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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 11, 1832. 



Miscellany 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE COLUMBIAN CULTIVATOR. 



Son of the soil, inured to toil, 



Behold the cultivator, 

 Lead forth his band to till the land, 



The happiest wiglit in nature ! 



O'ei Lawyer Pop and Doctor Slop, 

 And Captain Flash transcendent. 



Church, camp and court, he must support, 

 Or ruin is impendent. 



He feeds the great with pride elate. 

 Their prattlers and their charmers; — 



Tips of the ton, ye Hve upon 

 The industry of farmers ! 



And though the train of vile and vain, 



Society's excrescences. 

 Subsistence gain from crime and pain, 



Misfortunes and malfeasances, 



Farmers may boast they flourish most. 

 Where all is love and unity — 



Where wisdom guides and worth presides, 

 And crime meets no impunity. 



From the Genius of Temperance. 



THE WIFE. 



"Feel'st thou no joy, no quiet happiness, 

 No soothing sense of satisfaction, in 

 Loving and being loved ? Is there no weight 

 Removed from the heart, in knowing there is one 

 To share all, bear all with thee .' To sooth grief, — 

 Yea, to soften away its hum.in pain 

 By a superior love, the cup to temper 

 With words of consolation and sweet hope. 

 That even its very bitterness shall seem sweet, 

 Forgotten in the love that offers it ! " — E. L. Reade. 

 Woman's love, like the rose blossomin<r in the 

 arid desert, spreads its rays over tlie barren plain 

 of the human heart, and while all around it is 

 black and desolate, it rises more strengthened from 

 the absence of every other cbarin. In no situa- 

 tion does the love of woman appear more beauti- 

 ful, than in that of wife. Parents, brethren and 

 friends, have claitns upon the affections ; but the 

 love of a wife is of a distinct and difi'erent nature. 

 A daughter may yield her life to the preservation 

 of a parent ; a sister may devote herself to a suf- 

 fering brother; but the feelings which induce her 

 to this conduct are not such as tbos-3 which lead 

 a wife to follow the husband of her choice, through 

 every pain and peril that can bofal him, to watch 

 over him iu danger, to cheer biui in adversity, and 

 even remain unaltered at his side in the depths of 

 ignominy and shame. It is a heroic devotion 

 which a woman displays in her adherence to the 

 fortunes of a hapless husband. When we behold 

 her in her domestic scones, a mere passive crea- 

 ture of enjoyment; an intellectual toy, brightening 

 the family circle with her endearments, and prized 

 for the extreme joy which that presence and those 

 endearments are calculated to impart ; we can 

 scarcely credit that the fragile being who seems to 

 hold her existence by a thread, is capable of sup- 

 porting the extreme of human suffering. Nay, 

 when the heart of man sinks beneath the weight 

 of agony, that she should maintain her pristine 



jiowers of delight ; and, by her words of comfort 

 and patience, lead the distracted munuurtr to 

 peace and resignation. 



COMETS. 



Comets are solid opaque bodies, with long trans- 

 parent tails issuing frotri the side which is turned 

 away from the sun. They move about the sun in 

 very eccentric orbits or cli|)ses, and are more 

 dense than the earth. The extreme heat, the 

 dense atmosphere, the gross vapors, the chaotic 

 state of the comets, seem to indicate at first view, 

 that they are altogether unfit for the habitation of 

 rational beings ; and therefore some are of opin- 

 ion, that they are so many hells for tormenting the 

 damned with perpetual vicissitudes of heat and 

 cold. But as the Deity displays his goodness 

 wherever he exerts his power and wisdoih, so we 

 conclude tijat such large masses of durable matter 

 as the comets are, if owever dissimilar to our earth, 

 are not destitute of/rational beings, capable of con- 

 templating with wonder and acknowledging with 

 gratitude, the wis/lom, symmetry and beauty of 

 the creation, wli/ch is more plainly to be obser- 

 ved in their extensive celestial tour, than our con- 

 fined circuit. h 



In the year lll.SO, the inhabitants of the earth 

 were greatly alarmed by the appearance of a bla- 

 zing comet, which they expected would set the 

 world on fire. Sir Isaac Newton calctdatcs that 

 this comet moves at the rate of 800,000 miles an 

 hour, and in its nearest approach to the sun, is ten 

 thousand times hotter than red-hot iron. l)r Ol- 

 bers calculates that this comet will not apjjcar 

 again until the year 2000, and perhaps npt then. 



The comet which is expected at the present 

 time is comparatively small ; it is called Enke's 

 comet, from the name of a German astronomer 

 wliii ai.-jCOvereil li. 



The royal astronomer of Prague, David, says 

 that it may be seen at its first appearance, by the 

 best telescope, in the sign Pices, and will for a 

 time set with the sun. This comet will not inter- 

 fere with the earth, until the law of gmviialion is 

 suspended and destroyed. — Great Falls Journal. 



the valley between two waves, there likiwi.se they 

 would continually remain, the one preceding and 

 the other 'following them.— Genius of Temperance. 



ANECDOTE. 



j The following is found in an ancient history of 

 Connecticut. Soon after the settlement of the 

 town of New Haven, several jiersons went over to 

 what is now the town of Milford, where, finding 

 the soil very good, they were desirous to effect a 

 settlement. But the premises were in the peace- 

 able possession of the Indians, and some conscien- 

 tious scruples arose as to the propriety of dispersing 

 and expelling them. To test the ease, a church- 

 meeting w'as called, and matters were determined 

 by a solemn vote of that sacred body. After sev- 

 eral s])eeches had been made in relation to the 

 subject, they proceeded to pass votes ; the first 

 was the following : " Voted, that the earth i« the 

 Lord's and the fulness thereof" This passed in 

 the affirmative. And, " Voted, that the earth is 

 given to the saints." This was also determined 

 like the former, mem con. 3d, " Voted, we are 

 the saints." Which was passed without a dis- 

 seuting voice, the title was considered indisputa- 

 ble, and the Indians were soon compelled to evac- 

 uate the place, and relinquish the posspssion of 

 the rightful owners. 



MOTION OF WAVES. 



There is a curious optical deception attending 

 the alternate elevation and depression of the sur- 

 face of a liquid. The waves thus produced ap- 

 pear to have a ])rogressive motion, which is coni- 

 moidy attributed to the liquid itself AVhen we 

 perceive the waves of the sea apparently advan- 

 cing in a certain direction, we are irresistibly im- 

 pressed with the notion, that the sea itself is ad- 

 vancing in that direction. We consider that the 

 same wave, as it advances, is composed of the 

 same water, and that the whole surface of the 

 liquid is in a state of progressive motion. A slight 

 reflection, however, on the consequences of such 

 a supposition, will soon convince us that it is un- 

 founded. The ship which floats upon the waves 

 is not carried forward with them ; they pass be- 

 neath her, now lifting her ou their summits, and 

 now letting her sink into the abyss between. Ob- 

 serve a sea-fowl floating ou the water, and the same 

 effect will be seen. If, however, the water itself 

 partook of the motion which we ascribe to its 

 waves, the ship and the fowl would each be car- 

 ried forward, and would have a motion in common 

 with the liquid. Once on the summit of a wave, 

 their motion would be as if they were propelled 

 on the calm surface of the lake. Or if once in 



An Old Coat. — A spendthrift, who had nearly 

 wasted all his patrimony, seeing an acquaintance 

 in a coat not of the newest cut, told him he 

 thought it bad been his great-grandfather's coat. 

 " So it was," said the gentleman, " and I have also 

 my great-grandfather's land, which is more than 

 you can say." 



Postscript. — George Selwyn once aflirined in 



oomj>uny, llmt no woninii evi-r \viotc a Utter with- 

 out a postscript. " My next letter shall refute 

 you," said Lady G. Selwyn soon after received a 

 letter from her ladyship, and after her. signature, 

 " P. S. Who was right now, you or I ? " 



Sportsman and Conquerer. 



THFSE Horses will stand the ensuing season, at the 

 Ten Hills Stock Faim, in Charleslown, two and a half 

 miles from Boston, on the Medlbrd turnpike ; tor particu- 

 lars, see late Nos. of the New England Farmer, and Bills. 

 They are confidently recommended to the public by the 

 subscriber. SAMUEL JAQUES. 



Ten Hills Stock Farm, May, 1832. 



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