The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-03-22

~ 0lbtcb WIZ E0NOEQD hTS ytU To
be opened. There arc in American city
directories names that always suggest com.
mercial dishonesty or libertinism or cruel.
ty or meanness, just because one man or
woman bearing that name cursed it forever
by ~miscreancy. Look out how yon stab
your mother. She was not born under that
name. but the years passed or and she came
to young ~womanhood, and she saw someone
with whom she could trust her happiness,
her life, and her immortal destiny; and she
took his name, o 1t while the orange
blossoms were filing the air with fragrance,
took 1t with joined hands, took it while the
heavens witnessed. She choose it out Of all
the family names since the world stood,
choose 1t for better or worse, through sick
ness and through health, by cradles and by
graves. Yes, she put of her old family name
to take the family name you now wear, and
she has done her part to make it an honor
able name. How heavy q trouble you put
upon her when, by misdeeds you wrench that
name from it's high significance! I'd haul it
Town from your mothers forehead and
trample il in the dust would be criminal.
Your father name may not be distinguish
ed name, but hope it stands FOR something
Ike that Of Homsrs the father Of
epic poetry, or Izaak walton, the father
Of angling, or Eschylus, the father Of TRACE
dy or Ethelwold the father of monks, or Her
odotus. the father of history, or Thomas
Aquinas, the father of moral philosophy, or
Abraham, the father of the faithful, but your
father has q name in n small circle as pre-
cious to him az theirs in a laTgeer circle. Look
out o you tarDish it!
Further, the recklessness and dissipation
OF a young man are q cause OF parental dis
tress at u time when the parent is less able to
bear it. The vicissitudes of Ii 9 have left
their impression upon those parents. The
nxyo Il Oof &c rIanp 90 anna rop thu oo,,-..
as acute, nor the nerves as steady. nor the
step as strong, and with tho tide o!incoming
years comes the weight of unfilial behavior.
You take your parents alta great disadvan.
tage, for they cannot stand as much us they
once could. They have not the elasticity OF
feeling with which once they could throw off
trouble. That shoulder, now somewhat bent,
cannot bear as heavy a burden as once it
could. At the time when the machinery is
getting worn out you put upon it the most
terrific strain. At GO and 20 years the vital.
ity is not SO strong as at 80 or 40. Surely
they are descending the down grade OF life
swiftly enough without your increasing the
enough without your pushing them away.
Call in all the doctors who ever lived since
Hipporrates raised medicine from a super
stition to a science, and they could not cure
the heartbreak of mother over her ruined
boy. There may be, as suppose, enough
herbs on earth, if discovered, to cure all the
ailments of the body; but nothing save a
leaf from the tree OF the heavenly paradise
can cure a wound made by q foolish son who
is the heaviness Of his mother.
Prehaps it is q good thing that cruel treat
ment by q child abbreviates q parents lie.
for what is there desirable in d fathers life
or q mothers life if it's peace il gone? Do
you not think death is sometimes benifcent if
it stops the mothers heart from aching and
hop oNyoo fr0YN ~ oorfn~ nd cnxo. ave- ro-l
not 6 q the excruciation any longer. Go
and sleep. / will put the defense of a marble
slab between You and that boys outrages.
Gonow where the wicked cease from troubling
and the worry are at rest?" Attn departure
of such mothers let the music be an anthem in
stead; OF q dirge. While you and l hear no
sound, yet there ore at this moment tens of
thousands OF parental hearts breaking. All
care was taken with boys schooling. all good
counsels given, and the equipment for u So
Der and earnest and useful life was provided,
but il has all gone, and the foolish son has
become the heaviness Of his mother.
Much of the poignancy of the parental
gsiei arises from the ingratitude Of such be-
haviOr. What an undertaking it is to con-
duct a family through the ailments and ex-
posures of early life! Talk about the skill
demanded of a sea-captain commanding a
ship across the ocean! That requires less
skill than 10 navigate q young sou in safety
across the ln1anClle ana DOyhOOd years.
Many q time your father felt like giving up the
battle, but then he looked vi your helplessuess
and the helplessness of the household, and
then he nerved himself up anew and said:
"By the help of God l win not stop; my
children must have home md education and
advantages, and q comfortable starting in
the world, and l must get a little something
ahead, SO that If l I'm taken away these
helpless ones will not be turned out on the
cold charities of the world" Yes, your
father has been q good friend to you. He
has never told anyone, and he never will tell
anyone, ofthe sacrifices he has made FOR
you. And lie is ready to keep right on until
unto that hand that has been tolling for you
all these years shall come the very numb
ness OF death. You annot afford to break
his heart. But you are doing it. Yes you
are. You have driven the dagger clear in up
to the hilt. $500
And your mother-I warrant she has never
told you about the nights when you were
down with scarlet fever, or diphtheria, and
she slept not q wink, or falling into drowsi-
ness, your first cry awakened her, and
brought the words, What is it, my dear?"
Oh il the old rockingham could speak! Oh,
if the cradle could only tell it's story of years!
And when you got better, and were tretful
and hard to please, az is usual in GONZALES
cence, she kept her patience SO well, and was
as kind as you we're unreasonable and cross.
Oh, many nights of motherly watching. how
can you keep silence? Speak out and tell
that wandering young man the story that he
SO much needs to hear.