The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-15


for that narant if he can get back that y
son. that daughter at the gate OF b
Heaven. whether the departed loved t
one shall come cherub or in full-grown q
There must be change
wrought by that celestial climate
and by those supernal years, put IL
will only be from loveliness 10 more
tnveliness. and from health to more
radiant health. Oh, parent, as you
think of the darling painting ana Whlte
in membranous Group, L want you 10
know it will be gloriously bettereo IN
that land where there has never oeen
death and where all the inhaoltants
will live on in the great future as long
as God Joseph was Joseph, hotwltn-
standing the palace, and your chlia Wlll
he vuir child. notwithstanding all the
raining splehdors Of everlasting noon
what thrilling visit was that OF the
old shepherd to the Prime Minister
Joseph! l see the old country
man seated id the palace, look
/ ing around at the mirrors and |
/ the fountains and the carved
bii;ars. and, oh. how he wishes that
/ Rachel. his wife, was alive, and she
! could have come with him to see Ihel'
son in his great house. ''Oh, says the
old man within himself, II do wlsh
Rachel could be here to see all thlsl
visited the farm house OF the thther
of Millard Fillmore when the son was
bresident of the United States, and the
| octorenarian farmer entertained me
until IL o'clock at night telling me
what great things he saw in his sons
house at Washington, and what Danlel
Webster said to him, and how granaly
NilIard treated his father in the Nhlte
House. The old mans face was lllu-
minated with the story until almost Ine
midnight. lie had just been VlslI-
ing his son at the capital. And sup
nose It was something of the same JOY
: that thrilled the heart of the old shep-
herd as he stood at the palace OF the
nrime minister. 1t is great day Win
Won when your old parents come TO
l visit YOU. Your little children stand
E around with great, wide-open eyes,
wondering how anybody could be SO
i > nId. The parents can not stay many
e davs for they are little restless, and
asnaciallv at nightfall, because they
& sIaan better in their own bed; but
n while they tarry you somehow Zee
I
S the house. They are little feeble
n and YOU make it as easy as you can 10
IA them, and you realize they Will proo
IS ably not visit you very otten-perhaP
Il never again. You go to Their room
lt after they have retired at nlght 10 Sc
u if the lights are properly put OUT 10
% the old people understand canule al
u, lamp better than the modern apPara
a tins for illumination. In the NOR rnlhg
or with real interest in their health, 20
ed ask how they rested last night. JosePi
ed in the historical scene of the text, I'll
on not think any more of his father tina
Won do of YOUR parents. The prooaol
an itv is. before they leave your nous
o. they half spoil your children wit
10 lxindnesses. Grandfather and gran'
as rotber are more lenient and indulgel
an Tn vour children than they ever were
ad Won. And what wonders of revelaCc
ws in the bombazine pocket OF u
elr one and the sleeve OF the othe
OIL Blessed is that home where Ohrl
OF tian parents come to visit! NhateV
his may have been the style OF u
Jo- architecture when they came, III Is
see palace they leave. If they visit you
times the two most memorable vlSl
eat will be the first and the last. Tho
lie two pictures will hang in the hall
ep- vour memory while memory lasts, a.
got you will remember just how tn
ged looked, and where they sat, anu WI
the they said. and at what figure OF I
the carpet, and at what door Sill they pa
'lth ed with you, giving you the nnal gov
om- ny. Do not be em barrassed II your
got ther come to town and ne nave
the manners of the shepherd, and IL yC
his mother come to town and there De
5 OF her hat no sign of costly millinery
and wife of the Emperor TheOdoSlus SAL
nal wise thing when she said: "Husban
'ubt remember what you lately were,
cry remember what you are, and be thai
Kept full"
go Nv this time you all notice W
kindly provision Joseph made Tor
lg Is father Jacob. Joseph did not say
al, can't have the old man around
7ph1 nlace. How clumsy he would
h"u climbing up these marble STAIRS
nHu walking over those mosalcs! 1heh
'"eu would be putting his hand upon $
seeu of these frescoes. People would v
-Peu, der where that old greenhorn c
an" from. He would shock all the VI
the tan court with his manners at u
'AC is Resides that, he might get sick on
laU 10 hands. and he might be querulous'
ough he MIGHT talk to me as though
ougu only a bov, when l am the second
par in all the realm. OF course, he
an not suffer, and if there is famine Il
( 80 country-and L hear there ls-A
send him provisions; but L can I I'd
the ,,on from Padanaram and intro
man him into this polite Egyptian c
spite What n nuisance it is 20 have poe
- lations.
- Joseph did not say that, bu
. rushed out to meet his father VIII
',Ns feet abandon of affection, and or'
- n him ND to the palace. and lntro'
him TO the emperor, and provide
ALI the rest of the fathers days
nothing was too good for the Ole
while living; and when he was
Joseph, with military escort, to'
SnaI fathers remains 20 the family Gem
Would God all children were as
vears their parents.
- IF the father have large pro
foSa1b and he be wise enough to keep 1t
r. own name. he VIII be respected
heirs. but how often it is VIII
those son nnos ms ton,in,
sepa- Joseph found Jacob IN IanIn
Young people make 1t very naru
,r-and old man. They are SO surp
stion- eats with knife instead OF
ran in They are chargined at his antedi
Well | habits. They are provoked beea
anqa in can not hear as well as he used
o.t him when he asks it over again q