The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-20

yetting over that whooping cough or
that Intermittent fever. A little an
noyed, are you, because her hearing IL
poor and ycu have TO tell her something
twice? She was not alwas hard of
hearing. When you were two years old
your first call for a drink at midnight
woke her from a sound sleep as quick a.
any one will waken ut the trumpet call
of the resurrection.
oh, my young lady. what is that un-
der the sole of your fine shoe? II Is q
palm leaf which was torn Off the tree
of maternal fidelity. Young merchant,
young lawyer, young journalist, young
mechanic, with good salary and fine
clothes and refined surroundings, have
you forgotten what n time your father
had that winter, after the summers
crops had failed through droughts or
floods or locusts, and how he wore his
old coat, too long, and made his old hat
do, that he might keep you at school or
collegeP What is that, my young man,
under your fine boot to-day, the boot that
so well fits your foot, such boot as
your father could never afford TO wearP
1t must be leaf from the palm tree of
your fathers self-sacrihces. Do not be
ashamed of him when he comes TO town,
and because his manners are little old
fashioned, try to smuggle him in and
smuggle him out, but call In your best
friends and take him TO the house of
God and introduce him 10 your pastor,
and say: This is my father" II he
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which he gave you, he would be as well
educated and as well gotten up as you.
When in the English parliament a men,
Der was making great speech that was
unanswerable, n lord derisively cried
out: II remember you when you black
ened my fathers bootsl' Yes" replied
the man, land did I not do IL wellp"
Never be ashamed of your early sur
Yes, yes, all the green
leaves we walk over were torn of some
palm tree. have cultivated the habit
of forgetting the unpleasant things of
life, and chiefly remember the smooth
things, and as far as l remember now
my life has for the most part moved on
over road soft with green leaves.
They were torn off two palm trees that
stood at the start of the road. The
prayers, the Christian example, the good
advice, the hard work of my father and
mother. How they toiledl Their fingers
were knotted with hard work. Their
foreheads were knotted with many
cares Their backs stopped from carry
ing our burdens.
They long ago went into slumber |
among their kindred and friends on the |
banks of the Raritan, but the influences
they threw in the way of their children |
are yet green rs leaves the moment they |
are pluolted from palm tree, and we
feel them on our brow and under our
feet, and they will strew all the way
until wa lie down in the same slumber.
Self.sacrifice! What thrilling word. |
Glad am I that our world has 80 many
specimens of 1t. The sailor boy on ship
board was derided because he would
not fight or gamble, and they called
him coward. But, when q child fell
overheard and no one else was ready tc
help, the derided sailor leaped into the
sen, and, though the waves were rough,
,he sailor swimming with one arm car
lied the child on the other arm, till res
,ued and rescuer were lifted into safety,
md the cry of coward ceased and all
at the scene of daring and self
sacrifice.