Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-11-19
OLD rArnIoNED NEwsPAFEns

ODD Fhf-HhAOlNED - ~ ~ ~ - y afNAf~.
Our young friend PLrsrroS, Of the Raven.
ma Wing, gets OF capital sketch oflhe style.
&c, Of newspapers Of olden times. and such
US occasiony come 10 hand from gu. Of way
places The poetry especially, is very pslhet-
ic and moving Hear him.
1t does our eyes good TO turn from the
piles Of exchanges which look ne like aa tso
peas" and which are whiltled down like eve
jry thing else in ths stcreotyped aue Of
staighI jackets, to an insiid uniformity, and
give reverential "iurn-to" as one of these
hosry remainders OF the olden time stra9plrs
on to our iable-su1h an one, for inslag 60, us
tie republican, published somew here near
Dowagiac, Mich. How hugely we admire the
originality exercised in displaying The aiver-
lisenenisl what a magnificent spread cat e
osersialows with It's pinions Wiggins' bn-
nauncement Of the arrival Of a fresh lot Of
Scotch ale aud fourth proof How that niain-
moth pig squeezes lIis fat sides into the cor
ner where the butcher displays his wares
Here's an advertisement topsy-tur tberc,
parading side-wise: yonder. us vel is tbe
| "apothumekary' IS MOI tar and peslle, capacious
enough for the Paint Kings use or pudIors's
basin. And there, over the jewelers. sdver.
tlsement, is pair Of spectaclcs-we speak
with Difference of these nose. .s:riders, lest our
own fine us for contempt Of their jurisdctiuu
| looking like two full orbed moons" rim
med out and connectcc by pot-hook, just
such "specs" as the pictures nstuct US, look
down from the benevolent face of"P6or Rich
ard" There, too, is the Poets corner" or
namented with three stinged harp ihterlaced
with willow bow. What a sinecure mar
tin-box for Eye gentell mynstrelll" and what
doleful strains come out ofni Lines on the
death of Susan Lee, aged eighteen" Take
the 6rst verse as a sample:
In the year eighteen hundred Fifty three.
On Sunday night, dear Susan Lee
Was seized by relentless cholera
Morbas. The skillful doctor, he
Tried all his powers to save, but death
Closed her eyes aud stort her breath.
! Poor Susanl hers was pitiful extremity.
no doubt, and The poet does the elegac with
the paihos Of bion. What were Achilles
without embalment 10 Homeric AMBER and
what Susan Lee without quotlent in this
barding's numbers? Where's DIR. White and
the Akron bard of Knickerbocker memory?
"a poets love is Immortality" But we can't
resist the felicity of the last stanza; it is ths
grand moral of the tale; we must reproducs
ii:
o, Death, thou art traveller,
Thou'lt kill US all as thou kilt her:
And it is written, we all must die,'
And in The cold ground buried lie
Till Gabriel bloweth out the sun,
Then may il be sa 10 us, Your work is
well done!
We've heard oil blowing ont candles, and
of roses and furnaces blowing out, and of
great schemes, like Soulhey's Pantisocracy
or the South Sea Bubble, blowing out, bus
the idea of blowing out the unit is the
strongest figure in the pathetic "pome." tits
10 be "blowed out" most likely, in the same
way that Tom the Piper blew out his breath
and life in the days Of good queen Bess.'
But We suspect the poets vaticination, when
he predicts the death of US all "lks her ~
by cholera-morbus. Shade Of Pandora, hide
Us!
There is the Farmers Column" and the
Ladies' Department" and Sunday Read
ing" and "OIr Joker" surmounted by Puck
in FOOLS cap and balls, with grin on bis face
so broad AS to make an island of his crown
piece What jokes those must be that SO di-
vide the continent of mans countenancel
Bat We mIst take French leave Of our an-
cient friend-the prototype Of that with which
our Uy-vison was familiar-who has lain qui-
city on our table, as We have pleasantly gos-
slipped half hour concerning bis "circum-
stances and surroundings" well meet ~
gain. old friend"
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