Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-03-02

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Again, home - i refuge. Life in the
nitcd STATE, army on the national road
to Mexico u long march, with ever and
auon u skirmi>h and a battle. At even
tide We pitch our tent and stack the
arms; We hang up the war cap. and, our
head oh the knapsack. we sleep until
the morning bugle calls MS to march To
The action. How pleasant il 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 j. stormy sea. With shiv-
cred ma>ts and torn sails and hulk
alcnk. we put in nj the harbor of home.
Blessed harbor. There we go for re-
pairs in drNdock, The candle in the
window j. To the roiling maQ the light
house guiding ;im into port. Children
90 forth tn meet their fathers aS pilots
at the Narrows take the hand of ,hips.
The door>ill of The home j. the wharf
where heavy life j. unladen. There i
the place where We may talk Of what
we have done without being charged
with self udulation. 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
royances ard 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
IRON 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 political safe
guard. The safety of the state must
he built on the safety of the home.
Why cannot France come TO a placid
republic: MacMahon appoints his min,
istry. and all France is aquake lest the
republic be smothered. Gambetta dies,
and there are hundreds Of thousands
of Frenchmen who are fearing the re-
turn of monarchy. The Dreyfus case
is at this moment a slumbering earth
quake under Paris. France. as ma
ton, has not the right kind of Chris
tan home. The Christian hearthstone
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 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 Nandals,
means the Nomads of Asia, means the
Numidians of Africa. changing from
place to place according as the pasture
happens to change. COMPOUNDED he all
those babels of iniquity which would
overpower and destroy the home! The
same storm that upsets the ship in
which the family sail will sink the
frigate of the constitution. Jails and
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 to
safety and triumph. No home. no re-
public!
Further. home is school. Old
ground must be turned up with subsoil
pl,w, and il must be narrowed and re-
narrowed, and then the crop will not
be as large as that of the new ground
" tn less culture. Now, youth and
rildhood are new ground, and all the
iGiuences thrown over their heart and
lite will come up in after life luxuriant-
ly Every time you have given a smile
of appreciation all the good cheer of
your life will come up again I'M the
ge niality of your children. And every
etullition of anger and every uncon-
trollable display of indignation will
be fuel TO their disposition 20 or 30 or
40 years from now-fuel for bad fire
a quarter of century from this. You
praise the intelligence of your child
too much sometimes when you think
he is not aware of il. and you will see
the result of il before ten years of age
in his annoying Alterations. You
praise his beauty. supposing he is not
large enough to understand what You
say. ard you will find him standing
on high chair before fiattering mir
ror Words and deeds and examples
are the seed of character, and children
are very apt TO be the second edition of
their parents. Abraham begat Isaac,
SO virtue is apt to go down i'm the an
cestral line. but Herod begat Agchelaus,
SO iniquity is transmitted. What vast
responsibility comes upon parents in
view of this subject!
e Oh. make your home the brightest
place on earth if you would chain your
children TO the high path of virtue and
rrctitude and religion! Do not always
turn the blinds the wrong way. Let
the light. which puts gold on the gem
tinn and spots the pansy, pour into your
dwellings. DO not expect the little
feet TO keep step TO dead march. Do
not cover up your walls with such pic
I Tres as Vests Death on Pale Horse"
or Tintoretto's Massacre of the In
Iocents." Rather cover them il you
have pictures with THE Hawking Par
t." and The Mill by the Mountain
Stream" and THE Fox Hunt" and the
"Ubilidren Amid Flowers" and the
Harvest Scene" and THE Saturday
Night Marketing" Get you no hint of
from grasshOpper's leap
AMI lambs frisk and quairs whistle
and garrulous streamlct. which from
the rock at the mountains top clear
down TO the meadow ferris under the
shadow of the steep comes looking to
see where il can find the steepest place
to leap off at and talking just to hear it.
self talk? IL all the skies hurtled with
tempest and everlasting storm. wan
dered over the sea, and every mountain
stream were raving mad. frothing at
the mouth with mud foam. and there
was nothing but simooms blowing
among the hills and there were neither
lark's carol nor humming birds trill.
nor waterfalls dash, but only bears
bark and panther's scream and VOLTS
howl. then you might well gather into
your homes only the shadows. But
when God has strewn the earth and the
heavens with beauty and wit in gladness,
let us take into our home circles all in
n,ocent hilarity. all brightness and all
good cheer. 4 dark home makes bad
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