Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-04
"TELL HANNAH.n


Tor and housekeeping, geography and a.
rithmetic. During her sixteenth summer,
the brightest star that ever illumines wo-
mans life gave to her an untold briliancy.
William Dowton, of the steamship Allan
tic, was stopping in L., while their
vessel was undergoing repairs; and never
50 rollicking, merry hearted soldier wore
tarpaulin or peajacket as was Bill.
9 They met by chance, the usual way"
he and Hannah, and before, summer was
over, before Bill embarked on another voy-
age, they were engaged. Engagcd,-it is
common word, quickly written, often
and easily spoken; but the length and
breadth, and hight and depth of its i'm
port is measured only by the months and
years of a human life; it is word which
never, like successive turns of kaleide-
scope gives only brilliant colors,- its
great joys have corresponding sorrows.
Bill returned from his second voyage
in due time, and Hannah had weeks va
cation from the loom and shuttle; the
| footsteps of every hour of that week will
never be worn from that heart, nor their
delicious odo.s exhausted In her spare
chamber, in a chest of drawers, arc gifts
he brought her from .tropic islands; a
shawl of hues as bright as the skies be-
meath which it was woven flowers once
gorgeous, but now pale as. the fingers
which gathered them rare curiosities, up
on which the tears have fallen many and
many hmrcs hmrcs s-g e-sss5 y-st.r.m nj Ir5i
The third voyage had almost tcrlaina:
ted, when the,noble Atlantic was wrecked
in sight Sport; the lifc-boats were filled
with passengers, and Bill, with his char
acteristic nobleness, worked for the good
Of others, till the last. Every Passenger
andaewrys other of sthe crew was safe;i he
lumped from the wreck to the nearest
boat, but just failed to reach it, "Bill,
Bin,' cried the sailors, as he rose the sec
end time, = catch this rope.i He grasp
ed eagerly, but in nyvain. 4" Tell Hannah
-" and those were all the words he
uttered but the look of ,agonythat set
tied over his features spoke more than
any words. I Though Jerry Benton has
seen ten years since; then, he could dlnotre-
peat to you the story without weeping
Jerry and Bill had followed the cseas to
sether since boyhood, sand an attachment
strong as that of brothers had grown be
tween them. ,nsbE ,..r5niE 71maL
Jerry hurried from The shore to Han.
nah room in fhe factory. When heitold
her of their Disaster when with husky
voice no repeated the broken message
:" Tell Haunah r. She fell across the beam
where she was weaving, with -ah sharp
sh, ,rt shrek that brought all the girls tc
her room. Hours passed before her con
sciousness returned, and then, how blank
and drear, how stern and terrible,r how
like one continuous Sahara lay allthe fu
ture before her! ,s7oni5 ,radsiT 2 &
How then could she take upon her
self other yows'?" All that was you
question, sweet maiden, yet in teens; ant
yours eyes dilate With wonder beneath
their soft brown fringcs and lovethought
lay gathered in every dimplc Of you
mouth. At twenty. with most1of us, th'
dreaming age ceases. The practical, will
imperative voice. demands the foreground
of life, and walks with rough and hasty
tread over the IDEAL Our natures, requir
ing constantssuppGrt and ncurishmeht' ab
sorb sustenance like fibrous grasses from
every element of the soil about them j
! it chance to he genial, the flowers Of hap
J piness are Of rich dyes and heavy fra
GRANGE; if cold and clayey, they are pal
: and dwarfed and of feebler odor. Il. i
: said that the ocean hastwo currents, eacl
!. moveng in diverse ways; apditis strange
; ly true of human lives,-they have oppO
= site currents drifting toward the futur
and the past, toward the real and the N ideal
tides that are sometimes strong, AM
= heavy, and conflict ng,y nnosa II 4
Hannah, the factory girl chose well
perhaps, to answer Yes"", when tthhe the ~ s4tul
( az vo,ine farmer. Joseph Stacey, propose