Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1834-05-22

But pride got the better of prudence, and
persuaded him that he might do better at
New1York. He went there, figured as q
wholesale merchant, for which. neither his
capital or his experience were adequate,
for three years, and then came the notice
in the state paper for his creditors 70 show
cause, &c. N
Tijerick Vessels farm Joined on to.
mine. He DGs one Of our best formers,
and understood the value Of came boys
as well as any one. Good luck was So con-
stantly by his side that he considered that
any man might set right who had mind to.
Yet he, could not let sCeH enough alone
he wished to DO BETTER. He therefore
removed to the village and opened tavern,
and had the promise of the Justice Courts
and of the stage custom. Go boys did
not improve the farm, and it soon became
neglected and unproductive. BY and BY
the courts were removed by law, the stage
went to the new hotel, and the temperance
era wound up tavern business! Tiierick
has got back to his farm with habits very
much altered, and his fortune not a little
impaired. Yet he consoles himself that
he is not half so bad off as
Joe Sledge, once our master blacksmith,
| afterwards merchant, and now Journey
man. Joe was so famous for his edge tools,
that people. came TO him from all parts
He had his journeymen and his apprenti-
ces, and was always present 70 oversee
them and to be seen by his customers. a.
/ all master mechanics ought to be. Joe
got rich, because he was adapted 10 busi-
ness, and his business adapted to him.
Joe thought, with Sam Patch, that some
things could be done as well as Others, and
that because every body liked him as a
blacksmith, they must like him as any
thing else, forgetting that It was mis- trade,
and not his mind or his person. which had
brought him into notice. And as a mer-
chant was rather more respectable than q
mechanic, and withal more tidy employ
ment, he in fact sunk the blacksmith and
became dealer in tapes and sugar. Itfa-
lred with Joe as II generally does with oth-
ers who embark III new business Of which
they know nothing, after they have arrived
at mature manhood. Those who have
been bred to the business proved success
/ full rivals, and the sheriff finally closed his
mercantile concerns, by selling the entire
effects of ia merchant unfortunate IN BUSH
ness Joe insists to this day, that il he
had tet nell enough alone, he might have
been as well off as most Of his neighbors.
Time would fail me TO narrate half the
cases which have come under my obsefva-
ton, Of men abandoning steady habits, and
fair prospects Of wealth, 10 the Employ
nants in which they had been educated.
land IN which they wore best caisnlAtsd 90
1succeed, for the very hazardous chance Of
doing better in business Ia which they have
every thing TO learn. The fascinating
charms Of fashion end show, the ostenta-
/ tons pride of wealth, and the alluring
smiles Of Office, are as bad as were tho sy-
rons Of Calypso, to heguile men from the
paths of true happiness. The moderate
but certain gains which are the reward of
Industry and frugality, are the most abiding
in their nature, and most benign In their
influence. II is the mild early and latter
rains which induce fertility, and cover the
earth with fruitfulncss while the TEMPEST
and its floods cause waste and desolation.
i The mushroom grows up in 9 night, and
withers in a day.
] Rational Loce. 49, We all know the power
Of beauty, but to render it permanent, and
make human life more happy and agreea-
lble, It must have the beauties Of the mind
annexed. For, as Dir. Blair very Justly
observes Feeble are the attractions Of
the fairest form, if nothing within CORES
ponds TO the pleasing appearance Without
Love and marriage are two words much
spoken Of, but seldom found united. To
BIO happy in the choice Of the fair one we
admire. Is to cultivate the regard we expe-
rience for her, into lasting esteem. The
connubial state was certainly designed to
lhighien the joys and 70 alleviate the mise
ries Of mortality to caress and admire
her, who came into your arms the object
of JOY and pleasure; and 10 comfort the
same dear object Of your affections, when
the clouds Of adversely SURROUND her, hap
tpy within yourself and happy IN your con-
nections, you ought to look up 10 tho au-
thor Of all good gifts; and what avail oil
1.-THE pleasures Of this sublunary state. if
when we shift the fiatisring scene. The man
Is unhappy, where the happiness should
begin, at home An uninterrupted inter-
change Of mutual endearments, among those
ofihe same family, impairs more solid sat
isfaciion than outward appearances with
Inward uneasiness. Love Is a tender and
delicate plant; il must be guarded from ell
Indictment blasts, or il will droop ito head
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