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IMEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 23, 182S. 



MISCELLANIES. 



TO THE DEITY. 



Father Supbeme ! O lei me climb 

 Thai sacred seat, and mark suhiimc 



Th' essential fount of lile and love; 

 Fount, whence each good, each pleasure flop's 

 O, to my View thyself disclose ! 



The radiant heaven Ihy presence Ihvoivs' 



O, lose me in the light above. 



Flee, flee, ye mists ! let earth depart ; 

 Raise nie, and show me what thou art, 



Great sum and centre of the soul ! 

 To thee each thousht, in silence, tends; 

 To thee the saint, in prayer, asceufls; 



Thou art the source, the guide, the goal ; 



The whole is thine, and Uiou the whole. 



FOR THE NEW E.SGLAKD FARUER. 



Sorial intercourse. In the intercourse of socie 



eighteen hundred miles from llie place where it Ji Conscientious Apothecary. It has been said 



was first seen. that apothecaries have no conscience ; but here 



Some years ago, in Woolwich bay, (Coast of is an instance to the contrary. In the Court oi 

 Africa, a young whale came along side one of the Common Pleas, Dublin, a person came forward to 

 boats belonging to a whaling ship ; whereupon, qualil'y for going bail to a writ issued for £20- — 

 one of the men in the boat marked the initials of Mr- O'Connell inquired what profession he was 

 his name on its back, and then let it go. Several of? He answered an .ipothecary. By virtiie of 

 years after, the identical whiile itself, bearing the yo"'' oath, said Mr. O'Connell. is your stock in 

 seaman's initials, was taken on the Brai:il Bank — trartf of the value of £20 .' Galen hesitated for 

 and produced 60 barrels of oil. — Afantucket In. some timo, but at length said, " I think I shall be 

 ■ able to make five undred pounds out of it." 



The stump-tailed cow. — A good many years ago, ' 



a man stole a cow from Morristown, (New Jersey) Teeth Anecdote A Lady said to a Physician 



and drove her to Philadelphiu for sale. She was who had grand children — " How do you manage, 

 a common cow enough, except that she hud lost Doctor, to have such a set of firm white teeth at 

 her tail but about si.x inches. The thief, fearing your age?" "Why Madam, by the some means 

 that by the shortness of ber tail he might be trac- that I keep my foet clean." — •• And how is that, 

 ed, had procured in some way, (probably from a Sir?" "By washing them frequently." "But 

 slaughter-house) another cow's tail, which he fas- why wash your feet frequently, they are not seen, 

 tened so ingeniously to the si ort tail that it was but covered with shoes and stockings." " Be- 



... not to be known tnal it had not reoularly arown cause, Madam, every neat person must feel clean 



ty, a man always reciMves according as he sivis ; .1 a .1, i " j ,■ n j .1 \. •. i- 



. , ■' , , ^ „ 'there. As soon as the Jersevman missed his cow, as well as appear so — and those who have fori 



and as he treats olliers so IS he treated hiinsef. — , .. „» r„. di,;i .. 1 1 ; ., 1 ■ u il , .1 _' _:... .u.. 1 .„ \r v ^_/._.. 



It he wishes to be dealt with tionestly, he must be 

 honest; afid if he ivislies to be respected by re 

 .spectable people, he must treat them with respect. 

 Politeness may be considered the ornament or 

 polish of morals or manners. "Civility is a sort 

 cunenl coin, which costs nothing and buys every 

 th.ng." The greatest genius and the most splen- 

 did talents will not compensate the want of good 

 manners, good sense, and a good address. To be 

 polite, with permanent advantage, it is necessary 

 to bo .sincere ; and he « ho always e-xhibits a cring- 

 ing acqiiiescence in the opinions of others, will be 

 eventually despi.sed as a hypocrite, time-server, 

 and sycophant. But in order to be sincere, it is 

 not requisite that we should always criticize, rail 

 at, or hnd fault with men and things which may 

 happen not to meet our approbation. Sometimes 

 we inuy do as much injury to the feelings and in- 

 terests of those with whom we have intercourse 

 by uttering unnecessary and disagreeable truths, 

 «s we could by almost any falsehood which could 

 be prompted by malice or invented by unprinci- 

 pled ingenuity. 



Conversation. An essential part of politeness is 

 agreeble conversation, and taking part in the cur 

 rent amusements of the time and place. The art 

 of conversation is only to be acquired by reflec- 

 tion and e.xperience. Ttie first is to store the 

 mind with ideas on every subject by reading and 



I 

 be sat oflf for Philaaelphia, thinking she would teeth can never enjoy that luxury. — JV. E. Galaxtj. 

 probably be carried there for sale ; and it happen- 



ed that when he came to the ferry he got into the 

 same boat that was carryinjj over his cow, and the 

 fellow who stole her. As it was natural that he 

 should have his thoughts very much upon cows, 

 he soon began to look at this one with very great 

 attention. She was indeed, very much like his 

 cow, he thought. Her marks agreed wonderfully, 

 and she had exactly the same expression of face ; 

 but then the appearance of her tail was so very 

 different. It must be supposed tnat the new own- 

 er of the cow telt rather uncomfortable during 

 this examination, for he soon saw that this was 

 the person whose property he had stolen, and he 

 was very uneasy lest he should take hold of the 

 tail, which he looked at so continually. Upon the 

 whole, he thought it best to divert his attention in 

 some way, if possible, and therefore steps up to 

 him and says, "Neighbor, that is a fine cow of 

 mine, won't ycu buy her? you seem to know what 

 a good cow is." — "Oh, dear me," says the other, 

 "I've just had a cow stolen from me." — "Well," 

 jsays the thief, 'I'm sorry to hear that they've got 

 to stealing cattle, but I'll sell off, and you could 

 not better replace your loss than by buying this 

 cow, I'll warrant she's as good as yours." "Why," 

 says the Jersey man, "she was exactly like this 

 one, only that she had no tail to speak of — and if 

 this one had not such a long tail, I'd swear it was 



IMITATION OF SERVIAN POETRY 



The maiden turned her head away — 

 " You'll have no kiss from me to day,'' 

 " And why, to-day, love, must I see 

 '■ The roses bloom, and not for me ?" 

 Tears filled the maiden's raven eyes — 

 '' The lightly won, you lightly prize; 

 To make you prize the kiss you gain. 

 It mu.st be won with toil and pain ; 

 And seldom too; so still I say. 

 You'll have no kiss from me to-day." 



Too late I staid, forgive the crime : 

 Unheeded flew the hours ; 

 For noiseless falls the fool of time. 

 That only treads on flowers. 



Oh, who with clear account remarks 

 The ebbing of his glass. 

 When all its sands are diamond sparks 

 That dazzle as they pass. 



And who to sober measurement, 

 Time's happy swiftness brings. 

 When birds of paradise have lent 

 Their plumage to his wings. 



' Harry, I cannot think," says Dick, 

 ' What makes my anrks grow so thick ;" 

 ' You do not recollect,'" said Harry, 

 ' How great a calf they have to carry." 



observation, acquiring a stock of information re- i "^ ?°^^"-i 



ROMAN. 



Every body now began to look at the 



laii,,,. In ..„r.r,i'.^.r T;„T " " ' T u'''""\.""" .'iT ! cow's tail, but the thief stood nearer to it than any itwirjam. 



lativu to anecdote, history, and biography; the 1 , , .V ,■ . ,j <• •. ■ ., ..-^ A very elegant, full blooded horse, imported with a hope of im- 



next thing is to adopt our conversation to the so- T"^' ^ ^"^ ^° °^ •"" / P'-ovi"? "'^ breed, will stand this season at the farm of Mr 



ciBt,; in .vhiol, ,,,0 !,„„.„.,» u j.t 1 . Splicing With his left hand, and with a jack-knife Stephen Williams, in Nonhborough, county of Worcester. 



Ciety in which we happen to be ; and the last re- 1 t' ^ • ■ ' ., , ^Ja_uSo if* Rotnan was purchased in Englind of ihe-'Earl of Warwick-^ 



quisite is to endeavor to discover the precise part ! '"."'^ "P"' P°'"""e to^le tan. ne sau. oo ii _^^^ ^^.^ pedigree has been traced in the New Market Studbook 

 and quantity of conversation which he ouoht to "'" *="''' ' '"' ''"^ only this long, you d swear , from Childers. the swittest horse that, ever run over New Mar- 

 l' ' ^rsaiion wnicn ne ou^ni lo . ^j^^ ^,^^ ^^^^ ?"_"That I would," says the other. ! kel course, through eight generations of the h.ghesthi^d horses 



""PP'y* L u . t, L c 1 . .1, ' and mares in England. Without a Single cross ol inferior blood 



■ who began to be very much confused at the per- , ^, ^ ^.^^^^ „|j ^p'^^,,^ ^^.p ^^j g, 5 %^^^^ m he won four priz- 



Fish Stories Incidents of a nature somevhat '^^''* resemblance to his cow, except in this one|es, and has since beat some 0/ the ileeiest horses in England 



calculated to excite marv'el, frequently occur Jj"'^^c«i^^ i when the thief, with a sudden cut of jov|r..he^|uos. .elebrated^^^^^ 



mong our Cape Horn friends, as thcv traverse ! ^'^"^ ''"'^^ ^""'^ °'^ "'^ '''''' j"^' ''''°"' "" '"'^'' "'"'^'^ walks and trots well— is very good tempered— high smritcd- 



the splicing, and throwing it overboard, bloody as active— full fifteen and a haif hands high and is considered by 

 , , . ., ., , ■ , „ ivT i judges as handsome and well formed a horse as can be found 



It was, turned to the other and said, "Now swear 1 '""'S'^ 



its your cow ! The bewilderment of the poor man 

 was now complete ; but as he had seen the tail cut 

 off, and saw the blood trickling from it, he could 

 of course, lay no claim to the animal from the 

 shortness of her tail. Indeed, here was proof pos- 

 itive, that this was not his cow; so the thief, go- 

 ing over with him, sold the cow without any fur- 

 ther fear of detection. 



the "illimitable sea," in pursuit of spermaceti and 

 whale bone. One or two that have come to our 

 knowledge we will relate. A large female whale 

 was tackled to by two of our ship masters, on the 

 off shore ground, in some part of the Pacific. The 

 tow iron breaking, the whale made its escape 

 Eleven months afterwards, the same whale, with 

 the broken iron in its body was captured by one 

 of the captains here alluded to. at a distance of 



,n tne country. 



Marcs have been sent to him from all the New England 

 Slates, as well as from the remote counties in this Stale and the 

 neighboring towns, and his colls are handsome and command 

 high prices. 



'I'erms, S20 the season, to be paid before tlie mares are taken 

 away. Nonhborough, May 16, 1828. 



Published crenj Fnday , at $3 per annum, payable at the end 

 of the year— hut those who pay viiUiin sixty days from the time 

 ofstdiscribing. are entitled to a deductien of fifty cents. 



