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N£W ENGLAND FARMER. 



[March 18, 



JWtscellantcjs. 



From the Conneclicul Mirror. 



The poetic communication below was begged from 

 a good friend. If coaxing could avail any thing, we 

 would bait him with toasted flattery, and perhaps in- 

 duce him to nibble agdin at the spindle of our mouse- 

 trap. 



well 1 love thee, native land, 



1 love thy fair and verdant hills, 



I love thy vales which plenty fills, 

 I love thy mountains rude and steep, 

 And all the storms that o''er them sweep. 

 O well I love my native land, — 

 The land of freedom — yankee land. 



well I love thee, native land, 



1 love thy waters white with sails, 

 Thy soil whose harvest never fails, 

 Thy towns and villages and farms, 

 And cities far from foreign arms. 



O well I love my native land — 

 The land of freedom — yankee land. 



well 1 love thee, native land — 



1 love thy halls where science dwell--, 

 Thy shrines where holy music swells, 

 Thy schools — the birth-right of the free, 

 The bulwark of their liberty. 



O well I love my native land — 

 The land of freedom — yankee land. 



well I love thee, native land — 



1 love thy shrewd and hardy =ons. 

 For they are brave and noble ones ; — 

 And in their bosoms glow those fires. 

 That warm'd of old their pilgrim sires. 

 O well I love my native land — 



The land of freedom — yankee land. 



well I love thee, native land — 



1 love thy daughters : — they are fair, 

 And gentle as their mothers were; _ 

 And worthy are they too to be 

 The wives and mothers of the free, 

 O well I love my native land — 

 The land of freedom — yankee land. 



well I love thee, native land — 



1 love thy banner — it shall wave 

 Forever o'er the free and brave. 

 And aye our battle-snng shall be, 

 And aye the song of victory. 



O well we love our native land — 



The land of freedom — yankee land. T. 



THINGS EY THEIR R7GHT NAMES. 



Health — Another word for temperance and 

 exercise. 



Hero — A wholesale man-brilcher. 



Holidays — The elysium of our boyhood ! per- 

 haps the only one of our life. Of this truth 

 Anaxagoras seems to have been aware. Being 

 asked by the people of Larapacus before his 

 death whether he wished any thing to be done 

 in commemoration of him, "■ Yes," he replied, 

 " let the boys be allowed to play on the anni- 

 versary of my death." 



Hope — A compensation for the realities of 

 life, mostly enjoyed by those who have the 

 least to lose, since they are generally rendered 

 much happier by expectation tlian they would 

 be by possession. 



Hypochondria — The imaginary malady with 

 which those are taxed who have no real one. 



Jealousy — Tormenting yourself fur fear you 

 should be tormented by another. 



Learning — Too often a knowledge of words 

 and an ignorance of thing?; a mere act of mem- 

 ory whicli may be excrcisLi! without common 

 sense. 



Loan — A means of robbing our successors, for 

 the purpose of destroying our coatemporaries. 



Logic — Substituting sound for sense, and per- 

 verting reason by reasouing. 



Lover — One who in his desire to obtain pos- 

 session of another, has lost possession of himself. 



Marriage — Taking a yoke-fellow, who may 

 lighten the burden of existence if you pull to- 

 gether, or render it insupportable if you drag 

 different ways. 



Melancholy — Ingratitude to Heaven. 



JVonsense — Generally applied to any sense that 

 happens to differ from our own. 



Honest Poverty. — In the Report of the House 

 of Commons on Mendicity, Mr John Doughty, 

 a gentleman much in the habit of visiting the 

 habitations of the needy, was asked — '■ in your 

 opinion, do many worthy, honest, industrious 

 persons have recourse (o begging, or does this 

 class of society consist chiefly of the idle and 

 profligate?" Answer. "The instances in which 

 worthy, honest, industrious jiersons have re- 

 course to begging are extremely rare. They 

 will in general rather starve than beg. A per- 

 son of veracity, who sometime ago visited one 

 thousand live hundred poor families in the 

 neighbourhood of Spitalfield?, aftirms, that out 

 of full three hundred cases oi abject poverty and 

 destitution, not a dozen had been t'ound to have 

 had recourse to begging. As a general fact, the 

 decent poor will struggle to the uttermost and 

 even perish, rather than turn beggars. 



What an admirable foundation of virttie must 

 be laid in those minds, which thus endure even 

 the horrors of death, approaching with all the 

 torments of hunger and cold, rather than seek 

 to relieve themselves by rourses reputed dis- 

 graceful ! How truly has the poet said, 

 An honest man is si ill an unmov'd rock, 

 WashM whiter, but not shalvtn with llie shock ; 

 Whose heart coHCcives no ^inistt r device. 

 Fearless he plays with flames, and treads on ice. 



Different Colours of Mourning. — In Europe,! 

 black is generally used, because it represents 

 darkness, which death is like unto, as it is a 

 privation of life. In China, white is used, be- 

 cause they hope that the dead are in Heaven, 

 the place of purity. In Egypt, yellu-^' is used, 

 because it rp[)resents the decaying of trees and 

 flowers, which become yellow as they die a« :r, . 

 In Ethiopia, broziui is used, bncause it <i.'- 

 nofes the colour of the e.uth from whence we 

 come, and to which we return. In some parts 

 of Turkey, b!ue is used, because if represents 

 the sky, where they hope the dead are gone ; 

 but in other pari?, purple and violet, because, 

 being a mixture of black and blue, it represents, 

 as it were, sorrow on the cue side and hope on 

 the other. 



Dr. Franklin^s Views of War. — We make daily 

 great improvements in natural — there is one 

 I wish to see in moj-«/ philosophy ; the discovery 

 ofajilan that would induce and oblige nations 

 to settle tiieir disputes without first cutting one 

 another's throats. W hen will human reason he 

 suflicicntly improved to see the advantage of 

 this? When will men be convinced that even 

 succe-^sful wars at length become niist'ortuaes 

 to those viiho unjustly commenced them, and 

 who triumphed blindly in their success, uot see- 

 ing all its consequences ? Four great comfort 

 and mine in this war, is, that we honestly and 

 faithfully did every Ihng in our power to pre- 

 vent it."— Lefier to Dr. Price. Feb. 1780. 



BBLLFO UJVnER, 



The Wonderful Norfolk Trotter, imported July 1S22 



from England, ~ ' 



WILL STAND THIS SEASON, 1S25, 



M Twenty Dollars, and One Dollar Ike Groom. Tlit 



money to be paid to tlie Groom at Covering. 



THIS celebrated Horse is a bright bay, with black 

 legs, standing 13 hands high ; his superior blood, 

 symmetry and action excel.lhose of every other trottin-' 

 StatlioD. He is allowed by the best Judges in Norfolk 

 to be the fastest and best bred florse ever sent out of 

 that County. He has proved himself a sure foal getter, 

 and his Slock for size and sulistance are not to be sur- 

 passed ; they are selling at the highest prices of any 

 Hor5f-s in Norfolk. 



BF.LLFOUNi:)ER was get by (hat wellknown, fast 

 and high formed Trotter, Oi.d liELi.rovNDiiR, out of 

 Velocity, which trotted on the Norwich road, in 1806, 

 Sixteen .I^IiUs in one hour, and lliough she broke fifteen 

 times into a gallop, and as often turned round, won her 

 match. In 1808 she trotted Twenty tight miles in one 

 hour and forty seven minutes, and has also done many 

 other great performances against time. 



BELLFOUNDER, at five years old, trotted Ttco 

 tnihs in six minutes, and in the following year was 

 matched for 200 guineas, to trot A'ine mHes in thirty 

 minutes, and he won easily by thirty two seconds. Hi's 

 owner shortly after ehallmged to perform with him Sev- 

 enteen miles and a halfia one hour, but it was not ac- 

 cepted. He has since never been saddled or matched. 



Oi.D Bei.i.fockder was a true descendant from ths 

 original blood of the Fireaways, which breed of Horses 

 stand unrivalled, either in this or any other nation. 



EELLFOUNDER is strongly recommended to the 

 public by the subscriber, as combining more usefnl 

 properties than any other Horse in America, and will 

 stand, during the season, at his stable in Charlestowu, 

 where all inquiries, post paid, will be attended to. 



BELLi-ouunER's foals thus- far have proved fully 

 satisfactory, showing extraordinary action. 



SAMUEL JAQUFS, Jr. 



Charlestown, Jlass. March 11, 1825. 







FRUIT TKEi':S,&c. 



W..L PRINCE, Proprietor 

 of the Liunsean Garden, 

 near New York, offers to the 

 puMic his usual very extensive 

 collection of Fruit and Orna- 

 mriital i rees, Shrubs & Plants, 

 in .e selection of which are 

 about £0,000 Apples, Pears, 

 Peaches, &c. of the largest 

 sizes, suitable for transplanting, 

 all of which are in the most vigorous and healthy state. 

 From the long continuance of this establishment, the 

 Proprietor has the advantage of possessing bearing trees 

 of nearly all the kinds, and those oflcred for sale are 

 engratted (voni fruit bearing trees, thereby afl"ording an 

 absolute certainty of their genuine character. The 

 collections of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, 

 including above 300 kinds of Roses, — also of Orangfs, 

 Lemons, Citrons, Camellias or Japan Roses, &c. are so 

 well known for their extent, that any remarks would 

 be unnecessary, farther than to refer to the Catalogues, 

 which may be obtained gratis from Mr Joseph Bridge, 

 No. SoCourt Street, Boston ; and orders through him. 

 will receive the most prompt and attentive execution. 



FARM FOR SALE, in Camhridge—For sale, a fatnt 

 about 4 miles from the city, consisting of 3C. acres 

 of as gr>od land as any in the county of Middlesex. It 

 is under good improvement, an<l may be made at small 

 expense to cut from 60 tn 70 tons of i'nglish hay ; has 

 from 3, to 400 Fruit Trees, 10 acif s of Meadow land, 

 about a quarter of a mile (Vom the (arm. On said farm 

 are "2 dwelling houses, barn, corn-barn, chaise-house, 

 pigery, &c. Said farm is on the main road to Lexing- 

 ton and Concord, and one or two stages pass daily. The 

 farm, cattle, and farming utrnsils will he sold at a bar- 

 gain. A small part of (he purchase money will be re- 

 quired, and the residue may lie 5 or 10 yors. 



Inquire of Chandler Robbins, real estate broker. Ex- 

 change Street, or at (his olfice. t.\l Jan. 28 



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