Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-02

ritants. In the sins of Lady Macbeth
all the evil deeds OF life seem to make
the very fingers soak the blood.
When you think OF the injustice to-
ward the Jew in The Merchant OF
Venice, we hear poor Shylock turn
upon his prosecutors and demand
pound of Antonio's flesh IN revenge for
stealing his daughter. What Is Will
liam Shakespeare's testimony in ref
erence to children who have been
brought up by too lenient parents?
When King Lear as king had the two
daughters at his feet; when the two
daughters were queens the poor old
man was driven from house TO house.
Advice to Parents.
But sometimes the fathers mis-
takes sharpen the poisonous fang. The
best way to hold the affections of your
children is to be independent OF them.
Never let them finger the purse
strings; divide not unto them the liv-
ing, not only for your own sake, but
for theirs. The younger son Will not
find much fun in drinking a bottle OF
champagne at $3.50 per bottle II he
earns a salary OF only 81 week.
There is not much enjoyment in smok-
ing 25-cent cigars if poor clerk has
to go without his dinner on account OF
the expense. There is not much poetry
about the far country IL young man
has to tend the swine as soon as he en-
ters 1t. IL your children are bound to
20 to destruction. make them pay their
own way.
Lastly. learn when the young prodi-
gal gathered all together and took his
journey into the far country he left his
mother as well as his father. Some
preachers go so far as to suppose this
boy did not have mother. The para
BILE mentions her not. Perhaps on &C
count of the designations of the young
or son the mothers hairs prematurely
sIlvered. Then, like the bloSsoming OF
the almond tree, became as white as
snow. The long, deep wrinkles grew
deeper: the eye sadder; the lip more
ready to culver The doctors said she
was worrying about something. One
day the old trouble came. There was
| an awful cry, as the spasm OF the heart
clutched at her life. and she was dead.
This Interpretation may be true, but
we do not think so, and you and have
just as much right to our opinion as
others have to theirs.
In the first place. the man Is at the
head of the house. By the eastern
custom he alone Is mentioned. The BIZ
BILE tells us that Christ was to be born
OF Mary the Virgin. Yet In the two
distinct genealogical tables OF the New
Testament, the one in Matthew and
the other in Luke, only the genealog-
ical table of Joseph is given; the one
tracing the family history from God
down to the manger, the other from
the manger back to God.
Old Home Recalled.
Shall describe scene which hap
pened last night? No, it was not in
Chicago. Not in that low saloon or
cheap theater where you were play
ing billiards and gambling away your
life. The scene was way back in the
country You remember the old farm.
the white house, the pillared porch. the
big barn in the rear, the wood pile to
the left of the kitchen door. The hens
are now running around begging for
food because the earth is frozen tomb
in which the worms have gone to sleep
for the winter. 1t is about evening.
and an old woman, an old gray-haired
woman, is cooking over the kitchen
stove. She looks thinner than when
you saw her last. The neighbors say
she is aging very rapidly and will not
live long. An old man comes in and
stamps the snow off his great boots.
The woman. this gray-haired woman,
looks up and says. Pa, have you let
ter? Have you been to the pOstof-
| flee? Is it not strange he has not writ
ten? He has been gone fye long years.
Do you think God VIII let me live long
enough to see him iasi once before
co.?
The old man says nothing, out goes
to the door and looks dowl the road
He shades his eyes as If he corid see
| great way off. Then he turns and
says, Mother. that IS fine cali We
have there in the barnyard. She Is
getting fatter each day. We mus: kill
her soon. Perhaps We can have Il big
feast II our boy ever comes home
"They sit by the fire a little while
after the dishes are wiped. Their even
ing talk is soon ended. They are so
| tired they cannot stay up late. They
are too tired to sleep. Then they take
| the old Bible and the mother says, Pa,
won't you read that story of the prod
| igal son? Somehow never can hear It
enough. You read it last night. 1t is
| in the fifteenth chapter of Luke About
the younger son that went away and
starved and was too proud to come
| home When home to parental
heart without the boy was even a
more desolate place than the pig pen
was where her boy was starving.
Then they knelt. AS they prayed
| the little candle-light began to flicker
| in sympathy. The tears trickled down
through the four withered hands. Thus
the two tottering old folks staid upon
their knees pleading with God until an
angel in heaven could hear their grief
no longer, ana he futtered away and
whispered to me the secret that | am
now telling you. Roy. Will you not go
home? Before they are dead go home
and leave this far country of sin, even
this wicked. selfish city, where We now