Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-04


other vioet from the lawn-to the lap
Of the convalescent, and Bertha stood on
a high chair with brush smoothing
her mothers hair, and we were told in
Il day or two she might ride out, joy
came back to our house. And as we
helped the old country doctor into his
gig, we noticed not that the step was
broken or the horse stiff in the knees,
and we all realized for the first time i'll
our life what doctors were worth. En-
courage them.
Encourage the lawyers. They are
often cheated out of their fees, and so
often have to breathe the villainous air
of courtrooms, ard they so often have
to bear ponderous responsibility, and
they have to maintain against the
sharks in their profession the dignity of
that calling which was honored BY tho
fact that the only man allowed to stand
on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was
Moses, the lawyer. and that the Bible
speaks of Christ as the advocate. En-
courage lawyers in their profession Of
transccndent Importance profession
honored by having on the bench a Chief
Justice Story and Mt the bar a Rufus
Choate.
Encourage the teachers in our public
schools-occupation arduous and poorly
compensated In all the cities when
there comes fit of economy on the part
of officials the first thing to do is al
ways to cut down teachers salaries
To take 40 or 80 boys whose parents
suppose them r. cocious and keep tho
parents from finding out their mistake;
TO take an empty head and fill it; to
meet the expectation of parents who
think their ch.Ilren ut 10 years of ago
OUGHT to be lnathomaticians and meta
physicians and rhetoricians; to work
successfully that great striins ma
cline the modern school system, is Il
very arduous work Encourage them by
the usefulness and the everlastingness
and the magnitude of their occupation,
and when your children do well COM
pliment the instructor. praise the teach
err, thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by telling them
how many you have known with the
same ailments who got well, and not by
telling them of their sllnken eye or ask
ing them whether the color Of their
cheek is really hectic or mentioning
cases in which that style of disease end
ed fatally or telling them how badly
they look. Cheerful words are more
soothing than Choral more stimulating
than cognac, more tonic than bitters.
Many an invalid has recovered til ough
the influence of cheerful surroundings.
Spcnk Kindly 20 the Young.
Encourage all starting in life by your
self becoming reminiscent. Established
merchants. by telling these young mer-
chants when you got yonr first custom
er, and how you sat behind the counter
eating your luncheon with one eye on
the door Established lawyers, encour-
age young lawyers by telling of the
time when you broke down in Your first
speecll. Established ministers of the
gospel, encourage young ministers by
merciful examination of theological
candidates, not walking around with a
profundity and oyerwhelmingncss OF
manner as though you were one of the
eternal DEGREES Doctors established, by
telling young doctors how you yourself
once mistook the measles for scarlatina.
And if you have nothing to say that is
encouraging, O man, PIT your teeth
tightly together and cover them with
the curtain of your lip; compress your
lips and put your hand over your mouth
and keep stiil.
A gentleman WAS passing along, cross
ing bridge in Germany anda lad came
along with a cage Of bids for sale. The
stranger said. GLOW much for those
birds and the cage?' The price was an
nounced, the purchase was made. and
the first thing tie stranger did was to
open the door of thc cage, and the birds
few out into the sunlight and the forest
Some one who saw the purchase and the
liberation said. ''What did you Go that
forY" "Ah, $. id the stranger, 81 WIS
a captive myself cnce. and l know how
good it is to be .ree 0 ye who re-
member hardships in early life, but
have come beyond tio3e hardships. SYM
pathiz. with those who are in the strus-
glel Free yourself. help others to get
free
Governor Alexander Stephens persist
ed in having business matters brought
to his bedside. There was on the table
a petition for the pardon of Il distin-
guished criminal, the pet. ton signed
by distinguished men. There was also
c1 that table letto: from poor woni-
an in the peniteutiary, written and
signed by herself alone. Dyin:; Alcxan-
der Stephens said: lyon think that be-
cause | have been i'll so many times
and got well shall Get we'll now. but
sou are mistaken shall net recover.
Where is &, letter by that " nan in
Ill, penitentnlry? / think she has sui
fercd enough As near rs I can tell she
has no friends. Bring me that paper
that | may sign her PARDON a Sentle-
man standing by thinking this too
great res, nnsihility for the sick man,
said: "Gevernor, you are very sick
now. Perhaps you had better wait till
tomorrow. You may feel stronger, and
you may feel better Then the eye of
the old governor flashed, and he said,
81 know what I am about. y Putting
his signature to that pardon, he wrote
the last word he ever wrote, for then
the pen fell from his pale and rheu-
matte and dying hand forever O my
SOUL how beautiful that the closing
hours of life should be spent in helping
one who had no helper
Encourage the Aged.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
of release and reassociation. Encourage
the aged by thoughts Of eternal juve-
nescence. Encourage the herdsman amid
the troughs of sin to go back to the
banquet at the father homestead. Give