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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCT. 19, IK43 



MISCELLANEOUS 



HARVEST HYMN. 



Tlie God of harvest praise ; 

 111 lotid ilianksgivint;, raise 



Hand, heart and vnice ; 

 Tlie \alleys lauirli nnd sing, 

 Fiiri'sls and mountains rint;, 

 Tlie [ilains their iriljiile bring, 



The streams rejoire. 



or food for man and be i-t, 

 Jehuvah spreads a feast, 



Above, beneath ; 

 Ye herds and flocks draw near, 

 Fowls, ye are welcome here; 

 His p,iodness crowns the year 



For all that breathe. 



Garden and orchard ground, 

 Anturnnal fruits have crown'd, 



The vintnije glows: 

 IlfTH F'lf nty pours her horn, 

 There the full tide of corn. 

 Swayed by the breath of morn, 



The land o'crflows. 



The wind, the rain, the sun, 

 Their genth; work i)ave done ; 



W'ould'st thou be fed, 

 Man, to ihy labor how. 

 Thrust in the sickle now, 

 Reap where thou once didst plow — 



God sends the bread. 



The few seeds scatter'd wide, 

 He hath so multiplied, 



That thou may 'si find 

 ('hrist's miracle renew'd : 

 With self-producing food, 

 He feeds a multitude — 



He feeds mankind. 



The God of harvest praise; 

 Hand*, hearts, and voines raise, 



With sweet accord ; 

 From field to garner, throng. 

 Hearing your sheaves along, 

 And ill your harvest song, 



Bless ye the Lord. 



Yea, bless His holy name. 



And your heart's thanks proclaim 



Through all the earth : 

 Be joyous o'er your lot — 

 'T is comely, — but be not 

 The Giver's due forgot 



Amidst your mirth. 



[Selected. 



From the Olive Branch. 



SHORT SERMON ON GOSSIPPING. 



"For all the Athenians and strangers which were 

 there, spent their lime in nothing else but either to tell 

 or to hear some new thing. "—jJcf* xvii, 21. 



The first tliinjr to be noticed in this scriptural ex- 

 tract is, that all the Athenians were engaged in the 

 traffic of the article, news: not one exception: both 

 rich and poor, servant and master, male and female, 

 parents and children, all returned to their homes 

 laden with the concerns and affairs of each other, 

 each contributing to the other's stock of informa- 

 tion. Only think for one inoment— every house a 

 news office !_and just imagine yourself a specta- 

 tor at their evening repast. What a commingling 

 of voices, as each strove to tell what he heard, and 

 nt the same lime asserting that his was the most 

 important and the most likely to be true, as it came 

 from a source where there was not a shadow of 

 doubt as to its correctness. Now, reader, can von 

 not form some opinion of this family circle ? Oh, 

 I can almost fancy I hear them converse. 



The ne.vt in course is, that stranfreis were em- 

 ployed in the same way. But how could it he that 



those who were entirely disinterested, could feel 

 so intensely about the affairs of a stranger city ? 

 Why, I venture to e.xplain it on the principle of 

 curiosity. The inhabitants of the city did not tell 

 strangers the plain truth about iriattcrs, but gave a 

 crimson coloring to every report they circulated. 

 And who, I ask, would not have a curiosity to in- 

 quire, even if they were strangers, about things of 

 so glaring a hue ? I say without hesitation, that 

 the common incidents of a city or a town, or a vil- 

 lage, cotilil not interest a stranger; but those same 

 incidents cotdd be decked in a hue sufficiently 

 bright to call forth the inquiry, "Are these things 

 so?" which would naturally lay them liable to the 

 charge of possessing the same news-gathering pro- 

 pensity with the Athenians. Again — "they spent 

 their lime in 7iothinf; else." What a picture ! A 

 whole city discarding business, as of minor impor- 

 tance, to a knou lodge of the characters, property, 

 relations and future prospects of their neighbors. 



"To tell or hear some new thing," implies at 

 once that those who told news,- e.xpqcted to be paid 

 in the same coin, — a coin too, they considered of 

 more value than gold, or they would not have spent 

 Iheir whole time in this loquacious calling. 



Well, perhaps you say, those Athenians are dead 

 and gone. Yes, so they a/e, but their spirit and 

 disposition, like the mantle of the prophet, has de- 

 scended upon our New England. If any of my 

 readers ever dwelt any time in a country village, 

 they know what is meant by the text. About every 

 country place with which I am acquainted, have a 

 news exchange, where representatives meet and 

 tell all they know, and what they cannot find out, 

 they guess at, and report accordingly, for a fact. 



Will any one attempt to say that persons so en- 

 gaged are innocent.' A person who t.eals in news, 

 will always exceed the bounds of truth. Mark 

 this. There is not generally real news enough to 

 suit noted trafficliers in this article, so they invent, 

 exaggerate, and color enough to keep the market 

 full. I repeat, a busy-body in oilier folks' matters 

 will always lie. I never would, nor ever shall give 

 credit to the stories of any one whom I know 

 abounds in information about that which concerns 

 him not. Time is a commodity too precious to 

 idle away, much more to spend it in injuring the 

 characters and blasting the prospects of olhers. 

 But, you say, all news is not ot this tendency. I 

 answer, those who tell news, never tell the good; 

 that is not congenial to their tastes. It is that 

 which deterioralts that pleases the palate of a gos- 

 sip. This evil prevails more among the female 

 community than with the other sex. It originates 

 in idleness. I am a keen observer of what is pass- 

 ing around me, and I have ever found that those 

 females that are industrious and attend to domestic 

 avocations and improvement of the mind, are far 

 from this habit of communicating intelligence. 

 The fact is, their mind is employed about their 

 own affairs, and not their neighbors'. 



To all those who have chosen this occupation 

 through life, to bo called "the mail," I would give 

 one word of advice. Re sure to tell only what 

 you /■?ioio to be the truth ; guess at nothing ; give 

 no coloring to any incident, if you wish to attain 

 to respectability in your calling. 



This is the first sermon that ever I wrote, and 

 lest any of the fraternity of ministers should have 

 the Inmor of this discourse, I shall give you my 

 name at full length, that all may know just how I 

 prize a tattling tongue. Choose ye a more worthy 

 employment, that your sun may go down and not 



see your couch wet nith tears of anguish, for th 

 mischief you have done to others, and fur the Unit 

 precious time, you have worse than thrown away 

 iMaktha An.n DoncE 

 Hamilton, Mass., Sept., 1812. 



Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution 

 of a bad memory :— of a constitution so tieach( 

 ously good that it never bends until it breaks, or 

 a memory so treacherously bad, that it remcmbi 

 the pleasures of gettmg drunk, but forgets the pa 

 of getting sober. — Lncon, 



GRBEK'SPATEBiT STRAW CUTTER. 



.TOSKPH BRECK &. CO. at the New England As-ricuj: 

 turai Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 61 andsaNonh Ma M 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay arl 

 Slalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle not hedi 

 applied to any implement lor Iliis purpose. The most |iroii | 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the consequo ' 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of ihe quantum of power rcquiii 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is suliicie 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two bus " 

 els a minute, which is full twice as last as has been elamn II 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or sica ] 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which I'l 

 cut, require sharpening less oflen than those of any oili ■ 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and n |,' 

 together very slronj;ly. It is therefore not so liable as 11 

 complicated machines in general use to get out oforder, j' 



6AYL.E>S GARDEN ENGINE. 



This is a splendid article. It will throw a constant slrea || 

 of water to the distance of 50 or fi(l feet, wilh great fore ' 

 and in case of fire would he a good substitute for a fire e i 

 gine. The most perfect article lor ihe purpose ever intr Ir 

 duced. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., No. 51 and 52 Nor 

 Market street. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suilahle for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leaJiug Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CC 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



POUDRETTE. 



For sale 200 Barrels Poudrette, at S2 per barrel, bv 

 BRECK & CO, 61 and 52 North Market St., Boston. 

 May 18. 



TYifl rP CHAINS. 



Just received by 600 Chains for tyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Derby, Esq. of Sakii 

 and Col. Jacques, for the purpose of securing cattle lo tl 

 stall, are found to he the safest and most convenient mm 

 of fastening cows and oxen lo the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 62 Nori 

 Market st. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEKKLT PAPER. 



Terms, $2 per year in advance, or$2 5J if not |i; 

 within thirty days. 



N. U. — Postmasters are permitted by law to frank 

 subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, witli> 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTTLE AND DE^•NErT, PKINTf.RS. 



