Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-01

BY JOHN hAn"SD
Too proud or too lazy to weave MN net:
No Az for his supper, the spider will get
,,T;s r;vbt. for the lab'rer's entitled to
bread
The idle deserves TO 60 hungry to bed.
And it is no matter, gentle reader, whe-
tber il be at wo or four legged spider one
with two eyes or six.-Girls did you ever
look - spider through microscope ?
You would not perhaps, you should dis
cover all he strange things described BY
Lowenhoeck; but it is a curious animal,
we'll worth your minute examination. lie
has six beautiful eyes, and the tenuity OF
his thread surpasses belief. The micro
scope unfolds the wonders OF the new world;
and if survey Of the heavenly bodies tends
10 awaken in the mind exalted notions OF
the Deity, the close inspection of His mi
mtest works is not less calculated to i'm
press the soul with admiration, reverence
and love.
But my subject runs away with me. My
intention is 10 point out a remedy for an
acknowledged evil. There great CON-
plaint for dull times and the slagnatlon OF
business, Ii is true, the times haze chan
red. We have been doing the business OF
Europe, for twenty-five years-buying-
seliing-and carrying Peace has chan
pod the aspect of commercial affairs: Eu-
rope is able to manage her own concerns
and we have in the country as well as
the city double the hands employed in trade
and speculation, or unemployed altogether
that is necessary Profits so much divided
become insufficient for generous support,
even to the industrious. As tor the idle
the drones in society-the spiders that wont
weave themselves wcbs-it is no matter
how soon they starve.
A little resolution, and the work is done.
Mother earth IS kind as ever:-Prollhc OF
of every good gift, when wooed and court
ed, she offers to repay our attentlon-the
whitest bread--the latest beet-and pro-
fusion of good things. Now my Notion IS
that every man who reads this, who is gain
mo nothing, or going behind hand. should
turn his attention To agriculture. No mat
terwbetber he il a merchant-wthout Gus
TONERS: physician-without patients; A
lawyer-wiihout' clients. Or an idle man
unless he has ten thousand in bank stock
or ticket in the lottery.
The cultivation OF the earth is an EN-.
ployment respectable as delightful and pro-
ductive. The name of Cinncinatus decends
to rs thrice honored, from his labors IN
the field. Washington gioried in the pur-
suit.
Morris i, as some would believe, BUSH
ness M which learning would be SO useless,
that man of education could find no ex-
srcise for his knowledge in the employment.
The complete farmer should be all accom-
plished schoiar,--His requirements in
in chemistry, geology, mathematics, and
even astronomy, might be rendered SER
yiceable, for though ignorance may sneer,
the influence of The planets upon the pro,
ducts of the earth, is not UNIV worthy OF
thought of the wisest. A metaphysiclan the
farmer may not be; it is bewllderlng
path, and leads to darkness-and doubts.
o. law, he should know enough to keep
clear OF its tolls and OF physic, to depend
more upon temperance aud exercise, Tor
health, than upon the drugs OF the apothe-
cary.
A few wears ago there was in our neigh
borhood young man Of hne education
lively and enterprisiDg. But ne longed to
ne q merchant, and grow richer laster than
his fs,ber had done on his farm. He re-
moved TO the city-entered into trade
married a charming girl lived genteely but
not ex,raysgsn,ly, compared with his
associates for time he was reputed pros
perous-nay, rich. But when l last vi
sited him, in towns,I could discover an
occasional sigh, land fitting clouds OF gloom
shaded his sprigbtly countenance, and was
satisfied, that even when his face beamed
with smiles, his heart was the Sc at OF an
guish. Tine confirmed my conJectuies.
After struggling with insurmountable dii-
fcul,ies. be closed his affairs without
stain upon his honor, and retired TO a
farm.
Now, reader. it would do your kind
heart good TO 90 and see him! The