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POETRY. PROM THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL. HE A VEJY. There is a land of calm delight To sorrowing mortals given ; There rapturous scenes enchant the sight, And all to soothe their souls unite ; Sweet is their rest? in Heaven. ?There glory beams on all the plains, And Joy, for Hope, ifc given -f There mubic swells in'sweetest strains, Andspotless beauty ever reigns, And all is Love*? in Heaven. 'i - .... .... There cloudless ikies are ever bright, Thence gloomy scenes are driven ; There fans dispense unsullied light, And planets, beaming on the sight. Illume the fields? -of Heaven. 1 J... J. j. * ? - There is & stream that ever flows, v ... To passing pilgrims given i \ There fairest fruit immortal grows^ t Th<6 verdarjt flower eternal blows Avoid the fields of? Heaven. ' Thert Is ? great, a glorious. Prise, For those with sin who've striven t 'Tis bright as star of evening skies, And, far above it glittering lies ; A golden Crown-4? in Heat**. A MORAL tALE; . >. ' . 1 \4n etttellent and timely moral may be flick ed out the following homily article . & iOHS TiiMKINS. ! How*rr John Tom kins, a hedger and >' * ' ' . ? ... Although he wis poor* didn't wish to be 7 p All iucb tain Wishes in him Were prevented ? By i fortunate habit of being contented. ^ _*-<V v" _ ,t\ . *,f- ? ; . . ^ Though cold wan th? Weather, and dear was the food, John never wa? found in % murmuring ^ ,V mood ; r> F or this he was constantly heard to declare, What he could not prevent he would cheer* fully bear. JFor why should | murmur and grumble, be " - . - r *4 Iff cannot get chceae, I can surely get bread * # v ^ ? hough fcnitfnblmg may make my ealam l' ities deeper, It will never cause bffcad and chesae tto be cheapen j ; aSL' V At/ ; A a. ,<J* ? ,? ,\St If John *as afflicted by s'ifckntss or ]pdi* I ' lie wbb'd himself better, but did not com plain, i Nor net down to fret in despondent* end] But Midthat he "hoped to be better to| mon-ow." If any one injured or treated him ill, Why John Svaa fcood natoTed and sociable for he ??<! tUtt ?? twenRlt kg an injury done J Wat mlitog two bad whefe there need be - but one." honest John, though hh station aad world without eren ml * ? well If folka that Wire tviscr and] MisceUt frFOM TWB rouMicncuT 06URANT.] THE L AY PREACHER. Ecclfcthtticue, Mth Ch?p. Ma end SSd very**. l\ike not pknevre in mtich good chtPTi wither be tied to ike ttopenm thereof. * Be not made a beggar by hanqim. ing upon borwwlng , when thou html nothing in ihy puree. | ,Yhie text was mnde for thepre sent thou*; and bad the soli oPhi-| rach lived in our days* he never would have diami?*ed thin mbjed with two short teraet. A long aitd full tha^ei would liave been ilia |ea*t he could Imve done far ufk-? Let 119 improve what he liaa left us. " r ike not pleasure in much jrood cheer."?' This, von will say, Ta * h hard precept. TImj other part of the vem " neither he tied to the ejr wn*e thereof*" it weMT enmi^h? give ne the fcoo<| cheer, ami we f?*T in different as to tttoae upou whom tin expedie falj*. Agaiu, AU. Preach 1 er, (ioe9 not Solomon somewhere say, that then? is nothing better, than that a man should eat and drink anil enjoy the good of his lal>or?. Yes. of his labor, hut not Of the lahor of others. Mark the dUtiction ! Your good theer gentry are not the most remarkable for their labor: n r and tbey are not always so u tied to rtie expense << of good cheer, , but tliat they sometiites break away and leave others " tied to the expeuse t hereof." All the good things we enjoy in eating, drinking and clothing, art* the fruits of labor, with the blessing of God upon them. Tbey come from the earth ? che earth to be made productive must be cultiy/ited. This requires labor. .Wto pass to the remaining part of out subject " He not made a heggar by ban queting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing In thy purse." v This comes home to our purpose, ijtot why are we in greater danger of becoming beggars " by banqueting upon borrowing P' Ads. Because in that case we realise and expeud what we havo not earned. It comes easi ly ? it goes easily. The man who acquires good cheer or any other good thine by his own industry, and labor, makes a more correct estimate of the value of U^thd enjoysHiure in the use of it. Borrowing is realty in itself a species of beging; but at the present day very fashionable.-*- We. borrow of the banks ? we borrow of other public institutions? -we borrow of in* djviduals, and indeedv wherever wfe can, we borrow. First, we bor row money? when that's out, we borrow credit ; find when that ftilsJ We? we ? what? why We bee in good *arnest> if not too nrtich ashatoi erf.? Hard titaes ! hard tinfes ( alas, what shall we do? IMPROVEMENT. labor more. The fault in nut in hut in ourselves. Who jkft mong flu remembers abetter season ? ' '* ? m. m* mkm. -*i -'J A writer in th<e London Methodist Magazine of June last, quotes the* following facta in illustration of the manner hi Which Providence haa contrived a supply for the thirst of man in sultry places : ^Nature has placed, amidst the burning sand of Africa, a plant, Whose leaf twisted roitiul like a cruet, is always tiled with a large glass filll of Scab watej; the gullet of thia duet ts shutt by the extremi ty of the ieaf itself, so as to prevent thfc water evaporating. She has planted on tome parched districts of the frame country a great tree call ed by the negroes Ban, the trunk of Whfali, of a ^rodtgiou* bolk* is na turally hollowed like a ualern. lu the rainy season it received it* fill ot water* Which continues fresh and cool in the greatest ffents, by mean* of the tnfied foliage which crown* ita tnralnit. Jgtnnally, she has plac* ed vege tablaJSuntaius on thejiarch ed r<x k* of Vie Antilles. There is commonly found there* a tree called I the Water Lianne, so fbll of sap, that if yon cut a single branch of it, as much water is immediately dis charged ai? a man can drink at a draught:* it is perfectly, pure aud limpid. * In the swamps of the Bay of Cantpeachy, travellers find relief of another kind. Those stamps, on ?he -level with the sea, are almust en tirely inundated in the rainy aeason, and become so parched on the return of dry weather, that many huntsmen, I* bo bad missed their way In the for ests, with which they are covered, actually |>erisl?ed with (hirtt. ?Tp! celebrated traveller Bamplfcl , relates, that he several times eacaped this ca lamity by means of a very extraordi nary species of vegetation, wbicb had beeu pointed out to him on the trunk of a kind of pine tree, very common there ; it resembles a pedtet of leaves piled one ovetttbe other in tiers ; and, on account of its form, and tke tree on which it grows, be calls it the pine apple. This apple ? full of water, so that, on piercing it at the ba&is with a knife, there immediately flows from it a good pint of very clear and wholesome water. bather du Tertre informs us, that be has several times found a similar refreshment in the leaves rounded like A contol, of a species of plant, .which grows on the sAndy plains of Guadalou|?f . 1 have been assured tbat nothing was more proper -for the quenching of thirst, tban the leaves of the mfcle-l toe that grow* on mfcny trees." Uuch are the precautions employ ed by Provideuce, for compensating, in favor of man, the inconveniences of such climates, i ? ? '* W T ALEXANDER SELKIRK. j . ?# v 1 i THE ORlOIKlli ROBINBON CRUSOE. 'He wo bom at Largo, in the north of Scotland, in I67O. llay liue gone to sea in his yodth, au<l hi 1703, being tailing master of the ship Cinque Ports, Capt. Stradling, bound for the South Seas, he was put on shore on the IslaYul of Juan fVtnantles, ** * punishment for mu tiny. In that Solitude he remained for (out years and four months, from j ErUcb liewas at last relieved, and j In ought to England, by r^ptaiu; Woods Rogers,? He had with him in the Island* his cloths and bed Jing, with a firelock, some powder, bul lets and Tobacco; a hatchet, knife, kettle, his mathematical instruments,! and a bible. He built two huts of pimento trees, and covered theta with long grass, and in a short time! linfd them witlr skint of goats, which he kilted with hi* musket, foj ilonjg as his powder lasted (which! I was at first but a pound ;) when that] 'was spent, be caught thews by speed] of foot* Having learned to J*rodnce| I fire by rubbing two |<eicw of yvoodl together, he dressed hifjjictuals in] one of his huts, and slept In the other,! whkh was at some distance from the kitchen. A multitude of ra|s often disturbed his repose,' by gnawing] his feet and various piarts of his bony, which induced him to feed a number of cats for his protection. / I n a short 1 time, these !>ecame so lame that they I would li<? abont him in hundreds, and soort delivered him from bisj enemies, the rats. Upon liis return he declared to bis friends, ^tliafl nothing gavf. him so much uneasiness! as the thoughts, tint when be died,] his body would be devoured \m those very cAts be had With so much care tamed and fed. To divert bis mind! from such melancholy thoughts, lie would sometimes dance and sing amongst hb kids and goats, at other times retire to devotion. Hia clothes *nd alidea were soon worn out by runtting through the woods ; iu the want of shoes he foond little Incon venience, as the soles of his fee t be* c.ime 4o hard that he could ran every where without difficulty ; as to his clothe*; he msde for himself a coat and cap of goat?*kins, sewed with little thongs of ihe same, cut in pro per fovm with his kpife ; his only needle was a nail. When his knife was worn to the back* he made others as well as he could, of some iron hoop* that had been left on whore, by beating tlieia thin ami grinding them on stones. By his loAg seclu mm from intercourse with men, he jpN I ?i fkr forgot the use of speech, thai the people on board of captain Rogjmi'a dkcp could scarcely under 4atvd liin, for he seemed to speak hia words by halves. The chest and musket which Selkirk bad with htm on the Island, are now in the ?loasessioti of his nephew# J obi Selkirk, weaver at JUr^ RRM AttKS ON PRIDE. When ue look?at a field of cor' trti find those stalks which raUe the heads highest, are the emptiest. - The same is the case *itb m those who assume- the greatest con sequence, have generally the least share of judgraeut and ability. ^ There is no vice more insupporta ble ami more Universally hated than pride ; it is a kind of poison, which corrupts all the , good qualities of a man, and whatever other merits he may possess, this single fault is suf ficient to render him odious and con temptible; so that pleasing himsell too much, b displeases every ont else. Pride is the first vice thai takes possession of the heart, be cause it derives its source from sell love; and it jp ttft last that remains, whatever efforts may be made to ex pel it. AGAINST DR 0 1VMJYG. It has been ascertained by num berless experiments, that the face can l>e kept sufficiently above thto surface of the water to breathe freely for any length of time. In salt wa ter, a person lying on his back, will have his Whole face, part of iiis breast, and at times even his knees above the surface. In fresh water, he cAunot remain in this position w ith out effort; but from the, superior lightness of the water his lower ex tremities will gradually feihk, till he 'attains a verticle or standing position* Now here is the danger. A person findiug himself in this sinking state and fancy himself drowning, raises his arms, and begins to slap the wa* TVt to keep himself from going down* He accordingly sinks in earnest; for his arms raised fcbove his head, add to the specific gravity of the' mass of his body, and thia causes his head to iinmerge immediately.? {Whereas, if he had the presehce of mind to keep his hands and arms under water, and his face lupine , u??4rds, be would find that as soon ashisWly had attained A verticle position, he would sink no farther; and provided he was in health, and the water smooth, lie might float in this manner for hours. j The unexperienced may depend upon this as a fact, the truth of Which a thousand experiments would coufiTW>~~[ Montreal Herald . |. ?-*-? I roads ?Jin Extract . u Trtie best roail 1 ever saw is from Fort 8L George to /St. Thomas' Mount* in the East-Indies ? a dis tance of about f miles, over a sandy flat country It is made of bricks, pounded very fine, and mixed with Hater to the consistency of very soft ?-ortar and spread in a similar man* ner; the beat of the sun very soon renders it so bard thfifbeavy car*4 rtages passover it, .without making the least impression ; the road being well raised in the centre, and a*free passage obtained for the water oil l?oth sides.* Prvm the Albany Daily AdroertltAr. Whooping (lough. ? The North am|>tun Gazette states, that vaccina tion, or inocculatioa for the cow-pox, will arrest whooping cough. This fact ha* also been verified in this city, by some of our most res iKttabk physicians 5 and we have no1 hesitation in saying, that it is their opinion, thatthe vaccine inocculAtion, will in all cases relieve, if not wholly abate the whooping oongh, and es pecially in Infsnts and yoong chil dren, to whomitis always dangerous, 'and often fatal. A Correspondent requests us to publish the following receipt. Be stiles it a safe and effectual Cure for ike Yellow Frr wv-? " Take thred table spoons foil of the Essence of Hpruce, dissolve it in a onart of watm water, then take a, hnlf pint tumbler full, once an hour till it operates, which It will frequent \y do the first or second dose, hit wilt seldom or .never exceed tb third. This Medicine majr be take ? n any stage of the fever w ith safer ipd iu almost number leas instance*. % ia which it h?s been given, ii has lever failed of an immediate cure ; .il hough it has, in many instances, ?>eeu given after the patient Iras been ^iveu over by the Physicians, and to lap|iearaiice very uear the close of life." ? wV. f. Com. Advertiser. A valuable Ilecei vt for prevent i ng arms from rust . ? Tnke an ounce of camphor to a pound of hog's lard ? lissolve them together and take off the scum* Mix as much black lead as will bring them to an iron color; rub your arms with this, and let it remain tweuty-four hours ; then rub them well with a linen cloth and they will not rust for six months. ? Dairy Secret. ? Have ready two pans in boiling wattr; and on the new milk's coming in the dairy, take the hot pans out of the water, put tho milk into one of them, aud cover it * with the other. This will occasion, in the usual time greater augmentation of tho thickness and qnal?fv of the cream. Honest y has lied from the world, and Sincerity is fallen aaleep : Piety has hidden herself, and Justice can not find the waj 5 the Helver is not at home, and Charity lies sick; Benevolence is uuder arrest, and Faith is, nearly extinguished ; tho Virtues go a begging, nnd Truth has long since been buried; Credit is turned ctazy, and Conscience is nail ed on the wall; ? Freeman's Journal. blSTRESSlJVG DISCOVER Y. A" discovery has taken plaice which has disappointed the fond wishes of two Idver* in high life, and totally deranged the hopes and expectations of the family of otife the parties. A young nobleman, heir apparent t6 a Marquis, was lately on the #v* of marriage with an interesting and ac complished daughter of an English Earl. Every preparation was made, and the day fixed for the completion of their mutual haziness, when m fatal defect was discovered in the pedigree of the noble suitor, which | has cheated him of his fondest hopes. Upon the examination of his family papers, it was found that his mother^ the Marchioness* was not horn in wedlock, and that at the age of 18* she was married by license* and not by banns-? aud consequently* that khe marriage was illegal, end the Cause of it illegitimate. By this fa tal mistake the issue of the ptesent marriage are removed from the place which they have so long filled, and the nephew of the is be come the hei* presumptive to bis title* and estates. London paper. DECEPTION. Sicur Boas, the alight of hand* man, was lately accosted in Carlisle, in the usual style, by a retailer of or* anges. " Well my lad," nays tbo sieur, "how do yon sell them?" ? Tuppence a piece, sir," says the orange dealer. " High priced, in* deed,* rejoined the deceiver, " how ever well try them." Catting an orange in four pieces, "behold" says the aiear, (producing a new guinea from the int. r'o of the orange) ** how your fruit repays me for your extur* tion. Come, I can afford to rtur chase one more,? and he re|ieated the same experiment as with the first. u Well, to be sure/' says he, ? they are the first fruit I ever found to pro duce golden seeds." The sieur, then wished to come to terms for the whole basket ? but the astohished tlodpole, with joying alacrity, ran out of the house, and reaching home, began to Quarter the contents of the whole hasra; but, alas! the seeds were no more than the produce of nature? t'.ie conjurer aldne possessing , the golden art. ? [76. At a late assise, a cause was tried which originated in a dispute about ; pair of email clothes? upon this tcCasiot) the judge observed that it - va* the ftart time he had known c nit made out a pair qf breecheB . * - m JMt