NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



?43 



to that part of the pan opposite the handle, so that 

 it occupies one-third, hold it so that part of the 

 pan is the lowest, with a spoon move the outside 

 edges over towards the centre, and let it remain 

 half a minute, so that it obtains a good color, 

 turn it over on the dish so that the bottom is at 

 the top. They must not be too much done, and 

 served very hot. Tins is excellent but may require 

 a little practice to cook perfectly. Cold meats 

 well chopped are good in place of the bread 

 crumbs. 



ILij's JDqurtmrnt. 



AN EXAMPLE. 



A young man, (says Sir R. Kane,) wanting to 

 sell spectacles in London, petitions the corpora- 

 tion to allow him to open a little shop, without 

 paying the fees of freedom, and he is refused. He 

 goes to Glasgow, and the corporation refuse him 

 there. lie makes acquaintance with some mem- 

 bers of the University, who find him very intelli- 

 gent, and p ;rmit him to open his shop within their 

 walls. He does not sell spectacles and magic lan- 

 terns enough to occupy all his time ; he occupies 

 himself at intervals in taking asunder and re-mak- 

 ing all the machines he can come at. He finds 

 that there are books on mechanics written in for- 

 eign languages ; he borrows a dictionary, and 

 learns those languages, to read these books. The 

 University people wonder at him, and are fond of 

 dropping int > his room in the evenings, to tell him 

 what they are doing, and to look at the queer in- 

 struments he constructs. A machine in the Uni- 

 versity wants repairing and he is employed. He 

 makes it a new machine. The steam-engine is 

 constructed ; and the giant mind of Watt stands 

 out before the world — the author of the industri- 

 al supremacy of this country, the herald of a new 

 force in civilization. But was Watt educated? 

 Where was he educated ? At his own workshop, 

 and in the best manner. Watt learned Latin 

 when he wanted it for his business. He learned 

 French and German; but these things were tools, 

 not ends. He used them to promote his engineer- 

 ing plans, as he used lathes and levers. 



RESPECT FOR THE AGED. 



There is something venerable in age. Tn all na- 

 tions the highest respect has been paid to it. The 

 hoary head, says Solomon, is a crown of glory, if 

 it be found in the way of righteousness. The 

 patriarchs were a kind of Lares among the tribes 

 of their descendants. Among the Egyptians, the 

 young were obliged to rise up in the presence of 

 the old, and on every occasion, resign them the 

 most hon >rable seat. The Spartans borrowed this 

 law from them, and rigidly enforced it among their 

 youth. They never thought of its "breaking the 

 spirit" of their rising warriors to require this sub- 

 mission. Job sets it down as a mark of deplora- 

 ble degeneracy among his people, that they that 

 were younger than he, had him in derision. It 

 stands Lnperishably recorded as one of Heaven's 

 high commands, that honor is to be given to fath- 

 er and mother. This, too, is the command "with 

 pr >mise" — a promised blessing to those who obey, 

 but an implied curse, yea, a cutting off from the 

 land, to those who disregard it. It has boen sup- 



posed that our republican institutions are not fa- 

 vorable to the growth of this spirit. There is the 

 more need, then, that it be assiduously cultivated. 

 The mind, even in infancy, should be deeply im- 

 bued with it. And "venerate the aged," should 

 be, with our whole people, one of the fixed max- 

 ims of life, no one allowing himself any departure 

 from it. — Southern Presbyterian. 



Financial. — A teacher in one of our public 

 schools, having occasion a k\\ days since to pun- 

 ish one of his pupils for some misdemeanor, placed 

 him on the platform to wait until he had heard 

 some classes recite. The culprit took advantage 

 of the teacher's engagement, and escaped from 

 the school-house. The teacher, being somewhat 

 vexed, promised another scholar a reward of twen- 

 ty-five cents if he would bring the runaway back 

 to the school-house ; but before this was accom- 

 plished the boy who had escaped heard of the of- 

 fered reward, and sent word to the teacher that he 

 would "return and take the licking for twelve and 

 one-half cents, cash down." — Pmctucket Chroni- 

 cle. 



'TUjrtailtural (Cleanings. 



The Crops. — The Calais (Me.) Advertiser of the 

 17th says : — The copious rains of Monday and 

 Wednesday last, have materially changed the face 

 of the fields and meadows, and everything now 

 looks refreshed and invigorated, and the hopes and 

 prospects of the farmer are much encouraged and 

 strengthened. 



In Louisiana, the crops are doing well, and the 

 prospects now are for plentiful harvests. The corn 

 crop will be overwhelming ; some say corn will be 

 two bits a bushel. The cotton, which has been 

 somewhat retarded by cool weather in the latter 

 part of the spring months, is now doing remarka- 

 bly well. 



A gentleman who has lately travelled through 

 the counties of Jasper, Newton, Tyler, Jefferson, 

 and Angelina, in Texas, says the crops in that sec- 

 tion of country were nevermore promising than at 

 present. 



The crops in south-we3tern Georgia are reported 

 as unusually promising this year. 



The Iowa papers concur in the opinion that not- 

 withstanding the backwardness of the season, the 

 wheat and other crops will be abundant. We have 

 the same flattering representations from Northern 

 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the greater portion of 

 Wisconsin and Michigan. 



An Ancient Tree. — The old oak, beneath whose 

 branches Eliot preached to the Indians, at South 

 Natick, in 1690, is still standing — a "hale green 

 tree," and still affjrds a grateful shade to the wea- 

 ry traveller. A neat monument has been erected 

 to the memory of Eliot near this place, which 

 be;:rs on one side his name, and on the other the 

 title of his Indian Bible — "Up Biblum God." 



