The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-02

honor to those great hearts who, from
their high stations, send down bounty
unto the widow and fatherless child
Olive Branch.
Friends. .....
With regard to friends, our little being
is SO much wrapped up in our personal ex-
perience, and this experience so much
constitutes our whole world, tina: one who
becomes dear to us is invariably deprica
ted, as to his former life, when he was a
stranger. This may be done consciously,
but, think, occurs most suredly. We
never think that our friends feelings were
as warm, his thoughts as generous, his
heart open, long before we knew him.
and should any change divide us, how lit
tie do we deem he thinks as deeply, feels
as sensibly, lives as completely as ever!-
Self so much constitutes with lis every
thing, that where not present, there is a
kind of annihilation of all things else
Let us take our departure from any place,
and can we imagine then at least with a
degree of conviction everything happen
ing as really as when were there? Let
friendship exist between us and any one,
however worthy of it, and can we from
our heart feel the same sympathy in that
friends former life, which passed ere our
intamacy began? No! Our present love
may teach us to hear of it with gladness;
but never can we dwell upon it with the
same enduring pleasures as we do upon
the scenes and incidents in which we have
been ourselves sharers.
And truly may become wise, If we
thus keep present with us the littleness of
our share in worldly matters. How COM
paratively less than nothing is our busiest
conduct; and yet to us this little portion
is everything! And then, on all sides oi
us, the vast mechanism of the world is
going smoothly on, land hundreds Of events
hourly occurring, of which we know no.
thing, simply because we do not witness
them. Neither do we recollect that what
we have seen occurred just as independ.
emily ere we We're present, and shall GO
ON just as interrupted when we have de-
parted-that not with them cometh q
change-but with us-and that man
falsely charges upon nature the alteration
he himself is made to undergo.
WOULDN'T CoNrEND.-A cross grained
surly old man, too crooked by nature te
to keep still, went over to his. neighbor,
Mr.. F, remarkably cool, calm non
resistant, and addressed him thus:l
"That piece of fence over there is mine
and you shan't have it.''
"Why," replied Mr.. F, you mus
be mistaken, Think
'tNo, no, it's mine, and 7 shall keep it. ;
4 "Well," said Mr. F., 'ssuppose We
leave it to any lawyer you may choose?'
81 won't leave it to any lawyer" sale
the other.
"Well," continued Mr.. F., 'sshal
we leave it to any four men in the village
that you shall select?''
"No, shall have the fence"
, Not at all discomposed, Mr. at las
"Well, neighbor, then I shall leave i
to yourself to say to whom it does belong
whether to you or to me.'' 4.
Struck dumb by the appeal, the wrath1
man turned away, saying,
, II won't have anything to do with
man that a0ont contend for has oa0n rights.
SIMPLICITY IN DRESS. s.-Those who thinl
that in order to dress well, it is unneces
sary to dress extravagantly or gaudily
make great mistake. Nothing SO wei
: becomes true feminine beauty as simplici
ty. We have seen many a remarkabl,
fine person robbed of its true effects b
being oyer-dressed. Nothing is more un
becoming than overlooking beauty. Th
stern simplicity of the classic tastes
in the old statues and in the pictures pain
: ted by men of superior artistic genius
: In Athens, the ladies were not gaudily
but simply arrayed, and we doubt wheth
er any ladies have ever excited more ad
miration. So also the noble old Roma
. matrons, whose superb forms were gaze
. on delightedly BY men worthy of then
$ were always very plainly dressed. Fash
ION often presents the hues of the butterf
but fashion is not classic goddess.-Ge.
d. Prentice.
o R Somebody, in speaking of Alex
ander Smith, the new poet, said he was
it great writer, and would make his mari
: which bothered SmelHungus terribly, a
!; he could not see why great writer sho'
:, make his mark!