Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-03-10

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the boy that throws the morning or
evening newspaper into your basement
window.
Encourage mechanics, They will
plumb the pipes, or they win calcimine
the ceilings, or they will put down the
carpets, or they will grain the doors, or
they will fashion the wardrobe. be rot
among those who never say anything TO
mechanic except to find fault, u he
has done job well, tell him 1t is splen-
didly done. The book is well bound, the
door is well grained, the chandelier is
well swung, the work is grandly accom-
plished. BE not among those employ
ers who never say anything TO their
employees except to swear at them. DO
not be afraid you will make that me-
chanic so puffed up and arrogant he
will never again want TO be seen with
working apron or in shirt sleeves, for
before the night comes of that day
when you praise HIM there will be a
lawusit brought against him because he
did not finish his work as soon as he
promised it, forgetful of the fact that
his wife has been sick and two of his
children have died of scarlet fever and
he has had a felon on finger of the
right hand. Denounced perhaps be-
cause the paint is so very faint in color,
not recognizing the fact that the me-
chanic himself has been cheated out of
the right ingredients, and that he did
not find out the trouble in time, or
scolded at because he seems TO have
amed horse by unskillful shoeing
when the horse has for months had
SPAWN or ringbone or springhalt. You
feel you have the right TO find fault
with mechanic when he does III. Do
you ever praise a mechanic when he
does well?
Encourage the farmers. They come
into your stores, you meet them in the
city markets, you often associate with
then, in the summer months. Office
seekers go through the land. and they
stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers TIE story about TIE
independent life OF farmer, giving
flattery where they ought to give SYM
pathy. Independent of what? was
brought up on farm; ! worked on a
farm; | know all about it. hardly
saw city until was grown, and | tell
you that there is no class OF people in
the country who have II harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent of what? OF the
curculio that stings the peach trees,
OF the rust in the wheat, of the long
rain, with the rye down? Indcpend-
ent OF the grnsshopper, of tne locust,
OF the army worm, of the potato bug?
Independent of the drought that burns
up the harvest? Independent OF the
COW with the hollow horn, or the sheep
with the foot rot, or the pet horse with
n nail in his hoof? Independent of the
cold that freezes out the winter grain?
Independent OF the snow bank out of
which he must shovel himself? Inde-
pendent Of the cold weather when he
stands thrashing his numbed fingers
around his body to keep them from
being frosted? Independent of the
frozen ears and the frozen feet? In
dependent of what? Fancy farmers
who have made their fortunes in the
city and go out in the country 10 build
houses with all the modern improve
ments and make farming a luxury may
not need any solacc, but the yeomanry
who get their living out Of the soil arj
who that way have TO clothe their fam
lilies and educate their children and
pay their taxes and meet the interest
on mortgaged farms, such men find
terrific struggle. demand that Office
seekers and politicians fold up their
gaseous and imbecile speeches about
the independent life Of farmer and
substitute some word OF comfort
drawn from the fact that they are free
from city conventionalities and city
cpidcmics and city temptations.
My most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is OF my father coming in on
very hot day from the harvesting field
and seating himself on the doorsill be-
cause he was too faint to get into the
house, the perspiration streaming from
forehead and from chin. and my moth
er trying to resuscitate him with
cup of cold water which he was too
faint to hold 10 his own lips, while
saying to us: "Don't be frightened;
there's nothing the matter "A little
tired, that's all; little tired" Ever
since that day. when I hear people
talking about The independent life Of
farmer see through The sham.
Farmers want not your batteries, but
your sympathies.
Encourage the doctors. You praise
the doctor when he brings you up from
an awful crisis of disease, but do you
praise the doctor when. through skill
full treatment of the incipient stages Of
disease, he keeps you from sinking
down to the awful crisis? There is a
great deal of cheap and heartless wit
about doctors, but Inotice that the peo-
pie who get off that wit are the first to
send for doctor when there is any
thing the matter. There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doc
tors are really useless. One man has
written a book entitled: Every Man
His Own Doctor" That author ought
10 write one more book entitled: Every
Man His Own Undertaken" "0h," says
some one, "physicans in constant pres
ence of pain get hard hearted" Do
they? The most celebrated surgeon Of
the last generation stood in clinical
department of one of the New York
medical colleges, the students gathered
in the amphitheater to see very pain
fu operation on little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen, excuse me
IL retire. These surgeons can do this
! as well as | can, and as get older II
| gives me more and more distress TO see
pain"
Physicians have so mauy harJShips,
| so many iuteTruptions, so MANY annoy.