From ihe Alexandria Messenger. 



THE FARMER. 



A farmer's life is ihe life for mf, 



I (iwn I love it dearly ; 

 And every season full of glee, 

 I take its labors oheerly— 

 To plough or sow 

 To reap or mow, 

 Or in the barnto thrash, sir- 

 All 's one to me, 

 I plainly see 

 " 'T will bring me health and cash, si; 



The lawyer leads a harass'd life, 



Much like (that of) a hunted olU-j, 

 And 'tween his own and other's strife. 

 He 's always in hot water — 



For a foe or friend, 



A cause defend, 

 However wrong must be, sir — 



In reason's spite. 



Maintain 'l is right — 

 And dearly earn his fee, sir. 



The doctor's styled a gentleman, 

 But this I hold but humming ; 

 For, like a tavern waiting man, 

 To every call " he 's coming" — 



Now here, now there. 



Must he repair, 

 Or starve, sir, by denying ; 



Like death himself. 



Unhappy elf. 

 He lives by other's dying. 



A farmer's life, then, let me live. 



Obtaining while 1 lead it, 

 Enough for self, and some to give, 

 To such poor souls as need it. 

 I "11 drain and fence. 

 Nor grude expen-^e. 

 To give my land good dressing — 

 I '11 plough and sow. 

 Or drill in row, 

 And hope from Heaven a blessing. 



m this way ? 



" True," replied the Indians, " but white brother 

 made too big walk.". 



Some of Penn's commissioners, waxing warm, 

 said tlie bargain was a fair one, and insisted that 

 the Indians ought to abide by it, and if not, should 

 be compelled to it. 



" Compelled ! " exclaimed Penn, " how can you 

 compel them without bloodshed ? Don't you see 

 this looks to murder ? " Then turning with a 

 benignant smile to the Indians, he said, " Well, 

 brothers, if you have given us too much land for 

 the goods first agreed on, how nmch more will 

 satisfy you?" 



This proposal gratified them ; and they mention- 

 ed the quantity of cloth, and number of fish hooks, 

 with which they would be satisfied. These were 

 cheerfully given; and the Indians, shaking hiinds 

 with Penn, went away smiling. 



.After they were gone, the governor, looking 

 round on his friends, exclaimed, "O how sweet and 

 cheap a thing is charity ! Some of you spoke 

 just now, of compelling these poor creatures to 

 stick to their bargain, that is, i^ plain English to 

 fight and kill them, and all about a little piece of 

 land ! " — Adv.of Peace. 



IS one OI Uie laiiesL in Ulli^ianu, "aa -x k/u-.u.,. t... 



he was thirty years old. And at this moment, there 

 is a man in New England who has read fifty lan- 

 guages, who was apprenticed, — who has always 

 worked, — and who still works, — as a blacksmith !' 

 [Christian Examiner. 



Wr^LIAM PENN'S WAY 



OF GETTKG WHAT L.\ND HE WASTED 



Pesx learned in 1069 tnat there was some very 



The Swedish Armt. Samuel Laing, Esq. has 

 lately published an interesting tour in Sweden. 

 In speaking of a company of soldiers that he met at 

 Westeraus, he says, " Their evening parade upon 

 the street before the donr struck me very mucii. 

 After the roll was called and the reports and orders 

 delivered, the commanding officer called one of the 

 soldiers out of the ranks, it appeared to me without 

 turn or selection, and the whole company taking off 

 their caps at once the man repeated the Lord's 

 Prayer, after which they all sang a hymn very beau- 

 tifully, and the parade was dismissed. This mor- 

 ning early, about two o'clock, the company mustered 

 before the door again to march to their next halting 

 place before the heat of the day stt in. Between 

 sleeping and waking, I heard the same service re- 

 peatec — the Lord's Prayer and a morning hytnn 

 sung, before they marched off". The service was 

 not hurried over. It lasted from fifteen to twenty 

 minute.s, and was gone through as slowly and sol- 

 emnly as in any religious meeting. This is a 



remnant of the military practice of the great Gusta- 



vus Adolphus." 



"I have some favorite flowers in spring, among 

 which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the 

 fox-glove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch, 

 and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over 

 with particular delight. I never hear the loud, 

 solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or 

 the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover 

 in an autumnal morning, without feeling an eleva- 

 tion of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poe- 

 try. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can that be 

 owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like 

 the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the 

 passing accident? Or do these workings argue 

 something within us above the trodded clod ? 



" There is scarcely any earthly object gives me 

 more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — 

 but something which enraptures me — than to walk 

 in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, 

 in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind 

 howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. 

 It is my best season for devotion ; my mind is wrapt 

 up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who in the 

 pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walketh 

 on tiie wings of the wind.' " [Burns. 



PuRSDiT OF Knowledge lndfr Difficulties. 



'So h:s knowledge almost always been cultivated 

 choice land not included in his first purchase ; and genius nurtured, — that is to say, amidst difli- 

 and he sent to nquire of the Indians, if they j culties. Where did Franklin first cultivate the 

 would sell it. Thev replied that they did not wish 1 knowledge that at length bore him to tlie heights 

 to part with the load where their fathers were 1 of fame ? In a printing ofliice. Where did Bov"- 

 resting; btt, to please their father Onas, — the I ditch study the mathematics? In early life, on 

 name they gave the good iijan, — they would sell ship-board, and ever after in hours snatched from 

 him some of it. Accordingly, they agreed for a ] the cares of a busy life. How did Ferguson begin 

 certain quantity of English goods, to soil as wuc'h J to study astronomy ?■ Tending sheep in Scotland ; 

 land as one of his young men could walk round ', lying on his back upon the bare earth, and gazing 

 in a day, "beginning at the great river Cosqiianco," : upon the heavens, — mapping out the constellations 

 now Kensington, "and ending at the great river i by means of a simple string stretched from hand to 

 Kallapingo," now Bristol. This mode of measure- hand, with beads upon it, which, sliding back and 

 ment, Ihough their own choice, did not in the end ' forth, enabled him to ascertain the relative distances 

 satisfy the Indians; for tiie young Englishman, | of the stars. Where did young Faraday commencT 

 chosen to walk off the ti-act of land, walked so his studies, — still young, and yet the successor in 

 aat and far as greatly to astonish and mortify ' London to the celebrated Davy? He began his 

 them. The governor observed this dissatisfaction, l chemical studies, a poor boy, in an apothecary's 

 and asked the cause. " The walker cheat us." | shop. Sir Richard Arkwright, who was knighted 



New York Urate and Poudrette Company. 



Nol incoTporaled but carried on by indicidual enteiprlse. 



The manures are not dicided among the Stockholders, as 

 are those belonging to another estadlishment, but sold, to ap- 

 plicants, for cash on deliver]/. Orders are supplied in the 

 order of lime in which they are received. Urate 30 cents ;uid 

 Poudrate 40 cents per bushel, with contingent charges lor 

 bags or barrels, &c. 



The company are daily preparing for use, during the 

 warm, dry weather, the materials collected during the p:ist 

 winter, and will have several thousand bushels ready liclore 

 llie first of October next. The material is dismlected and 

 rendered iree from offensive sin. II, hy a compound, every 

 part of which is in itself a good manure. 



Tlie experience of the past and present years, 1838 and 

 1839, on Long I.-land, has salisfiecf many of the farmers 

 that these manures have the quickest operation upon vegeia- 

 ble matter, producing greater abundance, and the cheapeU 

 of any manure lliey have ever tried. 



Amended instructions for their use, the result of praclicd 

 experience, will be furnished on application. The effect i]/ 

 Poudrelte upon Grape Vines and Mows Mullicaulis is bey- 

 ond all comparison. 



This company are erecting large and extensive works lu 

 the vicinity of the city of New York to prepare'the manures, 

 and farmers and gardeners may conBilently rely on a supply. 



QrAeTS,poWpaid, directed to " The New York Urate and 

 \ Poudrate Compiuiv," Box, No. 1211, Post Office, New York, 

 or sent to the store of STlLLWELt, & DEY, No. 365 

 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, will be allended to. 



The Company will he very niu.-h obliged to gentlemen 

 who have used the manures, to give them a statement in wri- 

 ting what has been the result of their use and experiments in 

 relation to them, 



New York, August, 1S39. 



Hale's Patent Horse Power and Patent Thresh- 

 ing Machine. 



.lOSEPH BRECK & CO. odi-r for sale this valuable 

 machine and feel great confidence in recommending it as the 

 best machine now m use. It will tliresh from 75 to lon 

 liusbels per day in the best possible manner. The horse 

 power is calculated to propel any kind of machinery, 

 is very simple in its construclion, occupies but the 

 smffll space of nne feet by two, and can easily be transport-, 

 ed from one plaie to anolHer, and when conibined with ibe 

 Threshing Machine it forms the most superior article for ibe 

 purpose ever invented. They can be supplied at short no- 

 tice at the N. E. Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store. 



August 28. 



