Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-28
The Stained Window

and the romantic. We have pictured only
q brief fragment weck-of vii
lage life among some dozen boys aud girls
Noadvcntures no extraordinary characters ;
no prrtornatural piety or crime NO love.
But as we are about to make q leap Of a
quarter of a century. let us 10y way of induc-
ing some { follow us, write down just here
something of our purpose in this story.
Although we have watched those children
but four or five days, we have seen enough
To- raurp tneasurnhly we'll their native pecu-
harties. Harry Ames timid, hesitating in
cliued to parley both with conscience and
temptation Louisa not a little Schenng
aud wiliul Simon Byttcs, downright, cour-
ageous. and ever ready 30 lead Sarah, over
sensitive; Maria barley, full Of unsclfish in
spiuti1n for her brothers james, reflective
aud seli-iuyolyed; stephen, demonstmtive
and humorous these youth of various tenn
pcrancnts were all affected by the revival Of
fel yious carnestness which came over Fair
Vile. The light Of God shone through them
all but not as through clear crystal or I'M
clouded air. II was colored by the mental
habits, the native Compartments the early
education, and the varied after-liie expert
ence of each so that no Stained lImdoc
ever threw more diverse colors upon objects
behind it than did these imperfect souls In
transmitting 90 the world the religion of
Jesus This will appear still more clearly as
wercad of thcirmatnre life but it was neces-
sary TO know the children in order to UNI
derstmd the men, as we get the largest view
10y looking through the small end of a tube.
a period of twenty-five years makes q null
titudc of changes in the characters of com
munities and individuals. taivine. once a
quiet village, has now become u thriving
manufacturing town, cursed with forty rum
shops instead of one aud loaded with that
weight of mixed good and evil which comes
by rail to every town of importance.
OF the persons whose acquaintance we
made in this history the adults have all died,
with the exception of Mr.. Blake, who is the
president Of the college which has been en-
lowed 10y dead Squire Kelp, to perpetuate
his name, and of Mrs. barley, whose white
hairs are pressed by the tender hands of her
daughter Maria, Mrs. Simon Byttes, rs she
murmurs, in feeble undertone, " Don't let me
he in the way, Maria"
" Was never in your way when was a
baby or four-year old, mamma " asked the
smiling daughter
"Oh, you were the first one said the aged
lady, as if musing on the long dead past.
:" But Stephen was the wild one; and he
never will be steady like James"
As if to verify her remark in came, at that
instant, two stalwart men, as unlike in their
bearing as like in general feature; to wit,
Judge (Jamcs) barley, recently appointed to
the bench of the supreme court Of the state,
and stephen barley, Esq, locomotive builder.
With many bows and scrapes and other
1e''' III, oi Ie'eIe,ce' Vie }Uu"geI
pluVn'i gSiieIeu III w oioS'i one' Mnile Vre
i"'O'' t'h Il" hotloe u, ,'''e nou' 'N',oS'
went uirev!g 10 l''e aseu nay ana gave he'
Vhuer Mss 40 s"oneI n"u ne uoue 50
tnah tne NOISY squire NOT 70 pe outcome
III 1uuolou uy 'uuSe 'I,i zen tu .., ~
ously 10 expressing ms aHectioh' uIth Tue
inhTm mother called Tor mercy
"oi sIeeVlnEs Mereo'er' anu 'i'e o''ii u,
tiihes oI domestic ihqullN-preelouS tIllleS'
tlo9e-na received aIteht.oh' tne c'n,gt-
satioh turned upon ,iie latest sensation III the
t2Wh OIL fa""llie' the laiiure OF the hrIi'
Henry Ancs 20. II Is currently re-
ported that they won pay more tl,ah hity
cents on the dollar sald tne Judge
should never nave thought mat OF Harry,
lie added lie was an honest steady BOY,
and he has never to my knowledge, until
now done anything dlshohorapie.
squire stephen made wry lace at the
word dlshonoranie' ana SAID 1t Is not iol
me TO crltlclse ms Honor, the Judge, nut
venture 70 say mat there Is nothing dlsnon
orable about larry Aines lhough l shal
lose three thousand dollars or so 10y TN,
Dre9k-down' nave no ldea mat Harry meant
10 cheat ms crediiorS' business chances are
always uncertain
IL IS dlshohoraple 10 oorioW money U
carry ON losing business 10 RISK another
mans capital III doubtful scheme rePl'e'
the Judge
All business Is lull oil rlsRs' rtJolhe1
the squire " would you nave nobody borrow
money or incur debt unless he was sure o.
hity, per cent proht lhere wouldn't Ut
nuch enterprise then:
most oil your business enterprise Is raS
callty' Interrupted mrs, Mara liyttes' Inc
younger brother looked at ms sister WIN
curious twinkle IN ms eyes blew prolonged
WHISTLE and then SAID " May II please th'
court women nave not yet neeh admitted U
the bar
Maria IS right responded the older one
lhree-loulths oil the laliures are dlShohes
transactions
stephen coughed.
MOI that ~ IS the deliberate purpose o
those VINO iall 10 ron thelr creditors pnt 'h'
wlNle'H 10 MAKE money pllhus VI'eh', 10 III