The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-20
THE Unsucoessful Family.

They were all unsuccessful, as the word
goes. Neither in their lives or in their
deaths, in their marriages or in their bus.
mess, were they generally fortunate or
happy. They had not inherited that
Yankee elasticity which RECEIVERS instant
ly from every strain and misfortune.
Whenever they entered upon a struggle
they surrendered beforehand by expecting
defeat, and thus they grew painfully fa.
miliar with the word "tail." One son
promised to be an exception to this rule.
a hard working md honorable lawyer,
be gathered together in carly life prac.
tice OF which most veteran lawyers would
have been proud, and made n new fortune
as soon US he lost the old in unfortunate
Investments But bis brothers and sisters
never enjoyed in their homes even o
glimpse Of his transient prosperity. The
other son, a modest Methodist clergyman,
had no clearer idea of prosperity than
distant perspective could give him. Pri.
walton Of luxuries had been so long his
lot that he ceased to think of them as
attainable. lie even suffered privation
of things almost to life Itself and knew
what hunger aud thirst and heat and cold
were, as lev men know them. His in.
come never exceeded that of pert and
"smart" boy in New York banking.
house, though he was one Of the best
scholars his college--through which he
worked his wav-ever sent ont, and his
mind was stored richly with KNOWLEDGE
which he never displayed to dazzle the
simple people about him. The sum total
of the earnings of his lifetime 4 shrewd
stock broker would make and lose five
timos day. He never wrote any books
or received any degrees; he did not live
where there was a newspaper to report
his sermons, and it is safe to say they
were never advertised in advance. His
life was poddlng and painful one, full
of care and anxiety, un6roken by any
pleasure save that which he drew from
the love of his wife and children. and nm.
cheered by the society Of any but dull
VILLAGERS. The.oldest of thc sisters mar.
ried youno ond~.blv Rut If tbo
story Of the loLors thc trials tbc heorl.
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i;n1 r" VD'eu',,y. riy a ~ sonool.Ie"'''oI' sue
i'seu d S,''i'eiou . nc, s"Vc wnen one OF
bas es"t .v'' cI I,ono over AZ; 'n' pa,,ie's
VI Nv. ,I'le"', hno n1'er uiu 'nytn'ng
5 i1'raiAuo'e % or "en''seu even III ner ',n,t'
success c" tbot H. q I'o," ~ no @ a ,ne nn
isteristic
Tbov oro all doo1 now ond ,bo earth
that So seldom seemed 70 have resting.
mace for them lies green md ncoccTnl
above tboir drst Tbov woro oono and
their nlaces wore filed nc ono wave fol.
lows another tbcv wero cone md there
was m moro trocc of them than NJ tbo
lines in tho sand tbc wave washes ow,v
Tbov lert no Gor,rnos LcbinI ,hem Or
Fractions If fortunes. nor onv fame
tboir very names we're known onlv to n
fow scorc nconlc Tbev had moi even
tho honniness Of oniet decline The
Iavver lost his mind and his fortune at
one blow and died uncomiorted bv n
boortlcsa wife and no less heartless chill.
dren The clerovman suffered in ,he
BODY the canal Of all his former distress
of mind and nossed owav "a noor os ho
had come The sisters lived ont their
lives in tho notiont wov of women n tbo
vorv end
Failures? Wrecks? No! The min.
lister was carried 10 his little church on
the bleak hillside bv loving parisbioners
whose hobnaileJ boots cru1chea with a
coarse unfeelinp sound the frozen yellow
mud beneath their feet The church
mourners, for every child in the neighbor-
hood was in grief, and the very winter
winds that moaned about the building
seemed an echo Of their mourning, No
Spurgeon or Beecher could be more la
mented. Ii his memory dies it will not
be because it was unworthy to live. His
brother was followed by all the lamenta-
tions of those whose helper he had been