The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-08-11
WHOLE NO. 3y9.
What is Responsibility.

OF some persons among both sexes, res-
pectability consists in driving fast horses,
wearing rich lace, drinking champagne,
or idling away life. To cut a figure in
society, on the promenade, or at water
ing places, appear to be the sole aim of
many women, who surely were born for
better things. To cultivate a moustache.
support two forty trotter, or act as
a model exhibitor of costs for some fash
lonablc tailor, seems to be the conception
of adignifed and respectable career for
med by not few of the men.
Now, being respectable, in either man
or woman, is, to our notion, doing what
is duty The poorest person, even is
what is considered popularity; the humbl
est avocation, who pays his debts, obeys
the law, and fulfils his other obligations
to society add to his fellow creatures, is
a thousand times more respectable than
the wealthy idler, the educated spend
Thrift, the callous miser, or the fashion
able fool. So the modest female, wheth-
er seamstrcss, book folder, press-tender.
storekeeper, or even bouse-scrvant, is, in
the true sense of the word, infinitely more
respectable than the extravagant wife who
/ is running her husband, then the thought
less votary of fashion, then the butterfly
diet. In a word, worth, not wealth, con-
stitutes responsibility.
Again. tits what really is, not what
merely seems to be, respectable, that
man of sense honor as such. The mil
lionare, who has obtained wealth by
knavish practices, though he may creep
through the meshes of the law, cannot
escape the indignant verdict Of an hon
est public, he may give grand dinners,
drive snowy equipage, inhabit a palace,
and even subscribe ostentatiously to be-
) nevolent purposes; yet, while all his OUT
side gliding, people recognize the ratten-
ness within, and from the summit of his
splendor, trace back the Shiny track by
. which he rose. Such a mgn, let him do
what he will, can never become respec-
table. A gulf as wide as that between
{ Dives and Lazerus, separates him from
t the esteem of the good So also the
low minded in all pursuits, those cruel
2 and unfeeling towards their fellow men,
| charlantans of every hue, hypocrites,
: 1dcmagogues, toadies, sharpers, and all
others of similar kind, cannot be respec-
E table. Pinchbeck nevery yet passed long
for gold. Or, as the old proverb has it,
you cannotmake asilk purse out ofa sow's
ear
, #s A BlTE.-Alfonzo Lombard, celeb
: arted sculptor of the Emperor Charles ",
: was great coxcomb. He got punished
one day by a lady of Bologna, to whomhe
took itin his head to make love in a fop-
pish manner. She was his partner at a
e ball, in the midst of which he turned to
# her, and, heaving profound sigh, said. as
i he looked her in the face with what he
t thought inefable sweetness in his eyes,
# and we may suppose some fantastic and
y writhing gesture, eff tits not love | feel,
e what is it?'' "Perhaps," !" said the young
e lady, something bites you" ss
# THE PEDANT OUrDoNE.-A Pedantic
c fellow called for a bottle of hook at a tay-
/ ern, which the waiter, not hearing distin-
) ely, asked him to repeat. "a bottle OF
IS hock-hic, haec, hoc,' p replied the visitor.
e After sitting, however, for along time, and
e no wine appearing. he ventured to ring a.
y gain, and inquire into the cause ofthe de-
lay. " Did not order bottle of hook,
|, sir?Why wasitnot brought?" Because, +
d answered the waiter, who had been taught
y Latin Grammar s'you afterwards declin.
d ed it,
DR.. JOHNSON AND THE SIMPLEIoN.-
Shakespeare tells us that a jest's prosperity
- lies in the ear of him who tells it; ga fact
of which DR.. Johnson was SO fully persuad,
: ed, that he felt offended if any of his say.
= ings appeared to tickle the tympanum Of
a dullard. 70 a simpleton who sniggered
, at one ofhis remarks, he rudely exclaimed,
= .'What are you laughing at, sir? fl have
: said anything that you understand, ash
: pardon of the rest of the company y
L PREcocIrY.-A few day ago little fel-
n low was taken by his fatherto carpenter,
d to be bound apprentice to him, after the
.. fashion of old times In settling the bus
lo iness, the master, who was one of the stiff
:, kind, Observed fo sisa - -
,eI "Wel, my boy, suppose you can eat
d almost anything, can't you? I always
| make my boys live on what they dom
like $3.50 7&
Il love evry thing but ninth and apple
i pieth, /" lisped the boy.
n NATTRAL CRrTIcIsM-I always listen
n with pleasure to the remarks made by coun-
h try people on the habits of animals. A
II countryman was shown Gainsborough' s
n celebrated picture of the Pigs. s.To be