The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-04


chief of editorial department down Il
the boy that throws the morning oil
evening newspaper into your basement
window.
Encourage mechanics. They vii
plumb the pipes, or they wiz calcimino
the ceilings, or they will put down tn,
carpets. or they will grain the doors, OF
they will fashion the wardrobe. BE no,
among those who never say anything ia
a mechanic except 10 find fault. II he
has done n job well, tell him il 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. he not among those employ
crs who never say anything to their
employees except to swear at them. Do
not he afraid you will make that me-
chanic SO pulled up and arrogant he
VIII 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 felon on a 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
famed horse by unskillful shoeing
when the horse has for months had
| SPAWN or ringbone or springhalt. Gou
feel you have the right TO find fault
with mechanic when he does ill., Do
you ever praise mechanic when he
does we'll?
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
flattery where they ought to give sym
pathy. Independent of what? l was
brought up on a farm; l worked on n
farm; | know all about ii. | hardly
saw n city until was grown, and l 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? Indcpend-
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 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? indie
pendent of the cold weather when he
stands thrashing his nuInbed 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 to build
houses with all the modern improve
ments and make farming n luxury may
not need any solace, but the yeomanry
who get their living out of the soil ard
who that way have to clothe their fam
| lilies and educate their children and
| pay their taxes and meet the interest
| on mortgagcd 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
epidemics and city temptations.
! Ny most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is of my father coming in on
very hot day from the harvesting field
ard seating himself on the doorsili be-
cause he was too faint to get into the
house. the perspiration streaming from
forehead and from chin, and my moth
err trying to resuscitate him with a
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 the matter. 4 little
tired, that's all; little tired" Ever
since that day, when hear people
talking about the independent life Of
farmer see through the sham.
Farmers want not your batteries. bat
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 incipieni stages d
disease, he keeps you from sinkfng
down TO the awful crisis? There is o
great deal of cheap and beartless wit
about doctors, but notice that the peo
pie who get of that wit are the first &c
send for a doctor when there is any.
thing the matter. There are those who
undertake TO say in our day that doe
tors are really useless. One man hal
written n book entitled: Every Mar
His Own Doctor" That author ough
10 write one more book entitled: EVERY
Man His Own Undertaken" "Oh," say
some one, physicians in constant pres
ence of pain get hard hearted" d.