The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-05-06 00:00:00, page 4

/ / THE Bibidrt,
TRUE BEAUTY.
SAY, is it height, or (hape, or sir,
Which to the mind true worth Im-,
part ?
Can brilliant eyes, can flowing half ;
Can grace external, deck the heart ?
If height gives worth, the fliwers in vain,
O'er blooming fields their fleets
Clefe;
The thorn exceeds g,y Maia s train.
The lofty yew excells the rose.
If graceful Ihape can worth create,
The tyger's graceful form please ;
The deadly adder's taper Shape,
Declares her worthier than the bees.
If graceful movements claim apphufe.
The savage beasts our praises claim :
Whilst blood diftains the lion'sjaws,
Who moves more graceful o'er the
plain. _;
If brilliant eyes true merit claim,
Oa flawing ringlets worth pursue ;
The serpent's eye, the lion's mane.
Look brilliant, and flow graceful too.
Since neither (tape, nor height, nor air,
Nor grace external worth impart ;
What ornaments must be my care ?
How & 11 I deck m, youthful heart ?
Far n' b!er graces I'll pursue,
Which reptiles, flowers and beasts
don't (bare ;
Fair knowledge opening to the view,
Is truly wife and truly fair.
Rich industry adorns my mind ;
Fair learning finds delightful food ;
To Providence in all resign'd ;
And to be lovely I'll be good.
O! happy (he whose envied case !
Whose mental beauties are her care ;
They give to. homelioefs a grace,
And e'en the faireft make more fair.
Inscription of an intended Status to
Voltairi.
BEHOLD Voltaire ! datingtfa,m /
Wb. in Putr, «mh Ct
hitfor, lath!
Still Up in Pbtle/epbj ; [
fate Rwginn-nothing & alt.
Hit wit war act
Hit judgment precipitate,
Hu dfaneftj CTtrUM,
Lotfe luimtn jWltd „' bie,
The half-learned a,fended bin,
And the profane patronized bint,
TbJ be fared neither Ged nor rode,
A junto of Atbtflt,
Wbe call thmfeloe^ PbdefoQhir),
Scraped feme mene, together,
Id raijed this flatted
To bit miner,.
AGRICULTURAL^
%@ fie# of the United Staej.
PERMIT me, through the re
diom of a newspaper, to give
you a tew hints refpeaing the
culture of Indian Corn. Although
the mode here recommend,d may
be cohered very impqfe&, yet
it may engage the attention of
farmers more able than myfeif, and
by their experiments, bring the
art otb&ndry to great perfec
tion. 1 have been convinced from
;experience at well as philosophy,
that planting coro at the distance
of four feet, with four or five kerf
Dels in a hill, and that raising the 1
earth about it in hoeing time, are
equally absurd. Planting the feed,
at so great a distance, it wrong on
foetal accounts^ ,:i±
.toll . \ .
TH 1
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
range the order of nature ; you
give ghem different degrees of
beat and moisture, and create for
them, as it were, a new Climate,
id. If you make a hill about your
corn, it keeps the stalk tender
within the hill. If it it only bent
by a storm, a hole is left io the
top of the hill on the windward
fide of the flak, and the rain
walhes in the dust and prevents
the corn from tiling after the
storm is over. 3d. Coro is a plant
of quick vegetation ,nd fends forth
its roots to a great diftaoce from
its stalk.— If you plow between
the rows you will cut the fine
foots of the corn, which greatly
injures it. This you will difeover
by the corn's wilting when you
plough it io the middle of a hot
day io hilling time.
From the foregoing coofiders.
tioos, and others, I am convinced,
that it n bft to plough your
ground well io the fpting, to run
'peer it a light harrow before you
plant it, to keep the ground as
clear of weeds as possible alter the
corn is up, and at each time hoc,
ing, in order to prevent exhala
tions, to stir gently the whole for.
face of the earth.
As the exports of America
chiefly depend 00 the agricultural
part of society, k bof the utmost
importance that we bring the art
of huftnndry to the greatest per
feAioo. To promote this object
I hope farmers will carefully at
tend to experiments.
ELIAKIM SPOONER.
N. B. I would inform the farmer#,
that L have received from the hefident
ottheV.S.Patb^ti for two machines
which are Quitted, the one for plant-
M. SPOONER.
Weftmiafter, Feb. so, 1799.
planted in the old way.
At I generally sow and plant
my ground alternately, 1 find by
experience, that my successive crop
M well as my corn, are much larg
er than they were when I used the
former mode.
ift. Corn is a plant that re
quires both moisture and heat ;
but not a heat so inteofe as the
meridian fun in summer often pro
duces? Any man of common ob
(ervation will allow, that in moist,
warm weather, corn always vege
tates the fafteft. The extreme
heat of the fun has a tendency to,
and will ratify and exhale both the
moisture and the faits or nitrous
particles, which, io a degree, de
prive the plants of their noorifh
ment. To plant the rows of
your corn about three feet diftaot,
and the hill in the rows about
twenty inches, with two kernels in
each hill; willgive the fame quan
tity of feed, and each plant its
(hare of beat and moifture# The
ground will be so shaded before
the drought of summer comes on,
that neither the extreme heat of
the day, nor the night chills, are
so deftru&ive as they are to corn
etable roots. If you draw over
them a new layer of earth, you de
Against hilling corn I think sev
eral reasons may be offered.
ift. Nature always diredi right
with regard to the placing of veg-
" TO RAISI THZ GBNIU3, AMD TO MEND THS HtART."
TOASTS,
Grom at an entertainment, b, a Campaa, of
Beokjelta, in Ireland.
r CTrHE Kings and all the
A great heads of the
empire. 2. Fertility to brains
and insatiable appetites to cu
riosity. 3. A literary war, a
smart press, and devaluation
to print and paper 4. Emp
ty ftornachs, attic apartments,
and clear intellcas to the re
public of authors. 5. Dr.
Priestly, and the whole socie
ty of bookwrights. 6 Mr.
Burke and his friends, and
perpetual Paine to them. 7.
The liberty of the Press, and
the Press of liberty. 8. Mr.
Pitt's works bound in Turkey,
with Ruffian bands. 9. The
enemies of Ireland bound in
Morocco. 10. Our favorite
volume in sheets. 11. Com
buflion to the libraries of Ire-1
land. 12. May every wit
want his dinner who wont|
dig in his brains for it. 13.1
Perpetual war amongst the
pamphleteers. 14. The tri
ple alliance of ink, paper and
calfskin. 15. The memory of
Dr. Faustus, and prosperity to
the black art. 16. The in
trigues of Parnassus the found
ling hospital for wit, and the'
accoucheurs of the Muses.
17. May the stomachs of the
epicures be transferred to
their heads, that intellect may
feed while gluttony does pen
ance. 18. The enemies of
Ireland out of print, and no
new edition. 19. A hand
some preface, ingenious intro
duaion, good title, bold im.
preffion, strong binding, and
general circulation, to friend
fhip and hospitality.
ffbe Old Bachelor.
THE temporal happiness
of man, very much de
pends on his social connec
tions, and that most intimate
connection which is formed
by marriage, seems to me the
faireft chance which any man
can have for domestic com
fort. Throughout all my
life, I have ever observed
more happiness in the family
of a married man, than of a
single one. And of all mise
rable mortals, I know none
so miserable as an Old Bach
elor; one who never formed'
a tender connection with a
woman ; for after all that can
be said, it is only with woman
that we are to expert that
tender concern, and anxious
solicitude which tempers dis
tress, and renders our affec
tions tolerable.
The precise Old Bachelor,
is one of thole characters
AMUSING ARTICLES.
which is very naturally disa
greeable to the youth of both
sexes, insomuch that Old
Bachelor, is almost a term of
reproach. Let us survey the
Old Bachelor in all his glory.
He gets up in the morning,
and rings;his bell ; his servant
attends to know what he
would be pleased to have—
Becauje be is paid for it He
then orders breakfaft of cot
fee, or tea, or chocolate, and
his housekeeper prepares one
or all of them—Because Jbe b
paid for it. When this is 0^
ver, he rings his bell again,
and desires the servant to re
move the things ; this the
servant does-.-Because be is
paid for it. Next Old Celt,
bacy orders his horse to be
got ready ; the servant con-,
veys the orders to the stable
keeper, who immediately
fends the horse ladled and
bridled-- -Because betso is paid
Jor it. While he is prepar
ing to mount, the hdufekeper
afts him what he will have
prepared for dinner ; he
swears an oath or two, and
wonders how she can alk such
a question so soon after breaks
faft. On his retuin he fits
down to dinner, wh^h ten to
one he does not like; it is
not his favorite dilh, or itis
not well dieft ; there is not
the proper sauce, or the bread
is stale ; he then scolds the
Servants ; they bear the scold
ing with great philosophy—-
Because they are paid for it.
If he threatens to dismiss
them, they are equally indif
ferent, because, they can soon
get another service in a fami
ly where there is one to fa.
perintend the whole, and
take the blame off their shoul
ders. The dinner being over,
he drinks a bottle with an ac
quaintance, and then enjoys
the superlative fatisfadion of
railing against the female sex,
and perhaps, singing a fooljfh
song, or giving a foolifh toast
in favor, of Celibacy, all of
which his friend agrees to,
because he— likes the wine!
All this being over, th^
friend, or friends leave him,
and he doses away the time
until supper, which is served
u P ' n great order by his ser
vants-, Because the, are paid
for it. Ancr falling asleep
in TW^ ^ is wakened ty
a noise in a neighboring gut
ter , after which he goes qui.
etly arid orderly to bed, with
the refiedion, that there is
nor 'a single person in t^
^•^"r w ^*.« te
be found dead or gfivc in hit
bed che next morning.