Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-04-04

That thus a worm Of dust should mock
Eternal majesty.
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FARMERs' DArGmTERs.-The Farmers daugh-
tiers are soon TO be the life well the pride OF
the country-a glorious race ofwOmen, which no
other land can show. | seek not TO iatter them.
for before they can become this they will have
to make earnest efforts Of one or two kinds
There some who deprccate their condition,
and some who have a false pride in it, because
they demand more consideration than they mcr-
it, want Of intelligence upon all subjects Of
the day, and refined education is no more ex-
cusable in q country than a town bred girl, in
this age of books and newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged because they can
not be sent away from home to boarding schools;
but men ofsupcrior minds and knowledge Of the
world would rather have for wives women well
and promptly educated at home. And this edu-
cation can be had, wherever the desire is not
wanting. a taste for reading does wonders and
an earnest thirst after knowledge is almost GER
tain to attain sweet draught of 'Pierian spring.
There is a farmers daughter in this very room in
which am writing, beautiful, refined and in
tellectual woman, in whose girlhood books were
not as plentiful as now, and who gained her fine
education under difficulties which would have
discouraged any but one who had as true love
for study.
The women in towns and cities are becoming
SO universally unhealthy. and universally cX-
almost III despair OF obtaining wives who are not
invalids aud providing them with what they de-
mand after they have married them. Unless the
young man has the fortune (g0od or bad) to he
the inheritor of wealth. he must spend the bloom
of his youth in acquiring enough TO start upon.
as people are expected to begin nowadays
Men even in high places, would go to the coun-
try for their choice, if they met (hcrc equal re-
fnement and intelligence. Women are prepar-
ing to take noble stand in history and they
cannot do it in gnorancc.-F2Orai Cadmet
UNCLE SANS FARM-TWo centuries ago Uncle
Sam was nh infant. and his present farm was the
red mans wild. The Indian was no farmer
lie left the soil unturned, the trees to grow as
they chose the creeks and rivers to flow as they
pleased the useful metals uudisturbed in their bed
Ills house WAS Of poles, covered with the skins Of
beasts lie made no roads, 10 vehicles no boat
but hollow log. lie stole his clothes from the
animals, or went unclad. The plumes Of. birds.
beads OF beach shells, the schooboy's paint stone
were his ornaments. The cane and flint furnish
ed him arrows. His pipe was Il stol3 with a
hole in it, his knife stone sharpcncd. his grist
mill two stones, the rudcst thing that can be
called mortar
Uncle Sam's first crops were enriched with his
own and Indian and British blood. Then lie be-
gan to tear down his old log barns and build bet
ter. to open roads, cut canals, improve harbors.
rake snags from the rivers and cover the States
over with net work Of railroads.
Uncle Sam snaps his thumb and finger, and
cities spring up like the creations of magic ; he
blocks out State, and sees building more gio-
rious than the full blOssoming of an ancient en-
pirc. With his two iron rails. his Ierculean
steam horse, and his great train Of wagons he
outsrips the swift winds and makes the oaks
prick up their ears or move off wish fright. The
streams are beset with noisy mill gear the rivers
filed with proud steamers ships. whose tonnage
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yer with their white wings about the scaporis
and lay their huge bulks along the wharycs of
tncle Sam. There are thick-waled wealth in
the cities, happiness in the country, industry and
enterprise everywhere.
Whilst more than three thousand church spires
speak cf Unclc SANS sabbath propcnsties. two
hundred and ihirty-fOur colleges. with academies
and common schools sOwn broadcast, tell OF his
wishes and expectations in respect to the rising
generation.
Toss up your head Uncle Sam and let us see thc
saoist of your eye, while we tell you that you
have the best and largest farm on this earth :
There il lies On the top of the globe. Graded be-
tween the two great oceans, with nearly thirty
thousand miles of sea coast beautiful with great
harbOrs and proud headlands Surely it is an i'll
trade-wind that can blow you no commercial
good. llithcr shall come the euds Of the earth TO
exchange commodities. Your fairs shall copcen-
trate more interest thau did the games of ancient
hundred million to the population of the globe.
Last year you raised more than two thousand
million dollars worth of agricultural products,
and yet the farm is not half cleared; besides you
did over fifteen handred million dollars worth of
other work. Then think Of your one hundred and
thirty thousand square miles Of corn field, Your
bills and deep down mountains, full Of the useful
metals, and your California.
word, Uncle Sam do as yOn have done, and
you shall be the happiest and nobest uncle
that has ever graced this earth.-St. LOais DEM
Ocrat.
DE KIND TO YOUR SISTERS Boys, be kind to
your sisters. GU may live to be old, and never
find such tender, loving friends as these sisters
Think how many things they do for you ; how
patient they are with you how they love you in
spite of all your i'll temper or radeness how
thoughtful they arc for your comfort, and be you
thoughtful of theirs. BE ever ready to obiige
tbem to perform any little Office for them that
lies in your power. Think what you can do for
them and if they express a wish, be ready to
crafty il if possible. You do not know how
much happiness you will find in SO doing. never
yet knew happy and respected man who was
not in youth kind TO his sisters. There is a beau