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facts and fancies for the fireside
THE MODEL HUSBAND AND
WIFE OF SCRIPTUBE
Absorbed in the rate case and other
urgent matters, The Observer is only
now finding time to settle the dispute
between its Mule Pen and its Salis
bury correspondent over a matter of
patriarchal matrimony. The Salis
bury correspondent, it will be vividly
remembered, predicted for a certain
young couple happiness rivaling that
of Isaac and Rebekah. Thereupon
the Mule Pen, eagerly seizing upon a
supposed opportunity to display scrip
tural learning, pranced in with the
I statement that Isaac and Rebekah
lhad been confused with Jacob and
Not to be stingy with its
knowledge, it further told how Jacob
Served Laban for Rachel, remarking
that Jacob was not only put off with
Leah at the end of seven years, but
had to serve another seven before
Rachel was given him. Ths Salis
bury correspondent, however, did not
receive this alleged information with
i Reverential acquiscence. He cited the
Episcopal prayer book as authority
| for conferring the honor upon Isaac
" and Rebekah. Last came a brief but
weighty communication from Mt.
1 Pleasant, in which it was pointed out
that Jacob, although he served four
teen years, raised such a clamor
against the fraud practiced upon him
that ’the younger daughter was with
held only a week after he had taken
* the elder to wife. So much for the
dispute and the disputants.
It becomes our partly unpleasant
I duty to declare the Salisbury corre-
I sppndent in the right, and the Mule
Pen in the wrong. Isaac and Re
bekah w’ere correctly complimented as
the model pair of Bible history. Re
bekah can bear comparison with her
daughter-in-law, but not so Jacob
> with his father. It is quite true that
Jacob was an incomparably greater
man. Though no little, of a cheat
in his youth, he became fruly “Is
rael, a Prince,” worthy to be father
of the twelve tribes of Israel. His
meeting and toilfully winning his
cousin Rachel bears an aspect of ro
mance which Isaac’s parent-made
match entirely lacks. Moreover, he
loved Rachel tenderly all her life:
and Judah’s noble plea before the
unknown Joseph for Benjamin—“all
that is left to him (Jacob) of his
(Benjamin’s mother” —shows that
he loved her tenderly after her death.
Isaac, on the other hand, was not per
sonally remarkable in any respect.
Though the son of one great man, and
| the father of another, he was himself
" a very type of respectable medioc
rity. He is recognizable as a gentle,
unenergetic person, inclined to medi
tative ease and having a slight glut-
JHonliness as his one positive fault.
|| It is only as a husband that he ranks
Fhigh, and this evidently came about
t-bgcause of qualities which he lacked
than those which he possessed.
'fHb h e ls entitled to be
I husband of scriptu-
■ ; jQp nr y because he alone among
H Btriarchs was not a polygamist,
ij ■ word-scene of young Jacob
H K the fair shepherdess and ihen,
Hgely enough, lifting up his voice
Mweeping, is familiar to most peo-
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pie, but the story of how a wife was
found for Isaac has no place in the
popular imagination. Yet this earlier
event is invested with abundance of
interest. Rebekah’s personality does
not suffer by comparison with Ra
chel’s. We quote the final verse:
“And Isaac brought her into his
mother Sarah’s tent, and took Re
bekah, and she became his wife; and
he loved her; and Isaac was com
forted after his mother’s death.”
Was it Rebekah or Rachel whom
Byron had in mind when he wrote
these lines for his “Hebrew Melo
dies”!
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Os cicudless climes and starry
skies;
And all that’s best of dark and
bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies
“One shade the more, one ray the
less
Had half impair’d the nameless
grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet ex
press
How pure, how dear their dwelling
place.
“And on that cheek and o’er that
brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that
glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.”
—Charlotte Observer.
A VICTORY OF THE WORKING
CHILD.
The New York legislative session,
lately come to a close, was one of un
usual interest in the matter of labor
legislation. On one of the first days
the Page Eight-Hour Bill was intro
duced, prohibiting all children under
sixteen years of age working more
than eight hours in factories of the
State of New York. This soon be
come one of the most popular meas
ures of the session. The especially
valuable feature of the law which dis
tinguishes it from any other child
labor statute in this country is the
requirement that these eight hours
must fall between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.
Lively opposition against this par
ticular feature of the bill developed
in the lower house. Opponents de
nounced the inelasticity of this ar
rangement as unreasonable, and sev
eral attempts were made to amend it.
But in *he end the merit of this
bill was recognized, inasmuch as it
makes for real enforcement. In fu
ture factory inspectors will not have
to discover how many hours a child
has been at work in any factory, but
its mere presence there before eight
in the morning, or after five in the
afternoon, will in itself be a viola
tion.
*A wave of public sentiment carried
this humane measure triumphantly
through the legislature. It was a
foregone ppnpjpsion that Governor
Hughes would sign this very step in
his inauguration message.
The law marks a real gain for the
working child. In New York City,
especially, where the distance be
tween factory and home is often very
great, and the transportation facili
ties poor, a working child often rose
at 5:30 a. m. in order to reach work
at seven o ’clock. And even if he left
work at six o’clock, he was forced
to 4 ravel home in the great crush
hour, when facilities are at their
worst and travel is most exhausting
even for adult men and women.
This beneficent legislation will,
therefore, give the working child an
additional hour for sleep in the morn
ing, and an hour for recreation at
night.—Secretary of the National
Child Labor Committee, in the Wo-
Man’s Home Companion.
THERE’S NO ONE LIKE MOTHER.
The world naturally loves a pretty
woman, a woman blessed with taste,
easy in her manners, gentle in dis
position—kind and considerate of
others, but with us, there has never
yet lived a woman that has in all
things, taken the place of our mother;
and as we grow older, we are more
convinced that no one, ever so good,
can occupy the spot in our heart that
belongs to mother. In all conditions
of life, prosperity, adversity, an out
cast from society, tried and convict
ed, serving in prison, condemned to
die at the hangman’s hands —when
all others have deserted him —there
will be r.ne. and only one, in ell the
world, who will not desert him, and
that will be mother. And there is
one being the world loves —admires,
and that is the boy, the man, who
never forgets his mother and who
never puts any one ahead of mamma,
we love —the world loves, that boy.—
Mer Rogue Democrat.
MAN’S LIFE OF WOE.
A man’s life is full of crosses and
temptations. He comes into the world
without his consent, and goes out
against his will, and the trip be
tween the two is exceedingly rocky.
The rule of contraries is one of
the important features of his trip.
When he is little the big girls kiss
him, and when he is big the little
girls kiss him.
If he raises a large family he is a
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chump; if he raises a small check
he is a thief.
If he is a poor man he is a bad
manager; if he is rich he is dishon
est; if he is in politics it’s for pie;
if he is out of politics you can’t place
him, and he is no good to his coun
try.
If he does not give to charity he is
stingy; if he does it’s for show.
If he dies young there’s a great
future before him; if he lives to a
good olu age he has missed his call
ing.
The road is rocky, but the man
loves to travel it just the same.—
Exchange.
HELP YOURSELF.
Don’t quarrel with others about
not helping the farmer, when you
are nnt trying to help yourself.
Some farmers do a lot of howling
and no work, because they are too
poor—they think—to do anything
else but howl the calamity howk
The man with manhood and plenty
of grit and energy in his make-up,
need never ask others to give him
room. About all this man needs is
to put his natural talents to work
with a vim and the world will give
him plenty of room. Why all thia
talk about organizing the farmers of
to-day, when our daddies and grand
daddies lived better than we de with
out any organization among them
selves! Because our daddies and
granddaddies produced almost every
thing they needed to eat and wear
upon their own farms, excepting salt,
sugar, iron and what little money
they needed then to pay taxes, which
for these small items was not very
hard to get out of his surplus cotton
and other crops and stock. And now
we fool cotton growers have, for 10.
these many years, been trying to ge*
rich buying all these things at the
other fellow’s prices, and paying for
them with our cotton, also at the oth
er fellow’s prices. We are compelled
to organize before we can price our
own cotton.—Seneca Journal.
Norwood, Ga., Sept. 30. 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.:
I enclose you SI.OO to renew my
subscription. I can’t do without the
paper.
Yours truly,
V. A. GHUNLING.