The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-04-28
A CHAPTER About Bones.

What dry subject He was at loss
what to write about, and SO he took bones
Hold, now, wait and see Read, and you
will know, said pI0us mother to her son
wnen he asked her about this thing and
that. That son did SO. He became Gov
ernor of the East Indies. His name is Sir
William Jones, truly good and great
man.
More can be said of bones than YOU are
aware of, my young friend Consider the
work OF God" Consider "the OK, strong
to labor" The OK knoweth his owner
That is more than can be said of man,
by nature 81 ignorant and proud for the
Bible goes Oh to say, " israel doth not
know, my people do not consider. a man
knows nothing about his own strange heart
or the character of the great God that
made and redeemed him, till his Holy
Spirit shines down into his dark soul. He
is then born again ;" aS, when God made
the world, the Etcrnat Spirit moved along
the rlooms and wild waves, the Garth ap-
pearci in perfect beauty. But | cannot
dwell! on that now.
The OK draws the plough that tears up
the tough clods and roots. Then We SOW
in hope and reap in mercy. When the OK
is useful no more, his fle,h is for food Iii,
horns make combs The skin tanned into
lea,i,ar, is for she's, saddle brides. and
/ trunk, The hair of the hide is put into
plaster to make il stick The taii-wlat
is done with that? Thrown away say
YOU? No it is not. OK tail soup iS made
of il And the hair il is said i curlcd for
mattresses and cushions. OK x--alli- p:epa-
red by chemists 10" cu.oring pictures. and
for medicine. The Hnof produces heat :
foot oil, for leather and machinery And,
a. il that were not enough. glue - at last
got out oil il Now if it Toe = great sin 10
abuse any of God : creatures, how much
more 50 th. iaborious and honest OK
Whcn q bone ha- Oecn u,el for soup II
! may be thrown I" the dog He contrives
TO make a tn!.r4hly good meal Of II The
do-. a. YOU know, ha, 10 live 10y his Wis
. You sometime, him Try I" crack bone
10 g.t on, Il c marrow. The bone then
l;-- neglected in the field By and by a
~h.T9trlers. or rag picker, comes along and
thTtI>.- II IN nI~ bag over hl- shoulders
. w hat IA mean man >ay YOU hat may
hr. bat money i all he cares ior, and he
v III turn that bone iu;o Innncv H.. doe
not d.-p..e the day Of small thia...
Not pin cares he what you may think o
him The bone has not begun TO he use
iu!. compared with what il viii be Set
viii l.. sawed in pieces 70 suit the article
TO be made. and then will te turned in .
A lathe iuto buttons. umbr.ll.. and knitc
handles I,ara>oltirs. ami iieais al canes.
/ The bone dust will ue used in rh. mauutac
rti-s q: IorcolaI. ware .i"nr-Huu,,s. and IHe
! Ike Thus porcelain 10 made beautifully
Transparent Even the part o: The bone
YOU might think entirely useless make
the best kind Of manure helping t;Ie earth
to bring forth iIeT increase, food iOI MAJ
and b-s~s
Thus the history Of this OK viii lie the
history of another OK. and yet another to
the end OF KIM. God Is th. Author Of al
the wonders and beauties o: nature anc
art IN unw!>e man doth not well cons!
der this
From this sketch OF a. OK. and the ma
nv uses of An oNhoue, we may i.aiu Iudg
ment and economy ia our affair Above
all 10 waste no time or Jose any opportu
nitv to turn thing. 10 useiu! purposes. bul
blessed Lord Taught this lesson. "trathe
up the fragments, that nothing be lo.:-
I Fragments OF io"d-fraCIueuJs Of time
fragments OF Observation-Disclosures o