The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-26
For the Fremont Journal
HOT CHIP 7 CHI.
Paddle Your Own canoe.

Paddle Your Own Canoe"
Some things deteriorate while
others improve, with age. Wine
and wisdom are the better for being
old, but bread and beauty hardly
follow the same rule. The precoci-
ty of a child is cute, but not wise;
and not till the sayings of adults
have been often repeated, do we pro-
nounce them wisdom and assign
them place among proverbs. This
adage is old, dating back of COlum-
bus time, as paddles and canoes were
found only in the new world It is
singular how the words of a saying
fix its origin. We Yankees would
say, 'du yer own rowin."
Perhaps this is the commence
ment-point of the maxim. Long
ago, a brave of one tribe having for
saken his affianced of another tribe,
her friends sought revenge. They
set out to cross the treacherous Ma
CARA which divided their tribes, lust
above the Falls. Breathing the fierc-
est threats, the loyeliness of the In
dian Summer beguiled them to droB-
sy wakefulness, physical condition
quite natural TO the occasion. It
happened sueh-co-incidences are
common in traditions-that band
Of their enemies had started for
their canoes with the same neigh
borly purpose. This was, 1 may ex-
plain, before aboriginal generosity
had become homeopathetically 70,
dear! l tremble lest some carless
type-setter somehow pervert this
fitting proverb lafected by Saxon
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the bowling red
skins (please, good Mr.. Compositor,
don't print thatred-shins; for though
the sound is similar, there is a shade
of difference in the meaning) had
learned the ready use of the beat
flying tomahawk and scalping-knife;
while, indeed, they were pinks Of
magnanimity. Well, seeing their
doing foes thus imperiled, the In
dians on the other side shouted for
them ito flee from the wrath to
come Instantly with a simulta-
neous Ugh paddles were seized and
by dint Of desperate effort al escap-
ed but one interesting young brave,
the son of his father. Tue latter
had often in vain enjoined upon his
papoose to perfect himself in pad
ding, and now, in agony, shooting
hopelessly onward, pitching his gut
teral voice on high, lie shouted in
answer to his silent shrieks for help,
these solemn words: "Hi-u Sho-go-
tee tonga um-bul-beeT which lit
orally interpreted may mean Paddle
your own canoe, or any other man.
And while we imagine the doomed
brave standing majestically and
drinking with one hand his pitiess
daddy's health, and with the other
hurting at him tender maledictions,
before he takes the fatal ker-chug,
we cannot help thinking that the
red man of this day would have said
mum is the word" till the slumber-
ing friends had reached the sublime
watery precipice, when they would
have fired a parting salute and shout
ed as they proudly patted their swell
ling blossoms, big Indian, Me-
But this proverb ought to be past
ed in every boys hat, and girls too,
for that matter. Cruel as it may be,
parents should unshrinkingly teach
their little ones self-reliance. It is
very gratifying for a father to show
his paternal affection at the same
time he displays his ability, by Civ
ing his children some task to do and
then doing it for them; but his
strong hand will soon be too feeble
to aid himself, and then who will
carry their burdens? Boys, girls,
do your own padding, if you hope
to keep your head above water.
Our Honsysuckle and its Callers.
At the corner of our front porch |
grows a specimen OF this fragrant |
climber. Its botanical name 1 know |
not, but it is commonly called the |
@Chinese" variety. Like much per
tanning to that messy nationality, it
is superb. Beginning to blossom
early at the bottom, its rich clusters
burst, one after another, all along to /
the very extremity of its rapidly |
branches; and while the |
lower blossoms are whitening and fall |
ling, the vine is in bloom till chilled |
by the icy breath of mischievous
and merciless Jack Frost. The buds |
resemble inverted cornucopias of a |
color, and when open, with |
their white lining turned, a la Byron's |
famous collar, and their long slender
out-bent stamens with golden an
theirs, and straight pistil with green |
stigma, they are very pretty. One
singular exception 1 must notice
while the Innings are generally white,
in nearly every cluster some are
buff. But the crowning charm IS
yet to be noted. Early in The morn
ing, all the night and on cloudy or
rainy days, whenever the SUMS rays
are shorn of their ierceness, each
open blossom gives out a sweetly
fragrant perfume, so generously that
the air for some distance around, is
laden with the grateful odor. We
love or delight rather to sit under
the porch hours and hours and smell /
the unseen but perceptible sweet I
ness; and when the lengthening even
ing drives us reluctantly to rest and
slumbeF, our kitehen-girl and her
gallant take up the pleasant occupa- +
tion not to surrender it till morning, .
The reader would not believe me,