The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-08-19

two hundred pounds, all of II bone aS
muscle. But under his great strength
was a wOman's genteness under the
dirty, ragged clothes and the rough
brown skin grimy with dust and
perspiration. was one of the cleanest
souls that ever came to this world. ]
don't mean that he was like a minis
ter. He could tell a story wIth pretty
rough talk In II, but always for a pur-
| pose. He hated dirt on the hands or
on the tongue. He loved flowers like
woman. He loved TO look at the
| stars AT night and the colors OF the
sunset and the morning dew on the
| meadows. | never saw man so much
In love with fun and beauty
They reached Havana that evening
and sold their canoe TO man who
kept boats to rent on the river shore
They ate hot supper at the tavern
and got ride with farmer who was
going ten miles in their direction
From his cabin some two horTs later
they set out afoot in the darkness.
"Going home is the end of all jour-
neys," said Abe as they tramped along
'Did 1t ever occur to you that every
live creature has its home? The fish OF
the sea. the birds of the air. the beasts
of the field and forest, the creepers in
the grass, all go home. Most OF them
turn toward ii when the day wanes.
The call of home is the one voice heard
and respected all the way down the
nf ha n
wonderful and mysterious thing In IA
ture is the power that fool animals
have to go home through great DIS
tances, like the turtle that swan from
the Bay of Biscay to his home of Van !
Dieman's Land. Somehow, coming over /
in a ship, he had blazed a trail through |
the painless deep mors than ten thou
sand miles long. It's the one miracu-
lous gift-the one call that's irresist-
ible. Don't you hear it now? | never
lie down in the darkness without
thinking of home when am away"
"And it's hard to change your home
when you're wonted TO it," said Harry.
''Yes, its little like dying when you
pull up the roots and move. It's been
hard on your folks"
This remark brought them up to the
greatest Of mysteries. They tramped
in silence for moment. Abe broke
In upon ii with these words:
81 reckon there must be another
home somewhere to go to after we
nave broke the last camp here, and a
kind of a birds compass to help us
ind it. | reckon we'll hear the call OF
t as we grow older"
He stopped and took Off his hat and
ooked up at the stars and added:
IF it isn't so ! don't see why the
ong procession of life keeps harping
IN this subject of home. think / see
he point of the whole thing. II isn't
he place or the furniture that makes
I home, but the love and peace that's
n 1t. BY and by our hone isn't here
ny more. 1t has moved Our minds
egin to beat about in the undiscov-
red countries looking fol it, Some
ow we got II located-eash man for
imself"
For another space they hurried ISns
rithout speaking.
81 tell you. Harry, whatever large
lumber of intelligent frlks have
greed upon for some generations 10
Off they have been allowed 10 dc
heir own thinking" said sbe. 'It'a q
bout the only wisdom thert is {
He had sounded the kerhote 81 the
ew Democracy. 5
So. uader the lights OF heaven I
Deaking in the silence OF the night o. v
npenetrable mysteries, they jour Il
eyed on toward the land Of plenty. 1
ITS as still as a graveyard" Har, v
when they had climbed tn a
uff by the mill long after midnigh n
i'd were near the little village. {
They're all buried in Sleep" SAIL
be. wen get RRfledge out OF bed 0
ell give us a shakedown som, n
here" u
His loud rap on w door of the tav
n signalized moie than a desire fc>
st in the weary Ieayelers, for JUS
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