Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-15

ASSNOHy was lu JUS ud1ISS tuO Sdy1 IHe nap ,f Py, the young and beautiful were there O returned-and To, the temple was no more l. its walls lay in scattered ruins moss an, !. wild grass grew wildly there, and at tn f midnight hour, the owls long cry added t e the deep solitude. The young and ga, g who revelled there had passed away. s saw child rejoicing in his youth-the ido
 of his mother, and the pride of his father 3 I returned, and that child had become old Trembling with the weight of years h, ! stood the last of his generation, a strange amidst the desolation around him.
 saw the oak standing in all it's prid, :. upon the mountain-the birds were carol
 ling in its boughs-I returned, and the oal playing at their pastintes thro its branches 1 "Who is the destroyer 2" said to my guardian angel.
 "It is Time," said he. When tn, morning stars sang together over the new made world, he commenced his course, ant when he shall have destroyed all that i. beautiful of earth-pluck the sun from his ssphere-veil the moon in blood yea, when he shall have rolled the heavens and earth away as scroll, then shall an angel from the throne of God come forth, and with one foot on the sea and one on the land lift up his hand towards Heaven, and swear by Heavens Eternal, "Time is, Time was, Timc shall be no longer !''
 Is there no way," said I, "to render time blessing instead ofa curse?''
 '' Yes," said the angel, "by laying hold of him as he passeth by, he will wait you sweetly on to blessed immortality; but by negecting him, and suffering him to pass unheeded, he will bear you through the waves of trouble to a deep gulph of woe. He rolls on most rapidly and will soon land you beyond his influence where he who made you will reward you for your conduct towards him. If you would be happy you must esteem him of infinitely moro value than gold or silver. Grasp each moment as it flies and spend it in do- ing good. The number Of years allotted to man in this world, if well spent, are to him who spent them, even ifthey are num- bered and finished, worth thousands of worlds, yea, eternity! But this same peri cd spent in sin will prove to him to whom they belong, a curse as deep as hell. Be wise, O man, before it shall be too late ''
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 THE AMER1cAN. N..;y AeSAttfnSe .. the celebrn- ted Franklin, written by himself, this great man relates, among other matters, respect ing his residence in London, at the time in which he was journeyman printer, the following particulars:
 "On my entrance I worked at first as a pressman, conceiving that I had need of bodily exercise, to which had been ac- customed in America, where the printers work alternately as compositors and at the press. l drank nothing but. water. the other workmen, to the number of about tt- ty, were great drinkers of beer. carried occasionally large form of letters in each hand, up and down stairs, while the rest employed both hands to carry one. They were surprised to see, by this and many other examples, that the American Aq"at- ic, as they used to call me, was stronger than those who drank porter. The beer boy had sufficient employment during the whole day in serving that house alone Nv fellow pressman drank every day pint of beer before breakfast, pint wltl bread and cheese for breakfast, one be tween breakfast and dinner, one at dinner one again about 6 o'clock in the afternoon and ano ther after hc had finished his day. work. This custom appeared to me abom inable, but he had need, he said, of all thu beer, in order to acquire strength to work
 "i endeavored to convince him that tho bodily strength furnished by the beer could only be in proportion to the sol't part of the barley dissolved in the water o which the beer was composed that tner. was large portion of flour in penny ,oa! f and that consequently if he ate his ioa' and drank pint of water with 1t, he wou'' derive more strength from it than from mint of beer. This reasoning, however did not prevent him from drinking his ac |, customed quantity of beer, and paying ev : cry Saturday night score of four or nv s sh;ll;nps a week for this cursed beverage $ an expense from which l was wholly OK $ empf. :.L .,, , l. .h. n-;rters to renounce their abominabl n practice of bread and cheese with beer and they procured, like me- from nelgl e boring house, a good basin of warm grus n | n rh;ch was small slice of butter, vii F toasted bread and nutmeg. Fms was .r much better breakfast. which did not co l. more than a pint of beer, namely, thr' n haIf-nence. and at the same time preserv' is .Is head clearer. Those who continu' ,s ,s to gorge themselves with beer. often if