Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-04-15

and suffering, and the graver, memory,
cuts deepest when feeling is most intense,
was not something lost in that brief strug~
gle between father and child, which could
never be restored-something. the pain o.
which would endure through natural life.
These are questions for sober thought.
My friend with all his infirmities Of tenn
per, bad strong love for children quick
moral sense: a love Of right and Justice
These were all on tho side of a truer self
discipline as efecting the little ones given
HIM Vi God, that they might be trained for
Heaven.
! saw him afterwards under stronger
provocation and he did not forget himself.
My presence may have revived in bis
memory the scene Just described, and so
put him on guard Even if that were so,
much was gained; for all right efforts give
a measure of strength, aud erect barriers
against evil. We overcome what is wrong
in cur natural tempers by resisting the
impulse to act in the moment of provoca.
ton not by repenting and resolving only.
The repentance and the resolution are all
well enough, and give strength for resist
ance against the hour of temptation but
only in the degree that we resist and re-
and rise superior to our infrmities.
Mrs. Stoves Description of
Rome.
One of the new chapters of Mrs. Stoves
agnes of Sorrento" contains the follow.
ing beautiful description of Rome:
A vision rises upon us from the land of
shadows. We see wide plain, miles and
miles in extent, rolling in soft pillows of
green. and girded on all sides by blue
mountains, whose silver crests cleaning in
the setting sunlight tell that winter yet
fingers on their tops, though spring has
decked all the plain. So silent, SO lonely,
so fair is this waving expanse, with its
guardian mountains, it might be some wild
solitude, an American prairie or Asiatic
steppe, but that in the midst thereof, on
some pillows of rolling land, we discern a
city, sombre, quaint and old-s city of
dreams and mysteries-a city of the living
aud the dead And this is Rome-weird,
wonderful, ancient, mighty Rome-mighty
once by physical force and grandeur,
mightier now in physical decadenee and
weakness by the spell of q potent moral
enchantment.
As the sun is moving westward the whole
air around becomes flooded with illumin-
business which seems to traDsfuse itself
with prevading presence through every
part Of the city, and make all its ruins
and messy age bright and living. The air
shivers with the silver vibrations of humid
reds Of bells, and the evening glory goes
up and down. soft footed and angelic, trans
figuring all things. The broken columns
of the Forum seem to swim in golden mist,
and luminous foods fill the coliseum as il
stands with its thousand arches looking out
Into the city like so many sightlcss eye
holes IN the skull Of the past. The tender
light pours up streets dark and i'll paved
in,o uoisome dens called houses, where the
peasauiry Of to day yegetate in contended
subseFyience. 1t ilumes many court
yard. where the moss is green on the walls,
and gurgling fountains fall into quaint old
sculptured basins. 1t lights up the gor-
geous palaces of Rome's modern princes,
built with stones wrenched from ancient
ruins. 1t streams through wilderness Of
churches each with its tolling prayer bell,
and steals through painted windows into
the dazzling confusion of pictured and
gilded glories that glitter and CLEAN from
roof and wall within. And it goes, too,
across the Tiber, up the filthy and noisome
Ghetto Here, heAmed in by ghostly su-
prostitution, the sors Of Israel and growing
up without vital day, like wan white plants
aud cellars; and the black lnournful obe-
LAX Of tho Expresses liz the villas around
it touches with solemn glory. The castle
of St. Angelo looks ike great translu-
cent, LUMINOUS orb, and the statues of saints
and the APOSTLES on the top of st. Johu's
Lateran glow as if made of living fire, and
seem to stretch out glorifed hands Of well
coue to the pilgrims that are approaching
the Holy City across the seft palpitstins
sea of green that stretched Ike misty vel
| around it.