The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

The PaI able OF the Two Sons.
A son in a noble and wealthy
family, chatting under parental
restraint, or having exhausted To-
cal means of dissipation and sigh
ing for fresh fields OF voluptuous
conquest, inconsiderately requests
an -mortem division Of the es-
tate. The indulgent father makes
it. Perhaps he has no recourse;
parental authority is at an end.
The sons heart is callous to the
appeal of love; sin has indurated-
him. The guileless youth, the
fathers pride and Joy, has grown
the gruff, defiant rebel to whom
the amenities of home are insufer-
able.
In the shortest time possible the
infatuated youth tucked the spark
ling gems and golden bars, his
patrimony in portable form, easily
convertible into coin of any coun-
try, in the pockets of a money
belt, and, strapping it about his
person, he went abroad-perhaps
without even a ceremonious fare
we'll.
He wasted his substance. He
tossed it in the air Gas per deriva-
tive), as the farmer does his wheat
when he will separate it from the
chaff. He lived absolutely. He
was insalvable Gas per derivative)
while his infatuation lasted. The
coincidence of the devoured otter
ally) patrimony and the universal
and extreme famine puts pathet-
ic touch to the sorry plight of the
dissolute spendthrift. He was left
behind Gas per derivative) in the
race. He never, in spite of his in
fatuated effort and extravaganza,
so much as reached the glittering
goal Of his wantOn ambition. The
gay, reveling party that kept him
company while his means held
out, swept past him thanklessly
and disdainfully when his once
plethoric purse was at last empty.
He awoke as from dream-alone!
penniless!
With the pertinacity of despair
he glued Qiterally) himself to a
foreign landowner, whom i'll his
prosperity he would have dubbed
a Gentle dog"-with whom he
would have had no intercourse,
much less receive a favor from
him. In his despair he cleaves to
the foreigner so tenaciously that
he can not be shaken off. 4 ST.
perlatively disgusting and degrad-
ing task is given m,-offensive
to all the senses, repugnant to all
the ideas of ceremonial cleanliness
instilled in his mind from boy
hood
So sharp were the pangs OF hun
ger that he kept coveting the
swine their feed-the locust pods
he threw down before them. What
humiliation, sorrow, despair are
compressed in the half dozen words
- And no man gave unto him. "
At last the hypnotic spell Of sin
is broken. Self-consciousness,
self-control are regained. Memory
paints the ancestral home The
flown blessing brightens. What
abundance, comfort. care, there eX-
tends to the most abject mental /!
The veriest scullion has such a
superabundance that he can pose
as benetactor before the tramp.
Il willn' What a battle-royal
has preceded and made possible
those talismanic words Fear,
shame, pride have been met and
conquered. II have sinned" is
the correlate of Il will arise"
Confession absolute and frank,
without apology or plea in abate-
ment, shall be made The penalty
and consequences of apostasy, dis
inheritance, servitude instead of
sonship, shall be assumed without
a syllable Of complaint.
1t is done. But how different
the seouel from that which the