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THI MERITS of PRINTING.
A SONG.
t4 «T7HEN Learning and Sotto own tab
fenk ia night,{
And Genin and Freedom overt bonijb'd bright, ,
torefaof Printing jeon bre't all te light :
then carol rhe praises of Printing,
Andfing in that noble art's praise.
Then aUovbepreffJ: this great Heaven.taught art,
And beroe Libcrtj, Pirta,&Knowledge at heart.
Come join it %e versa, and new bear a part,
To carol, to %' : ^ W^J
9bough ro'r, Cempefer a Galley ma, bow,
-Ye,judge net from that a CoerceaJlave,
Fer Priatintbatb often dag fyafye grave.
Then carol, &c.
If Correction be needs, all mankind does thejaw,
When be Quadrates bit matter, be inmate blame,
Fer to justification be l,t a freng claim.
Then carol, &c.
The' be daily Imposes, 'tie net te do prong.
'Like Nimrod be fallow: the Chafe all de, long,
And always to trim a good Slice dots befog.
Then carol, &c. )^^
A Tbengb friendl, to peace,,it French Cannon be
, tees,
=&,rt in bit Great & Long Primer be „e,e;
And witb jkill and addrefe all bit Furniture
troves.
• Then carol, &c.
"The' no Antiquarian be dealt mack in Coins,
And freedom &tb tyalt, clefel, combines.
And to aid the Republic— of Letters be joins.
Then Carol, &c.
Extremes be avoids and a Medium invites,
Yfo' no blockhead, be oft in Fools Cap delights.
And bundles bis Shooting flick, tbougb be ne'er;
' act 1
Then carol, dec.
But the art to comphte, the font „efaen mast
.come,
-And make ^ tf°/bfl'r Rails, Frifket and Drum,
Andtofrikt the impffin ^ Flatten pall borne.
Then carol, &c.
rfo, as the old proverb dedares met, clear,
* We'er the fartief from God when the chord, we
are near, : .
Soin all Printing Chapels do Davi Lt a„ear.
Then carol, &c.
=On tbe Press Truth, Religion, and Learning
Wbilft that remains free, Slav', ne'er gains its
end,,
Tta nr. Bodkin in bim vobo is not Printing's
.friend,•
And carol the praises of Printing,
, And ling in that noble art's praise.
THE HUMORIST.
AT the last coronation, a gentle
man paid fix guineas for a &|
in Weftmiofter Abbey , the instant
the King entered, he turned to a gen-,
tieman beside him, and protested he
was the greaceft tool in Britain § " in
deed ?" laid the gentleman : " how
so, fir ?" Why, fir, I have paid fix
guineas for*# feat here ; when hit
Msjeffy, who can much better afford
it, comes in for a crown.
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SOON after Sterne had taken pofc
session of the living of Coxwould, in
Yorkshire, to which he was presented
by the late Earl Fauconberg, a poor,
but worthy widow, at the print of
• death, desired that he would come
immediately to her, in order that ^
her last moments the might receive
the facrameat. The fencimental Yor
ick Obeyed the lummox ; and when
/the solemn ceremony was concluded,
hid with a benevolent fade, * What
/ido you intend to leave me in yoor
will tor this trouble ?" U Alas ISirffi
answered the distressed pariffiiori#,!
"lam too wretched to give a legacy
even to my own relations." “ That
excuse," replied her intended bene
fiaoty "(hall not save we: linfift
upon inheriting your two children ;
and, in grateful return tor the bequett,
1 take inch care them, that
they fhatl feel, as little al possible.
the Idfe of an affeaionate and worthy
mother." , The expiring prient, at
once comforted and for piled. affeot
ed ; and Sterne teligioofly kept hit
promise. '^
Mifallan,. ) fyf^
From the Farmer's Weekly Museum.
" Better is the end a, a thihg, than the fainting
!.thereof.”
ASSUREDLY, fays I, with a de
fponding face, when I dipt my
pen into my ink-horn, and expected
to bring up a sermon from the bot
tom. My little flock of readers, ex-
I'* that the pattor will make his
weekly vificatibn, andget I feel too
languid to excurfe far. I with that
the talk was fulfilled ; verily, verily,
Solomon, whether you muttered it,
when building the temple, or think
ing of your concubines, you never
muttered more w'rfdom than " Better
is the end of a thing, than the begin
ning thereof."
Without an invocation to the font
and daughters of indolence, for we all
know what would be the language of
that family, should even the preserv
ing and industrious be afleed the ques
tion, they would refer the querift to
Solomon's works for an answer.
Beginning I continued I, is like
John Bunyan's hill, so difficult that it
would pose even a chnttian to get
fairly over.
Beginning ! why it is the terror of
the school boys? and of pretty piss in
her teens $ it makes lawyers stammer,
and Ipvtrs timid. 1 have to begiu
mv sermon $ and, quoth my grand
mother, looking'at her knitting work
through fpeaacles, I would rather
foot ten pair of your blue flockings,
than brgia one.
But of ending, how many fine sen
tences could I (cribble had 1 lie „s
of a read, writer / Haw exultingly
the faint talks of failing the faith,
how cheerily the laborer swings his
tithe, when hoping is done, and how
brifkiy a bridegroom afeends three
chamber flairs at once, when coort
fhip is at an end! I married a fond
couple, last week, and, as ufoal, neg
leaed the weddingfermon, until the
eager twain tame blushing into my
Body. When I joined their hand; I
felt pulses beating high, through their
white gloves, and saw eyes fparfcle
expr flively, when I extemporized
from better it th, end of a thing, than
the beginning ,hereof. l
, One of my parishioners, a very to
duftrioos and thriving cobler, who
supports a wife, nine faall children,
Qone at tbe freofi b, hit labor of
leather, I knew even from bis boyish
days. At fourteen, he lung wicked
ballads to his fellow apprentices,
drank raw rum, in a frolic, out of the
old (hoes of the (hop, and burnt the
boots of the customers. At twenty
one, three benevolent maidens com
plained of him to the '(quire, and he
was obliged to pawn his freedom „;
co indemnify the parish. He next
commenced a rearing blade, drank
ftp before breaktaft, laid out his heel
tap money in tobacco, and the tavern
clock struck one, when he told the
last negro ft ory. At length he pick
ed up Dr. Franklin's "poor Rich
:4rd," and fouocfihat this was npE
" the way to wealth." He broke
his mug, threw away his box, bought
stock, earned money, kept it, and
married. 1 Rop'd at his (hop, a few
[ mornings fixe, at sunrise to try on a
pair of (hoes. As soon as the noise
of fix of his journeymen^ hammt
\ ceased, I cod'd not forbear comparing
<tep% with the present. Ah, bid
^looking wiftfully at his lift, and
the waxed thread he wit twiniog,
and thinking that St. Gregory, St.
: Austin, and all the fathers of the
church hart punned,^ Mr. Cris
pin, hramucb tore profitable it ,oter
fed, than you beginning.
;Paley, an archdeacon of the church
and, what is much bet era Worthy
man, tells w, in his book of phitofo
phy, that there is a great difference
between beginning with a thousand
pounds, and ending with a hundred,
and the reverie. It is of much im
port, therefore, if we mean to end
well, that we should begin tolerably.
I know no better beginning for a
young man than a good stock of hon
esty, prudence and industry. lt is
better than stock in the (hop, or a
thou(and pounds from a rich father.
If a man should take it in his head to
begin with knavery and theft, it can
not be dissembled, though the words
of Solomon are against me, that there
are ignominious ends, and if hemp
grew in Jerusalem, he ought to know
it, if not, 1 proceed to inform him
that the ropfs end), one of the most
pitiful terminations in life. Neither
better nor best can be predicated of
Inch an end even by the accuracy of
hit logic. 'Tis a site end, and you
trickiih jockies, be not in such haste
to put off your spavined horses, for
double their worth to the believing
buyer. Lame as they are, you may
be willing to avail yourselves, even
of their imperfect speed, to convey
you to the Genefee. Better that the
lake fevet should be your end than
the gallows.
When my spirits ate the viaims of
the east wind, when one of my ago
nizing head aches diftorb /so palace
of the foul, when my fmtli (alary it
fcaotily and grudgingly paid,or, when
remembrance of a falfe friend's ingrati
tude presses strongly upon me, I then
read the third chapter of Job, and ex
claim, better is the end of life than
the beginning. Some there are who
are, perpetually crowned with rose buds
sf delight before the, are withered
who eat and drink, and enjo, the good
of their labor, and then rife up to pig.
—To this class exifteoce has abun
dant charms, and their airy fancies,
pleated with the%ix#% of life's day,
put far away, the end. But it may
be made a very serious question,
whether the majority could not pro
nounce the words of the text, as a
creed. He who is poor or miletable,
blind or naked, must certainly wilh
for better accomodations where he
could be well paid, fed, and enjoy a
perfeß tifion. To such an unfertu
nate, such a fmoaky house ashe in
habits most be offenfiye ; and if you
convince his reason, that in a faft
net made with bands, more airy and
gladlome app#rtments are prepared,
his feelings will rejoice when his mor
tal lease expires, and he will apply &
believe the quoted words of Solomon.
LAY PREACHER.
: TMI MORALIST.
SIXTY years hence, not a Angle
man or woman that is now twen
ty years of age (ball be found ! What
a melancholy truth! But a truth it is
tea stubborn fad : And what is still
more melancholy, many, very many
of the lively adors on the stage of life
at the prefeot day, (hall make their
exit long ere sixty years , hart roll
ed away." — Sixty years, could webe
fore of sixty years, what are they ? A
tale that is told— a dream—an empty
found, that paffeth on {he^togi of
rhe wind away, and,, forgotten.
Years Shorten as man advanceth i^
age : Like the degrees in longitude,
muA lie decreafeth as we travel «F
wards the frozen pole, until it dwia
dies co a point, and vanishes forever
—ls it possible that life is of so Ihort
duration! Wilt sixty years destroy all
the golden names, over the doors, in
,the cities and towns of this flouriflh
iog country, and place new ones in
their dead ?— Will all the blooming
beauties, who now appear more than
mortal, fade and disappear to sixty
years /—Can it be the fate of tlte
bucks and beaus, who now flaunt
with fined flour on their heads, io fir
ty years to be powdered with daft#
idles ?—Alas, it can, and most afc
furedly will be fo.—* Sixty years r
fays death, grinning a gbaftty finite,
"do you think lam going to starve
sixty years ? Not II This very day,
before the fun reaches «' the margin
of the weft,'* thousands of belles and
beaus, beiides numerous old men and
babes, (ball be facrificed, to feed, not
to fill, my ever empty maw."
Could any one, who has died within ,
few months past, rife and come into this
town fifty years hence, what an alteration
would he find ! Should he enquire for the
men and women ot note at the present day, a
single word might answer a thousand of his
questions; Where are Mr. ; Mr. >
&c. &c. ? Lari! And scarcely can it be to
membered that they ever lived.
Among the tombs, where I frequently
wander to learn wifdem, I find but few who
have survived sixty years; where I have
found one who has weathered threescore, I
have mourned over ten who never few twen
ty summer funs. Melancholy considera
tion !—Human life, what a bubble t at
most a fleeting Ihade! Even while f write,
the clock tells me I am one hour nearer the
grave ; that while I dm pondering over the
epitaphs of the silent dead, I am battening to
join them in the dark (hades of death.
Wild Deer.
The FAMOUS HORSE,
CALLS# THE
WILD DEER,
WILL stand M th. stable of
▼ ' the fubferiber this season, as usual.
It was reported, by some ill minded person,
last year, that said Horse was fold, and gone
out of this part of the country | I think it
probable that such a story may be in circula
tion at this time, as I have lately had some
offers for said Horfe—therefore 1 thought
proper to give this public notice, to prevent
any body's being iropofed upon, who live #
a distance from the fubferiber.
I think it unnecessary to far
any thing in favor of said Horse— Hit works
will prove what he is.
JOHN BACHELDER.
; Concord, April so, 1796. 3
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NEW WESTERN POST.
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FEDERAL MIRROR,
^fy leave respectfully to inform the inhabit.
ants of j&4RoW,Sfyty, fffow, Hefekiatn,
Hanihr, Wrare, Daakarm, &r. that they
intend fending a post week!,# (weather per
mitting) thr^gh the laid towns, or as many
oftbem as offer encouragement to pay the
expense—and will fopply them with News
papers on the lowest terms—-They request
payments at the end of each quarter.,
Customers may pay to the Printers or the
Post—and every exertion (hall be, efed to to
commodate all cuftorrers as much as peflU
tele, both in delivering papers and receiving
the paymems.. #
May ~ 796. 5 Lssau & DaviA.
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YUst arrived, and for SALE, by the feb.
J scriber, for one half ready pay, and one
half on a yesr's credit with approved fee#,
rity. Four Tbou find very large and excelled
HIDES.
1 Which, for size ind quality, are fallequalto
any flwghter hides.
' O Hides delivered at Concord or Haver
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