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; Come Inspiration from thy hermit scat, By mortals seldom found.'

selected. DEVOTION. . Tune" The Meeting of the Waters:' 0! there is in Devotion a pleasure so dear, It so lightens tlie bosom o'er-burthened with care, To the soul, 'mid its sorrows, such peace it affords, That the one who will seek it, it richly rewards. When troubles assail, and when sorrows depress, And griefs great and nuru'rous the bosom distress, And vexations and crosses press home on the heart, 01 then what relief does Devotion impart! Should the tongue of foul slander our credit alloy, Or a World, arm'd against us, our con. forts destroy; Should e'en friend all forsake us, and leave usaUne, Still the sweet3 of Devotion their loss would alone. 0 peaceful Devotion! sweet soother of wo! My bless'd portion be thou while sojourning below; And when I am calPd to a seat in the skies, rise. To those realms I; infla'm'd with Devotion, would

THE captive. No found the mounful captive hear9, Save echo's low, responsive call; No object to his eye appears, But his dark shadow on (lie wall. The garland that fair freedom wove, Hangs withering'on his manly brow, Like the pale foilage of the grove, When buried in the winter's snow.

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MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.

'PROFIT BLENDED WITH AMUSEMENT.

TOM WILSOX.

My friend Tom Wilson was a droll fellow. He was very found of quizzing people. No

one in the village escaped his satire. In

fact he was a privileged character. Every

thing Tom said was laughed at, and few

thought of being angry with him ior his jokes, although they were at their expense. I called to see him one evening; "Come," said he, " let us stroll about the village and

quiz the inhabitants." It was the month of

June, the folks generally were seated at their doors, enjoying the coolness of the evening breeze. The first one he spoke to was a female, named Mary, who had kept a little fruit store in the village from time immemorial. "Ah, my old lady," said Tom, "how have you been since I last saw you ?" "Old ! old!" said Mary, "pray who do you call old." "Who? why Mary Jones, the apple woman, who has more wrinkles in her forehead, than brains in her noddle." Tom had taken

a scat by her side. I could see by her kindling eye, that she was becoming angry. "You impudent fellow," she said, "I won't set here no longer to be abused by you." "Oh," he replied, "if you are setting, you may set till you hatch, 'twould be cruel to disturb you: 'never meddle with an old hen when she's hatching,' is an ancient proverb, and one that I shall carefully observe." "I say," replied Mary in a rage, "you are an impudent feller, and I won't stay here no longer." Tom scanned her from head to toe, and laughing, said, "My good Mary, you are but five feet high, and need not say you would

stay here no longer, as I am well aware of

that.'' This was another insult, lor poor Mary hated to be told of her shortness. She burst into tears and said, "Tom Wilson, I have trusted you for cider when you were dry, and had no money; I have mended your stockings, without charging nothing, when, as you told me, they was holier than the parson's, and this is the way you insult me." Pom was moved, for like most of the gay and

giddy, he possessed a tender heart. He slipped some silver into the old woman's hand,

and told her she must torgive him, and not

mind his fun. She wiped her eyes with the corner of her apron, and with a smile, which

was like a ray of the 6un, darting through a

watery cloud, said, "Tom you are a gentleman." From the old woman we went to see the village barber: he was a Frenchman, and would have been as merry as France's gayest sons, but Jbr one circumstance. Poor Soap was married, and married to a shrew. Standing or sitting, working or idle, she was ever scolding him; and the poor fellow looked but to her death, or

to his own, (he cared little which,) for relief

from his misery. Tom often rallied him on the fascinating qualities of his spouse. He accosted him with "Ah, Soap, my dear fel

low; how do you do, and how is your amiable consort; is her tongue as long as ever,

and are her lungs as strong as formerly?" "Hush, hush, for God's sake, Monsieur Wil

son," said Soap, in alarm, "she is in de nex

room, and be gar if she hears you, (and she

has ears like de diable,) she will rirrg such a

concert, as will make you hate musique for

ever: be gar de whilwin is nothing to her

voice, and de sharpest razor dull compared

to her tongue." But the mischief was done; she overheard what had been said, burst in

to the room,-and let, fly such a torrent of

abuse, as made us nearly deaf. W e re-

treated m haste, partlv in mirth, and parti

in sorrow at the scence we had witnessed.

We called on several others, and Tom had something to say to all: a joke for this, and a sly laugh at that one. Returning home, he unfolded to me a plan which he said he had for some time contemplated carrying into execution. "You know," said he, "old Sordid, the usurer; he came to this village when quite a young man, and was employed by a store-keeper to assist him in his bu-j siness. When his employer died, (which was a few years after he went to him.) he took his store, and bv his cleverness in deal-1 ing, und fniserly habits, acquired a sum which was far from being considered a trillc at that period. This was nearly forty years -! .1... 1. .

aeo. Since tnat time hi? monev has crown.

by lending it at extravagant rates of inter

est, to an enormous sum. Never did pity inhabit his bosom, or sorrow for the unfortunate, find an entrance to hisrrcrrft. He ap

pears as if he had no friend nor relation on earth. I have accidentally discovered that

he is the slave of snnerstition. lo him.

when the sun has withdrawn his rays, every

shadow seems a ghost, and every one he

meets, some evil spirit. A disagreeable dream will make him unhappy for a long period. 1 mean to take advantage of his credulity, and frighten him into an act of virtue and benevolence. Come with me and I will show you in what manner." We proceeded to the miser's house, which was a mean low building, and seemed like the abode of poverty and distress. Tom knocked at the door; no answer was relurndtl ; he knocked a second time, all was still. "The wretch shall answer me," said Tom, "or I will shake his house down." He knocked again, and made a tremendous noise. "Who disturbs a peaceful man at this hour," said a voice within. Those

whom you cannot refuse to admit," replied

I om, "so open the door, we are your fellow

townsmen, and you need fear no danger

from us. I have that to tell you, that you

win noi near wan ina;nerence. mv name

is Tom Wilson, my companion is mv friend

F , whom vou certainly must know."

The old man slowly unbolted the door, and

admitted us. Terror was imprinted on his countenance, and a feeling of painful curios

ity seemed to chain his soul. Tom ap

proached him and whispered something in his ear. The misers face assumed an ashv

hue. He retreated to the wall, and heaved

a heavy groan. Tom seemed to enjoy the scene, and after a pause, said, "what I have

to request is this, that you go into street,

to-morrow night, exactly at ten o clock, where you will sec a family in the utmost distress, famishing with hunger, and misera

ble in the extreme; relieve their wants, and

be not sparing of your assistance, for remem

ber that "neither heaven nor nell is to De trifled with." The miser said not a word, but almost sunk to the ground with awe and astonishment. We left the house, and I was scarcely less astonished at the scene I had witnessed, than the old man. Tom, said I, what is the ori

gin, and what will be the end of this caper ? He laughed at my gravity, and replied as follows: "I started about two months since to see Kate, the fortune-teller, who lives at the upper end of the village. When I drew nigh to her window, I saw this old wretch, apparently asking questions of her with great earnestness. Ever fond of a joke, and thinking this might furnish one, I climbed into the house by the back way, and from an adjoining room overheard their conversation." "Repeat your dream," said the old woman," "and if in my power I will unravel it." "I dreamed," said the miser, "that some person would in a short time come to me, and request me to perform some action; and if I complied not with his request, my wealth would depart from me, and ere many days passed I should die, and that eternal torments in the next world should be my portion. I dreamed that I should know the

person by his saying "neither heaven nor

hell is to be trifled with." The old woman, with all the self-importance of fortune-tel

ling wisdom, told him it was a very strange

dream, and one that her cards could afford no clue to, but advised him if any person called and requested him to perform any action, to obey such request scrupulously, and

without delay, for that she knew too much

of such dreams not to be aware, that to pay

no attention to their meanings, was to detu

ne!!, and disregard heaven. He then left her

presence; I retreated from my hiding place,

and returned home, ruminating on the scene

I had witnessed. I perceived there was a good opportunity to quiz the old fellow. For

guch an one I had often wished. I determined to avail myself of it, and to make it subservient to some useful purpose. You

know the cause of his terror. When I whis

pered in his car, I repeated the omenous

words which he so much dreaded. "But,

said I, "how can you continue your joke?

when he goes to-morrow evening to the place you have designated, he will see no one there." "I have taken care of that, said Tom. A poor man came to me yester-da-, and told me a heart rending tale of distress. He was emigrating ta the western country from the New-England states and

lraip pn"ms nml mem! the beait." AnduhtU

r. we consider that tt.e greatest philosophers and statesmen, as well as pott", critics, and all other men of lite rature, now find the periodical press the channel through which their opinions can be conveyed Kith the greatest certainty and tried to the gnatest number of men, it will appear very evnh nt, that a kmmhdge of wlnt is thus written and dono abroad is necessary to the successful cultivation oi our own literature, and important to the politician, scholar and msn of business, as well as to hira who

reads only for amusement. To persons who rrsd at a distance from th jrreat depositories of New Hooks and New Inventions, a woik conducted upon this pl.dn is peculiarly important, as affording to tl em &n opportunity of keeping pace, in some degree, with the progress cf knowledge, at a very tritlmg expense of money or time.

when within a few miles cf our village, imsfc'ite thought And refine the imni'nntlon-that will

taken sick. A wife and four helpless children were with him. They stopped at a tavern, and he was so long confined by his illness, that when he recovered, their little finances were expended. The inhuman landlord finding this was their situation, turned them out of his house, and they had tasted no food for upwards of thirty hour?, when I

accidentally met them. I relieved their im

mediate want?, and would have furnished them with funds sufficient to prosecute their

journey, hut my purse is not large enough to do all that my heart would dictate. 1 told the man to be at street, at the hour I requested Sordid to meet him, and to solicit of the old miser as much monev as would take him to the end of his journey. I represented Sordid as being a charitable old man, who was fond of performing benevolent actions in an eccentric manner; and told him that if he took his wife and children there, it would make a greater impression. He promised to do as I advised, and no doubt will perform his premise. Call on me to-morrow evening, and we will watch

the result; good night." We parted, and Ij

retired to rest, thinking what a strange mixture of mischievousness and goodness, was my friend. The next evening I waited on him, and about ten o'clock we repaired to the scene of action. The poor man and his family were already there. We took refuse in an adjoining alley, from whence we could see all that might occur. A few minute afterwards the miser appeared, and without saying a word to the traveller, placed a bag in his hands and went away. This bag, as we learned the next dav, contained two hundred dollars. The ensuing morning the traveller called with his family, on Tom. I

was present. He thanked mv friend for his kindness, and bade his little children kneel to their benefactor, who had prevented them from starvation and ruin. It was an affecting scene, tears of gratitude stood in his wife's eye. "Pshaw, said Tom, what a fus; you make, I only served you to gratify myself, for he who assists a brother in distress, is thereby made happier than the brother whom he relieves." F.

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A farmer in a village in the neighborhood

of London, long celebrated for his lunar

speculations, was lately engaged in adjusting his brewing materials, but found consid

erable difficulty in endeavoring to refasten

a barrel which he had just cleaned. At last a lucky thought struck him; he took up his

son who stood by, and put him into the barrel, to hold the head while it was fixed on.

This expedient succeeded; but the poor farmer was soon put to his trumps again, by

hearing his lad exclaim, Fcither.J cither, how

be 1 to ret out 'P

A German priest walking in procession at

the head of his parishioners, over uncultiva

ted fields, in order to procure a blessing on their future crops, when he came to those

of unpromising appearance, would pass on saying, "here prayers and singing will avail nothing; this must have manure.5'

People who arc resolved to pleare always at all events, frequently overshoot themselves, and render themselves ridiculous by being too good. A lady going to eat plumcake and candy at a friend's house one morning, ran to the cradle to see the fine bey. as

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