The Red Cloud chief., 1894-07-13

~ $500 s.-r--y-~ -
20 surprised he eats with a knife instead
Of q fork. They are chagrined at his
antediluvian habits. They are provoked
because he cannot hear ~ we'll as ho
used to, and when he asks IL over again
and the son has to repeat it he bawls in
the old mans ear, II hopo you hear
thatl' How long he must wear tho old
coat or thu old hat before they get him
q new one' How chagrined they ara at
his independence Of the English gram.
mari How long he hangs onl Seventy
years. and not gone yeti Seventy five
years. and not gone yeti Eighty years.
and not gone yeti Will he ever gof
They think 1t Of no uso to have q doc.
tor in his last sickness. and go up TO the
drug store, and get q dose OF something
that makes him worse, and economize
OH q coffin, and beat the undertaken
down to the last point. giving u noto
for the reduced amount. which they
never pay. I have oficiated at o~bsoquies
Of aged people whore the family have
been SO Unfortunately resigned to Provi.
donoe that I felt like taking my text
from Proverbs, THE eye that mockcth
ut its father and refuseth to obey its
mother, the ravens Of the valley shall
pick 1t out, and the young eagles shall
eat it." In other words, such ali in.
crate ought to have q flock Of crows for
pallbearersl congratulate you IL you
have the honor of providing for aged
parents. The blessing of the Lord God
Of Joseph and Jacob will DO On you.
Closing Days of Peace.
/ rejoice to remember that, though my
father lived in q plain house the most
Of his days, he died in u mansion pro-
vided by the filial piety Of u son who
had achieved a fortune. There the octo-
genarian sat, and tho servants waited
OH him, and there were plenty Of horses
and plenty Of carriages to convey him.
and o bower in which to sit on long
summer afternoons, dreaming ovcr the
past, and there was not o room in the
house where he was not welcome, and
there were musical instruments Of all
sorts to regale him, and when life had
passed tho neighbors came out and ex-
pressed all honor possible and carried
him to the village Machpelah and put
him down beside the Rachel with whom
he had lived more than half a century.
Share your successes with the old peo.
pie. The probability is that the princi-
pies they inculcated achieved your for
tune. Give them Christian percentage
Of kindly consideration. Let Joseph di-
vide with Jacob the pasture fields OF
Goshen and tho glories Of the Egyptian
court
And here I would like to sing the
praises Of tho sisterhood who remain
unmarried that they might administer
to aged parents. The brutal world calls
these self sacrificing ones peculiar or
angular, but il you have had a. many
annoyances as they have had Xantippe
would have been M angel compared to
you. 1t is easier to take care of five roll
licking, romping children than Of one
childish old man. Among tho best wo'
men are those who allowed the bloom
Of life to pass away while they were
caring for their parents. While Other
maidens were sound asleep they were
soaking the old mans feet or tuckinl
up tho covers around the invalid moth
er. While other maidens were in the
cotillon they wero dancing attendance
upon rheumatism and spreading plaster'
for the lame back Of the s%eptenariar
and heating catnip tea for insomnia.
Women to BE Honored.
In almost every circle Of our kindred
there has been some queen OF self sacri'
fee to whom jeweled hand after jewel
ed hand was offered in marriage, but
who staid OH the old place because OF
the sense Of filial obligation until the
health was gone and tho attractiveness
| Of personal presence had vanished. Bru.
tai society may call such a one by q
nickname. God calls her daughter, and
heaven calls her saint, and i call heI
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordina.
ry women have not as much nobility as
could be found in the smallest joint OF
the little finger Of her left hand. AL
though the world has stood 6, 900 years,
this is the first apotheosis Of maiden
hood. although in the long line Of those
who have declined marriage that they
might be qualified for some especia,
mission are the names Of Anna Ross
and Margaret Breckenridge and Mary
Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Geor
giana Willetts, the angels Of the battle
fields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Noun
tain and Charlottesville, and though
single life has been honored by the fac
that the three grandest men Of the Bi
ble-John and Paul and Christ--wer
celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at tn
maiden aunt, but God has q throne bur
nished for her arrival, and on II sid
Of that throne in heaven there is a vas
containing two jewels, the one brighte
than the Kohinoor of London Tower ant
the other larger than any diamond eve
found in tho districts of Golconda-th
one jewel by the lapidary of the palac
cut with the words, "Inasmuch as y
did il to fathcr;' the other jewel by TN
lapidary Of the palace cut with tn
words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to moth
er." "Over the Hills to the Poorhouse'
is the exquisite ballad of Will earle
ton, who found an old woman who hay
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