The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1793-07-22 00:00:00, page 4

^ AONIAN RILL. $
Ta the EDITOR ofthe EAGLE,
SI R,
Ifyou think the f Aiming juvenile produßion,
ought to go among folks — Pleaje to give it
the honour of being hrze on the icings cf
of, our Eagle.
L ! KE the effulgence of the matin ray,
Or noontide splendor of the God of day.
Are thy bright beams, 0 Fir^e,-heavenly
dove,
When joined with fweetncfs, innocence
and love.
Without thy genial inffuencelong impreft,
Even beauty fades, and k^fes every zest.
Let the blue tint of yonder azure iky,
Like sparkling diamonds, grace a rolling
e Y e; ..
Let auburn hairin certing.treffes flow,
And grace a neck, that mimics driven
flow;
Let majetty her every step attend ;
Symphonious accents from flier lips de-3
° ] fcend: / ,
"Let fair Potofi, with it's golden find,
And richest fiiks from India's caftern
land,
With every natural, every mental part,
Deck her with all the elegance of art ;
Yet these, when virtue glows not in the
breast,
At most, are but the bubble of a jest.
Then flee the flatterer, ye Columbian
fair!
Escape the artful, all alluring snare!
Know, that bale adulation will impart,
The loosest wishes to the purest heart.
Man pleafcs fiift—deceives but to betray,
" Then cast you like a Ipathfome weed
away." CHILO.
Dartmouth College, futy If.
s———..n .. .M3«M«jBa3gBeMB^a^tCTCT -.~- --» —
A SI MILE.
^AriS said that once a wit allow'd
I'A woman to be like a cloud.
Then take a Amite as foots
Between a lady and the moon :
For let the world fav what they will.
The sex are heavenly bodies still.
Suppose to mimic mortal life,
The fan and moon are man and wife.
Whate'er kind Sol is pleaf'd to lend her
Is fquander'd upon midnight f,lender;
And when to rest he lays him down,
She's up and ftarei lat thro'the town.
Or else appears like fullcn tapers ;
a CT Ore!fe itfairly in the vapours -
Or owns at once a wife's ambition
And fall, glares in opposition.
Say,is n®t thisamodifh pair,'
When each for other feels no care ?
Whole day! in separate coaches driving,
Whole nights to keep asunder flriving.
Both in thedumps in cloudy weather,
And lying once a month together.
In onefele point unlike the case is,
On her own head the HORNS the places !
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MISCELLANY.
AREMEDYfor DISCONTENT.
COMPLAINTS and murmurs areof
ten loudest and most frequent among
those, who possess all the external means
of temporal enjoyment. Something is
still wanting, however high and opulent
:their condition, folly to complete their
fatisfaaion. Suppose an indulgent pro
vidence to accomplish every desire; are
the, now at last contented ? Alas ! no ;
their uneasiness seems to forever increase,
in proportion as their real neceffiries are
diminished. It is in vain then to endea
'vor to make them happy by adding to
their fore, or aggrandizing their honors.
Their appetite is no left infatiabic than
their taste faftidious.
■ But there may yet remain a remedy.—
■ Let thof£who are miserable among, rich
cs and grandeur, leave, for a Foment,
their elevated rank, and defeend from
their palaces to the humble habitations
of real and unaffected woe. If their
hearts are not destitute of feeling, they
will return from the fad scenes to their
dofets,and on their knees pour forth the
ejaculations ofgratitude to that universal
Parent, who has given then! abundance,
and exempted them from a thenfand ills,
under the preffire of which the greater
part of their children drag the toad of
life. Inßead of spending their hours in
brooding overtheir own imaginary evils,
they will devote them to the alkviationof
real 'mifery among the dedicate font of
indigence, in the neglected walks of ml
gar life.
That one half of the world knows hot
fe . how the other half lives, is a common and
/ just observation. A fine lady, surround
& with ever, mew of accommodation
and luxury, complains in a moment,f
ennui, that surely no mortal is so wretched
as herfelf. Her fuffcrings are joo great
for acute sensibility. She expels piy
from all her acquaintance, and pleafa
herfelf with the idea that ffie is an exam
ple of singular misfortune, and remarka
ble patience. Physicians attend, and
with afieded solicitude feel the healthy
pulse, which, however, they dare not pr^
nouncc healthy, left they mould give of
fence, by attempting to spoil th e re
fined luxury of fancied woe. To be fop
posed always ill, and consequently toh
always exciting the tender attention a'ne
enquiries of all around, is a Rate so cbsr
ming in the iddas of the weak, luxurious,
and indolent minds of some fafhionahie
ladies, that many spend their lives io
perpetual date of imaginary convafty
fcence. There is something so indeli
cate in being hale, hearty, and stout, like
a rosy milk-maid, that a very fine and very
high-bred lady is almost ready to faint at
the idea. From exerffive indulgence, she
becomes at last in reality what foe at frt
only fancied herfclf, averpetnal invalid.
SBy ajuft retribudfelflris really ^l^l
cd with that wrerchednefi, of which^T
ungrate fullyandunreafdnbly complained,
in the midst of health, opulence, and
ease.
One might ask all the sisterhood and
fraternity of rich arid healty marmurers.
Have you compared your fixation and
circ unftances with that of those ofyour
fellow creatures, who are condemned to
labor in the gold mines of Peru? Have
you compared ycur situation with that of
those in your own country, who have
hardly ever seen the fen, but live confin
ed in tin mines, lead mines, stone quar
ries, and coal pits ? Before you call yourrf
fe If wretched, take a survey of the gaofs,
in which - unfortunate and honest debtors
are doomed to pine far life ; walk thro'
the wards of an hofpiral; think of the<
hardftips ofa common soldier or sailor;,
think of the galley~fiave, the day-labor
er; nay, the common servant in your
own hotife ; think of four poor neighbor
at the next door; and-if there were not
danger of its being called unpolfte and
methodifticah, I would add, think of him
who, for your fake, fweated, ad it were,
drops efbtood on Calvary !
It is, indeed,*a duty to confider the
evils of thofq, who are placed beneath us;
for the chief purpose of chriftianity is, ,
to alleviate the miseries of that part of
mankind, whom, indeed, the world de
spises ; but whan, He^who trade
pities, like as a father pitfrih his
children. Their miferics are not fanci-,
ful, their complaints are exaggerated.—»#
The clergy, when they are called upon'
to visit the sick, or to baptize new-born
infants,are often foeaatorsof such scenes,
as would cure the difeontented of every
malady. The following repre fenration
is but too real, and may be paralleledin •
many of its circumstances, in almost every
parish throughout the country
The minister of a country village was
called'upon to baptizean infant just born#
The cottage was situated on a lonely cpm
mor, and as it was in the midst of the
winter, and floods were out, it was abfo
lurely neceflary to wade through the
lower room to a ladder, which served in
Read of flairs. The chamber (abd if
was the only one) w,s so low, that you
could not stand uprightin it ; there was one
window which admitted air as freely as
light ; for the rags which had been fluffed
i^) the broken panes were now taken
dm to contribute to the covering of the
infant. In a dark,corner of the room,
Rood a small bedßead,without furniture,
and bn it lay the dead^mother, who had
just expiredin labor for want of affiftahte.
The father was fitting on a little stool by
the fire place, though there was no fire,
and endeavouring to keep the infant
warm in his bosom ; five of the feveiL
[children, half natyty—ere asking thq,
father for a piece of brad, while a fine
boy, of about three years old, was find
ing by his mother at the bed fide, and,
crying, as he was wont to dq," Take te,
take me, mammy." " Mammy is t,
sleep," said One of his fifteri, with tears
ftandingon her cheeks; " mammy is a
sleep, Johnny, go play with the baby on
% daddy's kneeJ' The father took him up;
orchis knee, and his grief, which hal
hitherto kept him dumb, and in a Rate
of temporary infaifibilitv, burst out in
^torrent of tears, and relieved his hearty
which fcem,d teidy to break. "Don't
cry, pray don't cry, said the eldest boy,
"the nurse isedming up stairs with a two
penny loaf in her hand, and m^mmy will
wake presently, and I will carry berths
largest piece," Upon this, an old wo
man, crooked with age, and clothed^ isl
tatters, came hobbling on her little fticF
into the room, and after heaving a grta
calmly fat down, dressed the child in its
rags; then divided the loaf as far as it
would go, and informed the poor man
that the church wardens, to whom she
had gone, would fend feme relief, as soon
as they had dispatched >a naughty bag
gage to herown parilh, who had deliver
ed herfelf of twins in the Efquire'shovel.
Relief indeed was sent, and a little con
tribution afterwards raised by the inter
position of ihe minister. If he had not
seen the case, it would have parsed on as
a common affair, and a thing of course.
Ministers and medical practitioners are
cfien witnesses to scenes even more
wretched than this ; where, to poverty,
cold, nakedness, and death, are added,
the languors of lingering and loathsome
diseases, and the torments of excruciating
pain. A feeling heart among the rich
and the great, who are at the fame time
querulous without cause, would learn a
leffjn in many a garret,or cottage more
efficacious than all the le&urcs of the
moral or divine philosopher.
I cannot help mentioning and applaud-'
ing a mode of charity of late much en
couraged in one metropolis ; which is
' 'indeed diftiriguiChed above all others for
the wisdom and variety of its eleemofr
naryinftitutions. Dispensaries a re eftab
lilhed for the poor, and patients vifned
at their own habitation by physicians of
allowed fltill and diftingnilhed character,
I will only take the liberty to express a
wish, that feme regulations may be made
to prevent this noble design from being
perverted, like many others, to purposes
of private in tereft. K.
—— ——7
FROM THE FARMER'S CHRONICLE.
The SUBSTITUTE—No. 1.
Penny wife and pound foolifh.
MR. Skinflint cannot afford to
take the new fpapers, they
are too expenfiye; but goes to the
tavern once a week, to hear the
news and spends nin epence,when
he might have a newspaper de
livered at his door for two pence.
He buys ballads for his children
to read, which contain nothing
but non sense, and pays fourpence
a sheet, printed only on one fide,
,becaufc jhey are cheaper than
newspapers at two pence a Iheet,
printed on both tides He ^m
Eway a doz^n or twent,dqeep
rfkins each year, which if laid up,
and fold to the tanners, would
more than pay for the papers ;
not to mention thirty or forty
weight of linen rags, which, if
saved and fold to the paper maker,
would amount to a^ much more.
He mutters at the expence ofcafe
to store his cyder in ; yet never
fails to put fix or eight gallons
of water into each barrel, when
he might store the water in his
well,orin the brook,from whence
he takes it, free of expence. He
keepsten cows, but cannot afford
them good palture, he muff fell
Tome pasture to get money—his
ten cows therefore do not give so
much milk as two would do, if
well fed. He keeps three pair
of poor half starved oxen ; the
whole ofthem will not do so much
service at one good pair well
kept, and one good pair might be
kept well on half the pasture,
"that is devoured by his three poor
pairs.. He keeps a number of
breeding marcs, but cannotafford
a good horse for them, his celts
arc consequently, poor ill Ihapen
things, and will not, when raised
fell for enough to pay half the
cost of raising. He cannot fparc
his boys to go to school when
they ire young, he, wants them
to ride horse or drive plough;
when they get in years,he hates
to (pare them ; their time is
worth too much to lose, they arc
ashamed to go, and are, confer
quchtly, ignorant boobies all their
lives.He labours hard himfelf;
for he is determined to get mo
ney : he cannot afford himfelf the
comforts of life—victuals, drink
and clothing are too expensive —
he grows old while he is yet
young, he will die at the age of
forty.— Who will mourn for him ? .
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ANECDOTE.
WHEN Lord Jeffries, before he me
a Judge, was pleading at the bar once,# *
a country fellow giving evidence againtf hi# cli
ent, pushed the matter very home on the fide hr
swore of. Jeffries, after bis ufoal way,
called out to the fellow, Hark, you fellow, in
the leather doublet, what have you for fwear<'
ing ? To which the countryman replied, faith.
Sir, if you had no more for lying, than 1 have
for/&earing,you might e'en wear a leather doub.
let too.
Frelh Goods. ,
JnJl received from Newyork,
And for Sale at the Store of
JOSIAH CLEAVELAND, &
in Lebanon,
A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF
GO O D. S,
Suitable for the present Seaton :
—Arnone which are the fSlewing Articles —•
Superfine and
plain Broadcloths,
Elafticks & coatings,
Royal Rib,
Eliot's Cord and Flo
rentine,
Twilled Thicket,
Jeans and Fustians,
Striped, plain, and
twilled Nankeen,
Black, blue, green and
pink coloured mo
reens,
Shalloons, Durants and
Callimancoes,
A variety of beautiful
Patches,
Chintzes & Callicoes,
Cafimeers& antiloons,
"Irish Linen & Cadi
bricks, i
Black Modes and Sat
tins,
Check, Griped, book,
jaconett, and plain
Muflias,
Chintz and Calico
Shawls, d,
B^k r 4n#g^3^
Handkerchiefs,
Red and fancy do.
Silkand cotton Hose,
Muffin, Jean, and veil
Patterns,
Mens leather Gloves, ;
Ladies 6lk Mitts and
Gloves,
Ladies hats,
Fianneland Brize,
Ribbons and Taftrs,
Sewing Silk& T'/ifl,
Quality and Shoebind
ine.
Blank Bock;
Striped Muflinett,
Buckram,
White & black Dutch
Lace,
Millenct and Thread,
Lookingglaffcs,
L?fhwhips,
Writingpaper,
Currycombs,
Hat Linings & Loop.
iW,'
Knives and forks.
Penknives,
Knitting Pins,
Black lead Pencils,
.Cap & bonnet'wire,
An assortment of coat
apd veg Buttons,
Plaited & plain Shoe
buckler,
Brass & iron tea table
catches,
BrafsH Hinges,
Knob Litches,
Shaving Boxes,
# Brass door Knockers,
Cobpers Compafies,
Sealing Wax and
Wafers,
Brass & paper ink Pots,
Screw & pod Augers,
'Sleeve buttons,
Square, flat, and half
round Files,
And other articles too numered, to mention in
an Advertisement.
fgfr Beef, Fork, Better, Cheese,
o% a t, R„, Indian Cora, Oafr, Peas, Beans,
Flax and. Flax Seed, Old Pouter, Brajs,
and Copper, received' in payment for any ,
of the above GOODS. #
The highest price given for
SALTS of L YE,
at said STORE.
Mill and handsaw do.
Cupboard, chest, and
deft Locks,
Plaited & plain fnaffla
Bitts,
Iron,tirrups, „,
Bridle, Buckles, Tip%
arid Slides,
Shoe& hearth Brulhefy
Desk Trimmings,'
Taylors Shears,
Thimbles,
FiShocks,
Cork Screws,
Wood ditto, < '
, Ladies Sedfors,
Blacking Ball,'
Socket&lerraescbifels,%
& gouges assorted.
Plain Ironty
Ivory & horn Combs, ,
, Knee & boot Buckles,
Table Butts, a
Riling butt Hinges,
HL Hinges, 1
Plaited&lpriog Spu%
Candlenick';'
Razors and Cases, °
Sheep Shears, ;?
t lconSiti> &fr .^^ — % afr^
I Nail Hammers,
Gimblets,'
White chapelNeedlCT,
Webbing.
Mill Saws,
: Crofleut do,:
Ibnd do..
Compals, sash & ten
ant ditto,
Spelling B:oks, ,
Pins and fcklcs.
Saddle Lons,,
Powder and (hot,
Iron Ih<veh & fpadefy '
Mens wool & rur hats,
jd. 10l 2>d. Nails
*nd ILel.
Wind:w.Glafs,
Indigo,
Coffee,
Bokea Tea,
Sieve Bottoms,
Au aff-rtment of,
Cro kery & Glaff
w^e,I
A good assortment of
Pewter, p
Japaued tea servers,
Japanedt mripotifhed
inuflers,
Tray fimHcr,•
Buckle B uffies,
Shoe knives, pincers
and nippers.
Slice hammers; -,
Ink powder, . f
fcff&pig^il tobacco,
Wool & cotton cards.
Logwood, d
Pepper and alfpice, ,
Ginger & Brimstone,
Rosin & ground Span
ilh brown.
Whale bone, ,'
Lampblack,
Clothe brufhe— ' -
Frying pans,
Coopers axes & adra, *
Bellows, &c. &c.