The Globe-republican., 1890-09-17
Ghntspltts By, the 31pnp.

Written expressly for the GLOBE REPUBLlCAN
HOME should be the place of chief
pleasure. 1t should be as attractive
as the circumstances of its pos
SCISSORS will permit. 1t need not be
rich in its furnishings to be attractive,
but clean. neat, cheerful. A little house
may be just as attractive as a large one,
and many times more happiness may
dwell in it. 1t is not the one who lives
in mansion that is happiest. but the
one who has reasonable comforts with
cOntentment.
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ANOTHER important factor in the hap
piness of home. and its pleasures. is the
manners and customs in the home. If
rudeness and impoliteness are the rule
everything is liable to go with ISLAM
bang" If the customs and habits are
disorderly and bad there will be little
pleasure in the home, but simply lodg-
ing place for meals and sleep. If the
father is cross and ugly and profane and
brutal with his wife. mother and children,
the home will be bedlam of tyranny
If the mother is cross and scOlding,
you may expect the children to stay
away as late as possible in the evening,
and then slyly slip into the house and
creep to bed. There will be no pleas
ure in such a home.
| But LET HOME be the most attractive
place in town, or on the farm, or any
where else. so that it will be a rest for
the weary ones when the days work is
done. Let each member strive to Out-do
the others in rendering the home attrac
tive. Let the conversation and the d.
rectiOns about the place be given in such
tones. and with such manner, as will
show the good will of all the inmates.
Then home may be expected to be at
tractive. Then will the children prefer
it to the noise and hustle and vulgarity
of the street.
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| WOULD 1T NOT BE well that some care
be exercised to keep the boys and girls
off the streets after night. for many bad
things are done by this lack of discipline
and many bad habits are learned through
this lack of oversight by the parents.
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| LAwLESsNESS dies hard. Let it once
be entrenched behind the wilds of the
western prairies and it struggles to the
last. Let its right to hold high carnival
be questioned and it is ready with blud-
geOn, fist, pistol or Winchester to lay low
its OppOser. Lawlessness refuses to be
civilized. 1t wants the terrors and bar
barism of years ago to reign to-day. 1t
insists upon having the darkest episodes
of the cowboy regime enacted in the
year of grace 1890. 1t always appeals u
passion, never to reason. 1t always
seeks to compel by force, never by argn-
ment. Its highest appeal is to the fist
or the revolver, and the man who can
stand the most brutal beating has the
greatest endurance. The one who can
slip the farthest and slyest after an I'M
armed passer-by has the greatest cOur-
age. Even then he dares not meet his
equal in handed encounter; he
must have the advantage or wait another
opportunity. If two to half dozen
can pOunce upon one, there is watched
a great drama of bravery. and it is some
thing of heroic recital to narrate how
''we did him up Such is the general
spirit of lawlessness.
1T Is NOT the desire of law-abiding
people to see law breakers suffer; their
desire is to see obedience to the laws,
decency and order. 1t is no pleasure to
orderly people to see disorderly people
punished. No true man or woman wants
to see another suffer. But the safety of
society demands the enforcement of law.
Without law anarchy rules. The self
preservation of each individual demands
the enforcement of law. Hence it be-
comes a necessity to execute the laws
penalty upon those who persistently
break the laws. Such punishment is not
to be indicative, but corrective. II the
offender persists in breaking the laws,
the only legal means of defense, on the
part of society, is the more vigorous en-
forcement of the laws. First, for the
safety of society; second, for the re-
straint and reformation of the offender.
What pleasure do men find in disobedi-
ence? Why will they persist in law
breaking? Why not cut loose from such
associations and be a true man. Why
not have higher ambition than that of
a mere animal existence? Why not re-
solve, and then execute the resolve, to
live to a noble purpose. high aim?
Why not determine to try to lift up our
fellow-men instead of pulling him down
to the gutter? Why not free ones self