Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-14
A TRUE SKETCH.
All iov'd him, and many wept his downfall;
AS summer flower he bloom'd awhile,
And persisted.


| youth--from out whose heart there flowed
a living fount of pure and holy feelings, which
spread around and fortified the soil of
friendship, and warm and generous hearts
crowded about him and enclosed him in a
circle of pure godlike happiness. The eyes
of women frightened at his approach, and
wealth and honor smiled 10 WOO him 10
their circle.
His days sped onward,-and as sum.
mer brook sparkles all Joyous on its glad
some way,-so sped he on blithsome amid
the light of woman's love and manhood's
euIogy. The earth, the sea, the air, and
every bright and bubblng stream and fount
sent forth their murmuring melody; and
his pure heart unstained by worldly guile,
drank in their glowing happiness.
He wooed and won maid of peerless
charms; a being fair and delicate, and
pure, bestowed the harvest of her hearts
young love, and earth became heaven.
The car of time rolled on, and clouds
arose to dim the horizon Of his worldly
bliss. The serpent of inebriation entered
into the Eden Of his heart. The pure and
holy feelings of the God of nature had
implanted in his soul, became polluted by
the influence Of the miscalled social cup
soul became frozen and calous within him.
The tears of the wretched--the agony of
the afflicted, found no response within his
bosom. The pure and holy fount Of uni
versal love within his heart, that once
gushed forth at the meanings of misery,
and prompted the hand 10 administer unto
the requirements Of the wretChed, sent forth
no more of lis pure and benevolent offer
ipn L, boJ H.
ged with the poisoned ingredients of the
wine cup, and the rank weeds of intemp-
erance had sprung up and choked the
source from whence the fountain flowed.
The dark spirit of poverty had tapped his
wings over his habitation, and the burning
hand Of disease had scared the brightness
of his eye, and palsied the elasticity of
his frame.
The friends who basked in the sunshine
of his prosperity, fled when the wintry
winds Of adversely blew harshly round his
dwelling.
Pause, gentle reader.
Go to yon lowly burial place, and ask
Of the rank grass that spreads from its pol
luted soil, who rests beneath its lowly sur
face, and the signing winds will answer
The Wondering remains Of drunkard."
| There lie the remains of one who pos
sessed heart OVERLOOKING with the milk of
human kindness: the days of whose boy
hood were halowed by high and noble as
pirations--the hours Of whose early man.
hood were unstained by care and crime
the setting orb of whose destiny was en-
shrouded in mist of misery and degrade
ton. He saw the smile Of Joy sparkling
in the brim Of the wine cup. He noted
not the demon of destruction, lurking at
the bottom of the goblet. With eager
hand he raised the poisoned chaice to his
lips, and-he was mott
MAXIMS OF BISHOP MIDDLETON.
Maintain dignity without the appearance
Of pride.
Persevcre against discouragements.
Keep your temper.
Be punctual and methodcal in business,
and never procrastinate.
Perscvere in self possession, and do not
be talked out Of conviction.
Never be in hurry.
Rather set than follow example.
Rise early and be an economist of time.
Practice strict temperance.
Manner is something with every body,
and every thing with some.
NSNCI dCHuICsSC III ILIlllOI dl VI pSttt-
} cious opinions.
Be not forward to assign reasons to those
) who have no right TO ask.
Think nothing in conduct unimporlant
and Indifferent
In all your transactions, remember the
final account.
CouRT1NG.--Courting is decidedly the
most pleasant part of the whole business.
and should--even after man has made
up his mind to perpetrste matrimony-be
: prolonged to its greatest possible extent.
Never be in q hurry to have the day
named. Remember it is an old man, the
father of two children, and the husband Of
, the most agreeable woman in the country
that tells you this.
FRAIITIEs OF TIE GREAr.-Locke, the
, great metaphysician, whose Essay on
the Human Understanding for long Pc
) riod placed him at the head of Intellectual
! philosophers, was Unfortunately fond CT ro-
mances. 1t is more difficult TO believe,
which is asserted, that Sir Isaac Newton
gave implicit credit 10 the dreams of as
/ trology We know that Pope, the philoso-
pher and poet, was given to sensual pleas
r ures. Queen Elizabeth was a hyPocrite. a
, coquette, and probably worse. The truly
/ great Bacon was so corrupt as TO be con-
a tinually taking brides, in which his exam
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