Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02
mother, you fight each other across the
parental grave in the cemetery.

mother, you fight each other across the
parental grave in the cemetery.
II you only knew it your interests are
identical. OF all the families of the earth
that stood together, perhaps the most con-
picuous is the family of the Rothschilds.
AS Mayer Anselm Rothschild was about to
die in 1912, he gathered his children abous
him-Anselm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles
and James-and made them promise that
they would always be united on 'Change.
Obeying that injunction, they have been
the mightiest commercial power on
earth, and at the rising or lower.
ing of their scepter nations have risen or
fallen. That illustrates how much, on a
large scale and for selfish purposes, a
united family may achieve. But suppose
that instead of a magnitude Of dollars as
the object, it be doing good and making
salutary impression and raising this
sunken world, how much more enobling!
Sister, you do your part, and brother will
do his part. If Miriam will lovingly watch
the boat on the Nile, Moses will help her
when leprous disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone, and
they soon will be If they have not already
made exit, the sisterly and fraternal bond
will be the only ligament that will hold the
family together. How many reasons for
your deep and unfaltering affections for
each other! Rocked in the same cradle;
bent over by the same motherly tender.
ness: toiled for by the same fathers weary
arm and aching brow; with common in.
heritence Of all the family secrets, and
with names given you by parents who
started you with the highest hopes for
your happiness and prosperity-I charge
you, be loving and kind and forgiv.
ing. If the sister see that the brother
never wants a sympathizer, the brother
will see that the sister never wants an
escort. oh, II the sisters of a household
knew through what terrific and damning
temptations their brother goes in this city
life. they would hardly sleep nights in the
anxiety for his salvation! And il you
would make a holy conspiracy of words
and gentle attentions and earnest prayers,
that would ave his soul from death and
hid a multitude of sins. But let the sis
ter dash off in one direction in disciple.
ship of the world and the brother fee off
in another direction in dissipation, and it
will not be long before they will meet
again at the gate of despair, their blistered
feet in the hot ashes of a consumed life
time. Alas! that brothers and sisters,
though living together for years, very
often do not know each other and that
they see only the imperfections and none
of the virtues.
General Bauer, of the Russian cavalry,
had in early life wandered of in the army,
and the family supposed he was dead.
After he gained a fortune he encamped
one day in Husam, his native place, and
made a banquet, and among the great
military men who were to dine he in
vited a plain miller and his wife, who
lived near by, and who, affrighted, came,
fearing some harm would be done them.
The miller and his wife were placed one
on each side of the General at the table.
The General asked the miller all about his
family, n the miller said that he had
two brothers and a sister. "No other
brothers?" "My younger brother went
off with the army many years ago, and,
no doubt, was long ago killed." Then the
General sold: "Soldiers. I am this mans
younger brother, whom he thought was
dead" And how loud was the cheer and
how warm was the embrace.
Brother and sister, you need as much Of
an introduction to each other as they
did. You do not know zach other. You
think your brother is grouty and cross
and queer, and he thinks you are
selfish and proud and unlovely. But
wrong! That brother will be q
prince in some woman's eyes, and that sis.
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That brother is a magnificent fellow, and
that sister is a morning in June. Come, lei
me introduce you: "Moses, this is Miriam,
Miriam, this is Noses" Add s~eventy-ive
per cent. to your present appreciation OF
each other, and when you kiss good morn.
ing do not stick up your cold cheek, wet
from the recent washing, as though
you hated to touch each others lips in af.
fectionate caress. Let it have oil the fond.
ness and cordially of a loving sisters
kiss.
Make yourself as agreeable and helpful
to each other as possible, remembering tha Al
soon you part. The few years of boyhood
and girlhood will soon slip by, and you will
go out to homes of your own, and into the
battle with the world and amid ever
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crossed with graves and up steps hard to
climb, and through shadowy r%avines.
But, oh, my God and Saviour! may
the terminus of the journey be the
same as the start, namely, at fathers
and mothers knee, if they have inherited
the kingdom. Then, in boyhood and girl.
hood days, we rushed in after the days
absence with much to tell of exciting ad.
venture, and father and mother enjoyed
the recital as much as we who made it, SO
we shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse
to them all the scenes of our earthly ex.
petition, and they shall welcome us home,
as we say: "Father, and mother we have
come and brought our children with us.
The old revival hymn described it with
glorious repetition:
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet.
Will meet to part no more.
Tread of a child in the country who was
detained at q neighbours house on a
stormy night by some fascinating stories
that were being told him, and then looked
out and saw it was so dark he did not