The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1883-05-10
ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY.
Talmaage's Advice Regarding the
Merchant, the Lawyer and the
Doct:r.

"lf there be room for only one
more passenger in the life boat, get
in yourself. If there be burden to
lift, you supervise while others
shoulder it. You be the digit, while
others are tho ciphers on the right
hand side; nothing in thems elves.
but used to augment you. This, :"
said DR. Talmadge, sis iu opposition
to that theory of the Gospel advance
cd by Paul, Bear ye ono auother's
burdens Everybody has burdens.
Sometimes the burdens come down
on the shoulders, or the head, or the
heart, Looking over this assem-
blagc, you all seem we'll looking, but
each of you has a burden, and some
Of you have more than you can lift.
Paul proposes to split up these bur-
deus into fragments, you to take
part of my burden, and | part Of
yours. When Mrs. Appleton,
daughter of Daniel Webster, was dy-
ing, she affected the great lawyer
to tears by her thoughtfulness for
his health as she remarked that he
was out on cold day without an
overcoat. How much moro beauti-
ful the care of othors than the ever
lasting taking care OF ourselves !.
What you and | most need to learn
is tho spirit Of helplulness.
Encourage tho merchant If he
has n superior style Of goods, or if
his clerks have adorned his show
window. You need not fear that he
viii be puned up ana arrogant. He
will have plenty Of trouble before the
day is out. Somo cranky woman
will come in aud pull down goods
enough to fit out n family for win
ter aud not buy cents worth
Don't be afraid that your praise will
make tho merchant apoplectic With
plethora. Encourage the newspaper
man. DO you know how many au-
noyances he suffers! Have you un-
derstood how often his best and
most elaborate article is flung ont
how ho must report an indlslinctly
uttered speech which must Of neces-
sity be all the way through steno-
graphic guess Think what the
nineteenth century would be With
out newspaper, Encourage mo
chanics praise them if they do their
work well. If he does not get his
work done it may be because his
wifo has been sick, ho has lost two
children of scarlet fever, and Las
felon on his finger.
Encourage the farmer. 1t is
common remark that the farmer is
independent. Independent OF what?
Independent of the rot in his wheat
Independent of the grasshopper, the
locust, the army worm, aud the po-
tato bug 7 Independent of the storm
that blows down his crop, of the
snowbank that buries him until he
shovels his way out : Independent
Of frozen ears and frozen feet?
Encourage the doctors. There
is great deal of cheap wit about
the doctors. A man recently wrote
a book, Every Man his Own Doc
tor" He ought to write another
Every Man his Own Undertaken
Doctors have SC many hardships aud
annoyauces that they need our en-
conragement. They stand bet ween
our families and the grave. :,
Ono day there was q dreadfui
foreboding in our house. All hope
was gone. The doctor came -four
times. The children pat away their
toys. We all walked on tiptoe, and
at the least sound said Hush ~
How loudly the clock ticked , How
tho banister creaked, although we
tried to keep it still The Doctor
cams four times,and stayed all night
At last the restless patient sank in 10
a sweet slumber, and the doctor
looked mp and said, "The crisis has
passed" We propped her up with
pillows and easy chairs, and the
south wind tried to blow rose leaves
into her faded cheek, and the child
rem brought flowers, and when the
doctor told us that in a day or two
Bertha could ride out. oh, how life
came Lack 10 our house, and, az we