Litchfield enquirer., 1829-10-08

question: WHAT AM I TO DO FOR MYSELF T.
If he studies his interest, and resolves up.
on a trade, he should forthwith select his
master, and 60 to work. His father NAV
wonder at his want of ambition, as he
would call this mother may be very
sorry, and his sister cock up her proud
nose at her brother being filthy mechan-
ic /; but let him continue at his trade with
the knowledge that labor is wealth, and
time is money, and in few years he will
have some substantial evidence of the fact.
1t is melancholy to see the number of signs
in gilded letters Of Attorney at LaaO,' as
if litigation was the prevailing sin of the
age, and the young lawyers lounging with
their legs on the table, deranging the dus-
ty volumes of Blackstone and Coke which
lie unopened before them, or the sedate
students and young practitioners of medi-
cine calculating upon epidemics or sick
ly season. + 49,"
Where all is ompetition--where all
rush to the same spot, some must fail.
Those who are born husbandmen had bet
ter continue so, and those who have NO
visible means Of obtaining living, had bet
ter turn theirs backs upon the city, and
seek the smiling, the plentiful West. Let
them clear land--till the soil--gather the
harvest-learn to be farmers, and obtain an
honest livelihood--in time by industry and
perseverance, they may become proprie-
tors Of the soil, and enjoy health, wealth,
and comfort.-N Y. Cbwier.
ON SEA-SICkNESS.
The Medical Journal entimates that forty
five drops of laudanumis sovereign spe-
cifc against Sea-SickIess and we have
only to say, that if it b9 true, the discovery
of the remedy should aid will be immortal.
Hervey, who first found out the circula-
of the vital fluid, and tenner, who taught
mankind preventive of that most loath-
some and disgusting If human maladies,
the Small Pox, were both mere sciolists
and nostrum mongers. compared with the
illustrious Greenville, 10 whom is ascribed
the heaven.born discovery we have iusr
mentioned. The ma who can cure or
prevent sea-sickness, has already squared
the circle! We had rather be that man
than to have found out the longitude. In
deed, it strikes US thai pain and desease
Of all sorts, Except pc reliance the Kings
Evil and the malady Of disappointed OF.
lice seeking) are as good as banished from
the world, if DR.. Greenville has really in.
vented a cure for sea-sickness, for we shoulc
like TO know what man cORId not cwrx
twho had wrestled successfully with thai
villanous "monster OF the deep" Dds
thou ever take sea voyage gentle reader
If thou hast, thou art ready to agree with
US in immortalising the Doctor, and if thou
hast not, set myself down and be content-
ed, as highly favored mortal albeit
thou hast had small box, plague, leprosy,
and fevers Of every type mentioned in the
books, and every color of the rainbow,
black, scarlet, spotted and yellow. IT'S
only him who has been sea sick, that has
the proper insight of human calamity. He
who has held his head over the ships side,
to square certain unsettled accounts with
his stomach, while the green and yellow
wave glided by his giddy and bewildered
vision, till it seems to the sufferer one vast
ocean of nausea, Of bile and of death He
who has lain in his birth sweating in all the
agonies Of ten thousand aggregated qualms,
till he would feel grateful to any kind heart
ed sailor that would throw him overheard,
has seen that sailor offer him the consola-
ton Of raw pork and molasses. He who
has seen and felt all this, has the right to
say he knows something! But let no 9TH
er man presume for one moment to sup.
pose that he has any acquaintance with sub
lunary troubles. He may have been in
the gallies, or under the tortures of the in
quisition--nay, he may have been hanged
and brought back to life by galvanic bat
terry, bat he has known nothing of genuine
affection, if he never was sea-sick. We
once doubted the supremacy Of this ocean
malady over the blue devils, but there is
no sort of comparisOn-for the former, in
addition to its own substantive and pecul-
lar horrors, includes the latter--and more
too, for sea-sickness produces devils of all
colors, blue, black, and purple. 1t is, in
short, a combination Of all the ills that
+" flesh is heir to-" Let him who disputes
Us, double Cape Hatteras in gale Of wind.
Let him lie bufeting in his birth, for days,
and nights, and weeks, ill the exhaustion
Of nature throws over him fitful and dis
tempered sleep, in which he dreams at one
moment that he is the identical Sancho
Panxa Of Cervantes. and actually tossing in
a blanket Of bIackguards, and at the next,
that he has become top which school,
boy is in the act of spinning! Let him
finally escape the perils Of a saltwater Dur