The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-04-03
MrANnrss.-There ,re soma ,oli,

Aneio aIo SUING actl0nb
that excite our admiration, not because
they are indicative Of high toned princi.
pie or moral excellency in the actor, but
wanting in these, possess qualities Of vast.
ness which cntitle them to consideration
and endow them with a certain degree of
respect. The petit larceny thief goes to
his dungeon on bread and water, uupitied
and unnotlcod, The forger Of millions
r%etires to his elegantly furnished room,
the hero Of a thousand sensation para
graphs. JOHN SMITH steals a horse and
is consigned to ths p~enitentiary. WAR.
rem HASTINGS robs an Empire and is &C.
quilted amidst the plaudits Of an august
English Senate.
A late writer in the Atlantic, PARTON,
perhaps, claims that the striking peouli.
arity Of WEBsTER's mental organization
was an inordinate love or appreciation of
the vast. Mountains and seas, forests and
p%rairieS, storms and earthquakes were his
f~avorito objects Of contemplation. Had
WEBSTER lived in Ashland, there is one
individual here whom he would have wor.
shipped for his vastness of meanness.
We had thought that in the catalogue
of meanuess it had all "been recorded p
from the robbipg Of a hen-roost to the
stealing Of itch-ointment from. a poor
boys hand in the street. We admit that
We were mistaken. Cur CHua, an illit.
crate puppy, who spells Cur with a X, and
does the sweeping at the Times office, in
the lowest deeps has found a depth still
deeper. We knew that Truth might have
the smallpox and Gun not need v%accina.
tion-that Intellect might have malig.
nant typhus and Cur need no physician.
We suppose there may be some who
have stolen more written exercises from
fellow pupils desks and palmed them of
as their own, than Cur, though we never
heard Of any such. For vastness of mean.
ness, however, a late transaction Of CUR's
overshadows all previous exploits.
By importantly the unmannered pup.
Ply obtained from q gentleman some lines
written by a young sister living in anoth.
er part Of the State, and at the same time
was shown in confidence a letter from the
writer, in which she p~layfully expressed
herself that literary distinction had been
one of her early dreams, but that more
matter-of-fact demands had caused her
to relinguish the design, and that now
she enly occasionally wrote for country
newspapers whose editors were too poor
to pay for her articles. The lines vert
published in the Times, and much admir-
ed by all its readers whose tastes have no
been vitiated by the namby-pamby stuff
generally found in its columns. A few
issues after, the following notice appeared
in the column of that sheet supposed to
be presided over by Cur, and called, by
way Of burlssque, we suppose, "Local =
"JUsr RIGHT.-That lady who SO mod.
estly said "she did sometimes write a lit
tie poetry for a country newspaper with Q
limited circulation, out Of compassion
has stolen q volume Of Clark's Poems ant
succeeded in getting permission from O
local Editor to bait the hook Of the dew
il's fshing-tackle."
The low meanness that indited the par
agraph will DO understood when it il
known that the insinuation Of plagiarism
conveyed in II is as false as Malicious
But this gutter ~wallowing was not Low
enough for Gun It was not enough /,
make a false accusation against q youu,
and defenceless girl it was not low enough
to bstray the confidence Of the brothe
who had shown him the playfully writer
letter of the sister-but, with the deter
mination to achieve the vast 10 the real n
of meanness, tho puppy marked his rlimy
article in an enveloped paper and request
cd the brother tv direct Il to the person
whose feelings Cur was SO wontonly at
tempting to outrage. Fortunately, The
%scoundrel had forgotten the address, ani
the brother discovered the contemptibl,
meauness before mailing the paper.
Farewell, CuR,- you may survive tn,
age Of puppy-hoOd-yOu will never reacl
the dignity Of q wellTbred hound.
p6- SAVE Your WooD.-The presenI