Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-30

between our families and the grave,
fighting back the troops of disorder that
come up from their encampment by the
cold river. No one hears such thanks as
the doctor hears. They are eyes to the
blind, they are feet to the lame, their
path is strewn with the benedictions of
those whom they have befriended.
In the Hour of Anxiety.
boding in our house. All hope was gone.
The doctor came four times that day.
The children put away their toys and
all walked on tiptoe, and at the least
sound said, ''Hushl' How loudly the
clock did tick, and how the banister
creaked, though we tried to keep it so
still That night the doctor staid all
night He concentrated all his skill
upon the sufferer. At last the restless
ness of the sufferer subsidized into calm,
sweet slumber, and the doctor looked up
and smiled and said, ''The crisis is
past. When, propped up with pillows
in the easy chair, she sat, and the south
wind tried to blow rose leaf into the
faded cheek, and the children brought
fowers-the one red clover top, the
other violet from the lawn-to the lap
of the convalescent, and Bertha stoodon
high chair with a brush smoothing
her mothers hair, and we were told in
day or two she might ride out, joy
came back to our house. And as we
helped the old country doctor into his
gig, we noticed not that the step was
broken or the horse stiff in the knees,
and we all realized for the first time in
our life what doctors were worth. En-
courage them.
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. En-
courage lawyers in their profession of
transcendent Importance profession
honored by having on the bench Chief
Justice Story and at the bar a Rufus
Choate.
Encourage the teachers in our public
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 al
ways to cut down teachers salaries.
To take 40 or so 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 Is years of age
ought to be mathematicians and meta
physicians and rhetoricians; to work
successfully that great stuffing 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 well COM
pliment the instructor, praise the teach
er, 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 ask
ing them whether the color of their
cheek is really hectic or mentioning
cases in which that style of disease end
ed fatally or telling them how badly
they look. Cheerful words are more
soothing than Choral more stimulating
than cognac, more tonic than bitters
Many an invalid has recovered through
the influence of cheerful surroundings.
Speak Kindly to the Young.
Encourage all starting in life by your
self becoming reminiscent. Established
merchants, by telling these young mer-
chants when you got your first custom
er, and how you sat behind the counter
eating your luncheon with one eye or
the door. Established lawyers, encour-
age young lawyers 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 theological
candidates, not walking around with a
profundity and overwhelningness Of
manner as 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
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
A gentleman was passing along, cross
ing bridge in Germany, and lad came
along with a cage of birds for SALE The
stranger said, "How much for those
birds and the eager" The price was an
nounced, 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
for?" ssAh," said the stranger. 81 was