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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



AIG. 4, lg4I. 



M I S C E I L A N E O.U S 



THE POWER OF ffHE DEAD. 



DY MISS M. A. 'BBOWqE. 



Say not their power is o'er! 

 Although iheir lips be mute, ibeir limbs be still, 



With might unknown befure, 

 '1 hose silent lorms the living heart may ihril!. 



Who stands beside the bed 

 Where rests the icy corpse within its shroud, 



Nor feels ■ speechless dread, 

 With which his soul ne'er to the living bowed ? 



The lowliest son of earth, 

 The veriest babe that death has stricken down, 



Hath to a realm gone forth, 

 To those who gaze upon them, all unknown. 



An awful mystery— sealed 

 From the sad eyes that weep beside their bier, 



To them hath hern revealed. 

 To their unprisoned souls made plain and clear. 



They are the constant sign 

 Of God's great truth— the dead, bolh great and small, 



Confirm this word divine. 

 That " all have sinned, and death hath passed on all.' 



They are the seed from whence 

 The harvest of the Lord shall fill the earth, 



When his omnipotence 

 Shall call his myriads from her bosom forth. 



Say not their power is o'er. 

 Even when mingling in their native dust, 



For them our spirits pour 

 An offering forth of holy hope and trust. 



Where is the place of graves 

 We deem not hallowed ? There is sanctity 



In every wind that waves 

 Its grasses tall, or thrills its'willow tree. 



Where'er some lonely mound 

 Tells of the spot where mortal relics rest. 



At once that spot of ground 

 Our hearts with unseen holiness invest. 



Say not they have no power ! 

 Perhaps they were our enemies in life. 



But now hath come an hour 

 When cndeth all the tumult and the strife. 



Another, mightier hand, 

 Hath " stilled the opposer," anger now m.iy cease. 



Who can the tiuth withstand, 

 That, " with the dead, our hearts should lie at peace ?'' 



The early loved and lost ! 

 Their memories move us as nought else may move. 



When, wildly lempesltnst, 

 These to the soul as guiding stats may prove. 



And many n gentle word 

 or precious council, all too long despised. 



By memory may be stirred, 

 {<ow tube thought upon, and weighed, and prized. 



And when the wayward heart 

 Doubts how it shall some dark temptation shun, 



They mny decide its part, 

 " So will we do, for so would they have done !" 



Say not " ihoy are no more," 

 Those who the heart with tcnderest thoughts can fill ; 



Say not tlieir jiower is o'pr, 

 While thus its traces are around us still. 



HORSE TRADING. bar till she got it small ertougii I Tlie |iationce of 

 It is Bometimes amusing to hear a couple of the aged female encouraged him to another attempt, 

 iockies trading in horse flesh. They arc generally and he succeeded in obtaining the rank of one of 

 ... the first three in the empire. — Exchange paper. 



the " hit or miss" porlicm of community, and rely 

 more upon chances than any other class of busi- 

 ness men. An instance of this kind in which one 

 of onr neighbors was concerned, " came off" the 

 other day, and e.xemplif)es the gravity with which 

 the smker swallows a costly joke. 



" How will you trade ?" was the interrogatory of 

 the stranger. 



"Unsight, unseen," replied neighbor B. 

 "Agreed," said the stranger, "provided you an- 

 swer my questions and pay five dollars for every 

 falsehood you tell me." 

 " Done," said Mr B. 

 " Is he sound in his limbs ?" 

 " Yes." 



"Is he sound in wind ?" 

 " Yes." 



"Has he good eye* ?" 

 " Yes." 



"Then how will you trade ?" 

 "Give me seventyfive dollars." 

 " I '11 give you fifty." 

 " Done." 



The money was counted down, and neighbcM" B., 

 putting .$1.5 in his pocket, handed back $5 to the 

 stranger. 



''\Vhat is this for.'" 

 " Why I told you one falsehood." 

 " What was it?" 

 " iMy horse is wind-broken !" 

 It is needless to add any thing more by way f»f 

 comment. "The thing was out.". — Harrisburg 

 Reporter. 



[There is little in the above "business transac- 

 tion" that serves to "point a moral," and we can 

 see nothing in the criminal shrewdness therein ex- 

 hibited, that is calculated to "adorn a tale." — 

 It may be a maxim with horse-jockeys as it is willi 

 a certain class of politicians, that "all is fair" in 

 their system of dealing, and that "the end sancti- 

 fies the mentis" — btit such a disregard for truth, 

 and this for such an object, as was evinced by the 

 gainer in the above bargain, must meet with the 

 discountenance of every one who regards virtue 

 above money. That morals and trade have no 

 connection, — that truth and honor, as principles of; I'l;'"!;!' very m 

 , , u 1 1 ■ 'he prico of 



action HI other matters, may bo rendered passive 



in man's dealings with his fellow-man, if a pecuni- 

 ary advantage can be gained by it, are two perni- 

 cious errors, against the influence of which the 

 young particularly need to be guarded. — The man, 

 who, as in the above case, will tell a gross false- 

 hood to gain a few dollars, and in addition to that, 

 deceive and swindle his fellow, cannot be a very 

 valuable member of any community whore morality 

 is respected, though he would doubtless prove a 

 brilliant ornament in a community of "kindred 

 .■ipirils," like that one, which, if report speaks truth, 

 exists in a certain young Republic not far out of 

 the latitude of Texas " P. D."] 



[This instance of perseverance — as commenda- 

 ble as it is extraordinary — may be as true as that 

 the Celestial Empire is older by some five thousand 

 years than the rest of the world 1 — but we should 

 like lo be informed, (if it be a legitimate matter of 

 inquiry,) how old this "aged female" was when she 

 commenced rubbing down the crowbar — and of 

 what age she was when the needle was completed ? 

 ' P. D."] 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



Just received by Packet Coromanda, 

 400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 2U0 " Truck and leading Chains. 

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

 No. 52 North Market St. April 21 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvements have been iriade the past year in Ih- 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs ; the mould bf ar 

 has been so formed as to /m/ the furrnie completefy orri 

 turning in cvcnj particle of ^rass or stubble, and leaving fb 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length nt tb 

 mould board has been very much increased, so that th 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, both wiih respect |i 

 the holding and the learn. The Committee at the late trii 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion be asked as to which of the Plcugl| k 

 we shnuiil prefer Icr use on a farm, we might perhaps say ' 

 the inquirer, if your land is innstly light and easy lo wot^l 

 try Prouty & Mears, liut if your land is heavy, hard orroeli- 



BEGIN WITH Mr. HoWAHD's.'' 



At ihe above mer.f.oned irial the Howard Plough (/ 

 jnore Kork. with the same power of team, than any o//i 

 plough exhibited. Nu other turned more than Iwentysci 

 and one half inches, to the 112 lbs. draught, while 1 1« 

 Hoicard Plough turned ticentynine and one half inches, 

 the same power of team .' All acknowledge that Howard' 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most subsiantiaU 

 made. 



There has been quite on improvement made on the shi 

 or land siile of this Plough, which can be renewed withiw 

 bluing lo furnish a new Inndside; ibis shoe likewise seen 

 ihc nioulil board and Inndside together, and strengthens ll 

 ich. 

 price ol the Ploughs is from S6 toSl5. A PI0113 

 sufficient for breaking up with four cattle, will cost aim 

 Slo 60, and with cutter Si, with wheel and cutter, »2 

 exira. 



The above Ploughs are for snlej wholesale and retail, 

 the New England Agricullurol Warehouse and Seed Stm 

 Nos. 61 & 62 North Market Street. 1 v 



JOSKPH BRECK & CO. 



Pehskvkrance. — Tho Chinese tell of one uf 

 their countrymen who had been making strenuous 

 cflort^f to aciiuire literary notoriety, who, discour- 

 aged by difliculties, nl length gave up in despair. 

 As he returned to manual employment, he saw a 

 woman riibhiiig a crowbar on a stone ; on asking 

 hor till." reason, she replied, she was in Avant of a 

 needle, and thought she wotild rub down the crow- 



FENCK CHAINS. 



Just received from Fngland, 10,000 feet Chains, suitall 

 for Fences or other purposes. For sale by J. BRECK 

 CO., No. 62 North Market si. April 311 



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