Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-01-13

Tue more you are In LOT IL. E.t
My friends-Take your time in every thing. Il
know that you have all set out and started for SAL
walton; but if, with one grand rush, you mil lions
eft hasty and incosiderate mortaIs, block up the
narrow gate of heaven, only few of you will get
IN, with torn robes bloody noses and bruised shins
even though you knock down the porter, and show
fight to the guardian angels. But il you Just
take your tme-have your tickets ready--and
exhibit no counterfeits--the whole party will be
put through as nicely as the President and his
suite were at Towards. Always take your time
20 work, i,ko ba rel Of new cider, and you wilt
accomplish your undertake kings, and gain strength
by the exercise, instead of running your heaths
by going it continually on the hurry-up nervous,
exciting, 6ont-know-what- to- do-system. The
Omni potent took his time to conceive, commence
and complete the stupendous work of CREATION
1t required one day at least to churn the cream of
chaos into any thing like decent curdIe--two
days to bring it to a harder substanco-and three
days moro to divide it into these myrads of lit
tie Jumps, swimming in an unboundod ocean of in.
inity, called scorlds. -
Now my dear hearers, if proper time had not
been taken for the execution of this mighty project
what kind of moss do you suppose would have
been made of it? Why, we might have had n
half-finished frmament--a sun without warmth
and n moon made of mouldy choose; and the
probability is that the great clock of the universe
would keep no better time than a cider mill ope-
rated upon by blind horse, and young negro
soundly asleep upon the sweep.
My fellow mortals-The path Of existence is
rather rough one; and it mustn't be run over in
n hurry Take your time--pick your way, and
keep your eyes open-and you will arrive at the
end of your journey without getting soro- footed
and perfectly satisfied with whatever acids may
have been mingled with the saccharine juices of
life. Don't be too eager to get rich. Take your
time for that-and above all, take your time while
you take your pick out of the lovely candidates
for matrimony, which adorn the fair dominion of
maidenhood. The girls are beautiful blossoms
that bud and bloom spontaneously, as it WERE
along the lonely walks of celebacy. Grasp not
too hastily, lest you be pierced with thorns-and
remember, too, that the fairest and sweetest
flowers soonest loose their beauty and fragrance.
Therefore, take your time, and look for feminine
Poses, from which may DO extracted the essence
Of admiration, even when they become withered
in autumn, and their coroa of outward attrac-
ton shall have fallen faded to the earth. If you
can't do this, kiss whore you can, and charge me
with the damage.
My young beloved sisters in sin, know you all
have an itching desire to got married; and fain
would see you happy in the sacred bands Of Hy-
men, and your hearts garlanded with the never
fading wreath of love. But just pait your time,
my oooiS' VI youT PIospeCts Oh HhotriinOny VIII
be as slim as crop of corn in COW pasture. If
you llrt with fools, futter around tops. and fol-
low the gentlemen, instead Of waiting for the gen.
tlemen to follow you-you will probably soon be
compelled to take your own time, and perchance,
left TO decay, withor, and dry up, in the cold un.
congenal atmosphere of neglect. Act with be-
coming modesty-sit still. upon the blooming banks
of loves limpid waters, you throw out your
onliclns flies for US fish to bite at; don't up
and down the stream in search Of suckers that
merely smell at the bate and mover hitch on, but
keep quiet, wait with patience, and you will at
last catch a catfish for your pains.
My hearers-Whatever you do, lot it be done
with an honesty of purpose willingness of dis
position--a cheerfulness Of heart-and always
to tho tune Of take your time Miss Lucy
So mote it be.
A Genuine Yankee.-Some years since an &C.
quaintance Of ours set out on horseback, from the
eastern part of Massachusetts, for the Green Noun.
talns of Vermont. While travelling through the
town Of New Salem his road led into piece of
woods, of some miles in length, and long before
he got out of which he begun to entertain doubts
whether he should ever be blest with the sight Of
habltaton; but as all things must have an end,
so at last had the woods, and the nut brown house
OF farmer greeted his vision. Near the road
was q bai IuWoouou, OVcTSTOWH,
boy, probably II years of age, digging potatoes
He was a curious figure to behold. What was
lacking in the length Of his tow breeches was am
ply made up for in width his suspenders appear
cd to be composed of birch bark, grape vine and
sheep-skn; and as for his hat, which was Of dngy
white felt-poor thing! it had evidently seen bot
ter dnys--but now, alas! it was only tho shadow
of its glory. Whether the tempest Of time had
beaten the top in, or the lads expanding genius
had burst it out, difficult to tell; at any rate, it
was mssing--and through the aperture red hairs
in abundance stood six ways for Sunday. In
short he was one of tho request specimens Of do
nestle manufacture that ever mortal beheld.-
Our travelling friend, feeling an itching to scrape
acquaintance with the critter, drew up the reins
of his horse, and began:
"Hallo, my good friend, can you inform me
how far it is to the next house!''
Jonathan started up-leaned on his hoe handle,
rested one foot on the gambril on his snster log,
and replied:
"Hullo yourself! how'd dew!-wall guss can.
faint near as fur as it used to to be fore they
cut the woods away-ihen it was generally reck-
ened four mile, but now the sun shrives up the
road, and don't mako more'n lew. The flst house
you come TO though is barn, and the mex. is a
haystack; but old Hoskin's house is on beyalt.-