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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
Selrft MisrellauD.
A DESPERATE RACE.
A Story OF the Early Settlement
of Ohio.

Some years ago | was one of con-
yi4sial- party, that met at the principal
hotel in the town of Columbus, Ohio,
the great seat of Government of the
Buckeye. State.
1t was winter evening, WHEN all
without was bleak and stormy, andNall
within was blithe and gay; when song
aud story made the circuit Of the festive
board, filling up the chasm of life with
'mirth and laughter.
We had met for the purpose of ma
king a night of it, and the pious inten-
ton was truly and most religiously car
ried out. The Legislature was in ses-
sion in the town, aud not a few of the
worldly Legislators were present upon
this occasion.
One of these worthless, l will name,
as he not only took big swa;h in the
evening entertainment, but as he was a
man more generally known, than even
our worthy President, j ames x. Polk.
That man was the famous Captain Rii.:y,
whose narratives of suffering aud ad-
ventures is pretty generally known all
over the CIVILIZED world. Captain Riley
was q fue, fat, good humorcd joker, who
NJ Tue pGllOO VI SlOl was Tic 1SGp
resentative of the Dayton District, and
lived near that little city when at home.
Well, Capt. Riley had amused the COM
pany with many of his far-famed and
singular adventures, which being most
ly told before, and read by millions OF
people, that have never seen his book
L will not attempt to repeat them.
Many were the stories and advent urls
told by the company, when it came to
the turn of well known gentleman
who represented the Cincinnati District
As Mr.. - is yet among the living
and perhaps not disposed to be the sub.
jcct of joke or story, do not feel al
liberty to give his name. Mr.. -
was slow believer in other meu's ad
ventures, and at the same time much
disposed to magnify himselfinto a mar
gellous hero, whenever the opportunity
offered. As Capt. Riley wound up one
of his truthful though marvellous ad-
ventures, Mr.. - coolly remarked
that the Captains story was all yer,
we'll, but it did not compare with al
adventure he had 'once upon a time OIL
the Ohio. below the present city Of Gin
ci6nati
~ it'Let's have it, let's have it !" re-
5ponded from all hands.
. i"Well, gentlemen" said the Senator
Gle airing his throat for action, and knock
ing the ashes from his segar against TIL
arm chair, Gentlemen, I'm not in tn
habit quite notorious for it y of spin
ming yarns of marvellous and fictitiou
nnatters, and therefore it is scarcely ne
tcessary- to affirm upon the responsibility
reputation, gentlemen, that wha
q am about to tell you is the God
truth, and"
."Oh never mind that, go on Nj
~ chimcd in the party.
r. t'Wetl, gentlemen, in 1s- cam
down the Ohio river, settled at Losenti
now called Cincinnati. It was at thu
. time little settlement of some twent
or thirty log and frame cabins, an
whore now stands Broadway Hotel, an,
f~blocks of stores and dwelling houses
swas the cottage and the corn patch O
AIr. j. T., tailor. who by the b.
bought the land for the making of
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
BRIEF, BUT COMMON HIsToRY.

BRIEF, BUT COMMON HIsToRY.-l
saw him first at social party. He
took but a single glass of wine, and thai
at the request of young lady with
whom he conversed.
saw him next, when he supposed he
was unseen, taking a glass to satisfy the
slight desire formed by his social in
dulgence. He thought there was no
danger.
[ saw him again with those of his own
age. meeting at night, to spend a short
time in convivial pleasure. He said it
was only innocent amusement.
[ met him next, late in the evening.
in the street unable to reach home.
took him thithcr He looked ashamed
when we next met
saw him next reeling in the street
\ confused stare was on his counte-
nance, and words of blasphcmy were on
his tongue. Shame was gone!
L saw him yet once more. He was
pale, cold. motionless, and was carried
by his friends to his last resting place
In the small procession that followed
every head was cast down, and seemed
TO shake with uncommon anguish.
His fathers gray hairs were going to
the grave in sorrow. His mother wept
TO think that she had ever given birth
to such a child.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
Too NlirthfuI.

"Do stop that girls laughing! It re
ally makes me nervous to hear her.
From morning till night her mouth is
open, either laughing or singing, just
as if there was no trouble or sin in the
world. l never saw such rattle brain
thing as she is in my life -
So Hetty w2s made to suppress her
glee, and, to sing low. This was the
utmost that her ru ,cTs could accomplish,
for the girls heart was light within her,
and overflow it would. But check after
check was given her; and month after
month she was told. with awful serious
ness, that she was too wild, too merry,
too imaginative; that it was her duty to
measure her steps, her morals, her very
smiles to hold down her Imagination
always to turn her thoughts towards
reading cooking. mending and sewing,
when she caught them starting off for
n revcl in the regions of beauty and de
and always to wait till she didn't care
whether she moved or stood still, spoke
or held her tongue, when she glowed
with quick impulse to do or say some
thing. Well, they managed to tone
Hctty down somewhat; but she never
could be made to become exactly serious
and proper until the hand of sorrow
took her heart and pressed it so hard
so reyy hard-that the joyousness which
had so long lwelt singing in it was
crushed out and went, none knew wi
ther Many burdens were bound for
poor Hetty's heart, and it bore then:
bravely till the spring Of joy was bro
ken then each additional lead pressed
down with more hopeless weight. Now
she is what blindly they tried to render
her when she was child.
o, let the children and the maidens
laugh and sing. Do not, o, do not
be always checking and rebuking them
for being gay. Little time enough have
they before care will begin it's gnawins
aud grief and pain. They will grow
old and grave anon, never fear. Their
glory will soon enough be darkeucd
their buoyancy cease The canker and
the blight will not pass them. Dark
ness and disaster sooner or later, shuts
down the morning light of all. 0, the
fated, the unconscious youngl But le
them, while the impulse yet is in them
laugh and play, and dance and sing
And if, perchancc, ere the merry day:
are over, any slecp, murmur not. CLAP
py the early dead. - U'Nis's -Nusica
World
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

will presume to think I am e;aggera-
ting?"
"Oh! certainly not-go on, Mr. u
We all chimed in.
"Well, the ground under my feet was
soft, and being relieved of my heavy
boots, I put off in double quick time,
and seeing the creek about half mile
off, 1 venturcd to look over my shoul-
ders to see what kind of chance there
was tc hold up and load. The red skin
was jogging along, pretty well hlowed
out, about five hundred yards in the
rear. So at it I went-in went the pow
der dawa tiIe bah ifia'iif way;
aud off snapped the ramrod !'
'Thunder and lightning" shouted
the woodsman, who had been worked
up to the top notch in the Senator s
story.
'Good God wasn't in pickle p
There was the red whelp within two
hundred yards of me, pacing along, and
loading up his rifle as he came! jerk
ed out the broken ramrod, dashed it
away and started on, priming up as l
cantercd off, determined in turn to give
the red skin blast anyhow, as soon as
[ reached the creek.
II was now within hundred yards of
the creek-could see the smoke from
the settlement chimneys; few more
jumps, and was by the creek the red
devil was close upon me; he gave a
whoop, and raised my rife-on he
came, knowing l had broken my ram
rod, and my load not half down. An
other whoop! whoop! pulled trigger,
and"
s'And killed him ?" chuckled Riley.
No, sir missed fire, by thunderl"
:'And the red devil" shouted the
old woodsman in phrcnzy of excite
mcnt.
Fired and killed me !"
The stre ans d shouts that fo low, d
this finale brought landlord Noble, SER
wants and hcstlers running up stairs to
see if the house was on fire.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

Bg A White Mountain guide thus,
philosophically explains why it is that
young ladies are more veRturesame on
the edges of precipiccs than the youths
of the stcrner sex -
"a gal" says he, when she gets into
ticklish place, alters expects feller
will be holding on to her, and she
does it just out O. bravery [bravndo. -
But a man when he makes fool out of
himself in that way, knows he's got to
stand it himself"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
JApASAPARAD1sE FOR ON Nam.

JAPAN A PARADISE FOR OLp MANS.
A prominent feature of our social sys-
tenn is also left out by their domestic
code. and that is o.d maids. No single
women are allowed in Japan; probably
because they arc eousi Tered dangerous
members of society. Every man is al
lowed one legal wife, and as many Sec
ond wives as his means will permit him
to support. The second wives are sclec-
ted by law by the poorer classes of soci-
ETY., whose relatives arc unable to main
tain them, and the children are all adop
ted by the legal wife, who is the only
acknowledged mother The old rule is
therefore, reversed in Japan, whore, in"
stead of boy not knowing his own
father, hundreds do not know their own
mother.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

One Hour.

There was once a lad who, at four
teen, was apprentice to a soap boiler
One of his resolutions was to read one
hour day, or at least at that rate and
he had an old silver watch, left b. his
uncle, which he timed his reading by.
lie stayed seven years with his master,
and his master said, when he was TWEEN
ty-one that he knew as much as the old
squire did. Now let us see how much
time he had to read in seven years, at
the rate of an hour day. 1t would be
twenty five hundred and fifty five hours;
which, at the rate of eight reading hours
day, would be three hundred and nine
teen days, equal to forty-fve weeks
even to eleven months, nearly years
reading. That time spent in treasurine
up useful knowledge would pile up {
very large store. 1 am sure it is worth
trying for. Try what you can do. BE
gin now.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
pGS= The following bit of advice b

pa~ The following bit of advice by
Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia mil
lionare, is worth remembering by those
who want purchasers for their wares :
81 have always considered advertis-
ing-liberally and long-to be the
great medium OF success in business
and the prelude to wealth. And have
made it rule, too, to advertise in the
duIlcst times, long experience having
taught me that money thus spent is
we'll laid out, as, by keeping my business
continually before the public, it has Sc
cured ME many sales that 1 would 9th
erwise have lost"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

pa- A tasty old bachelor perpetates
the following ''It is singular how pi-
Gus new clothes make people. For a
month after the Misses Flirt get man
tillas, they are at church thres times a
day. Should the women paint heaven,
the wall would be all festoonsd with
French bonnets and bocade satins."
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

THE DRUsKARD's WILL leave to
society ruined character. a wretched
example and memory that will soor,
rot.
leave to my parents the rest Of thoir
lives, as much sorrow as humanity, in a,
feeble and decreped state, can sustain.
leave to my brothers and sisters as
much modification and injury as we'll
could bring on them.
l leave to my wife broken heart, q
life of wretchedness and sha nc, to weep
over my premature death.
L give aud bequeath to each of my
children, poverty, ignorance,a low char
act T, and a remembrance that their
father was Il monster.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

parted ones, Tor those whom they dear
ly and tenderly loved, it is then that
our sympathics are called forth, and we
are induced to administer the balm of
comfort which only sympathising heart
can supply. In all cases of misery or
pain this natural attribute of the heart
prompts US to afford succor and relief
Such acts from the satisfaction of hav-
ing done right, always fully repay those
who engage in them, and yield as much
happiness to him who gives, as to him
who is the recipient of such sympathy
1t is duty that we owe to those who
suffer, not merely to sympathize with
them, but let our sympathy lead 10 ac-
tion by charity and kindness.-Month
Iy Offering.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
IT'S MY last-my last caress.

SisterL with thine eyes of blue,
Hither come aud weep "adicu
Let thy arm around me twine,
Let thy cheek repose on mine,
While I gaze into thy face,
Circled in this dear embrace.
Thou hast ever proved to me,
All that love could wish to be;
Yet / leave thy heart alone
Brother-Sister bless your own.
Mother thou hast rocked my head
Softly on its cradle bed
When the storm was raging high,
Sweetly sung loves lullaby
Yet I part-I part from THEE.
Who henceforth will sing to me,
WheB nay forehead aches with pain
4 shall miss that early strain.
Mother LEwith thy accents mild,
Blesss oh bless thy weeping child.
Father thou hast loved me we'll
More than human tongue can tell
More than wealth since childhood hour
Thou, hast lavished on thy flower. .
Now, thy locks are waxing grey,
From thy heart l pass away:
Never more thy lips, at eve,
On my cheek their kiss will leave
In thy prayer of undertone,
Mother Father bless your own.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

Ha- When you have quarreled with
anybody, and lawyer urges you to go
to law to redress your wrongs, you may
remember the dog, who said SO to the
cat: and then ran off with her dinner
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

aea- At ST. Barthelemy,in France, AN
old peasant lay on his death bed. His
son went to fetch the curate, and stood
knocking at his docr for three hours.
"Why didn't you knock louder ?"
said the curatc.
"I was afraid of waking you" answer
ed the clown.
"Well, what is the matter ?"
~ left father a dying, sir"
"You did ? Well, he must be dead
by this time -
"O,no, SIR" said the simple tom neigh
Dor Peter said he would amuse him II
[ came back"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

specimen OF ague' IN CafTfnlsE u! =
RJ Chaff generally arises from tread
ing on a mans corn.
p@- A man of no account ready
money trader.
BI- When does a man become four
handed? When he doubles his fists.
b9- Why are the inhabitants of Illi-
nois the sickliest? Kaze they are all
Ill. peoopie.
BS VIII, is lean puppy like man
in meditation? Kaze he he is thin
cur.
ra Advertisement by lady on the
the shady side of forty,-"Lost, q host
of charms"
Dag- The man who makes jokes at
matrimony has probably found matrf-
mony no joke. .-
"a Come out here and I'll lick the
whole of yeas the urchin said when
he saw jar full of ugar-sticks in q
candy store window ON a Christmas
morning.
Bg- A lady being asked to waits, gave
the following sensible and and appro-
pirate answer mo, thank you, sir
[ have hugging enough at home"
nsA- An Englishman's lunch-a slice
of am, honion, six heggs, and quart
of hale.
s@- Among the VOWS that man has
to max at japan when he is married, is
only that he will fnd plonty of tea and ,
rice for his wife during I er life.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
"Now run, you beggar -

y NEW DIsCOVERY IN LIGHT.-A new
discovery in light is about to be intro
duccd, which, if it realizes the aver
ments of the patentees, will revolution
ize all our existing methods of illumin
alton. 1t was first publicly exhibited
during the visit of the queen to Cher
bourg, while her majesty was passing at
night from her own ship to that of the
emperor.
The raw material may be a cheap
gas, made from the commonest meteri-
ais, and the increase of brilliancy is OBJ
tanned by passing through a new medi-
um which is alleged to have all the ad-
vantagcs of lime without its destructi-
bility. The calculations put forth are
that light equal to chat of 500 street
lamps and lasting II hours can be OBJ
tanned at cost equal to S71 cents, or
3s. Cd. sterling, while for domestic pur.
poses one jet tcqualing in effect Is pounds
of candles, and costing only i'd. g cents
for II hours, will give light fully
equal to 3 argand lamps, and double
that of any ordinary gas burner.
1t is as e:ted also that the requisite
apparatus is cheap, perfectly portable
and capable of being managed even by
child-that the light is free from smell
very white, extremely pure and charac
terized by the property of burning stead
lily, continuously, and without dlminu
ton. The pattentee is Hon. f, Fitz
! maurice.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

THEY 5lft I,sks'si,, - 8 sT<,3.
IT'D passi d Il away Af,ii The
hlls scenes 81 IL 81 4Ie oltdn Il. al q 10
'.'ls the haRp 4 store for them -
tts'< kppes re vain: I'd
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

FROM OUR NEW DIcTIoNARY.-Doo
stealing ''in the second degree" hook
ing sausages. An cute angel-any
angel that enables you to cross street
SO as not to run against bore.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

aa Mrs. Specklcs says the best veg
eta5le pill yet invented IS an apple
dumpling; for destroying a gnawing at
the stomach, i. is pill which + ~ always
t.v Clieu OH.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

pectations, is cut down, to be seen upon
earth no more. Look upon that happy
family, now seated around the home fire
side they know not the meaning of the
words 'care and sorrow"-will it ever
be thus? Again we visit them; but
now they gaze in mute despair upon the
inanimate form of their darling. Death
has visited that family, and taken the
flower Of the household, the youngest,
from that little flock Surely now they
must truly realize the force of that short
Isentence-"They are passing away"
Come with me to the death bed Of the
Christian. His family are gathered
around him, and are listening for the
last time to his words of instruction -
Hark !! he is implor!Dg them to put no
value on the fecting things of this world
but place their trust On high. He too
has passed away and as his friends gather
around his grave, and hear those solemn
words, "Alingle ashes with ashes, and
dust with its original dust they feel
in their inmost souls the solemnity of
this truth, ''They are passing away.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

ALWAYS BE PoLITE.-An elderly la
dy, passing down busy street in New
Haven, was overtaken by a sudden show
er of rain. She was some distance from
any acquaintance, and had no umbrel-
la. She was celebrating what to do,
when pleasant voice beside her said.-
"Will you take my umbrella, mad
am? %
Tho speaker was boy, perhaps ten
years of age.
"Thank you" said the lady, II am
afraid you will get wet
"Never mind me, ma'am, I'm boy
and you are a lady"
"But perhaps you will accompany me
to friends not far off, and then should
not find it necessary to rob You.,,-
The boy did so. resolved the thanks
Of the lady and departed.
Two years rolled by, the lady often
related the circumstance, as often won
dering what had become of her gentle
manly little friend, but little thinking
ever to see him again. In the dull sea-
son winter this boy was out of employ
ment, and the circumstance coming to
the knowledge of this lady, she gave
him good home till March, when she
introduced him to good situation
Verify, kindness seldom goes unrequit-
ted.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

NGA The following verdict was rem
dered by coroner's jury, and is now
on file in the clerks office in one ofthe
counties of Iowa:
1--WE find the deceased came to his
death by Il visitation from God, and not
by the hands Of violence. We find up
on the body a pocket DO ok, containing
80, a check on Fletcher's bank for So
so, and two horses, wagon, and some
butter. eggs and feathers.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

CoPARTNERsuIP-A colored firm in
Newark, n. j., having suffered some
pecuniary embarrassments, recently
closed business, and the senior member
gave the following "notis" to the pub
lie:
de dissolution of coparships here
toto resisting twixt me and Moses
Jones, in de barber profession, am here
toto resolved. Pussons who ose must
pay de inscriber. Dem what de furm
ose must call on Jones. as de furm is
insolved.
LIGCE JOHNSON.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

LOVE OF FAIR PLAY.-Strolling
leisurely about Uncle Sans big ship
yard, in Washington, the other day, we
observed regular hard weather sailor
looking chap from a man O. war, who,
in turn, was watching two men dragging
a seven foot cross-cut saw through Il
huge live oak log. The saw was dull,
the log terrible hard, and there they
went-see saw, see saw,-pull, push.
push, pull. Jack studied the matter
over awhile, until lie came to the con-
clusion they were pulling to see who
would get the saw, and as one was a
monstrous big chap, while the other
was little fellow, Jack decided to see
fair play; so giving the big one clip
under the car that capsized him end
over end he jerked the saw out of the
log, and giving it to the small one, sung
out
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
Sftrft poetrp.
THE BRIDES DEPARTURES.
HYALtEur. G. W. PArTEN, U. $. ARMY.

Brother! speak in whispers light,
IT'S my last-my last good night
Never more our steps will stray
Through the gardens scented way;
By the homestead of the bees
Meath the shady chestnut trees;
By the meadows winding stream,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13
Mrs. Partington on Longevity

I've always noticed" said Mrs. Par
tington, dropping her voice to the key
that people adopt when they are dispos-
ed to be philosophical or moral, 1--WE
always noticed that every year added to
mans life has tendency to-make him
older, just as a man who goes on jour
ney finds, as hejogs on, that every mile
stone brings him nearer to where he is
going, and farther from where he start
ed. I haven't got the exorbitance oi
feeling that | had once, and don't be-
licvo l shall ever have it again if live
to the age of Mcthusaleh, which, heaven
knows, L don't want to- And, speaking
of long life, haven't any desire to live
longer than the breath remains in my
body, if it isn't moro than eighty years
i wouldn't wish to be a centurion
and the idea Of surviving ones factories
always gives me disrgreeable censori-
business. But whatever is to be, will
be, Snd there is no knowing how a
thing will take place till it turns out.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-13

Brazil now occupies very
respectsble position in the list of pow
erful nations Her government is sta
bic and permanent There is considera =
BILE popular liberty, and the masses of
her people are progressing rapidly in
civilization. Her military and naval
resources are large. She has a feet OF
sixty two vessels of war, of which thirty
are fine stamers. Her navy is more
efficient and larger than ours. She has
standing army of $4,000 men, and hel
national guard numbers 100000