Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-04
sIaae ON HIn Ramblen.

rat On Homes baek 10 sore,
And wondered this,
AMI nothing more.
IN the way OF poetry, but I desire 10
state, In good. Old-fashioDed, home
made pfose. that IL wss Ia the latter
part Of last week, and also In the
western soljtudes Of Dallas county,
that thus rode pensiyely along. sing
ing that good old song, Jennie, get
your hoecake doDe,0 when, without
any warning, ] came upon country
graveyard where they were having
\ buryIng frolic. ] make IL point ~
take In all places Of free entertain
nient, 70 at once cabled Bones" To
convenient sappliDg, and proceeded
" make one ~ the party who were pay
Ing the last sad rites to "A defunct hui
man being. The performances went
Of pretty smoothly, though the sing
ing WIS not what IL might have been.
The manager insisted NY some ladies
ana gentlemen. sang, "Ob, dD do
something or other, gentle Jesus"
The words, ~ ] recollect them, were
very plsintiye. but the tune wouldn't
sample as extra long lint. The corpse
could, perhaps, stand the music very
well, but IL was very trying on the
living part Of the audience. My pri-
Fhtt DlIifiOU M wv iIIht ~ HuN W.
way ~ treat corpse, seeing II WAX in
condition, ~ 10 be unable ~ help itaeif
didn't try 10 improve on the music,
however. IL would have been pre-
sumptu0us In me ~ do ~ ms was only
"A stranger. Some Of the people then
seemed To be sorry about something
and finally tall man, with auburn
nose and eyes 20 match came up bO the
deceased family physician, wise look
ing man who had been instrumental
In bringing about the proceeding, and
said something serious. The doctor
arose, shook hands with the man Of
red eyes aud congratulated him,
think, for he said something ] didn't
hear, and then he added in IA louder
tone, my dear sir; ! did all that hui
man skill could do In the case.U
don't know that ii WIS my put In"
then but saw that the ''doc' was
rather cornered and felt like helping
him out, 10 said In sort of nh oil.
hand way that ! for one, n'tdoubt
! but he'd done his part well, and that
| Id bet he had brought about this per-
| formance ut least two weeks earlier
than any other physician In the coun-
try could have done. The look he gave
me then was arctic In It's temperature.
1 ~ nuf ~ p@iitft bilINhIh III no
and conversation on the subject
ceased. was not discouraged
however, 30 ! followed the "docn
up, took him of 10 one side aud
told him that had "A plain business
proposition 10 make 10 him. ! re-
minded him that IT was contrary To
the ethics Of his profession io adver-
lise-- pay fOrit, and that "A DOCTORS
only chance for notorlety was 10 take
advantage Of railway disasters or other
Institutions calculated ~ smash up the
human rnce, and after he had sawed
of a fellows leg land the fellow had
diod) or performed IA successful surgi-
cal operation on II very large and OBJ
streperoiis buIiioa on some girls foot,
was 10 take the newspaper reporter
around 10 the sarner saloon throw "A
! couple Of drinks. Of cheap whiskey
into him. aud tell him about his won
drous surgical operations. The re-
/ porter then out Of gratitude for the
, doctors Kindness or whiskey would
;; 20 aud write long story about the
I compound, hyplienated fracture TINT
! the poor fellows System had sustained
! and that but for the timely arrival Of
! the talented DR.. So-aiid-so the fellow
would have died ten or fifteen minutes
p''''b ~ "i's f'""' '''y - WI
iinued, 'tlis ~ my proposition you
help me rustic around among these
nourners here before they scatter oil,
! aud get them 10 subscribe for my pa
! per, and ! II give you aud your profoge
the corpse, ID PERSONA mention In the
. paper can work In nicely about
Z your being the family physician,
|, and about how the yOung
! man Nhs cut down In tho
: llowcrof his manhood, etc, can con
{ graduate the people OF your section
. upon having among them "a doctor
VINO only has to make few visits uD'
< I'll his work IL done, and hence one
D who does not build up large doctor
4 bills. Sce2
YOU should have seen how mad that
: doctoring fellow got. He said I war
Q nm lrreycrent seoiier: that | dldn',
hive any sense hardly: that he'd huv,
me arrested, and all such stuff IN that
y II inst shows how unaratcftll soni,
!. people can he. | didn't mean any
. harm with The doctor. only wanted
: 10 help him along Ia the world. llf
4 hadn't enjoyed any advantages In the
d way of getting 10 patch up SOME poor
Y fellow, Just before death caused by be
= ing blown To pieces 10y an exploding
i engine, or something OF the Kind, and
J. then see the thirsty reporter and
= swap hin glusso Of beer for pun e
q appear next morning. so thought d
n give him chance IA attain sonc no
1 toriety, but my scheme was "A failure