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MUSES RETREAT.
VER S E S
SENT TO A LADY WITH A LILY.
of a purer mind,
Spot nor blemifii here you find ;
Fragrant as the blooming rose,
While exhaling sweets it blows,
As a type of better parts,
I fend it to the queen of hearts.
Mark the change that soon appears,
When its vigor disappears:
£>ec how, low, obfeure and loft,
With disregard away ’tis toft.
Learn from hence that beauty’s power
Only fliow’d this charming flower:
bo, if you bright beauty’s face
With nothing better strive to grace,
Soon, alas! will beauty fail,
And sickness and ilifeafe afTail;
Likethis poor flower you’ll flighted be,
Unless you aim at piety.
Let every hour then, as it flies,
Record thee good, and chaste, and wife.
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY.
IN beauteous bloom, adorn’d with ev’ry grace,
Me rc a meek virgin confccrates the place.
Ye lair, approach, nor check the riling sigh :
She once will) all your rarest charms could vie,
Her parents’ pride; now mourning o’er her bier
In loud regret, they Ihed the heart-felt tear;
'l'hey fed the loss, yet own the chalt’ning rod,
AnJ )icld, in giiel, their daughter to her God.
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THE ORPHAN.
UNBLESS D by friends to cheer her lonely way,
Still hapless through the world (he’sdoom’d toftray,
Unjnted, unlamented, hard that fate !
Condemn’d to bear the Icorn of those whofc hate
Pro:eeds from her distress, dill too unkind
To give relief, to e*fe the drooping mind.
Perhaps the once was happy—once was bled ;
A father’, care—a mother’s love podefs’d I
Robb’d by the hand of Death of those dear friends,
Forlorn Ihe wanders, many a sigh (lie fends
To that gtc.it power who gives the weary red,
Who cheets the heart, and soothes the troubled brea^
y
CONSOLATION FOR SUFFERING
WORTH.
THO’ tortur’d by art? mod comfummate k etucl,
True Virtue, and Wisdom, compete a rich jewel;
Which malice; like fire, may greatly annoy,
But, like Diamonds, and Gold, it can never dedroy.
AN EPIGRAM.
HONEST Teague, when return’d from
a trip to the North,
For to Lapland ’twas said he had been:
Was questioned—“ If during his cold
wintry birth,
“ Whether any /?<•/* Deer he had seen?”
When fays he, “ by my fowle, as the truth
I regard;**..
“ I was stationed there almost a year;
“ And fnmetimes, in the bummer, it rain’d
very hard,
41 But I never once faw'lt rain Deer!”
ANECDOTE.
A CERTAIN Vicar of a facetious tqrn,
walking late one evening, met his Curate
highly elevated with the juice of the grape;
oh! oh, Mr.Twangum, fays the Vicar, '
whence came you ? Why I i%H*tknow',
fays he; I have been /pinning of it out with
inv neighbor Freeport. Ay, quoth the
Portor, and now I perceive, after your
/pinning it out, you are finifliing the work
& reding of it home.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
ORo n\ qju e Oakfuskv,
Pen i~j.'ig-Main £9’ Dealer in Dried Apples .
BEGS leave to make publicly know*n,
that he has re noved from his present resi
dence in Per iwinkle-Ally to the (ign of
ihe Red Nig it Cap of a brawnith noise,
two doors be ow the last house in the place
near the center of the street on one fide,
where he is daily opening a contrarted as
sortment of mercantile ingredients, which
he experts hourly to receive by future ar
rivals, and which he will expofeof at pri
vate sale on terms more invariably redu
* ord, than any hereafter prelcnted to public
exhibition, among them the following are
which, and many other articles too bulky
to be extenftvely enumerated. Viz. Bar
lion, few ing needles, Jews harps, tin kit
ties, and tithing netts imidfomely printed
;md bound, fre Aland fit for immediate use;
r.iio silk petticoats, tntvfiin caps, leather
breeches, icrcw augers and many other
v eatables of the latest importation, such
as tobacco tongs, new cider, faddlt bags
and fivfli pork by the tingle yard or let's
quantity, together with a beautified afibrt-
L
ment of fafltionable ladies head drefles, a
mong which are copper stills with goose
necks and pewter worms, horse carts, fea
ther beds, dried cabbages and brass cocks,
all neatly bottled and corked, together with
a choice collection of musical composi
tions luch as, hysteric fits, rheumatisms,
red herring, and deck nails of which take
one pint in the morning and one in the
evening falling, according to the nature of
the complaint and the time it has been on
doquet. —Also silks, nail rods, shoe brushes
and fence rails of the latest editions and
other cordials of the fame kind, luch as
water gruel, rum, milliard, hard ioap,
mouse traps, linseed oil and brandy of a
green, yellow and blewilh flavour, togeth
er with chocolate, turnips, kidney beans,
hogs tallow, lampblack and other hair
powder of the fame kind, made and fold by
the woman aforefaid, in form aforefaid
and manner aforefaid, where said business
is regularly manufactured, and Ihirts and
other tea table furniture performed gratis
to them who buy a quantity, and private
families lupplied on short notice.—Also
go carts for children, an£children for go
carts in the newest taste, bought, made and
fold at said office, as by said certificate in
writing ready in courts to be produced ful
ly appears —Also a variety of perfumery
and bed chamber furniture, such as tar,
turpentine, brimstone, train oil and other
crockery, with geese, pigs, house cats,
logwood and other garden feeds of the pre
sent years growth, together with pickled
wheelbarrows and preserved broomsticks,
either in prose or verse, and a number of
school histories such as lobsters, oysters,
gridirons and stenography in handsome
manuferipts, added to Tom Pains Age of
Reason, and plain and
other whimsical productions upon origin
al ideas, with an aflbrtment of innate ideas
in bottles, and logic in and a variety
of tooth brulhes, and otner philofophicai
and metaphifical works, upon possible im
possibilities, and the wonderful powers of
imagination, with a volume of Metallic
Instruments, or the infallible cure for all
diseases of mind, body oreftate, well adop
ted to the meanest capacity, to which is ad
ded an appendix upon horse shoeing and
saddle making, shewing the origin of the
two profeflions and their influence upon
civil society—Also a few musical instru
ments, such as horse Ihoea, powder horns,
pick axes, shoe hammers, junk bottles and
hens gizzfcfds, all which he is ready to ve
rify and vellify, with goose eggs and a few
trarts of speculating lands to be fold at the
fame auCtion.
Any person inclining to buy the above
poultry, may hi;ar of a purchaftr at four
dollars per hundred freight, and good pas
turing gratis. „ " w.
N. B. All the said butter is newly made
and in kegs, ready to be delivered to fub
feribers, at which time the said veflels will
fail, and those who take a quantity will he
illiberally indulged, where an apprentice
is also wanted, to whom two journeymen
will be allowed and generous wages de-.
manded, ancf affidavits upon all fubje&s
at the shortest notice, to which
place said store is now removed.
Oronoque Oakfulky, *
Perrrjjig maker , and dealer in
dried apples.
A GOLDEN RULE.
EARN INDUSTRIOUSLY AND SPEND
PRUDENTLY.
IF the interpretation Teems too
rigid, aftd bears to©%ard upon your
Jpwdeof vanity,’it is*only to qualify
you to enter the 44 little end of the
hom” .With % good grace, that you
iVury nnd the cornucopia? at the other.
Clerical method would divide my
lecture into two heads ; the divi
sion is natural *, I will follow it. First
—“ Earn industriously.” When
the fun has begun his daily talk, ex
panded the flowers, and set all the
busy agents of vegetation to wo-k,
if these do not afford you a fuffici
ent stimulus to industry, walk on to
your bee hive *, these little labour
ers shall preach you a better ier
mon against indolence than you shall
often hear from the pulpit. If, af
ter observing their activity and eco
nomy fifteen minutes, you do not
profit by the lerture, let them sting
you for a droan, “ Spend prudent
ly.” Never lay more out at a ta
vern, after fun set, than you have
earned before fun rile ; nor even that
it your last year’s taxes are net cros
sed out from the colle&or’s book.
Dreis in home spun three years, and
if vanity or decency require, you
may wear foperfiu? the fourth,—
What folly lays out in ftieep {kin
gloves in ten years, if managed by
prudence might fill a final! purse
Are not white dollars worth
to a farmer than white hands ? If
your finances are small be not am
bitious of walking up three pair of
stairs.
A second story has often proved
an introduction to the gaol. A hum
ble cottage is a good beginning. —
Enter at the “ little end of the horn,”
and you may fee, at the other, an e
legant hcufe, large enough tor a fliif
ty farmer. Check fancy j exercile
judgment; learn her character, find
but her disposition, prove her (Eco
nomy—Whose ? —The woman’s
you intend for a wife. Remember
the is to be the steward of your house
the governess of your children, and
the very key to your strong box.
THE VALUE OF TIME.
“ A moment we may wilh,
When wealth to buy.”
Night Thoughts .
WHEN we confider what
we were created for, whither we
are hastening to, and what we
mult ere long be, surely we can
not but acknowledge the work that
lies before us to be truly great, in
teresting and important; no less than
the advancement of our maker’s glo
ry, the perfuit of those objects
which belong to our eternal peace,
and the preparation for death, judg
ment, and a world to come ; these
are matters of the highest moment,
and equally concern, ev£ry son and
daughter of Adam, as candidates for
a blifsful immortality. If so, then
we may well lament the ftiortnefs
of our time for such an arduous
work, and imprefled with a sense of
the neceflity of completing it before
we go the way of all flelh, exclaim
with Dr. Young.
“ How much to be done!
Life, like a winter’s day, is short.
Time, like the Ihadow upon a dial,
is fleetingand hastening to be gone,
and an awful eternity approaching,
which must be either a state of hap
piness or misery, according to the
waste or redemption of the preci
ous NOW.
From these considerations we may,
learn the inestimable value of our
jpafling moments, and the danger of
delaying suitably to improve them,
while we feel, if I may so express
myfelf, the propriety of the poet’s
observation and excellent advice, in
the followiqgplmes.
“ Time waisted is exigence, us’d is he;'
Part with is as with money, sparingly;
Buy no moment but in purchase of its
worth,
And what its worth, a(k Death Beds , they
can tell.” Young.
Should the reader alk for direc
tions in the improvement of his time,
I would earnestly recommend theen
fuing couplet from Mr. Pope’s Es
say on Man, as a daily rule for prac
tice i
“ Make every day a critic on the part,
And live each hour as tho* it was your
last.”
To FARMERS.
CUTTING OF BUSHES.
THE curious and learned Dotftor
Elliot, in his fourth eflay on field
hulbandry, informed his readers he
was in hopes that he had found cer
tain times for cutting bullies, which
could be more effectual to their de
ftru&ion than any yet difcoveredi
and if he found it so, he would give
notice of it; and after various and
repeated trials, he tells us, in his
sixth eflay, that he is glad he is able
to perform his promise. The times
are in the months of June, July and
August, in the old of the moon, at
the day the sign is in the heart. He
’ fays, on one of these days he f ca , B
man to make trial ; in going to J
place, some of his neighbors
handing by him his business, and th* B
reason of his going at the point*s l
time, they also went to their kj 1
and cut bushes also on that day! 1
their’s were tall bushes that had ne* ■
ver been cut, his own were fton H
such as had been often cut, but to 1
no purpose, without it was to en, I
crouch their numbers; the confe-l
quence was, that in every pl ace I
killed so universally, that there j s I
not left alive scarce one in an hun- I
died. The trial has been made i n I
several places on the fame day with I
the fame success—To shew such a 1
regard to the signs may incur the im. i
putation of ignorance or fuperflition • I
but the learned kncrtv well enough 1
that the division of the zodiac into I
twelve signs, and that appropriating p
these to the several parts of the anS
mal body, is not the work of nature
but of art; contrived by astronomers
for conveniency. It is also well
known, that the moon’s attra&ion
hath great influence on all fluids.
It is well known to farmers, that
there are times when bullies, if cut
at such times, will universally die.
A regard to the sign, as it serve to
point out and dired to the proper
time, so it becomes worthy of ob
servation. If farmers attend to the
time with care, and employ hahds
on those days, they will find their ac
count in it. This rule attended to,
may save the countryman many days
labor.
ON THE ADVANTAGE
Os cultivating aromatic or purgetit
GRASS for SHEEP.
A planter of my acquaintance in
South-Carolina, was remarkable for
having the fineft sheep in the place
lived, and when any of his
neighbours exchanged their lambs
for one of his young rams, which
was frequently the case, the sheep
he had from them always improved
in his keeping. Being curious to
«knovv the caiife of this, I asked him
the reason of it, and he informed me
that he took no more pains than
conWnon in feeding his sheep in the
wilder; but that in the pasture where
ran* which was pine barren
land, there was a creeping species of
pepper-grass, which came up early
in February, but died in summer;
that his sheep were excessively fond
of it, and he believed that the sti
mulating warmth of that food in
winter, kept them in health, and
preserved them from the rot and o
ther disorders, which prove so fata!
to them in cold rainy seasons. He
was also of opinion, that if any plan
ter who had not the grass, would
sow a small piece, either of it, mint,
pennyroyal, or any other pungent or
warm aromatic, of which sheep were
observed to be fond, it would have
the fame effect.
Reading lately the works of a ce
lebrated writer on agriculture, I
found he recommends to the far
mers in England, to sow a piece of
land with parsley, for the fame pur
pose. As this corroborates the for
mer opinion, I fend it to you for in
sertion among the many hints for
the improvement of agriculture,
which have lately appeared, hoping
it may prove ufeful.
MAY BE HAD AT THE
HERALD OFFICE ,
The Oration, delivered on the 4th July.
Apprentices’ Indentures,
Blank Bills of Sale,
Powers of Attorney,
- Executions.