The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-12
"DOCTOR GILLYFLOwER's PILL


"DOCTOR GILLYFLOWER'S PILL"
EVER since began studying medicine
with DR.. Oleander Sawens l have been
planning a house. Not an abstract
house, but the house hoped some day
to build and live in. l used to make
sketches of doors, windows and veran-
das on the margins of my Anatomy;
and the old Doctor, who was very short
sighted, thought [ was developing q
remarkable talent for drawing bones.
1 recollect making what l thought was
a very fine picture of Corinthian col
umn, which hoped would one day sup
port my back stoop, when the Doctor,
coming up behind me, slapped me on
the bask and cried: "Wel done, my
boy! Well done! | never saw the femur
better represented in my life"
/ had pleaty of time for my planning.
When 1 was young, physic was not
the profitable profession it now is.
Nerves were better strung and stomachs
were deal tougher. Scammony, gam
boge, mercury and opium, with the
lancet and the blister, either killed or
cured the patient quickly and the pay
was small.
At the age of twenty-five 1 married
Phila Ann Butterfoss, only child of Ezra
Butterfoss, M. D., deceased. We set up
housekeeping in the Butterfoss mansion,
and moved my" specimens" my pills,
and my powders into my dead father
in-law's office, which stood quite by
itself among the elms in the spacious
yard.
Although was now provided with
home, my desire to plan and build a
house increased, rather than diminished.
The Butterfoss mansion was over fifty
years old. A wide hall ran through the
center of it, the rooms were large and
high, and there was plenty of them, but
the whole place lacked picturesqueness
and what is called, in colloquial slang,
style. BY the provisions of my father
in-law's will, the house could be sold
only by my wife, and as Phila Ann fatty
refused to part with it and was impervi-
Gus to argument or persuasion, l soon
gave up all thoughts of building my
ideal house until should be able to save
the money necessary for the work out of
my own earnings. But three years af-
ter my marriage great change occur
red in my fortunes.
had always had great regard for the
honor of my profession. Patents taken
ont for happy combinations of drugs and
all advertising 1 had always despised.
But was called to treat a peculiar case
of wind-colic, and tried almost every
thing in the pharmacopoeia without sue
cess. The patient grew restless, and, as
ha of re /onYn1a If
his family being sick nearly all the
while), l did not relax my efforts, but
kept on mixing pills and powders for
him, until hit upon pill that seemed
really the result of inspiration. So
wonderful was its effect, tried it upon
all my patients, not even excepting old
Jabez Sprat, who was laid up with q
broken leg. The result was happy in
every case for, though it did not always
benefit, it never injured anybody, which
is saying a great deal for one pill
struggled with my prejudices and
my pride for some time; but at last |
applied for patent, and soon my pill
CDR. Gillyfower's Favorite Pill y
packed in neat tin boxes, graced every
drug store in the country.
In six months made fifteen thousand
dollars out of my pill, and then l began
talking about a new house in earnest.
discussed the merits of a square lot and
deep lot, and exposures north, south
east and west, and had the refusal of all
the unoccupied land in the corporation
My friends sent me books on the do.
mestic architecture of all countries, Pat
agonia not excepted, and every other
day Mr.. Plummet invited me into hi,
office to see plan. After much delib
Grafton l purchased corner lot tina
faced two of the finest streets in on
. town.
My tastes are cosmopolitan Gan Amer
ican's should beg, and decided to unit,
in my house the simplicity of a Greel
temple and the elegance of an Italian
villa. Plummet seized my idea ant
worked it up into something that looked
upon paper very recherche indeed. TIL
main part of the house was as purell
Greek as Girard College. The win,
was in the most ford Italian style, an'
at the exreme end of it was squar,
tower, capped with one of those peake,
roofs which have the general effect of
half shut umbrella. 1t was, as Joe, tn
blacksmith, said of London, "ver
architecteralooral."
1t was trying time for me while tn
plans were discussed. am somewha
absent-minded, and such phrases a
''hard finish, .sbutter not oiled" ap
peared in my prescriptions, and toll
the Rev. Paul Pumpkin, who was suffer
ing from poor appetite, induced by
disappointment in love, that thought
veranda in the Japanese style an
Venetian blinds would cure MIN.
The internal arrangements Of tn
Aouse left entirely to Plummet. Mr.