St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-01

there are people WAtH INC seA4
sandth part of that loss who are utterly
irreccncflable, who at the loss OF
peuciI or an article OF raiment will
blow as long and loud and sharp as
northeast storm. Now, that man who
is affable in public and who is lr-
ritable in private is making fraudu-
lent and overissue of stock. and he
Is rs bad as a bank that might have
$500. .oeo or $500,o0o of bills in circula-
ton with no specie in the vault. Letus
learn to show pity at home. live have
it not there, we have 1t not anywhere
If we Lave not genuine grace III the
family circle. all our outward and pub
lie plausibility merely springs from the
fear of the world or from the shiny.
rutrid pool of our own selfishness. !
tell you the home is mighty test OF
character. What You are at home you
are everywhere, whether you demon
strate il or not.
Again, home is a refuge. Life in the
United States army on the national road
TO Mexico-a long march, with ever and
anon a skirmish and a battle. At even
tide we pitch our tent and stack tne
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 1t 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, lie is stormy sea. Wath snis-
cred masts and torn sails and hulk
aleak. we put in at the harbor OF home.
Blessed harbor! There we go Tor re-
pairs in drydock. The candle in the
window is to the toiling man the light
house guiding rim into port. Children
go forth to meet their fathers as pilots
at the Narrows take the hand OF ships.
The doorsin 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 ana
troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no
home? Then die. That is better.
The grave is brighter and grander ana
more glorious than this world VITA 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 OF
| the woman who has no home!
Further, home is a political safe
guard. The safety of the state must
he built on the safety of the home.
Vhy cannot France come to placid
republic: MacMahon appoints his min-
istry. and all France is aquake lest the
repubiic 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 = slumbering eartn
ouake under Paris. France, as ma
ton. has,not the right kind OF Chris
fian home. The Christian hearthstonf
is the only hearthstone for republic
The virtues cultured in the family cir
Gle are an absolute necessity for the
state. If there be not enough mora
principle to make the family adhere
there will not be enough political prin
ciple to make the state adhere. Nc
home means the Goths and Vandais
means the Nomads of Asia, means thu
Numidians of Africa. changing from
place to place according ms the pasture
happens to change. Confounded be al
those babels of iniquity which woule
overpower and destroy the home! Int
same storm that upsets the ship II
which the family sail will sink thu
fieate of the constitution. Jails ant
penitentiaries and armies and navies
are not our best defenses- The dool
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 te
safety and triumph. No home, NO re
public!
Further, home is = school. Olt
ground must be turned up with subsoa
p,ow. and it must be narrowed and re
narrowed, and then the crop will no
be as large as that Of the new grount
with less culture. Now, youth ant
childhood are new ground, and all th'
influences thrown over their heart ant
life will come up in after life luxuriant
". Every time you have given smai'
OF appreciation all the good cheer o
YOUR life will come up again in thu
eeniality Of your children. And ever.
ebullition of anger and every uncon
trollable display of indignation viii
be fuel to their disposition 20 or 30 o
40 years from now-fuel for bad mr.
quarter of century from this. Yo'
praise the intelligence Of your chii'
too much sometimes when you thinl
he is not aware Of it, and you will se
the result of it before ten years Of ag
in his annoying aRectations. Yo'
praise his beauty, supposing he is no
large enough to understand what yo'
say, and you will find him standing
on a high chair before flattering mil
ror. Words and deeds and example
are the seed of character, and childrel
are very apt to be the second edition o
their parents. Abraham begat Isaac
so virtue is apt to go down in the an
ccstral line, but Herod begat Agchelaui
so iniquity is transmitted. What vas
responsibility comes upon parents !
view of this subject!
Oh. make your home the brightes
place on earth If you would chain you
children to the high path Of virtue an
!. rec.itude and religionl Do not alway
, turn the blinds the wrong way. Le
. the light, which puts gold oD the ger
tian and spots the pansy, pour into you
, dwellings. Do not expect the littl
feet to keep step to dead march. D
not cover up your walls with such pi'
lures as Vests Death on Pale Horse
. or Tintoretto's "MasEacre Of the II
, noccnts.r Rather cover them il yo
( have pictures with The Hawking Pa
ty," and "The Mill by the Mountai
/ Stream" and The Fox Hunt, and Il
, "Chilidren Amid Flowers" and Il
{ Harvest Scene" and 'The Saturda
Night Marketing" Get you NO hint I
, cheerfulness from grasshopper's lea
and lambs frisk and quail's whist
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