Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-15

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before reaching there and not feel in
full glow of animoSity or SANDER, or
might. because of the distance, not 20
Mt ALL But rooms 20. 81. 30. %. "a and
% are on the same corridor. and when
one carrion crow goes Cav! Cav"
all the other crows hear 1t and flock to-
gethcr over the same carcass. "Oh, l
have heard something rich! Sit down
and let me tell you all about it," And
the first outlaw increases the gather
Ing, and it has TO be told all over again.
and rs they separate each carries a
spark from the altar of CAB TO some
other circle until, from the coal HEAVIER
in the cellar TO the maid In the top
room of the garnet, all arc aware Of the
defamation. and that evening all who
leave the house will bear it TO other
houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois prairies are less raging
and swift than that flame of consum-
ing reputation blazing across the vii
lage or city.
HerulnH IOSetneTs
Those Of us who were brought up In
the country know that the old fashion
ed Matching of eggs in the haymow re-
ouired four OF five weeks of brooding,
but there are new modes Of Matching
by machinery, which take less time
and do the work by wholesale. So,
while the private home may brood into
life an occasional falsity and take Il
long time to do it. many OF the board
ing houses aud family hotels afford q
Swifter and more multitudinouS style
of moral incubation, and one old Cos
sip will get off the nest after one hours
brooding. clucking flock Of 80 lies
after her, each one picking up its little
worm of Juicy regalcmcnt. 1t Is no adj
vantage TO hear too much about your
neghbors. for your time will be so
much occupied in taking care of their
faults that you will have no time to
look after your own And while you
are pulling the chickweed out of their
garden YOURS will get all overgrown
with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
One of the worst damages that come
from the hcrding of so many people
Into boarding houses and family hotels
Is inflicted upon children. 1t is only
another way of bringing them up on
the commons While you have your
own private house you can. for the
most part, control their companionship
and their whereabouts, but by II years
of age in these public resorts they Will
have picked up all the bad things that
can be furnished by the prurient minds
of dozens of people. They will over
hear hasphcmies. and see quarrels.
and get prccocious In sin. ana what the
bartender does not tell them the por-
ter or hostler or bellboy will.
Besides t.. the children will go out
into this world without the restraining,
anchoring, stcadylng and all control
ling memory of home. From that
none of us who have been blessed OF
such memory have escaped. 1t grips 4
man for so years IL he lives so long
1t pulls him back from doors into
which he otherwise would enter. 1t
smites him with contrition in the very
midst of his designations. AS the fish,
already surrounded by the long wide
net. swim ont TO sea, thinking they can
20 as far rs they please. and with gay
toss OF silvery scale they defy the
sportsman on the beach. and after
awhile the fishermen begin to draw in
the net. hand over hand. and hand over
hand, and it is n long while before the
captured fins begin TO feel the net, and
then they dart this way and that, hop
ing to get ont, but find themselves ap-
proachng the shore, and are brought
ND to the very feet Of the captors so
the memory of an early homo some
times seems to relax and let men out
farther and farther from God. and far
Their and farther from shore; five years,
ten years. 20 years. 30 years; but some
day they lind an irresistible mesh
drawing them back, and they are COM
pclled to retreat from their prodigality
and wandering; and though they make
desperate effort to escape the impress
sion, and try to dive deeper down in
sin, after awhile arc brought clear
back and held upon the Rock of Ages.
Lasting Influence.
If it be possible, o father and mother!
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the semiomnipotent
memory of a good. pure home. About
your two or three rooms In boarding
house. or family hotel, you can cast
no such glorious sanctity. They will
think Of these public caravansarles as
an early stopping place, malodorous
with old vIrtuals. coffees perpetually
steaming ana meats in everlasting
stew or broil, the air surcharged with
carbonIc acid, and corridors, along
which drunken boarders come stagger
Ing Mt o'clock In the morning, rap
ping Mt the door till the affrighted wife
lets them in. Do not be guilty of the
sacrllege or blasphemy Of calling suct
place home.
A home Is four walls inclosing ont
family with identity Of interest and
privacy from outside inspection 81
complete that 1t is world in itself, M
one entering except by permission
bolted and barred and chained agains
all outside inquisltiveness. The phrase
so often used In lawbooks and lega
circles Is nightly suggestive-ever.
mans house is his castle, as much 81
as though it had drawbridge. portcul
lis. redoubt. bastion and armed turret
Even the officer of the law may no
enter to serve writ. except the doc
be voluntarily opened unto him; bur
glary. or the invasion of il. crime s.
offensive that the law clashes its irol
jaws OH any one who attempts 1t. Un
lose II no nerpsS1ry to STAY for lOnGC