The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-03-03
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In one Of the mining camps of Call
ifornia, in the good old days, happen.
ed one comical incident, which was
not altogether joke, at least to the
recipient. There was a hotel in this
camp, and it was kept then, as now,
hy the genial landlord named Sperry.
There was young Englshman very
i'll at the hotel, of brain fever and
Sperry took the best care of him. He
was quite delirious and very i'll alto
gether and the doctor had inioined
upon Sperry that the medicine must
be given regularly or the patient
would succumb.
There was one other odd character
in the same camp, who went by the
name of Colonel Lovelace, though
where he won this title | do not know.
One night he came in, aud Mr..
Sperry, being weary of watching, asked
Lovelace to sit up, and at precisely
four o'clock give the sick man the
medicine. Sperry was very sleepy,
but just before he went to bed, said I:
"You will be sure not 10 fail?"
~'Certain," said the colonel.
2Y"Heis delirious, and he will tell
you he is not i'll, and don't need the
medicine, and don't want it; but no
matter how he fights against it, you
must give it to him, and make him
take it,"
"Trust me-" said the colonel and
SO Mr.. Sperry went off to bed, and
soon fell asleep certain that the big
colonel would not forget.
Soon after he had gone, the colonel
turned to one of the men in the bar
room and said
"There! Sperry never told me where
that fellow is.
Another man said:
"He is ia No. A. 1t is that cranky
little Englishman that came up on the
stage tonight, with the curly hair, the
billed shirt and stoye-pipe hat"
"Why, he must havs been taken
very suddenly" rgH
"Well, he was, said the man, and
he got up and went out.
At four o'clock Lovelace carefully
mixed up the dose in spoon, with
molasses, aud taking up the lamp in
one hand and the spoon in the other,
went stumbling up stairs, waking half
the people in the house. He entered
the room which, he supposed, contain
ed the sick man. and set the lamp
down on the table, took a match from
his pocket, and commenced stirring up
the medicine. The young fellow who
had excited the envy of the roughly
dressed miners by his stove. pipe hat
and faultless attire and curly hair,
awoke. seeing the light and . burly
man standing over him thus in the
middle of the night. and naturally n
little uneasy, he raised up III bed
saying:
"Now, then, who are you? and
what do you want here?"
"Bc quiet" said the colonel, in his
very gentlest accents. which, however,
resembled those of wild bull. "Be
quiet, I'm not going to hurt you"
"But what do you want IN here?"
80, nothing; rest easy. I've got a
/, little medicine here for you 10 take" I"
Still stirring the dose, and advancing
to the bed. epHhfe c0e l
The little fellow edged over to the
back part, as he said;
"But, my friend, l doa't want any
medicine" .1A'H
"Yes, you do; and this is not bad
to take, stirred up with molasses.
Come, now, take it, like good fellow,
and you'll be all right in the MORN
ing"
"But 1 tell you / amt i'll; wont
take your medicine; you want to pois-
on me; am not i'll at all. Now get
out of here you bloody rufRan, you !"
II knew you would say that" said
the colonel, snow come over here
and take it /, and with that he took the
poor young fellow by the curling hair,
pulled him over to the foresids of the
bed, and forced the medicine down
his throat.
The uproar brought in half the
boarders, who enjoyed the thing thor
oughly.
The young fellow who tsok the
forced dose is a jeweler there nov;
but the other one, for whom it was in,
tended, has slept long under the mad
roma tree that stands over his grave.
DR.. Jones attended the sick in the
camp for a long time. He had left
college to travel to California in his
earlier days, aud, unfortunately for
humanity, before he completed his
medicinal education. He doctored, as
he said. ''pfomiscuously = that is he
only knew the names OF ten different