Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-05-14

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him and that was enough. 1t is not
every young man who maintains the
same character when absent tEat was
maintained at home.
Frederick watching his fathers sheep
among the hills or thr;ssllinS rye in the
harm is far different from Frederick on
the Stock exchange. How often docs
the kind. retiring spirit become bold
efrontcrJ-, and the accommodating, self
sacrificing disposition once exhibited
among brothers and sisters becomes a
cold and unresponsive seltiahness, antl
economy. w;lstefulness. and opened hand
cd charity. tight listed stingiuess, anil
the keeping Of good hours is changed
into midnight revelry. S-ss-esse 49, -.
badly address young men nov
sl.sddistant hpl,se and
%crld and among strangers be called tc
build up characters for themselves.
Happy for you, oh. yonng man, if yofl
shall. Ike Joseph, be the same when
living with the wicked Pharaoh as with
pious Jacob, or Daniel as pure in Daby-
Ion as in Jerusalem. There is no pas
sage i'll IL mans life of more thrilling in
terest than the day III which be leaves
home and goes off to seek his fortune.
The novelty, and romance connected
with the departure may keep the Young
! man from any poignant sorrow, but
parents, who have seen tho destruction
among strangers of those who were coil
sidered promising youths, cannot help
feeling that this step is full of momer-
tous Importance. Before tho youth left
home all his conduct was under afec-
tomato guardianship. Outbursts Of
folly, carclessncss and improperly of
manner and looscncss of speech were
kindly reproved. and although the re-
str;lint seemed sometimes too severe.
yet hours of sober reflection have COLI
WINGED him that il was salutary and
righteous. But behold. how tho scene
changes.
Tho father. through. the interceding
of metropolitan friends, has secured the
son place in some bank or store or Of
fee. Schoolmatcs on the night before
his departure come to take Their fare
well of the young adventures Tint
morning he. takes last walk around
the old place, and going past some loved
spot sly tear may start. but no one
secs it. The trunk is on the carriage,
and after warm gootlby away they
speed over the hills. Set down amid ex-
elements and among companions not
overscrupElols rs to their words or
deeds, temptations troop around the
stranger.
The morning comes, hut no family
altar, and the Sabbath. but no real
quiet, and perhaps 1T the sanctuary the
faces are all strange and 10 one cares
whether lie goes TO church or whether
he Goes not 20. Eong winter evenings
arrive and how shall they be spent2 On
his way home from his place of business
he saw flaming placa1ls announcing
rare performances and that this was
positively the lust night. at tile door
Of bis cherries boarding house no one
greets him. ard the evening meal is in
sipid. for no one cares whether he eats
Or does not eat. The room in the third
story that evening seelas doleful and
rcpclling. a book snatclled UP from
the stand proves TO bc,ull, for no sister
is there to look over with hin.
III despair lie ruslics out reckless as to
where he goes if only he can see some
thing that will make him stop thinking.
That night may l,e the turning point in
his history. Once within tine fatal circle
uf sin and the soul has 10, power to re-
pei it. On that dark sea he is launched.
where the CLEAN Of JOY is only the flash
Of he pit ard the roar of laughter is
only the creaking of the gates of the
| lost
SAD WRECKS OF WICKED YOUTH.
IN many u country churchyard is now
the grave Of some youthful spirit that
went away 1.-the AID bounding, but came
home diseased aud crushed and blasted
to disgrace the sepulcier of lis fathers.
| Yet this exodus must be made. AS from
far distant hills rivers find their way
| through tunnels to great cities, so from
far distant points Of the country it is
necessary that IL stre;!n Of interrupted
population shall poar into our great
thoroughfarcs to keep them pure and
manage the traffic of tho world. Multi
tudes of such are constantly making
tl,o;, 1ono i-,ro from hO,,,n
Tomorrow morning al of the thor
oughfares leading rov-ar' the great
cities of our land, on steamboat and rail
cur, there will be young adventures for
tho first speeding away from their
home in order to try their fortune in
town. The Lord stretch forth his arm
for the deliverance of these Daniels
away down in Babylon. Wherever
yollr lot may be cast-in far inland
town or in some great seaport-main-
tain in your absence the same principles
IF morals and religion which may have
Leen instilled by parental solicitude.
And,while you may feel in your heart
md life the advantages of early religious
.lture. forget not those to whom you
are chiefly indebted and pray that as
age Genes upon them and the night OF
death begins to fs4a on their pathway
the hope of heaven may beam through
the darkness, .lustrous and steady us the
evening star. The Lord forbid that by
our conduct we should ever bring dis
grace on fathers name or>prove recre-
ant to the love of mother. The poet
did not cxaggerate when he exclaimed:
How sharper than serpcnt's tooth. it is,
To have thankless child.
unfortunate HausinsoD.
MIR. Elankinson-Here are some choco-
late creams, Johnny. you think Hiss