Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-16

anu was SGiC StC SONAd hSfNL thihN VI
Johnny without crying,
i've heard Ruth say resumed Miss
Hale " that it seemed to her as though
all the JOY of her life went out from her
soul when they closed Johnny's eyes
and am sure l don't wonder for he was
the most beautiful boy | ever saw but
it must be harder if possible, TO have her
two children taken.
But Miss Hale why don't they send
after him and bring him back ?"
They don't know where he is gone,
cannot fnd single race of him, he
would be sure to look out for that
90 dear what can be done for Ruth,
I'm so sorry for him. And what in the
world will Gerranna say, whtn she comes
home you remember she and Ruth
always thought so much of eaeh other,
they were together so often that i seemed
to me almost like having two daughters
instead of one"
"Well l do believe Geranna will feel
almost as sad as Ruth herself, she always
took it to heart when Freeman treated
her badly"
Il know it, and oh, I am so glad she
made Harry promise not to drink any
more, before she married him, they've
been so much happier; and l do believe
girls might have more influence in keep
ing young men from drinking than they
think for, especially their brothers; why,
| don't believe you could hire one of my
boys to drink drop of rum, m,all from Ger
annals coaxing them to believe il wrong.
Well, | must say Mrs. Giddings
your Geranna is as true a woman as ev-
er lived in our Granite State, wish there
were more like her"
Mrs. Giddings leaned toward with Ii,
pretence Of picking up her reel, but il
fact to hide the tears of mothers homes
pride and she changed the subject by
saying she had forgotten to ask wher,
Ruth was going to live now.
She is going to her father-in-law 5
they have tried to persuade her to g
there before, but she would never leay,
her husband, now he has left her,"
q declare it SO unngrv.ee mo com
: work at all, thinking how she must suf
: fer. What should I do if Wilbur an,
Joseph were taken from me in that way
. why l should die, know I should"
Zone cannot always die if ever $
sorely afflicted and we can't tell hoy
much we may bear till comes upon US.
" Well I wish there was some way t
get the children back"
Perhaps your husband could pla
y somthing to help u.s."
Possibly he might, and | will go rigt
about getting my supper ready early an
= then call him.
Mr.. Gildings seldom made lon
speeches, but what he did say had thougI
: and sense to it; and his opinion W;
much regarded in the neighborhood
-e when he said It is likely Mr. Winla
has gone to Maine" everybody else sa
fe = Yes, it is very likely"
y And as they sent messengers towar,
&c the East. they did not hear the stol
- that was being told in many Vermo
- farmhouse, where neighbors talked t
gether of an evening. How man wi
Id such an evil face had come over the lii
Sc followed by two little boys SO weary al
70 way worn that it made their hearts c
70 with pity when they looked into the
lg sorrowfull brown eyes, and how the mi
IT. had urged them on with words and blo'
i till his wicked eyes laughed at the
moaning but that was because he W
'e drunk they had seen him drink from
green bottle which he carried in his poe
% ct. And he had often enquired " III
|. far is it to the Great Lakes in the Wesl
/" And they had all answered that was ve
as very far indeed, SO tar that even t
TO names of the lakes seemed to them Ii
nd an echo coming from an immense da
I'D distance and they wondered why /
ITO strangers should go there, so nearly {
ay of the world.
"n If Mr.. Giddings had been there
'e' would said at is because Freem
ste Winlay has lost his manhood, has driv
no away all that is glorious and noble
'at man and l fear that sometime the GO
"0 angels will whisper,
Lost, lost, lost,
7iy A beautiful SOU IS lost p"
CHAPTER III.
g." Four years had Freeman Winla
i "a, bi,, s,ood ;y h. fnrast bV Wilder re