Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-31

would be plenty even II we had to catch
IL in the well in the shape OF rain, but
my well is now the only dry place in
North Carolina.
To my other duties have TO add now
that OF sprinking Of the well. That Is
not all. After three or four months
watching the growth OF a we'll you get
attached TO IL. You cannot bear TO see
it suffer and toss about snd cry for
water. A typhoid well with nothing IN
II but shortage and a dead kitten OF
the pole variety is one Of the saddest
sights I ever listened to.
Before l dug the well the man came
to me claiming 10 be water witch.
he claimed 10 have the gift OF discover
ing the location OF vein OF water by
means OF hazel wand or crotch. For
two dollars he would have shown me
where the water could be easily reach
ed, but I lacked faith. Coming from
New York. was checked up pretty
high, and | claimed TO know as much
Of Metropolitan life as DIR. Parkhurst,
also a good many other things; so l
pooh poohed the water witch and
went my way. lacked faith.
Faith is necessary In the affairs of
this life as well as those OF future
state. Faith has done much TO advance
the cause OF progress and human adj
yancement and progression. Progress
and advancement must naturally 60
hand in hand. Faith has done much TO
advance progress and to give progress
sion to advancement Sic
80 L. - L,r IL
10 advance the cause Of medicine, for
instance. A neighbor OF mine here,
through faith I'm his doctor, made the
discovery that IL was the capsules
and not the contents which cured
him. One day the doctor had
the capsules With him but
none of the filing, and so he admins
tered the capsule. 1t did the patient
so much good that now he often uses
the capsule by itself with gratifying re-
suits.
Last spring man in Buncombe coun-
by was taken sick with sort Of misery
In his side and q rising in his head. The
doctor was sent for and decided TO take
the temperature OF the invalid; so he
wiped his thermometer on the knee OF
his trousers and put ii under the tongue
Of the sick man. IL remained there ten
minutes. Those who have given them
selves up 10 the gastronomic delights
OF q fifteen cent thermometer that has
been through long hospital practice
will agree that IL gives one the gay
look of q man who has just swallowed a
soft shell ostrich egg or wet UNI
brela.
After the doctor had gone the wife
said:
"Agamemnon, what was that there
thing be gave you when he first came
imp
That" says Agamemnon, was cleo
tricity, and ! never got relief so quick
since ] was born"
Faith in a physician also brought
about the use Of turpentine internally.
The doctor erred in his order and wrote
for it to be used internally instead Of
externally. Faith Of this kind has
been the father Of many important dis
coveries.
/ knew doctor very well who was
also digging a well, even as have been
this summ.r, until 10 got to running In
his mind. Night or day he could think
OF nothing else. When at leisure he was
all the time looking down the road
watching for a messenger who was ex-
pected TO tell him that the vein had
been struck and the old well was squirt
ing a column OF water eighty feet high.
All the money be earned by his practice
he put into blasting powder and fuse.
Now and then he set leg or trepanned
the head OF his head well digger, but
most generally he had TO pay cash for
ell the work he had done.
Finally he got to prescribing In a wan
dering sort Of way and seemed 10 ram
bic mentally while practicing. The
well sort OF warped bis mind. It'll one
day be tried 70 remove stone bruise
by administering small dynamite car
fridge. Faith in the physician induced
the lad TO take the dynamite, and the
stone brulse was removed. IL and the
lad were buried In the same grave.
They were planted by means OF a corn
planter in hills four feet apart.