The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-13

-aIlLLALA longevity. In 1.-The
.: :::: e.: !: e; !:
->@ physician of his
time, took so little of his own~med1-
cine, that he lived to one hundred ana .!
forty years. "A man of undoubted vera
city on the Witness stand in England
swore that he remembered an event
;. one hundred. and fifty years before.
Lord Bacon speaks of countess who
: had cut three sets of teeth, and died
. at ape hundred and forty years. JOS
.eph sGrele;;aofs Pennsylvania, lived one
: -hdndred and forty years. in 1857
':'bSpk was printed containing the names
of thirty-seven persons who lived~o one
hundred and forty years, and the names
of eleven persons who lived one nun
died and fifty years. .# s*s@"T"'~
Among the. grand old :, people, of
whom we have record was Jacob, the
shepherd of the .text.ssBut he. had. a bad
lot Sof Boys. They were jealous and
ambitious and every way nprincipled.
Joseph, however, seemed to be an ex-
:, ception, but he had been gone many
> years, and the probability was that he
!: was dead. AS sometim es now in house
: you will find kept at the table a. va
:;2>scanta tachair,. a plate, knife, a fork, for
! some. deceased member of the family,
:: $50 Jacob kept in ,his heart a place for
!, his beloved Joseph. There sits the old
:, man, the flock of one hundred and for
I. ty, years in their flight having alight-
4 ed long enough to leave the marks Of
j. their claw on forehead and cheek and
\. temple. His long beard SHOWS down
81 39a,ii over his chest. His eyes are some
ifaswhat dim, and he can.see farther when
estthe y are. closed than when they are
f.opens-for he can see clear back into
the time when beautiful Rachel, his
wife, was living, and his children
shook the, Oriental abode with their
J merriment ~ +''r %@*2s
: The Jcentenarian is sitting dreaming
'Q4er the past when he hears a wagon
rlhnbatng to the front door,. He gets
+uR and goes to the door to see who has
arrived, and his long absent sons from
Egypt come in and announce: to him
that Joseph, instead of being dead, is
liRlng in an Egyptian palace, with all
the i1fvestiture of prime minister, next
to the. king in the mightiest empire Of
all the world! The news was too sud-
dep and too glad for the old man, and
{ his cheeks whiten, and he has a. dazed
3lgok,T aud his. staff falls out of his
hard, and. he would have dropped had
nbtthe sons. caught him and led him
to al lounge and put cold water. on his
fares and famed him a 'Httle::'
'SIh that; half, delirium the old man
:m5mbless something about: his son Jo-
:seph. says: You don't mean Jo-
se4h. & tdoe,sXou?. & myz dear: son, who has
beEn dead SO! long?. You don't mean Jo-
:seHh.s DO you?" But afters>they had
fully, fesug gcitated him, and the news
waas eonfirmed, the tears began their
winding way down the crossroads of
the wrinkles, and the 'sunken lips of
=the old9sM quiyers and: he brings his
bent hngers together as he says 90
:2seph II yet alive. will go and see
him befbie die'' > ~. ,s'. .. ,,. ~. .~ s. 7s
1t did not take the old man great
while TO get ready, I warrant you. He
put on. his best clothes that the shep-
herds tWardrobe could AFFORD: He cot
into thes wagon, and though the aged
:'are cautious and like to ride. slow, the
wagon Iid mot get along fast enough
for this. old, man; and when the wagon
with tht OLD man met Joseph S. chariot
iicomingMaWp to. meet him, and joseph
got out pfsthe chariot and got into the
wagon and threw; his, arms around d ::his
father ssueck, II. was an antithesis OF
royalty and, ,rusticity ,aof simpld city; and
lpomp, a;ssflgial ction ana paternal
lllove, WHICH leaves. us sotmuch: ii IN d doubt
whether had ,xbetter laugh or :cry..
that weda SO Jacob kent i. t1,e s., )
|resolutihsi i text. j will Will e ala
+see him, sfore - ..3ss V.sas.as
WhataA sasshegs and unfail{hg ff1infg t1If
is paterH ehment! Was it snotsal:
most tim fpr, Jacob to forget ~JosebhIe
THE hot 1assq sun sun Il mmers ] had
Y 5Iblazed hakhastKh river Nile had
Foverfo 81 esdad oyertloWed and
45receded A gain; the.sseed tiles sea had
been soxah {aaa s b ARRESTS reapeds.
I stars ross syears.o of plenty. a and
years OF Il ad !, passed. 81; ]. but
the love for Joseph ii. my ilg It text s
is oYerWhS tgly dramatic Oh, that
is a cord not snapped, though
pulled ona.h anys decades. Though
when the; child expired the par
ent may 2:not have been more than
ltwent y-fv ,.ears OF age, and now they
are sevent5 yet the vision of the
cradle, and sas1 the childish = face, and the
&S: II ,;IAs.s u: :: 81 s.sa