Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-04

he has done job well. tell him it is
splendidly done. The book is well
bound. the door is well grained, the
chandelier is we'll swung, the work lie
grandly accomplished. Be not among
those employers who never say any
thing to their employees except to swear
at them. Do not be afraid you will
make that mechanic so ruffed up and
arrogant he will never as..in 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 lawsuit brought against him
because he I'D not finish his work rs
soon as he promised it. forgetful of the
fact that his wife his been sick and two
of his children have died of scarlet fever
and he has had felon ON finger of
the, right hand. Denounced perhaps be-
cause the paint is go very faint in color,
notlecognizing the fact that the me-
ch;iaic himself has been cheated oi.t Of
the right ingredients. and that he did
not lind out the trouble in time, or
scolded ut because he seems to have
famed a horse by unskillful shoeing,
when the horse has fer months had
SPAWN or ringbonc or springhalt. You
feel you hHvs the right to find fault
with mechanic whom he does i'll. Do
you ever praise mechanic when he
does wellY
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 in
dependent life of farmer, giving fiat
terry where they ought TO give sympa-
thy Independent of what? was
brought up on farm, worked on a
farm. / know all about it. / hardly
saw IL city until was grown, and l
tell You that there are no class of peo-
pie in this country who have it harder
and who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent of what? Of the
curcnlio that stings the peach trees OF
the rust in the wheat, of the long rain
with the rye DOWN. Independent of the
grasshopper, of the locust, of the army
worm, of the potato bug? Independent
of the drought that burns up the har-
vest? Independent of the COW with the
hollow horn, or the sheep with the foot
rot. or the pet horse with nail in his
hoofy Independent of the cold that
freezes out the winter grain2 1ndepend-
ent of the snow bank out of which he
must shovel himselff Independent OF
the cold weather when he stands thrash
ing his numbed fingers around his body
to keep them from being frosted? indie
pendent of the frozen ears and the
frozen feet? Independent 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 Improvements and make farm
ing luxury may not need any solace,
but the yeoman-y who get their living
ont of the soil and who that way have
to clotho their families and educate
their children and pay their taxes and
litGL Tile lultItSl lIlO1 1ebA4
such men find terrific struggle. l de-
mand 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 conventionalitics and
city epidemics ald city temptations.
Need sympathy, Not Tlattery.
Nv most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is of my father coming in on
very hot day from the h;..v. fed and
seating himself on the Goorsill because
he was too faint 10 get INTO the house,
the perspiration sire ming from fore
head and from chin, a,:d my mother
trying to resuscitate him with a cup Of
! cold water, which he was too faint tc
hold to his own Ii while saying to us:
Don't be frightened There's nothing
the matter; little tired, that's all;
little tired. Ever sir that cay, when
hear ruople talking abcG.i the indie
pendent life Of farmer see through
the sham Farmers want not your flat
teries, 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 yer from sinking
down to the awful crisis2 There is
great deal of cheap and heartless wit
about doctors. but l iotice that the
people who get off that wit are the fist
to send f.. doctor when there IS any
thing the matter. There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doc
tors are really uscl,s One man has
written a book q tiled, every Man
His Own Doctor Tat author ought
to write one more book entitled, "Ev
cry Man His Own Undertaken. "Oh,
says some one, "pnysici MS in constant
PRESENCE of pain get hard hearted + Do
they? The most celebrated surgeon OF
the last gene ton stood in a clinical
department OF one Of the New York
medical colleges. the students gathered
in the amphitheater to see very pain
fa operation on little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen. excuse me
if 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 annoy
ances, l am glad they have so many en-
couragelnents All doors open to them.
They are welcome to mansion and to
cot. Little children shout when they see
them coming down the road, and the
aged, recognizing the step, look up and
say, Doctor, is that your 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