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OLAND FARMER. 



JULY 6, 184:2. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



MAN OF TOIL. 



Man of Toil, wouldst thou be frof, 



Lend thine ear to Reason'.^ call : 

 There's folly in the Drunkard's ijlee — 



There's madness in the midnight bra" 

 The ribald jest, the vulgar sonir, 



May give a keener stin^ to care : 

 The riot of a reckless throng 



May lead to ruin and despair: 

 Let truth unloose thy fettered soul — 

 There is no freedom in the bowl. 



Man of Toil, wnuldst thon bo wise, 



The paths of moral light explore; 

 Pierce the human heart's disguise, 



And track its motives to the core ; 

 Creation's boundless beau lies scan, 



Observe its wonders — search its laws 

 Look on the va.~t harmonious plan. 



And learn to love the Eternal Cause : 

 Let Truth illume thy darkened soul — 

 There is no wisdom in the bowl. 



Man of Toil, wouldst thou bo blest, 



Give thy purest feelings play ; 

 Bring all that's noble to thy breast, 



Let all that's worthless pass away. 

 Let generous deeds bid sorrow cease, 



Let gentlest words thy lips employ : 

 Scatter the seeds of love and peace, 



And reap a harvest full of joy : 

 Let Truth make glad thy harrassed soul- 

 There are no blessings in tlie bowl. 



Childhood. — Who does not look back to the days 

 of his childhood with mingled sensations of plea- 

 sure and re^iret? Pleasure at the absence of the 

 cares of life, and regret thst those halcyon days 

 were not better improved. There is in childhood 

 a holy ignorance, a beautiful credulity, a sort of 

 sanctity that one cannot contemplate without some- 

 thing of (he reverential feelings with which one 

 should approach beings of a celestial nature. The 

 impress of the divine nature is, as it were, fresh on 

 the infant spirit, fresh and unsullied by contact 

 with this withering world. One trembles lest an 

 impure breath should dim the clearness of its bright 

 mirror. And how perpetually must those who 

 are in the habit of contemplating childhood, of 

 studying the characters of little children feel and 

 repeat to their own hearts, " Of such is the king- 

 dom of heaven." VVliich of us, of the wisest among 

 us, may not stop to receive instruction and rebuke 

 from the character of a little child ? Which of us 

 by comparison with its smiling simplicity has not 

 reason to hlush for the bitterness, the insincerity, 

 the worldliuess, the degeneracy of his own .' — Se- 

 lected. 



We certainly do not look back with " pleasure 

 at the absence of the cares of life" which attended 

 our childhood; — or rather, we do not feel that our 

 manhood would be happier without life's cares than 

 with them. It has been our lot to be a child in 

 middle life — to live for years, and those not idle, 

 at the paternal board, without having CNciting and 

 perplexing cares ; — but instead of drawing peculiar 

 enjoyment frcnii this freedom from care, we felt the 

 want of it — we felt that useful powers and capaci- 

 ties were rusting and growing weak for want of 



exercise. We loll the need of more care — sought 

 for more — have Cound it, and have had enjoyment j 

 in it. E.\perienc-e tells us that cares are blessings 

 and comforts. We did not find childhood more 

 happy than manhood is, though our early days 

 were passed as pleasantly as those of most chil- 

 dren ; yot then there were longings to grow up to 

 man's stature — to be able to take the candle down 

 from the mantle-piece without getting into a chair — 

 to wear a watch — to be at liberty to go to a neigh- 

 bor's without asking permission — to be our own 

 master — to chouse the color of our own clothes — 

 to have the privileges of a full grown man. 'i'hese 

 longings, together with the crosses and vexations 

 which were frequently coming, caused childhood 

 to be far other than a cloudless day, — caused it to 

 be a season of as sore trials, compared with the 

 strength which was given to bear them, as any that 

 have come upon us in riper years — and in these ri- 

 per years our trials have been not less than those 

 of most men. 



The innocence of childhood may preserve from 

 self-reproach, and the pangs of a wounded con- 

 science; but years of discretion are privileged to 

 obtain something more grateful to the soul than 

 that mere absence of self-reproach which attends 

 upon innocence. There may be humble trust of 

 sins forgiven, and bright hopes of unmingled joys 

 — hopes which of themselves give earth's highest 

 joys — joys higher, far higher than the innocent 

 ones of childhood. Far be it from us to intimate 

 that childhood is not a joyous and happy season — 

 but if one uses his powers as he ought, manhood 

 may be still more happy. Shame, shame to the 

 christian world, when christian principle is not the 

 producer of purer joys than childhood's innocence 

 can impart. — Eb. N. E. F". 



^n "Infernal ,1/ac/iuie."— Mr William Seals, 

 Pyrotechnist, exhibited to us this morning, a model 

 of the expanding cannon ball, invented by him. 

 This ball, when discharged from a 32 pounder, will 

 expand the instant it leaves the cannon, from three 

 to four feet, and is capable of destroying the whole 

 main rigging of a ship, and would cut down four 

 men standing abreast in the field. This ball was 

 examined at Washington last week, by the Presi- 

 dent, the Secretary of the Navy, and several naval 

 and military officers, who pronounced it a very sin- 

 gular and ingenious invention. The Secretary of 

 the Navy is about causing an experiment to be 

 made with it at the Navy Yard, Charlestown. — 

 Boston Transcript. 



Wc are not pleased with thoughts of war and 

 bloodshed. We choose rather to see the iron and 

 steel wrought in plowshares and pruning hooks, 

 than into implements for man's destruction. But 

 the more deadly the weapons of warfare can be 

 made, the more you can take from individual men 

 opportunities for displaying remarkable prowess 

 and courage in conflict, the nearer you come to 

 placing the weak upon an equality with the strong 

 in the hour of battle, then the more effectually do 

 you deter the strong, the valiant, and the lover of 

 a hero's fame, from seeking to make war upon 

 their fellow-men. The more deadly the weapons, 

 the less will be the desire to face them. — Eu. N. 

 E. F. 



Good. — The New Orleans Crescent City has 

 the following beautiful little allegory : — 



A humming bird once met a butterfly, and being 



pleased with the beauty of its person and glory o6 

 its wings, made an offer of perpetual friendship. 



' I cannot think of it," was the reply — " as you 

 once spurned at me, and called me a drawling dolt.'' = 



"Impossible," exclaimed the humming bird, 

 always entertained the highest respect for such ; 

 beautiful creatures as you." 



"Perhaps you do now," said the other; "but , 

 when you insulted me I was a caterpillar. So lei 

 me give yon this piece of advice: Never insult tht 

 humble, as they may one day become your super! 

 ors." 



Absurdities. — To make your servants tell lies foi 

 you, and afterwards be angry because they tel 

 lies for themselves. 



To expect to make people honest by hardeninj 

 them in prison, and afterwards sending them adrif 

 without the means of getting work. 



'I'o fancy a thing is cheap because a low pricif 

 is asked for it. " 



To vote for a candidate at any election, becausi 

 he praises your wife and admires the baby. — St 

 hated. 



It is the fashion now for young men to wea 

 coats cut similar to those which encased thei 

 grandfathers fifty years ago, and to carry canes 

 It must be very gratifying to old people to witnes 

 this respectful desire on the part of the young t 



imitate them not only in manners but in dress 



Concord Freeman. 



The above must be, in part, ironical. We d 

 not believe the old folks regard it as a mark of re 

 spect in the young to imitate their coat tails, whil 

 they curtail the old-fashioned collar of two third 

 its time-honored breadth, and wear the skeleto 

 substitute as low as is necessary to show the fu 

 length of their necks. Bui the editor can't be seriou 



GRfcEN'S PATENT STRAW Cl'TTEB. 



JOSEPH BRECK &. CO. al llieNow England A?rin 

 Uiral Warehouse and Seed Sloie Nos. 51 and62Norlh Me 

 kel Slrcet, have for sale. Green's Palenl Straw, Hay ai 

 Stalk (JuUer, operating on a mechanical principle not Ireli 

 applied lo any implement for lliis purpose. The most proi 

 inenl elfecis of tins applicalioii, and some of the consequc 

 peculiarities of the iiiachuie are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power renuisi 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown hoy is sufiicie 

 to work it etiicienlly. 



2. With even Ihis moderate power, it easily cutstwolius 

 els a miaule, which is full twice as fast as has been dainn 

 tiy any other machine even when worked by horse or slea 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which tir 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any otfi 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and p 

 logelher very strongly. It is therefore not so lia!»le as t 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of order. 



MUCK MANUAL. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., The Muck M&i 

 ual for Farmers. By Dr S. L. Danaj price $1. 

 Boston, April 13. 



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