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NEW EN (Ji^rL..- _. 



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((from the Token for 1837.) 

 A NAME IN THE SAND. 



BY H. F. GODLD. 



Alone 1 walked the ocean strand. 

 A pearly shell was in my hand. 

 I stooped and wrote upon the sand 



My name, the year, the day. 

 As onward from the spot 1 passed, 

 One lingering look behind I cast ;. 

 A wave cam.; rolling high and fast, 



And washed my lines away. 



And so, methought, 'twill shortly be 

 With every mark on earth from me ! 

 A wave of dark oblivion's sea 



Will sweep across the place 

 Where I have trod the sandy shore 

 Of time, and been to be no more. 

 Of me, my day, the name I bore, 



To leave no track nor trace. 



And yet, with Him who counts the sands, 

 And holds the waters in his hands, 

 I know a lasting record stands 



Inscribed agaijist my name. 

 Of all this mortal part has wrought. 

 Of all this thinking soul has thought. 

 And from those fleeting moments caught, 



For glory, or for shame. 



l.iit i.s generally prized lowest by those who value 

 inoney^hi!(hest. To do it soiin; degree o( justice 

 let a moderate price be iigrecd ui)on, and s.l down 

 against a list of the tiiost oluious public and pri- 

 vate virtues, and useful acfpiirements. 



This will introduce a new kind of circulation. 

 Men's estates may be inventoried as usual after 

 their disease ; but there will be a considerable dif- 

 ference between what they are worth while living, 

 and after they are dead. 



Let people, while alive, he ranked according to 

 the sum total of their real, personal, and mental 

 property, and while pride justly humbled, took its 

 ' place in tlie kitchen, merit would be called to the 

 parlor, and receive its due honor from men of 

 real worth. 



The Worth of Mak, or the Man of Worth. 

 _ When one man is .worth a thousand pounds 

 and another ten thousand, in common language, 

 we say the latter is worth ten times as much as 



the former. . , , i i 



Tf this meant no more than simply that one had 

 ten times as m.ich property as the other, time 

 would be ill spent in cavilling with the express- 

 ion But when people estimate the worth of a 

 ,„au bv the weight of his purse, the extent of hts 

 farm ihe number of his servants, or the size of 

 his house without examining either the furntture 

 of his head, or qualities of his heart, measure their 

 bows and deal out their civilities accordingly, 

 cominon sense smiles at the delusion and seems 

 solicitous to correct the error. 



s the man a mere cypher all this time ? Does 

 be count nothing of himself ? Shall he not be rat- 

 ed as hi-h as the purse or chest that contains the 

 commou%tandard of his worth? May none of 

 the endowments of nature, or acquirements of ar , 

 have the honor of being inventoried with the stock 

 of his farm, his merchandise or household furni- 

 ture ? , , J •. 

 Here is a small mistake, says the world or its 

 careless computers : we really left out his mental 

 ware, in making our estimate. How shall we 

 correct the e. ror ? What is the average worth of 

 a man stripred like Job of his external property? 

 A hard question truly, and but little thought of. 



I should suppose it as easy to find an average 

 size for all the animals appendant to the earth. I 

 know of no way to estimate his value, except by 

 what he is worth to the community, or his friends. 

 Bv this standard, there would be as great a diver- 

 sity in the worth of men without property as 



with. , • , lu 



Wealth is a good thing, connected with a liber- 

 al mind. Merit has its value wherever it is found, 



Mechanics' Wives.— Speaking of the middle 

 ranks of life, a good writer observes — There we 

 behold woman in all her glory ; not a doll to carry 

 silks and jewels, not a pupjiet to be dangled by 

 fops, an idol for profane adoration — reverenced 

 to day, discarded to-raoirow, always jostled out of 

 the place which nature and society would assign 

 her by sensuality or contempt ; admired, but not 

 respected ; desired, bat not esteemed ; ruling by 

 passion not affection ; imparting her weakness, not 

 her constancy, to the sex which she should exalt, 

 the source and mirror of vanity. We see her as 

 a wife partaking tlie cares, and cheering the anxi- 

 ety of a husband ; dividing the labors by her do- 

 mestic diligence, spreading cheerfulness around 

 her ; for bis sake sharing the decent refinements 

 of the world without being vain of them, placing 

 all her pride, all her joy, all her happiness in the 

 merited ajiprobation of the man she loves. As a 

 mother, we find her the affec.ionate, the ardent in- 

 structre'ss of the children she has tended from their 

 infancy ; training them up to thought and virtue, 

 to meditation and benevolence ; addressing them 

 as rational being.s, and preparing them to become 

 men and women in their turn. 



^ "tULBEIlRT TREES and C»JTTIN6a'. 



CHlNESlu •-. - --nse Mulberry (Rlorus MuHicaulis)' 



The best varieties of Cium- •■<.. two ;ind three years' 



fri)m France, llalv and China, ot ^— . -lilies, from S. 



urowih, may be'had in large or small q""". , , 



Whilmkrsh'/ extensive colU-cUon, and f""«;,''" '° f.^-^^^""^ 

 of ihe United Slates, according lo order, will, direct.ons (oir 

 propagation. , ,. , 



ll is confidently believed, that the present mode of culture 

 adopted by us, will prove a certain and secure protection 

 against the severity of winter, and the besl method, by whicU 

 to increase the foliage and multiply the number of trees. 



All orders directed to the subscriber, will receive immediate 

 and f'aithfu aUenlion. 



In behalf of S. Whitmaksh, 



Northampton, Sept. 14. DANIEL STEBBINS. 



COCOONS WANTED. 



Adam Brooks, South Scituale, will pay gi per bushel for 

 cocoons (of the first quality) raised the present year— the 

 cocoons musl be stripped of the ftoss, and ihe chrysalis killed, 

 eitlicr by steaming or by camphorated spirits; they must be 

 <iried immediately alter, in the sun, until lliey are perfectly 

 ilry and will rattle by shaking, and carefully packed in dry 

 lo'xcs; nol pressed but shaken down — to be delivered at 

 •Ad.im' Brooks's, South Scituale, IMass., or to J. R. Newell, 

 No. 52 Norlh Market street, Boston. 



Tliomas G. Fcssenden, Editor ol the New England Farmer, 

 has for sale a valuable apparatus for killing the chrysalis and 

 also well filled for healing the water lo reel the cocoons, and 

 useful lor many other purposes — it is so cheap it is within 

 the power of almost any one lo obtain. 



Instructions for spinning silk from the cocoons into warp 

 and filling, sewing silk, and knitting silk — and dressing of 

 the same — and receipts for coloring, are given by Adam 

 Brooks on reasonable terms. Communica ions (post paid) 

 may be addressed to ADAM BROOKS, South Scituale, 

 Mass. Aug. 10. 



Education of Children. — We should rather, 

 infinitely rather, see a child of six or seven years 

 hale and strong, with a clear ruddy skin, and other 

 marks of a sound physical education who had not 

 been sent to learn his letters and could not dis- 

 tinguish A from B, than we should see one pale, 

 delicate looking, 'ethargic in his movements, even 

 though he could repeat whole pages by rote, aye, 



or even and we once knew such an instance — 



read Homer with his father. In looking forward 

 to their future lives — giving them the same fac- 

 ulties for acquiring information, and supposing 

 the original formation of the brain to be much the 

 saiiieiu botii — we would unhesitatingly give it 

 as our opinion, that, in the long run, the former 

 would distance the latter in mental capability and 

 distinguish him.self more in whatever path of in- 

 tellectual usefulness he might be placed — Mag. 

 of Health. 



COCOONS AND RAW blL li 



The Norlhamplon Silk Company, will pnj Cash (or 'ocoons 

 and Raw Si:k at llieir Establisiiment at Ihe Oil Mill 1-lace a 

 Northampton. , . 



The Cocoons should be strppcd of the fl.ss. ar,d placed in 

 the sun three or four days in succession, to destroy the Chrys- 

 alis, and should not be packed for iransporlaln.n liM 'he^ nave 

 been gathered ,hree weeks. If ihey arc put up before well 

 cured, tlie damp ness from the dead Chr\ sails »il. cause tljeni 

 to heat and render them useless. They should be carefully 

 packed in dry boxes or barrels— not pressed hut shaken down. 

 The Company will contract for any quanlily u< ;0,iM) iiushels, 

 lo be delivered in good order at NorlhamiK.m The price 

 will < regulaled according lo quality. Cullivalors shoulfl be 

 .iwaie that a loss of filly per cent is often made, by wanl of 

 alleiilion in feeding. Consequently the price will vary— Irorn 

 ii-i 50 to gb 00 per bushel will be paid. It is the inlcution o( 

 the company, that this shall be a permanent market loi Co 

 coons and Raw Silk. Cocoons will be purcha-sed liv t ,e 

 pound, as soon as the necessary experiments have neeo made, 

 lo regulate the price according lo the age of the Cocoous, as 

 it is well known, that they become gradualW lighier lor s< veral 

 months, till all moisture is evaporated. Culuvators I'l Ver- 

 mont and New Hampshire will find il convenieni lo forward 

 Cocoons bv Ihe River Boats. 

 Communications (post pnid)^ma^^be adH--^^"j^g^_ 



President of the A'arthamyton Silk Compa? y. 

 June S. 



An old gentleman of eightyfour, having taken 

 to the altar a young damsel of ahoiit sixteen the 

 clergyman said to him, " The fount isat the other 

 .■nd'of the church." " What do 1 want with the 



f Hint ■ 



sail 



the old gentleman. "Oh ! I In 



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AGENTS. 



New York—G C. Thorbukn. II John-street. 

 Alhami—Ww . Thoreurn, 347 Markel-slieet. 

 Pliiladeluhia—D. /y C. Lanubeth, 85 Chesnut-strcet. 

 /?,i//!mw'€— I'uhhshef of American Farmer. 

 Ciiicimiali—'S. C- I'akkhukst,23 Lower Markei-strcct. 

 Flushing, N. y.— Wji. I'RiNCK <^' Sons. Prop. Lm. Bol.Gaf. 

 Middlelmry, Vt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 West Bradford, Mass.— liii-ES^ Co. Booksellers. 

 Taunton, A/ass.— Sam'l O. Dunbar, Bookseller. 

 Mir?/on/— OoonwiN Hf Co. Booksellers. 

 Nev'hur-uporl—KvT.nr.i.r.R Stedman, Bookseller. 

 P„rtsm6ulh,N. W.— John W. Fostek.Bo. „seller. 

 Woodsioek. 17— J. A. Pbatt. 

 Bmi^or.Me—WM. Ma-wn. Druggist. 

 Haiif<ur,l\l. S.—E. liKonn,Esq. 

 St i,o«(s— Geo. Hoi.ToN, and Wii-i.is & SteteKS. 



your pardon !" said the clerical wit, " I thought 

 you had brought this child here to be christen- 

 ed." 



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