The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-02-24

/ ana give encouraging WORDS 10 an VINO
are engaged in this interest, from the
chief of editorial department down to
the boy that throws the morning or
evening newspaper into your basement
window.
Encourage mechanics. They will
plumb the pipes. or they viii calcimine
the ceilings. or they viii put down the
carpets. or they Will grain the doors. or
they viii fashion the wardrobe. BE not
among those whonever say anything 10
mechanic except TO find iault. II be
has done a job well, tell him it is splen-
didly done. The book y well bound. the
door is well grained. the chandelier is
well swung. the work is graudly accom-
piished. BE not among those employ
ers who never say anything TO their
employees except 10 swear az them. Do
nor be afraid you will make that me-
chanic so pulled up and arrogant be
viii 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 a finger Of the
right hand Denounced perhaps be-
cause the paint is so very faint ia color,
not recognizing the fact 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
scoided at because he seems to have
/ lamed a horse by unskiiliul shoeing
when the horse has for months had
SPAWN or ringbone or springhalt. You
feel you have the right 10 find fault
with a mechanic when he does ill. DO
you ever praise a mechanic when be
+ does we'll?
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 go through the land. and they
stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers TIE story about the
independent life of a farmer. giving
fattery where they ought to give sym
pathy Independent of what? / was
brought up on a farm; ! worked on
farm; / know all about it. ] hardly
saw a city until was grown. and tell
YOU that there is no class Of people in
the country who have it harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent of what? OF the
curculio that stings the peach trees.
of the rust in the wheat. of the long
rain. with the rye down? lndepend-
cnt 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 I'm his hoof2 Independent Of the
cold that freezes out the winter grain?
Independent Of the snow bank out of
which he must shovel himself? Inde-
pendent Of the cold weather when he
stands thrashing his nulnbed fingers
around his body TO keep them from
being frosted? Independent Of the
frozen ears and the frozen feet2 In
dependent Of what? Fancy farmers
who have made their fortunes in the
city and 60 ont in the country 10 build
houses with all the modern improve
ments and make farming a luxury may
not need any soace. but the yeomanry
who get their living out Of the soil ard
who that way have 10 cl0the their fam
lilies and educate their children and
pay their taxes and meet the interest
on mortgagcd farms. such men find a
terrific struggle. ! demand that Office
seekers and politicians fold up their
gaseous and imbecile speeches about /
the Independent life Of a farmer and /
substitute some word OF comfort I
drawn from the fact that they are free
from city conventionaities and city
epidemics and city temptations.
My most vivid remembrance Of boy
hood is Of my father coming in on a
very hot day from the harvesting field
and seating himself on the doorsili be-
cause he was too faint 10 get into the
house, the perspiration streaming from
forehead and from chin. and my moth
er trying to resuscitaie him with a
cup of cold water which he was too
faint to hold TO his own lips, while
saying TO MS: Don't be frightened;
there's nothing the matter. little
tired. that's an; a little tired" Ever
since that day. when I hear people
talking about the independent life Of
a farmer I see through the sham.
Farmers want not your batteries, but
your sympathies.
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 skill
'u treatment Of the incipient stages of
disease, he keeps you from sinking
down TO the awful crisis? There is a
great deal of cheap and heartless wit
lbout doctors. but notice that the peo-
pie who get of that wit are the first to
send for a doctor when there is any
hing the matter. There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doc
ors are really useless. One man has
written a book entitled: Every Man
lis Own Doctor" That author ought
o write one more book entitled: Every
Nan His Own Undertaken" "Oh," says
ome one, "physiciaus in constant pres
nee Of pain get hard hearted" Do
hey? The most celebrated surgeon Of
he last generation stood in a clinical
department. of one of the New York