Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-15
The winter Grain ?

4
| dent life of a farmer, and substitute such
\ words of sympathy and encouragement as
you can find in their escape from city temp
| tations, and city conventionalities, and city
| epidemic. One of the most vivid memories
| OF my boyhood, is my father on fearfully
| hot day, Just come from the harvest field,
| seated on the door-sill because too faint to
| come in, the perspiration streaming over
forehead and chin, aud my mother try
ing to resuscitate him with a cup
of water that he was too weak to hold to
his own lips and he saying: Don't be
| frightened, nothing the matter. Little
| tired, that's all" And ever since then
when have heard political sbeakers talk
| ing ABOUT the independent life Of farmer
i have seen the sham of their Inference.
Farmers want not fattery, but sympathy.
Encourage all Ply sicians.
You thank him when he brings you up
cut Of an awful crisis of disease, but do you
thank him for treating the inG pient stages
Of disease SO skillfully 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 quickly
YOU send for him. Some say doctors are Of
more harm than good, and there is book
written entitled Every Man his own Doc
tor That man ought TO write one more
book and entitle it Every Man his own
are hard-hearted because they see so much
| pain? All, no. The most eminent sur
geOn of the last generation in New York
came into the clinical department Of
the New York Medical College, when there
was a severe operation to be performed up
on little child. The great surgeon said TO
the students gathered around: Gentlemen,
there are surgeons here who can do this
lust as we'll as can. You will excuse me,
therefore, if retire. | cannot endure the
sight OF suffering as well as l once could"
There are so many trials, so many inter.
ruptiOnS SO many eXhaustiOnS in physi
cian's life that | rejoice be gets so many
encouragements. Before him open all cir
Cles OF society. He is welcomed in cot
and mansion. Children shout when they
see his gig coming, and old men, recogniz-
ing his step, look up and say: Doctor, is
that yOu%' lie 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 and the deaf hear and the lame walk.
The path of such is Strewed with the bene
dictious of those whom they have be-
friended. Perhaps there was in our house
! that all hope was gone. The doctor came
| four times that day. The children
put aside their TOYS. We walked on tip
| toe and whispered, and at every sound
said "Hushm How loud the clock ticked,
| and with all our care the bannisteT creaked.
| The Doctor stayed all night and concen.
| trated all his skill. At last the restlessness
| Of the sufferer subsided into a sweet, calm
! slumber, and the Doctor looked around to
/ us and whispered, 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
I blow rose leaf into the shaded cheek, and
We all were glad, and each OF the children
| brought a violet or clover top from the
I lawn to the lap OF the cOnvalescent, and
/ little Bertha stood on high chair with
| the brush smoothing her mothers hair.
| anu il was decided that the restored one
| might soon ride out for mile or two. Our
! house was bright again. Aud as We 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 were
! worth. In some Of our minds among the
! teEderest of all memories is that OF the old
/ family physician.
Encourage All Good Lawyers.
| They are so often cheated out of their fees,
! and have to endure the villainous air OF
unventilated court rooms, and bear such
pOnderOus responsibilities, and having
| against the sharks in their profession to
| maintain the dignity of their high calling.
Honored by the facts that the only one per-
mitted to stand on Mount Sinai was Moses
| the lawyer and that the Bible calls Christ
! the Advocate cheer them with the trans
cendent importance Of their profession,
which has had on IT'S bench Chief Justice
Story, and at its bar Rufus Choste.
Encourage All Teachers of schools
Their work is laborious and lily compensa-
ted To take 10 or 80 boys, whose fathers
and mothers suppose them to be preco-
ciOus and keep those parents from finding
out their mistake; to take an empty head
and hil it, to meet the demands Of the peo'
pie who expect thesr children by 10 years
OF age TO Eecome mathematicIans, mela-
physicians and rhetOriCians; to work sue
CCSsfuully that great Stutfing machines, the
modern school system is no small task
Encourage them by the magnitude and the
| everlastiDguess of their work. aud II your
children advance, thank their instructors.
Encouraging All Those who are start
ing In Life
| by being reminiscent. II you are a great
merchant, by telling young merchants how
YOU felt when you got your first customer,
| and had your luncheon back of the counter
| with one eye on the door looking Tor the
ne xt entrance. IL you are an established
| lawyer, by telling young lawyer how you
| broke down in your first speech before
Jury. Ii an old minister, by being merci-
| ful in your examination of young theolo.
CUES II an.old doctor, by telling young
| practitioners how you at first mistook
measels for scarlatina. Say all the encour-
| ing things you can say, and il you have
| nothing of that kind to offer, set your teeth
! tightly together aud draw the curtain oil
| your lips close down over them and put
| your hand over your mouth and keep
| silent.
! A man in Germany met lad crossing a
/ bridge with cage of birds, and he asked
| the price of .hem aud bought and paid for
! the cage Of birds. Then he opened the
| door of the cage and let the birds fly out
| into the sunlight OF the forest What did
! YOU do that for" said some one who saw
! the purchase and liberation. "Ah,' said
| be, II was once a captive myself, aud
! know how good il is to be free" Ny
! friend. let your har6Ships in life, make
! you sympathetic with the hardships OF
/ Others. Free now yourselves; help others
! to get free.
when Governor Alexander stevens
Lay Dying.
| he persisted in having business matters
| brought to his bedside. | AN told there
were several petitions for pardon Vt promin-
| eut criminals, the petitions signed by in
flueDtial men There was also an applica-
| tion of an old woman in Jail signed only
! by herself The old Christian Governor
I said: II have so often got we'll after severe
| illness that you think will get well now,
! but shall not recover. Where is that ap-
| plication for tie pardon OF the woman in
| the penitentiary? As far as l can tell she
| has no friends. 1t seems to me that she
| has suffered enough. Give me the pen
| that | may sign her pardon. Some one
thinking he was too i'll and perhaps was
! not quite aware what he was doing said:
Governor; perhaps you had better wait
! till tomorrow when you may feel stronger
/ end better" Then the old Governors eye
| flashed and he said: II know what l am
about" And with his signature to that
friendless woman's pardon the last word OF
| his life was writteo and his pen fell from
the pale and rheumatic and dying hand
! forever. o NV soul. how beautiful his