Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-01

and improving their voices ard mending
their manners, you may at last admit
Them to the character Of humble and use
ful friends. But we will give You breath
We have other topics hereafter-N E.
Farmer.
The foregoing article is given in the Telegraph,
not so much for the encouragement Of swine rails
ing, and swine-eating, as for manure making.-
&" Swine are lin my own view, far morel excellent
to work in a compost heap" than to be taken into
the human stomach. Those who wiH raise them,
will find in the foregoing some valuable sugges-
tons in regard to the disposition of them during
their growth. led. TEL.
Agriculture-.' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The time has arrived when men of sci
ence and taste, of refined minds and the
best education, begin to perceive in agr-
culture and its kindred pursuits much 10
attract, and much to benefit mankind Ii
is not viewed as any thing rePulsive aud
forbddlng, as fit only for the boor and the
cIodhopper, but the pursuit of agriculture
is one which now engages the attention
Of the chemist and the scholar, the man
who brings to the extension OF knowledge
the labor of his hands or the labor of the
mind. Our best periodicals are not asham-
ed 10 devote articles now and then to the
Improvement Of agriculture and elevat-
ed Quarteries that would once have deem
ed it an infraction of dignity to have lad
their talk of oxen now discourse most
learnedy Of sheep cattle, and turneps
and if little superficial on such matters
sometimes, such chapters are probably
quite as edifying and beneficial to the pub
lie, as details OF the petty quarreIs of au,
thors, or the dissection of some miserable
hack of writer. The Edinburgh Re-
view was the first, we believe, to set the
example Of papers on agriculture, and
they were distinguished with the usua
ability Of articles in that Journal; an ex.
ample which has been more or less fol-
lowed by other professedIy literary peri
odica's, both abroad and at home.
That fist of American Magazines, the
Knickerbocker' for June, has paper or
the state of Society in this country, par
ticularly as it exists among the agrciultu
raj and mechanic Glasses, which contain.
much wholesome truth, and may be reac
to advantage by all interested 10 these Of
similar pursuits. Speaking of the differ
ent kinds of poverty, and the causes, the
writer remarks
by fashionable and erpsns;re poor, i;
intended all those, whether merchants
farmers, mechanics, day Iaborers, etc.
who live in the imitation Of expensive
fashions, without any proper regard tc
their wages or fortunes. This class, ii
the United States, embraces larger pro
portion Of the people, than in any o;heI
country whatever.
"Of these fashionable poor, large
number, even of those that belong to the
higher classes, are among the poorest PEG
pie in the United States If there were
weights and scales to weigh human mis-
cry by the ounce and pound, it would bt
found that these unhappy people sufeI
more in mind from embarrassments, duns
modification, offended pride and consciou;
meabness and Wickedness, at the though
that they are spending the property O
their friends, and Of honest hard working
farmers, mechanics. and others, than ma
ny very poor people do in body, for the
want Of sufficient clothing, fuel, and food
Striving to be something which thcil
means will not allow, they are in a per
petual conflict, in the worst war in the
world war with themselves. They
do not live by any rule of their own, ac
cording to what God has given them, and
what is therefore only allowable for them
10 spend, but they live after rule set BY
the fashion of rich people, and thus they
see with other peoples eyes, whose eyes
are their ruin Instead of having their
clothes made in the most economical way
in their own houses by their own wives
or daughters, they run to the fashionable
milliners or tailors, at the SAME time they
are suffering for good, substantial, season.
able garments. Tteir parlors and dining
/ rooms, are full of what they call splendor,
that is, fnery. IL they have valuable
pictures, 1t is ten to one these are put into
the shade, in order to show their fine cur
t,tains to better advantage. If you 60 out
of this region of splendor and magnif.
cence, the real barrenness Of the territory
in good, usefu! things, appears. In the
kitchen and other apartments, there is not
a decent suficiency of proper cooking
utensils, tubs, kettles, dishes, carpets, and
| other conveniences for health, comfort, and
cleanliness. Nothing IS 50 mean as the
real poverty otsthese people, ereept their
PRIDE" '-' 'sa y: - 800. .
That this is not true BILL no one
who is acquainted with the state of socie-
ty in this country. will dareto affirm; and
if farmers are more exempt from this spe-
cies of folly than some other classes. there
is great reason to apprehend they are not
altogether free. Do not they as well as,
-nfhf - irldnlpe In exnensive Injuries sim :,