Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-13
TOO MUCH SCIENCE.
OLD MAN pluNKsTT ON DOCTORS,
LAWYERS, ETC.
ne Doctor and the riow-Isoy Compared
with Result Favorable tn the Lat
ter--serry for the Doctors
written for the Dlspa,cs.i

We studied and We toiisd.
But the eggs we're all nari boiled
~ the scientific thing.
-sts science this and science that and
science 'tother thing. i rode eighteen
miles TO hear err great man preach on
Easter. He spoke one hour and ten MN
mics. He took his text, closed tho Bible.
and never again opened lt--never mem
toned IL. never mentioned the resurrec-
tion. Christ. God. nothing: not word fell
from his lips of heavenly things. Sir Isaac
Newton and this scientific fellow and
tother scientific fellow and graUtaton;
lots of great scientific Thought was men
from the lips of some old clod-hopplng
circuit-ridcr would have give more comfort
and is better for the world.
DOWN oS SCIENCE.
'.Science haint worth nothing, and the
quicker the world finds 1t out the better.
Erbout the time that folks get to thinking
that they know everything some freak or
nature shows 'em CT trick or two.
These scientific weather fellows who DO
20 much predicting were downed the past
winter. II has been cr strange winter
what pTedictor ever thought erDout IL
being es IL has been
a. asst fan / spent money for an overcoat,
The first one ever bought. and 1t Will be
the last one. Inevcr did get to wear u.
watched and waited from the LIST OF Octo-
Der TO the 10Th Of February for cold wea-
ther, bat it didn't come.
NO COUNTING on TIE WEATHER.
"On the 10Th Of February we vowed that
aprlng had come. aud went 10 setting out
cabbage-plants ia the garden, AMI whiie
we we're talking of the beautiful spring the
old oman limited that it would be or good
notion TO save ourselves by selling the
o..A r~nt4 hack
at was no sooner mentioned than l was
willing, and we were glad 10 sell the thing
10 or Young settlement fellow for erbOut
one third of what paid for 70. The over
coat was sold on the 2Gth OF February, and
in three DAYS IL was cold enough TO freeze
the horns often CT steel. The cabbage
plants were friZ to death and everything
goes TO show that man proposes and God
dispOses.
"The whole world is mighty nigh busted
BY these new-fGngled weather Projectors,
and II they are not stopped. | believe the
Lord will send down crbout ten inches OF
snow erlong in July or August, and then
Che foolishness will have to stop.
FOOL PROTECTORS.
81 know plenty of women. and men, too,
who watch for these weather protectors
sayings, and when they real of terrible
cyclone for the 18th there Is no more
hear nothing wherever You go but some
thing erbOut what Hicks or some other
fool predictor says, I'd hate to hear Hicks
preach on Easter.
These fools ought to be suppressed for
tho sake of humanity and wlmln and chu-
dren. l know plenty Of folks VINO nave
turned gray by crossing the bridge before
they get 10 it. They guess 1t right once
and awhile, but storms are predicted,
earthquakes are going % shake us up-and
there are plenty Of people who worry over
such predictions and no storm don't como
and no earthquake don't shake.
an my young days the whole OF Georgia
south of the Kenesaw mountain planted
corn in February. ! have run GROUND
corn many or time by the 18th OF March
and cotton 10y the 18th OF April.
Now they don't begin TO break land till
early IN March. and its close TO June when
the crops are planted. This young genera
tion had better look ont, the Lord IS going
20 show yOu that you can't predict on
His ways. HIS ways are past finding out
and you've got no business trying to shove
yonr new-fangled notions onto the world
you only scare folks and tell er heap of
hes.
THE LORD DoTs IT.
Brown saws that 1t is the wires and rail-
road tracks that has caused such er change
from what 10 lister be. They draw the
storms and electricity. Some say II is the
dissolution OF the forest md some say 1t
Is the movements of the Gulf stream.
"There don't any of 'em mention the
Lord in dc matter; but it's He. Man may
make his scientific discoveries and think
they have mastered the whole thing, but
the first thing you know some great ca
lamity comes upon Us and We see that we
don't know il all. The doctors no sooner
master one disease till another or the same
old one. under new name, breaks out and
gives us thunder.
I've lister didn't have nor need these
projectors. We watched the hickory buds
and the blue birds. When the blue bird
chirped GROUND in the fresh plOughed
ground we took his word that spring was
here. These pretty birds have been crowd
ed out by the English sparrow. There IS
no more confidence TO be placed IN these
English birds than IN these science fellows:
IL the sun shines out in December they'll
build nests and fool YOU II You haunt on 10
ZEN, but they can't fool me, nor III never
buy another overcoat On what Hicks says.
FFrY-oNE YOUNG DOCTORS.
Il wns in the city the other night and l
seed ffty-Onc fne-looking youngsters
turned out Us doctors-given diplomas
and | am willing 20 swear That there was
nary one of 'em chat would have took
medicine from tine other one
Them ffiy-one young men could make
or living and spend peaceful lives by set
Ting GROUND the old homestead and stick
ING To the ways Of their dadGies. but instead
no per cent. of 'em will NOPE their way
through the world grieying over what
'mout have been
These medical colleges are frauds upon
the public and spoil many er good young
man. Life hGint or biz longer now than 10
was when the old wimin's cribs done the
doctOring. If these colleges are doing any
good why don't folks live longer? Folks
live shorter lives now than they Ulster. and
know they arcnot O. strong and supple as
they ulster be end don't enjoy life like they
ulster.
TIE rIow-.oY.
where is the old-time fellow that FOL
lowed the plow but what can remember
how good lie felt when the sound of the
dinner-horn come over the hills and his
mule would stop and answer back with the
mulish brayY Viii ever these young doc
tors feel tine pleasant sensations Of the
plowbOy as he walked into tie old kitchen
aud smolt the greens en- boill g and heard
the dasher OF the old churn or dashing
No. never, They viii grope through the
world As dyspeptics, and die knowing that
their pills make sick folks seeker ana sad
folks sadder.
"Their science haint worth nothing. A
good old mother to keep the kivor tucked
GROUND the children and 10 grease their
breast and the bottoms of their feet with
mutton suet is worth ell the doctors ia the
world, and the doctors know II.
TOO MUCH SCIENCE.
"Bnt il haint the sick folks that Pm
grieTing for It's the mistake that SO many
youngsters are making that touches my
heart. There is too much science aud too
many professional mon. The world is over
stocked with doctors. lawyers, teachers,
preacher scientific preachers. What the
world wants ia labOrers-wen who vii! pro-
duce from our southern soil serials TO Keep
up the muscle and bone and brain Of
southern manhood, and the fabrics To
clotho the world.
." This young generation needs plain talk.
II you start out in this world with any
chance of success YOU must have inGuence.
Ninety-ninc out of hundred who do sue
coed owe 4 20 the prestige of their daddes.
and ninety-nine times OuteD er hundred
these daddieS ere hard-wOrking country
men. who know nothing Of science. out
owe their success in life 10 honest ways and
the simple faiths Of their fathers.
When smell the honeysuckies erlong
the branches and see the dogwood bios,