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N E V, ENGLAND FARMER. 



JAN. 13, t°l4. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



IN DEBT AND OUT OF DEBT. 



Of what a hideous pro;reny of ill is debt, the 

 father! What lies, what nioanncss, what invasions 

 on self-respect, what cares, what doiible-dealins ! 

 How, in due season, it will carve the frank open face 

 into wrinUles ; how, like a knife, 'twill ^lab the hon- 

 est heart. And then its traiisforrnatinn.s 1 How 

 it lias been known to chanore a goodly face into a 

 mask of brass; how, with the "damned custom" 

 of debt, has the true man become a callous trick- 

 ster! A freedom from debt, and what a nourish- 

 inff sweetness may bo found in cold water ; what 

 toothsomeness in a dry crust; what ambrosial 

 nourishment in a hard ejis: ! Be sure of it, he 

 who dines out of debt, though his meal be biscuit 

 and an oi.ion, dines in " Tlin Apollo." And then 

 for raiment; what warmth in a threadbare coat, 

 if the tailor's receipt be in the pocket ; what Tyri- 

 an purple in the faded waistcoat, the vest not 

 owed for ; how glossy the well worn hat, if it 

 covers not the aching head of a debtor! Next, 

 the home-sweets, the out-door recreation of the 

 free man. The street-door knockor falls not a 

 knell on his heart; the foot on the staircase, 

 though he live on the third pair, sends no spasm 

 through /li's anatomy ; at the rap at his door he 

 can crow forth •' come in," and his pulse still 

 beat healthfully, liis heart sink not in Iiis bowels. 

 See him abroad, how confidently, yet how pleas- 

 antly, he lakes the street ; how ho returns look 

 for look with any passenger; how he saunters; 

 how, meeting an acquaintance he stands and gos- 

 sips ! Hut, then, this man knows not debt; debt, 

 that casts a drug into the ricliest wine ; that makes 

 the food of the gods unwholesome, indigestible ; 

 that sprinkles the banquets of a Lucullus with 

 ashes, and drops soot in the soup of an emperor: 

 debt, that, like the moth, makes valueless furs 

 and velvets, enclosing the wearer in a festering 

 prison, (the shirt of Nessus was a shirt not paid 

 for ;) debt, that writes upon frescoed wails the 

 hand-writing of tlie attorney; that puts a voice 

 of terror in tlie knocker; that makes the heart 

 quake at the haunted fire-side; debt, the invisible 

 demon that walks abroad with a man; now 

 quickening his steps, now making him look on 

 all sides hke a hunted boast, and now bringing to 

 his face the ashy hue of death, as the imcoiiscious 

 passeniTcr looks glancingly upon him ! Poverty 

 is a bitter draught, yet may, and sometimes with 

 advantaw, be gulped down. Though the drink- 

 er mako wry faces, there may, after all, be a 

 wholesome goodness in the cup. But debt, how- 

 ever courteously it be offered, is the cup of a si- 

 ren, and the wine, spiced and delicious though it 

 be, an eating poison. The man out of debt, though 

 with a daw in his jerkin, a crack in his shoe-leath- 

 er, and a hide in his hat, is still ihe son of liberty, 

 free as the singing lark above him ; but the di-bt- 

 or, thoujrh clothed in the utmost bravery, what is 

 he but a serf out upon a holiday —a slave to be 

 reclaimed at any instant by his owner, the credi- 

 tor ? My son, if poor, see wine in the running 

 spring; let thy mouth water at a last week's roll ; 

 think a threadbare coat the "only "csr;" and ack- 

 nowledge a white-washed garret the fittest housing 

 place for a gentleman: do this, and flee debt. S" 

 shall thy heart be at peace, and the sheriff be con- 

 founded. — Douglass JciTol:/ in " HrnHs »f the Pfo- 



pu:' 



Legislators, b;/ Sam Stick. — " Nothin' on this 

 side of the water makes so big a fool of a man, 

 squire, he continued, as goin' to the house of rep- 

 resentafitifS without bein' fit for it. ! hem that 

 haint jist got the right weight (jf ballast are upset 

 in no time, and are turned bottom upwards afore 

 they know where they be Them that are a little 

 vain by nitur', get so pulTed up and consaited, they 

 become nothin' but laugliiii' stocks to all the world, 

 and most ridiculous fools ; —while them whose 

 principles ain't well anchored in good holdin' 

 ground, let the rogue peep out o' their professions 

 plainer than they are a-lhinkin' on. Tlie skin of 

 the beast will show through, like an Irishman's el- 

 bow, though he has three coals on. But that ain't 

 the worst of it neether. A man is apt to become 

 bankrupt in business, as well as in character by it. 

 Doin' big and talkin' big for three months in the 



y 



looks for a flower, may return into the house witli 

 one blooming in his bosom. 



For a fit of doubt, perplexity and fear — whether 

 they respect the body or the mind, whether they 

 are a load for the head, the shoulders, or the heart, 

 the following is a radical cure, for I had it from 

 the Great Physician; "Cast thy burden on Uie 

 Lord, and he will sustain thee." 



ear, and piiftin' each other up till they are ready 

 to burst with importance, don't convene with sellin' 

 tape by the yard, or loadin' on carts when they re 

 turn home to their business. In short, squire, a 

 country ought to be a rich country, with lamed 

 men in it, and men o' property to represent it, or 

 else assembly work is nothin' but high life below 

 stairs, arter all. I could point you out legislaturs 

 on this here continent, where the speakin' is all 

 kitchen talk, all strut, brag, and vulgar impedence. 

 It's enou2h to make a cat sick to hear fellers talk 

 of independence who are mortgaged over head and 

 ears in debt, to listen to chaps jawin' about public 

 vartue, temperance, edication, and what not all day, 

 who spend the night in the back-room of a market 

 tavern, with the key turned, drinkin' hail-storm and 

 had rum, or playin' sixpenny loo. If mankind only 

 knew what foids they were, and how they helped 

 fiilks themselves to fool them, there would be some 

 hope of them, for they would have larnt the first 



essons of wisdom." 



POl DRETTE. 



The suhscril'ers resiile in Ihr slate of I,ew Jersey, many 

 of us in llic viciiiily "f the works erecUtl liy Aniilony Dey, 

 of the city of i\'ew Vork. on the llacken!>aL-fc river, in New 

 Jersey, for llie manufactory of Urate and I'ouiirelle, called 

 " Tlie Lodi ^Iiniifacluriiig Coinpamj " VVe have used the 

 poudretle on the Spring Crops this year, 'S4(i. We find il 

 a valuable manure, superior to autj other kind thai we have 

 cccr used^ and considering the facilitij of its transportation 

 to thejietd, th2 small quantity required in the application to 

 the crnpSf the quickness of Us operation on vegetable milter^ 



j and the ease U'dh which it can be applied. ~a\\ lend lo recom- 

 nn-'iid iis uso !o lire lariner and gardener as the cheapest and 



\ best manure, and we recommend it accorrlingly. 



Those of us who have applied it to corn and potatoes thinic 

 that it ripens those vegeialdes quicker than anv other ma- 

 nure bv several weeks. 



Dated New Jersey, October, 1640. 



The following " remarks on fits" were published 

 in the Cincinnati Chronicle a few years since, but 

 as the present appears to be an unubually fruitful 

 time for suicides, and consequently tor "the blues," 

 a gentleman has expressed lo us the opinion that 

 their re-puhlicatioM would not be improper : 



PLAIN A.ND PITHY REMISAKS OF OLD HUMPHBET 

 O.N FITS. 



We are most of us subjected to fits ; I am visit- 

 ed with them myself and I dare say you are also. 



For fits of passion — walk out in the open air : 

 may speak your mind to the winds without 



Jacob D- Van Winkle. 

 John J: JS'ewkirk. 

 John Tise. 

 Daniel Van Riper. 

 George Dcmoti. 

 Henry Drayton. 

 Josiaji Hornblotoer. 

 Corns. Van Winkle. 



P. F. Welsh 

 G. C. Kun Riper. 

 George Tise. 

 WilUavi Wood 

 John Duryre. 

 George Newkirk. 

 Garret Newkirk. 

 Daniel Vrccland. 



Shares in the above company are SlOO each, and may he 

 had hy applying lo .4nthony Dey No, 73 Cedar St. New 

 York.— The owner will receive 20 per cent, per annum, 

 payahle in money, or 10 busliels of Poudretle. The price to 

 those who hnv Pondrette is 40 cenis a hushel. ft co>is the 

 Stockholders ri cents a bushel. One cents irorth, Ihal is, 

 20 Gills, will manure 20 hills of corn, and the like quantity 

 15 fulls of PotJloes. 



Newspapers friendly to agriculture will confer a favor on 

 the Parmers and Gardeners by publishing the above. 

 Dec. 22. 



:iroclaiming yourself to be a 



you 



hurting any one, or ] 



simpleton. 



For a fit of idleness— count the lickings of a 

 clock. Do this for an hour, and you will be glad 

 to pnll off your coat and work like a negro. 



For a fit of ambition — go into the church yard 

 ami read the grave stones. They will tell you the 

 end of ambition. The grave will soon be your 

 bed chamber, and the earth your pillow, corruption 

 your father, and the worm your moiher and sisters. 



For a fit of repining — look out for tho halt and 

 blind, and visit the bed ridden, and deranged, and 

 they will make you ashamed ol complaining of 

 your lighter afflictions. 



For fits of despondency — look on the good things 

 which God has given you in this world, and at those 

 which he has promised lo his followers in the next. 

 He who goes into his garden to look for cobwebs 

 and spiders will no doubt find ihoni, while he who 



POUDRETTE. 



This valuable manure may be had on application to lire 

 subscriber, at the office ol the " Neic York Poudrettc Com- 

 pany," No, 120 Nassau slreet,New York, ll is in-odorous, 

 and may be trans|inrled in barrels, on board of any vessel 

 or slpanilioal, wiihoul offence— and it will be found an ex- 

 ceedingly valuable article as 3.ferUli2er on any soil, and for 

 any cro|)s; but more especially for gardens and ffowers, as 

 iherc are no foul seeds in it. Poudrelle has been use.l for 

 three seasons with entire success on Long Island, by many 

 practical larmers, as may he ascerlained from tellers and 

 slalemenis made by them, and published at this office in a 

 pamphlet containing also the "act ofincorpnrntinn," granted 

 to the Company liy the Legislature of ihe State of New 

 York ; and other facts in relation to the suljeci. Price .35 

 cents per bushel. Barrels cost 23 cents each, and hold 4 

 bushels Persons wishing lo make an experiment on a 

 small sca'e can obtain one barrel \iy pnclosiiig a /iro dollar 

 current bank bill— or three liarrels by enclosing. ^rc dollars, 

 free of postage. On receipt of the money the article will li« 

 put up and forwartled as directed 



*^*- Price of shares, one hundred dollars — which entitles 

 the hohler lo one hundred- bushels of noudreiie annually, 

 during the term nf the charter; tiliy bushels in lime ior spring 

 use, ioid fifty bushels in time for ,fall use Shares taken 

 soon, will tie enlitlcil to the spring uividend— and, if desired 

 for experiment, a lew bushels may he had this fall. 



.'Vll orilers, or anplicjiUons in relaiion to the business, 

 must be made to iho subscriber, 120 Nassau street, .\e«r 

 York. K. .HIINOR. 



Q> I wish it distinctly understood that the "New York 

 Poudrettc Company" is in no way connected wiih the 

 "Lodi Manufaciuring Cnnipaiiy," of which Anthony Dey 

 and Pelrr Barthclemy nro, or were, the managers. 



Dec, 0, 1'540. 



D. K. M. 



Is published every Wednesday Eveninjj, ai 9.1 per aniiu 

 payable at the end o'f 1 ho year — but those who pay willi.n 

 sixtv days from the time of sutiscribing arc entitled to a I'le 

 dnclionof 59 cents. 



TUTTLF., DEN.VF.TT AND CHISHOLM, PRINTFKS 



,7 , li ..I'Kf.Kr. ..UOS'ION 



