Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 April 1826 — Page 4
Poetical
TWOBLJtXKli TO A PRIZE. The lott'ry' of life, let dame fortune beguile, This truth we thoukl ever premise : That althn' the bright goddess may simper 2; smile, t. - She has always two blanks to a prize. If a husband you take Miss, or you sir a wife, From this maxim divert not your eyes ; ; For one and the other, I'll venture my life, There arc more than two blanks to a prize. If in law you're entangled, why then silly man As a friend give me leave to ad ise : Slip your neck from the collar as fast as you can. There are fifty-two blanks to prize. And if for preferment you're striving at court. Or by merit cNpcct you will rise Your chance is nut worth, sir, three fourths of a groat. There are ninety-two blanks to a prize. THE VALUE OF A MOMENT. At every motion of our breath. Life trembles on the brink of death, A taper's flame that upw.trd turns, While downward to the dustitburns. A moment ushered us to birth, Heirs of the common e..Uh nf eat l't ;
Momeniby moment years arc past, And one, ere long, will be our last.
Twlxt that, long Red, which gave us light, And that which soon shall end in inht, There is a point no eye can i.ee, Yet on it hang eternity. Ttih is that moment who shall tell Whether it leads to heaven or hell ? This is that moment ri.v'wc n ay choose, The immortal soul we have or lose. Time past and time to come are not. Time present is our only h i ; O Ood, henceforth our hearts incline. To seek no other love than thine.
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From the IllnvAs Gazette. TIIETKUMP KT. IMITATION OF DOCT FUANK" LIN'S 'WHISTLE '
When I was a bov, going to school, I was very much charmed with the sound of a Trumpet in the hands of a playactor's down, who was distributing an armful of playbills to the inhabitants of our little village. lie would throw himself heels overhead, and blow
such blasts from his trumpet, which brought one bundled bo vs around him, and I with Vw i -est. The novelty of His -peek led diess. high topped hat. and, as appeared to me. the strange, though mclodi OUS, sounds of his trumpet, left a forced impresion on my mind In short, I was resolved to pur chase one, the first time t had it in my power. Soon after. 1 observed sevcial of mvpluvmates. u ho. like me wc?e captivated with the
sound and appeal am o. have small toy trumpets, which made a tine screeching: one amongst the rest, whose long twisted tube and ele. gant painting, together with the noise it made, pleaded cue much I bought it of him and went home better pleased with it than any person else. Owing to a bashfulness or a diffidence u lech pos sessed me. I scarce ever used it until sent to bring h.ome th.e cows in the evening, and when b myself in the woods I mailt such a noise a set the squirrel- hat king, the night owls screaming, and ihe cattle would geiu rally run home
give me any thing worth notice
For -it, and never to commit such
an error again But either from the many gay things in their pow
er, or their becoming wise sooner than me, my trumpet lay on my hands until the sight of it became odious, and the reflection in my mind, of bring so cheated, gave me more chagrin than the sound of fifty trumpets could give me pleasure. As I grew, up, and became use ful in the world, I have been enticed, through show & fair words, to make many bad bargains, al though the trumprt still sounded loud in my mind: 1 bought hoises, houses, lands. See. but they all became Trumpets and not until lately could I be master of my own feelings and understanding in this wav. Now when I am tempted to buy any unnecessary things, or hear a jockey, a merchant, or a trader, set forth their property in their best style, me thinks I hearthe sound of a Trumpet. When I hear a man setting forth his own praise to the company he4 may be with, extolling
his own virtues, and informing
them of the many wittv things he
has said, and the extraordinary
feats he haspei formed poor man
thinks I. you are Ti umpet.
When I see a man Uum of pop i ... .
mat it y, sacrificing his time, his
property, and perhaps some of hi? friends in preparing for. and at
tending on elections I am certain
he U spending money for a Trumpet ihat may never sound. When I see a young heir, or a man who, by some means, has become possessed with wealth, sacrificing it. and, of course, ewry laudable improvrmeni of the mind to ren-ua! gratifications mitaken num. think 3 .you a,-e indeed buying nv.mv Trunwt- ; but when your money is all spent, neither on nor any peisouehe will ever sound them.
nothing hut a
I find I am pelting old and
must keep in mind that I myself may soon hear the sound of the
LAST TRUMPET. There is nothing that gives us
so pleasing a prospect of human
nature as the contemplation of
.wisdom and beautv. , Beautv is
an overwearying, self sufficient thing careless of providing itself any more substantial ornament nay, so little doesit consult its own interest, that it too often de
feats itself by bctraving that inno
less as a new born infant now I have regained health, strength spiritsand look back on my infatuation with horror." ' 'Nexburyport Herald. Cure for the Tooth ache This is one of the most vexatious of the, ills that flesh (or rather nerves) is heir, to The following simple pi escription can do no injury &- from actual experiment, we know it to be highly efficacious, moreso
than any specific the dread of cold
virtuous. Reasons win Medical Students
iron ever induced the sufferer to.
cence which renders it lovely and Cut a quill at each end and parti'
uesiranie. as tneretorc viktuk j 11 "iin nnt; not However, too makes a beautiful woman appear tight place the quill upon the more beautiful, so beauty makes 1 tube of a'common pipe, "so as the
a virtuous woman reany more j noi in mc quiu may come in con
tact with the end of the tubeLet the pipe be smoked by any person, drawing the. smoke thro'
study three jcutv?. .The first year the quill, for some, time then apasndent has great knowledge. He ply a piece of the lint nearest the will converse most scientifically on ' tube of the pipe to the part of ti e all branches ol the art. take up an j tooth affected, and retain it for a artery, reduce a luxation, give you t conndeiablc time, taking particua lecture on th.e. pathology, and Jar care not to swallow the saliva, most effectual treatment of yellow j which, in all but confirmed t( b acfever, and show you by the most co consumers will'be likely top.- oeonclusive argument that old mas duce sickness at thestomaeh. lmters are fool in the science. Our mediate lelief wili in- afforded to sage aunts and grandmonthers lis-' the m s: pungent tooth ache ten to his disquisitions on natuie. which will not readily return. j preventives and erne of d'u-eases should it do so. the same process with uplifted hands & as he lra cs will again affoi d relief Provithe house exclaim, " Astonishing j deuce Journal young man!" The second year he begins to ! The hft stocking.- Although discover that he knows too much, it may be thought by some wry otherwise nothing at ail. and sets . singular how wC obtained our hhielf about, clearing out therub- know ledge, yet we as it it as a bish that he had accumulated in fact, that ladies aluatjS pull offthe the chambers oi his brain during . left stockm lat.
ine year oi ivisttum, and ty tiie
! eoiMmencemcnt of
A trijlmnr mistake At St Pe-
f
The third year he is prepared ( tepdnngh. i is said, that the eonr the leceplion of. and in the : phators w ished to make the sol-
When 3 c a miser wlmhasl
given up all life joys of henevej , j
lriendbip. :dl the p'easure e-f t!oing go- (1 to himt'eif or others, for the sake of accumulating eahb he has already entered the in
course ot it acquires, the genuine !
knowledge ot a physician. Tames Ogievie, who acquired great and just celebrity in the U Mates a few years Mnce for his rhetorical perfoi mances. was a lave to the immoderate use of onium. The bdlouing passage ex tract from a manuscript letter to a fi lend, i derci iplive if one of the fierce but ineffectual struggles of
a powerful mind against the t v ran- ! i k ....
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lernai regniis ne n as liinriiiiu i .a' M.,vin,u i.'.kw f,.vii-...u i...
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i-ound to )iis nr
When 3 see
eneed youth making laige purchases, being fond of handsome ornaments, fine clothes and iir.e fur
sact dire. I l ad been long in this way before I changed my place of res idenee. Physicians told me death would be the certain consequence
niture-poor young man. thiols f tiiSUi.c of the ding: I felt
1. perhaps he u ili not perceive that
he is pay in v too much for the Trumpet, until the store keepeiV bills, and the shcrilV'a wiits, stare him in the face. When I see a handsome good
that its use must soon destroy nw; and tardy suicide in any new is no les criminal than immediate self-destruction My mind re volted from the idea. On 1 1 e
first night after my arrival my
die? s hout, Constanliuv foiwer, the Constitution jbrcvevl and, as the soldiers, who wfre ignorant of w hat the Constitution was. offered some resistance, the plottcis being taken unaw arese. told tin m it was Ce.nstantine s wife, the deceived men then cried Cont-tn-tii e Jorei-er, the Const L'ut ion forever ! . If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunkard, for little as you think it, all agree that those who steal from themselves and families will rob others. The discovery A gentleman praUed the personal charms of a plain woman before Fote, the
laher whisprred him, "And why don't you lay rlaim to such an a'Compli-hed beauty ?" "What light have I to I ci ?" said the other. "Eveiy light, by the law
t nations, as t lie first discoverer P
comrary. wnen 1 see a good na tured. industiious man married to an ill-natured scold of a wife what a pity, thinks I. that they
I must toil, c pay both, for a tium-
as if hunted by dogs or wolves, j pet
I still thought my prize a great ' Our country is, at present, well
supplied with many self taught
natured girl married to an ill-na- i frame v. as exhausted witti laligue tured scrub of a man; or, on th.e !,and 1 slept. The greater part of
the second was parsed m writing and then I rciited to rest but it was not rest it was a honible
one, until having been sent an er
rand to Mr Stiver's, who kept the Dutch stoie, 1 observed hair-'
..preachers w hen 1 ! see one ol
r'thosc gentlemen standing no. withj
iog up mm saic . M eiai u iaiii'. r ! solemn counienance anil assured as handsome as my own, and. in j confidential air, calling the attcn
likelihood, could send forth as i tion of the people around him to : . : ' i .i i .
near tne woict ot the .Lord, and
good music. I enquired the pi ice,
and found I could purchase seven of them for the same as 1 had paid for mine. I went home full of reflection, and resolved to part with the screaming trumpet se ctetly to the fu st boy who would
declaring himself to be the Messenger of the Most High I cannot help feeling for him, lest he may turn out (as commonly happens) nothingbutancmpty Trumpet.
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dream ; every individual fibie ap peaied to have its peculiar pang every sense brought agony. 1 uf lered the torture of the damned. Twice I rose and put the phial of laudanum to my lips twice 1 put it away untasted. 1 was in most
excruciating pain and rose the 3d
time but 1 plucked it away, opened the window with desperate resolution, and threw it out on the giound When 1 saw its fragments glittering in the moon light. I felt a sentiment of triumph I am regenerated but it is as a re surrection from the grave. Before, I was as languid and nerve-
Matrimonial Journal A gentleman lately took the following meterological Journal of his wife's temper: Monday rather cloudy ; in the afternoon rainy. Tuesday vapourish brightened up a little at night. Wednesday, chargeable, gloomy, inclined to rain, Thursday, high w md & some peals of thunder. Fiiday, lair in the morning, variable till the afternoon, cloudy all night. Saturday, a gentle breeze, hazy, a thick fog. and a few flashes of lightning. Sugar anil Tallow, are both wanted by the Pi inter, and will be gladly rec eived in exchange for any debts owing him from subscribers, or for other work.