Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1858 — Page 4

WHEN I WAS YOUNG. on WHAT TUB OLD WOMAN SAID TO USB DAL'OHTKB. One Summer eve I chanced to pass, where by I her cottage gate. Au aged woman in the sun, sat talking to her mate. The frost of age was cn her brow, its dimness in , her eye, Ard her bent figure to and fro, rocked all unconciously. The float of age was on her brow, yet garrulous her longue, As shecompared "the doings now” with those when she was young. When I was young’young gals were meek and I looked round' kind of shy, And, when they were compeled to speak, they did so mopestedly; They staid a: home, and did the work, made Indian bread and wheaten, And only went to‘singing school,’ and some times tonight meeting, And children were obedient then, they had no ; saucy airs, But, minded what their mothers said, and learned to say their prayers. But, nowadays they know enough, before they know their letters. And voung ones that can hardly walk, will contradict their Betters. Young women now, go flirting round and look- . ing out for beans, And scarcely one in ten is found; who makes or mends her clothes. But there! I tell my daughter , Yolks don’t do as they'd oughter, They had not oughter do as they do— j Why don’t they do as they oughter? When I w as young, if a man had failed, he shut j up house and hail. And never ventured out till night, if he ventured out at all. And his wife sold all her shiney plates, and his son came home from college,

And his gals left school, and learnd to wash . and bake, and such like knowledge. | They gave up cake, and pumpkin pies, and had the plainest eating, And never asked folks home to tea, and scarcely went to meeting. The man that was bankrupt, called, was kinder , Shunned by men, And hardly dared to show his head, among his town folks then. But nowadays, when a merchant fails, they say I he makes a penny, His wife don’t have a gown the less, and his daughters just as many. His sons they smoke their choice cigars, and drink their costly wine, And she goes to the Opera! and he has folks to dine! He walks the streets, de drives his gig, men ’ show him all civilities. And what in my days were called debts, are j now called liabilities. They call the taen unfortunate who ruin half the 1 city— In my days ’twas his creditors to whom we gave the pity. But there! I tell my daughter. Folks don’t do as the’d oughter, They had notouglher do as they do. Why don’t they do as the’d oughter! When I was young, crime was crime—it had no other name, And when ’twas proved against a man, he had to bear the blame. They eallcd the man that stole—a thief, they wasted no fine feeling. What folks call petty larceny, in my day was called stealing. They did not make a reprobate the theme of song and story, As if the bloodier was his hands, the bright er was his glory, And, when a murder had been done, could they the murderer find, They hung him as they would a crow, a terror to his kind But, nowadays, it seems to me, whenever blood is spilt, The murderer has our|sympathy, proportioned to his guilt. And when the law has proved a man to be a se cond Cain, A dozen jurors w ill be found to bring him in • insane.” And then petition will be signed, and texts of Scripture twisted. Until the man who’s proved to be as bloodthirsty as Nero, Will walk abroad like other men—only a greater hero. But there! I tell my daughter, Folks don’t do as the’d oughter, They had notougthcr do as they do, Why don’t they do as the’d oughter A Hull Fight. I remember once seeing, when a lad at school, a fiifht between two bulls. Although I could not have been more than eight years of age at the time, 1 shall never forget the spectacle. It happened in this wise, Close by the school house (a tery unpretending edifice it was) ran a deep and rapid river. Across it had been thrown a high wooden bridge, the handrailing of which time and the winds and the weather had entirely destroyed. The land ou opposite side of the stream was owned by different persons, and farmed by them respectively, fine bright summer day, (I remember it as if it were yesterday,) the hour of noon had at rived, and a frolicsome fun seeking troop of schoolboys were let loose for an hour’s recreation. All at once, the bellowing of two bulls that had broken out their enclosures on each side of the river, attracted our attention. The auitnaf. were not yet tn

1 sight of each other, but were approaching along the high-way at the rate of speed i which would cause them to meet near ■ the centre of the high bridge which I have decribcd and baneath which, at some thirty feet ran the riyer between steep . banks. The more daring of us gathered near the bridge, linging it to see the an- ! ticipated fight. We were not disappointed. Nearer and nearer to each other approach the proud, pawing combatants. Bashan never produced two brutes of | fiercer aspect. They lashed their sides with their tails; they tore the ground with their feet. Occasionally they knelt down, trying to gore to the earth with their horns, And as yet they were concealed I each from the other, by the ascent towards the bridge at either end. Presently, as they simultanously as!cended the respective abutments, they came full in sight of each other. The roar was mutual and actually tremendous. Every urchin of us sprang into the fields and ran. Finding however that we were not pursued, we hastily retraced our steps. There they were, the ferocious duellist, quite as sensibly employed as some of their human imitators! —Front to front, their horns locked, every muscle strained, they were fighting only as bulls i can fight. It seemed an even match.— Now one would press back his opponent a few paces, and presently you would hear ‘ qaek, sharp, short, steps, and his adveri sarv would be pressed back in return. — The struggling was hard, was long was savage. For a while neither obtained an J 1

advantage. Hitherto they had been pushing each other lenght.wise of the bridge; suddenly they began to wheel, and, in a moment, were facing each other breadth wise.— ■ , Thus they were at right angles with the length of the bridge, which shook, and I creaked, and rocked again, with their ’ I tramping and terrible strife. It was the , work of a single movement —one of the beasts —I never could tell which—one of them, however, as if conscious of bis position, made a violent, a desperate plunge forward, and pressed his antagonist back, back—back—till there was but another step of plank behind him, —between him and nothing! the moment was one of inI tense interest to us juvenile spectators.— i Never was the Amphitheatre at Rome the i scene of a more exciting combat. Another step backward—yes, the unfortunate bull has been forced to take it! Back he is pressed and over he goes. , Such a sight I never saw, —I probably shall never see again. Imagine a bull pitched backward from a bridge, and flung at least thirty feet over! He turned once or twice, probably,—l thought he j turned over fifty times, there seemed such a confusion of horns and feet, revolving, flying through the air! But down he went the water was deep, and he disappeard leaving a whirlpool of foam behind him, and making the river undulate far and wide with the concussion of his ponderous bulk. The other bull did not laugh—merely because bulls, as I supposed, could not. — But we laughed and shouted our applause There stood the victor, looking directly down into the abyss below, into which he had hurled his unlucky foe. He stood, however, but a moment, and then, as if frightened at the prospect, began to snort and step backward. Back, back, he retreated, with his head in the same pugnacious attitude as when in combat, back, still another step back, back, and over he went too, on the opposite side of the biidge, performing just as many and ludicrous somersets as his adversary had done a moment before. It was a scene to remember; and the performance callelh forth immense applause from the group of juvenile amateuis who witnessed it. In about five minutes both bulls might be seen, well sobered by their ducking, dripping wet’ scratching up the sleep gravelly banks, each on bisown side of the river. ‘Those bulls will never fight any more,’ said a bov behind me. Ills prediction turned out correct: for two more peaceably disposed bulls than they were ever afterwards, could not have been found. fjohny does you love tne? ‘Well susy. I does ’ ‘How do you know that you loves mt •?’ Kase, Susy, whenever 1 looks at you my heart jumps up and knocks agin my stummick so hard, that I don’t have my appetite for a week afterwards.* Love like this is certainly economical. Woman —An article manufactured by milliners arid dressmakers. ‘Who wants but little on the head. But much below to make her sprrad.’

■ JNM '-.Bg || Bi ; - t U.jf HS • e* hEli » i .....ip i . 1 P . S . UNDE RI I I L L , ' (Successor to A. J. Mershon, and late managing partner of LaDow, Underhill & | 00., Piqua, Ohio.) , 1 North side of Main street, three corners from the Public Square, . and real of Works nearly opposite Taylor’s Warehouse, Fort Wayne, Ind. The proprietor would reapecfully announce to the citizens of Decatur and surrounding coun- ; try. that he has purchased of A. J. Mershon his entire interest in the Marble Works formerly conducted by him, and has added a large and elegant assortment of Am eri ca n & Italian Marble, And is now prepared to furnish customc rs with any discription Cemeterial Work, from thesmal- , lest and plainest Slab, to the most magnificent Monument. Monuments, Cenotaphs, Mantles, Posts. Cabinet and Counter Slabs, will be kept constantly on hand or made to order on short notice. Also, a large and choice collection of new and beautiful Designs, from which selections can be made. Busks, Medallions, Urns, Vases, and every description of Ornamental Carvingjdone in a’ manner not to be excelled. Ambrotypes inserted in a durable manner, if desired. From an experience of over 12 years, both in conducting the business and as a practical workman, and keeping none but the best of Sculptors, the proprietor feels warranted in pledgingen- ■ ] tire satisfaction to all who may favor him with their custom. The public are respectfully invited . to call and examine specimens, especially those who have lost friends. Our work will speak for itself. Bj*Orders from a distance are respectfully solicited and will receive prompt attention. [D’WM. G. SPENCER, Local Agen', Decatur, Ind. Oct. 2, 1857.

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