Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-05

five hundred dollars clear, at least, on his pro- .
ducc the second, double that's and then he was
to sell out and make two or three thousand
morel SO sure was he of success. And thus
he wrote to his brother. Moreover, he stated
that "his family had enjoyed excellent health, |
save some two or three months of acclimatng
fever; that they expected to have good schools
there after q time; and as to preaching, they |
could have that at any time, by riding some ten
or twelve miles, which they sometimes did, !
when the roads were passabe.'
"Gorious news (" said his brother, on receiv-
ing his letter 81 wonder what we shall have
next Probably great advance in the value
of lands, and the sale of his farm at an cnor
nous profit" SO said William to his wife
ironically, of course.
"Now," said she, civilian, you are always
running down your brother. Perhaps he will
succeed, after all, and be worth double what
YOU are.'
"Aha then you begin to envy him, do you?"
"No-but it would be pity if he should get
to be worth more than we are!'
"You shall have new dress that day. my
dearr
81 shall remember that, William"
81 will remember it, too for if James is
worth brass farthing in fve!years, will own
myself no prophet--and fool besides"
"No, not fool, hope; that is going little
too far"
"Well, am afraid that you will never get
the dress, that is, on the terms mentioned and
yet hope you may for shall be glad to see
James succeed. He wants to be rich so much.
that shall be happy to see him so and yet, if
he werc he wouldn't stay long; he is too
discontented character to remain anything
long at time-save to be poor! If he gets to
be poor once, he will hardly recover from it
rich man easily becomes poor, but not poor
man rich-that is after fall"
In the meantime, William moved on sin the
even tenor of his way" accumulating something
every year, and by means of his own farm and
his brothers. went ahead some five hundred to
a thousand year. Thus he advanced in prop
ery iur three or four years, when he received
another letter from his brother In this he
stated, "that he expected to return to New Eng
land in a short time that unfortunately lands
1t the West had, contrary to the opinion of
even the wisest men in that section of the coun-
try. greatly depreciated-a that now as things
were, little was to be made by speculation, or
even any other way. That his family had suf-
fered a great deal from chills and fever, and
that his wife, most OF all, was sick of the West.
and longed to he back again in New England -
William took the letter. and read it gravely
then, calling to his wife, he exclaimed
"Ah my dear YOU have lost that satin dress
that promised YOU
"Why so, William"
"Why, James is coming back
"lle is"
$50 he writes"
"Nhat is the matter now? Or has he made
a fortune, and so is going to return and enjoy
it here?"
~ fortune, indeed If he hasn't lost all,
shall be glad. But stay--here is postscript
that | didn't read. He adds-'I shall be glad
to buy back my old place-if you will sell it t.
me on creitr"
as it possible" said Williams wife; "well
| do think Why, really thought that Jane,
would get to be a rich man out there
And didn't; for knew he had no tact al
speculation or that if he had, that there were
hundreds of men out there that had twenty
times as much as he, and that they would out
wit him."
"Wcll, am glad that you bought his plac,
of him, and can afford to let him have it back
for really if You hadn't, we should be obligec
to take him in, and all his family"
"But how about that dress, my dear? ID
YOU feel entitled to it? You certainly SCENE,
to sympathize with James good deal, and t
think, that he was going to he much better OF
in the world than we should be-"
80 pshaw YOU can get the dress not, a
YOU please; what do care about that | hav
dresses enough, and to spnrc and, as to james
YOU know that he has good deal of enterprise
even if he has failed this time"
Enterprise, to be sure! his enterprise is a
the wrong way, though! ANY man can go ahea
down hill but the right sort of enterprise,
that, that will take man up bill, not down.
and presume he knows it by this time-cxpC
rence has taught him So
"And he is not solitary instance, that ha
! had to learn in this way"
"No, | wish that he was then many MOI
would he prosperous than now are. and Ne
England would not be reproach and by-wor
for its sterilty of SOIL and its i'll returns for du
cultivation. The truth is, most people at tl
present day, like James, wish to get rich in
hurry; had they patience to wait for the incon
ing of a gradual fortune, they would, in ten il
stances to one become weathier and happi
:, men"
, In due time James Benson returned from Il
, West, and resumed farming on his old plac
but, to great extent, he had lost his energ
y and especially the nerve which, in any busines
= is requisite to success, and therefore, even wi
y :, the aid of his brother. he never recovered fro
:, his state of depression both in spirit and in su
;, cessful farming The most that could be sa
-, of him. was that he lived comfortably, not b
a fore hand, as formerly
" In the meantime William, satisfied with ma
- ing hcadway slowly, advanced by degrees to
more than comfortable independence and
- now in possession of two or three farms, al
=. in expectation of more.
TIE SWEARING JUSTIcE.-Mr. Daniel He
" shaw, in his "reminiscences of New Hampshi
mentinus tho fnllnwinp anprlOtp of the Ht