Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 December 1811 — Page 4

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" j of heaven.' A printer's Income pours not in !iuv. cts; it droppcth. Reader, thou halt ) r . i... t i r .r c .

feen the parched earth f uttering lor want ot

rain. Aher a long dearth a cloud paifeth over, it Perchance a few Scattering drops rail ; hue not iullkient to lay the dull, livery fix months the printer experts a (bovver; a few 4 (trained' drops only fall. He opens his mouth to catch enough to allay thirll his editor, (if he is not his own,) his foreman, if not too poor to have one,) his prellmen, lis cleik, (if not his own,) his journeymen,

POETIC A L A S T L U M. j nis b jys, and caniers, and wider than ail,

A D III N KING SONG.

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Th? thirfly earth drii.us tip the rain, drii-ks a:i J p3nts inu Jtiiiks rfiu ; Thj plants tint on sh e ut!i thu are By con flint drinking frefh anJ fair, cuoucs. Th?n fill your, bowls boys, fill thenvhch Fill all numbers around, tor why , Should cv'ry efcatute drink but I ; Men of nijraU tell me why I The (Va itlelf, as one would think, W-ujU have hut li t!-: need of dtiak; Drink's cv'ry brook and rivtr up Into its ovciiljii -4 cup. I hen fill your bowls Sec. The Sun likwife, one u-ould cuefs By his dru:krn fi'ty .ficr no lr is, Drink up thrSc.J, wh-n is dtipp, Ths Mjou and Stars dunk up the Sun, Then fill ycurbowlj, Sec. Th y dri ik and dnce hy their own l'ght, Thi y duiur and r r f I -1! the niht.; Thrrc'i nothing in 'tinf lY.r; t'unJ, Bat eicrual hci.th ju-t s round.

Thi! fill your bowh o y?, 5'' t'icm IiTTi, j

rill 11 bnrnicrs aroUi.u. iorwh; Sh n.l 1 cv'ry creature dii; k but I, i.Icii ot nv?r.i!s :-!! m- v ? . : : The fo!! r.vin'T is extract d from the Vir'inia PatTiot, a federal pa;nr, tr :!ie a-

horrible visu ! his paper maker. The printer's devil, or runner, ret nnn with a fe v Mtrained dollars.' They have litted up their eyes in torments but no cup of water has cooled their tongues. his one of the mod difrrefiing fcenes in the world, yet fuch asuitten occur. And it trials and tribulation, patience and long fuffering under injoiies, tit us for a better (late hereafter. Old Nic has but a-few.Tuhjedts in his kiugdorii who are printers of newfpapers. The other day money was wanted for the paper ' maker. B were fent out in the neighborhood to tiic amount" ot 400 dollars. The-runner fpent the day ; returned at night v i htm dollars and ieventy five events. The crimes Inch we occafion in others mud be atoned tor at the Kill day by ourfelves. For the printtr's fins of .unavoidabhr blafphemy I a v m a n y p a t r o n s of n e w fp a p v rs will have to account. '.Who can btdiold fuch tcenes & not - ieel wrath I Who can Tutfer in fuch fcenes, and can keep the rfaural ruby of his cheek, nor have it blanch'd vvuh cuttings?' A f ttr 'lf)og meditation on the fubjeifc we 'are fully convinced that punctual payment for

I papers, H it tovereth not, preventh a multi-

tu-le ot tins ' How many have been ruined by the want of payment. How many conncdled with a printing office, from the al-

inuiemeut ct many ot our 1 feiue C)f Lad, ro purciiate good clothes that

14 Let the guli'd jade wince!" Mercy is like j)avinj. the p: in tei for Uv .v 1:) s The quality oi ineity is not not Itrain 'd It droppcth like the gentle dew of Mea veil. It bl r fl 2; !i I;im that gives ami that rcceh e, Thus ipe.ik'j'J; h k. fpeare tlir'' ti;e u;ouih of :t.i m the merchant of Venice. jMcre about mercy the h;i;T robed fair o;,c dTuos, inn Avhat cannot no a be remem bcrcd, nor q'.iott -d ; for aia ! the wiiter tor new Ijiapei 5 do not wallo v in wealth ; i!ic pa tern; nt r. v. r- ) pel s are fuch

mmcci'. nl p.iy metiers that

they might g . regularly to church, and keep

good company, have forfaken the houte of woi !hip. Tu en thut out froni refpedable fociety ; have altociated with the molt difreputa hie, became perhaps hard drinkers, turned v aijo.uis ; been go hy of theft or fuicide, or liave oie.i in a poor houfe ; all which evils A ouhi h ive u en prevented bv ptiuChiality in oiyoenttor uca fp-.pers. The ioul fickens at iIk thouglit or tb many evils brought upon i.jv iety, wiiich migiii have been to eaiily prevented. ?o::ie of our patrons, alas for them and us roofc w lot ilie glaring truth Hand in capitis Ti,) O VF W have reciprocated w ith i art looted utterance the pieaiurei of payment. It bhiTeth them thac pays and that receives fuch know the bed fcelinp- of cxiflcncc their boivnns are never rent with the oiltrets ol be; dunned. '1 hev anticipate tlie claims

thofe w!if fin niih amulemcnt o ju!lice. l"hey k:iov befor c!iand and pre

or iuil t ii' lit ,n tro ti the prcl, arc f ido n able to keep a library, and not even 11 -,:uic captain and 'lie td.dj's lieu t MMiit, a .Vir.k i be ire. 1 hv

nicrcitul patron ot new()a

vent the pof;i',diiy of enduring the grating Ibund of ' p w i?;e that thou ou-etl.' Such ku j .v how to live, knoe wherein con lifts the "enuine en'ovmeu: ot immau naiure. Son.etitnw'S vc arc af!;ed. 4 iutS Mr. (uch a one p.iid you for tisii year's piper What

)ers pays re. (lily and wdlin"" ! ()n inly ? hy we turti al it otf with a

y. The ij iality ot liis pay- 1 ;n;;ii Poh, wliy do you afl; nr facii a quef Xiient is not drained. 11 It j lion? don't you know he i has a due drfppeili like the gentle dew jfenfe ofbib;, a icg ird for his ;7 and a

rcgird for tbet promotion of virtue and fedc rahfm I3 1 hui do we lay, being tender of the reputation pf our patron, thougli perhaps lie owes us forfait' a dozen years lubfci ipiion, and has put tisjotf with 4 i'llcall Shortly and and fettle my account' a year afterwards In alevv daw I (hail be in funds and v ill honor your hill'4 two years afterwards why really have I ilorgot fo long to pay for the paper? Weir, yell, the account (hall be dipcharged without dela)' two years after tha5 eternally dunning me for money. '1 hia js vile treatment I was-onehis lirll fuhfciib-

Stop the paper, 1 Ml take it no horo;er,

ers

f hep I have money to fpare Til. pay the account.' Jull Wit is;with advertifements What, ten dollarstvo years ago for one advertileriient.V' But It was in thirty or forty time I did not ord.er it .fo You. ordered it till forbid ; you ftopt it yourfelf ; you knew the pi ice of advertifing It is too much, it can'c be recovered by lavv, Til pay you two dollars. ' .But what are? we about I 1 1 is a fal, full well knmjm to the parties concerned, thac there is "Ny'ie proprietor of this paper, fums not incpnhderable for feveral year's fubfcription from fome perfon ; " from how many no mention flrall be made, for we are defirous of having it believed that our patrons are punctual paymafters many of them dwell ac a diftance. I f a dunning letter full of polite nefs is fent to them, they are fo angry at paying the poftage of the dun, that they think Tt quite, enough to pay that and the podage papers, without paying for the paper itfelf but we printers differ iq opinton from them on this fubjcdl, 1 iome who arc indebted for leveral year3 are ferioufly called upoii by their honor and fcohefty their ability to pay, and our own. ne ceffiry, to fettle their accounts on the firft of

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cpt. init. or we may loie our temper and. give them over to be buffeted by lawyers, iherifts and conftables. , ' Tt i; simf? pvprv man fiil nnlrl rliK vpor'

fubfeription Smile not, nor think to quiet our claims by faying that we know how to dun If there are magiftrates and officers in the land fuch fmilers will fmile at theit own coft , if they Smile, and fmile, and be behind hand.

A difpute lately taking place between an Engl'dh footman an 1 lrilh chairman, concerning the great ti'milarity of tlgn boar ls in a certain town in Kent, wherein there are eioh teen public houtes, ihe former affirmed that he knew of no fewer than (even figns of bulls, which the other denied, and wapcr was

made on the fubjedl. Tlie Knglilhn:an 'then! proceeded to name the houfes, viz. the lilac!:1 bull, the pied bull, the red bull, the grey bull, the brown bull, the fpotied and unabled' to

think of 'another, the dun cow. Cb ! by tho

powers!' cried Pat, 1 and that's a hull'ro it is rejoined the other, which makes the feventh !' Pat of courfe loft his bet. A crvjntry fclinolmnOrr sfk:d a lYilcr v.l-r wss thr third 2 lulf ta trn pf ncc ? The ftflow, who v. ;s ii'.itr r:nc, aim coniVqamtly v n ;.c qnaintt il with untlnnitic cv -c'rd ivin an anlwrr, iiui Timlin,; tlut he did not care to i;ivr tl. it i(ir pothin which h-d Icamt at a dear Mir, adding ihi he fruld frt thr ichooini.tf. t.-r a much lurJrr urdion. Wh.t ii it? crird thr foir.ifr. ' Why rr:i!iCd the tar, if a pound of ch-dc colls four pcncr, wlu; will a cut itud of turnipi amnun: to I' Sm: one writing grr.Tttv, J-ys thr yje braH is an t!i' ..-.raveft hird U an Ql the xszW ll Ua is an Ojtcr ; ard tl.a