Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-03-11

enough that lose m1ne sonne-I will no
4falsoe lose mine Tre" In the male, tn,
is6lid sentiment of the proprietor outweigh
led the temporary irritation of the parent
Then the mother, we are told, bought ff
j teen ellis of black velvet, and stretched {
pail from the knights bough across the wes
side to another branch and cursed the hanc
THAT should remove it, and she hersel
= twolde never pass the Ire, neither going
aor coming, but went still about
! And when she died, and should have
ibeen carried past the tree to the park, he1
doctor did cry from window to the bear
lers, ':Goe about! goe aboutw and they
went about, and all the company. And in
5time the velvet pail rotted, and was torn
aand driven away rapids zudibria ventis. -
And when the hand of nature, and no hu-
Imam hand, had thus fouted and dispersed
1.-THE trappings of the mothers grief, two
pieces were picked up and preserved among
1.-THE family relics; and the black velvet had
turned rusty red. So the Baroness did
nothing new in this family, when she hung
.-her chaplet on the knights bough And
lin fact, on the west side, about eighteen
fleet from the ground, there still mouldered
zone corner of an achievement an heir of
4Beanrepaire had nailed there two centuries
before, when his predecessor died "For
] 1(said he) the chateau is of yesterday, but
! the tree has seen us all come and 60" The
inside of the tree was clean gone it was
hollow as a gum ; not light inches thick in
iany part; and ON its east side yawned a fs-
fsure as high as man and as broad as street
ldoor. Dard used to wheel his wheelbarrow
into the tree at trot, and there leave it !!
| In spite,of excavation and mutilation, not
life only|but vigor, dwell in this wooden
shell. The extreme ends of the longer
lpoughs were frewood. touchwood, and the
Icrown was gone, time out of mind But
marrow the circle very little, to where the
Findomitable trunk could still Shoot sap from
its cruise deep in earth, in there on every
side burst the green leaves in summer,
lcountless. as@the sand. The leaves carved
leenturies ago from these very models, tho
Esut in stone, were most of them mouldered, !,
lunted, 'notched, deformed; but the deli
: VT surnrrur,
|perfect and lovely as when the tree was
their elder brother, and greener than ever.
For (from what cause Nature only knows)
the leaves were many shades deeper and
richer than any other tree could show for a
hundred miles round-a deep green, fiery,
yet soft. And then their multtude-th
staircases Of foliage, as you looked up the
tree, and could scarce catch a glimpse Of
the sky--an inverted abyss Of color, a mound,
a dome, of fake emeralds, that quivered in
the golden air as .- -
And now the sun sets; the green leaves
are black; the moon rises; her cold light
shoots, across one-half that giant STEM
How solemn and calm stands the great
round tower of living wood, half ebony, half
silver, with its mighty cloud above Of flake
jet leaves, tinged with frosty fire at one
edge! a'.'s g.
Now is the still hour to repeat in whis-
per the words of the dame of Beaurepaire-
tYou were here before as you will be here
when we are gone" |
Letus leave the hoary king of trees stand
ing in the moonlight, calmly defying time !;
and let us follow the creatures of day,
since what they were we are. e.-Reads
"WAite Lies" .:..-....... - -....5.
CHTsELL1NG.-A writer in the Home
Journal thinks that mental activity tends
to keep the body young -. r.. ......~.2.l
eve were speaking of handsome men,
the other evening, and [ was wondering
k had SO lost the beauty for which,
five years ago, he was famous. oh, it's
because he never did anything said b.;
he never rworked, thought, suffered You
must haze tie mind chisezling a,coy at the
features, # :yon aeant handsome n,sddle-oged
men. Since hearing that remark, [ have
been on the watch, at the theatre, opera and
other places, to see whether it is generally
true--and 1t IS. A handsome man who
does nothing but eat and drink, grows fab
by, and the fine lines of his features are
lost; but the hard thinker has an admira-
bic sculptor at work keeping his fine lines
in repair and constantly going over his face
to improve the original design"
Some truth in the theory; and yet, talk
ing Of that sort Of scul pture, the mind has
"chiselled" good many people out of what
beauty they had-for what is beauty with
out the color and plumpness of health, which
10 oi'en sttcilnceu " an noVef-"orklnS praln
INVERTED ToE-NA1L.-This very painful
trouble is generally produced by wearing
boots too short and tight; it can be relieved
by care in cutting the toe-nail as follows:
Cut the nail as near the quick IN the centre
as possible, leaving the corners long, scrapc
the nail as thin as can be bone without bring
ing blood, in the middle, then soak the foot
in warm water for some time until the nail
is soft, then gently raise the corner and
place under it a small piece Of India rubber,
which should be changed daily, if care and
attention is given toit, in month the toe
will be perfectly cured.