St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-03-11
UiiHerSOH journal.
FEBRUARY lSr.

FEBRUARY Isl.
Blamed if | don't believe its corns,
and not rheumatiS, arter all. But lis
kept me pretty well Strengthened out the
last week or. two, as | darcsay you've
/ found out, from not seem me in print.
| There's them that write, | know, cornS
should say that some q you city gents
wrote pretty well corned good deal o
the time : but it ant my way.
hev thought o gniu' down to the
city 10 have Il talk with your ''cminent
phy,ician;" but am little afeared that
the d!mages would be pretty tough. I've
got a torablc good opinion o Your
docior-a good deal better one than |
have o those folks that advertise to cure
up most anything with u dollar pill or Il
TWO dollar hook; and la glad to see
Yen don't have much o their rubbish in
yaur paper.
Say what you vii! about phy-ic-and
suppose there's GOOD in some OF it
I've Il much better opinion o good sens.
in a doctor than nave o 2 ,od phy>ic.
When a man comes to doctor me, |
can generally tell by the first five ques-
tons lie puts, whether he's got Gtnnption
or whether he hasn't. | d5n't want a
man to chem and ''haw," and look up
to the ceilin'. a. if he was gnir' t. get
his information out o the under side o
The chamhcr-tiuur but | want mine to
look Inc straight in the eye, and ask me
where | feel bad, and what I've been
dom and what Eve been eitin' and
what Eve hccp drinkin'; and if he
we%h> these p'iniS well, ten 10 one he
sets me up without givn' amy physic at
all
And then, ag'in, don't believe in
takin' any medicine in the dark he may
cali his stuff what names he likes, but if
ne makes up a pill for me to take, |
walt to know what he expects it to do,
and why he wants to do it; and if he
wont tell me this, and make II square
story OF it, hang me if | put any of his
nOsrrums into my gullet.
| know there's plenty that like to 90
it in the dark, and keep doin' 50 all
through their lives and if a man gets Il
reputation for wrappin' up strong mix
tur's-whether lis in pills OF politics, or
theo!ogy-they are ready to gulp it
down, hit or miss but | ant one q
those sort o folks, rs I've told Parson
liolles over and over, when Eve let into
lin now and then about the p'ints in his
diScourses. And I'll say this for him,
/ ihrt he amt one o the sort that want.
to make a mystery o his learnin'. He
don't sick his head into the Hebrew,
and he's no opinion O them folks that
duz.
"M;-tcr WilkcrSon," says he, and it
was a 'ol'ablc smart speech o lis'n, ga
doctrine that don't have sharp questionin
Is like fish hook without any barb tot:
the questioning" says he, sis what makes
1t stick when it gils sot.''
see your folks are gettin in your say
about the dec>trict schools. and about
droppin the B!ble out. Well, it don't
surprise me much; sence Square Mop
sey dug over his back pastur' seven foot
deep 10 make vineyard on. and sent
his oldest boy to France to get an educa-
ton, and sencc the new Committee
they've appinted at our meetin' house
has come out for Il hired female singer
that can sing thcater-ways-I amt much
surprised at anything. The common
councils and the caucusSes have got it
pretty much their own way, and | don't
really think that Moses and Jacob and
the songs o Solomon stands much of a
chance against EN-. We used to think
to- able well u the Westminster cate
chlSm, but II don't make much of a chaw
tor the new doctors; there was Dwight's
version, too-a pretty Godly collection
O psalms, with tunes to match. as we
used to count things, but | don't hear
much O. lin nowadays. | did think
they would a hid TO the Bible spell
/ longer, but If the school committees have
sot on it, and don't find it the thing, it'll
probably have 10 90.
Well-Jerushy and 1 have got through
our schoolin', and will drop off by and
by (wuatever the boss-mason may do in
the way O. scatfoldin') }. and it don't make
much matter TO Us. But ant it little
rough on Matthew and Paul, and the
rest OF EN- ? Eff their doctrines won't
hold water for school use. its a chance
IT folks don't begin to think 'em pretty
leaky IN the meetin' houses.