The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-13
what m you are: II, !, and be thank

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kindly provision Joseph made for his !
father Jacob. Il Joseph did not say, II
can't have the old man around. this !
place: How clumsy he would; look |.
climbing up these marble stairs. ana
walking over these mosaics!s Then, i
he would be putting his hands upon
some of these frescoes. People, would I'D
wonder where that old greenhorn came
FROM He would shock all the Egyp-
tian court with his manners at table 1
Besides that, he might get sick on my
hands, and he might be querulous, ,and
he might talk to me as though We're
only boy, when I am the second man an
in all the realm OF. course he must
not suffer, and if there is: famine ID
his country-and I hear there ISL
will send him some provisionss but +
can't take man from Padanaram and
introduce him into this polite Egyp-
tlan court. What a nuisance it is to
have poor relations!'> -.'',. 4Es
Joseph did not say that, but he
rushed out to meet his father with per-
feet abandon of affection, and brought
him up to the palace, and introduced
/ MIN to the emperor, and provided Tor
all the rest of his fathers days, and
| nothing was too good for the old man
while living; and when he was dead,
Joseph, with military escort, took his
fathers remains to the family ceme-5
terry. Would God all children were as
/ kind to their parents. So.
If the father have large property and
he be wise enough to keep it in bis
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 old
man. They are so surprised he eats
with knife instead OF fork. They
are chagrined at his antediluvian ha-
bits. They are provoked, because he
cannot hear as we'll as he used to, and
when he asks it 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 new
one! How chagrined they are at his
independence of the English grammar
/ How long he hangs on! Seventy years
and not gone yet! Seventy-tive years
! and not gone yet! Eighty years and
not gone yet! Will he ever: go? They
4 think it of no use to have a doctor. in
4 his last sickness, and go up to the drug
store and get something that makes
him worse, and economic on a coffin,
and beat the undertaken down to the
last point, giving note for the re-
duced amount which they never pay!
l have oft1ciated at obsequies of aged
people where the family have been sd
inordinately resigned to Providence
that l felt like taking my text from
Proverbs, "The eye that mocketh at his
father, and refuseth to obey it's moth
er, the ravens of the valley shall pick
4 1t out, and the young eagles shall eat
it, In other words, such an migrate
ought to have flock of crows for pail
bearers. I 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. ~: a.: -
In almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen of self-sac-
rlflce to whom jeweled hand after Jew
eled hand was offered in marriage, but
who stayed on the old place because of
the sense of filial obligation, until the
health was gone and the attractiveness
of personal presence had. vanished.
Brutal society may call such one by
a nickname. God calls her daughter,
and heaven calls her saint, and I call
her domestic martyr. A half-dozen
ordinary women have not as much no.
b1lity. as could be found in the small
est joint Of the little finger of her left
hand. Although the world has. stood
six thousand years, this is the first
apotheosis of maidenhood, although in
4 the long line of those who have de-
= cl1ned marriage that they. might be
q Qualified for some especial mission are
the names of Anna Ross. and Mar
garet Breckinridge, and Mary Shelton,
!. and Anna Etheridge, and Georgiana
Willets, the angels Of the battlefelds
Of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain
and Chancellorsville, and Cooper sshor
Hospital; and though single life has
been honored by the fact that the three
grandest. men of the Bible--John and
Paul and Christ7-Were 5celibates.
/ Let the ungrateful world sneer At t1,f
! maiden aunt. but God has throne
FURNISHED for her arrival, and on one
side Of that throne in heaven there IS i
:;] vase containing two Jewels, tha onf
brighter than the Kohinoor Of 81 on. on
! ldon Tower, and the other larger tha s
any diamond ever: found in the dis.
stricts Of o1con da--the one jeWel ~, 4.
4 the lapidary Of the palace cut with 2the. {
{ words: sInasmnch as ye did IT, "a.
4 sfathe er,;;' the other jewel 81. the lan. &
Iidary, Of the palace cut with the words:
4 d ,Inasmuch as ye did it 10 mother,
i "Oyer the Hills to- the Poorho i
the exquisite ballad of will Carleton
who bund an old woman who hat beer.
turned of#by her prosperous sons ibu,S5
! thank God I may find in my text
/ Over the hills to the palace. Il: