Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-31
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ApEiORISNS

si.ling our passions The stories Of
our ueighhor's errors seldom tend to q
reformation of onr own.
Scasonable gathering and reasona
BILE spending make good house keep
ing
Lying is scsndalous sin, crime OF
deep dye, of extensive nature practised
10 deceive. 10 betray, 10 rob, to des
troy, and to conceal innumerable sins
1t is the sleeps clothing upon the
VOLTS back, the Pharisee'S prayer, the
harlot's blush, the hypocrlte 5 paint, the
murderer's smile, the lhIei's clOsk, and
Judas kiss, it is mankind's darling sin,
aud the devils characteristic.
The way to live easy i. to mind your
own business, ard leave others 10 take
care OF theirs. a
Our running accounts wilhthe merch
ant, grocer, baker, butcher, schema.
ker, tailor. black smith, and printer,
are generally like our ,ins-m0re than
we think them to be.
Troubles, like tigers, are quite harm
less as long as you can look them right
IN The eye; but the moment you turn
your cowardly glance away, they are
upon your back, and fix their fangs
into your vItals
To be always considering "what
we should eat, ahd what we should
drink, and where wlthal we should be
clothed" 10 order to avoid the approach
of disease, is the most likely means OF
provoking lis attack 4 man who is
continually feeling his purse, IS never
likely TO have good one. lie swal
low his iuod from the same motive he
does his physic, it will neither be Gu
.joyed nor digested SO well, as if heeat
~ obedience to the dictates OF an uncal
cu'ating appetite.
The hyporhondriac, who is in The
habit of weighing his meals, will gen
orally find that they lie heavy on his
stomach II he take walk or ride,
with no other view than 10 pick up
health, be will seldom meet with it on
the road
Nothing. surely, can be more lille
and absurd, than to waste the whole
OF our benG IN endeavors to preserve
1t; to neglect the purposes, in order 10
proiraci the period of our existence
Med. Int.
Itenperdnce Il will make sug-
gestlon 10 q portion Of the community
who suffer more, perhaps, from the evil,
than all others L mean wives and
mothers Would you know how to
mitigate the evil?
First, then, never offer a drop of ar
dent spirits to child as you vaiue your
future comfort. The deplorab!e habit
OF intemperance is, l have no doubt,
contracted in thousands of instances in
the years Of infancy and youth, merely
from having the dreg of flip and today
which The father and perhaps the moth
ef have been comfortably enjoying; and
perhaps as many more have been tradu
ced into the habit by the misguided pre-
scripton of dose of ram and molas.
SEES, to relieve the triflIng pain 1t you
wish your husband to abandon the Use
OF 1t, never use any yourself; and new
er let day pass without having plenty
oil beer, or some other beverage in
your cellar, which he can have as sub
siiute He must be fixed in his habits
indeed, If he did not take it instead of
having recourse to the rom bOtle
MECHANIC
Temperance The people Of Hard
wick, Vermont, have universally a
greed 10 discontinue the use of ardent
spirits except as medicine, and the
merchants have ceased to keep it eX
cept in the way they keep other medi-
clnes II occupies 1--WE suppose its
proper place among other medicines
and polsons, such as arsenic, oil Of
vItrol, aquafor,Is laudanum, spirits of
terplnIine, nux vonlca. &c
On Saturday night week, slight APP
pearance Of the aurora Boreaiis which
excited so much interest last summer,
was observed in an eastern direction
from Montreal. 1t fitted along the hori-
zon in both directions, but did not rise
to the same height in the Heavens as
asst summer, nor were its colours equal
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