The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-25

r7SssfIi is outz toAtake from u Ot0H tye thS
cares that disquiet the heart; leaving behind
all those grander intellectual rivalres which
at least 'caH into play powers that extract re-
ward out of the care, glory outsof the disqui-
ct, which must ever accompany the contest
between mama and man. "a 's4'f r'
How many other men, settling in the coun-
try, only vegetate there, having no living in
terest except in what passes IN the city they
have left; the only hour of the day to which
tn Y look forward With eagerness, and in
which they expand into intellectual being is
that in which they seize on the daily 'aeWspa-
per, and ansportthemselves in thought from
Already to Babylon. ''---' ..-
There was this notable distinction between
the kind of conversation which I had just left
behind me in London, and that which now
interested my attention in London dinners,
no matter how well-informed the guests, talk
nearly always turns upon persons-here, talk
turned upon things. The young painter talk
ed well; SO did Clara Thofnhill,. Now and
then the Librarian threw in an odd, quaint,
'out-of-the-way scrap of erudition, delivered
SO like a joke that it made US smerrier if it
failed to make us wiser. Tracey himself was
charming, never allowing one subject to be-
come tedious, and lighting all Subjects with
gayety which, ifit was not wit, was very
much what wit might be, if something of i'll
nature were not at the battom of all the good
sayings by which wit epigrammatizes the ep-
les and the dramas of human lifer We all
left the dining room together, men and wo-
men alike, according to the Foreign fashion.
b 1t had been my first escape into the coun-
try that summer; and the change from the
throng and reek of London was in itself de-
light Perhaps on such holiday occasions
there is more pure and unalloyed enjoyment
of nature when it is wholly dissocated from
the sense of property-when we do not say
to ourselves, This is my land, these my
groves, these my 1ocks ard herds" For with
the sense of property come nvoluntarily the
cares of property. And in treading his own
turfs the observer looks round to see what has
heer- neg ected or what has been improved in
his absence; he casts not poets but farm
er's eye on the eve nestled under the oak
tree. s
- often think that we do not sufficiently
cultivate the friendship of night We sepa-
rate the; night by too sharp line from the.
day. We close her out from us by shutters
and curtains, and reject her stars for our lamps.
Now, since have lived here, have learned
that nights a much more sociable companion
than L before suspected. In summer often
ride out, even in winter often ramble forth,
when my guests NRye been for hours in their
beds. Il take into my day impartially all the
twenty four hours. There are trains of tho't
set in melton by the sight of the stars which
are dormant in the glare of the sun. And
without such thoughts. mans tllinkibsis is in
complete. ----.--.-ssy-a -..---..s.---
A vafua BILE Wan! .a
There isl Partisan, who sits in his room,
ready dressed, to come at a moments notice
in the character of an invited guest to any
enteSainment at which there is a disappoiIt-
ment or where by chance addition or sub
traction there is the terrible number of thir-
teen. - .---------------.
Sensi ib5lity of a Great Mind.
Sir Walter Scott said seriously in his auto
biography, Through every part of my lit
serary career, have felt punched and hamper
ed by my own gnorance." Such is true wis
dom. The wiser man really becomes, the
more he begins to feel as the sage of old did,
when he said, "The longer live, the more
| persuaded l become that know nothing"
The Human Heart
+ Is POLITICALLY compared to an artists studio
You can tell what the artist is doing, not so
much by his completed pictures, for they are
mostly scattered at once, but by the Lalf-fn-
ished sketches and designs which are hanging
on his wall. And so you can tell the course
of mans life, not so much by his well-de-
fined purposes as by the half-formed plans
the faint day-dreams which are hung in the
chambers of his heart.
A Sublime ReprOOf.
One of the most sublime and thrilling re-
proofs ever uttered was that by Daniel, when
he stood before the guilty ard affrighted Bel
shazzar. And yet what is there in it that
will not apply with even greater force to
| thousands upon thousands in Christian land?
"The God in whose hand thy breath is, and
| whose are all thy ways, thou hast not glori-
| fed" r. s.F
Oriental Telegraphing.
Some time since the Evening Post dc
scribed the ceremonies of the opening of a
railroad to Ephesus. Now we have news of
project for a telegraph to Jerusalem 1t
is reported that the Syrian telegraph is al
ready in operation as far as Ourfa, at the top
of the Desert, beyond the Euphrates and a
branch line will soon be extended to Aleppo
Damascus, and Beyrout, from which latter
station line will run north to Joppa and
Jerusalem. Travellers in the East may
| therefore, soon order apartments in Jerusalem
by telegraph.
i "A FIRST Kiss! ----.-..
/ Delightful Mary Ino says the first time
she was kissed. she felt like vase of roses
swimming in honey and eau-de-cOlomge. She
also felt as if something was running through
her nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by
several little cupids in chariots drawn by an
gels, shadedby honeysuckles. and the whole
spread with melted rainbows.
Mountains and Men. "E-- ------.--.
Mountains never shake hands. Theil
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