Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-04

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To time spent in watching said 's
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4 Such an account was of course refused payment,
but the Doctor carried it up into the courts, ono
after another, but, after all had the pleasure OF
paying all the costs, besides bearing the odum at
tached to such small proceedings sis
Now this, which was assured by our correspond
ent as true in all respects Is only equalled by like
story of somewhat similar physician, In certain
town in the region OF Down East" which shall,
for the present, be namelcss. The story is entire
y authentic and is told in the dialect Of thoseparts
.by siimple-minded narrator:
your"
"No, / never have"
Well then, I'll tell you. You see one day I
met the doctor at Simpkins store, a-buyin' some
groceries. 1t was awful cold felt a lite hoarse
and my tongue was terribly furred. So says to
the doctor:
"My head feels little acheish like what do you
think had better do?"
"Why friend S. says the doctor, says he,
!" the best thing you can do is to 60 straight home
and soak your feet, and take a sweat cause IL
you don't" says he, "like as not you may have q
fever" e4
saysI, Doctor, l was just thinkin' that a little
sweat would do me good, and guess I'll go home
and try It right away"
Well, l did; went home, and took bowlful of
tansey-tea, bitter as gall and If didn't sweat like
aIbeayer, taint no matter. The next morning my
head was as clear as q bell, and was as good as
ever was.
Well, day or two afterward met the doctor !;
and after little talking, says the DOCTOR says he
"Neighbor j, I've got little bill agin you'll"
torln
"Yes,p says he "a bill for advice, you know
at Simpkin's store the other day.
What do you think he had gone and dones He'd
actually charged me tew dollars for telling me to
go home and take sweat, which was just going
to do myself - =
"WelI DOCTOR says I (for didn't want to APP
pear ,s small you know,) "its all right III bear !.
Well, few days after the doctor was passing
by my door in his chsise, and somehow or mother
one OF the wheels got little loose so says /,
Doctor, cf you don't drive that lnch-pin In an
inch or 80, that wheel will come off,
Says he /" Thank you," and he took a stun and
driv in the pin
Well, went into the house and Just made q
charge oft; and when he came along the next
time presented him the bin.
nenoi says tne doctor, says he; !" What on
arth is this for Y"
why, it's for advice" says I.
"Adviceln says he what advice? hain't had
none o'your advice.n laHt
why, for driving in your wheel-pin, and I've
only charged you tive dollars and twenty-five cents
and ell hadn't given you the advice il might have
cost you twenty times as much.n
Well" says the doctor, :" the difference be-
tween your bill and mine is just twenty five cents
That's all you owe me, ~ says /.
swell, Ill bear II In mind, y SAYS he.
And expect he will he's as tight as a candle
mould, the doctor is, and guess he is able TO bear
IL in mind
We confess TO a degree Of pleasure IN the peru
sal OF these " dismond-cut diamond anecdotes.
They indicate that order of compensation in ma.
ture,' by which meaness so often Is " overcome of
itscf" And, in this connexion we win close with
one more OF the same sort, which il related off
Mr.. S., an honest and highly esteemed gro
GER for many years resident OF one of the largest
towns in New Hampshire
II seems that man had purchased some wool
Of him. which had been weighed and paid for, and
Mr.. S. had gone TO the desk 10 get change
for note, which had been handed 10 him by his
customer" While standing at his desk, he hap
pened to turn his head and saw, in looking-eiass
which was suspended near him, stout arm reach
up and take down from the shelf heavy "white
oak cheese, and put IL In the bag!
Instead OF appearing suddenly and rebuking the
man for his theff, NJ many less rejecting person
would have done, thereby losing his custom forever,
the crafty old gentleman gave the thief his change
as II nothing had happened, and then, under the
prctense Of lifting the bag to lay IL his horse for
him, he took hold Of II, and suddenly exclaimed:
why, bless me, must have rcckoned the
weight wrongl"
"0h, nc" said his customer, that can't be so,
because counted with you, you know"
"Wel, well, said Mr.. S., we won't dis
pute about the matter il is so easily settled by just
putting the bag in the scales again which he pro
ccedcd ut once 70 do.
There" said he, !" / told you 80. l thought
must be right. l made a mistake of nearly
twenty pounds however If you don't want the
whole, III take part Of il out il don't make any
odds to men
"No, nop said the victim, struggling in the
wicked trap which he had set for his neghbor, and
stopping the hands OF Mr. S., on the way
to the strings of the bag, 81 guess III take the
WHOLE 4a
And this he did, paying for his honesty by re-
ceiving "skim-milkn cheese at the high price Of
wool
Before you commit suicide take a cold bath.
What people term despair is very often dirt
The man that was struck by a coincidence, Is in
fair way Of recovery. Glad 70 hear H.
Lieutenant Gunnison says, that Of all the children