Connecticut western news., 1898-02-10

 horse was smothered in the wave and the last Egyptian helmet went under.
 How strong 1t makes family when all the sisters and brothers stand to- gsther, and what an awful wreck when they disintsgrate, quarreling about 8 fa- ther's will and making the surrogate's office horrible with their wrangle! Bet ter when you were little children in the nursery that with your playhouse mallets you had accidentally killed each other Sighting 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 other across the parental grave in the cemetery.
 If you only knew it, your interests 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 1913 he gathered his children about him-An- selm, Solomon, Nathan. Charles and James-and made them promise that they would always be united on change. Obeyiug that injunction, they have been the mightiesU commercial power on earth, and Ut the raising or lowering of their scepter nations have risen or fallen. That illustrates how much, on a large scale and for selfish purposes, united family may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as tine object, 1t he doing good and making salutary impression and raising this sunken world, how much 1 more epnoblipg! Sister, you do your part and brother will 6o his part. II Miriam will lovingly watch tho boat OH the Nile, Moses will help her when lep- rous disasters strike.
 When father and mother are gone and they soon will be if they have not | already made exit-the sisterly and fra ternal bond will be the only ligament that will hold the family together. How many reasons for your deep and unfal- | tering affection for each other? Rocked 1 in the same cradle, bent over by the same motherly tenderness, toiled for by the same fathers weary arm and aching | brow, with common inheritance of all I the family secrets, and with names giv- en you by parents who started you with the highest hopes for your happiness and prosperity. charge you, be loving l and kind and forgiving. If the sister see that the brother never wants sym | pathizer, the brother will see that the sister ney CT wants an escort. Oh, iy the sisters of household knew through what terrific 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 conspiracy of kind words | and gentle attentions and earnest pray \ CTS, that would save his soul from death | and hide mCltitude of sins. But let the sister dash of in one direction in discipleship of the world and the broth | CT fee of in another direction in disSi- patton, and it will not be long before they will meet again at the iron gate of | despair, their blistered feet in the hot ashes of 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 imperfectons and none of the yir- | tues
 General Bauer of the Russian cavalry
 had in early life wandered of in the army, and the family supposed he was dead. After be gained fortune he en- camped one day in Husam. his native | place. and made banquet, and among the great military men who were to dine be invited plain miller and his wife who lived rear 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 about his family, and the miller said that he had two
 brothers and sister. "No other broth | trs?" My younger brother went of
 with the army many years ago and no
 doubt was long ago killed" Then the general said, "Soldiers, am this man 's younger brother wEom he thought was dead. ' And how loud was the cheer, I and how warm was the embracel
 l Know Each Other.
 Brother and sister, you need as much | of an introduction to each other as they | did. You do not know each other. You { think your brother is grouty and cross
 and queer, and he thinks you are selfish | and proud and unloyely. Both wrong | That brother will be a prince in some
 woman's eyes and that sister a queen
 in the estimation of some man. That
 brother is magnificent fellow, and
 that sister is & morning in June. Come,
 let me introduce you. Moses, this Ii
 Miriam. Miriam, this is Moses. Add
 75 per cent to your present appreciation
 oi each other and when you kiss good
 morning do not stick up your cold
 cheek, wet from the recent washing. ns
 though you hated to touch each other,
 lips in affectionate caress. Let it have
 all the fondness and cordiality of lov
 ing sisters kissL
 Make yourself as agreeable and help
 ful to each other as possible, remember
 ing that soon you part. The few year:
 of boyhood and girlhood will soon sliI
 by, and you will go out to homes O.
 your own and into the battle with tho
 world and amid ever changing vicissi
 tudes and on paths crossed with graves
 and up steeps hard to climb and througt
 shadowy ravines. But, oh, my God anC
 Saviour, may the terminus of the jour
 ney be the same as the start-nemely,
 at fathers aud mothers knee ii they
 have inherited the kingdom. Then, a.
 in boyhcod and girlhood days, VI
 rushed in after the days absence witt
 much to tell of exciting adventure, anc
 father and mother enjoyed the recital al
 much as we who made it, so we shal
 on the hillside of heaven rehearse tt
 them all the scenes of our earthly expe
 dition. and they shall welcome us hom,
 as we say, Father and mother, WI
 have come and brought our childrer
 with us." The old revival hymn de
 scribed it with glorious repetition:
 l Brothers and sisters there will meet,
 | Brothers and sisters there will meet. | Brothers and sisters there will meet,
 | Will meet to part no more.
 I read of a child in the country who
 was detained at a neighbours house on { | ctorrpv ,,uhf bu coYr,o fo