The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-21

night of the morning on which you ap-
| plauded him he will have some one bring
lawsuit because he did not finish the
work on the day promised, caring not
| for the fact that his wife is Sick, and
that he buried two children of the scar
| let fever. aud he had felOn on the fin
| ger of his right hand. Or he will be de-
! nOuncad because the paint is too faint a
color, careless of the fact that he got
cheated in the ingredients, and found
1t out too late Or he VIII he scOlded
for laming the horse by unskillful shoe
ing, when the animal has been months
becoming spawned, or rlngOOned, or
stringhalt. No danger of being spoiled
by your high appreciation.
Encourage the farmers. You often
meet them when they come to the city
markets, or to your place of business, or
when you take your summer rounds.
Candidates for Office just before election
go through the country on political
platforms, Grating about the indepen-
dent life of the farmer. Independent of
whatp That is all stuff! | was horn
on farm, and have worked on a farm,
and know all about it, not having seen
the city till nearly grown, and l tell IyOu
there are no people who have il harder
or need more sympathy than farmers.
AAAN PtuhFht VI w HhG4 Va Allt OulNuliO
that stings the peach treesP Of the rust
In the wheat? OF the rain when the rye
is down? Independent of the grassh0p-
per4p Independent of the lOcusts? ln-
dependent of the drought that burns up
the heldsp Independent of the potato
bugi Independent of the COW with "A hOl-
low horns and sheep with the foot disease,
and the horse with nail in the hOof?
Independent of the cold that freezes out
the winter grainH Independent Of the
morning when he has to shovel himself
out of the snow bauks,and stand thrash
ing his numb fingers around his body
to keep them from being frosted, and
goes in with frozen ears and frozen feetp
Fancy farmers " no have made their for
tunes III the city, and go out to build
houses with oil the modern improve
ments, and have enough money to make
farming luxury, may need no sOlace,
but in these days the yeomanTy who
have to make their living out of the
soil, clOthe their families, educate their
children, pay their taxes, and meet the
interest Of mOrtgaged farms, have
struggle that is terrific, and you had
better fold up your gaseous and imeb-
ellie speeches about the Independent life
Vt farmer, and substitute such words
OF sympathy aud encouragement as you
can fiud, In their escape from city temp
tatiOns and city cOnyentiOnalities and
city epidemics. One OF the most vivid
memories of my bOyhOOd is my father
on fearfully hot day, just come from
che harvest field, seated on the dOOTsill
because too faint to come in, the peTspl-
ration streaming over forehead and
chin, aud my mother trying to Tesusci-
tate him with cup OF water he was
coo weak to hold to his own lips, and he
saying: Don't be frightened. Moth
Jug the matter. Little tired, that's all. :"
And ever since then when | have heard
political speakers talking about the in
dependent life of farmer, | have seen
through the sham Of their utterance.
Farmers want not flattery, but sympa.
Thy.
Encourage your physicians You THANK
lim when he brings you out of ali aw-
full crisis of de ease; but do you thank
him for treating the incipient stages of
disease 50 skilifully that you do not
sink as far down as an awful crisis?
There is much cheap and heartless wit
about the physician, but get sick and
how quick you send for him. Some say
doctors are of more harm than good, and
there is book written entitled, Every
Man His Own Doctor" That author
ought TO write one more book and enti-
tie II, Every Man His Own UudeTtbker.'
DO you think physicians are hard heart
sd because they see so much pain? All,
nol The most emminent surgeon of the
iast generation lii New York came into
the clinical departments of the New York
Medical College when there Was a Sc
we're operation to be performed upon
little child. The great surgeon said to
the students gathered around: Gen
tlemen, there are surgeons here who
can do this just as we'll as | can. You
Will excuse rne, therefore If retire
'annOt endure the sight of suffering as
well as once could" There are so many
LTlais, 50 many Interruptions. 40 many
eXhau4tiOns IN physician's life, that 1
rejoice he gets 10 many encourage
ments. Before him open all circles of
society. He ~ welcomed to cot and
mansion. Children shout when they see
mis- gig coming, and old men. recOgTiZ-
ing his step, look up aud say, Doctor,
is that yOu?" He stands between our
families and the grave, fighting back
the disorders that troop up from their
encampments by the cold river. No one
ever hears such hearty thanks as the
doctor. Under God he makes the blind
see, the deaf hear, the lame walk. The
path of such is strewei with the bene-
dictions of those whom they have be-
friended. Perhaps there was in our
house an hour of evil fOrbOding We
thought all hope was gone. The doctor
came in four times that day. The chill
dren put aside their toys. We walked
on tip-tOe and whispered, and at every
sound said. "hushl" How loud the clock
licked, and with all our care the banis-
ter cTeaked. The doctor stayed all night,
and concentrated all his skill At
last the erestlessness of the little sufferer
subsidized into sweet, calm slumber,
and the doctor looked around and whis-
pered: The crisis is past" When
prOpped up with pillows the sick one
sat in the easy chair, and through the
lattice the soft south wind tried hard to
blow rOseleaf in o the shaded cheek,
and we'were all glad, aud each of us
children brought violet or a clover top
from the lawn to the lap of the cOnval-
escent, and little Bertha stood on high
chair with the brush, smoothing her
mothers hair, and it was decided that
the restored one might soon ride out for
a mile or two. Our house was bright
again. And as W. helped our medical
adviser into the gig, we saw not that the
step was broken or his horse sprung In
the knees. For the first time in our
life we realized what doctors are worth.
In some of our minds among the tenders
est of ali memories is that Of the old
family physician.
Encourage all good lawyers. They