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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



HARCH ao, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



From the N. H. Senliiiel. 

 TO THE LOVERS OF RUM. 



The autlior wrote the following lines for the Long Island 

 Star more ihan twenty years ago, but he tliinks it will suit the 

 present time. 



I'te mused on the miseries of life, 



To find from what quarter they come, 

 Whence most of confusion and strife ; 

 Alas! From the Lovers of Rum. 



I met «ith a fair one distress'd, 

 I ask'd whence her sorrows could come, 



She replied, I am sorely oppress'd, 

 My husband's a Lover of Rum. 



I found a poor child in the street, 

 His limbs with the cold, were all nim:ib, 



No stockings, nor shoes on his feetj 

 His father's a Lover of Rum. 



I went to collect a small debt, 

 The master was absent from home ; 



The sequel I need not relate. 



For the man was a Lover of Rum. 



I met mth a pauper in rags. 



He ask'd for a trifling sum ; 

 I'll tell you the cause why he begs. 



He once was a Lover of Rum. 



I've seen men, from health, wealth and ease, 



Untimely descend to the tomb ; 

 1 need not relate their disease 



Because they were Lovers of Rum. 



Ask prisons and gallowses all. 



Whence most of their customers come, 



From whom they have most of their calls. 



They'll say, from the Lovers of Rum. 



MEDICO. 

 Roxbury, Jan. 31, 1833. 



IN EARTH'S LONEI^Y DESERT. 



Swiss /li;^— " Hans des Vacltes." 

 In earth's lonely desert, 



In regions above. 

 To mortals and angels 



There's nothing like Love. 



It brightens the landscape 



Wherever we go. 

 And beams like a star 



On our pathway of wo. 



When the myrtles of Love 



Breathe their odors around, 

 Their music of Hope 



Gives to silence a sound. 



O! dear is the spot, 



Where our glances iirsl met ; 

 There sorrow may linger, 



Though joy may forget. 



All melody breathing, 



All sunshine and bloom, 

 Love sings to our cradle, 



And garlands our tomb. 



Far away — far away, 



Where the bright planets roll. 



O! there is Love's home, 

 In the hind of the soul ! 



ADVENTURES OP A PEM.\I.E INDIAN. 



On Heanie's return from the iiioiitli of the Cop- 

 per mine, an incident occurred, strikingly haracter- 

 istic of savage life. The Indians came suddenly 

 on the track of a strange snow shoe, and follow- 

 ing it to a wild part of the country, remote from any 



human hahitatioii, they discovered a hut, in which 

 a young Indian woman was sitting alone. She bad 

 lived for the last eight moons in absolute solitude, 

 and recounted, with affecting simplicity, the cir- 

 comstances by which she had been driven from her 

 own people. She belonged, she said, to the Dog- 

 ribbed Indians, and, in an inroad of the Athabasca 

 nations, in the sum.ner of 1770, had been taken 

 prisoner. The savages, according in their invari- 

 able practice, stole upon the tents at night, and mur- 

 dered, before her face, her father, mother, and hus- 

 band, whilst she, and three other young women, 

 were reserved from the slaughter, and made cap- 

 tives. Her child, four or five months old, she con- 

 trived to carry with her, concealed among some 

 clothing; bat, on arriving at the place where the 

 party had left their wives, her precious bundle was 

 examined by the Athabasca women one of whom 

 tore the infant from its mother and killed it on the 

 spot. In Europe, an act so inhuman would, in all 

 probability, have been instantly followed by the 

 insanity of the parent; but in North America, 

 thoilgh maternal affection is equally intense, the 

 nerves are more sternly strung. So horrid a 

 cruelty, however, determined her, though the man 

 whose property she had become was kind and care- 

 ful of her, to take the first opportunity of escap- 

 ing, with the intention of returning to her own na- 

 tion ; but the great distance, and the numerous 

 winding rivers and creeks she had to pass, caused 

 her to lose the way, and winter coining on, she 

 had built a but in this secluded spot. When 

 discovered, she was in good health, well fed, and in 

 the opinion of Hearne, one of the finest Indian 

 wotnen he had ever seen. Five or six inches of 

 hoop made into a knife, and the iron shank of an 

 arrow head whiirh served as an awl, were the only 

 implements that she possessed ; and with these she 

 made snow shoes and other useful articles. For 

 subsistence she .snared partridges, rabbits and squir- 

 rels, and had killed two or three beavers, and some 

 porcupines. After the few deer-sinews she had 

 l)rought with her were expended in making snares 

 and sewing her clothing, she supplied their place 

 with the sinews of rabbit's legs, which she twisted 

 together with great dexterity. Thus occupied, 

 she not only became reconciled to her desolate 

 situation, but had found time to amuse herself by 

 manufacturing little pieces of personal ornament. 

 Her clothing was formed of rabbit-skins sewed 

 together ; the materials, though rude, being taste- 

 fully disposed, so as to make her garb assumi- a 

 pleasing, though desert-bred, appearance. The 

 singtilar circumstances under which she was found, 

 her beauty and useful accomplishments, occasioned 

 a contest among the Indians as to who sbouM 

 have her for a wife ; and the matter being decided 

 she accompanied them in their journey. 



FRUGAL.ITY. 



However small may be a man's income, there is 

 one very certain way of increasing it, that \sfntg(iii- 

 ty. Dr. Franklin observes, in his usual forcible way 

 that, " six pounds a year is but a groat a-day. For 

 this little sum, which, may be daily wasted either^ 

 in time or expense unperceived, a man of credit 

 may, on his own security, have the constant jkis- 

 session and use of a hundred and twenty pounds." 

 Many humble men have risen to wealth by such 

 small beginnings ; but many more continue to spend 

 the groat a-day unnecessarily, and never cease 

 to be poor. 



EARLY POTATOES. 



FOR Sale, Early Perkins Potatoes, by SAMUEL POND, 

 3ambriilgeport. Also, Isabella and Catawba Grape Vines 

 )f a large size. 3t m 13 



EVERGREENS, SILVER FIRS, &c. 



THE Subscriber being engaged in the Seed business, would 

 be happy to receive orders lor Forest Trees, Seeds and Ever- 

 greens from Mainej and being agent lor G. C. Barrett, Boston, 

 and Prince & Sons, Flushing, N. Y. orders sent through them 

 or, otherwise, will be attended to without delay. Particular 

 directions for taking up and packing ai'c requestc<l. 



WM. MANN. 



Augusta, Me. March 13. 



LEAD. 



SHEET LEAD, of all dimensions; Pig Lead ; Lead Pipe 



of all sizes ; Copper and Cast Iron Pumps, constantly for sale 

 by ALBERT FEARING & CO. No. l,Ciiv Wh.irf. 

 Boston, March 13, i;;.«. if " 



THE BLOOD HORSE 



THE Subscriber takes this early 

 public that the above-named Horse i 

 son at the Ten Hills South Farm. 

 Boston. — He has been induced to gi' 

 Iwo-fold reason, that the get of tliii 

 wards the improvement of the breed 

 also to give the public an opportunity 



March 13lh, 1833. 



SPORTSMAN. 



opportunity to inform the 

 viil stand the ensuing sea- 

 two antl a half miles from 

 te this early notice lor the 

 : horse promises much to- 

 of that noble animal, and 

 to avail themselves of his 

 SAMUEL JAQUES. 



FOR SALE, 



MILCH Cows, Onions, Rula Baga, &c. 

 75 bu.hcls White Portugal and Red Onion. 

 400 do. Rula Baga. 



100 do. Chenango, Long Red and Pink Eye Potato. 

 50 do. best Yellow Corn. 

 20 tons best English Hay. 

 Cabbages of various kinds, Reels, Sec. 



At so, 

 2 new Milch Cows, excellent milkers. 

 A < overed .Milk Wagon and Harness. 



Do. Market do. do. 



I'J two gallon Milk Canuisters, nearly new: Tumiel and 

 Measures. 

 Chaise and Harness. — An approved Horse Rake. 



BENJAMIN BLANEY, 

 Near the Reed farm, Swanscot. 

 Lynn, March Slh, 1833. 31 



GREEN HOUSE GLASS. 



Boston and other gloss suitable for Green Houses, of an}' 

 size or quaiuily, may be had of LORI.NG & KUPPER, 

 No. 10, Merchanls Row. 



BROOK'S PATENT DOMESTIC SILK SPINNER 

 AND T-VV'ISTER. 



FOR Sale, at the Agricultural Warehouse. 51 & 52 North 

 Market Street, Brooks's new invented Silk Reeling, Doubling 

 and Twisting Machine. This machine is very plain and simple 

 in its construction, is found on trial lo he the most perfect and 

 easy operaling Machine that ha*; been invented, lo efl'ect both 

 processes of doubling and twisting at one operation, which is 

 done well with great despatch, and is no way liable to get out 

 of order. It may be worked by any girl of common capacity of 

 12 or 15 years of age. 



Specimens of the work may be seen al the above place. 



J. R. NEWELL, Agent to the Patentee. 



m 5 



pay wilhin 

 are eniillcd to a dcduc- 



distance without payment 



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 payable al the end of the year — but liiose wl 

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AGENTS. 

 New York—G. Thorbdrn & Sons, (17 Liberty-street. 

 Albami — Wm. Thorburn, 3i7 Market-street. 

 I'/iiliidelphia — D. & C. Landreth, 85 Chesnul-slreet. 

 Rallimore — I. I. HiTCHCocK, Pubhshcr of American Farmer 

 Cincinnati — S. C. Parkhdrst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince & Sons, Prop. Lin. Bol. Gar 

 Middlebunj, Vt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. Booksellers. 

 Sprins^eld. Ms. — E. Edwards, Merchant. 

 Neu'buryport — EBENir/.F.R Stedman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H.—S. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, Me. — CoLMAN, Holden & Co. Booksellen. 

 .iiiirnsta. Me. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, N. S.—P. J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 

 Montreal, I,. C. Geo. Bent. 



Printed for Geo. C. Barrett by Fonii & Damrell 

 who execute every description of Hook and Fancy Prmt- 

 inir'in good style, and with promptness. Orders for print- 

 ing may be left with Geo. C. Barrett, at the Agricul- 

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