Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-29


take ALT is hard, and perhaps wrong,
ito speak of ones husband thus-the time
was when [ did not believe it possible ;
put what am | to do--where am to seek
sustenance, clothing, and fuel, for these
my freezing and starving children? "But,
my dear sir, she continued, her sobs al
most suffocating her, this is but a small
part OF what | suffer. Oh i! could sustain
myself under poverty and want could
1--we with him cheerfully and affectionately
under all vicissitudes Of fortune, if could
only receive the love and kindness which
is a wife's DUE"
inquired the name of her who had
SO strongly excited my sympathy in a
moment, the beautiful Eliza fitted afore
my mind--she, who at twenty was SO
beautiful, SO affectionate and SO happy,
that angels might almost have envied her
lot | arose with an indistinct feeling
that should meet something which my
youthful mind was wont to contemplate
with such delight. / entered the room,
but what did | see !-the shadow of her,
whose early dawn was the promise of
earthly bliss. Would to God it had never
been my lot to have thus encountered her.
who, in youth, had left such magic and
undylng spell on my mind.-Amer. Farmer.
INDUSTRY. 1t has been wisely ordered
by a benehcent Providence that the ne
cessities of men, properly administered to,
should become sources of enjoyment and
though, according to the primal curse, the
field OF existence must be moistened by
the sweat of his brow, yet that his very la
bour should give health to the body, and
contentment to the mind. 1t is universal
ly observed, by such as have looked upon
life with thinking eyes, that those whom
necessity requires to be constantly en-
ployed, are the most cheerful among man
kind while, on the contrary, the diciples
OF sloth, they who ceiling to their couch
and sicken years away are irrascible in
temper and diseased or imbecile in body
unsatisfied with themselves, and unsatis-
factory to all around them.
The salutary influence and the necessi-
ty of activity, both as regards the mental
and corporeal functions, are not denied,
even by those who purchase ease at the
expense of health, and for state of unen-
viable and bloated guietude, barter the
spirit and vivacity which industry only can
enjoy. Nature, by her secret and mystic
rious pronptings, teaches all who live,
that exercise is requisite : the child chases
its hoop or ball, in obedience to her fell
commands, until his cheek glows and his
brow glistens from the salubrious pastime;
the sportsman awakes the morning with
the reverberated thunder of his warfare ON
the feathered tribe, and others pursue
dangerous and toilsome modes of recrea-
ton, all unconsciously fulfilling her provi-
dent DEGREES.
Hilarity of heart and hardihood of frame.
spirits always jocund, and limbs always
vigorous, courage to face danger, and
strength to bear fatigue, can only be en-
Ijoyed by him who indurates his body by
frequent exposure, and renders it plant by
incessant motion; who, by being always
employed, gives sadness no time to fasten
on his spirits, and earns refreshing slum-
Der by useful toll.
A state of ease is at best but neutral
state of being, alike distant from positive
happiness and positive misery. But tbs
the source of misery; for as the bark that
is suffered to lie unattended to on the
ocean, its helm unguided, may be wreck
ed by SUDDEN storm, which vigilance
could easily have avoided; SO in the voy-
age of life, he who pauses supinely on the
tide of time, may be overtaken by the
tempests that activity had outspeeded, or
be dashed against the rocks that by the
exert;ons of industry had been passed in
!, safety.
Industry prolongs life. 1t cannot con-
quer death, but can defer his hour; and
spreads over the interval thousand en-
joyments that make it pleasure to live. AS
rust and decay rapidly consume the ma
chine that is not kept in use; so disease
and sickness accumulate on the frame of
Incidence, until existence becomes bur-
den, and the grave bed Of rest. Indus
try is the friend of virtue and Incidence
: the handmade of vice. The active are
seldom criminal but the most of those
who yield to guilty enticements, may attri-
butte their lapse from rectitude to habits
of idleness, which, leaving the heart va
cant, gave full opportunity for the evil
passions and desires of our nature to exert
their power.-Merchants Telegraph.
IRISH WIT. 1t happened, lately, in re-
pairing the street in which DIR. Abernethy
resides, that the paving stones were accu-