Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-27

you out into this city and before sun
down point you to five hundred cases OF
substitution and voluntary suffering OF
one in behalf of another.
Overwork.
At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon &C
among the places Of business or toll. II
will be no difficult thing for you to find
men who by their looks show you that
they are overworked They are prema-
turely old. They are fastening rapidly
toward their decoaso. They have gone
through crises in business that shattered
their nervous system and pulled on the
brain. They have shortness of breath
and pain in the back Of the head and
at night an insomnia that alarms them.
Why are they drudging at business early
and late? For fun? No. 1t would be
difficult to extract any amusement ont
of that exhaustion Because they are
ayaricious? In many cases no. Because
their own personal expenses are lavish:
No. A few hundred dollars would meet
all their wants. The simple fact is the
man is enduring all that fatigue and OK
ASPIRATION and wear and tear to keep
his home prosperous There is al invis-
ible line reaching from that store, from
that bank, from that shop, from that
scaffolding, to quiet scene few blocks
away, few miles away. And there is
the secret OF that business endurance.
He is simply the champion of home
stead for which he wins bread and ward
robe and education and prosperity, and
in such battle 10, 900 men fall. OF ten
business men whom bury nine die OF
overwork for others. Some sudden dis
ease finds them with no power of resist
ance, and they are gone. Life for life.
Blood for bleed. Substitution!
At o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when slumber is most uninter-
rupted and most profound, walk amid
the dwelling houses of the city. Here
and there you will find dim light be-
cause it is the household custom to keep
a subdued light burning, but most OF
the houses from base to top are as dark
as though uninhabited. A mcrciful God
has gent forth the archangel Of sleep,
and he puts his wings over the city.
But yonder is clear light burning, and
outside Oh the window easement is a
glass or pitcher containing food for a
sick child. The food is set i'll the fresh
air This is the si1th night that mother
has sat up with that sufferer. She has
to the last point obeyed the physicians
prescription, not giving drop too much
or too little or moment too soon or too
late. She is very anxious, for she has
buried three children with the same
disease, and she prays and wecps, each
prayer and sob ending with kiss Of the
pale cheek By dint Of kindness she gets
the little one through the ordeal. After
it is all over the mother is taken down.
Brain or nervous foyer sets in, and one
day she leaves the convalescent child
with mothers blessing and goes up to
join the three in the Kingdom Of heaven.
Life for life! Substitution The fact is
that there are an uncounted number OF
mothers who after they have navigated
a large family Of children through all
the diseases of infancy and got them
fairly started up the Towering slope of
boyhood and girlhood have only strength
enough left to die. They fade away.
Some call it consumption. Some call it
nervous prostration. Some call it in
termittent or malarial indispoSition.
But call it martyrdom of the domestic
circle. Lilo for life. Blood for blood.
Substitution
Substitution.
Or perhaps the mother fingers long
enough to see a son get on the WRONG
road, and his former Kindness becomes
rough reply when she expresses anxiety
about him. But she goes right on, look
ing carefully after his apparel, remem.
bering his every birthday with some
memento, and, when he is brought home
worn out with dissipation, nurses him
till he gets well and starts him again
and hopes and expects and prays and
connsels and suffers until her strength
gives out and she fails She is going,
and attendants, bending over her pillow,
ask her if she has any message to leave,
and she makes great effort to say some
thing, but out of three Or four minutes
of indistinct utterance they can catch
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