Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-23

look after their interests rs though
they were his own
Why does your family physician have
such a large practice? You trust him
not only as good doctor, but as az
honest man. You know when he is
called he will not put you TO bed 70,
an attack of grip and call it pncu
monia and charge you 800 to cure yor
of a disease you never had. You know
he will not run up useless bills against
you, as some dishonest dentists do
who, if they cannot find any cavities
in your teeth, will bore holes into them
just TO send you bill to make YOU
support them and their families. Yor
know that yondcr merchant has large
business not because he offers better
goods than his rivals, but because you
can believe his statements in rcferenc,
to those goods. Indeed, go further
than my original assertion in refer
ence to my text. A good name Is more
often found in n comfortable home
than 1t is in a howell.
Where Good Names Are Found.
"Seck 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 a good name. LII
order to win a good name. sacrifices
you will have to make. In order To
win the battle of Waterloo Wellington
had to make awful sacrifices. A short
time after his famous conquest the
English commander wrote to a 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
1t was really the battle Of the giants
My heart is broken by the terrible loss
! have sustained. of my old friends and
companions and my poor soldiers" In
the battle Of Waterloo. in which you
have to struggle for Il good name, you
will have to make many sacrifices, as
did Wellington. But. as a rule. YOU will
not have TO suffer poverty, hunger,
homelcssncss and cold. \ 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.
~ and faithfully followed through life,
will inevitably land man in better
place than the poorhouse or potter's
field. 1t does not follow because you
are financially poor that you are holy
it does not follow because YOU live in a
palace that you are Il rascal Beau
Brummcl died pauper; Peter Cooper
lived in Il rich mans mansion.
But good name does more than pay
your butchers and bakers and groccr's
and clothicr's bills. 1t does more thar
give you a title deed to the house in
which you live. Ii offers TO YOU the
most priceless gift Oh earth, next to
the gift of Jesus Christ. the love of
your family and your friends and the
love and respect of the community in
which you live. There is an old prov
CRIB which says: a man cannot live
on love alone. When poverty knocks
at the door love flies ont of the win
dow" Poor proverb that. The richest
home OH earth Where love is not Is
poorer than the poorest mans hovel
where love d;vells. The love of a COM
munity is yours if you will earn it will,
the deeds and loves Of Il good man.
If you We're great man, a truly
great man. l could not say this. One
Of the heavy prices a truly great man,
Is to suffer Misrepresentation and sian.
der and hate. Most of the contempt.
rarics of John Milton never could ap-
procate the true worth Of the blind
sage. who in the black exile OF national
contempt had to so to his study for
comfort until his blinded eyes saw
more Of the glories Of heaven than the
two eyes of any inspired writer have
ever seen since apostolic times. Many
soilcd statue in Westminster abbey
could be washed rs white as the driven
snow il it were only possible to col
lcct all the tears which once fell from
the eyes of those whose bodies are now
sleeping under yonder cold marble.
Those tears were shed in the days OF
neglect and ostracism and poverty
Only the other day ran across an ed
itorial written by one of the most ia
nous of northern writer's, who after
ward became one of the greatest eulO-
gists Of our martyrcd president Abra-
ham Lincoln. This editorial was writ.
ten in the heat of the civil war. ANY
man who would go down to Washing
ton and shoot the stupid fool in the
White House would be comforting an
inestmnble service on the American
people We're it not for the fact there
was bigger blockhead in the vice
presidential chair" ALI, yes. the bit
tercst Of execrations were hurled at
Lincoln when he was alive. as the most
fulsome Of eulogies are given to him
now he is dead.
The Injnstice Of the Public.
Though the world often has been I'M
just and bitter to the great men. I have
always felt that this persecution and
this bitterness were not due. as q rule,
to the innate mcanncSs OF the human
race, but rather to it's inability at cer-
tain times to appreciate the heroes and
heroines who were sacgiticng their
lives for the good of their fellow men.
But, my friend, you need not he afraid
that the world will he unable to nppre-
ciate your good works, II you are doing
any good works. You are not Il great
warrior, great statesman, a great re-
former. You are only an ordinary man.