Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-06

years, CrleS To niue Jne WTlukleS, DUl
fails In the attempt, trying ell the arts
Of the belle-an old hirt, poor miser.
able butterfly without any wings.
If there is anything on earth beauti.
full to me, 1t is an aged woman. her
white locks flowing back over the wrin.
kled brow-locks not white with frost,
Us the poets say, but white with the
blossoms Of tho tree Of life, in her voice
the tenderness Of gracious memories,
her face benediotion. AS grandmother
passes through the room the grandchil-
dren pull at her dress. and she almost
falls in her weakness, but she has moth.
ing but candy or cake or kind word
for the little darlings. When she gets
out of tho wagon In front Of the house,
the whole family rush out and cry,
"Grandmas GOMEZ" And when she
goes away from Us, never to return,
there is shadow on the table, and a
shadow on the hearth, and shadow on
the heart
There is no more touching scene on
earth than when grandmother sleeps the
last slumber and the little child is lift.
cd up to the caslset to give tho last kiss,
and she says, "Goodby, grandma" Oh,
there is beauty In old age God says SO.
1.-The hoary head is crown Of glory. "
Why should people decline 10 get old?
The best things, the greatest things, I
know Of are agetl-old mountains, old
seas old stars and old eternity. But II
there is anything distressful 1t Is to see
an old woman ashamed Of the fact that
she ia old. What with all the artificial
appliances she is too much for my gray
ity. laugh even in church when I see
her coming. The worst looking bird on
earth is peacock when 1t has lost Its
feathers I would not give one lock Of
my old mothers gray hair for 90, 900
such caricatures of humanity. And if
the life of wording, II the life Of
disciple given to the world. is sad. the
close Of such life is simply tragedy.
Fate Of the sybarites.
Let mo tell you that the designations
Of social life are despoiling the useful
ness Of vast multitude Of people
What do those people care about the
fact that there are whole nations in sor-
row and suffering and agony when they
have for consideration the more impor-
tant question about the size of q glove
or the tie of cravat? Which one Of
them ever bound up the wounds of the
hospital? Which one Of them ever went
out to care for the poorf Which Of them
do you find in the haunts Of sin distrib-
uting tracts? They live on themselves,
and it is very poor pasture.
Sybaris was a great city, and it once
sent out 300 horsemen in battle They
had minstrel who had taught the
horses of the army great trick, and
when the old minstrel played a certain
tune the horses would rear and with
heir front feet seem to beat time to the
music Well, the old minstrel was Of
tended with his country and he went |
over to the enemy, and he said to the
enemy, "You give me the mastership |
Of the army, and Twill destroy their
those hnrseman coma from !
and he taught all the
,ther MINISTRIES certain tune. Then
when the cavalry troop came up the old
and all the other minstrels
played certain tune, and at the most |
critical moment in the battle, when
The horsemen wanted to rush to the con-
lict the horses reared and beat time to
he music with their fore feet, and in
lijsace and rout the enemy fed. All,
ia n 5sYiends, l have seen it again and
.gain---the MINISTRIES Of pleasure, the
ninstrels of dissipation, tho minstrels
If goddess association have defeated peo-
lie in the hardest fight OF lifel Frivol-
ty has lost the battle for 10, 900 folk
)h, what belittling process to the hu-
nan mind this everlasting question
about dress, this discussion of fashion
Ible infnitesimals, this group, looking
Iskance at the glass, wondering with
N infinity of earnestness how that last
,eranium leaf does look, this shrivel-
Mg of mans moral dignity until 1t is
lot observable to the naked eye, this
Spanish inquisition Of tight shoe, this
binding up of All immortal soul in
uffle, this pitching off Of an immortal
nature over the rocks when God intend
ID it for great and everlasting uplifting!
With many life is masquerade ball.
md Of al such entertainments gentle
men and ladies put OF the garb OF
rings and queens or mountebanks or
clowns, and at the close put off the dis
,uise, so great many pass their whole
ife in mask, taking off the mask at
leath. While the masquerade ball OF
ife goes on they trip merrily over the
IGOR, gemned hand is stretched 70 the
.emmed hand, and cleaning brow
,ends to cleaning brow. On with the
Ianoel Flush and rustic and laughter
f unreasonable merrymakirgl
rhe Awful Change.
But after awhile the languor OF death
ONES on the limbs and blurs the eye
light. Lights lower. Floor hollow with
epulchral echo. Music saddened into a
vail Lights lower Now the maskcrs
re only seen in the dim light. Now
be fragrance Of the flowers is like the
ckening odor that comes from gar
.nds that have lain long in the vaults
I cemeteries. Lights lower. Mists
ather in the room. Glasses shake as
1ough quaked by sullen thunder. Sigh
aught in the curtain Scarf drops from
ne shoulder of beauty-a shroudl
lights lower. Over the slippery boards
1 dance Of death glide iealousies, en-
les, revenges, lust, despair and death.
tench the lamp wioks almost extin-
uished. Torn garlands will not half
over tho liberated feet Choking
amps Chilliness Feet still Hands
losed. Voices hushed. Eyes shut
lights out
Oh, how many Of you have floated
ar away from God through social dtssi-
ations and it is time you turned, for !
emember that there were two vessels