Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-10-20

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Another is wit-the power of playing |
with the lights of the many sides OF !
truth. which If you destroy you make J
yourself gloomy and dull to others. |
In choosing your way of work 1t should |
be your aim as far as possible 10
bring out all these faculties-not one
merely, but all Of them. The way 10
bring them out is to concern your
selves attentlvely with each faculty.
To cultivate sympathy you must be
with living creatures and thinking
about them. To cultivate admiration
YOU must be among beautiful tmngS
and looking at them" But some peo-
nle have "a stagnating mental cos
mos" They are never willing to read.
They are never willing to study. Ihey
care nothing about the great wide
world and its doings. They literally
would not go across the street TO see
the most beautiful picture ever paint
ed or hear the most exquisite mar
monies ever sung, while on the other
hand some men are never satlsned
with their present mental condltlon:
They are always reaching up ana
reaching out. They will go to any
trouble to learn. No work for them
Is too difficult If they can only I'M
prove themselves and learn something
new.
"Drat that boyw the farmer says.
"He is not worth two pinches OF SAT-
can never make a man out OF him.
He is always idllng his time away win
some study. l send him down lnto
the fields to plow, and as soon as dih-
nor time comes he opens his tin pail
and book at the same time and then
begins to read. Then he forgets every
thing but his book. l am just as laDie
to find him there reading an hour later
as not" No, farmer, you VIII never
make q man out of that boy If your
definition Of a man is to be hedged III
nv cabbage patch. That boy mas
| hioher visions of life than planting
corn He is dreaming. He Is looking
ahead TO the time when, as minister
of the gospel, he shall save men ror
Christ or when as a physician he can
relieve the pain Of the fevered brow
or when as lawyer he can defend an
innocent man in the clutches OF the
law. Through the disorder of corn
crib he sees the work which God Is
| calling him to take up.
| Not "A Loafer.
"You miserable, lazy loafer" crieo
the peasant's angry wife to the stran
ger brooding at her fireside. Did
not tell thee | would give thee thy
dinner If thou wouldst watch that L
did not get burned? Now by thy neg
ligence thou hast spoiled everything.
vTis true that the man who was SIT
ting ny the peasants fire had neglect
ed the task the peasants wife set MN
70 do. but was he lazy, contemptDl'
loafer? That man was the tugitiV'
king Of the English throne. That maj
was Alfred the Great. He may hav
been blind to the operation of the peas
|, ants fire, but those smoldering emDer
suggested the dream Of the fame o
liberty he was soon to ignite. He wa
dreaming. like Moses, of the people b
was ia 1qstsE ana rrlc' equntrysi's va
was 70 establish, which would be rel
uge TO all the downtrodden who woul
, come to its shores. DO not grumpy
, n wife because thy husbands thougn'
ore sometimes wlngIng their hlght
thousand miles away. Do not con
nlain. O mother, because that daugl
, TOR is neglectful of the little thing
7 when she is reaching up for the hlghe
n Whom Cardinal Chigi told the grei
: Cardinal de Retz that for three yeal
. no had done all his writing with OF
n nen and the pen was still as good
. new. Cardinal de Retz came to the co
= clusion that his brother cardinal Wa
= q man of very small mental callber. n
7 friends. In your mental life live L
Y something higher than the point Oh
% nen. Struggle, strive, push. Turn,
- necessary. your study into very De
= lam Of confusion. By thy upheaya
- - seek for a new mental cosmos. h
- member the broad sweep Of the so
- monte proverb, "Where no oxen are, [
=, crib Is clean. but much increase is
W the strength of the OK"
% s It is only the ignorant, the stup
NJ the slothful, the stagnating mind, u
-, is satisfied with its present conditio
- Progress is not like a swamp, W
fetid mir and surface Of slime. Int
bo everything is still and quiet. True m
az tai progress is like the commotion a
disordered waters Of a brook In
r the waters are pure and sweet, Deca'
49, one moment they are tumbling ovel
',r cascade. the next they are being Ga
N. ed into foam against some DoWio
ON and the next they are as waterl
- Iaoning over some cliff. They are ne
~ still. They are always moving, alw'
,rh readiustlng themselves to new COZ
raj tions.
ASH note the restless commotions
the individual mind, so | note also
III restless conditions OF tne sociai W.
he and the conflict Of the classes aga
the the masses. The socialistic uphea'
do Of the present time are not sign
tits our present governmental life Is tc
md destroyed. They are sign, ana
Tho sign. that out Of these upheayals u
Use shall come forth a better TRUTH
Ind ter honesty, purer social hfe'
many wrongs there are to De rig
nst on both sidesl Capital, with It's
resources and machinery, freque
gn- has more mercy upon Its iron and
the bars and its leather bands and Its
,ws pile drivers than upon the bone
de. sinew and muscle Of its work.
lies, Capital does not say to itself, y
tain much can | make these goods for
nine sell them at fair rate OF pront'
ulls the people may buy them the chea
ter. and yet | get fair return ior
I11 OF q