The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-30

would doctor, and he wants to have
just as much confidence in him as he
would have in a doctor. If any thing
is wrong with the plumbing of 9 house,
the owners want professional and
not tramp plumber. The plumb
er knows what is the matter, or will
find out. The owner does not know
what is the matter, and he couldn't
find out. People might as well abuse
doctors as plumbers. A man has
something the matter with the plumb
ing inside of him, but he can't tell
what pipe is clogged up, what trap is
wrong, or what to do to be saved. HeI
calls doctor, and the doctor feels his
pulse, looks at his tongue, and pre-
scribes remedy. If the man gets
well he thinks he wasn't very sick,
anyway, and when the doctors bill
comes in he kicks as bad as he does at
plumbers bill. He believes the doc
tor has charged him an outrageous
price, and yet the doctor may have
saved his life. He is paying not only
for the visit, and the medicine, but
for years of study and experience,
which has enabled the doctor to dis.
cover what was the matter, and prof.
vide remedy before it was everlast-l
ingly to late. Something is the mat
ter with the plumbing in his house,
and the plumber is called. He finds a
state of things that if not remedled at
once is liable to make every
person in the house sick, and |
he remedies it, and puts in a pretty
good bill. The man kicks. If the
plumber had not ripped and torn up
the plumbing, and got his medicine at
the seat of the disease, the man would
have had to pay the doctor ten times
as much as he had to pay the plumber,
and then he would kick. A man has
to kick about so much anyway, and it
does not matter whether he kick at
the plumber or the doctor. In en-
ploying either doctor or plumber,
one has to take good deal for granted.
You have got to try and believe that
The man you employ knows what he
s going to plumb, whether it is your
system or your system of plumbing.
Il plumber does not know the differ
'nce between frozen pipe and pipe
topped up with dish-rag, he is as
'ad as doctor who doctors you for
its when you have got malarial fever,
# doctors you for corns when you
ave rheumatism. A doctor who is a
uack is as bad as a plumber who
ant plumb. Doctors are applauded
or forming societies to keep quacks
rom practicing, and plumbers are
bused for the same thing. A quack S
lumber, who has got his diploma S
-om boiler factory or a junk-shop, can
grange the plumbing of your house as C
ad as quack doctor who has got his v
iploma by reading an almanac full of q
'cipes for curing everything. Have Il
le same confidence in your plumber f,
lat you do in your family physician, +
ntil you find he does not know his il
1siness, and then try and find one Il
no does, and do not imagine your n
lumber is a highway robber because
IS charges are more than you thought F
ey would be, pay your bills with a sc
nile and hope it will not occur AGAIN. j.
Id you will be much happier than X
~ will to kick at everything. Some Z
'ople stand off doctors for their pay, a
i'd abuse them, but when sickness til
mes the doctor can't get there too J'
lick and he is daisy in the estimation Vi
the kicker, until the kicker gets well,
d then there is GOODNESS. 1t is SO III
employing plumber. You swear II
is James Brother, and you never lii
INT to see him again, but some cold so
orning your pipes freeze, and you fla
mt him to drop everything and get W.
your house too quick. He is a lii
until your pipes are III
lwed out, but when his bill com es ca
he is a robber again. Have little pc
arity.-Peck's San. DO