The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-11-04 00:00:00, page 4

IF a man's happiness confined in abun
dance, then a man would be happy in
proportion to what he has : an assertion
which the compass of every man's obterva
cions difprovc. We find several who have
no confidetable advantages, either of for
tune, or honours or power, contented and
easy ; and several, who possess them all, yet
extremely difeontented and miserable.—
This should incline us to think, that bap
pinefl is chiefly tented within ; that the
mind as it is well or ill disposed, must en
dear the reliffi, or pall the flavours every
earthly blessing ; that we mast enjoy our
ftlves, before we can enj>y any thing else.
Men displace their difeontent : they are
well fatisfcd With what they are, they are
only diffatisfied with what they have.—
Whereas the very reverse ought generally
(o take place and the only desire which we
ought to fit no hounds to, is that of en.
creating goodnrf. A (tender allotment of
worldly biffing# will content an eaf,&
modest, humble fame of mind; and no
allotment whatever, do affluence how great
soever, can fatisfy an uneasy, refttefn fret,
ful temper, ever feekiag rest, and fading
none, making to itfelf disquietudes, when
it meets with none, and improving them
then it does.
A rational way of thinking is therefore
an cffential ingredient of hsppine^. We
must pnffefs oarfalves with just apprehen-
Anns of things: we wind up our imagina
tions too high ; and things, as they are in
nature, will never answer to the gy fori#
ideas which a luxuriant fine, Torres of
thte. The o^r expedient thuefae ino
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POET^CORNER.
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The Hare and many Friend/.
FRIBNDSHIP,!ike love,it but a name,
Ualefs to one you flint the flame,
The child, whom many fathers ftarc,
Hath seldom known a father's care.
'Tia thus on friendship ; who depend.
On many, rarely find a friend.
A Hare, who in a civil way,
Comply'd with ev'ry thing, like GAY,
Was known by alfrtha bestial train, ,
Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Her care was, never to offend.
And ev'ry creature was her friend.
As forth tie went, at early dawn.
To taste the dew besprinkled lawn,
Behind ihe hears the hunter's cries,
And from the deepmouth'd thunder flits t
She starts, ihe flops, the pants for breath „
She hears the near advance of death ;
She doubles to mislead the hound,
And measures back her mazy round ;
Till, fainting in the public way,
Half dead with fear she gapping lay.
What transport in her bosom grew.
When firfl the Hoffe appeared in view !
Let me, fays he, your back ascend,
And owe my fafety to a friend.
You know my feet betray my flight ;
To friendship ev'ry burthen's light.
' The horse reply'd poor honed Puss,
It grieves my heart to lee thee thus.
Be comforted, relief is near ;
For all your friends ere in the rear.
She next the Lately Bull implor'd ;
And thus reply'd the mighty lord;
Since ev'ry beast alive can tell.
That I sincerely with you well,
I may, without cffcnce, pretend.
To take the freedom, of a friend.
Love calls me hence; a fav'rite cow
Experts me near you barley-mow ;
And whenu lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
To leave you thus might seem unkind ;
But fee the Goat is just behind.
The Goat remark'd her pulse was high,
Her languid head, her heavy eye ;
My back, fays he, may do you harm ;
The Sheep's at hand, and wobl is warm.
The iheep was fceb>, and complain'd
His tides a load of wool fuftain'd ;
Said he was flow, confefs'd his f^ars:
Fur hounds eat Sheep, as well as Hares.
She now the trotting Cali addrefs'd.
To save from death a friend diftrefs'd.
Shall I, fays he, of tender age.
In this important care engage A
Older and abler pafs'd you by ;
How frong are those! how weak am I !
Should I presume to bear you hence,.
Those friends of mine may take offence.
Excuse me, then. You know my heart,
But dearest friends, alas ! mutt part.
How shall we all lament ! Adieu,
For, fee, the hounds are. just in view.
MONITO R,
It was at the decline of the fun when
Thady and Onah, reached the summit of
the hiH t and the whole country to the weft,
lay open before them, terminated by a
view of the Atlantic ocean, fat though
the profpea was fueh as might delight the
eyes of a connoifeur, and vied in beauty
with the profpett of Naples ; yet the prof
ped had no charms for Thady ; his eyes
were fafeinated by one object and that
objed was Onab.
It was an evening in autumn, and O
nah was a symbol or the season—she was
, all ripeness. Her hair of dark che.aut,
flowed in abundance, waving to the wind,
and {porting upon her temples. Her
eyes black as the floe, peeped from behind
a ffiade of tog lashes, and kept up a kind
of constant hedge firing upon the heart of
poor Thady. Her check had the delicacy
and complexion of the peach ; and the
bursting strawberry was not more inviting
than the lips of Oa#h—Qnah's bosom !—
jet here the comparison fails— The fa
tigue of attending the hill caused Onab to
breathe short, and these short breathings
difeovered to Thady, that the golden
freckle and the brown ft&de which tinged
her face and neck, were the stains and
marks of the wanton fan beams kisses, and
and not the paint of nature ; for as the
bofomof Onah retreated from the frmple
hcme-fpun bread-work that Surrounded it
—a Akin whiter than the lily of the valley,
and of a polish beyond the feathex of the
swan, displayed its enchantments.
Thady was a man of fatiment, and pos
sessed all those qualities which cause fenti
meat in the other sex. His person was a
model for a Hercules, and his face as ex
pressive of innocence and love as the face
of Adonis. The fable could not boast of
blacker hair, nor Oath htrfelf blacker
eyes, than the hair and eyes of Thady.
His beard had appeared upon his upper
lip—and, take him all and all,. he had ev
ery quality necessary to give his fair com
panion, or any other woman breathing,
the assurance of a min.
There are two ways, said Ouah, to our
town; the coach-road, and the path thro'
the wood. The coach-road is the fife ft
but to be fare the path is the from,, and
,ou are with me, Thady. $o Qnah took
hold of Thady's arm, aid they descended
the hill toward the •wood.
Now Oah could have had no evil in.
tentitm in preferring the path through the
wood to the coach-road for it was windieg,
and full of thorns and prickles, and briers
and brambles, like the path to the temple
of Virtue. But Oak should have remem
bered the old proverb, which fays, * &
4horteft way home is the longeftway about.”
But,in troth, home was not in the mina of
Oath—Thady had full possession of W
aegta.'
take down cut fancy, and bring it to the
truth of things and the standard of nature.
Unless we do this, we can never live toler
ably easy : For our uneasiness in the ab
sence of such things will be proportionable
to the good which we imagine them to
have ; but our happiness, in the pogeffion
of them, will be answerable to the good
that is really in them. The conference
of which is, that the want of them may
make as exquisitely unhappy though the
fruition of them would be but a Lender ad
dition to our happiness. Consult then
your own reason : Cool unbiaffed reason
wiffteach you the true intrinsic value of
all the gifts of God, itfelf the most valua
ble of any.
The PIG and the POT : da Irilh Six-
TIMENTAL TALK,
is marked with many of those features,
which designate the original Sterne,
whose luxuriantly whimtical produc
tions, to use the words of Sbakefpare'e
Edgar, were " begotten in the lufyJlcahb
of nature."
I HAVE made all.my purchases,faid
Gnah, and am about returning home, but
I suppose Thady you have better engage
ments th, to fee a body fafe, and yet the
way is long and very dismal.' —
And what have you bought at the fair /
said Thady.—-
Nothing in the world but this ,ot, an
hvered Onah..—
And all I have bought, good or bad,
replied Thady is this fucking ,ig.
Now Thady was a man of no ceremony ;
so taking the ,ig under one arm, and O
nah under the other, they set out for the
village of Enifkerry.
A high hill lay in their way, and the
declivity on the farther fide of the hili
was covered witha thick wood.
The birds sung around them,and a gen.
tie breeze produced a gentle murmur, by
gently agitating the leaves of the trees—
all was genttofa
Sentiment was dancing round the heart
of Onah A and the blood was prancing
through the veins of Thady—Now when
jentiment dances, and the blood prances,
and opportunity lies upon the lurch, pru
dence generally falls ausep.
What would become of me now,Thady,
if the devil was to put it into your head to
take this &tfd opportunity to ruinate me I
said Onah.
When Oath sama to the verge of the
wood, Ate made a full flop.
I don's like to go through the wood,
Thady, said Osah ; fir if a dad, was at
tacked in it, they might cry oat murder
for an hour, wstbont being beard at all at
all.
It is very true, bid Thady—and they
entered the wood.
But what makes you cry my dear Onah ?
asked Thady, taking her by the hands,
and laying his cheek dole to bars and kill
ing her afledinnately.•
Onah fobbed heavily—l am ruinated—
.he curfed,at the curled pig and pt 1 M)
mother and father have discovered all
the whole town mail fcon know my mif
,fortune —-they have turned me out 01
,house and home.
To which is added in R fitth part,
* the native condition of Haman Nature
explained : Also ri KEY to the whole
sr A CITIZEN OF N EJVHAMPSHIRX.
(, SubferiUr's BOOKS are ready for
delivery. ,
^kw©#^ lord, 1794.
The devil a fear of that, anfweted
Thady ; for, don't you fee I have got the
young ,ig under my arm ?
Very true, replied Onah ; you have the
,ig indeed, Thady ; but then if the devil
was to put it into your head now to put
your pig under ray for, you know I might
cry out to no purpose.
Thad, took the hint— he put his ,ig un
der Onah's feet, and they did not arrive
at the village of Eailkerry till an hour af
ter night-fall.
Three months after, Onah came to the
cottage of Thady—The pearly tribute of
ihamc rolled from her eye.
O, the deviltake that ,arof mine ! ez
clai med Onah.
But I have a house and home to receive
you, said Thady ; and I will be both fa
ther and mother to you, my sweet Onah.
Did you not delude me into the wood ?
-— O, you did, Thady, said ©nah.
I did, answered Thady —but will re
move your misfortune—l will make an
honest woman of you—l will this inftaht
run for the piper and the priefl. —So Thad)
married Onah, and they go every year tc
the fair of Enilkerry ; and they never pafi
through the wood, but Onah reminds her
own Thady of the day he put his pig un
der her pot.
What is the matter, Onah I alked Tha
dy.
O, the devil take that ,4 of yoursl an
swered Onah.
for SALE.
TO be fold a FARM, lying in the
town of Keene, within three miles
of the Meeting-Hoafe, containing one
hundred acres of excellent LAND, well
Wooded and watered, and has a Grist and
Saw-Mill within three quarters of a mile
of it—lt has a good House and Barn on
the fame. Alfa to be fold, a
F ARM,
Lying in SuHivan, onihe main rwd, con
taining I hundred acres, ten of which are
now lowed with grain. For further parti
culars enquire of
JONAS OSGOOD.
Keene, oa. 13^ 17%.
This day ,ukhfad L andfor sale at ths Office,
DEVICE
DEVISED „.
against th# Rulmrs of the Barx^
ness of this World.
Wn FOUR PARTS.
V*~ ? tec— I——
^ •;."'>;': ^" OR,
MYSTERY upon MYSTERY,
tN A CONTRAST OF OHARACTiR#:
FARMS,
TO be fold on reasonable terras &
FARM lying in Washington, con
taining about sixty acres, situated on the
Afhwelot river, on the county road from
Boften to Claremont-well accommodated
for Mills, on which a good saw-mill haa
lately been eroded, and a grift.mill is much
wanted. Good pattering and mowing,
for which about twenty acres are now im
proved. For particulars enquire gs Da
vid Brown, poll-rider, or the fubferiber on
the premiles.
JOHN HUSE.
Gather lath, >7,4.
•— — -—.— — _
RAN away from the febfcriber, enthe
14th inst. a fervent girl named
Poll, Bruerfock, aged 15 years, dark com
plexion and large eyes. Whoever will
take up said runaway and return her te
me, shall have one (hilling reward. Ail
persons are cautioned against harboring er
trusting her on my account, as 1 Ihall nor
pay any debts of her contending after this
date.
BROKE into tbi fnkferiber^ enchfart
Jerne time in the month of Augu, la,»
a black yearling BULL, with albite fact-
The ouner it dfirtd to call; promt property,
pay charges and take bine away.
ZACCHEUS GATES.
CheflerfeU, oa. tyb, M9t
STRAYED aiwa, from th fubfcrihr ore
th l6tb inf. a dark red three,tar old
COW, feme iobitt spots about her. Whoev
er will return said Cow or grue information
:whorefoe ma, be bad, pall be retinabl,
;rewarded, and all necessary charges paid by
WILLIAM W. BLAKE.
Keene, Oil. 27th, 1794.,
STRAYED away from tVe fubferiberb
enclosure, in the month of Augnft
left. Six Ewe SHEEP, mail'd with the
right ear cut off and a ffit in the left —
One of them has a horn broken cff- —
Whoever will return laid Sheep or give
information where they may be had, (hall
be rewarded for their trouble and all ah
ceffary charger paid by
NOBLE BANKS..
Keene, Oct. 27th, 1794.
BROKE Into the cnclofurt of the fubferi^
her on the 20th in,, a dark red Steery
two, ears 01d,a,.^ —The earner, is desired to
tail and,rave ,ro,ert,, pay ebarges &id take
him a<wcy.
TIMOTHY BEMIS.
MarlboroygLf)d" & W^ _27£&
Wool Cards
TO be fold at the fabferiber'sStore,
by retailor dozen, made at Lei
cester by Plenney Earl and Brothers
Any person wanting,to purehafe, ray de
pend on their being of the bed kind arid
as cheap where they are made,
JEDEDIAH BUFFUM.
Richmond, 02. zyb, 1,94#
STEPHEN WHITE.
Gilfam, O^a, 20^, 1794-
ftof puktyked, and forfile at this Ofrog
The genuine experience, ±
DYING ADDRESS of Mrs. D%LY
TAYLOR- of Reading, Vermont ; who
departed this life, May 19th, 1794. —
Actually dictated by herfeif, and taken
from her lips but a little before her death,
Now published} with her Hufband'sTef
simony concerning her.
BROKE into the enclosure of the fob
fcriber on the nth inst. a chefnut
coloured Horse Colt, light coloured mane
and tad, white star in his ferehead, and a
white freak above his nofc—fappofed to
be a yearling pad- Whoever ownr &id
Colt, will prove property, pay charge,
and take him away, will oblige
SIMSON STEWARD.
%fre, b 02. %@h, 17,4. ______
O be fold a foil
FARM,
Lying it the middle of the town of Swan #
zey, very convenient, situated for &
tradefmaa—a House and Shep on the
premifa.—For further particulars an
quire of
~EBENEZER STONE.
&„, oa. M& 17%
BLANKS,
of most kinds.
^fa fill at this OFFICE. ?
4 FJRM FOR SALE.