Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09


test-it does not pay--or for the same
reason that they do not want man in
their stock company to sell his stock
below par lest il depreciate the value.
rs at sunset sometimes the wind
rises, so after sunshiny day there may
be tempestuous night. There are
people who in public act the philan-
thropist who at home act the Nero with
respect to their slippers and theirgown.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun and pencil went through the for
ests of America to bring down and TO
sketch the beautiful birds, and after
years of toll and exposure completed
his manuscript and put it in trunk
in Philadelphia and went off for
few days recreation and rest, and came
back and found that the rats had utter
ly destroyed the manuscript but with
out any discomposure and without any
fret or bad temper he again picked
up his gun and his pencil and visited
all the great forests of America and re-
produced his immortal work. And yet
there are people with the ten-thou-
sandth part of that loss who are utterly
irreconGilable, who at the loss of
pencil or an article of raiment will
blow as long and loud and sharp as a
northeast storm. Now, that man who
is affable in public and who is ir
ritable in private is making fraudu
lent and overissue of stock, and he
is as bad as a bank that might have
$780, 600 or 100000 of bills in circula-
ton with no specie in the vault. Let us
learn to show pity at home. If we have
it not there, we have it not anywhere.
If we have not genuine grace in the
family circle, all our outward and pub
lie plausibility merely springs from the
fear of the world or from the Shiny,
putrid pool of our own selfishness. l
tell you the home is mighty test of
character. What you are at home you
are everywhere, whether you demon
strate it or not.
Again, home is refuge. Life i'll the
United States army on the national road
to Mexico-a long march, with ever and
anon a skirmish and battle. At even
tide we pitch our tent and stack the
arms; we hang up the war cap, and, our
head on the knapsack, we sleep until
the morning bugle calls us to march to
the action. How pleasant it is to re-
hearse the victories and the surprises
and the attacks of the day, seated by
the still campfire of the home circle!
Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shiv-
nj l.
aleak, we put in at the harbor of home.
Blessed harbor! There we go for re-
pairs in drydock. The candle in the
window is to the toiling man the light
house guiding him into port. Children
90 forth to meet their fathers as pilots
at the Narrows take the hand of ships.
The doorsill of the home is the wharf
\ where heavy life is unladen. There is
the place where we may talk of what
we have done without being charged
with self adulation. There is the place
where we may lounge without being
thought ungraceful. There is the place
where we may express affection with
out being thought silly. There is the
place where we may forget our an
noyances and exasperations and
troubles Forlorn earth pilgrim, no
home? Then die. That is better.
The grave is brighter and grander and
more glorious than This world with no
tent from marching, with no harbor
from the storm, with no place of rest
from this scene of greed and gouge and
loss and gain. God pity the man or
the woman who has no home!
Further, home is a political safe
guard. The safety of the state must
be built on the safety of the home.
Why cannot France come to a placid
republic? MacMahon appoints his min
istry, and all France is aquaEe lest the
republic be smothered. Gambetta dies,
and there are hundreds Of thousands
of Frenchmen who are fearing the re-
turn of a monarchy. The Dreyfus case
is at this moment a slumbering earth
quake under Paris France, as ma
ton, has not the right Kind Of a Chris
tan home. The Christian hearthstone
is the only hearthstone for republic.
The virtues cultured in the family cir
Gle are an absolute necessity Tor the
state. If there be not enough moral
principle TO make the family adhere
there will not be enough political prin-
| ciple to make the state adhere. No
home means the Goths and Vandals,
means the Nomads of Asia, means the
Numidians of Africa, changing from
place TO place according as the pasture
happens 10 change. COMPOUNDED be all
those babels of iniquity which would
overpower and destroy the home! The
same storm that upsets the ship IL
| which the family sa1 will sink the
| frfgate of the constitution. Jails ano
penitentiaries and armies and navies
are not our best defenses. The door
of the home is the best fortress. House
hold utensils are our best artillery
and the chimneys of our dwelling
houses are the grandest monuments tC
safety and triumph. No home no re
public!
Further, home is a school. olt
ground must be turned up with subsol
plow. and it must be narrowed and re
narrowed. and then the crop will no
be as large as that Of the new groun'
with less culture. Now. youth ant
childhood are new ground, and all tn
influences thrown over their heart ant
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