The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-08-02


I vHi iei you what | went through at
your aae 1 once came, ike you, % the
greatest capital 10 Europe, my heart fall
u music but utterly without means
Ny only wealth was lny violin. | left
il one day in my poor chamber, while
/ went ont 70 buy loaf with my last
coin
When came back my violin was
vas gone Ii had been stolen May
God forgive me for the crime | con
templated in ms mad despair. ! rush
ga to the rivsr; | piunged IN bat !
was saved ffom The death | sought
saved 70 live for better things My
friend, continued the musician, after a
lopg silence, during which his face was
hidden by his hands, ia all the trials Of
your career, remember this Of mine
take warning
Iwill, ! viii cried Reuben, much
moved.
And nov, after having told yon this
terrible secret in my life, il is as well
that ! should not reveal my name and
besides, it could do yoa nc good, As |
set out for Europe Tomorrow. But
should you ever be in Paris come 70
this address, leave this writing, and you
viii hear from me.
The gentleman wrote some lines in
a foreign language which Reuben could
not make oat, though among his mu-
sical acquaintanees be bad gained a
little knowledge OF both French and
Italian He then gave Vandrest the
address. and bade HIM adien.
The young man long pondered over
this adwnture, and it was the final
crisis which mrdo him relinquish a
trade SO unpleasing to him for the
practice OF hls beloved art
II is mistake to suppose that the
profession Of music is m easy, careless
life, to which any one may turn who
has a taste for more solid pursuits Iii
no calling is intellectual activity and
arduous study more imperatiyely re-
qured. He who would attain to even
moderate eminence in it must devote
years Of daily patient toll to dry and
uninteresting branches of study. A
poet may be one by natnre; it is utter
( " impossible that musician can be
great without as deep science as even
puzzled mathematical brain.
He must work work every inch o
the way must dig the foundation and
enrich the soil before he can form his
garden and plant his flowers Thus
did our young barber, He studie(
scientifically what he bad first learned
through the instinct Of genius, and ros,
slowly and gradually in his profession
Sometimes his slight and ordinary ap
peayance, which made him look more
boyish than he really was, his quaint
old world name, and above all, a sim
plicity and quaker-like popularity il
his dress and manner, aroused the rid
icule of his companions, who followed
mnsic more for show than through
real love Of the art But the story o
his early perseverance always disarmet
them; and it was a common saying
with reference to young Vandrest. tina
he who, untaught, could make violin
would surely play it.
By degrees the young yiolinist ros
Unto note, and became received into so
ciety where he could hardly hav
dreamed that he should ever set hi
foot. Many rich citizen was please,
to welcome to his house Mr. Vandrest
I the young and unassuming musician
whose gentle manner aud acknowledg
ed talents were equally priced. Tn
barber apprentice was utterly forgotten
or else only thought Of as a proof 0
how much mans fortune lies in hi
own hands il he will only try.
In one Of these elegant reunion
yandrest again heard the name whic
had never utterly gone from his mem
DRY through oil his ycissitudes Cor
Dacres He turned round, and sa,
the altered likeness Of the girl who ha,
held the cup OF water to his lips on th
night Of the ball She had gown mt
womauly beauty, but he remembers
the face still She had not the faintes
memory OF him How could it be so
, Light and darkness were not more dill
ierent than the pleasing, intellectua
, gentleman-like man who was introduc
ed to her, and the pale, angular, il
clad little boy whom she had pitie
J and aided.
Sometimes Vandrest thought Ii
would remind her of the circumstance
but then vague feeling OF sensitive
! ness and shame prevented him. II
went home, and again his old violi
might have heard breathed over il tn
name Of Cora Dacres; but this tim
not in boyish enthusiasm for whateye
was pleasing and beautiful, bat in til
FIRST strong, all-absorbng love OF mar
/, hood, awakened in nature whiel wa
in every way calculated to receive an
retain that sentiment in its highes
purcst moss enduring folm.
Reuben Yandrest, who had hithert
cared for nothing but his violin, 500
began to love, and with the enthusiast
attachment Of an earnest and uprigl
nature For, with all the alluremeni
! Of musical career Reuben RENAME
I, as simple-minded aud guileless IN chai
actor as the sect from which he sprnn.
And Cora was worthy 10 inspire I'll
! love oi sueA a man Whether she =,
turned Il or not, Reuben aid not col
sider be was too utterly absorbed j
: the new bliss Of loving, and loving he
10 think Of asking himself the question
He visited at her house. aud became
iayorite With her father a would-h
amateur, who took pleasure in film
his drawing rooms with musicians, an
treating them a. costly and not dil
agreeable guests.
Bat al last Mr Dacres was rouse
from his apathy by the evident regar