The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-04-11


And then they Sat down 10 thc
feast.
On the second day, when they had
made three full meals, Kate reckon
ed up the cost for tue fve Of them.
The two horses in the stable did not
bring the expense up 10 much above
Ave shillings q day.
BY the meercst accident, people
who came TO see the doctor were al-
lowed to blunder into the sitting
room. The folding doors had been
carelessly left open by tho servants !
Goodness what O sight Of silver.
china and cut-glassl And how ma
tural that the first visitor should tell
the story with wondrous garniture
Of fancy and admiration.
And then to see those two horses
on tho move continually. or course
people saw, thought, and reasoned
one with another. And then the
two or three leading men to whom
Doctor Digitorum had brought let
ters from great men, feeling their
own Importance in having been thus
selected by the magnates Of their
reward Alma Mater to receive ere.
dentials Of the doctor. and recogniz-
ing him a. child OF the same Uni
vorsity with themseles, they were
not slow to sound forth all that the
college president had said in his ia.
vor, but they did not hesitate to add
bright promises OF their own.
Well, that gave Simon entrance
into one or two of the first families
As fortune would have it, his first
case was that OF child of one ofthe
very biggest and pufii,st of the no.
bobs. The disease was scarlet fever
"A disease which, in Otborough had
peen regarded Us almost surely fatal.
DIR. Simon was called on in a
pinch. The village Whitehead was
laid mp with the gout. Simon car.
ried the child through, not only sue
cessfully, but so easily and kindly,
aud so pleasantly, it was talked of
and we'll it might be.
Then came measles. DR.. Fud
had lost several cases. He pursued
the old heroic course, aud b 9
chances were that a grown man un-
der his treatment with measles
would die OF brain fever in tho end.
DIR. Simon lost not case. And
why should he, if be hal only meas
les, unmixed with any old chronic or
congenital ailment, to contend withI
The veiy nature OF measles is to gal
lop away at swift pace, if you will
only keep up the vitality, keep the
pores Of the skin opon, and give
them chance to get ont.
However, DR.. Simon Digitou IN
was set down as zone Of our act. "
That he was of q First Family" was
very evident
Within two weeks every man and
woman in the village had taken a
peep into that glittering dining room
and some of the more favored-es-
pecislly among the women-these OF
the very highest class--had been
permitted to lift and examine the
rare old silver. And that it was
silver, solid and honest, they we'll
know.
Certainly such man must be
worthy And then how perfectly Y
Kate played her part and how Ie-
spectfully and dem arely the servants
answered her little tinkling golden
bell when the nabobs were present
Well, Simon Digitorum was sure
be had what the people really need
.ed-a humane and reasonable meth.
cd of treating disease.
His wife felt sure of the same
thing. And so the glitter of the
dining room, and the glitter Of the
silver-m ounted harness, as the steeds
that bore them sped hither aud
thither, took the nabobs by storm.
They were hooked and drawn in.
And though the glitter that caught
the purse proud ones Of Otborough
in the fret place was Of q soms-
what false metal, yet tbere was the
true metal in reserve ct bottom aud
to-day Simon and Kate, with sisters
and cousins, can not only est from
silver all their own. but hundreds
of families bless the day that brought
the glitteriug doctor to their part Of
the country.