Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-04-30
VIE OF CTeorge W. Gunter.
To the Hon. Mrs. POLK,
Presidents House, Washington.

fCFWe often excuse our own want oil
philanthropy by giving the name OF tanata-
cism to the more ardent zealof others.
(FThe Helicon oft1o many poets Is not
a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by
the MUSES. and The Graces, but an old moui-
dering house, full of gloom and haunted BY
ghosts
rJA "siDgle man, adertising fer en-
pIoyment, maiden lady wrote to ntorm
him that if he could find nothing better to
do. he might come and marry her. He did
so. and touched twenty thousand dollars.
Gran elephan, onoe nearly killed an
lrshman for an insult offered to his trunk,
.sTbe act was rash in the extreme; but Ii
was impossible" the Hibernian said, "to
resist a nose you could pull with both hands,
gran Irish drummer, who now ard then
INDUCED in a noggin of right good roteen
was acccsted by the reviewing general
"Pat, what makes your nose 50 red'-
"plase your honor" said Pdt,"i always
blush when-I spakes to en- officer"
tFIf you borrow my books do not MARI
them; for shall not be able TO distinguish
your marks from my own, and the pages
will become like the doors in B'gdad mark
ed by Morgiana's chalk.
nTDon Quixote thought he coou'd have
made beautiful bird-cages and tooth-picks 4
his brain had not been so full OF ideas D
chivalry Most people would succeed II
small things, if they were not troubled will
great ambitions.
G5Authors, in their prefaces, generail
s2eak in a conciIiatory, deprecating tone
the critics, whom they hate and fear; as o
old the Greeks spake of the Furies as tn
Eumenidep the Benign Gcddesses.
ftrThe first pressure Of sorrow crushe
| ont from our tearts the best wine; alter
wards the constant weight of it brings fortI
| hi,tetness--the taste and stain from the lee
of the vat.
nTThe tragic element in poetry IS lS
Saturn in alchemy-the MHlsvolent, the De
strover OF Nature;-5ut wi hout it no tru
Aurum Potable, OF Elixir Of Lite, can
made.
NrI feel kind of reverence Tor the frs
hooks of young authors. There Is so muc
aspiration in them, so much sutaeious mop
{ and trembling fear. so much OF the heart
history, that all errors and short-coming
are for awhile los: sight of in the amlab
self-asserticn of youth.
CtTAuthoIs have greater right than an
copyright, though il is generally unacknoN
ledged or disregarded. They have rigt
10 the readers civili,y. There are favori
; ble hours for reading book, as for wr'tln
!, and 10 these this author has claim
; Yet many people think that when they bu
book, they buy with it the right to abus
, the author.
nArIet us build such church, that tho;
who come after US shall take us for madmer
, said the old canon of Svillc, when IN
5 rre,t cathedral WIS Planned. Perhap
E through eve,y mind,,passes some snch thoug
. when il first entertaihs the design OF son
r area, and seemingly impossible action, Il
end of which it dimly foresees. This divi'
madness enters more or less into all OF
= pob!est undertakings.
nrRound about what is, lies who
r ~, s,erious world of what might be--a pS
Geological romsnc' 10 p sib ties aud thin
n ,ha, do not happen. by going out e
: inmates sooner or later. by stopping
1t sneak with friend ut corner, by meetil
IS this man or that, or by turning down II
7, s,rec, instead of the other, we may LET 81
h some eat occasion OF 20 d or avoid sor
'i impending e,i, BY which the whOle cure
'e or our lives would have been changed.
N There is no possible solution to the da
80 enirma but the one word, providence,