The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-11-24

J NC AiOuoSa DSCdluG Slllf3 UG Cautiously tic
scended from his chamber to carry his plai
INTO execution; but what was his chagril
and modification to find that his valice wal
locked in the bar and his horse in the sta
BILE, and to obtain either ofthem was utter
ly out of his power.
With feelings which may perhaps be i'm.
aglned but cannot be described, he return
ed to his chamber, where he passed nigh
of intense mental suffering and sleeplesc
agony. AS might have been expected, he
deferred leaving his lodgings much beyond
the ordinary hour, vainly endeavoring to de-
wise way of escape from his dilemma
when his revere was broken by the intelli
gencei that two gentlemen who had just ar.
rived, wished to speak with him. Here wa:
new source of trouble; he had no ac
quaintance in that part of the world, and he
had no doubt but his creditors in Oxford
had discovered his flight, pursued him, and
were now about to strip him of the little
property he had brought away, or to carry
him back in disgrace. So intensely were
his feelings excited, that two or three mes
sages were sent before he could muster res
olution sufficient to leave his chamber. Al
length, finding he could invent no excuse
for longer delay, with FACILITATING heart
he descended.
The two gentlemen who had requested
an interview met him, and he felt greatly
relieved on finding them to be perfect stran-
gers to him. They Immediately entered on
their business by inquiring of Mr.. H. wheIh-
er he was the gentleman who bought a GER
tain tract of land on the evening previous
On his replying in the affirmative, they in.
formed him that they had just returned from
viewing the land that they intended to
have been at the sale but were detained one
day on the road by an extraordinary storm
and concluded by asking him if he was dis
posed, for a suitable consideration, to Ielin-
quish his right TO the tract?
This conversation had an astonishing ef-
feet on the feelings of Mr.. H. He saw that
instead of being pursued bymerciless cred
itors, the door to fortune was thrown open
before him; and it was with the greatest
difficulty lie subdued his rising emotion
enough to reply that he was not particular
ly anxious to sell, but if they would pay
him two thousand dollars in cash, they should
have the privilege of taking the tract from
off his hands. No sooner said than done !;
the bargain was concluded, the money paid,
and the purchasers satisfied that they had
made the best trade.
With his newly acquired money Mr.. H.
purchased another tract of land, to which
he Immediately proceeded. The purchase
was good one, and by selling part and
clearing part for his own use, he soon be-
came the most wealthy man in that snotian
time of his clandestinely leaving Oxford,
NJ hu
bly, paid all his debts,-made an acknowl-
ed to his new land. He afterwards enjoy
ed the confidence of his fellow citizens, and
for several years filled an important judicial
office. He died about two years since, leav-
ing numerous and happy family to attest
the truth of that passage of scripture which
says, " the heart of man deviseth his way,
but the Lord directeth has steps"
THE APpETITEs. The following is the
concluding paragraph of an article in the
last number of the Journal of Health, on the
"education of the appetites."
"One fundamental principle we cannot,
however, abstain from mentioning at this
time-iti is the education of the appetites, on
success in which so much of the happiness
of life depends. 1t must begin from the
earliest infancy, long before the dawn of
reason, and even anterior to the evolution
of the moral sentiments. The rule on which
it is conducted, is q, very simple one-ap-
plicable to all classes. 1t is to allow no
child the Indulgence of an appetite or pro-
pensity other than what is required by its
instructive wants, for its bodily support and
health. Nothing is to be conceded by the
whim or caprice of a parent, to the imagin-
airy wants of a child for it must be con-
stantly borne in mind, that every gratitica-
! ton Of any one sense, whether OF taste,
sight, sound, or touch, is the beginning OF
desire for its renewal; and that every re-
newaI gives the probability of the indul-
gence becoming habit; and that habit
once formed, even in childhood will often
remain during the whole of after life, &C
quring strength every year, until it sets all
laws, both human and divine, at defiance.
Let parents, who allow their children to sip
little of this wine, or to Just taste that cor
dial, or who yield to the cries of the little
ones fer promiscuous food, or for liberty f.
sit up little later, or to torment domes-
tic animal, or to strike their nurse, or tc
raise the hand against mamma-ponder well
on the consequences. If they do not, often
vain are the after efforts OF instructors
vain the monitions from the pulpit; theil
child is in danger of growing up drunk
ard, or glutton-a self-willed sensualist
or passionate and ngeful-prompt tC
take the life of fellow being, and TO sac
riice his own; and all this, because the
fond parents were faithless to their trusts
they had not the irmness to do their duty
they feared to mortify their child; and il
SO doing, they exposed him, in after life, Il
be mortified by the worlds scorn, to wan
der an unoved, unpited thing"
! AN Ox's GALL will set any color-slk, cot
ton or woollen. have seen the colors of cali
co which faded at one washing, fixed by il
Where one lives near a slaughter house, it i
worth while to buy cheap fading goods and Sc
al sxR ~ al he G.