Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-14

man irving to be the chief engineer OF
BROOKLYN bridge Is no more absurd
than the ordinary men and women Try
ing TO perform their tasks in life wltn-
out an intelligent knowledge OF their
duties.
We must have intelligence to ft our
selves for the duties of life. HOW 90
most successful men get that neces-
sary intelligence? will tell you IL
is bv improving the few moments, the
few stray moments Of the day ana the
evening, which, as sacred fragments
crowd around them. One farmer
works and works hard, but he does
things merely because his forerathers
did the same things. He plants wheaC
in one field because his father anu
grandfather planted wheat in that
field. The other farmer says to him-
self. 81 am farmer but | am going
TO be an intelligent farmer. lie SehuS
70 Washington and gets the latest re-
norts from the agricultural depart
ment He buys the latest books sent
ont by our great agricultural colleges
He finds, by studying during the rev
stray minutes that come to him almost
every day and night, that his rarm mas
inst the right kind Of soil for a peach
orchard. He plants the peach trees
He stops growing wheat. lie increases
tbe value of his farm from SS per acre
annually to $40 per acre. Think not
am telling an imaginary case. am
drawing my illustration from the own
orc NJ two farms among the Michigan
hills Both the two farmers worked
hard but the successful farmer by
iealously guarding his spare few mo-
ments each day. doubled and treDied
and five times increased the value OF
his property.
Look out For the Half Hours.
Young man. be careful about the few
moments which you have been wasting
each day. Guard those extra rev mo
ments for intelligent study. Look out
for that wasted half hour during the
midday meal. Look out for the time
vou have been accustomed 10 spenu
every morning and evening III tne
street car on your way to business
looking idly around or trying TO pass
If away in reading the advertisements
or the sporting columns in the daily
newspapers. Look out for that nan
hour which you fool away in your
room before you turn in for the night'
A gigantic work Of intellectual CROWN
can be done if only the few wasted mo-
ments of each day are gathered up for
close application to books. one Gay
philin of Macedon, father of Alexander
the Great. was talking to Dionysius
the son of Dionysius, the great genera
NJ Syracuse He said to the son: Il &c
not believe your father could have ever
written the odes and tragedies attrlD
uted to his pen during his busy military
life" my father" the son replied
"wrote those masterpieces during th'
! time you and have wasted at ou
, tables in feasting." Young man, bette
{ improve your stray moments as di'
p Dionysius the Great than fritter then
away as most folks are doing, VIII
q their lips pressed against the chalice o
D pleasure. Better consecrate whole oay
!. in life's journey to making yoursel
n better and truer than to drop them INT
9 uselessness. as we lost our Thursda.
g in the smooth waters of the Pacific Il
d our Journey around the world.
e But. though many minutes, which i
e the aggregate amount to many DAYS
e are lost to the service Of Christ on az
J. count of our own follies, how man
k are lost to Christ by reason OF peopl
s who seem to have nothing to do then
= solves and who seem to be possesse
g with the idea that we have nothing
= do? Alas. how many mornings ther
It have been when we arose with clea
d minds and hearts anxious for study
e. These thoughts, like great hocK
le Aving doves. seemed ready TO roost o
If orr study desk. Then ideas came NJ
D. as solitary scouts, but marshaled
10 great armies. ready to wheel in line
III attack Ut our cOUuduu. lhSh ""ii
u seemed to palsy our fingers. The doc
helI rang. In came q threatening n
mad ready to encamp upon our pren
Or ises for the next two hours. Thoug
v "sauatter," he came not empty han
t. ed. He had piled upon his back q
k, the gossip and the "small talk OF u
n neighborhood. He had great caravan
n halted in your front yard. with all Il
or scandals and the besoiled reputation
oy of the homes he had been lately peste
r. ing. And he talks and he talks UNI
Ill he drives away all our ideas ana
*. our desire for work and all our ami
en- ton. and he leaves In his wake
re wrecked day.
nc "Destroyers of Time"
on How many errands of mercy al
- pressing duties in the home have be-
f0'c