The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1909-04-23
THE INSTINCT ON THE HOME ~
PERPETUAL.
by JOHN A. JAYNE.

Great writer's, like the late John
Fiske, OF Harvard University, have
delighted IN giving to the American
people the story Of the rise and pro-
gross of the American commonwealth,
Every library through which one goes
Is frclghted 10 its limit with volumes
telling Of the development Of com.
merce, art, literature and morals.
Rarely, II ever, does one come across
d volume that tells OF the rise and
progress OF that great American
institution, unlike that OF any other
land, the American home.
The more strange this appears when
IL Is remembered that the story Of
civilization is nothing more or less
than the story OF the heart and The
home
IL Is Cor the sake OF the home, IN
the nnality, that all things are done
wrought and achieved
IL was the home instinct that
prompted the valiant VirginiaDs, tie
persistent Puritians and the deter
mined Dutch TO dare the waves OF an
unknown and an uncharted sea and
come TO America, where they hoped
TO find opportunity for the establish
ment OF that for which their hearts
longed, u home. Land In their coun.
tries was crowded. There was little,
II any, opportunity for the develop.
ment Of the home instinct In the
hearts Of the humble folk OF England
aud Holland. Wealth wrested from a
bleeding land and suffering lives,
supported the king and his mobiles Ia
wanton spendor, while the poor cow
cred in novels.
IL was the home instinct that led
these faithful few who had been
among the tlrst to come TO America,
to resist the onslaughts OF the redmen
around them, led them to send TO the
'mother countryn for their friends
across the sea, endure the harships OF
the wilderness, erect schools and
churches, aud make OF the forests,
valleys and hills habitations where
family peace might be established
and the home life conserved,
1t is for the sake OF the honor, as
DR.. Hills has we'll pointed out, THAT
all fields are sown, all harvests reaped:
for the home all ships set sail and
return again; for the home mans
shuttles fly. his spindles whirl, his
wheels turn around; for the home
the canvas is made bright, the mar.
bles beautiful and all music sweet;
for the home, too, man makes his
laws to be just, property safe, life
secure and rich"
: Hence, II comes that at the base Of
all OF our advancement in civilization,
culture and art you 1nd the home,
Instinct, terminating, blossoming
J and lowering.
Passing through the great British
museum In London, Nathaniel Haw.
thornc wished that he might have the
privilege OF destroying all the out
grown implements OF war, toll and
service. He would destroy the old.
fashioned coat of mail, bow and
arrows, broadsword and catapult. He
would burn and cast to the four winds
of heaven the rude plows, picks, ham.
mers and hatchets OF the centuries
faded and gone. But In destroying,
had he been given that privilege, he
would have been preserved for us OF
the progress and the development Of
the horne. For II was for the sake OF
the home that the coat OF mail was
prepared, the rude stick shaped into
the semblance OF plow, and the
catapult used, For, did men but
know II, through the blood that has
gone cut In battle and the sweat
poured out from the mans forehead
over the fields has come the oil that
has kept alive the sacred fires OF love
10 the life lamp that brightens and
adorns the home. BY the track OF
mans developing implements Of war.
fare and toll we trace the development
OF the home.
Where the home intinct Is, where 1t
, Is truly cultivated and made sweet,
you Invariably and community OF
prosperous, happy, harmonious PEG.
, pie.
Unhappy, thrice unhappy, that
i young man who has no thought OF a
past home or home Of his own for
, his encouragement when the fires OF
!. temptation burn bright on the hearth
. OF his life. The hardest thing In all
prison life is the consciousness that Il
Is not home, sweet home. TIE sol.