The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-03
THE lola REGISTER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY s. 1899.

and give encouraging words to all who |
are engaged in this interest, from the |
chief of editorial department down 10 |
the boy that throws the morning or
evening newspaper into your basement
window.
Encourage mechanics. They will
| plumb the pipes, or they win 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 well. tell him it is SPLEEN
didly done. The book is we'll 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 a felon on q finger of the
right hand. Denounced perhaps be
cause the paint is so very faint in color,
not recognizing the fuct 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
scoded at because he seems to have
famed a horse by unskillful shoeing
when the horse has for months had
SPAWN or ringbone or sprnghalt, You
feel you have the right to find fault
with a mechanic when he does i'll. DO
you ever praise a mechanic when he
does well?
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 60 through the land, and they
stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers the story about the
independent life of farmer. giving
fattery where they ought to give sym
patty. Independent of what? ! was
brought up on a farm: worked on a
farm; | know all about it. | hardly
saw city until was grown, and tell
YOU that there is 10 class of people in
the country who have il harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent of what? OF the
curculio that stings the peach trees,
Of he rust in the wheat. of the long
rain. win the rye down? Independ-
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 sheep
with the foot rot, or the pet horse with
{ a nail in his hoofp Independent of the
cold that freezes out the winter grain
Independent of the snow bank out of
which he must shovel himself? indie
pendent Of the cold weather when he
stands thrnshing his numbed fingers
around his body TO keep them from
being frosted? Independent of the
frozen ears and the frozen feet? In
dependent OF what? Fancy farmers
= who have made their fortunes in the
city and go out in the country 10 build
houses with all the modern improve.
7 ments and make farming luxury may
y not need any solace. but the yeouanry
j who get their living out of the soil ard
who that way have to clothc their fam
lilies and educate their children and
5 pay their taxes and meet the Interest
r on mortgagcd farms. such men find a
S terrific struggle. J demand that Office
: seekers and politicians fold up their
o gaseous and imbecile speeches about
j the independent life Of a farmer and
e substitute some word OF comfort
g drawn from the fact that they nre FIRE,
from city conventionalities and city
e epidemics and city temptations.
My most vivid remembrance of boy
Il hood is Of my father coming in on +
a very hot day from the harvesting field
a and seating himself on the doorsili be
s cause he was too faint to get into tn,
d house, the perspiration streaming from
u forehead and from chin, and my moth
e err trying to resuscitate him with {
= cup of cold water which he was too
e faint to hold 10 his own lips, Will,
IS saying to us: Don't be frightened
,; there's nothing the matter. A littl'
llTcu, NHdN n iNAiC E''Fl
e since that day, when ! hear people
e talking about the independent life o
r farmer I see through the sham
e Farmers want not your batteries, bu
It your sympathies.
a Encourage the doctors. You prais
d the doctor when he brings you up from
e an awful crisis OF disease, but do yo'
J. praise the doctor when, through skill
It full treatment of the incipient stages o
r disease, he keeps you from sinking
e down TO the awful crisis? There is
'r great deal of cheap and heartless wi
l. about doctors, but notice that the pee
m Pile who get off that wit are the first T.
Of send for a doctor when there is any
thing the matter. There are those VIII
~ undertake to say in our day that doc
e, tors are really useless. One man ha
xyrittan hook entitled. "EVprN Ma