The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-09

of men who want compliment
tary newspaper notices, or who want
retraction; one day sent to
report burial, the next day to report
a pugilistic encounter; shifted from
place to place by sudden revolution
which is liable to Take place any day in
our great journalistic establishments;
precarious life becoming more aid
more precarious-if you understood it
you would be more sympathetic. Be
affable when you have net an AK to be
on their grindstone. Discuss
in your mind what the nineteenth Gen.
tury would be without the newspaper,
and give encouraging words to all who
are engaged in this interest, from the
chief of editorial department down to
the boy that throws the morning or
evening newspaper into your basement
window.
Encourage mechanics. They will
plumb the pipes, or they will calcimine
the ceilings, or they will put down the
carpets, or they will grain the doors, or
they will fashion the wardrobe. Be not
among those who never say anything to
a mechanic except to find fault. If he
has done job we'll, tell him it Is splen-
didly done. The book is well bound. the
door is we'll grained, the chandelier is
we'll swung. the work is grandly accom-
plished. Be not among those employ
ers who never say anything to their
employees except to swear at them. Do
not be afraid you will make that me-
chanic SO pulled up and arrogant he
will 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
lamed horse by unskillful shoeing
when the horse has for months had
SPAWN or ringbone or springhalt. You
feel you have the right to find fault
with mechanic when he does i'll. 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 tie story about the
independent life of farmer, giving
flattery where they ought to give SYM
pathy. Independent of what? / was
brought up on farm; worked Oh a
farm; know all about it. I hardly
saw city until was grown, and tell
you that there is no class of people in
the country who have it harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent of what? Of the
curculio that stings the peach trees
of the rust in the wheat, of the long
rain, with the rye down? Indcrend.
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 sheer
| with the foot rot, or the pet horse with
nail in his hoof? Independent of tn.
cold that freezes out the winter grain
| Independent of the snow bank out o.
| which he must shovel himself? Inde
| pendent of the cold weather when h
stands thrashing his numbed finger:
| around his body to keep them from
being frosted? Independent Of thu
frozen ears and the frozen feet? In
dependent of what? Fancy farmer
who have made their fortunes In tn,
city and go out in the country to buil'
houses with all the modern improve
ments and make farming a luxury ma.
not need any solace, but the yeomanr.
who get their living out of the soil ar
who that way have to clothe their fam
| lilies and educate their children an
paw their taxes and meet the interes
on mortgaged farms, such men find
terrific struggle. I demand that office
seekers and politicians fold up thei
gaseous and imbecile speeches abou
the Independent life of farmer an
substitute some word of comfor
drawn from the fact that they are fre
from city conventionalities and cit
epidemics and city temptations.
| NV most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is of my father coming in on
very hot day from the harvesting fiel
and seating himself on the doorsiii bt
cause he was too faint to get into til
house, the perspiration streaming froI
forehead and from chin, and my mott
er trying to resuseitate him with
cup of cold water which he was to
faint to hold to his own lips, Will
SAYING to us: "Don't be. frightened
there's nothing the matter, A littl
tired, that's all; little tired" Eve
since that day, when hear peopl
talking about the Independent life {