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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 23, 1832. 



Miscellany. 



From the New England Magnzine} for April. 



THE COMET. 



The Comet ! he is on his way. 



And singing as he Hies; 

 The wizzing plaiiets shrink before 



The sceptre of the skies. 

 Ah, well may regal orbs burn blue, 



And satellites turn pale, — 

 Ten n.illion cubic miles of head! 



Ten billion leagues of tail ! 



On, on by whi.stling spheres of light, 



He flashes anrl he flames; 

 He turns not to the left or right, 



He asks them not tlieir names ; 

 One spurn from his demoniac heel, — 



.\way, away they fly. 

 Where darkness might be bottled up 



And sold for," Tyrlan dye." 



And what will happen to the land, 



And happen to the sea, 

 If, in the bearded devil's path. 



Our earth shall chance to be ? 

 Full hot and high ihe sea should boil. 



Full red Ihe forests gleam — 

 Methought I saw and beard it all 



In a dyspeptic dream. 



I saw a tutor take his lube 



The comet's course to spy; 

 I heard a scream ; the gathered rays 



Had stewed the tutor's eye ; 

 I looked — his cuiious organ rolled 



Like a long perished clam ; 

 I lii-tened — all I heard him say 



Was " paralla.K " and "d — ran," 



I saw a poet dip a scroll . 



Each moment in a tub ; 

 I read upon the warping back • ' , 



" The dream of Beelzebub ;" 

 He could not see his verses burn 



Allhougb his brain was fried; 

 And ever and anon he bent 



To wet them as they dried. 



I saw a pillow and a cur — 



He silently drew near, 

 And snatched (rom ofithe blackened frost. 



His muster's broiling ear. 

 I saw a beggar and a wolf. 



Each watch Ihe other's eye ; 

 Each fainted for his morning meal, 



And both were loath to die. 



I saw a roasting pullet brood 



Upon a baking egg ; 

 I saw a cripple scorch his hands 



Extinguishing his leg. 

 I saw nine geese upon the wing 



Towards the frozen pole, 

 And every mother's gosling fell 



Crisped to a crackling coal. 



Strange sights ! strange sounds ! ghastly dream 



Its memory haunts me still ; 

 The streaming sea, the crimson glare. 



That wreathed each wooded hill. 

 Stranger ! if o'er thy slumbering couch 



Such fearful visions sweep. 

 Spare, spare, O spare thine eveniog meal. 



And sweet shall be thy rJeep. 0. W. B. 



INJUDICIOUS TREATMENT OF THE 

 SICK. 



Nothing can be more ridiculous, more detri- 

 mental, or more likely to prove fatal, than the man- 

 ner in which officious friends endeavor to injure 

 the sick, by cramming them with what they foolish- 

 ly call "light nourishing food." An individual no 

 sooner complains of feeling unwell or is oliliged to 

 keep liis bed, tlian it is, what nice tliing shall I 

 prepare for you ? what food do you think you 

 would like ? as if the disorders were to be actually 

 removed by tickling the palate, instead of, as in 

 general, by observing for a sliort time, entire ab- 

 stinence. Even during fieallh, our greatest ene- 

 my is our stomach ; we cram it to a surfeit, and 

 we are, in consequence, made to feel the effects of 

 our imprudence, by the derangement of the system 

 — and when we are no longer inclined to continue 

 the error, when nature itself revolts at our ahsurd 

 procedure, some officious friend readily steps for- 

 ward to aid us in the work of folly. It is in this 

 manner, also, that children are often made to sutler 

 unnecessarily ; they are petted and stuffed with 

 food or with sweetmeats and oilier trash, by their 

 parents and nurses, who adopt that method of 

 proving their affection. " I have not the heart," 

 exclaims the tender mother, " to refuse the child 

 food when it asks me." In the majority of cases, 

 by this course, the c"liild is made sick, or its stom- 

 ach is reduced to a condition in which it refuses 

 every kind of plain and wholesome aliment ; and 

 though the cause of the malady is fully exjilained, 

 and the necessity for rigid abstinence or for a 

 proper selection of food is made manifest, yet sti 

 the vile practice of cramming it with all kinds of 

 unwholesome trash, and at all hours of the day, is 

 persisted in. If the child happens to have an un 

 commoidy vigorous constitution, and is not entirely 

 deprived of exercise, it may ])erchance recover, 

 even under a treatment of this kind ; if not, the 

 result can easily be imagined. And yet this is 

 called attention, care, anxiety, parental fondness, 

 and a variety of other misplaced appellations. It 

 is in truth, cruelly, folly, — nay, madness. Every 

 reasonable, every feeling parent will avoid care- 

 fully the imprudent indulgence in so selfish a grat- 

 ification, and the unnecessary and cruel experi 

 meiits upon the health of their helpless offspring. 



the others with his key. So little confidence have 

 they in one another, and so wholly indifi'erent are 

 they as to the value of time. — Jom: of Mr Ramsey. 



Progress of Temperance among United States 

 Seamen. — An extract of a letter from Com. Bid- 

 die, (in command of the Mediterranean squadron,) 

 to tlie Secretary of the Navy, is ]iublislied in the 

 Globe, in which it is stated that the number of 

 persons in the squadron, exclusive of commission- 

 ed and warrant officers, is eleven hundred and 

 seven ; and that of this number, eight hundred 

 and nineteen have stoiiped their allowance of 

 spirits, receiving money for it under the general 

 order of the 15th of June last. To encourage 

 these men to persevere, and to entice others to 

 follow their example, the grog money is paid reg- 

 ularly and at short [leriods. On board the sloop 

 of war John Adams, one of the squadron, not a 

 man draws his allowance of spirits. 



HINDOO SHOPKEEPING. 



Moderation seems to be the order of the day in 

 India. This may be illustrated by what occurs 

 every day in Calcutta. Two, three or four men 

 generally rent one shop, in which they have their 

 different wares. Each shopkeeper has his own 

 lock and key, and when the business of the day is 

 over, every man puts his own lock on the door. 

 It is no unusual thing in going through the bazaar 

 early in the morning, to see four or rive locks 

 hanging to one door. In the morning, when nn( 

 man comes, he takes off his lock and sits down on 

 the steps and waits for the others. Perhaps in ai 

 hour, another man may come and take off his lock 

 and sit down with the first; and thus they do till 

 the last man comes, and then the door is opened 

 and they go to work. This may be at twelve or 

 two o'clock. If anything happens to one njan 

 that he is prevented from coming, the shop is not 

 opened for the day. The others put on their locks 

 again, and go home and wait till the next day. — 

 The one who may have been delayed will not trust 



Mormonism. — The Warren, Ohio, News Letter 

 states that some persons, disguised, lately entered 

 the room where two leaders of the Mormonite fa- 

 natics slept, and tarred and feathered them. 



[These Mormonitcs are no doubt very ignorant 

 and fanatical, but those who api)lied ihe lar and 

 feathers are much greater fanatics.] — Boston Cen. 



A member of this singular sect, (" Gabrial Crane, 

 Son of Righteousness, Witness, and Organ of the 

 Lord,") has made his appearance in Philadelphia, 

 and issued his " denunciations, and anathemas, and 

 woes," against that city and Washington. 



A Rochester paper states, that on the 7lh ult. 

 several members of the liaptist church in Mendon, 

 Monroe coimty, made; a public profession of Mor- 

 monism, and were baptised. The elder who offi- 

 ciated, stated to the assembly that he should not 

 die ; that he should be translated to Heaven, like 

 Elijah ; that he had power to raise the dead ; that 

 in eighteen months the Mormon creed will be the 

 only religion extant, and that all sinners will then 

 be destroyed. 



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