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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AUGUST a, I« 



(From the Worcesier Palladium.) 

 THE FLOWING BOWL. 



Go, fling away that bowl ! 



Tench not its maddoning firts ! 

 They'll scathe and hiiin thy soul, 



Until thy life expires. 



Tliey'II steal away thy strength, 

 And blanch thy youthful bloom j 



And plimge thy form at length. 

 Into an ui blest tomb. 



Thine eye will lose its glow ;— 



Thy memory its hold ; — 

 Thy life-blood cease to flow ;— * 



Thy heart itself grow cold. 



Then fling away that bowl ! 



Touch not its maddening fires ! 

 They'll scathe and burn thy soul, 



Until thy life explresv 



Remember those who twine 



Around thy manly frame, 

 As clings the tender vine — 



Who love to lisp thy name. 



Remember her whose love 



Was pledged to thee in youth i 

 Aflti thine own vow to prove 



Thy Constancy and truth. 



From babes, and wife, and friend, 



'Twill sever thee too soon ; 

 Thy life will reach its end, 



Before thy manhood's noon. 



Then fling away that bowl ! 



Toui h not its maddening (jres! 

 They'll soath and burn thy soul, 



yntil thy life expiree, 



' .■ -i-i I ,111 II . 



One great cause of the want of ijistfiotisrn in 

 tliis couiiti-y^((/m( want wliicli inrtUes us prefer 

 t|ie fashions ntiil foibles of Europe, altliough in- 

 jiiiical to our republican habits) — is, tbe want of 

 encourageniwn to American Literature. The pub- 

 lishers of iiiir cgutitry are solely gniiled by the 

 desire to accuiniibiie money. This is to be ex- 

 pected ; they are like other men. IJiit this de- 

 »ire in tbem operates to the injury of the public. 



1 \h their interest to jiublisli books wliieb they 

 tan obtain without paying ajiy tliiiii: to tlie au- 

 thor ; this they can do, by introducing fojeign 

 works. The consequence is that our young tnen 

 — (and what is of more consequence, our young 

 women, those who are to be the instructors of the 

 infancy of future generations) -^Jiave their minds 

 polluted by the popular writers «f a Gonntry, ev- 

 ary institution of which is adve^-se to their own. 

 If an American writer aspires fo be jiopular a- 

 inong his countrymen and coui)t^-ywomrii, whose 

 taste is thus pervBrtod, be must\clioose foreign 

 subjects, and write of Lords and Ladies, fine hor- 

 ses and tine coaebes, fine gcmtleinrn who intrigue 

 with fine ladies, married or unmarried, and all 

 the other fine things that constitute European so- 

 ciety. 



How is this to be remedied .' How is llin Na- 

 tive American talent, and that Literature wi.icb 



is suited to tlie country, to be cncoiirnged ? The 

 first step is to allow foreign authors to protect 

 their jiroperty in this cotintry,l)y permitting tliem 

 to secure a copy-riubt. 'J'lien publishers may 

 deign to |)ay the naiiv ■ author for a work suited 

 to Ameiica, because be can no longer obtain the 

 seductive work of a foreigner for notliing. Much 

 more may be said on this subject, Mr Editor, and 

 if yon publish these hastily thrown together 

 tlioiights, more shall be said, by a native Ameri- 

 can, who wishes to guard against foreign influence 

 of every kind. X. 



[We publish them certainly. The topic our 

 correspondent touches, is a ninsl imjiortant part 

 of the great object we have in view — to render 

 the peculiar principles, feelings and institutions of 

 Ameri(;i paramount and all-pervading within her 

 entire limits. We shall give a cordial welcome 

 to what further the writer has to say on the sub- 

 ject.] — Ed. J\r Jim. Citizen. 



Thf. Great American Desert. — This region 

 which rrsemhh's one of the iinnieasurable steppes 

 of Asia, has not inaptly been termed " the great 

 American Desert." It spreads forth into undula- 

 ting and treeless jdains and desolate sandy wastes, 

 wearisome to the eye from their extent and mo- 

 notony, and which are supposed by geologists to 

 have formed the ancient floor of the ocean, count- 

 less ages since, when its primeval waves washed 

 against the granite basis of the Rocky mountains, 

 it is a land where no man permanently abides ; 

 for in certain seasons of the year there is no food 

 eithei- for the liimter or his steed. Tiie herbage 

 is parched and withered, the brooks and streams 

 are diied up; the hufTalo, the elk, and the deer 

 have wandered to distant parts, keeping within 

 the verge of expiring verdure, and leaving be- 

 hind thetn a vast uninhabited solitude, seamed by 

 ■'Savines, tlie beds of former torrents, but serving 

 only to tantalize and increase the thirst of the trav- 

 eller. 



Occasionally the monotony of this vast wilder- 

 ness is interrupted by mountainous belts of sand, 

 and limestone broT<en in confused masses, with 

 precipitous clifl^s and yawning ravines, looking 

 like the ruins of a world, or is traversed by lofty 

 and harren ridges of rock, almost impassable, like 

 those denom-inated the Herck Hills. JJeyoiid 

 these rise tlie .stern harriers of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, the limits, as it were, of the Atlantic world. 

 The rugged defiles and deep valleys of this vast 

 chain, form the sheltering places for restless and 

 ferocious bands of savages, many of them the rem- 

 nants of the tribes once inhabitants of the prair- 

 ies, but broken up by war and violence, and who 

 carry into their mountain haunts the fierce pas- 

 .sions and reckless habits of t\e!>peradiies.—lrving's 

 Astoria. 



SquiRSELS. — It is R curious circumstance, and 

 not generally known, that most of those oaks 

 whi(di are called spontaneous, are planted by the 

 squirrels. This little animal has performed the 

 most essential services to the British Navy. A 

 i;enll<;nmn walking one day iti the woods belong- 

 ing to the Duke ot Beaufort, near Troy House, in 

 the county of Monniniilh, his attention was diver- 

 ted by a squirrel, winch sat very composed on 

 the ground. He stopped to observe his motions ; 

 in a few moments the squirrel darted to the top of 

 a tree, bene.ith which be bad been sitting. In an 

 instant he was down v\ith an acorn in his mouth. 



and after digging a small h(de, he stooped down 

 a id deposited the acorn, then covering it, he dar- 

 ted up the tree again. In a moment he was down 

 again with another, which be buried in the same 

 manner. This he continued to do as long as the 

 observer thought proper to watch him. This in- 

 dustry of the little animal is directed to the pur- 

 pose of securing himself against want in the win- 

 ter ; and it is probable that his memory is not 

 sufliciently retentive te enable him to remember 

 the spot in which hi; deposited every acorn. 'I'his 

 industrious little fellow, no doulit, loses a few ev- 

 ery year ; these few spring up, and are destineil 

 to supply the place of the parent tree. Thus is 

 Great Britian in some measure inilebted to the 

 industry and bad memory of a squirrel, for her 

 pride, her glory, and her very existence. — E7}g- 

 lish paper. 



The following is a specimen at random of Wic- 

 lifle's translatioii. Matt, v.: " And Jhesns seynge 

 the people, went up into an hil ; luid whanne he 

 was sette, his disciples camen to him. And he 

 openyde his inouthe, and tanghte them ; and 

 seiile. Blessid be pore men in spirit; forlhe kyng- 

 dom of hevenes is lierun. Blessid ben niylde 

 men ; for thei schnlenweelde the erthe. Blessid 

 be thei that niournen . for thei schal be coumfer- 

 tid. Blessid be tliei that hungren and thirsten 

 rightwisness ; for thei schal be fulfilled. JJIessid 

 ben merciful men ; for thei schal gete mercy. 

 Blessid ben that ben of clene herte ; for thei 

 schulen se god. Blessid beii |)esible men ; for 

 thai schulen be ilijiid goddis (diildren. Blessid 

 ben thei that sufi'ren )ierseciicioun for rightwis- 

 ness; for the kyngdom of hevenes is hern." 



Hon. Soloinon Lincoln, of Hingham, has been 

 invited to deliver an Address before the Plymouth 

 County Agricultural Society in October next, and 

 accepted. 



We are informed that a mineral spring, yield- 

 ing water of very superior quality, has been dis- 

 covered near Wickford, in this slate, nor far from 

 the line of the Providence and Stonington Rail- 

 road. — Providence (ii. 7.) Jovr. 



TUE NEW ENGLAND FARRIER 



Is pulilislit'd every Wednesday Kvpnliig,ai ^3 per annnm, 

 payalile al the end of the year — hut iliose vviio pay wiiliiu 

 ixty « ays from liie time oi suhscribiiig, are eu'itled to a de- 

 uctionoroO ceirts. 



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