Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-11-22
Into His Gates.


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EmH r., how wish he was l,eren
| A NJ wish who was here, Miss |
| EEA Culvert 3 inquired Sake Bah |
| SS bft, the maid-of-all-work In |
Sauire Culyert's family, throwing an
armfui of wood into the capacious box
beside the huge cooking stove.
| my boy, Snsan,' replied the anxious
mother, her eyes filling up with tears
| sJusr two years ago tomorrow. Thanks
| giving day, he walked out of his faith |
er's house, and we have never heard
word from him since. just think of it
two long, dreary years, and not sim
gle wordv And now Mrs. Culvert COW
cred her face and wept unrestrainedly.
/ sOf course, Miss Culvert, j knowed
who you meant when you fust begun to
talk. You don't seem to remember that
have worked steady in this house for
/ almost fifteen year, and have had my
senses all the time, too Suke stopped
tor a moment here, as If in. doubt
whether to express the thought just then
luppermest in her niind Interpreted, it
said tins very plainly. And that's more
/ than the rest of you have had But
she evidently thought better of 1t, and
continued, Years ain't no account.
never heard that crying spell made
Ipunkin-pies any nicer, or give the folks
iround any more appetite to eat 'em,-1
Anyhow, Miss ClIYeft, crying won't
bring Stephen home-law, nor Here
the strange woman iaugneo lille low
tchuckle. If they would "a had, ned "a
foated this way without macn ceremo-
ny. Come. now, tel me wnaI kln0 He .,
spice I'm going 70 put In TINS SUN. I
tell you what 'tis'-as her companion
dried her eyes-twe amt much time to
sneud in nonsense There's all them
raisins to stone, ana Two KINDS OF CAKE
to make, besides finishing them pies.
The face that MRS. Culvert turned 70
her servant, had nasn OF spirit IN II
THAT seemed to please Suke amazingly,
for her intelligent eyes laughed outright
as her mistress confronted her with
Susan, what do you mean oy non
sense?' 9s. ilht
| sP'r'aps, Miss Culvert, replied Suke,
who was just then busy wetting her nm
ger and testing the heat of the oven
'p'r'aps nonsense amt exactly the right
kind Of word. Still that was the fust
one that come, and 'mebbe it's as good
as any.
But what do You mean by it!' per-
sisted the lady.
| Just this, and no more and no less;
and now Suke's arms were akimbo. and
she was looking her mistress straight IN
the face. It's as true as gospel that
2 there don't none of US in trouble use
/ our cOmmon-sense as much as we ought
to, to saw nothing at all about the Chris
tian part Of the Business. If only had
4 some 'boek-l'arnin could make You un-
derstand in fifty just what Iwant to
Iget at And for a moment the servants
face was clouded, as she realized her in
ability to do Justice to the subject; but
| 1t was only for moment, for Suke's
philosophy, strange to relate, was in
tended quite as much for home use as
the use of her neighbors. Il don't want
/ to be impudent, Miss Culvert, and
Z don e want to poke my nose into affairs
| that don't concern me; but I've lived
here a considerable of piece, and l
/, think loved Stephen just about as we'll
as auy body could, that wasn't his own
round this way any longer from morn
ing till night, with a long face, and a
( sob in your throat the whole during
Itfme, without fettfug you know that l
think in the sight of God, you are very
unreasonable; and that, to my mind,
. Miss Culvert, is drawing it very mild
why, Susan, have you really lost
your sensesfa exclaimed the astonished
woman.
Not a bit of it, chuckled Susan. y
may have pared company from my man.
't ners for SPELL am inclined to think
have-but I know 1 am sound. Now
let me put the case to you. Pm only a
servant in your kitchen, Miss Culvert:
but ii I've got hold of a string that pulls
truth you don't see, Pm just as much
to blame if don't show it to, you as pot
would be, the mistress, not to make II
II clear to me, the servant
Precisely said Mrs. Culvert, Will
emphasis, the hard look gradually fad
ing from her face as she realized Suke's
Il earnsstness, and, awkward delicacy.-
Il Now, tell He, Sasaff, all YOU think, ane
your reasons, she continued. Wht
knows but you may be the means o.
bringing me more peace of mind than
have felt for many day?'
s'Tain't no ways likely that l can d.
much, Miss Culvert; bnt here tits in I
nutshell. Stephen walked out of thi!
house GsSitif his own ffee-will and ac
of cord, didn't hep
why, of course, Susan
80 what I mean to say is, he wan
I treated with anyegunkindness by an,
:" body, or told to get out, as a good man,
he Young men are, who amt doing mucl
for themselves in the way of earning
their own livings.'a
Mrs. Culvert WINGED perceptibly a
this last home thrust, but replied pleas
is- antly, Certainly not, SUSAN
a. ,sEfaaL' continted Sake, she was wei
and in possession of his seven sense
:. when he concluded to quit
III in AS far as know. hadn't any rea
son for suspecting anvthing' amiss.'
sAll right, then. iour SON goes ava
sound in BODY and mind-goes becaus
he wants to. It NAV be that the reasol
YOU amt heard any thing from him i
= s because he amt writ; but it don't seer
he EXACTLY that way to me- agi.h
tThen you think he's alive. Susan
INTERRUPTED Mrs. Culyert.
rm claw. yes! [ think he's dive. And
th;nk good many other thin0s Mis
Culvert among the rest. thisMsbat yo
ng have cot YOUR husband and three chi
dren. besides Stephen. who not onl
. need vonr care Iof co,irse Won look O,
for every thing: / ain't finding no fau
ner about that bnt there's a considerab]
iiffarence between doing a thing becaus
vonr heart is i,f it.. and because it's yor
4 dnty. You have no right to make you
home miserable on account OF somethin
sc,e Won cant helm. something YOU had n
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