The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-24
FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1


All, weH-a-day! that such a sad, sad
&me 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
aky 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
twelvemonth. The kind of life she has
lived always has that kind of effect. or
its opposite. One either sweetens OF
sours under such experiences. For, to
say the truth, my 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 Ceeile-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.
L know | ought to be 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 il
wasn't for that.
But we've 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 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 the door for him at very late
hour of the night, and he'd say:
Thank you, Sally; shall remember
you when have house of my own"
1t has always been a wonder to me
that Master Philip would keep such IT.
regular hours, for he never had sign
of drink upon him, and can't think an
immoral thought ever entered into his
head.
But he'll never have chance to sci
my mind at rest about it now, even if
had ever forgotten myself enough tc
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 tc
be buried tomorrow from DR.. Gray's
church.
THURSDAY, JUNE PAT MIDNIGHT
When my mother first put it into my
head to keep journal was only 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 lisp But no story writer ever had
TO tell of a 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 haC
any relatives in this part of the world
Master is the only one left of his family
and mistress father and mother, anC
Miss Agnes, her only sister, are travel
ing in foreign countries, and no ont
knows exactly where; for every new
letter gives new direction to send to.
All the servants under my charge
were in the second coach. and Pierre
the colored butler and the servant:
followed on in another coach behind us
| shall never forget my feelings wher
we all filed into the church two by two
and heard the minister's voice saying
30 slow and solemn: 81 know that m,
Redeemer iveth," and all the rest O
that beautiful selection from the Hol,
Book, and thought about its being
Master Philips body which was lying 81
cold and still in the velvet-covered coffir
borne in front of us, There was dim
religious light in the church, and tn,
place in front of the chancel looked Xix,
a fower-bed with the anchors, ant
broken columns, and pillows of immor
telles, and other devices, such as crosses
and stars and crowns, all made of tn,
choicest and most fragrant of whit,
flowers. Large as the church was,
was filed, for the Everetts are one o
Che leading families, and great sympath,
is felt for them; and then. too, in such
great, thickly-populated city as New
York is, when the doors of a church ar
thrown open upon any occasion out o
the ordinary there will always be grea
many strangers attracted to enter in
and see what is to be seen.