The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-07-13

thisr' I visited at the farm house OF
the father of Willard Fillmore when
the son was president of the United
States. and the octogenarian farmer
entertained me until IL o'clock at
night telling me what great things
he saw in his sons house
at Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said to him. and how grandly
Willard treated his father in the White
house. The old mans face was illu-
mined with the story until almost the
midnight. He had just been visiting
his son at the capital. And l suppose
it wa something of the same JOY that
thrill led the heart of the old shepherd
as he stood in the palace of the prime
minister. 1t is great dav with you
when your old parents come to visit
you. Your little children stand around
with great wide-open eyes, wondering
how anybody could be so old. The
parents cannot stay many days. for they
re little restless, and especially at
niyhtfall, because they sleep better in
their own bed; but while they tarry
you somehow feel there is benedic-
are little feeble. but you make it as
easy as you can for them, and you re-
alize they will probably not visit you
very often-perhaps never again. You
go to their room after they have retired
at night to see if the lights are proper
ly put out, for the old people under
stand candle and lamp better than the
modern apparatus for illumination.
In the morning. with real interest in
their health, you ask them how they
rested last night. Josheph. in the his
torical scene of the text, did not think
any more of his father than you do of
your parents. The probability is, be-
fore they leave your house they half
spoil your children with kindness
Grandfather and grandmother are
more lenient and indulgent to your
children than they ever were with you.
And what wonders of revelation in the
bombazine pocket of the one and the
sleeve of the other! Blessed is that
home where Christian parents come to
visit! Whatever may have been the
style of the architecture when t'-ey
came, it is a palace before they ave.
BY this time you all notice what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
| father, Jacob. Joseph did not say: Il
can't have the old man around this
place. How clumsy he would look
climbing up these marble stairs, and
walking over those mosaics! Then he
would be putting his hands upon some
of these frescoes. People would won
der where that old greenhorn came
from. He would shock all the Egypt
ian court with his manners at table.
Besides that. he might get sick on my
hands. and he might be querulOus, and
he might talk to me as though were
only boy. when am the second man
in all the realm. Of course, he must
not suffer. and if there is famine in his
! country-and 1 hear there isl will
send him some provisions; but can't
take man from Padanaram and intro
duce him into this polite Egyptian
court. What nuisance it is to have
poor relations"'
Joseph did not say that. but he
| rushed out to meet his father with per-
feet abandon of affection, and brought
! him ND to the palace. and introduced
him to the Emperor, and provided for
all the rest of the fathers days, and
nothing was too good for the old man
| while living; and when he was dead,
Joseph. with military escort, took his
fathers remains to the family Gene
terry. Would to God all children were
as kind to their parents.
If the father have large property,
and he be wise enough to keep it in his
own name. he will be respected by the
heirs: but how often it is when the son
finds his father in famine, the young
people make it very hard for the old
man. They are so surprised he eats
with a knife instead of fork. They
are chagrined at his antediluvian
habits. They are provoked because he
cannot hear as well as he used to. and
when he asks it over again, and the
son has to repeat it, he bawls in the
old mans ear: II hope you hear that:
How long he must wear the old coat
or the old hat before they get him a
new one! How chagrined they are al
his independence of the English gram
mar! How long he hangs on! Seventy
years and not gone yet! Seventy
five years and not gone yet
Eighty years and not gone
yet! Will he ever go? They think i
of no use to have doctor in his las
sickness, and go up to the drug stor'
and get a dose of something thai
makes him worse, and economic on
coffin, and beat the undertaken dow
to the last point. giving note for the
reduced amount, which they neve
pay. have officiated at obsequies o
aged people where the family hav'
, been SO Unfortunately resigned to Provi
. dence that I felt like taking my tex
from Proverbs: 1.-The eye that mOcketl
at its father, and refuseth to obey it
, mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out. and the young eagles shal
, eat it, In other words, such an in
CRATE ought to have flock of crow
| for pall-bearers! congratulate you
. / -.o.. ho-o horor ~ v,vovSdinrp IN