Connecticut western news., 1899-02-02

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 physicians and rhetoricians; to work successfully that great stuffing ma chine the modern school system, is a 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
 CT, 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 ad 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 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 on the door. Established lawyers, encour- age young lawyers by telling of the | time when you broke down in your first I speech. Established ministers of the | gospel, encourage young ministers by 1 merciful examination of theological | candidates not walking around with profundity and overwhelmingness of manner as though you were one of the eternal decrees. 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, o man, put your teeth l 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 cage of birds for sale. The stranger said, "How much for those birds and the eager" The price was an nounce6, 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 r .'Ah, said the stranger 'I was a captive myself once. and know how good it is to be free o ye who re- member hardships in early life, but have come beyond those hardships, sym 1 pathize with those who are in the strug glel Free yourself help others to get free.
 Governor Alexander Stephens persist ed in having business matters brought to his bedside. There was on the table petition for the pardon of distin- guished criminal, the petition signed by distinguished men. There was also on that table letter from poor wom- an in the penitentiary, written and signed by herself alone. Dying Alexan- der Stephens said: "You think that be- cause have been ill so many times and got well shall get well now, but you are mistaken I shall not recover. l Where is that letter by that woman in the penitentiary? 1 think she has suf i fered enough. As near as can tell she has no friends. Bring me that paper that may sign her pardon A gentle man standing by, thinking this too great responsibility for the sick man. | said: Governor, you are very sick now. Perhaps you had better wait till 1 tomorrow. You may feel stronger, and you may feel better. Then the eye of the old governor flashed, and he said, '1 know what l am about. Putting his signature to that pardon, he wrote the last word he ever wrote, for then | the pen fell from his pale and rheu- matic and dying hand forever. O my soul, how beautiful that the closing hours of life should be spent in helping one who had no helper
 Encourage the Aged.
 Encourage the troubled by thoughts l of release and reassociation. Encourage the aged by thoughts of eternal juve- nescence. Encourage 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 so ar- ranged that one car going down the hill rolled another car up the hill They 1 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 i 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 returned brother and son was no son at all, but only an impostor The trial came on. Sir Mat 1 thew Hale, the pride of the English courtroom and for 20 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 em- paneled 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 only five pieces of gold. A verdict was brought in reject ing the rights of this returned brother. He was to have no share in the inherit ance. Hold, my lordP' said the miller. 'Hold; we are not all agreed on this verdict. These other men have received ten pieces of gold in bribery, and have received only fve.' "Who are you9 Where do you come fromf" said the judge on the bench. The response was: Il am from Westminster hall; my name is Matthew Hale, lord chief justice of the kings bench. Off of that place, thou villainl'' And so the injus- tice was baked and so the young man got his inheritance It was all for an other that Sir Matthew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of mill A s..4 l. .cc --H