The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-04-24
BILL ARP ON VACCINATION
Talks About How Physicians
Have Become Famous tor Their
Discoveries

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April l2.--
Jacksonville has got the SMALLPOX
scare. 1t is not a panic, for thcl G
have been no deaths, but there are
about forty cases and the board of
health have got them out of town and
nave ordered universal vaccination
A child can't 60 to school without a
core arm and certificate from the
doctor. My son is doctor here and
1t interests me to note the focks of
children who come and go, and to listen
to their talk. Mothers or sisters come
With them to keep their courage up.
Some are timld and some are brave.
Dung men come at night and take
their turns, and the city will soon be
immune. What wonderful discovery
1t was-only hundred years ago DR..
Jenner dared TO proclaim it to the
world, and it took twenty-five years TO
make the world believe it, Now every
child that bares its arm to receive the
vilus is a living monument to the
sagacity of that great and good man.
1t lspalnetic TO read how he was hound.
cd and prosecuted by the envious and
malignant of the medical profession.
How patieptly he waited for time and
truth to prove his theory, and lived to
see 1t all confirmed, aud when he died
a beautiful monument was erected in
Trafalgar square to honor his name
and perpetuatc his fame and memory.
Our own DR.. Crawford Long is en-
titled to similar memorial, not only by
the State, but by the nation, for al
though he did not protect mankind
from pestilcace, he did give them
immunity from pain under the sur
geon's knife. 1 remember well when
the patent had to clinch his teeth and
strong men had to hold him while the
doctor cut and sawed his limb in two.
! remember when it was my part TO
hold the foot and leg that was being
severed from poor sufferer, and
when at last the saw had cut through
the bone and the weight of the limb
came down upon me ] tainted and fell
down upon the floor with the bleeding
leg But Evans never grOaned. He
hVed to make me another pair of boots.
remember when at college, i'm 1916.
L mad jaw tooth extracted and took
what was then called Morton's Lethean,
and dldent know when it was pulled.
1T took me some time to get over il
and as l was reeling back 10 college |
met Professor Mccoy, and in hila-
rious manner slapped him on The
shoulder and said: =" Hello, old Mack"
and he thought l was drunk and Ill.,,
me up before the faculty. My room.
mate, Derrell Cody, was with me ana
tried 10 explain, but the professor
woudent hear him and we had fun
next morning when the truth came
out. The professor apologizcd to me
and not long after Invited me to sup
per. Poor Bill Williams was there
good, loving Bill Williams. He was
my classmate and l loved him, and
mourned for him when he died. He
had charge of the Blind asylum, at
Macon, for many years.
Every now and then the boys drop
out. Just drop out and the procession
moves on. l read of every one and
feel sad, but that is nll | can do. A
friend in Atlanta asked me the olher
day, Why dident you write some
thing about Eugene IIairls, your col.
lege mate and one of the trucst, kindest
and best men who ever lived.n "Of
course, of course" said l, "but what
could l write" He was friend in |
need, friend indeed-an arislocra,
by birth, gentleman In heart and |
Lost everything by the war
except the gentleman that was born i'm
lim. He died poor and was buried bv
lis friends, but he was a big-hearted
Gentleman to the very last. How kind
ie was to my wife and little Children
Turing the war, when they were fleeing
rom the foul invader and l was far
way. That's all He was not