Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-02-10
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Nor was the illustrioUs teacher of men
indifferent TO the voices of nature around
him. The quiet beauty Of the lily charmed
that Imagination, which ever maintained a
perfectly harmonious relation to the other
powers ct the mind, was never deceived by
the ever-shlflng illusions that are accustom-
ed to play around it, and never exaggerated
the pictures it drew of the character, the
state, or destiny Of man. All earthly glory
was less captivating to that righlly-conslilu-
ted Imagination, than the lovely, spotless
hue of the flower of the field. And, yet. this
is surpassed by the beauty of vir,ue--of The
graces of the spirit. .....
&C Is aught so fair,
In all the dewy landscape of the spring,
In the bright eye of Hesper, or the morn;
In Natures fairest forms, is aught so fair
AS virtuous friendshp:'' ..-.
The features of The external world, what
ever permanence they may seem 10 have, are
all TO be erased, all to be ex,inguished, in
the final "wreck'' of matter and crush Of
worlds. But moral qualities are in their
nature semPiteInal. Moral and spiritual
beauty is impershable! This is goodness
this is holiness, the crown and the gem
of the Divinity itself Was ever a more
impressive prayer offered than that of the
exquisite poet, as we'll as the splendid mon
arch of Israel THE BEAUTY of the Lord
our God be upon usT' That would be
beauty worthy of the muse of the immortal
Milton, or the burning pencil of the sera-
phic Isaiah.
/ We may now take, what writers on the
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings have, by
a metaphorical license, called the beauty OF
sound. 1t involves the power of music in
all its variations and capabilities Of impress
sion; whether that music emanate from liv-
/ ing mind or inanlmale matter. Besides lis
original and essential quality Of producing
emotion by the power of association, it won
derfully augments the effect on the suscep-
| tibiliies of the interior man. There is
soft and sweet tone Of music in the flow of
rivulet, amid rural scenery, beneath the
sunlight Of bright summers day; but how
are our emotions deepened and strengthen
ed, when at the hour of midnight, we hear
that same stream, after having enlarged its
channel and accelerated lis momentum,
Plunging over a precipice or an artificial
embankment; acquiring al this point the
character of araterfa1I, one Of the most in
sublimty is now added 10 the state of the
mind, and the emotion becomes complete.
The elements of darkness, obscuritv and ST.
lence are introduced, and seem nearly to
absorb the sense of beauty. The soul al
most lnslinlvely raises itself to God, who
''makelh darkness his pavilion, and the thick
darkness his swaddling band" That sound
seems the organ-dirge of Nature, over the
temporary death Of the inanimale world
Less sad and solemn, but still tenderlv pen
sive, are the notes of the night-bird, familiar
to New England ears, heard in the gray twi-
light of summer, as he now ascends, greet
ing the lofty regions of the air with his mo-
notone-a not very melodious soprano
and then plunges into the depths of ether
below, uttering, at the last point of his des-
cent,a deep bass note; then rising again to
renew his music ''al the gate Of heaven"
But oh how blilhe and merry is the song
of birds in the bright and early morning !!
Poetry has consecraled all this natural mu-
sic, which in its nature is fitted to lead the
soul up to God. 1t is part Of the worship
Of this magnificent temple, whose arch is
the blue vault of heaven, whose pavement is
the green earth, whose worshppers are MEN,
''made in the image of God y and whose
presiding, all-pervading divinity is GoD HIM
self-the Eternal, the Immortal, the Invisi-
bic, the OMNIPREsENT.
This train Of thought might be pursued,
but wll-at least FOR the present-be sus-
pended. If any mind shall, by it, be led to
a deeper contemplation of the connected in
fuence of Beauty and Beneyolence, my OBJ
iect will be attained.
EGG MATCHING MAcHINE.-The system
of artificial incubation or Matching eggs by
artificial means is revived by MIR. Cahlelo, al
the Cosmorama rooms in Regent st. The
present plan is great improvement of the
"Ecceleobion," which was simply an India
rubber machine, which is filled with hot
wafer, and it being placed upon the eggs they
are kept at an equal temperature Of heat and
the result in every instance has been most
successful, as only small per cenlage of
, the eggs are lost. His exhibition has attract
ed much attenlion.-Jerrold's Mag.
This does not yet equal the Illinois ma
chine Of a barrel full of eggs and the hen on
the bung hole.
Cough SYRUP.-The following cure is
recommended for colds, which has been
tried and found to be an inlalible cure. 1t
is worth trying .... H. ..
''Pu. quart Of hoarhound to a quart Of
water, and boil it down to pnt-';train it,
and put the water 10 pint of molasses, and
simmer the whole down to pint. Then
add two or three sticks of liquorice, and a
table spoonful of essence of lemon. Take
, table spoonful of the syrup three times a
, day, or as often as the cough may be very
, troublesome"