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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18


You are dressing yourself very elab
orately tonight, Marguerite. remarked
Mrs. Clayton, as she entered her daugh-
ter's room"
Yes mother" returned Marguerite,
with heightened color.
Are you expecting visitors this eve
ning?' inquired Mrs. Clayton, after a
moments pause, during which her eyes
with an anxious glance had followed the
quick motion of her daughters fingers.
No, mother; l am going to Mrs.
Walton's party"
"And L not Informed ofit!" said her
mother, reproachfully. with whom
are you going ?"
Mr. Payson is to be my escort. =
There was tremulous motion of the
White fingers, as the young girl coniin-
ued to arrange the flowing drapery,
which told that her heart was not
quite at ease.
"Margarette ?'' A world Of love and
sorrow was in the tone of the mother S
voice, and her eyes were full Of tears.
"Well, mother p
''Why will you grieve my heart, my
child Why will you bring trouble
ana sorrow upon youfSell
'sIs it then so terrible crime for a
young girl to attend an evening party?'
said Marguerite, impatiently.
"My daughter once more listen to me.
Have I not again and again told you
my reasons for wishing you to diseon-
f, tinue your intimacy with Frank Fapson?
1t is not your good and happiness alone
which ask p .
"Some people have curious ways of
trying to accomplish their purposes, ~
remarked the daughter, camly, with a
slight sneer curling her red lips.
90, my child, if you would trust your
mother u exclaimed Mrs, Clayton, bit
terly
"When she does not continually try
to thwart my wishes, peEhaps ! shall be
better able to trust her," rejoined Mar
garette. coldly, turning slowly round to
survey the effect of her accomplished
toilet,
"Margarette, may it never be your
iot to feel how sharper than a serpent's S
topth,is to have thankless child >
God knows have tried to do my duty,
and to make you a good and happy
woman; and will still try, though you
do grieve me sorely, and sometimes
make me faint and heart sick"
"Go on, mother, this is very agree
able said the young girl, as she sank
into chair; '.but please be as brief as
you can, consistently, for it is nearly
time for me to go, and it would be a
pity to lose any of the discourse.
For moment Mrs. Clayton could not
speak; but controlling her emotion she
said; e.r
'.Once more, I must beg of you to
hold no further Intercourse with that
man; he is not in any respect fitting
associate for you.
"Allowing you to judge of his quail
iieations," sneered Marguerite.
my child, your mother has seen
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
The winter Of the Heart.

Let it never come upon you. Live
SO that good angels may protect you
from this terrible evil-the winter OF
the heart
Let no chilling influence freeze up
the foundations of sympathy and hap
piness from its depths; no cold burthen
settle over its withered hopes, like snow
on the faded flowers; no rude blasts OF
discomfort moan and shrek through its
desolste chambers.
Your life path may lead you amid
trials, which for time seem utterly to
impede your progress, and shut out the
very light Of heaven from your anxious
gaze.
Penury may take the place of ease
and plenty; your luxurious home may
be exchanged for a single, lowly room
the soft couch for the straw pallet
the rich viands for the coarse food of
the poor. Summer friends may forsake
you, and the Implying world pass you
with scarcely a word of compassion
You may be forced to toll YEARLY,
steadily on, to earn a livelihood; you
may encounter fraud and base avarice
which would e1tort the last farthing,
till you we'll nigh turn in disgust from
your fellow beings.
Death may sever the dear ties that
bind you to earth, and leave you in fear
full darkness The noble manly boy,
the sole hope Of your declining years,
may be taken from you, while your spi-
rit clings to him with wild tenacity,
which even the shadow of the tomb can
not wholly subdue.
But amid all these sorrows, do not
come to the conclusion that nobody was
ever so deeply afflicted as you are, and
abandon every sweet anticipation of
"better days in the future.
Do not lose your faith in human ex-
cellence because your confidence has
been betrayed, nor believe that friend
ship is only delusion, and love phan-
tom which glides away from your grasp.
Do not think you are fated to be mis-
cradle because you are disappointed in
your expectations, and batfied in your
pursuits. Do not declare that God has
forsaken you, when your way is hedged
with thorns, or repine sinfully when he
calls your dear ones to the land beyond
the grave.
Keep holy trust in heaven through
evory trial; bear adversity with ferti
tude, and look upward in hours of temp
tation and suffering. When your locks
are white, your eyes dim, and your limbs
weary; when your steps falter on the
verge of Deaths gloomy vale, still re-
tain. the freshness and buoyancy of spi-
rit, which would shield you from the
winter of the heart.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
PetlieOal History.

An editor in Gotham, having seen
the pleasant paragraph which appeared
in the Ecpress a short time since about
the red petticoat introduced on the
Avenue at Washington, gives the fol-
lowing:
"The scar let petticoats, like all pet
ticoats, is matter of great interest,"
Some crusty old fellows might inquire
what We have to do with the ladies pet
ticoats at all; but we shall tell them that
the article has been in all ages most
important weapon in politics, war, di-
plomacy, and fnanciering. Where
would have been the fame Of Homer if
Paris had not intsrfered in a petticoat
quarrel? Did not Mark Antony desert
all his friends, and allow his party to go
to the dogs while he was flaming"
away his time under the petticoat reign
of Cleopatra? Was not Nine. de Main
tenon's petticoat the chiefest piece of
state machinery in the time of the Grand
Monarch? Was England ever more
powerful than when under the petticoat
government of Elizabeth? A great ma
ny very handsome petticoats she had
too, being somewhat whimsical in regard
to the article. Where would have been
the great Duke of Marlborough but for
the petticoat influence Of Sarah Church
ell? Similar influences, in our day, led
to the downfall of the first Napoleon,
the early death of the second and the
success Of the third. And is it not
gravely urged that the expansion of the
crinoline and the imitation of the hoop
ed petticoats helped to bring on the
commercial revulsion Do we not all
remember the incident in California,
where party of rough miners, who had
passed many months without the cheer
of woman s eyes, accidently discovered
red petticoat, paid homage to it, and
ex temporized triumphat dance about
it? Who can forget the stout Jersy
matron who gave her single petticoat to
make wadding for the revolutionary
muskets. Have not all the poets sung
the praises Of the petticoats. Who does
not remember the lines of Sir John
Sucking,
Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice, stole in and out,
AS if they feared the light.
And Byron, who says it is
4 garment Of much mystical sublimity,
Whether it be of russet, silk, or dimity.
"But we will not multiply authori-
ties. We state the fact; and if the Star
Spangled Banner ever fails to arouse
the valor of our heroes, let it be replac-
ed by petticoat, like Beatrice's hair
of any color that pleases heaven. If
General Walker had hoisted a scarlet
pctticoat at Punta Arenas, Paulding
would have saluted it, and saved a great
deal of fuss and many stupid speeches
in Congress.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
5elftt Rurtrq.
MATRIMONY.

Matrimony is a nut
For every mans digestion
When the shell is fairly cracked,
4 Popl goes the question.
Pretty girls will sigh and blush,
"a Simper all they can, sir
Till, from out their pouting lips,
Popl goes the answer.
Cupid fans the holy flame
Rankest kind, of arson
When it gains certain height,
Pop geeatha
fhro ut the honeymoon
Made of rosy colors-
Into sundry dry good tills,
Popl goes the dollars.
When a year has shown its tail,
Round the corner, (may be,0
Out upon the happy world,
Popl goes baby.
Mother gives it catnip tea,
Father gives it brandy,
And adown its gastic tube,
Popl gaes the candy.
Madam lets her husband scold,
She must be the whipper,
And above the youngsters heels,
Pop! goes the slipper.
Bachelor, who lives next door,
Stands it for season
But. before the year is out,
Pop! goes his reason.
Maiden lady, up the stairs,
Stamps, each moment, faster,
Till, from the ceiling underneath,
Pop! goes the plastern.
Dirty, ragged, little boy,
Meath the window fingers
Thumb applied unto his nose,
Pop! 60 the fingers.
All around the neighborhood
Such antics are enacted;
And while mama is scolding him,
Pop" goes distracted.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18


sD~M Mrs. Partington. accompanied by
Ike, haveing been out West and travel
ed over the Michigan Central Railroad,
relates her experience.
Cam Arbor," cried the conductor,
looking in at the door. Mrs. Parting
ton looked around and seeing nobody
move, she resumed her knitting at the
rear end of the car. "Well, declare, -
said the old lady. Il hope they will find
her. Can you tell ME, sir" said she
reaching over the back Of the seat and
speaking to a gentleman with a plush
cap on and ticketsticking in front of it.
t.who Miss Ann Arbor is p "Nein
ferstan," replied he, well" she con-
tinued, Il didn't mean nothing harmon
ious, and it wouldn't have cost you any
thing to give a civil answer"
The man looked persistcntly out of
the window, and the cars moved on,
Mrs. Partington consoling herself with
the reflection that Ann Arbor must be
in the other car.
.sChelsea," cried the conductor "Ny
gracious = said Ike, starting up here,
"I'am gwine home to get my fshpole." "
The moving cars prevented his getting
off
"Paw Paw" cried the conductor.
The Brahmin Poo Poo, thinking him
self called, arose with dignity in his
seat, aud removing his cap, looked
around. Ascertaining that it was the
name of station he subsidized again in
to the half nap from which he was
reused.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

RB-"PIEcE, troubled sole" said Dean
Swift, wbeb he left his old boots with
the cobler.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

"THAT LAST REMARK. "A Texas
correspondent of the Montgomery Mail,
tells the following:
Not far below this place, on one Of
the banks Of the beautiful Colorado, a
party of Paddles were ditching. There
chanced along a lot of teamsters, and
one, proverbial for his wit and black
guardism, thought he'd have bit of
fun by bandying words with the ditch
ers. Soon, to his modification, they had
worked him up to boiling heat, and, to
use his own language, he commenced
spizing for a fight. After he had rant
cd around considerably, and pretty we'll
exhausted his spite, the old "boss,' who
had said nothing during the sharp shoot
ing of words, stepped up, and patting
him on the shoulder, said:
you musnt mind these boys, nay
friend; they're o!tcays making fan Of
some d-n fool or otherr'
The writer does not tell US whether
or not this cooled the mans heated an
ger.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

paA long time ago, little boy
twelve years old, on his road to Yer
mont, stopped at country tavern, and
paid for his lodging and breakfast by
saving wood, instead of asking for it as
a gift Fifty years later, the same boy
passed that same little Inn as George
Peabody, the banker, whose name is the
synonyme Of magnificent charities-the
honored Of two hem;spheres.
Far back in the teens of the present
century, young man asked for employ
ment in the Springfield armory; but he
was poor and modest, and had no frinds,
so he went away without it; but, feeling
the man within him, lie sought work un
til he found it. An age latter, he Wis
tied that armory the second time, not
as a common day-laborer, but as the
ablest speaker of the House of Rcpres-
entatives for years, and unlikely our
future chief magistrate-N. p. Banks,
now Governor of Massachusetts,. Go
to work ye dandifed, kid gloved, col
logned, billiard playing, club tending,
tight WASTED, spindle limbed. soft ft-head-
ed, time-killing, lady-tending num-
skulls, begin life over again, if you wish
to leave your first dinner in honor, and
resolve, that what you eat and drink,
and wear, from this day forward, shall
be from your ow n earnings, and you will
yet die men.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

a BACHELOR S DEFENCE.-Bachelor
are styled by married men who hove put
foot in it, as only half perfected beings,
cheerless vaeabond., but half a pair of
scissors, and many other titles are given
them; while on the other hand, they ex
tol their state as one Of such perfect
bliss, that change from earth to hcav-
en- would be somewhat Of Il doubtful
good. IF they are SO happy, why don t
they enjoy their happiness, and hold
their tongues about it? What do half
the men get married for? Simply that
they may have somebody to darn their
stockings sew buttons on their shirt, and
trot their babies shat they may have
somebody, as a married man once said,
''to pull off their boots when they are a
little balmy" These fellows are always
talking Of the loneliness of bachelors.-
Loneliness. indeed Who is petted to
death by ladies with marriageable daugh
tiers ?-invited TO tea and to evening par
ties, and told to drop in just when it is
convenient p The bachelor. Who
lives in clover all his days, and when he
dies has flowers strewn on his grave by
the girls who couldn't cntrap him !
Who strews flowers on the married man s
grave ?-his widow? Not bit of it
she pulls down the tombstone that six
weeks grief has set up in her heart, and
goes and gets married again, she does.
Who goes to bed early because time
hangs heavily on his hands? The mar
ried man. Who gtes a scoiding for
picking out the sottest part of the bed.
and for waking up the baby when he
turns out in the morning? Who has
wood to split, house hunting and mar
keting to do, the young ones to wash,
and the lazy servants to lodk~+sfter
The married man. Who is taken up
for whipping his wife? The married
man. Who gets divorced? The mar
ricd man.-Finally. who has got the
scriptures on his side? The bachelor.
St. Paul knew what he was talking
about.--'He that marries does well; he
that marries not does better"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

aa-D Don't carry your handkerchief III
your breast pocket. If you do, says
Pqnch, you take 'cipcr TO your bosom,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
Maxi,ns to Guide Young Men

NCSp SOOu SOIH P1h SA hOhO'
Never be late.
Always speak the truth.
Make few promises.
Live up to your engagements.
Have no very intimate friends.
Keep your secrets if you have any.
When you speak to person, look
him in the face.
If your hands cannot be usefully en-
ployed, attend the cultivation of your
mind.
Good company and good convsrsa-
tions are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things
else.
Never listen to loose and infdel con,
versation.
You had better be poisoned in your
blood than in your principles.
Your character. cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
IF any one speak evil Of you, let your
life be so virtuous that no one will be-
lieve him.
Always speak AID act as in tho pres
ence of God
Drink no kind of Intoxicating liquor.
Ever live, misfortune excepted, with
in your income.
Never speak lightly of religion.
Make no haste to be rich if you would
prosper.
Small and steady gains give compel
ency with tranquility of mind.
Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it.
Never borrow if you can possibly a
void it.
Do not marry until you are able to
support wife.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

MA medicine warranted to bring
the hair out" took the hair all out of a
gentleman heal, at Galena, recently
leaving him entirely bald.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
An Ark a0snS Fathers Advice
to His SGH.


You are about leaving home for
strange parts. You're going to throw
me out of the game and go it aione.-
The odds is against you Bob, but re-
member always that industry and per-
severance are the winning cards; they
are the bowers" Book learning and
all that sort of thing will do to fill up
with, like small trumps, but you must
have the bowers to back 'em, else they
ain't worth shucks. If luck runs again
you pretty strong, don't cave in and
look like sick chicken on a rainy day
but hold your head up and make be
iieve you are flush Of trumps; they won t
play so hard again you. I've lived and
travelled around some, Bob, and I've
found out as soon as folks thought you
held weak hand, they'd all buck agin
you strong. So, when you're sorter
weak, keep on bold front, but play
cautious; be satisfied with a pint
Many's the hand I've seen euchred
cause they played for too much. Keep
your eyes we'll skinned, Bob; don't let
'em mig on you; recollect the game
laws as much with the head as with the
hands.
Be temperate; never get drunk, for
then no matter how good your hand,
you wont know how to play it; both
bowers and the ace wont save you, for
there's sartin to be ''1niss deal some
thing wrong. And another thing, Bob
(this was spoken in a low tone,) don t
20 too much on the women; queens is
kinder poor cards; the more you have
of EN-. 5ie worse for you; you might
have three, and nary a trump. L Don t
say discard EN- all; if you get hold Of
one that's a trump, it's all good, and
there's sartin to be one out of four. And
above all, Bob, be honest; never take a
mans trick wot don't belong to you, nor
slip cards, or mig for then you can't
look YOUR man in the face, and when
that's the case there's no fun IN the
game; it's regular ''cut throat" So
now, Bob, farewell; remember wot L tell
you, and you'll be sure to win, and If
you don't sarves you right If you get
''skunked."
BN-There is a shop kept by lady in
Boston, in the window Of which appear
those words:
No reasonable offer refused.
He-An editor in speaking of steam
boat says: .
She had twelve berths in her ladies
cabin. "Oh, life of me!' exclaimed
Mrs. Partington, upon reading this,
what a squalling there must have
been -
ng~A medicine warranted to bring
the hair out took the hair all out OF
gentlemans heal, at Galena, recently,
leaving him entirely bald.
nA-Don't carry your handkerchief III
your breast pocket. If you do, says
Punch. YOU take a 1ciprr to your bosom,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18
5sIftt NlssrIIunQ.
From the Fag OF our Cnion.l
THE ORDEAL OF PRIDE

BY MRS. FANNY E. BARBOUR.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

H@An editor in Speaking OF a steam
boat says:
She had twelve berths in her ladies
cabin. "Oh, life of mel" exclaimed
Mrs. Partington, upon reading this
what squalling there must have
beeu 20
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

sa' Honesty is the best policy. It
benefts the printers purse.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

BN-There is a shop kept by lady in
Boston, in the window Of which appear
those words:
"No reasonable offer refused"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

nA- "AhI Miss Caroline" said a
teacher to one of his class, ''what do you
think you would have been without
your good father and mother ?'
''Why, in that case, sir guess I
should have been an orphan" readily
answered Miss Caroline.
Teacher shut up. Glass laughed.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-18

A year had passed, 1t vas. night,
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-04-21

NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.-We
have received the first volume Of the
American Cyclopedia, published by d..
Appleton & Co., New York, and edited by
George Ripley and Chas. A. Dana. 1t
is intended to be complete compendium
Of the present state OF knowledge on all
The most important subjects in science,
literature, history, religion, philosophy,
politics and the arts, embracing almost
every subject Of human enquiry. The
editors have had the assistance Of men,
the most eminent in every department OF
human learning, and the work is designed
to be the most complete work Of the
Kind ever published, containing the latest
theories and modern discoveries. Every
family should have copy as an indis
pensable book of reference to explain
every question that may arise in the dis
cussions of the freside. Messrs. Dobell
& Conyngton are the agents for this city,
and we hope our citizens will give them
a liberal subscription list.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-04-21
New York Market.
New YORK, April 20-P

NEW YORK, April 2o-PM
Flour market to loo better. The demand
is active for the hons trade, and some little
export inquiry; sales of $4,000 bbls at "a Is
"a SO for superfne Western; 81 S0@4 SIS for
superfine State. The market is firm with an
upward tendency: 81 50@4 - for extra ship
ping brands round hoop Ohio. Canadian
flour is firm; sales of 400 bbls at 81 seq 4
So for supertine; 81 1904 80 for extra. Rye
-four steady at $S@3 50. Wheat Is steady I;
demand is moderate; sales of 5000 bush at
81 22Gl 50 for white Southern. Rye steady I;
sales Of 200 bush at 65@S0. Barley I'M
changed; sales of $500 bush ct 50@69. Corn
scarce and in better demand; sales of Is 900
bush Southern at "a; prime white at 75@7S.
Oats in fair supply and dull at $3.50 for
State, and 496150 for Western. Whisky in
fair demand sales of $50 bbls at 2lc. Pork
market firmer and the demand is fair; sales
Of 2,400 bbls at slS@lS 20 for mess; $l4 81
Sl4 90 for prime; $40 for clear mess, Sl7 so
for thin mess; Sl6 80 for prime mess. Beef
finn; ISLES of $40 bbls at 81 50@S for country
prime; $40 25@ll % for country mess; Sl2
50dl3 80 for re- packed mess; Sl4@l4 30 for
extra mess. Beef hams arc quiet; sales Of
SO bbls choice at lsc; cut meats firm; sales of
$40 hhds at 6$4@7A for shoulders, and 90
10 for hams. Lard is buoyant; sales of SO
bbls At 1l@ll1I. Tobacco quiet and firm at
SOFA. Sugar heavy at 515@7 for musco-
vado. Coffee heavy at 10@l01S for RIO
Freights arc dropping on -four to Liverpool
413d; on grain to Liverpool 814@4d. Stocks
are higher.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-04-21

EMessrs. Adams Express Com
pany transported the remains Of Colonel
Benton and hrs grandson from Washing
ton City to st. Louis, bestowins every
care and attention upon the mourners
who accompanied them. The S.. Louis
Democrat says. "After having fulfilled
this duty, they refused any remuneration
for the noble part they performed. Such
conduct is worthy ofall praise, and fur
nished an example OF disinterested feel
ing seldom encountered. The gentle
men who do such acts endear themselves
to all who revere the memory of Colonel
BENTON, and we know that transaction
so honorable in itself will long be held in
remembrance by the immediate rela.
t:ves and personal friends Of the deceas>
ed"
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-04-21
WAsuySGToS April Q
Washington Items.

WASHINGTON, April 2o-PM
1t is generally believed that the President
will accept the two regiments of volunteers
from Kentucky and Ohio. The regiment
from Ohio consists Of FIVE companies mus
tered in Cincinnati, one-from Columbus, one
from Toledo, one from Springfield, one from
Mt. Gilcad, and one from Coshocton. Nearly
all the officers and many of the men served
in the Mexican war. The entire regiment can
be ready for the field at short notice.
The L. S. Steamer Fulton, which proceed
ed from Key West TO Tampico teE days ago,
was under special orders to protect Ameri-
can property in that quarter, in accordance
with a request from the State Department
based on the representations of our Consuls
ut Tampico.
All the midshipmen that passed examin-
alton, several days ago at Annapolis, have
been ordered into active service.