Smyrna times., 1869-05-26
lFOr the Smyrna Times."I
A Prodigy i'm Camden.

Mr.. Editor The Records of Heather My
thology give an account of one ARGUS" son
OF ArestOre, according to Ovid); others make
him a son of Inachus. The doubtful father
ship OF this man, however, had nothing to do
with his wonderful powers. He was named
AH Seeing (pdnoptes), as having eyes all over
his body. Ovid, however, gives him the poetic
number of hundred, of which only two were
asleep at time. He was man of gigantic
proportions, and prodigiOus strength. His
achievements were wonderful At the time
Arcadia was infested with a wild GuU, Argus
attacked and slew the animal, and afterward
t0ore ats hide!! He also killed a satur, who
carried off the cattle of the Arcadians and
watching an opportunity when he found Echid-
ma 1.-THE daughter of Tartarus and Earth) asleep.
he deprived her of life II! About this time
Jupiter became enamored of 10 (priestess of
JunO), and finding that his conduct had ex-
posed him to the suspicious of Juno, he chan
ged 10 to white COW, and declared with an
oath that he had been guilty of no infidelity.
Juno affecting to believe him, asked the COW
OF him as a present; and, on obtaining her,
set the all seeing" ARGUS to watch her. Ar
gus bound her to tree in an olive grove of
Mycenae, and there kept guard over her. Ju-
piter, plying her situation, directed Mercury
to steal her away. The god of ingenious de-
vices made the attempt; but, as vulture al
ways gave Argus warning Of his projects, he
found it impossible to succeed. Nothing then
remaining but open force, Mercury killed poor
Argus iCith a stone. Juno was sorry. She
could not restore to life her cOl0 milder, but
she transferred the eyes of the dead Argus to
the tail of the favorite bird the peacock. Well,
sir, one OF these TarG aces Is to be found In
Camden. 1t retains the name of its former
self, and assumes the pretensions of the proud
bird, at whose fag end Juno placed its hundred
winkers. With a strut and a squawl it makes
its appearance in your paper. Retaining the
name of the former man would indicate that
all his faculties and senses were in healthful,
vigorous exercise. Perhaps Juno has succeed
ed in infusing life into the stone dead body.
i Once slain by stone, he has a manifest an
tipathy to whatever is SoLid-especially to the
rock of Truth. He is fighting this rock now.
Beware, Argus The small stone that was cut
out of the mountain must increase in size, Snatt
inQ as it rolls the image of sin and error. Truth
is the stone ON which whosoever falls shall be
broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it will
grind to powder
Mr.. Editor, the reproduction of the letter
from the pen of the Tribune'S sapient scrib.
bler and addendG by the ever watc6ful Argus
is out of season. Such production should
have appeared last aointer, when Methodists
we're going down into the water. The weather
is too pleasant now for any one who desires tC
follow Jesus in his command and example tC
be frightened by such amusing and harmless
scare crows.
One of the coolest Sabbaths we had las
winter, two Methodists and two Presbyterian
were baptised near Dover. The ice was no
cut, but had formed and was run off and lef
J the water clear. The Methodist said, aftel
coming up out of the water, that the argu
ments he had heard about immersing in colo