The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-30

HE -f1fPOCHONDRIAC. Inc dySpeptlc
ought to run away from, or determine to
I combat, the first menace Of disseminated feel
ing. Low spirits may often be successfully
4 resisted if the attempt be commenced suf-
fciently early. 81 will be good" says the
child, who sees the rod ready to direct the
will into the way of goodness and 81 will
be cheerful" ought the dull and dyspeptic
/ to say, who observes above him cloud of
! hypochondriac fancies ready to burst upon
his devoted head, if he chooses the path
which leads to affective feeling. 1t is east
er, l shall be told, to preach than to prac-
tice-to prescribe than pursue; but of this
| am certain, that before the habit become
confirmed, of yielding to their influence, a
determined, and, would say, conscientious
resolution Of dispensing the coming mists
of vapourish depression, may prove, to a
very considerable extent, successful and
effective. {" We would not be paradoxical
or extraVagant enough to assert, that for
person to be in health. it is sufficient that
| he wills it. But without transgressing the
moderation of truth, we may venture to
give it as our opinion, that man often in
ldolently bends under the burden of indis-
position, which a spirited effort would, in
the first instance, have shaken from his
shoulders. If, upon the approach of the
malady, he had resolutely set his face
against it, he would probably have arrested
it in his threatened attack" The doctrine
ofirresistibility, in all its extent, is neither
true nor a wholesome doctrine and the
hypochondriac should reflect, that in SAYING
to gloom, henceforth be thou my good p he
not only directs his own destiny, but impli-
Gates others in his fatal choice:
" Call it madness, cali 1t folly,
Call it whatsoer you may,
There's such charm in melancholy,
aooutd not, if | could be gay"
Melancholy has something in it of poeti-
cal and sentimental, which constitutes
great portion of its charms but stripped of
lis ornamental accompanlments, and laid
bare to dlsSecting view, it will be found to
consist, IN great measure, Of pride, and
selfishness, and incidence cannot CEN
ceive more delightful spectacle, than
that of an individual whose constitutional
cast is melancholic. warning against his
temperament, and determining to enter with
hilarlty into the scenes and circumstances
of social life. In this case we have all the
interest of melancholy, without its oblec-
tional parts.-Dr. Ua0ias on Indigestion
The SULTAN AND HIS NEW ARMY. 1t
is certain that Mahomed has a great deal of
the spirit cf a -reformer he has adopted the
European military cap; he repairs to the
spot where the troops ere exercised, which
is the .4tmeidan, OF ancient Hippondrome,
marches backward and forward on foot,
handles the sword, fires his pistol, and does
every thing to encourage them by his ex-
ample. To reconcile them the more easily
to his reforms, he allows them the use Of
wine and pork; and, indeed, the ordinary
ratiens consist of black bread and hogs lard
which must be very delicious eating. To
silence those silly politicians who exist in
every great city, and eXpend their wisdom
over pot of porter, a bottle of wine, or
| bowl of Sherbet or a coffee cup, the Sultan
has commanded the principal coffee houses
to be closed, and has thus saved the true
! Mussulmans from the sin of talking great
| deal of nonsense. The principal opposition
to the barracks system arising from the mar
ried part of the army, who could Tot con-
ceive how they were to desert their harems in
! the city, or bring Mussulman women among
| horde of soldiers; his Majesty ordered such
OF his troops as had wives to be strangled
and thrown into the sea. OF the other re-
belious janissaries, an eyewitness declares.
that upwards of ten thousand were also
| thrown into the Bosphorus, with stones tied
to their necks, both to keep them down that
| they might not impede the course of the
calques, and to prevent their number being
! known. But although these true believers
thus submitted patiently to be drowned,
/ they would not condescend to have their
hair cut short. His Majesty had power
over their lives, but their salvation. locks
and whiskers were their own, and they
would defend them. This conduct was
very rational. Every Tslamite, as is well
! known, wears long taft of hair on the
crown of his head, by which his guardian
angel is to lift him up to heaven after death.
TO cut off this would>be to deprive him of
all hope of mercy, or Houries' love; and it
was the greatest reason, therefore, that he
resisted SO atrocieus impiety.
London Weekly Rsvie,c.
LONGEVITY. When general census of
| the Roman Empire was made, by Vespasian,
in the year 20, Lord Bacon assures us.
there were then living, between the river
Pc and the Apprentices, fifty four persons of
100 years of age fifty seven of no; two
of 1885, four of 1870; four of 1876; three Of
l40. In Rnmeno, there was one man $50
years of age: Peter Tortin, Temeswar,
Hungary, died in 1874, at the advanced age
OF 1855! Gilmour McCIain died the same
year, in the Isle Of Jura, aged $50
Louisa Truxo, negress, died in Tur-
comea, South America, in 1850, aged us.