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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AIARCR a, i 



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



FORGET ME NOT. 



BY WILLIAM (lESBT HABRISON. 



Th« staf Ihat shines so pure and bright, 



Like a farofi place of bliss, 

 And tells the broken hearted 



There are brighter worlds than this ; 

 The moon that courses through the sky, 



Like man's uncertain doom. 

 Now shining bright with borrowed light, 



Now wrapped in deepest gloom, — 

 Or when eclipsed, a dreary blank, 



A fearful emblem given 

 Ol a heart shut out by a sinful world 



From the blessed light of Heaven ; 

 The flower that freely casts its weahh 



Of perfume on the gale 

 The breeze thai mourns the summer's close 



With melancholy wail ; 

 The stream that cleaves the mountains side 



Or gurgles from the grot — 

 All speak in their Creator's name, 



And say " PSrgct me not .'" 



" Forget me not," the ihnnder roars, 



As it bursts its sulph'ry clond 

 'T is murmured by the distant bills. 



In echoes long and loud ; 

 'Tis written by the Almighty hand 



In characters of Same, 

 When the lightnings glare with vivid flash, 



And His wrath and power proclaim, 

 'Tis murmured when the white wave falls 



Upon the wreck strewn shore, 

 ' As a hoary wanrrior bows his crest 



When his day of work is o'er. 



Good Advice to Young Men.^~Tho Editor of the 

 Louisville Journal holds the foUowing language in 

 lecturing the young men of tliat city : 



" If all the young men of any city which can 

 be named, will but devote one half — yea, one 

 fourth of the money which thoy now expend in 

 mere luxuries, idle pleasures, and pernicious indul- 

 gences, which do them »io good and muck harm, to 

 the support of a well regulated reading eslablish- 

 mtnt, and spend their leisure hours there, the 

 change would enrich their minds, and add to their 

 happiness, respectability, wealth, and ability to be 

 nseful in coming life. There is more virtue in 

 one Magazine than in a dozen boxes of the best 

 Spanish cigars, and more to be gained during the 

 long evenings of a eingle winter, by reading and 

 study, than can be found in theatrical shows and 

 scenes of dissipation in twenty years. The one 

 course leads young men up to a life of respectai 

 bility, honor, and usefulness, and enables him to 

 anticipate the coming of gray hairs upon liis ruf- 

 fled brow, with the feelings of one who has not lived 

 in vain; while the other soon leads to loss of vir- 

 tue — loss of character — loss of the confidence of 

 friends — loss of health — crime — infamy — an early 

 and dishonored grave." 



It is not to ihc risen, but to the rising generation 

 that we look for great and benelicial changes. The 

 maturity of manhood is too intlexibic to admit of be- 

 ing recast in a new and a nobler mould. — Ertracl. 



We commend the following to our small friends, 

 that they may see what great men they are; 



Little .Men. — It takes little men to set the world 

 on fire, and polish off their jobs neatly. Show me 

 a big fellow, and ten to one I'll show you a big 

 booby : but introduce me to a small shaver — any 

 chap between four feet nothing and five feet four 

 in his boots — and 1 Ml recommend to your notice a 

 fellow that knows what's what, and who has plenty 

 of brains in his head, if ho has n't got much to boast 

 of in the matter of logs in his breeches. 



As a general rule, the cause of the difference in 

 size of the human family is this : some men's meat 

 goes into their bodies — others into their souls : 

 consequently, the smaller the corporeal dimensions, 

 the larger the mental developements, and vice versa. 



Public Taste. — Murders, horribles, and terril 

 with a sprinkling of conundrums and stale 

 modernized ; police reports, obscene narratio 

 elopements, and criminal scenes in high life,] 

 a touch of the fashions, and a dish of billinga 

 are the materials of a newspaper much sought^^,, 

 and very grateful to the popular palate, 

 constitute the chief ingredients of nearly 

 Eastern family newspapers. No wonder the " 3 

 idea" shoots 90 waywardly. — Cincinnati Ele 



The Ice Crop. — A great deal has been said 

 within the last year, on the subject of the exporta- 

 tion of ice from Charle.stown to warm climates. A 

 railroad having been established from the wharves 

 in Charlestown to Fresh and Spy Ponds, a great 

 and profitable increase in this business, to the ad- 

 vantage of all persons concerned, was anticipated 

 These anticipations would undoubtedly have been 

 fully realized, but for one trifling obstacle — the 

 mildness of the weather. Only a few thousand 

 tons have been taken from Fresh and Spy Ponds, 

 and nearly all the vessels which have been laden 

 with ice, have taken that which was at least a year 

 old. Fresh, Spy and Mystic Ponds have been free 

 of ice nearly all winter — a most unusual occurrence 

 — and it is by no means probable that these ponds 

 will again freeze to the thickness of ten or twelve 

 inches during the present winter, and thus, even in 

 part, make up this unexpected deficiency. The 

 amount of ice on hand at the present time, is unu- 

 sually small, and we fear that the lovers of iced 

 lemonade, or eau sucne, in the tropical climates, 

 will be sadly disappointed in their expectations of 

 receiving a due supply of this much coveted luxu- 

 ry ; for it cannot be longer disguised tliat the tee 

 crop has /ailed ! — Boston Merc. Jour. 



A Dutch Story. — I and prothcr Hans and two 

 other togs vas out huntin' vun day next veek, anil 

 wo trove nine woodchuck into a stono heap, and 

 kilt ten of 'em pofore tey cot in. 



J^ational Bankruptcy. — The whole world is 

 bankrupt, or nearly so. In England, the ministry 

 are about to call a new Parliament, in order to in- 

 crease the revenue. Fiance finds herself deficient 

 ,910,000,000. Austria obtained u loan of $]7r),000,- 

 000. Russia, Prussia, Spain and Portugal are in 

 the utmost pecuniary difficillty, and would all bor- 

 row money if ihey could. Turkey and Belgium 

 have obtained loans, and Egypt has been obliged 

 to raise the duty on produce. The king of Naples 

 has raised five millions of ducats for Sicily. Texas 

 is a borrower in England. Lastly, the United 

 States, with abundant resources, is reduced to the 

 necessity of raising a loan of $2,000,000 to carry 

 her through the year — Selected. 



.Wot Bad. — A worthy man died, leaving a rich 

 and beautiful widow. The clergyman of the par- 

 ish (a widower) accompanied her homo from the 

 ({rave, and spoke in condoling tones of the loss 

 she ivas bewailing. The clergyman, being a kind 

 and tender-hearted man, told her, liy way of con- 

 solation, that her loss was irreparable, and intima- 

 ted to her, ill terms not to be misunderstood, that 

 he should bo happy at the proper time to marry 

 her. To which the widow replied — "Oh, my dear 

 sir, you are too late — the deacon spoke to me at 

 the grave !" — Selected. 



luwa Scales In Iowa they weigh pork by{ 



ting a plank across a rail with the hog on on! 

 and then piling stones enough on the other e^ 

 balance. They guess at the weight of (he 1 

 and thus come to the weight of the pork. 



agrici;l.titral. IMPLEIUENTS, Ae. 



The Proprietors of the New F.ngland Agricultural 

 house and Seed Store No. 51 and 52 Norih Market 

 would inform 1 heir customers and the public general! 

 they have on hand the most extensive assortment of 

 cultuial and Horticultural Tools to be found in tile 

 Slates. Part of which are the following : 



1000 Howard's Patent Cast 



Iron Plough.s. 

 .■^OO Common do. do. 

 200 Cullivalors. 

 100 Greene's Straw Cutters. 

 50 Willis' do. do. 

 100 Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2o0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegetable Cutlers 

 50 Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 



200 Grain Cradles. 



1 00 Ox Yokes. 

 1600 Uoz. Scythe Stones. 

 300O '■ Austin's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



100 doz. Cast Steel I 



100 " Common 



too " Sj)ailes. 



Griivs Seville*." 

 P.il.i.i .-^'n^Mlhl,, 

 CoDiinon do. 

 Hay Kakea. 

 Garden do. 

 Manure Fork 

 Hay do. 



600 Pair Trace Chaia 



100 " Truck do. 



too Draft do. 



SOO Tie up do. 



60 doz. Haller do. 



1000 yards Fence do. 



25 Grind Stones on I 



600 

 300 

 200 

 6U0 

 200 

 200 

 300 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CVTTI 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 61 and62Ni 

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

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principles 

 applied to aBy implement fur ihis purpose. The ni 

 inenl efibcis of this applicalinn, und some of the ci 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1 . So great a reduction of the quantum of power 

 to use it, that the strength of a hall grown hoy is il 

 to work it elficiently. ^ ■ 



2. With even Ibis moderate power, it easily cuts iwobi I 

 els a ininule, which is lull twice as last us has been citp | 

 by any other uiachiuc even when worked by horse or 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less oflen than those of id; 

 straw c-jtler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made IMI 

 together very slrongly. It is therefore not so liable Ml 

 complicated machines in general use lu gel out olnrOB 



NEW K N G L A N U F A R M K H . 



& WEKKLY I'APKR. 



Terms, $'i per year in advance, or$2 5J if naif 

 within lliirly days. ' 



N. b. — Posliiiaslurs ant perinillcd by law to '1"'^ , 

 siibacriplions niid rninittancca for newspapers, "ii' 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTTLE AKD DBNRETT, PRINTERS. 



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