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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. - '• 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. ''•V. 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.