Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-10-06
TIL F. DOOM ED SON,
OR
Z A MILY HONOR.

his 10 Tue tlJlc vi story Ol strange III
aterest, which we copy from Douglass Jer-
rod's Illuminated Magazine. The scene is
laid in Canton de Vaud, in the year 1928.
The peasantry of that part of the Swiss
Highlands possess a strong feeling of family
pride. They can trace their lineage by au-
Ihentic histories to the first period of the
christian era, and many have been the title
deeds for the small farms on which they la
Dor, engtaYed on copper, of the time of the
Consus.--N. Y. american.
The following is domestic incident in
the history of one of these families, which
consisted of a father and mother, two sons,
the eldest of twenty-five, the youngest but
eighteen, and two daughters of intermediate
ages. The youngest son, fair-haired, well
formed boy, was one Of those wild unmanaee-
able lads who are at once the bane and the
davorite of the district. His open, Joyous,
handsome countenance, his reckless cour-
age, untirable hilarty and fun. made his
neighbors tolerate series of mschevous
and wicked FRANKS which would have brought
down condign punishment upon one of
greater age and less winning exterior. At
sast growing more reckless and ungovernable,
he one day galloped off with a neighbor's
horse, was gone week, and making ac-
quaintance with a girl of loose character,
sold the horse to furnish means of debauch-
cry. Deserted and robbed by his paramour.
the guilty young man, awakened to a sense
of his real situation, attempts to reach home
He wishes to see his mother, and obtain
from her the means of escape to a neighbour
ing province. He is pursued, is wounded
IN ettecting desperate escape, and is worn
out by hunger and fatigue. After the mar
ration of this perilous escape the story is
thus told
When evening approached he commenced
the last and most perilous part of his Jour-
ney. He was now in country where his
face was known to every one, and the dis
lance was almost too great to be passed in
the few hours of darkness. With much
labor, however. he succeeded in reaching
his house before daylight, clambered into
hay loft where his brother was certain to
comeior fodder for the catte--coyered over
with the hay, and waited for his arrival
Soon after daybreak he heard his brothers
step, and his agitation was almost beyond
endurance. He now for the first time began
to consider how he should be received
thing which had not yet entered into his
mnd. That he would be given up to JUS
tice was out of the question would he be
allowed the shelter of home He at last
summoned courage to leave his hiding place,
and found his worst fears CONFERENCE.-The
brother, so far from receiving him with az
lection, started from him with an expression
of horror, and would not even allow him to
come near. "You are the first of your race
that has ever committed crime like this,
and you have brought shame upon family
that has been without reproach since the
birth of our Saviour"
The boy could make no answer but tears
but faint with hunger he exclaimed
" For Gods sake give me food, | have
not eaten for forty hours p The brothers
heart was moved, he abstained from re-
proaches, fetched him food and wine, wait
ed while he eat it and then rising and as
suming countenance of severity to con-
ceal his emotion, said, "Come with me into
the barn, and will pile the straw round you,
and you will be safe for time, till we can
devise what is to be done. If you present
yourself to your father in his present state
of mind, he will kill you. Leave me to
make your peace, if, indeed, that be possible,
for your mother also is deeply incensed, and
il will require time to overcome her repug-
nance to intercede for you. 1t must be at
tempted gradually, or it will assuredly fail
of success"
In this hiding place the youth remained
during the day, and it was not till past mid
night that his brother ventured near him.
He came without light, and speaking in
a low tone said "The officers of Justice
have been here to day, and have only just
left the house, on hearing the affair of the
lamb, which has been found in the cave il
is not doubted that you are the culprit, and
they are gone in that direction to seek for
you. have not ventured to communicate the
secret to your father or mother. Only your
sister Julia yet knows it, and she was i'll in
bed. You must stay here for the present
In the morning will break the affair to the
family"
With this promise he was compelled to
be satisfied, the brother left him without
food and departed. All that night and the
next day he remained alone, but in the eve
ming the brother came as before with food
His countenance was sombre, his voice Sc
we're, and his words were few and cold.
"May see my mother p said the youth,
"No," was the stern reply.
b "Nor my sisters p
"No, your father has forbidden it,
t'Fhen, what am to do 2"
"You will know by and by, and shall
be with you again before midnight" and he
suddenly left the barn without single
word of kindness.
"God help me-" said the boy. "What
will become Of mel" and he put aside the
food untasted.
Not till nearly two in the morning did the