Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-02
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mechanic so pulled up and arrogant h,
will never again want to be seen will
working apron or in shirt sleeves, for b"
fore the night comes of that day when you
praise him there will be a lawsuit brought
against him because he did not finish his
work MS soon as he promised it, forRetful
of the fact that his wife has been sick and
two of his children have died of scarlet fc-
yer 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 mechanic
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 unskill-
full shoeing when the horse has for months
had SPAWN or ringbone or springhalt
You feel you have the right to find fault
with n mechanic when he does i'll. Do you
ever praise IA mechanic when he does well;
he sympathetic.
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 pc
litical Platforms and they tell the farmers
the story about the independent life of n
farmer, giving flattery where they ought
TO give sympathy. Independent of what?
i was Brought up on Il farm; worked on
farm; I know all about il. I hardly saw
a 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. indie
pendent of what, of the curculio that stings
the peach trees, of the rust in the wheat.
of the long rain, with the rye down? In
dependent of the grasshopper, of the locust,
of the army worm, of the potato bug? In
dependent Of the drought that burns III
the harvestY Independent of the COW with
the hollow horn or the sheep with the foot
rot, or the pct horse with n nail in his
hoof? Independent of the cold that freezes
out the winter grain? Independent of Il
the snow bank out of which he must shovel
himself? Independent of the cold weather
when he stands thrashing his numbed fin
gers around his body to keep them from
being frosted? Independent of the frozcr
ears and the frozen feet? Independent o.
what; Fancy farmers who have mad
their fortunes in the city and go out il
the country to build houses with all Il,
modern improvements and make farming
a luxury may not need any solacc, but IL
soil and who that way have to clotl
their families and educate their childrc,
and pay their taxes and meet the interca
on mortgaged farms, such men fird
terrific struggle. ! demand that oflic
seekers and politicians fold up their ga,
eous and inbccilc speeches about the ind,
pendent life of farmer and substitut,
some word of comfort drawn from the fac
that they are free from city conventional
ties and city epdemcs and city tempta
tons.
My most vivid remembrance of boyhoul
is Of my father coming in on u very no,
day from the harvesting field and scatiuE
himself on the doorsill because he was too
faint to get into the house, the pcrspira
ton streaming from forehead and from
chin, and my mother trying to resuscitatc
him with 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 A little tired,
that's all a little tired" Ever since that
day, when l hear people talking about the
Independent life of "A farmer see through
the sham. Farmers want not your fat
teries, but your sympathics.
Give Praise Where Due.
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 incipicnt stages of disease, he
keeps you from sinking down to the awful
crisis: There is great deal of cheap and
heartless wit about doctors, but l notice
that the people who get off that wit are
the first to send for doctor when there is
bp hAc
who undertake to say in our day that doc
tors are really useless. One man has writ
ten 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? The most
celebrated surgeon Of the last generation
stood in a clinical department of one Of
the New York medical colleges, the stu
dents gathered in the amphitheatcr to see
very painful operation on a little child
The old surgeon said: Gentlemen OK
cuse me if | retire. These surgeons can
do this as well as / can, and as get older
IL 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
mcnts. 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
ognizng the step, look up and say, doc
tor is that you:" They stand between our
families and the grave fighting back the
troops of disorder that come up from their
encampment by the cold river. No one
hears such thanks as the doctor hears
They are eyes to the blind, they are fc,
to the lame, their path is strcwn with the
benedictions of those whom they have be
friended
One day there was dreadful forebodinp
in our house. All hope was gone. The
doctor came four times that day The
children put away their toys and all walk
ed on tiptoe and at the least sound said
"I1ush" How loudly the clock did tick
| and how the banistcr crcaked, 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 the
| restlessness Of the sufferer subsidized into n
calm, sweet slumber and the doctor looked
up and smiled and said, 1.-The crisis j.,
past" When, propped up with pillows in
tho 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 violet
from the lawn-to the lap of the conva-
lescent, and Bertha stood on high chair
with brush smoothing her mother hair,
and we were told in n day or two she
might ride out, joy came back to our
house. And as we helped the old country