Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02

cause she was under il. Ii seems impossible
often to find inst where nature wishes one to
take up position.
"Thus was lelt an orphan and with thir-
ty acres Of land sold ten acres and attend
ed schools and colleges and ut last secured "a
diploma as an accomplished surgeon. That
my office might be in the region of accidents
l located near thecity switches Ola great rail
way, and laid out on table knives and saws
that might beneeded tor amputation or prun-
ing or gra, ting the human body, and then
secretly louged for business. So great was
my anxiety. not only for work, but for PEE
euniary compensation, that when freight
cars would simply rudely bump in the night,
fancy, Just reused from a troubled sleep,
would enlarge the noise into the roar o. an
awful collision, and at all hours in the dark
ness would rush out and cry aloud; Bring
the wounded to my offieei" And once car
ried long distance to my operating-tahe
and stripped naked that | might lind his
wound. man who was only taking on the
sidewalk a sleep deepened a little by clouds
OF intoxication.
Being in the warm sentiments of youth,
fell III love with the daughter OF rail
way official, and after "A winter full of
courtship and despondency l became
ut last the accepted suitor OF the most beau
tiful girl that ever leaned fondly upon the
heart of any man OF either high or low de-
gree. With the increase OF this passion there
came also an increase of business, and it
seemed a special smile of Heaven that on a
night when at 10 O'Clock l was in the midst
of rapturous talk with my own Margaret,
| was summoned to attend a gentleman
whose limb had been crushed by n locomotive.
Much as my heart longed to remain in the
parlor with the object of its sdpTeme atfee-
ton, it loved also such an external show OF
business, and ielt certain that the grave duty
OF the one hour would make more blessed
the courtship of the next. Next to
summons nom church a young ply
sician rates very highly summons from the
parlor of his prospective mother-in-iaw, be-
cause sweet IN her earl the sound OF lucra-
tive business. l ran to the scene OF distress
with mind enjoying the double bewilder-
ment OF success in love and successin my pro-
Iession. IQuiekly threw the sufferer into
deep ethereal sleep and amputated his limb
Just below the knee. When the operation had
been completed and the man had
returned to perfect consciousness, he com
planned that he could not move his left limb.
his right foot lay in the basket. 1t was then
that / discovered that in my haste and in
the Observation-Disclosures that comes from
deep attachment to the girl Of ones
choice had removed the well foot of the
noble sufferer. / instantly applied tho
sponge of ether, and before the man could
rebuke my blunder had the pair of feet well
covered up IN the basket.
while | was afterNard assuring the gen
| tleman that my charges would be for the
amputation of only one foot, he made some
rude remark to the effect that was q fool
of the least desirable order. We're Won not
| a member of the Clergyman's Brotherhood
i should tell you to what family OF fools he
assigned me full membership Under the in
| fuenee of my error of feet and legs and this
| direct and strong language, my heart felt
sorestrieken, but this grief was
as a pleasure compared with the
sense of imperiection felt when
! found that the feet in my basket were those
OF my esteemed father-in-law. 1t seemed
/ best Tor me TO absent myself for a time from
not only my medical office. but from the old
| delicious parlor OF courtship. That absence
| afterwards made perpetual
"Such deprecating remarks did the daily
| press publish and with such storms of ridi-
| cule did they receive my public suggestion
/ that mans limbs should be of one length,
and that this particular man was too tall to
| to look we'll, that concluded to abandon
/ my profession: and as sheep-Iaising seemed
profitable and pleasant bought ten head OF
merinos and set up n humble shepherd.
In less than a week the wolves had cut the
throats of five of these innocent creatures,
and was thrown into profound melan-
cholly. This sadness came from two causes.
the loss of property and hope, but much
more from a spiritual disappointment that
a wise Creator should cause fine woolto grow
upon an animal which had no power of re-
sisuence while only coarse and thin hair was
ordered for a mule, which could take
up its position in q field and could in a few
minutes kick puck of wolves over into the
general boneyard 1t so happened that a
discharged army mule had been standing or
grazing along the country road for days and
weeks together, and it occurred 10 me that
with my knowledge of the surgical art and
of the use of anptheties ] could transfer the
pelts Of the five sheep to the body of the one
mule, thus carrying into the animalkingdom
that principal OF grating so well known in
tine horticultural circles, dreamed not only
OF local success bnt Of a valuable patent
which might revolutionize the wool growing