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Two Lovers.
Two lovers by a moss grown spring:
They leaned soft cheeks together the.-..
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And bean I the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time!
O love’s best prime!
Two wedded from the portal step:
The hells made happy cwolings.
The air was soft as fanning wings.
White petals on the pathway slept.
O pure eyed bridi
O tender pride!
Two faces o’er a cradle bent:
Two hands above the head were locked:
These pressed each other while they rocked,
Those watched :: life that love hail sent
O solemn hour!
O bidden power!
Two parents by the evening fire:
The red light fell ntxmt their knee
On heads that rose by slow degrees
lake buds ujton the lily spire.
O patient life!
O tender strife!
The two still sat together there,
The red light shone about their knees;
But all the heads by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
O voyage fast!
O vanished past!
The rod Ught shone upon the floor
And made the space between them wide:
They drew their chairs up side by side,
Their pale chicks joiued. and said, "Once
more!"
O memories!
O past that is!
— Oeuri/e Eliot.
FINDING A COMPANION.
“Wanted, a Companion, for an Elder
ly Lady,”
That wus the advertisement that ap
peared in a newspajier of a rainy Monday
morning in November, 18—.
Glenville was nothing more than a lit
tle country settlement, with a red brick
Town Hub and n labyrinth of narrow
streets which scented to have been laid
out with special reference to the bewild
erment of any chance passer, who might
find himself involved in their maze. A
quiet, dreamy, Rip Van Winkle sort of a
place—and yet before noon of that Mon
day morning, a swarm of anxious aspir
ants for the office of “Companion for an
Elderly Lady, ’ had made their appear
ance in the best parlor of the Glenville
House.
Mr. Reginald Chillingfield, who had
Iteen out for a walk in the street, was
met on the threshold of the hotel by the
boot-boy: '
“O, please, sir, there's a lot of ’em all
-askin’ for you.”
“A lot of what?” demanded Mr. Chil
lingfield.
Reginald Chillingfield was tall and
slender and handsome, with bright blue
eyes and a straight nose—which latter
feature he rubbed ;ts be stood staring at
Mike Updown.
“Of ladies, sir. Come to answer the
advertisement.”
“O!" said Mr. Chillingfield, “I recol
lect now.”
And little reckoning of what lav be
fore him he pushed open the door of the
hotel best parlor.
Only for half a second, however. The
array of feminine faces, all expectantly
turned toward him, was enough to awe
the stoutest bachelor heart, and Reginald
Chillingfield closed it again with a bang.
“Jones." said he to his familiar friend,
who had just lighted a cigar in the read
ing-room, “what shall I do?"
“In resjK-et to what?"
“My Aunt Polly's companion. There’s
a dozen of 'em there, apparently all ages
from sixteen, to sixty. My Aunt Polly
don't want twelve companions.”
“Take the last-looking,” suggested
Jones, with revolting levity.
“And be scratched by all the rest.”
“Take the worst-looking, then. Ten
to one she’s lest fitted for a •companion’
to an old lady.”
“My Aunt Polly iR an excellent judge
of beauty. She’d send utc buck with the
article in loss than two hours,” retorted
Chillingfield,
“In that ease," sail I Jones, meditative
ly eyeing the cud of bis cigar. “I don't
Me how you’re to get out of the dilemma. ”
“Jones, don't |*rovc faithless hi such
a strait as this. He a man ami u friend t
Suppi.sc you had advertised for a com
panion for your Aunt Polly, and a host
bad res|iondpd, a hat wou'd you do?"
GEORGIA HOME JOUJ'NAL: GUEENESIiORO. FRIDAY. JUNE 4. ISSIi.—EIGHT PAGES.
“I should engage one of ’em and send
the rest about their business.’’
“Yes; but which one? Be practical,
there’s a good fellow.”
“The one whose appearance seems best
adapted to the emergency.”
“Jones, you’re a fool!” ciiei out Club
iingfield. “Am I to go into that room
and stare about ns if they are a lot of
winter apples or prize pumpkins on ex
hibition?”
“Have ’em admitted one by one,” sug
gested Jones, and ou this hint Mr. Chil
lingfield promptly acted.
“You sit and pretend to be reading
the newspaper,” whispered Chillingfield,
“and if you like the applicant’s looks,
cough! If you don’t, crackle the news
paper! Dear me, my shirt collar is wet
already; my face is burning. Why
couldn't Aunt Polly have hunted up
her own companion? Yes, Mike, all
ready. Ask one of the ladies to walk in!”
And with a grin, Mike announced:
“Miss Zerinah Hull.”
Miss. Hull was tall, scant-haired anil
spectacled, in a robe of gingham and a
drab silk hut.
“I am seeking a situati m, young
man,” she said, “not from necessity,
hut because in middle life one feels the
hick of companionship. I hope the
elderly lady mentioned in the advertise
ment is a church member?"
Crackle! crackle! went the newspa
per. Chillingfield glanced guiltily at
his friend.
“No, she’s not; that is—-I think, per
haps, a younger person You did
not say how old you were, Miss Hall.”
“No, I didn't,” said Miss Zerinah.
“And I don’t mean to. 1 don’t think
you'll suit, young man. No gentleman—
what is that other person rattling his
newspaper so for?—ever thinks of asking
impertinent questions about a lady’s age.
Good morning, sir.”
Miss Zerinali went out, closing the
door behind her with a bang.
Mrs. Hawkcsbury, the next candidate,
was a clairvoyant and spiritualist.
“I think I could amuse the old lndv
with foretelling the future,” said she.
“That was the way I did at my three
last situations.”
“Three!” repeated Mr. Cliillingfield.
“Jones, my dear fellow, don’t rustle that
paper so vehemently. (An instantaneous
silence ensued, and Jones stifled a giggle
behind the columns of the Mercury.)
“Did you say three? How did you hap
pen to leave those situations?”
“The visitation of Providence, sir,”
said Mrs. Hawkcsbury. “They all died
—the respected ladies whom it was once
my duty and my pleasure to ”
“Oh,” said Mr. Chillingfield, “I am
afraid my Aunt Polly might die, too.
Clairvoyance and second sight mightn't
agree with her.”
“Sir,” said the lady, “you are spiritu
ally blind.”
“Very likely,” said Mr. Chillingfield.
“But 1 prefer to remain so.”
The next was too deaf, the next -too
fleshy, the third was unwilling to live
with any lady who did not keep a man
servant, the fourth wanted too high a
salary—so on, ml in tin it tan, until the
newspaper was fairly crackled to pieces.
Until, at length, there was, so *o speak,
a “tie” between the last two candidates.
Ruth Coxc was just nineteen; pretty as
a sweetpea blossom, and ready to under
take any description of service, to escape
from a step-mother and nine turbulent
half-brothers and sisters. Helen Howard
was a queenly young woman of five and
twenty,who read like Mrs. Seott-Siddons,
sang delicious Scotch ballads, and frank
ly owned that she needed a home!
Mr. Jones coughed himself purple in
the face over both of them.
“You couldn’t do better, Reginald,”
said he, “than to take ”
“Which one?”
•'Both!”
“Do talk common-sense!”
“But ties are both splendid girls!”
“Granted—but you must remember
I that I have only got one Aunt Polly 1 A
I choice must is- made.”
I “Toss up a copper."
I “You Irreverent viltalu!”
“Draw cuts, then. Look! 1 write
‘Helen' on one, 'Ruth' on the other.
Presto! Change! Now drew! Ruth has
Iwou the day!”
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8o Mr. Reginald Chillingfield took
Ruth Coxe home with him to t.he domi
ciliary abode of his Aunt Polly by even
ing train, leaving Helen Howard very
sad and quiet.
“You are disappointed,” said he. “I
wish I could have engaged you both.”
“Yes,” said Helen; “I am disappoint
ed, I confess. Life is very hard and
stern to me."
Reginald Chillingfield thought over
her words, They haunted him—and not
only her words, but the garnet-brown
shadows of her eyes. And just a week
afterward he went back to Glenville.
“Yes, Miss Howard is at home,” said
the shabby maiil-of-ali-work, at the third
rate boarding-liou.se where Miss Howard
lived. “Walk in.”
And Mr. Chillingfield walked in, to
find Miss Howard tete-a-tete with Mr.
Jones.
“Hallo!” cried Jones. “Who would
ever have thought of seeing you?”
“I might say the same,” laughingly
retorted Chillingfield, as ho took Miss
Howard’s hand. “But I have news for
you, Miss Helen.”
“I have heard of an excellent situation
near my aunt’s—an invalid lady, whose
husband ■”
“Hang the invalid lady and her hus
band!” interposed Jones, “I was just
going to write you about it, old boy.
We’re engaged 1 . We are to be married
to-morrow.”
“No!” cried Reginald. “Then I’ll
stay to the wedding. But ”
“Well?”
“Isn't it rather a sudden arrangement?”
“Life is full of sudden things,” said
Jones, philosophically. “Helen is will
ing to run the risk.”'
And so the troublesome question was
settled satisfactorily to. all parties.
Reprimanded In Church,
It was years ago, writes Ned Buntline
in the Detroit Free Press, I had no gray
hairs in my top-knot, no wrinkles in my
face, few griefs in iny bosom. I had
business in Quincy, 111., and had to stay
over Thanksgiving day there. I was invit
ed by a fair friend who belonged to the
choir of a ]jopular church to go with her
to hear the Thanksgiving sermon.
It was one of the old-fashioned kind,
long, theological and dry. I sat where I
could look out, on a vacant lot beside
the church. In that lot alone, wandered
one poor goose—apparently seeking in vain
some way to get. out. I saw it and a
thought struck me. I wrote a paxaplira
sic verse on the blank leaf of my fair
friend’s singing book. These were the
words:
Twa-s the last goose of autumn
Left standing alono;
All its feathered companions
Were slaughtered and gone—
Not a goose of its kindred,
Not a gander was nigh
To list to its sorrow.
Or yield sigh for sigh!
I handed the book over to the lady and
pointed to the unhappy goose in that
back yard.
She tittered and banded the book to
the next member of the choir.
The verse was read, the goose looked
at and so it went all through that large
choir.
Aud all this time the preacher was
watching me while he went on with his
sermon. When he saw that the choir
was in full blast of glee he broke out:
“It is bail enough for the members of
the choir to bring strangers into their
circle, but when such strangers are so
irreverent as to write notes in the singing
1 Kinks to excite laughter, it is more than
a man of God can bear in silence!”
1 felt worse than that goose, you bet,
and never since then have 1 tried to
make fun in u choir.
A Picture that Would Hell.
“This engraving is worth the price of
the biKik alone, sir."
"Oh, is it, eh? What does it repre
sent?"
“It shows how a boiler looks after it
bus exploded.”
“Nonsense, man! What is there prac
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showing how a Itoiler looks about on
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