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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE FARMER'S LOT. 

 Sweet is the farmer's humWe lot, 



Unknown to anguish, care and strife, 

 Happy and pfacuful is his cot, 



He glides adown the hill of life ; 

 To him that vale is spread in flowers, 

 And grac'd with amaranthine bowers, 

 And pleasure and delight are there. 

 And dove-eyed joy with laughing air. 



How sweet to roain at glittering dawn, 

 Adown the violent-spangled glade, 

 A diamond sea on every lawn, 



A tuneful choir in every shade ; 

 And fleecy clouds of purple dye, 

 Flitting atliwart the vermeil sky. 

 And hills in emeraldine vests. 

 And wrapt in gold their flaming creels. 



O ! let me ever, ever dwell. 



From vice and folly far away, 

 And roam along the woodland dell, 



And tunc my rustic roundelay : 

 And when old age with soft decay, 

 .Steals the rose of youth away, 

 ,, Then let me press the cypress wreath. 

 And sweetly sleep the sleep of death. 



condemning himself. A good conscience is the I 

 firmest opiate. The Materia Medica cannot 

 supply one half so efficacious and pleasant; and 

 all the nabobs together, if they were to unite 

 their fortunes in one general contribution, could 

 not purchase' a similar one. 



s. — Every man of common organization 

 power ot becoming a man of genius, if 



Genius 

 lias the power 



to this be added, a solitary devotion to art, and 

 a vehement passion for glory. It is the capaci- 

 ty of long attention which, in the present day, 

 must make one man superior to another. 



False Liberty. — In the work of James I, enti- 

 tled " True Law of Free Monarchy," it is 

 laid down that a free monarchy is one in which 

 tlie monarch is prrj'ectlij free to do as lie plenses. — 

 \Ye have heard of another friend to freedom, 

 who carried his ideas of liberty still farther than 

 this wise prince. " Liberty," he said, " con- 

 sists in my having a right to do what I please, 

 and to make every body else do what I please 

 to have them do." 



Disadvantages of a scattered population. — Em- 

 igration spreads mankind, which weakens the 

 defence of a nation, and lessens the comfort of 

 living. RIen, thinly scattered, make a shift, but 

 a bad shift, without many things A smith is 

 ten miles off: they'll do without a nail or a sta 

 pie. A taylor is far from them : they'll patch 

 their own clothes. It is being concentrated. 

 which produces comfort and convenience. 



Advantages of Family Connexions. — Every man 

 who takes an active part in the concerns of this 

 world has need of friends. If he has to find 

 them, and prove them, half his life is spent be- 

 fore he knows that they can be relied on. Re- 

 lations are, generally, a man's friends, to whom, 

 ^vhen in real distress, he will resort for assist- 

 ance, notwithstanding family differences may 

 h.ue raised temporary barriers against the 

 courtesies of friendship. An old lawyer, who 

 had much experience in making wills, declared 

 that, after people had deliberated long, and 

 thought of many for their executors, they set- 

 tled at last, by fixing on their relations. This 

 shows the universality of the principle. 



Description of a Book. — You might read half 

 an hour and ask yourself what you had been 

 reading : there were so many words to so little 

 matter that you might as well undertake to ex- 

 tract sun beams from cucumbers, as to"obtain the 

 light of intellect from such a mass of opacity. 



A Good Conscience. — How sweet the slum- 

 bers of him who can lie down on his pillow and 

 review the transactions of every day without 



To make Size from, Potatoes. 

 One of the beneficial uses of potatoes, not 

 perhaps generally known, is, that the starch of 

 them, quite fresh, and washed only once, may 

 be employed to make size, which, mixed with 

 chalk, and diluted in a little water, forms a very 

 beautiful and good white for ceilings. This 

 size has no smell, while animal size, which pu- 

 trifies so readily, always exhales a very disa- 

 greeable odour. That of potatoes, as it is very 

 little subject to putrefaction, appears, from ex- 

 perience, to be more durable in tenacity and 

 whiteness ; and, for white-washing, should be 

 preferred to animal size, the decomposition of 

 which is always accompanied with unhealthy 

 exhalations. 



turn, will be called upon to perform their pai ^ 

 on the grand theatre of human life. It is '^ 

 noble sight, and one of the best symptoms of th,- 

 long continuance of our free republican inat 

 tutions, when we behold apprentiees alert, viij; 

 ilant, and industrious, prompt to learn and zea 

 ous to excel. They may hear of naval and t . 

 military glory ; but theirs is a glory more pe " 

 maoeot. The State calls but here and ther 

 and now and then, for heroes — this is only d 

 ring the period of carnage and war, of butc • 

 ery and of blood. The glory of a laborii 

 man is connected with all that is dear in hum; 

 life — it is identified with peace and contec' 

 ment, with the early smoke that arises fro 

 the family cottage, with the bleat of the mer 

 Hocks, with the ripening harvest that seems 

 nod as if impatient of the sickle. These t 

 umphs are not won by blood and carnage ; th' 

 are pacific victories, and let it be remember' 

 that the Saviour of the world is called the Prin 

 of Peace. 



From the Baltimore Morning Chronicle. 

 THE MECHAKIC. 

 There is no condition in life better calcula 

 ted than that of a laborious mechanic, for a 

 man to feel and realize a proper sense of his 

 own dignity and independence, lie retires to 

 his meals from the fatigues of the day, with 

 a full conviction that his sturdy hand has earn- 

 ed the refreshments of his table. He feels 

 that his wealthy neighbor cannot enjoy even 

 bis opulence without his assistance. His time 

 never hangs upon his hands; and his robust 

 frame and his hardy sinews attest how essential 

 this exercise is to the health of his body. He 

 progresses onward, as it were by inches, to 

 competence ; and he learns the practical lesson 

 of economy and frugality in his family expendi- 

 tures. Removed from the vice and gorgeous 

 temptations of a fashionable life, he knows how- 

 to bridle his ambition ; he feels the blessings of 

 the family hearth, and can look without a sigh 

 on the gaudy pageantry of the day. This is a 

 true moral independence — this curb on our 

 unruly desires, this temperance in the exer- 

 cise of all our wishes, are the very materials 

 that constitute valuable citizens. It should be 

 the pride, as undoubtedly it is the right of a 

 laboring man to indulge in such ideas. Roys 

 that are put out us apprentices to mechanical 

 profession are taken many times from a state 

 of poverty and ignorance, and prepared for 

 fulfiling afterwards honorable stations. If they 

 would but properly comprehend the full ex- 

 tent of such benefits, they would see nothing 

 but their future honor, dignity and indepen- 

 dence in their own indentures. They are 

 learning, not as they are too prone to believe, 

 the alphabet of servitude and degradation, but 

 the rudiments of taith, and industry, punctuali- 

 ty, economy, and all those virtues that decorate 

 and adoru the family hearth. They are now 

 giving pledges to their masters of what their 

 future character will be, when they, ia their 



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Mr. Thomas Jeffreys, ol Melksham, Wi ;[ 

 shire, (England,) gave a dinner on Tuesds 

 the 29th ult. to 22 of his neighbors, all residei 

 in the aforesaid parish, whose ages together a 

 ounted to 2000 years. The hard winter, whi 

 began on Christmas Eve, 1739, was very fan 

 i:u- to many of the company, and some well 

 member the ice to have been more than 

 yard in thickness in many of the ponds in tl 

 vicinity. 



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Cursing according to Law. — Some years sb 

 when a scarcity prevailed in Connecticut, ap' ' 

 man by the name of Crocker, went to a r 

 farmer whom he knew to possess a surplui 

 Indian corn, and tendered him the highest pi 

 for a bushel of it ; but the farmer refused 

 sell, pretending that he had none to sps 

 whereas, it was evidently false; and that 

 only hoarded it up for the present, as some t 

 do, to starve buyers into the necessity of giv 

 them the extortionate price they wish to ta 

 Upon this, Crocker gave him his full charac 

 in which it seems, he did not take the namt 

 God in vain. However, the farmer imm< 

 ately arraigned him for abuse, before one J 

 tice Hyde, and when our pauper was callec 

 answer to the charge, and make his defeo 

 instead of attoniies and law books, he produ< 

 only a bible, (for bibles were then regard 

 and road a passage which says, " Cursed is 

 man that wilhholdeth corn from the poor, j 

 and the people shall curse him." Here he 

 gued that he had done no more than what ( 

 had authorised and expressly commanded; 

 turning to the old Gripus who had prosecu 

 him, said, '■'• God curses you ! and 1 curse y 

 Do you curse him too, Esquire Hyde, for ont 

 your curses is worth two of mine !" 



A gentleman complimented a lady on her 

 proved appearance. ' You are guilty of 1 

 tery,' said the lady. ' Not so,' replied theg* 

 tleman, ' for I vow you are as plump as a }'• 

 tridgc.'' ' At first,' rejoined the lady, ' 1 thout 

 you guilty of flattery only, but now I find ;J 

 are actually making ^a7)ic of me.' 



He that will not reason, is a bigot ; he that can *[ 

 reason, is a fool ; and he that darci not reason, 

 slave. 



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