The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-02-26

would now proceed to hump himself. -
Well, all that was nearly three hours ago.
1t is questionable whether l am calm
enough yet to write on the noble theme OF
political economy, but | cannot resist the
desire to try, for it is the one subject that
is nearest to my heart and dearest to my
brain of all this worlds philosophy.
''-econonay is Aearen's best boon 10 man,
When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his
Venetian exile he observed that, if it could |
be granted him to go back and live his mis- |!
spent life over again, he would give his
lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the
composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but
of essays upon political economy. Wash
ington loved this exquisite science; such
names as Baker, Beck with, Judson, Smith
are imperishably linked with it; and even
imperial Homer, in the ninth book of the
Had, has said
Fiat iustitia. ruat Cmlum,
Post mortem unum, ante bellum,
HE iacet noe, ex parte res,
Politicum e-conomico est.
The grandeur Of these conceptions of
the wording which clothes them, and the
sublimity of the imagery whereby they are
illustrated, have singled out that stanza,
and made it more celebrated than any that
ever-
I"Now, not a word out of you--not
single word. Just state your bill and re-
lapse into impenetrable silence forever and
ever on the premises. Nine hundred dol
lars Is that allo This check for the
! amount will be honored at any respectable
| bank in America What is that multitude
/ of people gathered in the street for: How?
Hooking at the lightning rods" Bless
my life, did they never SEQ any lightning
! rods befores Never saw such a stack Of
/ them on one establishment did | under
stand you to say: | will step down and
I critically observe this popular ebulition Of
/ ignorance
THREE DAYS LATER-We are all about
worn out. For four aud-twenty hours our
bristling premises were the talk and wonder
of the town. The theaters languished, for
their happiest scenic inventions were tame
and commonplace compared with my light
ming rods. Our street was blocked night
and day with spectators, and among them
many who came from the country to see.
1t was blessed relief on the second day,
when thunder storm came up and the
lightning began to go for my house, as
the historian Josephus quantity phrases it
1t cleared the galleries, SO to speak. In
five minutes there was not a spectator with
in half a mile of my place; but all the
high houses about that distance away were
full, windows roof, and all. And wei
they might be- for all the falling stars ant
Fourth of July fireworks of a generation,
put together and raincd down simulta
neously out OF heaven in one brillian
shower upon one helpless roof. would no
have any advantage of the pyrotechnic dis
play that was making my house so maSni
ficently conspicuous in the general gloon
; of the storm. BY actual count, the light
j ming struck at my establishment sever
l hundred and sixty four times in forty min
y utes, but tripped on one of those faithful
rods every time and slid down the spira
twist and shot into tie earth before l
: probably had time to be surprised at tn
h way the thing was done. And through a.
: that bonn bardment only one patch of slate
5 was ripped up, and that was because. for
t single instant the rods in the vicinity wer
g transporting all the lightning they coul
: possibly accommodate. Well, nothing wa
d ever seen like it since the world began
n For one whole DAY ana nlgnt not ibeHo VI
S of my family stuck his head out of tn
If window but he got the hair snatched off
n as smooth as billiard ball; and If til
q reader will believe me, not one of us eve
! dreamt of stirring abroad. But at last til
re awful siege came to an end-because thel
n was absolutely no more electricity left
- the clouds above us within graphing di
o lance of my Unsuitable rods. Then salle
/, forth, and gathered daring workmen t
g gether and not bite or nap did we tax
1t till the premises were utterly stripped I
| all their terrific armament except just thrf
g rods on the house, one on the kitchen, an
is one on the barnard behold these RENAL
Is there even tc this day. And then, and nj
al till then, the people ventured to use OF
le street again. | will remark here, in pas
CT ing, that during that fearful time did IL
Up continue my essay upon political econom
Id | am not even yet settled enough in ner'
j. and brain to resume it.
> To WHOM IT MAY CoNCERN.-Parti
- having need of three Thousand two hundr'
II and eleven feet of best quality zinc plate
- spiral-twist lightning-rod stuff, and siXte
~ hundred and thirty one silyer-tlpped point
" " all in tolerable repair (and, although nut
' :" worn by use, still equal to any ordina