The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-12-13

rom the JfNann Ffec I.css.
Pairlotisn om the cars.
One meets with many enrious aud humor.
Gus "adv INJURIES" on the railroad train.
Oftbo later class we propose TO speak
We eat achods ourseif 10 the smoking
car on the train rom Dayton TO Cincin-
natl, aud in il found two well to do old far
mcrs, fossil'zcd old gentleman Of Teu.
tonic oriniu--in othcs words, an old
Duichman--au arUy officer, clever
collcgian, with others. The well 10 do
formers wers from Seneca and Wood
. counties, respectively, and The fossiizcd
Tcuion from Buticr---a believer in Val
laudigtudcndamham. The former were
on their way TO Camp Ncvn, Kentucky,
/ for the purpose Of Waiting their soldier
sons, (oi the 49th Ohio,) on the sick list
The all absorbing topic of the war was
introduced, of course, and after the others
/ had considerable talk ont, the old Dutcl =
man managed To take his ppcstem from
between his teeth. and say: ooh, tey are
/ killing all our soters off down Sout-
tey'll yip us"
This brought out our old farmer
frjends--espCcally so the one from SEN
cca--n fine looking. iovial man. "If all
talked like you" said he, "or course they
would whip u.s."
Then followed 'trtrngulnr' conversa-
tion between the parties, when finally
our Seneca county man asked him Of But
Ter il h. had any sons in the armyl "No
! keeps my poys at home; not wants
TEN kilt"
"What If we all had kept our boys at
4. 4 al ii
were Just such men as you the roscally
rebels would have beenup here in Ohio
epunching you of your farm with theiI
b0yJnets-then you and your boys would
have lought-fought likeh-l ~
"los, put Eve ali goes, who takes care
Of t. propcrtyw
"Propcrtyl Ny mot Is, Defend the
country and Save lt-ihen take care Of il
and the property alterwords!" -
"Bu,, my poys are too young Fey
are only eighteen and twenty ."~~
"Too young, hey! ] have son in the
army who is only 10 years and month,
old; wise TO God had fifty of ,cm
; yes, ] wouldn't care it | had five hun.
drcd-they all should be defending theii
countryl You don't love your country
or you would have your boys defending
ayes, loves my county"
"No, you don't. These mon who stay
at home and keep their chilaren there
cnqno. love their God, their country OF
'any other manr why, you coulden''
love good looking woman in your young
daysw
ayes, by Got" interposcd the old
Dutchmrn, 81 could love as many wo.
mans Ms any ov em!"
"But, e. cxpeushc-ve all preaks up"
"D-n the expense! What's our mon
cy and property worth il we haven't ,
country to keep it in! We Would al
brcak up and we aud the country go tC
JEFF, Davis or the devil if oil were like
you!'
"And te taxshos,'
ayes, tits pity we cannot tax sucl
men as you half you're worth 30 tina
poor peoples sons could get bigge
bounty " hen the wars over. | don
care whether my boy gets paid or not-h'
/ isn't fighting for pay. have an incom'
! ci ten dollars a day, and can afford to lc
him. fight without pay, besides helping NJ,
! poorncighbors whose sons have goii
with mine.
/, "oh, you talks iiiferent pelore te wa
is over"
!. "No, wont. We have got to figh
> this war cut il il makes us all poor men
We are going to have country to liv
, in! am one of these men who alwuy
look at the bright side of the picture
A while such men as you always look at tn
/, backsidc!"
i At this iuncturc, the train arrived Q
/ Trenton, the old Dutchman's destination
but as he rose to get out, he wished, lik
all old erunnics, to have the last wor
, which occupied him So long in saying thu
= tho cars moved on before he had FINISHED
/ Then he became excited, and Us til
{ Conductor came in, he begged him I
/ "stshop." 81 gifts to talking nit des
tam gnssy fcllcrs, and forgets cyerytin
- else" But the conductor would not CON
/, I ply with tho request, and our Tteutoni
o lricndwas conveyed to Middletown, seye
[ raj miles farther south.
A "Thars what you get for not lovin
n your country" said the noble old Scnec'
!. and he leant back in his scat and laul
he'd as heartily as any honest patri'
could.
/ As the old Dutchman got of'nt Middle
II town he invited the two STAN gassy fc
lcrs" to stop aud see him when they r,
o turned, udding, "you can trink my viz
/. and shmoko mypipes."
i They thanked him cordially for his il
Y vitotion but wanted him to be more patr
otic in the future.
IT "Itclls my pOys when I gets home,
said he; "if they wants to 10, shalt 81
: nigl" and he lett them, we believe, moi
n patriot, than when he met them.
i How TnEY HANG ON TO THE NEcnor
= --"Jim" Lane told this story in his r