The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-01-16
Written for the ssSpirit.''
BARRING THETEACHER OUT,
81 s.AoeTALE OF OLD MONROE! &
BY 9. W. YOUNG.

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hiiThose wise old men, those plodding grave
- state pedants,
Forget the course of youth"
: aThus aged men full 10th and slow
q; 1.-The varieties of life forgo, @-s9i 9af
And count their youthful follies DER bias
y Till memory lends her light no more"
r,s i"Hurra for, q treat! Hurra FOR treat"
loudly yelled some half a score of boys
near the verge Of manhood, as they rush
ed headlong down a steep bank sheeted
aiu,a heavy covering of snow,i towards
little log school-bouse, built in fashion
that belonged to the backwoods alone.
s;Hurra for treat, and we will have it, !"
they shouted as, they paused beside
huge woodpile that lowered to o hight
fe that rivaled the house, to discuss the best
plan to obtain it, while the cold winds
whistled about their half-bare forms un-
: keeded = asfHat 4a@ ys.sa affs
saN This was more than twenty years ago,
: on little stream in Eastern Ohio, now
known by the name of Clear Fork of
q Muskingum, where as yet the woodman's s
= axes-that mighty slayer of giants had
made but little show 10 the vast forests
that covered the high old hills Of Monroe,
and cabin was the mansion of the hardy
!. frontierman, who with boldness the most
x commendable, had ventured to dispute
'swlth1 nature the right of possessing the
{ rich valleys of the streams and streamlets
: which flowed without number from this
io section of the country. rsf,gl t..,r .;a
d Il Among other improvements of the set
Elements, school houses had here and there
sprung into existence. under the enter
prising management of some leading
spirits, and the various forms of archi
lecture they assumed from the futile
brains of their soriginators would have
Afforded asloser of such things study
hsfor q life time The one under considera
,tion was q fair specimen of them. 1t was
built Of logs ip the roughest manner, notch
s,ed;down at the ends SO as to lessen the
apurtures between them, which were 6!leG
with chunks of wood, and these covered
With a'plentifal supply Of mortar. Th'
81 foor was made of puncheons hewn on
one side and placed on the ground in
stead Of sleepsrs, She roof of rough ant
- .sunshaven boards, laid on the cuppole
10 and held ina the right position by log
. fastened on the top; the door was a sin
= = gle huge puncheon hewn en- both side
and hung on wooden hinges that mad'
Emusic to their owa fancy as the door wa
used; the heating apparatus was q hug
fire plase extending from one side Of th'
house to the other; the windows were tw'
logs ont out or opposite sides of tn,
.hsuse, and the openings thus. made 6lle'
with glass Taken in at q view it was
good criterian from which to form an ide
OF the advance of society from the frs
settler to when ~ e'o1i s's''ae@ /
zol r,aynMansion on mansion crowned sisa
eds l. Each succeeding hills" aiItIa 81 sfssl
Within this palace of the west peds
I, gogus reigned monarch of all he surveyed,
, and he was the same one that the half vii
= boys had determined to make stand trea
whether he was willing or not His nam
sdswas Henry ,Debolt, and he was man o
70 whose Iisage age had made it's mark, an
the. thin hair which fell from his temple
.o % in light locks was half mixed with grey
~, but, still bis step was firm, and eye brigh
sssas when one and twenty crowned him i
aS'ths bloom of mahhood; and his broa
brow aud firm eountenance told in plai
language that what be willed he would dc
To force him into measures would be lik
moving the everlasting old hills-impof