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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From Dr. Percival's Poems, just published. 



SONG. 

 O ! hnrl I the wings of a swallow I'd fly. 



Where the roses are bloomiag all the year long. 

 Where the landscape is always a feast to the eye, 



And the bills of tlie warblers are ever in song ; 



! then would I fly from the cold and the snow, 

 And hie to the land of the orange and vine, 



And carrel the winter away in the glow 

 That rolls o'er the green bower of the line. 



Indeed I should gloomily steal o'er the deep. 



Like the storm-loving petral, that skims there 

 alone ; 



1 would take me a dear little martin to keep 

 A sociable flight to the tropical zone ; 



How cheerily, wing hy wing, over the sea. 



We would fly from the dark clouds of winter away. 



And forever our song and our twitter should be — 

 " To the land where the year is eternally gay." 



We would nestle awhile in the jessamine bovvers. 



And take up our lodge in the crown of the palm. 

 And live like the bee, on its fruits and its flowers. 



That always are floating with honey and balm ; 

 And there we would stay, till the winter is o'er. 



And April is chequred with sunshine and rain — 

 O ! then we would flit from that far distant shore. 



Over island and wave to our country again. 



MISCELLANY. 



From the American Daily Advertiser. 



CUIUOUS FACT. 



Mn. PovLSON, — The following fnct, liaj it 

 not come from the most mifloubted anflioritv, 

 might be r,iiestioiieil even by the most credulous, 

 but emiinnting from Ih^ most veracious source, 

 its authenticity may be confuled in ; — A waggon- 

 er named .Silas Thompson, while driving his team 

 on the road west of Rochester, N. Y. observ- 

 ed from the precipice on his left a man suspend- 

 ing himself apparently by the hands, from a 

 grape vine at the distance of twenty or twenty- 

 five feet from the ground, who, on being taken 

 down from his pcnlnuh situation, seemed entire- 

 ly insensible and lifeless, but after assiduous at- 

 tention, exhibited symptoms of returning iilV. 

 Being sufficiently restored to converse, said his 

 naiiR! was Thomas VVheatoii, which was recog- 

 nized by the bystanders, and that while cutting 

 wood in the forest above, his foot slided from 

 the brink of the precipice, to the base of which 

 he must irremediably have been thrown, had it 

 not been for the occurrence of a grape vine, 

 which he grasped, and which ;)roved his pre- 

 servation. He supposed he had been hanging 

 three or four hours, when he lost b}' degrees 

 all sense and animation, and in this stale was 

 found by the waggoner; and which proves how 

 great are the exertions man will make for the 

 preservation of his existence. 



Yours, respectfully, G. S. A. 



Philadelphia^ Jan. ] 5, 1821. 



IVom the Ncwbaryport Herald. 



V.\CCINATIO.N. 

 In despotic governments the extent to which 

 vaccination has been carried is astonishing. In 

 Russia, no less than l,'::uO,OOU received the 

 benefit of it, between the years 1804 and 1812. 

 Ill Denmark, the small pox no longer exists: 



and in a circular addressed in July, 1816, to all 

 magistrates and bishops in that country, it was 

 ordered that all shotild be vaccinated, without 

 a compliance with which injunction no individ- 

 ual could be received at confirmation, admitted 

 into any school or public Institution, or bound 

 apprentice to any trade. Priests were also for- 

 bidden to marry those who had not either had 

 the small pox or cow pox. In Prussia if any 

 persons happened to die of small pox. they were 

 directed by an edict, published in 181G, to be 

 buried within twenty four hours, si/fu(/i/ anA un- 

 attended, without the tolling of a bell; and in 

 such veneration is the great discoverer of vac- 

 cination held, that the 14th of May is made an 

 annual festival to commemorate the day on 

 which he made his first experiment. None but 

 medical men regularly educated vfere allowed 

 to vaccinate in the kingdom of Bavaria, and 

 each was required to keep a register, which 

 was returned to the government every three 

 months. For this (rouble they were rewarded 

 according to the zeal they manifested in the 

 cause. With the hope of wholly banishing the 

 small pox, it was enacted, by Maximilian Joseph, 

 King of Bavaria, that iVom July 1808, all persons 

 above a certain age, who continued to neglect 

 to be vaccinated, should be fined by an increas- 

 ing penalty every year so long as they refused to 

 take the means for their own protection. Va- 

 riolous innoculation was forbidden, and a penalty 

 enforced against all those who performed or 

 submitted to it. — A". F. paper. 



[Tran.ilalal for the Charleston Courzfr.] 

 From '^ L'Histoire des chiens Celebres." 

 THE COACHMAN'S DOG. 

 The Marquis of Segonsac, .Mtorney-General 

 of the exchequer, at Paris had a very skillful 

 Coachman, and without derogating from the 

 good qualities of his trade, Mr. Saint Louis was 

 very fond of the juice of the grape. — What 

 rendered him more dangerous to his employers, 

 and to the busy travellers in i'requented streets, 

 was, the art with which he concealed his intox- 

 ication. The more inebriated he was, the more 

 bold he became — and rattled over the pavement 

 to the great peril of the poor foot passengers to 



The late celebrated George Alexander 8 

 Tens gave the most solid reasons why ladies 

 pleasure should use paint, with an exclusi 

 privilege to themselves, which was the exa 

 |)le of Pirates, who make it a rule to fight t 

 der false colors. 



The mischief done ^o the community of th( 

 obliging ladies, by such of their sex as disdai 

 correspondence with them, and yet invade thi 

 rights, by painting their faces, has brought 

 gether a Congress of the most renowned of th. 

 class, who prudently considering the impos 

 bility of suppressing the encroachment entire 

 have passed a few rules to restrain and regul; 

 the practice. Acadian Recorder. 



Among the bills, (270 in number) passed 

 the last session of the British Parliament in . 

 ly last were the following. — 25 relative to I 

 public revenues — 6 for mitigating the pei 

 code — G for the regulation of trade — 2 for I 

 repeal of taxes — 11 for enclosing waste lands 

 70 for making and repair of roads — S for bui 

 ing bridges — 10 for establish gas companies 

 6 lor building churches, and several for regu 

 ing trusts of charity. ibid 



Female Gigglers. — The gigglers belong to 

 gregarious tribe of animals. They, genera 

 collect in corners to the vast annoyance of 

 forlorn looking people, who, however wor 

 or intelligent must not hope to escape the 

 nomination of quizzes, and consequently becc 

 lawful prey. It has been observed that the 

 pearance of a beau increases the merry con 

 sions of these pretty gigglers. 



Airs. IVcst^s Letters to a young Lad 



We should not reject the friendship and 

 vices of any man merely because he differs f 

 us in opinion. In public affairs there is no 1 

 of a perfect coincidence of sentiment or inc 

 tion. Yet every man is able to contribute sc 

 thing to the good of the community, aaU 

 man's contribution should be rejected. 



A person's wisdom consists, principalh' 

 knowing the follies and vices to which I 



whom he could not give the alarm, because, 1 naturally and constitutionally prone, and .ah 



when tirunk, liis teeth were so firmly closed 

 that he could not articulate a word. 



It ha|)pened, luckily, that this imprudent 

 drinker always had with him at his feet on the 

 box, a large Mastiff Dog, who was perfectly 

 aware of his master's situation. So, when he 

 perceived that his master was not capable of 

 a\ ouling danger, this sagacious animal took up- 

 on himself to put the passengers upon their 

 g'uard — and as soon as he saw a loaded porter, 

 or an infant in the path of the impetuous horses, 

 he barked with all his might ; and his well tim- 

 ed cries, saved, more than once, the arms and 

 legs of those, who, but for this premonition, 

 had been run over by the carriage wheels. 



It was observed (says the author of this reci- 

 tal) that this intelligent dog never barked when 

 the coachman was sober — his silence therefore, 

 tranquilized the fears of the Marchioness when 

 she ascended her carriage, while his barking 



filled her with the most lively alarm ; so that TERMS OF THE FARMER, 



she frequently desisted from paying visits of 0:^ Publithcd every P.iturday, at Three Doi 

 importance, not being over anxious to confide 

 in a coachman, whose senses were entrusted to 

 a dog. 



uarding and fortifying the weak sides ol 

 character. 



A truly respectable person does not need 

 dress, or splendid equipage to command tht 

 ference to which he is entitled. 



The greatest men are men of simple i 

 ners. Parade, ceremony, show, and a profi 

 of compliments are the artifices of little m 

 made use of to swell themselves into an apl< 

 nnce of consequence, which nature has dj 

 I hem 



Politeness may be called benevolence ir 

 ties, or the preference of others to ourselti 

 little occurrences in the commerce of life 



A certain emperor, being reproached fo 

 warding, instead of destroying his enemies 

 plied, 1 destroy my enemies, by making th^ 

 friends. 



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