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t ( t i. i *~ it o f : e a he ta i a : ; e ty. is Go . va ; 5A f Ls k. THE STAR OF DELAWARE We make no apology for: adding one star- more'{o the- number; which alieady . bestud the firmainent 'of\ knowledge \The ' night of ignorance, although perhaps not ' now 'so, densely datk as in years gone by, . ote the Press. threw off, its chains, andas- sumed to itself the right to suspend its c light-bear rs an the religions,; moral, and political \héavens for the illumination of| \ he world is. still sufficiently obscure to ”admit 'at least 'of the addition of one It- .K minery to the greatmultitude. . .- ay ~~ TheiStap of Delaware'will not commence \its eateer with- boasting. (Itis content, at joreSent with declaring, that it is not less 'than * 'one. among gduals. \ -It will be goon enough o. efiinm itself a star of the first « magnitude,, when it shall have: appeared ~such to the judgment of its patrons; supe- *\tfor to, an aTless prejudic’fl\ than that ofits edltcng. L2. * © In, the meantime, ib professes to have for its object: the Advancement: of religion, -sclence, *literatute; “agriculture, commerce, -and everything else, tat may commend itself: to the wisdom of. enlightened wicn. Whilst neutral in ieligion and politics, it| 'will freely open its columns» to the frank | ~discussion of both sides of any question; | ‘by those who contribute to its columns. - 'We hare long felt the neéd of fome papei, _ that would \ghow ° fair' play,” and 'often . thought, that should we,. ever. have cop: inexmn with , one of any ; kind, we should 'make. an: innovation upon that' one-sided ' practice, of. which we have always disap- \proved > We shall, therefore, cheeifully \fgwe Place to the free, full,,and manly dis- c cussion of all subjects. , Our, only excep- Wag \tion to this will be radwal questlons in ~* mréfihgecf s or frorat reform, politics, church polity or peculiar church \usage science, literatuie, and agucultmc, shall be Weleomefco our columns, and no communication, 'on either side of any of them,x shall \be pr ecluded 'no matter fromi \wifét source, it may come,, unless its com- position. be. below par, andon that account unworthy of 3 place it a 'papér, 'which we hope: will fis distinguished for its literary merit. This number is a specimen . of ° whet our paper can; be All the articles in it are worthy of praise, and. many of 'theny defiant of criticism. < Those-which 'shall follow will not be inferior. | In ofr next 'we purpose to begin ahistory of Scof- land than which none can be more inter- esting to men of taste. . We hope, to make the. Star offielawaie so brilliant; thit it will be admired by all, and. yet so- Cheap, that \the poorest may make it his own. - We also purpose, at the. end of the year, to insert in the Jast num-. .ber a tahle of corftents,in order that those, who - may think ft worthy of binding for fatire reading, may be able at any timé to refer without difficulty, to any article on which he may dean e to refresh his memory. We make our start with 2500-twenty-| five hundred copies of tour first number: C At. the end of four weeks, or at the furthest fire, we. Shall make our appear- ande | agein, aiid “thereafter retrn to give our. light eyfeiy week In the meantime, we invite our & lends to send in their con- tributions and subscmptions as rapidly as poteible 'Our terms are.very moderate, lie-mg only $1:00 per year. Peisons, sending either contributions for insertion, or subecriptions, or advertise: ments, are requested to address their let: ters as follows :, i THE STAR or Derawars, ' Delhi, Qdawaw 03, All orders eithei for The Star of Dela~ ware itself or for advertisements in it, must {1vG7 zabl y be attended with the There will be f0 respect of persons cash, , shown, Beginning at the top of the last column on this page, will be found some notices. of importance. -- loath. Little . {earnestly and in a low tore to the wagoner, About twentyfive years ago, I made an overland journey to New York city by the way of Windsor, Vermont, thence across | the Gréen Mountains to Albany, but from that place I went by water ; soethat after all, it was not exactly a land j journey ; but it was long enotigh to tire me prodigiously: | |The roads then were rough, ard the com- pany I met in the: 'stage duller than the milestones,\ for: these 'last alwaysreported | progress. Trecolléct, in particular, how disgusted I was with the affectation and chatter of a party who entered the stage- a railroad and a rgil-car had never been | dreamed of-the morning we started from {Windsor, - There was a young fellow who | fancied himself a great man. because his| father could; afford him money enough 'to | spend. . I knew his father well- a pains 'talking, plodding drudge in the \service of Mammon he was-and he had been reward-. 'ed for his gervitude. - Hewas rich His son has, not long sincé, been in the debtor's | room, and I believe taléen the poor debtor's ,d he'think of such a down- falt when I faw Him in the stage. Then he was all pertness and flippancy; and the two ladies he was escorting--the young Miss to whom he. was engaged, and her maiden aunt-were delighted: with his [pertness, which they doubtless thought wit ; 'and they laughed at every- silly observa- tion he mades: . E did not think it strange that the young lady was pleased : she was blinded by her \love 'or vanity ; but I did \ think an elderly spmsterawho, T could gee wore falge® hair, and, of coturse, was gray, for? it was not then the fashion for {ladies to dye their heads-might have been more wise. But to tell the truth, the la- 'dies were as shallow 'as the coxcomb-a case which seldom occurs;, for though wa- men are rately found so wise as wise men; they are rarely found so weak as foolish] men., 'The fair sex bave, as T think, an {instinctive capacity for social intercourse, and seldom appear so dull, odd, or awhk- ward, even when: igmorant of estabhbhed {rules mid tnd feet of c iy? af doj* 'their lords; and tlien they have \kindness| in their - smile, an attentiveness in their manner, which makes one believe the comprehend every word they hear. \Wy 'had just crossed the'Giréen Mountains, and during the whole'ride I hardly opened my lips. I felt truly. rejoiced when a man,. who had come from a crossroad which seemed to lead through the woods on our left, halloed for the stage to stop, and af ter inquiring if: there were many passen- gers, said a gentleman wished to go on as far as Rutland. The travelfer soon came}. up, for he had not ridden in the wagon ; on seat he handed it to the corchman to place on the top of the stage; and then taking a box from a bufl‘alo-skm, in which it had been wrapped, he spoke a few words, | and then entered the stage. I tell all these cireumsfances, because they are' es- {sential to the catastrophe. - When the stranger entered I bowed, as I always do on\ such occasions ; but the coxcomb I 'have beforenamed turned up This nose, with a scornful smile, and instant- ly removed from the front seat, 'where he 'had hitherto sat-to gaze, as 1 supposed, uninterruptedly on his Dulcinea- to the middle seat, which I had hitherto occupied | {alone, end=thus left the whole forward seat 'for,.the new-comer. . He, however, did not seem to y ish for much space in whigh to display | imself. On the contrary, 'I thought 'he appeared to shrink frop obser- vation, and drew his hat down over his eyes, and\ his red. silk handkerchief up over his chin. These movements might not have any particular motive, but theie certainly was a mystery in the curious box he cafried with him. It was a quer shaped box-nearer a triangle than any | other form; perliaps eighteen inches on the longest side, and about twelve fuches| in height. This box the wagoner had handed to the traveller after the latter en- | tered the stage. It was handed very care- fully, and the traveller held it very car e- fally, and kept his eyes fastened on it in 'a way which seemed to me. very odd. I {noted these things, more, perhaps, because I was glad to have asubject to employ | my. thoughts, and prevent the silly, sim-. pering conversation which was gol é 'between the lovers and the duenng entering my soher cars. {ges. I knew, too, thathe must héar them : pained to see a fellow-being suffer such | | tent with civility. To myseveral remarks 7] that he would prove no common character; {know everybody, thought I; so, whenwe. | traveller was not at the table with us,. nor |ing me to my bed: then I mqmred for and, taking a small bundle from the wag: |° But I could not 'wholly escape heating, and I found their} witticisms were directed against the stran- | for once of twice the color rosé on his pale: cheek, and he held down his head and] . closed his eyes, as though he would have z- o- @ t tme--- lus think he was asleep. (I always feel No man has a right to do as he pleases, do, hawt vn * Tas # s 388 ses a. ban ; in t hay'othu Soke (2 fidfiflr‘fiéfll‘fflfflfléfifitfiw I endeavored by payiig him particular» attention, to reassure him. But it was all in vain that I talked to him ; I could not draw him out He would\ answer my questions, but as briefly as possible, consis- on the country, the weather, thenews, &e, he would not add a single syllable. He! seemed , to be laboring unger some excite. unfitted him for conversation. I-did not think it was bashfulness, as what he did say was spoken in an easy, assured tone; and there was no lack of information in his answers. But he would not talk ; and so I contented myself with taking the in- ventory of his apparel, He was not ex- actly shabby, yet hisclothing augured pov- erty-it was unsuited for the season. The |; day was a chilly one-it was the last of October, and the traveller had no over- coat or gloves; and his surtout was thin and threadbare, and his boots were patch: ed, and did not fit him very well. Yet still there was something in his appearance and manners which interested me very mitch-somewhat like the sympathy we read of in novels He was young, and, his face, or all of it L could see, ver y pale. and scholar:like. Hix eyes were blue, deep, dark blue, and I thought expiessed melancholy or sufferi ing ; but there was, at times, a quickness in his movements which betrayed a hasty temperament or it might belong to a suspicious one. - Perhaps L should have thought the quick changes of feeling which I © observed passed over his countenance were the inspiration of genius, and have set him down as a scholar or a poet, had it not been for his hard, sinewy hand, which showed too plainly t that man- ual labor had been his calling. 'All these Lparticulars I noted before it grew dark ;| and, on the whole, I made up my mind 'but whether. inclined: to good or evils I4; could nob decide, But taverm-keepers reach Rutland I’ll find out who this: We reached Rutland about nine in the evening. Now I never thought I was non, my. 'but yet, when I am traveling, I confess my mind is quite too much <aken up with what .I shall eat and what I shall drink. At this time I was cold as well as hungry: . the landlord had a good fire and 'a good supper, .and I was'so completely engrossed with self that I never observed the young in the parlor with us; nor did I see him or think of him till the landlord was light- «a What the fellow in the surtout ?\ an- swered the man. \Why he called 'for a chamber and lights, and carried up his box and budget, and then went out, and after a time returned with somé fine, and they are now, I guess, in ZAdf chamber\ -pointing to one next that I was enter- in \4 Did he take supper ! \\ said I. ~* \ No, no! He did not look like one who could afford to eat any suppers.\ -The landlord laughed, and I felt as though I would have been willing to have gone Without my own supper to have been certain that poor young man was not hun- 'gry. After the landlord had departed, I- sat down in q huge arm chairthat stood :elogg to a door which was partly open. I [had not sat there above a minute when I 'was certain L heard voices in the next chamber. It was there that the young man was, and I opened the door without any plan or thoutrht of what I wished to do or know. The door opened into alarge 'closet, which separated the two chambers ; I saw a glimmering of light through the plastering near the top of the wall, and I 'could now plainly hear-for the plaster- ing was very thin-some one talking ear- nestly and rapidly. My curiosity was and, standing on a chair, could just look through the chink in the wall, probably made by the removat of a nail or large wooden peg, which had once been driven into the plastering on the closet side.- The hole was sufficiently large for me to see the two men plainly, They sat by a m | only see the back of his companion; but I judged, by his thin hair and the appear- man, Epoted him but little though ; for mysterious , traveller. This had laid aside his hat, and hiis boldfore- his eyes—I told you they were blue, and ment or anxiety of mind which entirely | i .and gomg down. | been no distinction between the blood of migh given to the luxurics of the table, | 'ness of decay, the hectic of disease, and the | the holidays. awakened. <I softly entered: the closet, | table, one on each side. Theyoungtravel- n{ler was facing me, consequently I could ance of his dress, that he was an elderly; my whole attention was engrossed by the young man head, from which he often brushed back! the dark hair, gave much more of - dignity | ' more emma anne eget I had ' thought melancholy, all that ex- The papers seemed to, be filled, | or. drawings, whith the youth was describ- ing. He had taken these papers from his | queer looking box, which stood open on | the table; but they did not, I found, con- stitute its chief treasure. took very carefully some little wheels, and | models in wood and metal, and other strange fashioned articles from his . box, 'and placed them together; and then he| zthOd up, and, rubbed his hands, and went close to the other man-and talked [- \ou must know that I could not hear a connected sentence, for he spoke low as | I ever saw ; the embodying of real feeling. and passxon in the changes of noble fea- | tures, and the gestures of afine and power- ful form. ° ' (to BE oomwnnnn.) ~- LIGHT How much of the loveliness of the world | results from the composite character of, light, and from the reflecting properties of | most physical bodies} If, instead of red, yellow, and blue, which the analysis of the: prism and expériments of absorption have. shown to be ifs constituents, it had 'been | homogeneous, simple white, how changed would all have been! The growing corn and the ripe harvest, the blossom aud the fruit, the fresh greenness of spring, and an- ' tumn' s robe of many colors, thehues of the violet, the lily, and the rose, the silver y. foam of the rivulet, the emerald of the| river, and the purple of the ocean, would] 'have been alike. Therainhow would have | | been but 3 vapors wo ufade streak in the sky, and dull | -have esteemed the sun, in- stead of the clouds, which in the dyes \of} Ka ay, there would have | the children, the flush of health, the pale- lividnessiof death. There would have been an unvaried, unmeaning, leaden hue, where we now see the changing and expressive countenahce, the tinted earth, and gor geous firmament. morro # Gp > Stranes Customs. -\ In the province|? of Kankandan, both the men and women had the custom of covering their teeth with thin plates of gold; they were also. punctured or tattooed on the arms and legs. | The practice of gilding the teeth, or of dy- ing them black, seems to belong propérly | - to the Malay nations. In, Kankandan, when'a woman. was delivered -of .a child, the' husband immediately went to bed, where he remained like an invalid for for- ty days; receiving the congratulations of his friends and relations. This singular custom was observed also among the Ti- bareni, in the mountains of Armenia.\ cA vre How ro Susouse Hum—The weapons to sibdue man are not to be found in'the library, but in the kitchen ! \ The weak- est pars of the alligator is his stomach. - Let the young wife fascinate her husband with the teapot! Let her, so to speak, only bring him into habits of intoxication with that sweet charmer, and make houey- suckles clamber up on- his chair-back and ' grow about the legs of his table-let the hearth rug be a bed of heart's ease for te | feet in slippeis, and the wickedness of the natural enemy fust die within him.\ Prespurs ror tus ,ONES. Every parent should understand that one of the most delightful acts that he e per- form is to remember the little onefduring The gift of a toy that costs 'a shilling or two is as highly gratifying to a child as the bequeathment of a legacy would be to its parents. When, therefore, a \legacy\ for the juveniles can be had so easxly, who Wlll refuse ? wor bv s Wrient or tus Humix Bopy.-M. Cbaussie dried a human body in an oven, theoriginal weight of which was 120 Ib; fluids of the body bear to the solids. aas s incompatible with the matrimonial state. ; yisits of fickle, inconstant suitors. - <--> Gedan ~ pression had mow passed away. 'They. To 8013801113355 seemed to burn, and liteially flash with energy, and hope, and joy, as he went on showing paper after paper tothe other gen- | tleman. partly with writing and' partly with plans Presently he | well as fast; so that the whole scene was ‘ pantomin1c~—it was the most animated one | everything which m ay be sent to us, by subscribers. i happy to.oblige those, who will- write,“ ae such a manner, in otherrespects, 3 | entitle their communications to .a place in 'The Star of DelaWaie ao l shod g ap. when dry if was reduced 4042 1b. Hence the solid matter of the body was water as one to nine, or one-tenth. From this it will be seen how great a proportion the, acquired, an ofi'sprmg of the inte Constancy. -Theieq 18 nothing more commendable in the attachments of young | people than constancy. A want of it is! Young ladies should always decline the ed in the flui d Tor a few hones on Taris :-$§1. 00 per mmum, m 941 vance. Any. person who will send to ns: \tem subscribers or more, shall receive, fob 'dry: ery ten, one copy of The Star of‘Belarwaxe for one year free, to is ownnaddress, \or 'one dollar in cash, according as' he may prefer. ' TO. ADVERTISERS : Q, : *% Terms :-Ten® lines; or leds Will; be in- serted for- 25 conts per week, »Business Cards of 8 lines will-be.charged forat the rate of 25 cents permonth, and fone=in- serted for a shorter period. ee Advertisements must be. paid for in;: ad- vance. The number of insertions Will. 'be regulated by the price thus paid. . Official notices as: prescribedwby 13de T0 CONTRIBUTORS. ; We will not pledge lourseles to insert-f even \But we shall 'alwa lly, on one side of the manuscript, and. jn NAN'S DUTY T0 WOMHIT Le Tret him learg-to be grateful to wogisn 'for this undoubted achievement of her sex, 'that it is she-she far more than he, and. she too often in despite of. him-who' has kept Christendom trom lapsing back irite barbarism, - mercy: and truth froin being utterly overboriie by those two-gres- dy monsters,-monuey and~war. Let bim 'be grateful for this, that almost every great soul that has led. forward or lifted up the race, has been furnished for eagh nobler deed, and inspired avith each -patri- oti¢ and holy aspiration, by- the retiring fortitude of some.. Spartan—home Chrig- Aian mother,... Moses, the .deliverer. of 'his pe p10, drawn out of, the Nile by: the Kin 's daughter, some. one has. hintedfls \eal diplomacy .of man,. Let kim cheerfnL ly remember, that though the sinewy; ex achieves enterprises on public theatres,.it ds the nerve and sensibility of the other that arm the mind and inflame the.. soulin © secret. \ A man discovered America, but - a woman equipped the voyage.\ 'Soevery- where; a man executes the performa ite, but woman trains the man. Every effectu- al person, leaving his mark on. the world,- is but another Columbus, for whose fur- nishing some Isaberla, in the form of 1118 mother, lays down her jewelry, he: yaut' ties, her comfort. ~ . cups oo, - POLITE IMEERTINENOEB. Good breeding and refinement, orrather the externals. 5€ these taalities; are gener ally considered #s wholly precludimg those vulgar manifestations of ill- -tempér, \tude: ness, impertinence, and shnilar feelings; which the unsophisticated display with such perfect frankness, - But it does not thence follow, thit the well-bred snd h - A a » | refined have not their little spites, little on- vious feelings, little assumptions \of cou- sequence to gratify ; indeed they do-grati- fy them very freely ; all the difference-lie@ in the manner ; for there is afinish, a del« icacy of touch in the polite impertmenee . of the well-bred, which the untutored niay envy, but must never hope toattain. 'The delight that can be obtained in- a glance; in a gracious smile, in a wave,of the- land; is often the ne plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen, or so. keenly félt as the polite, which it is impossflole to: fesent ? | THE TWO .SEXES. There is nearly always something. of na- ture's gentility in every young woman-(ex= 'cept, indeed, when they. get together and fall a giggling) It shames us men to see how much sooner they sre polished into conventional shape, than our rough maseu- line angels. A vulgar boy requires, hear- en knows, what assiduity to move three steps, I do not say like a gentleman, but\ like a boy with a soul in him; butgive the least advaiitage of society or tuition to. a peasant girl, and a hundred to-one but she will glide into refivement before the boy can make a bow. without upsettingutlx : table.. There is sentiment in all women and that gives delicacy to. thouflht d taste to manner; with men it.is generally qualities, wot, as with the other se moral. i CLOTH WA\z % ! solution of water, sugar of \lead;'and ! being prepared; the cloth should be im drawing it, and: allowing it 46 unlese he 'pleages to do right. % i contumely when it is so undéserved; and sessed. But the charm of his face, was in to his appearance than I thought he pos- | are: Fashion, Love, and Death. a\ w The, three. greatmors of the world 'be found impervious to fain. -P should. afterwards be hctpressed oulya symbol of the way that. woman's hammtenhwnyewmthe ee
