Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-12

compelled him to recall the whole. Beggary
stared him in the face, and he informed his
daughter OF his fate and asked for aid, and
with that noble impulse that ever guides the
great-hearted, full-souled woman, she resoly-
ed TO send her father all to save hia from
want. Their business had been prosperous,
and they lived in the first sunshine of gay
prosperity.
Her husband responded with as full a heart,
and in week his splendid stock of goods had
disappeared under the hammer, and the cash
was forwarded to the parents in NewYork /;
and then came the new life in which the heart
grows amid the rushing of wild tempests, and
we feel that life has dignity in it, because we
have humanity in our hearts, and can weep
with those that weep, and rejoice with those
that rejoice.
Our patient had the form of queen, and
her face bore the impress OF noblcness and
love-.no daughter Of the Tvrol was ever more
lovely. Fer husband was man, and only
needed the rod and the scourge to make him
shine. lie sought 4 position as a clerk, their
servants were di----i-' '----i-l
learn AZ. Ut Of managing her own house. She
could play her piano, but could not make bread
for ger husband and child. She knew not how
to wash and iron her own garments. She
had been taught that to do so was vulgar; but
now it was to contribute to her fathers COM
fort, and send joy to her aged mothers heart,
it became pleasure and joy.
George had returned one morning from the
store, and found his wife weeping. He spoke
words of comfort to her, and asked her the
cause. She responded, in tone of firmness,
that she was ashamed Of her education, and
had resolved TO learn 10 work; IL will know
how 10 make bread for my husband in less
resolution, and a shade of sadnesss passed
over his face. Their life's morning had open
ed bright and cloudless as the rays OF early
dawn. One year of life had been all sunshine;
now they were without means, his store clos
ed, his fine house reliuquished; their parents
were aged and helpless in a city where the
wheels of fate reyolyed so fast and so rudely,
that the s:outest were often crushed in its wild
whirl. Their infant smiled in its wicker era
die; Mary said to her husband, s.We canno.
2eeE's ror slught tn5t can Go Tor y6a-TTf.iitt
4 poor creature am I! Why, cannot make
bread - When the husband had left for his
business, meditating on the change in their
Mary started for the minister's
house, and frankly told her frit nd her resoIu-
ion,for all knew by this time their necessities.
They both started for the residence of DR..
=, and it was soon arranged that the Ia
lies wonld alternate in their visits, and aid
he resolEte wife in acquiring a Knowledge of
lrranging her house, setting her table, and
cooking her food. In few weeks she had
cquired considerable knowledge of the duties
If useful wife. She knew the JOY of contrib
ltinS to her own and her husbands wants. and
10 bread was ever so sweet to her as that
which Mary set before her husband-noade
'ith her own hands. But year passed, and
Ter parents sunk under the heavy stroke of
isaster; the current was too deep; it bore
hem TO the grave. Now more than ever Ma
y felt the blessedness of her good deeds TO /
or parents, and learned that to be useful was |
D be happy, to be good was TO be like the !
ngels.
George struggled on with his new position
J life. Pride rose up and moclled him, but
c looked it steadily in the face, till his man
cod outgrew his early training and learned
le real power of selfdependence. But woe
otide US when all the winds blow calamities
, our "reminiscences George was seized with
typhoid inflammation of the lungs, disease
lat sweeps hundreds of stalwart men in mias-
attic districts to a sHdden grave and in
eek the noble Mary was a widow and Julia
l orphan.
She thought her cup was full before, but
Nv it ran over with bitter sorrow, and she
,wed her head before the blast, and said in
c deep faith of a smitten spirit, s.Thy will
done, o God - The black hearse came.
e pail covered the form of her husband
ith Julia and a few humble friends she fol-
wed their stay and support to the grave; the
st hymn broke on the silent air the coffin :
Is lowered; the earth fell heavily on the lid; l
inter and fainter grew the sound, and a long l
rth-mound covered the body of the noble I
ung father.
1t is natural and seems appropriate for the
ung and the old to die; but when the thread I
cut IN full life, and hope, home, wife, child, c
; all made desolate by the blow, it looks as c
ough the law of life was reversed in its en- f
tment, and great wrong was done. Our Q
end now missed the hand on which she had Q
med, and turned herself to fad same ray of v
ht beaming on her destiny; she saw 10 star
yond her on the sky-verge of her COM
! days, but she committed her all to the S
lds OF that great and loving One who stills t
} young ravens cry, and looked up with
serful hope. o
What now was to be done7 The fire had d
-oured her fathers wicked gains, gathered