The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-22
The Indian Doctor \ early Scaipcd

III. IL. iIbliftl, Tue lnilln ht'tlbI,
who claims to be the greatest disease de
tector on earth, has been doing" Cecil
county for the last two weeks. The doc
tor is evidently n man of pushandboundto
go ahead. The doctor in his wanderinGs
around Cecil county has not touched at
Elkton. He is too learned not to know
the biblical truth that prophet is with
out honor in his own country, for the
doctor, was once plain Harry Lowman,
"devi'' of The WIG printing office
| Whether Harry didn t agree with Eikton,
! or Ekton didn't agree with Harry, we
| have failed to learn, but soon after finish
| ing his trade the place got to small for
| hm aud lac emigrated. Since then Harry
| has TT lis hair grow long. He also
started selling medicine on the streets
with ii store box for platform. Pros
! perity has evidently attended his foot
| steps, for now he returns to his native
county in handsome gilacd chariot,
drawn by four fine horses. lie is at
tended ny six miHstrels and songsters
who, when Harry is not talking, enter
tain The immense audiences. In Chesa-
peakc City of all places, good fortune
has struck him. The citiz ns there are
generally fond of shows Of all kinds,
and iIarry's is Il good one of It's kind.
Here II" has fairly coined money. lie
mov.d on, however, to Ccciiton, where
his good luck did not follow him. The
| colore! pnop'e, OF which that ncighbor.
hood j. Tcry prolific, listened To his min
strei =. ape with great pleasure but failed
to bay aay large quantity ef his medi-
cines. Harry one e.ening had the mis-
foriu ;" IL one ot hi" speeches to touch
on !. l'n'g question. l. is alleged that
he :; iie people that the rea-
son .t'', conld not buy HIS medicines
was nat they were not r.ii wages
cuough. For this reason or s0meother,
the dpa3or turned his back upon Cccilton
and returned to his old and prosperous
field Il. Chesapeake City. The WING re-
porter hlviug business in that place on
Wednesday, night last was the witness OF
a rathe" interesting incident. Dr. Lor-
man having such an immense Knowledge
of medicine is not willing to admit that
anyone else has any. He has accordingly
pat to ridicule the two resident physi-
clans of the place. He has said of one
who is a homeopathic, that if a person
would take a barrel of his medicine it
would have no OBJECT good or bad, for
such drugs Were equally harmless and
without merit.
OF the other, who is physician of the
old school, he has SAID that his drugs,
his calomcl, and his quinine, were un
dtrminlng the constitutions of the peo.
pie and stealing away their brains With
his nauseOus drugs lie had salivated
CheSapcaker who had come to Lowman
and told him Of it. lie also spoke of this
latter physician by the contemptous cpl
thet of "au old OWL There is Il time at
which torbeaTauce ceases to be virtue.
That time was reached on Wednesday
night when LDwnan was surrounded by
Il couple OF a hundred Of Chesapeakers,
men, women and children. The resident
physician last named was seen to ap
proach He evidently was angry, very
angry. He had a stout cane in his hand
Approaching within few yards
OF the chariot on which above the heads
of the crowd the Indian doctor was talk
ing loudly OF his drugs, he halted. Then
Ill loud voice shaking his cane in
vigorous manner he recounted aud de-
uounccd the charges of L Dwman against
himself and the other resident physician
That they We're lies aud that L)wman in
asserting them knew they were lies.
That lie had hoodwinked the people.
The speaker lad examined his drugs,
told OF what they contained, and pro
nounced them worthless. LDwman re
piled evasiyely. His troupe OF minstrels
gathered around expecting row. But
Lowman was very shy as the Chesap-
cake physician continued to hurl epi
thets at him, ald was inviting him down
to take it up. Lorman liked his high
position IA great deal better. Fighting
does not pay even if You come out ahead
and Lorman isn't fond of anything that
doesn't pay. 50 he stayed where he was,
the angry doctor shaking his cane and
denouncimg Lorman as a coward left the
scene. Tne affair created a great deal OF
excitement. Ii LormAn and his troupe
had showed fight there would have been
a hot time, as the Chesapeakers would
have backed the resident Doctor.