American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-11-12
From the Boston Telegraph.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

Friend Hallock-I think il my duty 10 commun
cate through The medium of your paper, great dis
covery, which has lately burst upon my mind ant
which, hope, will be of general use. | have Away,
blamed the sefshness olthose, who when they have
lound out any salvo or nostrum lock up the secre
in their own breasts, and suffer their neehbors Il
perish for want of ii, unless they will purchase it al
an extraordinary price. | shall adopt gen
erous method; and hasten to tell you of discove
try, which, il the world will only rate it by its u
Ity, VIII place my name on level with those of Ma
lper Franklin, or Fulton and even entite me t
outshine the glory Of Columbus himself.
| You must know sir, that was one of those fools
who get married before they get any thing to eat
and had dozen mouths to feed, before hat
hardly crum to put in either OF them When
was about nineteen years old, | took notion to e
| to singing school where | Lydia LuyefuI
whose black eyes and warbling voice, wounded my
heart, and shot all the little prudence / had stone
dead. 10 make long story short one, courtet
her and alter the usual quantity OF smiles, tears
poullngs Sleeps eyes. quarres, and reconcliations
married her, Oct Sd, 1910. We should have been
married little earlier, only could not rake and
Iscrape money enough, to buy one iron pot skill
let, three chairs bed and pair OF bellows without
Ia nose; with which conveniences we furnished OUT
chamber, and began house keeping; as happy as
the most unmingLed love, without particle OF re
1ection or foresight could make us
The honey moon flew off in bliss and must
own the first two or three years of wedlock
were not so miserable as they might have been.
was strong and hearty, with two good hands to my
body which had been accustomed 10 work, and Lydia
was thrifty girl, who managed our expenses with
some economy. But after all was miserably poor
and had in abundance the poor mans blessing
My wife was fruitful vine, and alas she was The
only vine in my possession which was fruitful.
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our difficulties was that had fallen into the prac-
uce OF drinking grog every day. had been habit
uated 10 1t from my youth, and had been accu.tom.
ed to reckon little rum and water (no matter in
what proport,on) among the necessarles OF lie.
followed laborious prolesslon, and thought little
stimulus necessary for The health Of the body and
keeping up the spirits. Indeed could not do with
out it; it was out OF the question So wedde was
to my superHuous appeilles, that my drink jug
and my tobacco box were the idols oil my heart.
Did you ever see Nj. Editor, man on har-
Dor in boat wind and tide against him--rowing
away like trooper and yet making no d-way !:
you ever did you have certainly seen Jack New
bottles counterpart. | was wood sawyer, and
worked like dog; yet never could get one Bit oil
bread and butter before hand Still when it raned
money, my dish was never up. Accounts came in
before could settle them / never thought myself
"a hard drinker-never suspected such thing, but
when Tippleton the shop-&eeper brought in his bill
for drink, am almost ashamed TO tell how long ii
was, it nothing but do-diit0 d0---ditto like
the dull UNMARRIED note of the cuckoo, or whppoorwili;
and charge at the bottom heavy enough TO sink the
heart OF Crasus himself. | believe the rogue over
charged me; for cannot think half pint day
with one or too e1cspttons,i going to amount up 10
la barrel in three months. have idea OF bearing
lon my shoulders all the sins OF the knaysh shop
keepers.
But the worst Of my troubles was at home
have naturally good temper, except when some
thing proyokes but my wife, in The Iadsl OF my
mistortunes, seemed 10 grow dreadful cross and
Iscolding. She wanted tea and sugar, when she
knew had no money to get them; and we had
lsomethiDg to quarrel about almost every day. /
suppose did not provide loi her as well as might:
but then no husband likes to be scoded at, even il
he was to blame. Sometimes she would remind me
Iof my promises when was counting her just as
il courling time TO last always! sometimes she
would SWIVEL and cry sometimes she would try the
pathetic, and sometimes the reproachiul part, while
the children would look on, and think their parents
wanted whipping more than they ever did, O.,
Mr.. Editor if you could have looked in and Witness
ed some Of cur nuptal scenes--the room in coniu
sion-th tea kettle lallen--the skillet overturned
the ionpy cakes in the hre-the ashes all over the
hearth-my wife scoldlng-and swearing you
would certainly allow ihat matr imony, grog drink
ling and poverty, three OF the most i'll sorted
Icompanions, that ever were patched together. My
children grew very ragged, and what is worse, fear
their clothes were but emblems of their minds My
Iwfe too not only neglected her TEMPER but her per.
Ison. She was entirely changed from the spruce
black eyed gill Tell in love with at the singing
ischool; and remember, one day, Tom Seaver,
looming visit me, and seeing her snared hair, said
that her head looked it had six mice nest built
lin it, and the seventh was building. But could
have borne the mice nests in her head, If her heart
had not been very rattlesnake's dem
Thus sir, we went on. growing poorer and poorer
and plugging from one misfortune into another
Nothing seemed to turn up in my favor until at last