Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-15


lsI4g 10 = BR00KVILLE,
MS any Institution. and while her name
lis everywhere fonorcd, hen. sal. viii
ltmly disgraco Il man who goes not frtl
lin cducatcd strength 10 obey the con1
mssnds of his Alma Matcr.o When IT.
hoporcd President says To q, ,stndent< ~
ltho language of tho parchment, '5Vfdp
sn quod" lie means "ncyer sit down in
eisc until YOU 1knS5w 3 mn that can bs
known. THAT injmhcciohls should. Itlldv
I,he, Alr,pppS fLrsugh oNeryahoa,' Il Iik
md in tho dying hour it shpud ippin
him to tllc- -Ihnl whore tho tree pf. .jnn
Unite e'lsnowlc,Igc grows aud Yields paral'
niaIly. The gonainoF stln)nr, ttcn, +
That one who ssindies sI,ofore .ettdrIu1 I
college. who studjoS while tkcrd p0t on
i " his books but--his fellow. .studeote q
snd-whs studios. men aid 'boVks>n u1
Lhings after the day. oftcet;cge l'ie19<1
lpast Tho mind of 0nQ> -lri ne>t2psbl(
of almost iniinhe 5nsp ~ 81 '@ef B .l.>'-in5
1s =. Nav !
I'm The empire OF inmdlthcre arc mon
archs who sway an almost absolute
<ccpicr over interior subjects, ami sucli
u monarch IN tlIc man who studies, and
learns, and NJ o.. ufd lwitli,ll bIcsses lii-
fellow man. Tho real seholnr,l then
Icarrr fromgoyery thing bo sinelIs, OF
Iasics. or hears, Or touches or socs, and
the whole world is under contribution
to his mind. lie stands with the ante.
dlluyisns, and roads in geological form
ptions tho history .oi tho'worlil's crea.
ton. Coming down later he trnces
through science the footsteps of the
Hood, aud seos tho smarksi OF uhiycrsul
dvsolation; later yet hc reads in pyra-
lnidic history the skill, the enterprise
he wealth and power of nations, whose
fame has been perpctuatcd by those mas
sive structures which will hand down
q or name 10 iemoiest generations. Tho
real scholar sees the resolutions In the
ccclesiastical M we'll as in the political
world, and he reads with int nsc inter.
est OF idulairous nations; ho'sces their
mighty conflicts, and coming down al-
most TO our day, hc beholds the icon
nlastes destroying tho deities OF the
hcathcn, and the cross everywhere ercc-
red in shperslitiuus idolatry. When he
,oolSs again, 10 observes Mahommeden.
sin going way before the truth ils II is
in Jesus. aud the Koran disappearing
before tho Christians Biblc. Thus the
true scholar learns from tho living and
the dead, m the world Is lis school.
book. conncd as completely as the aI-
phabet. llc lo.ks t. the past for ex.
,mples, 10 the present for action, To the
.uture for rcwa Il. lie lives in the time
when man lived in tho garden,
"Boforo the serpent entered in,
Ard over tho brows Of the tempted,
Pasted his fangs Of sin ,"
lie ssvcs-in-cit -ihv' rasts aselri n-fiie
present, ~ Il reading Natures volume
iulI Of lc sons, around. above, beneath;
and the book Df history unfolding the
actions OF mankind the records of all
ages. and the prophetic book of inspi.
ration, ho becomes all he can become
Oh earth, christian scholar. Tins
having gained tho 'uitimd thule of ter
rcstrial knowledge, aud with all his get
ing, having gutien Understandings of God
by conversion. hcStands on tne summit OF
Scieutia'a Mount, while men crown him
with nnlading aurcs With Newton
aud Humboldt hc shines Us u brilliant
lunlinary in the literary 6rmament.
while lisping children nn hoary haired
sircs proclaim his praise over all the
earth. Having thus reached the acme
of scholarship, full OF honors, full ol
lerrning, he graduates from the Uni,
se,riity OF Time, aud bearing his diplo.
MA with heavens own seal upon IL, he
lloyfnlly enters tho fields where knowl.
edgc grows indigenous. and hears the
acelamalions OF hoa,danni there, and
the welcome greeting ot the PresidcIn
eicrnal, We'll donc faithful scholar IN
Times school, enter now thcland where
TIC faculties are unimpaircd, whore
reason is unlimited. and etcrnally range
the plains of bcaliiic knowledge where
you shal SEQ us younro sce,i, aud know
even Us you arr hnownl' tfis
Why Josephine Married Napoleon
Every body knows that it was Bar
rus who induced Josephine dc Benuhar.
nails 10 become the wife OF General Do
napartc; aud it iscq ially potcnlthat she
was only persuaded 10 do 80 by the
stringent representation which he made
To her OF her comparative poverty, and
the duty that she 0aod TO her ial lhercsr
children. That wounded vanity ten
dured in no slight degree 10 render her
avcrso to receiving u husband nt the