The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-05-26

Why does your family physician have
such a large practices You trust hin
not only as good doctor, but as an
honest man. You know when he Is
called he will not put you to bed fOi
an attack Of grip and call IL pneu
monia and charge you 500 to cure you
Of 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
I'm your teeth. will bore holes into them
just 20 send you bill TO make you
support them and their families. You
know that yOnder merchant has a large
business not because he offers better
goods than his rivals. but because you
can believe his statements In reference
TO those goods Indeed, | 90 further
than my original assertion in refer
ence 10 my text. A good name is more
often found In comfortable home
than it is in a howell
Seek 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, an these blessings accom-
pany the industry Of good name In
order 10 win good name, sacrifices
/ you will have 70 make. In order to
win the battle o%Naterloo, Wellington
had to make awful sacrifices. A short
I 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 armyf Never was there in the
annals of the world so desperate or so
hard fought an action or such a defeat.
/ IL 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 a good name. you
will have 10 make many sacrifices as
did Wellington. But. as a rule. you will
not have to suffer poverty. hunger,
hOmelessness 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
ly and faithfully followed through llfe
Will inevitably land a man in a better
place than the poorhouse or potters
field II does not follow because you
are financially poor that you are holy;
il does not follow because you live i'm
palace that you are a rascal Beau
Brummel died a pauper; Peter Cooper
lived in rich mans mansion.
But n good name does more than pay
your butchers and bakers and grocer's
and clothers 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 in
which you live. There Is an old prov
erb which says: "A man cannot live
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 is
poorer than the poorest mans hovel
where love dwells. The love Of a com
munity is yours If you will earn 1t with
the deeds and loves Of a good man.
II you were a great man. a truly |
great man. / could not say this. one |
Of the heavy prices a truly great man, |
as a rule, has to pay for his greatness |
is TO suffer misrepresentation and SLAM |
der and hate. Most Of the cOntempO- /
raries Of John Milton never could APP |
preciate the true worth Of the blind /
sage. who in the black exile Of national |
contempt had to go 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 |
a soiled statue I'm Westminster abbey /
could be washed as white as the driven |
snow II it were only possible to col
lect all the tears which once fell from
the eyes Of those whose bodies are now
sleeping under yonder cold marble
Those tears were shed I'm the days Of
neglect and ostracism and poverty
Only the other day l 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 martyred president Abra-
ham Lincoln. This editorial was writ
ten I'm 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
incstimable service on the American
people were It not for the fact there
was a bigger hlOckhead in the vice
chair" All. yes. the BIT
terest Of execratiOns were huHed at
Lincoln when be was alive, as the most
fulsome Of eulogies are given to him
now he Is dead.
Though the world often has been I'M
lust and bitter to the great men, have
always felt that this persecution and
this bitterness were not due, as a rule,
TO the Innate meanness Of the human
race. but rather to its inability at GER
tain times TO appreciate the heroes and
heroines who were sacrificing their
lives for the good Of their fellow men.
But, my friend, you need not be afraid
that the world will be unable to appre-
cate your good works, II you are dong
any good works. You are not a great
warrior, a great statesman, great re-
former. You are only an ordinary man,
living an ordinary life In an ordinary
place. Therefore If you are kind and
loving and gentle and forgiving and
helpful to your fellow men they will be
kind and loving and forgving and gen
tie and helpful to you Whyi Because
each day Of your life you come into
touch with your little world,
and the friends and the people Of your
see YOU lust as you are