Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-08-28

reavoment IA mine"
Polly felt that man ought not to cut him
self of from supporting influences be-
cause Of the speech Of u carping, uhgodly
world.
"Womau seems To possess an iniuitive
knowledge of the nature aud needs OF sor-
row, and ii seems ordained that man in
the dark hours of life stould turu to her
for light"
Polly thought So, too.
"rhe consultations of religi"n arc, TO our
weak faith, onielimeS vague and uusatis-
factory, and we yearn for the sweet n,inis-
trations Of human sympathy"
Polly didn't doubt it.
"t hold il Il mans duty never 10 , %
dark despair but to seek out 4 way through
the furnace of afllictiou, and therein gain
strength for the future"
Polly approved that dortriue.
On the third prayer meeting evening,
quoih the pastor, "Yuu little realize what
II precious source Of consolation your sym
pathy has been TO me, Miss Plum"
Polly made n little noise ia her throat.
As sound Il didn't amount to much as
an expression she meant she didn't see
how that could be--she 50 weak and un
worthy-but if she was source Of cousola-
tinn to him she was so glad
"When man loses his partner" con-
linued Titus, "what he most misses isis a
certain responsiveness the world can never
give. Figuraiivelv speaking, he finds him
self thIr,ting aud alone in a land Of sand
aud thorns."
Polly hadn't any idea that it was 10 bad
"a that.
BY the sixth Thursday evening the sym
pathy, responsiveness ard general softness
fulled with the moon, and the climax was
attained in accordance with convenient
statutes.
at isn that love Dolly and Molly the
less but YOU, Polly, the more said the
Rev. Titus, looking on the tops the cypress,
alias locuSts, that waved over the village
cemetery. 81 don't think those two saint
ell women wish me to travel the remaining
way through the desert of this world alone.
| don't doubt but that If they could speak
they would approve Of my course. Even
now they are ioyiully looking down upon
us from yon starry realm"
Polly shuddered and looked up through
the maple leaves approhenSively.
Thereafter the Rev. Titus not only saw
Polly home, bat every other Friday eve
ming gave her species of preparatory
lecture" his principles not allowing him to
attend TO secular business "n Sunday eve
ming. As the Rev. Tiius's difficulties
amended his bronchitis, owing to his TAX
ing his consolation in too much evening
air, rather increased. one Friday after
noon he was obliged To send for his physi-
elan. Physician forbade him going out
door, and as evening advanced he felt that
he must have word with Polly.
Titus had found these Friday evening
exercises with Polly very helpful 10 him
in his ministerial labors. His sermons
during these days had great deal TO do
with leading the children of Israel out OF
the plague stricken land Of Egypt to land
flowing with milk and honey lifting Jo-
s"ph out of the deep pit (ni sorrow To make
him chief steward of all Egypt TALL joy).
The services of Jacob in the Padau-aram
was dwet upon with wealth of imagery.
The experiences of Isaac and Sampson
were touched upon. strain of music,
mostly Of the soprano kind, ran through
these discourses. Miriam sang and play
ed Judith sang; the daughter of Judith
sang by the river of Babylon.
And o, If they could thus sing while in
captivity, pursued Titus, what raplnrou~
hosannas must have burst from their lips
when they came forth on the Judean
plains, and felt that for them the night had
forever past, and that far above in the
violet depths of the oriental skies, beamed
their day start (Polly had kind Of "v,o-
let" cye.) The Improvement" Of the dis
courses was uniformly to the effect that
men ought never Ia yield to the depressing
influences oi affective dispensations. How
ever fierce the storm may rage, said MIR.
Tuule, he sure the sun still shines, and
you have only to wait for the re-illumina-
ton of your own Landscape. Grad olly
the dark clouds will roll away, nc
thunder mutterings will he heard .S-
| tance. Tho sunlight will gild, ii o.,
distant mountain peaks, then spread
the sides, and soon hill and dale will bC
flooded with gory, and your whole world
will stand clothed in beauty ~ with 3
garment.
On this particular Friday evening The
gorIiication and beauty were quite wide
spread. and the meeting with Polly, heinl
of the "protracted" kind, didn't close unit
late. Observe, now, by what far-oH work
ing aud strange conjunction of circum
stances transpire the incidents in our daily
lives. In the neighburing town of Birman
Barnaby Barnes had, this spring, beer
elected constable. The position of con
stable may not be an exalted one, hut I,
the ot1ice-loving animal of these Unite,
States, il is significant as first step. Bar
naby saw offices stretching away before
him like double column of shrymes lead
ing up to Theban temple-tho temple il
this ease being one with dome, where no
Isis aud Osiris, but Shylock and JcZobe
are worshipped. Barnahy was bound Il
| discharge IA cunstahle's duties with a yea
aud seli-ahnegalion that should be AN eN
ample 10 the Washington idOlatOrs, an,
that should insure him the next gilt in tn
hands of the people. Friday afternoon {
lot of jewelry had been burglariuusly alb
stractod from a shop in Birman, and Bar
naby started in hot pursuit of the burglar
He apprehended him upon the outskirts O
Duisane, and started back Triumphant
He stopped at the halfway house for res
and ref eshment, especially the latter, am
there by some subtiity Of device, his ma
escaped him. Chagrined, lie took up tn
Al II.
led him, but all through by ways an
hedges II tended toward Dusane. II wa
fifteen minutes past two, and the brighteS
moonlight when the fugitive, throat heavl
ly mufiled, turned into Plum street.