Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-08
THE LOVERS TRIUMPH.

The town of Warwick is nestled among
the hills of Vermont. The country around
IS rough and broken, and the numerous
streams that leap from the mountains top
and mingle their waters with the river at
the base, which bears them onward until
they are lost in the placid waters OF Lake
Champlain, afford numerous water privi-
lcges, which the enterprising inhabitants are
not slow to avail themselves of.
A large share of the people of this section
are laborers, men who own small homes Of
their own, but yet obtain employment in
the various manufactures Of iron, wood,
wooden and cotton fabrics, &c. But there
are some whose wealthis inherited, who are
relieved from the necessity of personal labor
but receive an income from shares of fac
tory, or from some other source, that enables
them to live In the style they desire without
manual labor on their part. -'
We are sorry to be under the necessity Of
revealing the fact, rs truth compels us to do,
that in that rugged society, in this land of
equality, beneath the stars and stripes Of our
free country, the difference of circumstances
produced distinction in society--divided it
view that admitted of but little intercourse
between them. Those above the necessity
Of labor refused to associate with or be on
terms of intimacy with those of the working
class. The latter were never invited to the
social gatherings Of the former, and even In
the house of God the line of distinction was
drawn, rs though they were not all children
of a common father, redeemed BY the same
Savior, and bound for a common destiny.
Here. for years, Mr. Lothrop had ofiiciated
as pastor over a hourishing church. He was
enabled to live in fair style. but the fact was
not generally known that the farm on which
he resided was not his own, but had been
sacrificed to aid q brother who lived in n
distant town-who had been involved in
financial difficulties he was simply al
lowed to occupy it. He had been deservedly
popular. At the time Of which we write, he
had been widower for several years, and
had but one child, a daughter of the age of
twenty years, ayoung lady of more than or
binary intellectual cultivation, and of super
Tor mental endowmonts. Her fond father
had taken no little trouble, and subjected
himselfto no little expense, in educating his
child, Her society was courted apd not n
few aspired for her hand; but she gave her
young hearts best affection to Philip AM
burg, the son of an old friend OF her faith :
The young gentleman had recently left
college with the highest honor's and left
home for two years tour in Europe with
the arrangement that at the expiration OF
that time he was to return and claim the
hand of her whose heart he well knew wa.
IN his own keeping. ..
How often it Is that in this world JOY and
sorrow go hand in hand! But three shor
months after her lover departed. leaving q
warm kiss upon her lips, and carrying com
fort to her heart she was called upon to BID
adieu to her fond father, for the death ange
had tapped his dark wings over their dwell
ing, and his waiting spirit winged its lofll
flight to the regions Of the blest. to join thu
happy ones who had gone before. " or
Soon after her fathers death, Miss Caro-
line Lothrop found herself not only father
less but penniless, and she soon realized thu
fact, too, that the doors of that society whicl
she had always adorned and by which she
had been cOurted and fattered, were shu
Against her EEF WENFt HsANFf
Finding II necessary to do something fo
her own livelihood, she applied for, AM
obtained, the position of teacher of th
district school, which her education an
amiability Of character MSll qualified her b
fill with credit to herself and benefit to he
pupils. l.l,... ~. ..
1t is said that troubles never comes singl,
and our heroine realized the full truth {
this popular adage. She was fatherless
homeless, penhiless, and excluded, on ~
count Of her misfortunes, from the sociei
of those with whom she had always assoc
Ated bat, "a Che midst OF Alr these trouble
while she was plying her daily task in ord'
TO support herself with the necessary com
forts OF life, she solaced herself with Il
reflection that she possessed the affection
at least ope true heart aud trusted TO on
whom circumstances could never induce
change. For awhile her greatest solaC
amid her atnietiops she derived from a tru
in Him whose promises are sure, was
pouring over the missiVes Of her lover, VIII
true 10 his promise. sent those tokens Of
fond remembrance. filed with assurance
unehanging constancy. All at once, the
ceased She assigned every conceiyat
reason for the .omissibn excent DeFIidv