The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Perhaps the nearest ana dearest, al
we'll as the most interesting tie of con
sanguity, is that existing between
mother and son. Who has not wit
messed the unfailing and unconquer
able strength of mothers love fol
the son of her heart and her vows,
cleaving to its object through pros
perity and through adversely, through
honor and through shame, with con
stancy which never waivers? And what
son, especially after the thoughtless.
ness of youth has given place to the
reflection of maturer years, and expe-
rience has taught him the insincerity
and selfishness of the world-what son
has not turned back and fingered.
with the most grateful emotions, over
the pleasing memories of MOTHER
care pondered with the most heart
felt admiration over the deep, pure,
and undying nature of mothers love
realized more and more the priceless
value Of a sentiment 80 fraught with
moral beauty, SO exalted. so proof
agains tall those considerations of self
those temptations of interest, before
which all other ties are seen to give
way, and, while thus realizing, found
his yearning bosom often and oftener
prompting him to exclaim with the
poet
"Where'er | roam. whatever realms see,
NV heart, untravelled, fondly Turns To thee"
While the scenes of disorder and
tumult . we last described, and the
similar ones that followed, were being
enacted among the belligerent parties
of this misgoverned town, the dutiful
and Borrowing WOODBURY. was continu
ing his attendance on his sick mother,
from whose bedside no call of business
or of pleasure was suffered for single
hour to lure him. And well might he
have done 80, aside even from the die
tates Of filial duty for she was woman
mott only Of unaffected piety. but of
education and intellect; and to her he
had been mainly indebted for all that
was good and elevated in his character
She had emigrated with her husband
to this town, at an early period of its
from the vicinity of Bos
ton, where the latter had become SO
much Strengthened in his pecuniary cir
in consequence of being
surity for an improvident and luckless
brother, that he was induced, with
the hope of bettering his fortunes, to
gather up the poor remnant OF his
and. with it, remove to the
New Hampshire Grants, at that time
the Eldorado most in vogue among
those seeking new countries. Here.
having purchased one of the best tracts
Of land in the place. he commenced
the slow and laborious process of clear
ing up new farm. And this Hercu
lean task, which may well be consid
cred the work of mans life. he had.
after years of incessant toll and priva-
ton, nearly succeeded in accomplish
ing, and begun to catch glimpses Of
easier and brighter days, when he was
taken away by disease, leaving his
to his wife and son, an only
'hild, then drawing towards manhood.
touble duty which now devolved upon
lin, that of becoming the stay and !
comforter OF his widowed mother and |
he sole manager of the farm, their
,nly dependence. For, while discharg-
ng his tilial duties in such manner
is to gain him the reputation of be- |
ng pattern of son, he not only |
,ept good, but, by his industry and |
Enterprise, even improved, the property /
o which he had thus succeeded. And /
lie was fast surmounting the difficult
es OF his situation, and making hope
ul advances towards competence.
Vhen, in an evil hour, his hourishin
little establishment attracted the GOV
ting eye of the unconscionable Peters.
Tho, owning an adjoining farm, which
7ould be rendered much more salable
y being united with WOODBURY. g, un,
ertook, at first, to wheedle the young
nan into a sale, or rather an ex-
hange of his valuable farm for an
ther, or wild lands, at false yaiua.
ions and of doubtful titles. But, find
ng himself wholly mistaken in the
of the person whom he thus
ndeavored to overreach, and conse-
uently failing in this attempt, he
ext began to think of the bubbles of
he law, as the means of accomplish
ng his purpose. And having discov-
red some slight irregularity in Wood
urn's deed, to begin upon, he then
'sorted to trick quite fashionable
mong the corrupt spectators of those
nsettled times-that of purchasing
ON some unprincipled person, ready,
II small sum, to enter into the
aud, deed of prior date to that of
le one to be defeated, ewith descrip-
ons of premises and references to suit