The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-18
IT'S GREEN STATE.

liACu kiiC lIlil VIC COuN Z. SIitCl lGdt
taken, for had some things [ wanted t,
say, and so. after waiting minute, I be
Gan again.--I don't think the poems
read ycu sometimes can be fairly apprec
atcd, given to yea as trey are in the
green state.
"-Iou d,u't knogr what I mean b.
the 9reea siotc? Well: tLen, | will tel
you. Certain things arc good for moth
! ing until they have been kept long
%hie; and some are good for nothing IN,
til they have been long kept and used
Of the first, wine is the illustrious and
immortal example Ofthose which must
be kept and used / will name three
meerSchaum pipes, violins and poems.
The meerSchaum is but poor affair un-
! til it has burned a thousand offerings to
the cloud compelling deitics. 1t comes
! to us without complexion or favor, born
of the sea-foam, like Aphroditc, but col
orless as paiiida lHorS herself The fire
IS lighted in its central shrine, and grad
uaIIy the juices which the broad leaves OF
the Great Vegetable had sucked up from
an acre and curdled into a drachm are
diffused through its thirsting pores. First
a disc0loration, then 4 stain, and at last a
rich, glowing, umLer tint spreading over
the whole surface. Nature tyue to her
old brown autumnal hue, YOU seas
true in the fire of the meerScnaum as IN
the sunshine of October, And then the
cumulative wealth Of its fragrant rcni-
uiscences, he who inhales its yapors
takes thousand whiffs in asingle breath :;
and one cannot touch it without awaken
ing the old joys that hang around it, as
the smell of flowers chngs to the dresses
of the daughters of the house Of Farina
:" Don't think use mcerschaum my
self, for l do not, though have owned
calumet since my childhood, which from
u naked Pict (of the Mohawk species)
my grandsirc won, together with toma-
hawk and beaded knifc-shcath paving
for the lot with bullet-mark on his right
cheek. On the maternal side | inherit
the loveliest silver-mounted tobacco-stop-
per you ever saw. 1t is a little lockwood
Triton, carved with charming liveliness
and truth; | have often compared it to
figure in Raphael's Triumph of Galatea.'
1t came to me in an ancient shagrecn
case,-how old it is | do not know,-but
it must have been made since Sir Walter
Raleigh's time. If you are curious, you
shall see it any day. Neither will | pre-
tend that | am SO unused to tie perisha-
bic smoking contrivance, that a few whitfs
would make me feel as if lay III a ground
swell on the Bay of Biscay. am not
uuaeqGainted with that tusitorm, spiral
WOUND bundle Of chopped stems and mis-
ceiaLe u incombustlb'es, the ctqar, 50
called, of the shops, which to draw
asks the suction power Of nursliag III
iant Hercules, and to relish, the ieatnery
palate OF an old Slleuus. | do not advise
you, young man, even if my illuscrati~il
strikes your fancy, to consecrate the flow
er OF your life to painting tie bowl OF a
pipe, ror, let ne assure you, the stain ol
a reycrie- breeding narcotic may strike
deeper than you think for [ have seen
the green lcai Of carly promise grow brown
before its time under such Aicotian regj-
men, and thought the umbcred meer-
schaum was dearly bought at the cost Of
4 brain eutec b!cd and a viii enslaved
OLD vI0IINS AND Old PoEMs--A SMILE.
"Violins, too,-the sweet cid Amati =
the divine Stradurius Played on By an-
cicnt maestros until the bow hand lost its
power and the flying fingers stifened.
Requeathed to the passionate young en-
thusiast, who made it whisper his hidden
love, and cry lis inarticplate longings,
and scream his untold ag,nies, and wall