Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-27

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caem and malevoence and suspicion
he's taken possession Of him. and you
see 1t as plainly as though from the
hair line Of the forehead to the lowest
point In the round Of his chin It were
written: Mine! Mine! |. the demon
OF the pit, have soured his visage with
my curse. Look at him. He chose a
dltt Of carrion He gloated over the
mIsdeeds OF others. 1t took all my
internal enginery to make him what
he Is-'a busybody in other mems mat
ters.'"
But there Is a worthy and Christian
way of looking abroad upon others.
not for the purpose Of bringing them
10 disadvantage or advertising their
weaknesses or putting In great prim-
err or paragon" type their frailites
but to offer help. sympathy and res
cue. That is ChrIstlike. and he who
does so wins the applause OF the high
j vlvens. Just look abrond for the
people who have made great mistakes
and put a big plaster OF coincidence on
their laceratlons. Such people are new
er sympathlzed with. although they
need an inlinty Of solace. Domestic
mistakes. Social mistakes. Ecclesi-
astical mistakes Political mistakes.
Weep with Woe.
There Is Il public man who has made
POLITICAL mistake from Which he will
never recover At the next elections
he will be put back and put down into
a place Of disapprOval from which he
will never rise. Just go TO that man
and unroll the scroll Of 100 splendid
Americans who. after occupying high
places Of promotion. were relegated to
private life and public scorn. Show
him in what glorious company he has
been placed by the anathema Of the
| ballot box.
| There Is a man or woman who,oe +,
made a conjugal mistake. and. vuI.
ture has been put into the sa, coge
with dove or lion and 'lamh in I
the same jungle. The wcd lauohs at
the misfortune .liifSSit liSSit is your business '
W "eeP WI their woe. There IL a
- ''n"' who bought AZ the wrong {
',lnV a manufacturer whose old ma
.ery has been superseded by new
eention or who under change Of tar
In on certain styles Of fabric has been
dropped from afIiuence into bankrupt
CIV. Go to him and recall the names or
so business men who lost all but their
honesty and God and heaven. Let ,
them know there are hundreds Of good
men who have gone under that are
thought Of In heavenly spheres more
than many who are high up and going
higher. All will acknowledge that
good and lovely Arthur Tappan, who
failed In business. was more to be ad-
mired than William Tweed In posses
sion of his stolen millions.
Go to that literary man who Is starv-
ing with a brilliant pen in his right
haad. his literary position lost his
books unsalable. and tell him OF the
mightlest of the past and the present
who suffered from nonappreciation
Show the discouraged author whose
Manuscript the publishing house VIII
not take that among the rejected man
uscripts Of the publishing houses for
awhile were Paradise Lost and
"Jane Eyre" and Thackeray's vanity
Fair" and "Vestiges of Creation and
'IJncle Toms Cabin" and that Shakes
peare was comparatively unknown IN
England until Germany acclaimed its
appreciation Of the greatest Of drama
fists. Unrol before that discouraged
public man the cartoons in the time OF
Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin
coin and James g. Blaine and show all
the msinterpreted and pursued the
fact that they have it no worse than
many who have preceded them and
that in most cases it is Jealousy at sue
cess that has caused the assault.
Lift the Fallen.
Hear IT, The more you 20 to busy
Ing yourselves In other mems mat
ters the better II you have design OF
Offering relief Search out the quar-
rels. that you may settle them; the
fallen. that you may lft them: the
pangs. that you may asSuage them.
Arm Yourself with two bottles OF di-
vine medicine. the one a tonic and
the other an anRsthetic, the latter 10
soothe and quiet. the former to stimu-
late, to inspire to sublime action. That
mans matters need looking after In
this respect. There are 10000 men
and women who need your help and
need 1t right away. They do not SIT
down and cry. They make no appeal
for help but within ten yards Of where
you sit in church and within ten min
utes' walk Of your home there are pPo'
ple In enough trouble 10 make them
shrek out with agony II they had not
resolved upon suppression.
If you are rightly Interested In other
mems matters 20 to those who are just
starting in their occupations or pro-
fessions and give them boost. Those
old physicians do not want your help.
for they ARE surrounded with more pa
tierts than they can attend 10. but
cheer thos" Young doctors who are
counting out their first drops to pa
tients who cannot afford to pay. Those
old attorneys at the law want no help
from you. for they take retalners only
from the more prosperous clients, but
cheer those young attorneys who have
not had brief at all lucrative. Those
old merchants have their business so
we'll established that they feel inde-
pendent of banks. OF all changes In
tariffs. of all panics. but cheer those
young merchants who are making
their first mistakes in bargain and sale.
That old farmer who has 200 acres In
best tillage and his barns full OF har-
vested crops and the grain merchant
having bought his wheat at high prices
before il was reaped needs no sympa-
thy from you. but cheer up that young
farmer whose acres are covered with
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