Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-09-07

the old earth could do.
But the Virginia Springs did DR..
Tredickar no good-hot, or cold, or
sulphur-and the Canadian Springs
did him no good, and the Maine
Springs did him no good, and the
Vermont and Arkansas Springs were
equally worthless in his case and at
last he went on his way to the Sara
toga Springs, hopeless, wretched,
failing generally, and ailing particu-
larly, from mere force of habit trying
to get we'll, and yet not caring wheth-
er he did or not, with NO object and
no aim-simply actuated, as it were,
by the instinct of self-preservation.
He was within 200 miles of Wau-
kesha, when he encountered Allen in
the cars-an old classmate who he
had not met for years and of course,
they each had a world to say, and the
firststoplc was health.
"Going to Waukesha?" asked AL
len.
eyes," was the reply.
'Well," consolingly, sit will do you
no good. / tried it. l tried them
all. | was In precisely your condi-
ton. And look at me to-day sound
as drum! Now, let me tell you
you can't cure yourself! You've gone
through the Faculty. You've near
ly gone through the Springs. There's
nothing left but old women's notions
Suppose you try them? Now, let me
tell you, Tredickar, there's a person
IN the next town-a sort of doctor
quack, of course-she's cured good
many people-she-she-T just as
lief tell you-she cured me ]"
Nonsense, Allen"
s'No nonsense about it. Bald fact
She cured me she's cured thousands
made comfortable fortune doing it.
She has some wonderful nostrums,
and, for all know, healing gift. y
"Natural bone-setter Pshaw How
can men be such fools?" cried oul
impatient doctor.
"Now, look here. Tredickar. Sci.
ence can't help you, thatyou've prov
ed. Why not give quackery a chance
1t can't make you any worse than
you are"
"No, it can't make me any worse
than l am, said the doctor, gloomily
"Then you get off at Jarviston and
go to Mrs. Taylor's and see what she
can do. If she can't help you shell
so. If she can, you don't care where
cure comes from as long as 1t is cure
Rather die the old.fashioned way, &
good allopathic death, then live by
the aid of an old woman's nostrum
would you?''
And the end was that DR.. Tredick
ar got off at Jarviston and sough
Mrs. Taylor's presence.
1t was a comfortable, matronly
presence he found, but he wasted NJ
second glance of thought upon it
while he detailed the symptoms, ano
dwelt on them, just as he had so of
ten been impatient with his patients
for doing. And when he paused sh,
said in low voice:
s'I think 1 can help you, if yol
will implicitly obey my instruction.
for the next three months. / will no
undertake it without your promise.
The doctor thought a moment, AM
felt as if he was really willing t.
promise anything. And he did.
''In the first place, then," said hi
new adviser, 81 want you to make
particular point of your nourishment
You are not to 60 without eating be
cause you have no appetite, remem
ber. On rising in the morning drinl
glass of cool water, not iced. Hav
a good breakfast; You know bes
what distresses you least. No ceffe
nor tea, but shells if you like. N
stimulant, no quinine, no quassia, n
iron, no strychnia during the day
no chloral, no bromide during tn
night. At II o'clock in the forenoon
/ wish you to have a raw egg beatel
up with milk on one day, on the mex
day alternate it with a full cup o
strong beef tea or veal tea; on th
third day with plain milk. At
O'Clock you will dine plainly but sat
isfactorily. At o'clock take anoth
er glass of beef tea or egg, whicheve
you did not take in the morning
plain, but hearty supper at six, ant
between supper and bedtime anothe
glass of milk. If you wake in th'
night, have some milk standing b,
you to drink; but you won't wake
None of your food should be hot
You will take no other medicine thai
some which / shall give yon. Cal
you remember all this?'
81 think so"
''Please repeat it.
: He was humiliated, but he did so.
Now, to-day, want you t.
walk"
"Walk It's all l can do to dra.
one foot after the other now."
81 want you to walk quarter o
mile and back" she said, not heed
ing his interruption, sand do that ev
cry day for week. The next weel
whole mile. Keep up that for thre
weeks, and then every week doubl
your portion till you can do ten mile
day with perfect ease"
81 never can in the world i''