New-York tribune., 1900-10-18
THE PASSING THRoNG

William Reid, Of Mount Sterling KY who ~ IN
terested In coal properties in that section OF the
country. was In the city yesterday
COULD NOT and In the course of a conversation
CONVERT recalled an amusing incident of the
HIM political campaign of 1886. 1T was
just at the time when the contest
between the friends of free silver and the gold
standard was at its height" said Mr. Reid THAT
I was going from Council Bluffs to Omaha on a
trolley The car was well filed with a pros
porous looking lot of people. and II vestibuied
with seats arranged like a railway car In one of
the seats was man who would scarcely have at
tracted attention anywhere. He was quiet and re-
served, and was plainly dressed. Soon after the
car got under way wild eyed silver crank began
TO go through the car and take a straw vote. He
approached the quiet stranger and said: Who are
you for? The man replied. I am for Mckinley
The silver agtator stopped taking count and sat
down beside the quiet man and said Now I am
going to convert you TO silver With this he
started in and talked rapidly for about five min
utes bringing forth all the shallow arguments Of
the silverites. He wound up with Now are you
for silver% The stranger replied, No; I am for
the gold standard The silver advocate looked sur
pTsed' but cut loose again with another string OF
arg a4IguiFnehtS; winding up as before with Now are
am for the gold standard The silver man looked
al MIN sorrowfully and said, Why YOU for the
when pay off my men at the end Of the week
want want to pay them in money that has a purchasing
power OF one hundred cents to the dollar. When
any, any one pays me any money want money Of the
labor should get wha Il eans and don df want
to pay off men employ in money that has
looked nonplusssd for moment. but said suddenly
6Sd maRg ansR DO {oq Ins 0her RE
silver man opened his eyes wide and blurted OUT
grimly and replied John d. Rockefeller"
NJ. H. Dollard of Philadelphia in speaking of
the tremendous fa-E that surgeons now receive
said yesterday the Holland
COSTLY house: The modus operandi OF
SURGICAL the medical profession has wholly
OPERATIONS. changed since 1 young. il
seems to me, although at that time
I lived in country town. Then the family physi-
clan attended to all the ills of the family and the
specialists OF the profession were wholly unknown.
The country doctor surgeon we'll a
physician He was almost always clever and usu-
ally had remedies Of his invention for COM
mon ailments. A large number OF the successful
patent medicines now before the public pre-
scriptions of the old time country physician.
''Old Dr. Hill who was the leader in the town I
grew up in, was called into the country by an
urgent message one night; He wasn't advised
arrival found it was an liberated tooth that was
Sub1ecting Its owner to almost unbearsole pain.
Not surgical instrument did the doctor have with
him. and his office seven miles away. Did
he send back for his instruments? Not mucn! He
na to the complete satisfaction OF his patient and
himself. Til wager he made a mighty good Job of
In his charges. and you could then have your bodily
ills looked after without making a mental inven-
could settle with the physician and save your
house. Nowadays It is different I knew OF a
check for $4,000 pay for the operation 1t crossed
bill from the physician for $4,000, and the extra
for appendicitis where s17 600 was charged and paid
without Pretty high for vermiform
appendix In a small glass bottle. call that.