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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAY aa, IS44. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Contrash in Life.— A physician met me. 

 <* Would you like to see a curious picture of life ?" 

 ■did ho. 



" Of course: how far off?" 



" Within sound of that music." 



We turned out of Broadway, and in a few mo- 

 ments were at the font of a rude and dirty stair- 

 case, leading up on the side of a wretched build- 

 ing, to a kind of temporary loft. The doctor opened 



Government of Children — We have no idea that 

 every family of children can be governed with the 

 same ease or to the same perfection. But what- 

 ever excuse some parents may have for defects 

 which appear in their children, on account of na- 

 ture, disposition, or the circumstances in which 

 they are placed, we certainly cannot excuse those 

 who makt no attempt to govern them. We have 

 often been pained when we have heard parents 

 give commands to their children, and then allow 

 i them to be totally disregarded. We have seen 

 i this evil in ministers' families, as well as in others. 



, door, and we entered a dingy room, just long , ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ .^^^ been directed to a case of 



enough for a man to lay his length in. An old 

 cobbler's bench without tools, a few scraps of old ; 

 leather, and a man lying on some dirty straw in 

 the corner, with a ragged quilt over him, were all 

 the contents of the room. Yes, one thing more — j 

 a cent laid carefully on the window-sill. 



" Have you taken the medicine ?" asked the 

 doctor. 



"No, sir!" 

 " Why not ?" 

 " It 's of no use, sir." 

 " How of no use?" 



"Why, I don't want it — I'm sick of life, doc- 

 tor. 1 did n't send for you." 



Here the sick man turned his back to us with a 

 groan of pain at the effort, and drew the dirty cov- 

 erlet over his head. The doctor leaned over him 

 and <Tot hold of his pulse. 



"Do n't trouble me, doctor," said he ; "I hope I 

 shall pop off before night. There 's no room for 

 me in the world." 



The doctor said something kind to him, and he 

 went on speaking brokenly and with great ditficul- 

 ty, to something like the following effect — 



" I could n't go to the almshouse, for I was told 

 it was full. I can get no work, if I was ever so 

 well. People do n'l hav« their shoes mended now, 

 I believe. I have no pleasure in life, at the best. 

 There 's no comfort for rae. I'd rather die and 

 be quiet. I was glad when I got aick." 



He persisted in refusing, the medicine, and the 

 kind physician, who had seen called in by one of 

 the neighbors, gave somtf directions to a poor char- 

 woman who lodged in the cellar below, and we 

 left him. In three minutes more we were in gay 

 Broadway, and the music was still playing most 

 merrily in the balcony of the museum, and the 

 fountain was still leaping joyoualy in the Park, sur- 

 rounded by happy groups. Truly, there is here 

 and there a contrast in the world we live in. — 

 JVew York Evangelist. 



the kind with which we were once acquainted in 

 the State of Maine. 



We travelled a circuit on which lived a local 

 minister, who was considered a very good man. 

 He and his wife were very zealous in prayer and 

 exhortation. But their family of boys were 

 strangely neglected. Such dialogues as the fol- 

 lowing ofien took place. 



"Ephraim, fetch in some wood," said the father. 

 "I do n't want to," replied the boy. 

 « Well, William, you go," aaid the father, turn- 

 ing to another son. 



" I aint agoin' to — let Ben go," he replied. 

 " Well, Benjamin, you go, that 's a good boy." 

 " 1 shan't, father — you may go yourself," an- 

 swered the dutiful son. 



And the father would then fetch his own wood, 

 without saying a word in reproof of their disobedi- 

 ence, unless it might be, " You 're very naughty 

 boys." 



We have seen these very boye, when a lady 

 was approaching the house, actually set their dog 

 upon her for sport, and no reproof was given them. 

 When the father and mother were kneeling at 

 the family altar, and while engaged in animated 

 appeals to the throne of gmce, these boys would 

 be quarrelling with each other, or chasing the dog 

 round the room, or pinching the cat's tail. 



If this was a solitary case, we would let it pass ; 

 but 89 something of tho same kind of government, 

 or lack of government, is often to be witnessed, we 

 would ask such parents how it is possible for them, 

 with all their profession of religion, to serve God, 

 while they so utterly neglect the authority of him 

 #vho commanded them to train up their children in 

 the fear of God, and in the obedience to govc-n- 

 ment. Children are to obey their parents, and pa- 

 rents are to see that they do — Olive Branch, 



WILLIS' LATEST IMPROVED SEED SOWER. 

 In using this machine, the farmer may be c> itain thai 

 his seed is put into the ground, and at the same lime' 

 in the best possible manner. Theie has been a great, 

 difficulty in machines fur sowing garden spe.ls ; they ^ 

 arc very apt to clog up, and the farn.'r might go over ao 

 acre of hind and not sow a single seed : h.it not bo with" 

 this; it is so constructed that it cannot possibly clogj 

 In using this sower, the farmer can save one half gl , 

 his seed, and do the work at less ihrn one quarter the 

 expense of tl'e co:nmon way of sowing, and have i 

 done in a much better manner; it opens the furiow 

 drops the seed covers it over and rolls tlinn down. 

 It will sow any kind of Garden Seeds ; say Rula Baga 

 Mangel Wurtzel, Turnips, Carrots, Beets, Parsnips, On 

 ions, 4-0 For sale at the New England Agricnilura 

 Warehouse and Seed Store, Nos. 51 nnd 52 North Mar 

 ket street, by JOSEl'H BRECK & CO. 



The Parson and the Farmer. — An honest bluff 

 farmer meeting the parson of the parish in a bye- 

 lane, and not giving him the way so readily as he 

 expected, the parson, with an erect chest, told him 

 that he " was bettor fed than taught." 



"Very true, indeed, sir," replied the farmer ; 

 " for you leach me, and / feed mysell."— JSng. pap. 



EPIGRAM. 



Why should all girls, a wit exclaimed, 



Supriaing farmers be ? 

 Because they 're olways studying 



The art of husband-ry. 



Wan of JVapoleon — The German historians, 

 whose statistics are relied on with much confidence, 

 estimate that in the wars of Napoleon, which were 

 carried on eleven years, from 1802 to 1612, five 

 milliont eight hundred thousand men perished, be- 

 ing more than half a million annually. This cal- 

 culation does not include a great number of pre- 

 mature deaths, caused by the accidenU of war, by 

 fright, despair, &c. 



NITRATE OP SODA FOR AGRICCI.TURA1. 

 PURFOSB8. 



BENJAMIN BANGS, No. 39 & 40, Lewis' Wharf, has 

 for sale, a quantity of the above named article, which has 

 been much approved of in England, and as far as used in 

 this country has been found highly beneficial od grass land, 

 trees and plants generally. 



Boston, March 20, 1344. 3m 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS. 



Grindstones of different sizes, hung on friction rollers ana 

 moved with a foot treader, are lound lobe agreal improve- 

 ment on the old mode of hanging grindstones. Stones hung 

 in this manner are becoming daily more in use, and wherever 

 used, give universal satisfaction. The rollers can be attach- 

 ed lo stones hung in the common way. Kor sale by J. 

 BRECK & Co., No. 61 North Market street. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvements have been made the p^.st year in th 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs ; llui mould b< ar 

 has heen so formed as to lay the fvrrmc ''Aymptetely onei \ 

 tumivg in every particle of grass or 3tut^blK, and tenving th\ 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length of lb 

 mould board has heen very much incrensed, so that th 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, both with respect t 

 the holding and the team. The Committee ? t the late Irin 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion be asked as to whioli of the Plough 

 we should prefer for use on a farm, we might perhajjs say I 

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and easy to worl, 

 try Prouty & Mears, hut if your landis hcavtj, hxrd OTroch\ 



BEGIN WITH Ma. HoWAHD'B." 



At the ahove mentioned trial the Howard •^'i'^ugh dt 

 more work, with the same pewer of teajn. than any othi 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more it an Iwenlyseve 

 and one half inches, to the 112 lbs. draught, while ife 

 Howard Plough turned tteeniynine and one half inch^s^. 

 the same power of team I All acknowledge that Howard 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substantial! 

 made. . 



There has heen quite an improvement made on the sho 

 or land side of this Plough, which can be reuewed willioi 

 having to furnish a new fandside; this shoe likewise securi 

 the mould hoard and landside together, and strengiheas th 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from 86 to »I6. A Ploiig 

 sufficient for breaking up with lour cattle, will cost aboi 

 tio eo, and with cutter 1 1, with wheel and cutler, t2 f 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail,: 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Sted Slut 

 Nos. 61 & 52 North Market Street, by 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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