The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-01
LOVE THAT LASTS TO ETERNITY.

would have given all tier poems TO have
written,-among group OF strangers
standing in awe before Mont Blame WIS a
man who seemed forty-iive from his hair
fully half gray, and his quiet dgniiied
bearing, though hc must have been youn.
ger Hcwas absorbed in his own thoughts.
He did not look at any face about him.
but seemed spell-bound by the sublimity
OF the scene. In that vast mountain, white
with eternal SHOWS with the rivers fed BY
the glaciers turbulent at its base, the sun
clothinglt with rainbows, he saw the same
God who had comprised his life, as the
stalwart pines hedged in tho grand mount
before him.
After time, rs through that as vet uu.
developed science OF unseen power he.
tween mind and mind, he felt d presence.
de was conscious Of eyes fixed upon him,
conscious that somebody lie hal known
and loved was near him. A hand was
laid on his shoulder.
Burton, you're the last man in all the
world | thought Of seeing. Ten years,
since you and | travelled together, and YOU
yet on the wing? | supposed you had set
tied down TO some lifew0rk, and was sur.
rounded by loves and cares ere this. You
and have stood here together before"
The speaker was genial, generous
man, somewhat Cones junior In look and
manner, whose sorrows, whether many and
great or not, could not long crush his hap
Ply heart. Hissympathies were quick, his
hopes naturally bright, and his nature ar.
dent. The decade TINT had passed since
the former companionship had aged one
more than the other. The one had been
given time and heart to business, but had
lived alone, though eOwded world was
about him. The other had been kept
young and fresh by the love OF cheerful
wife and sunny daughter, and the years
had gone by rapidly, and more than or
dinarily well stored with good deeds.
Come, Burton, am firing OF this roar
and grandeur. Let's go back to the hotel
and have one OF the old friendly talks.
Nature has lost half its beauty now TINT
only one pair of eyes sees it,-and have
no one to tell Of the beautiful or strange
things have seen. You don't need
friendship us | do. You are made OF
sterner stuff. You are Mont Blanc per-
sonitied."
Cones mind was full Of the grandeur be-
fore him, but his heart, cold as he was,
WAS keenly alive to the needs of those
who had been friends, 80 together they
walked arm in arm to their lodgings.
snow let's talk over theten years, Cone.
Ten years make fool or a wise man Of
fellow carry him up to the gates or down
to the depthsw
"Tell me what they have done for you,
Marsh. You know how much | have to
thank you and your young wife for the
sunshine you put into my life when we
travelled together before. She seemed like
sister to me. She understood me; and
that ID where most women fail. They do
not know us, or We do not know them, so
our true nature never come side by side,
but abe seemed to feel the pulse OF my life.
She knew just when needed jovial words
and when | needed sympathy or quiet.
She had the tact have heard 10 often de-
scribed, but seldom seen, and pure heart
back Of it. | fear all hasn't gone right
with yon. Can it be that you are walking
alone, like myself"
Tears gathered in Marsh's eyes. He
had almost q woman's heart and wo.
mans love. "Itisn't hard for you to stand
alone, but for me 1t Is crushing. buried
my wife in England, six months ago. We
came for her health, but she failed rapidly
and went away soon after We arrived.
Our little girl is boarding with friends, and
wander anywhere, everywhere,-so l
can forget. ! cannot get back to America.
Nothing binds me there seem unfit for
labor and am adrift. You know she was
like an anchor. / depended upon her
judgment, upon her help, upon her love-
When awOman leans entirely upon man,
and she Is taken away, he may feel as
though something dear and beautiful had
gone out from him, but when woman
has strength enough to be companion, a
counselor in the deeds and plans OF every
day,-when she Is not a pet merely, but a
guido to everything noble,-when, wheth.
er you will or not, you are kept upon a
plan OF right and duty and manhood
what shall poor, relying heart do?"
Would you wish to target, Marsh? |
would put such blessing away in my
heart and grow strong from daily looking
ut It,"
"Ican't helplt, Cone. must get away
from such memories. fol rs though ]
drifted hither aud thithGr, because thprn
is no hand on the helm. To remember Is
misery; to forget might he relief"
"And yet, do you not owe such wifca
loving, yearning remembrance One
might forget a flower that blossomed for
his pleasure Tor day or week; but hold
in grateful memory Q spGine that opened
! in the desert Of a parcled life, and DC,
came an unfailing supply. Memories
; sometimes are almost as sweet rs present
realities, md sometimes We arc made even
stronger BY the lpP than by the other"
THAT may be good philosophy n: those
who have never loved and lost, No one
eap know iii no has the trial. have one
left, ! know, Int that does not I'LL the
place Of the other, and PerphRRge no one
"You must go buck with mo to our iith'
erland. am nearly through with my
journeying, for it seems idle work for me
now. Besides, l have had prcmonitions
that ! should make ready for another
Journey. YOa seem startled. Ten ycars
have worn upon mo, tor tlIpY have been
= years Of constant and hard labor. ! GoGll
not forget, and would not, but hope will
iude into fruitiOn by and by"
"Conc, you ought to tell me of your
d lie. Much as you respected my wife
+ yay never rliscd the curtains from The
!; Seenes SBiFN iFsRspired before We ne
II you. Why haze you liva,i 10 yOvr age
mud taken no heart into yoIr own 10 biesl
aud hoIdG Your principles gre like ada
D mant, and would keep you anywhere, bu
y every man and woman needs 10 have hi!
- or her heart uncloIstered, that others ina,
grow strong and unselflsh with him. ThI
Z working ont LIES plan alone, with M
!: giving Or receiving II loves, seems a mis-
J take to me. Has your heart anything hid
4 don away in It, or are you proof to wha
. you may tllipk tbp weaker acts OF liie?'
J" Cones iacS seemed . llttlp troubled
: Not one man or woman ont 81 ten lloE
sand reaches the age Of forty without llav
Ing loved or been loved, and felt blOsSe,
- 10y or bitter pain in one or the othel
Was hs indeed different from the rest Q
mankind? lie manifested no partialit