The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-07-11
OFFICE BOYS.
Ino wonderful Love Of an once YOUNG.
ster for His Mate.

Two TWO souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one"
1t is probable that Damon and Pyth
las were on exceedingly friendly terms
ana that something superior to sneak
ing regard for each other warmed the
breasts OF David and Jonathan; but the
love which existed between either pail
was cold indeed compared to that fer.
vent affection which unites and YIELDS
together the fond hearts of the two BOYS
employed in one Office. When David,
apostrophizing the stricken Jonathan,
exclaimed: THY love to me was won.
derful, passing the love of women" he
thought he was putting it pretty
strong. And so he was. Had he said.
passing the love of the Office boy to his
mate, he would have capped the eli
max; but nobody would have believed
him.
Nowhere else can be found the acm,
OF pure, unadulterated, disinterested
unseltish, all-abounding love that fill,
the respective breasts of the two bow,
employed in common Office.
The evidences of this beautiful affec
.ion are many and manifest. Is one q
'ne loving pair to 60 on an errand. the
other, fearing that the idol of his SOU
may be knocked down or run over OF
drowned or drawn and chartered er
route. can not be persuaded from &C.
companying him, save by the most per.
emptory orders to the contrary; and
even then the lover who is left will he
anxious and uneasy and fit for nothing
until his mate returns; nav. it IS
more than likely that his feelings will
so get the better of him that he will
start out in search of his comrade upou
the hrst convenient opportunity, your
positive command to the contrary not
outstanding.
Are the two boys sitting together.
after their custom, communing soul
with SOU, and is a boy wanted to do some.
thing or other, each is so disinterestedlv
DESTROYS that the other shall answer the
summons, and thus give new evidence
TO his employers of the treasure thew
possess, that neither will start for MANY
minutes. And when, after repeated and
sometimes profane ADMIRATION, one re.
spends to the summons, the other re-
spends likewise, and by his counsel and
companionship aids and assists his
compeer in the discharge of his commits
sion, even if it be but the carrying of
bit OF paper across the room.
When complaint is made of some. ]
thing which 1.-The boy has done. or
something which he has left undone.
how quick is each to charge the fault
upon the other! Not out of ill-will or
desire to escape in his own person the
results OF the error, fault, shortcoming.
overriding, or whatever else it NAV be. |
Not at all; but each knows that the
censure or chastisement which the Of |
fender, when discovered, will receive
must prove of incalculable benefit in |
the end, and each, therefore, is willing,
nay, DESTROYS, that the other. whom he |
loves so much better than himself, shall |
alone enjoy the castigatory emolument.
and that himself shall be robbed of
what could not but prove of inestimable
good, not only for the present moment.
but for all time to come.
And what happy hours they pass to-
gether! Quite unconscious of all thinps
else, or even the duties which it is their
province to perform, they will sit to-
gether for hours, the flame of mutual
love irradiating and clarifying their
features, and each pouring into the ear
OF either the most ardent assurances of |
the fond affection which fills each heart.
While in this rapt condition they are
oblivious to everything. They know
not that their tongues are more noisy
than brace of sawmills. They are
unconscious OF the groans and grunts
that make the air sonorous with discon-
tent They only know that they are
luxuriating in the happiness of affec-
Tomato propinquity. And when, at
last, they become cognizant of the uni
versal demand to "stop that COMPOUNDED
chatter, each has been so lost in adj
OF the others eloquent dis
course that he cries out, and, as he
thinks, truthfully: "'Twan't mer'
But this disclaimer is uttered out of no
wish to bring the other to grief or to
escape consequences himself. No; he
merely desires to give to his fellow the
ull honor which should be accorded to
he generator of so much edifying con-
1t is pleasing, too. to see how devoted
each is every ready to place himself
It the others service. An Office bow
las been known, even when engaged
n some necessary piece of work, to
orsake his labor utterly that he might
.ssist his mate in a difficult sum at
marbles or an intricate problem in
levil's fiddle, or help him to UNDER
tand the meaning of some passage in
The Boy Highwaymen," or other 4
qually reconcile literary work.
But why accumulate evidence of
that must be self-evident to alp Truly, =
he love of the Office boy for his mate is
OF exceeded by any other form of hu- !
ian love, unless it be the love of his !
late for the office boy.-Boston Tran 1
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