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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAT 21, 1834. 



M I SC E LI. AN Y. 



fVca Blackwood 's Magazine. 

 SPRING. 



BY THE HONORABLE MRS. NORTON. 



The Spring is come again ! the breath of May 

 Creeps whispprmgly where brightest flowers have birth, 



And the young sun beams forth with redder ray 

 On tlie broad bosom oflhe teeming earth, 



The Spring is come ! how gladly Nature wakes 

 From the dark slumber of the vanished year; 



How gladly every gushing streamlel breaks 

 The summer stillness with its music clear ! 



Bui thou art old. my heart ! the breath of Spring 

 No longer swells thee with a rapturous glow, 



The wild bird enrols blithely on the wing, 

 lint wakes no smile upon my withered brow, 



Thou art grown old ! no more the g :Tous thought 



Sends the warm blood more swiftly through the veins — 



Selfish and cold thou sltrinkesl — Spring has nought 

 For thee but memory of vanished pains. 



The day-break brings no bounding for my rest, 

 Eagerly glad, and strong in soul and limb : 



But the weary lid, (unwelcome guest !) 

 The sunlight struggles with a lustre dim. 



The evening brings no calm — the night no sleep, 

 But feverish lossings on the hateful bed, 



While the vexed thoughts tneir anxious vigils keep, 

 Yet more to weary out the aching head. 



Still the deep grove — the bower — my footsteps seek, 

 Still do 1 read beneath the flowery thorn j 



And with a worn and hollow eaten cheek, 

 Woo the young freshness of the laughing morn. 



But now no pleasure in the well known lines, 

 Expands. my brow, or spaikles in mine eye, 



O'er the dull page my languid beau declines, 

 And wakes the echo with a listless sigh. 



Ah ! mocking wind that wanderclh o'er my form, 

 With freshened scents from every opening flower ; 



Deep — deep within, the never dying worm — 

 Life's longings all unquenched defy thy power! 



There coolness comes not with the cooling breeze — 

 There music jiows not with the gushing 1 rill — 



7'c re shadows calm not from the spreading trees — 

 Unslaked the eternal fever burnetii si, II ! 



Mock us not, Nature, with thy symbol vain 

 Of hope succeeding hope through endless years — 



Earth's buds may burst — earth's groves be green again, 

 Bui man — can matt forget youth's bitter tears ? 



I ihirst — I thirst ! but duller day by day 

 Grow the clogged soarings of my spirit's wing : 



Faintly the sap of life slow ebbs away, 

 And the worn hearl denies a second spring. 



MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OP SALT. 



Dr. Stevens, an eminent physician of London, 

 has recently made certain discoveries relating to 

 the diseased and healthy state of the blood, arid 

 the agency of stilt upon the circulation, which 'seem 

 likely to produce a great revolution in the treat- 

 ment offovers, and malignant diseases in general. 



It is well known that the blood of the arteries is 

 of a bright crimson color, while that of the veins 

 which is returning to the heart, after having spent 

 its vivifying influence, is of a dark purple. Accor- 

 ding to Dr. Stevens, the bright red color, the vital- 

 ity and (he Stimulating power o c the arterial blood 

 are all dependant on the ipiantity of salt which en- 

 ters into its composition ; while all the acids and 

 alkalies, and in general all poisons, tend to blacken 

 the blood, to reduce its stimulating powers, and of 



course to diminish ihe force ol its circulation. The 

 purple color of the venous blood is owing to the 

 carbonic acid it has imbibed. Ill the lungs, the 

 oxygen oflhe atmosphere removes this deleterious 

 acid, and the circulating fluid then resumes its 

 bright scarlet appearance. 



According lo this theory, poison*, and those ma- 

 lignant disorders, such as the marsh fever, yellow 

 fever, &c. which originate from the patient hav- 

 ing imbibed febrile poison, are, in their very nisi 

 stages, accompanied with a blackness and stagna- 

 tion of the blood, occasioned by the destruction of 

 its saline principle — ami to cure the patient this 

 saline principle must be restored. 



Take for instance the bite of a rattlesnake. In 

 this case the poison of the serpent's fangs mingles 

 with the circulation, destroys ils red color, and its 

 vitality, brings on blackness of the blood, stagna- 

 tion of its current, convulsions, and death. The 

 unfailing antidote, which experience has taught 

 the Indian to apply, is lo scarify the wound to the 

 bottom, and to fill it with salt. This salt is taken 

 into the circulation, restores the redness and vital- 

 ity of the blood, and the wound soon heals. Ma- 

 lignant fevers, and other malignant disorders, op- 

 erate in the same way. They begin by destroying 

 the color and vitality of the blood, and reducing 

 it to a black and putrid mass ; and says Dr. Ste- 

 vens, " I have seen patients in the last stages of 

 these disorders recover under the internal use of 

 huge doses of common salt and other saline agents, 

 where the cases at first were so hopeless, that 

 their recovery afterwards appeared to be almost a 

 miracle." 



The climate fevers of the southern regions and 

 some other fevers, are produced in a different way ; 

 a cold climate requires a different constitution from 

 a warm one. In the cold climate, the digestive 

 organs are more vigorous, and the blood is rich, 

 stimulating, and full of salts. The blood in south- 

 ern climates is of less brilliant color, thinner and 

 less impregnated with saline substances. When 

 the constitution of a northern stranger is suddenly 

 exposed t'o the influence of a southern climate, na- 

 ture hastens to produce the necessary change in 

 his circtilation,and this change is generally accom- 

 panied with an awful disease. While the skin 

 performs its functions of perspiration, there is no 

 danger ; but the moment perspiration becomes ob- 

 structed from imprudent exposure to the cold 

 night air, or any other reason the fever breaks out. 

 The cause is, that the blood is too stimulating, too 

 full of salts! and the danger is, lest this operation 

 of nature, for reducing it should be carried too 

 fir, and the blood so much blackened .and weak- 

 ened, that the patient dies of mere exhaustion. 

 These disorders therefore according to Dr. Ste- 

 vens, in their first stages require the acid, and in 

 their last stages the saline treatment. 



If this theory of Dr. Stevens be true, a great 

 step has been made in the treatment of febrile and 

 malignant disorders ; and certainly the 'universal 

 use of salt as an indispensable article of diet as far 

 hack as history carries us, and the craving which 

 even animals both wild and tame, exhibit for ii, 

 would tend to prove that this condiment has some 

 universal and essential effect on the bodily con- 

 stitution. 



SAVINGS BANKS 



— Were first established by law in England, about 

 the year 1812, on the suggestion of Mr. Bentham, 

 am! the influence of Mr. Rose. The plan pro- 

 posed by the former, was however, but partly 

 adopted. It is stated in a London paper, that the 

 sums now deposited in the Savings Banks through- 

 out Great Britain and Ireland, amount to sixteen 

 millions of pounds sterling ; and the number of 

 those institutions is said lo be fi\e hundred. 



Howard's Improved Patent Cast Iron Plough. 



FOR SALE ai ihe Agricultural Warehouse 51 cc bl North 

 Market slreei, a further supply of Howard's Improved Patent 

 t '.i.l Iron Ploughs. The very euens] ve sale these ploughs 

 met with ihe pasl season, and the very general satisfaction they 

 gave to ;ill persons who used 1 hem, give them deciclecUy the 

 preference overall ploughs now in u'se^-a constant supply of 

 iheni wih now be kept lei ihe accommodation ol the public, and 

 all orders will be supplied on the same terms as at the mnnufac 

 lory. a 16 



For Sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 



— HAKDEiN'S improved Seed Sowing Machine. This 

 is one of ihe best labor saving machines in use. calculated for 

 sowing small seed. The saving ol seed in the use ot this im- 

 plement is more man sufficient to pay the cosi of il annually 

 Price $5. ap 16 



PRIZE DAHLIAS. 



FOR SALE, 200 varieties of die best double Dahlias. 

 This collection of Dahlias obtained the premium, awarded by 

 the Mass Rort. Society ihe Iwo last years. 



Orders left with Messrs. HOVEY & CO. No. 7!l &• 81 

 Gornh II. Boston, or C. F. PUTNAM, Salem, will be duly 

 attended to. apr 2 



DAMAGED BISHOPS LAWN AND MUSLINS. 



ELIAB STONE BLOWER, al No. 41 f Washington 

 Street, w ill open lor sale ihis day, 



1 Case wel (but nol damaged) Bishops Lawn. 



1 do. do. do. Monk .Muslin. 



Also. 1 do. Superfine 6-4 Cambric Dimoties, which will be 

 offered t>\ ibe Piece at 25 per cent, less than cust ot importa- 

 tion. ■ m 11 



STRAW CARPETING. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. 414 Washington street, 

 has received a lot of lOli pieces superior straw cai peling while 

 and fancy checks. 5-4. 6-4, and 7-4 widths, wh.ch he will sell 

 by the piece or yard al very low prices. Also, Canton Straw 



table malls. islf. ' a 16. 



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