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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



SEPT. 6, 1837. 



S-^HIfmi^e 



(From the Mercantile Journal.) 

 THK FARM SCHOOL, 



OU THOMPStHi 's ISLAND, BOSTON HARBOR. 



'Tis well to gather from your street, 



The children of neglect; 

 And teach iheni in this fair retreat, 



To win deserved respect ; 

 And train the twig, so early bent 



To vice, hy culture kind j 

 And look for fruit of your intent — 



The tree aright inclined. 



"I'is well to snatch from penury's den 



lis hapless child, and show 

 Humaniiy is godlike, when 



It softens human wo. 

 'Tis well — for ye of Misery's tomb 



Have burst the iron bars, 

 And culled up slumbering mind, to bloom 



Above the fading stars ! 



1 marked each youthful eye, and saw 



High purpose kindle there; 

 I saw the future statesman, or 



One who shall venture where 

 The wise, in elder years have stood ; 



Or liim, whose honors won 

 Shall throne his name among the good, 



His country's choicest son. 



Or, moulded here in honest ways, 



And led in ductile youth — 

 One who shall feurless go in praise 



And battle for the truth ; 

 Or go to prove how surely peace 



Lies fallow on thu soil, 

 When skill and care insure increase 



To crown the yeoman's toil, 



I read each look of intellect. 



And Heaven I thanked again. 

 That from lost hopes and households wrecked, 



Such treasures yet remain; 

 And prayed that those who still in tears 



Tread paths of want and sin. 

 The thousands of unripened years — 



Might here be garnered in. 

 Boslon,Aug. 26, 1837. Wid B Tappan. 



Remarkable Preservation. — The Haverhill 

 Gazette republislies from the Massachusetts Ga- 

 zette of 1795, the fallowing account of the almost 

 miraculous preservation of two men belonging in 

 Rowley. On the morning of Dec. 1.5tli, 1786, Mr 

 Satniicl Pulsifcr and Mr Sainue' Elwell were on 

 •he flats Itetweon Plum Island aiid Hog Island 

 diirgin^ clams. The tide not serving their pur- 

 nose, tliey left tlie ground in the evening, and carne 

 ifi a lilit on Hog Island to spend tlie night, hut a 

 snow Blorm coming on very rapidly, caused them 

 to .change their purpose, and endeavor, at low wa- 

 ter to "ct themselves off the island. They soon 

 got lost, in going over the marshes and creeks, 

 and after wandering about for some time, they 

 found a stack of salt hay, in which they dug a 

 hole, and encamped for the night. In the morn- 

 ing, to their utter astonisliment, they found the 

 tide had risen so high that they were obliged to 

 leave their hole, and repair to the top of the stack, 

 fliey were deprived of all hope, save a faint ex- 



pectation that their weight would keep the stack 

 from moving off the staddlos ; but a cake of ice 

 soon struck the stack and set it afloat. The wind 

 blew and the sea raged around them, while the 

 heavens were darkened with the falling snow. — 

 The land disappeared, they knew not their course 

 and could discern nothing hut the world of waters, 

 agitated by a tremendous storm. Their stack at 

 times went directly forward, and .at others whirled 

 round like a top, threatening every moment to 

 break in pieces. On a sudden they felt the stack 

 on which they had been thus far preserved, sepa- 

 rating under them. At this instant another stack 

 of hay, large and unshattered, came alongside of 

 them, on which they bad sufficient strength to 

 leap. In this dangerous situation, they passed 

 about two hours, exposed to the cold, snow and 

 water, which continually da.'shed upon thetn, by 

 which time they became almost stupefied, and be- 

 gan to feel sleepy. Tliey were driven into Smith's 

 Cove, between tliree and four miles from the spot 

 where the tide first set them adrift. Here, hoping 

 and despairing by turns, they lay some considera- 

 ble time, the stack being stopped about four rods 

 from the land, by cakes of ice. After a while 

 they perceived that the wind and tide were again 

 carrying them out to sea. Pulsifer immediately 

 threw himself upon the ice, and bid the other fol- 

 low him ; but Elwell was much stupefied with 

 the cold, and after sotoe delay, got on a cake of 

 floating ice, and sue ceeded in reaching the shore, 

 Pulsifer got so near the land, that he could touch 

 the bottom with his feet, but his legs were so be- 

 numbed with cold that he could not put one be- 

 fore the other, and for a while thought he must 

 perish within a rod of shore. At last he bethought 

 himself of putting bis legs forward one after the 

 other with his- hands, and gained the shore in 

 safety. The thought of being on land once mere, 

 reinvigorated their almost e.xhausted faculties, and 

 they ran a few rods, when to their dismay, they 

 found they were on an nninhabilod island, instead 

 of the main, as they supposed. To venture into 

 the water to gain the main would be immediate 

 death, and to tarry on the Island was wholly iin. 

 practicable. At last they found a stack of dry 

 hay, in which they secured themselves as well as 

 they could, and holloed for help. They spied a 

 man on the main, ami they cried more vigorous- 

 ly, but the man soon passed out of sight. Des- 

 pair settled on their very hearts, and death seem- 

 ed their inevitable portion. About three quarters 

 of au hour after this. Major Charles Smith of Ips- 

 wich, with his two sons, caine within sight of the 

 Island, in search of some strayed sheep. One of 

 his sons saw a man on the top of a stack, swing- 

 ing his ii.it, and crying for hel|). The Major, 

 knowing the ground, went immediately on to the 

 Island, over a cross way, covered about three feet 

 with water, and brought off the distressed men, 

 whom he took to his house, and provided with 

 every thing necessary, and on the Thursday fol- 

 lowing, they returned to their homes. The above 

 account, the substance of which we have given, 

 was taken from the mouths of the men them- 

 selves, by a reverend gentleman of this county, 

 and may be relied on as correct. — Ipswich Regis- 

 ter. 



There is in the Stii ward of the city of New 

 York, a temperance society, having nine Ihousand 

 members — supposed to be the largest local temper- 

 ance society in the world. 



To MAKE Fire and Water proof Cement. 

 To half a pint of vinegar add the same quantity 

 of milk ; separate the curd, and mix the whey 

 with the white of five eggs ; beat it well together,] 

 ann sift into it a sufficient quantity of quick lime' 

 to convert it to the consistency of a thick paste. 

 Broken vessels mended with this cement, never 

 afterwards separate, for it resists tl>e action both 

 of fire and water. — Baltimore Farmer. 



Recipe for the dhopst. — Put into a stone 

 or earthern jug, a gallon of stale, sound cider, to- 

 gether with a double handful of parsley roots and 

 tops cut fine, a iiandful of scraped horseradish, 

 two table spoonfuls of bruised mustard seed, half 

 an ounce oxymell of squills, and one ounce of 

 juniper berries. The liquor to be kept warm by 

 the fire, twentyfour hours : to be often agitated, 

 and then strained for use. Dose, for an adult, 

 half a wine-glass full, three times a day on an 

 empty stomach. The dose may be increased if 

 necessary. 



After the water shall be discharged, the patient 

 sbotild use moderate exercise, subsist on dry 

 nourishing diet, and abstain from all liquids as 

 much as possible. — JVewark Centinel. 



The best cure for a burn will be found to wrap 

 the part immediately in a cloth wet with cold 

 water. 



Patcut Ltamp Apparatus for Heating "Water, 

 Cooking, 4&.C. 



This appa"atus has been louiid veiy useful in small fam- 

 ilies, and tor such persons as ma}' wish to prepare tea or 

 cofi'ee-drink, cook oysters, &c.. in their own apartments with- 

 out the trouble of a wood or coal fi^e. It is very convenient 

 in public houses, colfce-liouses, and other places where it is 

 wished to keep any hot liquid constantly on hand. Besides 

 answering all the purposes of what is called the nurse lamp it 

 may be made to boil from one pint lo a gallon of water, by a 

 method, wliich in man}' cases will be found the most econom- 

 ical and expeditious, which can 1 e devised. 



This apparatus has been much used and highly recom- 

 mended in writing by all, or nearly all the druggists in Bos- 

 ton, wiiose certificates of approbation may be seen at the 

 oflicc of the New England Farmer, No. 52 Norlh Market 

 Street, where the apparatus is for sale. It may also be 

 bought of William Spade, No. 26 Union Slreel. Handbills 

 or pamphlets will always be delivered with the apparatus, 

 when sold, containing an explanation of its principles and j 

 particular directions I'or its use, &c. 1 



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