Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 February 1827 — Page 4

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Poetical.

TAXKS. A met rv fellow, who.e hanl lot It w;h in " ould VarmounC to gather taxes, StoppM 'm ath a shed where carts, ploughs, saw s and axes Shew M the ) oprietor some cash he had got ; Then to the Imuse he hied. And ;n the door his leathern knuckles tikil ; " Sir "(eutet ing,) "Sir, y cur taxes if you ph-ase!" " Vh it !" moth the owner, very ill at ease, " Taxes again ! whv 'twas but t'other day 1 p iid a mo-t mcnnrai i mh um aw ay Tor taxes, sir 'lis 'tarnel hard 1 vow ' A man can scarce aiTml to keep a cow I ra'allv b'lie vou'll tax my c-iy ees!"

poiethe man of law, w ith grave sur-

that their limited cxcursFons arc

i entirely atthhutahle to thcVvant

of moreampleprov isiohs for llight. The ant catchers arc never found in settled districts where their favorite insect? ate generally less a bundant t but they live in the dense and remote parts of forests far troin the abodes of men v civ ilization They also dMike open and wet countries Toe note of the atit catcher is as

j various as the species arc different.

but U is always verv remarkable and pecnlUr ' Their flesh is oily,

, iinse;, r. and disagreeable to the taste, and, Yo veallv are unreasonable ; table , u t Sn-e,the main comforts cf your house and ' When the hird 13 Opened, a Very Are m-cr taxed; f-ir instance, sir, your wife, offensive odotir IS diffused from

W'e ask no tax on her. " you don t ul s

" hi

lit

elf,

I guess Von don't!" rejoined the grumbling "Good reason whv ! she's tax chough herself!" TiniTs t c a rou 15 u From Charles Liliuvn 11) uptivtsi

America i 0 urinology

The ant catcher? in;

enumerated amongst the

ors of mankind, as they dwell in regions where the ants ae so nti nier ous, Urge and voracious, that wit1. mot the agency co operating with that ol t he My tnccopkagn jttVnrt, and a few other ant cat! quadrupeds, the produce of I he soil w odd inevitably be destioxed in

those ferlile paits of the glohe

d h.alt digested ants cets contained inuhc me of the ant catcher

the remain ol half digested

and other insee

stomach

The plnmap;

very probably undergoes eonsid erahle changes in colour. The size of the sexes is different, the

i iustlv be ,cma'e toeing much larger than the hehenelact- !1,ll'c hch vamtionsmay have

uumeeu naturalists to consiner many as species that really do not exist as such in nature.

Sir P.ullip Sydney, of aphoris tical memory has thus condensed nearly all that can be said on that dime against nature, suicide The last period but one needs not

t' e apology of the icmotenes ol

The ant bills of -outh America the age aP which it was written,

but is at this day strikingly eloipi'Mit, 1 Killing of one's self k but a false color f ttue courage, proceeding of a tear of futureeviheither of tor inent or of shame; forif it were not a hopeless respecting of the harm, eouraue would make one not id

sped, what might he done unto

one : and hope, being, of all othei

the m st eontiary to lear. : :;nling being an utter banishment of hope.il bonib t receive its ground in fear ----Whatever come.-, out ol

despair cannot hear the tPle of

ate often mote than tweot v h el in

diameter, and many lee in orighl, Tiiee wonderful edifices v ere thronged with two hundredfold unte inhabitants and ate proportionally larmotenumei ou.thau the small ants w it l which we are familiar Breeding in vast oumhers, and m dtiph ing with great celei ity and profusion. the tnc.iea-c of these insects would soon enable them to swarm over the greatest extent id eountr . w ere not their propagation and dimMon limited by the active exertion of t hat part

of the animal creation winch eon

tinuallv subsist bv their d lion

Ti e ant catchers run rapidly upon the gi otmd. alighting but seldom upon tree, aau then on the lowest branches. : thev generally associate in small tl cks. feed ev elubelv on insects. most com

tnonlv Irequeii

'hn-i valor, w!i-lu.houSd he lifted up lbtic ,uch a height, tlud holding ;

h'ilU heh'iv

the largest ant . i

meu loneU r(v i al

dih' ent ipeeies oi thet(bii. ds ate

otien beived to live n. pel feet ha mouv on the jame tnonnd vhivh a it supplier an abuiiil.tnce id' food for all ictuso, rs -ne d the eaOM of disesM vl winch is IU0:t u nxetaiU opeiative throughi'Ut animated nature. On the same prmeiplo we mihl explain the compai alive mildncs'-i id herbivir on animaU. a ellath feioeitv ;nul sditarv .ahits d e it ni ei ms, and panieolailv ot iM'Ntejous an in? d . vvhieh i epuf. e . e- hri s from iheit- soejrt . aioi 'oi . id e en their own King to iryrivn ie limits i'f t heir angnina A u un,

to til

things umleritK'H, it should be

able to maintain its gieatness. v vj in the uudid of misct tes ('Sod has appointed os captains of then our bodily forts, which wittuntt treason to that majesty, are never to he deliveied over till the v ate demanded." Ur.MiNtsc iNei; in the old trench war Massachusetts maintatued a gammon at Uosudc. neat1 the line of New4-York. Thccommantlcr having discovered that Indians were lurking in tf$ woods around it, despatched Mr Craw ford with another pcA ton. to 1'itislicld, to appr'Lso tc inhabnaut? of their danger He directed them nut to Meak aloud to each other on the way. a. d bv all means to avoid cverC travelled nunc. Having proeeah-j about ! ! i i i t - I i : I v i tiii tl I i ...... , l

was then given for Indian scalp?, till be reached New Orleans, by Craw lord, ashort tiuieafterw aids, which time he had collected be went, with a htockbiidge Indian, twecn two or three thousand doltt search for the body of the one lars. Here he took fuissagc with he had killed. On arriving near his family for New York, where the place the Stockbridge : Indian, be obtained another wheel barlaying nothing, looked around for row, and is now going over the dead bushes and when he found ground the second time in the one endeavored to pull it up same way finding this a more lie at length found one that came profitable business than mowing Up readily, Here, said he to bushes or digging potatoes on the Crawfoid is the body Thev gieen mountains, dug there and found it, took oft i At a time when apples were the scalp, carried it to 15 iston.and . plenty, and baldly woith the labrecehed the pietnium. or of making into cider, a rich farxY . JounmL mer of Londondary told bis poor neighbor that, if he Would come PAHliSTAi. uns. YYe believe to his oiehatd and pick the apples, that the slight legard in which . be might have them and welcome.

strict truth is held amon-r man

kind, is principally owing to the

lies vvhieh ate told to children bv

Hodge scratched his head. and. af

ter considering a moment said, "thank ve sir. it von'l! Cmd mn

their parents during the first few ! bread and cheese, and the old gray cars of their livca. Then is the mat e lo grind 'cm, I'll take up

time that permanent impressions

may be as w ell made as at an la ter periods It is then. probably,;

that what is called the na'ural

your oiler. ?

CHOICE ADVICE.

Fill up k our time so fully with

propensity of a child, is unfolded. J!K lul employments as to leave Many persons who have a gieat j !lU,r ItMsiuc lor pursuits of a abhorrence to Ivin- & whin their 1 doubthdeharacter Endeavor fur-

up

euildien if the detect them in it, make no scruple of telling act ing to them the most attuv eious falsehoods There are few parents w ho do not do this in a gt eater or less degiee, tho' nv)t thinking they ore tuiilty of erimi nal deception. With many the whole business of managing iheir children, is a mere piece of artifice and trick, They are cheated it) their amusements, cheated in their food and cheated in their dress Lies arc told tnem o get them to do any thing that is disagi eeahle It a child is to take phasic, the mother tells him stic has some thing ;good for htm to drink ; if reluctant, she sa s she will send fur the doctor to come and cut off his eurs. or pull his teeth, or that she will go away and leave him. and a thousand things of the same kind, each of which may deceive once, and answer the present purpose, but w ill invaiiablv lad afterwards.

i'ai ('lllis UIO loo iilil to (niiravnr i

to pa. iiy then ohiklren by ttwtUin- ! , ,,,,... y

l,,uu, , fc- imt mienu tx ) persons heller filled (or I:

to periorm. it tney wish, tor im j nesj and each other than Sandv stance, to take aw ay some eatable and hantly wife. Thev lov "d winch they lear may he injurious, j rach other well, but money heller the .eeonctle them by a piomise j than each other. Whatever dis

therto accpiiicsueh a strong sense

ol duty, such a taste lor contemplations of a higher order, & such well arranged habit , uf sacred duty and devotion, a may supciedc the temptation to devote to idle if not mp rious amusements momcuts w hich may he so much more profitably given to the great care ol-maki gyoureallingk electiun sure " Keep in mind the claims which your family, your friends, society, have upon your hours; of letiremcht ; and the importance of so employing those hours he they few or many, that your body and mind may be refreshed for the returning duties of each successive day And lastly, guard against habits of idle curiosity-, and be not ashamed to own 'that there are many things which neither your time nor your tas'c peimitu you to be acquainted with, and least of all, with every )nv tale that happens to be the subject of popular conversation.

him.

V ,. . , M"Vu,,nS I aS"Wirl liuiici.rl hcUu rn c.,c that will .Unc tlu-m. w.iluiut then .iriRi.mlcil in their riv.K i aiiyimniii.,n.lKil.l.v5 tlu-m in paimonv. The ' ' lu, ii l.y,;. down, ..M lyi,,.;. u ,!id aluV i, i' , I'copi.thn.uno.hin;. o! l,,;lk ttI,,8B IVon, u m,. , ; " in;; .hnrp.on,, to chihhvn. i!" s ,llt,IIaiIH,, ,, tfXLuh

eonxcnicut. I tt thev aie the

persons to wlh.tn prom'hes sliould he troUen, hecaese they cannot comptehend t o reason, if there ate any. w hy they aie not kept. Mich promises should be scopulous.y iedt enu d, tl;o' at a -eat incons rnience. and even when

I ' Kill

o am eaien'is never soar

hi U io the air. nor do the r strinl they were whispering together t!u ,.'.4. . l k.

their mght t . ,snv j eat iiiauee Indian nc vy espied the two sol

wuhot-t ahtiiing to rest, in consetr'en 4 d t he shoi tncv o f their in;e; tail, w hich. in aet seem to le seldom emplo ed for anv othei purpose t h..m lo ;vsist thetii in rnuing- along tlie ground, or in Icapinj; horn branch to branch ot bushes and 1 n trees, an exereisc in w hich tlnV dipl.iy iem.u kabk ac'vuv S-nue species, h'.e t;a' wo.dpeele? s tdiuth on the trunks iH' n ee . i a put suit of in-eets ; anil it w ould appeal from their resiles habile Umu:t cun::ta:il tnution.

Indian neat him who appeared to in..tb ci tently made, for the eb.ildV

he lung his moccasin: lie made a t babit ts ot infinitely more sign to his companion, and while I importance than any Mich incon

venience can he to the parent. ( " Lit ci (try C(t :.

. e. .... I .,.h,,. . i . . I . . a t . . .. . I

i.uis ivtutxm:; liiuiinv at Uim

He set earned and ran.leapinc like

1)1 ttshw ood

Ueer

ON Ci'

the

(iMwlotvl lircd, when, leaning i or sw api)in: horses, had -ot tidot

higher and hut her than beloie. he i.hts worany Mihstance. and h.ivin-r

A Yankee who had settled in

ennonh by idleness, dissipation

pin- or sw aji e.heH.his w or

let! ih'. id tiiifh' , .11 ..n 1. ' -i t ilo i,l .... .... .l.'.l e.

.ihwuivi niui.iii i.k n iv ,4 1 1 vi n en ennui en lo dipran fiom behind a tree, w lnun purt took U into his head to em Craw-foul's companion fired at igrale ti the western ciuntrv

woumled His cries of pain, or j and started olV with his whole fa

mdy on loot. eai rying mux cables in a hand hariow. He soon

puisncd. hut the latter arris ed safe lotiud his situation excited jrn at Pittshtdd. atjmjuithtf, charity was Aery As a nremiutn of forty pounds i wheic bestowed, cud he kept on

ot alarm bro't othei s to the snot

Tin soldiers iled, and the savage

thrown into the fne the end i f n

lartliui:'; cam e and s?n,K.

alter iorgol himself o far i

jeail hia wife an extravagant husI M,.v because she neglected to drive ! a hard baigain with a mateh wo- ; man, and tiioughtlessh gave ' er ter own price for a 'hnidle of mate lies. !n fiveyeais after they ; commenced business thev :iMiv,.fl

at considerable uilth. and at the end ot ten years Sandy was able to establish one of the first banking house in London. Success and wealth aheied not their habit It was Mis S who sold the Westphalia hams to the oil man horn whom they had been bought to be sent as a piesent to her. It was Mrs S who divided tlc nipe and made it seiiefortwo dinnets. It was the same wife who after pun basing tuihot for u pai ty she intended to gi e. cruelly depiivcd them of it because a neighhor was prodigal enough to uttyr a hundred percent, upon the original pulchase,