The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-08-05

the surgical bill and there is no person
VINO can be made responsible for it, l
must retire from the case.p sf.rEtF =
Then there was grumbling that was
grumbling from Manufacturer Hobbs.
"Ihat mite of mangled body must
be toted off to the poorhouse, must itp
AS II his mother was a beggar, and
there isn't braver woman in the coun-
ty! = butthe child sha'n't go there. lie
sha MT! And he shall have good med
lcal attendance, too. wish, in nv soul,
1 owned doctorr
Hhereupon Mr.. Hobbs fell to think.
ing. why, shouldn't he. own a, doctor?
be was abnndantly able to own.oi,e; he
needed one; forever there was some
body sick among his workmen. He d
have one; he'd go to the city and hire
one; a tip-top doctor, who should do
the factory practice and the practice for
the poor who were struggling to keep
out OF pauperism; andshe, Hobbs, would
stand between and see that there was
fair play-no gouging or Sinking. Aud
while he was about it he'd tit up a home
to which such poor could go in misfor-
tune and make believe they were board
ing. He might as well spend some of
his money. before he died, a.. to- leave it
all for those lazy nephews of his to
scatter. .& {, III Z. III mi. 1G5i
And so it came to pass that Mr.. Hobbs
did buy in the suburbs roomv house,
with orchards about it, for the homeless
poor who were not willing to be pau.
perlzed; where the. nominal charge for
board and service kept up the fiction
that the inmate was not receiving char
ity, to the end that his 'self-respect
might not be broken down.
In getting his medical and collegiate
education, DIR. Joe had spent ALI his
patrimonyfs much more than this. in
deed. He had pieced out his means by
putting up herbariums for his medical
preceftpr for silas colleeeg t0 meet
tuition bills. His herbarium, gathered
with much loving pains, he had parted
WE = = ba} RfffS rs {sn B6afa had measured
the depths of tedious drudgery. But
, forever in his faithful soul were sound
ing the stirring words which BENJAMIN
Rush used to, speak to his graduates:
| Gentlemen, you are the inheritors
of the accumulated knowledge of long
past. Doctors, you are among the in
tellectual magnates, equal with the best.
Your profession is your capital. It is
worth anywhere at least twenty thou
sand dollars-a good inheritance"
So DR.. Joe put in heart and brain aud
years and all the money he could scrape
together. to bring his capital, if it might
pc, above the average twenty thousand
In the end, all he had to show the
world was diploma. If this had been
q definite expression, like an algebraic
exponent, it would have been satisfac-
tory. But when DR.. Joe opened his
office and fnrnis shed it with 4 table and
two chairs, right beside his sign hung
DR.. Henry Beams, though DR.. Henry
| had hardly made the examination which
DIR. joe had cleared With applause.
Yet they each held the same grade
certificates.gg Dr. Henry's office was
attractive with bright carpeting, pretty
curtains, .easy-chairs. There : were
shelves of the latest medical works,
brand-neW; patent surgical instruments,
silver-bright; there was an operating
chair, very inviting. 'iits.3 Ssi,ts.t =
Is it any wonder that people discrim-
mated against DIR. Joe, with the power
ty-marks about him? that they prefer
red DR.. Henry? He seemed prosperous
and the prosperous man presumably
deserves his prosperity. The shrewdest
of us thus argue. sszsssE
So DR.. Henry fourished and DR.. Joe
waited in his office, getting poorer and
shabbier, despite his wood-sawing and
his poetry-writing-for he contributed
a poem month to the Ladies' Garland
at four dollars a poem. ----------------
He.kept on thus waiting through four
years, with now and then a tooth to
pull, or o boil, toyopeu. OF an ag1e case
to dose with quinine; called occasional
ly into the homes of the Door who could
not pay and where the prosperous ply
sician would not go.
He had kept up courage through the
weary waiting with a secret gratihca-
tion that heshadsnot been rustings find
ing d measure of compensation for his
small practice in the time afforded him
| for studying. .., -,
He had gone on hoping, that in some
lucky day somebody would lind him out.
But when the fourth year had closed
and he found himself apparently no
farther along except that he was better
read, DR.. Joe's heart began to falter.
He even had thoughts Of changing his
business; of applying for clerkship in
. certain notion-shop, or of taking an
agency to sell patent egg beaters. ].
About this time came word that the
cholera had appeared in Southern
port. Then as time passed there were
kilograms Announcing its advance up
the river towards DR.. Joe's city.
A stranger was dining at the Green
Tree Restaurant; q stranger with a
puckered face who grumbled at.eyery
dish brought him; ivs quality, or quanti-
ty, or price, or at the walters. manner
in serving it.'aa4 = ~@A sa+~ ~ :"
He had ordered off veaLpie and or
dered on roast beef and the waiter had
shoteeuts like ID Z meteorSs When this
functionary had returned, the grumb-
ling guest was found on the lounge in q
fit of agony. The mouth was open, the
lips moving. the head bobbing in way
idiotic, while the gesticulation was