South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-10-03

vegetation OF the earth; an 100 mas nsS
autumn. When he arrives at the even
ing Of his existence, those beauties
which adorned the spring of his youth
and the summer OF his manhood begin
to discover the au,umnal tint-here
and there leaf has. forsaken its
parent branch: his joys and delights
have all emigrated to another Country
winged their way over the sea Of
time, and taken possession of more
benignant region.' And as the only
time to prepare for the future is the pre-
sent, it may be well to remember that
man has also his acinter, in which the
cold wind will whistle about his frail
tenement. There is little chance Of
any valued preparation for the future
in that gloomy and forlorn season OF
life, when the stream of vitality is con-
geaied with the ice Of chilling old age.
To-day man is like the stately poplar
rising majeslically to the heavens.-
morr0so, fallen on the ground, and
shorn of all his beauty.
The youthful prospect is bedecked
with the ever green verdure of spring,
and the scenery of the matused mind
| often displays the beautiful placidity
of summer. Bat the advanced in years
can discover the brown tints Of autumn,
proclaiming themselves the harbingers
Of winter. The wintry sky at length
is discovered, and man mingles with
the clods OF the.valley.
The following beautiful passage, as
true as it is beautiful, ia from Mr.. JAMEs's
last novel, 1.-THE Gypsey."
Ground the idea of ones mother,
the mind Of man clings with fond
affection. Ii is the first deep thought
stamped upon our infant hearts, when
yet soft and capable Of receiving the
| most profound impressions, and all
the after feelings of the world are more
OF less light in comparison. | do not
know that even in our old age we do
not lock back to that feeling as the
sweetest we have through life. Our
passions and our wilfulness may lead
US far from the object Of our flial love ;
we learn even to pain her heart, to op.
| pose her wishes, to violate her com.
mands ; we may become wild, head
| strong, and angry at her counssls OF
opposition; but when death has stiled
her monitory voice, and nothing but
calm memory remains to recapituiate
her virtues and good deeds, affection
like flower beaten to the ground by
past storm, raises up her head and
smiles amongst her tears. Round that
idea, as we have said, the mind clings
| with fond affection ; and even when
the earlier period OF our loss forces
memory to be silent, fancy takes the
place ofremembrance, and twines the
image of our dead parent with gar
land of graces, and beauties, and vir-
tues, which we doubt not that she pos
sessed.o -
A Lanotick Cured. wandering
vagabond committed various depreda-
tons about the country under pretence
of arrangement, and thus often escap-
ed his Just deserts. He one day enter
| ed the house of a cooper who was out
cutting poles. Finding the woman Of
the house alone he took her up and
attempted to put her on the fife. She
screamed and called her husband
He came with pole in his hand, up
on which the visiter fed but was hot
ly pursued and overtaken by the en-
ragged husband who began beating hin,
with his pole. The fellow halloed
out 81 am crazy" So am l, said the
man, while his blows were laid on fas-
ter and heavier. 1t need NOT be added
that complete cure was thus wrough,
npon the pretended !ona,ic.
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