The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-09

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Nobody on earth could quarrel with
Jay, and Mrs. B. simply pined for a
fight. Mr.. Blake was also q very mild
man and extremely devoted to his wife.
She couldn't get a fight out of him.
Zone day she was very low indeed.
Jay told Mr.. Blake that she was dying,
and Mr.. Blake got scared and insisted
on having Schell called in for consul
tation. Schell swore ard raved, but
finally consented to come. v hen he
entered the room he found Jay on his
knees by the bed.
"'What are you doing there3" de-
manded Schell.
Doctor replied Jay, I have ex
hausted all the resources of our art,
and am now
Get upr yelled Schell, and give
me a chance to look at her.
HE felt the lady's pulse, pried her
jaws open and looked at her tongue;
and then walked out of the chamber.
In the next room he met Mr.. Blake
with a handkerchief to his eyes.
Doctor said Blake, in a trembling
voice, lis my poor wife dying9'
"EDyingI cried Schell. why, blast
her picture, you couldn't kill her with
a clubn
1.-The door between the rooms was
open, and Mrs. Blake heard this. She
got out of bed and drove Schell out of
the house with a shower of medicine
bottles. From that day she began to
mend, and in less than a month she
was entirely WE'LL"
HE must have been a queer charac-
ter"
$50 he was; and a great doctor at
that. He hadn't so much faith in
medicine, but he was a firm believer in
the power Of the mind over the body.
Witness the case I have described. He
vas also remarkably shrewd in other
ways. For instance, have you heard
of the very dangerous medicine which
he prescribed for John Hudson's sick
child9"
"Hudson, the dry goods manG"
Eyes"
1 know him, but 1 never heard about
the child"
"Well, you know Hudson was a man
who was very fond of his children and
very about them when they
were sick. His youngest boy was laid
up at one time, and Schell was the doc
tor. A trained nurse was employed.
"'These pills" said DR.. Schell to the
urse one night, are to be given one at
a time, at intervals of ten minutes.
This is a very dangerous medicine and
must be given strictly according to
directions
HE handed the nurse a bottle con-
tanning about five hundred little white
pills.
1.-THE next forenoon Schell was in his
Office when a wildly excited gentleman
burst in. 1t was Hudson. He hadn't
waited for formalities, but had rushed
through Schell's waiting room like a
cyclone, knocking patients right and
left. Schell was writing a prescription
when Hudson broke into the private
Office. He didn't look up, but grunted
something which sounded like either
good morning. or go to blazes.' Hud-
son could take his choice.
Doctor! doctorI gasped Hudson.
You remember the pills-the danger
GUS remedyl Willie-not the sick boy
but an older one-has got hold of the
bottle and swallowed four hundred of
themI"
"SchelI did't look up. He went on
writing the prescription.
"'Quick! quickr cried Hudson.
Come at once and save hi life.'
"Still Schell went on writing. Hud,
son grabbed him by the arm and tried
to drag him away. the doctor shook
himself loose.
keep your shirt on, Hudson he
said. There wasn't anything in the
pills that will hurt the kid. I gave
them to keep the nurse awake"
"Well, I'll be hanged" respondent the
other man. "Why couldn't he have
said that in the first place and put
Hudson out of his misery"
''That wouldn't have been like Schell
By the way, did you eve hear the
story of his deaths"
''SchelI's7 No, never did"
''It was quite characteristic. The
old fellow was sick quite a long while
At last he fell into a sort of coma which
continued several days, All efforts tx
arouse him failed. Four of the leading
physicians of the city were in consulta