Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-26

uves unoer his own roof feels more inde-
pendent, he has more of the self-conse.
quence Of citizenship, than the dweller Gin
his own hired house.n There is q irmness
in the tread Of ones own doorstep, there
is welcome in the snap OF ones own front
door-catch, q security in turning ones own
key when he lies down to sleep, that no
rented room can give II one pays his tax,
he is little monarch on his own floor. II
his children smash glass or scratch the
wall, whose business is iti II the baby
cries loudly, well, the good neighbors are to
be commiserated perhaps, but there Is no
one to pound on the floor above or growl at
you through the janitor. You are the lord
OF all you survey, and your noble spouse,
broken in her sleep in vain attempts to hush
the child and spare the breadwinner, Is the
only one you care to pity.
Owning your own house, you become an
internal part Of the school district, the vot-
ing precinct, the vicinage. There is nothing
that concerns the neighborhood that is not
your concern. The highway, the gutter,
the sanitation, the abatement of nuisance,
the building Of new library, the payment
Of the church debt, the character OF the
boys who associate with your boys, and
girls that your boys NAV fall in love with.
You are fixture; you are of the soil. You
and always counsellor for good and
wholesome things. Being permanent, you
brook no abiding evil; let the evils
get out, for You and yours are not to be
driven out by them. You change places
with life's annoyanoes. Heretofore the an
noyances have said to you: "If you do not
like US, why move" Now you reverse the
order. "No, move your The effect on .
mans mind Is wonderful. The evils of life
have driven us with a whip, from boarding
house to fiat, from village to city, up and
down. Evil has seemed tyrant. We
were the transient and fitting. Now, own
ing home, you stiffen with the authority
OF master. You drive away evil-you
seek to. at any rate; you plot not to dodge
an evil, but to annihilate 1t. You confront
miserable things, and command: s'TurnI
Retreatl am anchored. FL think of YOU
as transient"
The mental effect is seen all through a
mans life habit. This bad practice Of pull
ing up and flying from things we do not
hke-a practice that makes short tenures of
clerkships and hire-is changed. He who
owns a home does not take offense at trifies
and fly OF the handle. He knows full well
that he can not now afford to get mad and
hounce out of good position on every slight
provocation of an employers unreasonable
demand or temper. He must exercise self
control He goes home to sleep over his
anger, and as his pleasant door-yard smiles
on him it seems to chide him. The very
front gate begs him: "Be patient Am I
not worth many insults" The bed, in his
own familiar rom, the room where his chill
dren were born, and perhaps where the
baby boy breathed his last, speaks all so
eloquently of patience, of forbearance, and
CHARITY How many rowing nature has
been changed to settled habitude and per-
severing purpose by the matchless persua-
sion OF ones own home. "My own Home,
bless God and please God, will suffer long
before will lightly leave thee"
In time the house owner becomes n lot
owner in the cemetery on the village hill.
There, with the wall of marble head-stones
smiling to the church spires, there he and
his children often stroll on SUNDAY even
ings, when the lengthening shadows creep
across the glebe. There, on the weIl-kept
mounds, repose the flowers that loving
hands keep fresh, flowers that grow from
the soil OF your own home lot, flowers whose
roots the living children plant in Nav.
whose stocks they cut for the dead children
In July. Near by the church you love. the
familiar place in the old sanctuary. where
your BOY first slept through services
whittier the same whiskered boy returns In
after years to sit beside your gray hairs.
Owning your own house your neighbors
have learned to love you by the memory of
scenes OF cheer at your table, year after
year. You have watched with their sick. as
they have with yours, you have been to
their weddings, as they to yours The house /,
Is you; 1T grows TO look like you; it is your
monument OF years of tastes peculiarly
your own.
wish you well of your struggle, reader.
1oo heip you to pay OF the last cent of the
mortgage. can not see your face but
encourage you. Be patient, be strong. You
will succeed at last