Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-31

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Shipwrccks-Worth of the Soul.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-This dis
course of DR.. Talmage shows how all
may help i'll the restoration of good
times, and is most appropriate. Text,
iii, 80, Wherefore doth
Il living man complain?"
A cheerful intcuogatory i'll the most
melancholy book of the Bible! Jcre-
miah wrote so many sad things that we
have word named after him, and
when anything is surcharged with grief
ard complaint we call it Il jeremiad.
But i'll my text jeremiah, as by sud-
den Jolt, wakclls MS to thankful spirit.
Our blessings are so much more nu-
ncrcrs than our deserts that he is sur
prised that anybody should ever find
fault Having life and with it thou
sand blessings it ought to hush into
silence everything like criti-
cism Of tie dealings of God. Where
fore doth living man complaint
While vcrything i'll our national
finances is frightening, for the last few
years the land has been set to the tune
of Naomi. There has been here and
there Il cheerful soloist but the grand
chorus has been one of lumcntation, ac-
companicd ly direes over Frustrated
commerce, silent manufactures, unem-
ploycd mechanism, and all those disor-
dcrs described by the two short words,
hard times" The fact is that we have
been paying for the bloody luxury OF
war more than 80 years ago. There
were great national differences, and we
had not enough Christian character to
settle them by arbitration and treaty,
and so we went into battle, expanding
life and treasure and well nigh swamp
ing the national finances, and north and
south, east and west, have ever since
been paying for those four years IN
diligence in harbarism.
But the time has come when this de-
preston ought to cnd-yea, when il
will end if the people are willing to
do two or three things by way of finan-
cial medicament, for the people as well
as congress must join in the work OF
The best political ccono-
mists tell US that there is no good reason
for continued prostration. Plenty OF
money awaiting investment The ma
tional health with never so strong an
arm or so clear brain. Yet we 90 Oh
grooming, grooming, grooming, rs though
God had put this nation upon Cruel and
us but one decent breakfast IL
six months. The fact is the habit Of
has become chronic Ill this
country, and after all these years Of
whimpcr and wailing and objurgatior
we are under such IL momentum of snlv-
ell that we cannot stop.
a Plea For Chccrfuiness.
There are three prescriptions by which
| believe that our individual and na
tional finances may be cured Of theil
present depression. The first is cheerful
conversation and behavior. have no
ticed that tic people who are most 70
ciferous against the day i'll which We
live arc those who are in comfortable
circumstances l have made inquiry Of
those persons who arc violent in theil
ieremiutls against these times, and
have asked them, Nov, after all, arc
you not making a living?" After some
hesitation and coughing and clearing
their throat three or four times they
say stammernely, Yes" So THAI
with a great multitude Of people it i:
not question CT getting livelihood
but they ure dissatisfied because they
cannot make as much money as they
would like to make. They have only
81, 600 i'll the bank, where they would
like to have 81, 600 They can clear il
a year only 50, 600, when they would like
to clear $4,000, or things come ou
just even. Or i'll their trade they get $;
a day VIXEN they wish they could make
81 or So. "Oh, I" says some one, "art
YOU net aware CT the fact that there IS
great population out of employment
and there are hundreds of the good fam
lilies of this country who arc at theii
wits end, not knowing which way tt
turn" Yes, know it better than any
man III private life can know that sac
fact, for it comes constantly to my ey'
and car but who is responsible for thi
state Of things:
GIuch Of that responsibility l pu
upon men in comfortable circumstance
who by an everlasting growing keel
public confidence depressed and new ell
terprises from starting cut and new
houses from being built. You know
very well that one respondent man cal
talk 90 mel into dependency, while on
cheerful physician can wake up into ex
hilaration whole asylum of hypochon
driacs. 1t is no Kindness to the poor O
the unemployed for you to join i'll thi
deploration. Ii you have not the wi
and the common sense to think Of some
thing cheerful to say, then keep silent
There is 10 man that can be independ
ent Of depressed conversation. TIL
medical journals are ever illustrating
it. l was rcadi. # five men who re
solved that they wU,ld make an ex
pertinent and see what they could d.
in the WHY OF depressing stout
healthy man, and they resolved to NEE
him at different points in his journey
and as he stepped cut from his house il
the morning III robust health one o
the five men met him and said: "Why
you look very sick today. What is tn
NATTER" He said: 81 am in cxcellen
health. There is nothing the matter.
But, passing down the street, he began
to examine his symptoms, and the sec
ond of the five men met him and sad
"Why, how bad you do look' well,
he replied, II don't feel very well.
After awhile the third man met him
and the fourth man met him, and til
fifth man came up and said: "Why
you look as if you had had the typhoi
fever for six weeks What is the mat
ter with yon?" And the man agains
whom the stratagem had been LAT
went home and died. And if you NEE
a man with perpetual talk about har'
times and bankruptcy and dreadrc
winters that are to come you orea