The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-30

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out the winter grain' Independent Of Q
the snow bsnk out Of which he must shovel
himself Independent Of the cold weather
when he stands thrashing his numbed I'm.
gers around his body to keep them from
being frosted9 Independent Of the frozen
ears and the frozen feets Independent Of
whsta Fancy farmers who have made
their fortunes In the city and 60 out In
the country to build houses with all the
modern improvements and make farming
aluxliry may not need any solace, but the
ysomanry who get their living out of the
soil and who that way have to clothe
their families and educate their children
and pay their taxes and meet the interest
OH mortgaged farms, such men find a
terrific struggle. l demand that Office
seekers and politicians fold up their gas.
eous and imbecile speeches about the indie.
pendent life of farmer and substitute
some word of comfort drawn from the fact
that they are free from city conventional
ties and city epidemics and city tempta-
lions.
My most vivid remembrance of boyhood
is Of my father coming in on a very hot
day from the harvesting field and seating
himself on the doorsill because he was too
faint to get into the house, the perspira.
tion streaming from forehead and from
chin, and my mother trying to resusctate
him with u cup of cold water which he
was too faint to hold to his own lips,
while saying to us: "Don't be frightened;
there's nothing tho matter. A little tired,
that all; q little tired" Ever since that
day, when hear people talking about the
independent life Of q farmer see through
tho sham. Farmers want not your fat.
teries, but your sympathies.
Give Praise Where Due.
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 skillful treat.
ment Of the incipient stages Of disease, he
keeps you from sinking down to the awful
crisis9 There is a great deal of cheap and
heartless wit about doctors, but notice
that the people who get off that wit are
the first to send for doctor when there il
anything the matter There are those
who undertake to say In our day that doc.
tors are really useless. One man has writ.
ten a book entitled, EVERY Man His Own
Doctor" That author ought to write one
more book entitled, Every Man His Own
Undertaken" '"Oh," says some one,
physicians in constant presence Of pain
get hard hearted!' Do they? Tho most
celebrated surgeon of the last generation
stood in clinical department of one OF
the New York medical colleges, tie stu.
dents gathered in the amphitheater to see
very painful operation on little child.
The old surgeon said: Gentlemen, ex.
cuse mo If l retire These surgeons can
do this as well as can, and as get Older
it gives me more and more distress to see
pain"
Physicians have SO many hardships, SO
many interruptions, so many annoyances,
am glad they have so many encourage
ments. All doors open to them. They
are welcome to mansion and to cot Lit
tie children shout when they see them
coming down the road, and the aged, rec
ognizing the step, look up and say, doc
tor, is that your" They stand between ouI
families and the grave, fighting back the
troops of disorder that come up from theiI
encampment by the cold river. No one
hears such thanks as tho doctor hears.
They are eyes to the blind, they are feet
to the lame, their path is strewn with the
benedictions of those whom they have be-
friended.
One day there was dreadful forebodine
in our house. All hope was gone. The
doctor came four times that day. The
children put away their toys, and all walk
ell on tiptoe and at the least sound said,
"Hushl' How loudly the clock did tick,
and how tho banister creaked though We
tried to keep it SO still That night the
doctor staid all night. He concentrated
all his skill upon the sufferer At last thu
restlessness of the sufferer subsidized into q
calm, sweet slumber, and the doctor looked
up and smiled and said "The crisis i.
past" When, propped up with pillows in
the easy chair, she sat and the south wind
tried to blow rose leaf into the faded
cheek, and the children brought flowers
the one red clover top, the other a violet
from the lawn-to the lap of the conva
lescent, and Bertha stood OH high chaiI
with brush smoothing her mothers hair,
and we were told in day or two she
might ride out, joy came back to our
house. And as we helped the old country
doctor into his gig we noticed not that the
step was broken, Or the horse stiff in the
knees, and We all realized for the first time
in our life what doctors were worth En-.
courage them.
Cheer the Downcast.
Encourage the lawyers. They are often
cheated out of their fees, and SO often have
to breathe the villainous air of courtrooms,
and they so often have to bear ponderous
responsibility, and they have to maintain
against the sharks in their profession the
dignity Ct 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 Bible
speaks of Christ as the advocate. Encour-
age lawyers in their profession of tran
scendcnt inportance-a profession hcnored
BY having on the bench Chief Justice
Story and at the bar Rufus Choate.
Encourage tho teachers in our public
schools-occupation arduous and poorly
compensated In all tho cities when there
comes fit of economy on the part of OFF,
cials the first thing to do is always to cut
down teachers salaries. To take 40 or so
boys whose parents suppose them preco-
cious and keep the parents from finding out
their mistake, to take an empty head and
fill it, to meet the expectation Of parents
who think their children at 10 years of age
ought to DO mathematician and meta
physicians and rhetoricans, to work sue.
cessfully that great stu1llng machine the
modern school system, is very arduous
work. Encourage them by the usefulness
and the cverlastlngncss and the magnitude
of their occupation, and when your chill
dren do well compliment the Instructor,
praise the teacher, thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by telling them
how many you have known with the same
ailments who got well and not by telling
them of their sunken eye or asking them
whether tho color of their cheek is really
hectic or mentioning cases in which that
style of disease ended fatally or telling
them how badly they look. Cheerful
words arc more soothing than chloral
more stimulating than cognac, more tonic
than bitters. Many an invalid has recov
cred through the influence Of cheerful sur
roundings.
Encourage all starting in life by your.
self becoming reminiscent. Established
merchants, by telling these young mer
chants when you got your first customer,
and how you sat behind the counter eating
your luncheon, with one eye on the door.
Established lawyers, encourage young law.
yers by telling of the time when you broke