The Tipton advertiser., 1877-04-19
CHAPTER nj.

ucIc were tWo eleIucuts oI TDdTtOu
society with which Mr.. Crupp had
not been successful as he had hoped;
these were the doctors, and that elas-
tic body known as ''the boys" In
dividually, the ply ySieians had prom
ised well at first; all of them but one
were members of the Barton Division
OF the Sons Of Temperance, and the
division rooms afforded the only floor
upon which DIR. White, the allopath-
ist, Dr. Perry the homeopathist, and
DIR. Pykem, the water-cure physician,
ever could meet amicably, for they be-
longed to separate churches. Old DIR.
Matthews, who had retired from
practice. was not "A "Son," only be-
cause he was conscientious oppon-
ent Of secret societies, but he had sign
ed every public pledge ever circulated
i'm Barton, and he had never drank
drop of liquor in his life. All the
physicians freely admitted to Mr..
Crupp that alcohol was never-failing
cause of disease. or al least Of physical
deterioration; all declared that no
class of maladies were 50 incurable
and 50 depressing to the spirits of the
medical practitioner a. those TO which
habituai drinkers, even those who
were never drunk; were subject; but
they really did not see what more
they, the physicians of Barton, could
do than they We're already doing
Crupp discussed the matter with par
son Wedgwell, and the parson volun-
teered to preach a sermon to physi-
clans from the text, "Give wine unto
WHO have heavy hearts" text which
had suggested itself to him, or, rather,
had been providentially suggested to
him on the occasion of his very first
interview with Crupp, and which was
outlined In his mind in manner sug-
gestivs of delightful subtleties and a
startling application. But when
Crupp sounded the doctors as to
whether such discourse would be
agreeable, DIR. White said he would
be glad to listen to the eloquent di-
vine; but he was conscienciously op-
posed to appearing, even by the faint
est implication, to admitting that the
homeopathist was physician at all.
DIR. Perry felt his cruel need, as par
taker in the fall Of Adam, to being
preached to from any portion of the
inspired Word; but he could not sit in
an audience to which such humbug
as Pykem could be admitted in an
official capacity; while DR.. Pykem
said that he would rejoice to encour-
age the preacher by his presence, if he
thought anJ amount of preaching
would do any good to a remorseless
slaughterer like White, or an idiotic
old potterer like Perry. Then Mr..
Crupp tried another plan; che himself
organized meeting in which the ex-
ercises were to consist of short address
ses upon the physical bearing of in
temperance, the addresses to be made
by certain men Of our fellow-citizens
who have had many opportunities
for special observation" Even then
White and Perry objected to sitting
on the same platform with DIR. Pykem.
who had never attended any medical
school of any sort, and who would
probably say something utterly ridic-
ulous in support Of his own senseless
theories, and thus spoil the effect of
the physiological facts and deductions
which Drs. Perry and White each ad-
mitted that the other might be intel
lectually capable of advancing. Crupp
arranged the matter amicably, howev-
er, by having Pykem make the first
address, Daring which the other two