The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-02-20
The DocTon.-Everybody knows the

/ The DocToR-Everybody knows the
doctor a very important person he is to
us all. What could we do without him
He brings us in this world, and tries to
keep us as long in it as he can, and as
long as our bodies can hold together and
he is with us at that strange and last hour,
which will come to us all, when we must
leave this world and go into the next
When we are we'll we, perhaps, think little
about the doctor, or We have our small
joke at him and his drugs; but let any
thing so wrong with our bodies, thhtwon-
derful tabernacle in which ursoul dwells,
let any of its wheels go wrong-then eff
we fly to him., IF the mother thinks her
husband or child is dying, how she runs
to him and urges him with her tears how
she watches his face, and follows his
searching eye as he examines, the rdear
sufferer ). how she wonders whathe thinks
what would she give to know what he
knows? how she wearies for his visit!
how cheerful word from him makes her
heart leap with joy, and gives her spirit
strength to watch over the bed Of distress!
Her whole soul goes out to. him in; I'M
speakable gratitude when he brings back
to her from the power Of the grave her
husband or darling child. The doctor
knows many of our secrets, ofsour sor-
rows, which no one else knows some Of our
sins, perhaps, which the great God alone
knows. How many lives and hearts he
carries in his heart and in his hands, So
you see hs is a very important person,
the doctor, and we should do our best to
make the most of him, and to do our
duty to him andto Gu selves.
CoERc1Na HENs-A lady correspon-
dent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing
from Kansas relates the following:
CATER breakfast I was surprised to see
my landlady go out, and catching her
hens, tie each ones legs together, and
throw them upon the ground, with "there,
now, be good"
What did you do that for 2" I asked.
''To make EN- lay she answered
"Make 'cm lay, will that do it?' I in
quired.
Claw, yes" she said; didn't you ever
hearn tell Of that before?"
Il confess 1 had not In an hour she
went again, and picked up the hens and
sure enough some had laid; those she let
go, and they run off, not even cackling
their gratitude But those hers which
seemed disposed to be contrary, she struck
on the back saying-'you'd better lay
you'd better lay, for you won't go until
you do" and in a little while, they too.
had recJmpenssd III ir mistress for feeding
them so beautifully. She saysshe does
SO every morning, and the hens know well
enough that they ''have got to lay"
Lord Bacon has said SO many wise
things, that we can hardly dip into his
works at any place without finding some
thing that will repay the deepest atten-
ton. We have gathered a few sentences
from him about money, love for it, and its
influence. Here they are:
Alexander sent to Phociona great pres
ent of money. Phocion said to the mes
senger: "Why doth the king send to me.
and no one else?" The messenger an
SWefeO, Decduse ue takCS JOu " be Ills
only good man in Athens" Phocion re-
piled, eff he thinks so, pray let him SUI
fer me to be so still"
Chilion said, ''that the gold was tried
with the touchstone, and the men with.
gold"
Gle that defers his charity till he is
dead, is, if man weighs it rightly, rather
liberal Of another mans than Of his own"
sThe tears of an heir are laughter un-.
der vizor" ,s.-s.
The coward calls himself wary man,
and the miser says he is frugal
The Popeis printing, at the Propaganda,
fac-simile Of the famous manuscript of the
Greek Bible of the Vatican, which is
more ancient than that of Mount Sinai
The fac-simile is to compete with the BIZ
bic of Tischendorf, and the Holy Father
is to send it to the Paris Exhibition.
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