The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-09-17
WHAT O'CLOCK IS TT

! Total, 30,747 1910
WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT!
/ When was a young lad my father
one day called me to him, that he might
teach me to know what o'clock it was.
! He told me the use of the minute fin
ger and the hour hand, and described 10
me the figures on the dial plate, until
was pretty perfect in my part.
! No sooner was quite master of this
additional knowledge, then set off scam
pering to join my companions in game
of marbles; but my father called me back
again. "Ssop William" said he, 81 have
something more to tell you.''
Back again | went, wondering what
else had got to learn, for thought I
knew all about the clock, as well as my
father did.
"Wiliam," said he, II have taught
! you to know the time of day, must
teach you how TO find out the time of
your life.''
All this was strange to me, 30 waited
impatiently to hear how my father would
explain it, for I wanted sadly to go to my
marbles.
"The Bible," said he, "describes the
years Of a man to be three score and ten,
or four score years. Now, life is very
uncertain, and you may not live single
day longer, but if we divide the four
score years of an old mans life into IL
parts, like the dial of clock, it will all
low almost seven years for every figure.
When boy is seven years old, then it
is one o'clock of his life; and this is the
case with you. When you arrive at IA
years old it will be two o'clock with you,
and when at 81 it will be three o'clock;
at % it will be four o'clock; at 35 it will
/ be five o'clock; at 42 it will be six o'clock;
al 49 it will be seven o'clock, should it
please God to spare your life. In this
manner you may always know the time
of your life, and looking at the clock may
remind you Of it. My great grandfather,
according 10 this calculation, died at IL
O'Clock, my grandfather at IL, and my
father at 10. At what hour you or I
| shall die, William, is only known to him
to whom all things are known"
/ Never since then, have heard the in
| quiry-"what o'clock is it?" nor do
/ think | have even looked at the face of
clock, without being reminded of the
words Of my father U. s. Gazette.
VAN BuRENrsM IN MAINg.-At a Van
Buren, celebration, at Eas.port, Me-, on
the 4th of July, the following was one Of
the regular toasts drank:
! 1.-THE Trading Community-A CURSE
TO THE NATION"
The s'second declaration of Tndepen-
dence," Mr. Brownson's system of poll
teal economy, the Democratic Review,
and other approved $ Documents" of the
Van Buren, party must have suggested
this patriotic sentiment.
| The SpIR,T OF Loco. FocoIsM !-Ons
t of the banners carried in the Oneida
County Van Buren, Sub-Treasury Pro.
cession, bore the following infamous in
scription
"TRUE DEMOCRACY sPURNs
THE BROAD SEAL OF N. JERSEY!
New Jersey will "spurn" the wretches
who thus insult her sovereignty. Her
soil has never yet been polluted with inn
puni,y. She avenged herself upon the
Hessians and Tories of 1776. She will
avenge herself upon the Hessians and
Tories of 1910.
BuNEER HrL CONVENTIONAL Wing
Convention is to be held at Bunker Hill
on the 10th of September. A number
Of the shoe makers of Lynn, Mass, the
great shoe mandatory Of the United
States, are getting up large SHOE,
capable of holding twenty-five persons.
1t is to be drawn on wheels by six whiss
horses gaily caparisoned.
A Van Buren, Convention lately held
in Northumberland County, Penn, to
nominate candidates for the legislature,
| had TO adjourn without making nomi-
nation. The party could not agree.
| Some were for the old, some for the new
members; some for Banks, some against;
some for and some against the Sub
Treasury.
A rumor prevails in town to day, says
the Richmond Star Of the Oath ult, that
there has been gathering Of negroes in
some part of North Carolina Report
says that they are together in body Of
five hundred, and that there has been
some arming in Petersburg. d
The President in his last Message, says
he cannot recommend too strongly TO Com
gress Secretary Poinsetfs plan for organ
| izing the militia; and The Secretary now
declares that he never submitted the plan
TO the President Put chat and that to-
/ gether. Gentlemen loco focos, 'syou
can't comesit" over the People BY such--s
! jokes!--ib.