The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-10-06
OLD ST. J0sEPHs.
The Place Old Road and Old Trees
Will Remain. The Pike
Settles it!

from its venerated birth place,
q Ohio's source and continuing centre
O of Christian education, to the pagan
0 environment of Yale college and the
dreamy spectral night of Emersonlsm
y at New Haven
n To us and to many more of kith
5 and kin like us on horizons circling
) the eXpanse of our country. the
y report was as startling as would be
, the pronouncement that, because
) of the esprit Of the tines the Vat
D lean would be moved from its time
, honored site and old fogy, slow go
) ing surroundings on the Tiber to our
, ''wide awake, enterprising Crede"
, or Deadwood or the intellectual and
} "ente rprising" Chicago.
There is, we are glad to tell,
; nothing in the scheme apprehended.
LIE and Dominic are fixtures on the
old foundations. The majesty of the
Empire went to Canossa, the philoso-
ply of New Haven may come to St.
Joseph hs.
When on visit.at the.old shrine of
piety and learning a few days since,
we became satisfied with out bein @
told IN words, though We were and
by authority-convinced by per-
vading. sublimating sentiment in
favor of the Old, in the matter of
fact common place performance of
working the roa ds that bodies no
hope FOR the new New Haven, if
YOU please.
The road from st Josephs is an
old road. Itwas blazed in the twi-
light of Ohio's antiq ulty when the
HI CHEST hill tops were the sight stakes
of the viewers who followed the ssrule
of three" (three tobacco sticks in a
row that the shortest cut between
hill tops is the straigh line to them.
There were no winding sheep trails
on the hill sides, no ''gaths across the
clover in those direct and rugged
days. 1t was to git there and the /
straightest way over, to the intense
eye then, was the nearest way round !
as it is the quickest to the eager boy
yet; and so on these premises, the
settlers on the land and the surveyo rs
of the line, the road was blazed
out and laid down.
Some time since dashing, smart
Young man from Logan,a a city noted
in this regard, was paying court in
that neighborhood to one of the
many pretty girls for which the st
Josephs country is famous. One even
ing. while sitting on the back porch
with the old folks waiting till the
COWS were MIXED, he remarked that
he had a notion that the bail of the
of the bucket the milkmaid was
carrying, wasn't any longer around
when resting on the rim than it is
across when up IN the girls hand.
He intimated that this original idea
of his might be applied to hill coun-
try roads! The word went ont. The
country was aroused. The match l.
was broke, Logander gothic mitten. +
The men held meetings; the pioneers Il
and to save the forefather's
tack for future generations of
saints and sinners and prevent any .
possible deviation in all time to l.
come from the old Tinck and Dittoe n
Trace, the people ina body, with
lofty impulse, but as miscellaneous
as the Jews with Julian, proceeded
to put about feet thickness of lime
rock on the old bed to hold it down. 7
and keep it down. The old road in |
obedience to Sentiment will stay !
where it is. |
The old, old Road, over the |
gradual hills and vernal slopes,
crossed by barefoot padded brooks,
lear IN recollection and association, Z
very step of it, from Steffe's Lane
% Houston's Spring, the Walnut tree
It Gains, Mother Scallon's Porch,
Nays Hill, on and over, down by
Irubbs Mill, up to Holy Trinity.
md on to Martin Scott's Store, is
lall owed to many footsteps, boys
With berrys to a market, pilgrims r..
With rosaries to shrine. The old n
Dad will stay and the tollsome path n
Phil Sheridan trudged barefoot to Io
us CdleCuiSIu anu GO UlTI1dJlOD,
With the work of the thorough pco- :
lie on the line, finishing in time
S they may, will become road
vay fit for the pageant train of a
eroes, the devout procession to
enedictlon, Way more endearing =
nd as enduring as the Appian from =
Rome to s'Brundusium on the II
aegean sea-.
And old St Joseph, too, will stay; lie
he household of heroes; home of
ardinal virtue; the mother of saints v,
nd statesman; leaders of valient D. D.
rmies; governors of great states;
ngels in plague stricken hospitals,
linisters IN proud capitols; mother tie
ID teacher of Men, American men I