The Press., 1895-12-12
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
A Wife To Her Husband

without thee,
 ltsdearest tokens only make me mourn; {; Oh! let it's memory like a chain about thee,
 Gently compel and hasten thy return. Linger not long
 "Linger not long! How shall I watch thy coming, fe.s~
 As evening shadows stretch o'er moor dell, .t ~.,. When the wild bee hath ceased her busy
 humm1ng,
 And. silence hangs on all things like a spell, x s~. "For oh I sometimes fear, when thou art with me, ~>>>
 My cup of happiness is all too full ~
 Linger not long!
 'Haste-haste thee home into my mount ain dwelling 1!
 | Haste as bird into its peaceful nest!
 Haste as skin, when tempests wild are swelling, \
 Flies to its haven of securest rest!
 Linger not long.
 Thus-throughout all ages-has the true spirit of the home. welcomed the homecoming of the loved and loving home-provider, home-protector, home- maker. And even SO early as I Kings, 1877, it is recorded the king bade the man of God to his hospitality, saying: "Come home with me and refresh myself"
 This "home" thought that so perme- ated the evening session of the Farmers Institute recently held in the Opera House, awakened the keenest degree of interest, as before stated And to a weary wanderer, even like James Howard Payne, who had no place of abode which he could call his own, does come again and again the realizations so forcibly, so painfully, even so bitterly sweet, and so sweetly bitter at times, as when he sang that immortal refrain, that has gone out
 into all hearts and has been translated
 into all tongues, in all climes, that won.
 derful home song: "Home, home, sweet
 sweet home," until all the world has stop.
 ped to listen and be rendered by it's sweet
 melody. ..:. ,x.
 The excellent paper on ,"Fireside Oc,
 cupation for Farmers" by Senator (to be,
 H. Coles, started the "home' ball of
 with so masterful hand of equilibrium | and surety of purpose, that 1t was grace
 fully kept rolling by Secretary Dye anC
 his able assistants throughout the even
 ing's exercises. Hope l.. Moore, -aftel
 having travelled with her audience across
 the continent, portraying with, pen anC
 tongue the beauties of the Pacific Slop' l States, gave it such forceful momentum } on the home round, that it quite "brough down the house, -..
 After enjoying to so great an extent tn I whole evenings exercises, it would seen v almost treacherous-(were it not true) t. - give expression to the, after thoughts tha - rapidly followed. It. was Emerson, q think, who believed that every joy has it @ balancing degree of sorrow, every particl . of bliss it's counteraotiDg- pain, ever = thought of love it's equal measure of hate 7 and 0ice UersG throughout our lives. y Be that as it may, whether true or false 8 of one thing am sure: After this enjoy 8 ment afforded by listening to the beauti = full praises and tributes to the home, ther f came before my interested vision great !. dark, demOn-like apparition-was 1t a : apparition? No! But a grim, remorse t less fact, that these beautiful, lovin d homes, many of them, of which we ha @ so entered into the spirit of, were bein 8 broken into and the very greatest of thei @ strength, of their tenacity, of their lovin '- kindness, was being dragged even unt 0 death through the quagmires and pitfall o of a tremendous Government evil tha | these sturdy, thinking, intelligent Patron r of Husbandry, more than any other on l. class of men in the nation, could yer s forcibly help to exterminate, if they would If The home! Is it possible that they
 not look beyond their own quiet, peace @ full dooryards? Do they not see how the 1t less fortunate brother Is stumbling an = being entrapped by the enemy of tn d home, the saloon, that is on every side 1t Are they looking toward Trenton to SC d the effects of their just indignation las d fall? An, there will have to be close g watching than any they can give. Woul ), it not be the better plan to send such law Is makers to Trenton, to Washington, 6
 would not have to be watched, as woul , not have to be pledged" to make th l. right move at the right time, but sen r, those rather, whose principles fss of prote' Il tion for the American home, and to ht industries are so loyal that there need |
 no pledge made ?? 70 Is it any wonder, friends, that the vel u spirit of the home; the woman, has { 7- steal out in the face of all prejudice, an d say in the dearest accents: Let me int o the workoE the building Of the walls ( Z ;s protection of our government; there d too much uncleanness being allowed to g o in as filling; which has worse thani1o st' e bility about it.: Our; boys, our homes, al It being ruined, while your hands are tie a to do the bidding of the ring to whlc 8 you belong which you entered at 70,
 majority, and which you call loyalty! B. Arouse mani osiyou not see tn F. black. .demoniac shape that is even. no l.: grinning and beckoning at your boy2 v- o Father! Help these fathers to SC Tt Not through a glass. darkly. but face l )7 face. ''''' ''' ' S' v ''''' '9 '' '' '' ,~ 3 TT IT e.g---. -rTs .ysT 'r 'r St. Louis Republic: One of. the mo 3S If interesting specimens in thetnational nj Ie suem atWashington Is aeaatof an eggS Id most gigantic size, which was found in 'O' guana bed on the island of Madagasc' < about % years ago. The shell of tn