The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-03-03
P1oNEETs FUN.

From one of Olive Harper's remi-
niscenees, in the st. Louis Globe, We
clip the following good stories
In one of the mining camps Of Cal
ifornia. in the good old days, happen.
ed one coInicai incident, which was
not altogether a joke, at least to the
recipient. There was a hotel in this
camp, and il was kept then, as now,
hy the genial landlord named Sperry.
There was young Englishman very
i'll at the hotel, of brain fever, and
-Spefry took the best care of him. He
was quite delirious and very i'll alto
gether and the doctor had injoined
upon Sperry that the medicine must
be given regularly or the patient
would sucoumb. -
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..
Sperrys being weary of watching, asked
Loyelace 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 |:
~You will be sure not to fail?"
tN'Certain," said the colonel.
deliriops, 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 be fights against Il, 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. ~ i.
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:
4 HE is in No. a. II 10 that cranky
little Englishman that came up on the
stage tonight, with the curly hair, The
billed shirt and stove-pipe hat"
"Why. he must have been taken
very suddenly" ~ ga.
..Well, he was" said the man, aud
he got up and went out.
AT four o'clock Lovelace carefully
mixed up the dose in q spoon, with
molasses, and 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 match from
his pocket, aud commenced stirring up
the medicine. The young fellow who
had excited the envy of the roughly.
dressed miners by bic stove pipe hat
and faultless attire and curly hair,
awoke. seeing the light and, q burly
man standing over him thus in the
middle Of the night. and naturally a
little uneasy, he raised up in bed
saying: -
"Now, then, who ara your and
what do you waut here?" iisaf
"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?"
30, nothing rest easy. I've got a
littlelnedicine here for you 10 take"
Still stirring the dose, and advancing
to the bed. 8 eDnAse 1oe a'
. The little fellow edged over to the
back part, as he said: q
"But, my friend, ]. dop't want any
medicine" '1aalii tif s
"Yes, yon do; and this is not bad
to take, stirred up with molasses.
Come, now, take it, like a good fellow,
and you'll be all right in the morn
ing"
"But / tell you amt i'll; won't
take your medicine; you want TO pois-
On me / ans not i'll at all. Now get
out OF, here you bloody ruffian, You r.
~ knew you would say that, said
the colonel. "Now come over here
and take il, and with that be took tue
poor young fellow by the curling hair.
pulled him over to the foFesids of the
bed, and forced the medicine down
kis throat. M ~ s
The uproar brought in half the
boarders, who enjoyed the thing thor
e
The young fellow who took the
forced dose d 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 long time.g He had left1