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il o c t r 8 .
sown.
If here is in our “Imil's language," s.iys the
I,uuisvilb' JoUtiml, a lovelier sung than his we
do no know where o find it. \% ln> will set it
to music worthy of ii ? Who can ?
All around all above llice
is lie hushed ami charmed air,
All things woo thee, all things love thee,
Maiden fair'
.G'-ntle zephyr's perfume hren.liing,
Wall to thee llit-ir tributes sweet,
And for thee the Spring is wreathing
Garlands meet.
In tl.eir caverned, cni/l recesses,
.Songs for tin elite liitinlnins frame ;
Whatso’er lire wave caresses
Lisps thy name,
Greener verdure, brighter blossom,
hereso’er thy footsteps stray,
O'er the ea tit's enamored bosom
Live alway
Whereso'er thy presence lingers,
Wltereso'er thy brightness beams,
Fancy weaves with cunning fingers,
Sweetest dre ms.
And the heart forgets thee never,
Thy young beauty’s one delight ;
Th ere it dwells, and dwells forever,
Ever bright.
Aine.icaii Girl ■ ,v ong.
Oar hearts are with our native land,
Our song is for her glory ;
Her warrior's wreath is in our hand,
Our lips breathe out her story j
Her lofu hills and valleys green,
Are shitting bright before us,
And like a rainbow sign is seen
Her proud flag waving o'er us.
And there are smiles upon our lips
For those who meet the freemen—
For glory's star knows no eclipse,
When smiled upon by women.
For those who brave the iiiiginy deep,
And aeortl he threat of and Oget,
We’ve smiles to elmer, and teats to weep
Fur every ocean ranger.
Our hearts are wi h our native land,
Our song is for her freedom;
Dur prayer is for the g illaot band
IV in, strike where honor leads them.
VV k love the taintless air * i: brea he,
l is freedom’s endless bower ;
TVe II twine for him some endless wreath
W ho scorns a tj rant's power.
They tell „f
beauties rare,
O' Italy’s proud daughters,
Ol .Scotland's lassies, England's fair.
And nymphs of Shannon’s waters.
We need not boast their hnugbty charms,
1 hough lords arond them hover;
Our glory li..* in freedom'* arms—
•l f retmn n for a Lover ’
1 Sr " ""O' WBr "» 'be grass to life,
1 he and w the drooping flower,
Ami gf)lw brj(thl , (mt wa|ch , he , jght
autumn’s opening hour—
»"• works that breath of enderne.s,
"and smiles w e know are true,
- re warmer than the summer lime,
Aud bughwr than the dew.
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM
BY HARRISON & MYER.S.
From Scott's Philadelphia Dollar Weekly Paper.
AMERICAS POETRY.
BY A RAMBLER.
The present arge lias been productive nl
grand developments, and important chan
ges. We have seen ’• Decay’s effacing
fingers” blasting the fairest hopes of man
and the genius of revolution striding 'eat
fully among the nations. The vencrahh
institutions of centuries and the epheme
ral creations of yesterday have alike fallen
and billow has succeeded billow u on thi
ever-varying ocean of human affairs with
tl e most fearful rapidity. Anvdst th<
fluctuations of the age—amidst dowjifal
and innovation we are gratified to know -
that thee is one cause which has beet
steadily rogressing—the cause of litera
ture. It is not our purpose to n< te tin
cause of this gratifying state of things, not
yet to dwell upou the present conditi nos
liruratuie in g neral; hut to offer a few
thoughts on one of its departments only.
It has been remarked,and we think vvitl
truth, that while poetry is declining in on«
quarter it is advancing in another. Tin
Tempean vales, and hills 1
classic Greece, so long vocal with the
sweetest strains of the lyre, have been si
ent fitr two thousand years. The same
blue skies still canopy thnt land—its in
habitants s ill cherish the love of country
—they have often kindled their beacon
fires upon a thousand hills, and dared to he
free.
“ Their car* have drank the woodland strain*,
Heard by old poets, and their vein*
Swell with the blood of deini-gods,
That slumber 'neath their country’* sod*,
There nature moulds as fiobly now
A* e'er of old, the human brow,
And ropies still the martial form,
That braved i latca s hnt.le storm ”
Yet the inspiration of poetry is no lon
ger felt; while our own hills and p airies,
hitherto slumbering in the most unbroken
silence, are echoing from i eak to peak,
and from vale to vale the melody of un
dying songs; taly, the land o the Man
tnan bard, and in later times f Dante and
b’oecacio, is nmv as mute as her own sculp
tured marble, and no longer charms us
with the magic o her verse. In England,
the decline of poetry has been the getter
al cry for a number of years. '1 he min
strel of the north has song his “last-lay ”
and sleeps in his ' oiceless grave, amid-d
the barren plains and bleak hills of tha
land, over who e scenery he has thed such
an unfading effulgence, and around whose
martial deeds lie has entwined the ever
green of immortality. Childe Harold's
“ Pilgrimage is ’er, ’ and he now reposes
in the vaults f his haughty line. Ti e
author of “ The Course of '! ime,” the
opening buds of whose genius gave r m
ise of an abundant harvest, was snatche
away by early death; and Felicia He
mans has sunk “ like a startle! to I er rest."’
n our own count y, were we to judge
bom the number of living poe s, we sit uld
consider the art in a state o rapid ad
vancement. Ihe American poets are for
he most part young, and some it is to be
confessed, manifest extreme: juvenility in
their compositions. Ihe poetry, ho we v
e exhibited to the American
public, should be regarded’ rather as the
of future achievement- than as specimens
of real excellence.
I he most formidable nhstacle to the ad
vancement of poetry in the United States,
is the utilitarian character of the age. In
a land like ours, where the ratio of capital
to labour is so great, it is natural o sup
pose that men will be engaged inactive
employments, having for their objects
some tangible advantage. Hence the cry
of a 1 classes is so “ utility, visible, tangi
be utility.” This vve all know to be the
besetting sin of our country —it is the re
proach from abroad that rests upon us—
the snare at home that entangles us, and i
is a position as false as it is dangerous
I‘orgetting the effects of moral causeson
national character, we seem to found our
country’s glory on her enterprise, hei com
merce, the settlemen of her western wilds,
and her varied clime and product inns. In
the opinion of too many, the hardy adven
turer who has removed his log-cabin farth
est from the verge of civilization, has done
tno e to advance his country’s glory and
interest, than the most elegant essayist, or
the most sublime poet. The true glory -f
a nation, says a beautiful writer, “consists
not in the extent of us territory, the pomp
of its fores s, the majesty of its rivers, the
height of its mountains, and the beauty of
its skv, but in the extent of its mental
power, tbo majesty of its intellect, the
height depth, and purity, of its moral
nature.”
A second obstacle to the progress of • o
etry in the United States is he precocity
of our writers. It is natural to a young
and gifted mind, animated with hope, and
unprepared for failure, to weave golden
visions f the "uture, and to he dazzled by
the halo of poetical fame. The practice
00, so prevalent of puffiing every nroduc
ti n f the least merit, and the ill judged
praise of parti 1 friends, ha- e been per ali
arly hurt til and unfortunate. Allured by
a love f fame, ami persuaded by indis
creet commendations, our poets ventme
too so ti info the arena. Instead of being
contented with hopping from twig to twin
while they are yet un edged, they mu-'
needs be careering ovei the whole land
scupe, caroling tneir brain-sick fancies,and
“ airy-nothiogs,” until at last by luckily
MACON, FEBRUARY 17, 1549.
r alling into the talons of the Eagle, they
ire spared from farther disgrace to them
selves and the noble ar ! they possess. Im
ginaiinn and hope tell them that they will
< deem their country’s glory and honor.
Already they see their names emblazoned
••n history’s proudest page, and enshrined
■ii rich aud deathless melody—already
“ We give in charge
Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse
i’roud of her treasure, marches with it down
To latest timet; and sculpture, in her turn
iiveg bond in atone and ever during brass,
Fo guard them and immortalize her trust ”
The last obstacle we shal mention to the
'dvaticernent of American poefi-y. is that
pirit of imitation wh ch has always been
o prevalent am ng our poets. Hence it
is that our poetry abounds in figures and
lesciiptions, borrowed from the history
and scenery of other lands, all which itte
not only highly destructive of that nation
ility which should be stamped upon our
literature hut ridiculous in the extreme.
It would he very absurd for a painter to
ntroduce an plephnnt or a white hear in
o» a North Carolina landscape; so it is
:;q::al|y absurd for an American poet to be
continually harping on haunted castles, for
orn knights. Dryads, and liama dryads
nymphs, and nerciads, and all the et ceter
as of political description Moreover, as
in all imitation, it is exceedingly difficult
to fix upon a proper model, and to dis
tinguish the faults and excellencies of that
model, so in the present instance. The
models of American poets have in general
been decidedly bad, and in these hey have
f > lowed only the faults. Those for ex
ample who have selected Byroti as their
model, have tint imitated the higher and
nobler characteristics of that unrivalled
hard, but c pied his fatal defect'; they
fell and wn and worshipped the eclipse, not
the effulgence o; his mighty but perverted
genius
It is an important, and to American ge
nius. ati encouraging observati n, confirm
ed by undoubted fact, tha poetry, like elo
quence, in its bold and lofty efforts can
only flourish in free states. The “Iliad
of Homer,’ was composed in times of the
most primeva simplic.ty, before the acts
of tyranny and corruption were invented
1 lie Roman poetry, under the emperors,
was degraded from the strength and fire
of -firmer days into sycophancy and adu
lation. After the palmy era of Augustus
we look in vain for the nobler characteris
tics of the muse The free and hold geni
us of the English nation has been peculi
arly favorable to the exertion of poetical
talent, and accordingly vve find that the art
ha' fl iiirished there in its highest state. In
our own < nuntrv, from the comp exion of
our political ins itutions. and rom physic
al as well as moral causes, there is reason
to expect that poetry will rise to a distin
guished el vatinn. Thus shall the muse
contribute with science, leligion, and lib
erty. to the decorations and glory of * the
land of the free and the home of the
brave.” Thus shall America In* venera
ted not only as freedom’s dmosen land,
but as lie nurse of poet y, and the mother
of many a living lyre, whode inspired and
unearthly harmonies like those of vanished
centuries, shall float down to dis ant ages,
and kindle the fires of patriotism aud de
votion in generations to ccme.
Eden ton, N. C.
Function of the Skin in Man ano
Animals —ln a very curious experimen
tal ape , i r. Ducrosshows that a coating
of gum-lac put on he skin of animals
causes them to die, in a longer or shorter
time, by producing convulsive movements
similar to epilepsy. When the animals
coated with gum lac were subjected to
electricity, they died in a mu h shorer
time. He next tried the effect of metalic
coverings, as lie entertained the notion,
that, Iretause they had opposite electrical
properties, animals so coated would die
withsym toms of an opposite nature He
therefore cut off the hair from some ani
mals and covered them with thin plates of
tin. (t n foil,) and mind that they perish
ed with symptoms of debili y-tbe reverse
of what he had noticed when the coating
consisted of a resinous substance. When
the tin was covered with a coating of gum
lac, the anima s perished still more rapid
ly. He then placed under the influence
of electricity some of the animals covered
with plates of tin, and found that so long as
they remained connected with the electri
cal current thei vigor ap eared to he re
stored ; but that whenever it was arres ed,
they appeared ready to perish. The oh
ject of these experiments was to ascertain
vvhat would he the likely effect of such
coverings in certain diseased states of the
human fr me,and especially in nervous or
neuralgic affecti ns, and in rheumatism.
He reasoned that if mefhllicco erings de
prived animals of life by producing rapid
sinking of the vital nwers, the same me
tallic pla es applied to the human body
would cure or remove those diseases w hich
seemed to de end on an excess of organic
life On putting his plan to the test of
practice, he was so fortunate as t find that
it rem veil some nervous, and a few acute
and chronic rheumatic affections. This
treatment was of n • avail in any case
where the disease was dependent on or
connected with organic lesions, or atten
ded with fever, or swelling of he par , or
with general weakness; on the contiary,
in al! these ca-es the meta! ic plates aug
mettled the disorder.
An Examination tor Admission to tlie Bar
In Alabama—A Sketch.
BY J. S. HOOPER.
Abou* a year ago, during the session of
the Circuit Court, Judge Stone appointed
a committee, consisting of the So icitor
and two other gent emeu, to examine an
applicant for a law license, and 1 had the
' happiness t be present w hen the incipi
ent b rrister was “ put through ” the or
I deal.
I “ hat, sir, is law 1" asked the exam
; iner.
| “ Law,” replied Snub, “is what they
1 do in the Court House—suin’ and so > n."
“ Well . sir, what action would you bring
against a man who pulled your nose 1”
“ I’d take him ex del ti to or —tx e n
trartu - I forget which."
“ Can you tell me what pleading is ?’
asked the interrogator.
, “ Yes, to be sure.” v .
I ” Proceed then.”
" A lawyer always pleads the Jury,
when he makes a speech to them, l.ke
Chilton and Sam. Rice.”
“ Admirable ! N vv tell us who pro
sides in a Cour of Equity—what is the
r 1 1" *
Judge f
“Judge Stone, I guess; he’s Judge of
the big Court."
“ No, 1 am speaking of the Court of
Equity—what is its presiding officer call
ed V ’
“Oh. you're talking about Judge Li
gon’s Court—he’s a Chancery; that a
vvhat I hear ’em call him.”
“ Will you now tel us, sir, vvhat exe
cutions are called -the law latin name V’
“ Yes. 1 noticed that in the Digest, be
cause it’s so queer. They call ’em Jiery
faces."
“ Exactly, and now tell us vvhat law
yers mean . y criminal • oncersation 1"
“ That,” replied Snub with an air i-f
great confidence ; " that is any bad talk
about a mans family.”
“ Right to a hair; and now tell us what
sort of a writ you would bring against a j
mail for this thing called criminal conver- 1
sation Think over all the latin names,
and let’s have it.”
Mr. Snub paused and cogitated ; press
ed •me hand against the other; pressed
both against his right knee; ook a diago
nal view of the ceiling; and slowly an
swered—“ Detinue.”
“ No,’ said the examiner, “ hut an
swer it correctly in four more trials, and
you shall have 1 cei se ”
" Assumpsit 1” jerked out Snub, with a
half wild look.
“Try again.”
“ Trover I” enquiringly.
“ Once m re !"
“ guessed the applicant.
“ W liot sort of trespass I Re careful
this ime.
Snub reflec ed for some moments and
while doing so, scratched his head and
finally, as if his life depended upon his
correctness, slowly and distinctly enunci
ated
“Trespass—q are - clvi’sum r.tEGiT,’
and drew a long breath.
All p esent acknowledged the ridicu
lous appositetiess f the reply, by a shout
that awakened father Gomlridge from his
dreams sh rse swaps; and. “neminecon
tradicente,” Mr. Snub was voted “ learn
ed in the law.”
Astronomical Discovfrif.s by Lord
Roske’s Tel : cure. —At a meeting of the
Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, on the
30th of January, Dr. Robinson announced
some interesting sac sin astronomy, which
the gigantic telescope of Lord Rosse has
recently brought to light. These relate
to a remarkable planetary nebula, Hei
schel’s figure 45. This looks like an oval
disc reminding oneof the planet upiter;
hut it appears now to be a combination of
two distinct b dies. In both these, the
centre consists of a luster of tolerably
large stars: in the first, surrounded by a
vas globe of much sma ! er ones ;in the
other, by a flat disc of very small stars,
which when sqen edgeways, had the ap
pearance of a ray This nebula, recently
observed through Lord Rosse's telescope,
has the cen ral cluster, the nanow ray,
and the surrounding globe. A remarka-
hie proof of t>e defining power of this
vast instrument exists in the fact that Dr
Robinson saw with it the companion of
he well-known Gamma Andromedse, or
two blue stars, which lie hail never before
seen. It was discovered by the celebra
ted Struve, with the great Pulkova refrac
tor and is a very severe test. The ring
of Saturn, by the help of Rosse’s tele
scope, shows irregularities, which are
most probably mountains, on its eastern
side. It is remarahle that this character
of Satu n’s ring was antici. ated by La
Place, though no telescope existing in his
day was sufficiently powerful to make die
discovery.
How to be a Man.— When Carlyle
was asked by a young person to point out
what course of reading he thought best to
make him a man, he replied, in his char
acteristic manner— ‘ It is not only by books
alone, or by bo k chiefly, that a man is
in all points a man Study to do faithfully
whatsoever thing in your actual situation,
there and now, you find either expressly
rtacitly laid down at your charge—that is
your post, stnnd in it like a Due soldier
Silently devour the many chagrins of it—
all situations have many—and see vou
aim not to quit it without doing all that
is your duty.”
VOLUME 1-NUMBER U.
Destruction or Human Lire in the
Mines or Putosi.— This celebrated city
formerly be onging to Peru, but is now
under the government of Buenos Ayres.
It is situated in tire inferior, ab< ut three
hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean, be
ing built in a narrow glen oa the skirts of
an elevated mountain It owes its origin
and importance to itssilver mines, the rich
est in South America. The mountain of
Potosi is the most elevated summit in this
quarter, and is always capired Jwith snow.
It rises to tire height «f 16,260 feet a
bove the level of the sea. aud 4397 feet
above the plain on which the city is built.
The city must of course l* nearly 11,060
feet high. This great elevation renders
he climate cold; the environs are barren,
ihe valleys almost destitute of wood, and
the sides of tlie hills cove ed with moss.
The mountain is of easy ascent, and from
is summit presented a grand picturesque
view of valleys, lak«s and mountains.
The population of Potosi ■ nee amnun*
ted to 160,000, but in consequence of the
diminised importance of the mines, it l as
been reduced to 40,000. The streets are
narrow and irregular ; the houses arc built
of brick or stone, and a e of only one sto
ry—they ate without chimneys, find l* 1 ?
apartmen s are kept warm by being closed
and covered with alpncha skins, anil by
burning pe fumery in them. Un entering
a house, the visitor, as the first salutation,
is present and with a silver chafing dish of
perfumery burning.
The mines of Potosi were accidenta'ly
discovered by Diego Hualca, an Indian
peasant, when pursuing wild goats Ar
riving at a steep place, he laid hold of a
small shrub to prevent himself falling, but
the shrub, being unable to su; port bis
weight, was torn up the roots, and disclos
ed to the astonished hunter a rich mass of
silver, lumps of which adhered to the earth
and came away with the plants. Not long
afterward the discovery was made known,
and the mine was oponed in 1645,
From the first discovery of these mines
to th • yean 1803, the quantity obtained
fr m them amounted to the enormous sum
of one housand and fifty millions of dol- 1
lars. The annual quantity thirty years,
since was about five raillon dollars. Al-'
though their produce is reduced to about
one qua er of what it once was, yet they
are still the most productive mines in
South America.
These mines have caused the destruc
tion of thousands of human beings in the
la er end of the 16th century. Sixteen
thousand Indians were constantly com ell
cd by the proscription of the meta to
work in them. A’ present there are only
about tw ■ thousand miners employed who
are well paid, and work from choice.
Hint to You.no Ladie-. —"Why did
V"ti not take the arm of my brother last
night ?” said a young lady to her friend, a
very intelligent girl, ah ut nineteen, in a
large town near Lake Ontario. She repli
ed “Because I ‘ now him to 1 e a licentious
y ting man. ’ ’Nonsense,’ was the answer
of the sister “if you reluse the attentions
of all 1 editions men, you will have none,
I can ass ire y»u." " Very well,” said her
friend, “ then I can dispense with them
altogether—sot my resolution on this point
is unalterably fixed.” How lung would it
take to revolt ionize society, were all young
ladies to adopt this resolution i — Vi.Chron.
The Art or hating Money. — \ sensi
ble writer says that the art of living easily
as to money, is to pit h you -scale of iving
one degree below your meaus. Comfort
and enjoyment are mire dependent up n
easiness in the detail of expenditure than
upon one degree's difference in the scale.
Guard against false associations of pleasure
with expenditure—the notion that because
pleasure is purchased it brings enjoyment.
What a th itig costs a man is no true mea
sure of what it is wor h to him ; aud yet how
oflen h his appreciation governed by no
other standard, as if there were a pleasure
in expenditure. Feel a want bes re you
provide against it. You are more assured
that it is real want; and it is wo th while
to feel it a little, in order to feel the relief
from it. When you are undecided as o
which of two courses you would like best
choose he cheapest. This rule will not
>nly save mone*, hut save als > a good deal
"f trifling indecision.— Too much leisure
leads to expence; I>ecause,when a man is in
want of ohjec s, it occurs >u him that they
are to bn had so • money, ami ho invents
expenditures in order to pass the time to
do it.
Public life in Missouri is attended with
inconveniencies not common to elevated
stations. Gov. Edwards, in his farewell
address, says almost every Governor has
fallen before envy, malice and hatred.—
I he brief history he gives of his produces
srs is quite interes ing. He says:
One a good man and a patiiot—re
signed and left his post bes re his time ex
pired ; the next left before his term was
out, and not in good odor; the next com
mitted suicide a year in advance of the
close of his four years; ami the next has
been at all times prepared to meet the
assassin, during at least three and a half
years out of the fur of his administra
tion. ”
Gov. Edwards may congra ulate him
self on going nr of his uifico without hav
ing to be carried.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Wi l be txeMU ed itithe most approved style,
and on the bat terms, at the Office of the
“SOUTHERN MUSEUM.”
-BY
HARRISON & MYERS.
From the .Veto Orleans Delta.
The Model Editor.—He is grave and
dumb. He has a clock in his office, and
his communications go to the compositors
by a dumb waiter ; of course they do not
“ corrupt good manners.” He is a jewel,
yet he uses much paste, and his most cut
ting remarks are made with the scissors.
He can look steadier at a paragraph, aad
remain gaizing at an old paper, longer
'ban would be necessary to count thfe
" bricks” in his hat or in the Tower of
Babel.
Ihe Model Editor has a Spanish dic
tionary which he uever looks into—Pah.
Doc. that he never opened—a few paint,
ings presented by somebody, and a table
covered «ith baize. A great many “cards”
to concerts and balls grace tlie table ; bul
hough they be never enjoyed, not one ia
given away.
The Model Editor has the prettiest
wife, the ugliest dog, and the worst pen,
of any man going; he never kisses the
one, nor loses lie other, nor mends thfe
last, nor his ways. He is the pet of thb
telegraph people, and the explainer of all
the mistakes of the wires. But for him
the world would he in Cimmerian dark
ness. He can tell the Mississippi from
“ six dollars and a half,” hut people don't
get his ultimatum just by asking. He
conside s a thing before he says it with
out considering.
In warm weather the Model Editor
wears whiskers; in cold weather he is
smooth on the face. “Horatio” has told
him something about ” philosophy," se
c nd-liand from Hamlet, and thence bis
“ perfect dispise” of custom.
The Model Editor never commits him
self. He follows public opinion, but never
leads it. He is not a Democrat, in any
sense of the wotd—not even common
I sense. His head is in the clouds, where
it lias to go, in order to confer the rites of
hospitality upon his brains. He never
saws wood, nor buys turnips, nor steals
peaches : these things he leaves to vulgar
minds. He is much opposed to charivaris,
but does all the bill-printing for the c üb,
and “ glad of the chance” All that he
knows about modern mythology, as it is
shown “ down town,” is locked in his
breast, and the key thrown away. lie is
a “ broth of a boy,” ttnd a “ hasty plate”
of it at that!
Origin ofthe Worship of HyMen.-»
The origin of the worship of Hymen is
thus related by Lactantius. The story
would furnish matter for an excellent pan
tomime. Hymen was a beautiful youth
of Athens, who, for the love of a y ung
virgin, disguised himsc f, and assisted at
the Eleusinian rites ; and at this time, he,
together with his helo: ed, and and; ers other
young ladies of that city, were surprised
and carried off by pirates; who, suppos
ing him to he what he ap eared lodged
him with his mistress, lri the dead of th«
night, when the robbers were all asleep,
he rose and cut their throats. Thence ma
king hasty wav back t • Athens, he bargain
ed with the parents that he wou and restore
them their daughter, and a 1 her compan
ions, if they would consent to her mar
rage with him. They did so, and this
marriage proving remarkably happy, it
became the custom to invoke the name of
Hymen at all nuptials.
The Mother.— A writer beautifully re
marks that a mans mother is the repres
entative of his Make. Misfortune, and
even crime, set up no bar iers between
her and her son. While his mother ives,
he will have one friend on earth who will
not listen when he is slandered, who will
not desert him when he suffers, who will
s othe him in his sorrows hnd speak to him
of hope when he is ready to despair. Her
affecti n flows from a pure fountain, and
ceases only at the ocean of eternity.
Doctors Easy and Fussy.— There
shall be two men, doctors, for example, of
equal learning aiid skill. They are on the
look-out for a prac ice. Doctor Easy purs
his name on a brass plate on the door, and
tlien sits down in bis drawing room to wait
for patients —Need I say 'ha be has gen
erally to wait a long timel But Doctor
Fussy does not approve of the passive sys
tem. He keeps a horse and a chaise be
fore he has a visit to make. He hires
people to alatm all the neighborhood with
peals o his surgery bell- He is contin
ually being called out of church, and has
once ventured on having his name shouted
as being immediatelv wanted, while atten
ding a bowel lecture. Not a firm of ad
ve tisement does Doctor Fussy neglect,
and the odds are, in the ends, that he is
making a thousand dollars a year before
Doctor Easy has heard the rat tat at the
door of his first patien'. Now, perhaps
l)r. F. mav, of the two, be the humbug ;
hut I very much question whether he is
the fool. What applies to these two doc
tors, appHes generally 'o every trade and
profession under the sun. Barring a lucky
chance now and then an adventurer will
find that in the ha tie of life, every man
must he his own trumpeter. Sound your
own charge, and ride over every body, or
somebody else will s«tmd bis charge, sad
ride over you.
IC7* Eternity was well defined by .
Parisian mute thus : Eternity has
neither birth, death, youth, infancy, nor
old age. it is to-day without either yes
terday or to-morrow.”