Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-12-12

my country field far Detter, anu tnlhh
| had there larger net income. My
present church gives me $1,000 year.
with II | have to live In a fine house,
dress well and have my family dress
well When the year rolls around
have practically nothing. But In the
country. though had only small sal
ary. also had very small expenses.
Besides, had my garden, my horse
and carriage, my COW and chickens.
had fun with them ALL and at the end
of the year was able to save $500.
tell you the country minister thinks
| the city minister is rich but the city
minister knows the country minister
| is rich" The man in one sphere or
life can rarely appreciate the financial
conditions Of one in another sphere or
life.
Study the Misunderstanding be-
tween the professional man and his Sis
ter, who Is living a quiet domestic life.
Such q lady says My brother never
answers my letters now as he used to
do. He never shows me those little
courtesles Of love have a right to ex-
pect. The last time | wrote him he sent
me back a very sharp reply Yes, my
sister, perhaps that is all true. But the
reason you are angry with your broth
er is. you, as Il domestic woman, can
not understand the nervous exhaustion
under which your professional brother
Is struggling Perhaps the reason he
does not answer his sisters letters as
he used to do is because he Is a clergy
man. a lawyer or newspaper man.
Day after day he sits and writes and
writes and writes The pen is always
In his hand until the very sight Of ink
and paper has for him a repulsion.
Perhaps the reason the brother does
not visit the sister is because he has
been unable to take a vacation for the
last ten years. Your difficulties with
your brother are chiefly my sister, be-
cause you cannot put yourself in his
place.
Fancied Injustices.
Oh. that this coming Christmas we
would one and all try to focus our eyes
TO our brothers spectacles. Then a
great many of the family troubles
would forever vanish from our dark
ened horizon. The man who travels
about this planet with such a Christian
spirit and goes from house to house
from the palace Of the rich to the hoyel
of the poor, from the sumptuous pri-
vate office Of the merchant prince TO
the counters Of the small salaried clerk
soon discovers that this world is not
altogether mean world, a selfish
world, q heartless world, but 1t is a
tired world, a discouraged world, q
misunderstood world. If every mem
ber of a family who has bitter troubles
and trials could realize that his broth
ers and sisters along the great high
ways of life are struggling under bur
dens quite as heavy as his own-al'
though their burdens may be made W
in different kinds Of packs and have
silken cords around them instead OF
hempen rope-he would be more pa
tient in his criticism of others, as he
may hope that others will judge him
more charitably. Most Of the seeming
insults by relatives TO relatives are en-
tirely unintentional. AS every mar
hopes for mercy and pardon In the day
of Judgment so there should be forgive
ness for one who offends another
through inadvertence and not through
= intention. The fancied injustices be
tween relatives exist for the most par
I'm the distorted imaglnations Of thos'
who have no right to indulge In un
Christian and merciless judgments o.
relatives who really want to be friends
Christmas ReconciIiations.
Family dissensions should cease ant
/, Immediately cease. Why? Becaus
Christmas opportunities Of future fam
lily reconciliations may be very few
, They may never come again. We ar
intensely shocked at the sudden depar
lures Of our great men and women
When Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker OF tn
Salvation Army was killed on Oct. 2
in n railroad accident the news wa
telegraphed from the Atlantic to tn
!, Pacific. We commented upon the J0eau
= tifu coffin plate which we saw an
=. read thus: Born June 8. 1860. Consu
= Emma Booth-Tucker; Promoted to GlC
ry Oct. %. 1903" We were intensel
>. shocked when King Humbert was she
= and when President CarnOt was assa'
sinated with a knife thrust. But VIII
= should we be so shocked at the sudde
: death of this man or that. as with th
= tremendous emigration Of vast hos
= each year f1om earth into the realT
beyond the grave? This IS not plat
tude, purposeless saying. 1t Is
statement which ought to be pregnar
:, with the most tremendous import to l
= all. Can any here be sure that befoI
II another Christmas rolls around I'll
a death angels wing will not have flu
tered over our beds?
: Oh, my friends, II we are ever goin
- to have Christmas reconciliations "
:, had better have them now. Huma
= life at the longest is short. Whe
children have grown and scattered no
= soon they die. A family may exist i
>, tact for ten, twenty. thirty years, bt
- afte, the death angel calls one chill
= - he is very apt to come back soon Il
u another and another until all are gon
y When the family plot is once selecte
.e and a couple of graves dug therein II
'e hearse gets into the habit OF trayeliI
&c in the same direction and the blaC
AZ AZ horses to stopping at the same gat
" Then the sad truth is that when dea'
W Wio does come regrets may be piled
- flowers mountains high upon u
u casket, brothers may weep over u
dead brother, the hands may be pres
's' ed and the lips pressed and the tor
's' head stroked, but the dead Will ne
d not one word. He will not lift one ey
lid. He will not smile one look OF tc
giveness back to those who want to
nt r-.o- oh roorotG rpOrptsl HO