Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-08-26

the MECHANIC IN sgRAITG
Historians have been hssy Coz several thoosands
class OF men which is exempt iron trouble. TAe
mos, sturdy beggars, in the greatest paradise q
mendicity sometimes brought % q noa plue.
Bclisarious, the champion Of tho wsalthiest en-
pre yet recorded WAS reduced 10 beg his fArsAise,
and the European king, in the last century, 0iea
pennyless in England.
After this becoming preface, we may 90 fairly
to work on sui iect. ! heartily sympath1oo
with the man who Is reduced to want, without
his own tault-especialy Il he Is man who
earns his bread by the sweat Of his brow; and
most OF all IL he has 10 share HE sorrow and loss
with coufiding wife and helpless chiidree.
There ere rany such, sor We meet them IN a.
NEST every walk, downcast AMI unemployed;
there arc more than at first suppose, for tho
greatest sufferers shun the glare Of otserva-
ton.
American mechanics are said to love money.
If this is true any discreditobc sense, il is 50
in a different from, that of the olden time
The money lover OF our day Is bad enough, but
he is not the mscr of old stories. lie grasps
bu, does not hoard. The excitement which drives
him On 10 rapid gain is only one branch Of q wi
der excitement having many branches charac-
teristic of time, and susceptible 81 direc-
ton 10 good rs we'll as evil. The old time money
maker was tortoise. and when storm came no
cf0sCC us she'll ne HiOoefn money -
bird OF the air; the tempest d:enches and Pered-
venture stuns him. but at the 6rst laughing sum
shine he is again the wing. Let the incchan-
ic in straits hope strongly for delivcrance. Many
are now reduced to great difficulties By changes
in the commc rcial world, which they had no hand
in producing In such circums tanccs. when the
father Of family secs the dearest object OF his
affections brought into want and distress, there
is a great temptation, to discomfort and repinine.
This tendency must he resisted-it never did a.
ny good and it never can. No man ever gained
/. by grumbling. Complaints, rccriminationss ana
even curses, serve neither to m ke tho hunger
smaller the loaf larger. Stick pin there,
: and consider. Here Is starting point.
Not many hours ego hea,ed Uncle Benjamin
discorrsing this IN tier to his son, who was COM
plaiuinr of the pgessure.-@kcly upon il, Sam.
N.Y. said the old man, he leaned On his staff,
with his grey locks Towing in the breeze Of .
NJ morning, "n,ur muring pays no bis. have
been an observer these fifty years, ard l new
$ er saw a man helped out Of hole by CURING his
: horses. BE quiet you can, for nothing will
: grow, under a moving harrow, and discomfort
0 harrows the mind. Matters are had, acknowl
edge, but ulcer is any thing better for finger
ing The more you groan, tho poorer you grow.
y Repining at losses is only putting pepper into =
Is sore eye. Crops will fail in AZ soie, and We
e may be ,hankici Tia, VIC have MT a faminc.-Be-
% sides, always took notice, that whenever fe!'
Il the rod pretty snartly.it was much as to say
IN 'sHcre is something which you have got to learn
10 Sammy, do not forget that your schooling is NO
p over vet, though you have wife and two chill
s. dren.n
"Av," cried Sammy, "you may say that, AM
u mothcr-in-law and two apprentices into the bar
~ gain. And should like TO know what poo.
II man can learn here, when the greatest scholar
&c and lawyers loggerhcads, and cant fer thoi
* lives tell what has become Of tho hard money"
re 'Softly, Sammy! lam older than you. Ihav
ln not got these grey hairs and this Crooked bacl
G. without some burdens. could tell you storis
IS OF the days of continental money, when my grand
&c father used TO stuff n saky box with bills TO pa
for yeariing. wheat fan, and when Jerse
10 women used thorns for pins, and laid their ica
q, pots away in the garnet. You wish to know wins
a you may learn. You may learn these sevc
80 things.-Frst, that you have saved too little IN
n spent too much. never taught you TO be m
ng ser, but have seen you give your dollar for
!e. "notion, when You might have laid one half
he side for charity and half for a rainy da,
en- Secondly, that you have gone too much upo
m credit. / always told you that credit was bat
sc shadow it shows that there is substance benin
ed which casts the shadow; but a small body ma
u cast great show, and no wise man will folio
9ss the shadow any further than he sec the sud
er. stanee-You may now learn that you have e
OF lowed the opinion and fashion Of others till u
have been decoyed into bog.-Thirdly, that ~
have been in too much has,c to become nc
n. Slow and easy wins the race.--Fourihiy, that I
ne, course of life can &c depended upon as alwa,
OFT prosperous. lam afraid the younger race
ses working men in America have had notion th
md nobody could 90 to ruin this side Of the ~
nut ter. Providence has greatly blessed Us, but '
ok. have become prcsumptuous.-Flthiy,t that "
ted have not been thankful enough to God for has be
ub- Gifts ia times past.-Sixti,ly. that you may
ok thankful that ourIot is no worse. We might ha
the famine, OF pestiiencc, war. or tyranny, or
vas together. And lastly, to end my sermon y
ere may learn to offer with more understanding =
me prayer Of your infancy, "gve us tins day cur O
II. ~ bread"
The old man ceased, and Sammy put on
1nd apron and told Dick to blow away 1t the tosI
so bellows.
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Pu- To Dyerene Hoeses icing eedsed Hik FJScs.
ose Take two or three small handnls of walnut leavs
'uP- upon which pour three quarts Of soft q
m ya,er. let il infse night, md peur The whc
rue the next morning into kettle, and LET il hni fs
to quarter Of an hour; when cold il win b rea'
&C for use. Nsshing moro is required than 10 Doi
lem speage with the liquor, sod before the bos
goesout of the stable let those parts which .
hin ncet irritable be srDcared over with the liqo
ane viz: be. ween and upon the ear, the ned, q
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