Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-28

happiness. what they could d. 'ot
mind, what they could do for ~
have been absorbing questions 0 y
| a livelihood for YOU has NOT n.y.. 10
an easy thing for your father. !
fatigues of body and what djstn
of mind, and long years of strns
which sometimes the Losses wera
than the gains, he got bread .sA
paying for it i'll the sweat "a ~
brow and the red drops of us
hearts blood! He looks older us ~
ought to look at his years. sesal
been work, work. work. Mar
he felt like giving up the ba,.i
then he looked at your HELPLESS
the helplessness of the househa1s
then he nerved himself un auN
said: BY the help of God NJ,
stop; my children must have ho,lN
education and advantages, ana
Portable starting in the world
must get a little something oS.is
that if l an taken away these I "
ones will not be turned out on NJ
charities of the world" Vs.
father has been a good friend
He has never told any one, and bs~s
will tell any one, ofthe sacrifices !
| made for YOU. And he is ready ~
right on until unto that hand tbs.
been toiling for you all these
shall come the very numbness of 4.
You cannot afford to break his y
But you are doing it. Yes, o ara
have driven the dagger clear in I'm
hilt.
And your mother warrant sb.
never told you much about the nj
when you were down with scarlet !
or d%iphtheria, and she slept not a
or. falling into drowsiness, you,J
cry awakened her, and brouplt
words, What is it. my DEAR" ON
the old rocking chair could speak,
if the cradle could only tell its s,o,
years! And when You got better, !
were fretful and hard to please. !
usual in convalesence, she ken,
patience so we'll, and was as kind n.
were unreasonable and cross. Oh, Il
nights of motherly watching, how
you keep silence! Speak out and
that wandering young mantle stow1
he SO much needs to hear.
BY the bye, [ wonder what las bed
of our old cradle in which ali
the children were rocked! I must as
sister when 1 see her next time.
were q large family, and that old cg1
was going o good many years. Irem1
Der just how it looked. TWAS old IA
toned and had no tapestry. Its twosI
and canopy all of plain wood, but al
was q great deal of sound sleeping
that cradle, and many aches and ID
were soothed in it as it movedto and
by day and night. Most vividly Il
member that the rockers, which c,
out from under the cradle, were on
top and side very smooth so smo
that they actually glistened. Theym
have been Worn smooth by a foo.
long ago ceased its journey. How i
the foot that pressed it must sol
times have got. But it did not !
for that. 1t Went right on and roe
for Phebe the first, and for De Witt
last. And it was u cradle like that
perhaps of modern make and richly
holstered, in which your mother roc
you. Can it be that for all that care
devotion you I paying her back
harsh words OF neglect or a wicked
Then L must tell you that you are
foolish son who is the heaviness o.
mother" Better go home and kiss
and ask her forgiveness. Kiss he
the lips that have SO often prayed
you. Kiss her on the forehead tn;
often ached for you. Kiss her on
eyes that have SO often wept over
Better go right away, for she vii
dead before long. And how will
feel then after you realize it is
waywardness that killed her? Rom
made no law against patricide, o.
Staying Of a father; matricide, OF
Staying Of a mother, because be {
sidered such crimes impossible, and
Six hundred years there was not a CT
of that sort in Rome. But then c
Lucius Ostius and slew his father, pl
ing the crime possible. Now, do
not think that the child who by VII,
behavior sends his father to apremat
grave is n patricide, or who, by misc
duct hastens a mother into the tomb
matricide?
The heaviness Of parents over a 6
%depravity is all the greater because
means spiritual disaster and overth,
That is the worst thing about it. IL
pension regulations a soldier rece
for loss of both hands or feet So.
loss of one hand and one foot $3.50.
loss of a hand or foot $50. For the
of both eyes $72. But who can ca
late the value of a whole man III.
body, mind and soul? How can par
have any happiness about your fu
destiny, oh young man gone asst
Can such opposite lives as you and
are living come out at the same pl
Can holiness and dissipation enter
same gate? Where is the little pr
that was taught you at your mott
knee? Is the God they loved and ,
SHIPPED your God? 1t is YOUR soul al
which they are most anxious, your
which shall live after the earth il
shall be girdled with flames, and
flames dying down. will leave the pl
only a live coal, and the live coal s
have become ashes, and then the a
shall be scattered by the whirlwirt
the Almighty.
But" says some young man,
mother is gone; my behavior will
trouble her any more"
Oh that those lips had language! Life
passed
With me but roughly since I heard thee la
What! Is she dead? How you ST
me! Is she dead? Then perhaps
have ler picture. Hang it up in
Dom in the place where you ofte
look. Go and study her features,
while you are looking the past
come back, and you may hear her We
whlcE is now SO still. speak again.
ing: From my heavenly home,
dear boy, l solicit your reformation
salvation. Go to the Christ who
doned me, and He will pardon
My Heaven will not be complete Il