The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-16

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There he met a woman weeping, and la
mentng the inhumanity of her brother.
This confirmation of what the priest had
said, inspired the young man with fixed
determination. 1t was Staszic who had
placed him at college, and supplied him with
the means of continuing there. Now, he
would reject his gifis--he would not accept
books from man who could look unmoved
at his own sisters tears.
The learned minister, seeing his favorte
pupil enter, did not desist from his occupa-
ton, but, continuing to write, said
Well, Adolphc, what can do for you
io-dayP you want books, take them out
of my library; or instrumenis-order them
and send me the bill. Speak to me freely,
and tell me if you waut airy thing
"On the contrary, sir, come TO thank
you for your past kindness, and to say that
must in future decline receiving your
gifts
You are become rich, then.''
' i am as poor as ever"
"And your cOllege?'
81 must leave it,
ImpossibleT' r. cried Siaszc, stonding up,
and fixing his penetrating eye on his visitor.
You are the most promising of all our pu-
pils-it must not be p
In vain the young student tried to conceal
the motive of his conduct; Staszic insisted
on knowing it.
"Your wisb," said Adolphe, "to heap fa-
vors on me, at the expense of our sufferiug
family"
The powerful minister could not conceal
his emotion. His eyes filled with tears, and
he pressed tbe young mans hand warmly, as
he said -
Dear boy, always take heed to this coun>
sell JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME
Ere the end of life arrives, the purest virtue
may he soied by vice, and the btterest call
umny proved to be unfounded. My con-
duct is, in truth, an enigma, which | cannot
now solve, it is the secret of my life."
Seeing the young man still hesitate, he
added
keep an account of the money l give
you, consider it as loan; and when, some
day, through labor and study, you find your
self rich, pay the debt by educating some
poor, deserving student AS to me, wait for
my death before yon judge my life."
During fifty years Stanislaus Slaszic al
lowed malice to blacken his actions. lie
knew the time would come when all Poland
would do him justice. On the goth of jan
uary, 1926, thirty thousand mourning Poles
flocked around bis bier, and sought 10 touch
the pail, as though it were some holy. pre-,
cious relic.
The Russian army could not comprehend
the reason Of the homage thus paid by the
people OF Warsaw to this llustrious man
His last testament fully explained the reason
of his apparent avarice. His vast estates
were divided into five hundred portions
each to become the property of free peas
/ mo io' sun n oShoOif Oh an od-
mirabe plan, and very extended scale, wa.
TO be established for the instruction of the
peasants children in different trades.
reserved fund was provided for the succo
of the sick and aged. A small yearly tax
10 be paid by the liberated serfs, was des
tined for purchasing, by degrees, the free
dom of their neighbors, condemned, as the,
had been, to hard and thankless toll.
After having thus provided for his peas
ants, Staszic bequeathed six hundred thous
and ilorins for founding a model hospital
and he left considerable sum towards edu
Gazing poor and studious youths. As for hi
sister. she inherited only the same allowane,
which he had given her, yearly. during life
for sho was a person of careless, extravagan
habits, who di.sipat-d foolishly all the none,
she received.
A strange fate was that of Stanislaus Stas
zic. A martyr to caumny during his life
after death his memory WAS blessed and re
vered by the multiiudes whom he had mad
happy.