tits familii eirtii.
StNSET.
Afar from thee, dear friend, to-day,
I dwell with loving thought,
On all the story of thy life,
With joys and griefs inwrought.
I think of all the weary way
Thy pilgrim feet have trod—
Of "years gone down into the past,"
Whose record is with God.
Of all thy tender patient trust,
Of all thy calm, sweet faith,
'Which never asked for better oath,
Than just His own, "He with."
Which walked alike in light or dark,
While Jesus walked beside,
And took the joys God offered here,
Nor craved the joy denied.
So simply walking, with thy hand
Close clasped in His each day,
Most faithfully His covenant
He kept with thee alway.
In joy's bright day, He saved thee from
The tempter's subtle power ;
In sorrow's night, He hid.tbee deep
Within His refuge•tower.
The many thorns thy'feet have pressed,
His own had pressed before,;
Thy sad temptations too He knew,
In many a conflict sore.
And oft, when these were overcome,
And Hope might sing again,
He brought-tbee to some m ountain's height
(Yerlooking all the plain;
Whence, glancing down, thou saw'st with joy
The fearful path escaped,
And glancing up, did'st catch a glimpse
Of Eden's distant gate.
And so, through all the years thou'st come, I
Ifp to this peaceful shore,
Where " only waiting" thou dost stand,
Till Jesus go before.
Thy pilgrim staff, is bent and old,
Thy sandals poor and worn,
Thy garments gray and travel-stained,
Thy red-cross banner torn,
Yet patient wait—thy pilgrim staff
A waving palm shall be;
Thy sandals gold, thy garments white,
Thy banner victory.
The bridgeless river just beyond,
The pilgrim way behind,
To rest ih Beulah's pleasant land,
With glad untroubled mind.
For far across the gloomy wave,
Doth heavenly music ring;
And gleaming Eden-lights reveal
The City of our. Bing.
And, as in evening's stmset-glow,
An angel seems to stand,
And holding wide the pearly gate,
With glory floods the land,
So in thy life's sweet sunset hour,
I seem to see thee wait,
Touched with the glory streaming through
The softly-opened gate:
So rest thee here, dear pilgrim, till
The splendor brighter falls,
And thou shalt, be at home within
The City's golden walls.
SYMPATHY.
"Do come along, Ally; you're such a slow
poke; we'll be too late at sChool if you don't
hurry up."
"I'm hurrying all I can, Jennie; you know I
can't walk as fast as you do, especially on the
ice."
"Oh, nonsense ! Just because you're a little
bit lame, you make that an excuse, for all sorts of
laziness. If you'd try to do better, you could,
I know."
Well, Jennie," said her sister in a piteous
voice, and with the tears starting in her patient
eyes, " if ever one of our legs gets to be shorter
than the other, you'll find out how easy it is to
run on slippery sidewalks."
Jennie made no answer to this speech, except
by an impatient jerk of her head and , a still
quicker step ; and the little lame girl, with a
sigh that came from very deep down in her child
ish breast, did her best to keep up with her older
sister's strong, rapid movements. But the effort
was too much for her , ; her lameness made her
get tired very easily, and this morning the pave
ments were so covered with sleet that the walk
ing was unusually difficult. A sick, faint feeling
suddenly came over her; she turned quite white,
and breathing hard, said : " Jennie, I feel so
queer; I can't walk another step, indeed I can't,
until I sit down and rest. I'm sorry."
"Oh, what a bother I " exclaimed her sister ;
for she saw by her pale face and trembling limbs
that Ally would indeed be obliged to stop. "Now
we shall be sure to be late, and I shall get a tar
dy-mark, all because of you. I do wish I had
a sister like other girls."
This last remark was made in a low voice, but
the lame child heard it as she sank down upon
the steps of the nearest house, and it cut her
little heart cruelly. For a moment she was temp
ted to ask bitterly why she should have been thus
afflicted by God. Bat then there stole back to
her memory the sweet text " These light afflic
tions, which are but for a moment, work out
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory;" and she felt comforted, and said in
her sweet, patient way : " You needn't wait for
me, Jennie ; I can come on by myself when I get
rested a little. Go on now, and if you're late,
tell Miss Adams it was my fault, and I know
she'll excuse you."
Now Jennie knew that it was not her sister's
fault, but her own, that they were rather pre,sed
for time that morning, for Ally had been quite
ready to start to school for half an hour, but had
to wait for Jennie. So her heart was rather touch
ed to hear the little girl take all the blame so
meekly upon herself; and she said more kindly
than she had spoken before, "No, indeed, Ally,
I shall not leave you at all. I'll wait for you,
and perhaps we shall not be late after-all."
The quick tears started again in Ally's blue
eyes, but this time they were grateful tears, and
she said sweetly, " It's very good in you, Jennie;
and indeed I'm just as sorry for your sake as for
my own that I'm so lame. I know I'm a great
trouble to you all the time."
" Oh, well, it can't be helped, I suppose," said
her sister, in something of her old impatient
tone. " Come, don't you think you can go on
now ? Try; lean on me, and I guess you can."
So Ally got up, and aided by her :sister's arm,
she managed to walk on so nicely, that the great
school-bell was still ringing as they hurried in at
the gate, and they were not late after all.
That evening, after Ally had gone to bed, and
Jennie was' studying her spelling-lesson for the
next day, she suddenly looked up and asked,
" Mother, what is the meaning of sympathy ? It
is in my lesson, and I can always remember bet
ter how to spell a word when I kno'w what it
means."
" It means the power of entering into the feel
ings of others, sharing their enjoyinents and
their sufferings, and so helping to make them
happy, or patient under trouble, by showing them
that we understand and care 'about what they
feel. Our joys are always doubled, and our sor
rows, divided, by the knowledge that, kind friends
sympathize with us. Christ commands us to be
sympathetic when He bids us weep with those
who weep, and rejoice with those who de rejoice,'
and we are told, Bear ye ode 'another'S 'bur
dens, and so fulfil the law pf Christ.' Sympa
thy is very sweet and precious," continued. Jen
nie's mother earnestly, "and I wish my daughter
would cultivate it ; for I. think : it Would make her
more patient with her littlelame sister, who is so
patient herself under her affliction."
But Jennie was to learn the sweet grace of
sympathy by a personal lesson. One night, as she
was, preparing for bed, she chanced to run a nee
dle, accidentally dropped upon the_ carpet, into
her little bare foot. It festered and swelled, and
was so painful the next day that she could not
wear her thick boot, and her mother made a soft .
list slipper for the poor, wounded foot. This was
comfortable enough when Jennie was sitting still;
but when she stood up or walked about, the ine
quality in the length of her limbs, caused by a
high heel being worn on one foot and not on the
other, annoyed her more than even the soreness
of her foot. It gave her a pain in her side, it
twisted her back; and on the second day she
broke out petulantly, " I do wish, mother, you
would make a slipper for my, other foot too. This
going hippity-hop is a great deal worse than the
pain in my Toot.'
" Is it? You understand that at last," said her
mother, glancing significantly at Ally, who just
then came limping into the room.
Jennie colored, and sat silent for a w,hilet_hiuk
ing. Presently • she " Yes; wilier-, I inow
the meaning of sympathy now, and you shall see
if I soon forget it. Poor little' Ally "—K. N.
in the Amer. Messenger.
PLAYING TEIPEIiANOE jEETING.
" Let us play temperance meeting. John
Barclay shall be president, and Sam-Thom
son (he can write) shall, be secretary, and
Bill JOckson (he is a topguey chop) shall
make the first speed)]. , Then; if we' have
time, Dick Jones, rind ' i Sharn; and 'Ed
Holmes, and Frank Siminons shall follow."
Tkis programme was extemporized by
Gedrge Stanle3r,'a leader of the boys, and ';a
fine fellow in 41, respects .. Be had never
made use of tobacco in any form, and he did
not know one kind of liquor from another
by the smell or taste; and he ought to have
been the chairman or choirboy of this little
juvenile temperance meeting. There ;was
no time to lose, so, with the quick impulse
of wide awake teetotal Young America,
George mounted the school-house steps and
called the meeting to order. John Barclay
was called to the chair, or rather to the
wood-box, which had been hauled 'from its
dusty corner in the school-room, and made
the following speech. '
K .11. J
BOYS AND Gnus :—I thank you for the
honor of making me bcss-,(Say president,
said. Sam Thomson)—l wonld - saypresident,
of this meeting. I am, you all know, a cold
water boy. I would not drink rum if my
mother offered .it .me. (Cheers.)
danger of her doing that. She won't use it
in her pies and puddings even. (Cheers, in
which the girls joined heartily.) I see that
our smart friend, Bill Jackson, is in the
crowd, and 1 will call, upon him to take the
stoop—(Plutform, said Sam)—l. mean plat
form.
" Jackson I Jackeon I Jackson Jackson 1
Jackson I" shouted the • boys; and a rosy ,
faced, blue-eyed boy, neatly dressed, as
cended the steps.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : - (Laughter
and cheers.) I hope all the scholars of this
school will sign the pledge, and keep it;
then they will never be drunkards, There's
Job Chester, he expects to be a lawyer one
of these days. (Job winked, and said,
" That's so.") Now, if he should be a drink
ing lawyer, .who would employ him ? I
wouldn't trust him to defend a dog of mine,
if he should grow up to be a drinking
man.
" There, among the girls, is Willie Sloan;
he expects, in a few years, to study to be a
doctor. You know his father is a tip-top
doctor. If he should be a tippler,, what sort
of a doctor would he make e -couldn't
do anything well. You wouldn't let bim
give his cures to your old cat. :You would
say to him, Doctor, cure yourself.
" There's lots of boys here. Some of
them are going to be masons,. some carpen
ters, some merchants, some farmers, 4nd
they are going to marry these girls.
(Laughter and cheers.) But the girls won't
have them if they drink. (Here the girls
waved their bonnets and handkerchiefs, and
Bill made a bow and laft, the rostrum—or
rather stoop.)
Dick Jones was then called upon to make
it few remarks.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869.
BY• O,OAGE W liIINGAY:
JOHN SPEEGIE
BILL 4ACKSON'S SPEECH.
DICK JONES'S SPEECH
A very handsome boy, with hair black as
a raven's wing, and large, dark eyes, came
forward modestly, and said :
I don't know what to say. I could make
a speech if I could think of the words. The
other boys have said all that can be said,
and have left nothing for me to say. I can
tell you that I won't drink rum; never,
never, never l (Cheers.) When I was sick
I wouldn't drink it, and the druggist said I
was a stubborn little fool. I wont smoke.
Why should I smoke? I haven't got a
chimney on my face. (Laughter and
cheers.) I won't chew tobacco. Why
should I chew tobacco, when I can get
plenty of bread and beef to chew ? What
would you think if you saw Ella Thomson
smoking (here the speaker pointed to one
of the prettiest girls present, and her cheeks
turned red as roses) a pipe.? • (Laughter.)
What would you think if Susie Marshall
(pointing to another handsome girl) had,a
chew of tobacco, large as a bird's egg, in
her mouth? I guess the, next time you
played Copenhagen you wouldn't run very
far for a kiss from her. (Laughter.) I
have nothing more-to say. .
The president arose, after the storms of
cheers bad subsided; and introduced yel
low-haired, pale-faced, nervous little fvi
ello.
It was Will Sharp.
WILL SHARP'S.. SPEECH
It is almost time for the school-bell to
ring, and I am glad of it. because I do not
know how to make a speech. I am going
to sign the pledge in our Sunday-school, but
my teacher chews tobacco, and I shall ask
him to join the same time that I do.
(Cheers-) He ia, a real good man, and I
know .he will give up, his quid and his cigar
to please the boys in his class. He is a true
temperance man, so far as
,drinking liquor.
M
My sisterattie is a young lady, and she
says it is a pity that such a nice-looking
man as, my teacher should spoil his teeth
and lips by using .tobacco. .Now, boys, let
us` all take the pledge, and keep it just as
long as we live. (Cheers.)
ED HOLINIES'S SPEECH
In response to acall
,of the chairman, _Ed
Holmes, a smart 'but timid, little fellow,,at
tempted to speak. He said
Boys—we—boys—we must—boys, we
must all take the pledge. If' we take the
pledgewhy, shall have it. If we take
the pledge, we shall keep it: (Cheers.)
The boys of our_ school don't mean to say
one thing and do another. (Cheers.) How
would these boys look if their noses were
. red as old Bill 'Myers!, nop3 (Laughter.)
How would they loUkwith'such eyes as Pat
Dugan has ? Father says his eyes look
like holes in a burnt blanket. (Cheers.)
How would.they lookif their faces were
covered with rum-blossoms and brandy
buds ? No, their faces will have red noses
and red *es, and c 4
hee
,
.ainge—bdt hoc lialfso.sweetif they drink
rum. No,• boys.; we, like v. - the robins and
the bobolinks, will drink nothing but water
(Cheeri3.). • •
Here the ringhig of the bell btought the
meeting suddenly to a elose.—Yeuth's Tem
perance Banner. ;
'NERVOUS BABIES.
Commenting on 'a letter from a mother,
who testifies against soothing syrups and
crying babies s Stowe says ,;u .Hearth
9me.•
We are much pleased to hear that a wo
man who has had so •much• experience =does
not believe in the institution of cross ba
bies. We like hercopdemnation of all the
nostrums, teas, and 'stimulants with whicl3
the morning of life is Often deluged.' Her
mode of proceeding, in all its , parts, can be
reCommended for good, average, healthy l
children. -
•
Now, the direction about putting a child
away alone to sleep, without rocking or
soothing, is 'a good one only for robust,
healthy children. For the delicate, nervous'
kind I have spoken of, it is cruel, and it is
dangerous. We know one authentic in
stance of a mother who was trained to be
lieve it her duty to put her-infant to bed in
a lonely chamber and leave it. Not daring
to trust herself in the ordeal, she put on .her
bonnet, and positively forbidding her ser
vants to-go-near the child, went-out-for-s,
walk. When she',.'returned the child was
.still, and had been so for some time. She
went up to examine. The child had strug
'gled violently, thrown itself over on US
face, and a pillow had fallen over it, 'and it
was dead from suffocation.
Nervous children suffer untold agonies
from fear when put to bed alone. No tongue
can tell the horrors of a lonely room,to such
children. A little deli Cate boy, whom his
parents were drilling to Sleep alone, used to
scream violently every night, and his fath
er would come in and whip him. He mis-
took the, pertinacity. for obstinacy, and
thought it his duty to conquer the child's
will. One night he said : " Why do ,you
always scream so, when you know youmill
be punished ?" "O father, father!' said
the littfe fellow; "I don't mind your whip
ping me,,if you'll, only stay with ,me." That
father's ' eyes were opened from that mo
ment. Be saw that a human being cannot
be governed by dead rules, like a plant or
an animal.
No, - mother; before you make up a plan
oroperation for your baby, look at zc, and see
what it is, and use your own` common sense
as to what it needs.
Look at yourself; look at your husband;
look at your own physical habitii—at his,
and ask what is. your child likely to be ?
Children of smoking, fathers have often
their brains and nervous systems entirely
impregnated with the poison of nicotine in
the helpless age of infancy. A couple came
to a country place. entirely for the health of
their only boy, a feeble infant. The, ohild
was pale and sickly, constipated' in bowels,
and threw ap his milk constantly. Tlie Pa
rents had but one room, in which they lived
with him, and which was every evening
blue with tobacco smoke. Every evening
that helpless little creature took into its
lungs as much tobacco as if he had smoked
a cigarette. Still more than this—the moth
er who was nursing that infant did what
was equivalent to smoking one cigar every
evening—she breathed her husband's smoke.
No, if your baby smokes cigars, you will
find, by and by, when he comes to need
brains, that his brain-power will not be
found. He will be fitful, starty, morbid, full
of nervous kinks and cranks, one of those
wretched human beings who live a life like
that described by Hawthornein his story of
" Feathertop"—only capable of •existence
and efficiency while smoking, but sinking
into dimness and stupidity when he stops.
Such are some of the chances of poor ba
bies! God help the poor little things:!
(Prepared weekly for the American Preabyterlan ; )
LESSONS ON PAUL. , --XII.
Acts 13: 51; 52'; 14:1=7.
As. Paul and parnabai were leaving A,utioch
whatdid they do?
Of what was the act symbolical? Performed
by whose command ?
Was there any similar custom among the lews ?
= Who:are meant by " the disciples" ?:
Whit cause had they for joy in this time of
persecution ?•
Are sacred things gloomy or jOyful ?' . •
Is it religion which makes many professing'
Christians gloomy and doleful? • ,
In what direction did the Apostles now 'travel:?'
=What mountain range did they cross'?'; •=•
What'plain wOuld they overlook?`•
What lofty mountains, would be seen in the
distance?
• what province was Iconium? How far , from
Antioch'? '! •
How is it situated ? In this respect what Ahoy
city does it reSemble?, , •
How has the city since become fainous?
What was the mixture of population in Paul's'
time ? -
Where did the Apostles go in this town ?;
That success attended their,
,preaching
What is meant by thely," so, spake " ?
Who were the Greeks, here spoken Of?
Why would they frequent the synagogue ?
What was done by, the unbelie,Vfogjews
What was the result Of the perseantion ?
How was the divine authority of the Apostles
attested
HOwlong did they ,stay,irt Iconium ?•
Probably' bow long in Antioch?
What tradition is there respecting Paul in
Iconiu'inf
11'feaning of'" wordof his.grace"`? . •
What had happenOd during this'i4me ?
What did the tWo•parties, probab - ly'efaim'•Oon-=
cerning Paul,?"
=-• =t ..! • =
;Were ,such divisions of rare 'oceigredee in ,
Oriental cities? ,
Were all who took Paul'sside,Christiarts ?
What } did the persecutors detOrmine to do,?
Who ine meant by " their irtiWs'" ?
Was this a secret. pint ? . •
Whither did Paul and Barriabas 11 e ?t
a
direction ?
To what •extent might • they avoid pennon-
W hat kind of country was Lyneoniar
• What mountains and province on the South?
What hills on' the North? = •
Where were I,ystra and Derbe ?
• Did they preach the•GoSpel anywhere else than
in these places ?
Before or after coming to Lystra?
. Were there o..y..Tcws in•Lystra ?
In' this city Where'did Paul probably.go;to ad
dress the people?
What sort of people were theLYstriens'?
'What opposing power did the Gospel here havd
to encounter?
To, what' differdnt,'kipd's of people had tbelGps
pel now'been preached during this missiOnary
toui? • 1 '
What opposite effects 110 been produced ?
Does the GOSpOI always`prod:nee' some effect
when faithfillly preached ? , ,•
GOOD OLD HYMNS.
BY FANNY
Did' you ever knew any person Who was
I;roUght "Up on the good old Zion hymns,
Whorn - they - ever failed to -move to'the f4un
,
dations when heard ? The feet 'moving on
unhol errands linger on their way past the
church door,'as'this melody floats out Upon'
the night air. That man—who has wasted
life, and - energy, and talent, which might
have blessed mankind, to reap onlyhe
"whiri t
vand. 7 --hels back. again with his little
head upon his mother's lap while Ahe sings
that same hymn, which will never grow old,
about "the beautiful river." His eyes mois
ten as le thinks, how pained •she would le,
: were she living, to ,know him now., 'The
hymn ceases, and the low benediction fol
lows, and as the worshippers emerge he re
collects himself; and with an impatient
pshaw I passes on. What, he moved at a
, ff conventicle hymn!" He, who for years
has never crossed the threshold of a church?
He, who believes neither in prayers nor
priests, Bible nor Sundays? He, who has,
" outgrown all that ?" Ah !- but he hasn't.
He can't outgrow it—lt is there. It will
come, whether he desires it or no. Come, in
spite of all his efforts to laugh or reason it
away. ' Come, though he live in open 'deli-
sign and mockery of that religion whose di
vine precepts he cannot efface from his mind.
Come; as it_did to John Randolph, Who, af
ter years of, atheism, and worldliness, and
ambition, left on record that 'A the only men
he ever knew well and approached closely,
whom be did not discover to be unhappy,
were sincere believeri of the Ges,pel, who
conformed their lives, as far as the nature
of man can permit,torts precepts." "Often,"
he says, " the religious teachings, of his
childhood were banished wholly by business
or pleasure; but after a while they came
more frequently, and staid longer, until at
last they were his first thoughts on wakin g ,
and his last before going to sleep."—Said
" I could not banish them if I would."
" Now and then I like to go into a church,"
said a young man, apologetically, to a com
panion, who was deriding the idea. "Prieot
craft ! priestcraft I " exclaimed his compan
ion. " Tell me, what possible good can it
do ?" " Well," said the the young ma n,
" somehow, when I hear those hymns it is
like hearing the pleading voice of my moth
er as I left home to become the graceless
fellow I am now. Icannot tell you how they
move me, or how they make me wish I were
better. If I ever do become better, it will
be because I cannot separate them from all
that seems, in my better moments, worth
embody,itig in the word " home." Walter
SCott said to his Iron-in-law, when be was on
his death-bed, ."be a good man, Lockhart—
be a good man, nothing else will give you
,any comfort whop
. you come to lie here." It
were easy to multiply instances, where
earth's gifted and greatest have borne simi
lar. 'testimony, sifter
. haying tasted all that
:the -world had to offer, as an equivalent for
" that peace which pas Seth all understand-
in:the,!so,riptares . is one with
exfierience. There is noreal perception
;without .possepsion.
grimtiar.
'AOCIL(ENTAL PRoI'EGTION ' ISOM LIGHT-
r r
'~_ N11~G:
Soetonius tells us, that Augustus wore the skin
Of sea-calf, to• protect hiniaelf 'from lightning,
which the 'Oman , appear Ito have feared,'-as .we
have already seen, quite as Much as they did con
spirators. Itmay be that-the legendof Romulus
was the cause of this; perh4s they fenred that
Jt4riter ' , Would"rev,enge the Roinan • liberty dis
honored since the time of 'Brutus. The wily
founder, of theiempire might have chosen a worse
obj'e'ct ,to .protect; his royal p.e,rsOn,from a sly flash
of lightning, for the • tunic thus made of a thick
oily material is not easily by electricity.
lei must evidently-be considered' as a screen as
efficacious as the silk' dreaslor an:elegant lady, or
the stole of a priest. Now Ave,• t han many ex
amples of young Jadies 169112 has protected
in a )rtiraculrius manner. . maternal grand
father :relaies; in ' : his 'that he was
struck bydightning that, fell'Atpon'a silk umbrella
which. he held open. Ile saw himself enveloped
in a vortex of flame, and "believed himself saved
by Divi6e protection. • : dreaming
s ever that the
, silk covering , of umbrella might, have had
something, to :do with
,t e miracle,"this circum
stance caused him to become an ecoleSiastie.
, :Geld ornaMents; and all kind of metallic objects
which enter into the costume of a traveller, pro
duCe a contrary effeet, fittraCt r lightning some
times, with marvellous facility: ,Tire May perhaps
be allowed to quote a 'fei,instruchive cases.
About a hundred years ago, De Saussure and
his Companions were overtaken by'a storm on the
summit, of the Breven. The. atmosphere was so
Strongly charged with electricity, that each of the
tourists felt a
,pectiliar,
in
sensation, when
'he' raised 'his hands in the air. This sensation
was owing ; to the passage. of. a- jet of electricity,
Aich,.e.manating „from 'the rocks at their feet,
diSsipated.itself' through their bodies into the
'air obove, as happened to ,the naturalist., Siemens,
on the tOp'of the Dyra:niid of Giseh. One of the
travellers, who had-a gold - braiding to his hat,
was not obliged AO, make, any moiement in order
to ' invite •ta diseharge.. ge hear& ra constant
arid frightful buzzing noise around his head.
Whenever one of the others approached his hand
to a gold button on'the t hat, Of this 'gentleman, a
vivid spark was dralviiTioin it.
Arago relates, on the 'faith' of 'a German au
thor, a still more eharacteriStic anecdote concern
ing a young damsel who lost a gold pin which
served to fasten her hair;' the lightning had
. riciehed this ornament, without injuring the wear
":7;hander andlLightning," in Scrib
-ner cE Co.'s Illustrated Libiar y .of Wonders.
Ip!,,AUNOGII4PHy.
'..41.rag0• relates ii his - -Notkee iur le Tonnerre the
story•of a• man who was near a tree which was
struck bYlightning. Although mueh frightened,
no actual harm happened to 'him; blitiht - he
evening, When , going. to bed, he. saW Withlerror
that he had been•triarked with •-the seal' ok' the
thunderbolt. 'Tho 'incomprehenible — fltiid- had
impressed upon his•iskin taw:4o6o'a the - tree
with all its-braiiehis. .` • •
:Reason, you Will say, revolts against snail- tales,
whiek, should only; figure alongside of "Tom
Thumbi,P , ."Peau d' , 4 ne . , 7 -') or ."I.;eatity'•and 'the
Bease.??- ,
.Do) not 'make' Stich a
noisy 'profession of ifilociedulity.. In Tact, we can
-realize. in the ;laboratory 'certain phenomena
which. ire closely analogous td theiestrange pro
ductions 'of. Keratincgraphy, Without having re
course-to any magical' incantatibri. 'Fire can di
rectrUp to a certain' lintit,--th'e emanations of
voltaic' electricity. Is 'any One diSpoied to believe
thavnature 2 can.be , less•pOwerf t ill
In 1796 a thinderbcli fellOn the church of
Lagny, - .and stria the altar;-ittritetbd- no doubt
by7the•ornaments 'of .gold 'and isilve'which -the
faithfub , bad, 'ammoniated ther,e: On exploring
the of 'the disaate ,"r -it Was ' rioilced that a
phenomenon quite:as astonishing as those of the
witches' Sabbath had 'occurred: The text of the
lessons for the derhitd beet!• transported' upon
the -cloth of thi , altat with reversed ch4ricteri,
exactly as the thing is recommenciedto' he' dbue
in treatises on, black- magic. - How did this Mai
vel occur? 'The verses Whichi the priest 'to
hive' read were printed In-red , c'haracteis, sob&
what of a conducting nature, and
.upon'a: card
board =which the explosion bad 'overturned- upon
the 'cloth. The ink had quitted the cardboard
to stain the linen, by the influence.of the 'electric
current and not byaurinfernal agency. It is
thus that, in our- yduth;•yrd 'were taught-how to
obtain the image 'of Franklin'V 'a
Franklin on' colorless
=silk ribbon by means-df piec bf gold leaf
Front "Thunder , and:',Liyhtizin:q," in Scribner &
Co.'s _lllustrated Library of Wonders.