Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-18
THE IMAGINATION.
ot the Parts It Plays i'm Mat
s"m involving Life and Death.

,no.tor don't good many peopl
,,ro medical treatment who are no
e'I ,of course they do. There's nothini
natter with half the so-called in
Lids | always kept big batch c
,~a,d pills made up for that class of pa
E G Many a one I've got out of be-
.,h that sham medicine, and the,
'.n,bt me a man of profound learning
anu nT Nov, lust imagined they were sick?
oTTnrtainlv! A woman is the contraries
,Coj,s creatures. If she makes up hel
o. ~. ui she's sick YOU can't talk her out O
M" Won must administer something.
IA Il, one call me years ago that lay in bed
Eau nine months, and she was as well as !
loL M On certain day there was one OF
am an circus and animal combinations
u l,s;ng | had an inspiration that beat
p a1 compound my skill could produce.
& Any the manager to let a tame bear out
l uttbo cage. and we all set up hue and
tba children went for the woods, and
~! woman took after them without even
Una, to make a toilet There was
chino under the heavens the matter
Ll;tb her. and when her husband came to
, "l, thought for while he'd boot her
al over the farm
Ever have any other case OF the i'm
sgnation?'
Lots of them. A big hulking fellow
ohort fen miles from the town | was
Tracticing in got the idea that he was
rairg 70 die at Just eleven O'Clock in the
foranoon of certain day. About nine
o'clock a messenger came for me. ]
hurried out. When got there the crank
had fifteen minutes to live according to
his calculations. He did look like man
on the verge OF eternity. His eyes were
dim and sunken, his face had that pecu-
liar pallor which heralds the near APP
moach OF death, and his breathing was
1erv labored. The family were gathered
around and weeping as they took final
leave. Something had to be done quick.
There was smart looking woman there
and called her aside. Pointing to the
clock on the mantlepiece which the
patient was watching, l said: when /
have his attention turn that ahead Then
crowded into the family group, hustled
them into the next room, sat down on the
edge OF the bed and began telling that
fellow one Of the most horrible murder
stories YOU ever heard. | located it right
in the town where he knew everybody
named the woman killed, went into
bIood-curdling details and so completely
interested the man that he forgot about
his eleven o'clock appointment. When |
gave him chance to look again it was
twenty minutes to twelve, and he was
actually mad for time, claiming that he
had been tricked. He finally got tC
laughing and we all took dinner together
The next day he whipped two men at q
barn raising for twitting him about the
programme of death that miscarried-"
wasn't there anything the matter
with him 20
Not a thing except what he imagined
n He was sound as d bullet, but if l haC
t adopted that ruse he would have
IPovet to the majority at IL o'clock"
Doesn't imagination sometimes cure
PIE who are really i'll ~
, he sure it does. Imagination has
lange and unaccountable power.
bia funny incident that answers your
qliry. There was a giddy young
Ei0W called at my office one day. She
Es hite-tity creature. Talked all the
Tine she was awake, yon know, and haC
4 Emuch laugh as she had talk. She
nsn't very clipper when she came, how
yer. She was on crutches and accom-
panied by a solicitious companion who
vas brim full of sympathy. The invalid
had knee badly swollen from rheuma
ism and wanted to know if | could ad.
minister electricity. which ALWAYS helped
her. l soon had battery in shape. The
& sympathetic friend placed one connection
the invalid's knee, which appeared
ngrly nhamed. l held the other CON
nection in my left hand so as to complete
the circuit by touching the patient with
my right | drew my finger across the
back OF her neck and OF course she in
dulged in a few little screams and some
historical conversation. doctor that's
strange sensation. Ouch haven't l got
about enough? Ny knee feels a great
deal better Don't fill me up with thai
utCulclIy. lnSr5, now, YOU uluoI Jt0'
quit, I've got a whole streak % lightning
nme now and l knew it was all | need
Cd" The pretty widow walked out tC
her carriage without a limp, and had nc
oonble in being the belleo Of all balls fol
the balance of the season. l had noticed
svaggsh student of mine in the next
room stuting handkerchiefs in his
mouth, writhing with suppressed laugh
a wnking at me on the sly and indulg
lgma can-can whenever visable to me
alone.
What in thunder are you making
Nch fool of yourself about | enquired
When the ladies' had departed He roareC
away and pointing to the battery said
lou might have killed that handsome
Feature by an overdose of electricity
goGed and joined in the hilarity. haC
Tsected to hitch on to the battery ano
Y, NJ Widows vivid imagination had sup
SFl the currents which wrought so sud
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