The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-14

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was struck. by that evil passion OF
jealousy. She had possessed unlimited
influence over Moses. and now he mar
ries.- and not oily so but mar..es
black woman from Ethiopia. ana Nj
riam is SO disgusted and outraged at
Moses. first becaIse he had married at
all, and next because he had practiced
miscegenatiOn. that she is drawn into
a frenzy, ard then begins TO turn white
and gets white as a corpse and then
whittier than a corpse. Her complexion
is like chalk-the fact is. she has tle
Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother
whom she had defended on the Nile
comes to her rescue in a prayer that
brings her restoration. Let there be no
room in all your house for jealousy
either to sit or stand. 1t is leprous
abomination. 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 and slittering in the sun,
led the instrumental music, clapping
the cymbals till the last frightened
neigh Of pursuing calvary horse was
smothered in the wave and the last
Egyption 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 disintegrate. quarrelling about q
fathers will and making the surro-
gates office horrible with their wrangle.
Better, when you were little children
in the nursery, that with your play
house 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 other across the parental grave
in the cemetery.
If you only knew It, your interests
are identical. or all the families Of
the earth that ever stood together per-
haps the most conspicuous Is the fam
lily Of the Rothschilds. AS Mayor An
selm Rothschild was about to die, in
1872. ne 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 in
junction, they have been the mightiest
commercial power on earth. and at
the raising or lowering Of their scep-
ter nations have risen or fallen. That
illustrates how much. on a large scale
and for selfish purposes, a united fam
lily may achieve. But suppose that in
stead Of a magnitude Of dollars as the
object 1t be doing good and making
salutary impression and raising this
sunken world, how much more ennob-
ling! Sister. you do your part and
brother will do his part. II Miriam,
will lovingly wash the boat on the
Nile, Moses will help her when leprous
disasters strike.
General 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
encamped one day in Husam, his ma
tive place, and made a banquet, and
among the great military men who
were to dine he invited a plain miller
op1 hio ,vifa ybn liuaJ naor hu nd
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
family. and the miller said that he
had two brothers and a sister. mo
other brothers, my younger brother
went off with the army many years
ago and no doubt was long ago killed"
Then the geneal said, Soldiers, l am
this mans younger brother. whom he
thought was dead" And how loud
was the cheer and how warm was
the embraced
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 unlovely Both
wrong. That brother will be a prince
in some woman's eyes. and that sister
queen in the estimation of some
man. That brother Is a magnificent
fellow. and that sister Is a morning
in June. Come, let me introduce you:
Moses. this Is Miriam. Miriam, this
is Noses" Add rs per cent to your
present appreciation Of each other
and when you kiss good morning do
not stick up your cold cheek. wet from
the recent washing, as though you
hated to touch each others lips In af-
fectionate caress. Let 1t have all the
fondness and cordiality Of loving
sisters kiss.
l read OF a child in the country who
was detained at a neighbor's house on
a stormy night by some fascinating
stories that were being told him. and
then looked out and 1t was 80 dark
ne did not dare go home. The incident
impressed me the more because in NV