The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-17

Cmsares in A. d. 600, who gave IL as the opinion
OF older commentators D. Kelly Mppei and
',rhe errand of tormentiug mankind Is per
fectly congenial and natural TO the malignant, |
cruel and merciless character of the lost spirits
of hell There can indeed be no question but |
that legions OF demon spirits even now in |
visby roam about the earth, and lnjure people, |
but these will be q particular class Of Internal
satanic spirits, coming up in visible form from |
turing their victims with the most painful of
all stings-thRt of the scorpion. Its painful
effect is thus described In Dioscorides' Book Ill,
caput T.
''wnen the scorpion has stung any one, the place
SSS aSa s paS GnS Sv InerVSs being now eh4
now burning The pain soon rises high ana RACES
cseGs. attended by shyerins and trembling the
on shd the a
out a9s ski a p b9 99Te Pe Oh
If we believed these 666 horrors we should
certainly cheat the scorpion.locusts of one vic
tim, at all events.
But with all this show of madness on the
part of the Rev. Mr.. Baxter, we occasionally
have dreadful suspicion that it is not all
phrenzy, but that there is method in it
which savors of the filthy lucre. Thus, after
explaining with great clearness the little
spirit of the second horn, and shown it, like
everything else, to mean Louis Napoleon,
we find the following paragraph savoring of
gain;-
| believers in these views will find the PAM
phlets-The Coming Bate 1872 pages, 3D. and the
| twenty. cent abridgment OF the Napoleon trea-
tise (96 pagesl-very useful for distrioution IN IN
mentioned that as IL is the authors aims to
send gratuitously one or other of these PAM
phlets to as many ministers as possible, espect-
| ally in country places and distant colonies
where such information is not easily obtain;
Saeiiiies for spreSdiisS iSospao, 6eGore Gsey
are greatly inpeded By approaching 10dTs ana
cg% BE- sc wssh 10 him. 51iS SSeS SV Box no. 9
Philadelphia. for the gratis circulation of these
thus to help in disseminating these views"
On which contemporary remarks-"Per-
haps people may be caught sending amy sum
OF money TO Box 1l09, but we rather think IL
would be somewhere near their tenth horn"
We rather think that any such donators
would be afflicted with verdancy in the cor
ner of their eyes. In concluding our notice of
this truly valuable publication, we can only
express the hope that Louis Napoleon will not
suddenly die for if he should, the edifce COM
posed of 666 stones would be shaken to its
foundation, and the whole series of satisfac-
tory calculations fall to the ground.
MY GIFT AND OTHER POEMS BY Cyrus Elder.
N. TIbbals g. Co., New York. Philadelphia
Agent: d, Ashmead.
|
pen of Mr.. Cyrus Elder we think must have
been written by "Gifted Hopkins" whose
style is made familiar to US in 'The Guardian
; Angel" of DR.. Holmes. He possesses that
rhythm without sense, that jingle without in
telligence, in which Hopkins excelled. Mr..
Elder plagarizes his metres from other poets;
he gives us no new figures, but certainly selects
rather peculiar subjects for poetic rhapsody.
Thus the efusion from which the work
derives its title commences
"a fairy dame when 1 was born,
Or kind cruel she was wise,
Took magic ointment in her palm,
And touched one of my eyes.
"Thenceforward through my life wear
Two eyes endowed with different sight;
Two visions haunt me everywhere,
Diverse-nor know which is right"
J This is the first occasion we ever heard
i poet glory in his misfortune, or address his
! muse to an afliction of his eyes. Poor fellow
!; He evidently tries to be cheerful under the
e obliouity of vision with which nature ha;
s cursed him. and tries to impute his cross-eye'
to good fairy. Well, we hope he is recon
= ciled to his afliction; but really, it would bt
better to write on the leaves and flowers THAI
y to select an ocular subject. But de gustibH
> non disputandum.
= Occasionally, however, the spirit carries tn
writer into a high mountain, and reveals unit
" him things doubtless beautiful, but whicl
IL are rather mysterious to us when communi
Gated in verse. Thus the origin of our lat
- :, civil war is rather curiously expressed, an
- the aim of the struggle presented in ne'
30 light
w w "At length the whirligig of time,
i'll Swung purposeless by idiot hands,
-, Brought strange confusion in the lands,
III God waiting TO close all in rhyme"
~ Not as clear as the "pebbly brook" of whic
=, Mr.. Elder is so fond
% The following cheerful ditty is denominate
O' ga song" Whether it is intended to be set
80 music is rather doubtful. If we rightly PEN
N9 trate its meaning, which is not settled to OF
Au mind, we are not inclined to be merry ov'
ia' the prospect for the "here does not apes
- to know himself.
"I am not IL seek myself in vain,
lot And know not what ask-this is my pain.
ro- Death shall unbrldle all.
an "Thou art thyself-thou hast no part in me;
Thou art thyself, and am naught 10 Lnee,
by Then welcome Death"
of While so far we have had only to condem
ch the volume, yet we find under the decided
III disagreeable title of "A Tragical Tale" vel
y, prettily told episode of the war-by far Il
It'll best of all the contents of the book, and ol
IN which leads us To hone for better things fro