St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-03-12
Don't let jealousy ever touch a sisters

Ion let lea alOuSy ever IOucn SISTER .
soul as it 80 often does, because her
brother gets more honor or more means.
Even Miriam, the heroine Of the text,
was struck by that evil passion OF
jealousy. She had possessed unlimited
influence over Moses, and now he mar.
ries, and not only so, but marries ,
black woman from Ethiopia; and
Miriam is so disguised and outraged at
Moses. first because he had married at
all, and next because he had practiced
miscegenation. that she is drawn into
a frenzy, and then begins to turn
white, and gets white as a corpse,
and then whittier than 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 prayer that brings her restoration.
Let there be no rsom in all your house
for jealousy either to sit or stand. 1t
il leprous abomination. Your broth
er's success, q sisters, il 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 and
glittering in the sun, led the instru-
mental music. clapping the cymbals
till the last frightened neigh of pur-
suing cavalry horse was smothered in
the wave, and the last Egyptian helmet
went under.
How strong it makes family when
ull the sisters and brothers stand to-
gether, and what an awful wreck when
they disintegrate, quarreling about a
fathers will, and making the surro-
gates Office horrible with their wran-
gle! Better, when you were little chill
dren in the nursery, that with your
playhouse mallets you had accidentally
killed each other fighting across 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 9TH
er across the parental grave in the Gem
etery.
II you only knew it, your interests
are identical. OF all the families of
the earth that ever stood together. per-
haps the most conspicuous is the fami-
ly of the Rothschilds. As Maver An
selm Rothschild was about to die, in
1912, he gathered his children about
him - Anselm, Solomon, Nathan,
Charles and James-and made them
promise that they would always
be united on change. Obeying that
injunction, they have been the
mightiest commercial power on earth,
and at the rising or lowering of
their sceptcr nations have risen or fall
en-. That illustrates how much, on a
large scale and for selfish purposes, a
unite family may achieve. But sup
pose that instead of a magnitude of
dollars as the object, it be doing good,
and maring salutary impression, and
raising this sunken world, how much
more ednobling! Sister, you do your
part. and brother will do his part. If
Marian will lovingly watch the boat
on the Nile, Moses will help her when
leprous disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone
and they soon will be, if they have not
already made exit-the sisterly and
fratcrnal bond will be the only liga-
ment that will hold the family togeth-
er. How many reasons for your deep
and unfaltering affection for each 9TH
cr. Rocked in the same cradle; bent
over by the same motherly tenderness;
toiled for by the same fathers weary
arm and aching brow; with com
mon inheritance of all the family
secrets, and with names given
you by parents who started you
with the highest hopes for your happi-
ness and prosperity, charge you, be
loving and kind and forgiving.> If the
sister see that the brother never wants
a sympathizer, the brother will see
that the sister never wants an escort.
Oh, if the sisters of q household knew
through what terrible and damning
temptations their brother goes in city
life, they would hardly sleep nights,
in anxiety for his salvation. And
if you would make holy con-
spiracy of kind words and gentle
attentions and earnest prayers,
that would save his soul from
death and hide q multitude of sins.
But let the sister dash off in one direc-
tion in discipleship of the world and the
brother fee off in another direction in
dissipation. and it will not be long be-
fore they will meet again at the iron
gate Of Despair. their blistered feet in
the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime.
Alas! that brothers and sisters, though
living together for years, very often do
not know each other, and that they see
only the imperfections and none of the
virtues.
Gen Bauer. of the Russian cavalry,
had in early life wandered off in the
army, and the family supposed he was
dead. After he gained a fortune he en-
camped one day in Husam, his native
place, and made banquet: and among
the great military men who were to
dine, he invited plain miller and wife
who lived near by, and who.
affrighted, came fearing some
harm would be done them. The
miller and his wife were placed
one on each side of the general at
the table. The general asked the
miller all aboat his family. and the
miller said that he had two brothers
and sister. NO other brothers?'
MY younger brother went off with
the army many years ago, and no
doubt was long ago killed" Then the
general said: Soldiers, l am this
mans younger brother, whom he
thought was dead And how loud
was the cheer, and how warm was the
embrace!
/ read of child in the country who
was detained at a neighbor's house on
stormy night by some fascinating
stories that were being told him, and
then looked out and saw i. was so dark
he did not dare go home. The incident
impressed me the more because in my
childhood l had much the same ex
periencc. The boy asked his comrades to
go with him, but they dared not 1t
got later and later-seven o'clock,
eight o'clock, nine o'clock. "Oh," he
said Il wish / were home?" As he
opened the door the last time a blind
ing flash of lightning and q deafening
roar overcame him. But after awhile he
saw in the distance a lantern, and 10! his