Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-02

doctor into his gig we noticed not that the
step was broken, or the horse stiff in III,
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 of 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
scendent Importance profession honored
by having on the bench Chief Justice
Story and at the bar a Rufus Choate.
Encourage the teachers in our public
srhools-occupation arduous and poorly
compensated. In all the cities when there
comes fit Of economy on the part of OFF,
Gals the first tiing to do is always to cut
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 be mathematician and meta
physicians and rhetoricians, to work sue
cessfully that great stuffing machine the
modern school system, is very arduous
work. Encourage them by the usefulness
and the everlastingness and the magnitude
of their occupation, and when your chill
drcn do we'll 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 sunkcn eye or asking them
whether the 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 are more soothing than Choral
more stimulating than cognac, more tonic
than bittcrs. Many an invalid has rccov-
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
gers by telling of the time when you broke
down in your first speech. Established
ministers OF the gospel, encourage young
ministers by mcrcifu examination of
theological candidates, not walk ng around
with profundity and overwhelmingness
of manner ms though you were one of the
eternal DEGREES. Doctors established, by
telling young doctors how you yourself
once mistook the measles for scarlatina
And If you have nothing to say that is en-
couraging O man. put your teeth tightly
together and cover them with the curtain
OF your lip; compress your lips, and put
your hand over your mouth and keep still
Help the Needy.
A gentleman was passing along, cross
ing bridge in Germany, and lad came
| along with n cage of birds for sale The
! stranger said, "How much for those birds
and the cagc?" The price was announced,
| the purchase was made, and the first thing
| the stranger did was to open the door of
the cage and the birds flew out into the
| sunlight and the forest Some one who
| saw the purchase and the liberation said,
What did you do that forf" All" said
the stranger, Il was IL captive myself
| once, and l know how good it Is to be
free. Oh, ye who remember hardships
in early life, but have come beyond those
| hardships, sympathze with those who are
| in the struggle! Free yourself, help others
| to get free. Governor Alexander Stephens
persisted in having business matters
brought to his bedside. There was on tho
table petition for the pardon Of tiistin-
| guished criminal, the petition signed by
distinguished men There was also on
that table letter from u poor woman in
| the penitcntiary, written and signed by
herself alone. Dying Alexander stephens
said: You think that because have been
| i'll so many times and got well | shall get
well now, but you are mistaken; ] shall
| not recover. Where is that letter by that
woman In the pententiaryY l think she
has suffered enough AS near as can
tell she has no friends. Bring me that
paper that l may sign her pardon" A
gentleman standing by, thinking this too
| great responsibility for the sick man.
said Governor, you are very sick now
Perhaps you had better wait till tomor-
| row. You may feel stronger, and you may
feel better" Then the eye of the old gov
| ernor flashed, and he said, II know what
| | am about" Putting his signature to
| that pardon, no wrote the last word he
| ever wrote, for then the pen fell from his
| pale and rheumatic and dying hand for
ever. Oh, my soul, how beautiful that
| the closing hours Of life should be spent
in helping one who had no helper!
Encourage the troubled by thoughts of
release and reassociation. Encourage the
| aged by thoughts Of eternal juvenescencc.
Encourage the herdsman amid the
troughs of sin to go back to the banquet
at the fathers homestead Give us tones
in the ma or key instead Of the minor.
Give us Coronation" instead of "Nao-
| mi. " You have seen cars so arranged that
one car going down the hill rolled another
car up tho hill, They nearly balanced
each other. And every man that finds life
up hill ought to be helped by those wac
have passed the heights and are descend