Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-09

to enlighten the medical profession, and
in act all who read and think concern
ing SAM tary rules so much needed in
every community.
"What is your idea concerning intern
perate or alcoholic habits, in treating dis
ease?" was a question asked, and an
swered thus:
81 believe something in heredity; chill
iren of intempe ate parents are not as
likely to live to extreme old age as those
who are born of temperate parents. Evil
ends to peIpetuate itself"
Looking over five decades of medical
Experience among the same people and
heir descei dants. what a repository of
Joys, sorrows and strange comminglines
must the memory of such a physician
be! Never will the proper words of APP
probation be heard uutil they shall be
poken by Him who shall say, . Inas-
much as we have done it unto one Of the
least of these, We have done it unto me, !"
where
ono chilling winds poisonous breath
Can reach that healthful shore;
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and feared no more"
DR.. Butler married Miss Harriet Moore.
native of Unity, N. H., a lady in every
sense of the word, prepos sessing in APP
pearance, OF pleasing address, who sup
elements the DOCTORS work with many ul.-
,otruslve, kindly acts. especially among
ne working people. Arthur Butler,
heir only son, was a graduate from DARE
mouth, having taken the Chandler scien
INC course. He was a most excellen
mathematician, and chose for his profess
sion that of civil engineering. ard is
ranked high in the calling He has
home in one of the middle estern states.
having married and settled there. III,
was given every opportunity by his D II
ents for an early and thorough educs-
lion, and in the pleasant home of his boy
hood had many helps in the direction of
ai'hful culture.
DR.. Butler also does much office work.
beiog supplied with quantities of drug
and medicines, and often performs dental
service for some forlorn sufferer. Strict
~ temperate and giving all possible care
to the rules of health, he is well pre-
served, and the long years of practice
make his experience valuable If one
could reasonably compute the miles trsv
ersed through these so years, we might
realize even more the wearing life it is to
be country doctor.
Give the physician always, much of
praise, and little of blame; they have
heartaches for you, as well as for them
selves. While you bend with sleeples,
ewes over your loved ones, graphing
with the fierce fever, or sinking helpless
'y away from you with some malady
which battles the physicians skill, he
PAGES the floor of his office, or lies with
hrobbing temples and active brain, stud
wing the case in all its changes, crying
for help to the great unseen Helper. He
gives you thousand times more than
GU can ever know. Even when the hour
comes that he cannot give you back the
dear ones restored in body and mind, he
is giving self and life in the work he has
set himself to do. Do not neglect him:
do not forget him. In the hot glare OF
the noon-tide, he obeys your summons:
in the chill and darkness of the midnight:
in the rain. the snow, and the sleeG be
comes at the cry for aid in your distress
rs, and when the ozark angelo is an I'M
welcome guest in your home, he helps
you keep calm unclouded reason at the
helm. Nay! There is no monument grand
enough for him who glorifies the hideous-
ness OF disease, often repul.ive beyond
what can be expressed; he is the ga bou
Ben-Adhem" type of those who love
their fellow men, and their. names are
written first.