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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DECEMBER 34, 1S34. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE HISTORY OF A LIFK. 



BY BAKRV CORNWALL. 



Day cinvviied. Wilbin a curtained room, 

 Filled, to faiutness, with perfume, 

 A lady, lay at point of doom. 



Day closed. A child has seen the light ; 

 But for the lady, fair and bright, 

 She rested hi undreaming night ! 



Spring came. The lady's grave was green. 

 And, near il, often times was seen 

 A gentle boy, with thoughtful inien. 



Years fled. He wore a manly face. 

 And struggled in the world's rough race, 

 And won, at last, a lofty place. 



And then — he died ! Behold before ye, 



Humanity's pour sum and story; — 

 Life, — Death, — and (all that is of) Glory. 



AMERICAN ANTiaUITIES. 



In innking e.\o.ivatioiis in the gold region of this 

 Slate, nut long since, buildings regularly erected 

 were discovortid tinder the earth. Traces have 

 also been met, which prove that the mining busi- 

 ness has, at some time, been followed in the same 

 district of country, as well as in North Carolina — 

 by whom, or at what period, it is impossible now 

 to discover. The mounds of the West have long 

 been a subject of Interest to the traveller, and 

 spectilation to the antiquary ; but a writer from 

 Arkansas, in the Charleston Observer, states some 

 more facts yet more interesting. On the banks of 

 White river, be says, you can see the brick foim- 

 dations of bouses; a few miles further, six hun- 

 dred and forty acres of land are enclosed by a wall, 

 in the centre of which is a circular building ; there 

 is also, in the same neighborhood, the ruin? of a 

 city, ami parallel streets, crossing each other at 

 right-angles, may be traced by brick foundations 

 one mile in length — the bricks of modern shape. 

 The whole West, is rich in objects of interest to 

 the iintiipiarian and the naturalist. 



15y the accounts of Mr. Flint, and other travel- 

 lers, says a western p.-iper, it appears that the im- 

 press of the leaves of the fruit trees and the bam- 

 boo have fretpieiitly been found in the peat beds, 

 anil the fossil coal t'ormaiioti in the neighborhood 

 of the Ohio. I'ehbles of disruption, vast rocks, 

 earth and sands, specimens of organic, animal, and 

 vegetable remains belonging to a tropical climate, 

 clearly itiditrated some important and extensive 

 changes, occasioned by fire or water, in the whole 

 great valley of the Mississippi. There the regular 

 walls, the bricks, the medals, the implements of 

 iron and copper, buried in n soil which must have 

 been imilistiirbi^d for ages, with the alphabetic 

 characters written on the cliffs, as plainly show 

 that other races of men passed away. And what 

 a worhl, says Mr. Flint, mtist that have been when 

 the JNIammotb and the Melogonyx trod the plain 

 iMid monstrous lizards, whose hones are not rescu- 

 ed from the soil, and which must have been at 

 least eighty feet long, reared their heads from the 

 rivers and lakes I — Georgia paper. 



DEAFNESS. 



The celebialed artist, Mr. Ctn'tis, in bis latest 

 treatise on deafness, observes amusingly enough, 

 though not more amusingly than truly, that " many 

 are undoiditedly deaf from sheer negligence — they 

 have, according to the clever, though eccentric. 

 Dr. Kitchener, only hearing enough to catch the 

 sound of the dinner-bell, and sight enough to find 

 a spoon ; — they are accustomed never to attend 

 when first spoken to ; but answer you with a ' Was 

 that you ?' ' Pray did you speak ?' ' What did you 

 say?' 'Eh.'' what.' eh?' — and their idleness and 

 inattention daily growing upon them, they become 

 in time really deaf, not from any defect or disease, 



REMEDY FOR RASHNESS. 



Dr. Cotton Mather mentions a person who used 

 to say, "There was a gentleman in the 19tb chap- 

 ter of the Acts, to whom he was indebted more 

 than to any man in the world." This was he 

 whom our translation calls "the town-clerk of 

 Ephesus," whose counsel it was " to do nothing 

 rashly." Upon any proposal of consequence, it 

 was a usual saying with bitn, " We will first ad- 

 vise with the town-clerk of Ephesus." 

 " To go twice to the file 



lielore once to the tongue. 

 Is advice to be followed 

 By old and by yoi-ng." 



All discussion is the touchstone of trtilh, and is 

 constantly necesstiry to prevent indiflc^rence and 

 shake the overgrown influence of .•inllioiity ; and 

 by it whatever falsehood there may be iu doctrines 

 will bo mtide to disappear. 



"BUSINESS TO-MORRCW" 



— Said the Thehan governor, as he smilingly laid 

 by unopened the letter that would have informed 

 him of a conspiracy against bis life — '^ Busiocss 

 to-morrow" — the answer was his death-warrant, 

 and be sealed it with a smile ! That night he was 

 assassinated. — Whoever has read history, and in- 

 vestigated the causes of great events, cannot have 

 failed to note how often the scale of success has 

 been turned solely by the weight of time ; and yet„ 

 as if in defiance of reason and experience, how 

 many are in the daily practice of putting off " busi- 

 ness till to-morrow" which should be done to-day; 

 and this, too, rather from habit than indolence. 

 There is no subject upon which there have been 

 more maxims established than this ; no theme 

 more fruitful to the preacher than the value of 

 time ; still tho waste of it is the source of failures, 

 poverty, and even death. Now, the business is 

 put off till " to-morrow," and then the succor 

 comes " too late." There is not a more universal 

 error than procraslinatioti ; none so insidious, and 

 none productive of more misery. None so insidi- 

 ous — for we often hear men descanting upon the 

 folly of wasting time who are in the daily practice 

 of deferring what could and should be done at 

 once. Strange fatality ! that blinds, to ruin us. 

 This foible is common to all classes of society — 

 the merchant puts off the insurance of bis ship, 

 which was wrecked "yesterday" till "to-morrow;" 

 the farmer puts off his harvesting till "to-morrow," 

 and then finds that " last night" the frost destroy- 

 ed bis crop — the carpenter defers building till "an- 

 other day," until death approaches him with 

 " Your house is finished, sir, at last, 



A narrow house — a house of clay. 



Your palace for " anoliicr day.'' 



[Uangor Courier.] 



Irishmen's Clocks. " Every body knows that 

 the clocks of houses for Irish boarders are put for- 

 ward an hour m order that they may be up in 

 time to work on the rail-road." lit. Gen. 



FEAL.E>S MUSEUM. 



A LADY aged one hundred and one years yester- 

 day dropped into Peale's Museum, having com- 

 pleted her shopping in Broadway, to pay a visit to 

 Saugeant Wallace, aged 105 years, who is at the 

 Museum, to receive the visits of the curious. We 

 should have been much pleased to have witnessed 

 the ceremonies of this interview ; the reciprocal 

 compliments and congratulations ; the bows and 

 curtsies of the old school. Several young fellows 

 of ninety years old have left cards for the Ser- 

 geant. — .V". Y. Er. Star. 



CATALOGUE FOR 1835. 



Just published, a Catalogue of the NEW 

 ENGLAND SEED AND AGRICULTURAL 

 WAREHOUSE — comprising an unusual choice 

 collection of Garden and Flower Seeds, raised 

 in the Gardens connected with the Establishment. 

 TJie loltowiug from the preface explains the principles in 

 reference to which the business will be conducted. 



When the Agricutlural Warehouse and New England Seed 

 Store was commenced, it was altogether problematical whether 

 those engaged in the different branches ot rural economy would 

 give supi)urt to such an establishment, and the proprietors in- 

 curred very considerable expense, as well as bestowed much 

 tiine and exertion to make it what the Farmers and Gardeners 

 of New England very much needed, to wit, a Repository from 

 which could be obtained Seeds, &c. which might be relied on 

 as true to their kind and of the best quality. The experience 

 and experiments of a series of years, enable us now to give 

 assurance of satisfaction to those who may commence or will 

 continue their patronage. We have completed our anticipated 

 arrangements in the seed department in such a manner that we 

 are well assured of a full supply of seeds, raised under our own 

 direction. We are thus placed in a condition to supply seeds, 

 of warranted good quality ; and arrane;ements have been made 

 to import from Europe those kinds which bid fairest to be most 

 useful, best adapted to our soil and climate, and on wliich reli- 

 ance can be placed that with proper treatment they will not fai 

 to germinate. 



ill a business of this description, it cannot be expected but 

 that complain Is will sometimes be made of seeds not vegetating; 

 but candid men w'ill allow that the fault is not always in the 

 seed. 'I'iie best seed may fail of coming up, on several accounts; 

 some kinds may be sown too early, and be chilled in the ground 

 in dry seasons, by the burning rays ol" the sun — they are often 

 eaten by worms and insects, and are frequently covered too 

 deep -u die earth, particularly delicate flower seeds. The best 

 method uf proving the quality of the seed is to sow a few in a 

 box of loose earth, placed in a warm room, keeping the earth 

 moist. If the seed is good, it will vegetate iu a reasonable 

 time. A quicker meihod is to roll up a few seeds in a quantity 

 oi' iret. moss, which will soon determine their character. 



It was long before the business would warrant the expenses 

 now incurring; and it is for the public to decide to what extent 

 they will give their patronage to an establishment conducted 

 on the principles, enjoying the advantages, and favored with 

 the prospects above mentioned. 



This (I'alalogue contains 80 pages ; will be sent Gratis to 

 dealers, patrons and friends uf the Establisliiuent, and Orders 

 for articles contained thereinwill meet with prompt and faithful 

 attention. <iEO, C. BARRETT, 



New England Seed Slore, Boston. 



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