The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-24
FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE |.

All, WeIl-a-udN. lnat Sucn sau, Sau
time should have come to the family who
have given me shelter and employment
for nigh thirty years come Christmas.
To be sure, we can't expect To have the
sky always blue, and the posies always
showing off their pretty colors. But
none the less. if one has smooth sailing
for while it makes the storm seem
harder to bear than if one begins rough
and ends smooth.
| began to live with my mistress the
very day she came back from her we'd
ding trip and settled down in the old
family mansion which had been in her
husbands family for SO many years.
She was bonnie young lady then, and
though nigh on to fifty years old now,
think her face has only grown sweeter
and more beautiful with every added
twelyemonth. The kind of life she has
lived always has that kind of effect, or
its opposite. One either sweetens or
sours under such experiences For, TO
say the truth. ms old master has temper
that carries all before it when the fit is
on him. When it passes over he is like a
lamb. | am sure Miss Cecile-or rather
] should say Mrs. Cecile-must have
taken him for more amiable person,
and. SO to speak, must have been fright
ened enough when she found out she
had married wolf in sleeps clothing.
| know | ought tobe ashamed of my
self to call master wolf, for, as | said
before, it's only his temper that runs
away with him-.he'd be an angel if it
wasn't for that.
But we've a sorrow in the family now
that puts all others in the shade. Our
dear young master, Philip, is lying in
the house dead. His face, which IS so
like my mistress own, isas white as one
of the statues that give me the shivers
when go into the drawing room to light
up the chandeliers. His brown eyes will
never more smile at me as when used
to open tho door for him at very late
hour OF the night, and he d say
THANK you, Sally; shall remember
You when Ihave house of MI own
1t has always been wonder to me
that Master Philip would keep such IL
regular hours, for he never had a sign
OF drink upon him, and | can't think an
immoral thought ever entered into his
head.
my mind at rest about it now, even if |
had ever forgotten myself enough to
question him, which | don't think
should; for know my place.
Master Philip would have been twenty
eight tomorrow, if he had lived to see
the day; but it will now have two ami
versaries connected with it-for he is to
be buried tomorrow from DIR. Gray S
church.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2-AT MIDNIGHT.
When my mother first put it into my
head to keep a journal was only a chit
of twelve, and I've kept it up ever since,
though I've often thought: whats the
use of writing down the same things day
after day in such monotonous life as
mine is? But no story writer ever had
to tell of stranger experience than I'm
going to set down now. I'd best begin
with the mourning coaches which were
a following our dear young master
body to the church.
Old master and mistress were all alone
in the first one, for Master Philip was
their only child, and neither of them had
any relatives in this part of the world.
Master is the only one left of his family,
and mistress father and mother, and
Miss Agnes, her only sister, arc travel
ing in foreign countries, and no one
knows exactly where; for every new
letter gives a newdirection to send to.
All the servants under my charge
were in the second coach. and Pierre,
the colored butler and the men servants
followed on in another coach behind us.
/ shall never forget my feelings when
we all filed into the church two by two,
and heard the minister's voice saving,
SO slow and solemn: II know that my
Redeemer liveth,a and all the rest. of
that beautiful selection from the Holy
Book. and thought about its being
Master Philips body which was lying SO
cold and still in the velvet-covered coffin
borne in front of us. There was dim,
religious light in the church.. and the
place in front of the chancel looked like
fiower-bed with the ANCHORS, and
broken columns. and pillows of immor-
telles, and other devices, such as crosses,
and stars and crowns, all made of the
choicest and most fragrant of white
flowers. Large US the church was, it
was filed, for the Everetts are one of
the leading families, and great sympathy
is folt for them; and then, too, in such a
great, thickly- populated city as New
York is, when the doors Of a church are
thrown open upon any occasion out of
the ordinary there will always be a great
many strangers attracted to enter ins
and see what is to be seen.
All through the solemn and. touching
service was crying as though my heart
would break, for | could see Master
Philips face before me all the time now
Us a merry, laughing little boys, then