The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-05-21

passage is from lecture on 1.-The Philosophy of
Life" delivered n short time siEcc by Mr. VIM
Winter, at Cambridge, Mass. Mr.. Winter is n
young man, not more than twenty years of age,
and has already won high reputation as poet
and prose writer:
For the greatest human intcllects there is no
exemption from the common doom. l have
sometimes thought how sud, yet how sublime,
must have been the emotions Of that man, whose
privilege it was to stand by the coffin of Shnk-
when death had called out all the strange
beauty which never lives then. 1t was worth a
lifetime to have stood there one minute-to have
laid your hand on that broad brow, and started
at the cold chill and, so pausing,ist to have
called up in memory all the magnificent erea-
tions Of his genius. and worshipped him there in
the silence and the gloom:
But he is dead and gone;
AT his head grass cen turf
At his heels a stone.
So they all go. Marbles, but nature is eternal.
The seasons keep their appointed time day re-
turns with its golden splendor, aud night with
its eloquent mystery. The same stars which lit
the glastly battlefield of Troy-rough with the
dead bodies Of ancient heroes which sIlone OH
the marble streets of imperial Rome, and on the
sad eyes of Virgil slespess in the living glow Of
inspiration-the watch fires Of the angels; which
through centuries Of devastation and change
nave still burned OIL nnceasngy-speal 10 us as
they did to Dante, and Shakespeare, and Milton
OF the divine glory. the omnipotence, the ever
lasting beauty and love Of God"
Concealed IEecpona-There are two. things
which gentlemen meyer do: one is writing anon
ymous letters; the other is carrying concealed
weapons. OF course, there are occasions when
man, knowing that he is to be attacked, may
fairly carry weapons which he does not display
But no gentleman habitually secretes knives and
pistols about his person unless he lives among
sayages or wild beasts.
The reasons for this are obvious. 1t is an en-
tirely unfair advantage, pot only physically but
morally; for a man will not he likely to restrain
ms tongue or his temper when he knows that he
mas tile means Of effectualy silencing his oppo-
hent-and knows also that his opponent cannot
ana hight enough when every gentleman openly
wore his sword at his side. Certainly it was bad
enough then, but there was nothing concealed.
put 10 h.dc your knife and pick quarrel, or to
engage IN quarrel, knowing that you have
kii,e hidden, is as bad as inviting your enemy
10 drink wine which you have poisoned.
~, oecent society is not possible upon such terms
we are all 30 purely unchrstian and petulent,
mat anything which serves TO unbridie our
tongues and looye our wrath, as conce &lsd y cap
day.. $. VI
Gas Made from .IYater.-An attempts 10
.nanutacture gas from water alone, had hereto
lore been complete failure Payne's gas tur-
pes'he ana water gas, water and platina gas,
aha many such like have oil proved either i'm.
practicable or inferior to- the coal and wood
gas now IN use. A French chemist, Mr.. Gail
lard has afiast discovered and put into actual
use the gas made from water, not in the labora-
tofy or ut an exhibition, but in illuminating q
Aloie town: the ancient city Of Narbonne, Frsnce,
s8!orles ~ q Light, the elements nf which are
Ssswh Ss rom its antique and beautiful canh. the
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