Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-06-21

guess! She asst MS ID and 'peared
awful tickied to see US, and she show
ed US new picture what she'd got Of |
o lot of bear a-chasin' solne boys over
the hills to the skatin' rink, and she
said they was bad boys what had been
calm some Teller some pet names
like 'old bald head and 'slEinfint
and such, and how the menag' g'fie had
been turned loose cause they was
wicked little liars like men Bert
Then ! begun to think that there was
suthen wrong with the old gal-her
symptoms didn't jest suit my COM
plexion, but l lowed wouldn't be |
blnffed, 80 / asst her If she'd heard
what some Of the neighbors was D.
sayin' how she got drunk on cold tea
at our house, and how I'd said it
wasn't SO and I'd keep on sayin' Il
wasn'tso til the last day in the p.
M, If she'd make 1t any object. But
she didn't. She was mad, and we're
mad, too, eh, Bert? knew she was
mad cause she went and locked the
door and spit on her right hand and
the circns began. How'n thunder
dye s'pose she found out about that
tea? It beats all how some stories
viii travel. Why, this blamed yarn
will get into the Police Gazette afore
it's cold enough to run, lone. I
wouldn't care il they'd only print her
picture jest as she looked when the
p'liceman found her, but they won't
II they do anything tall it'll be to
'iustrate the grand tablo with her ring
master and men Bert for the trick
mules. She got Bert by the ear and
tried to spank him with a Sunday
school book, and was jest a-layin' it
on lively, and wasn't dun bit petite
lar where she hit, nuther, so when /
got a peep at her striped stockens, I
knew where duty was a-callin' fur.
me, and I jest topped down and fas-
tened my teeth into that part of her
moral vineyard where she wears her
garters, and don't forget, Nunky,
that fetched her. And I pinched her,
and scratched her where they wasn't
any stockens, and she let go Of Bert
and begin tryin' to kick me, but some
how her feet got mixed up with hoops
and twines and sue dropped on me
like q pile-driver-that's what makes
me look so alfred CANT, / 'spect. Bert
he went to hit her on the nose with
the him-book but jest then i jabbed
her with q shawl pin and she wouldn't Z
lglye Bert no chance tall, 30 he missed
the mark and the corner Of the book
hit her in the mouth and her upper
teeth fell out cause I've got 'em ia
my pocket, and mem Bert lowed we
couldn't get any money out O. her at
ter such q play spell, SO he give her q
little dose of pepper and grabbed her
Saratoga waves, and I give her anoth-
er inch Of shawl pin so't she'll prefer
to bein' on her feet most Of the time
and we come away. But we're mad,
alice samee, eh Bert?" and the twins
went out on the street with the air of
martyrs. =s iE.'5 Il E=ta Isl
l. Too Many D0etars. asf.s-=
From the New York Medical Record.
| Witness the large number Of doctors in
every city struggling for mere existence,
and see how few out of the whole number
really do the work. See how, in almost
every country village full practice for
one OF two good men is piecemealed by
sharp and often acrimonious competition,
to the detriment of all. saz
1t would seem that in a calling so high,
lso noble, SO sacred, men at for such min
Iistry should be sought for; but the great
question for the young graduate Is not,
tsWho wants me?" but, who WIN employ
tmel" not "Who needs mea" but 'sWhere
can get liying?" In the case OF foul
physicians dying, each in . country VII
lage, during the last year, I am credibly
informed that in one instance two, in an
other three, in the third Eve and in the
fourth case seven new men came to loof
the field over within ten days after the
Doctors death, sometimes before the bur
rial. In one case ten attended the funer-
al, and In another the widow had thret
letters from aspirants for the vacant plact
while the dead body of her husband still
lay IN the house.
+ 1t is hackneyed saying with which toe
many ears are tickled, that ''there is al
ways room for good men, Applied K
. the present condition Of our profession
it is false. Were only good men and tn
best men admitted, it would undoubted
ly be true. But all over the land, In cit.
and country, are well-educated and cul
> tured gentlemen, honest and loyal, striy
! ling in vain to secure competence-yes,
i bare living even--and too often Is disap
Ipointment mingled with shame and NOR
tification at the success Of ignorant m
: unprincipled rivals. / have said that tn
evil results Of this excess In numbers Or
D manifold. 1t leads to oyer-prsctice ant
q to bad practice. The man who Ia hAr
pushed, who has few patients and need
! more, Is tempted TO make much Of little
to magnify the importance ct his cases
both In his own mind and 10 his patrons
to make uncalled-for visits, and te giv
l too much medicine, and unnecessar
r medication soon ceases to be rati0na
!. Patients are injured In mind and bod.
4 The community Is injured By teaching u
people to attach undue importance
trivial diseases, and to everestimate Il
Il value Of treatment therein. Legitimat.
. honest practice suffers in reputation
e money Is obtained under false pretensel
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