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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



JUIiY 39, 1835.. 



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BETTER MOMEKTS. 



My mother's voice ! how often creeps 

 Its cadence on my lonely hours, 



Like healing sent on wings of sleep, 

 Or dew to the unconscious flowers ! 



I can forget her melting praver 

 While leaping pulses madly fly ; 



But in the still ohtiroken air, 

 Her gentle tones come stealing by. 



And years, and sin, and manhood flee, 



And leave me at my mother's knee. 



The book of nature, and the print 



Of beauty on the whispering sea. 

 Give aye to me some lineament 



Of what I have been taught to be. 

 My heart is harder, and perhaps 



My manliness hath drunk up tears, 

 And there's a mildew in the lapse 



Of a few miserable years — 

 But nature's book is even yet 

 With all my mother's lessons writ. 



I have been out at eventide 



Beneath a moonlight sky of spring. 

 When earth was garnished like a bride, 



And night had on her silver wing ; 

 When bursting leaves and diamond grass. 



And waters leapin" to the light, 

 And all that makes the pulses pass 



With wilder fieetness, thronged the night— 

 When all was beauty — then have I, 



With friends on wnom my love is flung 

 Like myrrh on winds of Araby, 



Gazed up where evening's lamp is hung. 

 And when the beautiful spirit there 



Flung over me its golden chain, 

 Mv mother's voice came on the air 



Like the light dropping of the rain. 

 And resting on some silver star 



The spirit of a bended knee, 

 I've poured her low and fervent prayer 



That our eternity might be 

 To rise in heaven like stars at night. 

 And tread a living path of light ! 



I have been on the dewy hills 



When night was stealing from the dawn. 

 And mist was on the waking rills. 



And tints were delicately drawn 

 In the gay east ; when birds were waking 



Willi a low murmur in the trees, 

 And melody by fits was breaking 



Upon the whisper of the breeze — 

 And this when I was forth, perchance. 

 As a worn reveller from the dance ! 



And when the sun sprang gloriously 

 And freely up, and hill and river 



Were catching upon wave and tree 

 The arrows from his subtile quiver — 



I say a voice has thrilled me then, 

 Heard on the still and rushing light. 



Or creeping from the silent glen. 

 Like words from the departing night — 



Hath stricken me, and I have pressed 

 On the wet grass my fevered brow, 



And pouring forth the earliest. 

 First prayer with which I learned to bow, 



Have lelt my mother's spirit rush 

 ITpon me as in by-past years, 



And yielding to the blessed gush 

 Of my ungovernable tears. 



Have risen up — the gay, the wild — 



As humble as a very child ! 



IMPORTANCE OP ATTENTIOIV TO SMALI, 

 MATTERS. 



^^le first wrck in July, like the first week in 

 January, is always an important one with mechau- 

 ies, tradesmen, shopkeepers, grocers and others, 

 who heep rniining accounts with their customers. 

 It is the jieriod of an extensive semi-annual set- 

 tlement, and the nnmber of payments that de- 

 pend for their punctuality upon one another, is 

 much greater than people generally imagine. If 

 rich people who have money lying in banks, and 

 who could just as easily pay today as a month 

 hence, would only reflect amoment upon the good 



they could do by simply drawing a check, they 

 would not certainly hesitate to do it. The sys- 

 tem of credit wiiieh pervades the community 

 enters so extensively into the ordinary business of 

 life, that every body, more or less, must partici- 

 pate in it, and hence almost every trader's ability 

 to pay depends upon his receiving pay from oth- 

 ers. In order to see this clearly, let us take a 

 case. 



A gentieman of fortune who lives upon his in- 

 come, owes a tailor's bill on the first of July. He 

 pays it — The tailor pays off his workmen, and 

 they pay off their grocer, baker, shoemaker, hat- 

 ter, landlord and a dozen others, who gave them 

 credit to tlie end of six months. Each of these 

 in turn, pays off the merchants and tradesmen to 

 whom they iu'e indebted, and by the end of the 

 week, every dollar may jjossibly have been instru- 

 mental in discharging twenty debts of one dollar 

 each. Every man therefore, who pays with 

 punctuality, not only discharges his own debt, but 

 enables people to discharge, perhaps nineteen 

 others, which were dependent upon his money. 

 Indeed the ramifications of credit arc so extensive 

 that it is quite possible that a hundred payments 

 might be facilitated by punctuality in one, and 

 what constitutes the beauty of the system is, that 

 at last the money comes back in the shape of in- 

 come to the very man who first set it in motion. 



In these remarks thei-e is no theory. Every 

 dealer knows from daily experience their prac- 

 tical truth, and there is not a man whose 

 business obliges him to take and give credit, who 

 does not feel that upon the punctuality of others, 

 his own ability to be punctual depends. The 

 whole chain however of debts cannot be discharg- 

 ed at once by a simultaneous movement. A com- 

 mencement must be made somewhere, and that 

 somewhere can only be, with the man whose 

 abilityto pay does not depend upon his receiving 

 five, ten or twenty dollars from somebody else. 

 He is the fountain head, from which the stream 

 must flow, and if a stream be dried n[i in is 

 source, how can the fields be irrigated, or the 

 thirst of man be quenched. — Phil. Gaz. 



A CcRiosiTT. — We have in our possession an 

 Indian Tomahawk, or hatchet, of very rude con- 

 struction, which was taken a few days since from 

 the heart of a white oak saw-log nearly two and a 

 half feet in diameter, and the grains from where 

 it was deposited to the outside of the log number- 

 ed 142. The distance in which it was deposited 

 from the bottom of the tree was such as to lead to 

 the supposition that it might have been hung in 

 the crotch of a .sapling, which as it grew u[i 

 closed around it and embedded it within the 

 trunk, and probably the lapse of time is not less 

 than two hundred years since it was there left. 

 There is every reason to suppose its owner he- 

 longed to one of the warlike tribes of Indians 

 who inhabited this section of country at least two 

 centuries ago, as there are numerous indications 

 in this town of fortifications upon which trees of 

 about the above size are now growing. 



The instrument was found while in the act of 

 sawing the log at the mill of Solon Hall, Esq. at 

 La Grange, in this county. The saw penetrated 

 the iron about an half an inch hofore the mill 

 could be stopped, entirely ruuiing the saw. — Pre- 

 donia Censor. 



The 



THRESHIKG MACHINE. 



fiber rcspeclfully ofl'ers lo tlie public 



Threshing Machine which he has receiilly invented, ai( 

 which for utifity, cheapness an<l simphcily he can recommeV 

 lo llieir use. 



The machine, put in operation by a horse and tended by \\ 

 men, is capable of threshing grain of all kinds, whether reapn 

 or mowed, and at the same lime separates it from the strgii 

 doing the work of twelve men by the ordinary process {> 

 day, without any waste of the grain. 



The apparatus by which the jnachlne is pui in motion is cc 

 nected with it, and it is altogether as portable as a hoi 



lis simplicity is such that it can be built or repaired by m< 

 farmers at a small expense. 



The superiority of the machine over any other of the kii 

 now in use, consists mainly in the perfect manner in which 

 separates the ^rain from the head of the sheaf^ — every grs 

 being etl'ectually separated — which in itself i' equal to 5 p 

 cent of the whole quantity threshed. The head pass 

 through unbroken, but the grain is effectually cleared. As 

 its capability of execution, it will thresh out as much grain 

 ilie most aciive man can liaiidle, and then the cradle into whi 

 it passes is frequently not more than half filled. 



The subscriber has seruied Letters Patent for the above! 

 vention. 'J'he machitic will soon be ready for exhibition 

 this city, due notice of which will be given, aud rights I 

 States, counties and towns then be flisposed of. 



June 21. WILLIAM LAIGHTON 



FARM FOR SAIiE OR EXCHANGE. 



An excellent Farm cont.Tuiing 70 acres, situated in I\l 

 rough. IMass., with a house and harn thereon, for sale, or ^v 

 be exchangetl for propertv in tht ciiv of Boston. For l- 

 and particulars inquire of'G. C. HAIUiETT at ihis offic, 

 N. \i. I'ROCTOlt, Esq, ors,iid Marlliorough. tn 



•WANTS A SITUATION AS GARDENER, 



A single man, who is well acquainted with his business 

 its branches, and wlm can procure good reconimendations ir 

 his last employers. Enquire al G. C. Barrett's Agricullui '» 

 Warehouse, IJoslon. m6 \i^\\ 



■WANTEO 



\ man and wife (Americans) to take the charge of a Fai 

 of about 500 acres in the Stale of New York, Near Grei 

 Hush. The man must be thoroughly acquainted with the v 

 rious branches of hiisinoss incident to such an establishmei 

 and among other qualifications, that of the rearing and ma 

 fgeineiu of Slock is requisite. The wife will lie required 

 manage an extensive dairy. To such a family, that can pr 

 ducrilie needful reconmendations for capacity, indusli 

 neatness and sobjie'y, lib,?ral encourog'meiil will be givt 

 None others need apply. ZEBEDEE COOK, Jr. 



Jim 25 IB.IS. 6t 4 Court Sine. 



SILK COCOONS IVANTED. 



The subscriber, encouraged by the late act of the Legis 

 turc to reel and throw American Silk, wishes to purchase 

 the .Agricultural Warehouse in Boston, Silk Cocoons, and « jjt 

 pav §3 ker bushel for the best, and in proportion for poor jy 

 ones. [mG] . G. C. BARREI'T. f 



HEIE-'ERS FOR SAIiE. 



For sale in Roxbury, a |)air of Twin Heifers, 3 years c 

 next August. They look precisely alike, and are of a fine si: 

 Inquire of Col. Wyman, or Mr Fisher, at his Hotel in Koxbui 



The molhcr of the above mentioned Heifers was a twin, ai 

 during twelve years from May 15, 1822, to May, 1833, hi 

 and raised seveuteen calves. 



June 10. CATHARINE ULANEY, Roxbury. 



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