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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Dec. 1. 189i 



3«:£SCz:li.anzss. 



The annexed bcavitiful Linos are given in an 

 Albany paper, as an extract from J. G. Brooks's 

 Poem before the Phi Beta Kappa of Yale College. 

 I would not live, if life ami love were vain, 

 If for the toil, the trial and the pain, 

 The restless angnisli of these mortal hours, 

 N'o meed be olier'd in eternal bower; 1 

 If holy faith be but a bijot's dream. 

 If heaven-ward ho]>t be but a meteor's beam. 

 Upon the vast waves of eternity — 

 Then wherefore do we live, or wherefore die ? 

 Wo — wo for man, if the rapacious tomb 

 F.nwnip his spirit in eternal gloom ! 

 If drear, unconscious nothingness await 

 The soul, beyond that dim and silent ijate, 

 When the worm banquels on the faded form, 

 Which no returning: spark sh:ill ever warm ; 

 Then curs'd be Hope for her beguiling strain ! 

 Curs'd be her fancies and her visions vain ! 

 Curs'd be the Tree of Life, whose worthless blossom 

 Drops, ne'er to spring again on earth's cold bosom! 



City ladies boast of being more delicate, than 

 country maidens. The one breaths an air polluted 

 with many thousands' breaths ; the other inhales 

 the breeze freshened over the new-mown hay. 

 The one drinks water drawn from the sewer-ming- 

 ling pump, or through impure pipes from the open 

 horsepond ; the other pours it from the moss-cov- 

 ered bucket, or dips it from the pure spring. — 

 The one walks over the hard pavements, along 

 J-he duity piles of bricks ; the other trips over the 

 soft grass, along the grateful rows of trees. — 

 The one is pale and sickly, from watching at the 

 evening concert ; the other is ruddy and healtliy, 

 from rising with the morning birds. The one is 

 the lily of the groen-house ; the other is the rose 

 beside the stonewall. In the city, is seen, and 

 admired, the ingenious handy work of man ; in the 

 country, are traced, and hallowed, the stately 

 Bteppings of the Almighty. [Galaxy.] 



Miseries at Chxirch — At the close of each prayer 

 a feu de joie, by the whole congregation, in slam- 

 ming the hinged seats. (A horrid fashion.) 



The yelping of three or four little white dogs,(of 

 which the town is over stocked) in endeavourin"' 

 to eject them from the sanctuary. 



The coughing of twenty seven children, all ser- 

 vice time, from the heavy guttural to the triple oc- 

 tave, affording a substitute for " David Gamut's 

 tooting weapon." — Why don't parents keep their 

 children at home, when they have a propensity to 

 bark? 



Being annoyed by some somno in the next pew, 

 whose sonorous intonations are heard in all parts 

 of the liouse, and eventually, by a slip of the foot, 

 and a grunt extra, the sleeper finds himself on the 

 floor. 



Sitting near an aged person, who, though he 

 sings with all his might, cannot keep up vvith the 

 singing choir but is shaking on the la?t note as 

 they commence again. 



As the minister is about to ask a blessing ; an- 

 other grand and tinal feu de joie.by the whole con- 

 gregation — seats falling — doors slammed open — 

 and a general scuffle. Before the close of the ben- 

 ediction, the aisles are full of children, — Why 

 don't the heads of families set a better example, 

 and " give the minister a fair chance to run too .^" 

 [Old Colony Memorial.] 



Longevity of Jlnimals. — Having heard the .point 

 disputed a day or two since, Mr Editor, as to what 



animal attained the grei'test age,l liave been induc- 

 ed to examine some works upon the subject, and as 

 far as my researches have extended,! can discover 

 none of the brute creation w liose days number so 

 many as the " half leasoning elepliant." The fol- 

 lowing I believe to be the greatest number of 

 years to which any of them ever attain. The 

 Cricket, 10 years. Spider, sometimes, but seldom 

 more than 1 year. Scorpion, 1. River cray-fish, 

 20. Crab, 100 to 150. Crocodile, 100. Tortoise, 

 100. Hen, 10. Peacock, 24. Lark, 18. Sparrow- 

 hawk, 40. Goose-, 50. Swan and Eagle, 100.— 

 Parrot, 110. Rabbit, 9. Goat, 10. Sheep, 10.— 

 Hog, 20. Dog, 2.3 to 28. Cat, 18. Squirrel, 7. 

 Wolf and Bear, 20. Pox, 15. Lion, tiO. Cow, 

 20. Bull, m. Ox, 19. Deer, 20. Horse, 25 to 

 30. Ass, 25 to 30. Camel, 50 to CO. Elephant, 

 1.50 to 200. [N. Y. Enq.] 



The twine Pedlar. — " Do you want to buy twine?" 

 inquired a respectable looking female, apparently 

 advanced in years, on the morning of one of our 

 warmest " dog days." " Take a seat, " said the 

 merchant ; "you appear to be somewhat fatigued." 

 " Why, I am not very tired," said the pedlar — "we 

 poor women don't mind a trip into the city of half 

 a dozen miles, of a morning ; we are used to it. " 

 Whilst negotiating the important affair of the pur- 

 chase of a pound or two of lier twine, the mer- 

 cliant indulged his Yankee propensities, by asking 

 the good woman a number of civil questions ; all 

 of which u ere promptly answered on her part, by 

 asking as many more. " Pray, Madam," said the 

 purchaser, " excuse .me if I inquire your age." 

 " Why sir," replied the woman, " how old do you 

 guess I am.'" " Per^.aps sixty-five," answered the 

 merchant. " sixty-five ! indeed ; why, Sir, you 

 are not good at guessing. If I live to see the last 

 day of next month I shall bo eighty. 1 have al- 

 ways worked hard, and have brought up a large 

 family of children ; and now you think me only 

 si.vty-fve!" and dropping a courtesy,bade the mer- 

 chant, " good morning." 



Well, here is a matron of eighty, who has toiled 

 in the domestic duties at least " three score years 

 and ten," in good spirits, apparently enjoying good 

 health, and walks with ease twelve miles a day, 

 with a package of twine, which would be a heavy 

 burden for one of our genteel ladies to carry a rod. 

 Here is a spectacle for the moralist and the philo- 

 sopher. Here is one of the mothers who encourag- 

 ed the patriots of another age to resist oppression, 

 and to fight for freedom. Here is a mother who 

 has added more to the stock of natural wealth, 

 than a score of flirting, dancing, tittering modern 

 ladies. The force of her example has inspired the 

 virtuous with courage and confidence, and has 

 served to check the rapid progress of pride and 

 ostentation — of idleness and dissipation, more than 

 a whole congregation of those of her sex, whose 

 highest encomium is that they were 



Corn 



To eat up the corn. 



Here is one who enjoys more satisfaction, more 

 rational happiness in one hour, at the extreme age 

 oftis^hty, — that happiness — thai s.-tisfaction which 

 springs from a consciousness of a life spent in con- 

 tributing to the wants of society by her industry, 

 than a modern lady does during a whole life; 



years, and is solving problems in algebra; and 

 she cannot solve a sum in the rule of tliree- 

 says she knows something about ancient histol 

 but has not "got to modern history yet"^she < 

 neither speak nor wri:e English, but then shej 

 studying Frcncli and Italian — and she cannot gd 

 ecliool in the afternoon in the same dress she wi 

 in the morning 



WILLIAM PRI.\'CE,pr| 

 etor of this establishment, ( 

 to the public the most e? 

 sive collection of Fruits, Ql 

 mental Trees, and Plant 

 --^^ America. The Fruits ._ 

 ^^% been selected by actual iDl 

 tigution of their merits, 

 %-iX>:^^ ^ nearly all of which are eng 

 '".1^^ /^ed from bearing trees 

 EJ! '■ rty (^^ '" '^1^ selection, which] 

 .— . ih'"!,:., irf^aiJi^^^J^been the particular pursn 

 his father and himself, lor more than half a centiu'y] 

 has spared neither pains nor expense, and such asi 

 not possess particular merit have been rejected; 

 their accuracy has been tested by the best authof 

 the age. 



In the present catalogue he offers above 500 newl 

 rielies of Fruits not to be I'ound in any nlbcr collect| 

 in Ameiica, and which include the most celebr^ 

 kinds that have within a lew years past been broi^ 

 into notice and recommended by those distinguis 

 Horticulturalists, Van Mons i Duquesene, and b^ 

 Knight, President of the Horticultural Society of f 

 do-i 



In regard to the character and accuracy of the 1 

 sent from this establishment, the proprietor refeJ 

 the Hon Jonathan Hunnewell, ?.nd other genilem* 

 Boston and its vicinity, who have patronized his el 

 lishment for the last fifty years, -ind particularly toj 

 fruit of the various kinds with which the Bnsto 

 ket is now sujiplied from the extensive collectiol 

 trees furnish* i ttie late Dr Oliver Smith, Sicretaq 

 llie Massachusetts Agricultural Society, v^ho, 

 1 than thirty years since, had several thousand trecl 

 nually, which were distributed among the menibfl 

 that Association. It may perhaps be deemed w<^ 

 of notice that near 100 varieties of the fruits offers 

 sale, by the proprietor, are diff<;rent from those 

 vated by other establishments under the same n 

 and the identity of every fruit sent by him, theprq 

 tors expressly guarantees. 



Catalogues may be obtained gratis of the snbscn 

 and orders left with him, (if from a distance post j 

 will meet prompt attention. 



JOSEPH BRDIGE, Agent for the ProprietorJ 

 25 Conrt street, Boston. Sep. 



Agricultural Establishment, rtmovcd. 

 I THE Agricultural Establishment is removed toj 

 i 52 North Market Street, opposite the north side of I 

 i ueil Hall, — where may be had a great variety oft 

 cultural implements. 



HAY CUTTERS, some very low prices. 

 I Bailey's and Flagg's improved CORN MILL 

 i CORN CRACKERS, for grinding corn and cohi 

 i Wood's, Tice's, Howard's and other improved <^l 

 ! and wrought iron PLOUGHS, 



Patent Hay and Manure FORKS. 

 Gault's patent and common CHURNS. 

 STONE MILK PANS. 

 Lbvett's improved CHEESE PRESS. 

 Brass and composition R'. LLS: 

 Twenty bushels of MILLET SEED. 

 Also, a large and convenient counting roonv 

 chattber to let. N 



Modern Female Education. — A correspondent of 

 the N. Y'ork American complains that his daughter 

 has been in a "fashionable boarding school," three ( 



^jj^Sportsmen 

 Will find at COPEi ^NI)'- POWDER STOREiJ5 

 Broad Street, a complete assorlmeut of Powder, Sh^t. 

 Balls, Flints, and Percussion Caps. The Powder war- 

 ranted superior to any which can be bad in the coftt- 

 (ry_price 6^4 cents and 874 cts. per lb. Shott, Csfl, 

 &r. at the lowest prices— wholesale and retail. 



6t Nov. 24. ' 



The Farjier is published every Friday at |2.50 per 

 annum, if paid in advance. 



