The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-04-14
FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
WEDNESDAY,, JUNE 1.


WEDNESDAY, JUNE l.
All, well-a-day! that such sad, sad
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 OF 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, my old master has temper
that carries all before it when the fit
on him. When it passes over he is like
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 to be ashamed of N.Y.
self to call master wolf, for, as 1 said
before, it's only his temper that runs
away with hin--he'd be an angel if it
WASH for that.
But we'v 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, is as white rs 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 l used
to open the door for him at very late
hour Of the night. and he'd say:
THANK you, Sally; shall remember
you when have a house of my own"
1t has always been q wonder to me
that Mastt~ Philip would keep such ir-
regular hours, for he never had s'gr
of drink upon him, and / can't think Ar
Immoral thought ever entered into hi
head.
But he'll never have chance to Sc
my mind at rest about it now, even If
had ever forgotten myself enough Il
question him, which l don't think
should; for know my place.
Master Philip would have been twenty
eight tomorrow, If he had lived to Sc,
the day; but it will now have two ami
versaries connected with it--for he is t
be buried tomorrow from DIR. Gray
church.
THURSDAY, JUNE PAT MIDNIGHT
When my mother first put it into m,
head to keep . journal / was only chi
of twelve, and I've kept it up ever since
though I've often thought: whats tn
use Of writing down the same things da
after day in such monotonous life a
mine is? But no story writer ever ha
to tell of stranger experience than In
going to set down now. I'd best begi
with the mourning coaches which wer
q following our dear young master
body to the church.
Old master and mistress were all alon
in the first one, for Master Philip wa
their only child, and neither of them ha
any relatives in this part Of the world
Master is the only one left of his family
and mistress father and mother, an
Miss Agnes, her only sister, are trave
ing in foreign countries, and no on
knows exactly where; for every ne'
letter gives new direction to send to.
All the servants under my chare
were in the second coach. and Pierr'
the colored butler and the men-servan
followed ON in another coach behind u
shall never forget my feelings whe
we all fled into the church two by tw'
and heard the minister's voice saying
so slow and solemn: II know that m
Redeemer liveth," and all the rest
that beautiful selection from the Hol
Book. and thought about its bein
Master Philips body which was lying
cold and still in the velvet-covered colt
borne in front of us. There was din
religious light in the church. and Il
place in front of the chancel looked III
flower-bed with the anchors, an
broken columns, and pillows of immo
telles, and other devices, such as crosse
and stars and crowns, all made of Il
choicest and most fragrant of viii
flowers Large rs the church was,
was filed, for the Everetts are one
the leading families, and great sympatl
Is felt for them; and then, too, in such
great. thickly- populated city as Ne
York Is, when the doors of church q
thrown open upon any occasion out
the ordinary there viii always be = gre
many strangers attracted 70 enter
and see what is 70 30 seen