Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-10-28


vulgar admration the trade of king would be
hardly worth following.
IT would scandaze those who hold that no man
| can be respectable judge, without great salary,
or a valiant soldier, without gold lace s. epauIets,
were | to escribe the state in which the Judge
held his courts, the general reviewed his troops,
and the assemblyman set forth to make laws tor
the people. The comparison would greatly rebound
to the disgrace Of fathers, and therefore pass
it by, having disposition to fatter poserity at
the expense of their betters. 1t is enough to say,
that half century has made desperate lnroa,s
upon the ioric simplicity. and that emisrations
from the prolific east have made still more despa-
rate nroads upon their ancient possessions " They
are curious fellows" said one of the patriarchs Of
the Flats to me not long ago" they are curious
leowsii they can't get round the old folks TO
sell their land, they get round the young girls to
marry them and SO one way or the other. they GUST
US at last. Then there is the turnpike road and the
canal running right under ones nose, aud such
| noise and confusion with the boats passing, aud
blowing their paguy horns and tin trumpes. that
a body can't he quiet for them day or night
YES" said |, but then your property is worth
ten times as much as it was uetcrc.'
| 9 And much good does it do me-" replied heal
am great deal richer than was forty years ago,
but for all that can't Keep out of debt, do what
wil.''
| 6 How so 20
| Why my wants have increased much faster
than my wealth. And then have 50 many more
friends than used to have. BetDre these mprnse-
! ments twas much if had a Visitor once year.
Now every man, woman, and chilli that have ever
seen before goes the canal to the Falls or some
where else, every summer, and my home - 50 con-
venlent that they always stop daH or tWp. Inc
presence of 80 many fashionable ,ople makes it
necessary that my wife aud dau, hters should dress
a little" like Christians" as they call it, aud one
can do no less than lend them the Wagon and
horses, with Cesar to drive them to Trenton Falls.
Thus lose the scvce OF my man aud my horses
two days out of the week at least"
$ Eat Others ale the better for all this--'ti, an
III wInd tuat blows nobody good "
g Yes quJth the old IA "a. and It is = blessed
wind that bluws nobody ev.--all not said that
atte,s and ali is nut gnad that seem, so.''
| The people OF our village, We're, 10 trlth, quiet,
industrious race. hatns all innovations. aud il it
had tepenGed upon thtm there WDul. have been
no such pestient things as patent piuushs metallic
scissors, and labor saving machinery. IN the uni
verse. remember the whole place was THROWN
into great CONSERVATION one day, by desperate
innovation Of New Enaaniman lately settled
| among them, who erected grindstone that actu-
ally went by water. They set him down as an IDLE
nterloper who worked more with his head than
his hands. and would never come to any good. The
stranger was indeed desperate schemer, and pass
ell his HE in state OF actual prlvaon, at the same
time that he was revealing in the anticipation OF
bouness wealth, to be derived from the invention
OF abor-saving machinery. All the money he could
scrape together, was spent IN taking put patent
rights for his own Inventions and he at last fully
| verified the prophecy Of his neighbours, being com
petely ruined, by getting deeply in debt in the
e. ection Of a WINDMILL over which he built house
for its preservation. There were plenty of mill
seats fine stream that ran right under his nose,
but he was taken up with his wind that he tor
rot the water. Finally he went into the lnJlan
country with an adventure Of Jews-haips, and
know not what became of lin afterwards.
As for myself, confess, notwithstanding the ey-
ample of all around me, was active ami as idle
at the Same time, Il sa grasshopper. | hated work,
yet loved exercise. This last propensity indalg
ed, in taking my dog and gun and rambling all
day, eithei along the Mohawk or into the woods,
in search Of game, which aboundct at that time in
the vicinity. The young fellows round about, who
worked from sunrise to sunset, every hay Of their
lives, laughed at Inc Tor taking much trouble tor
nothing and hell the IN IN sovereign contempt
because they labored hard for money. They
would not have taken the pains did, in iording
streams, aud pIungng thrOus III swamps, Tor all the
partridses in fifty miles round, fo there was then
nobody to buy them--and would not have laDored
as they did, for all the money III The same COM
pass. Thus were both parties satisfied We COM
paired ourselves with each other, and each found
occsaou to pride himself upon sone imagined
,lpeilority. This is one great secret OF human
happiness.
By degrees, as custom reconci,cd me more and
more to fasting and long rambles. l extended my
excursions farther from home, and sometimes
manned ont all day bout astng food or resting
myself except for a few minutes upon the trunk
,i some decuyed old tree, Or moss covered rock.
The country, though in great degree in its native
state OF wlidness, was full of romantic besutics.
nj ;cn onftt foha mi pu nf ri
sometimes brawIing its way Among ragged rocks,
or tarfinv swiftly thrOlUh IOnr narrow reaches.