The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-02-15

a 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 and
pay their taxes and meet the interest on
mortgaged iarms-such men find terrific
struggle. demand that Office seekers
and politicians fold up their gaseous and
imbeclle speeches about the independent
life Of farmer and substitute some word
OF comfort drawn from the fact that they
are free from city conventionalities and
city epidemics 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. he
keeps you from sinking down to the awful
crisis? There is great deal OF cbenp and
heartlesg wit about doctors, but notice
that the people who get of the wit are the
first to send for doctor when there is any,
thing tho matter. There are those who
undertake to say In our day that doctors
are really useless. One nun has written n
book entitled, C. Every Man His Own Doc
tor" That author ought to write one more
book entitled, every Man His Own Un-
dertaker." "Oh," says some one, "phy-
sicians in constant presence OF pain get
hard hearted" Do they? Tho mos! cele-
brated surgeon OF the last generation stood
in clinical department Of one OF the New
York medical colleges, the students gath
cred In the amphithaater to see very
painful operation on little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen, excuse me II
I retire. These surgeons can do this as
we'll as can, and as get older It gives me
m ore and more distress 70 see pain"
Encourage the lawyers. They are often
cheated ont OF their fees, and 80 often have
to breathe the vlllainous air OF courtrooms,
and they so often have to bear ponderous
responsibility, aud 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 trans
cendent importa nce-a profession honored
by having on the bench Chief Justice
Story and at the bar Rufus Choate:
Encourage the teachers In our public
schools-occupatlon nrduous and poorly
In oil tho cities when there
comes n fit OF economy on the part Of off,
cials the first thing to do is always to cut
down teachers salaries. To take forty or
fifty boys whose parents suppose them
precocious and keep the parents from
finding out their mistake;t to take m empty
head and fiji it; to meet the expectation OF
parents who think their children at fifteen
years ofage ought to be mathematiclans
and metaphystcians and rhetoricians; to
work successfully that great stuflng ma-
chine, the modern school system. Is very
arduous work. Encourage them By the
usefulness and the everlastlngness and the
o; their occupation. and when
your children do we'll compliment the In
praise the teacher, thank the ed
ucator.
Encourage all invallds 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
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 eye on the door. Es-
tabllshed lawyers, encourage young law
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 profundity and overwhelminGnes5
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 that Is en-
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.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts OF
release and reassociation. Encourage the
aged by thoughts Of eternal juvenescence.
the herdsman amid the troughs
Of sin to go 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 30 arranged that one car
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 to two 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 impostor. The trial came on.
Sir Matthew Hale, the pride Of the English
courtroom aud for twenty years the pride
OF jurisprudence, heard that that Injustice
his official robe. He put on the garb OF
a miller. He went to the village where
that trial was to take place. BE entered
the courtroom. He somehow got empan-
eled as one OF the jurors. The. bribes came
around, aud the man gave ten pieces OF
gold to the other jurors, but as this was
only poor miller the briber gave to him
only five pieces OF gold. A verdict was
brought In rejecting the rights OF this re-
turned brother. He was to have no share
In the Inheritance. "Hold, my lord!' said
the miller. "Hold; we are not all agreed
on this verdict. These other men have
received ten pieces OF gold In bribery,
and I have received only fve." WHO
are you? Where do you como from?" said
the Judge on the bench. The response
was: II am from Westminster Hall;
my name is Matthew Hale, lord chlef
Justice OF tho kings bench. on OF that
place thou villain" And so the injustice
was baked, and 80 the young man got his
1t was all for another that
Sir Matthew Hale took off bis robe and put
on the garb OF miller. And so Christ took
off His robe OF royalty and put on the attire
Of our humanity, and In that disguise He
won our eternal portion. Now are We the
SONS OF Godl Joint heirs! We went of
from home sure enough, but we got back
In time to receive our eternal Inheritance.
And II Christ bore our burden, surely We