Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-02-26
"D0CTOR GILLYFlOwER's PILL

--BOStOH transcript.
"D0CT0R GILLYFLOWER'S PILL"
EVER since | began studying medicine
with DR.. Oleander Sawens have been
planning a house. Not an abstract
house, but the house hoped SOME day
TO build and live in. | used to make
sketches of doors, windows and veran-
das on the margins of my Anatomy /;
aud the old Doctor, who was very short
sighted, thought | was developing q
remarkable talent for drawing bones.
l rccollect making what / thought was
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: "Well done, my
boyl Well done! | never saw the femur
better represented in my life.''
Lhad pleaty of time for my planning.
When | was young, physic was not
the prof able profession it now is.
Nerves were better strung and stomachs
were a 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. 81 ~ =
At the age of twenty-five l married
Phila Ann Butterfoss, only child of Ezra
Butlerfoss, M. d., deceased. z 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 Twas now provided with a
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, 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 at.
ter my marriage a great change occur.
red in my fortunes.
| had always had great regard for the
honor OF my profession. Patents taker
out for happy combinations of drugs and
all advertising | had always despised
But was called to treat a peculiar case
OF wind-colic, and tried almost every
thing in the pharmacopGia without sue
cess. The patient grew restless, and, as
he was one of my best patients (some o.
his family being sick nearly all the
while), did not relax my efforts, bu
kept on mixing pills and powders fol
him, until | hit upon a pill that seemed
really the result of inspiration. Sc
wonderful was its effect, tried it upon
all my patients, not even excepting ole
Jabez Sprat, who was laid up with a
broken leg. The result was happy IL
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 ant
my pride for some time; but at last
applied for patent, and soon my pill =
CDR. GillyAower's Favorite Pill ~
packed in neat tin boxes, graced every
drug store III the country.
Ia six months made fifteen thousand
dollars out of my pill, and then 1 began
talking about new house in earnest.
discussed the merits of square lot anC
a deep lot, and exposures north, south
east and west, and had the refusal of al
the unoccupied land in the corporation
My friends sent me books on the do
nestle architecture Of all countries, Pat
agonia not excepted, and every othe
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 IAN Amer
leans should beg, and decided to unit
= in my house the simplicity of Greel
temple and the elegance of an Italian
villa. Plummet seized my idea an,
worked it up into something that looke'
upon paper very recherche indeed. TIL
main part of the house was as purel,
Greek rs Girard College. The win
was in the most fiorid Italian style, an,
Mt the exreme end of it was a 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, ever
architecteralooral.
a 1t was a trying time for me while tn
!. plans were discussed. l am somewha
, absent-minded, and such phrases a
/ "hard finish" SHUTTER not oiled" ar
Veared in my prescriptions, and l 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.
Thes, internal arrangements of tn
house l left entirely to Plummet. Mr.!
Gillyflower demonstrated, and declare
that, at least, the plan of the kitche
and pantry must be submitted to her
but commanded her to be silent an
attend to her sphere, as l thought
probable that Plummet knew bette
than she did what was convenient an
suitable for a kitchen.
As soon as the walls were up, tf
ways about town called the houS
"Gillyflower's Pill" name in which
have since seen a sad significance
About this time the agents for wal
paper houses began to visit me. Dad
& Co. sent a man with large wager
load of books full of samples, and fC
/ tbo foI1our oV,;at,J n