The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-05-18
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When you lie down al night, compos,
your spirits as if you were not to wax
I'll the heavens be no more. And when
you awake in the morning, consider that
new day as YOU last, and live according
Iy.-Surely that night cometh, OF which
you VIII never see the morning, or tn
morning OF which you will never see
the night but which OF your mornings
or nights will be such you know not.
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments
hang loose about you, that it may be
easily dropped when death comes TO car
ry you into another worId.-Wh the
corn is forsakIng the ground, il is ready
TOR the sickle; when the fruit is ripe 1t
ialls off the tree easily. SO when
christian heart is truly weaned from the
world, he is prepared for death, and it
will be The more easy to him. A heart
dlsenga.ed from the world is a heavealy
one, and then we are ready for heaven
when our heart is there before US.
MAKE YOURSELVES II there is a man
who has any right to be proud, it is he
who can stand up before the world and
say, 81 have made myself" Relying
on no influential friends on no Inherit
ed wealth; onnoth;ng but indomitaJlr
zeal and spotIess virtue, he has worked
his way from poverty to wealth,-lroln
ignoronce to knowlrdge-trom obscurity
to distinction. Why should he no, be
pI oud But SUI b men are never lifted
up by vanity. They are always meek
and humble They are the men who
are safe patterns for all to follow. They
never forget the pit whence they were
taken, nor the kind hama of Providence
which has led them all the way through
trial and sorrow, up to the present
hour.
1t you would gam the honors worth
possrssing-iI you would be beloved AMI
respected by all around you, initiate
those who, through patient zeal and in
heAlblt virtue lave risen to seats Of dis
tinction. Be not ambitious to get wealth
or TO rise for the sake Of power but let
your ambition prompt you to deeds of
usefulness In every transaction with
mankind, let strict integrity mark your
dolngs. An nordnate love of meney
often leads men 10 the performances OF
mean acts and deeds of which their fam
lies and children never hear The last,
any which pain their feelings to the close
of lie. BE- careful OF m, anness-of eve
ry that is not perfectly ialr, just and hon.
orable. In tins way only. can you Sc
cure name which unborn generations
will repeat with pleasure o. ire Branch.
IMAGINARY HynRopuonlA. Tn me-
moir of a learned professor is found re-
corded a strange case of imaginary hy-
drophobla. a Lucchese peasant shoot
ing sparrows saw his dog attacked bv
strange and ferocious mastiG. He
tried to separate the animals, and recciv-
ed IA bite from his own dog. which in
stantly ran off Through the fields. The
wound was healed in tew DAYS, and
the dog was not found; and the peasant
after som'' time, began to trel symptoms
of nervous agitation. Hp conceived
that the dog, from disappearing, was mad;
and within day or.wo after thus idea
struck HIM, he began to feel symptoms
OF Hydrophobia. they grew hourly
more violent: he raved and had all The
evidence of this most violent distrmper.
As he laid with the door open to let in
the last air that he was to breathe, he
heard his dog bark The animal ran up
to his bedside and froIicked about the
room. 1t was clear that he at least
was in perfect health. The PEASANTS
mind was relieved Instantly; he got up
w,'h renewed strength, dressed himself
plunged his head into basin Of water,
and thus refreshed, walked into the room
to his astoni~hed family 1t is not inn
probable that many attacks OF disease
so strongly dependent on the magma
ton mi.ht equally BE- cured by ascertain
ing The state OF the animal by which the
bite was given.
ME- cHANrcs.-One of our most distin-
guished scholars, EIihu BuTntt, has eX.
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