, 1890-05-18

WE sCARED Up A BEAR.
l drove out with a real estate man for
two days while at Seattle, not buying, but
Just riding and enjoying the scenery while
we allowed prices to gently advance and
our whiskers to grow. Finally l asked
him if he knew of a real estate snap,
as Herbert Spencer would call 1t, within
the reach OF a poor man. lie said there
was a bargain out toward Lake Washing
ton, and if | wanted to see 1t We would
go out there. | said ! would like to see
1t, if really desirable, | might buy some
outside property. We drove quite awhile
through the primeval forest, and after
batting our team and eating some lunch
which We had with us we resumed our
journey soaring up a bear on 1.-The way,
which | was assured. however was a tame
bea-. At last we tied the team aud walk
ing over the ridge, we found a lot facing
west, 70 feet front, which could b. had at
81, 500. | don't suppose you could get 1t
at that now, for It is within a stones
throw of the power house and cable run
ming u Like Washington from the city.
a friend OF mine was telling about how
he lost = TT lde 10 Spokane Falls. He had
the refusal for a week of a twenty-iour
foot business lot "at $500. He thought
and worried and prayed over it aud wrote
home about it and finally decided to take
it. % the last day of grace he counted
up his money, and, finding that he had
just the amount, he went over to the
agents office with it to close the trade.
Have you tAe currency with you to
make the trade all clsh2 asked the
agent.
~, -. H.. H. ,.l,l, Srnn a.,
currency, said my friend, drawing him
self up to his iull height aud putting his
cigar back a little farther in his check.
Five hundred dollarsl' exclaimed the
agent with a low. gurgling laugh; the
lot Is $3.50 per foot. ! Gidn't suppose you
was PAn-American ass enough TO think
you could get a business lot in Spokane
for $500. You can't get a load of sand
for your children to play in at that rate"
We lave been riding on the cars today,
aud ever and anon the blue water glad
dens the eye, the dark pines soughing in
the quiet air, and far away in solemn
grandeur, the g~randeur.of eternal silence.
knowing a heap, yet giving nothing away,
we see old Mount Tacoma. When We
get over TO Seattle we will have to call it
Mount, Rainier or 70 away from there.
I've forgotten at what point on the road
you have to change time and call il Rain
ler, but | shall try 10 be safe and talk
about the climate till | find u about it.
| met with a medic Il and surgical cur
iosIty today on the cars. 1t consisted OF
a young man who is compelled to take his
nourishment through a rubber tube which
leads directly into the stomach through
the side. | had heard OF something like
1t and in my extensive medical library had
read OF cases resembling it, but not en-
tlrely like 1t. The conductor. who had
shown me a great many little courtesies
alre adv. invited NE lGto the baggage car,
where he had the Young man, in order
that | might see him.
The subject was a German of about 20
years Of age, of dark complexion and
phlegmatic temperament He stood prob
ably about hive feet and four inches hIgn
In his stocking feet and did not attract me
as a person of prominence until the con
ductor informed me that he ate through
the side of his vest
Ii seems hat about two years ago the
boy had some little gastric disturbance
from eating a nocturnal watermelon or
callow cucumber. As | understand it, he,
IN an ~unguarded moment, called a physi
cian who aimed to be his own worst enc
my. but who contrived to work in the pub
lie on the same basis, using no favOritism
Whatever. He was a doctor who has since
gone into the gibberlng industry in alec.
hohc circles. He had the previous even.
ing been out late, as he informed his wife,
acting as the chairman OF a reception com
mlttee, selected for the purpose of meet
ing and showing the proper courtesies to
a brand new citizen of the United States.
but, as a matter of fact, he had been ap-
pointed BY himself to be the custodian of
a bright blue, disorderly jag OF great pc
tency.
50 1t happened that on the day b, was
called to the bedside of this PLAIN, juve-
nile collie, the enemy he had taken into
his mouth the evening before had, as a
matter oil fact, rItied his pseudo brains,
aud being bitterly disappointed in them
had no doubt failed to return them.
Therefore. Doc as he was affection
ately called by the widowers through the
nelghbOrhood. was entirely unfit to pre-
scribe. de did so, however. just the
same; That kind of a doctor is general
" willing to rush in where angels fear to
treaH. He cheerfully prescribed for the
boy and, 10 fact, filled the prescription
himself. The principal ingredient of
this compound was carbolic acid. a man
who Gao, by mistake, administer carbolic
acid and not even smell it must do his
thinking by means eff a sort of intellect
ual wart.
But be did it anyhow.
SO, after great suffering, the young fels
low lost the use Of his entire esophagus.
the lining coming off as a result Of this
liquid holocaust, aud then afterward grow
ing together again
The parents now decided to change
physicians So after giving Doc" acow
and settling up with him another physi-
clan was called in. He said there was no
way but to reach the stomach from the
exterior, and, although hazardous, it
might save the patents life. Speedy
action must be taken. however, as the
young man was ar a1y geui1gl up quite
al appetite
I can imagine Old Man Gastric sitting
there patiently, day after day, every little
while looking at his watch and wondering
as he sang:
We are waiting, waiting, waiting.
Finally, as he sits near tine cardiac orr