The Atlanta constitution., 1898-08-08
p1unkett'S letter
For The Constitution.

! VI llle lItW era blli ste now l4AHtoo tAiS W
| shape themselves. and what will be the
! popular trend of thought
! | think this is why Brown Is having Such
q bad spell of sickness-just to avoid being
Il false prophet. He sWcars that current
| events have knocked out all sectonalism,
| even nationalism, and will turn us into
/ the channel of universal brotherhood before
we are through with it. He thinks that
| we will take ii upon ourselves to reform
the world and bring all peoples up to our
! standard or to our way of thinking Ihls
may be % hard thing to do he thinks be-
| ing as we are more than apt to have some
! little differences to just see how the thing IS
| to hc arrived at. but he finds cheer in the
| thought that the wider the field ana the
more the heathens the less time the 're-
formers" will have to devote to him indi-
| Vidually.
But the old man is too sick TO deal in
his usual strong way with such great ques~
| tons. and / put very little importance 20
his utterances. A man as sick as ne is
| and one who has had such q hard umo
! trying to get We'll is In no condition to do
| anything but groan, and groan ne ooeA
/ and he IS not to blame much, reckon.
In the first instance ne broke out all over
| and and some of the neighbor old women
| said he had the itch. and for the Zen no
went to doctoring. / helped him, and ac-
cording TO the directions Of the best OLD
| woman doctor / ever saw soon had
|
! had boiled 1t down till It was strong
| enough to stand alone. Tho directions
said apply the stuff as warm as the patIent
could bear it, and to this end we hePl IL
I on the fire till Brown had his clothes OK
! and give the word, when ! was to pour II
! on while he rubbed. He stood up in tho
tub while l dipped out a gourd fun. sIepped
up on a block and began to pour olaeu-
pour long the stuff was entirely 700 not
| and as the first tip Of the gourd started i
| stream down his poor old BACK, ne E"Fc -"
| unearthly yell, jumped ten feet ana H'NHo
| the quickest time to the creek ever known
in this settlements AS he went throuEh
the yard chickens scattered, the dogs tooN
| after him and the women, lsciuullE '.'"
| doctor woman and three of her aSS-7'au'''
who always go in cases OF Sickness ne"
| to the doors to see what was the matter
! hut thev only saw blue streak as Hto"A
! lit over the fence and plunged lh'' ''l'
| creek lie lay In the creek an Nlt Az
noon and from this he took cor" '",'1
| an, sure would have ended mas career
t,,t for tha Kindness Of Colonel Morrison
In giving him a sack OK "'S [
II NJ tobacco which cut uI0
! nh>nem and removed the pam
| from his side and throat BEFORE we h'1
the tobacco, though, the good o'o ""'"','
doctor had tried everything sAe hnC" ~
! including some porous pla7le'S li'''' 1'''''l~
| must have been prepared with the STRONG
| oct sticking stuff ever invented by man
| when we went to get the plaster OIL "o
| had times We had never known NO
| the MASTER should be dampencd TO get II
| off and so the trouble was. b1"CLI LIv''N
| the skinuing of the plaster on "o'Nou
| the EDGE lp till / could get hold ON IL
win NV fingers and then / pulled. Some
times | think Brown put on some Out ne
swears ne didn't. / would pull and he
would groau and frown till, pulling Il niue
harder he would give tlouuce ana Jump