The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-13
From the Constitutionalist.
TEMPERANCE,-A DIALOGUE.
= WIN S11, n DIALUdUEs
vour most obsoaLr.

Sambo.-Dick, very grad to see you
how am de family
! Putty reasonable, tank you. Blu
Sambo, you look brack in de face dis morn.
ing any ting de matter at home
S.-Why, tell you what, man, dere was
! great fiusterashun at our house. Massa
come home berry late tudder night. De
fus ting we no, he lump de toe gen de tops
and ne head knock de door in. Missy al
most fright to Diet, cry out murder rob-
per IRE " But when Sukey bring de
candle, dere was massa spraying on de
fior; an he look for all de world as if he
was Whispers in Dicks earl as Daby's
SOW.
Xxi! you don't say so, Sambo!
S.-Ils de trute, Dick. Den missy hah
him take up, and den we wash him an put
INN to bed; and den missy send for tree
ob de Temperashun Siety to tell her what
she mus do. And da cum and tell massa
dat ne mus jine de Siety, for it was pity,
as ia mortal Shakespeare say, dat a man
should put an inemy in de brain to teal
away de mout.
Dan did your massa line?
S-Yes, Dick, but den it do him no good
Ha, boy, white man berry unsartln. But
cum close here, Dick, Whispers in his ear
D.-Ki you don't say SO. Ebbery night
Sambo
S.-Yes. ebbery night! But den you see
ne don't go in the treet, nor to de shop, nor
to de tabern now. o no, he keep UNI in de
closet on de sideboard, and ebbery mite The
crooks his elbow and mimics] you may hear
1t go for two tree hour, glug, glug, glug,
glugity, glug.
D-High Sambo, l tell you what, white
man too cute he no take de rag off de
bush, but he take de rag, de bush an all.
BORROWING OF NEWSPAPERS. There
are many people who are well able to sup
port their families, who nevertheless con-
slider it no improperly to borrow the papers
from their neighbors. This is a great
wrong to both families; for every member,
of family should have fair opportunity
to read the paper, and if it remains on the
table during the whole week, they will do
SO. But fit is carried from house to house,
the selfish head of the family alone can en-
joy it.
There is a duty also on every respectable
head of a family, to help support some one
paper printed in his neighborhood. I He
ought to feel as much ashamed of reading
a paper for which he does not pag, as of
going steadily to a church without paying
something to support the parson.
There is great improperly in habitually
borrowing your neighbours paper. He does
not like to refuse, and he will very reluc-
family consent, if he has not read all the
paper. The newspapers of the present day
are so large, and contain such great guam
tity of matter, that it requires some time to
read them, and whole family cannot well
get through with one paper before another
comes.
have known men who were greatly an
noyed by neighbors borrowing their papers,
to be compelled to stop the paper, as the
only way of breaking the habit, and in the
hope that their neighhor would take the
hint, and subscribe for the paper on bis own
account.-Long Island Star.
HAPPY CLOSE OF 1929. IF war is the
natural state of man, as Burke in a fit of
irony attempted to prove, the present is a
most nn-natural condition of society; for
the world over, there exists not contest
| which deserves the name of war. Russia
and Turkey, Colombia and Peru, Buenos
Ayres and Santa Fe, the United States and
eh~ 1uNO 1HOidASg nave GdCH UuTI6Q AOe
tomahawk, and concluded to live in peace
with their neighbors. His Celestial Males
~ has torn the rebel Changikur into quar-
ters, and written poem in commemorative
OF the deed, besides offering sacrifices t.
the circular heaven and the square earth
holy ancestors and divine forefathers, to the
bridges which afforded a passage for hi.
troops, the hills on which they trod, the five
great mountains and four great rivers o.
China, the tombs of the Emperors of al
generations, and to Confucius, at his native
place in Shantung Province. Thus the
whole world is at peace. And what is
more there is no immediate prospect of war
A TREE OF LIFE! The .Agarroud tree
the growth Of the Pampas and other prov
inces IN South America, seems to have been
expressly provided by Providence, for the
sustenance of the rude inhabitants of these
districts, and, il it were by an accident to
be exterminated, it is scarcely too much to
say that the population would follow it! II
is the universal sustenance of the poor, the
idle, and the destitute; there is a drink
made from its bean-like pod, which is really
excellent-its seeds are ground into palata-
BILE and nutritious flour--its leaves are used
as the general food for cattle--and itI
branches, which are studded with sharp,
pointed thorns, are stuck into the earth ant
Waited together into sort of palisade
which even starving bull will not attemp
to break through, though he see the tempt
| ing pasture on the other side. The wood
too, is not only excellent for all agriculture
and architectural purposes, but is, from it
hard and solid texture, almost as durable
as Goals, for fuel. Finally, even dogs ar
fond of the pod, and pigs fatten on it bette
than on any other food. The former wi
often leave their homes and live in the Al
garrova woods as long as the pod is in sea
son; and the poor inhabitants will none {
them work--nor need they-while that POI
ton of the algarrova tree lasts.
/. AN Answer. pedagoguc in Berkshire
not long since, inquired OF "a boy, what part {
speech Is oh and ar or, what is an Inter
ssct,au 81 The lad nnt knowing, tho KNIGHT I