Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-14

lookout for those fellows along the wharycs
John, keep everything snug III be back or
Tuesday"
How Men CHOW Henry Ward Bccchcr
thus tells Even in the darkest cellar, when
spring comes, the tuber will sprout No rains
help it, and no sunlight; vet it will waste its
very life in shooting forth long and etolated
stems, and reach towards any chink or crew
ice through which the fantest glcam may
come. But so little light as that makes
growth to be exhaustion. And such are men
grown in the darkness and dungeons of OPP
preston while free man, with all the cir
cumstanccs and opportunity of admirable lib
crty, resembles more our own New England
pine, that asks not richness Of soil that
grows from among the rocks, and clothes the
granite hills, and feeds abundantly, even in
the very sands--whose leaf never withers,
and is as green in the winter as in the sum-
mer Behold it, standing on the mountain
top, and singing with every branch when the
summer winds sigh through it; and even in
the direst extremity of winter bearing up the
cold SHOWS upon its tultcd branches as the
warrior carries the white plume upon his
head. And such is the man full grown. and
strong in the nourishing air Of liberty"
PLAIN TALK.-Go out into the open air
young women and add lustre to your eyes,
bloom to your checks, elasticity to your steps,
and vigor to your frames Take exercise
let loose your corset strings, and run up hill.
for wager, and down again for fun roam
the fields, climb the fences, leap the bitches
wade the brooks, and after a day of oxhiler-
ating exercise and unrestrained liberty, 70
home with an appetite acquired by healthy
enjoyment The blooming and beautiful
young women--rose-cheeked and bright-eycd
who can darn stocking, mend her owr
frocks, command a regiment of pots and ket
ties, feed the pigs, milk the cows, and be
/ lady when required is the girl that can make
a good wife. But the pinng, screwed up
wasp--waisted, doll-dressed, consumptiye--
mortgaged, music numbering, and novel de
vouring daughters of fashion and idlcness
are no more fit for matrmony than pule
/ is to look after brood of fourteen chickens
] The truth is, girls want less fashionable re
/ strant and more liberty of action NOR,
| kitchen and less parlor more leg exercis
and less sofa more pudding and less piano
more franknoss and less mock modesty.
A SoRRowFuL TALE Has beiya is beau
titul village at the foot of Hermon, and clos,
to the source of the Jordan 1t contains. o.
did before the massacre, population OF 500t
Christian souls, chiefly of the Greek "ortho
dox' church. To Protestant Christendon
iasbeiya should be place of the utmost pos
sible interest, for it was here that the preach
ing of Evangelical truth had borne nor
= fruit than anywhere else in Syria. The Pro-
estants numbered in this village upwards
200 they had native pastor and regula
church of their own-thc latter having bee
built chiefly by their own contributions. {
the Protestant community, which a fortnigf
ago was full of spiritual as well materii
life, two men now live to tell the tale OF the
butchery, whilst Of their 1000 Greek fcllo
: Christians butthirty-three men have survive,
, and the fate of their wives and children
worse than uncertain.-Syia Correspondent
London NeWs.
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