Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-12

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] Furl off and leave her heaven blue.
With the song old times and oil,
thoughts return to the dying wo
mani
"EnhalOed by a mild warm glow,
From all humanity apart,
She hears old footsteps wandering
slow
Through the lone chambers of hel
heart"
And when next morning, from sin
and sorrow free, a woman on the
threshold lay" Lowell beautifully
mOralises on the power of that hith.
ertO forgotten music of her child.
hood, which had cleansed the soul OF
the perishing outcast, and
''doth not scorn
To close the lids upon the eyes
OF the polluted and forlOrn."
The slave in his dreams thinks OF
home, and sees his ''dark-eyed queen
among her children stand" The ex-
lie from Erin asks:
'Where is my cabin-door fast by the
| wild wood?
Where is the mother that looked on
my childhOOd?"
The soldier sleeping on the battle
field, flies to the pheasant fields
| traversed so oft in life's morning
march, when his bosom was young"
Our late great Laureate makes the
"bold Sir Bedivere" say to his dying
Prince:-
"Ah! my Lord Arthur, whittier shall
60?
Where shall 1 hide my forehead
and my eyes?
For now 1 see the true old times are
dead,
When every morning brought a noble
chance,
And every chance brought out no.
BILE knight.
K x K x x
But now the whole round table is
dissolved,
Which was an image of the mighty
world;
And I, the last, go forth companion
less,
And the days darken round me, and
the years,
Among new men, strange faces, 9TH
er minds"
A home is the place where those
who love meet together in private
communion: the place where they
can unbend and be at ease among
those who are dearest to them. Horne
TOoke tells us that the word is the
past participle of the Anglo-Saxon
verb haeman, to come together. But
as We have seen, We have invested it
with a thousand tender associations,
which make 1t the symbol of dOmes-
tic felicity.
Yet, in every social sphere, We may
find that there are numberless houses
which are only homes in name, all
the elements of unity and harmony
ssfc.ns absent. And when we consider
how sacred and far-reaching in its
consequences is a well-conducted
household, how vast the moral influ-
ence it exercises from youth to age,
We cannot doubt that the purity and
welfare Of the humblest home is a
matter Of national importance.Splen-
did or simple, each is powerful
unit for good or evil, a sound or rot
ten brick in the whole social edifice.
1t becomes necessary, therefore, IL
we would be prosperous as a nation,
and have q wholesome future, that
particular regard should be given to
our own homes, and suitable meas
ures provided to secure the homes of
the poor.
We may pity those who from reck-
lessness or wilful misconduct destroy
their own domestic peace, who ruin
their own lives and those of their
children, yet we cannot give them
our sympathy. We may feel for
them, but not with them. But We
must both pity and sympathize with
the children of misfortune, and with
all who are deprived Of the comforts(
of a home through the unavoidable
accidents Of life. What then should
be our feelings for those who never
knew one, who came into the world
enveloped by misery and depravity,
who were nurtured in crime, bred
In ignorance, idleness, and filthy
surroundings, and taught to live vic
iously as others are virtuously? How
can words express the pity which
should be felt for these? And what
do we do for them? Nothing, abso-
lutely nOthing-unless it be to punish
them for their environment. And,
indeed, it is difficult to know what
steps should be taken with the hope
lessly destitute, and with hardened
and irreclaimable offenders.
Every town, and almost every viii
lage, has its quota of such. Great
cities swarm with them, and their
evil influence is felt in every corner of
the kingdom. In London, it is said,
there are from one to two hundred
thousand persons who never know in
the morning where they will lay them
down at night. And this is not the
whole of the evil. The honest work.
ing poor, whose two great difficulties
are the want of u sufficiency of re-
munerative labour and decent home
accommodation at moderate rent,
are often thrown by stress of poverty
into unwilling contact with the GRIM
inal classes. The moral consequences
are deplOrable. Homes which should
be clean, wholesome, and permanent,
are squalid, fetid, and precarious.
The labOur difficulty is insupera5le
and must be left to the natural op-
GRAFTON Of economic laws. tits futile
to attempt to create labO'.f by forced
or artificial means, for this would
eventually intensity the evil. But
one great work, can be done, and
! sbould ba r. - tv;tbout daIay pnh-