The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-04-18
Bill Down in Florida Where There Is
Scare.
SAYS MANY ARMS WERE" BARE
Arp Then Talks About How Physi.
clans Have Become Famous Ioi
Their Discoveries. 3"

sonville has got the smallpox scare
It is not panic. for there has been
no deaths, but there are about forty
cases and the board Of healf nave
got them out Of town and have order
ed universal vaccination. A chic
can't 90 to school without a sore
arm and a certificate from the doc
tor. My son is doctor here ana II
interests me to note the HOOKS OF
children who come and go and to lis.
ten to their talk Mothers or sisters
come with them to keep their cour
age up. Some are timid and some are
brave. Young men come at night and
take their turns, and the city ,wlE
soon be immune. What a wonderfui
discovery it was-only a hundred
years ago DR. Jenner dared to pro
claim it to the world and it took
twenty-five years to make the World
believe it. Now every child that
bares it's arm to receive the virus is
a living monument to the sagacity OF
that great and good man. 1t is pa
thetic to read how he was bounded
and prosecuted by the envious and
malignant of the medical profession
How patiently he waited for time and
truth to prove his theory, and lived
to see it confirmed, and when he diec
a beautiful monument was erected
in Trafalgar square to honor his
name and perpetuate his fame and
memory. Our own DR.. Crawford
Long Is entitled to a similar memor
ial, not only by the state, but by the
nation, for although he did not pro
tect mankind from pestilence, ne
did give them immunity from pair
under the surgeons knife. | re
member we'll when the patient had tc
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 pari
to hold the foot and leg that was
being severed from a poor sufferer
and when at last the saw had Gu,
through the bone and the weight o.
the limb came down upon me | faint
ed and fell down upon the floor with
the bleeding leg. But Evans never
groaned. He lived to make me an.
other pair of boots. remember
when at college in 1916, had a jaw
tooth extracted, and took what wa:
then called Morton's Lethean, anC
didn't know when it was pulled. II
took me some time to get over L
and as I was reeling back to college
I met Professor Mccoy, and in nj
larious manner slapped him on the
shoulder and said: Hello, old Mack
and he thought was drunk and hac
me before the faculty. My roommate
Derrell Cody, was with me and tried
to explain. but the professor woulG
not hear him and we had fun mex
morning when the truth came out
The professor apologiZed to me ant
not long after invited me to supper
Poor Bill Williams was there-good
loving Bill Williams. He was my
classmate and | loved him. ant
mourned for him when he died. He
had charge of the blind asylum, al
Macon for many years. Every now
and then the boys drop out. Jusi
drop out and the procession moves on
| read of every one and feel sad Dul
that is all | can do. A friend IN At
lanta asked me the other !ay, why
didn't you write something aboul
Eugene Harris, your college mate anc
one OF the truest, kindest and bes1
men that ever lived" "Of course
of course" said |, but what could
write" He was a friend in need. a
friend indeed-an aristocrat by blrth
gcatlc:9cn IN heart aCd !2GnH""G
Lost everything by the war except
the gentleman that was born in him
He died poor and was buried by ms
friends. but he was a big-hearteC
gentleman to the very last no"
kind he was to my wife and llttle
children during the war, when they
were fleeing from the foul invader
and | was far away. That's all. He
was not a great man in any sense
but he had a great big heart and
would have died for friend. That's
all, II cant find him in heaven.
shall be disappointed. My wife says
he was the best friend she ever had
when she was in the greatest distress.
Easter is about over and will soon
be forgotten. | brought down some
Easter eggs for a little grandson
His cousin dyed them for him and he
was very curious to know more about
them. and said to his mother, Moth
ar ,rhO ic this Easter man and where
does he live?" He lives up in hea'
ven." she said, "and his name is
Jesus" rs he selling eggs up there"
he asked. How these little chaps
do perplex us with their questions.
Little Mary Lou has the whoopina
cough and didn't want to take her
medicine. "If you don't take it,"