Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-01

To he coming your way. do you not
remeIlber those years of panic and
hard times. Would you like to live
those years over again? Your bust
ness partner broke down at that time
with nervous prostration. He died in
an insane asylum. Your own brain
was almost craZed Your hair is white
today from those trials Would you
like TO live them over again? How
DO you know you would come through
them next time as successfully as you
have doneF You know that it seemed
a mere chance that your father sod
friend came TO Your rescue at that
time or tLat oil was discovered upon
y0ur farm land. which land you could
never give away before and which
land you were almost tempted to let
90 to liquidate the taxes. Would you
like to be caught again in that rail-
road accident? Perhaps you were on
a train that was wrecked, in which
many passengers were crushed or mu-
tlated. You do not know how it hap
pened. You were sitting in the car
reading. Suddenly the engine gave
shrek; the brakes were damned hard
down. Then you awOke in a daZed
condition You heard groanings and
prayers being uttered all about you.
| You escaped. like Job, by the skin of
| your teeth. The man VINO sat Wlthln
| three feet of you was DEAD or what
| is worse. physically mangled Tor lie.
If You had TO p through that accldeht
again. would you be physlcaIIy Wen
| ana whole as YOU are TO-DAY On, no!
Most Of Us 90 Lot wish 10 run again
| the risks &c ran during our past hFeS-
| F.u..C..I r.s.,i domestic risks. phys
| .c.I Ei--s. hey nearly destroyed Us.
| .. c1,i.t net Dc suIe tIdt we should
f,-'2 '-.. 2.,'t'' '--e,ii'e' 'ol H"~NSo0
| .cs- <- We Ind to meet the
| ..--- 1E,-t ef or friends
80 .... ..=l destroyed were wreck
-,. - .. ....-..2 .r.yllI IS i hair. Most
| 4 ~-s. y .-y. JI 81 us, Oh the other
an--, axe ..a,a savcI bT that turning
! - &; l..iT. .A.liJ5t were we destroyed,
| J--t @,-.ist vas Mt quite enough to
.fL4tl..Gla Ia.
Ne fear to meet our past financial
ma r1ysical ana domestic dangers
again We should also tremble when
We look back upon our past spiritual
| ter,Dtatious. IT is absurd for some of
Ms to saw if we had our lives to live
| ovar again we would do any different
spiritually from what we did in days
that are gone. In all probability we
would do lust the same as we did in
the past if. not worse. Why? Because
today. with all our experiences and
shortcomings, we are going ahead sin
ming all the time. Edward Young,
the author of the famous Night
Thoughts well expresses the IDEA
when he wrote:
At thirty man SUSPECTS himself a. fool;
Knows it at forty; then resolves
And re-resolves ana dies the same.
Does knowledge about the dietary
and gastronomic laws make the physi
c;an careful about what he eats anG
how he eats? Oh. no. Doctors ca1
prescribe all right for their patients
But they are proverbial iconoclasts a
all the shrineS of health when they ap
ply those laws 10 theIr own apies
Their doctrine Us, DO not eat as 90
, but eat as say. LET convention "
physicians assemble, and they vii
. have the most intellectual papers reat
before them upon the proper treatmen
. of dyspepsia. Then they adjourn ant
so to tne.aable and eat twice as muci
, as they-ought to eat and eat that IN
masticated food in half the time the.
, ought to eat it. Then they will return
to their homes and have their meal
, at irregular hours. The physician
would never let his dyspeptic patient
eat as he does He knows what Ii
ought to do, but he does it. not. Now
a if we had to live our lives over agai
!. in all probability we would do in refer
ence to temptation just as the averag
J. physician does in reference to his we
@ known gastronomic laws. We woul
O fall before temptation as he yields
\ | the termination of the palate. And | &c