The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-25

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They stand between our families and
the grave, fighting back the troops OF
disorder that come up from their en-
campment by the cold river. No ons
hears such thanks as the doctor hears.
They are eyes TO the blind, they ara
feet to the lame, their path is strewn
with the benedictions of those whom
they have befriended.
Encourage the lawyers. They are
often cheated out of their fees, and 81
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 BIZ
BILE spoke of Christ as the advocate. En-
courage lawyers in their profession of
transcendent importance-a profess
sion honored by having on the bench
Chief Justice Story and at the bar q
Rufus Choate.
Encourage the teachers in onr pub
| lie schools-occupation arduous and
| poorly compensated. In all the cities
when there comes fit of economy ON
the part Of officials the first thing to
do is always to cut down teachers sala-
pies. TO take 40 or so boys whose par
ents suppose them precocious and keep
the parents from finding out their mis-
take. to take an empty head and fill it,
to meet the expectations of parents
who think their children at Is years OF
age ought to be mathema ticians and
metaphysicians and rhetoricians, to
work successfully that great stuffing
machine the modern school system, is
a very arduous work. Encourage them
by the usefulness aud the everlasting
ness and the magnitude of their occu-
patton, and when your children 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 sunken eye
or asking them whether the color of
their checks is really hectic or men
tioning cases in which that style Of
disease ended fatally or telling them
how badly they look. Cheerful words
are more soothing than choral, mora
stimulating than cognac, more tonic
thar bitters. Many an invalid has re-
covered through the influence of cheer
full surroundings.
Encouraging all starting in life by
yourself becoming reminiscent. Es-
tablished merchants, by telling these
young merchants when you got your
first customer, and how you sat be-
hind the counter eating your luncheon.
with one eye on the door. Established
lawyers, encourage young lawyers by
telling them the time when you broke
down in your first speech. Estab-
lished ministers of the gospel, encour-
age young ministers by merciful exam
ination of theological candidates, not
walking around with profundity and
overwhelmingness Of manner as
though you were one of the eternal de-
crees. Doctors established, by telling
young doctors how you yourselves once
mistook the measles for scarlatina.
And if you have nothing to say that is
encouraging, 0 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
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
Of release and reassociation. Encour-
age the aged by thoughts Of eternal
juvenescence. Encourage the herds.
man amid the troughs of sin to go back
to the banquet at the fathers home
stead. Give us tones in the major key
instead of the minor. Give us Corona.
ton" instead of Naomi" You have
seen cars so arranged that one cas
going down the hill rolled another can
up the hill. They nearly balanced each
other, And every man that finds life
up hill ought to be helped by those who
have passed the heights and are de-
scending to the vale. Oh, let us bear
one another's burdens!
A gentleman in England died leaving
his fortune by will to two sons. The
son that stayed at home destroyed the
fathers will and pretended that the
} brother who was absent was dead and
, buried. The absent brother after
awhile returned and claimed his part
of the property. Judges and jurors
were to be bribed to say that the re.
, turned brother and son was no son at
ali, but only an impostor. The trial
came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride
of the English courtroom and for 20
years the pride of Jurisprudence, heard
: that that injustice was about to be prac-
| ticed. He put off his official robe. He
put on the garb CT miller. He went
to .he village where that trial was to
take place. He entered the courtroom
, He somehow got empaneled as one OF
III the jurors. The briber came around
and the man gave ten pieces of gold
to the other jurors, but as this was only
} q poor miller the briber gave to him
only five pieces of gold. A verdict was
} brought in rejecting the rights of thi:
| returned brother He was IN have nr