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GREEXSBOROUGH, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 183<;. NO. 11.
TIIE DOV8 LAST BEQl'EST.
n ma. noocuntv,
ll:ilt'r;ii o:| upoii his dying rouch, hi- head
Droop'd o'er hi* mother's bamu—like a liu.l
Which, broken from ii • parent i-tdk. adheres
Ity some attenuate Abre. His Ihin hand
I'mm 'math the downy pillow dren alm-ik
And slowly press'd il i" hia bloodless lip.
'• Mothor.dear mother see your birth-day uitl:
Fresh and unaoUod. Yet have I kepi yourwordi
Ami ere I alopl oach night and every morn,
Dlil read its pages with my humble prayer,
I'ntil this sickness caiuo.
Mi- paused—S>r breath
Came sea.nt'ly, ami with toilsome strife.
*• Brother, t.r sisti r have I none, orjalse
I'd la) tin- Bibloon their heart, aisl aay,
(Vim- read ii "ii my grive, among tlio flowers:
Bo if u who gate inust takett back nguin,
Ami lovcit lor in \ mike." "My son! My -on!"
\\ hi more 1 ih" mother in Ih it ' < slur ti.in.-
Which woman in her sternest agony
t'omman Is, tosoumntlicpaagoftiioseslM loves—
*•'/''/' null—tkt soirf.'—to whojc charge yield
vou lint!"
'• '/•» llml who aim- if-'" Bo thai trustingsoul
With ;i alight shudder, and a lingi ring - uilc,
1.oil t.'io pile el ly for ita Creator's arms.
■rin-: i:vi:-i..\sin:s.
Tin' beauty "ml cxpri --ion of the rye i-not
iltngcthj r daarndi nt ti|>nn it- colour
and brilliancy^ It may sparkle wilh Intel-ligenco
and wit,or mildly beam with bene-volence,
innoe.em -.or pity: and yet if it
In- overhung with.a it.it and sliigvy eye-brow,
or but imperfectly shaded wilh eye-lashes,
composed of a few shnri bristlessel
wide apart,murli of ijs !•■ atfly "ill be lost.
II.'He- we find those who (imco most iin-portnnoe
upon i xternol charms, have been
in almost in rj as*1 extremely solicitous to
improve and pri a rvc tin form Mini syiiimi -
try of these important appendages to the
organ ofsight. Withoitl stopping to notice
tin' pirns pursued nt the toilet of the E.tsl
to give a darker hue to the i ye-browa, nud
by the fi males of othi r natjgns (o form
them into ii alight and pi rfect arch, we pro-pose
to say • few words upon the beaut) of
th" eye-lashes.
We need not dwell upon the importance
to beauty of long, silkc*. glossy eye-lashes,
which have so ofton been the theme of lo-vers
ami |'i> ts. Lord Byron, who to all the
enthusiasm of an eastern lover, added the
deep f.'i ling of a poet, has hung aome of
his finest guns on a beautiful eye-lash :
o.n' example will be sufficient,
A- a stream latoc nice-I'd
By 'in' fringe of its willows,
Km ;:-".;•• reveal'd
Im'i • light of ita billow .—
As the boll burnt on high
From i!i" black •■!" id Uial boun.1 il.
ria-liM tin- soul nf tlia- eye,
promtho long lashes round it.
WJiilc the females of our own country,
as well .is of those of ino-l parts of Eurup .
pay little attention to promote, bv artificial
means, the growth and brant) of their eye-lashes,
in fir-is i.i, (i. oii'i'i. Persia, ami
liindo-i.i.'i, this is otic of the first obj 'eta of.
n mother's c ire. We mi mioii this not n*
reproach lo Ihn formi r, nor as a commend-ation
ID the latter, but merely us a maftt i
of fact.
Il i= well known flint tin- hair, when Ii fi
to itself, seldom grows longi but either
splits at the lop into two' or more forks, or
gradually tapering from tin root, terminal! s
i'i a very lino uliuon invisible point.—
Wh n tin- i- lb- case, its further growth is
completely arrested. The Circassian fe-male,
aw ire of this fact, cnrefidjy remove*
the line point from each e>e-)n-li by means
of a pair of scissors. Every lime this is
done, theirgrowth is renewed, and they be-come
longi close, finely curvod, and of a
silkv irloss. This operation of tipping is
repented every month or six weeks.
Excepting among the ancient Romans
and the modern Chinese, luge eyes ban
ever been esteemed essential lo beauty.—
By thil test alone, we may distinguish
whether an antique statue of Venus, or of
Juno, be Roman or Grecian ; the classic
Greeks having more taste thin 4o represent
a goddess wilh small peering miserly eyes.
Homer, indeed, seldom mentions' Juno
without comparing her eves/to those of an
ox. Tin' oriental poets drew a more ele-pant
simile from the large-eyed ant) lope or
gazelle, which has not escaped Lord By-ron.
Her eye-' dark clnrni 'twere vain to till;
But gaze mi that nf the gazello,
It will assist thy fancy well.
The brilliancy of the eye, and iis ap-piaianeo
of fulness, depend, in a great mea-sure,
upon its form, and on the magnitude
of the eye-ball: but still in no slight degree
upon the closeness and amplitude of tiie
cye-lajhcs, and thodiameter of tin-pupil.
It is the eyelashes only over which art pos-scsscs
any power—the perfection of which,
u- wc hove seen, mav be in' x> a ed by a ve-ry
simple process. Hut this is not all—the
oriental beauties have, from time immemo-rial,
practised the art <>f darkening tin.- eye-lashes
with a pigment, which is applied to
the hairs themselves, and n> the skin at
their roots, while i small streak of it is of-ten
extended outwards from the exterior
angle of each eve. Although wc arc far
from recommending this practice to our fair
readers, yet it has certainly a very impos.
ingappoarance when artfully performed,—
It is said lo give a brightness and beauty to
the eyes, altogether inconceivable, making
even the plainest little orey eye- appear full
orbed, and piercingly dark. Upon our-selves,
we confess that the effect in these
eases would be entirely lost, frn.n the mo-ment
we became aware of the artifice by
which it was produced. Though admirers
of beauty, we should prefer a pair of eyes
possessed of n wry moderate portion of it
—-11111 speaking of modes! thoughts and
intellect refined," to all the charms thole
organs can acquire from artificial means.
HOW TO WBAR SPECTACLES.
Tin: usual practice, when an individual
experiences a diminution or defect in his
powers of vision, is to have recourse imtne-diati
ly to the aid of spectacles. Paying, in
the majority of cases, no attention to tho
actual condition of the eyes. In which the
nop. rfection of vision is produced, nor in-quiring
whether it may not he such a one
.ii mil In- aggravated by the use of glosses,
it i- not at all surprising thai we find so ma-ny
complain of the rapid deterioration oi
their sight alter commencing to wear spee.
iieh-. Ilui this is not all—the "lasses
made -is • of an often inadequate in the na-ture
of their SCIISCS to the slate of tin: eye ;
ir" more often defective in their construc-tion,
and when otherwise correct, are not
linfrequently worn in a manner calculated
rather to injure still more the eye- than lo
increase 111" powi r- ofsight. The follow.
ing directions for wearing spectacles are
from (he work of Adams, and are well worth
tin- attention of all who are obliged lo have
r. coiir-e to their aid.
In the jiiupn use of spectacles there is
no circumstance of more importance than
llnir position on the head. They should
he worn -o thai the glasses may come as
close to tin eye as pos-lhle without touch.
ing the ■ )■ lash, t; they sfiould also be so
placed that the surface of-flic glasses may
he parallel to the object viewed when this
- Ii Id in .'in ea-y *po-ition. To accom-plish
this, let ih" sup s of tin. spectacles
hear upon the -well of the head, about mid-way
between tin- top of it and the ear; the
eyes will then look directly though thcglas-
- - to the object, urn I will derive the most
idvaiitagc from tin in. instead of looking ob-liquely
through them, as in those eases.
where, as i- toocommonly the case,pprsons
place Ih ' side- of llieir spectacles 111 con-tiei
with, or very mar, their ear--—in
which condition the) cause a distorted im-age
oi ih.. object viewi d lo beproduccd on
the sensitive coal of the eye. The sides
of the spPCtudi s should, also, be placed al
iin iifirnl Af/gAf Upon III" head—and the
'land- br/illg applied to (he point* of the
-ides, will generally direct Iheir equal
heiglit, as well as allow of llnir opening of
their full extent without injury.
We may here remark, that the habit, loo
often assumed by young person-of both sex-es,
from alii elation, of viewing objects
through a sin"!" glass, tho quizzing glass,
us it has been fashionably termed, is deoi-dcdlv
injurious lothe eyes. What is worse,
like the acquired relish for ardent spirits
or for tobacco, the evil grows bv indul-gence
:—after using a glass but slightly
convex or concave, for a short lime, the of-t'eet
produced Upon tho eye i* such that lo
produce the same degree of vision, glasses
more and more convex or concave are re-quircd.
This was clearly proved by the
observations of Mr. Waro ai iIn- English
universities, whero it become fashionable
lor all to make use of these ridiculous and
destructive "lasses.
" It wa- very common, al on" period, for
persons who had, or were fearful of having,
I weak eyes, to wear plain glasses of a jjreen
lor blue color; and the practice is still fid-lowed
by many individuals. A morccflec.
tu.'il mode of weakening the eyes could
-eireelv I onceived : the obscurity pro.
iluccd bv th" diminished transparency of the
■jhf<, cau-iii!,' the eyes to strain themselves
whenever any thing i- looked al wilh alti n-tion;
the eyes are in this manner even more
fatigued and injured than when exposed un-
Ishaded to the light, Tho injury is furlli. r
I increased hv the bright points of reflected
light from the silver frame, from the angu*
I II position of the glasses, or from the rcfrae.
lion of the light caused bv in .'quality in their
.thickness."
COACH-HOUSES.
WHAT rsiTllEV THINK Or THE<0.\C||!
V hen A coach sets off again from its stop-paifc
at an iun-iloor, there is a sort of fresh-ness
and reeoiuineiieeiiienl ; the inside pas.
seagera settle themselves in their corner,
or interchange legs, or lake a turn on the
outside; adjust themselves to llieir scats
and their hils of footing ; Ihc young woman
looks, for Ihc iiinty-niiith time, lo her box :
the coachman is indiflbront and scientific :
he has the cause of power in his lace; he
shakes the reins ; throws out a curve or so
of knowing whip, as an angler does his hue;
and Ihc horses begin to play their never-en-ding
jog. A horse's hind-leg on the rood,
lo any eye looking down upon it, seems as
if il would jaunt on forever; the muscle
works in the thigh; the man at tin- some
time dances a Iitlie- hit: the hock-joint looks
intensly angular, and not to he hit (it is
horrible to think of wounding it;) the hoof
bites into lb" earth: wheels and legs seem
made to work together like machinery ; ami
on go the p iiieui creatures, they know not
win nor whither, chewing the unsatisfactory
bit, wondering {if they wonder at all why
Ihey may nut bold their heads down, ami
have tails longer (ban live inches; and oc-casionally
git ing one another s noses a con-solatory
Caress. Il is carious to sec some-tunes
how this afieetiou seems to he all on
one side. One of the horses goes dumbly
tilking.,a- it were, lo the other, and giving
proofs of the pleasure and eomfoTl il lake-ill
soon ly: while the other, making no -orl
of acknowledgment, keens the "even tenor
of its way," turning neither lothc right nor
bfl, nor coudi (ending lo give or receive
the least evidence of the possibility of a
-alislaelioii. Il seiins to say " you mav be
is amiable ami patient as you please j for
my part I am resolved to be a mi re piece
of tin1 machinery, and lo give llu*se fellows
In hind us no reason whatsoever to suppose,
that I make any sentimental compromise
with their usurpation over us."
Her-- - MI a lo.iclsa^fckLcertainlv I." tin
I others.—The kindest appellation thai hei
j Christian name affords, is the best you Can
I use, especially before face-.. An evi rl.is-ting
•' my dear" is but a sorry compi nsation
i for a grant of that sort of love that make-j
the husband cheerfully toil by day, brook
ibis rest by night, endure all sorls of hard-i
ships, if the life or health of his wife demand
it. Let vour deeds, and not your words,
carry lo lief heart a daily and hourlv confir-mation
of Ilia fact, that you value her health,
and life ami happiness, .beyond all other
things in Ihc world; and lei this be iiiaui-jlcst
to her, particularly al those lime win n
life is always more or less in danger.—('oh-hit.
'
Frimi Ihi- St'iiihiru tiiternrtj Messenger.
TO A MICK OI-' HAIR.
BV J. IHMilllriT. .IH.
Rriiflit niiliuru lock ! w Inch like the w in^
Ofsome kind angel sweeping by,
Shine- in the sun a glossy thing.
As -oil as beams from bototy's eve.
Thou, ile-t recall, sweet luck, to lue.
All of ihcJieAven ofmemory.
Thou once did shade a martd" hrrtw.
Where beauty raised her polish'd throne;
Mothinks I gaze upon it now
i And listen in a silver lone—
Which ilints from lip- in notes as swi et
A- angel's greeting when they inert.
fair lock! I'-l r.illier hold with lllCO
A sflcHU, blissful, strange commune,
Thmjoin that boisterous gaiety
Wli eh seems of happiness the nrn.u:
Tor thou dost whisper, sluiiiiiL' hair.
Peace comes not. rests not, if nut there.
Philadelphia, June, ISM.
jircrcnt, or the
The inoh
; he is
.g passes
it under tin
Harnessed
most patient, or I
most iinthin
seems,
not to be ..ri.i,cr"J!
a horrible, unstfti W
butclll r's or lukei.,, _
elephants would he inconvenient. They
would he for rcjusting llieir buckles', and
making inquiries, with (heir trunks, intoth<
behaviour of tho position. They might, to
be sure, help with ill" oilier trunk-, and
perform the part of hill' hor-e half liostld.
The Lima of Peru has inconvenient irieks,
if you ill-use him ; and so has the camel.
llui thi: horse, when once he is ground well
into the road, -eeuis to give up having any
sort of mind of his OH n—that is to say, if he
ever had any, except what his annual spirits
made to he mistaken for II ; lor the breed-ing
of lior-es is such in England that, gen-erally
speaking, when Ihey are mil all Mood
and lire, liny seem nothing but stupid ac-quiescence,
w iiho.it w ill. w iihout curiosity,
without the power of being roused into re-sistance,
exeepl. p" Hirsoul-! when their lasl
hour i.- come, and iiou-resistance itself can
go no further, hut lies down to die. We
dock their tails to subject them to the Hies ;
fasten their he id- back to hinder them from
seeing their path; and put blinkers al their
eyes for fear ofthir getting Used to the
phenomena of carriage and wheels behind
linn. What must tliey think (if Ihey think
at all) of the eternal mystery thus tied to
llieir bodies, and rattling and lumbering at
their heels 1—of Ihc load thus lastonod to
them day by day, going the same road for
no earthly object tinlelligihle to the horse-capasity)
anileveu now anil then depositing,
and taking up, oilier animals who walk on
llieir hind-lei/*, and occasionally come and
siroke llnir noses, kitk llieir bellies, and
gift tIn-ill with iron shoes?
Well, circumstances drive us, as we drive
the horse-,—p.rhaps with as many .-lulling
remarks on 111 - - part in oilier beings at our
thinkingas little of ihc matter:—so we must
he moving on.
ADVICE TO Yol'.Nii ME.V.
Show your love for your wife and your
admiration of her. not in nonsensical com-pliment
; not in picking up her handker-chief,
or carrying her in; not. though you
have Ihc means, in hinging Irink 's and
baubles upon her: no in making yourself ■
fool bv winking at, and seeming pleased
w nli Inr (bibles or her follies or faults ; hut
show them bv act- of real goodness toward
her; prove by unequivocal deeds,,the high
value you set on Inr health and life, ami
peace of mind ; lei your praise of her go lo
Ihc full extent of In r deserts, hut lei it be
consistent with truth and with sense, ami
-u-'h as to convince her of your sincerity.
He who is the flutti rcr of hi- wife, only pre.
ptocs her eai- foi i!n bvpnrbolical stuff oi
IIOMCBOPATI1I \.
The "following remarks will chiefly be
comprised of extracts from a pampl t writ-leu
by Jox v-OHKKN, M. I)., entitled " i
I'n mi Iin r ErpotUion ofilommoputkia, dse.1
in which Ii" endeavors to set forth its ad-vantages
over tho usul method of treating
diseases.—Il describes the i (Torts of Hall-
'ncmann in introducing this system, his dis-coveries,
dsc.—With a view of acquiring a
knowledge of the specific propc nies of me.
dieinal agents from their cli'cets, a- they
I are administered io the sick, llahncman i
I conceived the idea of giving them to por-
' sous in a stutv of' hurlth ; and he and some
I of his friends, immediately commenced a
seri.s of experiments upon themselves
, with thoso medicines, whose powers were
i so well known, as to entitle Ihem to the
! appellation of specifics; tin-result of those
experiments' amply rewarded him for his
pains, hul did not venture lo submit them
10 the public, until he had multiplied anil
i varied Ihem wilh various different medici-nal
agents for Ihc space of fifteen years.
' •- Among the objections urged a.-ain-l
the hoinieopalhic sysUmi, there t- none
which is more tcmtcjpnsly miller, d lo ih'ni
thai relating to the Size of its doing. The
numerous ami unanswerable illustrations of
the grand therapeutical law •Vmiilia -inii-libus
curantur, which occur lo the mind of
the medical veteran, incline him lo listen
to Ihc ihs trims ol llaluieinnnn wilh a cer-tain
degree of respect, till the atoui-dose-an-
submitted to his attention : here ■ in
-mile of incredulity is loo opt lo arrest the
current of his faith, and too often de-ters
him from further iitvostigtition-" Nor
can we much wonder at such iiien diilitv,
when wc reflect upon tho gross nature ol
the current medical doctrines, whiCih attri-bute
lo diseases a material origin. Hut
their causes can not possibly be material,
for the lea-t foreign substance introduci d
into the blood-vessel-, however mild it may
appear to us, is luddenl) repulsed by the
vital power, as a poison :* or where Ibis
docs not lake place, death itself ensues.
Even when the smallest foreign part'u lo
chances lo insinuate itself into anyoflln
sensitive pirls, the principle of life, which
is spread throughout our interior, docs not
rst unlil il has procured tho expulsion of
this body, by pain, fever, suppuration or
gangrene."
A scries of explanations arc given as in-ducements
to institute the fnrd test of
Homo ojiathia, stating thai Homo opathic
medicines arc in alt cases given for ihc
purpose of combating diseases directly, lh.it
i-, not bv means of evacuation-, a- sweat-ing,
vomiting, purging; but by applying
their specific or potential energv lo tho-.-
pans of ihc orgnnism which i- effected by
the disea-c. That the rcmeilu - are givi n
to such patients only as will abstain from
all other but pure nutrieious food, and -im-ply
thirst quenching drinks. Consequent-
■ Iv having no artificial impressions to com-bat
or suriiioiinl, ih" dose can be very
much less, than it could, if the patii nt were
lot the same time lo lie subjected to the in-j
lluetiee of Alcohol, Spice-. ( oil. e or othei
* Keen water nr atmospheric air introduced
. .u'" tl " vein In e HI . -i i! tith,
drugs, which often either Wholly anuihilati
ihc specific action of u remedy, or very
much diminish ii- force in the system.—
The medicinal power inherent in a drug is
i peculiar force, differing essentially from
caj) iiiii-iil or mci-hanii-iil forces, and there-fore
cantiol be held by analogy with them,
10 operate with greater or less intensity in
proportion is the substance of the drug is
increased or lessoned. Experiencetoachea
us t» avoid ibis false analogy. Calomel,
for example, produces as violent purging
in a dose of - or III grains, as il does in III)
or Jii LT. doses ; inn if the analogy were
sound, llie latter doses should operate from
.'I lo •") limes as violently as the former. Of
Emetic Tartar it is affirmed on the author-ity
of l!;isori, I', sehh-r, Brussais, and manv
otlnr physicians of high standing, that in
very large doses, itceascs to vomit or purgo
tile patient almost eulirelv : whereas, it isj
universally known, thai in doses of 1-8 of a
grain to U grs., it nearly always produces
copious vomiting and sometimes much
more - rious copscquonc s. It baa long
been known lo the medical profes.-ion, that
il i- sometimes necessary lo give remedies
in extremely small doses: that they are
often more effectual lo use the language of
a celebrated Allopathic author, u in -mall
and minutely divided Quantities, than in
larger doses and in a. more concentrated
-lite." Ii is often (he case that .Mercury
in doses of fractions 5fli grain will accom-plish
cures which it^ould not in larger
ipiantilies. " In fact," say-Purr, "every
medicine beyond its proper iln-c is u-uallv
the source of considi rablc inconvenience,
promo!iio.' generally increased or irregular
I action." Il is owing to the extreme, in-
'd.i d, quite homo opathic division, in which
I lion, Sulphur, and many Saline matters ex-
. ist,in medicinal springs, that health is re*
I Stored to the thousands of individuals an-
| iniilly r. -orlieg to Ihem at tin- suggestion .
of theirinbdicaJ advisers, who though they
have these articles in their possession', do
not know in what small doses togivothem
lo cure their patients. The extremely
small quantities of the ingredients of ac-knowledged
efficacy in these wat-rs abund-antly
prove that the hnmii-<>|»4lliic rule for
the application of remedies, to wit, tho giv-ing
the smallest quantity known io possess
the power of affecting the living energy", in
a specific mode, is founded on Nature's
truth—and therefore, worthy of the most
respectful and untiring observation. The
ridicule, that has been lavished on this de-partment
of Hoiiioopatlii.i, however just
and efficacious il may be esteemed bylluxsc,
who have not faithfully repeated ihc experi-ments
of llahnem.'uiii; or with whatever
zea| it may be propagated by those, who
see in the extension of the new system, a
death-blow to their consequence, as wri-ters
and inventors of pathological reveries,
can mil orfi -l the progress of truth,nor, wo
hope, outlive Ihc present age. It is well
for an era, like the present so constantly'
crowded with new illustrations of unknown
forces in Nature, lo be satisfied with rUu
i-uli- in place of argument, or even argil-nr
nt in the place of experiment I What
propositions of llorarcopalhla arc more oh-uovhsns
to ridicule, than are those,consid-ered
n priori, ihat i-, by an unenlightened
individual, which constitute the basis of
the science of Electricity, or of Magnetism?
And yet the fads pertaining to these sci-ences,
;l thousand times more dissonant
with "11 previous experience than any of
llalinemann's discoveries, are not only not
ridicidid, but universally bilirrril, and
have assumed an indispensable station a-inong
the useful agents of human civiliza-tion,
knowledge and comfort.' The IIo-nupopathic
method of preparing the reme-dies
is such, as in all-eases, to present
them entirely unadulterated lo the physi-cian
for use. They arc applied singly-—
anil not u in the ordinary practice com-pounded
of several similar and opposite!
drugs, win n by il becomes necessary to
give the main remedy in such large doses
as lo render its specific action upon the scat
of the di-i use uncertain, and often to pro
dnce painful ami even dangerous diseases
in other parts of the system. By thesis
mean-', a- well as by a proper reference to
the Bclcclion of 111- remedies, the llomteo-pilliie
physician is enabled wholly to avoid
the dang) rofgiving them in such dososaa
might destroy the health of the most deli-cate
patient. If a person be susceptible to
jibe influence of Smallpox, il is well known,
that he in iv be faiall) affected by the small.
lest quantity of tin- mailer, even by its im-perceptible
effluvium, which radiates to lha
I distance of many yard- from the patient
I Now, the method of Kabnemann enables
'the ph -ici in to find for each patient tho
: i in- di -. i.i which his ilisoasc n ndcra him
1 usci ptibic, in a similar iii.in.ier is in tho
lease above cited. Disoast > certainlvheigh!