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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



DEC. as, Ig41 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE IIAI'PY. 



BV J. M. II. DAVLEV. 



The happy ! ihc happy ! and where arc ihcy— 

 Rolling along with the glad and e«y^ 

 Is their ahode in the " lialls of stale," 

 The col of the poor, or the dome of the great ? 

 Are they found in the priestly pile, 

 Pacing its *' consecrated" isle ? 

 May you behold them among the f»ir — 

 In the place of mirth, or the house of prayer — 

 Are the happy there ? 



Do they rank with the heirs of fame, 

 The proud of heart, or the noble in name ? 

 Rush they on with the giddy throng. 

 Rant v.ilb the joys of the dance and song? 

 May they he traced to the convent wall, 

 Where Monk or Ahbot alike enthral ? 

 Is their walk in the rich parterre. 

 Amidst the (doom of the bright and rare ' 

 Oh, no ! not there ! 



Dwell they in those spheres above, 

 *Mid beams of bliss and the light of love '' 

 Have they home in realms unseen, 

 Set in beauty and hung in sheen? 

 Is the throne of their seat forever given 

 In the cbryslal courts of a boundless heaven? 

 Claim I hey a place with " spirits," where 

 God is the glorious theme for prayer? 

 The happy are there .' 



threading their way llirougli the green meadows — Building Horses. A wag observing^ a paii 

 look atall or any of the innuiT-crable, the sttipendous | migerably lean horses waiting to have their un i 

 and the ininiile phenomena of nature — look through \ standings secured by a few nails, stepped into 

 the telescope or llirougli the microscope — look , shop and gravely accosted the man with "Dc 

 with the eye of scicnca orof poetry, and you see i build horses, sir?" "Build horses I" excia; ' 

 every where and every moment, not only the imme- the aeloniehed son of Vulcan, taking off his p 

 diate workings of a being almighty, nllwisc and cap and lengthening down his round good-nal ' 

 omnipotent, bai failh/ul and true — keeping the i face — "build horoes, sir I what do you mo 

 covenant which he lins made with our fathers from I " Why," replied the wag, " I saw ii couple ofyVi » 

 generation to generation, and hen redeemed to us < stanJing at the door, and I thought I 'd just inqu 

 year by year and hour by hour in our life-long ex- 1 — Selected. 

 perience. — Unpublished MS. | ^_ 



Dr. Franklin's Toast. — Long after Gen. Wash- 

 ington's victories over the French and English had 

 made his name familiar over all Europe, Dr. Frank- 

 lin chanced to dine with the English and French 

 ambassadors, when, as nearly as I can recollect 

 the words, the following toasts were drank: 



By tlie Brilisli Ambassador. England — The 

 sun, whose beams enlighten and f.-uctify the re- 

 motest corners of the earth. 



The French Ambassador, glowing with national 

 pride, drank — " France — the moon, whose mild, 

 steady, and cheering rays arc the delight of all na- 

 tions ; consoling them in darkness, making the 

 dreariness beautiful." 



Dr. Franklin then rose, and with his usual digni- 

 fied simplicity said, " Georixe fi'ushinf^lon — the 

 Joshua, who commanded the sun and moon to stand 

 still, and they obeyed him." — Anon. 



GRKEK'S PATENT STRAW CVTTEB. 



IMMORTALITY. 



Mo3. SlOOURNEV. 



A butterfly basked on a baby's grave, 

 Wheie a lily had chanced to grow. 



Why art thou here wilh thy gaudy dye? 



W here she of the bright and ilie spa. 

 Must sleep in the church-yard lo 



a^P^e 



Then it lightly soared thro' the sunny air, 



And spoke from its shining track : 

 I was a worm, 'till I won my wings ; 

 \w\ she whom ihou rnourn'st like a seraph sings- 



Would'st thou call the blest one back ? 



NATURE'S TESTIMONY TO GOD'S TRUTH. 



Every revolution of the seasons witnesseth to 

 God's truth. In his works and his word he estab- 

 lished them of old, and hung out the bow of pro- 

 mise llint so they should continue. And the sum- 

 mer cloud still wears that ancient emblem of his 

 faithfulness. Seed time and harvest, summer and 

 winter, day and night, still alternate in annual or 

 daily testimony that his word changtth not. 



Trusting in God's voracity, however unconscious- 

 ly and undevoutly, yet really trusting in it, the hus- 

 bandman plowed the land and planted, and wailed "What's that horse out of?" said a fellow, with 



his life, the life of all living things staked upon a view to quiz a farmer's boy, who was riding an 



the faithfulnoss of Him who alone giveth the in- old horse, which showed less blood than bone. 



Squash Bunnels They do have some strange 



" fi.xins" in Texas. Only think of a lady with a 

 culinary vegetable on her head for a bonnet ! and 

 yet such is the fact. The Houston Telegraph says 

 that many of the western planters lately introduced 

 the culture of a species of squash that may be man- 

 ufactured into bonnets, and several of the western 

 ladies have already obtained beautiful bonnets from 

 this hithftrto despised vegetable. These bonnets 

 are formed from the fine glossy fibrous lining of 

 the interior surface of the squash, and are remarka- 

 ble for the strength, lightness and delicacy of the 

 texturo composing them. They are so tenacious 

 and flexible that they may be easily washed like 

 silk. It is said a milliner some time since, took 

 one of these to one of the oastorn cities of the Uni- 

 ted States, and it became quite an object of admi- 

 ration. Possibly in a few years (says the Tele- 

 graph,) these squash bonnets may become all the 

 fashion; and even the pumpkin heads of the PSorth 

 [hear the squash talk !] may be decked with squash- 

 es from Texas. 



Out of?" 



Yes, what's he out of — do you know ?" 

 Yes, I do." ' 



Well, what?" 

 Out of oats." 



crease. And the pledge kept through six thou- 

 sand years, was a;,'ain redeemed. Day by day was 

 it redeemed again on and on ta its consummation. 

 The receding frost, the mellowing soil, the swell- 

 ing bud, the shooting blade, the opening flower, 

 tho ripening fruit, redsemod it. The genial sun, 



the quickening showers and dew, day and night, • If men have been termed pilgrims, 

 revealed a God lltal fori;elteth not his word. And ' "' "'' "'"" "'" '""' 



the earth has been covered all over, and the store- 

 houses of men are filled with the tokens of a faith- 

 ful God. 



Look into the spangled heavens; look upon the 

 teeming land ; on the sea, keeping its bounds ; 

 upon the clouds gathering above ; on the streams 



and life a 

 journey, then wo may add, that the Christian pil- 

 grimage far surpasses all others, in the following 

 important particulars : in the goodness of the road ; 

 in the beauty of the prospects; in tho excellence of 

 the company, and in the vast superiority of the ac- 

 commodation provided for tho Christian traveller, 

 when he has finished his course. — Lncon. 



JOSEPH BRECK >k CO. at the New England A^ 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. SI andri2Norlh 

 kel Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Ha 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most 

 inenl effects of this application, and some of the conse 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum o( power rcq 

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

 to work it efficiently. 



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

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been cb 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or 

 p<nvcr. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whic 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its conslructioo, made ai 

 together very strongly. It is ihcrofore not so hable 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of on* 



APPLK PARBH8. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural 

 house. No 51 and 62 North Market Street, a good sup- 

 Slanla/s Superior Apple Pavers, a very useful articlo. 

 one of these machines a bushel of apples may be pai 

 a very short lime in the best possible manner, and will* i 

 saving of the apple, as the oulsides may be taken ofT 

 required thickness. The above is also for sale at N 

 WILLIS', No 45 North Market Street, SCUDLM'.K, 

 DIS & CO., and HOSMER & TAl'PAN, Milk .Sue. 



Sept. 1 Gw JOSEPH BRECK & ■ 



GKINDSTOXBS, ON FRICTION ROI.I.RRI , 



Grindstones of different sizes hung lui 

 moved with a foot Ireader, is found to 

 menl on the present mode of hall^lll.' 



ease with which they move upon the ruli^.i 



very easy lo turn with the fool, by whitli lliu lulor 

 man is saved, and the person in the act of grindiii|| ^ 

 govern the stone more to his mind by having the cot i 

 control of his work. Stones hung in this manner |4 

 coming daily more in use, and wherever used, give d' 

 sal satisfaction. The rollers can be attached to sionetT- 

 in the common way. 



Korsulc by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No^ 

 North Market Button. .lulj 



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