The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1899-02-01

are engaged in this interest from the
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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 viii calcimine
the ceilings, or they will put down the
carpets, or they will grain the doors, or
they will fashion the wardrobe. Be not
among those who never say anything to
mechanic except to find fault, If he
has done job well, tell him it is splen-
didly done. The book is we'll 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 pc
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 felon on finger of ashe
right hand. Denounced perhaps he
cause the paint is so very faintin colcr,
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
lamed 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 ill. Do
you ever praise mechanic when he
does well?
Encourage the farmers. They come
into your stores, you meet them in the
city markets, you often associate with
them in the summer months. Office
seekers go through the land, and they
stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers the story about the
independent life of farmer, giving
fattery where they ought to give SYM
pathy. Independent of what? l was
brought up on, farm; l 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 it harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. independents of what? Of the
curculio that stings the peach trees
of the rust in the wheat, of the long
rain, with the rye down? Independ.
ent of the grasshopper, of the 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 sheer
with the foot rot, or the pet horse with
a nail in his hoof? Independent of the
cold that freezes out the winter grain
Independent of the snow bank out o.
which he must shovel himself? Inde
pendent of the cold weather when h,
stands thrashing his numbed finger!
around his body to keep them from
being frosted? Independent of th'
frozen ears and the frozen feet? In
dependent of what? Fancy farmers
who have made their fortunes in tn,
city and go out in the country to builC
houses with all the modern improve
ments and make farming luxury ma.
not need any solace, but the yeomanr,
who get their living out of the soil art
who that way have to clothe their fam
lilies and educate their children ant
pay their taxes and meet the interes
on mortgaged farms, such men find
terrific struggle. ! demand that office
seekers and politicians fold up thei
gaseous and imbecile speeches abou
the independent life of farmer an,
substitute some word of comfor
drawn from the fact that they are fre
from city conventionalities and cit,
epidemics and city temptations.
My most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is of my father coming in on
very hot day from the harvesting fiel,
and seating himself on the doorsili be
cause he was too faint to get into tn
house, the perspiration streaming fror
forehead and from chin, and my moth
er trying to resuscitate him with
cup of cold water which he was to
faint to hold to his own lips, Will
saying to us: Don't be frightened
there's nothing the matter. A littl
tired, that's all; little tired" Eve
since that day, when hear peopl
) talking about the independent life Q
farmer I see through the shan
Farmers want not your batteries, bu
, your sympathies.
Encourage the doctors. You prais
the doctor when he brings you up fror
an awfu! crisis of disease, but do yo
praise the doctor when, through skill
, full treatment of the incipient stages G
disease, he keeps you from sinkin
, down to the awful crisis? There is
: great deal of cheap and heartless wi
about doctors, but notice that the pee
| pie who get off that wit are the first I
I send for doctor when there is any
thing the matter. There are those VIII
! undertake to say in our day that doc
, tors are really useless! One man ha
: written book entitled: Every Ma
: Ris own Doctor" That author ougt
! TO write one more book entitled: Ever
Man His Own Undertaken" "Oh," say