The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-16
WHOLE Nc. 1904.
A QUESTION.
Hoa0 do yOu 6ehaus to your Parents,

oS Win you when you T0au Inl1
question, but let me hope, that you, my read
ers, will give it due attention. might not per.
maps nave said any thing about it new, had it
not oeen Tor little circumstance which occur.
red few days ago.
AS $1,000 moment talking to a friend, a
young girl, very smartly dressed came out of a
small house. She looked very angry as her
aged mother followed her to the door, Hobbling
along with suck, and begged her not to go to
a Inc wave. DO not go, Sally" said the poor
old woman, in suppcating voice {" Won know
that your father does not like YOU 10 90 there"
Poh," replied the undutifuI Girl. "vou are
( old and foolish what do care for nv faith
er!" " NY 'a''-
NOW this was very shocking speech SO
stepped up, and asked her if she had ever learn
ed the NTH commandment. Honor thv faith.
er and thy mother, that thy days may be long
( IN Inc land, which the Lord thy God giyetR
swer -o No an
thought upon the verse in Proverbs. that
! says, The eye that mocketh at his father
and despiseth 10 obey his mother, the ravens OF
me valley shall pick it out, and the young ca.
giles shall eat it,
DO not, for moment, suppose that any of
my readers would act so wickedly, as to make
use OF such language to their parents but as
u is possible they may not be honoring them as
10y ougnL 10 40, cannot help repeating the
question, Holo do you tehaoe to your parents
100 often do we see young persons wanting
IN respect and affection, when their parents
grow old. This is the time when that kindness
winch they showed to their children in tender
years, ought to be repaid especially if it has
pieased God TO visit them with infrmitv, The
chiid mat can see parent in years and in aflic-
ton, without doing all that can be done TO ad.
minister comfort, Is unworthy The blessings
that God has bestowed upon him. Ho,o do
y0u 6ehGre to your parents?
My young friends, if you have not lost your
parents, be kind TO them, and honor them for.
be assured, if you do not do so, when they come
to die one of the heaviest signs you will heave,
and one of the bitterest tears you will shed,
VIII be Tor the unkindness with which you have
treated them. Behave unto them, so that you
may visit their graves without shame and re-
morse; for the thorn upon the brier that COW
ers the grave of parent, is not SO sharp as the
thorn OF an accusing conscience in the heart of
disobedient child. Hoto do you Lehare to Jour
parentS9
Attend to the advice of the wisest man tina.
ever lived. "My son, hear the instruction Of
thy father, and forsake no. the law of thy moth
er )" for, by attending to it, you will be laying
up peace for your own hearts. No son can tell
how much JOY father feels in seeing him the
stan OF his old age, and the servant Of Cod
NO daughter can guess the delight of moth.
er, when she sees her child walking in nnrinht
SraSr lcss 'caTi you imagine Inc grief OF parent,
when a child is bringing down his g grey hairs
with sorrow 10 the grave"
Would it not affiict you to see young tree,
which your hands had planted and watered;
and you had watched over, torn up by the roots
Would it not afict you to sec lamb, which
you had carefully nourished and brought up,
led astray prey TO proving wolf? Would
it not afflict you, if brother, whom you had
treated with uncommon kindness, should turn
against you, and rob you and revile you? And
yet how little is the affection you could feel
for the young tree you had planted, for tho
lamb you had nourished, or for the brother you
had beIriended, compared with the love that a
parent feels for his child What then must 4
parent endure, when a child meets with calam-
ity; or is led astray in the paths of sin; or,
5els against his parent, and the laws of God
My dear young Friends, Hosc do goa bekaus to
your parents THE Friend.
HOLDING THE BEAR. Two men, ncighbors,
in the District of Maine, (some years since)
had been in the woods during the day, and rsa
turning towards evening, when within mile
of their homes, observed large Bear making
directly for one of them, and to avoid his grasp
he lodged behind a sEeable tree, :he Bear
sprang and clasping his fore paws around the
tree, the man Immediately seized them and
held him fast. After a consultation how they
should despatch the Bear, it was agreed that
the man who was at liberty should proceed
home, obtain an axe, return Immediately and
dispatch him. The man arrived home, related
the situation OF their neighbor to his wife and
his plan for killing the Bear-but not being
much in n hurry, directed his wife 10 prepare
supper, and he would take some before he start
ed, which was accordingly done. After sup
per was over, and he taking several turns from
the fire TO the door and from the door to the
fire, and ounging a while, concluded he would
go to bed early and be stirring by times in tho
morning and release his friend. Morning ar
rived, the axe got in readiness, he then tells
his wife he believed he would have his break
fast before he went-breakfast being over and
several small chores done about the house. ha
leisurely shoulders his axe and shortly finds his
friend in the same position very patiently hold
ing the Bear and waiting his return. On his
approaching near the spot and just raising the
axe to give the mortal blow, his friend saws
stop, have suffered enough holding the Bear,
you come and take my place and let me have
the satisfaction of killing him. This was read
lily assentod to, and the man after being reeas-
ed, and his neghbor in the situation that he
had been, shoulders the axe and walks off, leav-
ing his friend in full possession Of the Bear IN
his turn.
THE REILLY PERSONAL. Sergeant Davy Of
brow-beatng memory, was originally drug
gist at Exeter, but becoming bankrupt, turned
his attention TO the law. and succeeded. In
examining witness at the castle, in Exeter,
the man being rather more accurate in his re-
collections Of tho time when the assault hap
pened, than Davy wished, he said to him
amy friend how is it that you can recollect an
affair of this kind which happened so long
ugo." The witness gave for answer" That
il was exactly the day when Bully Davy shut
up shop and cheated him ont of ESQ; cir.
cumstnnce he should remember all the days of
his life. "-English paper
Soon after Col. Crocket's first appearance
at Washington, being new member from
Tennessee, he arrived at the Palace by invita-