The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-09-24

anu opened tht cnaniDef uO0l DelOIe Le
came into the sitting room. look of
relief came over his face. and he straight
ened up as if a great burden had been
lifted from him He had no doubt that
that bundle of clothing had been brought
up from the oat bin and left on the chamber
stairs till Philip should 60 up to bed. That
is what he hoped his boy would do when
he asked him to come around by the barn
and get the halter. He had no further
fear that he would attempt to give him
the slip that night.
Mr. Raymond and Philip rode up to Mr.
DeNters door for Clinton the next morn
ing Just as the sun was peeping over the
hills. 1t was as delightful a September
morning as they could desire As soon as
they Were we'll on the road, Mr.. Raymond
said:
"Now, boys, you must keep your eyes
open see all there is to be seen, and get
| ali the enjoyment out Of going that You
can. We don't have holidays very often,
and we must make the most of them when
we do have them. Philip and | have
worked pretty hard, lately and | guess,
Clinton, that you have. believe 4 play
day will do Us all good made up my
mind, this morning, to try and leave all
my cares and business behind me, for
once; 50 you need have no fears, if you
please, and ask me as many questions rs
YOU wish, that it will disturb me at all.
1t did not escape Mr.. Raymond's obser
| walton that his remarks caused the lads to
glance at each other in blank astonish
ment, and it cut him to the quick What
Kind Of a father have | been, he aske
| himself, mot to he able to speak a few
civil and kind words to my son without
| having it received with such surprise.
Poor boy! Wonder, pleasure. guilt and
| grief are all depicted in his countenance
to-day, Alter this, with Gods help, Ill
50 manage that he'll never doubt my
loving hin-never plan to run away from
his fathers house again"
Mr.. Raymond spared no pains to have
the boys enjoy their first trip to Hartford.
| He called their attention to everything
that he thought would interest them ON
the way. He told them who owned such
and such n farm when he was IL boy-what
4 the land was worth AN acre then. and
what WAS its market value now-who
4 built this house and that and he pointed
out where General -- WAS born, and
where Hon -- lived till he went to
4 college He was no less painstaking when
they got to the city. He took them past
trinity college, the state house, the high
school he pointed out the different
churche, and told who preached in them !;
/ he went with them to the Athtneum and
spent an hour with them there.
Sometimes Philip looked at his father in
| dumb bewilderment and wondered if they
really where iii Hartford or ii it We're all
Il dream How social and interesting his
father was lie felt As il he never was
| acquainted with him before, What j de
lighttul time he should have il he had not
been planning to do mean a thing. If
his father knew it, how he would lespi,e
him; he looked at him 50 earnestly.
sometimes. he was afraid that he saw
guilt III his countenance. Ii he could only
oct up the courage be would confess the
whole to his father and implore his tol-
giVrnreS
Thu the day Wore away, and Philip
was not aOiIN Whtu 1t wa tItlle 10 start
for home After Mr Raymond LETT the
lads to follow on With the httrr, they
talked over the e> ents Of the past twenty
tour hours, together, and they We're both
Very decidedly OF the opinion that they
had very narrow and providential escape
from committing a very disgracetul act
and they both agreed. after little discus
sion on that point that they would never
dyulge 10 human being that they had
even dreamed OF running away
Ii wa hait-pa7t = when Philip drove the
heiler into his fathers barnyard. After he
had had his supper his father asked him
to sep out to the shell and get Il package
that Wa under the wagon seat When he
brough. it, Mr., Raymond opened it and
took from it Nv eb.ters Unabridged
Dictionary aud sat down t. his desk and
wrote Oh Il fly leaf:
Presented to Philip U. Raymond on his
fifteenth birthday, 10y his father, " Peter
RAYMOND 7 and then without closing the
book he passed it to Philip
Philip could bear no more. The tears
that had come to his eyes twenty times
during the day and as many times had
been forced back, now oyer1owed his eye
/ lids and ran down his cheeks He stam-
mered;
lyon Are too Kind to me, father, | DO
not deserve this
--Don't deserve it Philip" exclaimed
Mr. Raymond with much apparent sur
prise II think you'd better leave that to
my Judgment. | should like to know what
| boy does deserve kindness from his father
| If YOU don't? Ii | had a dozen sons
could not ask them to be more faithful
and industrious than you have been. There,
there don't She'd any tears over it-you're
| tired-better get to bed us soon as YOU
| can, 50 as to feel fresh in the morning. If
il ) a good day tomorrow, we must secure
| that rOWen.f
| "lhank you, father, Philip sad with 4
uuiycrino voice, and went immediately up
stairs. II he had been little less over
come himself, he would have noticed that
| his fathers voice was slightly shaky and
| if he had looked back as he passed out Of
| the door he would have seen his father
| hastily brush a tear or two from his own
| eyes.
| lienceiOrth there was no lack of conf
dence, sympathy and affection between
Mr. Raymond and Philip and by reason
of private interview that Mr. Raymond
had with Clinton Dexler's father, Clinton's
home lite was much more agreeable than
heretofore
Philip has always looked back to his fif-
teenth birthday as a remarkable epoch in
his life; and he never ceased-until his
aged father recently visited him and heard
him speak rather harshly to his own little
son-to marvel at the wonderful change
that came over his father, himself or both
at that time. Then his father took him
aside and told him the whole story, and
cautioned him against growing into the
habit of speaking in that way to his
children
always remember, Philip he said,
"that crustmess and happiness are no
more agreeable to Il childs feelings than
they are to a grown persons; and that
they are more likely to lead any one out
Of the right path than into it; and that
they never will forget love" Hartford
Times.
Collision. Thursday night about 10
O'Clock when the Lewiston OF the Bangor
and Machias line was about off Segun,
she came in collision with small coasting
schooner named the Paragon, belonging in
Deer Isle. The schooner, it appears. had
her lights wrong, giving indications that
she was StCerIuT in "A caurSe directly on