allhallow tide. 313 



NOV. 8. St. Willehad, bishop of Bremen, 787. 

 St. Godfrey, bishop and confessor, 1118. 

 St. Kebias, apostle of Anglesea. 

 SS. the Four Crowned Brothers, 304. 

 Octave of All Saints. 



Ohs, St. Willehad was an Englishman, and became the first 

 Bishop of Bremen and apostle of the Saxons in the time of Charle- 

 magne. He laboured in that rou^^h field, in the midst of difficulties 

 and persectitions, with great diligence, till he had the happiness to 

 see Duke Witikind embrace the faith, whose conversion was fol- 

 lowed by that of his people; after which St. Willehad met joyfully 

 with that death which was to open to him the gates of everlasting 

 life, in the year 790. 



At Caerguby, in the isle of Anglesey, the festivity of St. Kebius, 

 disciple of the great St. Hilary, and first bishop and apostle of 

 Anglesey, is still celebraieil. There remained in Leland's time a 

 College of Canons, supposed to have been formerly the monastery 

 of this saint.. 



In Scotland the festivity of St. Gervad, bishop, and St. jMo'ok, 

 confessor, who flourished in the beginning of the ninth century, 

 have a place on this day in the Scots Calendar. 



The four brothers suffered in the persecution of Dioclesian. 

 Pope Gregory the Great mentions an old church of the Four 

 Crowned Brothers in Rome. 



Cape Aletris Velfheimia Capensis fl 



Smooth Golden Hod Solidayo leviguta still fl. 



Late Golden Rod Solidayo petiolarls still fl. 



The ahove and several otiier sorts of Golileii Hod, r'lul a few Asters, still 

 remain in flower, as do China Asters ai,d Afrii.aii M.iri^olds, tlie rest of the 

 fioners of tlie garden still to be seen are a few summer and autnmii plants; 

 which continue spariutsly to lilow till Cln■i^lMlas, as Stocks, Geraniums, &e. 



We h '.ve ol'seived that roughs are as common in this as in any month of 

 winter, and perh.ips more so. Colds of all kinds are pery |irrvaUnt in general, 

 and seem to constitute a sort of obscure epidemic: they oi ci:f also in the early 

 spring, and n.ore -.paringly at othei- times c.f the year, iiul ar.- now more parti- 

 cularly prevalent and general. W", rin clothing sli^nld he lesorted to, particu- 

 larly the weariiiL' o' worsted stockings, arid of Hannel or S"me i.ther woollen 

 clothes next to the skin. We believe the habit of smoUini Tobacco to be also 

 a salutary practice, and to be capatde of protecting the clos-- cottages of the 

 poor against many epidemical di-ordeis. But the pleasure of a pipe is not 

 coiifiueil to those "who fear the incursioti of diseases: it ( on-titutes, to those 

 who are fond of it, one of thr greatest luxuries (fa winter liie'ide; and it has 

 been questioned ainom; smokers, whether the luxury ot a long Turkey pip.-, 

 under the cooling shade of trees in the heat of the Dogdays, be greater than 

 that of a snug merschaum pipe, when, in an old fashioned chimney corner, we 

 sit and feel comfoi tably defended from the nipping frost at midwinter. In this 

 gloomy month it is particularly delightful, thongji we by no means recommen.! 

 carryii.g smoking to that extiavagant excess to which it is now the fashion to 

 carry it. It is too often, in high northern latitudes, aicoinpanied by strong 

 drinks, than which even the opium eating of the eastern nations is not more 

 pernicious. 



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