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I"UHLt*IIKI> IN I KNTHK COUNTY.
Krnm the Now York Observer.
INTERNATIONAL LESSONS.
Third (Quarter.
VI HIV. IIHXHT M. UHul'T, v. P.
AUGUST 2H.
JjfSSOH 9.
THE COMMANDMENTS.
K*. A>: I—FT.
lloLPm Tkxt uM unto him. Thou ■halt
lovo tho Lord thr(l<l with all thy h.ert no.I will, oil
thy aoul Hop with el I thy mind. ThU I* tbo first ami
groat couiuiarolmout." —Matt. 23: 37, 3a.
Central Truth: —To love God with all
tho heart is man's first duty and high
est privilege.
From tho Wilderness of Sin, Israel
journeyed to Kephidim, whero three
noteworthy things transpired.
Finding no water, they were angry
with Moses and ready to stone him,
whereupon God directed hint to smite
the rock of the mountain, anil out of it
gushed a stream of living water. It
was here that the Amalekites, a wild
tribe, descendants ot Esau, fell upon
them and were discomfited. It was an
unprovoked assault, and God taught his
people the true source of victory. As
long as the hands and rod of Moses
were uplifted in prayer, Israel prevail
ed : and Aaron and Hur stayed up his
hands until the victory was complete.
It was also here that Jethro made his
visit, bringing with him the wife and
children of Moses.
From Itephidim, Israel came to Sinai.
Sinai or Horeb, as a general name, is
applied to the centre group of the
great mountain system to which it be
longs. This is not the place to discuss
the question as to which particular peak
was the scene of the giving of the law ;
though it is commonly believed to have
been the Jebel Musa. This rises so
abruptly from the plain that you might
stand under the sharp precipice and
touch its base. The plain, where the
|>eople were gathered, was about a mile
and a half in length and shut in on
every side by steep clitFs. The whole is
like a great mountain temple.
Why God brought his people to this
place we do not know. It was not the
nearest or easiest way. Hut it was
well suited to the solemn and import
ant scenes to be hero enacted; the
most solemn and important, save the
advent of the Son of (iod, in the his
tory of the divine dealings with men.
God had two purposes now to accom
plish. First, he would enter into cove
nant with his people. Of this we have
the account in the nineteenth chapter.
Israel was now no longer a family or
tribe. They had begun to be a great
nation. God would make them his
"peculiar treasure." And all the peo
ple said, "All that the Lord hath
spoken, we will do." Hut a people that
is to he the Lord's must know his will.
That will he is now to make known.
And he does it amid signs which indi
cate that he is great and terrible in his
holiness; a jealous as well as long suf
fering God. Everything is ordered so as
to deepen this impression. Two days
are given to cleansing. Bounds are set
so that neither man nor beast can come
near the mountain. Then, amid thun
derings and lightnings, the quaking of
the mountain and the terror of the
people, the Lord descends, tn two
tables of stone he writes, and gives to
Moses, his holy and eternal law.
In just what the lnw was written and
communicated, we are not told. In
Acts (7: 53) it is said that it was "re
ceived by the disposition of angels
and in Galatians (3:19) that it was "or
dained by angels." But is not certain
that in either of these New Testament
passage* there is particular reference to
the events at Sinai. But, whatever the
agency and manner, the tables and
writings were of God.
Which commandments were written
on the first tabU, and which on the
second, we are 4w>t told. Commonly
four are reckoned to the first, and six
to the second. How the ancient Jews
divided them is not certain. But all
are agreed that the first table included
those duties which we owe directly to
God, and the second, those which we
render to bim through duties to our
fellow-men. Some have thought the
fifth properly belongs to the first divi
sion. It is certainly A "link between
the twoour duty to our parents
being higher than that toward fellow
men.
The " preface " to the commandments
declares the ground on which the Israel
ites were required to keep them. The
J,ord was their God, and had redeemed
them from bondage. The command
ments of such a being, from whom they
bad received such benefit, could not tie
otherwise than just and good. It was
an appeal both to their sense of right
and to their gratitude.
it should be observed that the first
commandment is fundamental and com
prehensive. It includes the spirit of
the entire first table. It is impossible
to keep it, and not to keep the other
three. Indeed, to keep it in spirit one
must keep the ten ; for every duty to
fellow-men grows out of our and their
relation to God.
To be more specific s the Jirtt forbids
our giving to any creature or object the
place, homage, or service which is dun
to the one God ; it requires that we
should worship, trust, love and obey
him, and him only. The most common
form of disobedience to it is the wor
ship and service of self: the enthrone
ment of our own pleasure and will. Of
all idolatry this is the root and the sum.
It is at this point that we are to make
our most constant fight with that which
is displeasing to God.
The frond requires that He should be
worshipped as a Spirit, and in spirit. It
specifically forbids the use of images or
outward representations. But the pro
hibition includes any and every prac
tice tending to material or sensual no
tions of him, or to impair our sense of
his purity and spirituality. "It con
deras," says Calvin, "all ficticious wor
ship which men have invented accord
king to their own minds." The reason
Attached to the seoond commandment
applies to it in its connection with the
first. God is a "jealous God" in that he
cannot, anil will not. tolerate any rival.
The saying, that ho "visits tho iniquity
of the fathers upon tho children," is u
simplo statement of what doilv passes
before us. The effects of godlessness
are far reaching; they go down to dis
tant generations. It should, however,
be particularly noticed that it is "upon
them that hate" God that the judg
ments descend. The repenting child
of the godless parent finds evils turned
to good.
The third forbids tho profaning of the
name of God, or of anything by which
he expresses himself or makes himself
known ; and so "all practices that tend
to impair the awful supreme respect in
which those divine terms should ho
held." The baseness of this sin and its
tendency to low thoughts of God's char
acter and authority, are indicted in the
solemn threatening attached to it.
The fourth requires that one-seventh
portion of time io reserved, from secu
lar toils and pleasures, for purposes of
rest and worship. It implies that the
Sabbath was an ordinance already
known ; and so it cannot he said to be
merely a part of a Jewish code. In fact,
it was ordained in Eden, while man
was yet sinless. It is as universal and
perpetual in its obligation as any of the
others. It is at once God's riuht, and
man's need. The case cannot advance
without it. Without it God would be
forgotten, religion would die out, re
demption would be a failure. As origi
nally ordained, it commemorated the
completion of God's work as Creator;
as changed to the first day of the week,
it commemorates the completion of his
greater work as Redeemer. It is not to
be kept in any careless way, hut to be
faithfully remembered.
PRACTICAL 81 OUfSTIOSS.
1. The knowledge and service of God
are man's first privilege and duty.
'l. He has done far more for us than
he ever did for Israel. He brought
them out of Egypt; but he has re
deemed us, at greater cost, from a more
bitter bondage. Much more, then, are
we bound to worship, love, trust, and
obey him.
3. The commandments are all j>er
annul. Each begins, "Thou." However
others may forget them, y"' and / are
to remember and keep them.
A Peculiar Pair of Eye*.
ONE A PERIEI T TELESCOPE AND THE OTH
ER MUCH LIKE A MISCROSCOI'E.
From tb WlmH H-rl 1.
<>ne day last winter a gentleman liv
ing near I.itcbtield, < 'onn., took with him
to a sleigh ride his daughter, who is
just past sixteen years of age. It was a
very bright sunny day, but cold. The
glistening snow which had fallen the
night before was bright and almost daz
zling. The man. to perfect his eyes,
wore a pair of glasses shaded blue, but
the young girl had nothing to protect
her eyes from the intense glare. Noth
ing was thought of it at the time, but
upon arriving home the girl complain
ed of her eye* paining her. Her moth
er bathed them with cream, thinking
that in the m irning they would be all
right, but when the morning came they
were much worse, and continuing to
grow still more so they called in a physi
cian, but all to no purpose, as he could
do nothing to relieve her from the pain
which her eyes gave her. To make the
story short the girl was obliged to t>e
kept in a room where no ray of light
could enter (or six long weary months.
From time to time other pljAkian*
were employed, but none
her relief. They finally -V'' _
conclusion that she woui'* *
become blind. In
cd a close prisoner in M\* room,
as a single ray of light, either from the
sun or from a lamp, pained her eyes,
which were relieved when the room was
darkened.
One day last week, while she was sit
ting there all alone, she felt a new sen
sation about her eyes which she had
not experienced before—as she describ
cd it: '"lt seetned as if inv eyes were
running out, or part of them. Putting
my hand up to my eyes i could feel
something coining out over my lower
eyelids, which I took hold of and pull
ed out. It gave me some pain to do so.
hut almost immediately my eyes felt
better—instead of a smarting sensation
when I winked they fell cool and natur
at and it was a pleasure to wink them.
Then came lbs thought. Why, my eyes
are better, and 1 believed I could bear
the light, which thought so impressed
upon my mind that I was determined
to try. Hesitatingly I opened the door,
when to my great joy I found I was
able to bear the light a* well as I ever
could. The feeling that came over me
at the moment that 1 found out that
I could once more leave the dark, dis
mal room, and see the glorious sunlight
again was so overpowering that I gave
one scream for joy and then fainted
away."
Now come* the strangest part of the
story. Her eyes, which six mouths ago
were straight and natural, are now what
we call cross-eyed, but the girl pay* no
attention to that. She sees things just
the same as she always did, hut let her
close her right eye and look out of only
her left eye and she can see a distance
of eight or fen miles and distinguish
things a* well as an ordinary person can
only sixty rods away. She is able to
look clear to the lake, a distance of
three and a half mile*, and identify any
one, describing their dress, even seeing
a fish pole in their hands, and can fell
when they catch a fish. The distant
hills are brought close to her, and she
can see the farmers getting in their
hay, even counting the number of
heaps, which in an air line are seven
miles from her. To test her we pro
cured the largest field glass we could
get, and her sight would far outreach
any object we could see. If she CIOMM
her left eye and looks out of the right,
then she cannot see anything except
close to, hut that eye is a perfect micro
scope. Mhe is able to distinguish things
that the natural eye cannot see. The
point of a needle looks as blunt as a
crowbar, and it ia wonderful to hear her
describe tbe beautiful colon of flies and
other insects. To her (he hainon your
head look aa large as darning needles,
and in the finest piece of linen she can
count the threads aa easily a* any one
can count bean poles. The moment
she opens both eyes they assume the
cross-eyed expression or shape, und
then she sees again as any other person.
It is the intention of her father to take
her to New York at no distant day to
let some of the celebrated physicians
there see this wonderful phenomenon.
—■ ■ ♦
Tho Well.
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For tl <K*IIOO| l*y, hut with |ly,
Fhr tin* UlMiri*r. with toll,
For th tmv-li*r on hi* way,
Ihiih tht* tin-lowa rvpo uncoil.
Ami how ofti*ii, who ran t#ll ?
Or, who flmt tlin gra< l.'ii# <lmugl.t
Ilrrw |||l If. lll tin* liountroua Hi ll
Or, who sunk, tht ancient shaft f
Th#y arw <luat, who tlnktwl tlioir thirst
At tin* littlw ailvar font
J II till* Willi WIASII, where it flrat
Cullw.l tlo* liuiitAiiiaii to 'liamoiint;
Th"? arr tu*t. tin* pi<Hirem,
U ho the Ntrwiitf Munr<l l-.ir-t tr<>k *,
W lirrw the ohl Will now Hp|M-<irA,
\\ hrr* now < urli lll'' HlUge Atnok* l .
Ho •I• a 11 e within th< rala
With our • hil.lr. ii # rhlhlrrn dwell,
lint tlo* watar'a na'rr ahull fall
lu tin* ohl ttnm hom>rt*4 well.
A FOItGOTTKN Tit ANSI, A TOIt OF THE
111 III.E.
lh'imuti J. l/ **ii)g, lu Chriitlan L'nloti.
At near the middle of the eigh
teenth century, an emigrant from the
County of Derry, Ireland, a widower
with four children, sailed for America.
Dreadful sea-sickness prostrated him,
and he died when in sight of the
Cupcs of the Delaware. The little
projierty he had brought with him the
captain of tho vessel appropriated to
his own use, and the lour destitute or
phan*, two bovs and two girl*, were
landed at New <"a-tle, Delaware.
I file of these children was a bright,
blue-eyed boy, eleven years of age.
The captain placed him in the family
of u blacksmith. One night lie heard
the artisan tell his wife that the child
was to lie bound to him the next day
as an apprentice. The boy resolved
not to lie chained to a forge. He was
studious and thoughtful, and had
dreamed of life other than thnt of
mere physical drudgery for which bis
delicate frame wa* inadeipiale. So,
packing bis scanty clothing in a little
bundle, he departed before the dawn
on a journey be knew not whither.
While trudging along a dusty road,
hungry and weary, he was overtaken
by a wealthy woman in her carriage
and invited to ride. She was charmed
by the boy's bright conversation, and
a-ked him what he would like to be
when he become a man. He prompt
ly replied : "I'd like to be a scholar,
and make a living by writing."
I'leased with this answer, the good
wornau took the hoy home with her
nod sent him to school. Meanwhile
his brother, older than he, had found
business and prospered, and he fur
nished the aspiring lad with means fi.r
acquiring a classical education under
the instruction of the eminent Dr. Al
lison, who was the schoolmaster of so
many distinguished Revolutionary pa
triots. The boy grew to bo a tall,
slender and well-educated young man.
He became a teacher in the Friends'
academy at New Castle, and learned
to love and revere thnt society because
of the abounding virtues of its mem
|UL lie finally went to I'hiladcl
■PHi. rc he had the good fortune to
win the esteem and abiding friendship
of Dr. Franklin. There he establish
ed a Friends' academy, and was distin
f pushed a* a willing and industrious
iclper in every good work. His
truthfulness was so conspicuous that
it was proverbial. Among the Indian
triln-s of Pennsylvania, whom he fre
quently a--iste<l in their helplessness,
he wa* known a*, "The man who tells
the truth." On all occasions he was
their trusted anchor of h<j>e for justice
from the white men.
In the autumn of 175fi, a council
was held at Ronton, on the Delaware
river, in which representatives of the
Indian trilxsi —the Delaware#, Shaw
nees and the Six Nations—appeared.
They were met by Denny, the Gover
nor of Pennsylvania, with his council
and secretary, nnd a large numlrer of
persons from Philadelphia, most of
whom were Friends or (jankers.
Among the latter was our young emi
grant from Derry. Teedyuscung, a
great Delaware chief, was the princi
pal speaker among the barbarians,
lie was elmting under the thrall of
tho more powerful Six Nations, and
was irritated by n trick of the Pro
prietory of Pennsylvania, by which
Ids people had been wrongfully de
prived of niueh vtlnnhle territory,
lie was, nevertheless, anxious to have
the Delaware# remain nt pence. The
Friends sympathized with him, and
were at the council to give him ns
*itance in mnintninghis rights. They
requested our young emigrant, who
was an export shorthand writer, to
keep an unofficial record of the pro
ceedings. Rev. Richard Peters was
the secretary of the Proprietory. His
minutes were continually disputed by
Teedyuscung and his associates, while
those of this scribe of the Friends
were always truthful in the estimation
of the barbarians. They felt a most
profound resnect for him, and the
Delaware# adopted him a# a son of
the nation, with the significant name
above mentioned.
The young man's thirst for exact
knowledge wa# intense and unceasing.
One day ho found at a street book
stall a portion of the Kcptuagint, the
first and purest translation of the
Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek lan
guage, made nearly three hundred
years before the birth of Christ. He
earnestly sought for the remainder of
the nrecious book and soon found it.
Wishing to thoroughly master its coo
t<nts, ho renewed liin study of the
Greek language with grcut zeal, ami
became ono of the most profound
Greek scholars in Amorica. lie made
a careful comparison of the Heptua
gint with the no-called "King .lumen"
vvraion (not a translation) of the Old
'1 cstnment. Ile found HO many error.*,
evident interpolation* and obscure
passages in this "authori/.e<l" version
of the Hebrew Scriptures, that he re
solved to translate the Kcptuagint (in
Greek) into English. This labor of
love he began when he was aim out
forty years of age.
Being an ardent patriot, lie had en
tered warmly into the hot political
discussions during the ten yearn' <juar
rol between the British government
and the American colonies which pre
ceded the old War for Independence.
During that eventful decade in our
history, he labored almost incessantly
with brain ami hand in the cause of
human liberty. His candor and suav
ity of manner won the confidence and
respect of everybody, and his influ
ence was so great that .John Adams
spoke of him as the "Sam Adam* of
Philadelphia." And when, for a time,
while Virginia and Mas-achusetts were
all aglow with a spirit of resistence to
British oppression, Pennsylvania, like
New York, ap|H-ared lukewarm in the
cause, and it was understood that
without Philadelphia the province
could not be persuaded to fall into the
ranks of the determined opposers of
the British ministry, he, and a few
others, set to work to revolutionize
public opinion in that city, and Penn
sylvania soon took a conspicuous place
in the march toward political emanci
pation.
At the beginning of S-ptember,
1771, the first < oiitincntal ("ongre-*
assembled at Philadelphia. On the
day before the event, the man who-c
career I am tracing in fuintest outline,
was married to a wealthy (junker
maiden, who lived on her estate a few
miles from Philadelphia. IB- was
then a bachelor, about forty-five years
of age. They were wedded in the
city after the manner prescribed by
the S ciety of Friends, and retired to
the homo of the bride. The next
morning they returned to the city, and
while alighting from their modest
chaise, a im--age from Peyton Ran
dolph. prc-idciit of the ('ongre-- just
assembled, was handed to the bride
groom, inviting him to come to Car
penter's hall, the place of meeting.
"For what purpo-c am I wanted at
Carpenter's hall 7" asked the bride
groom.
"I cannot tell," answered the mes
senger ; "lie de-ires you to come im
mediately."
Handing the reins of his horse to a
servant, and taking his bride into bis
house, IK- repaired to C-ar|>-nter' ball,
where he found the Congress assem
bled and waiting for his appearance.
"Mr. Thomson," said the Prc-i
--dent, "we have sent for you to keep
the minutes of the proceedings of
this Congress."
He consented to do so, and imme
diately seating himself nt a table, with
pen, ink and pajK-r In-fore him, he en
tered u(ton the duties of Secretary to
the Continental Congress ns a tempo
rary labor. In that official position,
Charles Thomson, the young emigrant
from D'-rry, now almost forgotten a
the American translator of the Bible,
remained fifteen years, (refusing pay
for bis services,) until that body ex
pired in 17Ml#, when the nation wa*
Inirn. Si remarkable for accuracy
were bis official records, that when
ap[M-aled fo to settle doubtful questions
and flying rumors, it would lie said,
"Here come* Truth —here cornea Clin.*.
Thomson."
With It i-urc for literary pursuits
after the war, Mr. Thomson prosecuted
with great 7-cal, industry and fidelity,
' his self-imposed tnk of translating
I the Septuagint and the New Testa
' meul into Knglish from the Greek.
Me reganlefl the Septuagint a a more
trustworthy translation of the Old
Testament from the original Hebrew
than any sultsefpient one, for it was
the carlies effort of the kind, made
long before the Christian era, ami free
! from the inevitable errors of traus
scriplion and the interpolations of
theologians to which later translations
have been subjected. He nynrded it
o ncee-rarily more trustworthy than
Jerome's revision f the IVfus Ilnln
| in the fourth century, known as the
"Vulgate Version," notwithstanding
the Council of Trent pronounced it
nutheutic; commanded it to be used
on all occasions in the Unman Catho
lic church whenever the Hible was
publicly read, and the assertions of
the Roman Catholic doctors that the
Vulgate Version was dictate*! by the
Holy Spirit.
Mr. Thomson's labors upon his
translation were chiefly performed at
his quaint country house, built of
stone and yet standing, half a mile
from Bryn Mawr, on the Pennsylva
nia railroad. His study was in n
small room isolated from the rest of
the house. In that room he also wrote
his "Synopsis of the four Evangelists," i
and his critical Annotations on the
works of Gilbert Wakefield and
therin he gathered a vast amount of
the most valuable materials for a his
tory of the Revolution, hut which his
lively conscience and nice sense of
honor would not allow him to use, nor
leave behind. It was all destroyed.
Mr. Thomson carefully translated j
his translation at least three (and
probably four) time* before it was
given to the printer. It was com
pleted early in the present century,
and was published in 180H,"in four
octavo volume*, by .Jane Aitkin, wid
ow of Robert Aitkin, who, in 17H2,
published the first Kngli-h edition of
the Bible issued in tint United (States.
I homson's translation of the Septua
gint was the first ever made into the
English language. I believe.
In thin paper I have given a brief
account of the character of the Ameri
can translator of the Bible, but not of
bis work. Much might be said in his
favor in comparison with the New
Revision, but tiiis article is already too
long.
THE AMEHHAN FLAG.
I he first European banner unfurled
upon the shores of the new world, of
which we have any authentic account,
arc those of Columbus, who landed on
the small island of St. Salvador, ()e
--tober 12, 14!'2. Doubtless bis ideas
of a new world to the westward came
from leelund, which he visited in the
spring of I 177.
His sou writes that Columbus, dress
ed in scarlet, stepped ashore and press
ed the royal standard of Spain, em-
Idu/.oucd with the arms of Castile ami
IA-011. A white flag, with a green
cross, was its companion.
In 1 l!f!l the eastern coast of South
America was explored, and eight years
later the great discovery was announc
ed to the world by a Florentine,
Auicricus, who gave name to the west
ern continent. About this time the
('alsols planted on the shore of North
Aiuericu the banners of England and
of St. Mark of Venice. The early
voyagers found that the Indians of
North America carried for a standard
a pole, well-covered with the wing
feathers of eagles.
The red cross of St. (ieorgc floated
from the mast of the Mayflower, 1(520,
when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth
rock. For a century and a half, dur
ing the colonial and provincial js-ri
ods, the use of the English flag con
tinued in N'irtif America, with the
addition of many device* and mottoes.
Some flags were all red, white, blue
or yellow. Others were red, with
white horizontal strpe-, or red and
blue stripes. UjMin these were the
pineor "Liberty Tree," and the words :
"An apjs nl to Heaven;" also stars,
the crescent, anchor, Ix-aver and ser
pent. I uder the latter, "Don't Tread
on me." A flag at the battle of While
Plain# bore the w .rds "Liberty or
D< atli."
t hi .January 2, 177•. at Cambridge,
Mass., wa fir-t h<>i-U-d the "Grand
I nion" flag of the crosses of St.
George and St. Andrew, and the thir
teen alternate r<-d and white stri|>es,
emhlcmatical of the union of the thir
teen colonies against the oppressive
uet of British tyranny.
'l'liis was the flag in use when the
Declaration of Independence wa* read
by the committee of safety at Phila
delphia, in the presence of Washing
ton in New York, and from the bal
cony of the State house iti Boston.
' in the 14th of August, 1777, Con
gress resolved "that the flag of the
United State- lie thirteen strijs-s, al
ternatelv red and white, and that the
Union lie thirteen stars, white in a
blue field, representing a new constel
lation."
Once these stripes were increased to
fifteen, but in I*l* they were changed
permanently to thirteen, perpetuating
the original thirteen State* of the
I nion, and it * decreed that for
every new Mate coming into the Union
a star should lie added. The stars
have five |M>inl* ; those on our coins
six. They were first arranged in a cir
cle, afterward in the form of a large
star, ami now in parallel lines.
Tut: inhabitants of Akyah, in Rur
mah, are sclf-sacrificiug, having in
formed the government that, so sad
art' the effects of opium-eating there,
they will willingly ninkc up any loss
of revenue which may ensue upon the
abolition of the trade in the drug.
The Mechanic.
Tntid*r, nv>*lng otth rlnnd) fraud.
Tiling with |intt*nra for dnlly brand.
nnd <h**k* h*nHh-flii*h*d,
W till, Ih* til* In *l**p I* hti.l.M,
OS. lU Mrong m— hunk 1
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ll* li th md.tamno nmong
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Tb* nobl* bnnd of mmbnntr*.
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A Colorado Sunset.
SCENE* WHICH MMOKREfJ IN THE MEMORV
Or A TOt/EIST.
from lli Omaha 11-ral>l.
Standing upon the margin of a love
ly lake in the bosom of the nestling
mountain* above the heuutiful village
of Georgetown, in Colorado, one can
see it sunset more brilliant and beauti
fnl than wan ever looked upon in the
Kant, and which in only equaled hy
the virgin reach of reddening liglit
which mellows into twilight shadows
on the plain*. I saw it on a summer
evening when all nature wa- hushed
stillness. The fireflies shot through
the growing dusk like sparkling lour
ici :n Egyptian night. Overhanging
forest and swart and blackened crag
were reflected in the green waters of
the lake. The sun hovered, as in a
fascinated s|ell, above the mountain
tops, while rays of golden light Hushed
with crimson peak ami turret on na
ture s battlements. 11seemed to glow
and expand like an opening rose, un
til it became full-blown, and east its
arrowv penciling* for miles across the
skv like a mighty flame. Then, a* if
a*llamed of its boldness, it drew a veil
of grayish mist alxmt its face, and
blushed beneath it. The mist changed
into a cloud shaped like a crescent,
with ragged fringes flecked with gold,
and in its wonderful a*|M-ct recalled
the legends of Mahomet's banner, red
and lurid beneath Asian skies. Even
as 1 looked it changed. The darken
' ing scarlet was transformed to ruby
brilliancy. l>mg lines of pallor w hiten
j ed on the parti-colored surface, side hv
side with golden lances which seemed
to flash from the glowing orb like dis
solving rays. The enamored skv for
one feverish instant caught and mir
rored all the colors of the rainbow.
Then again it darkened—flushed, and
paled—and drawing the hovering dra
peries of the night about it sank out
of sight. The stars came out. The
night hawk poised on swooping pinion,
shrieked above the fore-t solitude.
The leafy murmurs of the moaning
[lines took up the refrain, and awoke
the spell-bound senses into life and ac
tion. The charm was gone, hut its
beauty ling-red on the fancy like a
beautiful memory.
Well Desert ed Praise.
Sr-m th. CuMe L*-l P r.
What an alert type of men the con
ductors on the steam railroads are!
Probably the engineers are also, but
there's no good chance to get a look at
them while they have their hands ou
the I •'ver- and their eyes are js-eriug
along the line of tra< k a far a- keen
vision can reach. Hut the conductor
i- all alike under his <juie! and irnpa—
-ive exterior. vTbore i- little in hie
ear he docs not ace, even while his
whole attention appears to he concen
trated by the ticket he hold# in one
hand to IK- cut bv the punch in the
i other. And there is nothing he does
not hear and understand down to the
most needless question. Amid the
clangor of the swift moving train, the
slightest unusual noise or jar about
the running gear tells its story in
stantly to his acutely educated ear and
quickened senses. And if anything
is wrong, or suspected to be wrong,
how promptly, yet how quietly, with
what freedom from fuss, or anvthing
approaching to flurry or panic, he
moves towards the right place. He is
the very embodiment of self-poised
i/uf tire. What soldiers these men
would make! And what a race of
men they should be the progenitors of,
if their qualities would go to their de
scendants according to the laws of
heredity.
A Worm which Travel* Ahont at Pleas
ure 1 nder a Child's Skin.
Mi Srtliur <Ot*i• Sjw*> I*] T n<
A few days since, I>r. I). V. Ran
j nels and C. O. Iluulap of this place,
were called upon to attend a son of
Mr. Wing, residing in Vinton town
i ship. The child is now '2l mouths old,
and is afflicted in a very extraordinary
manner—in fact, iu a manner unheard
of in this country heretofore. About
| six months ago, a blotch or discolora
tion of the skin appeared on thr child,
: and the blotch has since moved from
I the calf of the leg t* the nap of the
neck and downward again to its pres
i cnt location, just below the hip. The
: physicians were not long in determin
, ing the cause of the blotch, and pro
nounced it a worm something similar
to the Guinea worm, which frequently
afflicts inhabitants of that hot coun
try. It lie* curled, crossed and curved
in different directions in the tissues of
the skin, and takes up a space of three
or four inches iu diameter.
The length of the worm is many
feet and about the thickness of the
smallest string of a violin. It has
been known to move a distance of six
inches in a single night. The color is
that of apple jelly and it is transpar
ent. or ratnor semi-transparent. The
child is somewhat nervous and restless
hut otherwise shows uo signs of being
afflicted by such a monster. In treat
ing the paitent the physicians made an
incision end raised a curved section of
the worm sufficient to slip under it a
piece of tape. It is said that the fre
quent nouring of warm water on the
|>art thus exposed will induce the
Guinea worm to leave iu human tene
ment, although it will generally va
cate the premises without surgical aid.
A itom.K part of cverv true life is
to learn how to undo what baa been
I
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