Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-11-05
MISCE LII A n EOUS.

SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE SEASON.
The following, which we copy from the Belfast
(Maine) Journal, though intended for colder
cline than ours, will be found to contain seasonable
and interesting ''thoughts' for our readers:
| 'The passing away of another year brings us
again to the verge of one of our long, cold, Maine
winters. To the mind which holds within itself
hardly an element of enjoyment,- finds
pleasure in that only which surrounds one, and
| which has no taste for the more substantial food
of the intellect, winter has few atrac ctions-
But to those who regard it in more philosophi-
cal light who in its frosts and SHOWS the reno
waiting force of nature drawing in new vigor for
the coming year-it presents more cheering as
pect Profting by the lesson nature teaches them,
they look upon it of respite from toll, -
time in which to refresh and invgorate the mind
and fit the man for his future duties and enterpri-
ses The shorter days and the longer evenings,
whatever be the avocation of the Maine citizen,
give him less time for labor, and for intellec-
tual improvement
"The laws by which nature regulates the vege-
tation of the warmer ATTITUDES, seem also to effect
similarly the human kind The flowers and plants
ence of q warmer sun, soon matured, and die,
! to give place to others in constant succession.-
But they have never the hardy vgor Of the vege-
tation Of the northern attitudes. The same facts
hold among the people of these countries. They
the rank and rapid but not the strong and yigo-
rous growth. Sometimes capable of great and
sudden exertions, the people of southern lattudes
have not the perseverance and endurance which
enable northern nations to accomplish almost any
object at which they aim. A practical result Of
this fact may be in the fact that the southern
nations of Europe though the first in civilization
and the art of warfare, have never been able to
hold possession of the northern countries, which,
have at times been conquered by their arms
Britain, once province of Rome, is now great
nation to which all that remains of Rome looks for
existence. The northern nations, the barbarians
of ancient times, rule from the higher latitudes
to those warmer climates in which their charac-
teristics become lost or modified.
! Man is the nobler plant our realms supplies,
| And souls are ripened IN these northern skies
$50 then, complain as me may of the rigor Of
climate it is this which gives their superiority
to the people of northern attitudes. Frosts and
SHOWS seem to be essential to the ripening of the
intellect and to the perfectng of vigorous and
enduring growth Of humanity. And let us not lose
sight of the fact that the coming season of frosts
and SHOWS is the time in which by study and re-
search to make intellectual advancement. The
farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, the man of
a profession the lady who does not see in the
coming winter evenings pleasant season for stu
dy and mental refreshment, cannot long be an or
nament to any class or sex. For at the present
more than at any other time education and
intelligence Indispensable elements of success in
life, and without share of these sinks be-
low the ordinary level of society. Particularly is
our winter a season to be improved by the youth.
1t seems as though those very frosts which expand
all which is subjected to their influence, expand
and invigorate the mind. One thinks more easily
and clearly in winter than in summer. We can
say in all sincerity to any youth under whose eye
this may fall that more than to any other thing do
we feel indebted for what success we have SO far
met with in the active business of life to the ia
clities for improvement which are held out to the
young by our long winter evenings.