The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-03


the grave. fighting back the troops OF
disorder that come up from their en-
by the cold river. No one
hears such thanks Ms the doctor hears.
They are eyes 10 The blind. they are
feet to the lame. their path is strewn
with the benedictions of those whom
they have befriended.
Encourage the lawyers. They are
often cheated out of their fees, and so
often have to breathe the vllainous air
of courtrooms. and they so often have
to bear pondcrous responsibility. and
they have 10 maintain against the
sharks in their profession the dignity
of that calling which was honored by
the fact that the only man allowed to
stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord
was Moses. the lawyer, and that the BIZ
bic spoke of Christ as the advocate. En-
courage lawyers in their profession of
transcendent Importance profess
sisn honored by having on the bench a
Chief Justice Story and at the bar
Rufus Choate.
Encourage the teachers in our pub
lie chools--occupation arduous and
poorly compensated. In all the cities
when there comes a fit of economy on
the part of officials the first thing to
do is always to cut down teachers sala-
sizes. To take 40 or so boys whose par
ents suppose them precocious and keep
the parents from finding out their mis-
take, to take an empty head and fill it,
to meet the expectations Of parents
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age ought to be mathematician and
metaphy sicians and rhetoricianS. to
work successfully that great stuffing
machine the modern school system, is
very arduous work. Encourage them
bv the usefulness and the everlasting
ness and the magnitude OF their occu-
patton, and when your children do well
compliment the instructor, praise the
teacher. thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by telling
them how many you have known with
he same ailments who got well and
not by telling them of their sunlten eye
or asking them whether the color of
their checks is really hectic or men-
tioning cases in which that style Of
disease ended fatally or telling them
how badly they look. Cheerful words
are more soothing than chloral, more
stimulating than cognac. more tonic
thar bitters. Many an invalid has re-
sovored through the influence of cheer
tul surroundings.
Encouraging all starting in life by
yourself becoming reminiscent. Els
tablished merchants. by telling these
young merchants when you got your
first customer and how you sat be-
hind the counter eating your luncheon,
| with one eye on the door. Esta blished
lawyers, encourage young lawyers by
/ telling them the time when you broke
down in your first speech. Estab-
iished ministers Of the gospel. encour-
age young ministers by merciful exam
! ination of theological candidates, not
walking around with profundity and
overwhelmingness of manner az
though you were one of the eternal de
crees. Doctors established, by telling
Young doctors how you yourselves once
lnstook the measles for scarlatina.
/ And if you have nothing 10 say that is
encouraging. o man, put your teeth
Nightly together and cover them with
the curtain OF your lip; compress your
lips and put your hand over your mouth
and keep still.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
OF release and reassociation. Eucour-
age the aged by thoughts of eternal
juvenesceuce. Encourage the herds
man amid the troughs OF sin 10 60 back
TO the banquet at the fathers home
stead. Give us tones in the ma or key
instead of the minor, Give us Corona
ton" instead Of Naomi" You have
seen cars so arranged that one ear
going down the Hill rolled another car
up the hill. They nearly balanced each
other. And every man that finds life
up hill ought to be helped by those who
have passed the heights and are de-
scending to the vale. Oh, let us bear
one another's burdens
A gentleman in England died leaving
his fortune by will TO two sons. The
son that stayed at home destroyed the
fathers will and pretended that the
brother who was absent was dead and
buried. The absent brother after
dWHlie returned anu clal1neU MS part
of the property. Judges and jurors
were to be bribed TO say that the re
turned brother ard son was no son Z
ali. but only an impostor. The trial
came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride
Of the English courtroom and Tor "a
years the pride OF Jurisprudence. heard
that that injustice was about 10 be prac-
ticed, He put on his official robe. lie
put on the garb OF a miller. He went
to the village where that trial was to
take place. He entered the courtroom
He somehow got empaneled as one OF
the jurors, The briber came around
and the man gave ten pieces of gold
to the oJher Jurors, but as This was only
poor miller Che briber gave to him
only five pieces of gold. A verdict was
} brought in rejecting the rights of this
returned brother lie was TO have no
share in the inheritance. Hold, my
| lord /" said the miller "Uoldi We re