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JNEW ExN GLAND FARMER. 



SEPTEMBER 17, 183*. 



MISCELLANY. 



TEMPTATION. 



When a thousand voices raise 

 * To lliy name the slibut of praise, 



And before Iby dazzled sight 

 Glory beams enthroned in light, 

 While on thee she calls aloud, 

 Pointing to the admiring crowd, 

 Pause, nor kneel before her throne, 

 Give thy heart to God alone ! 

 Sweeter strains of soft desire 

 Float round Pleasure's golden lyre. 

 Bright as beams of opening day 

 Hope aud transport round her play. 

 Smiles and Gaiety are there', 

 Banished far arc Thought and Care. 

 Heed not thou the entrancing tone : 

 Give thy heart to God alone ! 

 Mammon bids thee view tlie store 

 Heaped for him from every shore. 

 Worship him, and wealth untold, 

 Through thy swelling cofi'ers rolled, 

 Shall reward Ihy bended knee. 

 Spurn the base idolatry ! 

 -Heavenly treasures are thine own : 

 Give diy heart to God alone ! 

 Onward, in thy Savior's path. 

 Brave the baffled Tempter's wrath. 

 Soon deceitful Pleasure's lay 

 From tliine ear shall sink away ; 

 Soon Ambition's thrilling voice 

 Cease to urge thy trembling choice. 

 Life's short day of duly done, 

 God shall claim thee for his own. 



RESPECTABILITY. 



We apprehend tlint there is no one thingthat oc- 

 casions more misery in this svorld tlian this wrong 

 meaning that lias been given to this one word 

 "respectability." What is respectability? Is it 

 bein" a lawyer, a doctor, a merchatit, or a minis- 

 ter ? Does it consist in wearing the best broad- 

 cloth, or in being able to dauce gracefully, or jab- 

 ber French fluently ? Assuredly not. All these 

 may and do exist, and yet their possessors are as 

 far from being respectable as they are from being 

 useful members of society — which by the way is 

 as far as yoti can possibly get by way of compari- 

 son. True respectability consists in atlorning the 

 situation in life in which Providence has placed 

 us — in striving with all assiduity to make ourselves 

 wiser and better — iti doing all that is in our power 

 to enhance our own happiness and the happiness 

 of our fellow beings. The man who by his hon- 

 est industry gains himself and family a comforta- 

 ble subsistence by tilling the soil, is far more res- 

 pectable than the lawyer who has amassed his 

 thousands by grinding the face of the poor, and 

 wrenching from llie hands of the unfortunate his 

 only support in the shape of fees, or the doctor 

 who prescribes his nostrums vvhicb oftener kill 

 than cure, or the mercliant whose worthless limbs 

 are covered with cosily apparel. Men form false 

 estimates from outward ai)pearances — it is not out- 

 ward show, nor costly apparel, nor dilierence of 

 calling tbat make men respectable. There is a 

 certain class in society — mere btitlerflies, who it 

 is true lay claim to respectability, and who affect 

 to treat the common people — those who do not 

 choose to deck their persons in gaudy attire, and 

 spend their time in idle frivolity and senseless 

 mirth with great indifference. ]!ut when we be- 

 come acquainted with these creatures, we shall 



look upon them with very different feelings thtin 

 those of envy. We shall view them with pity and 

 contempt — pity because they thus effectually by 

 their folly blot out of existence the mind, the soul, 

 that only principle in them which can afford last- 

 ing happiness, and make them useful in the world 

 in which they are )jerniitted to sta;/ ; to live, such 

 beings do not — and contempt, that those who 

 have the power thus to make themselves really 

 liappy and ttseful, should thus render themselves 

 complete drones ; yes, complete nuisances in soci- 

 ety. 



Let the honest fanner and mechanic content 

 hitnself, and act consistently with this reflection, 

 that they are doing more for the good of their 

 country, for mankind, and their own happiness 

 while engaged in their useful employments, than a 

 host of indolent lawyers, ignorant doctors, or in- 

 solvent merchants, and let them teach these things 

 diligently to their children, and we shall see less 

 gilded poverty — fewer brainless dandies — fewer 

 effeminate and useless females, and more true res- 

 pedabiliiy than we now meet with. — Maine Free 

 Press. 



ous complaint. 'Another man, he said, upbraided 

 him that he was not married to his own wife, 

 whom he accused of being no better than she 

 should he, and called her many names besides, 

 which he would be ashamed to mention to his 

 bonor.' ' Well, my good fellow,' answered the 

 officer, ' have you any jiroof that you are legally 

 married ?' ' Yonr honor, I have the best proof in 

 the world.' Here the soldier took oft' his hat, and 

 exhibited a cut skull, saying, 'Does your honor 

 think I'd be after taking llie sante abuse from any 

 body but a wife ?' 



From the Litchfield Enquirer. 

 PACTS IN FAVOR OP -WATER-DRINKING. 



In these days of experiment and practical knowd- 

 edge, it may be well to state facts to the public, 

 although they were jierformed withotit a thought 

 of doing so. — Many have thought, and some even 

 now think, that ardent sjtirits are necessary in the 

 laborious season of haying and harvesting ; and 

 perhaps most men are of. opinion that something 

 more than water is needful to sustain the system 

 under pressing labor and oppressive heat. I will 

 simply state the fact, of which I bore a practical 

 part ; and ask the nun-drinking woi-ld to show a 

 jjarallel of equal labor with equal hands, or in the 

 proportion more or less. 



Two men and a lad of L5, not ten miles from 

 Litchfield, commenced haying on Monday the 'ith 

 of August, and in the week mowed 12 acres of 

 not over smooth meadow, yielding 26 loads of hay, 

 averaging a ton each — 20 of which we ptit well 

 iTiade into barns, the other six we rolled and trim- 

 med fit for carting — together with the cutting of 

 2 1-2 acres of oats. This was done by the three 

 persons above stated in 6 days, with the exception 

 of 1 1-2 days work from two other hands. 



This was done without Rum, or any of its va- 

 rieties — without wine, cider, tea, coffee, beer, 

 sweetened water milk and water, or any substitute 

 — but water, simple, unmixed, unadulterated, un- 

 contaminnted, ptire, such as is drawn from the 

 well, or bubbles from the fountain, was our only 

 drink. In jterfortning this week's labor, thei-e 

 was no racing, no overheating, but all retained 

 their soundness of wind and limbs: although the 

 weather was uticonmjonly hot and sultry — the 

 merenry in the thermometer freqtiently rising 

 aliove 90 degrees. Some ten seasons have I labor- 

 ed in gathering the harvest of the fields, but never 

 imlil this have I used water only, (though I never 

 drank ruin,) and never did 1 perform a week's 

 laborious toil with less fatigue. When the spirit- 

 drinking community out-do this, it will be soon 

 eiiongb to admit the nerve inspiring properties of 

 Alcohol. H. C. 



ITEMS. 



A convention is to jje held in Utica to-morrow, 

 to consider the expediency of constructing a ship 

 canal around the Falls of Niagara, and to fornn 

 a connexion between the Lakes and the Hudson 

 river. 



Among the works recently announced, ibe fol- 

 lowing are said to be in press at Baltimore, viz : 

 The History of the Bank with notes, the art of 

 Cookmy with plates, and the Science of Single « 

 Sticks with wood euts. 1 



W. G. Sims, the author of " Gtiy Rivers," it is 

 said, received .f 1300 for that work, and is engaged 

 per order of the Harpers, in another two volume 

 novel, for which he is to receive JjlSOO. 



GRASS SEEDS, (for Pall So-»viiig.) 



For Sale, at the New England Seed Store, 51 and 52 

 North Market street. 



Clover(NorlhcrM)— Herds Grass— Red Top— White Clover 

 (fineimporied) — Lucerne, &c &c. — Wholesale and Retail. 



500 PIECES ENGIilSIl MERINOS. 



ELlAli STONE J5REVV ER, has received Ironi New York 

 and will be opened on Monday morning, 500 pieces English 

 Merinos, of superior quality and colors, being the entire im- 

 portation of one of the first importing Houses in llic country, 

 and in anticipation of the season, will be sold at least 25 per 

 cent, lower than they can be alTorded in the Autumn. 



aug 13 6tis 41'1.. Washlnglon-strecl. 



BIiACK CURRANT -WINE. 



A FEW Bottles of Ibis wine, so highly esteemed by all ac- 

 s, just received by Geo. 

 aug 13 



quaiuled with its medicinal ])Toperties, just re 

 C. Barrett, 51 and 5i North Market street. 



GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. 



An excellent collection of Gakdkn and Flower Seeds of 

 very best quality, in papers of G.\ cents each, constantly on hand 

 and lor sale at New England Seed Si'^f^o'^ p^pj;j..j..i. 



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 Ballimore—l. I- HiTcnc ucK, Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Civriimali — S. C. PARiatiiRST, 23 Lower Market-street. j" 

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 Hartford — GiioiiwiN & Co. P.ookscllers. 

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 I'urlsmmdh, N. //.—.I. W. Foster. Bookseller. 

 Aii.nisUi, ./l/c— Wii.LARn Snell, Druggist. 

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Portland. Me. — Cum AN, Holden & Co. Booksellers. 

 Ri)/i'or,A/e.—WM. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, A. .'-'.— P. J. Holland, Eeq. Editor oI RecordariJ 

 », Lmds — Geo. Holton. 



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An Irish soldier once waited upon his com- 

 inanding officer with what be termed a very seri- 



Printed for Geo. C. Barrett by Ford & Dawkeli, 

 who execute every description of Book and Funcy Print- 

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