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WOtfiUTS lOtEU.
Onr lov is don !
I 'would not have it back, I gay,
I would not have my whole year Hay t
lint j et for our dead passion's sake,
Kim me once more and strive to make
Oar last kirn the aopremest one ;
For love is done- ' V .
Ourlove is done!
And still my eyes with tears are wet,
Oar souls are stirred with vague regret ;
We gaze farewell, yet cannot speak,
And firm resolves grow strangely weak.
Th.nr.fch hearts are twain that once were one
Since love is done.
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' But love is done !
I know it, vow it, and that kiss
Must set a finis to oar bliss.
Yet when I felt thy month meet mine,
My life again seemed half divine,
Our very hearts together run !
Can love be done T
Can love be done?
Who can if this be mad or wise?
Trust not my words, but read my eyes.
Thy kiss bade sleeping love awake:
Then take me to thy heart; ah ! take
The life that with thine own is one,
Love is not done ! '
A Boy Ml
BY MARGARET PENDLETON.
"Wanted a boy, aged fourteen years,
Inquire within." Joe Fletcher thought
this card had been hung in Dr. Kemp's
office window for him. "If it didn't 6ay
fourteen years, I might get the place !"
he answered himself as he stood hesita
ting outside the front gate. -
Hie mother, recognizing that the fatal
disease consumption was fast sopping her
vitality, had informed bim that he would
have to come out of school and try to find
work. "I'm not as strong this spring,
Joe, and my sewing goes on slowly," she
had said, struggling to keep the tears back
that would admit to Joe her alarm and
danger.
J "All right, mother," he responded
cheerfully, "Fred Bailey's only ten, and
he earns one dollar week, and I'm"
twelve 1" with assurance that the two
added years ought to favor an increase of
wages.
" . And so the next day . Joe went ' in
earcb. of workjaod we find him gazing
at the eard referred to. Jue unlatched
the gate and timidly rang the office bell
f A dignified, stern-faced, stern-voiced
man answered the call. "Well, what
will yon have ?" he asked, scrutinizing
the small boy before bim. His voice was
not encouraging, but Joe answered man
fully: "Work, sir," pointing at the ad'
vertisemeot in the window. "Maybe you
. knew I was coming and put it there
I'd see it," he added, half questioningly,
half confidently that this was the fact.
"Guess not, boy, wouldn't have to wear
these glasses if I could see so far 1" re
moving them from his eyes and giving
them a vigorous cleaniug, and adjusting
1 them again that he might more readily
see his applicant. "What made you
think I knew ?" (in milder tone).
" 'Cause mother asked God this morn
ing, sir, to direct me to work; and
wouldn't have known you wanted a boy,
if you hadn't hung the card in your
window; thought perhaps he told you to
put it there' so I'd see it. Maybe you
asked him yourself to send you a boy.
sir," Joe ventured to suggest, adding as
he saw a look of surprise mingled with
contempt; "Mother says as how
directs our Steps (all we do), sir, if we
, trust Mm."
The doctor was an unbeliever, and he
' replied : "I guess your mother is a crank,
isn't she ? to think the Almighty takes
notice of such small matters."
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Joe lid not know what a. crank was,
but the sneer with which the doctor spok
' suggested to him that the word was
4 something disrespectful to his mother,
;and his face flushed, and bis ayes Sashed.
"My mother is a Christian and a lady,
r,'' u all be found voice to say.
I "Are. yon fourteen ?" the doctor ques-
j; tinned doubtfully. ,-'
' "Jo sir, I m only twelve; but i can
o k, sir I I carry all the water for
?moher, chop the wood, and make the
fi Mhcr iocsi'i kaw haw
do with jut me; but we tisve got . to live,
sir, sad uiutui.-f can't tew as she once did."
' r yrm ercr drives a hurt ?"
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aae see your recommendation." '
r I haven't any, sir."
"Dow am I going to know that you
ire an honest, capable boy, then ?"
f "I don't know,- sir. If you would
""vi-joc," Joe added eagerly.
JKtt, no; you won't do; I eannot take a
1 1 he has pxsd references."
1-1 the doctor wont into his ofHce,
I ,5 J to "Z A t'.i answer to his
i ' 9 u -?viira f ' where." as he corn-
"Jooked ve:a
fof a rwou
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r. he had not
. I J ion. " ' I all
ijji if! ; C'A,
where was he to gst one? He and his
mother were strangers in the city. - Sud
denly a smile lighted Joe's troubled face;
he stepped back into the office in the
light of it. " Why, sir, if you will call on
my mother, Si Avenue B., she'll recom
mend me, shi knows me better than any
body." .
The doctbr smiled sarcastically. "'Most
likely she does, but it is not customary to
receive credentials from so interested
party," with an air that told Joe he had
no more time for small boys.
"I did want to"belp mother, 'cause she's
sick." And Joe's eyes filled with the
tears that had been in his heart all the
morning, but now gathering to the sur
face, overflowed his cheeks.
Joe's discouragement increased as go
ing from store to store, and from office to
office, he found few vacancies, and always
the discouraging tequirement of a rec-
ommendation. Wearied in body and
disheartened by repeated failure, he turn
ed his steps homeward. It some one
ould only give him a trial! Must his
mother die because there was no one to
help? Was there no one? Had not his
mother asked help that very morning of
One who had never failed to come to
their relief in times past? So Joe rea
8ooed. "I'm sure he's heaid mother's
prayer," he comforted himself; and as the
outcome of his effort to trust, Joe found
himself whistling the tune of the strain:
"In some way or other
The Lord will provide."
Abl it was God's way and God s
time his mother had taught him to trust
in and wait for.
With increased faith Joe ran up the
steps of their poor home in happy nxpec.
tation. "Mother!" be called cheerily, as
de did not find her in her accuitumcd
place at the window stitching. '-Moth
er, where are you.' A faint antwer to
his call from his mother's own room pre
pared him for the realization of tho fear
that flashed into his mind. Yes, she
was ill, very ill. She lay on her bed so
white and still that Joe cried out: "Oh
mother, are you so very ill r Ana Joe
burst into tears which bis brave little
heart, overtaxed as it was, could control
uo longer. "I'll be better in the morn
in"," was all she said. She did not tell
bim that she had had a hemorrhage.
As his mother lay upon ber bed
pale, and with her eyes closed, Joe's fail
ure to find employment weighed heavily
upon his heart. But Joe had been
well instructed to trust in God's goodness
and faithfulness, that doubt was only
known to him asa temptation; and young
as he was this faith asserted itself and
he assured himself God did hear and an
swer prayer. "He can give me a place
without a recommend," he said over and
over again.
in the morning his taitn and courage
were rewarded. He had just given his
mother her breakfast, carefully prepared
though it consisted of two crnsts toasted
a delicious brown, softened with hot wa
ter, seasoned with salt; and a cup of
weak tea, His faith increased rather
than decreased in the knowledge that it
was the last mouthful in the house.
"Maybe 'his time' will be this morn
ing, ( be thought, remembering a text
onen repeatea oy nis inotner, "lour
heavenly Father knoweth that ye hav
need oi an tnese tnings. mat means
bread and tea, 'these things' do, 'cause
that's our need just now. And tnayb
it means a doctor for mother, too." Joe
had hardly rehearsed their needs in his
mind when there came a knock at the
door. It was a rare thing for anybody
to knock at the Fletchers' door. Not
even a grocer, for their supplies were
small Joe carried them himself. "His
time's come!" Joe said in his heart
through the first crack of the dour us he
opened it he beheld a gentleman with a
kind, fatherly face.
"Good morning, my little mio," tho
gentleman said, his face reflecting the
smile that lighted Joe's in happy con
tented assurance. "I'm looking," he
continued, "for a little fellow by the name
of JuA rieteW."- '."
"Yes, sir, I'm him." Joe answered,
his f ace beaming brighter and brighter.
"Yon are the little hid who was look
ing for employment in Dr. Kemp's office
yesterday, were you not ?"
"Ye, sir," said Joe, wondering whom
the g'Ktd snel might be who had told
thisg ntleman of his desire to help his
mother; surely he had never seen him
before. "I had no recommend and no
body to give me one, and so I didn't 'get
t'.a place, but but I'm sure he can give
n.e a place without one, 'cauee nothing is
too bard or big for him to do. Mother
and me likes that text girfausejt's right
hard for as to get things, now (.he's sirkl
And mother wjs as how n floes trie
J thing for ei we can't do f.
I we trust him I didfex d
if
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first, 'cause I couldn't get a place without
the recommend but ' mother says the
bad feeling like ' came 'cause I was
trusting in the recommend more than I
was in him, and I guess she's right, sir."
It was a long stammered sentence, not
one period until Joe stopped, but he was
so much in earnest that J udge Weston
listened patiently, and with a great deal
of interest. "Well," he said, "I am
looking for a boy your age; I was in Dr.
Kemp's office yesterday when you ap
plied. I have a little boy at home, who
has never walked." The judge's voice
grew husky. "He hasn't any mother,
and he gets tired of bis good faithful
nurse. Tho fact is he needs a younger
life to brighten his own. An honest,
gentlo, pure lad, to read with him, study
with him, and to draw him in his chair
in the garden. He is doubly dear to his
old father, because of his affliction. It is
became of your unexceptionable recom
mendation that I am willing to trust you
with so precious a charge, and with thw
object in view, I seek you this morning.
Joe looked in speechless aumzmiuui.
Hadn't he just told tho gentleman plainly
be had no "recommend nor anybody to
give him one? There must be a misunder
standing, and he was not the boy after all.
But Judge Weston allayed his fears in
this respect. -'My lad," he said, coming
close 10 Joe and lading his hand tenderly
upon his shoulder, "A boy who shows
such lender consideration and love for his
mother, as you expressed to Dr. Knu ,
in your desire to aid in her support, , and
your assertion that you carried the watt r,
chopped the wi od and made tho fire; a
boy who assumes these duties with tcudir
love and manly courage, thus sharing her
burden such a boy ha the best recom
mendation that he cun bo offered to prove
to me his faithfulness. As soon as your
mother's recovery permits, call at my of
fice, No. 30, Barlow Row. If your moth
er desires, I will call to see her in regard
to filling a position as housekeeper." '
What a day of thanksgiving that woi
to Joe and his mother! God did not for
get one of their needj. Does He ever
forget yours or mine, reader? Do yon
know the blessedness of those who wait
for Him ? ,
Kind Judge Weston sent a doctor for
Joe's mother that very morning, and pro
visions for many a day. And one lovely
morning in Juno, he came with his car
riage tu take them to their new home. 1
There were two memories that followed
and influenced Joe throughout his life;
and through liim, others. The first was
this personal experience of faith in God
1 i.im T i mi i ti
ana us eeqnei, " i ne JiOra will provide.
And the second was his recommendation,
which made for him his starting point in
life, leading to honor, usefulness and suo
cess. I wish I had time to tell you about Joe's
new home and crippled Jamie. Perhaps
I can some other time.
Wilmington, N. C.
John N. Webb, Esq.,
' Washington, D. 0.
My Dear Sir: Forthe benefit of those
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from the use of Electropoise. I have
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and do not hesitate to say it is invaluable
to us.
In my own ease of Nervous Dyspepsia
which was attended with all tha horrors
incident to the disease in its worst form, I
found it gave me relief when everything
else failed, and I feel confident its use
laid the foundations for the good health
I now enjoy after three years of suffering
such as few men could stand.
Very truly yours,
W. R. Fkknch.
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