Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-01-26

49, 5orz If materia medica and called up
tSro,,ab n telenbone. with them the only
onotberarv short of four miles ride was the
opyra with its punches OF peppermint ana
5ennvroyal and catnip and mustard anu
csmomile flowers, which were expecteo
~ do everything. Just think OF II fnty
vears of preparing breakfast, dinner
and supper The ch!et muSo tn n2
hearI was that of spinning Wheel anS S
rocking chair. Tagged out, neauacny anS
With ankles swollen. Those old fashioneu
o,otberc--if any persons ever fitted appropri-
otelv into good. easy, comfortable heaven,
thew were the folks, and they got there' anu
thov are rested, They wear no spcctacles,
for they have their third sight as they lived
LONG enough on earth TO get their second
sight-and they do not have to pant Tor
breath after going ND the the emerald stairs
of the Eternal palace, at whose window they
now sit waiting for news from the battle.
But If anyone keeps on asking the cues
tions "Wheres motherW answer, que
in your present character" Inc propaolii'y
is that your physical features Suggest her.
. If there be seven children in household az
least six of them look like their mother, and
the older you get the more you viii look IKE
her. But speak now especially OF your
character and not of your LOOKS. ms is
easily explained. During the first ten years
OF your life you were almost all the time
, with her, and your father you saw only
mornings and nights. There are no years
In any life so important for immersion as the
FIRST ten. Then and there is the impression
made for virtue or vice. for truth or ialS2-
hood. for bravery or cowardice, for religion
or skepticism. Suddenly start out from be-
| hind door and brighten the child, and you
may shatter his nervous system for life
time. During the first ten years you cantell
him enough spook stories to make him
| coward till he dies. Act before Linn as
though Friday were an unlueky day, and it
were balef,il to have thirteen at the table, or
see the moon over the left shoulder, AMI
he will never recover from the idiotic SUI
psrsttions. You may give that girl before
she is ten years old fondness for dress
that will make her a mere dummy frame.
or fashion plate, for forty years. Ezekiel
xvi, A, Gas is the mother SO is her daugh-
fer" Before one decade has passed you can
| decide whether that boy will be Shylock or
a George Peabody. Boys and girls are gen
orally echoes of fathers and mothers. What
an jncoherent thing for mother out OF
temper TO punish child for getting
mad. or for a father who smokes to shut
his boy up in dark closet because ne
has founl him with an old stump OF q
cigar in his mouth, or for that mother to
re5uke her daughter for staring at
herself too much in the looking glass when
the mother has her own mirrors so ar
ranged as to repeat her form from all sides
! The great English poets loose moral char
acter was decided before he left the nursery,
and his schoolmaster in the schOolroom
overheard this conversation byron, your
mother is a fool" and he answered., II
| know it," You can hear all through the
heroic life of Senator Sam Houston the
words Of his mother when she in the war
of1St2 put musket in lis hand and said ;
"There. my son, take this and never
disgrace it. for remember 1 had rather all
my sons should fill one honorable
grave than that one of them should turn his
| back on an enemy Go and remember, too,
that while the door of my cottage is open TO
all brave men it is always shut against cow
ards Agrippina, the mother of Nero, MUIR
deress. YOU are not surprised that her son
was a murderer. Give that child an over
dose of catechism, and make him recite
verses of the Bible as punishment, and
make Sunday bora, and he will become q
stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress
him with the kindness and the geniality and
the lovelness of religion. and he will be its
advocate and exemplar for all time and eter-
nty.
A lew DAYS ago TiHul DbIOIO Jul tAPiVS7
train on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road the preceding train had gone down
through a broken bridge, twelve cars falling
100 feet and then consumed l saw that only
one span of the bridge was down and all the
other spans were standing. Plan good
bridge of morals for your sons and
daughters, but have the first span OF ten
wears defective, and through that they will
crash down, though all the rest keep
standing. o man, G. woman, If you have
preserved your integrity and are really
Christian, you have first of all to thank
God. and think next you have TO thank
vour mother. The most impressive thing at
the Inauguration of James A. Garfield as
President Of the United States was that al.
ter he had taken the oath Of Office he turned
round and in the presence OF the Supreme
| Court and the Senate of the United States
kissed his old mother. If l had time tC
take statistics out of this audience, and
could ask what proportion of you who
are Christians owe your salvation under
God to maternal fidelity, 1 think about
/ three-fourths of you would spring to your
feet. "He ha r. said the soldiers OF the
regiment 20 Charlie, one Of their comrades
''What has made the change in you? You
used 10 like sin as we'll as any OF us" Pull
ing from his pocket his mothers letter, in
which. after telling of some comforts she hac
sent him. she concluded, awe are all pray
ing for YOU. Charlie, that you may be Chris
tain" he said, "Boys, that's the sentence.
The trouble with Sisera's mother was that
while sitting at the window OF my tex
watching for news of her son from the bat
tle1eld. she had the two bad qualities OF be
ing dissolute and being too fond of persona
adornment The Bible account says "He
wise ladies answered her yea. She returned
answer to herself: Have they not sped
Have they not divided the prey-to ever.
man damsel or two, to Sisera prey o
divers colors, prey of divers colors
neodework, of divers colors OF needlewor
on both sidesY" She makes no anxou
utterance about the wounded in bat
tie. about the bloodshed about tn
diving, about the dead, about the prlncl
pies involved in the battle going on, a battl
90 important that the stars and the freshet
took part. and the clash of swords was an
swered by the thunder of the skies. VIVA
she thinks most of is the bright coors OF tn
wardrobes to be captured and the needle
work. "Io Sisera prey OF divers colors,
prev Of divers colors of needlework, OF diver
colors OF needlework on both sides.
Now neither Sisera's mother nor any on
else can say too much in eulOgy OF tn
needle. 1t has made more useful conquest
than the sword. Pointed at one end an
,, with an eye at the other, whether OF bone
ivory. as in earliest time or of bronze. as
Pliny's time; or of steel, as in modern time
whether laboriously fashioned as formerly B
one hand, or as now, when 100 workmen
a factory are employed to make the differeI
. parts of one needle. it is an instrument d
, vinely ordered for the comfort, for tt
life. for the health. for the adornmel
of the human race. The eye Of II
needle hath seen more domest
oo,rfort and more oladdenei poye