Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-03-23
From the Fiuage Record.

From the Pitiage Record.
Too proud, or too lazy, to weave him net;
No fly for his supper the spider viii get.
It's right; for the laborer's entitled to bread
The idle deserve to go hungry to bed.
And it is no matter, gentle reader,
whether it be two or four legged spi-
der; one with two eyes or Six. Girls,
did you ever look at a spider through
microscope You would not, perhaps, if
you should, discover all the strange things
described by Lowenroeck; but it is a
curious animal, we'll worthy your minute
examination. He has six beautiful eyes,
and the tenuity of his thread surpasses
belief. The microscope unfdds the Won
ders Of new world; and if survey of
the heavenly bodies tends to awaken 10
the mind exalted notions of the Deity, the
close inspection of his minutest works is
not less calculated to impress The soul with
admiration, reverence and love.
But my subject runs away with me.
My intention is TO point out remedy for
an acknowledged evil.-There is great
complaint Of dull times, and the stagna-
ton of business. 1t is true, the times
haze changed. We have been doing the
business of Europe for twenty-five years
-buying-seliing--and carrying. Peace
has changed the aspect of commercial at.
fairs: Europe is able to manage her own
concerns-and we have in the country as
as well as the city, double the hands en-
p!oyed in trade and Speculation or unem-
ployed altogether that is necessary. Pro-
fits so much divided becoms insufficient
for generous support, evento the indus
trious. AS for the idle--tbc drones in
society--the spiders that wont weave
themselves webs--it is no matter how
soon they starye.
A little resolution and the work is DONE
Mother earth is kind as ever. Prolific
of every good gift, when wooed and court
ed, she offers to repay our attention-the
wbitest bread-the latest beef-and
profusion of good things. Now my potion
is, that every man who reads this, who is
gaining nothing, or going behind hand,
should turn bis attention to agriculture.
No matter whether he is merchant
without customers physician--without
patients: lawyer-without clients: or
the idle man-unIess he has ten thousand
10 bank stock, OF ticket in the lottery.
The cultivation of the earth is an en-
pIoyment respectable as delightful and
productive. The name of Cincinnatus
descends to us thrice honored from his Ia
bours in the field. Washington gloried in
the pursuit.
Nor is it, as some would believe, bu-
siness ia which learning would be SO use
less, that the man Of education could find
no exercise for his knowledge in the en-
pIoyment. The complete farmer should
be an accomplished scholar. His ac-
quirements in chemistry, geology, mathe-
matics, and even astronomy, might be rem
dered serviceable, for though Ignorance
may sneer," the influence OF the planets
upon the product of the earth, is not un-
worthy thought of the wisest. A meta
physician the farmer need not be, it is a
bewildering path, and leads TO darkness
and doubts. Of law, We should know
enough to keep clear from its tolls; and OF
physic, to depend more upon temperance
and exercise, for health, than upon the
drugs of the apothecary.
A few years ago there was in our
neighborhood young mao of fine educa-
tion-lively and enterprising. But he
longed to be merchant and grow rich
faster than his father had done on his
farm. He moved TO the city--entered
into trade-married charming girl, lived
genteely, but not extravagantly, compared
with his associates. For a time he was
reputed prosperous-nay, rich. But
when i last visited him, in town, | could
discover an occasional sigh, and fitting
clouds of gloom, shading bis sprightly
countenauce, and was satisfied, that even
when his. face beamed with smiles, that
his heart was the seat Of anguish. Time
confirmed my conjectures.--After strug-
Cling with ins,lrmountable difficulties, he
closed bis affairs without stain upon his
honor, and retired to farm.
Now reader, it would do your Kind
heart good to go aud see him. The house
is small, but snug aud neatly furnished.