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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



OCT. 3T, 1841. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE LABOKER. 



BT WILLIAM D. CALLAGHEIt. 



Stand up— erect! Thou hast ihe form, 

 And likeness of thy God !— who more 1 



A soul !w dauntless 'mid the storm 



Of daily life, a heart as warm 

 And pure, as breast e"cr wore. 



What then?— Thou art as true a Mas 



As moves the human race among ; 

 As much a part of the Great Plan 

 Thai with Creation's dawn hegan, 

 As any of the throng. 



Who is thine enemy?— the high 



In station, or in wealth the chief? 

 The great, who coldly pass ihce by, 

 With proud step, and averted eye ? 

 Nay ! nurse not juch belief. 



If true unto thyself thou wast, 



What were the proud one's scorn to thee '. 

 A feather, which thou mightest cast 

 Aside, as idly as the blast 



The light leaf from the tree. 



No :— uncurbed passions— low desires — 



Absence of noble self-respect — 

 Death, in the breast's consuming fires. 

 To that high nature which aspires 

 For ever, till thus checked : 



These are thine enemies— thy worst ; 



They chain thee to thy lowly lot— 

 Thy labor and thy life accurst. 

 Oh, stand erect ! and from them burst ! 



And longer suffer not ! 



Thou art thyself thine enemy ! 



The great !— what -belter they than thou • 

 As theirs, is not thy will as free? 

 Has God with equal falrors, tbea 



Neglected to endow ? 



True, wealth thou hast not : 'tis bol dust ! 



No place ; uncertain as the wind I 

 But that thou hast, which, with thy cru5.t 

 And water, may despise ihc lust 



Ofboih— a noble mind. 



With this, and passions under ban. 

 True faith, and holy trust in God, 



Thou art Ihe peer of any man. 



Look up then— that thy little span 

 Of life, may be well trod ! 



A Giant. — The following dpscriptioti of a great 

 man, we find in the Philadelphia Ledger. Usays: 



" Lewis Cornelius, Esq. died in his -17th year, on 

 Monday last, at his residence at I'Milford, in Pike 

 county, in the northeastern section of this State. 

 This gentleman was one of the most remarkable 

 persons, in respect to size, in the present age, and 

 13 only excelled by the celebrated Daniel Lambert. 

 Mr Cornelius was six feet around his body, and 

 just previously to the illness which terminated in 

 his death, weighed 720 pounds. He fell ofTin con- 

 sequence of sickness, and after death weighed but 

 fi85 lbs. Such was his extraordinary weight, that 

 an inch rope had to be used for his bedcord. His 

 wife is a tall, spare woman, and his family consists 

 of eight children, the yountrest of whom is ton 

 years of age. His grovn children take after the 

 father, m respect to height, one of the sons being 



six feet and one inch and a half high. Tlie cele- 

 brated Daniel Lambert, who stands unrivalled in 

 weight of body, reached, wo believe, 739 pounds, 

 only HI more than IMr Cornelius, and the renown 



HLNTS TO THE WORKING CLASSES. 

 If a man nt twenty one years of age began 

 save one dollar a week, and put it at interest eve 

 year, he would have — at thirty one years of a.' 



ofDanielhas placed him among the wonders of I S fi.'')0 ; at 41, $1,850; at 51, $3,(i80; at ( 

 the world. Mr Cornelius was hardly less remarka- $ G, 150 ; at 71, $1 1,500. When we look'at the 



bie a ner.^nn. nnfl Rltp/I nnnrUr no rrranf n oitanA :» mima nn/t iirtt.^n ...» «k:_1. L . .t . 



ble a person, and filled nearly as great a space in 

 the world. 



The following are the dimensions, taken after 

 his death : 

 Circumference of waist, 



" body, 



" arm, above elbow, 



" ' below elbow, 



" wrist, 



" thigh, 



" calf of leg, 



" ankle, 



G/t. ih 

 6 2 



A FiNF. Woman. — It is very pleasant to observe 

 how different modern writers and the inspired au- 

 thor of the book of Proverbs describe a fine woman. 

 The former confine their praise chiefly to personal 

 charms and ornamental accomplishments : tlie 'lat- 

 ter celebrates only the vinues of a valuable mis- 

 tress of a family— of a useful member of society ; 

 the one is acquainted with all the fashionable Ian-' 

 guages of Europe—the other opens her mouth with 

 wisdom, and is perfectly acquainted wth all the 

 uses of the needle, the distaff and loom ;— the busi- 

 ness of the one is pleasure — the pleasure of the 

 other is business ;— the one is admired abroad— 

 the other at home. Her cliildrcn rise up and call 



sums, and when we think how much temptati. 

 might be avoided in the very act of saving thei 

 and how much good a man in humble circumstanc 

 may do for his family with these sums, we cann 

 help wondering that there are not more savers 

 $1 a week. He who saves this sum may n 

 only pay his own way but help the atHicted, at 

 subscribe to various benevolent societies. In shoi 

 he may show mercy to thousands in this world, ar 

 he may help them on their way to a better. 



The above calculation is from an English pape 

 and the interest is reckoned at about one half t\ 

 rate in this country. If a man here were to sa\ 

 one dollar a week during the time above specific 

 ho would at seventy one be worth nearly .* 20,00' 

 provided the interest be computed semi-annually i 

 6 per cent per ann. 



AWFUL CONDITION. 



A Scotch paper (the Berwick Advertiser,) tell 

 a story of a man who was sucked into the strear 

 and carried over the falls of Niagara— that he wa 

 drawn into the great whirlpool below, where h 

 was whirled rapidly round for Ike space of a Jon 

 niglU, where he was happily kept alive by mean 

 of biscuits which were thrown him by people stand 

 ■-— on Ihe banks ! A 



steam tug was procure' 

 her blessed, and her husband also'prTiset'h J;^^' K'""" ''''"^'"'"' ''~''°"' "'''^ l'""'*''' to the man- 

 There is no name in the world equal to this nor is ^''<^"7 'f'^'J of steam put on, when with gre. 



There is no name in the world equal to this, nor is 

 there a note in music half so delightful as the re- 

 speelful language with which the grateful son or 

 daughter perpetuates the memory of a sensible and 

 affectionate mother. — lioslon Chronicle. 



Fashion.- Is it sufficient that the clothes we 

 wear be of the kind best calculated to protect the 

 person ; to secure bodily health and comfort, and 

 to exhibit the real elegancies of the human fi'irm ? 

 No: a thing called fashion, better named folly, is 

 the grand desideratum. No matter how little" the 

 dress be calculated to protect the person ; no mat- 

 ter how inconvenient in its structure, or how much 

 calculated to injure health ; no matter how absurd 

 in its appearance, provided it be fashionable, and, 

 consequently, to introduce a ntio mode is the sum- 

 mit of human achievements. 



IIow much longer will beings, capable of be- 

 coming rational, by an early direction of their fac- 

 ulties to pursuits calculated to repay their toil with 

 real pleasure, be thus tlie dupes of a never-failing 

 cheat, whose rewards to her devotees are perpetual 

 renewals of her former promises ? Ihid. 



difficulty he was dragged out.— i?ojfon TinUs. 



[Those who believe all they read are informei 

 that the above "remarkabic occurrence" "want 

 conllnnation'' ! — "P. D."] 



Old 1 HEE.— Last week we found on our table 

 a pear from the ancient " Endicott treo," (in Dun- 

 vers,) which we behold with due reverence, as a 

 hit of antiquity not to be slighted in these days of 

 mushroom things. Respecting this tree the Sa- 

 lern Register observes: "This venerable and un- 

 failing tree has again given forth its annual pro- 

 duct. There duos not appear to bo much diminu- 

 tion of late years, in the quantity, or deterioration 

 in the quality of its fruit. By an unbroken tradi- 

 lion in the family, it is 211 years since it was plant- 

 ed by the hands of Governor Endicott."— Bo»fon 

 Times. 



il'i'-"'^Tv'* -"^.tRSKRIES AND GARnt:.NS 



1 lie ?Vew Catalogues are now ready lor di* 

 inhulion OT-a/w to all who apply, poul paid, w 

 niail. 1 hey comprise an immense osMiriinen 

 "I 'runs an.l Ornanu-nlal Trors. ShniMen 

 "Id Plants, IJulbous Flott-er Roots, and I>:.!,1„.' 

 iT.en House Plants, Garden Sieds, &c., all of wl, , : .ir 

 now at much reduced prices. 



Orders, per mail, to WJI. R. PKINCE, Flushinir ^■..\\ r. 

 ceive prompt attention. 4ieow 'srp, g 



OltUVDSTO.VBS, OIV PRICTIO.V ROLLERS. 



Grindstones of diifercnl sizes hung on friction rollert a« 

 moved Willi a foot treader, is lound to be a greni iini.r, ve 

 mciil on the present mode of hanging grinilslomi Thi 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, render- ihem 

 very easy to turn with the foot, by which the labor ni unt 

 man is saved, and the person in the act of grindiiii: c.i 

 govern the stone more to his mind l.y having th« cmnleW 

 c.ntrol of us work. Stones hung in this manner nr. \.^ 

 coming daily more in use, and wherever used, give univei" 

 !.:il salisfuction. The rollers can be allncbed to stones l,un 

 in ihecomnmn way. 



IV sale .,y JOSEPH BRECK & CO., Nos. CI and M 

 Nort h Market Bot ton. j,,!^ |^ 



PENCE CHAINS. 



Just received fmm Knglaiid, in.ooo feet Chains M,,t,).li 

 lor Fences or oth.-r purposes. For sale by J. IJKKl K h. 

 CI)., ISo. t.2 North Market St. jAiiril i 



NEW ENOLAiNU 



A WEKKLV V\ 



V A R M E R 

 I'ER. 



The Editorinl department ol Ibis |.nper having cmi 

 to the bands. if ihfl subsrrii.er, be is now ■ulb'.rize^ 

 by Ihe publishers In inli.rm ibe public that Ibo price i/ 

 Ihi' pnpci IS reduced. In future the terms will b.' M 

 I'lr year iii attmnce, ..r $2 .■.0 if not paid within ibirlr 

 ''•''>■'• AI.f.EN PUTNAM. 



N. li.— Postmasters are required by law to (rnnk all 

 s.ibscripliona and rcmitinnceg for newspapers, without 

 expenia to subseribem. 



TUTTLl AlfD DINKETT, PKINTERS. 



