Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-09


lest-it does not pay-or for the same
reason that they do not want a man IN
their stock company to sell his stock
below par lest il depreciate he value,
As al sunset sometimes the wind
rises, so after a sunshiuy day there may
be tempestuous night There are
people who in public act the pHtian-
thropiSt who at home act the Nero with
respect to their slippers and theirgowu,
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun and pencil went through the for
ests of America to bring down and 10
sketch the beautiful birds, ard after
years of toll and exposure completed
his manuscript and put it in trunk
in Philadelphia and went oil for Il
few DAYS recreation and rest, and came
back and found that the rats had utter
~ 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
irreconGlable, who at the loss OF a
pencil or an article of raiment will
northeast storm. Now that man who
is atfable in public and who is If
ritable in private is making a frauGu-
lent and overiSsue of stock. and he
is as bad as bank that might have
$500 900 or 100000 of bills in circuIa-
ton with no specie in the vault. Let us
learn to show pity at home. five have
il not there. we have it not anywhere,
If we have not genuine grace IN the
family circle. all our outward and pub
lie plausiblity merely springs from the
fear of the world or from the shiny.
putrid pool of our own seltishness. |
tell YOU the home is mighty test of
character. What you are at home you
are everywhere, whether you demon
strate 1t or not,
Again, home is a refuge, Life in the
United States army on the national road
to MeNico-a long march, with ever and
anon skirmish and a battle. At evcu-
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 shlV-
cred maSts and torn sails and hulk
aleak. we put in al the harbor of home.
Blessed harhor! 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
go 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 ngraceful. There IS the place
where we may express affection with
ont 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 j. better.
The grave is br 2hter 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 2ouge ard
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 10 placid
republic? MacMahon appoints his MN
istry, and all France i aqual>e lest the
republic be smothercd. Gambetta dies,
and there are hundreds Of thousands
OF Frenchmen who are fearing the re
turn of monarchy. The DreN tuS case
is at this moment slumberlng caflh'
quake under Paris. France, as a ma
ton, has not the rig.ht kind Of CHRIS
tian home. The Christian heaflhStone
is the only hearthstone for republic
The virtues cultured III the family CIR
Gle are an absolute necessity for 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 Nandais,
means the Nomads of Asia. means the
Numidiaus of Africa. changing from
place to place according as the pasture
happens to change. COMPOUNDED be all
those babels of iIiquity which would
overpower and destroy the home. The
same storm that upsets the ship IN
which The family SAL will sink the
ftfgate of the constitution. Jalls and
penitcntiaries and armies and navies
are not our best defcnseS. The door
Of the home is the best fortress. House
hold utensils are our best artillery,
and the cbirnneys Of our dwelling
houses are the prandest monuments TO
safety and triumph. No home, no re-
public!
Further. home is a school. Old
ground must be turned up with subso1I
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