The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-06

porter who knocked at the door one night
after midnight.
After a short time | found out, as pa
tients are apt 70 find out. the real opinion
of the medical advisers The regular
doctor, the three eminent doctors who
held consultation. and tie highly dis
tinguIsiled doctor who used his proboscis
as mortality detector, had pronounced
my doom. saying cautiously that recovery
was not To be looked for, and that the end
was approaching.
Still indulging a private doubt of the ac-
curacy of their prognosis, | determined
that. before death and burial, | would go
over the seas and abroad. / took ship
from this port, and in fortnight was on
the shores of the Mediterranean, with no
change from my moribund condition.
When | got 10 Nice, a Scotch doctor living
there was sent for. He came in lively
way, examined the case. noted the synp-
toms, which were those of nervous prostra-
ton, gave some advice, left some medicine,
and said there was good prospect of recov-
cry. us that your prognosls, doctor ~
1T is" And what is its price?" Ten
shillings," as he smiled. But" said l,
Il have paid the New York doctors more
than twenty times as much for a prognOsis
Just the opposite of that" lie smiled
again, repeated his visits at cheaper
rate on subsequent days, and in month
was somewhat improved somehow. When
spring time came. he advised me TO spend
the summer among the Scotch mountains,
where he knew q doctor to be recon-
mended. took the advice, set out for the
Highland hamlet he had spoken of, and
there saw the doctor he had commended.
This new doctor laughed merrily at the
stories | told of my experiences with my
demonstrating and costly medical advls-
ers in New York, and at once gave favor
able prognosis Of the case. When asked
what would be his fee for this surprising
prognosis, he replied shiliings, but that
other visits would be half that rate. | Sc
cured his services for the season, took the
drugs which he gave enjoyed the hills, the
sunshine and the breeze in his company,
grew jocund while he sang the songs of
life among the heather, got well as the
months sped along, and took ship IN due
season back to New York, where / looked
up the doctors of representation who had
declared me to be doomed man year be-
fore and charged prodigious fees for the
blunder-headed prognosis.
These experiences merely show that
some eminent doctors may sometimes
make mistakes in regard to the prognosis
OF their cases; and if any one of them
We're 10 say that the last vowel in the
plural Of prognosis is the second vowel in
the alphabet | should promptly admit the
accuracy of his scholarship in regard to
that formidable word.
THE HoRDEs FROM ITALY.
In regard TO the hordes of Italians who
have been rushing TO this country during
the past few wears there are several facts
of interest. In the first place, it appears
by the registry of voters in New York this
month that the Italians here are ready to
Join with other citizens in exercising their
power III American politics. 1t was sup
posed for q time that the mass of them
would remain aliens, but il is now
certain that they are to figure in
our elections. In the second
place il is now known from the records
here and elsewhere that the Italian new
corners are already intermarrying with the
people Of oIher races here and that we are
thus - have q Latin strain in the Ameri-
can blood. About three-quarters Of all the
emigrants from Italy nave been men in the
prime Of life, and 1t appears that large
are able TO tind American wives. In the
third place. i has been found that the
hardy set % Italians who are coming here
are neither law nor worthless. but are
first-rate workers and anxious to improve
their lot in life. They are greatly sought
Tor in the building trades and as railroad
laDorers, and BIZ contractors on public
works. In the last place il has been found
that they are DESTROYS OF Advancement in
intelligence and Of becoming Americauized
iu their vavs of life. These are pleasing
facts and especially so IN view Of the mag
nitude Of Italian immigration in recent
years and AZ this time. Il looks IS If
through the Italian, We are 70 have a new
element in American politics, a new force
in American Industry, and new strain IN
the American blood. l0HS ~WFNToS