The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-12-27

ashamed of where hS SB35h0p
Of Mentz, descended from q wheel wright, COW
cred his house with spokes1 and hammers and
wheels; and the King ofSicily, in honor of his
father, who was q potter, refused to drink out
of anything hut an earthern vessel. So Jo-
seph wa not ashamed Of his early surround
ings, or of his old-time father, or ofhis broth
ers. When they came up from the famine
stricken land to get corn from the kings
corn crib, Joseph, instead of Gliding them for
the way they had maltreated and abused
him, sent them back with wagons, which
Pharaoh furnished, laden with corn; and old
Jacob, the father, in the very same wagons,
was brought back that Joseph, the son,
might see him and give him O comfortable
home all the rest of his days.
Well, / hear the wagons, the kings's wag-
ons, rumbiing down in front of the palace.
On the outside of the palace, to see the wag-
ons go of, stands Pharaoh in royal robes;
and beside him Prime Minister Joseph, with
d chain of gold around his neck, and on his
hand O ring given by Pharaoh to him so
that any time he wanted to stamp the royal
zeal upon q document he could do so. Wag-
on after wagon rolls on dow from the pal
nee, laden with corn, and meat, and changes
Of raiment, and everything that could help o
lamine-strnck people. One day I see aged
Jacob seated in front Of his house. He
10 possibly thinking of his absent boys (sons.
however old they get, are never to a father
any more than boys); and while he is seated
There, he sees dust arising, and he hears wag-
ons rumbling, and he wonders what is COM
Ing row. for the whole land had been smitten
with the famine, and was in sileuce. But
after q while the wagons have come near
enough, and he sees his sons on the wagons,
and before they come quite up they shout
dead away, do not wonder al it. The
boys tell the story how that the boy, the
long-ahsent j oseph, has to be the first man
In the Egyptian palace. While they unload
The wagons, the wan and wasted ere atures
In the neighborhood come up and ask for q
handful Of corn and they are satisfied.
s0ne day the wagons are brought up, for
Ipcob, the old father, is about to go to see
Joseph in the Egyptian palace. You know
It is not q very easy thing to transplant an
old tree, and Jacob has hard work to get
away from the place where he has lived so
long. He bids goodbye to the old place, and
leaves hia blessing with the n~eighbors, and
mined to help himself, gets into the wagon,
stiff, old, and decrepit. Yonder they go, ia.
cob and his SONS, and their wives and their
children, 90 in oil, followed by herds and
aocks, which the heards-men drive along.
They are going outfrom famine to luxnriance;
they are going from q plain country. home to
the finest palace under the sun Joseph,
. ehs Pfla and n arisss de gs1s to N ms s,s
the old man. Joseph's charioteer holds up
the ASlrses on the one sidS-the dust-covered
wagons of the emigrants stop on the other.
Joseph, instead Of waiting for his father to
coms leaps ont Of the chariot and jumps into
the emigrants' wagon, throws his arms
around the old man, and weeps aloud for
jacob, can hardly think it is his boy. Why,
The smooth brow al childhood he's become q