The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1856-01-31
humorous Storm.
FROM TIE YANKEE BLADE.
THE DOCTOR,

uDeIei aHu HelNOuS aSldtlOH sNcIy
where.
The night is dark, it rains tremen-
, dously, and fear the doctor will mol like
, 10 venture ou'. supposing 70 and g"'
prescription Tor yu"P
Just as il | can tell all the pains and
aches | feel 10 you. No, Mr.. Hoxie, thai
is not the way treat you when you are
i'll. Don't Iget Aannels and heat them,
and apply decoctions and ten thousand
remedies / always thought it should
be sick. it would be ust like this
Mr.. IIoXie sighed,
you are afraid Of the pay, mercy
knows | have done enough for you to
earn it, but more than that, | have money
of my own. will pay the doctor my
self for coming.
MIR. IIoxie took his lantern and wend'
ed his way across long field into the
public road, and after walking some Two
miles, in violent rain storm, he reached
the physicians S residence. 1t was mid
night, but he gave The bell severe witch
which aroused the doctor at once.
'IIalo, who's there'
"A friend who wants you to attend
sick woman
'IIoxie, is it your Turning to his
wife--'That nervous old character has
gol into one Of her hysteric fits, and sent
the poor man all this way, this rainy nigh,
for me. Hoxie, what's the matter with
your wife?
Oh, distressed all over
The doctor iumbles over his drawers.
Here's some powders. sir, that will do
Just as we'll as il see her. They are TO
be taken every halfhour until relieved
But, doctor, they wont do. She says
she must see you, and | should not dare
to return without YOU
Tne husband pleaded, and the phys-
clan yielded--ordered Sam to harness
took 10 lIoxie, and the old bay mare soon
Ieaped over the ground, and the doctor
was by the bedside OF his patient.
| lie took his Seat--pulse reguIar--tongue
clear-.voiCe strong, but such groans.
Doctor, says the woman, Il will pay
you any price you will cure me- ,''
That can be DONE replied he in
firm voice.
But you don't understand my disease.
To be sure | do
lie accordingly sorted out some dozen
powders. to be taken every half hour, al.
ter an emeIic had operated. The patient
was treated as if bilious; Tor wheE per-
son sends for physician, who is not
sick, the best remedy is TO make them SO
The jaIap was administered, and such a
retching, and throwing, such a gagging
and groaning, was seldom heard. There
we're no Mysteries now, oil was real; and
the physician meant TO make it so. The
powders were severally taken, and by
ten o'clock the next morning, Mrs. lloxe
was really sick woman. The physician
called and again prescribed. lie deter
mined 10 make an apolhecary's shop oil
his patients stomach, for he had been
called for nothing long enough.
The second and third day found Mrs.
IIoxic confined 10 her bed. A sore mouth
began; caIome was working in her sys'
tenn; regular course OF salvation follow
ed, which was all intended 10 cure the
return of the Mysteries. Mrs. Hoxie was
confined 10 her bed fortnight, TO her
chamber a month, and to the house six
months; and when she went out she look
ID like piece Of bleached cotton.
AT the close Of the year, the doctor
presented his bill for attendance which
amounted 10 twenty five dollars!
Towards spring, Mrs. lloxles spirits
began 10 revive, and with them desire
10 fix up liule. Her parlor wanted d
new paper, new carpet and new couch.
She had just twenty-five dollars, dividend
of her own money, and she owed il for
her sickness. The gratitude she felt to
her physician, at the time of her recov'
cry, knew no bounds.
Doctor said she, 'fyou charge me a
hundred dollars you shall have it,
But womanly pride now predomina'
ted--sha must have the furniture-she
would not pay the doctor. He was arich
man, got his money easy. and fshe had
had a homopsthi,t all her neighbors
said she never would have been sick.
She never meant to have him again, and
so she did not care If he we're never paid!
, She bought the furniture and destroyed
The doctors bill.