Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-15
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ct the time were locking for something
else Professor Morse gone to Europe
TO perfect himself ii chemistry. Oh re.
turning happens to take Ike packet skip
Snlly, from Eavre. and While in CONVEX
ssltion with passenger learns Of so, e
experiments iii Frl:.cs which sug:sess
10 him tiie magnetic telegraphy..
EIe we.:s IL Europe to learn the wis
dom cfsothcrs and discovered the teln-
graph. Eargreayes, by incorporating of
y machine and the notion Of its v:!iee:s
While unset. discovered the; spinE;a;
Jenny. Sony friend, so ca f::ii.llf...:l.a-
and promptly with YER ,I6rk. ail,l il
you do no. get The; nccess YOU seek. anl
your rl:ina lreet, youawi;l get some
thing jIsr as good and icrl,:.ps l.e.ter.
Fail alle;.ti- Oh tie voyage "f:. life, keep q
correcs logboos, bravs,rac tempest. make
tile hest Use 0f tie ess iiI. E;,ep;t stiai:,
slnok
VIII Go better. - Is s.
What was wornout I3.Ep, crouchi:ig
under % tropiea u sun, compared viii
saluhrions ana radiant Ind almost IL
linlit:lble America. and what is.;ll that
this Underworld III which we live Co.,
afford you compared VITA that supern;.l
realm whose foliage, ana whose fruits.
and whose riches, and whose populn-
ion, and whose grandeurs, anil whose
worship, md whose Christ make upan
aflunnce that the most rapturous vocab-
ulary fails to utteri
Another look at tho career Of tina. AL
niiral Ct the Santa Maria persuadts mo
that it is not To be expected tina: rllis
world will do its hard workers full JUS
tice. II any rlan ought to have been
treated we'll from first to last it was Go
lumbus. He bad his falllts. Let Others
depict them But . greater sorl tie
centuries have not produced. This corl-
tincnt ought to have been called Colr1'-
tia, after the hero vino discovered it,lir
lsabelliana, after the queen who fur
nished the means for the expedition.
No. The world did net do l:irI justice
while he was alive, AMI why should it
be expected 10 do him justice after l
was dead? Columbus il Il dungeon!
What a thought Columbus in iro.$:
What u spectacle!
The wife of Robert Murray, after
whom Murray hill, Kew York, WIZ
named, never has received proper c-e'.it
for OBTAINING at Il very rich luncheon tile
officer OF the opposing army unil Wash
ington and his army could escape Aira.
Murray saved American independence.
How the wrong nlen and the wrong
women get credit that does not Le!ong;c
them, while Gods heroes and Co.'s
heroines go ungarlanded! You have
Eeard of the brave words Of dying chief
tains, but you probably never heard Of
what private soldier said. fallen at
Resaca and bleeding under she'll
wound in his mouth. ard who, though
suffering dreadfully from thest, whcna
cup Of water was offered Linn decline
to drink, saying, Ny laoutli is 81
bloody, sir, and it might make the tin
cup bad for others!"
The world knows nothing Of tie
bravest words and the bravest deeds. II
one Of the last letters which Columbus
sent to his son, lie wrote this lancntl-
ton: 81 receive nothing of the revcruo
due me- live by borrowing Little
have profted by twenty years of ser
ice with such tolls and pelils, since 1t
present. do not OWL roof III Spain. II
l desire to eat CT sleep, have no re-
course but the inn, and for the most
times have not wherewithal to pay lny
bill"
Be not surprised, my nearer, if yoi
suffer injustice. You are in tue best
CT company-the men ind women WHO
wrought nightly for God and the
worlds Improvement, and got for it
chiefly Misrepresentation and abuse
while they lived, although aftcrwarl
they may have lad long row of car
riages at the obsequies and gilt edged
set Of resolutions unanimously adopted
for the consolation of the Eereft house
hold. Do your full duty. expecting 10
appreciation in this world, but full re-
ward in the world to come.
And now, while AIN thinking of this
illustrious ship captain of Genoa, let
me bespeak higher appreciation Tor the
ship captains now in service, many #
them this moment Gil the sea, tie lives
of tens of thousands OF passengers in
their keeping. What an awful response
bility is theirsl They go out through
the Nasrnws or start from Queens
town or Southampton or Glasgow not
knowing what cyclone OF collisions OF
midnight perils are waiting for them.
1t req uires bravery to face an army Of
men, but far more bravery to face az
army OF Atlantic surges led on by hur-
,ricaneS.
4 more stupendous scene is not to be
witnessed than that of ship captain
walking the bridge Of II steamer in the
midst III cyclone. Remember those he
roes III your prayers, and when worn out
in the service, and they have to command
inferior craft OF return othe land and
so out or service, do them full honor for
what they once were. Let the ship COM
paniess award them pensions worthy Of
what they endured until they start on
their lastroyage from tliis world to the
next.
Aye, tLat voyage we must all take,
lands,nen as we'll as se;farers. Let us
be sure that we have the right pilot, AMI
the right chart, and the right captain.
and that we start in the right direction
7 will lie 10 each of us who love the
Lord voyage more wonderful for dis
covcry than that which Columbus took,
for after. al we have heard about that
other world we know net where it is or
howit locks, and it will be as new as
San Salvador WIS to the glorious captain
of the Santa Maria. EYE hath not seen