The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-10-08

Of Millard Fillmore when the son was
president Of the United States, and the
octogenarian farmer entertained me
until II o'clock at night telling me
what great things be saw in his sons
house in Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said to him. aud how grandly
Willard treated his father in the white
house. The old mans face was illum-
mated with the story until almost mid
night lie had just been visiting his
son at the capitol. And | suppose il
was something OF the same joy that
thrilled the heart OF the old shepherd
as he stood in the palace OF the Prime
Minister. 1t is a 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 50 old. The parents
can not stay many days, for they are u
little restless, aud especially ut night
fall, because they sleep better in their
own bed; but while they tarry You
somehow feel there is q benediction ia
every room in the house. They are a
little feeble and you make il as easy
as you can for them, and you realize
they will probably not visit you very
often-perhaps never again. You 60
to their room after they have retired
at night to see ii the lights are proper
" put out, for the old people under
stand candle and lamp better than the
modern apparatus 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 probability is, before
they leave your mouse they half spoil
your children with kindness. Grand
father and grandmother are more
lenient and indulgent to Your children
than they ever were with you.
And what wonders of revelation
in the bombazine pocket of the one
and the sleeve Of the other. Blessed is
that home where Christian parents
come to visit. Whatever may have
been the style of the architecture when
they came, it is a palace before 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 re-
member just how they looked, and
where they sat, and what they said,
and at what figure of the carpet,
and at what door sill they parted
with you, giving You the iinal good-by.
Do not be embarrassed If your father
come to town and he have the manners
of the shepherd, and if your mother
come to town and there be in her hat
no sign Of costly millinery. The wife
Of the Emperor Theodosius said a wise
thing when she said: Husbands,
remember what you lately were, and
remember what you are, and be thank
full"
By this time you all notice what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father Jacob. Joseph did not say: 81
can't have the old man around this
place. How clumsy he would lool
climbing up these marble stairs, and
walking over those mosaicsl Then, h,
would be putting his hands upon some
of these frescoes People would won
der where the old greenhorn came
from. He would shock all the Egypt
ian court with his manners at table
Besides that, he might get sicl
on my hands, and he might be queru
lous, and he might talk TO me as though
| were only boy, when am the sec
ond man in all the realm. OF course
he must not suffer, and if there is fam
inc in his country-and | hear there il
Il will send him some provisions, bu
can't take a man from Padanaram AM
introduce him into thispolite Egyptian
court. What a nuisance II is TO havl
poor relations
Joseph did not say that, hut he rush
ed out to meet his father with perfec
abandon of affection, and brought hin
up TO the palace and introduced him Il
the emperor, and provided for all III,
rest of the fathers days, and nothing
was too good for the old man while liy
ing; and when he was dead Joseph
with military escort, took his father
remains TO the family cemetery. Woul'
God all children were as kind to thei
parents!
II the father have large property
and he be wise enough to keep it in hi
own name, he will be respected by tn
heirs; but how often 1t is when the sol
finds his father in famine, as Josepl
found Jacob in famine, the young PEG
pie make it very hard for the old man
They are 50 surprised he eats will
a knife instead Of a fork. They ar
chagrined at his antediluvian hah
it's They are provoked because h
can not hear as well as he used to, an,
when he asks it over again, and tn
son has to repeat it, he bawls in tn
old mans ears, II hope you hea
thatln How long he must wear tn
old coat or the old hat before they ge
him new one! how ehagrined they ar
at his Independence OF the Englis
grammar, How long he hangs on
Seventy wears. and not gone YETI Sey
enty-five years, and not gone vet
Eighty years and not gone vet vii
lie ever go? They think II of no use I
have a doctor in his last sickness, an
90 up to the drugstore and get some
thing TO make him worse. and eeonc
mize on a coffin. and beat the under
taker down TO the last poin-
giving a note for the reduced amount