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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Written for the Delaware Gazette.
THE STUDENT.

! Who would not be a student? Who woald
not relish pure draught from the Plerian
spring? The world without displays It's fan
ciful mysteries, its wondrous truths, and al
their well defined or heterogeneous combina
/ tons The world within, reaches forth its cor
responding capacities, and eats, and lives for
ever. The nights above and the depths be
meath. are one vast University, over which Je-
hovah presiaes-and its students are men and
angels. The student delights to
Eve nature walks, shoot folly as ii flies
And catch the manners, living as they rise
He follows eternal truth whether it rambles
over the sunless shores of speculation or sits
on the broad disk of its own meridian sheen.
Life demands activity. The penalty Of in
activity is ignorance. See the active student,
as he upturns the filthy slabs Of fate, and the
massive aceumulations of antiquity He
gathers bait from beneath them with which.
now, and in after years, to angle for happiness
and for fortune. He proposes, by Geology, to
make a pilgrimage to the dreamy shores of
deep, deep antiquity--to sit down at the fire
side of earth's inner chambers, and converse
familiarly with the strata Of literal buried
ages.
The map of the celestial bodies is deiineated
to him. He engages the ideal ponies Of curves,
and of angles, and on them. rides the sublime
highways Of celestial orbits and side by side
with old sun drives the planets before him.
In the study Of planets, continents are his ho-
tanical gardens. He watches the delicate
plumule, until it expands into lusty proper
tions, and in turn sends forth the tender bud,
and the siiken flower, which soon ripens into
delicious perfection.
He retreats within himself, and fluids Gods
image depicted there. Of himself, threefold
approximating to the Divinity, hesays 8 am
fearfully aud wonderfully made" In the field
of languages, the student, while digging for
Greek roots, may, it is true, feel as if imprison-
ed by the ancients, to pay debt of syntaz.-
Only one language is to him gift of God;
hence disposition to pilfer words from the
mouth of the dead of distant ages, is tasteless
and difficult.
All intellgences are students. The rude
barbarian inadvertently reads nature while
the hands work. active thought within, wings
the soul for lofty fights All which the eye
sees, is subject for study. Not plant,
leaf flower, but contains folio volume. -
Inc podY may De imprisoned OF tilSitt' GU,
but the eternal energies of the mind roam
over its native home, the universe. The ocean
torrents of knowledge would embrace all man
kind. They will drink it in-heathen, saint or
infidel-whether conscious Or not, that all
knowledge is but an auxiliary to knowledge
of Jehovah manifest in his works.
Let then, the student energise his noble IA
cuIties, until he be lost in the source Of all
knowledge, on the great bosom Of our God,
BUNYAN.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Tough Dose

4 Tough Dose.
There is a doctor in the northwest part OF the
consolidated city, who is especially remarkable
for being, as the women cali it, short and crus-
tx \ week OF two since he was called to visit
a patient who was laboring under d severe at
tack of cheap whisky.
We'll, doctor, I am down, you see, complete
" fioored; got the Tremendous Delrium you
know
yremens. YOU fool; where d you get your
rum asked the doctor.
All over in spots broke out proniscuously,
doctor
! served Won right where d You get you rum?
Father died Of the same disease; took him
under the short ribs, and carried him off bod
ily'
Well, you We got to take something imme-
diateIy'
You're trump Doc-here, wife, FL take
nip Of old rye
Lie still, you blockhead, Mrs. B, if your
husband should get worse before return, which
will be in about an hour, just give him a dose
of trunk strap, may be that Il fetch him to a
sense of his folly
The doctor sailed out grandly, and within an
hour sailed in again and found the 'Delirium
Tremendous in a terrible condition, writhinS
and struggling with pain. His wife, woman
OF the plain but ignorant school, came up, and
Iaving her hand upon the doctor, said:
I gave him the strap as you directed
Did you thrash him wellt'
Thrash him. exclaimed the astonished wo-
man, no, but cut the strap into hash and
made him swallow it.
%! o. doctor roared the victim, I swal-
lowed the leather, but-but-'
tBut what
4 swallowed the whole strap, but I couldn' t
90 the Buclzle.'
The doctor administered two bread pills and
evaporated
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

Many apparently trivial traits in the DISPOSE
ton of animals, which are Of great use to
woodsmen, are omitted in books of natural
history chiefly from ignorance, no doubt
One of these is the disposition of a horse,
when frightened, to run against the wind, if
any is blowing Thousands of horses which
would be otherwise irrevocably lost annually, on
this frontier, are recovered by observing this
simple rule in pursuit. All animals have SINH
lar inexplicable traits in their disposition; and
men are 10 exception to the rule. White
men, when they are scared, viii not retreat in
the same direction in which they came. The In
dams know this, and lay their plans accordingly;
and many gallant company has been cut to
pieces, simply from ignorance of this fact
But those who understand these matters, when
they find it necessary to make hasty retreat
always do so in straight line, and in direc-
ton different from the one il which they
came.
We frequently see notices in northern pa
pers of children being lost Such things rare
ly occur on this frontier; though children Of
ten wander, and there are but few neighbors to
help search for them. Perhaps the cause of
humanity might be subserved in such search
es. AIRY child will make trail or track plain
enough to be followed by almost any person of
good sight, although he may not have had any
previous experience. Go to the place where
the child was last seen, and look for the trail
glancing along the ground with sharp scan
ming look when ii is found, faint kind OF
line will be seen, which may be followed at "a
fast walk, until well defined track occurs
If the trailer stops to look for the track, he
will probably loose the trail, and must go back
and take it up again. with the same scanning
glance along the ground The trail which
hunters and Indians follow skifully, is not so
much composed of tracks or footprints, as Of
indescribable little signs such as leaves and
blades of grass bent or turned, twigs broken,
and other things so small and faint, that they
cannot be shown to any one yet which, when
all put together, make kind of line along the
ground, which line can be seen by rapid
glancing look, but which will disappear when
looked at steadily. The trail of a human being
is more easily followed than that Of any other
creature, because there is kind of purpose in
it, different from the trail Of irrational animals
A child will change its course around thick
clumps of bushes, and go nearly straight where
the ground is open. If it is scared and run
ming it will run from the wind if much blow
ing, and from any voice it hears it is not good
policy to call much on lost child's name.
NJ k
GaYT40. Try March 1880
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

on that day at Wellington, l am 10 90 II, .iaiI
six months. and pay fine of a 'thousand dol
lars, according to the Fugitive Slave law, and
such is the protection the laws of this country
afford me, | must take upon myself the respon-
slbility Of self protection, when'I come to be
claimed by some peljured wretch as his slave.
And III that trying hour I would have 9th
ers do to me, as l would call upon You, your
Honor, TO help me as | would call upon you
ITO the District Attorney to help me; and
upon you, Ito Judge Bliss and upon you Ito
his counseD so help me God! stand here to
say that will do all | can, for any man thus
seized and held, though the inevitable penalty
Of six months Imprisonment and one thousand
dollars fine for each otfense hangs over me =
We have all a common humanity, and YOU all
would do that your manhood would require
it and no matter what the laws might be-.
you would honor yourself for doing it, while
your friends and your chiitrerto all genera
tons would honor YOU for doing it, and every
good aud honest man would say you had done
rtgh!i
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
TEE ARr OF PLEASING.

modest and virtuous young man, on hrst
entering into society, is apt to be sorciy per-
nlexed upon the question, how to make llnlseiI
agreeable to ladies. He need not be ashamed
of his perplexities. Washington lrylng' III one
of his early sketches, confesses that we'll
dressed lady was an object perfectly lawful to
his young imagination. We were once ac-
1uainted with a gentleman OF distinction III
public life, the father of several accomplished
daughters, who could not even to his httleth
year, enter a drawing-room when ladies were
present, without painful embarrassment 1t Is
certainly good sign In young man TO stand
in some awe of the beautiful sex. A person OF
. coarse and vulgar mind, who thinks more OF hlm-
self than his best friends think of him, and who
knows little the worth ofa good woman's heart
rushes fearlessly in where an Irving or an Ad-
olson would fear to tread.
How well we remember little incident OF
our early days which helped to overcome our
bashful dread of the society of ladies! Seated
by the side of beautiful girl of seventeen, and
overwhelmed with conciousne8s of our inabll
ity to say anything to her which she would care
tohear. we Glanced to observe that she too was
trembling with embarrassment. What com
forting discovery! We felt as coward 1eeli
i, when be finds that his enemy is more completely
terror stricken than himself Addressing our
selves to the task of diverting our fair acqualn
tance, we soon forgot our own fears IN sym
nathy with hers. Bear this in mind, young
gentlemen, who blush and stammer in the com
panv of Young ladies; the girls are as muc
y afraid of you as you are of them. d,
asl You are awakairdd in your manner you thlnh
If YOU think SO, it is likely your ialr lrlSn
thinks otherwise, for the really ill-bfet' leiioW
that we have known have never suspected thel
ill-breeding. And after ALL what Is good-nfee'
III ing but habitual good nature? The simple iaC
that YOU wish to please, is a proof that you p'
sess. OF will soon acquire, the power to 90 $
z The GOOD heart and well informed mind WI
soon give grace to the demeanor, or VIII
abundantly atone for the want OF IT, anu
absence will never be noticed.
Besides the gir1s-that is, the most oil 'he
like man who is simple IN his manlle,
provided they see that there Is suostdnce a.
worth in him. Graceful manners ana rea'
Wit are good so far as they go. But De sure
this, O, bashful, blushing youth, that, DOM
the society of ladies and men, you will pass
the long run, for what you are worth; no mo
n no less. The art of pleasing, therefore, is no
ing more than the art of becoming an none
- Kind, intelligent and high-minded man. Sucf
So man, be he as graceful as Chesterfield or a
ward as Caliban, all worthy women trust
love.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
A RachelorS WOES

What pitifuI thing an old bachelor Is, with
his cheerIess house and rueful phiz, on a bitter
.old night, when the fierce winds blow, and the
earth Is covered with a foot of snow. When
The fire is out and in shive1ing dread he slips
beneath the sheets OF his lonely bed How he
1ravvs mn his toes meath the chill bed clothes,
hat his nose and his toes, still encased IN yarn
hose, may not froze- Then he puffs and blows,
and swe7rs that he knows no mortal on earth
ever suffered such woes. and with ah 4 and oh s,
and with limbs nearly froze, to his slumhers in
;ilence he goes. In the morn when the cock
,ro[vs and the sun lust rose from meath the
he'd clothes pol.es the bachelors nose, as you
NAV suppose, when he hears the wind blow
and he sees the window all froze, why back
meath the clothes pops the poor fellows nose
for if from the bed he rose to put on his clothes
he'd surely froze.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Better to Fight than Run.

"That which thou hast to do, do it with all
thy might" said clergyman to his son one
So / did this morning, - said Bill, with an
enthusiastic CLEAN in his eye.
All ! what was it, darling?' and the father S
fingers ran through his offspring curls
. Why, l walloped Jack Edwards, " said the
Young hopeful, - till he yelled like blazes. You
should Just have heard him holler, dad J.
The father looked unhappy, while he explain
ed that the precept did not apply to any act
ike that, and concluded with:
:. You should not have done that my child
s'Then hed a walloped me, replied the
young hopeful.
from the wrath to come.
. Yes, but replied the hopeful, by way OF
final clinoher, - Jack can run twice as fast as
| cam
The good man sighed, went to his study, took
up pen, and endeavored to compose himself
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

The jackson MiSsissippian' treeluhg
Journal which is anxious the south shod'a go
o OF n, Union. rec cutly put the query to the
Memphis CTenn) Enquirer. whether It vas not
in favor of Southern secession from TIE lmon'
ia Rcpnhlican should he elected President IN
$50 The Enquirer responds that itsubscEib-
q to no such doctrines as reSisting the maug-
u,y,tion of President constitutionally elected,
and that it will resstit to the utmost. and II adds
that unit the Southern people are struck wih r'-
dcial blindness, il cam newer take "a deep h"td
upon the public mind - assures the MIS-
issrp;an that it and it's riens.s will have sharp
time before they are able 10 dissolve the
Union.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Human Nature on a aBridge.

1t was awinter evening, clearand cold and the
snow was finely packed when DR.. Meadows
was one of sleighing party, which he describ-
ed, SO far as he and the young Widow Lambk1n
were concerned in the words following
'sfIhe lively Widow Lambkin sat in the same
sleigh under the same buffalo robe with me-
'.Uh! ola don t, don t!' she exclaimed, as we
came to the first bridge, at the same time catch
ING me by the arm. and turning her vailed face
toward me- while her little eyes tWinklcd
through the moonlight.
Don't what p | asked - l am not doing
| anything.
:. Well. but thought you were going to take
! toil.' replied Mrs. LAmbkin-
es'TuIf q" -treioiued- whats that p
| - Wei. [ declare =! cried the Widow, most
| ovokingIv-''you never heard that when VIC
| arc Oh a sleigh ride the gentlemen always-that
| is sometimes when they cross bridge, claim
I D kiss, aud call it toll. But l never pay it.
! 1 said that had never heard OF it before, but
when We came to the next bridge l claimed the
| toll, and the Widow struggles TO hold the vall
| over her face were not enor.-h to tear it. AT
| last the vail WAS removed her round, rosy taCe
WAS turned directly toward mine, and IN clear
| light Of frosty moon the toll was taken for
the first time III his life, by DR., Meadows.
| Soon we came to a long bridge, with several
arches, the Widow said it was no use TO resist q
man who would have his own way, SO she paid
the toll without a nlurmur.
| fsBut you won't take toll for every arch, VII!
YOU Doctor ?'' the Widow said so archly, that ]
could not fail to extract all ny dues, and thai
was the beginning.
.'I}ut never mind the rest The Lambklr
had the Meadows all to herself in the Spring
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
DELAWARE, OHIO, MAY 81, 1859.
LYING ABED IN THE MORNING.

.IING ABED IN THE AIORNlN(
BY QUIS-
love te rove in the shady grove,
Where gentle zephyrs are floating
love To set Z the festive board,
Where fowl and venison are smoking.
love to gaze at the golden blaze,
Where Sol the west is adornlng
But this love far better than all,
To lie 4bed IN the morning
That poets should sing to the joys OF spring,
Is not IA the least surprising
But can't conceive why man should weave
a sonnet 20 early rising
Though Franklin old, sage I'm told,
I won't 20 win him IN scorning
The hiissful scenes in the land Of dreams,
When lying abed il the morning
Hove TO lie, when the sGlnheams shy
Come leepinE tbro' the curtains
When phautulnS bright Tegale the SIGHT;
With visions OF coffee and mullins
When the bird loud triil, from the distant hull
The chorus Of nature is joining
If there aucbt below can ban.Sh woe,
IT'S lying abed il the morning.
Let those who choose, retire 10 snnozc.
When the dgcks and chickens going,
And rub their eyes when forced 10 rise,
At chantiGleris dismal GROWING
ihaT lose the sight Of the gorgeous night
AIiI spend their day in yawnitg-
- aaidntgt damp, Ill burn the lamp
And lie abed III the morning
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
aRumRLTNG.

4oa What on earth is gained by this puerile'
mean, and diabolical practice? Its unmanly'
unwomanly, ungodly, foolish, and demorallzing'
Nothing is gained thereby-it is unsocial, dis
agreeable, cowardly, contemptble and devish.
1t is unworthy of man, woman OF chilo
anything but fends and demons SHOW ME a
habitual grumbler and | will show you weak
mind, an unsociaI, unhappy person, and small,
unprogressive, stunted soul 1t is a habit OF OF
the most injurious nature and worst tendency
God has surrounded US with blessings nnumer-
able, given US every cause to be thankful, and
repining, grumbling spirit is rebellious and IN
sulting toward the Most High. Let no grumb-
Ter imagine himself pious piety makes men
happy.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
The Peanut Eaters.

4 couple Of fellows strolled into colored
church at Hartford. a short time since, to enjoy
tho f,,n but when the colored minister rose up
,' to preach. before announcing his text, he lean
cd forward on the pulpit and looked slowly
around on his congregation
Z. Bre.lern" said he. May de Lord hab
mercy on all dc scoliers.
A long pause. =,
May de Lord hab mercy on all dc ltfcrs.
Solemn pause.
:. Nav dc Lord hob mercy on dc peanut eat
ers down dIr by de door.
! The young men did not wait to hear 'he
| bcncdictiun.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Had Him There.

Had Him There.
4 midshipman asked priest to tell the diff
ference between a priest and jackahs- lhe
priest gave it up.
One wears a cross on his back ana the othel
on his breast, said the midshipman
Now said the priest tell me the differcnc,
between midshipman and a jackass.
The midshipman gave it up and asked wha
it was.
The priest said he did not know OF any
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

What is crime? A wrctched vagabond
travelling from place to place in fruitless en-
deavor to escape from justice, who is constantly
engaged in hot pursuit foe to virtue and hap
piness, though at times the companion of poor
! innocence, which is too often made to suffer fol
the guilty.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
For the Delaware Gazet tt
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EARLY RISING.

What deep delights, what chances, perhaps
of heaven itself, We sluggards losel To be a
wake, and out in summer morn at dawn, Is to
be first in a new garden ofEden, alone with the
God Of old, what privilege! four Eve has been
left safe asleep in the four-poster and the ser
pent himself keeps no such early hours) IT
seems to be the very first dawn that ever Eas,
and all the yillainy of the world to have clean
vanished with the evil dreams and
phantom fears of the night-time-or never TO
have existed at all. "Let there be light, has
Just left the Divine lips, and 10! noontide with
out oppression, an indescribtable mid day cool
ness, or it may be, summer rain, soft falling,
like sensible blessing upon the heart and
stretched-out hands. "The lark can scarce
shake out the notes, for joy ofhis matin hymn;
the nightingale repeats ''perchance the self-same
song that fonnd path through the sad heart
of Ruth, when sick for home she stood IN tears
amid the alien corn = and loud, and long, and
lovingly she fingers over 1t.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

What is thought? A fountain from which
flows all good and evil Intentions mental
fluid, electrical in the force and rapldlty OF It's
movements, silently flowing unseen within It's
own secretavenue yet it is the controlling pow
er of all animated matter, and the chief main
spring of all our actions.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

What is happiness? A butterfly that roves
from flower to flower in the vast garden OF eX-
istenee, and which is eagerly pursued by the
multitude in the hope of obtaining the prize
yet it continually eludes their grasp.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

What is fashion? A beautiful envelope for
mortality, presenting glittering and polished
exterior, the appearance of which gives no Ger
tain indication of the real value OF what Is
contained therein.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
Fine Language.

Elne Language.
s'Can body eat with these things p asked
an elderly lady who was handling pair OF
artificial palates, In dentist office and admir-
ing the fuencv with which he described them.
classification can be performed by them with
a facility scarcely exceled by nature itself
d" Yes, know" replied the lady, " but can
body cat with en-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

-ea What is knowledge? A key that unfaVeiS
mysteries, which unlocks the entrance ana ois- AZ
covers new, and unseen, and untrodden pains
in theAitherto unezplored field OF science ano
literature.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27
eENTug AND PURPOSE.

All men are not born with genius, but every
man can acquire purpose, and purpose Is the
backbone and marrow Of genius-nay, L can
scarcely distinguish one from the other For
what. is genius? Is it not an impassioned pre-
dilection for some definite art orstudy, to which
the mind converges all its energies, each thought
or image that is suggested by Nature, OF learn
ing. solicitude, or CONVERGE, being habitually
and involuntarily added to those ideas which
we are ever returning to the same central polnt
so that the mind is not less busily applying
when IT seems to be the most released from ap
plication.
That is genius and that is purposc-Ihe on'
makes the great artist or poet, the other the
great man of action. Ind lcith purpose come
the grand secret Of all acor7dly success, whlcf
some men call will, but which l would rather
call eanraestacss If were asked, from my eN
perience of life, to say what attribute most rep
resented the mind of others, or most command
ed fortune, should say earnestness.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

Denison Olmstead, L. l.. d., professor oil as
tronomy in Yale College, died on the moriilDS
of the 18th, in the 6Sth year of his age,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

The earnest man wins way for himself and
earnestness and truth go together-8'"leeF I"
a lecture deItvered before the Glasgow University
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-11-09

LAa
- AxIoMs.-The rirest fruit often grows on
the toughest wall. 1t is the smallest wheel
of q carriage that comes in first. The man
who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequent
~ Of more service than he who is stationed at
the top ef it. Contentment is to the mind
what a frame is to a notwithstanding it and
lifting it even from a dung hill. The turtle,
though brought in at erea gate, takes the head
of the table. Better be the cat in a philan-
~thropist's family than a mutton pie at a kings
banquet. The learned pig did not learn its
letter in a day. True merit, like the pearl in.
side an oyster, is content to remain quiet until
It finds an opening. The top Strawberries are
eaten the first. He who leave early gets the
best hat. Pride sleeps in a glided crown
.eoptentment in a cotton night cap.