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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FEBRUARY 13, 1B33. 



MISCELLANY. 



A WISH. 



If I could breathe a wish and know, 

 Thai wish were not in vain, 



That Heav'n upon me would bestow, 

 What I should ask him then ; 



WHiat would I ask 1 not for a crown 



To settle on my head, 

 I'd cast the splendid garland down, 



And look on it widi dread. 



But I would ask some shady spot. 

 By some fast murm'ring brook, 



Some little humble unknown cot 

 Where angel's eyes might look. 



And I would ask for one I love. 

 With me to call it " Home," 



So near 'twould rival bliss above, 

 I could not want to roam. 



Open not thy bosom to the trifler ; repose not 

 thy head on the breast which nnrseth envy and 

 folly, and vanity. Hope not for obedience where 

 the passions are tunauied ; and expect not honor 

 from her who hoiiorclh not the God that lyadc 

 her. 



Though thy place be next to the throne of prin- 

 ces, and the countenance of royalty beam upon 



thee though thy ricliesbe as the pearls of Omar, 



and thy name be honored from tlio east to the 



west little will it avail thee, if darkness and dis- 



afipoiutinent and strife be in tliinc own hahitation. 

 There nmst be passed thine hours of solitude and 

 sickness — and there must thou die. Reflect, 

 then, my son ere thou choose, iUid look well to 

 her ways whom thou would'st love ; for though 

 thou be wise in other things — little will it avail 

 thee, if thou choosest not wisely the wife of thy 

 bosom. 



and the sick daughter was soon laid hy the side of 

 her mother, and in a few years most of the mem- 

 bers of the family folio wcil. — Portland Courier. 



CHOOSE -WISEIiY THE WIPE OP TITi' BOSOM. 



Go, my son, said the eastern sage to Talmore, 

 go forth to the world ; be wise in the pursuit of 

 knowledge — be wise in the accumulation of riches 



he wise in the choice of friends ; yet little will 



this avail thee, if thou choosest not wisely the wife 

 of thy bosom. 



When the riders of thy people echo thy sayings, 

 and the trumpet of fame sounds thy name abroad 

 ajiiong the nations, more heautifully will the sun 

 of thy glory set, if one bright cloud reflects its 

 brightness, and sullied forever will be the splen- 

 dor of the rays, if like a dark spot she crosses its 

 surface. 



Consider this, then, my sofa ; and look well to 

 her ways whom thou woiild.<t love ; for little will 

 all else avail thee, if thou clioosest not wisely the 

 companion of thy bosom. See yonder the maid- 

 ens of Tinge. They deck themselves with the 

 gems of Golconda and the rose of Ivashmire — 

 themselves more brilliant and beautiful ; but ah ! 

 take not thVm to thy bosom ; for the gem will 

 grow dim, and the rose wither and naught remain 

 to thee of all thou didst woo and win. 



Neither turn thyself to the i)roud one who 

 vaunts herself on having .scanned llic pages of Ve- 

 das, and fathomed the mysteries of the holy tem- 

 ple. Woman was not born to wield tlie sceptre, 

 or direct the counsel ; to reveal the mandates of 

 Brama, or expound tlic sacred verses of 3Ienu. 

 Rather be it hers to support thee in grief and 

 sooth thee in sickness ; to rejoice in thy prosperity 

 and cling to thee in adversity. Reflect then my 

 son ere thou choosest, and look to her ways whom 

 thou wonkiest make the wife of thy bosom. 



A wife I what a sacred name! what a responsi- 

 ble oflice! slie must be the unspotted sanctuary to 

 which wearied man may flee from the crimes of 

 the world, and feel that no sin dare enter there. 

 A wife! she must be as pure as spirits around the 

 Everlasting Throne, that man m.iy kneel to lier, 

 even in adoration, and feel no abasement. A 

 wife! she must be the guardian angel of his foot- 

 steps on earth, and guide them to heaven; so firm 

 in virtue that should he for a moment waver, she 

 can yield him support, and replace hiin upon its 

 firm foundation ; so happy in conscious innocence, 

 that when from the perplexities of the world he 

 turns to his home, he may never find a fro>VTi 

 where he sought a smile. Such, my son, thou 

 scekest in a wife ; and reflect well ere thou choos- 

 est. 



lATEMPEKAKCB. 



We yesterday witnessed in the npper part of 

 the city, a lamentable instance of tlie misery and 

 degradation induced by this vice. An aged and 

 hoary headed man, dressed with more than ordi- 

 nary neatness, was seen tottering from side to side, 

 the object of the shouted derision of a crowd of 

 jeering boys. Having lost his hat, his white hair 

 streamed over his wrinkled forehead, and his eyes 

 gleamed through the rheum of age with the dull 

 idiocy- of intemperance. A young rosy lad at- 

 tempted to lead liim to his home, but from terror, 

 shame, and weakness, was unable to sustain him. 

 The hoary drunkard, loosed from his hold, and 

 reeling, retching and cursing, sunk to the ground, 

 his head falling heavily against the curb stone. 

 Tlie boy regarded him lor a moment — and then 

 burst into tears. It was his father. The scene 

 artbrdcd an impressive and aft'eciing lesson. The 

 wretch who thus degrailed himself and his species, 

 had accunmlated, by a long life of honesty indus- 

 try, a competency. His character was unhlem- 

 islied, and lie had raised in the District as fine a 

 family as ever gladdened a father's fire side. He 

 had been a moderate drinker, but the measure 

 gradually increasing, he sunk into intemperance, 

 and became a curse to himself, and a reproach to 

 his familv. — A'ational Intdligcncer. 



The march of matrimony hits made no progress 

 in the parish of Elmsthorjie, which contains only 

 four houses, occu])ied by ihirly-fom- individuals, 

 the whole of whom are living in a st.ile of single 

 blessedness ! The rectory of this parish is a com- 

 plete sinecure, no service having been performed 

 since the year 1798, and then only when the rector 

 read himself in! The church is now a fine pic- 

 turesijuc ruin, richly clad vviih ivy. 



Public Worship in London. Tlie Tourist gives 

 the I'ullowing statement of the various jilaces of 

 worship in the English metropolis; — Episcopalian 

 Churches and Chapels, 200 ; ludcpendcnt Chap- 

 els, ad; Weslcyan Methodist Chapels, 36; Baptist 

 Chapels, 32; Calvinistic Methodist ('hapels, 30; 

 Presbyterian (Scotch and Unitarian) Chapels, 16; 

 Roman Catholic Chapels, 14 ; McLtiiig Houses of 

 the Friends, 6.— Total, 400. 



SEEDS FOR COIKTUV DEA1.J!.RS. 



TR.'VUF.RS in iho country, wlio may uish lo keep an as- 

 sorimcnl of genuine tinrden Seeds h>r ^ale. arc inlornied they 

 can \'c furnished at the New England Fanner office, Nos. 51 

 &, 0-, North Market street, Boston, with boxes contaiuliiga 

 cuniph-tc assortment of the seeds mostly used in a kitchen 

 garden on as favorable terms as they can be procured in this 

 couiiiry, neatly done up in small papers, at IJ cents each— war- ■ 

 riinuii lo be ol the growili ol liio-, and ol the. vei ijjitst quality. 

 t)KNAMK[«TAL Fi-owER Skeus will be added Oil the Same 

 liriMs. when ordered, as well as Pka-S, Beans, Earlv and 

 S« r.LT Corn, &c. ot difierenl sorts. 



II j" The seeds vended at this esiablishnient, are pot up on an 

 improved plan, each package being acconipahied with short 

 (hrcriions on its maiiagenienls,and packed in the neatest style. 

 4>;Uers are requcstt^d to call and examine for Iheinselves. 

 Ik-c. i>l. 



SUPERSTITION. 



One of the popular superstitions of New England 

 and how iiumy other countries we kjiow not, is that 

 when a person dies of consumjnion some part ol 

 the body does not decay, hut still lives, and jireys 

 upon the relatives of the deceased till the whole 

 family one after another sink under the same 

 disease and drop into the tomb. The superstition 

 goes further and says, if the decaying body is taken 

 up and the living part discovered and consumed by 

 fire, the sick member of the family vvill recover. 

 The editor of this paper was once present himsell 

 when two bodies were disinterred for this purpose, 

 one alter having been buried about a year and the 

 other ihr^c years. They were a mother and a 

 daughter, both of whom died of consumption. 

 Another daughter was fast sinking under the 

 same fatal disorder, for .whose benefit the exhuma- 

 tion was undertaken. The examination of the 

 bodies was made by two regularly educated physi- 

 cians ; not because they believed in the su|)crsti- 

 tion themselves hut for the satisfaction of die 

 family. Nothing was discovered in the bodies 

 however, more than ordinary appearance of decay, 



JSEW AMF.RICAN ORCHAROIST. 



jySTpulilished ;iiid lor sale bvfiKU. I'. li.A KKKTT, Noji 

 j1 & 52, North Murkcl Street, 'The New Abiekican Or- 

 BDisT, or a Irealise on ilie cultivalion and niaitagenienl of 

 F-itiU, drapes, Onuimcutil Shriilis, and Flomeis, adapted to 

 ciltivalion in the Uiiilcd Slates. 



This is recommended lo the public as a treatise well worthy 

 a place in every (ariner's library, containing an account of tin- 

 most valuable varieties of fruit, and Iho remedies for the mala- 

 des lo \\hich fruit trees are subject liom noxious insects and 

 o her causes. Also, the varieties ol the Grape wiih their modes 



cullure, .<cc. Price SljSo. . 



FRUIT TREES. 



ORDERS for Fruit, Forest 

 Honeysuckles, &c. Irom Win 

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dec .5 



aird Ornamenlal Trees, Shrubs, 



hip, Kenrick, Triiicc, Buel .V, 



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GEO. C. B.-VKRi; IT, 



New England Fiitni.r Ollice. 



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