The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-12

I lungs, and was obliged to resign his pastora
duties al Cincinnati; bis only child was laid ii
New England grave his Young wife hat
temporarily lost the use of her eyes; his home
was broken up and his prospects were very
dark. They had sold their furniture and wen
TO bohrd in aconDtry tavern in the town oI
Dayton. One day as be came in from walk
his wife said to him. @ 20
I have been thinking of our situation here
and have determined to be submissive and pa.
TENT
'Ah. h.'said be. that is good resolution
let rs see what We have to submit to. will
make list of our trials. First-we have q
home-we will submit to that. Second-we
have the comforts of life-we will submit to
that Thirdly-we have each other. Fourth
ly-we have a multitude of friends Filthy
I'VE have God to take care of u.s.
fAh said she, I pray stop. and l will say
no more about sumission.'
General appearance Of Literary People.
A correspondent of the Springfield Repub-
llican. gives the following pen-an dink sketch
es Of prominent literary people.
Emerson looks like refined farmer, medi
tative and quiet. Lopgfelow like good na-
tured beeceater. Holmes like ready-to-
laugh little body, wishing only to be as. finn
ny as he can.' Everett seems only the grace
full gentleman, who has been handsome Beech
er. ruddy, rollicking boy. Whittier. tht
most retiring of Quakers. And thus i nigh
name Others. Not one of these gentlemen
might be called handsome, unless we except
Beecher, who might be deal Landowner
Mrs. Sigourney,the grandmother of American
female literature in her prime (if we may
believe her portrait) was quite handsome
Catherine Beecher is homely. Mrs. Stowe i:
so ordinary in her looks. that she was taker
for Mrs. Stoves Biddy.' Mrs. E F. Elicit
looks like a washerwoman. Margaret Fuller
was plain. Charlotte Cushman has a face as
marked as Daniel Webster's, and quite as
strong So has Elizabeth Blackwell. Harri.
ct Hosmer looks like man. Mrs. Oakes Smith
is considered handsome. Miss Julia Ward
Howe has been . New York belle. Frances
s. Osgood has lovely womanly face. Anne
liza B. WeIby was almost beautiful; Sarah J
Hale, in her young days, quite, unless her pic
ture fbs. The Davidson sisters, as well a.
their gifted mother, possessed beauty. If We
cross the ocean, we find Madame de Stae was
fright; but Hannah More was handsome
Elizabeth Fry. glorious; Letiti Landon, pret-
Ity; Mrs. Hemans wonderously lovely; Mary
Howitt, fair and matronly MRS Norton, regally
beautiful; Barret Browning, in physique is an
gular, though she has magnificent eyes, hel
! face is suggestive of a tombstone. Charlotte
Bronte had look in her eyes better than al
beauty of features. But il we look at Brit
ish men of frst-class craniumns-Sbakspear
and Milton were handsome ; DIR. j ohnson wa
a monster of ugliness; so were Goldsmith ant
4 Pope; Addison was tolerabie handsome; an,
4 Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Moore, Campbell
Bnrns all were uncommonly go. Sir Waite
Scott looked very ordinary. in spite of his fin,
bead. Macaulay is homely, Bulwer nearly hid
eous. although dandy. Charles Dickens i
called handsome, but covered with ie ewely, b
can but look like a simpleton.'
The TRANSPORTATION Of Memory.
J In Mrs Stoves new work, The Minister
Wooing,' occurs the following beautiful pass
age EE
: sAs there was an hour when the fsherme
: of Gallilee saw their Master .traEsfgured, hi
raiment white and gistening, and his face lik
the light, so are there hours when our who!
mortal life stands forth in celestial radiance
From our daily lot falls off every weedof cart
from our heard friends every speck and stai
of earthly infrmity. Our horizon widens, an
blue and amethyst, and gold touch every ob
ject. Absent friends gone on the last journe
stand once more together, with an immort
glow, and, like the diciples who saw the Mas
ter floating in the clouds above them, we sa
Lord, it is good to be here = How fair Il
e wife.the husband, the absent mother, the gra
haired father, the manly son, the bright ey'
8 daughter Seen in the actual present, {
r have some fault, some flaw; but absent, '
see them in their permanent and better selys
: OF our distant home we remember not a da
day, not one servile care, nothing but the eel
" ofits holy hymns and the radiance of its brig
" days-of our father, not one hasty word, b
only the fullness of his manly vigor and not
all ftenderness-of our mother, nothing of m orr
'r weakness, but glorifed form of love-of o
!. brother, not one teasing, provoking word
brotherly freedom, but the proud beauty
,g bis nobtest hours-of our sister, our child, ,oI
b. what is fairest and sweetest. 1fH 10
u Follow the Right. .
g.: No matter who you are, what you are,
p. where you are; you cannot afford to do tt
in which is not right. The only way to obt,
8 happiness and pleasure for yourself, is to
hit the right thing. You rnay not always hit
or mark, but you should nevertheless aim for
ed and with every trial, your skill increases
,e. Whether you are to be praised or blamed
he it;whether it will seemingly make you richer
i'd, poorer, or whether no other person knows
to your action, still, always do the right thi
nd and finally it will become habit and to d
IS wrong act, will seem an impossibility.
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ne, SPRAYS OF WISDOM.
ind ser -
ses Gratitude preserves old friendships,and +
cures new. 7g -.ssS