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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 16, IR-'O. 



M 1 s ci: L L A K IK a 



I'he rollowiag original liynin, compared by Rev. Mr 

 i'lerpont, wassunf; at the I ilc biscentouuial anniversary of 

 (lie scltlcinrnt of Cliarlcalown : — 



f wo hundred years! — two hundred years I 



How much of human power ;ii\! |iiide, 

 What glorious liopes, what glo o .;y fears. 

 Have sunk tcncath their noi^ielcss tide '. 



T)ie red man, at his )iorrid rite, 



Seen by the slai's at night's cold noin, 



llis bark canoe, its Iraclc of Ii;;lit 

 Left on the wave beneath the moon, 



His dance, his yell, — his council lire. 



The altar where his victim lay, 

 His death son};, and his funeral pyre, 



Tliat still, strong tiile lialh bonic away. 



And that pale, pil};rim band is gone. 

 That, on this shore, with trembling trod, 



Ready lo faint, yet bearing on 

 The ark of freedom and of God. 



And war — lliat since, o'er ocean camo. 

 And ihundcrcd loud from yonder hill. 



And wrapped ils foot in shcels of flame, 

 To blast lh.it ark— ils storm is still. 



Chief, sachem, sage, bards, heroes, sccrs, 



That live in story and in song. 

 Time, for the last two hundred years, 



lias raised, and shown, and swept along. 



' Tis like a dream when one awakes — ■ 



This vision of the scenes of old : 

 ' Tis like the moon when morning breaks, 



' Tis like a laic round watch-fires told. 



Then what are we !-~tlien what are we ! 



V'cs, when two hundred years have rolled 

 O'er our green graves, our name shall be 



A morning dream, a tale that's told. 



God of our fathers— in whose <igbt 

 The thousand years, that sweep away 



Man, and the traces of his might. 

 Arc but the break and close of day — 



Grant us that love of truth sublime. 



That love of goodness and of thee, 

 That makes thy cliildren, in all time, 



To share thine own eternity. 



HYDROPHOBIA. 



In comparing the effects of this poison with what 

 we know relative to others, we have to imiuirc whctli- 

 tr, if there be a poison, it is imbibed from the wound 

 soon after its application, ami a time elapses between 

 its reception into the circulation and the occurrence 

 of ils specific effects ; or whetlier it lodges in the part 

 to which it has been applieil, and being afterwards 

 absorbed, e.ierts its peculiar influence as soon as it is 

 taken into the circulatinjj fluids. The truth of the 

 latter' opinion was stronijiy impressed on my mind by 

 the following case, which occurred during my ap- 

 prenticeship: — .\ very fine lad, about 14 years of 

 ago, was bitten in the finger by a rabid dog, and be- 

 ing brought to St Bartholomew's Hospital, caustic 

 was applied to the wound very freely, so that con- 

 siderable sloughing of tlie integuments, and even in- 

 flammation -if the subjacent sinewy parts followed. 

 He suffered severely from this treatment; but by 

 soothing measnres, local and general, he gradually 

 got belter, and the wound began to heal. Seeing him 

 one day, about tfircc wcclis after llic bite, with the 

 sore uncovered, 1 told him it gave mc pleasure to 

 see his wound geUiug well, lie answered that it 

 was healing, but tlihi he had some odd pains about 

 it wliich yau u|i liis am.; and, on uncovering the fore- 

 urni, I obse/ved two rcu lines I'.ttending u|) it, such 

 as denote irritation in the a'.aurbenl vessels. I went 

 to the hospital early in the following morning, as 

 if lo visit another patient in tliuBuiuo ward, and as 

 1 was going out, I said to this youth, 'I hope you 

 have lost all that uneasiness you \\^rc speaking of 

 yesterday.' He replied, that lie had, but iliat he had 



felt very unwell during the night. I asked to look 

 at his tongue, which was furred ; and, feeling liis 

 pulse, I remarked that he was slightly feverish, and 

 inquired whetlier he did not feel thirsty ; he answer- 

 ed in the aflirmative, and 1 told the nurse she should 

 have given iiiin some loast and water, and desired 

 that lie might have a little now. He seemed inclined 

 to drink ; but when the fluid was presented to him, 

 and he made the attempt, he shuddered, and put it 

 away. Tliis fine and intelligent youth did not survive 

 more than two days from this time. As I always men- 

 tioned, this case in my lectures, the question about 

 the period of absorption and infection of the poison, 

 was made the subject of experiment ; and as far as 

 the e.xperiments have been prosecuted, they tend to 

 show that if the bitten part be removed before chang- 

 es wliich i)recede the appearance of consti'iUtional 

 symptoms take place, hydrophobia does not occur. 

 That the saliva of rabid animals is morbific, or at least 

 has morbific matter commi.ved with it, is made pro- 

 bable from the following case : — A servant maid was 

 accustomed to feed a small pot spaniel, which was 

 bitten by a dog not supposed to be mad. The spaniel 

 however, became affected with rabies, and at length 

 died of the disease. Though he refused food and 

 drink, ate the straw which served him for a bed, and 

 snapped at other persons who approached him, yet he 

 never betrayed any peculiarity of conduct to the girl 

 who was accustomed to feed liim ; on the contrary, 

 he licked her hand as he used to do. This was in the 

 winter season, when the poor girl's hands were se- 

 verely chipped, and the surface of the sores was in a 

 raw and ccposed state. About three weeks after the 

 death of the dog, this girl had the constitutional 

 symptoms of hydrophobia, for which she was admit- 

 ted into an hospital, where she died. 



It appears, then, to me to be the duty of a surgeon, 

 in the case of a person bitten by an animal suspected 

 to be rabid, carefully to cut away all that portion of 

 animal substance with which tlic tooth of the animal 

 could have come in contact. If this be etfected, I 

 believe we may entertain considerable hopes of the 

 security of the palienl, even though several days 

 have elapsed since the receipt of tlie injury. I have 

 done the operation five or six days after persons were 

 bitten, in consequence of the dog having died, and 

 the stomach being found, on subsequent examina- 

 tion, spotted in places, and containing straw iind 

 chips ; circumstances which satisfied me that the ani- 

 mal was rabid. We are not, however, warranted in 

 drawing decisive conclusions from such premises ; 

 because a rabid dog has been known to run through 

 a town and to bite many persons, very few of whom 

 have had constitutional symptoms. When the bite 

 is inflicted through the clothes, the saliva may be 

 wiped off the teeth by tlic garments. It is, there- 

 fore, wounds of exposed parts that ought to excite 

 our greatest apprehensions. The application of 

 caustic, however liberally used, offers no security 

 against inoculation in these cases. Fontana, who 

 performed so many experiments upon animals bitten 

 by the viper, applied the caustic without avail, while 

 he succeeded in preventing contamination by exci- 

 sing the part. The excision of the bitten parts seems 

 lo me no very formidable operation. — .ibcmtthy's 

 Ltctures on Surgery. 



Method ok Purserving Bitter. — The follow- 

 ing method is preferable to the old one, as it pre- 

 serves to the butter a more agreeable flavor, and a 

 belter color, and renders it less liable to become ran- 

 cid. 



Take one part of loaf sugar, one jiart of sall-pelre, 

 and two parts of pure salt ; mix and reduce them to 

 very fine powder. As soon as butter is perfectly 

 worked (to extract llic buttermilk) work into it one 

 ounce of the above mixturo to each pound, and pack 

 it immediately, and as closely as jiossible, into pota, 

 and smooth llic lops over corefully ; then cover the 

 pots over with a fine; linen clolh, and tie a piece of 

 wet parchment (or bladder) over the whole. After a 

 few days it will be found that the butter has selllt'd, 

 and no longer fills the pots completely ; they must then 

 be filled up, taking care lliat uu space be left ; then 



pour over the top a small quantity of butter melie J :,i 

 a low temperature, sprinkle over the surface a sm:: 

 quantity of the above nii.xlurc, and stop the pots 

 tight us pcssible, to e.xclude the atmospheric mr 

 They should not be again opened until the butter . 

 wanleil for use. In this manner butter may be pr 

 served several years ; I have had it at the end ■ 

 two years as fine flavored as in the first month. 



Persons who are in the habit of eating salt' 

 butler, can hardly believe that this has ever bcca 

 salted at all. 



Butter may also be preserved by working into it a 

 small portion of pure honey, which imparts lo it a 

 very agreeable flavor, and renders it very valuable 

 for aged persons, and those who have weak stomachs. 

 One ounce of honey to the pound. 



The grand secret of keeping butter sweet is to 

 work all the buttermilk ouL 



A L.tRGF. Tree. — It is stated in one of the French 

 periodicals, that in the neighborhood of Thucot, in 

 one of the departments of France, there is an Oak, 

 remarkable for its antiquity, and for the existence of 

 a Chapel in the cavity of ils shell. The Chapel has 

 been known Vi3 years; it is attended by a Priest, 

 who has his habitation in the upper part of the trunk. 

 The top of the tree was broken off more than .'50 

 years ago, and has been replaced by a steeple. The 

 branches of this tree are covered every year with 

 foliage. 



Rosses Gardtn Compound, for the Pretervation of 

 Peach Trees ; 



(Ptcparcii and suM by .Alexander Ro«5, No. 435, ?tr«nd, Loodor,) 



An infallible Preserver of Peach and other Fruit Trees 

 from the destructive worm and insects, which in the 

 Spring of the year attack the stem and destroy the vitality 

 of the tree. By a proper application of this Compound, 

 all insects will refuse to dcposite their eggs In the bark, 

 the tree will be preserved in vigorous health, and an 

 abundant crop insured. In bottlesof one quart, sutiicient 

 for dressing fifty trees, 75 cents ; in bottles sufficient for 

 one hundred tices, 1 dollar 50 cents. 



JJiiectionn. — Rcmovo llic i-aith from the bottom of the 

 stem towards the root, and wiih a paint brush apply the 

 composition from thence nearly to the branches, ihen re- 

 place the earth. This may be repeated in the course of 

 the summer. 



By dipping some rags in this composition and fxstening 

 them among the branches of the tree, the Nectarines and 

 Plums will be saved from the ravages of the stinging fly, 

 and vermin generally will forsake the tree. 



The following letter from the respectable firm of Mal- 

 colm &. Co, Nurserymen, Kensington, near London, is an 

 ample recommendation. 

 ' Til Mr .lUiandrr Ross, 435 Strand, Latiatt. 



' ?iH — Wo Imve, for many years, applivd yoiir Gardro Compound 

 to poacti and otiicr young l*''ruil Troca, and have found it tb« best pr«- 

 scrvor yot Itnown Bgaiiut the enemies of Tt'getattoD, and wc ihall al- 

 ways recommend it. Yours respoclfully, 



• .MALCOLM i CO. 



' KeiuirtgtoH A'urcer), .Wore* 24, ISffi.' 



Ij° This Composition is also used with success at the 

 extensive orchard of Mrs Griffith, at Chirlieshopc, N. J. 



For sale at the Seed Establishment of J. B. RrssEi.L, 

 No 52 North Market Street, Boston. June U. 



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