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

ing mine of the only riches they coveted
"dared be poor" in this worlds poor sense.
Secured by the good colonels indulgence,
for the present they were too happy to
look beyond the sunshine that play
ed around them for any dark entangle-
ments TO which their path might conduct
them. In any event they did not risk |
the miseries of dependence, nor the pains
of starvation. Nature, in our land, |
spreads an abundant table and there is
always a cover awaiting the frugal and
industrious laborer (or even gleaner) in
her fruitful fields. Anything short Of
absolute want, perhaps even that, it
seemed to our young friends happiness to
encounter together
Oh ye perjured trafickers in marriage
vows! ye buyers and sellers of hearts
hearts they are no. articles ofcommerce
buyers and sellers of the bodies that
might envelop and contain celestial
springs, eat, drink and be merry, for to-
morrow ye die Tomorrow your home,
the temple ofyour affections, which God
himself has concentrated, shall be their
tomb, within whose walls shall be endur-
ed the torpor of death, with acute con-
sciousness of life
Our simple friends VOTED not Of the
miseries of artificial life. These had
never even crossed the threshold Of their
imaginations. The colonel gave his
hearty consent for the asking, and his pru-
dent help-mate was too true hearted a
woman to Withhold hers. There are those
wise as serpents, if not harmless as doves
in village life and such shook their
heads, and wondered if the colonel calcu.
lated to live and be postmaster forever
or if Lloyd could be such fool as to ex
pect to succeed to the Office, when every
body knew it was just as good as promised
5 to Mr.. Barton Lloyd Barnard steady
d consistent (our own side is always consis
: tent whig, expect the tender mercies o
t the jackson party No, Lloyd Barnard
T indulged no such extravagant expecta
tions. He had stood by old Massachu
o setts through her obstinate or her con
g ststesat opposition to the general govern
II ment, and he expected to reap the Gus
tomary reward of such frmness or
prejudice. To confess the truth, h
t thought little about the future, and not a
e all of the Malthusian theories. Hi
present happiness was enough, and it wa
a frightened with the soft and equal ligh
of the past. As to Paulina, it was he
d nature,
le " Meier to forgather VII sorrow and care,
But gle them a skelp as they're creepin alang.
ID The. preliminaries being adjusted,
was agreed on all hands that the weddin
IN should not be deferred. Quilts wei
at quilted-the punishment pasted on tt
church door-and the wedding-cal
,, made. Never had the colonel SCENE
i, better and brighter; his step was firm
- his person more erect than usual an
al his face reflected the happiness of h
!. children, as the leafess woods warm al
kindle in spring sunshine.
AT this moment came one of those su
! den changes that mock at human calc
:. lations. An epidemic influenza, fatal
the feeble and the old, was passing oy
the whole country. Col. Barnard W
y one of its first victims. He died after
uy weeks illness and though he was sor
"s years beyond the authorized period
90 mortality, his death at this moment {
10 casioned a general shock, as if he b
III been cut off in the prime of life. All
~ even his enemies, we should have sa
:" but enemies he had none-spoke of {
ay event in subdued voice, and with I
g, sincerest expressions of regret. I
, grief of his own little family we have
'Ni space to describe, or if we had, how COZ
sou we depict the desolation of home fl,
loi which such fountain Of love and go'
Is ness was suddenly removed Notwi
ton standing the day Of the funeral was {
ng- of the coolest Of severe January,
cry mercury being some degrees below cipl
and the gusty, cutting wind driving
'nt snow into pillows, numbers collected fr
Tor the eadjoining towns to pay the last trib
ofrespect to the good colonel.
you There is a reality in the honor tina
you rendered at a rustic funeral TO a ps
am good man, a touching sincerity IS 81
just pathy where every follower is a mourn
The custom, growing in some Of
and cities, Of private funerals, or limiting
l attendants TO the family and nea
ond friends of the deceased, is there 10 z
ex- taste. The parade Of ceremony, the pc
the of numbers, the homage Of eivilty,
that all the show and tricks Of hollow oons