The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-09
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When all Others Failed He Could Swear
Person Back to Life and Health
The Recovery of an Amiable
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labelled: For a monument to the man
who invented smoking cars as a refuge
Tor the unhappy who travel with their
Wives" In any other cause I could not
have spared the money.
Sinking into one of the luxurious
chairs with a sigh, I looked around for
a man whom I could talk to. It is such
a relief when travelling with your fam
lily, to steal away and inverse with
some one to whom you can be polite;
In others words, with a stranger. But
IN this case there was nobody at hand.
There were but two other men in the
section, and they were evidently salts,
fed with each other. 1 did not see a
chance to break into the conversation,
so l was obliged to be content with
listening. The first words attracted
my attention.
Eyes, sir" said one of them, ST was
dead. 1t was all over with me. If it
hadn't been for old Schell, I'd be under
the sod now"
HE was a great DOCTOR"
Eyes, he was; but up to that time 1
hadn't thought very much of him. And
it was mutual. He had the utmost
contempt for me-"
He was a homeopath, wasn't he9
And you're-what do you call it9 The
other thing"
Exactly. Well, we didn't speak.
He used to look over my head very
carefully when we met, which we did
about a dozen times a day, a. our prac-
tice was a good deal in the same section
of the city. You remember him, don't
you"
"Big, rather rough looking fellow.
SWore like a pirate"
THAT'S Schell."
Chow did he happen to treat you"
"Why, you see, when I first wentout
there l was in the last stages Of
Il can't remember what it was, but
from the number of s~yllabIes in the
name, I should judge that even the
early stages must be very dangerous.
81 kept staving off the inevitable"
he continued, ''but in the winter of 80
l was about gone. I was in bed for
five or six weeks and at the last of it
my mind wasn't clear. But one even
ing I aWoke to full consciousness, and
the first thought that came to me was
that 1 was dying. There was a nurse
asleep in a chair beside me. I tried to
wake him, but couldn't make a sound
nor move a muscle. Presently the
nurse walked up and took a look at me.
Icould see his face distinctly and I saw
that he was scared. He ran to a door
and called to somebody in another
room: Run for a doctor. Get any
BODY. He's dyingE
CDR. Schell is the nearest replied
my servant.
"'Then get him. said the nurse, and
don't lose a second
81 tried to yell, but couldn't, I didn't
want Schell. It was hard to bear the
thought that that old pirate was going
to get a ten dollar fee out of my estate
for simply certifying that I was dead
"a thing which was certain to give
him great satisfaction, and which 1
could have done myself, if I could have
made any body understand. I lay there
and imagined that 1 was grinding my
teeth, while the servant was after
Schell.
presently he returned and Schell
came bustling into the room, rubbing
his hands. He came up to me, looked
into my eyes, and listened for my
heart.
lis he dying9' whispered the nurse.
"'Dyingl" cried old Schell. Why
the d-n FOOLS dead
"Then 1 was so mad that 1 broke the
grip of death. I tell you it's mighty
unpleasant for a dead man to be refer
red to in that kind of language. I
simply wouldn't stay dead. If I had,
Schell would have been right, and the
thought that I had lain there and al
lowed him to be right about anything
would have soured the joys of Paradise
through all eternity. So 1 just rose up
in bed and shook my fist in Schell's
face. Then he laughed and said he
guessed I was going to get we'll and be
hanged if 1 didn't, though I never felt
right about doing it."
First time I ever heard of swearing
a person back to life"
1T wasn't the first time Schell had
done it. There was old Mrs. Blake, for
instance. She used to have some kind
of a fatal disease about four times a