St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-11-06
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think Of the darling painting and white
~ membranoas Group. ! want you "a
know It will be Rloriously bettered In
that land where there has never been Z
death and where al the inhabitants
will live on in the great future - long
- God! Joseph was Joseph, notwith-
standing the palace, and your child will
b your child. notwithstanding al the
raining splendors Of everlasting noon.
What thrilling visit was that OF the
old shepherd to the Prime Minister
Joseph! ! SEQ the old country
man seated in the palace, look
ing around 1t the mirrors and
the fountains and the carved
pillars, and, oh! how he wishes that
Rachel, his wife, was alive, and she
could have come with him to see their
SON in his great house. oh" says the
old man within himself. II do wish
Rachel could be here to see all thisr
| visited the farm house Of the father
Of Willard Fillmore when the son was
president of the United States, and the
octogenarian farmer entertained me
until II o'clock ut night telling mo
what great things he saw in his sons
house 1t Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said to him, and how grandly
Willard treated his father in the White
House. The old mans face was illu-
minated with the story until almost the
midnight He had just been visit
ing his son 1t the capital. And sup
pose it was something Of the same joy
that thrilled the heart Of the old shep-
herd - he stood st the palace Of the
prime minister. It is q great day with
you when your old parents come to
visit you. Your little children stand
around with great, wide-open eyes,
wondering how anybody could be 30
old. The parents can not stay many
days for they are little restless, and
especially ut nightfall, because they
sleep better in their own bed; but
while they tarry you somehow feel
There ID benediction in every room in
the house. They are little feeble,
and you make it Is easy Is you can for
them. and you realize they will prob
ably not visit you very often-perhaps
never again. You 60 to their room
after they have retired It night to see
il the lights are properly put out, for
the old people understand candle and
lamp better than the modern appara-
tus for illumination. In the morning,
with real interest in their health, you
ask how they rested last night Joseph,
in the historical scene Of the text, did
not think any more Of his father than
you do OF your parents. The probable |
ity il. before they leave your house
they half spoil your children with |
Grandfather and grand |
mother are more lenient and indulgent |
to your children than they ever were to |
you. And what wonders OF revelation |
in the bombazine pocket Of the
one and the sleeve Of the other!
Blessed il that home where Chris
tian parents come TO visit! Whatever
may have been the style OF the
when they came, it is .
palace they leave. II they visit you 50
times. the two most memorable visits
will be the first and the last Those
two pictures will hang in the hall OF
your memory while memory lasts, and
you will remember just how they
looked, and where they sat. and what
they said. and 1t what figure Of the
carpet and It what door sill they part
ID with you, giving you the final good
by. Do not be embarrassed il your ia
her come to town and he have the
Of the shepherd. aud il your
mother come to town and there be in
Ter hat no sign OF costly millinery. The
wife Of the Emperor Theodosius said
wise thing when she said: Husbands.
what you lately were, and
what you are, and be thank
ul.D
BY this time you Ill notice what
Kindly provision Joseph made for his
ather Jacob. Joseph did not say: II
ant have the old man around this
lace. How clumsy he would look
up these marble stairs, and
valkinR over those mosaics! Then, he |
would be putting his hand upon some
( these frescoeA People would won-
or where that old greenhorn came
rom. He would shock al the Egyp- /,
ian court with his manners 1t table.
Iesides that, he might get sick on my [
snds, and he might be querulous, and
e might talk to me Is though / were
My boy, when / am the second man {
! al the realm. OF course, he must j
OF suffer, and il there Is famine in his
hear there isl will l
End him provisions; but can't take . 4
IAN from Padanaram and introduce 4
inn into this polite Egyptian court /
What . nuisance it il to have poor re- !
ltionsI" q
Joseph did not say that, but he
lshed out to meet his father with per '
ct abandon Of affection, and brought I
inn up to the palace. and introduced 8
i'm TO tho emperor, and provided for .
u the rest of the fathers days, and t
othing was too good for the old man j
lille living; and when he was dead,
oseph, with military escort. took his T
'ther's remains TO the family cemetery. =
Hould God Ill children were q kind to v
leir parents Q
II the father have large property,
Id he b wise enough to keep it in his y
vn name. he will. be respected BY his
sirs; but how often it is when the .
u 6nds his father in famine, q
,seph found Jacob in famine, the .
,ung people make It very hard for the q
d man. They are 50 surprised he {
tt with : knife instead OF . fork. .
hey are chargincd 1t his antediluvian u
lbits- They are provoked because he y
. not hear : well = he used to. and =
hen he asks it over again. and the v
q has to repeat it he bawls in tho q
d mans ear: Il hope you hear that!" q
ow long he must wear the old coat p
the old hat before they get him . v
~ one! How chargined they ars 1t s
> independence Of the Esglish gram '
n! How long he han0a ont Seventy d