Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-07-14


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10 surprised he eats with 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 i'll
the old mans car, Il hope you hear
thatr' How long he must wear the old
coat or the old hat before they get him
a new one! How chagrined they are at
his independence of the English gram
mari How long he hangs onl Seventy
years, and not gone yet! Seventy five
years, and not gone yeti Eighty years,
and not gene yeti Will lie ever go?
They think it of no use to have doc
tor in his last sickness, and go up to the
drug store, and get dose of something
that makes him worse, and economic
on coffin, and beat the undertaken
down to the last point, giving Eote
for the reduced amount, which they
never pay. l have officiated at obsequies
of aged people whore the family have
been SO Unfortunately resigned to Provi-
dence that / felt like taking my text
from Proverbs. "The eye that mocketh
at its father and refuseth to obey its
mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles shall
eat it." In other words, such an in
CRATE ought to have flock of crows for
pallbearers! l congratulate you if you
have the honor of providing for aged
parents The blessing of the Lord God
of Joseph and Jacob will be on You.
Closing Days of Peace.
rejoice to remember that, though my
father lived in plain house the most
of his days, he died i'll q mansion pro-
vided by the filial piety of q sen who
had achieved fortune There the octo-
genarian sat, and the servants waited
on him, and there were plenty Of horses
and plenty of carriages to convey him,
and bower III which to sit on long
summer afternoons, dreaming over the
past, and there was not 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 the 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 century
| Share your successes with the old peo-
pie The probability is that the princi-
Piles 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 the glories Of the Egyptian
court
And here I would like to sing the
praises of the sisterhood who remain
unmarried that they might administer
| to aged parents The brutal world calls
these self sacrificing ones peculiar or
angular, but if you have had as many
annoyances as they have had Xantippe
would have been an angel compared to
you. 1t is easier to take care of five roll
licking, romping children than of one
childish old man. Among the 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 tucking
up the covers around the invalid moth
err While other maidens were III the
cotillon they We're dancing attendance
upon rheumatism and spreading plasters
for the lame back Of the septenarian
and heating eatnip tea for insomnia.
Women 80 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 on the old place because of
| the sense of filial obligation until the
health was gone and the attractivoness
of personal presence had vanished Bru-
tai society may call such one by a
nickname. God calls her daughter, and
heaven calls her saint, and / call Lcr
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordina-
ry women have not as much nobility as
could be found i'll the smallest joint of
the little finger of her left hand Al
though the world has stood 6, coo 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 especial
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 fact
that the three grandest men Of the BIZ
ble-John and Paul and Christ-wcre
celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
maiden aunt, but God has throne bur-
nished for her arrival, and on one side
of that throne in heaven there is vase
containing two jewels, the one brighter
than the Kohinoor of London Tower and
the other larger than any diamond ever
found in the districts of Golconda--the
one jewel by the lapidary of the palace
cut with the words, "Inasmuch as We
did it to father" the other jewel by the
lapidary of the palace cut with the
words, ''Inasmuch as We did it to moth
er. !" ''Over the Hills to the Penthouse
is the exquisite ballad of Will Garlic
ton, who found an old woman who had
been turned off by her prosperous sons,
but thank God may find in my text
Over the hills to the palace. 2
Jacobs Resolution.
As if to disgust MS with unfilial con-
duct, the Bible presents US the story of
Micah, who stole the ], 100 shellels from
bis mother, and the story of Absalom,
syha tried to 1afhrapa h;c fofLar p,,+