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THE CULTIVATOR. 
master mechanics ought to be. Joe got rich, because he was 
adapted to his business, and his business adapted to him. Joe 
thought, with Sam Patch, that some things could be done as well as 
others—and that because every body liked him as a blacksmith, 
they must like him as any thing else, forgetting that it was his trade, 
and not his mind nor his person, which had brought him into notice. 
And as merchant was rather more respectable than mechanic, and 
withal a more tidy employment, he in fact sunk the blacksmith, and 
became a dealer in tapes and sugars. It fared with Joe as it gene¬ 
rally does with others who embark in new business, of which they 
know nothing, after they have arrived at mature manhood. Those 
who had Been bred to the business, proved successful rivals, and the 
sheriff finally closed his mercantile concerns, by selling the entire 
effects of •• a merchant unfortunate in business.” Joe insists to this 
day, that if he had let well enough alone, he might have been as well 
off as the best of his neighbors. 
Time would fail me to narrate half the cases which have come 
under my observation, of men abandoning steady habits, and fair 
prospects of wealth, in the employments in which they had been 
educated, and in which they were best calculated to succeed, for 
the very hazardous chance of doing better in business in which 
they had every thing to learn. The fascinating charms of fashion 
and show, the ostentatious pride of wealth, and the alluring smiles 
of office, are as bad as were the syrens of Calypso, to beguile men 
from the paths of true happiness. The moderate but certain gains 
which are the reward of industry and frugality, are the most abid¬ 
ing in their nature, and most benign in their influence. It is the 
mild early and latter rains which induce fertility, and cover the 
earth with fruitfulness ; while the tempest and its floods cause waste 
and desolation. The mushroom grows up in a night, and withers 
in a day. 
The farmer should be the last to be dissatisfied with his condition. 
Of all classes he is the most independent. He produces within 
himself more of the necessaries and comforts of life than any other 
class. If he does not find the elements of happiness on the farm, 
his search for them elsewhere, I fear, will be in vain. But he must 
not forget that it is the province of the mind to arrange and com¬ 
bine these elements ; and that it becomes qualified to perform this 
office, in proportion as it is enlightened and cultivated. The mind, 
like a garden, will yield the most grateful fruits when nurtured with 
care ; and few have more opportunities, or are better requited for 
their labors, in cultivating both, than him who thrives by the 
plough. 
TO PROMOTE HEALTH. 
RECIPROCAL ACTION BETWEEN THE SKIN AND OTHER ORGANS. 
In tracing the connexion between suppressed perspiration and the 
production of individual diseases, we shall find that those organs 
which possess some similarity of function sympathize most closely 
with each other. Thus the skin, the bowels, the lungs, the liver, 
and the kidneys sympathize readily, because they have all the com¬ 
mon office of throwing waste matter out of the system, each in a 
way peculiar to its own structure ; so that if the exhalation from the 
skin, for example, be stopped by long exposure to cold, the large 
quantity of waste which it was charged to excrete, and which in it¬ 
self is hurtful to the system, will most probably be thrown upon one 
or other of the above-named organs, whose function will consequent¬ 
ly become excited; and if any of them, from constitutional or acci¬ 
dental causes, be already weaker than the rest, as often happens, its 
health will naturally be the first to suffer. In this way, the bowels be¬ 
come irritated in one individual. and occasion bowel complaint; while 
in another it is the lungs which become affected, giving rise to catarrh 
or common cold, or perhaps even to inflammation. When, on the 
other hand, all these organs are in a state of vigorous health, a tem¬ 
porary increase of function takes place in them, and relieves the 
system, without leading to any local disorder ; and the skin itself 
speedily resumes its activity, and restores the balance between them. 
One of the most obvious illustrations of this reciprocity of action 
is afforded by any convivial company seated in a warm room in a 
cold evening. The heat of the room, the food and wine, and the ex¬ 
citement of the moment, stimulate the skin, cause an afflux of blood 
to its surface, and increase in a high degree the flow of the insensi¬ 
ble perspiration ; which thus, while the heat continues, carries off 
an undue share of the fluids of the body, and leaves the kidneys al¬ 
most at rest. But the moment the company goes into the cold ex¬ 
ternal air, a sudden reversion of operations takes place; the cold 
chills the surface, stops the perspiration, and directs the current of 
the blood towards the internal organs, which presently become ex¬ 
cited,—-and, under this excitation, the kidneys, for example, will in a 
few minutes excrete as much of their peculiar fluid as they did in as 
many of the preceeding hours. The reverse of this, again, is com¬ 
mon in diseases obstructing the secretion from the kidneys; for the 
perspiration from the skin is then altered in quantity and quality, 
and acquires much of the peculiar smell of the urinary fluid. 
When the lungs are the weak parts, and their lining membrane is 
habitually relaxed, accompanied by an unusual amount of mucouss 
secretion from its surface, cold applied to the skin throws the mass 
of the blood previously circulating there inward upon the lungs, and 
increases that secretion to a high degree. Were this secretion to 
accummulate, it would soon fill up the air-cells of the lungs, and 
cause suffocation; but to obviate this danger, the Creator 5 has so 
constituted the lungs, that any foreign body coming in contact with 
them excites the convulsive effort called coughing, by which a vio¬ 
lent and rapid expiration takes place, with a force sufficient to hurry 
the foreign body along with it, just as peas are discharged by boys 
with much force through short tubes by a sudden effort of blowing. 
Thus, a check given to perspiration, by diminishing the quantity of 
blood previously circulating on the surface, naturally leads very often 
to increased expectoration and cough, or, in other words, to common 
cold.— Combe's Physiology. 
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Sept. 24. 
Boston. 
Sept. 21. 
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Sept 20. 
Beans white, bush. 
1 50.. 1 75 
.. 1 75 
..1 75 
1 50..1 75 
Beef, best, cwt. 
9 50..10 00 
6 00.. 7 00 
8 00..9 00 
7 00..8 50 
Pork, per cwt. 
..12 50 
10 00..11 00 
12 50 
8 00..8 50 
Butter, fresh, pound,. 
Cheese, pound, . 
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9.. 11 
20.. 27 
10.. 12 
17.. 19 
10.. 11 
20.. 38 
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9 00..10 00 
8 00..9 50 
7 50..9 00 
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1 95..2 04 
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1 08.. 1 10 
1 20..1 25 
1 00..1 12 
Oats, do. 
54.. 58 
55.. 58 
48.. 51 
43.. 45 
Corn, do. 
Seeds —Red Clover, lb... 
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1 00..1 05 
95.. 97 
10.. 11 
11.. 12 
10.. 11 
11.. 12 
Timothy, bushel,. 
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3 00.. 3 12 
2 00..3 00 
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Wool —Saxony, fleece, lb. 
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60.. 75 
70.. 75 
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Merino, lb. 
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