Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-29
HE MADE ANOTHER RICH.
SEARCHING THE ROOM WHILE THE
DOCTORS DISAGREED.

DOCTORS DISAGREED.
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II have made one fortune in my time. :
said an old merchant the other day,
land
ssSpent it, broke In the writer.
Didn't have that pleasure. "
Lost it3"
mo, sir; the fortune made was that
Of another man"
"How was thaty asked the writer.
After / left college,, replied the first
speaker, II knocked about the country,
here and there, for few years, before
settled down IN this city In the course
Of my wanderings met an old school
friend who had gone to medical col
lege and was then just starting to build
up practice in small country town.
When ! ran across him be was In .
dreadful fit Of the blues, and | said TO
him, after first greetings had been ex-
changed: Why, old man, you're not like
your former self at Al. You haven't
been practicing long enough to have
killed anybody YET, have your
No, no! my boy, he answered, not
that. But, It ! may confide in you with
safety. as think can. will tell you
my difficulties. I'm madly in love with
the most beautiful girl in all the world
and she loves me. but all her people are
opposed to our marriage, because the old
man is wealthy and ! am poor. They
want her to marry rich sutton who il
after her, and feel like brute IN ask
ing her to wait for me till am able to
support her, while that prospect seems
30 distant. I've been in this town for
six months now and not q single patient
have secured.
TIE OLD TRICKS NO GOOD.
"sHow many rivals have Won gol
herer | inquired.
Only one, he answered, old DIR.
Scrcggs, but he has been here for forty
years or more all by himself. He re.
sents my intrusion as a personal insult
and SO do his patients. think. There
seems to be prejudice against young
doctors. anyway. and am heartily dis
couraged.
honored old tricks Of the trader | said
"You know them as well as do. Havt
boy rush into church and whisper ir
your ear where you sit. well up TOWARD
the front. Then grab your hat and make
as much noise as you can going out. Ge1
up half a dozen prescriptions and have
the bottles directed to Mrs. Smith, Mr.
Brown, ETC., and then see that they ar,
delivered to the wrong houses Send fo
them again, explaining that in the rusl
OF business these little mistakes will
sometimes happen. There are dozel
such little lodges that
. No use. nv dear boy he answered
with sigh. All those pretty games ar
n. q. in small town. If Mrs. Smitl
has toothache nearly every body els,
here knows it or will hear of it SOM
day The tricks would all be discovere,
here to dead certainty. and would b
worse off than ever. They are all RICH
enough in big city. but
Whats that exclaimed, as ter
rife banging was heard at the outer door
Charley, my friend. went to the door
and girls voice came out of the dark
ness, saying, Come down to the hotel
doctor, there's traveller there took dow
with fit or somethin' and he's like t
| die
THE BOTTLE DID 1T.
''Charley grabbed case of instrt
ments, and we both started for the h1ts
on run. We got there a few minute
before old Scroggs, for whom the gil
who told US had also gone. RefoI
Scroggs got up to the travellers rooi
Charley had diagnosed the case to his ow
| satisfaction. and was looking very WIS
indeed. Scroggs seized the insenslble pi
tient by the wrist, listened to his heal
beats, and before Charley had said
word, raped out:
lease of apoplexy, bring some
But Charley was not to be ignored
this way. Its plain case OF ep- I
began, but just then pulled him to or
side and whispered in his ear.
81 was about to remark, DIR. Scrogg
resumed Charley, with considerable dis
nifty, that the case is undoubtedly Oh
OF morphine poisoning.
Nonsense, young man, said oil
Scroggs rudely, 4 say it's apoplexy.
ga stomach pump will soon prov
who's right said Charley, as he uniocl
ed his case and produced one.
''The little crowd of hotel employ
and villagers who had crowded into Il
room, big one, seemed rather anu Sc