The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11
Rutland 5tjrtklu Globe.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Ii, 1876.
HOME.

laws OF our country and the laws OF our
own hearts continue becoming more and
more lax, this subject soon will not be as
now, linked with all interests and all dis
cussons then it will not need it will be
consideration.
How shall we define this word "Home p
Webster says it is "a dwelling places" we
think 1t may admit of a broader meaning.
Home is the goal which all are seeking,
though many fail in the attempt and are
tossed about like foam and bubbles on
life's rough sea, never gaining the desired
hraven.
Our primitive, Puritan fathers sought
this land for their dwelling place, and sac
riflced property, family ties, and the COM
forts and conveniences of life for their
own chosen altar. The motive that prompt
ed these people TO seek new and unexplored
lands was not the same that Cortez urged
upon his followers when he marched TO
TUE a@das po ~ a 9y 'ae4 aIss5
Our fathers said, "Great perils and great
freedom religious freedom" 1t was,
"that their church might be preserved in
untarnished purity" and their chosen altar
be erected aud preserved in their homes.
For this they dared to face any and all of
Gods mysterious providences-dared to
face privation in every form, neither did
they shrink from the forest terrors of those
times These people seemed to believe
that all OF the cruelty, prodigality and vices
of court life, and all games and amuse.
ments, we're intimately connected. They
He'd from one and the whole, as far as the
wide seas and their own devices could carry
them, for the sole purpose of establishing
pure religion that should be unspOtted by
any thing they had left behind Is it any
wonder that with the view they had in the
backgrounds and the prospect before them,
we find associated with their strong con-
victions, stern, tenacio IS, answering
character which could write some of the
old "blue laws" and enforce them and
who like the mighty pines never for storm
or tide changed their culjrs. We may
judge something of the strength and purity
of this type Of character when we consider
that some of its peculariies are stamped
upon this generation. The homes of these
early fathers were simple in the extreme ::
rustic without and artless within, yet they
were filled with kindly cheer the storms
might rage against the barrlcaded wooden
hidged, wooden latched door, there was
warm bright glow in the hearts within that
nothing could extinguish.
There are now great variety of dwell
ing places in this, our own land though
multlform in location and character, yet
each, is the home of some one.
Some are brilliant and elegant homes.
Some are wise, thrifty careful homes.
Some are warm genial, welcome homes;
by whose glowing hearts, any one, at any
time NAV fl nd flnnuuh anI IN cnarp
There are the toll burdened, struggling
somber homes and the toll burdened
struggling homes that are heavenly lighted.
There are yet, unimpressible, callous,
frigid, benumbed homes.
There are close darkly shaded, narrow,
misery, blue bearded homes.
There are shiftless, idle, sQualed, hungry
homes and irritable, Wild bolsterous
homes where no reflection of the suns
early rising gladdens the hearts within, and
where none from the sun's gilded settings
ever falls back in soft dreams of peace.
There are homes that hurry and hustle
through years of incessant labor until one
and another of the inmates fall like the
falling leaves and the homes turn to dust.
We do not say that this last view COM
pares with the dairyman's home, but going
p sssS a "a fey S ssg Ss sss Sse
seven or eight years perhaps we will fall
back to about that time when the dairy
business began 10 assume a healthier aspect
in Vermont. Science has undertaken the
investigation of this work, and shown the
causes which lead to certain results, so that
careful dairymen now may understand how
these causes and effects are produced and
art has brought within the practical attain
ment of every one the ways and means of
bringing about the most approved results
OF science results, which have dsbur-
dened the dairy business of its odium and
dread. Therefore in the dairyman's home
to-day, the smile goes round the circle more
readily, the steps are lighter, and restful
contentment is manifest that hints of COM
fort and ease hints also of never failing
mint drops"
But how shall we define this little word
"Home!" 1t is selfde6ned in the heart of
every one, even in the degraded breast and
misery itself though one drop of its
sweetness has never been tasted, that word
OF all in the English language will kindle
what can be imagined of goodness, purity
and happiness on earth.
lt is a secure dwelling place" A cit
adel.
"ris the refuge of our lives"
lis the harvest home of life's anticipa-
tons
lis the charmed circle round which LIES
iabors and llfe's visions pursue each other
in rapid fight.
IT'S the chain that links father, mother,
brothers and sisters together.
"Tis lifes estate :" for this estate pur-
poses are formed and enterprises hazarded
battles fought, and by its inspiration vic
tories are won
lis the harmony of love, happiness,
and rest, 1t is all that Is sweet, beautiful,
and enduring
Home is one of the first words we learn
to speak, and is often the last that is
spoken. What is ii that burns in the
thoughts of the dying soldier as he lies
fainting on the battle field, close by torn
broken shrub,-the little reminder of the
halt buried, overgrown garden wall that
hens in, though far away ell of earth that
he holds dear And as life's gateway
closes behind him, and heavens opens be-
fore, his watchword still is home. There
is nothing that will live in the memory like
it, there is nothing that can obliterate it
1t will live despite of time and all of its de-
stroying Influence. Age, sickness and de-
cease may wear on, and wear out nearly all
consciousness of passing events, but the
thoughts Of the old home with all of its sur
rOunding5 will remain wildly impressed
upon the mind. How important then that
our dwelling places should be pleasant and
happy homes. And in making them SO,
every member OF the household must con-
tribute each their share the wife and
daughters, and the husbands and sons as
well, while the gentle cord of sympathy
connects the combined efforts of all to-
gelher.
Our homes are affected directly or indi-
rectly by everything under the sun wheth-
or near or remote. They are affected by
the government of our own country, and
by that Of other countries by tue COM
merce, manners aud customs, the virtues
and corruptions, the undergraduates and
necessities, the christianity and organism,
the arts, inventions and all profcicncies
while there are many little things connect
ed with the inter working of this home or
ganizaion that would seem at first of no