Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-06

where the moonlight and the shadows OF
the over-hanging tree-boughs danced to-
gether, to the music of. the night wind
81 can imagine, just how everything
looks around the old homestead, now!'
said Mrs. Jones, in low, subdued tone
''This is just such an evening as always
reminds me of one of the scenes described
by Pollock: - srraE5g os.s &c g:.,-. lI
"It was an eve of Autumn's holiest mood
The cornfelds bathed in Cynthias silver light,
Stood ready for the reaper,s gathering hand;
And all the winds slept soundly.
"Youremember that beautiful deserip-
ton of an Autumn evening, do you not?
Oh, how many times Mary and l have
repeated that as we walked together, up
and down the sayenae .at.thA Elmss .Mhan
we were happy school girls. Oh, what
visits we used to have; what secrets we
confded to each other, and how we vowed
eternal constancy! We might have been
very foolish and sentimental, but we
were certainly very happy. It does not
seem possible that we have been es-
tranged so long How little We dreamed,
that when we were married and settled
down in the same village, that months
would pass over our heads without an in
terchange of kind words and loving
smiles. Oh, it seems to me tonight,
that, I can never entertain an unkind
feeling toward an old friend again
Everything seems so holy and calm
around us; why must there be such tur
moil and strife within? But isn't that Mr.
and Mrs Smith we are going to meet?"
eyes, it is! Let us speak to them as
if nothing had ever happened. Good
evening" said Mr.. Jones, extending his
hand toward Mr.. Smith r..
fGood evening" echoed his wife,
grasping the hand of her old schoolmate,
and putting up her lips for kiss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith gave little start
of surprise, and betrayed a little en-
-barrassment of manner; but there was
nothing of coldness in their answering
salutations, and that there might not be
an awkward pause after the greeting,
Mr.. Jones added Immediately. GA fine
evening for a walk!' We have been
speaking of you, and thought some of
calling at your house before we went
home!'' ...5' r... ry
s'Indeed! Well, we will turn back,
then. We were only out for a walk
Mary, dear, Mr.. and Mrs Jones were
of calling on US. Let US walk
with them!' 'ft. - -. :. ga
t'Certainlyl Susy has just been tell
ing me- And so they walked through
the streets together AS they proceeded
they met a few villagers, who stared af-
ter them, as if to assure themselves that
their eyes saw clearly. Long before our
little party reached their destination the
report was going through the village
that ssSmiths and Joneses had made up,
and were good friends again. Idotnot
know how they would have managed to
have filled up the awful pause necessa-
rrly occurring between their meeting in
the street and their arrival at Mrs. Smith s
house, had it not been for ''the weather. -
that dear old friend who has helped so
many bashfulpeople, awkward pairs and
dull companions to topic ofeonversa-
ton; but, some how, they contrived to
make the time pass easily, if not pleas
antly, and were at last seated in the par
lor before cheerful coal fire. Hats,
gloves and shawls, were laid aside, and
then there was moment of hesitancy
on the part of each, and each dreaded
an embarrassing state ofthings; but ones
had screwed up his courage, " as he was
wont to express himself, and he was not
the man to back out now; SO without
waiting for any one else to open, he be-
gan: 5fs t. >J.5Hia'5s slGei a
"Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, my wife and I
have been talking over matters tonight,
and thinking of the estrangement that ex
lists between our families, and we have
come to the conclusion that tits as wrong
IS it is unpleasant for US to live as we
have been, and that there is no need of
this state of things continuing. We feel
that there has been wrong on both sides,
We know that zoe have been very much |
to blame, and what was at first but a
trifing affair, has been magnifed and ad-
led to until we have become widely es
ranged. This quarrel does not end
IS involved in it; we have each our par
lies and champions, and have created a
great deal of unhappiness for ourselves
md others. am willing to acknowl |
edge my faults; and now can we not just
ct this affair drop, and. bury the past, at
east all unpleasant portions Of it, and
be friends once moreY a-., .-.-. 5r-
There was quick, warm response to
his. on the part of Smith. - :.
Il do not see why we cannot" he said.
I am willing to do so. I know that [
nave said aggravating things and cher
shed unkind feelings.~-We, too, were
;alking of. this difficulty tonight. 1t
seems to me good omen thatour minds
net upon the same topic. Here is my
hand, Jones! You're good fellow,
little hasty, like myself sometimes, but
such people like each other all the bet
Ter, if they do fall out occasionally?
There was warm shaking of hands in
oxen of friendship; the two women were
llready sobbings in each others arms
Ehere was mutual forgiveness, and re-
union of hearts, and the good old times
we're lived over gain; and it was long af-
ser the village Was hushed in repose be-
fore the friends separated. Peaceful
we're their slumbers that night; their
dreams were undisturbed by the taunts
Of self-reproach, Or the demands of neg
ected duties. r4 go ff.
Years have since glided away; but the
Two families have never allowed ANYTHING |
to occasion quarrel between them
They have been tempted and tried with
each others failings. Meddlers have Of
fered their assistance in misconstruing
and exaggerating; but they remember
bitter lesson, and their motto is, 'Pass
it byP .......,