| Show THE ene inheritors of vast wealth are proverbially spendthrifts the golden 9 ol 01 ore is dug from the mine refined and coined by the labor of other hands and sweat of other brows like children playing with an expensive toy they ean can form no just estimate of its value when the donor weighed it he cast into the balance so many days of unremitting and fatiguing toil tol so many anxious and sleepless nights 41 so much self denial and so much care but the inheritor into his balance throws only pleasure the one values t by what it cost him the other for what it will DI purchase like the tho prodigal in the scripture parable he thoughtlessly expends it to gratify the caprice and cravings clavings cravi of his nature then comes the last scene seene the misery the remorse and the long and wearisome ome journey back to the home of frugal industry but there are other prodigals prod igals on her favorites our bounteous parent nature has lavished her richest treas treasure ure health buethe but nut the prodigal values it lightly for it cost him naught and recklessly squanders it in riotous living present pleasure obscures future want soon boon the curtain rises on the last scene we see him helpless impoverished 1 the tieh rich treasures of the body and a nd mind all lost in misery and despair remorseful conscience holds up to him the mirror of memory in his own reckless folly he pre ceides the cause of his present r rain pain ain aln ho ec resolves to the Tha journey is long iong and tedious but if bo be perse verin veric gly follows the right road lie he will at length see tho haven ol 01 his hopes in the distance and nature saeid seeing g her invalid child afar oms ond off will wili come out to meet hin bin and receive him back with love and blessing to find the right road homeward the su buffering suffering prodigal should read the peoples common sense medical adai er therein it i 13 completely mapped out its landmarks all indicated and its milestones all numbered read bead it price igo postage prepaid pre paid address the author and publisher R V pierce M 11 D buffalo N Y daw |
