Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-10-19

.ency, to the period whsa his name;
will be echoed from tongue to tongue, &
he be regardedsas the paragon of ami
mals.' After she has INDUCED himself
a little longer in the base pleasures OF
life, he will commence his offerings at.
the shrine Of literature; he will then
devote himself to the temples Of Wis-
dom, and pour over the dusty pages
upon which aretreasured up the worlds
knowledge. The dckly glare Of the
night-lamp, shall then give q ha!lowed
and spiritual character to the scene of
his lucubrations; and while the good,
ease-loying world is slumbering away
its existence, he will be laboring for
Immortality But he never begins his
work; he ives on the same man Of re-
solutions, until the boar frost of age
settles upon his temples; and then he
contents himself with the excuse, that
he has mt time @now to gether this
worlds honors.
We have Known sonoe-men who
had not even time to get themselves a
wife, and attend to the thousand little
epdearments oflove. They religious
ny designed, at no very distant day, to
give to the gentlcr sex some share OF
their time and affections, but at pre-
sent, they either had not 'sown their
wild OATS as dissipation is modestly
called, or else they were SO much en-
crossed with the momentus nothings
of life, that for the souls of them, they
could not find sufficient time for such
a purpose.
Demonstration is the thief Of time,
says the proverb, and yet there is no
man that will not furnish you with the
excuse for delay, that he had not suffi-
cient time. Life is thus corroded and
rusted away by this lamentable search
ty Of time; and many a bright intel
lcct, endowed with great natural advan-
tages, has dreamed away it's vigor, and
shrunk almost to idiotcy, merely be-
cause time could never be found to give
i employment.
In this manner man lives. Instead
Of taking time by the forelock,' as poor
Richard advises, he permits it to get
SO far ahead Of him, that he never is
able to overtake it again. He is, there
'ora, perhaps, always in hurry in do
ng nothing; and in the end Of life,
when the eye turns retrospectively,
md scans the labors of the past, there
$ scarcely green spot upon which it
IAN dwell with real, heartfelt satisfac-
ion. Most men die as they have lived.
They cannot even find time, during
ne palmy days of health and strength,
md ease, to make provision for that
undiscovered country from whose
,ourn no traveller returns;' and when
hey are stricken down by the rude
land Of disease-when pain racks the
'ody, and whitening fever runs boil {
ng through the veins, like molten la S
"a, then, indeed, have they no time to |
make preparation for new and indy
ng existence. This is his short histo- {
y. From the cradle to the grave-or 1
ather from the years of knowledge to :
hose OF futurity-he lives, the perfect I
-voluntary-slaue oftinae. N. i
a TOTAL ABSTINENCE MAN.-The
'oston Evening Journal gives the fol- ::
wing as the personal experience and =
'stlmony of Mr.. Secretary CAss, in !.
vor OF total abstinence-a man who =
IS held many responsible situations. u
ID, as the journal well remarks. re- $
ected by all parties for his talents and .
orth; Y 80 +
81 have,'' says Mr.. Cass. anever 9
'ted ardent spirits, nor have ]. at A. e
time during life, been in the habit u
drinking wine. It is, of course. al a
ost useless to add, that / know moth y
8 OF the effects of stimulating liquors 9
81 the constitution, except bY OBJ e
rving them in others. | have. per-
Ps, during portion Of my life life, been d
much exposed as most men. HAVING h
'ed, since boyhood, in a new coun. /,
y; having served, in the army during /;
r., and having been led BY official f
Ties to traverse almost all the wes- n
m region north of the Ohio and east =
the Mississippi, it is impossible to j
y what effects would have resulted i
I'M the use OF stimulating liquors, at T,
RODS Of great exposure and fatigue 6,
can only say that ! have done we'll 9,
ough without them.'' =
Marriage is designated the bridze q
.e: and, indeed, it puts curb upon Ii
,st Of persons. S
what tune is most likely to capt. VI
g . young lady? A fortune to be al
e, re-, al
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