New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-17
REFLECTIONS OF MErHUsELAH
hEFHHINNVND VI MHHH0H
rs YOUTH, IN MIDDLE AGE, AND ~ OLD Aei

senses are acute as the tree with the shrinkiu9
leaf My blood bounds through my veins as the
river pours through the valley rejoicing in its
strength Life lies before me like another plain
Of Shinar-vast, unoccupied, inviting-I will
fIl it with achievements and pleasure! In
about sixty years il will be time for me to think
about marrying my kinswoman Zillah viii By
that time have emerged from girihood she
already gives promise, hear, Of comehness and
Idiscretion-twenty years hence 1 viii pay .
visit to her father, that I-may see how she
grows; meanwhile, will build city 10 receive
her when she becomes my wife. = slr
Nearly three centuries have passed since my
| marriage. Can 1t be II seemed but yester-
day since sported like young antelope round
| my fathers tent, or climbing the dark cedars,
nestled like bird among the thick boughs-
| and now / am a man in authority, as well ~ in
prime Of life. ! lead out my trained servunts to
the fight, and sit head of the council, beneath
the very tree where, as an infant, my mother
laid me TO sleep. Jazed, my youngest born,
| lovely bade Of 30 summers, is dead, but hayb
four goodly son: remaining. And my three
daughters are fair as their mother when fsst i
met her in the Acacia grove, where now stands
one Of my city watch towers They are the
pride of the plain, no less for their requirements
than their beauty. No damsel carries the
pitcher from the fountains with the grace Of
Adah-none can dry the summer fruit like
Azubah--and none can fashion arobs Of skins
| with the skill of Milcah. When their cousin
Mahalsel has seen another half centuary, he
shall take the choice Of the three.
Ny eight hundreth birth day Andnov 1
feel the approach of age and infrmity. Ny
beard has become white as the blossoms Of the
| almond tree. / am constrained to. use o staff
4 when journey the Stars look less bright than
formerly; the flowers smell less oderous II have
| laid Zllah in the tomb Of the rock y<AiIcah -
/ gone to the dwelling Of Mahalesl; my sons taks
l my place at the council and in the field all is
chano.pd he 1opo futuro has herorna .
past. The earth is full Of violence; tho ancienk
and the honorable are sinking beneath the
youth and the vicious The giants stalk through
the length and breadth Of the land, where ones
dwelt quiet people all is changed. ms
beast Of the field and the monsters Of the desp
growl and pre- on MS with unwonted fury; trs-
ditions, visions and threatenings are abroad.
What fearful doom hangs over this fair world
know not it is enough that am leaving it;
Il yet another five OF eight score years, and the
tale will be completes But have |, in very deed,
trod this earth nearly thousand yesrs' 1t 10
| false, am yet a boy. 1 have bad - drcam-
: long, long busy dream of buying and. seiiings
marrying and giving in marriage; Of building
: and planting; feasting and warning; sorrowing
! and rejoicing; loving and hating; but it is
false to call it life. Go to--it has been Wig.
n ion Of the night; Lamech, my son, how long
is it since Nc planted the garden Of oaks beside
!. the river Was it not yesterday ," My IA
y ther, dost thou forget Those oaks cast broad
S shadow when my sister carried me beneath them
!. in her arms, and wove me chaplets Of the
G leaves" t.e,-r-.- ss s
Thou art right, my son, and am old Lead
me to my mothers tomb, and there leave me. to
mediate. What am the better for my past
length and being Where will be its records
when I am gone They are yondermon all
a sides Will those massy towers fall, Will those
golden plants boone desolate. Will the dill
dren that call me father forget: The seers ut
ter dark sayings on their harps, and they sing
n Of the future; they say our descendants shall
# be men Of drindling stature; that the years of
!. their lives shall be contracted to the pAn3o9
r boy hood butt have listened to the tales q
y Paradise-nay, in the blue distance have seen
;. the dark tops of its cedars. 1 have heard the
N solemn melodies of Jubal when he sat on the ne4-
"a shore, and the sound the waters mingled Wtsh
q his harping I have seen angels the visitants Of
i men-have seen an end Of all Professionalism
n is the future to me.
= WOMEN N PARAeuAY-T author Of ssSketch
y es in Paraguay" gives us this fragrant morsek
" Every lady smokes in Paraguay, and ever,
70 female above thirteen years of age chews an
10 wrong They do not chew, but put tobacco il
Il their mouths, keep it there constantly, excep
no when eating, and, instead Of chewing, roll i
r. about with their tongue and suck 1t. Uni,
an imagine yourself about to salute the red lips
de a rnagnihcnt littie Hebe, arrayed in satin an
ca. flashing in diamonds puts you back with on
ed delicate hand, while with the fair taper finger
I'd Of the other, puts forth from her mouth BROW
me ish black roll of tobacco, quite two inches lon
one looking like monster grub, and depositing Il
no savory lozenge the rim of your somgrer
but puts up her face, and is ready for your salut
led have sometimes seen an over dehcate fordgn
Of turn away with shudder of loathing und
ted such circumstances, and get the epithet of sa
or waco (the savage) applied to him by the ofende
ms beauty, for bis sensitive squeamishness. How
as ever, one gets used to this in Paraguay
W are of ems
n. kiss every lady you are introduced to and one
Ia half you meet are really tempting enough I
Id render you reckless of the consequences, and yo
tx would sip the dew of the proered lip in the fac
It's OF tobacco battery even the double distille'
:, honey dew of Old Virginia" ~
px There was an imposing parade and celehra
tion near Tarrytown, New York, on the 9th inst
for the purpose of dedicatinga monument re
g- Gently erected, to mark the spot on which Majo
il ing, Van Vert and Williams, in September, 179O
St Mr.. Raymond, of the New York Times, was tn
orator. Gov Seymour and others also mad
ye brief addresses.
n new traveller to the Dead Sea, NJ. de Sauley
It's gives an entirely fresh description Of this ia
le nous water. He affirms that SO far from find
is ing it as most persons have represented it'll
st was "splendid lake, glittering in the sun
ed shine, with its blue waves gently breaking OF
ad the SANDS OF the SoItest peacn. he al5o saw
IN flock of wild ducks sporting on its waters, ant
observed beautiful insects on the gravelly beach
ut A movement has been set on foot by the Rev
- ]. A. james, of Birmingham, Mr.. Thompson
h. and others, in England, to procure million Q
copies of the New Testament in Chinese, for dis
tribution among the Insurgents The cost vii
* be Ell 900. Mr.. Thompson gives 1000 copies
by and Mr.. James 500.
ia The brother of DR.. G. NJ Steiner, who sh'
en- Major Arnold at Fort Graham, denies the tral
is. of the published accounts He says Arno
its fred first upon his brother, which he returne
,r- breaking AIS arm. Arnold then fired secoI
ya. time, when Steiner shot him dead.
e The peach originally was poisnous almon
tbe Its feshy parts were then used to poison arrow
cen and it for this purpose introduced into Pc
liz sia transplanting and cultivation, however, n
Ike only removed its poisonous qualities, but pr
duced the delicious fruit we now enjoy.
>, The Newark Mercury says that single wome
~ who we're freeholders, voted in New Jersey 6
s,n.s late as the year 1900 In newspaper of this
am III date is complimentary editorial to the fsmal