^f)e Javnuv's iHontljlH llisitar. 



31 



^ wiirt'S 111 

 Till! scniji 



eiiyth iinfolderl a specimen of tin 

 wliicli Rdliiii ilfiilt, even thus eiirly. 

 riHi as llillows : — 



" Friendship how sweet thy smile 

 When throned on woman's love." 

 And again — 



" A curse on yon vile despot lav/s, 

 That could, witliouten ony cause, 

 As pnssion turns, 

 Put pith and pity, wi' the taws, 

 In Robin Burns.'' 



Co.NNUBiALiTV.— Mr. SiiiiQii \Vilco!c,in n ooni- 

 iiiiinicitioii to the editor of the JJostoii Courier, 

 very [latheticidly .^ets forlli hi.^ Jj.xperieiice ill 

 iiiatriiiioiiiai life, lie says: — 



" i have Ijeeii married only eiirht weeks. For 

 the fiist fortiiiylit al'lei- my iiiarri.ijie, we (that i.- 

 my wile and I) did very "well. We had only lo 

 amiifie ourselves, wiihonr enconnterino- any oftlie 

 cares of married life. Every l]\hi)r was "in per- 

 feetoriler; all was new and clean ; iiolliiiiir wa.s 

 req.iired luit to please and he pleased, to play 

 and not to work, and to eiiji>v all the sweets 

 wilhoiil ;iiiy of the hitters of ii(e. Even for two 

 or three weeks after this, all went on siuoolhly. 



My yomiff wilt; would sit with me in the eve- 

 iiiiiff with her work, while I read to her, or we 

 lieiiiiilod the time in pleasin;; conveisaiioii. If 

 there were any stnekiiu£s lo iiieiid, or ihe like, 

 tliut was the time lor doin;; it. If a (aiiloii was 

 ii)i?sinir from my vest, or coat, or my sliiit, she 

 would immediately perceive it, .-iial ki'iidly reme- 

 dy Ihe deficiency. Ahout the fifili week,"howev 

 er, on takin-r from the diawer a clean pair of 

 hose, I perceived a hole, and meiitioiie.l it. A 

 few days after, a similar circnmstaiice occurred. 

 She rang lite bell for the ,!;irl, and tiesired her to 

 repair the rent. A day or two after, I lost a liiit- 

 ton fi-oiii my vest, lint she look no noiice ol" it. 

 I mentioned it. She looked serious .iiid dii;iiilied. 

 anil inquired why I did not leave the ^'arnient at 

 my tailor's for repair.' My hose were now al- 

 ways sure, when taken from the drawer, lo have 

 holes in them; and the excuse was, that she 

 really had s<t much lo do in ironintr her I, ces and 

 collars, and other nice articles ol' her own, and 

 so iii.iiiy calls to make and receive, that she had 

 no time liir any tliiu'; else. 



The servant iiiil, loo, was so much occtijfied 

 In wasliiiiL' and iioninjr her ilresses, &:<-. tli.-it even 

 she had no leisme lo darn stockinj,'.s. In most of 

 the eveniiifrs, also, when I went home fiii^in-d 

 Willi my day's hiisiiiess, ! liimid ihat my l.idy had 

 went lo some tViend'.s, a mile or two disiaiii, and 

 that I was expected to fillow her, in ihe course 

 of the eveninif, in order lo attend her himie. 

 Freqiienily, at dinner time, I liniiifl no dinner, 

 the cook having hecome displeased, ai d t.iken 



French leave; and as liir my wife's I<il;iking 



to hroil a steak, or lioil a potaloe, she couhl not 

 think of doing such a servile thin^'. On my 

 Sently remonstraling with her, and reminding 

 her of her tbrmer lahors in her father's family, 

 she replied that she "married in order \(i belter 

 herself, ami svas not going to soil her hands v\iili 

 family ilrndgery." In shoit she h.is hecome after 

 only eight weeks, a mere line lady, entirely val- 

 neless as a wife wilhont any dispositionto he 

 useful, or contrihnte in the least to my happiness. 

 I will here conclude hy "warning my sex of the 

 crafliness and sellishness oi' woman." 



tinned, and many others whii h would he deemeil 

 highly imleficale in other lands; and however 

 iimch the Ibieigner may at tiist he templed to 

 doidil their strict correclness, he .soon learns that 

 no conventional rules opposi: a harrier to such 

 acts. True modesty consists in the thought 

 which governs every tiction ; and vimvcd in this 

 light there was certainly no iminodesly in the 

 girls of Ojo Caliente imhdgiiig in a hath, even if 

 they did appear 'ri:;lit helore lblk>,' as the |)hil- 

 osopliic Sam Slick would say." 



use of the saw, ihe hammer and the trowel. It 

 forms part of his oidinarv l.usiness to hiiild log- 

 honse.v, men.l plongh.s, wagons and hairous, ;md 

 even kill and dress sheep aial liigs.— A'/iWis/i 

 proper. " 



The hest load of hay which has appeared in 

 Concord street during the winter was broimlit 

 inio town on Wednesday (March 2) from Dm- 

 ham, liirly-liiur miles distant, near the seahoaril. 

 It was pure herdsgra.^s, and as hiiglit as silver. 

 The price here had heen from filieen to eighteen 

 dollars, hut was reduced in coiiseipience of ;he 

 good travelling hringing so much hay li'om the 

 upper country, so that tills lies; load was sold U,r 

 lliiiieen dollars a Ion. The hay helonged lo Mr. 

 Thomas S. Channel, who.-e /iirm consists of 

 ahoui one luindied and forty acres. He set out 

 from home with two h ads, hut sold one load 

 out of town three miles at a lietter rate than the 

 one hronghl here. His usual crop of hay ex- 

 ceeds two tons to the acre. 



Mr. Channel hronght ns upon his load of hay 

 a sin.ill liox of heauti/id B.ildwin apples, t.-^keii 

 from Irei'S which he grafted ahoiil tilieeu \e;ns 

 ago wilh scions hronght iidin Wi'iiliain, Mass. 

 Nine of these trees produced 44 harrels this 

 year. Mr. C. moved into New Hampshire from 

 Es.se.x comity, Massachusetts, ahont n\ei.ty years 

 ago. The larmers from iMass.achuselts set lis an 

 example that has a most salutary efll-ct. 



cents a 

 The keeping 



A farmer of Lyndon, Caledonia comity, Ver- 

 mont, on Hilly acres of land last season raised 

 seven himdretl hiishels of Spring wheat. The 

 seed, Ibriy hushel.s, was Inongiil from Sandwich, 

 N. II. Twenty-two acres of linrnt gionnd. Willi 

 the old liisliioued hald wheat, avei.iged twenly 

 bushels lo the acre. IJlack sea wheal on plough- 

 ed land yielded about tilieen linshels lo the acre. 



The same I.yudmi tlirmer, on ten acres, raised 

 five hundred bushels of Indian com. 



'The .same geiiileman has thus far kept this 

 winter forty-eight head of cattle on wheat straw 

 with a sprinkling ofo.it meal, without using a 

 single ton of common hay. The straw is cut, 

 and with it for a week's leed, twenty-one bushels 

 of groimd oats are mixed: the o.ils are there 

 now worth eighteen cents per linshel. He is of 

 opinion that r\e straw cm lor cattle is worth at 

 least two thirds the price of hay. 



A Profitable Cow.— One of the cows at the 

 State Llinaiic Hospital has given this \ear 101:3 

 gallons of milli. Que other cow is calcniaied lo 

 have done as well, „n,| a tliii.l has (iillen but 

 hllle short of the ,.lher two. The cows are of 

 common breed,,-, pnrciiased of farmers in ihis 

 town. 'The milk of the one cow at lom 

 ipiart would be Wdrth .f(|(i2,08. 

 costs ahont $7r}.— H'orceskr ."spy. 



Mii.cH Cows. — As no i 

 peel lhe.<e animals lo 



milk, unless he leeds them well, we call upon 

 V oil to see, m addition to ihiee g<iod li-eds of hay 

 or bidder, that your milch cows receive also dn'e 

 proportions of succulent (bod of some kind and 

 he sure to give them salt twice a week. 



Oxen-.— Let your work oxen he comf irtablv 

 accommodated wilh lodging.*, and well f,-,], il, 

 order that lliey may he the iietter enahleil to sii.s- 

 tam themselves in iheir toils, and be sure and 

 give them each a handful of salt twice in each 

 week. 



nan has a right to ex- 

 ive either good or mnci, 



ixoii MS. fi 

 111 ihe first 



Sheep.— In a very early An^do 

 shepbeiil is represented as sa_\iug, 

 part of the morning I drive mv'slieep to ilair 

 pasture, and stand ..ver them in" heat and in c<dd 

 wilh dots, le.st the wolves destroy them. I leaf! 

 them back to their liild.--, and milk them twice a 

 day; and I move their folds and make cheese 

 and butter."- T'ltracr'* Anglo-Sax. li. 546. 



A BATHi.NG scE.NK.- Mr. Kendall, in bis San- 

 ta Fe Sketches, says: — 



"At Ojo Caliente there i.^ a warm halb well in 

 the edge of the town, and several of onr party visi- 

 ted il Ibr the piii pose ol'bali.ing. 'The wate"r boils 

 lip in great qnaiiliiies, and forms a lari;e find 

 deep b;isiu from the very foimlain head. We 

 immodialely divested ourselves of onr clolhiiiLr 

 iiiiil dashed into the refreshing element— diving 

 and swimming about in water just warm enongli 

 to he comlbrtable. Kidbre we had left the lart'e 

 natural b.itbing tub onr party was increased ii\ 

 the arrival of several Mexican girls, «hn, not iii 

 the least daunted by our presence, immcdiatelv 

 joined in onr aqiiat"ic sport.s. With merry iinil 

 joyous laughter they commenced splashing ihe 

 vater about them; now diving to Ihe bottom, 

 and I ben rising to ihe snrfai-e, shaking the water 

 from their long hair and p:iddiiiig "about like 

 Newlonndland dogs. 



The custom of ih(! connlry sanctions the open 

 commission of scenes such as I have jnst luen- 



No man can ever borrow hiinself out of debt. 

 If you v\isli for relief 3011 mist work for it, 

 economise fiir it. Yon must maki,' more and 

 spend less than yon did while yon were inmimg 

 in debt. You must wear homespun instead of 

 hroadclolb, drink w. ter iiislead of champa:;iie, 

 and rise at finir instead of seven. Indiisiry, fru- 

 gality, economy — tlie.se are the handmaids of 

 wealth, and the sources of relief 



Vermo.nt Sugar.— The siniriilar fact is slated 

 111 the Monipeliei VValcbiiian, that, next to Louis- 

 iana, the Slate of ^'ernlonl is the greaiest sugar 

 pioduciiig State in the llnion! The amount Of 

 maple sugar produced in 1840 was over 2..').50 

 ton-;, being over l7;!-4 piainds n. each iuliabiiaiit 

 allowing a po|mlalioii of 2:11.948. At five cents 

 a pound this is woiih .<i?.55.!'(i3 20. The Waicli- 

 niaii .stales that this qnaniiiy is very far below 

 th.it produced the last year, and thinks it uia\ I e 

 .salely estimated that the siiL'ar prodiiceil "this 

 season will, at the low price of five cents, be 

 worth one million of dollars. 



Blinds o.v Horses. — A writer in the Albany 

 Cullivaior .sjiys:— "Let mi^ say to all who have 

 skiliisb bor.ses, cut off your blinds, anil if your 

 bor.ses scare at a leaf let them see that it is 

 only a le:if A horse is a reasonable [r] animal 

 — and if he has a idi.ilice to look aroniid blin, be is 

 not fioiiig to run nnlrss snmeibing shows a dis- 

 posiiion to hurt biin. If dii\crs woidd lake tla^ 

 precaution to Imii a horse's head quick towards 

 the danger from wliicb be cannot be reined, and 

 let tin; animal see his danger, he would be as 

 jeady to sliiin the danger as his driver. 'Two 

 jeais since, I bad a pair of boi-si\s that vvoiihl 

 run away at every unnatural louidi or noise, un- 

 til I ml off the blinds <d" the bridles, and they 

 have never run away since. To lest the tnilh clf 

 this, put a blind bridle on a skittish ox, and he 

 will he almost immauam'able." 



Fe.ncinga.nd Lumber for Farm Purposes. 



This is Ihe .season when yon sIkmiIiI get all jour 

 pciat, mils, anil other Itimliir onl, and when we 

 need scarce tell \oii lh;,t after il is cut, it should 

 he carled lo the home eiKdosures, for ibe coiive- 

 nieiici' (d' empliniug the bands in workiuy it up 

 during such wet da\s as they cannot be occupied 

 III out door wiirk. From ail such trees as may 

 be (elled Ibr tlie purpose named, the h.irk slionlll 

 he stripl off, as it will facilitate tin; seasoning of 

 the limber, and prevent the ravauesof iln 

 by depiiying tlieiii of a hiding place. 



worm, 



A:\iERicAiN Farm Laborers. — The American 

 l.diorer is ii'ost expert at the use of the ax(! and 

 sc_\ the, hut handles Ihe spade most awkwardly. 

 having no idea of banking', hedging, and many 

 other operations common 10 laiglisli lahorer.s.— 

 The versatility of his taleiil, however, renders 

 bini lar superior to the British laborer in .Amer- 

 ica, the latter l.nvin" no cluiuce with hitn in the 



Cornstalk Sugar. — The inanufiictme of su- 

 gar from cornstalks has been attempted with suc- 

 cess in several pail.s of the Uiiiled Slates. The 

 Cincinnali (yludnicle notice a specimen produc- 

 ed in Wav iie coimiy, lllmois. It stales Ib.'it the 

 siivar is well grained, and as giical as the New 

 Orleans siijiar. It was m.idewiih the simpli st 



kind of machinery, I strncled by a carpenter, 



and Ihe proci-.ss is .said 10 be easy. T'lie calcula- 

 tion is, lliat a Ihousiniil pomiils of this sugar may 

 be made from an acre of corn. .<\t this rate, the 

 business will he profitable, and cannot hiit open 

 a new and vast source of |irodiiiii(m lo iho 

 West. 



Enor.mous llou. — We saw on Wednesday last 

 at the slaughter bouse of Jcdin Grinder, one of 

 tlie largest and hitiest bogs we ever saw. Il 

 weighed (alive) l-:iOO lbs. ami was r.^i.sed by Tho- 

 mas l\las^e^, Jr., ol N(;wcasll(t llunibed. iieiit 

 it who can. — Delaware State Journal. 



Live Stock. — Cattle and sheep were the chief 

 riches of the Britons when they became Inst 

 known lo the Komaiis (Ca'tar, v. c. x.) and they 

 are still a great source ol «iir agricidliiral liche.s. 



A gooif temper, a good library, good heallli, 

 and u good wife, art four choice blt'ssings. 



