The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-12-26

slowing his fires, would fix a brake on the
fly wheel to lessen the power? But that is
just what you are doing if you use tea, cOf-
fee and tobacco, only you do wOrse-yOu
apply the brake when more power Is wanted.
There Is one thing that works against this
hygienic reform, viz: men seldom try that
mode of living until their health is gone,
and their constitutions broken down. Their
life is prolonged twenty or thirty years,
but they die young, comparatively; there
fore the opposition say: "Where is the
beneft?' Hygienic living will not make
new man; it only preserves what is left
of the old one.
In person, Mr.. Bryant was small and
spare, but his head was very large, inso-
much that it seemed almost a deformity,
and this appearance was increased of late
years by his long, bushv, white hair and
beard.
Of his intellectual life have but little
to say. 1 have already spoken of his be-
ing educated at home. He attended Viii
liams College for a short time and then
left it, intending to finish the course at
Yale, but pecuniary embarrassment made
that impossible, so he continued his private
studies You who complain that you have
had no advantage Of schools, remember
Bryant, with his two terms at school
Next we find him reading law, and by
the time he was twenty-One he was ad-
mitted to the Bar. He practised law for
eleven years. but it seems that he could
not forget his literary aspirations, for at
that time he removed to New York and
engaged in journalism.
In 1927 he became connected with the
New York Evening Post, and soon became
Editor-in-Chief, which place he held at the
time of his death. For the term of fifty
years, then, we find him ventilating the
great questions before the people with judg-
ment and fearle essness; a strange Occupa-
tiOn for a poet, but it certainly goes to
show that poet may have some common
sense" after all. On all the great polite
al questions of the last half-century he
chad his say" and, though we were not
living to hear all his words, we know from
the character of the man, that they were
words Of which he need not be ashamed.
Unlike his Illustrious cotemporary,
Horace Greeley, he never sought nor ac-
cepted political preierment, but greater
honors have never been bestowed upon any
private individual than were unos;enta-
tiously received by Mr.. Bryant
His last public service was an Grafton on
the 18th of May, 1873, on the occasion of
the unveiling of the bust of Mazzini, the
Italian patriot in Central Park; and though
he acquitted himself nobly, it is thought
by some that the strain was too great for
one so advanced in years. Be that as it
may, he shortly afterward fell on the store
steps Of the mansion Of Gen. Wilson, and
received injuries by which he was pros
trated, never to rise, ''till the hinges turn
ed Tor him." In about two weeks he passed
away.
Ot Mr. BTvants literary ability. | have
nothing TO saw. If Won are familiar with
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and n YOU are not, YOU VIII read enough
to-day to enable vOI to decide ON that
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OI his success It Is not Tor me 90 speak,
but in late poem by rising author l
nnd the following:
,,M hat then is lite? Or. Whist success may be,
E no, s Wn1 can lel VINO iOr another ses2
Her love, her Strength. her Ianrcis. or her gold.
In This meridian hour she far has sped,
Anu ''l' 'A'll 'ul n'' p'''n'''l mask instead
- grave, sweet poet. in song. has told
It Ii-, one, a sing who IN m ms palace old,
% His couch OH til tbat b]sncefort6. ] When ibe cour
should hear
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Gave ont the words of iIy he wished 10 saw
4 have been wholly happy on this day"
JOyrs full perfecfi,ju never 10 him came.
EOiCeess the bell wear after year the. Sd. ne.
Tin in his dcg1b-i6rUgs round the cord his hand
Gathered-aud there was mourning in the Iand. :" I
When the king said. 81 am happv," the
nation mournei because they loved him !
So"
But the noet prcceeds:
81 rrsv Won search the ,ristfrl mast and fell.
Which cf you all could ring the happy belI
The treasure-trove, the gifts we AK OF fale'
V"f VIM @ s[ Sr } d Jf fr mann g5 di2s .oT is'
Greatly at neon, he gains ere day expires;'
But age Graves not lhe trqst that gladden. y uth'
Finding he owners right 10 what is best
OF little worth, without the seekers zest."
So it seems to me, that one of the first
lessons in wisdom is, that gratihed desires
do not bring happiness; and when L hear |
a man say thaI his success IN any calling 1
has been all that he could desire, l think
he is not sDpaEiDcr tLa truth or that his /
nc II noy SPe"NiIs 'ne u i.'ny vi 'll'l1 tiiS
.II SI1ularE ol perfect SUCCESS Is very low LOT
FerIGcIloh Is not oI EARN.
1llu r now we ~ GslG i 10 MI Dry ant ; l-iorll
il,. ny anu nus HIs O"H
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AN SOuliu' llOIuIes "Io'e Oh MN
How shall we thank him, that IN evil days,
lie 1aittred neFer-n0T for D;dme' nor praise
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