Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-07-12

Ncrt saw crowded bail rooai. One yoons
lady sas distinguished above the rest by her CAV.
ely and WvAsty II Was the first nigh, Of her hrs,
season, and she was tho belle oc the evening""
intoxicated By universal admiration she ianccd that
she welded the scertre ola queen, and dreamed
that her sway would endure forever. Coniiguoo.
wass room In which sat alone at twilight tho ssm.
woman; unaltercd, almost IN face und form su
with AK more years upon her life. She sat with.
out an aamrer, without one Haiercr: she though,
OF that first ball,and Of the changes which had be
fallen every one WIN present at that tluie her
memory ran over all the bright scenes whore she
once had been, ard her compen, upon all. was
long. deep sigh.
In a small, neat parlor sat father surrounded
by happy family. have seen IN life. tho man
who sat TO infancy for this picture IN this strange
dream he was the noblest man, that ever yet vas
placed on earth.,o find his, way TO heaven. It was
on SUNDAY morning and he had been hearing his
children repeat the caicchlsm and answer vatluus
questions connected with il aud they were now
waiting for the last bell to ring before going to
church. He looked around with placid smile up.
on the little circle, his cheerful wife, his two beau.
iliu young daughters. bis innocent. fair, smiling
boys, with the little presents which be had given
them for having said their catechism without an
error--and the good mans heart was happy he
thought Of no coming evil for he knew no past sn
In the same room, unchanged in its appearance on
Sunday morning, few years aftefward sat the
same man, but he sat alone. His wife had fallen
from window and had been killed. One of his
daughters had married vogabond against her pa
rents will, and died in misery the other was living
hopeless insane in a distant hospital OF his sons
the eldest had persisted IN a duel, which he had
compelled, himself; The youngest had been confined
for fhp of fnr nd no hal
heard that he had hanged himself in his cell. And
as the father thought of all these things and of the
former innocence and perfect purity of his children
of his instruction and lahore for their benefit aud
his hopes that they would be virtuous and distn-
guished, and blessing and comfort to himself
and their mother, there was smile of agony on
his checks and look e Vulnerable anguish in his
fearful eye. His heart was broken.
There were standing near to another young
maiden aud boy. Aud they loved mady but
dared not could not speak it. She stood as fear.
fu and timed the Boreol light he was about
TO leave her, and as she, knowing not what she
did, put her hand fenrully in his at The touch, he
quiverrd through his whole frame and they stood
with downeust eyes, trembling unrestrainibgly,
like the magnetic needle when an electric cloud ID
passing through the air. And I looked at Time.
and seemed to say to him. cart thou or love more
potent and he let few sands pass through his
glass, and looked again before me The two wore
together in another room she sat by the fire. talk
ing with some earnestness, and he lay upon a sofa,
executing long, intermiDable yawn. Time look
ed at me, and smiled and the scene passed away.
Next, we were in city on the first of May, and
1t was Sunday. long row Of cbildren-litle
boys walking with little girls, were passing, nea,
and clean in their simple dresses, from a SUNDAY
school Of the adjoining church, each with small
bunch Of flowers in the hand, and they were us love.
y and the bloom upon their hearts was as fresh as
that upon the roses they carried And watched
them tripping carelessly along and smiling and nod
ding to one another, till the last couple turned round
the corner and passed out Of view thought that
II was with repressed emotion and something Of
reluctant effort that Time turned down his glass,
that twenty years might do their NO K; but ares
ted his hand. "Not that" ! cried. "In mercy
hide tina, change"
And | saw, ufierward, nnumerable strange re-
verses which the droppings Of few of Times little
sands could work in the life of man. | saw the
young aspirant for poetic fame rushing con6de ntly
on the scene, and saw his subsequent fate. |
saw the fate of the rich csrouser, and the cautious
merchant, of the happy and the miserable a VIC
torious general returning home with the freedom
OF his country in his baud, worshiped and defed,
and ten years afterward peted in the streets. But
| FASTENED 10 the last scene
Upon the carpet Of chamber there gam
boiling a little child chd that felt no thought
that was not holy and knew word that was not
pure. Its heart was o shrine of heavenly remern.
brances, dwelling place Of love and alteration.
II looked upward, to adore il looked around to
love. There rested in it's mind, neither the worlds
light madness which is called wisdom, but inno-
cent in its Ignorance, pure in ,a experience. holy
in its he plessness, with no knowledge but that
which is brought from the bosom Of tie Father aud
its God; it played and tossed its arms. aud mis-
poke half uttered words; amused with atrnket a
toy, it ughed-idughed nih lis teLole face, as ID
iants only do, for in scyeter manhood that emblem
Of light heanedness the smile. retfeats 10 s last cit
hdel the mouth. P0fently there came into the room
a ms n, whose youthful features :epulsye from
the hardness OF old and saJde1ed feelings and whose
brow vas dark with sobefness Of thought. lie
looked severe and unhappy and the ffolic gentle
ness Of that lite child was repugnani 10 his
carcweaued spirit, that. it chung abou. his fee,
and looked upon his scorufll face. he almost flung
tie infant from him with contempt. Checking al
exclamation Of rebuke against this cold hearted
hich rose Involuntary o nv lbs | turned 10