Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-05-31

and rain. 1t will add to its strength to
paste small piece Of paper within the
sheets at each intersection of the twinc.-
When perfectly dry, the paper is to receive
a moderate aud even coat of lnseed oil,
laid on with painters brush.
Genesee Farmer.
From the Farmers Cabinet
RECEIPT FOR MAKING BOYS USEFUL AND INDUS.
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he who Is not fond of his calling seldom succeeds
1t cannot but have been remarked that the
natural disposition of children. when in
health is that of great bodily activity and
the predominant efforts of those 10 whose
care they are entrusted, is often to diminish
this disposition, so as to be productive of the
least possible Inconvenience to themselves.
This take to be great error in education,
and one of the principal causes which gives
rise to Incidence of character, at a more adj
vanced period of life, when we are DESTROYS
of deriving the most advantage from their la.
Dor. The muscular powers become strength
ened exactly in proportion as they are bro'ht
into use; and if we want strength, we must
use it. Let children be permitted to exert
themselves, and be as useful as their circum-
stances admit Of, and furnish them with i'm
plements or tools adapted to their age,
strength and capacity, from time to time, and
give them the soothing language of encour-
agement to use them, and they will grow up
from childhood to mans estate without being
chargeable with the crime of being lazy; and
it will be found that vast amount of useful
labor may be exacted from them without
rnurmuring or requirement.; their bodily pow
ers will be improved and inyigorated, and
they will display more mental development
than those with whom contrary course has
been pursued. Farmers should procure for
their boys,small axes, forks, dung forks, rakes,
spades, wheelbarrows, scythes, sickles, and
in fact every tool necessary for the perform
ance Of every agricultural and horticultural
weight and size to adapt them to the age and
strength of their juvenile owner; for thew
should be possessed in fee simple by the boy
for whose use they are intended, and that
would be complete guarantee not only that
they would be used with effect at the proper
season of business, but that in the intermedi-
ate periods, when not wanted, they would be
respected and cared for; and the approach
Of the time anticipated, with much pleasure,
when they could be brought into profitable
requsition. IF those who make tools would
prepare sets of the different kinds made for
mems use, graduated to the proper proportion
for lads, and let them be of good quality SO
as really to be useful, and not toys, they
would meet with ready sale, and the expense
to the purchaser would be small, compared
with the benefits derived from them. When
the boy grows out of them, although he would
be the owner, he would readily convey his
title to the next in succession, so that sin
gle set might serve several in turn, as pair
of pantaloons or vest descends to the next
expectant in provident family. If this
plan was carried out by On intelligent father
who would give himself the exquisite pleas
ure of conversing nationally with his young
sons, about the reasons of the various plans
and processes OF agriculture, and take some
| pains to get them to understand the phjloso-
pht of his calling, he would rarely find them
| INDECENT or dissatisfied with their business,
and less seldom would he discover DISPOSE
ton TO exchange SO useful and honorable an
occupation, for the more precarious and haz-
ardous business Of mercantile life.
A Short Sermons word spoken in sea-
son, how good il isti'-and never perhaps was
this proverb more fully verified than by the
opportunity improved, as all opportunities
should be, by the late Rev. Rowland Hill
He was once walking in Cheapside, on Sab
bath afternoon, when he overheard a CONVEX
sation between two young men Of gay APP
pearance who were close behind him
{" Where shall we 60 this evening 7" asked
one ofthem. wherever we can have bit
of fun" replied the other. "Then let 40 10
to Old Rowley's chapel" said his compan-
ion, "there will be some fun there" II was
accordingly agreed upon, and while the
worthy divine was reading the lesson in the
evening, his eyes discerned in tho gallery
near him, the very two persons whom he had
beheld in the street, but few hours before,
making the above remark. His text was Ia
ken from Psalm tx. l7-"The wicked shall
be turned into he'll, and all the nations that
forget God" For q moment the minister
paused, and then looking them both full In
The face, and pointing TO them with oil the
dignity Of his calling, repeated 70 them, the
awful denuncintlon OF scrlpiurc, adding at the
times " There's Ihn for yc' my boys"
Enforcement of Lynch Lag--The parted.
lars OF tho drowning Of u FREQ negro man
named Tom Culvert, second cook on board
tho steamboat Pnwnee, on hoF passage No
frOm NeW.OFl9ans 10 ~, louis, aFB ns I'll,
lows ION Friday night Nth eli. about 10
o'clock, n dent aud dumb German gIEl, was
found In the sl0ToT00m with Tom. Tho door
WINS locked, and NJ ilFsl, Tom denied sh0
WINS ih0Ee. The girls father onme, Tom Ua'
locked The df0F, and The glr wns ieuDd So
eFeled W ihe glalgn behind n barrel Tom
ssns accused og haVIDg used violence 70 we
RlTl, bot h0w hhg eaI1B lbaFe lld POI very
clearly appear, a HuIpboF NJ ne uegk ph9'
snnRels rushed upon lbe Negro bound We