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T THE ATLANTA SEJtLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA, Tuesday, December 23, 1913. . ^OUAITRY tjOME D Co/itOCTtt BTJTRS. "UI H. FLUTO/I. timely TOPICS AN EXPERIENCE IN THE FEDERAL COURT. A neighbor of. ours when I first ar rived in Bartow county, sixty years ago, then Cass county (an eighteen-year-old girl bride), was owner of a lot of land in Fannin county that he drew from the State Land office when a very young man and his heirs were contending for the ownership of the lot in the‘Atlanta Federal court. As 1 was a neighbor to this neighbor I was called as a witness to show that such a man did live in the county more than^ fifty years ago. As I am an cdd citizen I could swear that I knew tins old citizen in the days gone by. I was there for four days, waiting the pleas ure of the eourt. I amused myself by visiting the library and examining the court room and its equipment. The equipments are superb. The floors elegantly carpeted and with beau tiful velvet curtains at the windows. It seemed that this temple of justice should be devoted to purposes that are also first class and without any filth or dirt to harrass the moral or mental part of a visitor, but there are perpetual tegal struggles with moonshiners and *uch like. There also come in there as •fitnesses some of the hardest cases to book at that you ever saw. And these witnesses in the liquor-making and sell ing business will try to outswear each other world without end, veritable hill billies. Judge Newman is a dignified federal judge, and is accounted a fair judge by the lawyers who practice in his court, and he was certainly courteous to your scribe. I have nothing but kind words for the judge. . The witness stand fronts the jury and I have been in that witness chair twice this year in a patriotic effort to save some wild land in Fannin county to the people who had (as I shall always believe) a much better title to the land and in equity should have had a bet ter showing against land-grabbers and timber pirates. The United States government has ap- pjropriated $225,000 -to buy up 32,000 acres of land in that wild mountainous section, and we find that a land and lumber company is at the back of the movement. The game has been played in conjunction with certain government officials, and the money that is paid out by the government to these land and timber traders is taken from the tax payers, and it is plainly evident that the state of Georgia has had 32,000 acres of taxable land taken violently ffom the state ownership—and the gov ernment has what? Absolutely nothing but a region of mountains and ravines—worthless t o anybody and foi; which the United States government*has paid $225,000, or $0 m»r acre. Some day there will be a raking over, and this so-called conservation scheme will take its place along with the fa mous Yazoo land fraud—that was a dis grace to a Georgia legislature and nu merous government officials. I may not live to see the end, but it is bound' to be exposed and the scheme shown up later in the days to come. I found one of the government officials always pre sent—always a witness on the side or' the land and timber dealers, and it was unfortunate that he was forced into this relation against claimants in Geor gia. However, capable and faitthful he may be to the government’s interest— he was evidently in constant request and used against citizens of Georgia, who were defeated in efforts to get le gal help from other sources. passionate and intemperate feelings in listeners. Abuse oi the court prose cutors would be only abuse, not a legal argument, and i continued to remember that a dieadiui murder nau been com mitted and somebody had surely been guilty of taking tne life of a poor defenseless working girl. The speaker 1 listened to declared that Leo Frank bad no better showing than a “crip pled grasshopper in a pen of ducks.’ I did not lorget that this poor little helpless girl had no better showing than a little white lamb in a den of wolves. I am glad it does not fall to my share to pronounce sentence on such a murderer, such as he who made Mary Phagan his victim, but it is plainly evi dent that a public prosecutor could not mince words in dealing with such a hein ous crime, and it seemed to me iri bad taste to arraign the solicitor in un measured terms for doing his duty after a man was regularly indicted for the murder of a helpless little girl by the grand jury. Of course circumstantial evidence is beset with risks and dangers but there are too many working girls exposed to Mary Phagan’s hard luck to allow the murderer to escape proper punishment, or to thus villify the solicitors who prosecuted. The negroes who murdered a poor wo. man day before yesterday and finally chopped off her head will soon get their dues, and there will be a short rone and quick work to punish the perpetra- ters of the hideous crime, and they de serve all that will be coming to them. But Mary Phagan’s murderer may never meet his fate, if well paid law yers can postpone the case until pub lic interest has been quieted. The solicitor had every warrant to press the Mary Phagan case to a fin ish, and it is not very comforting to see that the poor child has now so little said about her rights, and so much was feaid in praise of those who were convicted of her murder. THE EVENING STORY CASE OF BUENA VISTA Copyright, 1913. By W. Werner When Judge Ambrose Bennett found that he must again sentence Buena Vista Peace the little judge worried the night through, and morning found him in the jail holding converse with the big black. From the moment SereDhiny Peace face o’ de Great Maker. Poah mammy had gone by the “alcohol route,’’ and left her pickaninny yearling, he had been handed knocks, knocks that oft- A RENEWAL OP THE FRANK TRIAJE*. It became convenient- to me to listen to the closing speech before the su preme court, when Mr. Frank’s lawyers made their final effort to have the ver dict reversed, when an Atlanta jury convicted the prisoner of the murder of poor little Mary Phagan. It gives me great pleasure to listen to. fine, eloquent speakers, and I sup posed I would hear a dispassionate and purely legal discussion of the law in ' the case, but I was disappointed because of the attempt to again arouse Low Fares! Homeseekers tickets are sold at greatly reduced fares on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month; stopovers free and 25 days time, via Cotton Belt Route,—to Arkansas and Texas Winter tourist tickets (round trip) from southeast points to many points in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, will be on sale daily Nov. 1st, 1913 to April 30, 1914; with exceedingly long return limit of June 1st, 1914. Stopovers. All year tourist tickets on sale daily to certain points in Texas —90 day limit. The Cotton Belt Route is the direct line from Memphis toTexas, through Arkansas—two splendid trains daily, with electric lighted equipment of through sleepers, parlor cars and dining cars.Trains from all parts of Southeast make direct connection at Memphis with Cotton Belt Route trains to the Southwest. For full Information about Home* seekers Fares, Winter Tourist Fares or All Year Tourist Tickets, address tbe undersigned. Books about farm ing in Southwest, 6ent free. Write! L. P. SMITH, Traveling Pass’r Agent, Brown-Marx Bldg. Birmingham, Ala. TOO MUCH STRENUOSITY. Inside of three weeks three of the south’s chief railroad presidents have died after brief illnesses. These threis men were easily the very greatest of southern railroad presidents. This fa tality is the outcome of their strenuous living. Like great army generals they felt the responsibility of their positions and spared neither the mental nor phys ical part of them in their struggle for supremacy as well as rivalry in equip ment and management of their enor mous railroad properties. They have paid the price and all three have had momentous funerals, but was the game worth the*'candle to the men themselves? The curse of the age we live in is its unreasoning strenuosity and the hard pace of its leading minds in finance ^and railroading. The homely adage about “killing yourself to keep yourself,” ap plies in all these individual cases. No body is benefited except those who suc ceed them in high positions. If they, too, determine to travel the same rapid pace, they will go the same way. Nature fixes certain limitations on human endurance and human strength. “Thus far shalt thou go and no further,” sayeth these limitations. If you overtax the mental part, you afflict the physical ahd vice versa. Doubtless it was the mental part that wore down (under pressure) in the lives of these three great railroad presidents. They were giants in their sphere of ac tion. but they were still mortal and the limitations were obliged to control in a final test of human endurance. Each of L.ese men had thousands of men un der their direction. These inferiors h office may not be immediately touched by their going away, but the chances are that many and various changes will occur, sooner or later. I live at Cartersville, on the W. & .A. railroad, and we always knew when President Thomas went through to At lanta because of his beautiful engine and dapper railroad train. It was unique and attractive. He had a won derful father, the elder J. W. Thomas, whom “Johnny” succeeded as president He was greatly beloved and much of this affection was transferred to the son after the death of the parent. It is a question, whether it is better to soar high and stop quickly in death or to float nearer down and stay up longer. How is it with you, . dear reader? All About Snakes; Real One, Not D. T. Kind Snake's Tongue Is to .Hear With, Not to Sting With Snakes do not chew their food. They swallow it whole and often tjie prey is larger than the, snake’s mouth. How do they do it? The jaws are connected at the rear by an elastic ligament which permits the reptile to temporarily un lock its jaws and to make the mouth as large as a paper bag. A snake will appear to swallow a small rabbit or some other animal larg er than its mouth without even batting its eyes. This is an optical illusion for their eyes are always shut, closed by a transparent, fixed lid. This serves two important purposes: To protect the eyes without obstructing the sight and t< facilitate the monthly change of raiment' in shedding the skin. The snake listens almost altogether with its tongue. The hateful little Torked tongue that is always darting viciously is not to sting with, but to hear wjth. iJ BROOKLYN TRIES TO OUST BIG SUGAR REFINERIES State Claims Title to Water Front Land Upon Which Buildings Are Erected NE\V YORK, Dec. 22.—Suit was filed today by the state to compel the Amer- ican Sugar Refining company to re move its plant from the Broklyn water front. The plant occupies four city blocks and was erected at a cost of mil lions, Th_e company's title to the land is at tached and the claim 'made that the site is state property. Letters patent to the sie, it is as serted in the petition, were granted from 1868 to 1875 to predecessors of the •company, among them- being' Samuel • T Tilden . and Grover Cleveland. Under terms of these letters patent. Attorney General Carmody charges, the patentees were entitled to use the land only for docking privileges. This -was done, but in addition, six eight and ten- story buildings have been erected there on. The erection of these buildings, the state contends, was in violation of the letters patent and is sufficient grounds for asking for their revocation. Ttt If “Gimme one moah chanst.” times pushed him into unrighteous paths. Countless months he had contrived to partake of the jailkeeper’s hospitality; the workhouse had been his hostelry days without number, and before he was thirty the state’s prison had for three years furnished him a rooftree. But the sins which brought unfailing state punishment to Buena Vista were not ordinary conventional lawbreakings, but the uprising of. some uncontrollable spirit within him. “You’ve got some qualities of a good nigger, Buena Vista,” the judge said to him; “you don’t swear nor get drunk.” Buena Vista shuffled his big feet. “Da hain’t no credick cornin’ to me fuh not cussin’ and boozin’, judge,” he said. “1 nubbah wuz no sasser, and cussin’ hain’t nothin’ but spitting sass in de rid de red-eyed hoss o’ drink ontel hit fell down on huh and killed huh, and I hain’t nubboh felt no cravin’ to mount dat hoss! Naw, suh!” “And yet,” went on the judge, “you’re always in mischief. What puts you up to it, Buena Vista?” Buena Vist scratched his head. “Hit jfest busts out in me, jedge. I reckon ’caze I hain’t got nothin’ to hold hit down!” “Two terms in the penitentiary,” the judge remarked presently—“a year for helping tar and feather a Jew peddler; then two years for blowing up Addison Harney’s Hereford bull with dynamite, and now you steal the old parson’s cow, paint her hide with peroxi4e of hydro gen', and sell her for a $5 bill! If I followed precedent in regard to third termers, you’d get a life sentence. Had you thought of that, Buena Vista? Once back at Frankfort, with the doors shut on you, there’ll be no more fishing in the old Clear Water in the springs: no more eating watermelons at old Caestar Sprowle’s T patch in the sum ifiers; no more ’possum hunting in the falls—forever! But the penitentiary to the last minute of your life—the very last minute!” Buena Vista’s head sank and his jaw trebled. “O Lawd, jedge,” he stutter ed, “don’t put dat on me! Gimme one moah chanst!” Tii the previous week the case of Palm Tree Ashes had been disposed of by Judge Bennett. Palm Tree, a widow with five offspring, had been trying for a year to hold her family together by the washboard. But rising at 3 in the morning to begin the battle saponaceous and loosening her hold of the flatiron at, midnight wore on the weakly little negress. When she took to fainting over her ironing board her neighbors re* ported her condition to the court. The judge had then remanded. Palm Tree and her brood to the poor house until arrangements could be made to convey the pickaninnies to an orphans’ home. The woman’s grief and despairing pro tests against this summary breaking up of her home and the infliction on her of the ignominy of the poor house had been pitiable. Her cry when she had flung herself at his feet had been *ike Buena Vista’s cry: “Oh, Lawd, jedge, doan’ put dat on me! Lemme keep my arnbly togethuh! Gimme one moah chanst!” The judge looked at the dejected sin ner before him and an inspiration came to him. “Which would you rather do, Buena Vista,” he asked, “work as a free man, behaving yourself uprightly, and every week the rest of your natural life bringing $4 of your savings to me, to be paid over to a weakly widow who wants to keep ' her five little children together, or spend* your days in the pen itentiary? You have your choice.” When the judge had made further xe- planation .Buena Vista said: “Gimme de free life, jedge; gimme de free life!” ,, That evening Palm Tree Ashes round herself, with Theodore Roosevelt, Nich olas Longworth, William Taft, Helen Gould and Booker T. Washington Ashes, aged seven, six, five, three and two years respectively, in a rented room on the outer verge of Whitesville, the stigma of pauper taken from her and the promise of $4 a week the remainder of her life. Palm Tree did not exactly under stand the source of the money, but she knew that it was to come from “de court,” through the judge, each Saturday night. That evening Buena Vista Peace found night work at the railroad yards cleaning engines. Every Saturday night for a ^nonth thereafter at 7 o’clock he cheerfully brought $4 of his wages to Judge Bennett. And every Saturday night at 7:30 the widow of Simon Ashes received her “court money.’ One Saturday evening Palm Tree met Buena Vista as he was leaving the judge's gate. He considerately waited and held open the gate for her. ‘Fine evenin’, Mistis!” he croaked.. “Elegint, suh!” Palmy agreed. “Ex cuse me, suh,” she added, “but ef you’ll just swgdler a cup of boneset tea afoah you goes to bed, hit’ll knock yoah cold shoah.” Buena Vista took off his hat. “You’s powerful good, Mistis. I’ll shoah try youah kind spoken rimedy soon’s I gits home.” "Dat is de 1 finest lookin’ and de manerest gen'leman I’s seed sence Si mon died,” thought Palmy. “1 shoah wonders who tie is.” And all the next week she wondered. And Buenaj Vista worked each night in good chafer, and dreamed by day that a little pale brown woman was holding a /cup of hotest boneset tea that tatsea like a celestial drink, to his lips. The hext Saturday night Buena Vista, lingering in the shadow of the Judge’s r lilac hedge, saw PaJmy drop the litle cape she wore and move on. unconscious of her loss. When he knocked at her door, with the shawl on his arm, Palmy beamed on him and hospitably insisted on his coming in for a moment to partake of a cup of coffee. “I does a smidgin’ o’ washin’,” she explained, “to help shoe de chil’n. I sinds ’em to Sunday school and hit hain’t proper to hab ’em trompin’ in de Lawd’s house barefoot 1 ” That cyening Buena Vista thought long and deeply. As a result a hardly saved 50-cent piece, in the midnight hpurs, was slipped under the Widow Ashe’s door. Palmy heard the clink of the coin and opened the door. Buena Vista was tipping away. ’Home co/ne you puttin’ money heah fuh me, M : stuh Peace?” she called to him resentfully. “I ain’. one o’ de kind dat lews me folks give nvj mon ey gifts? ’s -i, clean nigger woman, I is!” ‘Foah de Lawd God, nubbah doubted / ah pyur* goooness, Mis Ashes!” Buena Vis<j stammered in confusion. seed de t>ah dollars I been gibin’ de judge fuh you wouldn’t keep you fum wrastlin’ / id de washboard, so I skimped o.? my eatin’s (I’s been a-eat- n too mucl,, anyhow) and fotched you a little ir. ah change. 1 didn’t low i ou’d ; ketcu me!’ But de c urt gibs me dat $4!” Palmy cried, bewildered. “Hit’s m? gibs hit to de jedge,” ex plained Bufr.a Vista. “He gimme de privilege o goin' to de penitentiary fuh life, fuh *>< mepin I done, or wuckin' • ■utside ano a gibin’ him $4 a week fuh you de balance o my days! I wuz glad to get my freedom a-wuckin’ fuh any body, but sence i’s knowed you is do one I’s hitli: ’ licks fuh, I des cain’t tell you how I feels, Palmy.” His eyes i ested on her with a world of apologvi.c “Tenderness and Palmy ma Of® ' W) m M wmmm'wi v au/4. /r*rt — “I des car.’t tell you how I feels, Palmy.” ' ihr^w her <^pror over her head and c;ied softly Soon aft«iward Buena Vista came to Judge Bern**tt in deep anxiety. “Is I got de r*gLt tc marry, jedge?” he asked. The judp»A\ as Troubled. "Supporting UVC families will tea hard mb, my man. You understand you'll have to turn over $4 to me n-^eklj for the widow, even tli ugh I pc/mit yoti to marry!” Dat’ll b- all right, jedge,” Buena V : ?ta crieC.. “I doan’t want to be too free. I can t keep straigh* lessen I’s sornepn holdin’ me down, and, 1)1'-ss God, de woman you gimme de support o’ is de v, oman I’s a lovin’ and c-wantin’ f» marry Sides, I done got a cyarpenUr s job at $2.50 a day ! I's bnun’ my wife scant parilize huh insti- THE FEAST OF THE FAMILY By Bishop Warren A. Candler Christmas is pre-eminently the feast of the family. In it we celebrate the birth of Him in whom all the families of the earth are blessed. The star of Bethlehem shone above holy motherhood and a divine child, and the angels of the advent sang glory to God in the highest when the Eternal Son of the Father became by a human birth the Son of Man also. At th.'s sacre.l season the hearts of the parent turn to their children and the hearts of the children turn to their parents. Innocent mirth fills our homes anr carries even the aged back to their ^second childhood. All souls, not lost utterly to human tenderness, become young again in the gladness of the fatal hours. The members 6t households, who have been separated for many days and months, come together again around the family fireside. Memories of the past and hopes of the future fill their sculs as they meet one another there. They bring gifts’ in their hands to ex press the affection of their hearts. Such a season is well suited for con sidering the inestimable value of the family; and the best Christmas gift which could come to our nation would be the restoration to the national con sciousness of the home as the unit of civilization. The life of the republic cannot sur vive the death of the family, and many tendencies are prevalent which threat en the sanctity of the very existence of this holy institution. Divorces are more numerous than ever before in the history of our coun try, and easy-divorce laws fill and dis grace our statute books. Marriage is desecrated by the frivolous spirit in which many enter the holy relation and the unscrupulous haste with which they dissolve it for slight causes. Apartment houses, lodging houses, and hotels take the place of quiet and mod est homes, in order that young married couples may pursue social pleasures and escape the responsibilities of domestic life. Children grow up like calves on the common or wanton colts in the public pasture. Both they and their pleasure-loving parents live in the most unwholesome atmosphere of sensation and excitement. Family altars are unknown by them and their lives are not blessed by fam ily worship. Who can measure such the less which they thus suffer! In addition to all this, both fathers and mothers devote themselves to all sorts of club life and hurtful amuse ments which are inimical to the home. The home is being clubbed to death. There are literary clubs, dancing clubs, card clubs, yclubs for all manner of pseudo-reforms, and clubs for preten tious “social service.” There is a ma nia for escaping the sacred privacy of the domestic circle and running into the deteriorating engagements of club publicity. While some mothers are running aftef schemes to rescue way ward girls, their own daughters, who are becoming wayward, begin to need rescuing. Society would not require so many reform schemes, if the home were better preserved. There would not be so many wayward children, if there were more parents of piety in the homes of thj land. Multitudes of people seem to have lost all faith in the home as a means for do ing good to the world. They overvalue other instrumentalities, and undervalue the family which God has ordained for the blessing of mankind. Men and wom- <-n who regard family altars as worth less, seem to esteem the ballot box as the very ark of the covenant. In fact the American mind appears to be infect ed with W’hat may be properly called “the superstition of the ballot”. It seems to be an accepted idea that all evil things can be cured and every good thing obtained by voting. Many preach ers, for example, appear to believe that tu don a wrastlin’ wid dew ashboa’d n.'iry nothing day 1 ” And the \dge heaved a s’gh of relief. an election can bring to pass many mor al results which the preaching of the gospel cannot accomplish; they are constantly calling for the sheriff and his deputies to help Christ save the world. They no longer insist upon parents praying in the home but they vocifer ously exhort fathers and husbands to run to the polls. They cry out, “Vote as you pray,” not seeming to know that most of the men whom they are exhort ing do not pray at all. Now, let it be said that however useful thes politico- moral reforms may be, they rank far below religious life in the home. Un less a more pronounced piety is stead ily propa.gated in the homes of the land, no schemes of reform whatsoever can save the nation from ruin. As has been intimated, we should not need so many reforms, if the homes of the land were' more religious. Many women also have fallen under this delusion that voting will reform every vice and establish every virtue in the earth. They clamor for the ballot, as if it were the sum of all blessedness. But the plain fact is that woman’s suf- rage, where it has been tried, has not accomplished any such good. Vicious women have outvoted the virtuous, and nothing more has been accomplished than the increase of the ballots to be counted after the polls closed. The world cannot be saved by the votes of either men or women; but it will be greatly damaged by women neglecting the home to engage in political strife. The.sum of human goodness will be di minished by so much as the attention of women is diverted from the obligations of motherhood, and the duties of the home in order that it may be fixed upon political themes and absorbed in politi cal excitements. The truth is that woman cannot afford the ballot. It would hinder her in the fulfillment of her true mission, weaken her influence, and turn into the beautiful realm of her moral power ten thousand streams of weakness and corruption. It would bring into the home divisive controver sies which would destroy the identity of interest between fathers and mothers and do unspeakable damage to the chil dren. Years ago Dr. J. G. Holland said, when he was editing Scribner’s Month ly, some things which we would do well to consider today. He Said; “There is nothing more* menacing in the aspect of social affairs in this country than* th^ efforts among a certain class of re formers to break up the identity of in terests and feelings among men and women. Men are alluded to with sneers and blame as being opposed to the in terests of women, as using the power in their hands—a power usurped—to maintain their own predominance at the expense of women’s rights and women’s well-being. Under this kind of teaching women are to vote, and trade, and prac tice law, and preach, and go to Con gress, and do every thing that a man does irrespective of the marriage bonds. Women are to be just as free to do any thing outside of the homes as men are. They are to choose their careers and pursue them with just as little reference to the internal administration of their homes as their husbands exercise. This is the aim and logical end of all the modern doctrines concerning woman’s rights. The identification of women with men, as the basis of the institution of the family, is scoffed at. It is as sumed that interests which are identi cal, and which should forever remain identical, are opposed to each other. Men and women are pitted against each other in the struggle for power.” It is impossible that the home can be maintained in such a struggle; and it is equally true that nothing can com pensate for the loss of the home when once it is destroyed. When the home is overthrown both man and woman will be crushed beneath its ruins. Hu manity is one, and its best welfare is promoted by men and women dwelling together In love, creaking homes and maintaining homes by each fulfilling the sphere ordained by God and nature for each to fill,—separate spheres and Journal Patterns The patterns shown below may he obtained by addressing Pat tern Dept., The Atlanta Semi- IVeekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. 10c Wo mmm 9801 V 9804. 9804—LADIES’ COSTUME. , Cut in six sizes. 34, 36, 38, 40. 42 and 44 inches bust measure. It requires six yards of 36-ineli material for a 36-inch size. Price 10c. 9420. 942 —BOY’S SUIT, Cut in four sizes, 3, 4. 5 aud 6 years. It requires three yards of 44-inch material for the three-year size. Price 10c. 9800-9801. 9800-9801—LADY’S COAT SUIT. Coat, 0800, cut in six sizes. 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. It re quires four yards of 44-inch material for a 34-inch size. For short***- length %-yards less. 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It requires three yards of 36-inch material for a 36-inch size. Price 10c. 9511. 9511—LADIES’ DRESS WITH TUCKER. BISHOP W. A. CANDLER. sacred spheres, which neither overlap nor antagonize one another. In addition to all the influences threatening the home, which have been mentioned, the Churches themselves are pursuing certain policies which contrib ute to the damage of the family. The Churches have too many meetings anfl societies and conventions. Christian men and women are gaddng about too much in attendance upon assemblies more or less religious, and are not stay ing at home enough. A good man said to me some days ago that his Church imposed on him so many duties in con nection with Boards and Committees that he seldom had an evening at home. Multitudes of men and women are thus misused and overused by their Churches. It cannot be doubted that in the long run such excessive engag ing of men and women in the operation of ecclesiastical machinery will dimin ish the amount of true religioh in the land end weaken the Church rather than strengthen them. Le( all our people at this sacred season of Christmas—the feast of the family—set about the task of making more homes and better homes in the land. Let young married couples go out of hotels, boarding houses, and apart ments into the holier and happier pri vacy of quiet homes. It is better to dweil in the smallest and poorest cot tage than to live in a public stall. Let all of us go home more and stay there longer, for the sake of our own souls and for the welfare of our chil dren. God pity the poor child who in childhood knows nothing of the sweet ness and sanctity of a Christian home, and who in mature life has nd such home to which to look back! Blessed is the man who carries in his memory the picture of such a holy place! The homeless man,—the man who has no home in faot, nor in memory, nor In prospect—is a hopeless man. Home is the very heart and centre of every true life, the place where the dearest affec- - are nourished and around which the most saving and sacred memories cling. Nothing can compensate one for its loss. What shall a man take in ex change for his home? it is the best thing on earth, and the very type of heaven itself. “It stands at the end of every day’s labor, and beckons us to its bosom,* and life would be -cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleas ant mansion prepared for us.” Cursed be the things by which thou sands of children arc robbed of homes on earth, by which are diminished their chances for the heavenly home when their earthly lives have ended! 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