The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-07-06
HOME AND COMING

The sweetest word in life or dealt
is HOME. 1t matters not where tina
home may be or how disadvantageou
are the circumstances which surrount
it, the heart turns to it with a fond
ness that nothing else in earth o.
heaven can evoke.
The hardy Swiss longs for his blear
bleak, unproductive mountain peaks
though inhabitating fertile plains anc
smiling valleys. The Arab pines fol
the hot desert sands of Sahara from
places where the cooling breezes blow
When we were located in Washing
ton two little Eskimo boys were
brought from their home in the far
North, where time is divided into a
long winter night and a short summer
day, by missionary, to be ed-rated. In
their old home their covering was a
hut built of huge blocks of ice, their
food whale blubber and dried roots
gathered in the short summer, their
clothing skins of beasts, their bed the
bare earth and their daily lives meas
ured by the standards of civilization
were OF the most primeval desolation.
They were placed in government
school in Virginia, their bodies washed
OF CRIME that had remained from
birth, nutritious food was furnished
them, neat raiment clothed them, and
each night they slept on soft beds.
Philanthropists who knew naught of
human nature said: "It must seem
like heaven to them"
AS the missionary who brought
them to school was an old friend of
mine, he asked me to keep an eye on
them. | became quite we'll acauaint-
ed with the dark skinned lads. It was
easy to detect, although they were do
Gle and adaptive to their new customs,
that their souls were filled with a
vague unsatisied longing.
Some months after saw them last.
was in New York City strolling
along the docks, when I discovered the
TWO boys scurrying for cover. Con-
fronting them I asked them if they
we're running away from school, and
hey admitted that they were and that
hey had made arrangements with the
captain OF whaling vessel to take
hem back to- the far North. EVERY
'ody was awfully good to u.s." they
aid, "but it is too stuffy here, we
ant breathe and want to go home"
l suppose it was my duty to have
allied an officer and had them return
"a to the school, but I didn't. I Slip
'ed them some pocket money and sent
hem rejoicing back to the land of
now and night, to their ice huts, their
arth beds, their skin coats and their
7hale blubbcr-Home-for I, too, in
~ time had suffered from the heart
ating pangs of nostalgia.
The homecoming instinct is the
trongest passion in animal and hui
ian life as the throngs that have at
ended the homecoming celebrations
hat have been held in various parts
this state this year amply testify.
Falling into line Sank Centre in
ties her former sons and daughters
D come home, invites them to come at
he most glorious season of the year,
7hen the grateful earth pours into
Iature's lap the bounteous plentitude
f her ripened fruition.
Invites them to come when the for
st trees array themselves in all the
orgeous rainbow colors of welcome.
Invites them to come when the
lanting rays of autumnal sunshine
all on the silvery sheen of river and
AXE, when the fish bite, wild ducks
ather and the prairie chickens are
ipe.
EVERYBODY come home.-F NJ f.