Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-04-07
WHOLE NUMBER 81.

but received as an answer that sbs wa.
! sseagugedp So
!. Edgar French's shadow never darkeno,
their walls,s and Alice knew the reasoI
d we'll Doctor Emburg seemed more ab
sorbed in his professional duties than ever
and Mrs. Emburg futtered like q. butterfly
\ fof the sea son-the envy Of Tho silly ant
lfhescontempt Of the wise q :sg N
| 1t was during the summer of 1880, thai
1 the cholera, that modern simeon in cities
swept through B---, sparing neither the
young nor the old. DIR. Emburgh was
found vigilantly watching by the beds oi
the sick and dying. Others fed for safety
into the adjoining country, turning a deaf
ear to any sufferer In their way, who might
Lazarus-like beg from their hands q drop
of water, wherewith to cool his parching
tongue.
The death-cart rumbled at noon and
midnight over the heavy payements, STOP
ping at every door, and the shrill cry rose
fearfully-"Bring out your dead IN II
was time when the weak trembled. and
the Christian called ieryen,ly upon aHim
who alone is mighty to save"
Doctor Emburgh at last imbibed the fear-
ful nalady. His wife shrieked, and turn
ed from him as from poisonous thing, and
finding that party Of the Hornblowers
and Pussingtons were going to the country,
she joined them.
II was now that Alice, she who had been
nurtured in ease and delicacy, came for
ward and exhibited that indwelling strength
which has SO often marked the history of
woman.
Alone and unaided she took her. station
by the bedside Of her father, and watched
with unsleeping eye above his couch. Her
hand held his hand, smoothed his pillow.
and gave to his purple lips the cooling
draught.
But love, however devoted, could not
cheat death Of his victim. The third day
after his attack, Mr.. Emburg had ioined
"the pale faced tenants ofthe tomb"
His last words we're, "l bless God for
giving me such Q, daughter!"
After the ceremonious burial had baan.
performed, and the disease had ceased IN
some degree its ravages, Alice set down.
and in letter communicated the sad intel.
ligence of her fathers death to Mrs. Em-
burg. She told her of his last moments.
and the disposition she had made Of his re-.
mains. q &
In reply, she received letter from her
mother, saying, that ifthe disease had sub
sided, she should return Immediately 10 the
city, in order to superintend the settlement
Of her husbands estate. She was quite
confident that the Doctor must have left a
considerable amount of property. How
much she was sure she did not know, for
she had never inquired into the state Of his
affairs very particularly. He had always
supplied her demands upon his purse with.
out murmur, and this induced her to think
hat he was perfectly unembarrassed. AL.
ice received this heaftless document with
4 groan, but checking her feelings, she set
ousily to work preparing for her mothers
reception.
1t was towards the close of a sultry day,
hat chaise stopped before the door, and
Mrs. Emburg alighted. She hastened to
ner chamber 10 rest herself little, and
hen sent for Squire Goodskeep to look af.
er the state of her deceased husbands az.
airs, and take the legal steps necessary for
he settlement of the estate, ,
After few weeks L was ascertained be.
yond doubt, that Doctor Emburg had died
insolvent. Nothing, it was said.
could be saved from the estate for the sun
port of his widow and child. Mrs. EN-
ourg's CONSERVATION may be surmised, but
cannot be described. Her fashionable
friends forsook her, and she wandered thro'
The stately mansion Of her late husband,
almost a maniac. ssA 8 1ip7@l 3G.i
Again it devolved upon Alice to show
what fir,nness is sometimes found in our
sex. She hired small but. neat tenement
In asecluded part Of the city, and com.
menced cultivating and selling flowers for
q livelihood. Again she drew around her
The most beautiful ofthe many lovely Wit
nesses of Himself, which God has streweds
over every hillside and plain in this beau
iful world of ours. For hermother's 'ssake,
the mourned over the blighting Of their pe-
;uniary prospects, but as for herself, she
Jared little. She had never been happier
vhen flattered as fashionable belle. and
he strove by every means III herpower Is
npart her own serenity in some degree la
ne mind other mufrnuring and discomfort.
d mother. " &s t
"Alice," said Mrs. Emburg, ono morn.
lg when she hnd exhausted every other
lbiect upon xvh;eh cha rnuld ,,n,xs b@.i