The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-26

What makes the love of great mind some
thing fearful in its inception is that it is often
the unseaing of hitherto undeveloped por-
tion of large and powerful being (; the wo.
man may or may not seem to other eyes ade
quate to the effect produced, bat the man can
not forget her, because with her came change
which makes him forever a different being
So it was with our friend. A woman it was
that was destined to awaken in him all that
consciousness which music, painting and poe
try, awaken in more evenly-developed minds
and it is the silent breathing of her creative
presence that is even now creating him anew,
while as yet he knows it not. .e4aa
The Dawn Of Love. "a - ..ssi sas 4. 5s.lss. =
Il is said that if grape vine be planted in
the neighborhood of well, its roots, running
silently under ground, wreathe themselves in
q network around the cold. clear waters, and
the vines putting on outward greenness and
unwonted clusters and fruit is all that tells
where every root and fiber Of its being has
been silently stealing. So those loves are
most fatal most absorbing. in which, with un
needed quietness. every thought and fiber of
our life twines gradually around some human
soul to us the unsuspectipg well spring of our
being. Fearful it is, because SO often the v1ne1
must be uprooted, and all its fibers wrenched
away ; but till the hour of discovery comes,
how is it transfgured -bysa new and beautiful
life There is nothing in life more beautiful
than that trance-like quiet dawn which pre-
cedes the rising of love in the soul. When
the whole being is pervaded impreceptibly and
TRANQUILITY BY another being, and we are hap
pH, we know not and ask not why the soul is
then receiving all and asking nothing. AT q
later day she becomes selfconscious, and then
come craving exactions, endless questions
the whole world of the material comes in with
its hard counsels and consultations, and the
beautiful trance fades forever. 5EE
Romance. .-.- .-,.-r-r-,.s.s ia.
Let us look up in fear and reverence and
say. Il God is the great maker Of romance. -
He, from whose hand came man and woman
- he, whe strung the great harp of Existence
with all its wild and wonderful and manifold
chords, and attuned them to one ahother-
He is the great Poet of life. Every impulse
of beauty, of heroi.m, and every craving for
purer love, fairer perfection, nobler type and
style of being than that which closes like a
prison house around us, in the dim, daily walk
Of life, is Gods breath, God 3 impulse, God s
reminder to the soul that there is something
higher. sweeter, purer. yet to be attained.
The scofFer Oh ..,.-.=.zti ss;4
Therefore, man or woman, when thy ideal is
shattered-as shattered thousand times it
must be-wheu the vision fades, the rapture
burns not, turn not away in skeptieism and
bitterness, saying, ''There is nothing better for
man than that he should eat and drink, but
rather cherish the revelations of those hours
as prophecies aud foreshadowings ofesome-
thing real and possible, yet TO be attained in
the manhood of imn nertaiity. The scofing
spirit that laughs at romance is an apple of the
Devils own handing from the bitter tree of
knowledge-it OPENS the eyes only to zee eter-
nal knowledge. --,zr i.s
The Uses Of Disappointment. assgz
y If ever you have had romantic uncalculat
ing friendship-a boundless worship and be.
lief in some hero of your soul-if ever you
thave SO loved, that all cold prudence, all self
lish. worldly considerations have gone dowr
like drift-wood before river flooded with new
d rain from heaven, so that you even forgot
yourself and were ready to cast your whole
being into the chasm of existence, as an offer
ing before the feet of anoGher, and all fol
Inothing-if you awoke bitterly betrayed and
deceived, still give thanks to God that yor
have had one glimpse of heaven. The doc
now shut will open again. Rejoice that thu
noblest capability of your eternal inheritance
n has been made known to you treasure it a
the highest honor of your being, that ever yo
: conld so feeI-that 30 divine guest eve
s possessed your soul se5sf.-t-. rs
n The object Of Love. ~. il
81 In refined and exalted nature, it is yer
seldom that the feeling of love, when ono
. thoroughly aroused, bears any sort of relatio
to the reality of the object. It is commonl
an enkindling Of the whole power of the soul
love for whatever she considers highest an
fairest !; it is, in fact, the love of somethin
. divine and unearthly, which, by sort of ill
- sion, connects itself with personality. Pro-
20 erly speaking, there is but one true, etern
10 object of all that the mind conceives, in th
10 trance of its exultation. Disenchantmer
81 must come. of course and in love whis
q terminates in happy marriage, there is ten
ms er and gracious process. BY which, witho
ds shock or violence, the ideal is gradually sur
ut in the real. which, though found faulty al
rk unearthIy, is still ever tenderly remembered
g it seemed under the morning light of that e
Dg chantment. 3 g agEy HE
ID The Faith Of Woman.
The fact is women are burdened with fe
ty faith, and reverence, more than they kpe
'se what to do with they stand like hedge
Ter sweet peas, throwing out hattering tendr
we everywhere for something high and strong
sh climb by and when they find it, be it e,
The so rough in the bark. they catch upon it.
Inc And instances are not wanting of those W
ms have turned away from the Aattery of adm
zes ers to. PROSTATE themselves at the feet oi
lde genuine hero who never wooed them, exct
ing by heroic deeds and the rhetoric of a no
vo life
nat &C., &c, &c.
'biy 1t is usual to put triplet &C.. after ma
7pe, name, on the back of a letter. 1t is geners
this considered disrespectful to the persons SO
test dressed to omit even one of these abbre,
the tions. His sovereign state and dignity is C
zed sidered involved in all three being given.
ung tually, however, you might triplicate the