The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-02-10

the rust In the wheat, of tho long rain with
the rye down2 Independent OF the grass
hopper OF the locust. OF the army worm, OF
the potato bug? 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? Iu-
dependent OF tho frozen ears and the
frozen feet? Independent OF what?
Fancy farmers who have made their
fortunes In the city and go out In tho
country to build houses with all the
modern improvements and make farming
luxury may not need any solace. but the
ycomanry who got their living out of the
SOIL and who that way have to clothe their
families and educate their children and
pay thetr taxes and meet the interest on
mortgaged farmS-such men find u terrific
struggle. L demand that ofIlce seekers
and politicians fold up their gaseous and
imbecile speeches about the Independent
lie OF farmer and substitute some word
OF comfort drawn from the fact that thev
are free from city conventionalities and
city epidomics and city temptations.
Encourage the doctors. Iou praise the
doctor when he brings you up from an
awful crisis Of disease, but do YOU praise
mont of the incipient stages OF disease ha
keeps You from sinking down to tao awful
crisis? There Is q great deal of cheap and
heartless wit about doctors, but I notice
that the people who get OF the wit ara the
first to send for II doctor when there is any
thing tho matter. There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doctors
arc really useless. Onp man has written II
book entitled. Every Man His Own Doc
tor That author ought to write ono more
h.,n Ttc l.
dcrtaker.' "Oh,' says some one. "phy-
sicians in constant presence OF pain get
hard hearted" Do thsv? The most ccle-
brated surgeon Df the last generation stood
in II clinical department Of one OF the New
York medical colleges, the students gath
ored in the nmphithoater to SEQ very
painful operation on Il little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen. excuse me il
rctirc.- These surgeons can do this as
well rs can and as ] get older IT gives me
more and more distress 20 see pain"
Encourage the LAWYERS. They are often
ch"ntcd out OF th"ir fees. AMI so often have
to breathe the viliainouS air Of courtrooms,
ana they so often hive to boar p0nuerouS
| 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 Siuai beside tho Lord was
Moses, th" lawyer. ana that the Bible
speaks of Christ as the advocate. Encour-
age lawyers in their profession OF trans
rendrnt impOrtance-a profession honored
by having on the bench n Chief Justice
Story and at the bnr II Rufus Choate:
Encourage the teachers in our pubic
schools-occupation arluous and poorly
compensated. In all the cities when there
comes fit of economy on tho part OF OFF,
cials the first thing to do is always to cut
down teachers salaries. To take forty or
nifty boys whose parents suppose them
precociOus and keep tns parents from
finding out their miStake:to TO take an empty
head and fill 1t; To meet the expectation Of
parents who think their children nj llftrrn
years of age ought to h" mathrmaticians
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and rhctori:ians: to
! work successfully that great stuling ma
chine, the modern school system. is II very
arduous work. Encourage them by the
! usefulness and the cvrvlastinSncSS and tho
magnitude o; their occupation. and when
your childr.n do well compliment the in
structcr, prais" the teacher, thank tho ed
ucator.
Encourage all ,nvalds bv telling them
how many you have known with the same
ailments who got we'll. and not by telling
! them Of their $unLrn eye or asking thom
whether th" color Of their chceS is really
hectic or mentioning eases in which that
! style of disease ended fatally or telling
them how badly thrv look. Cheerful
words are moro soothing than choral.
more stimulating than cOgnac, more tonic
than bittcrs. Many an invalid has re-
covered through the influence OF cheerful
Encourage all starting in life 10y yourself
becoming reminiscent. Established m"r-
chants. hy telling these young merchants
when you got your FIRST customer, and how
YOU sat behind the counter eating your
luncheon with one eve IN the door ES-
tablishci lawyers. encourage young law
y"rS by telling OF the time whom YOU brok"
down in your NrSt speech. Established
ministers of the gospel. encourage voung
ministers by m.rciful examination Of theo-
| ln,vtn l..t n.Nt l. inf .,,,n 1
with Il prOfundity and Observation-Disclosures
Of manner though You were one of the
eternal DEGREES. Doctor established. by
telling Young doctors how you yourself
once miStook the measles for Scaratina.
And II you nave nothing IO saw thar is en-
! couraginS.O man. put your teeth tightly
together and cover them with the curtain
OF your lip. compress your lips and put
your hand ov"r your mouth ara keep
still.
Encourage the troubled by thonchts Of
release and rrasSociation. Encourage the
aged by thoughts of eternal iuvcnrscence.
| Encour:.S" the herdSmun amid tn" troughs
OF sin to go back to The banquet at the
| fathers homestead. Give ia tones in the
major key instead of tie minor Give us
| Coronation" instead of Naomi You
| have seem ears SO arranged that one car
| going down the hill rolled another ear up
! the hill. They nearly balanced each other.
| And every man that rads Iifrup Hill ought
| to be helped hy those who have passed the
heights md are descending to the vale
! Oh. let MS bear ono anOth"r's burdens,
\ gentleman in England died leaving his
! fortune hy will to two sous. Tho son that
| staid at home destroyed the fathers will
| and pretended thai the brother who was
| absent was dead and buried. The absent
brother after awhile returned and claimed
| his part of the property. Judges ana
Jurors were to II" brbri to suv that th" re.
| turned brother and son WAS no son at ali
| bur only an impostor. Ihr trial came on
| Sir Matthew Hale. the priG" of tn" i.ugiiSh
| courtroom and for twenty wears the pride
| of juriSprudrnrr, heard that that injustice.