The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-08

fathers remains to the family ceme-
terry. Would God all children were as
kind to their parents.
II the father have large property, ana
he be wise enough to keep 1t In DIS
own name, he will be respected by the
heirs; but how often it is when the
son finds his father in famine, as JOS
eph found Jacob in famine, the young
people make it very hard for the oiu
man. They are so surprised he eats
with a knife instead of fork. Tney
are chagrined at his antediluvian ma
bits. They are provoked because ne
cannot hear as we'll as he used to. ana
when he asks 1t 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 at MS
independence Of the English grammar!
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 it of no use to have doctor In
his last sickness, and go up to the drug
store and get something that makes
him worse, and economic on coffin.
and beat the undertaken down to the
last point, giving a note for the re-
duced amount which they never pay!
l have offciated at obsequie3 Of aged
people where the family have been so
Unfortunately resigned to Providence
that l felt like taking my text from
Proverbs, "The eye that mocketh at his
father, and refuseth to obey its moth
er, the ravens of the valley shall pick
it out, and the young eagles shall eat
it." In other words, such an migrate
ought to have flock of crows for pail
bearers. 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.
J | rejoice to remember that though
my father lived in plain house the
most of his days, he died in a man
r sion provided by the filial piety Of a
5 son who had achieved fortune. There
e the octogenarian sat, and the servants
e waited on him. and there were plenty
e of horses and plenty Of carriages to
s convey him. and a bower in which to
j sit on long summer afternoons, dream
= ing over the past; and there was not
e room in the house where he was not
S welcome, and there were musical in
t struments of all sorts to regale him;
9 and when life had passed, the neigh
e bors came out and expressed all honor
t possible, and carried him to the VIII
d lage Machpelah, and put him down be-
e side the Rachel with whom he had
IL lived more than half a century. Share
It your successes with the old people.
d The probability u.s. that the principles
g they inculcated achieved your fortune.
: Give them a Christian percentage OF
Y kindly consideration. Let Joseph di-
It vide with Jacob the pasture fields OF
n Goshen and the glories of the Egyp-
y tian court.
3 And here 1 would like to sing the
" praises of the sisterhood who remained
Is unmarried that they might administer
III to aged parents. The brutal world
u calls these self-sacrificipg ones pecu-
II liar or angular; but IL you have had as
r many annoyances as they have had,
e Xantippe would have been an angel
J. compared with you. It is easier to
n take care of five rollicking, romping
q. children than of one childish old man:
IN Among the best women Of our land
ID are those who allowed the bloom OF
al life to pass away while they were car
" ing for their parents, While other
II maidens were asleep, they were soak
" ing the old mans feet, or tucking up
II the covers around the invalid mother.
or While other maidens were in the cotil-
ID lon, they were dancing attendance up
" on rheumatism and spreading plasters
l. for the lame back of the septenarian,
lie and heating catnip tea for insomnia.
,e In almost every circle OF our kindred
.e there has been SOME queen Of seif-sac-
t rifice to whom jeweled hand after jew
lie eled hand was offered in marriage, but
a who stayed on the old place because OF
it the pense of filial obligation, until the
r health was gone and the attractiveness
It, of personal presence had vanished
lie Brutal society may call such one by
y nickname. God calls her daughter,
W and heaven calls her saint. and 1 call
ID her domestic martyr. A half-dozen
Of ordinary women have not as much no.
" bility as could be found in the small
IL est joint Of the little finger of her left
lr hand. Although the world has stood
lie six thousand years, this is the first
If apotheosis of maidenhood, although in
n the long line of those who have de-
lie clined marriage that they might be
a qualified for some especial mission are
8, the names of Anna Ross, and Mar
d garet Breckenridge, and Mary Shelton,
Z and Anna Etheridge, and Georgiana
Willets, the angels Of the battlehelds
It of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain,
is and Charlottesville, and Cooper Shop
I Hospital and though single life has
IS been honored by the fact that the three
k grandest men of the Blble-John and
d Paul and Christ-were celibates.
/, Let the ungrateful world sneer at the
n maiden aunt but God has a throna