The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

should not smart them; and the raj
dashing against the forehead shout
not drip into them; the eyebrows ne
bending over the eye, but reaching
the right and to the left, so that tn
rain and the sweat should be compete
to drop upon the cheek. instead {
falling into this divinely pre-
tected human eyesight See how Go
honored the eve in the fact presehte
by anatomists and Psychologists tina
there are eight hundred continuance
in every eye. For window-shutters tn
eyelids opening and closing thirt,
thousand times day. The EYEGLASSES
SO constructed that they have their Sc
lection as to what shall be admitted
saying to the dust, "Stay out" anc
saying to the light. "Come in" Fol-
inside curtains, the iris, or pupil, of the
| eye, according as the light is greater
or less, contracting or dilating. The
eye of the owl is blind in the daytime,
the eyes of some creatures are blind at
night, but the human eye, so marvel
ously constructed, can see both by day
and by night. Many of the other
creatures of God can move the
eye only from side to side, but
the human eye is marvelously con-
structed has one muscle to lift the
eye, and another muscle to lower the
eye, and another muscle to roll it to
the right, and another muscle to roll
it to the left, and another muscle pass
ing through pulley to turn it round
and round-an elaborate gearing of
six muscles as perfect as God could
make them. There also is the retina,
gathering the rays of light and pass
ing the visual impression along the
optic nerve, about the thickness of the
lampwick-passing the visual impress.
sion on to the sensorium, and on into
the soul. What delicate lens what
an exquisite screen, what soft cush-
ions, what wonderful chemistry of
the human eye! The eye washed |
by a slow stream of moisture, !
we sleep or wake, roll
ng imperceptibly over the pebble
If the eye and emptying into bone of
he nostril. A continuance so wonder
ul that it can see the sun, ninety-fve
million miles away, and the point of
pin. Telescope and microscope in
he same contrivance. The astronomer
wings and moves this way and that,
nd adjusts and readjusts the telescope
nth he gets it to the right focus; the
licroscopist moves this way and that.
nd adjusts and readjusts the magni-
wing glass until it is prepared to do
IS work; but the human eye, without
torch, beholds the star and the
nailest insect The traveller among
ne Alps. with one glance taking in
'ont Blanc and the face of his watch
see whether he has time to climb it.
Oh. this wonderful camera obscura
hich you and | carry about with us,
, to-day we can take in our friends,
} from the top of Mount Washington {
e can take in New England, SO at {
ght we can sweep into our vision l
re consultations from horizon to c
'rizon. So delicate, so semi-infinite, c
I'd yet the light coming ninety. five
illion miles at the rate of two hun a
ed thousand miles second is obliged S
halt at the gate of the eye, wait
e for admission until the portcullis {
lifted. Something hurled ninety n
e million miles and striking an in a
which has not the agita-
IN of even winking under the C
wer of the stroke. There, also a
the merciful arrangement of t.
e tear gland, by which the eye G
washed, and from which rolls the Il
lie which brings the relief that comes A
tears when some bereavement or o
eat loss strikes us. The tear not an g
of sorrow, but the 81
eaking up of the arctic of frozen it
lef in the warm gulf stream of con- 81
alton. Incapacity to weep in mad e.
SIS or death. Thank God for the tear h
inds, and that the crystal gates are cl
easily opened. Oh! the wonderful hi
draulic apparatus of the human eve fl
vinely constructed vision! Two 81
hit houses at the harbor of the i'm I'll
'rtal soul, under the shining of sc
lich the world sails in and drops an tt
Or. What an anthem of praise to God h
the human eye! The tongue is sa
,echless and clumsy instrument of
preston as compared with it. Have bl
y not seen it fash with indignation til
kindle with enthusiasm, or expand al
tn devotion, or melt with sympathy, W
stare with fright, or leer with vii th
ny, or droop with sadness, or pale sc
tn envy, or fire with revenge, or hs
inkle with mirth, or beam with st
e? 1t is tragedy and comedy and of
'toral and lyric in turn. Have YOU sa
seen its uplifted brow of surprise, w
its frowu of wrath, or its contrac- da
n of painP II the eye say one er
ng and the lips say another a
ng, you believe the eye rather than in