Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-03-25

they were his own"
Why does your family physician have
such a large practice? You trust him
not only as a good doctor, but as an
honest man. You know when he Is
called he will not put you to bed for
an attack OF grip and call 1t pneu-
monia and charge you 500 to cure you
OF disease you never had. You know
e'will not run up useless bills against
you, as some dishonest dentists DO,
who, If they cannot find any cavities
iIl your teeth, will bore holes into them
lust to send you a bill to make you
support them and their families. You
know that yonder merchant has large
business not because he offers better
goods than his rivals, but because you
can believe his statements in reference
to those goods Indeed, | go further
than my original assertion in refer
ence to my text. A good name Is more
often found in comfortable nome
than it is in a hovel.
Where Good Names Are Found.
"Seelx We first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these
things will be added unto you" That
means clothing, food, home, education.
AS a rule, all these blessings accom-
pany the industry of aogoOd name. In
order to win a good name, sacrlhces
YOU will have to make. In order 10
win the battle of Waterloo, Wellington
had to make awful sacrifices. \ short
time after his famous conquest the
English commander wrote TO dear
| friend as follows: "What do you think
of the total defeat of Bonaparte by the
British army? Never was there in the
annals of the world so desperate or so
hard fought an action or such defeat.
II was really the battle Of the giants.
NV heart is broken by the terrible loss
l have sustained, Of my old friends ana
companions and my poor soldiers" In
the battle Of Waterloo, In which you
have to struggle for a good name, you
Will have to make many sacrifices, as
did Wellington. But, as rule, you VIII
not have to suffer poverty, hunger,
homelessness and cold. A good name
is won by industry, frugality, purity,
honesty and doing with all your heart
and mind what your hand finds to do.
These characteristics Of man, earnest
ly and faithfully followed through life,
will inevitably land man in better
place than the poorhouse or potters
field. 1t does not follow because you
are financially poor that you are holy;
It does not follow because you live In
palace that you are a rascal. Beau
Brummel died a pauper; Peter Cooper
lived in rich mans mansion.
But a good name does more than pay
your butchers and bakers and grocer
and clothier's bills. 1t does more than
give YOU a title deed to the house in
which you live. 1t offers to you the
most priceless gift on earth, next to
the gift of Jesus Christ, the love OF
your family and your friends and the
love and respect of the community II
which you live. There is an old prov
erb which says: "a man cannot livt
on love alone. When poverty knocks
at the door love flies out Of the win
dow" Poor proverb that! The richest
home on earth where love Is not i
poorer than the poorest mans hove
where love dwells. The love of com
munity is youEs If you will earn it VIII
the deeds and loves Of a good man.
If you were a great man, trul!
great man, l could not say this. On'
of the heavy prices a truly great man
as q rule. has to pay for his greatnes
, Is to suffer Misrepresentation ana sian
dor and hate. Most Of the contempt
raries of John Milton never could ap
nreciate the true worth Of the blln'
sage who in the black exile of natlOna
contempt had to 60 to his study 10
comfort until his blinded eyes saV
more of the glories Of heaven than III
, two eyes Of any inspired writer nav
oyer seen since apostolic times. Man
n soiled statue in Westminster aODe
could be washed as white as the drive
=. snow if it were only possible to co
lect all the tears which once fell frol
the ewes of those whose bodies are nov
sleeping under yonder cold marble
Those tears were shed In the DAYS I
= neglect and ostracism and poVert!
= Only the other day l ran across an e'
itorial written by one of the most Ii
y nous of northern writer's, who afte
! ward became one of the greatest eul'
pists of our martyred president ADr'
. ham Lincoln. This editorial was VIII
ten in the heat Of the civil war. An
Il man who would go down to Washlnl
ton and shoot the stupid fool IN III
u White House would be conferrlng d
inestimable service on the America
neonle were it not for the fact thel
u was q bigger blockhead in the VIZ
e presidential chair" All, yes, the Di
u terest of execratiOns were hurried
lincoln when he was alive, as the mo
a fulsome of eulogies are given 10 hi
now he is dead.
The Injustice of the Public
D. Though the world often has been u
- lust ana DlIIpT u luc SiN"' ''
- always felt that this persecution al
&c &c this bitterness were not due, as rul
- - to the innate meanness of the hum'
- u race, but rather to its inability at ce
&c &c tain times to appreciate the heroes al
:, - heroines who were sacrificing the
- - lives for the good Of their fellow me
20 M But, my friend, you need not be ara
,. that the world will be unable TO appr
- - ciate your good works, il you are doll
~ -, any good works. You are not a gre
warrior, a great statesman, great
former. You are only an ordinary ma
e. living an ordinary life In an ordina
er place. Therefore il you are klnd al
or loving and gentle and forgiving al
on helpful to your fellow men they VIII
y, kind and loving and forglving and &c
ly tie and helpful to you. Why! Becau
20 oooh dov of vorr life Won come III