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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1893)
CONVERSION, I wandered rtowti the riverside Where little litnls were singing Their vesper bymn, whim o'er tliu waves Came yeur volec sweetly rlnKlng. My heart was hunt with stubborn pride, I hart not tntwhcd my dinner, 1 knew myself a wleked wreteli. Hut nttiwl at 1 1 1 tUo siiinn. You itaiiK ft- little, simple song Of lovo divine anil human, And f I dropped thoro hi the dunk, And sunned like uny woman. Dear little friend, you dirt mil know On Tuesday aftui- dinner, Your notiif smw by tho riverside. Converted one biuw slnnerl Aunabul Dwiiilit lu Yuukue Blade. A COUNTRY DOCTOli. One Rtttr diffurH from another In glory. There In hili authority (or this mwr tioti, but ItH evident truth is of nonpKoiul aiKuiHciiucu to it aielt miin, Perhaps evon to a nutn in perfect health it in not of striking iuiportiince, But to the ob nervimt mind it in inturustirin to note that the country doctor differ ffrcatly from im profeKnioiml brother in the oity. I wan struck by this fact a few dnya ui,'o during a sojourn in the hill country of Connecticut. While there 1 named a day with a leading physician of the township. He leads a queer life. "A city doctor knows nothing of the difficulties we onoounter," remarked my friend as we drove toward the well tilled fields lying beyond the village. It was early morning, and the air was as fresh as a young nmn just out of college. The doctor had been up for two hours placing the nffuirs of his office on solid basin. "You see," he continued, "it is not bo bad in summer, but when the snow comes I lead a terrible life. I freeze my nose and earn, I am overthrown by drifts, at night I suffer from cold, and at mid day the sunlight on the Mil ow hurts my eyes. Nevertheless, I am happy." He whistled a merry tune, touched his mare with tiie whip, and in a few min utes drew up at a farmhouse, whose white walls and green bliiidB were pain fully inartistic. He was gone about fifteen minutes a doleful quarter of an hour for me. A cow munched grass in the front yard and an old oaken bucket was the only "citified" thing In sight. By that strange law of action and reaction it took me back to that awful night when 1 saw "Tiie Old Homestead ' at a New York theater. When the doctor had replaced his drug store underyiath the seat and had gathered up the linns I asked: "What kind of a case did you strike there.'' "Nothing serious," be answered. "A young woman of seventy is suffering from facial neuralgia. She has youtli and energy in her favor, however, and will lie all right m a day or two." 1 looked at him in surprise. Had his lonely life affected his brain? 'One trouble 1 have," ho went on, "lies in the fact that I cannot obtain any assistance in critical cases. When one of your New York physiciaus desires advice from a colleague all he has to do is to wnil a message down the block somewhere. There are times when 1 would give half my income for another doctor's aid, but I can't get it. I have to follow the bird that Hocked by itself and do my own consulting. 1 must stop here a moment. I'll be out again in five minutes." I don't believe a rural physician has any idea of time. It may be that he has the uhility to connt a pulse, but his in terpretation of what is comprised in the expression, "live minutes," is peculiar. I held that mare for fully half an hour. The flies bothered her and she grew rest less. There was no relief for me but to gaze at the undulating landscape and indulge in day dreams. "A pleasing land of drowsiness it was, of dreams that wave before the half shut eye, and of gay castles in the clouds that pass, forever Hushing round a summer sky." On a verdure crowned hill some miles to the northward arose a gigantic tree that seemed to rejoice in its enormous size. Perhaps beneath its branches the treacherous redskin had closed his heavy eyes. Perhaps it will look down upon the valley when Chicago has grown modest and Patagonia has been admitted to the V niiin. Such feverish fancies filled my mind until the doctor's return. "What's the matter inside?" I asked. "Oh, nothing to worry about. The sick man is about ninety-eight years old, and overworked himself yesterday in the haytield. He'll come out all right. I've prescribed a day's rest and a calomel pill. Why, do you know, that man, in spite of 1ub age, can do more on a farm in a week than you or I oould do in a month. This is a healthy country, my friend." I began to think he was right. Dur ing the morning he made ten calls. Not one of his patients was under seventy years of age. At dinner, however, his telephone rang for they have a few modern appliances up there, including a tank drama and he was urged to hasten to the bedside of a sick baby. 1 . went with him and held the mare, "There's naught so inuoh the spirit soothes as rum and true religion," re marked Byron, a poet onoe in vogue. It is evident that he had never waited for a country doctor as he tended a crying child. Such an experience is not only soothing to the spirit; it ie a narcotic to the senses. When the doctor returned I was fast asleep, while the mare was in a state of semioollapse. "What did yon do for the baby?" I asked. "Told them to kill the cow," he an Bwered crossly, and 1 did not pursue the subject. - Later in the afternoon he was called to u patient living eight miles away. Our road led through a dense forest, and the air wiib stifling. Before' we had emerged from the woods a storm came on, and the lightning flashed around ns in a realistic way worthy of a well staged rendition of "Dncle Tom's Cabin." We were wet to the skin, and my com panion seemed to realize that the expe rience was not pleasant to me, for he of fered me a cigar. Amid the war of the elements 1 grew desperate and lighted his gift After the first puff 1 really, hoped that 1 should be stricken by light ning. The shower had cleared away as we drew up before a low roofed, red painted cottage surronuded by trees. A very pretty girl oiiened the door to the doc tor, while I continued my occupation of holding a mare that would not have run away under the impulsion of a dynamite bomb. My friend returned after the ex piration of an exceedingly short time. "Nobody sick in there," he remarked; "an old woman nervous, that's all" "How old?" 1 asked anxiously. "One hundred and six. She's be ginning to grow somewhat supersensi tive." On our return to the office we found several patients waiting for the dis penser of potions, pills and powders. My doctor spent an hour or more reliev ing the aches and pains that had sought him out. Then we had supper. Before the meal was over the telephone rang agaiu. ' The man of science serenely abandoned his cold ham and iced tea. and I could hear him say: "Yes; give the baby two drom at 11." "Hello! No, don't wake her up during the night. If she's restless at sunrise rub her with oil. That's all. troodby." Before he could resume his supper a patient rang the office hell. My doctor was engaged for a hour. When he re joined me on the piazza the mare was at the door. "More calls'?" 1 asked. "Yes, of course; I always Bpeud the evening on the road. We are gone until 11 o'clock. The roads we traversed, the darkness of the woods, the dreary barking of watch dogs are to me like an unpleasant dream. We returned to the office tired and worn. The doctor looked pole, and 1 supposed of course that he would go at onoe to bed. What was my astonishment to him place upou his desk a number of account books. "Is not your day's work done?" 1 asked. He smiled hopelessly. "Just begun, my boy. If 1 didn't work now the re sult of the last twenty-four hours would amount to nothing in dollars aud ceuts. iheu he Biieiit halt an hour in making notes for Ins day s labor. I watched him with an emotion that was almost rev erential. Here, if anywhere, wasa man. Subduing all inclinations toward friv olity or even healthy recreation, he goes on his way day after day, applying as skillfully as he can the scientific knowl edge in his grasp. tor bun there is no night, no Sandav, no vacation; always fighting death he gives up his life to the conflict. And what does he find? Testy patients, ig norant people who neglect his commands. ungrateful fools who Beem to think that he is a slave to their demands, men and women who look for miracles and do not know that even a doctor cannot always stay the hand of 1 errors King. "Aud now for bed!" I exclaimed, ns he laid aside his houics. "Not yet. 1 must have my case refilled." Out into me mgut again. Near at hand a light gleams in the window of a drug store. A sleepy clerk answered our knock, and in a few minutes my doctor was busy with the bottles on the shelf. He was at work fully half an hour. In his case he carried fifty phials. Many of the drugs had been exhausted in the day's routine, aud the act of re plenishing took time. I yawned and fretted, but the doctor seemed to feel no fatigue. "He is made of iron," I said to myself as he strode homeward with a firm and even tread. I had almost fallen to sleep later on when I heard some one descending the stairs. It was 12 o'clock. "Where are you going?" I asked, as I recognized the doctor's portly form. "Into the office for an hour," he re marked. "This is the only time in which I have a chance to do my scientific read ing." 1 went back to bed, but I could not sleep. I was wondering how much my friend made a year. At breakfast the next morning I said: "Doctor, I don't want to be imperti nent, but will you kindly tell me how much your practice pays you?" He smiled quizzically as he answered: "I earn $2,000 a year. 1 oolleot about $900." Hartford Times.' THE OLD INN. Bed-winding from the sleepy town. One taken the lone forgotten lane Straight through the hills. A brush Bin), brown Bubbles in thorn flowersaweet with tain; Light sliivors sink tho gleaming grain; Tho cautions rlrl)) of higher leaves The lower dip that drip again. Above the tangled tops it heaves ' ItH gabled and its haunted eaves. One creejier, gnarled to blooralewmena, O'erforoHts all its eastern wall; The sighing eeclars rake and press Dark boughs along the panes they sprawl; While, where the tmu beats, breaks a drawl Of hiving wasps; one busy hce. Gold dusty, burls along the halt To hum into a (-rack. To me The shadows sown too scared to flee. Of ragged ehlmneys martins make Huge pipes of music; twittering here Build, breed and roost. My footfalls wake Htrange stealing echoes, till I fear I'll meet my pule self coming near; My phantom fane, as in a glass; Or one mt.n murdered, buried where? Dim iu gray stealthy glimmer pass With lips that seem to moan, "AlasI" Madison Cawcln, The Fate or a Vx. Absalom had loiitf hair and it proved his ruin. A Connecticut fox perished re cently for the name reason. Because he was proud of his bushy tail he swished it from Hide to Bide instead of trailing it along the ground. A pack of hounds chatted him, and to elude them be tried to bolt through a wire fence, but somehow that tail curled itself about a barb and the fox was caught and slain. Willing tti Take II lu Turn. MisB De Butanl No, Mr. Ardent, I cannot con sunt, I am already engaged. Mr. Ardent For the whole season? Kew York Truth. SWINGING AROUND THK CIRCLE Of th diseased to whtoh Jt ii adanted wit the bust result, Hostetter's Ktomanh Bitten, a fam ily medicine, compn'hefwvp in its boom,. ban never been thrum ujoii public attention in the gnlm of a universal panacea for bodily His. Tnlitcliiira, daily arrogated in the column of the daily prcm by the proprietors of medteinei far inferior to it as upeciik, has in a thousand inHiaiieCH disgusted the public in advance by iu absurdity, and the prnHpeets o( other reimtiles of superior uuhH tie have been hnndicappwi by the pretensions of their worthless predecessors. But the American people know, because they have verified the fact by the most trying tests, that the 1J I iters ponseses the virtues of a real specific in of malarial and liver disorder, constipation, nervous, rheumatic, stomach and kidney trouble. What it does it does thorough ly.and mainly for this reason it is indorsed and recommended by hosts oi respectable medical men. The Increase of absinthe-drinking in. France ShoWK a mi ml iiorildralilfl-fumlii,, j and wormwood. hOWS THIH! offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY fc 0., . Toledo. O. We, the undersigned.have known F.J. Che ney (or the last fifteen years, and brieve him perfectly bonorableyin all business transactions and financially able to earn- out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRL'AX, Wholesale TtrngcistB, Toledo, O. WALDINU, KIN NAN & MARVIN, Whnhttnlo nriiirtrititH Ti.lorlA Ci directly upou the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent (see. Vrio. w. cents per bottle. Bold by all druggists. A certain Scotch editor recently departed o far from the custom of his con tempor aries u to fiiiliHtitnte the headings "Hatch," "Match" and "Dispatch" over those de partments in Iftn aper which bis contem poraries assorted under the beads of "Births," "MurriniiCK" and "Deaths." Mtinv n vnitnir man bus a trrent tutor abend of him. the greut ditllculty is that it persists in Keeping mere. PUBLIC SI'KAKINU. This is one of the heaviest strains that oomeB upon any man or woman. A little cold, a little hoareeneBB, and the work iB done. The heBt of ability rendered ab solutely ueeleBB. Mark Guy Pearse, the eminent English preacher, writes as follows: "Bbdkoud Place, Ruskem- Square, London, December 10, 1H88. f " I think it only ritfbt that I should tell you of how much use I find Alloock'b Pohoub Plahtekb in my family and among those to whom I have recommended them. 1 find them a very breastplate againstooldB and coughs. Mark (j!dy Peabbe." Branpueth s Pills always give satisfac tion. "It's a fact that I'm more or lens crooked," muHed the corkscrew, "but I've alwayb got my pull." A "RUN DOWN and " used-up " feeling ii the first warning that J 'our liver isn't doing ts work. And, with a torpid liver and the impure blood that fol lows it, you're an easy prey to all sorts of ail ments. Ihnt is the tune to take Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. As an appetizing, restora tive tonic, to repel disease and build up the needed flesh and strength, there's nothing to equal it. it rouses every organ into health ful action, purities aud enriches the blood, braces up the whole system, and restores health and vigor. For every disease caused by a disordered liver or impure blood, it is the only guaran teed remedy. If it doesn't benefit or cure, in every case, you have vour money back. $500 la offered, by the proprietors of Dr. bage'fl Catarrh Remedy, tor an In curable case of Catarrh. Their remedy perfectly and permanently cures th worst cases. Sorry for God A little girl on being asked by her mother whether she was not glad to hear that an old friend of whom she was very fond had recovered from a dangerous ill ness, replied, "Yes, of course I'm glad, bnt still I'm sorry for God not to have his own way sometimes." London Truth. A Pratty Tight Sqnww. Angeline Oh, mamma, Algernon squeeeed my hand so tonight that I al most cried. Mamma What, my ohild, from pain? Angeline Kof mamma, from joy Stats 5Ucte.,and SL 11.00 per Bottle? Que oeutadoae. This Gkbat Cough 'owe promptly cur&t Where all others folL Cou hs, Croup, 8ore Throat, Hoarseness, Whoopi at Cough and Asthma. For Consumption it drj no rival: has cured thousands, and will OURS TOU if taken In time. Sold by Druggist on a guar antee. For a Lame Baek or Chest use SHIIjOH'S BELLADONNA PLASTUK.2&C CATARRH remedy; iitvevouCiitarrh? Thin remodv is truRrun- teed to eure you. Price, Wot. Injector true PHILOH'SA lyi&SQUER&DES, PARADES, 111 A'lA'IH K THFATKICAI.N. Kvnrvthtiifr hi t.lit iihttva ltiii. rnHtniiins. Wius BeunlB, Properties, Opera and PUy Books, etc., furnished nt greutly reduced rate and iu supe rior quality by tho oldest, largest, best renowned and therefore only reliable Theatrical Supply Hmut on the Pnafte Coaiit. Correspondence so licited. Ooliwtkin & Co., 26, 518 mui 80 O'Farroll Htruet, also m Murket street, Han Franc Ihco. 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