The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-05-18
For the Jeffersonian Democrat.
Wayside Thoughts.
"Desultory as our way,
Ranged uncon6ned from grave TO CAV"
Scott,


Ranged unconhned from grave TO CAV"
Scott.
OUR NEWSPAPER.
There - o vast difference between on,
newspaper and newspaper. There is O
difference between an apple presented to US
by friend. and one bought of the grocer
1t matters not whether the apple be intrin
sically better or not; the fact that our
friend selected it from his orchard with
special reference to our :aste,so pre-disposes
US to be pleased. that il can scarcely turu
out otherwise than that we should enjoy it.
So with our newspaper, it is arranged for
our especial benefit by our friend tho editor.
There lie q remark frequently made which
we do not at all appreciate, to the effect
that one cannot afford 10 take q home paper,
when one can be got from tho metropolis of
the country cheaper in price. with double
tho matter, and a correspondent at every
important point, bringing news from all
parts of the world up to the latest moment.
forgive our editor for not being able
to afford correspondent at every point, il
he gives faithful! account of tho news in
the sisterhood of townships composing our
county. Blind Joshua" used to tell us
boys, that If we were to hear that on pnr-
ticuiar day China, with it's millions of people
had been destined to be destroyed, and on
the same day we were to lose little fiuger
the thought of the finger would trouble us
more than the greater, but more distant
catastrophe--a kind Of selfishness We were
forced to acknowledge.
The fact is we are interested in what
happens to our ncighbors, or when anything
now happens to persons or things familiar
to us; 30, when we get our mail after looking
over our personal correspondence, we take
our county paper, look at the inside first
and glance over the editorial, to see the
county news; then at the Births. Marriages
and Deaths" then ut tho notices, religious
literary, educational and political then at
new advertisements then We look at the
outside, to see what selections our editor ha,
made Cor our especial benefit; what origina
correspondence, what selections of news
from neighboring counties; thon his diges
of general news: for until this is done WI
have no appetite for our other periodicals.
And so when we see a beading-"A word tt
delinquonts," and know il means US. and w
have no money, we think o! my dear editor
do wait till can get the money; you may
dun me; you may even take me by thu
throat" and say, pay me that thou owest,
but don't stop my paper.
THINGS DEAR TO Us.
Dear is the breath of Spring, when flipgiDl
It's green. DER pastures dun,
And dear the early bird that's singing
His carol to the sun.
And very dear are sheltered places,
Where the first fiowret leaves,
But dearer far are smiling faces,
Made happy by our means.
DRESS AND PoMP.
"If weak on the score of dress and pomp
if he doated like girl on flowers, on scents
on gay colors, on tho trappings of horse
he neither drank, nor gsmbed. nor ran wilc
and loose in love"-Ertract. from "Bedut,
Of BdcOa's Youth" in Jefersonion Democrat
March 30th
If any of our young friends should be dis
posed to think there is no relationship ex
isting between weakness and vice, let then
contemplate what humiliation it must hav,
been to u mind Ike Lord BacoD's, wher
living in luxury of dress. carriages anC
estate beyond his means. and when as Lore
Chancellor he was accused of being bribed
as Judge, he was obliged to ask the elem
ency of the House of Commons, and max
this confession :-"Upon advised consid
GRAFTON of the charges. descending into m,
own conscience. and calling my memory Il
account. so far as l am able, I do painl,
and ingenuously confess that am guilty o
corruption. and ronounce all defence.
What must have been the sgonies of such
soul as his when saying to Parliament: =
II beseech your Lordships to be morciful l.
a broken reed" Lot US cultivate strengt
and hardihood in our virtues. M.