Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-18
thursday. FEBRUARY IS. 1897.

right here!
(fhe question of The Rat is still on.
and will come up for rehearing when
ever SO signify.)
/ Coming down Main street. returping
! from the doctors. the other day. we
passed group of darSies standing in
trout of show window stored with an
allurlng display of cakes and candies
aud nuts and raisins, and other tooth
some, tempting ailments. An off-col-
Ored youth of sixteen tender summers.
gazing at the good things, gave vent
/ to the emotion that stirred his soul:
Il wish | wuz richi I'd eat all de
time" Happy darkey! Will he some
| day learn that a longing unsatisfied ap-
! petite is blessing. and that misery
and woe and melancholy. come with
satiety-that dyspepsia hath her vic
| tories no less to be dreaded than hun
ger? The worlds misft. With the
capacity for enjoyment the means are
lacking; while senile inability hobbies
doubtful attendance upon conquered
/, opportunity. Thy fortunate exception
only proves the rule, gentlemen!
Shall tell you of a morning with
the doctor? For years I have avoided
him in his den as | would the lurking
place of the Arch Enemy, reputed to
be as keen after the spiritual essence
as is the former to lay hold of the ply
steal cadaver. To parody parsing
stanza much in vogue in the days when
l first began struggling with the intri-
cacies of the English language.
The doctors shop, what divil of place
it is!
Preserve me from sich to the end o me days!
Sure, all will agree very hard case it is,
To swally his stuff an not ate as ye plaze!
But necessity knows neither law nor
excuse, and its bidding must be done.
SO every day at eleven O'Clock we
wead our way to the Esculapiau Tenn
pie, and for au hour take our place
with the afflicted whose Numbers in
wade alike sex, youth age, condition,
rank and circumstance. 1t is situated
in the second story OF building on
the courthouse square. and the rooms
are attained after climbing long,
fatiguing flight of stairs-the weaker
subjects being carried up in chairs by
two attendant African gentlemen. On
this second floor, as stated, is the suite
of three rooms forming the Temple:
two wt,itingrooms of goodly dimen-
sions, and a smaller apartment where
in is administered the treatment. This
treatment consists of forcing into the
lungs by suitable apparatus several
vaporized compounds designed to de-
stroy the lung-destroying enemy. The
doctors operating hours are usually
from ten to three, though, increased
attendance frequently prolougs the
time. By eleven o'clock both receiv
ing rooms are generally filled with pa
tients, each awaiting his or her turn,
much after the rule observed by the
public when under the dominion of tie
tonsorial artist. After a very few vis-
its these patients become speaking ac-
quaintances, and entertain each other
with talk and narrative, just like 9TH
er people.
Considering the conditions and sur
roundings-and Notwithstanding the
professional pictures of skeletons, and
skulls, and persons lying sick unto
death, if not actually in articulo morris,
which adorn the walis--the conversa
ton is usually bright and cheerful.
and laugh and joke go lightly round
the circle. Hope springs eternal in
the human breast" and lightens the
darkness of many gloomy hour; and
aid to cure. There is good foundation
for THIS hope, which seems to prevail
among the patients. for some wonder
ful cures have been made; and in the
numbers attending it is pleasing to
note the improving condition of many
of them. But not of all! 'Tis sad when
the doom is pronounced-..Return TO
homo and friends and await the end!''
Even the heart of the stranger is torn
when the victim of the fateful words,
oespairing aud dterror-stricken,r receives
the sentence from which there is no APP
peal except to the Eternal Tribunal.
Going home! Yea, and thence swiftly
to the final home which awaits US all,
and whose portals are ever wide opened
to our entrance. Geing home! To
stricken parents, wife and children,
there to gasp out a few brief hours of
pain aud suffering. aud then the end!
But why repine? 'Tis the fate of
thousands, and they but little less for
tunate than their brethren. hope it
is not objectionable in me to think
there might have been less misery and
more happiness measured out in Ma
lures formula. The doctors OF divin-
ity tells US here is recompense in the
next world. but it is SO far away. and
! It's approaches are 50 foroidding! The