Evening journal., 1896-07-11

Used His Professional Knowledge 'or
Political Purposes-Ihr TO Cot
Even, n He Has to Adopt Dosper,te
NJ sAos.
scENE-Lower land ng OF stairway Odd Eel
lows Hall. Hockessin. .-Time-Thur,day
night --Drsmatis P-rson0-J. Edward
Addicks, (. Frank kwart and Alexander
Guthrie.
Addcks-"Thls Is a HI of a TO dop
Ewart--"That about % preeses It,
Guthrie-"It's my OPT. i1n that"
Ewart-"Never mind, A co. You Just
bold Jour opinion until It's asked for.
Me and AddIcks will talk this matter
over and you can listen TO us. Is's a
burned outrage Here / thought l had
the whole thing cut aud dried and my
bread is all dough. I've been playing
foxey With the Higgins people for some
| time and believed that / had shut up
their eye. but 1t seems l made n dismal
failure Of 1t. The other day DR. Ball
walked up 10 me aud says, says he, How
do you feel. EwArtf Pretty good. says
l Let me feel your pulse. says he
Just as sort OF jske / held out my
hand and he pulled out his watch aud
timed the beats. How Is III suked
1t don't beat Just right, he says, and
It's my opinion that you're Roin' TO have
= stroke Stroke OF whatf | asked
Can't tell you, exActly, but itil come
la two or three days, aud then you'll
fiud out I'll bet that son Of gun felt
the beats changing from Higgins to
Addlcks and was maxim game of me-"
Guthrie scArcsly think that"
Ewart-"Aleo, you are out OF order,
as chairman OF the meeting hain't rec
ognlzsd you You can think to yourself
but not out loud AS / was sAyin',
guess my pulse must have give the whole
thing away. This Ysre pulse feelln Is
another Higeins dodge that They've
bought from some Of these yere scientific
fellers. Next thing we knoE they'll be
\ rayin us all once or twice a week.
But d-n Dr. Ball anyway l never did
like him and l like him less now. He
took an unfair professional advantage OF
my pul.e and used It for political pur
poses. Hain's that contrary to the cl VII
service laws p
Guthrie-"IfI sIu't mistaken"
E1art-"Yes, bui you generally are
30 there hain't no use OF saying anything
more about it. / say that DR. Ball tool
an uofair advantage Of my pulse. aud 4
II wasn't for gettin' burned good lickin
I'd 20 upatRirs and bell him so to al
, facs A doctor who uses mans pulls
: TO 6nd out all about his political convic
tions hAin't got no right to preotic
medicine. That's my meetin goin o.
upstairs Didn't rent the halt and pa
!. for itf Didn't let tho odd Fellsr
have the use Of my pasture lot TO put th
II goat in while We vera raisin ha
d Columbia In the lodge room Didn't
buy four pounds OF mutton taller TO Il
"a. In, ~ hn -
J. lers got enthusiastic enough to climb it
" Didn's sweep out the room clean II
It spittoons, ell The lamps, trim the wick
D hang up the Gags and work up the sn
D, thusiasm 2 Didnt -"
Gothrle-"You did, EWErt; you -"
u ENart--"Alsc, you and me hRB bee
. trainin' together for some TIM
and I'd hate mighty much I
hurt you, but II you ever brea
y Ia on my psrorioriatiou again you vii
- get hurt. You can listen. but don
breathe above whisper. You mustn
think that because We use Jour she
% once In while that you can air you
p opinions whenever you get resdy. As
- WAS saying, that meotin's my mseli
% aud II the Courts OF Delaware WASH
'n Democratic I'd mandanus the who
70 burned crowd III be randamuEsod n
. wouldn't. Any man that will uso Rnothl
mans heart throbs for political purpose
@s rs monaco to community, and L
%, Ia for ridin' Dr. Ball ont Of town on
rs rail the frst tima ws catch him withoI
as his crowd. The idea OF man wGlki
70 up to another man, smilin' IN bis fac
OF fsclin' his pulse, an smilin' stu, sayi
us to hissslf, 'Durned n this man hair
ca sold outr Hits awful to think abou
10 Hit hsin't human and I'll be burned
I'm goln' TO stand Ii. Why hits enoul
llu \ to make q man wish that he never h
ne no pnlso. That meetin' WAS called und
" my sllsp'ces and cloves, but hits g
beyond my coatrol l don't think 4
iast exactly likely that itIl rssolute
our favor. and l don't think It's
res together safe for US to stay very ne
as as the bulldlng OF It's altogether liksly th
~ we'll hear somethin' drop.
- Guthrie-'If wo had only"
Ewart-''Yes. Alec. that Is all riRl
~ But what mortifes me, Mr. Addicks.
- that you didn't get TO say that lit
N piece OF your n that 1 see stickln' out
e your coat pocket Alec aud me VOL
~, like to have heard II, but them otl
"a fellers up there haint got enough oou
- tion to appreciate literary genius
they think about Is politics, fell
pulses and packin' mestins'. That's
D.. kind OF statesmen they are. Bat }
of can't expect nothln else of low white
his Guthrie They're all fghtin for
ter Ewart-"Never mind what Alec 81
the Mr.. Addicks, for this thing has Aor
be upset his nerve centers. But just
,e think OF the gol blasted gall OF that n
cen comin' up TO ms and timin' my pulse ]
ice az II he vas one Of the judges OF q !
en- at a county fair I'll get even with
{ z II have 30 take an overdose of leudn
w. and keep him workin' the stomach pu
(. al night. Now. me an Alec would
10 hear your speech We hain't got
hall. puc there's an old -four barrel
n1' here a short distance and you can 81
'ng' Oh It II the head dor't fall In. Wen
'eeu ree'lar indignation nesting on G
TOT Qrsen footstool, and call upon the 81
our TO bsar witness Of the wrong that's
oul , done 30 nc and my pulse. aud you
80 ! ~ your spstch--"
= :, IN Guthrle-"An' me and my