Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-03

lered) il is equitably judged.
The coloners humble home was filled
to oyerfowing, so that there were num-
bers who were obliged to wait the moving
ofthe procession in the intense cold on the
outside of the house and they did wait,
patiently and reverenily-no slight testi-
mony of their respect.
The coffin was placed in the centre Of
the largest apartment, in the country
phrase, the ~dwelling-room." Within
the bedroom sat the "mourners :" but
stranger, who should have seen the crowd
as they pressed forward one after another
for last look at their departed friend,
might have believed they were all mourn
ing father. They were remembering
a parents offices. There was the widow,
whom he had visited in her afiliction
there were the orphans, now grown to be
thriving men and women, fathers and
mothers, whom he had visited in prison !;
there were sometime enemies converted
to friends by his peace-making interven-
ton; there was the young man reclaim
ed by his wise counsel and steady friend
ship, for the good colonel had " skeptic
smile" for what others deemed hopeless
deprayity, and believed
--"some pulse of good must live
/ Within a human nature"
And there were children with wet eyes,
for the rare old man who had always a
smile for their joys, and a tear for their
troubles and one, remember, rs her
mother lifted her UP for the last look
whispesed, "Oh, he is too good man te
bury in the ground !"
And there, in the midst of this sad
company, and with face quite as sad ai
his neighbors', stood Lyman Barton A
little urchin, particular friend of the OLD
colonePs, and of mine too, who stood be-
side me, pulled my ear down to his lips
and turning his flashing eye upon Bar
ton, whispered:
Ought he not to be ashamed of him
self ?"
Why, Hal, why?"
He is making believe cry, just like
crocodile ! EUery body says he has writ
ten to old Jackson already to be mad
postmaster. wish he was in the colo
nePs place"
q You could not wish him in a better
my dear"
" Oh, did not mean that / did nc
) mean that ~
It He would have proceeded; but l shoe
Q my head, and put an end TO the explana
e ton he was eager to make.
: The funeral was over, the cold win
4 was bowling without, the sigh of IL
- mourners alone was heard, where a fe
\ days before all had been cheerfulness AT
i preparation for the happiest event Of hl
a man life. Paulina had lighted a sma
lamp, and placed it in the farther part
! the room, for there seemed somethir
a. obtrusive even in the cheerfulness ofligl
70 She was seated on a low chair beside Il
er old lady. The passiyeness of grief W
a. peculiarly unsuited to her active and ha
= py nature and, as she sat as if she we
"a paralyzed, not even needing the Colone
oe faYorite cat, who jumped into her Ia
- and purred, and looked up for its acct
al toned earess, one could hardly belle
. she was the same girl who was ever
ia the wing, laughing and singing frC
he morning till night. Poor Lloyd, too, W
he had so gently acquiesced in the evils
be his lot, who had bent like the reed beic
lot the winds Of adversely, suffered now
IA those only DO who resist while they suif
m perhaps it was not in human nature !
,d- to mingle the disappointment Of the io'
tn with the grief Of the son, and, while
me was weeping bis loss, TO ponder over so
he Of his fathers last words. OF cour
ler my children" he had said, "you win I
he miss all thoughts Of marriage--ior
om present, mean. It viii be all,
Ite afraid more, than you can do, Lo
when the post-ollice and pension are 90
is 10 gel bread for your mother. If ,
'or, marry, you cant tell how many Ella
M there may be upon you. But don't
er. discouraged, my children; cast your c
our upon the Lord-someihing may turn
the l-wait-blessed are they who wait
,esi faith"
ood Both promised to wait, and both,
mp they now reyolyed their promise, rel
and ousIy resolved to abide by il, cost wha
eE- might.
zee, Their painful mediiations we're in
ath rupted By knock Al the outer door,
and Lloyd admitted MAJOR Perrit. one Of
4as. neighboFs. and one of those eYerlasl