Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

could teach many Of our legislators
that the whipping-3ost ought not to be
obsolete In our treatment Of social IT.
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 Q
pound Of Antonio's desh 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 u house.
Advice to Parents.
But sometimes the fathers mis-
takes sharpen the poisonous fang. The
best WY 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 iv-
ing, not only for your own sake, but
for theirs. The yoanger son will not
find much fun In drinking bottle OF
champagne at $3.50 per bottle II he
earns a salary of only 81 q week.
There Is not much enjoyment in smok-
ing 25-eent cigars II a poor clerk has
to go without his dinner ON account Of
the expense. There Is not much poetry
about the far country II a young man
has to tend the swine as soon as he en-
tiers It. II your children are bound to
go 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 q mother. The para
BILE mentions her not. Perhaps on ac-
count OF the designations Of the young
er 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. Ono
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
0.hers 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 b.
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 manager back to God.
Old Home Recalled
Shall describe . scene which hap
pened last night. No. II 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 Ia 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 o frozen tomb
In which the worma have, gone to sleep
for the winter. II Ia 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 10 aging very rapidly and will not
live long. An old man comes In and
stamps the snow OF his great boots.
The woman. this gray-haired woman.
looks up and says. Pa. have you q let
teri Have you been to the postof-
hcef Is Il not strange he has not writ
tenn He has been gone i've long years.
Do you think God viii let me live long
enough 10 see him Just once before I
gor
The old man says nothing. but goes
to the door and looks down the road.
He shades his eyes As II he could see .
great way on. Then he turns ANA
says, Mother. that Ii nne calf we
have there In the barnyard. She u
getting, fatter each day. We must kill
her soon- Perhaps we can have Q, big
feast II our boy ever comes home
They sit By the IRE little whils
after the dishes are wiped. Their eyen-.
ing talk 10 soon ended. They are 40
tired they cannot stay up late. Thar
ara too. tired to sleep, Then they take
the old bible and thu mother says. Pa,
won't you read that story OF the prod
igsl SON! Somehow never can ,hssris
enough You read II last night. It,is
In the afteenth chapter OF Lpks. About
the ysungerr son that went away and
starved and was, too proud to come
home When, home 70 q parental
heart without thu boy was even q
mors desolsts place than tho pig pen
was WHARF her boy ives starving
Then thsy knslt. Az they praysd
the ,iittls caadis-hght began to flicker
In sympathy. The tears trickled down
throuGh the four withsrsd hands. Thns
the two tottsrins old folks staid upon
their knsss pleading with God until an
angel In heaven could hear their gr,sf
no iongsr. aud In auttsrsd away and
Whispered to me the secret that I am
nova tsiling yoa. Boy. vineyoa not 60
homef Bcfors they are dsaA 20 homo
and alssve thia Ear country Of sin. even
this. wicked. seaash city. where We nov
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