The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-04-06

uOmeStlC circle. 1He reason men GO
not display their bad temper in public
is because they do not want to be
knocked down. There are men who
hide their petulance and their irrita-
bility just for the same reason that
they do not let their notes go to pro-
test-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 it depreciate the value.
As at sunset sometimes the wind
rises, SO after sunshiny day there may
be a 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
produced his immortal work. And yet
there are people with, the ten-thou-
sandth part of that loss who are utterly
irreconcilable, 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 affab bic in public and who is ir-
ritable in private is making a frauda-
lent and overissue of stock, and he
is as bad as bank that might have
$4OO. 900 or $5OO,O0 of bills in circula-
tion with no specie in the vault. Let US
learn to show pity at home. five have
it not there, we have it not anywhere.
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 selfishress. /
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 in the
United States army on the national road
to MeNico-a long march. with ever and
anon 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 stormy sea. with shlv-
cred masts and torn sails and hulk
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
60 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 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 earth
| quake under Paris. France, as ma
ton, has not the right kind OF Chris
| tian home. The Christian hearthstona
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
chile to make the state adhere. Nc
home means the Goths and Vandals
means the Nomads of Asia, means thu
Nnmidians of Africa. changing from
place to place according as the pasture
happens to change. Confounded be al
| those babels of iniquity which would
cverpower and destroy the home! Th'
same storm that upsets the ship il
which the family sail will sink th'
| frseate of the constitution. Jails ant
penitentiaries and armies and navie:
are not our best defenses. The dool
of the home is the best fortress. House
hold utensils are our best artillery
.,d tho chimnpvs of our DWELLING