Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-19
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10 obtain a complete livelihood, upon the
true system Of diet. The principal part of
the farmers labor grows directly out Of
the propagation Criminals for food. the
summer is spent in raising and curing
their winter fodder and grain; and in
BoTHERINo the udders of cows, making
butter and cheese, and taking care OF it
and in hllening cattle and hogs for the
autumnal slaughter. Look at the want oil
economy in another respect. The amount
Of grain which almost every farmer rails
es, in any year, would sustain his family
for several years. Now instead Of eating
the clean pure corn, he converts it into
nasty hog or diseased brutes, and feeds up
on that. For this mere sensual indulg-
ence, his tolls are seven or eight times
multiplied; his health is destroyed: and
his mind is desola,e and dreary waste,
unadorned by one shrub Of knowledge
one bud Of fancy, one creation of the i'm
oginalion, or one sun-glance Of true hap
piness.
Excessive labor demands excessive eat
ing = excessive eating is followed by a
premature something called marriage, and
children thick as hai!-stones, who must be
fed. clothed, and educated; or be left TO
come up as their parents before them
destined TO swing round in the same eter.
nal revolution Of eating, drinking, toiling,
wearing, tearing and hobbling through
life with one leg in the grave and the 9TH
or grGeed with gout-loot. With all this
wear and tear of life ana health, the en-
pense OF clothing is more than quadrupl-
ed. To all the rest, the Doctors bill must
be aided. Even the use of animal ma.
nure increases the labors of the farm,
from the fact that it is filled with the seeds
of weeds and grasses, which springing up
among The growing crop, demand the
work of determination. Thus al almost
every step, mans societyship with ami
mails adds to the severity Of his labors
and detracts from the time which ought.
TO be devoted to mental Development.
Man may be said 10 retreat from rational
Intercourse with man, to associate with
The brutes-and that intercourse curse,
to both man and beast. But the extra ex-
pense of animal food stops not mere. To
the foregoing must DO super-added the
cost Of condiments used in its preparation,
and of extra service dishes for the table;
and The added labor Of washing and clat-
tering among crockery. TIE present
mode Of living enslaves woman; hangs a
fesh-pot about her neck, in which she is
constantly dinging the eternal monotony
Of her life. She often complains, and oh,
most truly that her work is never done.
But let her reflect how much she is her.
sci! the victim Of depraved palate. Gen.
tie reader, make an experiment of disus.
ing animal food. Try it thoroughly and
efectualy, and see whether you are not
healthier, happier. and Of serener sweet
er mind. know the reform action will
require great effort, and selfdenial. But
will not its achievement more than con-
ponsale YOU. Ii costs the inebrate cruel
fixon 10 quit his glass. 1t costs the liber-
tine effort to reform--:he malevolent man
o. strunGle 10 exercise the virtue of for
-giveness aud the ex;orlioner strong
grasp on the reins Of Acqusi:iveness, to
do his neighbor no wrong; but who will
not say that each is unspeakably the bet
Ter for the triumph. Shrink not then
from the contest, but grapple boldly with
the demon appetite.
"Assumc nvirtue, ifyou have il not.
That monster custom, that doth oil sense eat
Oh habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the Of actions ia ir and good
Tie likewise gives frock, or livery
That apply is put on. Abstain to night,
And that shall lend kind of easness
To the next abstneLce--the next more easy
For almost change the stamp OF nature,
And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency S4ak.
john DAVIS.
DEPLoRABLE CAsUALITY.--The Rev.
DR.. Beecher has received letters f.om the
West conveying the melancholy inteili-
s.aGence o. the sudden death Of bis son, Rev