The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-30

establishment fitted up with all the
modern luXuries and comforts and
conveniences of life. The place
where he takes his meals and sleeps
"o'nights.'' Take peep at him as
he thrusts his hard face and rigid
person into the family circle, pro-
ducing very similar result to that
we would imagine would be pro-
duced by ejecting an iceberg into a
flower garden. The JOY and mirth
and hilarity that a moment before
clothed his fashionable establish
ment with some semblance of true
home, at once vanish.
He is not met with
"The little strong embrace
| OF prattling children
| Emulous to please him."
He is not there for any such pur-
pose, but Judging from his conduct
he is there simply to prove how
short time it takes in these days
of young America" to deyour q
meal.
You follow him to his place Of
business, and find him half buried
in books and ledgers, carefully bal
aneing his profit and less account.
To your commonplace remark about
the weather, he expresses regret at
too much rain, or q want of suffi-
cient rain, crops will fail and men
cannot pay their debts.
You venture to remark upon the
vastness of our country and the be-
nificence Of its institutions, and he
growls about being devoured by
taxes. ......-..-
You speak of the Improvements
of the age-facilities for travel,
transportation, &C., smile, poor
shriveled sickly smile, ventures out,
and creeps timidly over his care worn
face, and he speaks with animation
of the saving of time and expense
in bringing forward goods from the
east, under the new, as compared
with the old method.
You refer to the apparent increase
of intemperance and crime, and sug-
gcst that something ought to be
done to check them. He admits il,
regrets that it is so, for, says he,
you never know when your goods
or money are safe, or who you dare
trust. But he can't see that he can
do anything in the premises. He is
in business, and any effort on
his part in that direction might give
offense and injure his trade What
part in the great drama Of human
life is this man acting? Who is he
attempting to entertain or instruct,
oI benefit OF lnproto
Mammons close linked chains have bound him
Self imposed and seldom burst,
Though heavens waters gush around him,
He Weuld pine with earth's poor thirst
That physician who stands by
the bed of your dying friend, indus
triously administering the remedies
known to the craft, raching his brair
lest soma remedy may be left un
tried. In his countenance and his
demeanor, he expresses all the anx.
iety and sympathy and kindness o1
heart that could be manifested by
the dearest friend, and you are i'm
pressed with the idea that he is g
very living, walking Embodiment ot
kindness and sympathy.
He goes to his office, and there
talks as fippantly of letting YOU
friend "slip through his fingers as
though he were an eel He regrets
it, of course he does. But how
much Of that regret proceeds from
wonp1oI ,,ri]o o,,I a M nJ;t;or, anJ 4.
fear Of the effect it might have upor
his future practice: How much 0;
the sympathy and kindness mani
tested, was merely put on, as a gar
ment for the occasion.
Again, that advocate who is about
to address a jury on behalf of a pool
widow and her orphan children, and
begins in the language of the cele
brated Sergeant Busfus, and informs
them "that never, in the whole
course Of his professional expert
ence-never, from the very first mo-
ment of his applying himself to the
study and practice of the law, hao
he approached case with feelings
Of such deep emotion, or with such
a heavy sense of the responsibility
imposed upon him-a responsible
ity, he would say, which he could
never have supported were he not
buoyed up and sustained by con
viction so strong, that it amounted
to a positive certainty, that the
cause Of truth and justice, or in 9th
er words, the cause Of his much in
jured and most oppressed client
must prevail with the. high minded
and intelligent dozen of men whom
he there saw in that box before
him" And as he proceeds, you
are carried away by the power OF
his eloquence. How he makes you
loathe and hate the Infamous Shi
lock whom he induces you to be-
lieve is seeking to devour the sub
stance of his clients. You fine
yourself involuntarily clinching youl
fists and grinding your teeth, as
step by step he proceeds to picb
out and hold up before you the evi
dence of the systematic villainy and
revolving heartlessness Of the SAID
Shilock, and when he comes tc
make his closing appeal to the jury
on behalf of his helpless and much
injured clients, you hang upon his
burning words of eloquence. until
all the sympathies of your heart are
awakened, and you feel as though
you would be willing to make al
most any sacrifice for the poor wild
ow and her children. And you straight
way give the said advocate high
and exalted position in your private
gallery of great men. But perhaps
if you could be permitted to have a
glimpse at the secret springs, that