The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-03-04

Audubon, the great ornithologist, witt
gun ana pencil went through the for
esis OF America TO bring down and 4
sketch the beautiful birds, and afte
years Of toll and exposure complete,
his manuscript and put it in trunl
In Philadelphia and went of for
few days recreation and rest, and cam,
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 visitet
| all the great forests of America and re
! produced his immortal work. And yet
there are people with the ten-thou
sandih part of that loss who are utterly
| irrecondlable. who at the loss of 0
pencil or an article Of raiment will
| blow as long and loud and sharp as O
northeast storm. Now, that man who
Is aifable in public and who is ir-
ritable in private is making n fraudu-
lent and overissue of stock. and he
is as bad as a bank that might have
100000 or 100000 of bills in circula-
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.
II we lave not genuine grace in the
family circle, all our outward ard pub
lie plausibility merely springs from the
fear Of the world or from the Shiny,
putrid pool of our own seliishness.
tell you the home is mighty test of
charactc4. What you are at home you
I.,r hat hnr tnt
strate it or not.
Again. home is refuge. Life in the
United States army on the national road
to Me&ico--a long march, with ever and
anon a Skirmish and Il battle. At even
tide we pitch our tent and stack the
arms; we hang pthe war cap. and. our
head on the knapsack, we sleep until
the morning bugle callsu 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. NAth shiy-
cred masts and torn sails and hulk
alcak, we put in al the harbor Of home.
blessed harbor. There we go for re-
pairs in drydock. The candle in the
window is 10 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 uuladen. There is
the place where we may talk of what
we have done without being charged
.;,I Il L.. iS hn nj A.
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
Ioyances and eXasperations and
troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no
home? Then die That is better.
The grave is brighter and grandcr and
more glorious than this world with no
tent from marching. with no harbor
from the storm, with 10 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!
Farther, home is a political safe
guard. The safety of the state must
WAY canno; France come to placid
republic? MacMahon appoints his min
istry, and all France is aquake lest the
rcpubiic 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
1. mig a
ton, has not the right Kind of Chris
tian home. The Christian hearthston2
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 10 make. the family adhere,
there will not be enough political prin-
ciple to make the state adhere. No
home means the Cloths and Nandals,
means the Nomads of Asia, means the
Numidiaus OF Africa, changing from
place to place according as I he pasture
happens to change. COMPOUNDED be all
those babels of iniquity which would
ovcrpowcr and destroy the home! The
same storm that upsets the ship IN
which the family saI will sink the
figate of the constitution. Jails and
ponitentiarics 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 subscil
pillow, and il must be narrowed and re-
narrowed, and then the crop will not
be as large as that OF the new ground
with less culture. Now, youth ard
childhood are new ground, and all the
influences thrown over their heart and
life will come up in after life luNuriant-
Is. Every time you have given smile
Of appreciation all the good cheer of
your life will come up again in the
gcniaity of your children. And every
cbulition of anger and every urcon-
trollabe display of indignation will
he fuel 10 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
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