The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-10

unue the service. Even the next day,
found that any attempt to renew his
disastrous result.
1t SO chanced that the medical prac-
titioner of the district was man Of
large experience. Of military training
and plain speech. When, therefore, he
one day found in his surgery a man Of
rude western type, strong limbed and
sunburned. but trembling. hesitating
and neurOtic in movement, after listen
ing to his symptoms gravely. he asked
abruptly: And how much are you
drinking now?"
II am a lifelond abstainer," stam-
mered his patient, in quivering indig-
nation. But this was followed by an
other question SO frankly appalling to
= the hearer that he staggered to his
Feets,
I'M Stephen Masterton-known Of
men as "a circuit preacher. of the North
ern California district" he thundered
s'and an enemy of the flesh in all its
forms!"
Il beg your pardon" responded DR..
Duchesne. gSimly. but as your are suf-
fering from excessive and repeated ex-
citation OF the nervous system, and the
depression following prolonged artificial
exaltatlon-it makes little. difference
whether the cause be spiritual, as long
as there is a certain physical effect upon
your body--which / believe you have
brought to me to cure. Now as to diet =?
you look all wrong there"
<,4<1 t. oe t1,~ cf,.cIocx
hankering for heshpots," responded the
patient.
II suppose you call saleratus bread
and salt pork and fiapjacks simple ?"
said the doctor, coolly. "They are COM
mon enough, and If you were working
with your muscles instead OF your
nerves. in that frame of yours they
might not hurt you; but you are suf-
1ering az much from eating more than
you can digest rs the veriest gourmand.
You must stop all that Go down to a
quiet hotel in some watering place for
two months. u. :"
II 60 to watering placer" inter-
cupted MastertOn; ito the haunt of the
idle, the frivolous and wanton-never!"
"Wel1, I'm not particular about a
watering place." said the doctor with
, shrug, 'afthough little idleness and
Rrivolity with different food wouldn't
hurt you-but you must go somewhere
Snd change your habits and mode of
life completely. Call your vocation a
calling IL you like-it's a vocation, all
the same, and you are suffering from its
excess: II you wish to be able to con-
tinue II you must do as say. 1 will
and you some sleepy old Spanish town
In the southern county where you can
rest and diet. II this is distasteful to
you," he continued, grimly, "you can
always call II q trial."
Stephen Masterton may have thought
i 30 when. week later. he found him.
self Issuing from a rocky gorge into a
rough, badly-paved, hilly street, which
seemed to be only a continuation of the
mountain road Itself. It broadened
suddenly into q square or plaza, flank
"a on each side by an irregular row Of
yellowing adobe houses.
Rev. Stephen Masterton felt his throat
swell with his old exhortative indigna-
ton. A gaudy yellow fan waved Ian
guidly In front Of black rose-crested
head st . white -curtained window. ne
knew he was sitting with righteous
wrath. and clspDed his spurs to ais
1orse.
Nevertheless in few days, by the aid
0f letter to the innkeeper, he was in
stalled In . dilapidated adobe hodse,