Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
LNGNRNOLL,S TR NMP.
Or, How One Man Helped IA Hundred.

Or, How One Man Helped n Hundred.
$50 lngersol's turned up again I"
81 didn't know he had ever turned
down. said l. without looking up from the
newspaper in which | was carefully exam
lining the column Of "Wants"-an old weak
ness of mine, for | cannot rid myself of
the idea that ! may some day find there
that somebody somewhere has something
that | want, or wants something that
have. didn't look up, because the speak
err was only Washburn, my old college
classmate. And Washburn and l. having
after our graduation dropped into neigh
boring offices on Court street, had been con
stantly in each others company for years,
and had long been in the habit of taking
our MONDAY meal together at the same ia
bic in the same corner of-but | will not
give the name of the restaurant it is not
very good one, and ! don't care to adver-
tise it.
So, as | said, didn't look up, even when
Washburn addressed me, but only said,
with a foolish play on words, which is an
incurable trick of mine, II didn't know as
he had ever turned down. He has manag-
ed to keep himself well in sight When he
couldn't he governor, he would be alder
man, and if he failed to get the postof-
fee
ooh, don't mean David" interrupted
Washburn, Il mean Increase, OF our class.
injured Innocence, don't you know we
used to call HIM, because OF his unluckY al
lucrative name and his somewhat aggres-
sive meekness OF countenance e.
But before Washburn had half finished
his explanation had thrown down my pa
per, and was all eager attention.
lnky lnJlns Why, l haven t heard
anything OF HIM these twenty years. So
he has turned up at last What have you
heard ! thought the sahds OF the desert
or the waves Of the ocean had swallowed
HIM long ago. A right good fellow he was
but he never accomplished anything, he
was so restless aud changeable.'
Wen, 1t seems his restlessness worked
itself OIL IN those years OF wandering that
we know Of lie Travelled the earth over
pred into every corner learned the man
ners and language OF every nation, pene-
trated every forest, sailed every sea, eX-
plored every river, climbed every noun
tain, till, when at last there was no more
to see and no more to do and fortunately
not TIL then, having come home to take
breath for few weeks till he could form
new plans, he saw there young girl who
had grown up not five miles from his faith
+
been for ten years seeking the world over
in vain. So he married her. and settled
down in little village in some remote cor
/ ner of the state, and there for ten years he
/ has lived as unknown to the outer world as
II he had joined brotherhood OF monks,
/ but doing work that the most famous
/ phllanthroplst might envy
/ How can that be, when his good works
have never been trumpeted abroad by the
/ newspapers l was not aware that the
/ race OF phllanthroplstS had become care
less OF the praise OF men. Obscure success
/ Is not the object oi their envy, as lar as
my observation goes.
My story demands genial listener, SIR,
and shall not be unfolded to cynlc, an
swered Nashburn, pursuing up his mouth,
frowning portentously, and reaching out
his hand for my newspaper.
Nonsense, don't tease, said l, slowing
the paper away behind me. You see
am all curiosity, and of the most genia
kind, too, to hear lngersolIs story, and II
I you re not quick about 1t oar time VIII be
up before you get through, and you know
there d be two OF us disappointed then.
That's true, reJoined Washburn, as
we began ON our modest meal do want
to tell 1t to you, and TO see how pleased you
| Will be. Well, 1t was in the town OF Sum
ner that he settled with his dear girl, and
the pair identified themselves at once will
the interests of the little place in way
that isn't common with people situated
just as they We're more's the pity. A thrift
ty New England village it was, with some
1000 inhabitants, with good railroad facil
tiles, with quite varied industrial interests
and not barroom or saloon within its Dor
ders. y drunken man III its streets was {
rarity. and was sure to have come from
outside, and even in the Centre the streets
were as quiet and peaceable after dark a
country lane. But the most remarkable
feature of the place was the character o
the Irish population. They occupied par
of the town called the Hillside. Almos
every man owned small house with bl
of land and garden, where the children
worked and played, with plenty of room
and sweet air, and sunshine without stint
lngersoll waXed quite eloquent as he Sc
forth to me the satisfaction he used to TAX
in this state of things. Industrious, tenn
perate, even neat and orderly Qn their fash
ION, these Irish families stood, he thought
for good specimens OF what America cal
make of her foreign-born citizen if onl!
he can be got out of the great towns, an'
have chance to earn a bit OF land an'
make homestead.
Yes, began, for this is a hobby O
mine. But Washburn lifted silencinj
finger, and looked at the clock.
Your well known views will be respect
fully listened to some other day, if yo
please, said he, politely, "hut just nov
lngersolls story has the floor" And
subsided into silence.
In an evil hour the serpent entered thi
paradise in the form of a fellow who open
ed a drinking hole in a cellar at the Cen
tire, and by every low art entlced TN
Worklhglnen INTO IT, AS they passed I
their work III the morning or back at moo
ana hlght' one alter ahother would dro
down those iatal steps
In less than month TINS little tow
coulu no longer boast OF quiet evenings
AT the Centre the streets often ran W.T.
prolane words, with angry cries ana NOISY
dlscordant songs Later IN the night I'll
settlement ON the hillside echoed with th
: uProar which was bred III that wretGhe
, cellar and worked Its way up toward thos
? once quiet homes as the hours wore on pas
/ midnight Alter many VAIN attempts,
2 case was made out against the Keeper
the drinking hole he was sent to Jall, an
, the den was closed But the mischief wa
already done Habits OF drinking ha
5 grown upon many OF the workingmen, an
f INTO the minds OF not lew had crept tf
5 idea that Tar more money could be made /
2 i4uor-selllng than by day labor The pr
+ hlbltory law was IN force, and the major
A ty OF the voters OF SUMNER were IN IT'S II
Y vor' What OF that lhe places whel