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.Vj, 7 mil "jj'cfi ;t7 monPour on ; I vtll endure. Lear. Spring h:;fch its flowers :ts hoar of bloom, Its balmy airs of odorous sigh ; A'-iUt tlioy shed their sweet perfume ; A little while and fad?, and die A" when, as o'er, tuch hour hath fled, Aa i wtntry htor ns the iky obscure, When ragM the tempest, still I've said, 44 Pour on ; I will endure." Youth hath its pleasures brightly beam, O.i fancy's eye, life's flowery ways ; And l ive and hope, with fairy jleam, y.nch.i'atment throw o'er distant days, a line I seen thos.e prospects fade, Though youth had detm'd the promise fcu-e, A-a 1 midst the wreck of feeling said, 44 Pour on ; I will endure." Man may be happy I have known, When pleasured cup I freely quaff'd, Vh :n jov's bright sunshine round me shone, Untusted sorrow's bitter draught. But dcadlv persecution speed Her poisonous shafts, with aim too sure; My heart had witnerea yet I saia, 44 four on ; l wui enuuic Lif is a shadow soon the tun That casts it to the earth sh ill 6: ; A:d nan, a few brief glassrs run. Hi foysaid sorrows shall forget. Yet mere is hope wnen life is fled, Of blissful real ns and pleasures pure ; A -I 'n that hope through life, I've said, Pour o. ; T wiP ndu"-." JAQ,TES I MfsCELLA. V. P irt of a sermon delivered near v Lichfield (Eng ) You have ears to hear, eyes to See. tongues to taste, throats to s.va'l iw. draw nea- I say, and pie' op the crumbs I shall scatter among ve : the crumbs of comfort wherewith ve must be crammed, until ye become chickens of grace and are cooped up in the coop of righteousness I! voor hearts are a9 hard as a tiuT!k cheese ora Norfolk dumpiin. my discourse shall beat t' rm as it were upon a cobbler's lap-me until they become as soft as a roasted apple aye. even as s ft as a custard, and melt within ye like a marrow pudding Do you know what trade Adam was ? 1 sav do you know what trade Adam was ? If vou don't I'll tell you Why. Adam was a .planter For, he planted the 2a- den of Eden Now. do you know what was the first thing Adam set in his grirden ? Ho. ho. you don't, don't vo i ? Theo I will tell ve his fo ' ! 'is foot. I say was the first tiling Aditn set in his garden bit he could not keep it there ; n no.no. lie could not keep it th'Me. for Lucifer came behind him, triped up his heels and trundled him out head and 6'vmldeis. Til tell vou a secret : I sav. HI tell vou a secret. Knees were iriale hefore elbows For the bca-s of the field were made be fore man .and have no elbows at all. therefore down on your mar row bones and pray for mercy else you will be turned into Belzebuh's under ground kitchen, and made turnspist to satan. A certain courtier, to whom Quc'-o Elizabeth had given her promise io promote him. began t grow impatient at the delay. Oki day the queen perceived him in the palace garden, and looking out of the window asked bim. " What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing?" To which after a short pause he replied Madam, he thinks of a Woman's promises '' A certain Innkeeper who was much addicted to lying, made it a practice to entettain every traveller rhat railed at his inn with a dio of ies A sailor one dav happening to dine with him, was

kept mute for a longtime by several very lengthy narratives among others told the following; he said. the growth nf his indian corn was so great that year, that beneath it was as dark as night and that he was obliged when he ploughed it, to carry a lantern in the middle of the day to light him along the furrow. " " Bv J s said the sailor quite uncon cerned, i that's a trifle to what 1 have seen. I was lately in so furious a storm, that it took ten

! men to hold one man's hair on his head" Which silenced our host at once. VARIETY WOR VH READING. When one is beloved bv a beautiful woman, says the great Zoroaster, and not married, he hath always the good fortune to extricate himself out of every difficulty and danger The moment of meeting and that of parting, says Voltaire, are the two greatest epochs of human life Dean Swift says-What thev do in haven we arc not told, but what they do not, we are expressly told they are neither married nor given in marriage." Life When I look upon the tombs or the great, every emo tion of envy dies ; when T read the epitaphs of the beautiful, eve- j ry inordinate desire forsakes me ; I when T meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion when I see the tombs of the parents themselves. I feel how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow ; when I behold rival Kings lying side byside, or holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment, on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind ; when I read the several dates of the tombs of some who died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago. I am reminded of that day when all mankind will be contemporaries, and make their appearance togeather. Addison. Literature. Zone said, we have two ears and but one tongue, because we should hear much and talk little. j How happy are those whose cultivated minds can, at all times, draw resources from themselves ! ; to such, solitude is never irksome, and amusement charms with double zeal. Saint Pierre. Politeness True Politeness is modest, unpretending, and gen erous ; its appearance is not striking ; because a truly polite person while acting courteously, would endeavor to conceal it It engages a man to esteem his neighbor, because he thinks it manlier to descend a little than degrade another. Rank Men of elevated rank should have highly cultivated minds, and those who occupy eminent distinguished stations in society should possess knowledge proportionally extensive ; it is only thus that the superiority of one sex over the other, or of the great over the little, can be ei ther tolerated or exist. Would i a man of rank estimate his real j dignity, let him conceive himself in a state wherein all rank is abolished. Prosperity and Adversity He who is pulled up with the first gale of piosperity will bend beneath the tht blast of adversity.

A Itebitss A charade lately appeared in the Evening Post of New-York, the solution of which was blunder, an error or mistake, and buss, a kiss or salute from the lips on reading the charade a lady very innocently observed, that of all the words which terminated in buss, she prefered a re-buss Dean Swift says "As universal a practice as lying is. and as easy a one as it seem, I do not recollect to have heard three good lies in all my conversations ; even from those who were most celebrated in that faculty. Well chosen books are our best friends, we find them always ready when we want them ; and when judiciously chosen, they always speak the truth to us. By reading we enlarge our understandings, and we afterwards feel much greater pleasure in society Although know ledge is a treas ure of great value, which no thief can steal, and more precious than the gold of Ophir ; still when it is obtained at the expense of health it is bought too dear Pedantry, is the foible of a superficial mind. The more a man really knows, the less he affect to display his knowledge Fame is one of the natural reward? of virtue. Do not pursue her and she will follow you. One mav take a share in conversation without uttering a syl lable. The expression of the countenance shews it ; and this never escapes a descerningeye. The effects of love among men are diversified by their different tempers. An artful man may counterfeit every one of them, so as easdy to impose on a young girl of an open, generous, and feeling heart, if she is not extremly on her guard The finest parts may not always prove sufficient for her security. The single effort by which we stop short, in the clown-hill path to perdition, is. itself, a greater exertion of virtue, than a hundred acts of justice Tho se who outlive their in comes by splendour in dress or equipage, are well said to resem ble a town o;i fire which shines by that which destroys it. A woman in the presence of her lover should never want a looking glass, as a beau in the presence of a looking glass never wants his mistress. Aristotle was once asked why every person was so fond of beauty ? to which the philosopher replied, " it was a blind man's ques tion " It is a severe remark of St Ev ermond, that the last sighs of a pretty woman, are more for the loss of her beauty, than for the loss of her life AGRICULTURAL. From the American Farmer CABBAGE PLANTS HOW BEST RAISED A very erroneous practice has long prevailed with respect to the method of propagating cabbage plants ; and although I may be laughed at by experienced gardeners (for I don't profess be a nice grdener,) for innovating on their prerogative ; still I will venture to suggest a mode which I believe all will approve after trying it The common practice has been to sow cabbage seeds on very rich gro-.md in order to have early plants, and many estimate

the value of their plar.is for transplanting in proportion to their large size bi t I do not. If you sow your seed early, on very rich ground, they progress rapidly ; and if, sown thick, as is commonly the cac, soon aequiic a small slim stem, and small top and if sown thin, they will be too large to transplant before the propertime. for a winter crrp. If you sow your seed hte in the spring, vou cannot be certain of succeeding The plants, as soon as they appear above ground are frequently destroyed by a small bkek flv, especial! v if the weather proves dry, and it is difficult to preserve them. I have tried many remedies without success. Some vcars ago after I had sown a larrc bed of cabbage Feed early in toe spring : I determined to procure a variety, and from tlie seed stores I was furQshed with eight or ten different sorteo

they did not come to hand as they were sown about the first of May. on rich ground ; the eeaon proved dry. and as soon as they appeared above ground, they were destroyed by the fly I entirely failed with thc:m and was obliged to have recourse to my bead sown early in the season. instead of sowing my cabbage seeds on rich ground. I have foe several years past chosen the poorest part of my garden arid sown my seed? as early in the spring as the frost would zdmit. The continual moisture of the spring will soon caus3 the cabbage seds to vegetate and grow on poor ground ; and the ily does not often injure them when sown early. If any aie wanted for early transplanting, thev can be forced by sprinkling a small part of the bed with Icy fr m around the manure heap ; and a portion of the plants can be thus forced through the seasnn. so as to have them of proper size at any time. Those on (he pogr ground not manured soon acquire a dwarfish appearance, and will remain so all the season unless watered and manured as directed. Or transplanted to rich ground when they will grow vigorously if the "season should prove favourable. I do not prefer to transplant large plants ; for small plants do not wither and fall so much as large ones. I shall hereafter pursue this method, and I ask others to try it, before they condemn tho practice. For raising Cabbages Take from the stumps of old cabbages, which you generally set out earlv in the spring the most prominent shoot, after they have sufficiently expanded themselves, and set them out in the same mode you do your plants, and they wilf immediately take r)ot. and afford you a very early and luxuriant cabbage. Those who have tried this method affirm, that they are much earlier, and by far superior to any that can be produced from the plants. They must be broken from the slumps, and not cut off. as the small fibres greatly fa cilitates their taking root. In a recent duel betwen two Barrisfas. one of them shot away the slchi of the other's coat. His second observing the truth of his aim. declared, that had his friend been engaged with a client, he WOllld VfPV rti'rthuK!

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