The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-09


there-quite enough to attend to all
the ills that might befall the inhab-
itants. These nine, knowing that there
was not business enough for ten. put
forth their best efforts to discourage
the newcomer. They called on him
and welcomed him to Atwater, but
made as much as they could OF the fact
that the climate there was distress
ingly healthful and that they rarely
existed on the little sickness that came
to the people. -
DR.. Gaudier received all this infor-
nation for what it was worth and be-
gan laying his plans for making the
money he must have before long, since
the sum he had brought with him was
much smaller than his elegant man
ners and rich apparel proclaimed it to
be. His first move was to cultivate
the acquaintance of DIR. HARDWOOD, who
was acknowledged to be the best sur
geon in Atwater To him DR.. Gaudier
confided that he did not like surgery
and meant to avoid the practice Of it
as-much as he could. DIR. HARDWOOD.
who did like surgery and whose ambi-
ton was to practice it exclusively,
was readily drawn into an alliance
whereby he waste recommend DR..
Gaudier as physician while Or.
Gaudier should recommend him as a
surgeon. This was very important
alliance for DR.. Gaudier, since, if the
truth must be told, he was really with
out knowledge of surgery and knew
but very little of medicine.
'.lf ! attempt to practice surgery
shall expose my ignorance he had
admitted to himself, ''but with the lit
tie I.know of medicine and the much I
know OF the human vanities think |
zshafi succeed IN that Branch.
And SO he did, for it was not long I'M
! til he had the best practice in the city.
His polished manners and, above all,
his artistic methods OF flattery not only
admitted him to what was called the
best society of the place. but caused
him to be sought by the wealthiest
men as charming companion and by
the most refined mammas and their
daughters as an agreeable object of
matrimonial consideration. In short,
DR., Gaudier, who had early learned
that people prize most that which
costs the greatest amount, became
wealthy and was respected as a sue
cessful physician and a worthy man.,
1t was not until he had acquired a
comfortable fortune that he suffered
himself to be yoked in matrimony to
the wealthiest and most important
family in the place, for he feared that
marriage would lessen the, circle of his
practice, since he knew that many a
managing mamma had often sent for
the physician when it was the man
she really wished to see.
But he had not taken into consider
alton that what he would lose by rea-
son of his withdrawal from the matri-
monial market he would gain by rea-
son of the worlds disposition to throw
money into the lap of him who does
not need it. Now had he calculated
that his acquisition OF wealth by mar
riage would cause the world to count
him a more learned physician. He
soon learned these truths, however,
and began to decline taking any but
the very wealthiest patients, to whom
he sent bills SO enormous that when
\ they were paid. as they always
promptly were, he had to make no per-
sonal sacrifices in order to endow a free
hospital and otherwise to purchase
that popular affection which ever is
bestowed upon the philanthropist who
manages never to give so much as to
deprive himself.
One day there came to Atwater a
young man who had. just been gradu-
ated from a medical college, and who
was looking for y suitable city In which
10 locate. He had heard much Of DR..
dardisr and boldly resolved 10 cali On
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