Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
THE CHINESE DOCTOR.
He Killed the Snake i'm the Patients Body
with u Pin.

with Pin.
when I was acting American consul
at Annoy, China" said Dr. w. e. Fales,
lone eff my employees fell sick with
severe attack of rheumatism. He stood
the pain bravely for three days, refusing
all foreign devil medicine and on the
fourth sent for a native physician. The
latter duly arrived and began prepare
tons for treatment of the malady, which
he announced to be due to the presence
of darling snake in the sufferers body.
Incense sticks were lighted and placed
just outside the door, and also in the
room. pack of frecrackers was set off
and a talismanic paper pasted to the wall.
This was done to drive away evil spirits
and attract good ones. The doctor next
wrote lot of characters on a thick piece
of paper with a vermilion pencil and set
fire to it. It burned into a black ash,
which was broken into a cup of water
and drunk by the patient. A great bowl
of herb tea was made, of which a cup an
hour was the allotted dose. The son of
Esculapius next barred the body of my
servant and drove deep down into it at
nine points long needle moistened with
peppermint He did it with such skill in
avoiding large blood vessels that the hem
orrhage was insignificant. He then COW
cred each acupuncture with a brownish
paste, and this, in turn, with a piece of
dark paper. He then collected his fee,
so cents. and departed. The sufferer
soon fell into a sleep and the next day
announced that his pains had departed.
He remained in his bunk two more days,
laughing, chatting, smoking cigarettes
and once or twice using the opium pipe,
and then reported as being well. He left
the paste and paper in place until they
fell off. The skin was smooth and the
scar hardly perceptible. He took his re-
covery as a matter of course, his only
comment being that the darling snake
was thoroughly dead. New York Re
corder.
Played Whist.
"Oh, you're playing whist. aren't your
cooed little Mrs. Prattle, as she frisked
into the room sacred to cards at the
summer clearinghouse. "Such a nice
game. Tn perfectly devoted to it. No,
indeed, Col Marlborough, | couldn't think
of taking your hand. Just sit right
down again and I'll sit here and watch
you. won't bother you a bit, you may
depend upon that, for I'm a player my
self and / know how distracting talking
is. It's your lead, Mrs. Longsuit, you
took it with the ace. By the way, don't
you ever battle? l never remember see
ing you in the water-you weren't on the
beach this morning, anyway. What
funny lead! | should never have thought
yours. Did you know that the Crepons
were going home tomorrow? Why, Nine.
Finesse, that was q queer play. And
the Cashmeres go next Saturday and the
Crinolines next week. There'l soon be
nobody left to talk to at all. I'm sure
don't know what / shall do. There,
that's yours, Mr.. Longsuit, anyway.
Oh! | heard such funny thing about
Miss Noodle. 1t seems she was Dragging
about some gloves to Mrs NOaccOunt
and she showed the box, saying: See?
they're all the best maker Why, you're
not going to stop, are you? You haven't
even finished the rubber. 1t makes you
tired, colonel, is that what you said?
Dear me, you can't love whist like | do.
Why / could play it all day. But there's
such difference in people, isn't there?
Do you know"
It takes four persons to play game of
whist, but it takes only one person to
break up a game.-New York Evening
Sun.