutter can sharpen an instrument' which has lost its “ temper,” but it will not remain sharp, for any length of time, aud the process of sharpening needs to be re­ peated indefinitely and frequently, un­ til it becomes burdensome.—St Louis /Republic. •\ ______ (lo w ’s Tills! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. C iihsky & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Wo the undersigned, have known F. J, Cheney for the lust 15 years, nnd believe tiim perfectly honorable in all business trausaclions and financially able to carry out any obligations niude by their fiVm. 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