River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-07-18
BYLAW NO. Z.


have only two oorat>nions The
a good-natured-loo middle-aged
gentleman with mild, benevolent ex-
preston, strangely at variance with the
nervous restlessness of his eyes; the 9th
or a grim, taciturn man, who has been
absorbed in his paper ever since the train
left Edinburg en- route for the South.
They had got in together, and were evil
IDENTIFY travelling companions. Rather a
queerly assorted couple; for from their
dress and general appearance there could
be no doubt but that their stations in life
were widely apart. What could they he?
Master and servant2 Evidently not; for
the humber of the two seemed to have
control of all their travelling arrange
ments. A detective and his prisoners |
thik not; for the one looks too much at
ease to have a troubled conscience; and
the other, though evidently in cammand,
treats this companion with more defer
ence than Is comparable with the con
scious power of captor.
NV speculations on this point filled up
a gap in the journey. We are past Dun
bar by this time, and are fast approach
ing Berwick. | have been vainly trying
to catch the restless eyes of my apparent
" more companionable companion. He
is now closing them, and evidently set
tleing down for quiet nap. My more
taciturn friend has never taken his atten-
ton off his paper; he must either be
very slow reader, or having exhausted
the news, he must have fallen on the adj
vertisments. / offer him my paper. He
takes it with bow, giving me his own
In exchange-the Banffshire Gazette. No
news 10 be got ont of that after having
exhausted the Scotsman.
MY friend opposite is fairly off 20
sleep. Quite clear that he has nothing
on his conscience. The other is as deep
in the Scotsman as he was erewhile in his
own paper. l can't stand this any long
er Talk | must. The Banffshire Gdz-
cite is published in the country town
bearing the same name; so ! see my way
to an opening.
'.You come from Banff. 1 presumed
You must have been travelling all night:
No wonder our friend here is worn out"
ave have come from Banff," replied
INV friend, with no trace of the chGrl IN
his voice or manner that his appearance
would lead me to expect. "We have come
from Banff; but we have not travelled all
night. Our governor makes it point
never to over-fatigue any of his patients.
It's part o! his system; so we broke our
Journey at Edinburgh"
His patients / would as soon have sus-
pected my opposite neighbor of being
criminal as an invalid.
Indeed" I say. might ] inquire
what is lis complaint"
+.,it,,rY, frinu1 fpYeba- his hand II,
a mysterious way, and am Just in time
10 stop a low whistle indicative of sur
prise, and to turn it into another SIN.
deed"
"What particular form does his-aEcm
complaint take9'
am beginning to hope he is not vio
lent
Generosity"
"GenerosityG"
"Yes, sir. You see he gets all sorts of
schemes into his head for the relief of
suffering OF all kinds; and his friends,
fearing he might make ducks and brakes
of his money, have put him under the
care of car governor
Do you consider his a hopeless
case1"
[ fear so, sir. He's one of the quiet
sort. you see. More violent cases are
easier to deal with. Our governor turn
ed out rare wild one quite cured the
other dag
/" What is his treatment7"
Letting him have his own way. It's
part of our governors system; but it was
rather risky in this CASE
I feel interested, and l intimate as
much.
'Well, sir, Captain B-had been down
with the yellow fevor in the West Indies,
and was such a severe attack that the doc
tors gave him up as a bad job. and handed
HIM over to the black nurses to do what
they could for him. They pulled him
through, but with such strong deses of
ouinine, that before he was convalescent
his reason was gone. His was suicidal
mania--abOut the worst kind we have to
do with, ter the patient always has his
victim handy if he can only get the means.
They had a rare job 10 get him over TO
England; and when he was first put I'M
der the governors Gaze, he was about the
worst case we had. The governor studied
him carefully and found that letting him
have his own way was the only thing
that did him any good. He was very
fond of bathing; and by.and-by, whep he
began to mend little. he was allowed to
90 to the river nea- our place. ofcourse,
| always went, too, and kept pretty
sharp eye on him. However, this did
not suit him, so one day he goes to the
governor and says:
DR. -, it is not congenial to my feel
ings as a gentleman, always to have that
fellow with me when take my bath;
would much prefer privacy The Cover
nor tried TO put him off; but the contra
dlction had bad effect on him Now,
one of the governors theories IS, that at a
certain stage of the complaint. if you can
humor patients they have every chance OF
recovery: cross them and il is gone.
Captain says he, Il know that ii
you pass cur word to me you viii keep