Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-14

1 then eleven years OF age. 10 Southern France
/ There anu in Switzerland. have they been de
voting literally their very lives. with ever,
device that wealth and science could suggest
10 keep the breath in that trail frame. Only
those who have had a like experience Car
kho" Inc agony of hope and fear in which
! they nave existed. And now it is over.
with emptie! arms and treasure lost" they
return TO their sympathizing friends. But
! their hearts have wounds, which no love, no
/ years. can heal or hide.
| We have never seen so happy family as
| was this now broken circle. Mrs. Johnston s
| house was one OF the gayest in Baltimore
i and wherever beauty and fashion assembled Il
! her gracious, graceful presence was sought
! and enjoyed by old and young. Her dignity.
her Brightness and tact, with her extraOrdi-
| nary appearance and her social history. made
/ her a marked woman wherever she went in
| America or Europe. Though justly proud
mother. she never made herself ridiculous
She was always calm (apparentIy), rational
and JudicIous. Tie usual mingling of mater
nal fondness AMI folly di! not mar lh" interest
of that charming family group. in which an
artist might nave rcvelled. The Iueeniy- look
ing woman, with her pre!naturciy white hair
and fine colOrin-, and the beautiful blonde
boys. formed a picture not soon 10 be for
gotten.
And now there il none to call her mother
dead both my boys :"
Well might she say to Us, her friends, so full
OF life and 10Y, preparing tor such a bright
winter as she spent two years ago.
" All, ring your bells low, AMI burn your
lights family"
But she is not one to dcprccite The napni.
ness OF others. Our pleasures can neither IN
crease or'ii:;nish the sutferin2s of the sirick-
en- parents. An we com fort ourselves in be-
HcFln. lncy Will not weakly wiring their
hands ana yield to despair. Those who know
lhc:r domestic life know how much this hus-
band anu wife still have TO live for in each
other.
Less than two years ago. Harry Johnston
was st"rdy, manly boy, the picture OF health,
mental and physical-well advanced IL his
Studies, speaking French and herman. and
htTlng considerable knowledge nt music
Ior which hC had much taste. Together, with
MS brother he had bccl most carefully cdu-
Gated and enjoyed books but he was not so
pnrely intellectual as Buchanan, and was n
mos: practical and fne-lOokiHg boy. After
wards, al Cannes, it was hard TO recognize in
lie ;sen,leness anI pathos of the tall, paie
emacatcd lad the same laughing ROSY Harry
who ha! reiDiced in mud pies ut W hcatland
During his long Illness lie was unlcyil: in9ly
delicate and conSidcratc toward thos.t about
MIN, and patient TO Il degree that WAS touch
ing. w ith the innocence and simplicity OF
extreme youth this child possessed dignity
very Surl'fl ing anu Indicative Of strong char
ac'cr. a few months ago he WAS confirmed in
the English church by The Bishop OF C:lntcr-
bury, then visNtin. Cannes {; and now the boy,
who Hccime so much OF Il man as to choose
THAT better part which cinnot be taken
away from him." is something still more, and
still better than boy or man. For the wisdom |
of spirits he has exchanged the foolishness OF |
mere manhoot!, and is suddenly tull grown. |
No wonder, weeping mothcrand Bowed father, |
A /. w l,N,ft hat bnr, Inf fI,rs
just so young but ycstcrnight !
Now he is as old rs death.
Meek, Obe;iient in your sight, :
Gentle to beck or breath .
Only on last Monday! yours,
Answering you like silver bells |
Lightly touched an hour mat urS; |
fOu can teach him notliir. else
He has seen the mystery hiG
Under Egyp''s pyramid,
by those Yields pale and close,
Now he knows what Raamses knows"
WASHINGTON, November 5th.