Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16


the rust in the wheat, OF tho long rain with
the rye DOWN Independent OF the grass
hopper, OF the locust. OF the army worm, OF
the potato bug2 Independent OF the
drought that burns up the harvest? Inde-
pendent of the COW with the hollow horn,
or the sheep with the foot rot, or the pet
horse with nail in his hoof? Independent
OF the cold that freezes out the winter
grain? Independent of the snow bank out
OF which he must shovel himself? Indepen-
dent of the cold weather when he stands
thrashing his numbed fingers around his
body to keep them from being frosted? In
dependent of the frozen ears and the
frozen feet? Independent OF what?
Fancy farmers who have made their
fortunes In che city and go out In the
country to build houses with all the
modern improvements and make farming
n luxury may not need any solace but the
yeomanry who got their living out OF the
soil and who that way have to clothe their
families and educate their children ana
pay their taxes and meet the interest on
mortgaged farms-such men find terrinc
struggle. I demand that office seekers
and politicians fold up their gaseous and
imbecile speeches about the independent
life OF farmer and substitute some woru
OF comfort drawn from the fact that they
are free from city conventionalities anu
city epfdemics and city temptations.
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 skillful treat
ment of the incipient stages OF disease, ne
keeps YOU from sinking down to the awful
crisis? There is great deal OF cheap ana
heartless wit about doctors, but l notice
that the people who get off the wit are the
first to send for a doctor when there is any
thing the matter. There are those VINO
undertake to say in our day that doctors
are really useless. One man has written
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tor" That author ought to write one more
book entitled. Every Man His Own Un-
dertaker." "Oh," says some one, ply
sicians in constant presence of pain get
hard hearted!" Do they? The most cele-
brated surgeon of the last generation stood
in a clinical department Of one OF the New
York medical colleges, the students gath
cred In the amphitheater to see very
painful operation on little child. The OLD
surgeon said " Gentlemen, excuse me II
1 retire. These surgeons can do this as
we'll as I can, and as l get older 1t gives me
more and more distress 20 see pain.
Encourage the LAWYERS. They are often
cheated out of their fees, and so often have
to breathe the villanous 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 10
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 trans
cendent importance-a profession hoDored
by having on the bench Chief Justice
Story and at the bar u Rufus Choate
Encourage the teachers In our public
schools-occupation arduous and poorly
compensated. In all the cities when there
comes n fit of economy on the part OF ofh-
cials the first thing to do is always to cut
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fifty boys whose parents suppose them
precocious 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 fifteen
| years ofage ought to be mathematicians
| and neutrality-suspicious. and rhetoricians; to
| work successfully that great stufling ma
| chine, 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 children do we'll compliment the in
structor, praise the teacher thank the ed
ucator.
Encourage all invalds by telling them
how many you have known with the same
ailments who got we'll, and not by telling
| them of their sunken 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 chloral,
more stimulating than cognac, more tonic
than bitters. Many an invalid has re-
covered through the influence OF cheerful
surroundings.
Encourage all starting in life by yourself
becoming reminiscent. Established mer-
| chants, by telling these young merchants
when you got your first customer and how
you sat behind the counter eating your
luncheon with one eve on the door. Es-
| A.lI Is1k4 Io,r mn In
yers by telling OF the time when you broke
down in your first speech. Established
ministers OF the gospel, encourage young
| ministers by merciful examination of theo-
| logical candidates, not walking around
with u profundity and overwhelmlnRness
of manner as though you were one OF the
| eternal DEGREES. Doctor established, by
telling young doctors how you yourself
| once mistook the measles for scarlatina.
And il you have nothing to say thar is en-
couraging, 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. Encourage the
aged by thoughts of eternal juvenescence.
| Encourage the herdsman amid the troughs
| of sin to 90 back to the banquet at the
fathers homestead. Give us tones in the
major key Instead of the minor. Give us
Coronation" instead of "Naomi.'' You
have seen cars so arranged that one car
| going down the hill rolled another car 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 descending to the vale.
| Oh, let us bear one another's burdens!
A gentleman in England died leaving his
fortune by will totwo sons. The son that
staid 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 all,
but only an lmpostor. The trial came on.
Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English
courtroom and for twenty years the pride
OF Jurisprudence, heard that that injustice
was about to be practiced. He put off
his official robe. He put on the garb of
a miller. He went to the village where
that trial was to take place. He entered
the courtroom. He somehow got empan-
eled as one OF the jurors. The bribes came
around, and the man gave ten pieces of
gold to the other jurors, but as this was
| only poor miller the briber gave to him