Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-09-28
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A SEARcH1Ne QUEsr1oN.-A quaker

A SEARCHING QUESTION quaker
woman expostuIated kindly with dealer |
In spirituous liquors. He attempted to de-
fend the traffic. by saying that he sold il
10 sober persons only. land dost thou
think it better to make drunkards of sober
men, than TO kill those already broken
down with drunkenness ?" SAID she. The
question struck him SO forcibly, that he
found no peace of mind. until he abandon
ed the vile business forever
CAN'T LIVE ON DRY BREAD AND
Water. $50 says friend at our elbow;
and the answer is that we would by no
means have him con6ne himself to dry
bread and water, no more than we would
have him con6ne himselft to mere abstract
principles without an admixture of the
poetry and romance of life. No man can
live on mere dry, abstract principle, dis
connected from all other truth, and the
poetry which forms the natural atmos-
phere around it and attracts US to it. So
if simple bread and water appear to you
as inviting and unauractive as abstract
principles, you must remember that if we
recommend good bread as the prose. we
also recommend for part OF your diet, as
the poetry and romance oft. good cherries,
peaches, MELONS, pears, plums, straw
berries, apples, and thousand other fruits
| in their seasons. But there is no princi-
pie. poetry nor romance in eating fat pork
and other fesh-meat, Eor in glutting
ones self to the full on blood and bast-
ling"-nor in daily intoxication on tobac-
CO and coffee-nor in flthmess of person
through neglect of daily bathing. nor in
many Of the habits and customs of civic
life which now obtain Health Journal.
It is. comparatively, of very little con-
sequence, how far the originators of our
enterprise contemplated an assault on ex-
isting institutions. They knew not, in
fact, wha, lay before them, or how formi.
dable were The obstacles to be overcome
or how many were the foes TO be vanquish.
ed, before liberty could be proclaimed to
all the inhabitants of the land. They had
not, at that time, tested the actual condition
of the people; and they have since been
necessitated 10 make assaults on various
institutions and bodies of men, with which
they did not expect TO come in conflict
1t seems to me 70 be perfectly legitimate
on the anti-slavery platform, to examine
every institution which, for any cause
whatever, is found in an attitude hostile tc
our movement; and If it can be shown .ha
this hostility springs naturally from the
despotic assumptions of such institution
[ do not see why abolitionists may not as
: sault the institution itself, as well as il.
pro-slavery infuence-lay the axe at tht
root of the tree, as well as cry out agains
!, its fruit Garrison.
II A brave man thinks no one his superi
or. who does him an injury; for he ha
] it then in his power to make himself su
5 perior to the other, by forgiving it.
BEAUTIFUL CASE OF CONSCIENCE II
CH1LD.-A little girl, attending one o
the private schools in Boston, did no
: know her way home. A messenger wa
expected to take her from school. but a
: he did not arrive, sister pupil of the Cir
! was requested TO conduct her to her moth
!. er's house. For this service, the teache
! gave her cent. The children departed
i but before going far, they met the messen
ger. who relieved the guide of her charge
E She Immediately returned to her teacher
!. and said, - L did MI show the little cir
: The way home, and SO | have brougf
: back your cent.
4 ANEcDoTE OF LUTHER.-Martin Lu
J Their, when travelling incog once heard
company of students discussing his charac
{ ter. One of them remarked, There ar
! some who cannot enough extol him, an
# thank God that by his means, they hav
!. discovered truth but others. denounc
! him as an intolerable hereto; and sue
!; iare chiefly the clergy"
Il AYE, aye" said Luther, IL coul
!. have sworn it was the parsons"
WASHING WooLENs.-lf I've be pu
l. in the water 10 which woolens are wash
O ed, it will prevent their fulling up. Arli
E cles that have been injured by bad wash
: log may be rendered much softer and NOR
: elastic, by mixing iye with the water i
,, which they are washed. A quart of lys
. Of common strength, is about the rigt
n proportion for pailiul OF rainwater.
n MlLDEw.-If linen is badly raildewec
U wash and rinse it thoroughly, rub so
1t soap into the mildewed parts, and Tu
l powdered chalk over the SOAP. Let it la
;. in the sun, on the grass, keeping it moi
u with watering-pot. Every two day
q wash and rinse.it, to prevent its mldewin
!. again. Repeat the process of soap an
re chalk, and Yon will soon o5literate th
X most inveterate spots of mildew.
!, WHITE SLAVES OF THE NORTH.
s, John Randolph had great comteml
:. for the white slaves" of the North; az
,u seemed to appreciate The great benefit d