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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



fifer boy; Franklin, a printer's devil; Ferguson, a 

 shepherd; Ben Johnson was a bricklayer; James 

 Monroe, the son of a bricklayer; General I'Cnox 

 was the son of a bookbinder; General Green, a 

 blacksmith; General Morgan, a wagoner; Burns, 

 a plough-boy; Bloomfield was a farmer; Frazier, a 

 stone-cutter, Crabbe and Keats, apothecaries; Sir 

 Wm. Blackstone was the son of a silk mercer, and 

 a posthumous child. 



Caiiifs' !I);'partineiit. 



DR. CLARKE] AND HIS WIFE. 



All conference business is not allowed to trans- 

 pire before the public; and had not the question 

 just expatiated on, not been a public one, it would 

 have been sooner and more summarily dismissed. 

 At the conference to which reference is now made, 

 a subject was about to be introduced, which the 

 preachers were not to disclose even to their wives. 

 Dr. Clarke, who was seated in one of the front 

 seats on the floor of the chapel, partially sheltered 

 from the eye of the president, was in the act of 

 slipping out unperceived, when a voice was heard, 

 "Dr. Clarke is about to leave the conference, Mr. 

 President." President — "You must not go out, 

 Dr. Clarke." Dr. C— "1 must, sir." President— 

 "You must not. Dr. Clarke." Dr. C— "I will, 

 sir." President (more peremptorily) — "You must 

 not." Dr. C. — "You state, sir, that we are not 

 to tell our wives the subject that is about to be 

 brought forward; I want to hear nothing that I can- 

 not tell my wife; 1 tell her everything. Those 

 who have talkative wives may refrain from telling 

 them; but mine is not such; what is dei)osited with 

 her is kept safely." President — "Very good, doc- 

 tor; you may stop, as your wife can keep a secret." 

 The question was not so much one of delicacy as 

 one respecting which it was necessary to guard 

 against premature disclosure; and subjects frequent- 

 ly escape from a second person thoughtlessly, when 

 out of the pale of the first interdict, as though the 

 responsibility rested solely with the first hearer. — 

 Rev. James Everett. 



Washing Lace. — I have lately used the follow- 

 ing method of washing lace, lace collars, or cro- 

 chet collars, and find that it not only makes them 

 look well, but saves much of the wear and tear of 

 other washing : — Cover a glass bottle with calico 

 or linen, and then tack the lace or collar smoothly 

 upon it, rub it with soap, and cover it with calico. 

 Boil it for twenty minutes in soft water; let all dry 

 together, and the lace will be found to be ready for 

 use. A long piece of lace must, be wound round 

 and round the bottle, the edge of each round a little 

 above the last, and a few stitches to keep it firm at 

 the beginning and end will be found suthcient, but 

 a collar will require more tacking to keep it in its 

 place. 



Indian Bread. — An exchange gives the follow- 

 ing recipe for making the celel)rated St. Charles 

 Indian Bread, as prepared at the St. Charles Hotel, 

 New Orleans : — 



"Beat two eggs very light, mix alternately with 

 them one pint of sour milk, or buttermilk, and one 

 pint of fine Indian meal, melt one table-spoonful of 

 butter and add to the mixture, dissolve one table 

 spoonful of soda and saleratus, &c., in a small por- 



tion of the milk and add to the mixture the last 

 thing, beat very hard and bake in a pan in a quick 

 oven. 



HEAVEN. 



BY MRS. SOUTHEY. 



O, happy, happy country! where 



There eiitereth not a sin; 

 And death, who lieeps its portals fair. 



May never once come in. 

 No grief can change their day to night- 

 The darliness of that land is light. 

 Sorrow and sighing God has sent 

 Far thence to endless banishment. 

 And never more may one dark tear 



Bedim their burning eyes; 

 For every one they shed while here, 



In fearful agonies. 

 Glitters a bright and dazzling gem, 



In their immortal diadem. 



Meekness. — How difficult it is to be of a meek 

 and forgiving spirit, when despitefully used. To 

 love an enemy, and forgive an evil speaker, is an 

 higher attainment than is commonly believed. It 

 is easy to talk of Christian forbearance among 

 neighbors, but to practice it ourselves, proves us to 

 be Christians indeed. The surmises of a few 

 credulous persons need not trouble that man, who 

 knows his cause is soon to be tried in court, and 

 he openly acquitted. So the evil language of the 

 times need not disturb me, since in the day of judg- 

 inent "ray judgment shall be brought forth as the 

 noonday." 



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