The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-02-12

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the support of sisters and younger
brothers because the older brother
rose to the leadership from the day the
father lay down to die. Whatever you
do for your brothers will come back to
o again. If you set him an i'll
natured, c~ensorious, unaccommodat-
ing example. it will recoil upon you
from his own irrated and despoiled ma
ture. II you, by patience with his in
firmities and by nobility of character,
dwell with him, in the few years of
your companionship, you will have
your counsels reflected back upon you
some day by his splendor of behavior
in some crisis where he would have
failed but for you.
Don't snub him. Don't depreciate
his ability. Don't talk discouragingly
about his future. Don't let Miriam
get down off the bank of the Nile and
wade put and upset the ark of bull
rushes. Don't tease hin. Brothers
and sisters do not consider it any harm
to tease. That spirit abroad in the
family is one of the meanest M most
devilish. There is 4 teasing that is
pleasurable and is only another form
of innocent raillery; but that which
DIoNOhCS IA -dAhA any tAAC
eve fash with anger is to be repre-
hended. Itwould be less blameworthy
to take q bunch of thorns and draw
them across your sisters cheek, or to
take a knife and draw it's sharp edge
across your brothers hand till the
blood spurts, for that would damage
only the body; but teasing is the
thorn and the. knife scratching and
lacerating the disposition and the
soul. 1t is the curse of innumerable
households that the brothers tease the
sisters, and the sisters the brothers.
Sometimes Il is the color of the hair,
or the shape of the features, or an af-
fair of the heart. Sometimes it is by
revealing a secret or by n suggestive
look, or a guffaw. or an ''Ahem!'
Tease! Teasei Teasel For mercy's
sake, quit 1t. Christ says: HE hat
hateth his brother is n murderer"
Now. when You, by teasing, make your
brother or sister hate you, You turn
him or her into a murderer OR muir
deress.
Don't let jealousy ever touch n sis
ter's soul, rs it SO often does, because
her brother gets more honor or more
means. Even Miriam, the heroine of
the text, was struc by that evil pas
sion Of jealousy. She had possessed
unlimited influence over Moses, and
now he marries, and not only so, but
marries q black woman from Ethiopia;
and Miriam is SO Disguised N out
ragged at Moses, first because he had
married at all, and next because he
had practiced miscegenation, that she
Is drawn into n frenzy, and then begins
to turn white, and gets white as q
corpse, and then whittier than n corpse.
Her complexion Is like chalk; the fact
Is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And
now the brother whom she had de-
Tended on the Nile comes to her rescue
in a prayer that brings her %restora-
ton. Let there be no room in all your
house for jealousy either 10 sit or
stand. It Is a leprous nbomination.
Your brothers success, o sisters, Is
your success. His victories will be
your victories. For while Moses the
brother led the vocal music after the
crossing of the Red sea, Miriam the
sister, with two sheets of shining brass
uplifted n glittering in the sun, led
the instrumental music, clapping the
symbals till the last frightened neigh
of pursuing cavalry horse was smooth
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tIan helmet went under.
How strong it makes a family when
all the sisters and brothers stand to-
gether, and what an awful wreck
when they d~isintegrnte, quarreling
about q fathers will, and making the
surrogate's office horrible with their
wrangle! Better, when you were
little children in the nursery, that
with your playhouse mallets you had
accidentally killed each other fighting
acros your cradle, than that, having
come to the age of maturity and
having in your veins and arteries the
blood of the same father and mother,
you fight each other across the paren-
tai grave In the cemetery.
II you only knew it, your int rests
are Identical. OF all the families of
the earth that ever stood together,
perhaps the most conspicuous is the
family of the Rothschilds. AS Mayer
Anselm Rothschild was about to die,
In 1919, he gathered his children about
him-Anselm, Solomon, Nathan. James
and Charles-and made them promise
that they would always be united on
change. .Obeying that injunction,
they have been the mightiest CONNER
eial power on earth. and at the rising
or lowering of their scepter nations
have risen or fallen. That illustrates
how much, on q large scale and for
selfish purposes, a united family may
achieve. But suppose that instead of
. magnitude OF dollars as the object,
1t be doing good. and making snlutary
impress, aud raising this sinking
world, how much more enrolling!
Sister, you do your part, and brother
will do his part. If Miriam will Low.
ingly watch the BOAT on the Nile,
Moses will help her when leprous dis
asters strike.
When father and mother are gone
and they soon will be, If they have not
slready made exit-the s~isterly and
frsternal bond will be the only liga-
that will hold the family to
How many reasons for your
deep n unfaltering affection for each
Rocked in the same cradle,
bent over by the same motheFly ten
derness; toiled for by the same fathers
arm and aching brow: with
common inheritance Of all the family
secrets, and with names given you by
parents who started you with the
highest hopes aud happiness and pros
! charge you, be loving and
forgiving. II the sister see hat the
brother never wants q sympathizer,
the brother will see that the sister
never wants an escort. Oh, if the sis
ters of a household knew through
terrific and damning temptations
thsir brother goes in city life, they
hardly sleep nights, in anxiety
for his salvation! And II you would
make a holy conspiracy of kind words
and gentle attentions and earnest
prayers, that would save his soul from
death and hide a multitude of sins.
But let the sister dash off in one dt
in discipleship OF the world,
and the brother flee off in another di'
rection in dissipation, and it will not
be long before they will meet again at
the iron gate of despair, their blister
I'd feet IN the hot ashes of a consumed
Alas! that brothers and Sis
.ers, though living together for years,
very often do not know each other, and
that they see only the imperfections
none of the virtues.
Gen. BAUER. of the Russian cavalry.