Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

Will UOFll urcSS anu Halt unCOIllDcu, HuHS
over him, and two children Quarreled
and cried in the corner.
Good morning" said the doctor cor
daily. II am Dr. Everett. Mrs. San
ders wished me to call here. What is
the trouble my friend?' And he placed
his cool, skilled fingers to the throbbing
pulse. Then he issued his orders.
Parks, drop the windows, please
from the top-six inches. Madam, take
two of these quilts off, please. Now
bring me dish of cool water, and can
you find place for the children to play
away from this room; the noise is very
bad for your husband?"
There is no place for them, sir
Sometimes it seems to me that there is
no place for them in the world" And
the woman took up the corner of her
dirty apron and wiped her eyes.
1T is Gods world" said the doctor,
and He made your little children: you
may be sure he has place for them"
Meantime he was unfastening the
-buttoned cuffs and laying them
aside. Robert, the fastidious young
man, watched with kind of fascinated
horror, and saw him produce and shake
out large, fine cambric handkerchief,
and deliberately dipping it in the basin
of water that had been brought him he
proceeded to bathe the sick mans burn
ing face. The wife was Mortified, too,
though from different cause.
Are you putting water on him?" she
exclaimed why, Timmy said he
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him; and he said that the window must
be kept tight shut, and the fire was to
burn"
And who is Timmy?" the doctor
asked, going on with the cool steady
passes of the cambric handkerchief.
why, he's good friend that has
staid of nights and took care of my
John, faithful, and helped us. all He's
a good nurse, too. Timmy is; and he
said We mustn't wash his face with cold
water, and we mustn't open the window
at all.
well. now said DIR. Everett, in a
soothing tone, you see he isn't doe
tor, and we doctors have all sorts of
queer notions, one of them being that
people must have air to breathe. -
At this point the sick man murmur-
ed something in a weak and feeble tone.
The doctor bent over him.
Water" he said cheerily. 'Of
course you can have water, as much as
you want Get him good drink, will
you; it will refresh him
The wife stood aghast.
What will Jimmy say?' she ejacu-
latedA He said it would be death to
him TO drink water, and he has been
for it all night and all the
morning, and l didn't dare to give it to
him.
Then let us have it as quick as you
can. 1t is another notion that belongs
to the doctors; and everybody has to
obey the doctors, you know
SO saying, he supported the head of
the sick man on his shoulder while he
took long draughts of the water. and
then lay back again with sigh. and an
expression very like rest stealing over
his face.
Now, said the doctor, I'VE have him
feeling little more comfortable. Don't
put those quilts on again. you make him
too warm, and mind you keep the win
dow dropped as it is now; and you need
not make up any more fire, keep just a
blaze; and let him have drink of water
every ten minutes if he wants it. | will
send you down lump of ice to put in it.
And then you may give him powder
every hour, and by tomorrow, if these
directions are followed, you will find
him good deal better. Is your friend
Jimmy Nolan? Yes, so / thought.
Well, you tell him that Dr. Everett said
you must do these things, and you will
find that it will be all right. Now about
these little ones. Your husband needs
quiet. If you will let them take ride
with me | will take them around to the
infant room of the asylum, where they
can have a good time and make all the
noise they please, and l will return
them to you tonight when | come this
way"
This plan was rapidly carried into eff
feet, and Robert Parks, looking on in
dismay, not to say disgust, found him
self presently seated again in the doc
tors handsome carriage, with two little
bundles Of rags at his feet.
Aren't there people whose business
it is to do these things?' he asked, his
delicate nose curled and his whole man
ner expressing disapprobation.
OF course there are the doctor an
swered, land | am one of them. | have
my commission directly from headquar-
ters. | can show it to you, if you are
Interested.
" But, | mean, is it really your duty
to descend among the dregs in that sort
of way, washing sick peoples faces and
looking after mussy children? | should
think your tastes and talents lay in an
other direction
Rather in the line of houses such as
we first stopped at this morning, eh?
Well I shouldn't agree with you. l
read long ago a sentence that has had
much to do with keeping me from fas-
tidiousness in my profession, There is
no respect Of persons with God. That
is the wording, and when you take it in,
it is tremendous thought. If God,
from his infinite height, can look down
upon all the world, having the same
wonderful, persistent, overpowering love
for all mankind surely | may try to
show little love and little care for
the poor and lowly The truth is, young
man, it seems to me very small thing
to do and when remember the infinite
height above us that the Lord occupies,
it seems to me as if there were no very
great stretches of difference in humani-
ty, after all. y
To this Robert Parks had no answer
to make He began to feel as though
there were heights and depths in hui
manity, and that there was great
stretch between him and DR.. Everett
He reviewed in brief the history of his
short life. He remembered what a self
sacrificing thing it had seemed to him
to give up his chance for collegiate ed
ucation and accept clcrkship, in order
to help his widowed mother and invalid
sister No, that was hardly the way to
put it; simply, in order that he might
not be burden on that mother. For
after all, the only help he afforded them
was in taking care of himself. Could
an able bodied man do less? And yet
he had been accustomed to think of his
self-sacrifice with great complacency.
Also" said DIR. Everett, breaking the
silence, II took for my motto an ole
sentence that Is like the flaming sword
that reached everyway: Take heed wha,
you do. Let the fear of the Lord be up
on you. Keeping that in mind makes
living an important mattcr-makes il