Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-07-19

woman who told mc-but what should
you know OF a woman, poor cane lassel
hat you are!
BY hook and eye, now, if | thought
you capable Of joke, further than dou.
Bile knots and lace-tags are holding,
would take you for pleasant fellow land
esteem you guilty OF some occult humor
when you call THAT a woman!
l certainly behold some tapping rags
OF silk. Why, sir,can she utter a plain.
or'iculate soundl labor under some APP
prehenslon when she tries to speak; for
her eye has no part in it, and her
tongue, well drilled though it be, suffers
un der some convulsion. | marvel hcw
many painful months trying at mir
ror have 10 answer to that easy posture!
Those frozen sylIabes flowed never
from a warm and beating heart. That
chilly ice CLEAN is no smile. | wonder
II this creature thinks or feels. Ha! la !
| tell ynu saw girl lftlng water
from the we'll in her wooden can ere.
while, and her eyes were deep and glea-
my as the spring, and changeable us its
moving light. Tier cheek was ROSY
glowing red,' ike The heart Of The apple
blossom, for is blood came up there,
bounding from the heart OF innocence
II you heard her singing early in the
helds, they would be strange tines TO
ring over that barren heart Of yours ;ror
they are S ict as the lark sings W hen he
shakes his wings from the dew; and she
springs on her step like grue let loose
on mountain. And yet they smoke
around her all the evening long. 1t is
worth miles walk, only 10 have her
hand you u coal 10 your pipe. Those
Slancing eyes Of hers never tqrn up into
trIgid stare whom young Frank Aver.
ell brings out his dudheen. And, By my
faith, sir, think Frank has a better
bargain Of 1t in that bosom, warm with
all the blooming affections Of humanity,
than you have, making a 'hcly show of
yourself for the entertainment Of the la.
dies.
The La lies Man talks to him OF Ma.
ture, whercupon he receives what fol.
lows for an answer:
NATURE.-Oh! it is melancholy mer.
ry to hear the sacred name Of nature in
a FOOLS mpuIh. Hence with your cap
and bells, srrah; can endure the clat-
ter no more. fna'ure gave not to MEN
the brains 10 think, the faculty to com.
munIcate, and hands 10 execute the
thoughtful What a miserable skinful Of bub
bles vert thou, poor doll, for whom the
great mother thou blasplemest, pitiful
OF thine inirnity, hath provided, o At of
her abundance, from the fruit Of poor
mems toll; within whose breasts,as they
deIye the soil or ding the shuttle, live
such thoughts as one Of them being divi
ded,were Efficient 10 inspire with some.
thing holy an hundred such as thou, and
make thee ", nth the sacred air thou
breathest. Ofthose brains aud hands
sprung pipes, and nature gave tobacco.
Hence, with thy starch and leland pray
to that familiar demon, whose office Il is
to make shop Of thee openly under the
sun, for a space to forego his pranking.
Then, mayhap, thine eyes shall open
and thou shalt see revelations. For such
as thou there is no hope short of mira.
Giles. do not repent me that | spent so
VI UGH breath on thee; but thou art ola
seed that have plunged me like hornets
lee away and nib a pen: console thee
with copy Of verses. written on a paper
OF a cerule hue-'ro young lady who
had lost her Parasol,' and we shall hear
what a dear 'doal, divine little Cel low
thou art,Crom those same ladies you wet
of.
kTHE SUMIUM BoNUM,-Some have
thought all good in knowledge AN gone
mad-some ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lustrous
In the search. Some have laid plots and
plans, and horoscopes, and searched for
It IN vain with long telescopes among
he stars. Others have digged for it in
the DO wells of the earth, and melted ores
painfully in crucibles, and died ravinr
about the philosophers stone, (Which /
take TO be a tOmbstoue.) Some few calm
men have called it virtue, and gone down
unnotlced TO the grave, oointing with the
hand Of death triumphantly to heaven.
Most men, and women too, as far as
can see, call it MONEY, and make a won
derlul world OF care, and cruelty, and
broken hearts about them, as they drive
the poor and the oppressed, and the
homeless, and the fatherless children
add widows out Of their way to grasp il.
OF truth, it must be good: for, precious
Us the life and soul that is spill led for il !;
and all the glorious havings ofhumanity
follow-and the holy one, peace spreads
o ut her wings aud fees away.
Now, | have a secret notion Of my
own about this good. believe IL is
good not to meddle with my neighbours
plough. Let him farm his own reasons.
believe It is good TO believe all things
good, for so Wisdom utters. believe
q is good TO look 10 the sunny side Of
mems souls, for there is darkness now
abou my own. / wish no man offence