The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-01-30

young man said there was not enough
oxygen in his blood. l noticed that
when young man hesitated and got
things mixed, the professor was very
KIND and helped him along just like
DR.. Waddell used to help us boys along
In Latin when we were ia college.
"Quidam isa pronoun, is it not Mr..
jones" eyes, SIR" "Well, quidem is
what2 an adverb, is it not2" Eyes, sis; :;
yes, sir. Quidam is an pronoun and
9uidem is an adverb." Correct, Mr..
Jones'" And Mr.. Jones thought he had
done wonders until his report came out
and he was put down 48 in Latin. "Well
what is the remedy for that" said the
professor. If his blood lacks oxygen how
can oxygen be suppled7" "Givo him a
tonic, SIR" said a young man with
bad cold, an iron doni,,." Then the
Dook-keeper wrote prescription.
GOOD gracious, thought 1, has that
darkey got to eat whole donic. A
donic is lump of iron as big as o wa
ter pail. But maybe he is not to eat
1t, but is to handle it. Maybe he is to
Dug i'll the mines. 1t does make q man
strong to dig up donics in the mines.
tls like swinginga pair of dumbbells
TO get strong. But our boy told me
afterwards that it was not q donic but |
a tonic. wish that l knew AZ much |
about the human frame as DR.. Ken
drlck knows, He put 81 little glass
quill in the other darkey's mouth, and
when he took it out and looked at it,
ho told the young doctors all about his
disease and how it came and what
must be done for him; and then he
began on the white man and asked
NtrEn ny l.
man pulled up the leg OF his pants
and the DR.. said something about an |
and told him that he had
come the wrong day, and belonged to |
DR.. Westmoreland's clinik. Poor fcl-
low, thought L, you are gono up. DR.. |
Westmoreland will cut that leg OIL in
ten minutes and smile. Next I was
invited into the dissecting room.
Yes, l was invited, and tho big fat,
black janitor who steals all the stihs
opened the door, but didn't go in.
saw enough, and ono whiff of the
odoriterous atmosphere satisfied me,
and L departed those coasts. The
young doctors laughed at me tumul-
tuously. There were ten tables in
there, and cadaver on every table,
and some of them were split in two,
and some dismembered, and there
were arms and legs hanging about on
the walls, and from some all the
nerves had been taken out like bun
die of string, and from some all the
muscles had been taken out. And
there were bacl1bones, and haslets, and
spare ribs, just like you see at hog
killing time. And all this is to teach
the doctors anatomy, and it is all right,
and ifa man has any genius at all it
does look like he ought to know how
to treat q disease, and what to do for
every wound that humanity is liable |
to. Those 1875 doctors seem to he in |
earnest, and some of them will make |
their mark. Our boy came home the |
other day and had darkey's ear
wrapped up in his pocket, and wanted
to tel his mother all about it's anato-
my. For minute she didn't under
9, : S5SfsS sSiiSst it was, and asked him in
il f's NJ had ,s; got to ehewing Sis
tobacco. He said, rWhy no; cntsAss = ls
not tobacco, this is darkey's ear. Shea
rose forward and then backward and
was more indignant than when L had |
that mole In the sugar dish. Ralph
mad to leave the room and hide out
the ear, and she wouldn't let him eat
dinner until he had washed his hands
with lye soap and cologne two or three
Clmes. But still she is proud of that
BOY, and tells how he used to speak u
speech, and say: "Friends, Romans,
lend me your ears" Lit
lie did l think" said she, "that he
would some day 60 about cutting them
ofi from dead negroes"
BILL ARP.
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