Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-14

cOnOucteus f1euer trRlDeu pretty tnOrOuSuiy
while he was here; bathing regularly after
long tramp over the hills, or q sharp spin
around the hotel grounds.
Els Chicago sdmirer observed that
Pfeffer's health improved wonderfully
under this treatment and be
asked him If he could share in
its benefits, and accompany him in his
exercise, Piafer assented and the next
morning they started out after breakfast for
Sulphur Springs, resort about seven miles
from here among the mountains. They started
at dog trot-Piefer's favorite pace. The
road between this place and Sulphur
Springs is rough and its course is mouL-
tainous. Pleffer made the return journey
alone. His companion casle back by train,
and abouftwo dozen baths taken since then
have not removed all his aches and pains. e
John L. sullivan Takes Nothing.
How the unregenerate hoxled the other
day when John L. Sullivan descended upon
the town with several other actors and a
fearful melodrama. To the bulk of the
population, native and imported here, John
L. stands for all that is best and most beau
tiful in this world, and they made the great
actor-pugilist feel his Importance to the
full. Seats in the parquet at the Opera
House went up to S5, and the theater was
packed with an audience including all the
sports in town and a considerable sprinkIing
of respectable invalids, who were there, OF
course, for their health. All day, long be-
fore the performance took place, there were
rumors that John L. had filled up on Ar
kansaw tangle-foot and might he expected
to take the city by storm. He didn't take
anything as it turned out-not even bath.
The police force was under arms all day for
nothing, and Mr.. Sullivan appeared with
out even q jag on in "Honest Hearts and
Willing Hands" They say he played
poker at the Arkansaw Club and won quite
a sum. He always had the biggest hand,
you know.
A Tardy Winter Everywhere.
While the weather at Hot Springs during
March was near genial and even balmy
as compared with the awful article dealt
out to you in Pittsburg and to the North
generally, not forgetting Chicago, which
seems to have gotten even double dose, ex-
perienced persons tell me that the season
here is at least two weeks late. Southerners
from other States report the same tardiness
of winter in his retreat before the vanguard
of spring. Last year peaches were ripe in
the orchards hereabout on the 1st of May,
but that will not happen this year for the
blossoms have not fallen yet and the land
scape is still prettily splashed with pink.
Better than by figures from the thermome-
ter you can judge of the weather we have
been enjoying here for some time when 1
tell you that the grand stand-it is q sort of
a baby grand-at the ball game on Saturday
last and again to-day was filled with inva-
lids and conyalescents out to enjoy the sun
shine more than the science and slugging of
the ST. Paul and Cincinnati pines. On
Sunday, when We went to church, the Easter
bonnets called upon the parasols for protec-
tion from the sun, and under some blooming
peach trees by the roadside brown pickanin-
nles, with very little more covering than
their playmates, the black pigs, were dis
porting in the dust.
The natives fatter themselves that they
are not out of the fashion, that they have
had la grippe among them. but the doctors
and my own senses tell ME that they err.
They have mistaken the simple but suffi-
ciently disagreeable cold for the horrible
plague with the Franco Russian name.
A Celestial Mixture of Medicine.
Talking of laymen's mistakes In the
diagnosis of disease, fair invalid's exper-
ience with q quack is worth telling here. 1
had il from the woman herself-a South
erner, who is fond of experimenting upon
herself, it may be inferred. She said: Last
winter when stopped at hotel in Den
yer l suffered great deal rom asthma, and
somebody or other suggested that 1 should
call in Chinese physician who was MAX
ing some stir in the city. l did SO, and
little ash-colored heather calling him self
Gun Wah came up to the parlor to see me.
He asked me some questions-the stereo-
typed ones Caucasian doctors put
and left me box Of pills which
he said would soon loosen the trouble
in my lungs and give me relief The pills
did not have the beneficial effect; indeed,
Z lny mi 10 me- fprr eli hat iphf
coughing as much as ever when he called
the next day, in great state of perturba-
tion. 1t was not easy to maks out what
allied the Chinaman; he talked very fast and
in broken pigeon glish, but at last made
out that he had given me by mistake the
medicine intended for Mr.. Crow-'Clo' he
called him-another patient Of his at the
hotel. By that time was pretty we'll tired
of the Chinese doctor and Celestial medi-
cine, and 1 paid him off without further ex-
pertinent. Later l made the acquaintance
of Mr.. Crow who got the medicine meant
for my asthma. We compared notes. What
do you suppose he was being treated for?
CataractP'
Zach's Ready Wit.
The chief doctors here employ several col
ored men to wait upon their patients, to
usher them into the waiting room and to see
that they reach the inner shrine in the order
of their arrival. DR.. Dake, the leading
homeopathic, has very bright colored
man, whose name is, 1 think, Zach. The
other day, during his Office hours, DR..
Dake received summons from one of his
patients. who. although not seriously ill, is
always afraid he is going to die. DR.. Dake
had heard the cry OF "wolf" so often from
this quarter that he paid small heed to it,
and told Zach to 60 to the nervous invalid
and tell him to apply certain simple reme-
dies until he, the doctor, could leave his
Office.
''All right. suh." said Zach, starting
away. and then as he reached the door he
added: "If Use not back in an houah, sub,
you may know Use gone fer der undertaken,
suhl'' HEPBURN JOHNS.