The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-06-22
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. MECHANIC
{ There is no Iaore honorable character among
E the many by which the human race is marked
and diversified, than that of the independent
and Industrious American Mechanic, who is
prudent in his conduct, just in his dealings, and
properly appreciates the responsibility of his
situation, and the blessings he enjoys. Re.
moved alike from the assiduous allurements Of
vice, which ever surround the affiuent, and de-
pendant solely on daily exercise in his vocation
Tor the comforts of life, and the support of those
dependent upon him, his mind is free and his
heart is unwarped by prejudice. He seems, in
deed, to have realized the blessings ofthat beau
tIful prayer of Agar" Give me neither power
" nor riches" Living in free land, and
claiming the exercise of it's sovereignty as one
of the people, he can neither feel nor know the
debasement of an inferior political grade, nor
when elevated TO office, the tyranny of the par
aste of despotic power. HIS time divided be.
tween the regular discharge of his professional
i duties, In making provision for his family, i'm
provement OF his mind, and the free exercise oil
MS political rights, he appears to stand forth to
the world, the ''o6teman of nature, independent
In mind, and honorable in feeling
Ii is on this class of men, that the safety OF
this Republic must rest. They can have no
sinister designs, and if further reforms are nee.
essary IN the progress Of civil liberty if the
slave is to be emancipated; the debtor no long
| er deemed IN the eye of the law criminal--if
! the blessings OF education are to be wide spread
and general; IT, IN a word, the American Rev
oluton is but half accomplished, the conclusion
of this great work is with the American Yeo.
many We would trust no cause and no par
ty, of which their benefit was not the aim of
the one, anc they were not the basis of the other
Our advice to mechanics and working men
N nenaraI ic fn road
! Devote certain portion of your time, every
| day, to the acquisition of knowledge. Frank
lin by restricting his personal comforts, found
time for half an hours reading while his fellow
apprentices were at their meals, and the world
has witnessed the result; an undividing fame
as philosopher, and his country's freedom as
a patriot.
The complaint of the want of time, will be
heard, but we do not believe there is single
individual in the mechanical classes who will
say, that he cannot if he pleased, alot one hour
each day for the acquisition of knowledge. If
business hurries, rise an hour before your usual
( time, and devote that hour, not to the sordid
interests of The world, but to the higher graft
fication of that noble attribute of man-reasen
and intellect. System and decision will do every
thing they are the railroads of the human
mind and an hour each day, devoted TO read
ing history, ethics, or politics, in the extended
Sanse of the term, or whatever NAV be the ia
vorte study of the individual, will in one year
be the means Of accommodating mass of infor.
nation invaluable in ITSELF and with which
neither the vicissitudes of life can interfere nor
| gold purchase, nor force disposscss its owner
We repeat, that the best advice that can be
given to mechanic, either young or old, is to
read; either an hour or a half hour, before the
allotted time of labor; while waiting for your
meals at home, or for work, if such an occur
ronce be allowed to take place in the shop; or
before you retire at night A wiser man than
we, has said, " there is time for all things
and we know there is time for reading and
no man should be day without opening book,
nor suffer himself TO be without some standard
work in which his mind is progressing, and up
on the principles of which his thoughts NAV
dwell in his shop, and in the streets-at mill,
or at market; in the fields, or at church. The
Supreme Creator of all, never meant that man s
unremitted bodily exercise should be devoted
merely for his sustenance. The mind must be
fed and although it may do for the slaves and
seris of Europe to grovel in ignorance, it was
meant that the American Mechanic should be
free, enlightened, and independent and that he
should read and judge for himself.
PRESERVING HAMS. A writer in the Ameri-
can Farmer says, he.has frequently tried every
way WHICH has Uocu recommended OV us cor
respondents, to preserve hams, &c, free from
bugs worms and rancidity. With him, not one
of them succeeded we'll. The greatest difficult
ty in warm climate, is to preserve them free
from rancidity. After being so unsuccessful in
experiments, which might, perhaps, succeed
well in colder climates, he resolved to pack his
hams in charcoal knowing its antiseptic quail
ties. This has succeeded to his perfect salts
faction.
tits OF great Importance, 10 have the hams,
&c, dried as early as possible, that they may
be packed away before the season arrives for
the bug or fly to attack them. If this is effect
ed in due time, and they are we'll packed in dry
charcoal, made moderately fine, he feels assur-
ed that the lover of good hams, will have no
reason to regret having made the experiment.
Howard, the celebrated philanthropist, was
thorough-golng temperance man. lie aban'
doned even the use of wine and malt liquors
In his Memoirs, by Brown, will be found many
notices, concerning the effect of strong drink
In his excellent house of correction at Client
their use was prohibited. A similar regulation
was introduced into the Partisan lails. He
found the English jais full of intemperance
and despaired of their reform in other respects
TIL that evil was banished. He bequeatheC
hve pounds each, to ten poor cottagers at Gard
lngton, who should not have been TO the all
house for twelve months preceding his death
A pretty good testimony on the question re
spectlng the use of malt liquors.
Genius Of Temperance.